Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

The entire Golden Luan Palace fell silent in an instant, and the ministers of the Qi State, who were eager to swallow Su Dai alive just now, suddenly turned into quiet little white rabbits.

The next moment, the Queen's calm and majestic gaze fell on Su Dai: "Su Qing has something to say, but it's okay to say it."

Seeing this, Su Dai couldn't help but secretly sighed in his heart: "The virtuous reputation of the king and queen is indeed worthy."

What Su Dai used just now was actually the usual rhetoric used by strategists. He wanted to use alarmist talk and disdain to make Qi's monarchs and officials feel angry and fearful, and then continue to make use of the topic.

It seemed that the plan had been more than half successful, but it was obvious that the Queen Mother of Qi was the only one who was not fooled.

But Su Dai is not someone who is easily defeated. It was just an appetizer and dessert before, and the main course has not been served yet.

Seeing that Su Dai's face turned serious, he said: "There are more than ten states in the world today, and seven of them are male, namely Qi, Zhao, Yan, Chu, Wei, Han, and Qin. Among the seven states, Qin is the most powerful. According to Wei Han Gu, the land that embraces Sichuan and Shu, the monarchs and ministers stick to it to see the Zhou's house, have the intention of sweeping the world, including the universe, encompassing the four seas, and swallowing the heart of the eight wildernesses."

When Su Dai said this, he deliberately paused, and looked around the Golden Luan Hall.

The meaning of Su Dai's words is simply to point out one point: "What Qin wants is not to fight for hegemony, but to eliminate all other countries and rule the world."

Obviously, these words moved many people. Su Dai could see some ministers of Qi State nodding secretly, and more ministers of Qi State seemed to be thinking about Su Dai's words even though their faces were expressionless.

So Su Dai continued: "During Qin Xiaogong's time, Shang Jun entered Qin Zuozhi, internally legislated, worked on farming and weaving, repaired tools of war, externally connected and balanced to fight princes, so the Qin people handed over and took away from Xihe. Xiaogong Since it was gone, Hui, Wu, and Qin Wang Jimeng had their old careers, and because of their legacy policy, they took Hanzhong in the south, lifted Ba and Shu in the west, cut the fertile land in the east, and harvested the key counties in the north."

The second paragraph of Su Dai's words is about the history of Qin's foreign expansion and occupation of the territories of Shandong countries since Qin Xiaogong appointed Shang Yang's reform.

Having said that, Su Dai suddenly raised his voice.

"The world has suffered from Qin for a long time! Those who suffer from Qin are not only the three Jin countries, but Qi is also inevitable!"

A sentence resounded through the entire Golden Luan Hall instantly like a Hong Zhong Da Lu, and kept echoing in the ears of everyone present.

As soon as this remark came out, the faces of the monarchs and ministers of Qi State could not help but change slightly.

It is Su Dai's words that sound very reasonable.

It is really not just the three Jins, Zhao, Wei and Han who bordered Qin, who suffered from Qin, Qi also suffered from it.

Don't think that Qi State and Qin State do not border each other, so there is no grievance between Qi State and Qin State.

When Qi was strong and prosperous, he participated in several times when the princes joined forces to attack Qin.

38 years ago, in 298 B.C., Qi Wangjian’s grandfather, Qi Min Wang Tiandi, sent Qi’s famous general Kuangzhang, Wei’s famous general Gongsun Xi, and Korean famous general Bao Yuan together to form a coalition army, and broke through Hangu Pass, the most important pass of Qin in three years. , forcing Qin Wangji, who was in his prime at that time, to cede land and sue for peace.

And since Hangu Pass was established by the Qin State, there has only been such a record of being breached once!

And at that time, if Mengchang Juntian, then Prime Minister of Qi State, hadn't listened to Han Qingzhi's words and negotiated peace with Qin State, the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms might even have driven straight in, broke through Xianyang, and wiped out Qin State in one fell swoop!

Regarding this incident, everyone in the Qin State felt it was a great shame and humiliation, and they always wanted to revenge the Qi State.

So in 12 BC, 284 years after Hangu Pass was breached, when the Qi State destroyed the Song Dynasty and aroused public outrage, Qin State actively responded to the call of Yan State and participated in the anti-Qi alliance, and cooperated with Zhao, Han, Wei and Yan formed the Five-Nation Alliance together to attack Qi.

In the end, under the leadership of Le Yi, a famous general of the Yan State, the Allied Forces of the Five Nations defeated the main force of the Qi State, and conquered 72 major cities in the Qi State in a row. Dismemberment and partition of the country.

Throughout the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the last glorious moment of Qi as the protagonist came to an end.

If Qi had not had such an outstanding person like Tian Dan in the future, relying on the isolated city of Jimo to complete the Jedi counterattack, Qi, like Zhongshan, Lu and other countries, would have disappeared in the long river of history. up.

Only 24 years have passed since the catastrophe in which the Five Kingdoms annihilated Qi. Most of the monarchs and ministers present at the scene were witnesses of that catastrophe.

From the people of Qi's point of view, when the Five Kingdoms destroyed Qi, Yan was the leader of the evil, but Qin was also a damned accomplice!

So Su Dai's sentence, "The world has suffered for a long time and the Qin State can't avoid it!" It really resonated with many ministers of the Qi State.

Su Dai saw that the atmosphere was already in place at the moment, so he lost no time in bowing his hands to Qi Wangjian and the queen in the hall, saying:

"Today, my state of Zhao and the people of Qin are in a decisive battle in Changping. If Zhao loses, there will be no one in the six kingdoms of Shandong to stop and strengthen Qin. If this is the case, Qin's tendency to rule the world has been achieved. How can Qi be spared? Therefore, I have come here from generation to generation, and I would like to ask Qi State for half a year's food with ten thousand gold, so as to alleviate the urgent need of Zhao State, and prevent dangers and difficulties outside Qi State's borders, so Zhao State is very fortunate, Qi State is very fortunate!"

