King Zhao's old face was as black as the bottom of a pot. Zhao Qian, who was standing next to him, had already yawned several times. This guy had thick dark circles under his eyes and an expression of obvious kidney failure. He didn't know what happened last night. Where to fool around.
When he heard the news that dozens of granaries in the city were on fire in the middle of the night last night, King Zhao couldn't sleep anymore. Before dawn, he ordered people to notify the ministers to come to the court for discussion. As for Zhao Qian, he sent someone to drag him out of bed. Came here.
"Handan Order, first tell me about the losses last night!" King Zhao said with a sinking face.
A fat man stepped forward, squinted his eyes and said: "Your Majesty, after preliminary calculations, the food burned by the fire last night totaled 600,000 dan, accounting for more than 60% of the people's food stocks. It was also three times that of our soldiers guarding the city. Monthly rations!”
"That means the remaining food in the city is only enough to feed my army for two months?" King Zhao asked.
The fat man shook his head and said, "I'm afraid one month is not enough. The soldiers need to eat, and the people also need to eat! If the king is willing to take out the hundreds of thousands of stones, grain and grass in the palace treasury, two months will not be a problem."
"What did you say? You want me to bring out my own food, you say it again..." Zhao Wang Wuming became angry and wanted to throw his shoe sole on his face.
The fat man quickly knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said: "Wei Chen is just a suggestion, a small suggestion. Please don't take it too seriously!"
King Zhao thought to himself, "Can I not care? The food you guys hide in your house will only be more, not less, than what I have in my palace treasury. If you want me to bleed, I will operate on you first."
"The grain stored in the palace is the last barrier for our great Zhao. It should not be opened too early!" King Zhao vowed: "The way I see it, you should open your own private treasury first. It doesn't need to be much. It doesn't take much, as long as you can get 200,000 shi." Just do it, to solve the urgent need, after the Zhou army is defeated, I will definitely pay you back in full!"
All the ministers secretly cursed King Zhao as an old fox for knowing their family's wealth so clearly. The total amount of food in these people's private treasury was only more than 200,000 dan, and King Zhao stripped it clean in one go.
Zhao Qian shrugged, it has nothing to do with him anyway, you can do whatever you want!
For three days in a row, Rou Yue looked at the calm Handan City, pushed Ji Jie beside her, and said, "They don't seem to be showing any signs of surrender?"
Ji Jie said with a smile: "Even if King Zhao kneels in front of me now, I will not accept his surrender. There are still some things that have not been done! Let me test you. Zhao's comprehensive national strength ranks very high among the seven countries. High, but why can’t we reach the heights of Qin?”
"The King of Zhao is incompetent. Although there are famous generals like Li Mu and Sima Shang, he also has sycophants like Guo Kai and Zhao Mu!" Rou Yue said without thinking: "Not only do they not want to make progress, but for their own selfish interests, sycophants We are willing to sell anything and even kill Zhongliang!"
That's right, if the current King of Zhao is replaced by a more heroic man, let alone whether Zhao has the ability to unify the six countries, at least there will not be a disastrous defeat like the Battle of Changping. The decline of Zhao is due to the Changping War. The battle was on the dividing line. The reason for this tragedy was that Guo Kai slandered King Zhao. King Zhao dismissed the veteran general Lian Po and appointed Zhao Kuo, who could only talk on paper. Otherwise, the Qin army would be defeated.
It is a pity that King Zhao has not thought deeply about this matter until now, and still has great trust in Guo Kai.
"It's these two villains!" Ji Jie said in a disdainful tone: "When my army captures Handan, these sycophants will definitely change their appearance and kneel at my feet and swear allegiance to me. How can I do it at that time?" I want to kill them with my own hands, but if I keep them, it will be a disaster, so it is better to leave this murder to King Zhao!"
"What do you mean?" Rouyue was a little confused.
"You'll know in two days!" Ji Jie smiled mysteriously, then turned and walked back.
"No, you have to tell me now!" Rou Yue followed up, hugged Ji Jie's arm and started acting coquettishly, rubbing her plump breasts against his arm, which made him feel distracted.
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In the middle of the night, in Ji Jie's Chinese army tent, a man wearing an official uniform of the State of Zhao was saluting him.
"Are you really sent by Guo Xiangguo?" Ji Jie asked with his legs crossed.
"That's right, I was originally a domestic slave of Lord Xiang Guo, but now I live in Handan, Lord Bo!" The man nodded and said, "My name is Guo Suiping. I'm visiting His Highness Zhao Wenjun late at night and disturbing your rest. I'm really sorry! "
"It doesn't matter, it's an emergency!" Ji Jie waved his hand generously and said, "How is Guo Xiangguo thinking about it? When will he open the city gate and let me lead the army into the city?"
There was a man in black prostrate on the side of the big tent, listening to the conversation between the two people inside.
Guo Suiping smiled and said: "Don't be anxious, Mr. Zhaowen. Lord Xiangguo and Marquis Julu have already reached an agreement. It's just that King Zhao has been relatively close these days, so it's not convenient to open the city to welcome you in. Don't worry, I'll come when I come." The two of them told me that you should be at ease, within five days...you must be prepared!"
"Hahaha!" Ji Jie laughed and said, "I have been prepared for a long time! Go back and tell your master and Marquis Julu that after taking Handan, one of them will be appointed as the Marquis of Zhao, and the other will be appointed as the city guard general. Gold There are all kinds of beauties, so they can be prepared to enjoy themselves!"
"Okay, I'll go back and report right now! My lord has said that on the day the city is destroyed, he will lead the ministers of Zhao State to hold a banquet in the palace to entertain you. At that time, the immortal King of Zhao will be presented to you and he will serve it to you personally. Liquor, and let all his concubines dance to entertain him!"
Hahaha, the two of them laughed together.
"By the way, how did you get out of the city without anyone noticing?" Ji Jie asked.
Guo Suiping smiled sheepishly and said, "To tell you the truth, I came out of the city through the sewer leading to the moat. Although it is a little dirty, it is very safe. I will enter the city through that soon!"
"Okay, be careful along the way!"
"Thank you, Mr. Zhaowen, and I'll take my leave!"
After Guo Suiping left, the man in black lying outside quietly followed him.
Two quarters of an hour later, Sima Xueran reported back: "Guo Suiping and the man in black entered the city through the waterway one after the other. The man in black followed Guo Suiping until he walked into Guo Kai's mansion, then turned around and went straight to the palace."
"Okay!" Ji Jie happily slapped the table and said, "These two traitors are about to die. Let your people pay close attention and send the news back in time!"
"no problem!"
Guo Suiping was indeed a person, and he did serve as Guo Kai's domestic slave. He also had the position he reported to Ji Jie. However, he was later successfully instigated by Sima Xueran's people and turned into an informant buried around Guo Kai. He only came to Guo Kai to talk about some harmless topics.