Li Pingyuan, who had no access to oil and salt, showed the city government that a politician should have. The same goes for Empress Dowager Jiang. What Li Pingyuan said sounded nice. If you ask him to surrender now, will he surrender?
The fact that Cheng Guo can send troops is to suppress Zhuang Xun's development. What kind of surrender does his son-in-law have now? What kind of treatment will he receive in the past if he surrenders? Not to mention the appearance of the imperial line shows this man's aspirations and ambitions.
If there was really a disparity in strength or he was defeated, it would be possible to surrender and save his life, but now Li Pingyuan had to give up and give up the possibility of becoming an immortal.
No, don’t even think about it.
Having grasped this point, Empress Dowager Jiang was equally confident. She could make concessions and give benefits, but it was not enough for the lion to open his mouth. Any amount of money and money was necessary in national affairs.
It can be regarded as another village with a bright future. Zhao State was originally worried that Xia Cheng and the two countries would unite and attack Zhao State together. Not only would it be difficult, but it would also involve some energy. Now that the two sides are quarreling, it will naturally be of infinite benefit to Zhao State.
It would be best to keep wasting both sides in Jizhou without going out, without the ability to compete in the world, draining the energy of both of them, and finally allowing Zhao Guo to clean up without wasting any energy.
Enemies, enemies, friends, things are divided into priorities. The most urgent thing now is to deal with Zhuang Xun, suppress Zhuang Xun, and prevent him from having the chance to unify Jizhou.
Because Zhuang Xun is much more difficult to fight than Li Pingyuan. Li Pingyuan may be able to fight, but no one is optimistic about it, and he has basically found no support from the gods.
Zhuang Xun is different. Zhuang Xun has the help of gods. The ones known so far are Bi Yuewu and Lunzhuan King. I don't know how many more there are. I don't know if there is a great god who can be equal to Xuannv.
For example, it’s hard to say who caused the earth dragon to turn over. Except for Empress Houtu who basically doesn’t interfere in the world, I really can’t think of anyone. The collapse of Chengdie Pass and the loss of merit were gone. This directly changed the situation of the war. Many people died.
Empress Dowager Jiang did not believe that there was no support from the gods. How could it be such a coincidence that a natural disaster happened to help Zhuang Xun, or did he really consider himself emperor when he ascended the throne?
Being able to win the help of so many gods, one can imagine how threatening Zhuang Xun is. On the contrary, until now, Li Pingyuan's understanding of the emperor's veins is semi-confused, and he is the only one who is hot-headed.
Gods' bets require merit. So many gods bet on Zhuang Xun, so they naturally want to be rewarded. If they don't bet on Li Pingyuan, naturally Li Pingyuan will not bring any benefits.
Since Zhuang Xun can bring benefits to the gods, more and more gods will join him, and it will become more and more troublesome.
Because the gods' favor will make the Xia Kingdom stronger, and the powerful Xia Kingdom will absorb more gods, and then become stronger, forming a positive cycle.
Since we can see who is the greater threat, it is okay to give Li Pingyuan some benefits to let him fight Zhuang Xun, which is in line with Zhao's overall interests and strategic planning.
Although Li Pingyuan also needs to involve Zhuang Xun, prevent Zhuang Xun from developing, and annex Li Pingyuan with him, it can be regarded as a common goal, but the common goal in this kind of thing is very fragile and requires some stability of interests.
However, the transfer of benefits must not be as lenient and careless as the treatment of Zhuang Xun. He stole the chicken but lost the rice. Not only did he lose the land, but he also raised a hungry wolf.
The occurrence of this kind of thing has already dealt a huge blow to the Zhao State. Let Zhuang Xun grow up. No matter how invincible the Zhao State is, it cannot afford to be like this.
The result of wasting national power in this way is to weaken oneself. The unlimited expansion of consumed national power will eventually backfire on the country. Empress Dowager Jiang understands these truths.
Therefore, they did not answer Li Pingyuan's words, and the two sides fell into a brief silence. At the same time, since Zhao could transfer the interests, he also hoped that Li Pingyuan and Zhuang Xun would fight.
So after both sides were silent for a period of time, Queen Mother Jiang spoke first: "What kind of help does the Grand Master want to get from Zhao Guo?"
"Two points. The first is to stop supporting the Chengguo clan headed by King Qinghe, and the second is to provide some support and force Zhuang Xun to take action when they are at war with them, making it difficult for them to deal with it alone."
Li Pingyuan currently has two goals, one is to suppress Zhuang Xun, and the other is to usurp the throne of the country.
Originally, if Zhuang Xun had not returned and the Xia Kingdom had not come to attack the Yu Kingdom, then Li Pingyuan would have started a war with the clan of the Cheng Kingdom to compete for the kingship of the Cheng Kingdom.
But he couldn't just watch Zhuang Xun swallow up the Yu State. So what if he seized the royal power of the Cheng State, which would be nothing more than surrendering to Zhuang Xun.
He is a strategic general, not a divine general. The opponent's national strength is twice that of his own, and he has been tempered by new methods to attack steadily. With the quality of his soldiers, Xia's soldiers are stronger than Cheng's, because Cheng's people have the habit of talking, and the people's martial arts Virtue does not flourish.
