Recently, Zhiyao can't help but recall things that happened a long time ago. She can't extricate herself when she gets caught up in memories, and it's dawn when she returns to her dreams at midnight.
To put it simply, Zhiyao has been suffering from insomnia recently, so that she seems to be in a bad mood.
With Zhiyao's current status and achievements, trivial things can be interpreted infinitely. Fortunately, he is not sick, otherwise there would be bad public opinions.
"The king's worry is that the Zhao family is the king. If he can't go out for a day, it will be difficult for the king to sleep peacefully?" Zhong Xingyin heard about what happened at Xingyuan and specially called Cheng Kuan.
Cheng Kuan understood what Zhong Xingyin meant and said, "My great nephew will definitely keep an eye on the Zhao family."
This Cheng Kuan is the eldest son of Cheng Xiao, the son of brother Zhiyao.
This side of Qin was divided into four counties, one of which was the fiefdom of the Cheng family.
Cheng Xiao stayed in "Zhongjing" for a long time, just in the name of the head of the family. Although Cheng Shuo also stayed in the capital for a long time or was ordered to go on an expedition, Cheng Shuo handled most of the things in the past, and waiting for Cheng Kuan to perform the crowning ceremony was
The matter fell to him.
The Zhongxing family and the Cheng family are now both public families. There is a competitive relationship between the two parties, but they are more cooperative.
The biggest task of the two families is to pacify Qin and truly integrate the people of Qin, and then to guard against Yiqu and Zhao Dai.
Zhong Xingyin specifically asked Cheng Kuan to talk about this matter, which was actually a far-fetched idea.
As the lord of the original country, Zhiyao has too many things to worry about, and Zhao's Daiguo is just one of them, and its proportion is destined to not be the first.
Compared with the Zhao Dynasty, destroying the Chu State can achieve the initial achievement of "one world", so the Chu State is the country that the original country pays the most attention to.
However, everyone has their own demands. The more they care about something, they will regard themselves as the most important. To put it bluntly, they will put themselves as the center.
Zhong Xingyin's meaning was too direct. He wanted Cheng Kuan to use his status to gain more resources, and it would be best to attract more attention from Lai Zhiyao.
Cheng Kuan really has that qualification!
If we seriously calculate it, the position of Zhiyao's heir was snatched from Cheng Xiao. Due to the characteristics of the times, it is destined that Zhiyao not only cannot kill Zhixiao, but on the contrary, he must give him preferential treatment.
No matter whether Zhiyao feels guilty about Cheng Xiao or not, she must show her guilty side, so that it will appear reasonable.
Then, Zhiyao must look high on Cheng Kuan, give him more indulgence than Zhikai, and show his humane side.
According to the original history, after the Zhi family was expelled from the Jin State, Zhikai and Zhikuan defected to the Qin State, and later became members of the old Qin aristocracy, and were eradicated during Shang Yang's reform.
Cheng Kuan had a fiefdom in Qin. It was not because Zhiyao knew the historical process. To say that the preferential treatment was really a great one.
Currently, the Cheng family's fiefdom is classified to the east of the Weishui River and the Jingshui River. As long as the water conservancy projects there are built, it will immediately become a land of plenty.
Even though the water conservancy project has not yet been constructed, the local area is an extremely suitable environment for farming, which is equivalent to demarcating a good land for the Cheng family.
"If there is any change between the Zhao family and Yiqu, it will definitely be when Oyuan invades the Chu Kingdom." Zhikuan's education since childhood was not inferior to Zhikai's. The two grew up together and developed separately after they were eighteen years old.
Zhongxing Yin nodded fiercely.
Just when the inspection team of the original lord of the country entered Qin, the Zhao family Daiguo and Yiqu were so frightened that they immediately issued mobilization orders. The spies reported that the two countries had assembled 70,000 and 100,000 troops respectively.
Recently, Qin has frequently captured spies from Yiqu and Zhao's Dai Kingdom. It can be seen that the two countries are very worried about being invaded by the original army, so much so that they sent a large number of spies even though they knew that entering Qin was currently very risky.
Cheng Kuan and Zhong Xingyin were both people who knew when the Yuan Kingdom would take action against the Chu Kingdom. What they had doubts about was whether the invasion of Shu and Ba would go smoothly. Once there was a problem with the annexation of Bashu, they didn't know whether the attack on Chu would be successful.
It won't be delayed.
They didn't know the situation of the original army in Bashu, but they had received an order from the central government to send people to "Chencang" to explore the way.
, planning to open the channel to Hanzhong.
So that means Qin might need reinforcements from Bashu?
Zhong Xingyin was thinking: "If Zhao Wushe is brave enough, he should take the opportunity to form an alliance with Yiqu and invade Qin at this time."
If that kind of thing really happened, Zhiyao was in Qin, and the central government learned that Zhao's Daiguo and Yiqu were invading, how could they not rescue him? A King Qin incident was bound to happen, and Qin would also become the protagonist.
