Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

After a long while, Zhao Kuo suddenly burst into laughter: "Okay, very good, very good.

Mao Sui, since you keep saying that you have talent, then I will give you a task today. If you complete it well, you will be my confidant from now on.

If you don't finish well, then you don't have to give in to me, how about it? "

Mao Sui smiled slightly, and said: "That's exactly what it should be, and I ask the lord to give orders."

Zhao Kuo blinked and said with a smile: "That's all right, you will go to Handan tomorrow to find a man named Lu Buwei, and Uncle Xu will discuss the specific matters with you."

Mao Sui said, "Here."

Seeing Xu Li leave with Mao Sui, Zhao Kuo also had an intriguing smile on his face.

Mao Sui, in the history books, was an important figure who moved the king of Chu and directly changed the outcome of the Qin-Zhao Handan battle.

In this time and space, when he comes into contact with the future king of Qin, Ying Yiren, and the state of Qin, Lu Buwei, what kind of sparks will be created?

Zhao Kuo still had some expectations.

Chapter 99: Court Discussion

After finishing the meeting with Zhao Kuo, Lu Buwei stayed in another place in Handan City for one night, and returned to the mansion he bought for Ying Yiren worriedly the next day.

At this moment, Ying Yiren was holding a beautiful woman in his arms, his face was full of alcohol, and his cheeks were flushed. He held up the cup of wine to Lu Buwei, and laughed loudly: "Mr. Lu, you are finally back, come on, come with me!" drink wine!"

Protons also have grades.

Generally speaking, when a Gongsun of Qin State goes to be a hostage in another country, then the other countries must treat each other with courtesy, and entertain him with good wine and food, for fear of attracting the army of Qin State because of neglecting the hostage.

However, Zhao State is different. Zhao State is the only country among the six eastern countries that can fight with Qin State. Therefore, Zhao State does not win strangers at all, and does not give anything except a simple small courtyard. This grandson of the Qin State caused Ying Yiren to live in an extremely embarrassing time. When he met Lu Buwei, he couldn't even do the most basic ostentation of traveling in a carriage.

Perhaps because of that period of suffering, Ying Yiren now has become very fond of pleasure, drinking and feasting every day, and getting drunk before resting.

Lu Buwei smiled wryly, and sat down in the lower seat of Ying Yiren.

The beautiful and plump woman in Ying Yiren's arms twisted her waist and stood up, pouring a glass of wine for Lu Buwei.

Lu Buwei was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "How can madam pour wine for my family servant? You can't do it. You can't do it."

This woman is Zhao Ji, the wife Lu Buwei gave to Ying Yiren.

Ying Yiren breathed out a strong smell of alcohol, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lu, you and I are best friends, and it's only natural for my wife to pour wine for you. What can't be done?

Besides, she was also your wife before. "

As he said that, Ying Yiren couldn't help laughing wildly.

Zhao Ji refused immediately when she heard the words, and fell into Ying Yiren's arms all of a sudden: "Gongsun is ruining my concubine again!"

Ying Yiren was originally full of alcohol, but feeling the temperature of the beautiful woman in his arms at this moment, he couldn't help laughing, and said: "Why, I don't take it seriously, why don't you take it seriously?"

Lu Buwei saw that the couple in front of him showed signs of developing in a certain direction, and hurriedly got up: "I just remembered that I still have some things to do, so I left first, Gongsun and Madam can do whatever they want."

"Mr. Lu, please stop."

Ying Yiren stopped Lu Buwei, and asked with a bit of drunkenness: "Sir, what can you say when you go to see Zhao Kuo today?"

Lu Buwei couldn't help but hesitate when he heard the words.

Seeing that Lu Buwei was silent, Ying Yi asked curiously, "Why, is that Zhao Kuo so arrogant that he won't give you a chance to meet?"

Lu Buwei took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Gongsun misunderstood, Lu Buwei has already met Zhao Qing, and Zhao Qing also agreed to help us persuade King Zhao."

Ying Yiren cheered up, and immediately pushed away Zhao Ji, who was already limp in his arms, and said with a smile, "Okay, this is really good news! Come on, Mr. Lu, don't leave, and have a few drinks with me!"

Lu Buwei looked at the excited Ying Yiren, but his emotions were complicated and unspeakable.

It was originally a good plan for Lu Buwei to monopolize the benefits, but now Zhao Kuo has such a strong hand in it, it is hard to say what will happen in the future.

Lu Buwei sat down again, concealed all his emotions in his heart, and forced a smile: "To tell you the truth, I plan to move the whole family to Handan after a while, and the future business will be done here in Zhao Guo." gone."

Ying Yiren was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's good to move here, good to move here, your father is also a wonderful person, and I also like drinking with your father very much.

Come, drink, drink! "

Lu Buwei raised the wine bar, but he had already started to regret it.

Moving the whole family to Handan as hostages was also one of Zhao Kuo's methods of controlling Lu Buwei.

All I can say is, one wrong step, one wrong step!A servant came in and said, "Sir, Gongsun, someone outside claims to be from Zhao Qing's residence."

