Some people may ask, now hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops are fighting with Qin people on the front line of Changping. You, Zhao Dan, and the king of Zhao, are either Qi, Wei or Chu, Yan, every day, can you do some serious business?

Here we will talk about the importance of diplomacy to a country.

In later continental Europe, there was an extremely famous country called Germany, which is what people often call Germany. Germany did not complete its unification until the 19th century, and the kingdom of Prussia led by the famous Duke of Bismarck.

Although the Prussian Iron Army and Bismarck's name as "Iron-Blooded Prime Minister" are so impressive, how did Prussia rely on to unify Germany?

The answer is diplomacy.

Around Prussia at that time, there were five powerful neighbors in Denmark, France, Britain, Austria and Tsarist Russia. Many of these countries were feudal with Prussia, and none of the five countries wanted to see Prussia unification.

It was under such circumstances that Prussia defeated Denmark, Austria and France in three dynasties, and finally achieved the great cause of unifying Germany.

You should know that each of these five countries is almost above Prussia in terms of territory and population. It is enough for Prussia to drink a pot. Any two who unite Prussia cannot afford to take advantage of it. Any three who unite Prussia will have a crisis of destruction.

There are five strong neighbors around and they all oppose Prussian unification. The cause of unification seems to be a matter of Prussia's single-handed challenge to the top five countries. But in the three dynasty wars during the reunification process, Prussia either found helpers to fight one or one-on-one, and never fought with less and more.

Very magical, right?

This is the role played by Bismarck's excellent foreign policy. Before every time Prussia launched a war, Bismarck would try his best to isolated the country that would become the enemy of Prussia diplomatically, and make good friends with all other powerful countries so that the Prussian enemy country could not get any help from the powerful country. Then, he would use the powerful Prussian army to launch one-on-one challenge and then defeat the enemy.

Do you feel familiar when you see this? Yes, Bismarck's diplomatic strategy is similar to the "family and near attack" proposed by the current Qin Prime Minister Fan Sui.

Fan Sui's long-distance and near attacks also made friends with other mainland powers. Then, after confirming that the current enemy was isolated, he attacked with all his strength, and won one-on-one victory with his own advantage of military and national strength, first destroying Han, Zhao and Wei, then destroying Yan, Chu and Qi, defeating each of the six countries, and finally unifying China.

In essence, Bismarck and Fan Sui's diplomatic strategies are no different. If they are exchanged for one position, the result will definitely be the same. The two famous masters in China and one and the other are probably worse than those in the battlefield fighting, but their roles are definitely better than those of a million troops.

The Qin Empire and the First German Empire completed the unification under the guidance of these two famous names, stepped onto the world stage, and reached their respective peaks.

This is the importance of diplomacy to a country!

As a monarch who is determined to unify the world, if Zhao Dan can actually ignore the importance of diplomacy, which is still above military affairs, then Zhao Dan would be stupid.

It is precisely because Zhao Dan understood the importance of diplomacy in his heart that after traveling through time, Zhao Dan first stopped changing generals, and immediately sent envoys to the three kingdoms of Wei, Chu and Qi.

The Qin army has strong military strength and has peerless military gods like Bai Qi. It is too difficult to defeat the Qin army led by Bai Qi head-on. At least Zhao Dan feels that he does not have the ability.

But if Zhao wants to defeat the Qin people and Bai Qi, do you have to fight against Qin?

You have a 95-point national strength in Qin State, and I have a 85-point national strength in Zhao State. I can't beat you by one-on-one challenge, but that doesn't matter. I have a 70-point national Wei State, a 75-point national Chu State, and a 70-point national Qi State, and four countries will fight you together. No matter how powerful Qin State and Bai Qi are, can you still have three heads and six arms and fight against most of the world with one's own strength?

The battle between countries is never a house-like house-making. It doesn’t care about fighting alone, and it should not be about false etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame. You can pretend to be your Virgin and tolerant to the loser after victory, but before victory, please be sure to use any means to blow up your opponent!

