Handan, palace city.

"Did you see Qian'er? That's called the elephant!" Zhao He held his eldest son and pointed at the elephant who was more than ten steps away.

Xiao Zhaoqian looked at the elephant that was countless times bigger than him. At first, he showed a terrified expression in his eyes. His two little hands tightly grabbed Zhao He's neckline, but after a while, his curiosity overwhelmed his fear. He stared at the elephant tightly, and he looked very focused without moving.

After several years of raising, the elephant has obviously become taller and more familiar with the land where it lives. It just glanced at Zhao He and other "uninvited guests" and then walked away on its own.

In an iron cage about thirty steps near the elephant, a big tiger was disturbed by the footsteps of the elephant walking, and raised his head impatiently and let out a roar.

The elephant stretched out her nose and pulled down a branch with force. After breaking it, it continued to swallow, ignoring the demonstration issued by the king of the forest beside her.

The tiger's roar scared Xiao Zhaoqian and turned his head to pierce into Zhao He's arms. His little face was wrinkled tightly, and it seemed that he could cry at any time.

Zhao He hurriedly patted his eldest son on the back and comforted him softly: "It's okay, it's okay, my father is here. This is a very messed up. The father will kill it in a while and make tiger bone soup for Qian'er."

Perhaps because of hearing the soup, Zhao Qian slowly calmed down, and his little face showed some expectation.

Zhao Sheng, who was standing beside Zhao He, was much more calm. At this moment, he raised a very critical question: "Brother Wang, this elephant is a male elephant. My brother read the ancient books and found that a female elephant was needed to complete reproduction."

Zhao He glanced at his young brother and couldn't help laughing: "Is the mother elephant... It makes sense, let's do it this way. When the King of Chu comes to pay his respects next time, I ask Qiu Ye to say hello to the other side and ask him to bring two mother elephants over. Speaking of which, you are about to have your hair tied up, right?"

Zhao Sheng was slightly stunned and said, "From... next year should be enough."

Zhao He nodded and said, "If you have nothing to do, go and spend more time with your mother. There will be a lot of things in this world that you need to do in the future, but before that, you must be a good son."

Zhao Shengdao: "Vei."

Suddenly, there was a small riot not far away.

Zhao He turned his head in surprise, but found that Fei Yi appeared in front of him, with a frightened and helpless doctor Ling Lecheng behind him.

"Why did the king stop the old minister?" Fei Yizhi's face turned red: "Does it be that he thinks the old minister is too annoying? If this is true, then the old minister will submit a petition tomorrow to resign from the position of prime minister and go home to take care of his old age?"

Zhao He's face froze, and he secretly complained in his heart that he was unable to do things, but he said dryly: "The fat master is joking... That, come, take Pingyuan Jun and Qian'er away. I have something to talk to the fat master."

A moment later, Zhao He and Fei Yi sat down in the side hall of Longtai.

Fei Yi placed a roll of bamboo slips in front of Zhao He.

"King, this is a vain case discussed by Qiu Ye with Qi State. The old minister knew that the king was not willing to adopt it, but the old minister felt that he should be prepared for everything, so he also offered this plan."

Zhao He did not comment, picked up the plan he handed over to Fei Yi, looked carefully for a while, and then put it down.

Speaking of which, the plan developed by Fei Yi and Qiu Ye is actually quite reliable, the premise is that Zhao State does not have the power to break through Linzi, and the war ends here.

Is this possible?

Zhao He hesitated for a moment and made a decision.

It is indeed time to have a good talk with Fei Yi.

"Fat Master, actually... I want to ask you a question."

Fei Yi said: "Your Majesty, it's okay."

Zhao He said: "Fat Master, do you think that if the Great Zhao now annexes the current territory of Qi in one fell swoop, can it be done?"

Fei Yi was stunned for a moment, and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Zhao He first: "Fat Master, since you can come up with a plan to negotiate peace with Qi, it is not surprising that I will come up with a plan to annex Qi, right? Are you only willing to discuss the peace proposal and not discuss this plan?"

After Zhao He said this, Fei Yi did not continue to persist, but thought seriously as Zhao He said.

Fei Yi said: "The land of Qi that the king mentioned must be the land that the State of Qi still owns now, right?"

Zhao He smiled and said, "That's natural. Places like Song, Hejian, and Huaibei are not counted."

Fei Yi nodded and said, "Even so, the remaining Qi territory still exceeds 60% of Qi before the war begins. Moreover, these lands have been under the rule of Qi for hundreds of years. People are in the same position as Qi. Even if they can be captured, it will be very difficult to rule in the future."