He was wondering whether he should continue. Zhuang Xun himself came to Chengguo. This made Li Pingyuan, who didn't know what to do, make up his mind to replicate Zhuangxun's experience in Zhaoguo and plan to blackmail Zhuangxun into Xiaguo.
It was re-enacted, even the escape was re-enacted, Zhuang Xun escaped. At this time, all the dissatisfaction was formed, and there was only one way to go to the dark side. It was impossible to lower one's face and reconcile with Zhuang Xun at this time, even if he sincerely meant Zhuang Xun. Wouldn't believe it.
In order to send troops to Yu State, he transferred a lot of power to King Qinghe. He had to make up for it from other places. Otherwise, whether Chengguo would deal with King Qinghe or King Qinghe would deal with him.
King Qinghe was relying on the State of Zhao, which can be seen from the northwest of You State when King Qinghe withdrew, so he could not allow King Qinghe to continue to rely on the State of Zhao. He helped the State of Zhao suppress Zhuang Xun, who had caused them to lose their master.
The road to seizing power must involve a battle with King Qinghe. He has confidence and means to deal with King Qinghe. However, when dealing with King Qinghe, Zhuang Xun took advantage of the chaos to attack him. It was difficult for him to resist. He had to get the support of other people in Zhao State to contain him. Zhuang Xun.
It can be said that he has been waiting for Zhao Guo's attention for a long time. After all, Zhao Guo and himself have common interests in this matter, and he is Zhao Guo's best partner now.
Seeking the skin of a tiger to see who is the tiger, Zhuang Xun did it and obtained the seven ways given by Zhao Guo. Li Pingyuan also wanted to do it. There are no permanent friends. The price is right, and it is not impossible to be friends with Zhao Guo.
Moreover, his request is not excessive, not to say that it is very conservative. The first thing is to give up supporting the Chengguo clan and support him. This is the basis of cooperation. The second thing is that Zhao State cannot sit back and watch Zhuang Xun wipe out Chengguo and unify it. Jizhou, it's okay to help cover Li Pingyuan.
Empress Dowager Jiang hesitated, because Li Pingyuan's two demands were quite reasonable and not as big as a lion's mouth, so she was tempted and there was no room to lower the price.
She couldn't let Li Pingyuan, the king of Qinghe, fight hard and let Zhuang Xun pick up the slack in the end. The second condition was necessary.
As for the first condition, Zhao Guo and King Qinghe had an implicit covenant. She was wondering whether to give up and support Li Pingyuan in integrating the power of the state as soon as possible to counter Xia Guo, who was recovering from a disease.
As time goes by, the recovered Xia Kingdom will become more and more powerful. Supporting King Qinghe may not necessarily defeat Li Pingyuan, and it is easy for both sides to lose and take advantage of Zhuang Xun, so supporting Li Pingyuan seems to be a good choice. But she was also afraid that Zhuang Xun would appear again.
They became liars in the first year of junior high school, and Zhuang Xun became a thief in the fifteenth year of junior high school. Seven lands were handed over to Zhuang Xun for almost no price. It is okay to support Li Pingyuan, but if they are also playing tricks on Zhao Guo, then Zhao Guo does not have that much face. It can be lost.
He also said that Zhuang Xun was capricious. Isn't Zhao Guo's behavior of betraying the alliance even more capricious? Thinking about Zhao's alliance countries and partners, it seems that the results were not very good. Only Zhuang Xun, the fast runner, took advantage.
Of course, everyone knows that the effectiveness of a covenant is like this, not as good as toilet paper. After all, national interests, who cares whether you have a covenant or not. Only if you have a covenant of interests can you keep it. If you don’t have a covenant of interests, don’t even think about it.
Now the interests of Zhao Guo and Li Pingyuan are the same, so their alliance seems to be useful. As for how long it will be effective, only God knows.
"I can agree to both of these conditions. I can immediately give the information about King Qinghe to the Grand Master and help the Grand Master gain the kingdom. But how to ensure that the Grand Master will fall out with Zhuang Xun? He is the Grand Master's son-in-law after all."
Queen Mother Jiang asked back that the reason why Zhuang Xun was able to be taken out of the rescue team that rescued King Cheng was because the intelligence of King Qinghe and the intelligence of the State of Zhao were partly shared, and the action of rescuing King Cheng also involved the participation of the State of Zhao.
Therefore, Zhao State has a lot of information about King Qinghe and King Cheng. Now it can be regarded as a bargaining chip to help Li Pingyuan better usurp Cheng State. The premise is that the relationship between Li Pingyuan and Zhuang Xun is completely severed.
Zhuang Xun deceived the entire Zhao State by himself, and that was because he was not here. If Li Pingyuan deceived him, and Weng Xun played a trick in the end, the Zhao State would really lose its face.
"Mrs. Jiang, you all know that I have put Zhuang Xun under house arrest. Do you think we can be any more simple and good? What other tricks can we play?"
