Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

So next, it's Zhao Kuo's turn to have a taste of this disability. "

Lin Xiangru glanced at Le Cheng, who was very excited, and knew that he was in a kind of excitement of revenge, and it was not easy to interrupt him, so he could only shake his head and remained silent.

Beside the two of them, although Zhou Shaofen didn't speak, a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes.

Is Wu Xinjun really going to be in big trouble this time?

In the prison of Handan Mansion, Lord Pingyang sat quietly behind the table, and in front of him was Guo Zong.

Jun Pingyang said to Guo Zong: "You and I are old acquaintances, I never thought that we would meet again in today's situation."

Back then, Guo Zong also worked for the previous King Zhao. As one of the two ministers of King Zhao's family, Lord Pingyang naturally had contact with Guo Zong.

Guo Zong nodded, and also said with great emotion: "When the villain was working for the king, he was taken care of by the lord. I never imagined that seeing the lord is such an embarrassing situation now."

Lord Pingyang chuckled, and said to Guo Zong: "Alright, now is not the time to reminisce about the past.

Lin Xiangru sued you to take advantage of the opportunity of Wu Xinjun's ginseng trade to secretly smuggle a large amount of military supplies from Dazhao's officialdom to Qi. What do you have to say about this? "

Guo Zong also showed a smile, and answered almost without thinking: "Mr. Pingyang was joking, this matter is definitely a false accusation by the trustee Lin Xiangru.

Although I work for Lord Wu Xin, but Lord Wu Xin has always been a loyal minister of Great Zhao, and everything I do is for the benefit of Great Zhao. It is impossible for such a thing as smuggling weapons to happen! "

Jun Pingyang chuckled, threw some pieces of paper in front of Guo Zong, and said flatly: "Then how do you explain these few confessions?"

Guo Zong picked up the few pieces of paper thrown by Mr. Pingyang, and after carefully looking at them, his expression changed slightly.

It turned out that the above were some of Guo Zong's former subordinates. For some unknown reason, they all wrote down these confessions one by one, confirming that Guo Zong had indeed smuggled arms to Qi.

For a while, Guo Zong's mood became a little chaotic.

You must know that the subordinates whose names are written on it are all old subordinates who have followed Guo Zong for many years. If they even rebelled, wouldn't it mean that Guo Zong's entire business and trade network has been completely betrayed?

The change of Guo Zong's expression was clearly seen by Mr. Pingyang.

So Mr. Pingyang put on a confident expression, laughed very happily, and said to Guo Zong: "Guo Zong, you should know how serious what you committed is.

If you really want to keep yourself and your family alive, then your only way out is to tell everything honestly, understand? "

As the great commander of the State of Zhao, Lord Pingyang has always been in charge of the laws and trials of the State of Zhao.

Over the past few decades, he has liked it very much, and it can even be said that he is obsessed with the feeling that he can easily decide the fate of a person, or even a family, with just a few words.

This is a feeling like a god.

Lord Pingyang looked at Guo Zong, and waited patiently for the moment when Guo Zong confessed.

Suddenly Guo Zong looked at Pingyang Jun and smiled.

"Since these people have already confessed, I wonder if Mr. Pingyang can let the old man confront these people face to face, so that the truth of the matter can be revealed?"

This time, it was Mr. Pingyang whose expression changed.

Jun Pingyang said to Guo Zong coldly: "You want to meet them and use your language to make them retract your confession, right?

I am not stupid, how could I give you such a chance? "

Although Mr. Pingyang said so, the smile on Guo Zong's face became more intense.

"Unexpectedly, the famous Lord Pingyang would also forge evidence. It is really an unexpected scheme to induce me to confess."

Jun Pingyang's face changed again, and he said very bluntly: "I don't know what you are talking about."

Guo Zong sighed, and said to Lord Pingyang very calmly: "I will not hide it from you, these people are indeed old subordinates who have followed me for decades.

As mutual trust, we have always had some small tacit understandings.

There are some proper words that do not appear on these confessions, which is enough to prove that these confessions were not written by themselves.

I have said so much, you should understand what I mean, right? "

Listening to Guo Zong's words, Jun Pingyang's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

Guo Zong's meaning is actually very obvious.

When Guo Zong has been communicating with his subordinates, he should have used some kind of code language in the letters.

However, this kind of code language did not appear in the confession, which allowed Guo Zong to directly know that all these confessions were false.

