Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

This group of people is of course Zhao State diplomats headed by Mr. Pingyang.

For this group of diplomats, the upcoming negotiations are the best occasion for them to play their role, and it is also the hope for them to make great achievements.

It is precisely because of this that this group of diplomats are also holding back their energy and want to make some credit for it.

In recent years, most of Zhao's foreign wars ended in victory, and it was an undisputed victory. This has led to the fact that the scope of the diplomats' display is not too large, and the real glory is taken away by the soldiers who fought. up.

In addition, there is another very important point, that is, the young Zhao Wang is also an ambitious person.

When King Zhao, who was eager to continue to expand his territory, and a group of diplomats who were also eager to build their careers, met at the door, and the two of them could be said to hit it off.

But from another point of view, Qin and Qi, which are negotiating with Zhao, are obviously not so easy.

As the person responsible for the negotiation of Qin State this time, Lu Buwei couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing Zhao State's conditions.

"Did Daqin cede Nanjun and Nanyang to Zhao as compensation?

Sorry, but this is absolutely impossible. "

When he said these words, Lu Buwei was actually very speechless in his heart.

Did these Zhao Guo envoys make a mistake to make such a big request in one breath?

You must know that in terms of the current territory of Qin State, the two armies of Nanjun and Nanyang counties add up to almost 40% of the country's land area.

Now that Qin State has clearly not lost the battle, and even the battlefield is still in Zhao State's Hedong County, Zhao State has let Qin State cede 40% of the territory in one go, which is obviously very unreasonable in anyone's opinion.

Facing Lu Buwei's strong refusal, Zhao Guo's envoy just smiled coldly, and then asked the next question.

"So Qin is planning to become the next target of Zhao's attack next year?"

This sentence directly stunned Lu Buwei.

To be honest, this sentence is really difficult to answer.

If he continues to refuse firmly, next year Zhao Guo is really likely to take Qin as the target of attack.

Of course, with Lu Buwei's true identity, he is not actually worried about Zhao's attack or even the destruction of Qin.

But the problem lies in Lu Buwei's superficial status now, but if the grand master of Qin State has made too many concessions, how can Lu Buwei deal with himself after returning to Xianyang?

So Lu Buwei could only say angrily: "I can't be the master of this matter. I will immediately send someone to Xianyang to report to our king and see what our king thinks."

At the same time, the envoys of Qi State encountered almost the same situation.

Zhao Guo also put forward large territorial claims to Qi State, and these territorial claims were obviously intolerable to Qi State.

Negotiations fell into a stalemate for a while.

Such a stalemate was only on the negotiating table at first, but later, when the soldiers staying in Pingyang City had been waiting for more than a month, Zhao Kuo also began to worry a little.

With Zhao Guo's current strength and contacts, it can be said that it is easy to find out what happened in the negotiation.

After learning about the whole situation, Zhao Kuo also started complaining with some helplessness.

"This Lord Pingyang is really too greedy. How does he think that the Qin State and the Qin State Council really ceded so much territory to him?"

Since Mr. Pingyang is in charge of this negotiation, the most important responsibility for the deadlock in the negotiation should of course be placed on Mr. Pingyang.

In Zhao Kuo's view, these persistences of Mr. Pingyang are very outrageous. You must know that after Zhao Guo won the victory in Pingyang City, he only occupied some small cities.

And if these territorial requirements put forward by Mr. Pingyang can be realized, then the territory Zhao Guo obtained from the negotiating table alone is dozens of times the territory obtained by means of war in reality.

Is this realistic?

This is obviously very unrealistic.

Li Mu couldn't help laughing, and said: "Master, it seems that Lord Pingyang wants to use his mouth to achieve things that we can't achieve with swords, guns and swords."

Li Mu's smile contained obvious sarcasm, and in Li Mu's view, this Lord Pingyang was simply overthinking his capabilities.

Zhao Kuo couldn't help but sighed, and said: "Although that is the case, if the negotiations continue to be delayed, it will be very detrimental to the military spirit in Pingyang City.

How about this, I still write a memorial and go to Handan to remind the king, I can't let Pingyang Jun continue to manipulate it so recklessly, otherwise there will be big problems sooner or later. "

For Mr. Pingyang, Zhao Kuo actually didn't have much affection in his heart, and the previous cooperation was only to ensure the victory of the war.

Now that the victory in the war has been determined to belong to Zhao, then Zhao Kuo and Pingyang Jun will naturally return to the previous situation of political enemies.