Zhong Xingyin who thinks so is not hoping that something will happen to Zhiyao. He is simply a local official who has his own ideals and goals and is eager to develop the situation.
There are not many people who have that kind of thinking in the past dynasties. They typically only care about themselves.
The Zhao family is on this side of the country.
It’s mid-spring and it’s not raining. It’s actually watering as if the sky is leaking!
Zhao Wuxie stood on the edge of the tent, feeling the chill from the wind, and his heart was actually completely chilled.
Not long ago, Yiqu clearly rejected the alliance proposal of Zhao's Dai Kingdom, and even killed the envoy of Zhao's Dai Kingdom. The news of the rejection of alliance was sent back together with the envoy's head.
The reason why Yiqu refused to form an alliance with the Zhao family was very straightforward. He called Zhao Wuxie a villain who broke his word.
So there seems to be nothing wrong with scolding?
In the past, many forces formed an alliance with Zhao Wuxie. Either those forces became pawns, or they were annexed or invaded later.
With so many examples, who dares to believe Zhao Wuji?
However, Zhao Wuxie felt that he was aggrieved. Although he made many small moves during the alliance with someone, the fight started after the alliance was dissolved. Judging from the course of the situation, it could not be regarded as Zhao's attack on the ally on behalf of the country.
The foreign tribe's style of conduct is simpler and more crude than that of Zhu Xia. They don't care about the process or process at all, and only look at the results of things. As a result, Zhao Guanji may have been able to play cunning and cunning very smoothly in the original history. It's his turn.
The historical version suddenly failed on Yiqu's side.
"The original country has no intention of moving the army north. Is it necessary to gather the army during the rainy season..." Zhao Huo sat by the stove in the tent.
Currently, there is only a small amount of farming in the Zhao Dynasty, which is mainly based on grazing. This kind of living habit is destined to require scattered habitats. If they gather together for a long time, it is easy to eat up the turf in a certain area.
When Zhao Wushe learned that Zhiyao had entered Qin for inspection, he immediately sent envoys to various pastures and asked the local tribes to immediately gather soldiers to come and gather.
One hundred thousand soldiers? At least nearly two hundred thousand non-combatants followed. The population of a certain area suddenly increased sharply. Due to their living habits, they had to bring more horses, cattle, and sheep, which directly made the foot of Yinshan Mountain extremely crowded.
In terms of area, the Zhao Dynasty now not only occupies the land of Jiuqu, but also controls the area known as Monan.
Their grazing area was actually the most elite area of the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu used this elite area to raise nearly 300,000 cavalry!
Zhao Huo's words made Zhao Wuji frown deeply. While feeling unhappy, he laughed at himself and said, "Give me your head, and the Zhao family can return to its peak."
Because of Zhao Bolu's return and Zhiyao's kind treatment, the Zhao family has indeed become one of the big families in the Central Plains.
The successor of the Yuan Kingdom is Fen Ying, and Zhi Kai is half of the Zhao family. The Zhao family, who is destined to be far away from the Central Plains, will be more emotionally complicated.
Not all people in Zhao's country are determined to make things difficult for the original country. The call for returning to the Central Plains is actually very loud, but the starting point of the group of people who want to return to the Central Plains is not consistent, and they cannot converge into a unified opinion and then issue it with great power.
That’s all.
Now Zhao Wuxie can still rely on the reputation of taking the Zhao family out to create new glory. Once the Zhao family confronts the Yuan Kingdom again and loses miserably, the return wave will inevitably spread wildly. If the Yuan Kingdom intervenes, it will directly
Let the Zhao family be divided again.
Of course, Zhao Huo could tell that Zhao Wuxie was laughing at himself, and he was not polite at all. He said with a smile: "Bolu is the ninth minister of the original country. I can look forward to the future of the three princes."
Zhikai has half the blood of the Zhao family. When it is his turn to take charge of the Yuan Kingdom, it is really possible that Zhao Bolu will become the third
Gong Yi. This does not depend on Zhao Bolu's ability, it is simply the blood connection there, which can increase the attributes of wisdom and affability.
Zhao Huo added: "If you die, even if the Zhao family is not united and is willing to give up the Hetao, the Yuan Kingdom may not have the intention to kill them all."
The words were hard to hear, but they made Zhao Wuji laugh.
For a long time, it seemed that Zhiyao and Zhao Wuxie had no interaction. In fact, the two sides had a lot of interaction in general strategies, including Zhao's departure from Dai Kingdom, the original army not following them to suppress, and knowing that Zhao's Dai Kingdom lived in Jiuqu.
In this area, the original army only conducted routine patrols in the vicinity and never sent more than 50,000 troops to invade.
Zhao Wuxie stretched out his hand to catch the rain and said mockingly: "Zhiyao has repeatedly forced me to flee far away, treating me as a pawn to expand outwards. How can I easily get what he wants?"
After Zhao Wuji realized these things that he could only understand, he never mentioned them to anyone other than Zhao Huo.