Lord Pingyang breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Guo Zong, nodded slowly and said: "Very good, really worthy of being the well-known great Zhao businessman Guo Zong, and his work is indeed as tight as ever.

Come on, let's use the punishment directly! "

When Lord Pingyang gave an order, several soldiers came in immediately, tied Guo Zong to the wooden frame, and began to prepare for torture.

Looking at the many instruments of torture in front of him, Guo Zong showed no fear at all, instead he shook his head and said to Pingyang Jun: "Your Majesty, Guo Zong is here to advise you, you should think about it. Who is the winner in the final battle, we should all be on the side of the winner, shouldn't we?"

Jun Pingyang completely lost his patience, and said coldly: "Use torture!"

Chapter 697 The Pingyang Lord Who Made the Change (Eighth)

An hour later, Jun Pingyang walked out of the prison with a stern expression.

Although all kinds of means have been exhausted, Mr. Guo's endurance is stronger than Mr. Pingyang imagined, and Mr. Pingyang can't get any reliable information from Guo Zongkou at all.

Lord Pingyang stopped, looked at his subordinates who had been following him, and said coldly: "Continue to torture in the next few days.

I don't believe it now, he is just a mere merchant, is it true that he is so loyal to Zhao Kuo? "

After saying these words, Lord Pingyang got into the carriage with a sullen expression on his face, and left this place.

After a while, Lord Pingyang's carriage stopped in Lord Pingyuan's mansion.

Lord Pingyuan hosted a banquet in the mansion tonight in honor of Lord Pingyang.

After an extremely sumptuous banquet, Mr. Pingyuan said slowly to Mr. Pingyang: "You arrested Guo Zong today, have you already started torture and interrogation?"

Jun Pingyang nodded without hesitation, and said: "Brother, this is a mission given to us by the Empress Dowager, of course we must complete it well."

Mr. Pingyuan shook his head and said, "Have you ever thought that if Zhao Kuo knows about this kind of behavior to Guo Zhong, Zhao Kuo will definitely hate us very much."

Pingyang Jun said indifferently: "Brother is too cautious in this regard, we also enforced the law impartially before, so we helped Zhao Kuo find out the case of the Le family, which is considered a big favor to him .

So this time we are also enforcing the law impartially, is there something wrong? "

Mr. Pingyuan was speechless, and after a while he said: "Before we were helping Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo was naturally very happy to see it.

But now, you are interrogating Zhao Kuo's confidants with your heart. Do you think Zhao Kuo will still have a friendly attitude towards us? "

Mr. Pingyang was obviously made a little bit by Guo Zong, and now he was questioned by Mr. Pingyuan again when he came back. Zhao Sikou, but in the past few years, has Da Zhao's real power been in our hands?

No, apart from the queen mother, Lin Xiangru and Zhao Kuo became the two people who were most likely to influence Zhao's policy.

Brother, don't you think that such a big Zhao is actually very wrong? "

Mr. Pingyang was actually very upset.

According to the arrangement of official positions, as the Sikou of Zhao Guo, his status should have been second only to Pingyuan Jun, Xiangbang of Zhao Guo.

However, due to Mr. Pingyuan's weakness over the years, this has caused Mr. Pingyang, as Mr. Pingyuan's younger brother, to also be somewhat unable to hold his head up.

Even Lin Xiangru, who was originally inferior to him, has already run to Pingyang Jun's head, which stimulated Pingyang Jun can be imagined.

It is precisely because of this displeasure that Mr. Pingyang burst out at today's banquet.

Looking at the angry Pingyang Jun, Pingyuan Jun was also speechless for a while.

After a long while, Mr. Pingyuan said slowly: "I also know your grievances these years, but now is not the time to be arrogant.

As the saying goes, when two tigers fight, one is bound to be wounded, so why do the two of us have to participate in the struggle between these two factions?

We just stood aside and watched them. Isn't it good to be a bystander who sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight? "

Lord Pingyang smiled faintly, and said to Lord Pingyuan: "What brother said is indeed very reasonable.

Anyone can see the best policy at the moment, and obviously it is best to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

But over the years, the two of us have played supporting roles so many times. Now this opportunity that can directly change the situation in Dazhao’s political arena, if we don’t make a move, then we really still have to redistribute the power in Dazhao’s political arena in the future. Can you get in? "

Jun Pingyuan looked at Jun Pingyang in surprise and said, "What are you thinking about?

