It is a national event to have foreign envoys come to visit you.
Zhao Tuo walked into the Qin Palace very early and stood beside Wang Ben, Meng Wu and others, waiting for the king to summon envoys on behalf of the country.
However, after Qin Wangzheng entered the palace, he didn't seem to be in a hurry to summon the envoy. Instead, he first had someone report on the construction status of the palaces of the Six Kingdoms.
The general in charge of palace construction, Shaofu, said: "Your Majesty, the construction of the Wei Palace is nearing completion. The Chu palace in Shouchun City has been copied. When the craftsmen complete the planning, we can build the palace for the king in Beiban, Xianyang. Build the Chu Palace."
Hearing this, Zhao Tuo's eyelids twitched as he was among the generals.
The king's palace construction really couldn't stop for a moment. Except for some necessary transportation and labor, most of the prisoners and ministers in Guanzhong built palaces north of the Weishui River.
Moreover, these palaces were not built haphazardly. Specialized craftsmen were required to copy all the original palaces of the Five Kingdoms in the destroyed capitals of the Five Kingdoms, and then reproduce them on Beiban, Xianyang, in order to restore them as much as possible.
Finally, when the palace is repaired, all the bells, drums, treasures, and beauties from the original palaces of the Five Kingdoms must be moved to the newly built palace in Xianyang to maintain the original style.
"Obsessive-compulsive disorder, collecting addiction..."
Zhao Tuo complained secretly in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything on this matter.
After listening to the report of the young master general, Qin Wangzheng nodded, and dealt with some other political matters, and then summoned the envoy to the country who had been waiting outside the palace for a long time.
Compared with the lively scene when Qi sent envoys to Qin, the bells and drums in Xianyang Palace were ringing, and the Prime Minister of Qin personally guided Da Sima Tian into the palace.
This time, the Qin State showed great indifference to the meeting between Dai Guo Xiangbang.
Not only did the King of Qin leave the envoys outside the palace for a long time, but when the envoys went to the palace, there were no bells and drums playing, and there were no important ministers to greet them. Only one visitor led the two envoys into the Qin Palace.
"Trendy..."
At the sound of the visitor's voice, the gray-bearded Prime Minister Zhao Jing, and Zhao Xie who followed him, quickly stepped into the palace, bowed their heads to the high-ranking King of Qin, and spoke tremblingly. .
"Zhao Jing, the envoy of a small country, pays homage to the king."
"Zhao Xie, the envoy from a small country, pays homage to the king."
As the envoys on behalf of the country kowtowed, the Qin Wangzheng on the king's couch had no expression on his face. He neither allowed them to sit down nor let them get up. He just said in a cold voice: "Zhao Jia ordered you and others to come to court. He reports."
Zhao Jing, the acting prime minister, trembled and said: "I heard that King Jian destroyed Jingchu, so I sent my subordinates to come here to congratulate me."
"On behalf of a small country, with a barbarian border, I am willing to pay tribute to the king and beg for surrender. I am willing to give up my royal title and take my son as a hostage. I have been the ministers and concubines of Qin for generations. I only hope that the king can take pity on the relatives of Qin and Zhao from the same source and preserve the Zhao family. .”
Qin Wangzheng snorted coldly, his tone full of strength and arrogance.
He spoke sternly and scolded: "In the past, Zhao Qian used his prime minister Li Mu to make an alliance with me. I thought of his sincerity, so I became his hostage. Now Zhao Qian rebelled against the alliance and rebelled against us in Taiyuan. I raised an army to kill him and destroyed Handan. , capture the king, follow the way of heaven, and punish the unfaithful country."
"Dai Zhi, the remnant of Zhao. I destroyed Zhao, and Zhao Jia fled to Dai land, lingering on. He did not want to bow down to me and beg for surrender. Instead, he helped the traitor Yan Dan and blocked my king's army at the bank of Yishui. Can he be exempted from this crime?"
At this point, Qin Wangzheng did not stop, but his voice became more severe: "Today, Zhao Jia sent you and others to come to beg for surrender. They looked hasty and sad, trying to make me moved. But are you really begging for surrender?"
Zhao Jing, the acting prime minister, looked pale. Under Qin Wangzheng's stern questioning, he timidly replied: "I sincerely beg for surrender, and I am willing to be Qin's slave, minister, and concubine for generations to come..."