In fact, Zhao Wuji didn't understand it at first. He originally thought that Zhiyao was focused on dealing with the Central Plains and southern princes. It wasn't until he discovered that the Yuan Kingdom had not wiped out the remaining forces of the Qin State, but also repeatedly forced the remnants of the Qin State to the west, that he realized his wisdom.
Yao means.
Zhao Wuxie deliberately created an atmosphere in which the Zhao family was in danger of losing control of the country under the pressure of the original country. The main reason was that he was not willing to let the Zhao family withdraw from the historical stage of the Central Plains. Secondly, he used panic to strengthen his rule, hoping that his power could really be restored again and again.
Get stronger and find an opportunity to compete with Zhiyao.
Everything was going smoothly originally, but Lou Fan was repeatedly squeezed out of his living space, and Lin Hu also retreated step by step under the attack of the Zhao family. There were even some small and medium-sized tribesmen who did not belong to Lou Fan, Lin Hu, and Bai Zhai.
He continued to seek refuge with the Zhao family.
Zhao Wushe calculated that according to the current trend, within thirty to fifty years, the Zhao Dynasty would become a powerful force with a population of over one million and the ability to recruit 300,000 bow-shooting men.
Three hundred thousand soldiers who can ride horses and shoot arrows? This is also thanks to Zhiyao for coming up with stirrups and saddles. Later, Zhao Wuxie also spied on the existence of horseshoes.
For pure foreign forces, even if they know the existence of the "three-piece suit", it is difficult for them to fully popularize it due to their productivity in all aspects.
The Zhao Dynasty is different. Zhao Wuxie has seen the importance of craftsmen from the development of the original country. No matter how difficult the conditions are, he will try his best to cultivate more craftsmen. He has mastered all aspects of technology. He is really not what other foreign forces want to do.
A situation that cannot be reached.
Of course, Zhao Wuji also knew very well that the Yuan Kingdom... or Zhiyao could not give Zhao a thirty or fifty years to serve as the country. The fastest the Yuan Kingdom would do was to send troops north immediately after the war with the Chu Kingdom.
, it will not be delayed for more than ten years.
Now, Zhao Huo looked at Zhao Wuxie's back and roughly guessed what Zhao Wuxie was thinking.
A long time ago, Zhao Wuji had said internally that he would return the Zhao family to the hands of Zhao Bolu before his death.
Zhao Guanjie in the original version of history did what he said.
In this version of history, Zhao Guanji not only fulfilled his promise, but also had a reason why he had to do it.
Zhao Huo asked more simply: "When did it split into two?"
Zhao Wuxie said with a displeased look on his face: "You know why you ask questions."
Doesn’t this mean that the Chu State has not yet been destroyed, and there is no sign of the Yuan State’s army heading north?
Zhao Wuxie wanted to prove himself very much. Now that he had an alternative, he especially wanted to let the world see his ability.
"I sent someone to invite Yiqu to form an alliance. Do you want to find out for the Yuan Kingdom? If Yiqu refuses to form an alliance, a large army will invade in the future. This will be the opportunity for the Yuan Kingdom to send troops. Is Zhiyao greedy, or do you want to destroy Yiqu and me at once?"
Although Zhao Wuxie used questions, his expression was extremely determined.
Zhao Huo understood.
Unwilling to be reconciled, Zhao Wuji still wanted to plot against the Yuan Kingdom. It would be best if he could annihilate a large army of the Yuan Kingdom. After proving his ability, he also proved the strength of the Zhao family. It was Zhao Wuji's turn to divide his own power.
Second, those who are willing to defect to their original country return to the Central Plains, and those who are unwilling follow Zhao Guanshe on the journey to conquer foreign races outside the territory.
To put it bluntly, Zhao Wuxie admitted defeat, but it was an incomplete admission of defeat. He had wronged himself for the sake of the Zhao family of the original country and acted as Zhiyao's pawn.
Zhao Huo said: "The land of Qin
The Zhongxing clan is an old rival, and Zhongxing Yin may have some cleverness, but he is really incapable of using troops."
Zhao Wuxie shook his head and said: "How could Zhi Yao not know Zhong Xing Yin, and how could he make him a general? Come to think of it, if it wasn't Sima Rangju, he would be Yang Hu."
Zhao Huo agreed with Zhao Wuxie's guess.
The Yuan Kingdom is actually about to enter an era of recession. The older generation of people with great military exploits are getting older day by day, while the new generation has no one to prove themselves for the time being.
Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to guess who will be the commander-in-chief of one party. There are only a few people to choose from, and among them, Sun Wu is no longer suitable for leading troops in combat.
It depends on who was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the original army in the first wave of attacks on Chu. The most likely scenario is that Zhiyao will appoint Sima Rangju, who is convenient to him, as the commander-in-chief.
Instead of Sima Ranju coming to Qin, there are actually quite a few generals left to choose from, such as Zhi Xuwu, Cheng Shuo, Yang Hu, Ji Qin, Gao Qiang, etc., and there might even be Zhi Kai.
Zhao Wuhe said with a smile on his face: "If the prince opens it, my uncle can teach him a lesson."