You are Si Kou, I am Xiangbang, no matter how Da Zhao's political power is distributed, can we still get rid of the two of us?

Besides, the two of us are the great king's uncles, not to mention the queen mother is now in charge, even if the king really comes to the court in the future, he will have to rely on us two to continue to rule Dazhao. "

Hearing these words, Lord Pingyang couldn't help showing a disappointed expression on his face, and said to Lord Pingyuan: "So this time, brother still intends to stay out of the matter, right?"

Mr. Pingyuan nodded and said very calmly.

: "Yes, I will definitely not intervene before the outcome of the matter, because that would be too risky."

Lord Pingyang stood up, cupped his hands towards Lord Pingyuan, and said, "Since brother has made up his mind, brother Yu won't force it anymore, and I will take my leave."

After saying this, Lord Pingyang walked out of Lord Pingyuan's mansion directly.

Seeing Jun Pingyang's leaving figure, a trace of disappointment flashed across Jun Pingyuan's old face, and after a long while, he slowly put down the wine glass in his hand and sighed.

"When the political situation is changing, everyone really wants a piece of the pie, but who would have thought about taking care of the overall situation and doing their best as a minister for this country?"

Jun Pingyang's carriage drove all the way back to his own mansion, and Jun Pingyang, who had just stepped out of the carriage, directly said to the steward who came up to him: "Without my order, no one is allowed to enter the study."

After a while, Jun Pingyang came to his study room, picked up the brush, and wrote a secret letter in a whizzing manner, then sealed it with inkpad, and called his confidant in charge again.

"You send this letter to the palace as quickly as possible."

The steward hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Should I still send it to the previous place?"

Lord Pingyang nodded slowly, and said: "Yes, it's better to send it to the place before. You must tell the other party and let him respond as quickly as possible, otherwise it may be too late."

The steward responded, carefully took the envelope on the table, put it in his arms, and exited the study.

Seeing the figure of his confidant in charge leaving, Jun Pingyang let out a long breath, as if he was talking to himself, and he seemed to be talking to someone.

"You are Da Zhao Xiangbang, you can sit on the Diaoyutai no matter what, of course you are not in a hurry.

But what about me?

I've been doing this for so many years, and I'm already tired of it. "

Now that I'm tired of it, I naturally long for a change.

Now Pingyang Jun is making a change.

In the middle of the night, just as the young King Zhao was about to fall asleep, suddenly a young eunuch cautiously appeared in front of the young King Zhao, took out a letter, and handed it to King Zhao respectfully.

Zhao Wang hesitated for a moment, took the letter from the little eunuch and waved his hand to signal the little eunuch to back down.

After the little eunuch withdrew, Zhao Wang looked around to make sure that no one was watching him, so he reached out and opened the envelope.

After reading the contents of the envelope, Zhao Wang couldn't help but change his face, looking both happy and sad.

As soon as Zhao Kuo got up the next morning, Xu Li appeared in front of Zhao Kuo.

"My lord, the palace has just sent a message that the king wants to meet with you immediately."

Chapter 698 A New Alliance (Ninth Update)

When Zhao Kuo heard the news, he couldn't help being a little surprised.

"Why did Your Majesty suddenly want to see me?"

Although Zhao Kuo thinks that he has reached a certain tacit understanding with King Zhao to some extent, in Zhao Kuo's view, it is unlikely that King Zhao will actively contact him under the current situation.

Could it be that something else happened?

Several of Zhao Kuo's confidants also expressed their opinions on this.

Xu Li said: "My lord, I don't think this sudden incident seems to be a good thing, or else don't go."

Li Mu also said: "My lord, why don't we just mobilize the army and kill them in the palace."

Zhao Kuo pondered for a while and said to the last confidant, Han Fei, who had not spoken, "What do you think about this matter?"

Han Fei said, "You can go."

Han Fei's words immediately attracted other people's objections, but judging from the expression on Han Fei's face, he obviously insisted on this opinion all the time.

Zhao Kuo couldn't help being a little curious and said to Han Fei: "Why do you think you can go?"

Han Fei opened his mouth and said: "The king's character is not, not the kind that can take the initiative to send requests to others, so it must be the use of other people to send this request through the king to meet with the king. .”

Zhao Kuo's eyes lit up when he heard this, and after thinking for a while, he slapped his thigh and said, "I see, Uncle Xu will prepare a carriage for me right away, and I will enter the palace right away!"

An hour later, a side door of the palace slowly opened in the night.