Lu Buwei thought that he came very quickly, and hurriedly said: "Please come quickly."

After a while, Mao Sui walked into the lobby.

"Mao Sui, Mr. Lu, when shall we leave for Xianyang?"

Day by day, after Zhao Qian's full moon, Zhao Kuo also moved back to the mansion in Handan, and lived a life of going to work to deal with political affairs every day, and being in charge of teasing children after get off work.

After Lu Buwei's family arrived in Handan, Lu Buwei left Handan with Mao Sui and headed for Xianyang, the capital of Qin.

There, Lu Buwei will persuade Ying Yiren's father, who is now the prince of Qin State An Guojun Zhao Zhu, to let Zhao Zhu persuade the King of Qin, so as to recall Ying Yiren, the proton of the Qin State, from Handan to Xianyang.

Before leaving, Lu Buwei paid a special visit to Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Kuo gave a rather simple instruction: "You only have a few months left in this year, and you have to convince me in this half year anyway. An Guojun, do you understand?"

Lu Buwei seemed to understand something, and left obediently.

Such a peaceful life did not last long, and the current situation where the seven kingdoms of China stand side by side does not allow peace to exist for a long time, so when autumn came, another heavyweight court meeting within Zhao was held.

King Zhao sat at the top. The king of Zhao seemed to be in high spirits, fully equipped with the aura of the most powerful monarch in the world: "Zhu Qing, it is already autumn, and the new year is coming soon, and Da Zhao will also Prepare a new conquest goal and direction, if you have any suggestions, feel free to ask."

The Qixiongs all belong to the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, and they all use the Zhou Dynasty calendar. The Zhou Dynasty used the first day of November as the first month, and winter is the earliest season of the year, so don’t think it’s autumn now, but Zhao Wang said that the New Year There is nothing wrong with coming right away.

After Zhao Wang raised this question, several Zhao Guozhong ministers did not speak for a while.

After a few seconds, Lian Po said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, I think that the next target of Da Zhao's attack should be Qi Guo.

Qi State has not broken out wars with other countries for many years, and its armaments are quite lax, so it is very easy to win a war.

Moreover, Qi State is also a very wealthy country. Occupying the land of Qi State can also greatly enhance the strength of Da Zhao, and better prepare for the future conquest of other countries. "

King Zhao nodded and said, "Very well, then Qi State is one of the options.

Does anyone else have an opinion? "

After a brief silence, Zhao Kuo stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I don't think it is a good idea to attack Qi."

Chapter 100 Lian Po, the Rebellious Minister

Zhao Kuo stood up and refuted Lian Po as soon as he came up, which undoubtedly made Lian Po very upset.

The old general glared at Zhao Kuo and said coldly, "What's wrong?"

Zhao Kuo said unhurriedly: "Now Da Zhao's strong enemy is still Qin State, if Da Zhao chooses to attack Qi State in the east, wouldn't he directly expose his back to Qin State in the west?

Once Qin Guo takes advantage of our great Zhao to attack Qi and sends troops to Shangdang again, Da Zhao will be faced with enemies on both sides and it will be difficult to deal with it!Therefore, for the current plan, it is the best policy to attack Qin first! "

On this matter, Zhao Kuo really didn't deliberately want to sing against Lian Po, but he felt that Lian Po's views were indeed wrong.

Zhao Kuo couldn't be more clear about what kind of country Qin is.

That is the country that successfully unified the world in history!Can such a country be defeated with just one or two victories?

impossible.

And to put it in detail, Shangdang County, where Qin State lost to Zhao State in the Battle of Changping, belongs to South Korea's territory. The country's current territory is actually the same as before the start of the Changping War, and it has not suffered any losses at all, but it has not succeeded in expanding its territory.

The current state of Qin is the largest among the seven heroes in terms of territory, and its population ranks firmly in the top three among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period.

On the other hand, the country of Zhao ranks third in terms of territory among the Seven Heroes after Qin and Chu, and its population ranks fourth to No.5 due to geographical reasons.

Don't look at the fact that Zhao State has won two games against Qin State. Right now, it is well-deserved as the most powerful country in the world, but that is only from a military point of view.

From the perspective of comprehensive national strength, Zhao State is even slightly inferior to Qin State.

To put it more directly, why did Zhao Guo beat Qin?

In fact, he just won Zhao Kuo.

Without Zhao Kuo, Zhao State would still be weaker than Qin State!Isn't it stupid to put such a powerful state of Qin aside and not to fight, and go to fight against Qi, which has not taken the initiative to fight against foreign countries for more than 20 years since the Five Kingdoms conquered Qi?

Now that Zhao Kuo has set his goal to seize the power of Zhao State in the future, of course Zhao Kuo does not want a weak Zhao State to be in his hands in the future.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo must fight for this matter.

Zhao Guo, of course, the stronger the better!Lian Po narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhao Kuo, and then slowly said after a while: "Zhao Qing, the old man knows that you and the King of Qi are in-laws, and you have a ginseng business cooperation with the Prime Minister of Qi State, Hou Sheng, so you don't want to be with the King of Qi." The country went to war.

