In the end, Ji Jie decided to accept Ji Lin's request for Yan to return to Zhou. The surrounding countries had nothing to fear. South Korea would never join the Three Jin Alliance to deal with the Zhou Dynasty. It was not a big problem for Wei to have Lord Xinling as an internal coordinator! The only country left was Zhao. They were defeated by the Zhou army several times and could not achieve anything.
"Of course, after the return of Yan to Zhou, Ji Lin will still be the legal leader of Yan!" Ji Jie said: "What we need to do is to speed up and improve the establishment of various functional departments and commercial departments, so that Yan will be the leader!"
Finally, Ji Jie sent a message to the world in the name of Zhou Dynasty Supervisor and Zhaowen Jun, stating that he accepted the induction of Yan State. If other countries come to congratulate, they will be respected as honored guests. If they want to cause trouble, they will see you on the battlefield. .
As soon as this news came out, the reaction of the State of Zhao was the most intense. For decades, the King of Zhao had regarded the State of Yan as food in his bowl. How could he watch it and Ji Jie take it into his mouth?
But King Zhao had to consider that in several wars with the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhao army ended in failure, and the victorious general Li Mu and his best assistant Sima Shang also ended up being demoted.
Li Mu was good at fighting. When the opponent was the Huns, he was victorious in every battle. However, when the opponent was Ji Jie, his excellent military command skills failed.
The traitorous prime minister Guo Kai and Julu Hou Zhao Mu were ordered to come to King Zhao's study. They guessed what topic would be discussed today, so they had already made preparations.
"Your Majesty, I think this battle must be fought, but not now!" Although Guo Kai is a sycophant, he is not stupid. He said: "As soon as our Zhao soldiers mentioned fighting against the Zhou army, their morale was completely lost. In this case, there is no possibility of victory!"
Because of the defeat last time, Zhao Mu has not fully resumed his duties. He can only follow Guo Kai's words and say: "Yes, the soldiers are not willing to fight against Dazhou. Many soldiers said that since Princess Qian has followed, Zhao Wenjun is our son-in-law of the State of Zhao, so it would be inappropriate to fight him! Of course, I don’t mean not to fight him. I agree with Prime Minister Guo that a fight is inevitable, but it is not appropriate to start a war now!"
Now that the two giants in charge of the army have said so, what else can King Zhao say, other than to give up the idea of using troops against Zhou Dynasty.
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The day after Ji Jie sent out his message, Ji Lin rushed to Zhaocheng without being welcomed, and made it clear that he would live here, and asked him to quickly dispatch relevant personnel to take over various city affairs in Jicheng.
Ji Lin was as happy as a little bird after spending all day with Ji Jie Ni.
In a small village outside Zhaocheng, Cao Qiudao's internal and external injuries were all healed, and he began to plan a new round of assassinations.
However, he still didn't trust the shadow guards, and his heartache was even more serious, because while he was recuperating, he heard the villagers talk about Ji Jie's several battles with him more than once, and they naturally praised him more than they praised him.
Even an inconspicuous small village has such a spread, let alone the outside world. Cao Qiudao is determined to get rid of Ji Jie in the shortest possible time and restore his reputation.
First of all, how to sneak into the city smoothly? Cao Qiudao disguised himself and the helpers sent by his family as merchants who came to Dazhou for the first time. This fundamentally avoided being caught when he showed that he was unfamiliar with the place after entering the city. People doubt.
After entering the city, they chose an inn in a busy city to stay. The seemingly dangerous place was actually safer and less likely to arouse others' suspicion.
Then inquire about Ji Jie from various aspects, such as his eating and living habits, where he likes to travel, etc.
It took a lot of effort to find out clearly. When Cao Qiudao was about to formulate an assassination plan, he got the news that Ji Jie had left Zhaocheng. He took his think tank to the royal city. As for when he would come back, no one knew.
Not only did Ji Jie go to the royal city, the 60,000 newly trained Zhou army also began to move there. Together with the original 40,000 elite troops, the total number was 100,000.
What does Ji Jie want to do?
The monarchs of several surrounding countries tightened their nerves and unanimously sent additional garrison troops to the border.
The monarchs who were far away wanted to watch a good show, so they almost jumped out to fan the flames, but there was no movement on Ji Jie's side, and the camp where a hundred thousand troops were stationed was even more frighteningly quiet.
Just when everyone was confused, another message summoned the world: Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei used 300,000 taels of gold and several other conditions to bribe the sword master Cao Qiudao to carry out repeated attacks on the governor of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhaowen Jun Ji Jie. Assassination, Cao Qiudao has never relaxed on this task until now. Zhaowen Jun Ji Jie missed his old relationship and tolerated it many times, hoping that Lu Buwei could rein in the situation. Who would have thought that he would intensify his efforts? In this case, he had to ask for an explanation!
The power of this letter is that Ji Jie regards Lu Buwei as his enemy, not the entire Qin State.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves. Before, many people were speculating on why Cao Qiudao had enmity with Ji Jie. Now they finally know the answer. It turned out that Lu Buwei was the one who got in the way.
Then, Ji Jie submitted his credentials to the State of Qin and asked the King of Qin to hand over Lu Buwei.
Not to mention Ying Zheng's attitude towards this matter, first let's talk about the fact that the power of Qin State is firmly in the hands of Lu Buwei. Will he hand over himself?
Needless to say, the answer is no!
After receiving the letter of credence, Lu Buwei delivered an impassioned "speech" at the Qin Dynasty meeting, and won the support of "the officials", and Qin went to war against the Great Zhou Dynasty.
However, Lu Buwei has never been able to figure out one thing, and that is why Ji Jie knew so clearly about his bribery of Cao Qidao. Only he and Sima Jing knew about this matter, and he himself had never told the third party. I personally said it.
Could it be Sima Jing? Lu Buwei began to suspect and immediately launched a secret investigation.
The royal city, the main tent of the Chinese army.
In front of Ji Jie were Sima Xueran, Ji Jian and Zhao Ling. After reading Qin's war report, he said with a smile: "As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will win a hundred battles. The battle has not yet begun. I think Lu Buwei's intelligence management agency is He will face a major blood change, and the cause of this blood change will also come from his own doubts, haha!"
Ji Jian and Zhao Ling looked at each other. They didn't know the meaning of Ji Jie's words, but Sima Xueran had a smile on her face. It seemed that she understood it very well.
That's right, what happened between Lu Buwei and Cao Qiudao was overheard by her insider who was placed next to Lu Buwei. It had nothing to do with Sima Jing. The reason why Ji Jie described the content of the robbery so clearly in the letter was that In order to carry out the implementation of countermeasures.
Sima Jing didn't know yet that a disaster was about to befall him.
Ji Jie stood up with a smile, and Ji Jian and Zhao Ling also stood up quickly.
"Two of you, one will lead the infantry and the other will lead the cavalry! Xueran remains in the army in the name of counselor of the three armies and is responsible for summarizing intelligence from all parties." Ji Jie ordered: "I will follow you soon and join the Qin army. war!"