"Yao Jia."
Qin Wangzheng interrupted the Prime Minister's words and called out the name of his important minister Yao Jia.
Yao Jia immediately walked out and said with an expressionless face: "In the past, the traitor Yan Dan sent assassins to do evil. After the failure, my king sent a large army to attack Yan. The great master of Yan State, Ju Wu, entered the land of the Hu people in the north, hoping to lure the Huns to invade us. Guanzhong, in order to relieve the danger of the Yan state. However, the Hu people were unfaithful and took the opportunity to plunder the Yan land. Fortunately, our Qin army went north and settled on Shanggu and Yuyang, and drove the Hu people north to relieve the danger of Guandai."
"Now we have received our reward. Zhao Jia has contacted the Yan people who have fled to the Hu region and wants to join forces with the Xiongnu Chanyu in the north to resist our Qin state."
After the words fell, all the officials in the Qin Palace were in an uproar.
Even Zhao Tuo was stunned for a brief moment before boundless anger appeared on his face.
Zhao Jia.
He actually wants to collude with the Huns!
This guy actually abandoned the glory of the country with the crown and pretended to beg for surrender from Qin while contacting the barbarians in the north.
Zhao Tuo saw that when Yao Jia finished speaking, the deputy envoy Zhao Xie looked confused and seemed not to know about it.
The face of the acting prime minister, Zhao Jing, turned pale with a brush.
He didn't seem to expect that Qin's intermediary was so powerful that he could find out this still secret information.
Zhao Jing trembled and said: "Your Majesty, this must be a rumor. I have no intention of using the help of barbarians. I only want to serve Qin Fanli..."
"Hehe...hehe..."
Qin Wangzheng's laughter sounded in the hall.
The cold voice made people shiver when they heard it.
"At the time of King Xian Huiwen, the five kingdoms of Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, and Qi colluded with the Xiongnu to attack Qin, but were severely defeated by our Qin army."
"At that time, the former king sent envoys to tell the kings of the princes, saying that the seven kingdoms under my crown are all brothers of the same family. Qin and Zhao are both descended from Boyi, and Qin and Chu are both descendants of Zhuanxu. Han, Wei, and Yan They are all countries with the surname of Ji. The people of Qi are also the surname of Tian, and are descendants of Yu and Shun. The seven kingdoms in the crown, even if they fight and conquer, are still brothers fighting against each other, and An De will lead the Rong, Di, and foreign barbarians to cause trouble to the Central Plains!"
"To this day, even if I destroy the kingdoms of the princes and capture their capitals, I will not harm the common people and the heads of Guizhou, nor kill the sons, princes, and grandsons of the princes. They are all regarded as subjects of Qin."
"Why?"
"The seven kingdoms are all members of the Xia clan!"
The more King Qin Zheng spoke, the angrier he became, and he said in a high-pitched voice: "In the past, my ancestor of Qin guarded Xicui for Zhou. The king of Zhou sent my ancestor Qin Zhong to kill the Xirong. The Xirong killed Zhong, and the king of Zhou also sent five of Zhong's sons to fight with him. We sent seven thousand soldiers to attack the Western Rong and defeated them. Then I named my ancestor of Qin the official of Xicui. As for Zhong's eldest grandson Shifu, he said: The Rong killed my eldest father Zhong, and I dare not enter the city unless I kill the king of the Rong. So I sent the troops He defeated the Rong army and gave way to his younger brother Xianggong."
"When Zong Zhou died, the Marquis of Shen led the troops of dogs and soldiers into Haojing and brutally tortured the kings. My ancestor Xianggong sent his troops to King Ping of Zhou. King Ping began to make my ancestor of Qin a prince, and gave him the land west of Qi. He said: The Rong has no way and invades our Qi and Feng lands. If Qin can attack and drive away the Rong, he will have the land."
"My ancestors in the Qin Dynasty have been fighting against the Rong and Di for generations, gradually becoming like the Qifeng of the Zhou Dynasty in the past. As for Duke Mu, he benefited the country twelve times, opened up thousands of miles of land, and dominated the Xirong."
