Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

"Queen Mother, Lord Chang has lost consecutive battles. Now is not the time to continue to support Lord Chang's wayward actions. If this continues, Yan State may perish!"

"Empress Dowager, I beg the Empress Dowager to consider for the Yan State, immediately remove the military power of Lord Chang, and send envoys to Handan to negotiate peace with Zhao State!"

Le Jian stood at the door and watched from a distance, and found that it turned out that several gray-haired old officials of the Yan Kingdom were trying their best to persuade them. , I don't know what's in my mind.

Le Jian sneered, and suddenly said: "Yan Kingdom will not perish!"

When Le Jian spoke, everyone turned their heads when they heard the sound, and only then did they discover the existence of Le Jian.

The faces of several veteran ministers all showed shocked expressions, and they all looked at Le Jian with strange eyes. After all, it is indeed a bit ugly to say bad things about people and be caught on the spot.

When Empress Dowager Yan saw Le Jian's arrival, the corners of her mouth suddenly turned up slightly, and the ice on her pretty face began to melt.

Le Jian sat down in the first place on the right, and smiled at the strange-faced old officials of Yan Kingdom: "Everyone, keep talking, I'm all listening."

Several veteran officials of the Yan Kingdom looked at each other, and they were trying to persuade the queen mother to remove you from Lejian, but you jumped out of Lejian, what can people say in front of you?

But no matter what, after all, Lejian is just a junior to these veterans. You must know that among these veterans, there are even officials from the Yan Zhao era like He Juxin, who are out-and-out veterans of the three dynasties. veteran.

So just a moment later, the most senior among them, the veteran who sat there and gave people the impression that he would die anytime, anywhere, tremblingly said: "Mr. Chang must have just returned from the battlefield. I don't know. How is the situation now?"

Le Jian shook his head, with a trace of bitterness on his face: "The Zhao Qi coalition army is strong, our army has already been defeated, within five days at most, Jidu will be surrounded by the Zhao Qi coalition army."

"What?" Le Jian's words instantly seemed to ignite a gunpowder keg, directly bursting the atmosphere in the hall.

Angry expressions appeared on the faces of several veteran officials, and they pointed at Le Jian and began to reprimand him.

"Mr. Chang, as the Prime Minister of Yan and the leader of the army, you must bear the greatest responsibility for this defeat!"

"Mr. Chang, if you hadn't insisted on betraying the covenant with Zhao and attacking Qi last year, the Yan Kingdom would not have ended up like this!"

"Mr. Chang, the reason why the country of Yan came here is all because of your mistakes!"

Mouths opened and closed, countless voices of accusation lingered in Le Jian's ears, and the saliva was about to spray on his face.

Lejian was silent, but his right hand was tightly clenched into a fist, with all the veins on it.

Seeing that Le Jian was refuted by him, the old officials became more and more imposing, and simply turned their heads to Queen Mother Yan, and put forward their own demands.

"Empress Dowager, please depose Lejian Xiangbang and choose another worthy person!"

"Empress Dowager, the minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister also agrees!"

Empress Dowager Yan looked at the excited veterans, then at the silent Le Jian, sighed inwardly, and asked slowly, "Le Jian, what do you have to say?"

Le Jian let out a hey, with a strange smile on his face, and said slowly: "Queen Mother, I do have something to say."

"Let's talk about it then."

Le Jian cleared his throat and said: "I heard that there is a senior doctor who has connections with foreign countries and secretly made friends with Zhao people. His second son in Wuyang City has been in and out of Handan many times. Declare that you are willing to be a Zhao people and not a Yan people."

"I also heard that a Yaqing secretly received beauties and property from King Jizi Joseon, so he strongly opposed the Empress Dowager's opinion of sending troops to conquer Jizi North Korea during the court meeting."

"I have also heard that a Chinese doctor used the convenience of being the guard of Yuyang City to secretly trade with the Donghu people, and the profits he gained were extremely high, so he built a very luxurious mansion in Wuyang City. .”

"The minister heard again"

Le Jian kept talking about one after another, and every time he said one thing, one of the old officials of Yan State who was present would change his face and tremble, and some people looked as if they were about to faint immediately.

After a full half day, Lejian finished all the things, then bowed to the Queen Mother Yan in front of him, and said: "Go back to the Queen Mother, I have finished my words."

There was a dead silence in the hall.

The Empress Dowager Yan showed an angry look on her face, she turned her gaze to the veteran officials of the Yan Kingdom who were almost ashamed, and said in a deep voice: "My dears, are all the words of the Lord Chang true?"

Although the Empress Dowager Yan is young, she already has the majestic aura like her mother, Empress Zhao Wei. With such a glance, several veteran officials of the Yan Kingdom immediately felt strong pressure, and couldn't help but kneel down one after another. beg for mercy.

"Queen Dowager, the old minister knows his mistake, the old minister knows his mistake, please forgive me, Queen Mother."

"Empress Dowager, the old minister was also confused for a while. Please forgive the old minister's crime for the sake of his loyalty."

"Queen,"

The hall was filled with begging for mercy.

The Empress Dowager Yan's pretty face was frosty, and she couldn't believe that these so-called veterans who seemed so loyal to the country could do such things. Said: "Okay, you all go down first."

Several veteran officials of the Yan Kingdom no longer had the prestige they had before, and left the hall in despair one by one.

Empress Dowager Yan looked at Le Jian, her gaze stayed on the small wounds on Le Jian's face, and then asked in a much gentler tone than before: "Is it really impossible to win?"

Le Jian lowered his head and said, "Going back to the Queen Mother, it's the minister who is incompetent."

Empress Dowager Yan sighed faintly, and said: "The old woman and Zhao Wang were born of the same mother, and the old woman knows his ambition. I thought he was just a man with great ambition and talent, but I didn't expect Zhao Guo to be able to be in his You have developed such a situation in your hands! So now we can only negotiate peace with King Zhao?"

Lejian nodded with great difficulty, and said: "Going back to the queen mother, cessioning land and seeking peace should be the only way."

There was silence again in the hall.

After a long time, Queen Yan's voice sounded again.

"In that case, what are you waiting for? Send an envoy to Handan today."

6 Chapter Thirty: Annihilation or Peace? (fourth more)

Handan, Longtai.

An interesting thing to say is that the envoys from the people of Yan and the envoys sent by Pang Nuan to report the victory arrived in Handan on the same day, and the time gap between them was only a short hour.

In addition, although Zhao Dan has distracted most of his attention due to internal affairs these days, news from the external battlefield is also coming one after another.

The latest information on the Northwest battlefield comes from five days ago. At that time, Lian Po was just about to cross the river. Counting the days, it should be almost time to meet the Huns. However, since there is a whole Taihang Mountain, we have to wait another five days. Can know the real battle situation.

And in the Central Plains in the south, the allied forces of Han and Wei had already fought with the Chu people.

After suffering a lot in several successive wars, not only the territory of Chu State has shrunk severely, but also its national strength and military strength are not as good as before.

The Han-Wei Allied Forces have been victorious one after another since they dispatched their troops, advancing the entire front to the south step by step, and now they have occupied a large amount of land in Chu State.

According to Hu Yiwei's latest secret report, King Yuan of Chu could no longer withstand such pressure, and sent envoys to Xinzheng and Taoyi to seek peace.

This made Zhao Dan somewhat happy and disappointed.

I was happy because the two countries, Han and Wei, really beat up Chu State as they had planned, and they didn't play with Qin State to take the opportunity to stab Zhao State.

The disappointment is because with the victory of this war, the two countries of Korea and Wei will definitely become stronger, and the possibility of disobedience in the future will naturally increase.