Li Pingyuan knew full well that the current relationship between Zhuang Xun and him was limited to saving each other's life and wealth. This was the last dignity of Weng's son-in-law.
The excess is only confrontation and hostility, wishing that the other party would collapse immediately so that it could take over the other party's power and territory.
Zhuang Xun was able to write this letter not because he could not swallow up such a big Yu State and was afraid of being taken advantage of, so he chose the safest path.
The kindness of aiding Jiannan in the past has disappeared with this house arrest. Besides, Hebei Road has been essentially taken away. Now it is not an exaggeration to say that the two are enemies.
"I'm not sure. Maybe you are colluding with others to deceive others. Zhuang Xun's deception is unparalleled in the world. The grand master must take some actions."
Once bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, Zhuang Xun has turned into a hypocrite with superb acting skills in the heart of Empress Dowager Jiang. Now Empress Dowager Jiang will not believe whatever Zhuang Xun says.
It's just that Zhuang Xun has never claimed that he is a gentleman. All praises are superficial. He always acts according to the rules and feels that this is right, so he does it.
This is true for saving people and doing good deeds, and it is also true for doing bad deeds. As for whether the things he does are judged by outsiders as good or not, he doesn't care.
He felt that saving people was worthy of his conscience, so he did it. He felt that humiliating Lu Buming felt good, so he did it. In the past, he was not able to do bad things that he thought was right, so he was just a good person in the eyes of others.
But he has always regarded himself as an ordinary person, and feels that his moral level is not very high. He always remembers to retaliate when he has a grudge, and is not the kind of person who repays grudges with kindness.
Just looking at the surface, it is not surprising that Mrs. Jiang thinks so. Now she has barely touched part of the core.
"Make some actions? What kind of actions does Mrs. Jiang think can express the break between me and Zhuang Xun?"
Even if this was not enough, Li Ping could not imagine what else to do. After all, forcing Zhuang Xun to retreat would be the biggest move.
"Zhuang Xun was able to rule the Xia Kingdom and relied on three forces to maintain his rule. The first force was his virtuous wife, who controlled all affairs in the country, including military and political affairs. Therefore, Zhuang Xun left the Xia Kingdom to travel around the mountains and rivers, and went to court. No chaos.”
After saying this, Empress Dowager Jiang felt a little envious, probably because she thought that King Zhao let Zhuang Xun go without worry, but Si Qinmi could take charge of the overall situation and let Zhuang Xun run around with peace of mind.
Even if Zhuang Xun went to the State of Zhao, moved around the country, and returned to Jiannan, the whole Heng seemed in order. The implementation of the new law and the promotion of officials were smoother. After all, there were fewer steps for Zhuang Xun to see.
"The second and third is that your daughter and the friends Zhuang Xun has accumulated control the military power, especially Princess Li, who has the power to carry a cauldron, travels across the battlefield, and is famous all over the world. She has suppressed a large number of rebellions from aristocratic families, and the integrated elite army has allowed Zhuang You don’t have to worry about internal rebellions and external attacks.”
Empress Dowager Jiang also felt envious. Since immortals cannot use magic, the innate class of mortals has the strongest combat power. It is also the so-called courage that cannot be defeated by ten thousand men. There are only a few in the Zhao Kingdom. Zhuang Xun has two men. .
She was really sorry for He Heng. When she first went to Chengguo, someone told her that He Heng was a genius and broke through when the escort of Shoushan Yu was surrounded by bandits.
However, I thought at that time that as long as I could win over Zhuang Xun, He Heng would join Zhuang Xun and return to Zhao sooner or later. He also specifically reminded Si Qinmi not to ignore it. Thinking about it now, he missed a talent.
Not to mention Li Rusi, she really doubted that there was a ferocious beast under the human skin. How could a mortal be so strong and be able to sustain the release of Qi for so long.
"Are you trying to make the little girl rebel? It's absolutely impossible. The little girl has her own thoughts. Besides, there is no reason to take back the water spilled by a married daughter."
Li Pingyuan was an old fox. He immediately made a patch after hearing Empress Dowager Jiang's analysis, which was equivalent to rejection.
Besides, he wanted to conquer the world. He didn't want to harm his own daughter, who was entrusted by a good friend to put his son-in-law under house arrest. He successfully conquered the world and could make Li Rusi's family have enough food and clothing. He didn't think there was anything wrong with being hostile to his son-in-law. His senses seemed unimportant.
But if his daughter betrays Zhuang Xun and defectes, tearing her daughter's emotions apart and separating her from her beloved, there is no way to heal the torn relationship, and even if he unifies the world, it cannot be repaired. Besides, even if he persuades Li Ru to surrender, Li Ru Si must listen too, but Li Rusi most likely won’t.
"That's not what I meant. It can be seen that Princess Li loves Zhuang Xun. There is no need to be such a bad person. Grand Master can be a good father."
"For example, if Zhuang Xun ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, does Wei Lanzhi have to be the queen in the harem?"
Mrs. Jiang's deserted face finally had a smile.
My medical insurance is in normal use. I will go to see my eyes tomorrow. I may take time off. I will try to update it as soon as I can.
(End of chapter)
