Tai Xiaodan said that the conditions offered by the plateau were too harsh, but in fact, they were not bad at all.

The conditions set by the plateau first tripled the amount of gold and grain compensated by the Yan State, reaching 6,000 eridium in gold and 600,000 stone in grain; Moreover, the caravans of the later counties were allowed to collect any fees from the Yan Kingdom, and the safety of the caravans in the territory must be guaranteed, and in the event of injury or property damage, the Yan Kingdom would compensate them doublely; The soldiers of the Yan State who were captured by the Wu'an Army will no longer be released, and all of them will be moved to Daijun and become the people of Daijun, and the Yan State will also move all the families of these soldiers to Daijun; The Wu'an army will occupy Juyongsai until the grain, gold, population, etc. compensated by Yan State are all delivered, and then Juyongsai will be returned to Yan State.

No matter from that point of view, the conditions offered by the plateau are indeed extremely harsh, not only do the Yan State compensate a large amount of gold and grain, but also the caravan passes through the Yan State, and the customs duties are not allowed to be levied, which will reduce the income of the Yan State, and all the captured Yan soldiers are detained as the people of the county, even their families are not spared. Because if you want these Yan soldiers to live in stability in Daijun, you must move all their families together.

Gold and grain are not allowed to be levied, and they are not allowed to be forced to accept, but these populations have dealt a considerable blow to Yan State, and now there are about 80,000 Yan soldiers captured by the Wu'an Army, and if you add their families, the total population will reach about 400,000, plus the first two wars, the number of soldiers killed in Yan State has reached nearly 200,000, and the total is estimated to be about 600,000.

The total population of Yan Kingdom is about three million, and the population of Yan Kingdom has been reduced by almost one-fifth, and half of them are young and middle-aged men. To put it mildly, the plateau might as well destroy the Yan Kingdom.

In fact, the plateau opened such harsh conditions, and it was also forced to do so, because after these two wars, the enmity between himself and the Yan State was concluded, even if the war was stopped, it would be difficult to form an alliance, if Tai Xiao Dan originally intended to launch a coup d'état and grasp the power of the Yan State, the plateau could still rest assured of the Yan State, Bi Jing Prince Dan was still a person who knew the general situation, and he relied on his own support to take the throne, so for a long time, Prince Dan must rely on himself and will not be enemies with himself. But Tai Xiaodan is resolutely unwilling to carry out a coup d'état, so he has no choice.

With the old aristocratic mentality of the Yan clan and the clan, it is just that they are the ones in power in the Yan State, then the matter will never be finished, although with the power of these two wars, they will not come to provoke themselves, but if they start a war with the Qin army, these clans and clans will definitely encourage the King of Yan to do something behind them, so the plateau can only take this method, greatly weakening the strength of the Yan State, so that the Yan State will not be able to launch another military operation against the Daijun within ten years.

At the same time, the plateau is also expanding its own strength. Because most of these captured Yan soldiers were professional soldiers, as long as they underwent one or two years of rigorous training and correct command, they could also be trained into a powerful army. It's just that the current strength of the plateau is too weak to occupy more other lands, so he didn't ask Yan to cede land.

However, although Yan Wangxi gave Tai Xiao Dan the right to engage in it cheaply, in the face of such harsh conditions, of course Tai Xiao Dan could not agree, so he had no choice but to say: "Wu Anjun, Ji Dan must not agree to such conditions." ”

Gao Yuan said lightly: "Then the prince please go back and tell the king of Yan, I will send troops to attack the city in the future, once I attack Jijing, I will kill all the clans of the Yan country, the family, and all the property, food, and residents will be moved into Daijun, and then Jijing will be burned clean, so please prepare the army and defend the city well after returning to the city." This time I didn't have a lot of siege equipment, maybe I would be able to hold Jijing, maybe I wouldn't be able to. ”

After Gao Yuan finished speaking, Prince Dan's face was also difficult to see, in fact, Gao Yuan also had some bluffing, whether he could conquer Jijing, he didn't have much bottom in his heart. But Tai Xiaodan didn't see it that way, and the monarchs and ministers of Yan State didn't see it that way, after two defeats, Yan Guo already had a great fear of the Wu'an army, I was afraid that as long as the Wu'an army attacked, the Yan army would retreat without a fight.

Therefore, Tai Xiaodan smiled bitterly and said, "Wu Anjun, your requirements are too harsh, can you be a little more tolerant." Everyone will have to work together to resist the Qin State in the future, and if the Yan State weakens, I am afraid it will not be good for Wu Anjun. ”

Gao Yuan said: "Prince, please answer me honestly, whether the clan and clan of the Yan Kingdom will regard me as an ally now." ”

Tai Xiaodan was stunned for a while, and finally shook his head.

Gao Yuan said again: "As soon as I start a war with the Qin army, will the clan and clan of the Yan Kingdom send troops to rescue, or will they instigate the King of Yan to take the opportunity to send troops to attack Daijun." ”

Tai Xiaodan smiled bitterly and nodded again.