Now that he is already a political enemy, Zhao Kuo naturally has to perform what a political enemy should do, and give Lord Pingyang eye drops at this appropriate time.

So a very strong rhetoric, a memorial against Pingyang Jun, was just written from Zhao Kuo's hands, and then sent to King Zhao in the palace city of Handan by a fast horse as quickly as possible.

Zhao Wang looked at the memorial in front of him and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Zhao Wang said to the eunuch Ling beside him: "Mr. Wu Xin seems to be a little dissatisfied with the delay in the negotiation presided over by Mr. Pingyang. What do you think about this?"

As soon as Eunuch Ling heard Zhao Wang's question, a drop of cold sweat broke out from his forehead.

For eunuch Ling, whether it is Zhao Kuo or Lord Pingyang, they are all giants in Zhao's political arena today.

Now King Zhao actually asked eunuch Ling to evaluate the confrontation between the two, which is simply pushing eunuch Ling into the pit of fire.

The eunuch thought for a while, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that Wu Xinjun's suggestion is not unreasonable. Now that hundreds of thousands of soldiers have heard the news of the peace talks, they are all eagerly looking forward to returning. Hometown, you must know that there is still a lot of grain waiting for them to harvest in the hometown.

What's more, the army is away, and the daily food and various supplies are an astronomical figure. If this negotiation cannot be completed as soon as possible, the food in our Dazhao treasury will probably start to run out. "

Although it was very difficult, eunuch Ling finally insisted on his original idea, which was to stand unswervingly on Zhao Kuo's side and put all the bets on Zhao Kuo.

After listening to these words, Zhao Wang was also moved, and finally made up his mind: "If this is the case, then immediately send an order to the widow, and let Pingyang Lord come to see him before entering the palace!"

Chapter 809 The Frustrated Mr. Pingyang

King Zhao gave an order, and Lord Pingyang naturally entered the palace soon.

Lord Pingyang saluted King Zhao respectfully, and said, "I don't know what your majesty's instructions are?"

King Zhao looked at Lord Pingyang and said, "Is Lord Pingyang busy these days?"

It can be seen that Mr. Pingyang has been quite exhausted during this period, and the dark circles under his eyes are very obvious, but the spirit of the whole person is still good, and he is in good spirits.

Lord Pingyang hurriedly said: "For the sake of the King and Zhao Guo, it is right to be busy.

But please rest assured, the envoys of Qin and Qi will not last long.

However, in order to reach an agreement as soon as possible, the old minister also has an idea. "

Zhao Wangdao: "What idea?"

Lord Pingyang said: "It is such a king, the old minister thinks that the army on the side of Lord Wu Xin should be moved.

As long as Wu Xinjun's army moves, Qin and Qi will definitely feel that this is a sign that our Great Zhao is about to use force, and they will definitely panic and fear.

As long as they panic and fear, are they still afraid that they will not agree to our conditions? "

After Pingyang Jun finished speaking, he looked at King Zhao expectantly.

In fact, Mr. Pingyang had thought about this idea a long time ago, but there is a problem with this idea, that is, once Zhao Kuo is mobilized, another wave of credit will inevitably be shared.

But now the envoys of Qin and Qi have been arguing for so long, and finally Mr. Pingyang couldn't hold back.

It's okay to give Zhao Kuo some credit, anyway, Pingyang Jun can also get the credit of this "main negotiator".

However, Mr. Pingyang never expected that it was the time gap of this day that Zhao Kuo's memorial was delivered, which caused King Zhao's mind to be completely different.

King Zhao said indifferently: "What did Qin and Qi say about the current negotiation?"

Pingyang Jundao: "Qin's condition is to withdraw from Xihe County and Hedong County, and cede four cities in Nanyang County; Qi's condition is also to withdraw troops, and then cede five cities."

When King Zhao heard this, his brows furrowed even more.

The conditions of Qin and Qi are far worse than those proposed by Lord Pingyang.

After negotiating with Mr. Pingyang for so many days, this is what?

Lord Pingyang obviously also noticed King Zhao's dissatisfaction, and hurriedly said: "But don't worry, my lord, as long as Lord Wu Xin makes a move, even if they can't agree to the conditions proposed by the old minister, they will definitely make more concessions."

Zhao Wang took a deep breath and said lightly: "No need.

The widow has already decided, let's do it according to the conditions of Qin and Qi.

Sign a contract with them tomorrow, and then let Wu Xinjun return to court. "

"what?"

