Yan Guo thistle capital.

The young Empress Dowager Yan sat on the throne, looked at the envoy of Qi in front of her with a very serious expression, and said slowly word by word: "Is King Qi really sure that this matter is true? ”

The envoy nodded, and said respectfully to the Empress Dowager Yan: "Back to the Empress Dowager, this matter was concluded by General Situ Kuangliang of our country after personally observing the actions of the Zhao army on the front line, and it is absolutely impossible to fake. ”

After a pause, the envoy of Qi continued: "Now that King Zhao intends to unite Korea and Chu to carve up Wei, Wei is already in danger. If the Wei State is destroyed, then the Zhao State will be the dominant family after that, and no one will be able to restrict the Zhao State from now on, and the Yan State is also in danger. I also asked Empress Yan to think about the overall situation and quickly send troops with my king to support Wei. ”

Although it sounded very incendiary, Empress Dowager Yan did not agree to the request of the envoy of Qi State so easily, but subconsciously glanced at the Prime Minister of Yan State, who was sitting at the bottom.

Judging from Lejian's expression, this Yan Xiangbang is obviously also thinking, and he can't give any answer for a while.

So Empress Dowager Yan re-turned her gaze to the envoy of Qi in front of her, and said to the envoy of Qi in front of her: "Please also ask the envoy to turn around and rest first, if there is news, the old woman will inform the envoy as soon as possible." ”

After seeing the envoy of Qi leave, Empress Dowager Yan returned her gaze to Le Jian again, and said to Le Jian: "Chang Guojun, why didn't you speak just now? ”

As soon as these words came out, Lejian's body moved slightly, and then he suddenly came back to his senses.

In fact, what this Chang Guojun was thinking about just now was not this war, but another thing.

Something about the Le family.

Speaking of Lejian's father, Le Yi, is a native of Zhao, but if you trace the roots carefully, then the ancestor of the Le family is the general Le Yang under Wei Wenhou Weisi, the first overlord of Wei in the early Warring States period.

At that time, Le Yang was ordered by Wei Wenhou to destroy Zhongshan and annex Zhongshan into the territory of Wei, and then the Le clan guarded Zhongshan for Wei.

However, more than 20 years later, the Zhongshan Kingdom was successfully restored, and the Le clan located here became the citizens of the Zhongshan Kingdom.

It wasn't until later that King Wuling of Zhao destroyed the Zhongshan Kingdom, and the Le clan was once again included in China, and the nationals of the Zhongshan Kingdom became the people of the Zhao Kingdom.

After Le Yi, the Le clan was divided into two branches, one was still in the hometown of Zhongshan in Zhao State, with Le Cheng as the patriarch, and the other was to return to Yan Country with Le Jian as the leader.

It stands to reason that Le Jian is the prime minister of the Yan Kingdom, has the position of a feudal monarch, and is young enough, plus he is the son of the patriarch of the previous generation, Le Yi, is better than Le Cheng in all aspects, so it seems to be normal for the Le clan in the Yan Kingdom to prosper.

But the problem is that the Yan State is only a small and weak country among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States today, while the Zhao State is the strongest country today.

Therefore, although Le Cheng is only the general of the Southern Army of Zhao State, even in the military of Zhao State, he can only be regarded as the third person under Lian Po and Pang Xuan, but under the leadership of the third person in this district, Zhao Guole's family has developed very steadily and low-key over the years, but the momentum has faintly surpassed that of Yan's Le family.

This kind of result is undoubtedly something that the self-proclaimed orthodox Yan Guole clan does not like to see.

Under such circumstances, when the princes met in Handan last year, Yan Guole and Zhao Guole also took the opportunity to meet.

The purpose of this meeting was originally to let the two clans from the same source get in touch with each other, but in the end it was very unpleasant, and the reason for all this unhappiness was because the patriarch of the Zhao Guole clan, Le Cheng, hoped that the music could cooperate with Zhao Guo to use the means of internal and external cooperation to incorporate Yan into the territory of Zhao State.

Naturally, it is impossible for Rakuma to agree to this.

If Yan Guo was really incorporated into Zhao Guo like this, not to mention how many Yan people would be scolded by Lejian as a traitor, the ending of Yan Guole's clan being merged into Zhao Guole's clan alone would make Lejian completely unacceptable.

Lecheng and Lejian quarreled and finally broke up.

What Le Jian was thinking about just now is actually this question, if Le Jian really agreed to Le Cheng's plan to annex Yan State with the inside and outside, then I'm afraid that now Zhao State will not attack Wei State, but choose to go north with Qi State to attack Yan State again, right?

Speaking of which, Yan State is now the only worry of Zhao State, if it can really annex Yan State together, then Zhao State only needs to use a certain amount of cavalry to guard against those nomads on the grassland who have long been afraid, and it is completely possible to rest assured that most of the troops can boldly go south to dominate the Central Plains, and even eliminate all the other five major warring states.