But what I want to tell you is that nothing should be placed above the interests of Da Zhao, understand?

If you interfered with Da Zhao's conquest of the Qi State for a mere money from selling ginseng today, then who knows if you will sell Da Zhao's interests for the same reason in the future? "

Zhao Kuo was shocked, really shocked.

He was surprised not because Lian Po said something about the ginseng business, but because "I didn't expect that someone as straight-tempered as Lian Po would sue black and make up political opponents. It seems that the stereotype in history books is not advisable."

But if you think about it, if Lian Po is really a stupid person, how could he suddenly come to plead guilty when he and Lin Xiangru had a big fight back then?

It is precisely because Lian Po and Lin Xiangru joined forces to establish the Scholars faction after pleading guilty, which established the pattern of the two major factions in Zhao's political arena so far.

Such a person may have a hot temper and may speak directly, but he is definitely not a fool, and he definitely does not lack experience in political struggle.

It's just that Yu Xin stood up to fight Zhao Kuo before, but now Yu Xin has fallen, so Lian Po has become the one to fight Zhao Kuo.

It's a pity that a smile appeared on Zhao Kuo's face.

General Lian Po, although you know that I am in the ginseng business, you have no idea who the real beneficiary behind the ginseng business is!Zhao Kuo glanced at King Zhao, and sure enough, he found that King Zhao's expression was a bit ugly.

Lian Po's words are actually tantamount to reminding King Zhao that if there is a war with Qi State, it will affect Qi State's ginseng business.

Someone might say, isn't the ginseng business just a business?

If it is an ordinary business, it will be gone if it is gone. Anyway, just continue to do it after the war. Everyone has come here in the past hundreds of years.

But the problem is that the ginseng business is too profitable, and the Qi people are too rich.

From the beginning of the establishment of Qiguo ginseng business channels, the money delivered from the "general agent" Housheng every month is a huge amount.

Among other things, the cost of ginseng shipped from Linzi last month exceeded 1000 million yuan, and as much as 800 million yuan went into King Zhao's personal pocket after the profit sharing.

More importantly, this fee is still rising, and it is likely to be 900 million next month, and 1000 million next month!Assuming that Zhao Guo will go to war with Qi State for one year next year, then after 1000 months, based on the calculation of 2000 million yuan per month, the direct loss of Zhao Wang will be 2000 million yuan!Thinking of the loss of this figure, Zhao Wang suddenly felt a little breathless, [-] million yuan! ! !How many cities and cities of the Qi country must be occupied, how many people of the Qi country should be killed, and how much wealth of the Qi country must be plundered to recover this loss?

At this moment, King Zhao's view of Lian Po has completely changed.

Lian Po, a rebellious minister, is poaching the corner of the widow! ! !It was at this time that Zhao Kuo's counterattack also began.

Zhao Kuo sneered at Lian Po, and then said slowly: "General, do you think I don't want to attack Qi because of my marriage?

Then I want to say, are you afraid to attack Qin because you lost to Bai Qi? "

As soon as this remark came out, Lian Po's expression changed drastically, and he shouted: "Zhao Kuo, don't talk nonsense, the old man has never been afraid of getting up in vain, no matter in the past, present or future!"

Zhao Kuo smiled and said: "Yes, the general may not be afraid of Bai Qi, but the general must be very clear in his heart that you are not Bai Qi's opponent at all! Therefore, it is impossible for you to fight Qin, even if Now Qin is the strongest opponent of Zhao, even though Qi has obviously not used foreign troops for so many years!"

Lian Po was so angry that he was blue and white, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly coughed next to him.

Lin Xiangru stood up slowly and said, "Zhao Qing's words are a little too much.

Even if the general can't beat Qin, isn't Zhao Qing still there?

The old man feels that no matter whether it is to conquer Qi or Qin, the candidate for the chief general is not determined. If Zhao Qing presupposes a position as the chief general at this time, it may not be good, right? "

Chapter 101 Zhao Kuo is simply the nemesis

Lin Xiangru had to stand up.

This scheming official of the Zhao Kingdom has actually discovered one thing, that is, if the dispute continues like this, Lian Po must be the loser.

This is not to say that Zhao Kuo's ability to talk about wars on paper is strong, but because of another more simple judgment that Zhao Kuo's record is too strong!In fact, as Zhao Guo is the most powerful country in the world today, doesn't that mean he can hit anyone he wants?

The key to the problem is not who to fight, but whether you can win after you fight.

If Lian Po's proposal is to fight against Qi, then there is a high possibility that Qin will help Qi to deal with Zhao.

Can the State of Zhao defeat the Qin-Qi Allied Forces in two battles at the same time?

This is not good.

But if Zhao Kuo's proposal was to fight against Qin, things would be completely different.

First of all, Qi State has been peaceful for many years, and it is impossible for Qi State to help Qin State.

The three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Chu have been invaded by Qin for many years, and it is impossible to help Qin.