What Zhao Dan wants to do now is to completely isolate Qin on the diplomatic stage, just as the great founding leader said, "making more friends and fewer enemies."

Just as Prussia cannot cope with the gang fights from multiple opponents, Qin State certainly cannot resist the attacks of multiple opponents at the same time. At least now, Zhao State, the second among the Seven Heroes, has not been defeated yet, it is not possible!

If Qin can fight against six with one, then how can it be a big deal between far and near? Just frame A and push the six Shandong countries to the right. How can you lose if you ride the dragon in the face? Right?

In terms of specific matters, Zhao Dan had received a quick reply from the Wei and Chu states, and understood the mission of Zhao Sheng and Yu Xin.

Given the fact that Zhao State is indeed weaker than Qin State at this moment, if Zhao Dan sent one of the three envoys from Qi, Wei and Chu to succeed, then Zhao State and Qin State can basically be won; if two envoys succeed, then Zhao State will already have a slight advantage; if all three envoys succeed, then Zhao State can basically be said to be victory in this battle.

The current situation is that the MT of Zhao State is at the forefront, and the output of Chu State is cut from the flank, and behind it is the nurse of Qi State. Although the main force of Wei State is missing, the problem is actually not too big. Zhao Dan and Zhao State have the confidence to fight against the big boss of Qin State.

In general, the overall diplomatic situation is now extremely beneficial to Zhao State, and has basically completely reversed the adverse situation of Zhao State in history.

So Zhao Dan now only needs to eliminate the last unstable factor in Yan State, and then he can devote the power of Zhao State to west and fight against the Qin people with all his strength.

This is the task Zhao Dan wants to entrust Pang Yan to the mission to Yan State.

Don’t forget that although Pang Qian was famous for his military talents in later generations, Pang Qian also has another name, which is "the last master of the Warring States Period". For the master of the diplomatic envoy, it goes without saying that the job of diplomatic envoy is definitely a professional and familiar person.

As for why he was not allowed to return from Qi, Su Dai, who had been an important official of Yan State for a long time, was mainly because Su Dai had some grudges with the current King of Yan. If Su Dai went on the mission, the mission was not completed, and his head would probably be cut off by the King of Yan first...

Sure enough, when Pang Nuan heard about Zhao Dan's mission, he immediately showed joy on his face and said respectfully to Zhao Dan: "The king has his own destiny, how dare Nuan refuse to obey? I just don't know what the king ordered his ministers to go to Yan State, so what happened?"

When Zhao Dan saw Pang Nuan agreeing, he was also happy, so he smiled and said, "Actually, Mr. Pang's mission is very simple. I hope that Mr. Pang will make friends with King Yan of Yan, and make sure that Yan will not send troops to our Zhao State, and then send a letter to my sister Yan, Yan, and finally recruit a talent for me."

Pang Nuan thought about it and found that except for the recruitment of talents, the other two tasks did not seem to be too difficult, so he asked, "I wonder who the talent the king said is?"

Zhao Dan smiled slightly and said, "This person is an old acquaintance of Mr. Pang, and his name is Ju Xin!"

After the name "Ju Xin?" was said, Pang Nuan was obviously stunned for a while, and looked at Zhao Dan with surprise. After a while, he said: "Nan must do his best."

Pang Nuan did know this Ju Xin, and the two were good friends, but later because of the change of the Dune Palace, Ju Xin went to Yan State and Pang Nuan followed his master Feng Guanzi to live in seclusion in Chu State. The two had not met for decades.

After Ju Xin went to Yan State, he was highly valued under the command of Yan State's then king, King Zhao of Yan State. When the five countries attacked Qi, he played a very important role as a diplomatic envoy for Yan State's external contacts. He was once one of the important officials of Yan State.