As soon as he thought of this, Lejian's head couldn't help but have a layer of fine beads of sweat.

The plot of the people of Zhao is really to destroy all other countries from beginning to end!

It was at this time that Empress Dowager Yan's question came at the right time, slowly pulling the music room back from a state of distraction.

Le Jian, who came back to his senses, hurriedly confessed to the Empress Dowager Yan, and the Empress Dowager Yan obviously didn't want to investigate the reason for Le Cheng's deity at this time, but continued to ask: "Chang Guojun, how do you think Yan Guo should behave this time?" ”

Le Jian settled down, thought carefully for a while, and then said to the Empress Dowager Yan: "Queen Mother, the minister will tell the truth. Today's Yan State has experienced continuous wars in the past few years, and the national strength is exhausted, and the people are determined, and it is really not suitable to continue to fight abroad. ”

After all, Yan is different from Zhao and Qin, because there is no such thing as a military merit system in Yan State, when most of the people are recruited to the battlefield, it is actually equivalent to compulsory service to fight for the country, but the reward is basically a floating cloud.

In such a situation, the Yan people are naturally not interested in fighting, and there is no reward for their hard work, who will do it?

Therefore, it is impossible for the Yan State to use troops with foreign countries for many years like the Qin and Zhao countries, which is also the so-called system problem.

Empress Dowager Yan let out a sigh when she heard this, but she was not too surprised.

In the eyes of the queen mother, Le Jian said so, so she should not agree to continue to send troops to Zhao State.

However, what Empress Dowager Yan didn't expect was that Le Jian said next: "But now that Zhao is powerful, if it is really as King Qi said, if Zhao directly annexes Wei as King Qi said, even if the other countries are connected, I am afraid it will be difficult to become the opponent of Zhao." Therefore, the minister thought that he had to send troops to contain Zhao and make it impossible for Zhao to take Wei, otherwise Yan would definitely suffer in the future. ”

Empress Dowager Yan hesitated for a moment, and then said: "But the old woman is still a little worried in her heart, if this time the army is not only unable to prevent Zhao from annexing Wei, but makes King Zhao angry with the old woman and Yan State, then what should it be?" ”

To be honest, after several successive defeats, Empress Dowager Yan felt a little afraid of her home country in her heart.

For women, the mother's family is actually a very special place, although the Empress Dowager Yan said that she can confront Zhao Guo for the benefit of Yan Guo, but if she finds that she is no longer enough to confront this mother's family, this woman obviously wants to use another way, that is, a cooperative way to ease the confrontation between Ying Guo and Zhao Guo.

After all, for Empress Dowager Yan, she is indeed married, but it is her own family who sits on the throne of King Zhao. More importantly, in the last war, Zhao returned Wuyang, the lower capital of Yan, to the Empress Dowager Yan that a long-term peace between Yan and Zhao was not impossible.

For Empress Dowager Yan's mentality, Le Jian obviously knows it clearly, and Le Jian also thinks that this kind of thinking is simply too stupid.

In such a situation where the Seven Kingdoms are fighting for power, how can one expect the enemy to be merciful to oneself?

So Le Jian immediately said to the Empress Dowager Yan: "Don't forget that the Empress Dowager should not forget that since King Zhao ascended the throne, the expansion of the Zhao State has always been decisive, and there has never been any mercy to any country. Don't say that the Queen Mother is just a woman, think that Zhao Guosi Kou Zhao Bao, as a prince and an important minister of Zhao State, has always worked hard for Zhao State, but in the end, he was not removed from his official position by King Zhao and grounded at home with a word? Please think twice. ”

As soon as these words came out, the hesitation in Empress Dowager Yan's eyes suddenly slowly dissipated.

After all, this world is male and female inferior, even if it is a princess of Zhao State like Empress Dowager Yan, she is only nominally noble before she gets married, and Zhao Bao, who was already an important minister of Zhao State at that time, is not the same.

After sighing softly, Empress Dowager Yan said to Le Jian: "Since Chang Guojun has said so, then the old woman naturally has no reason to object. Next, how does Chang Guojun plan to stop Zhao Guo? ”

Le Jian thought for a moment and said: "Back to the Empress Dowager, the minister thought that he could reply to the envoy of Qi State first and tell him that Yan Guo was willing to join the anti-Zhao alliance this time. But the premise is that Qin and Qi must take the lead in sending troops, otherwise, even if Wei is destroyed, my Yan State will not send troops. ”

The reason why Le Jian made this request was mainly because Yan Guo was indeed too weak compared to Zhao Guo, if there were no big brothers in front of him, let Yan Guo jump out first and face Zhao Guogang, this would definitely be a dead end.

Empress Dowager Yan thought about it and thought that this idea was good, so she nodded and said to Lejian: "Since this is the case, then this matter will be handed over to Chang Guojun to be fully responsible." ”

Le Jian stood up and bowed to the Empress Dowager Yan: "Please rest assured that the Queen Mother will do her best to live up to the Queen Mother's trust!" ”