As soon as he thought of this, Hou Sheng suddenly felt that he had no bright future.

Hou Sheng's heart was very panicked, he had always relied on his trust in Qi Wangjian, and at the same time, he made a lot of things as the prime minister of Qi, and he also connived at his own doormen, relatives and friends to do a lot of corrupt things.

If it is really because of the disadvantage of negotiating peace with Zhao Guo this time, Qi Wangjian will lose confidence in himself, then there will be so many people who have offended Hou Sheng, and there will definitely be many people who are willing to fall into the well for Hou Sheng at that time.

Once the East Window incident happens, then the victory is a dead end.

So no matter what, for the sake of his own future and life, of course, it is impossible to give up, and he decided to give it a try.

So Hou Sheng took a deep breath and said to Zhao Dan in front of him in a somewhat trembling voice: "These are all misunderstandings, please listen to Hou Sheng's explanation!" ”

Zhao Dan looked at Hou Sheng's appearance, and he didn't feel a little funny in his heart.

The current situation has become like this, which is naturally intentional by Zhao Dan.

Although Zhao Dan has indeed made up his mind to negotiate peace with the people of Qi, don't forget that now Zhao Guo occupies the initiative on the battlefield, and Zhao Dan of course wants to take advantage of the current situation to seek more benefits for Zhao Guo.

Therefore, Zhao Dancai specially informed the ministers of Zhao State present in advance, that is, to let these ministers of Zhao State cooperate with Zhao Dan to put on a good show, so as to deceive Hou Sheng, so that Hou Sheng mistakenly thought that the focus of Zhao State's attack was still on the 150,000 troops of Qi State, so as to force Hou Sheng and Qi Wang Jian to make more concessions in order to keep these 150,000 troops.

Judging from the current situation, Zhao Dan's plan has obviously been successful, and Hou Sheng seems to have not only been fooled, but also deceived to a great extent.

So Zhao Dan pretended to cough, and said coldly to Hou Sheng in front of him: "Hou Qing, you still have one last chance to speak, if you can't satisfy the widow, then you should hurry back to Linzi City, and let Qi Wangjian prepare to deal with the widow's army." ”

As soon as Hou Sheng heard this, as long as he said a bad word, the country would be destroyed in a few minutes.

Under Zhao Dan's strong pressure, Hou Sheng finally stopped hesitating, and immediately said to Zhao Dan: "King, my king has already said before the minister sets off, as long as the king is willing to truce with the Qi State and let Kuang Liang in the Gaotang City lead the army back to China, then the Qi State is willing to cede a hundred miles of land to the king!" ”

"A hundred miles?" Zhao Dan's brows moved slightly, and then a funny look appeared on his face: "Houqing, Houqing, it's not that the widow said you, now the land of the widow is so vast, I'm afraid that there must be at least tens of thousands of miles, do you think that this land of just a hundred miles can really impress the widow?" ”

Although it is true that he wants to take benefits, Zhao Dan really didn't pay attention to the benefits that Qi Guo took out.

It's like a guy taking a million and trying to bribe a billionaire, it's just funny!

The cold sweat on Hou Sheng's forehead became even denser, and he hurriedly continued: "The king doesn't know, my king has already said that the king of this hundred miles can be arbitrarily designated!" ”

Hou Sheng was also forced to have no choice, so he thought about talking about the matter first, and then went back by himself and slowly explained to Qi Wangjian.

Anyway, Hou Sheng at least completed the errand assigned by Qi Wangjian, didn't he?

After Zhao Dan heard Hou Sheng's words, his face moved slightly, and he showed a serious expression for the first time, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Since this is the case, then only the King of Qi is willing to cede Pinglu City to the widow, and the widow will make peace with the Qi State this time." ”

"Pinglu City?" As soon as Hou Sheng heard Zhao Dan's words, his whole body couldn't help but tremble again.

As we all know, the political system of Qi is different from the political system of other countries.

This country is particularly fond of the auspicious number of five, in addition to the unique "five officials of the Qi State", the Qi State also has another system, that is, the five capital system.

The so-called five-capital system is that the Qi State divides the whole country into five parts, each part is governed by a capital, of which Linzi as the capital of the King of Qi is naturally the highest, and the other four capitals can be regarded as four military regions.

The supreme commanders of these four capitals, that is, the four capital doctors are equivalent to the supreme commanders of a military region, they are responsible for governing the place in peacetime, and when it comes to wartime, they become commanders, gather the troops in their own military regions, and obey the orders of the king of Qi to fight.

But except for Linzi, the five capitals are not fixed, and they are mainly designated according to the situation faced by the Qi State at that time.

The five capitals of Qi are the capital Linzi, and then there are Jucheng, Jimo City, Gaotang and the Pinglu City that Zhao Dan just said.

Among these five capitals, Gaotang City has now become the land of Zhao State, and Pinglu City happens to be the closest to Gaotang City among the other four capitals.

If this city is also ceded to the Zhao State, then it will definitely be a very serious weakening for the Qi State.

From the perspective of Zhao State, as long as Pinglu City can be taken into hand, then the Hejian Land of Zhao State and Qufu, the hometown of Lu State, will be connected.

In fact, the reason why the Qi State set up one of the capitals in Pinglu City was that it hoped to use Pinglu City as a base for attacking and destroying the Lu State.

It is precisely because this Pinglu City is so important, so after hearing Zhao Dan's conditions, Hou Sheng couldn't help but change his face, and after a while, he said to Zhao Dan: "King, should this matter be discussed again......

"This matter is completely non-negotiable!" Zhao Dan waved his hand very decisively and interrupted Hou Sheng's words: "Didn't Hou Qing say it just now?" As long as the widow is willing, he can arbitrarily cut a piece of land from the Qi country for a hundred miles, and now that the widow has decided, he will cede this Pinglu City and its land within a radius of a hundred miles. ”

Zhao Dan's words fell, and the expression on Hou Sheng's face became even more ugly. The whole person looked extremely hesitant, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Although he was ready to cede land and sue for peace from the beginning, he was naturally very hesitant to think of ceding such an important city to him.

After all, this price is still too great, if the king of Qi is not satisfied with this condition, then Hou Sheng's promise is tantamount to looking for his own death.

After a long time, Hou Sheng still didn't make any decisions.

Seeing this, Zhao Dan showed a smile on his face, and said: "Houqing can go back and think about it first, but the widow only gives you five days, if you don't get any response within five days, then continue to fight!" ”

Seeing Hou Sheng's back disappear from sight, Yu Xin couldn't help but say, "King, will the people of Qi agree to such conditions?" ”

Zhao Dan smiled very confidently: "Now the army of the Yan State is still raging everywhere in the territory of the Qi State, if there is no Kuang Liang army, the remaining armies of the Qi State cannot be the opponent of the Yan Army at all!" So there's nothing to worry about, just sit back and wait for news. ”

The real core issue of this negotiation was the 150,000 Qi troops led by Kuang Liang in Gaotang City.

As long as there are 150,000 Qi troops in their hands, then whether it is to deal with the attack of Yan or to counterattack Zhao in the future, the people of Qi still have a little confidence in their hearts.

But if this Qi army was finally wiped out by Zhao in Gaotang City because of the inability to reach peace talks, Qi would have lost far more than a Pinglu City in the future.

Zhao Dan felt that as long as the monarchs and ministers of Qi were not fools, they should agree to his conditions.

Sure enough, four days later, Hou Sheng asked to see Zhao Dan again and informed Zhao Dan of Qi Guo's final decision.

The state of Qi ceded Pinglu City and the surrounding hundred miles of land to the state of Zhao in exchange for this truce between the two countries of Qi and Zhao.