Zhao He disagreed and said, "We will only talk about whether we can conquer it first. As for how to rule after the occupation, we can talk about it later."

Fei Yi thought for a while and said, "To be honest, among the five capitals of Qi, Pinglu and Gaotang have been captured, and there are only three capitals, Linzi, Ju and Jimo. According to previous information, in order to resist the attack of the Lord Father, the King of Qi has concentrated almost all the troops that can be drawn in Linzi. Once Linzi is captured, the Lord Father will definitely capture a large number of Qi ministers. Just use his power to exert benefits to these Qi ministers, and there is a great possibility to convince these people. With the help of these people, it is very possible to capture the entire territory of Qi."

After pausing, Fei Yi remembered something again and added: "Of course, the premise of all this is that no other country's forces intervene."

Zhao He agreed with Fei Yi's words.

This strategy of using the enemy's surrender to the upper levels to instigate and control the lower levels is not uncommon in the conquests of all dynasties. Specifically for Zhao State, the conquest of Zhongshan State in the past few years was also the same routine.

Sometimes surrendering ministers does not mean that they are unreliable. For example, the candidate who is now recognized as the most promising candidate to become the next general in Zhao State is Le Yi, a surrendered minister from Zhongshan State.

With the "internship" of Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhao State has quite good experience in this area.

Zhao He said again: "If we really can annex Qi State, how long does Fei Xiang think it will take to completely digest Qi land so that it can truly be used by me, Da Zhao?"

This time, Fei Yi thought for a longer time before giving the answer: "The old ministers do not have this experience, but from the experience of Zhongshan Kingdom, it is probably difficult to control the large amount of land and population of Qi Kingdom without ten years or even longer."

Although Zhao State is already a great country in the world, Qi State is a hegemonic country after all, with its population and farming land exceeding that of Zhao State. Even if such annexation cannot be called a snake swallowing an elephant, then hungry wolf swallowing a lion can still be considered. In short, it is easy to eat too much.

Fei Yi said worriedly: "To be honest with the king, the risk of this plan is too high. Even if Linzi is captured, the princes will not sit idly by the Great Zhao's annexation of Qi. Even if the princes really sit idly by and watch the Great Zhao annexation of Qi, Zhao will inevitably become the target of public criticism next time. Maybe the princes will attack Zhao next... King, think twice!"

Zhao He looked at Fei Yi and smiled and said, "I know, Fei Xiang should be at ease."

The so-called "wood is so beautiful that the forest will be destroyed". This sentence is absolutely reasonable when it is put in the situation in the Warring States Period.

If someone really wants to survive from the founding of thousands of vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, if someone really thinks that the monarchs of these countries are all a group of brainless people, then those who can think so will definitely be brainless.

More than a hundred years since the beginning of the Warring States Period, the two generations of overlords, Wei and Qi, were able to command the world during their heyday, and defeated one by one and two real existences, but why did they all decline one after another?

The reason is very simple, that is, the targeting of the other princes.

Wei State has been dominant for nearly a hundred years. Although most of the wars were able to be won, due to the tacit understanding between the other princes, the fire often caught fire as soon as they won the east and the west, and people came from the south. This repeated the situation led to Wei State's victory in most cases, but it was often difficult to obtain enough benefits after victory.

Moreover, the successor of Wei Wenhou was not capable enough. Wei Wuhou forced Wu Qi, the first general of Wei in the Wenhou era, to leave Wu Qi, and had conflicts with Zhao and lost Zhongshan. The next King Hui of Wei was even more happy with the conquests and conquered each other year. The move to Daliang led to a complete rebellion between Wei and Zhao and was taken advantage of by Qi. In the end, he was successfully blasted by King Wei of Qi in the Battle of Guiling and Maling, and Qi replaced Wei and became dominant.

After Qi took over, it also became the target of public criticism, but in the era of King Wei of Qi, the wise king's superb methods, the princes' actions that tried to target Qi were destroyed many times.

In the era of King Xuan of Qi, although Qi had achieved many results in foreign countries, such as the Battle of Chusha, the most opportunity to make Qi soar into the sky - the full annexation of Yan State was stopped by Zhao Zhufu and other vassal states.

After King Xuan of Qi, the father-in-law of Zhao He, now King Qi, was the land of King Qi. King Qi was worse than his father and grandfather. Not only did Zhao annex Zhongshan, but he also did not protect the two younger brothers of Han and Wei, but he also wasted a lot of energy and time in the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, a powerful and powerful country, with almost no foreign aid, and had just carried out a major purge because Mengchangjun left. Qi State, which was strong outside and fought at the same time, was finally seized the opportunity again by the princes who had been eyeing him and defeated jointly.

