Xuanwang Palace, back garden.
King Xuan was raising his head slightly.
In the sky, there was an unknown bird flying around the big tree. It was looking for a place to stay, but it seemed to have noticed the coldness of the palace and flew away again.
This scene touched some sour emotions in King Xuan's heart.
"Your Majesty." A voice came from behind.
"Ah." King Xuan came back to his senses and said quietly: "Master Wang, look at that bird. It has circled the tree three times in the palace, but there is no branch to rely on."
As if he heard something, Wang Su was stunned for a moment, and then said quickly: "Your Majesty, please don't pity yourself. As a child of the royal family, you are extremely intelligent..."
"Okay." King Xuan interrupted him.
It was something like this again, something she had heard many times.
"I don't think so." She said it first, and then said, "Master Wang, you are here to tell me about Cai Yan's lobbying of Wu Chu, right?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Su returned: "We don't know the specific situation at the moment, but Cai Yan is quite famous, and with him personally serving as his envoy, it's hard to predict the attitude of the two kings of Wu and Chu."
"There is nothing difficult to predict." King Xuan said directly: "With Cai Yan's eloquent tongue, Wu Chu will definitely participate in the war."
"Then, the king's attitude..." Wang Su asked again tentatively.
King Xuan thought for a while: "Cai Yan will arrive in Xuandu in the near future. At that time, you tell him that the king is ill, and you will contact him on his behalf. You can accept or not accept his strategy of weakening Qin. You can avoid the important and take the easy. , ambiguous.”
"this……"
Wang Su looked obviously embarrassed.
King Xuan glanced at him: "Why, Mr. Wang can't handle the diplomatic relations?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Su hurriedly saluted and said, "No, no, no, I will obey the king's orders."
"Okay, I'm tired. You can go down first." King Xuan waved his hand.
"Yes, Wei Chen is resigning."
More than ten days later, Cai Yan arrived.
However, according to King Xuan's account, although Wang Su's etiquette was in place during the reception, his words were unclear.
Cai Yan was obviously a little dissatisfied when he could not see King Xuan. He couldn't help but said: "As an envoy, I want to see the king of your country. In terms of diplomatic relations, is there any reason to not see him?"
Wang Su laughed and said: "I have made it clear to Mr. Cai that as long as we are human, we will always get sick. Unfortunately, it happens that my king is not feeling well, so it is really inconvenient to see guests."
After saying that, he added: "Otherwise, Mr. Cai will have to wait two more days?"
"This!" Cai Yan was anxious.
I don’t know when King Xuan’s illness will be cured! What's going on now? How can he have time to stay in Xuanguo?
In desperation, he could only say goodbye and rushed to Lingguo without stopping.
He is going to lobby the four southern countries one by one.
As for the Ling Kingdom, they had naturally heard about his strategy of weakening Qin.
At this time, the Spiritual King was also discussing the matter with the ministers.
The Prime Minister of Ling State said: "The strategy of weakening Qin sounds good, but our country has just signed a friendship treaty with Qin. If we participate in the war this time, all previous diplomatic efforts will be in vain. Therefore, the king should consider it carefully. "
Counselor Cheng Ping said: "The Prime Minister is right. Qin is tyrannical. Judging from the current situation, no matter what the war situation in the north is, there is no threat to Lingguo. Rather than completely offending Qin in this matter, it is better to choose to sit back and watch. "
"What our country wants to see most now is that Cai Yan's strategy of weakening Qin succeeds, and Wu Chu's national strength is greatly reduced due to his participation in the war. This is the best strategy for Lingguo to make progress."
When the situation is unclear, the old fox will never offend anyone easily, and once there is a profit to be found, he will immediately turn his back on the person.
Therefore, when Cai Yan arrived in Ling Kingdom and received him, King Ling said with a smile:
"I deeply agree with what Mr. Cai said about the strategy of weakening Qin, and Lingguo also absolutely supports it. Please rest assured on this point."
Having said that, whether the Spirit King will send out troops is another question.
But this made Cai Yan very satisfied. When he heard this, he beamed with joy and quickly bowed down: "Well, on behalf of the Liang Kingdom, I would like to thank Your Highness for your high righteousness -"
"What, the messenger is serious." King Ling looked like a good old man.
On the other side, Xiao Yuan wanted to take advantage of Huan State, and the envoy he sent had already arrived in Huandu and met King Huan.
Regarding this, the intensity of discussion among Huan Guo ministers was no less intense than during wartime.
However, many representatives of the stability-seeking faction expressed their disapproval of the use of troops through the road.
Someone said: "Currently, Cai Yan, the minister of Liang State, is lobbying other countries and talking about strategies to weaken Qin. If at this time, we lend the main transportation route of troops to the King of Qin, will it offend them?"
Xiao Yuan's attack on Liang was from directly below the Liang Kingdom, and by passing through the Huan Kingdom, he was preparing to send out surprise troops from the eastern border of the Liang Kingdom to pounce on Youzhou's weakly defended right side.
Another minister of the state of Huan said: "There is another point. In the battle between Qin and Liang, two tigers are fighting. Once we take advantage of the road, it will be equivalent to directly participating in the war. Your Majesty should think carefully."
At this time, Sun Qi had already returned to the capital.
Seeing that many ministers were still conservative and solemn, he couldn't help it anymore and stepped out and said:
"What you are saying is simply ridiculous. Why offend the other countries and weaken the Qin State? Whether it succeeds or fails, what does it have to do with the State of Huan? With the geographical location of the four southern countries, can it affect the State of Huan? Therefore, this point , Your Majesty, there is no need to think about it.”
Hearing this, all the ministers frowned and looked at Sun Qi with displeasure.
But the latter ignored him and continued: "Now, what our country has to consider is not the problems of the southern countries, but the war situation in the north."
"In the previous defense line at Pingjin, King Liang lost the decisive battle and has now retreated to Youzhou. Why did King Qin want to use our country? It's because he wanted to break through Youzhou quickly!"
"At this time, Huan Guo has only one choice to make, and that is to take advantage of the opportunity to strengthen himself!"
"How to strengthen yourself?" King Huan asked subconsciously.
Sun Qi said: "Now all the troops of the Liang army are facing the Qin army. If the king attacks Liang, it will be overwhelming! No one can stop it!"
I don’t know how many times this has been his main battle.
But this time, he changed his approach and planned to meet King Huan's wishes, so before others could speak, he said again:
"I dare to ask your Majesty, do you want to recover Dingzhou and Ruyang?"
These two lands were originally ceded to King Huan by the Yan Kingdom, but were given to the Liang Kingdom by the Allied Forces.
To King Huan, the Liang army was akin to forceful occupation, which made him always feel a little resentful, as if he had swallowed a fly.
At this time, when Sun Qi mentioned it, he didn't even think about it. He immediately said: "These two places belong to our Huan Kingdom!"
"In this case, if the king agrees, I will take these two counties and return them to the king within two months!"
"really!?"
"I would like to issue a military order!"