However, with the death of King Zhao of Yan, King Hui of Yan, another branch of the Yan royal family, ascended the throne, Ju Xin, an old minister of the former dynasty, stepped down and retired, and is currently in a state of retirement in Yan State.

If history continues on a normal trajectory, Ju Xin will be appointed by King Xi of Yan twenty years later, leading the Yan army to take advantage of the situation to attack Zhao, and then be defeated by Pang Nuan, and Ju Xin will also die at the hands of his old friend Pang Nuan in that battle.

Of course, with Zhao Dan's time travel, the entire history trajectory has undergone inevitable deviations and changes. Now Zhao Dan plans to take advantage of the opportunity when Ju Xin left his wild and was idle at home to see if he could recruit Ju Xin, a Zhao man, back to China again.

Although Ju Xin may not be the top talent, at least he is a first-class talent. After all, there is no invincible person around Zhao Dan. A system like Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, summons top military generals and civil officials at will, so as long as they are talents useful to Zhao State, Zhao Dan doesn't mind taking over the army.

If you are a great talent, you will be given important positions; if you are a medium talent, you will be given secondary positions; if you are a small talent, you will be given irrelevant positions. To put it bluntly, isn’t this the most basic technique of judging people for being a monarch?

Anyway, as long as you are talented, the more you get better!

This can also show the damage caused by the incident of the Shadui Palace to Zhao State. The powerful king of Zhao Wuling starved to death. Not to mention the serious internal friction in Zhao State, the list of talents who left were also a large list, Zhao She, Le Yi, Pang Nuan, Ju Xin... How many talents have been lost!

In addition, the task assigned by Zhao Dan to Pang Nuan is actually secretly mysterious. It actually hides a major plan by Zhao Dan for Yan State. The main implementer of the plan is Hu Yiwei, a secret external organization that Zhao Dan just formed.

However, this matter can be said to be the absolute secret of Zhao State, and very few people know it. For the time being, Pang Nuan is not qualified to know about it, so Zhao Dan will naturally not say it.

After everything was agreed, Pang Nuan naturally surrendered and went back to prepare for the mission to Yan State.

After seeing Pang Nuan away, Zhao Dan also let out a long sigh. So far, Zhao Dan has been constantly conceiving and improving plans since the time travel, and has basically had a general framework and gradually taken shape.

Zhao Dan is also very distressed. After all, he was a small civil servant in his previous life. He knew nothing about cement, explosives, cannons, etc., and he didn't know anything about metallurgical cast iron. He couldn't fiddle with anything except a saddle and stirrup with no technical content, which was very distressing.

But is it really only Pan Technology can defeat the indigenous people? Zhao Dan doesn’t think so. In many cases, people often ignore the power of knowledge.

A wise emperor, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, once said: "Use the ancients as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall." As a visitor two thousand years later, Zhao Dan's greatest reliance was this "Use the ancients as a mirror."

Although King Ji of Qin and Fan Sui were a generation of wise monarchs and wise ministers, can they know their future destiny? Zhao Dan can. Can they know where the system of Qin is bad, and why Qin will eventually be defeated? Zhao Dan understands. Can they know that those people in this world will become talents in the future and those people will fail in the future? Zhao Dan also understands.

In terms of personal talents, Zhao Dan may not be as good as King Ji of Qin and Fan Sui, but when it comes to the things I just mentioned, Zhao Dan from later generations is not bragging, and King Ji of Qin and Fan Sui together definitely do not know much more.

Zhao Dan is not a time traveler who is confronting Qin. He is standing on the shoulders of historians, thinkers, politicians and diplomats for two thousand years in the future. With the systematic knowledge and theories that have been developed for this society for two thousand years, he is confronting Qin, a behemoth who wants to annex the world!

This serious information and knowledge aberration between the two sides is Zhao Dan’s only and biggest advantage!

As the saying goes, “When you reach a certain level of micro-work, you will slowly begin to understand what real operation is.”
Chapter completed!