Su Dai directly stated his intention.The meaning in his words is very obvious. Now that I, Zhao Guochangping, lose, then all the six eastern countries will be finished, and your Qi country will only have the fate of destroying the country.

So now please lend me the grain, so that my country, Zhao, can help you block Qin, and then you can really say "Hello, me, hello everyone".

After Su Dai finished speaking, he stared at Qi Wangjian in the hall, waiting for Qi Wangjian's reply.

Chapter 20 Su Dai Envoy Qi (3)

The "ten thousand gold" mentioned by Su Dai here is of course not 1 taels of gold. In fact, gold was circulated on a large scale as currency. It was the Tang and Song Dynasties a thousand years later. The "gold" in this era actually refers to copper. currency.

The actual meaning of Su Dai's words is that you Qi State will take out the food, and my Zhao State will buy it with money, and no matter how much money you have, you will not be missing.

As a major industrial and commercial country among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, Zhao Guo still has this self-confidence.

In fact, money is the least important point in the whole issue this time.The most important point, of course, is whether Qi Guo is willing to give these grains to Zhao Guo to help Zhao Guo overcome this urgent need.

But diplomacy between countries is like a debate.Su Dai, as the chief debater on Zhao Guo's side, came up and took the lead in putting forward such a point of view as "lending grain to Zhao Guo, I think it's OK."

Then, of course, it is impossible for the main judges Qi Wangjian and the queen to make a decision directly, but the opposing debater should play.

Sure enough, the next moment, a clear voice sounded immediately: "Su Qing's words are ridiculous!"

A doctor of the State of Qi with a wide robe and long sleeves stepped out boldly, and everyone took a closer look. It turned out that it was Tian Yan, the chief minister of the State of Qi. They saw that Tian Yan first bowed his hands to the king of Qi and the queen, and then talked freely. .

"Su Qing's words, I don't take it. I heard that the current world is a world of great struggle. The princes conquer each other, so there is a saying that the dynasty Qin and the Chu Chu. It is not the case of all countries whether they are united today or tomorrow. Is it normal? Confucius said, if a person has no long-term concerns, he must have near-term worries. Qin, Qi’s long-term concerns, and Zhao’s, Qi’s near-term worries. Today, Qin and Zhao are attacking Changping, which is a blessing for our country. It is better to watch but not to help, so borrowing food is absolutely unacceptable!"

This Tian Yan said, it is not a big deal for everyone to hit me these days, it is normal for anyone to hit anyone.But now Qin State is our Qi State's "long-term concern", and Zhao State is our Qi State's "near worry", so you two go to fight for life and death, we Qi State just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, whoever wins loses us Qi Guo is happy, and it is best for both sides to suffer, so things like borrowing food should be pulled down as soon as possible.

The official position of Tian Yan, the chief minister, is equivalent to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Qi State, and he is one of the important ministers of the Qi State, and he is also a member of the Tian family of the Qi State, so his words undoubtedly represent the meaning of some ministers of the Qi State.

In fact, Tian Yan's idea should be the mainstream opinion of Qi State at this time. It is precisely because of this idea of ​​sitting on the mountain and watching tigers fight that Qi State in history has neither sent troops nor lent food to Zhao. country.

Of course, Su Dai was prepared for this kind of remarks, but before Su Dai spoke first, another person spoke first.

"I don't accept the words of the chief executive."

Everyone turned their heads to look, but saw that the person speaking was another important official of Qi State, Da Si Tian Zhou Fen.

This Da Si Tian Zhou Fen was about forty years old, with a square face and thick eyebrows, he looked like an honest man, but his eyes were shining brightly and sharply.

Now Zhou Fen stood up and went out, talking to the officials of the Qi State in the Qi Wang Jianhe Hall.

"In my opinion, it is better to borrow food to retreat the Qin soldiers. If you don't borrow it, the Qin soldiers will not retreat. This is Qin's plan and Qi's plan is too much. Moreover, Zhao is in Qi, defending and concealing, as if he had lips. If the lips are dead, the teeth will be cold. If Zhao is defeated today, tomorrow it will be troubled by Qi. If you save Zhao, you will be righteous, but if you lose Qin soldiers, you will be famous. If you don’t love millet for this, it is too much for the country.”

What Zhou Fen meant was that for Qi, Zhao was a barrier in front of Qin's eastward advance, so in order to protect this barrier, borrowing food should be done.Moreover, the matter of rescuing the State of Zhao and forcing the State of Qin to retreat is a matter of gaining face among the princes. It is simply nonsense not to do this matter for a little food.

Undoubtedly, Zhou Fen's words were exactly opposite to Tian Yan's words. As soon as these words came out, Tian Yan's face immediately became quite gloomy.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there will be factions, and the ministers of Qi State are naturally not exempt from customs.Zhou Fen and Tian Yan happened to be a group of well-known political enemies in the political arena of the Qi Kingdom.The last sentence in Zhou Fen's words just now, "Those who serve the country's interests are too much", alludes to the fact that what is being discussed now is all national affairs, and you, Tian Yan, are still talking nonsense here!

Su Dai glanced at Zhou Fen, and Zhou Fen happened to cast his gaze over. The two looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of a deeply hidden smile in each other's eyes.

This Da Si Tian Zhou Fen, who is equivalent to the Minister of Agriculture of the State of Qi, actually has an unknown benefactor. This benefactor is Du Pingjun Tian Dan who is now in Handan of the State of Zhao!