"Among the countries in the crown and belt, we are not the only ones who have enemies of Qin and Rongdi. In the past, King Huan of Qi and King Wenzun of Jin fought against the barbarians. Recently, King Wuling of Zhao of Erzhao changed the custom of Hu clothes, broke down the forests and towers, and built the Great Wall to ward off the barbarians. . As for Li Mu, he defeated the Xiongnu even more, so that the Hu people did not dare to invade the Zhao border. Even the Yan State had a good general Qin Kai, but he was more than a thousand miles away from the Hu, and opened up the land of Liaodong for Yan."
"Alas!"
After the King of Qin sighed, he said angrily: "In the past, in the country of Yan and Zhao, there was still Li Mu, Qin Kai, who destroyed the Hu and opened up the land. But today, the remaining ugly captives are fleeing the Yan invaders, and they want to use the Huns' troops to go south to defend our Qin country." Are you going to be the Marquis of Shen who led the dog soldiers into Kou Zongzhou in the past?"
"The people of Dai are begging for surrender on the surface, but they are secretly enemies of the bandits. This kind of behavior is very disgusting to me. I will definitely send a large army northward to wipe out the remaining captives of the Yan Dynasty in order to boost the power of Huaxia!"
Qin Wangzheng shouted loudly: "I will drive out this generation of ugly prisoners!"
"Blast out!"
All the civil and military officials in Qin State shouted loudly, the sound was like thunder.
The envoys Zhao Jing and Zhao Xie turned pale. Before they could speak, they were escorted out by Lang Wei who had received the order to enter the palace.
Before being driven out of the palace, Zhao Jing and Zhao Xie looked into the palace in panic.
At this moment, Zhao Jing finally saw a young, somewhat familiar face in the crowd.
Looks a lot like his father.
At this moment, Zhao Jing finally met the Zhao Tuo he had always wanted to find.
However, Zhao Tuo's face was full of anger, and fire was about to burst out of his eyes.
"Your Majesty, I am colluding with the Xiongnu on behalf of the thieves. Please destroy them!"
"Your Majesty, we invite you to fight, and we are willing to destroy the Dai Kingdom!"
All the ministers shouted loudly.
Even Zhao Tuo had an angry look on his face and clenched his fists.
He finally understood why Qin Wangzheng didn't want to see the envoys of the country so much.
It was not that he looked down upon the other party because of its weak national power, but he was actually angry because Zhao Jia had colluded with the Huns.
Since ancient times, the war between Huayi and Huayi has never stopped.
No matter who wins the civil war between the seven kingdoms of the Crown and the Belt and who unifies them, that is Zhu Xia's own business.
Whether it is Qin, Zhao, or even the Chu people in the south who call themselves barbarians, they are all countries with crowns and belts.
And what about the Huns in the north?
With his hair hanging loosely, he is a true barbarian warrior.
Confucius said it well: "If a person is in charge, he will be sent to the left."
If barbarians were tyrannizing the lands of the Xia, where would the people of China be?
Let’s take a look at the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms in the future.
Now that the state of Dai wants to turn the civil war to unify the Xia into a foreign war to lure the barbarians south, how can people not be angry!
In the Qin Palace, voices calling for the destruction of the dynasty were heard one after another.
Qin Wangzheng's angry expression gradually faded, he glanced at the ministers in the palace and said loudly: "Young Master made Zhao Tuo."
"I'm here."
Zhao Tuo immediately raised his hand and responded loudly.
King Qin's political speech was decisive and domineering, and he said loudly: "I order you to lead the soldiers of the Xia Dynasty to the north to enter the Dai territory, destroy the ugly captive Zhao Jia and return."
Zhao Tuo raised his head and took orders loudly.
"I, Zhao Tuo, obey the king's order."
"I will destroy the ugly barbarians of the Dai country and wipe out the barbarians, so as to promote the virtue of Qin and promote the power of all Xia!"
The preparation is complete, and the war to destroy the country will begin again. By the way, please ask for your monthly vote, everyone vote!
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"Historical Records of Qin": Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, Qi and Xiongnu all attacked Qin. The Qin envoy Changji fought with Zhan Xiuyu and captured his general Shen Chai. He defeated Prince Ke of Zhao and Prince Huan of Han, and beheaded 82,000 people.
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