Jun Pingyang was stunned.

For Lord Pingyang, he really did not expect King Zhao to give such an order at this time.

Actually agreed to this?

After regaining consciousness, Lord Pingyang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, let's think about it again. The current condition is really not enough for our Great Zhao."

Of course Lord Pingyang is unwilling to end the peace talks like this. In that case, Lord Pingyang's contribution is really too small, and it is completely incomparable with Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Wang looked at Pingyang Jun disappointedly, and said lightly: "The widow has given you too much time, Pingyang Jun.

Now that the autumn harvest is approaching, and all the soldiers are eager to return home with glory, how can there be time to wait for you to conclude the negotiation?

Just do it!Well, you can go. "

Although Zhao Wang was young, when he said these words, he still inevitably revealed a bit of evil spirit and determination.

Lord Pingyang looked at King Zhao, knowing that this matter might be irreversible, so he could only helplessly agree, and then walked out of the palace.

Pingyang Jun's heart is full of frustrations and doubts at the moment, obviously Zhao Wang encouraged Pingyang Jun to continue negotiating yesterday, why did he change his expression today?

Lord Pingyang looked around, just in time to see the eunuch Ling who was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Eunuch Ling, please stay!"

The eunuch Ling stopped, and turned around to look at Pingyang Jun with some embarrassment: "So it's Pingyang Jun, I don't know what's the matter with Pingyang Jun?"

At this moment, the eunuch Ling felt quite regretful.

Eunuch Ling didn't want to see Pingyang Jun at this time, because just now Eunzhe Ling was helping Zhao Kuo to speak, if Pingyang Jun knew about it, would it be okay?

Fortunately, Mr. Pingyang didn't know this, Zhao Guo Xiangbang tried his best to put on a kind attitude, and said to the eunuch Ling: "Eunuch Ling, it's like this, I want to ask, but you know today Did something happen to the king?"

The eunuch Ling's heart skipped a beat, and he pretended to be stupid: "Huh?

It seems that nothing happened, anyway, I think everything is normal. "

Looking at the eunuch Ling with a calm face, Pingyang Jun also murmured in his heart.

Could it be that nothing really happened, but Mr. Pingyang simply misunderstood?

No, definitely not.

Lord Pingyang thought for a while and said hurriedly: "Eunuch Ling, I heard that you have a nephew who has done a good job in Dai County recently. I plan to promote him to be a county captain or something. What do you think?"

Although eunuch Ling is an eunuch, of course he has a family.

Hearing the eunuch order, he felt more and more helpless.

No, I said bad things about you, why do you want to promote my nephew?

But the eunuch Ling also knew that if he didn't say anything, it would really be that Mr. Pingyang had made a knot.

Although the eunuch Ling was inclined towards Zhao Kuo, he was unwilling to openly confront the enemy of Zhao Guoxiangbang like Pingyang Jun.

So the eunuch Ling said: "To tell you the truth, Lord Pingyang, Lord Wu Xin suddenly had a memorial. After reading the memorial, the king asked me to send someone to call you into the palace, Lord Pingyang."

When Mr. Pingyang heard it, he was not calm enough: "So that's the case, so it's Mr. Wu Xin!"

Jun Pingyang was so angry.

This damn Zhao Kuo, he still has to fight against the old man at this time, right?

Regarding Pingyang Lord's words, eunuch Ling naturally looked innocent, so he pretended not to hear it.

Lord Pingyang said solemnly: "Thank you eunuch Ling, the matter of your nephew's promotion, I will definitely handle it for you in the past few days.

By the way, does eunuch Ling know what is in Zhao Kuo's memorial? "

The eunuch Ling's heart skipped a beat again, and he said with a guilty conscience: "I really don't know about this, after all, it's impossible for the king to show it to me."

Fortunately, Lord Pingyang was full of anger towards Zhao Kuo at the moment, but he didn't notice the eunuch Ling's expression, he just nodded and said: "Okay, then thank you eunuch Ling.

The old man still has something to do, so he left first. "

After finishing speaking, Lord Pingyang also left angrily.

Seeing the back of Pingyang Jun leaving, Eunuch Ling also wiped off his sweat.

The pressure of this kind of lying is really great.

After thinking about it, the eunuch Ling also made a decision: "No, we must find a way to contact Wu Xinjun and let him know that the old man has done these things for him, otherwise, if Pingyang Jun finds out , I don’t even know how I died!”