Then the situation became what it is now.

From Zhao He's perspective, when he arrived here, it was actually completely unrecognizable from the history he knew.

Therefore, if Zhao can really annex Qi completely, what will happen next is no longer a question that history in his mind can answer.

Fortunately, Zhao He was no longer the young man who had just traveled through time and looked confused.

Today, Zhao He is a Zhao King who has been in power for several years and defeated King Yingji of Qin twice, forcing King Yan Ji Zhi to ced 25 cities. He also has the most outstanding father of the king of Zhao State so far, and has a large number of civil and military officials and generals under his command.

After defeating Qi, Zhao will become the strongest overlord country in the entire Chinese world, and Zhao He is the person behind Zhao's hegemony in this way!

All of this gave Zhao He enough experience and wisdom.

People will grow.

Now Zhao He has enough confidence to face the unknown future.

Zhao He smiled at Fei Yi and said, "I will not hide it from Fei Xiang. I plan to reconvene a vassal alliance at the end of this autumn or early next year, with the purpose of solving this matter."

Fei Yi was stunned when he heard this. As for your king, you really think you can conquer Qi? You have already begun to consider the aftermath of annex Qi.

Just as Fei Yi was about to continue making suggestions, Le Cheng suddenly appeared out of breath and waved an emergency military situation in his hand.

"King, Linzi's good news, the master's father led the Da Zhao troops to capture Linzi three days ago!"

The next moment, Zhao He and Fei Yi stood up at the same time.

"Take it and take a look!"

After a while, Zhao He gave the army's feelings to Fei Yi with an excited look: "Fat Master, look at it, take a look!"

Although he had already been mentally prepared, after Zhao He read this extremely brief military information that must have been sent out immediately, he still felt extremely excited and excited.

The battle with Zhao as the leader of the alliance and the goal of destroying Qi as the goal, it can be said that it has been through the most difficult time. The next road is to be truly smooth!

Fei Yi also took over the military affairs with great excitement. As he watched, he suddenly burst into tears.

This shocked Zhao He instead: "Fat Master, are you okay?"

Fei Yi smiled in tears and said with a little sob: "Master, we... Da Zhao has really captured Linzi!"

Zhao He was stunned for a moment, then laughed heartily, and said in an extremely certain tone: "Yes, we have really broken through Linzi!"

Fei Yi has been making various peace talks for a long time, which does not mean that he does not want to break Linzi. As the prime minister of Zhao State, how could Fei Yi not want the Zhao army to break Linzi? This conscientious old minister just did not want his king and father to be blinded by victory, causing some accidents to occur due to the high walls and strong city of Linzi.

So, when the facts proved that Fei Yi was too worried, this old Xiangbang was not angry at all.

He was wrong, but he was happy, happy, and ecstatic!

As a veteran of the three dynasties of Zhao State, Fei Yi experienced too much.

From the passive beating of Zhao Suhou, to the powerful riding and shooting of Zhao Zhufu, to the current great destruction of Linzi, he witnessed the Zhao State from weak to strong, from the tail of the second-rate crane to the current princes.

Fei Yi was crying and completely lost his composure.

Half an hour later, all the important officials of Zhao State in Handan City gathered in Longtai.

Zhao He announced the news of his breakthrough in Linzi in public, and the Longtai Hall was filled with joy.

It’s nothing more. It’s really important to break through Linzi and capture the King of Qi alive. From all aspects, its significance is really too important!

After Linzi was defeated, Qi completely lost the power to fight back when facing Zhao and let Zhao ask for it.

If the Battle of Gaotang severely damaged Qi's vitality, then the victory of the Battle of Linzi completely represents that the overall situation of the war has been decided.

Zhao He raised his hand, signaled the ministers to be quiet, and then spoke slowly.

"At present, I don't need to hide it from you. In fact, before this war, I and my master had already had a plan, but it was hard for anyone to believe that plan at that time. But now, I feel it's time to tell the original plan."

Zhao He knocked on the table, and in an extremely serious tone, he said to everyone in front of him that he had been hiding in his words for the first time. It was not until today that he could say in such a formal, serious and serious tone for the first time: "This time, the goal of Zhao is not to defeat Qi and weaken Qi, but to completely annex Qi... and eliminate this country."
Chapter completed!