Gao Yuan said: "In this case, I have nothing else to say, the prince please go back and tell King Yan that within a day, you must give me an answer, if there is no answer, then the day after tomorrow, I will start to attack the city." ”

Prince Dan smiled bitterly again, knowing that there was no room for recovery, but it was as if Gao Yuan gave a salute and said, "That is the case, then Ji Dan will leave." ”

Looking at Prince Dan's bitter face, Gao Yuan also had some feelings in his heart, after all, his image of Prince Dan was not bad, so he said: "Prince, as long as Yan Guo agrees to my conditions, then I can also promise like the prince that once the Qin army attacks Zhao State, I will send troops to attack the flank of the Qin army and assist Yan State." ”

Tai Xiaodan was stunned, but still gave a salute to Gao Yuan, and said, "Thank you Wu Anjun." ”

Gao Yuan said: "In fact, the gold and grain compensated this time are so bad that there is no need to let the office go out, Honggao, Qijiao, and Liaoyang Jun may as well share a little." Also, this time Tai Xiao assassinated Qin, if there is anything that needs our help, please speak up. ”

Prince Dan nodded and said, "Thank you Wu Anjun for reminding me." After a pause, he said: "No matter what, Ji Dan is still willing to form an alliance with Wu Anjun to fight against the Qin army." ”

After Tai Xiao Dan left, Gao Yuan also fell into deep thought, because the current situation was completely different from his original plan, and the plan to form an alliance with Yan had all failed. In the future, he could only rely on his own strength to resist the Qin army, but after weakening the strength of the Yan State, he could be regarded as solving a worry. So it's hard to say whether the outcome will be good or bad.

In addition, Jing Ke's assassination of King Qin seems to be going to happen soon, how can he take advantage of this incident? Gao Yuan knew that in another time and space, Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin ended in failure, but in this time and space, is it necessary for him to participate in a joint effort, or help Jing Ke succeed in assassinating Qin, either explicitly or covertly?

In another time and space, the comments of later generations on Jing Ke are basically based on praise, after all, Jing Ke is alone against the most powerful King Qin in the world, not afraid of power, it is still worthy of praise, and Jing Ke himself can also be a hero. But there is nothing commendable about the evaluation of the incident of Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin, because from the perspective of the general situation at this time, Qin is strong and Yan is weak, and its momentum is its own, even if Jing Ke's assassination of Qin is successful, it will not be able to save the fate of the destruction of the Yan State, and the Qin State is just another king himself, and he can't change this strength and weakness.

There are also some malicious comments that even believe that Jing Ke's assassination of Qin was a bad move of the Yan State, and it was precisely because of Jing Ke's defeat that it angered the King of Qin and led to the demise of the Yan State. In fact, whether there is such a thing as assassinating Qin or not, Qin Annihilation of Yan is an inevitable move, just before Jing Ke set off, the army of Qin State has already been forced into Yishui. Therefore, the assassination of Qin was just Yan Guo's last struggle, a desperate gamble, and there was no way out.

Of course, there is some truth to the former view, but it is not absolute. If Jing Ke really succeeds in assassinating King Qin, there will be many variables. Although theoretically speaking, as soon as the Qin Wangzheng is dead, the Qin State just needs to change a king, and the national strength will not be greatly affected, at most after a year or two, it can continue its great cause of unifying the world, and it will not change at all.

But in fact, this is not the case, because now Qin Wangzheng is only in his early thirties, and he has not established a crown prince, if Qin Wangzheng dies, it will be a big problem to inherit the throne the most. And Qin Wangzheng's eldest son Fusu is only a fourteen-five-year child, and the other sons and daughters are even younger, no matter which son becomes the new King of Qin, he is a young King of Qin, so who will assist the government and how the power will be distributed will not be able to figure it out for a while. In this case, it is not impossible that the struggle for power, the battle for the throne, and even the civil strife of the Qin State, is not impossible.

When Qin Wangzheng succeeded to the throne, he was only thirteen years old, and Lü Buwei was an assistant to the government for eight years, but there was a great contradiction between the monarchy and the prime minister. Later, Qin Shi Huang died suddenly in the sand dunes, because he did not appoint a crown prince, and as a result, there was an accident during the alternation of the throne, which caused the second Qin Hu Hai to ascend the throne, so that the already precarious situation was completely out of control, and led to the final demise of the Great Qin Empire.

Therefore, judging from the historical experience of these plateaus, if Jing Ke really succeeds in assassinating Qin, it is not absolutely impossible to change the course of history, even if the change of the throne of Qin does not have an accident, and there is no civil strife in Qin, but a young Qin king will definitely not be able to shoulder the burden of unifying the world, and it will take at least ten years or so when the new Qin king becomes an adult.

If there is a ten-year or so slow-down time, it will be an extremely rare period of strategic opportunity for the plateau, which can not only train a strong army, but also occupy enough territory and establish a strong country, and then there will be enough capital to confront the Qin State head-on.