The next morning, the main hall of Longtai.

Because Lou Chang was executed, Pang Nuan, Zheng Zhu and others entered the core one after another, so there are now seven ministers of Zhao State.

Zhao Dan looked around the crowd and then stopped on Pang Nuan.

Although Pang Nuan is also considered a commoner, Zhao Dan supported him to limit Lian Po. Pang Nuan naturally knew this, so Pang Nuan would not be very close to Lian Po.

Zhao Dan thought to himself: "Listen to Miao Xian's secret report, Pang Nuan seems to be a little close to Zhao Sheng recently. It seems that he will soon become a member of Zhao Sheng's sect."

In this way, the public clan sect may restore three more people.

However, Lian Po and Yu Xin's actions were not small.

I heard that Yu Xin and the Censor Li Bo have been walking around very frequently recently, and because of some official issues, Li Bo and Si Kou and Zhao Bao seem to have had a little unpleasant quarrel, so Li Bo is very likely to join Yu Xinlianpo.

To be honest, Zhao Dan actually doesn't like this situation very much.

You ministers should be good ministers, and you just think about being loyal to me, why do you make a clique all day long?

But Zhao Dan also knew very well that it was actually a normal thing to join forces for political interests, and any dynasty would have it.

In many dynasties, there are usually two or more factions, which usually include civil officials, military generals, nobles, eunuchs, relatives, etc. Basically, you will finish your performance.

That is, this era is more special, because it began to distinguish between civil and military officials and generals at the end of the Warring States Period. Before, both civil and military officials and generals were required to be both civil and military, so the sharp opposition between civil and military officials and generals in later generations does not exist yet.

However, other factions have begun to appear. For example, Miao Xian is a eunuch. Although he is not one of the seven ministers, his influence is actually not inferior to that of any of the seven ministers.

For example, Zheng Zhu, the only one of the seven ministers, who had not yet taken the team, was a descendant of the Zheng royal family. After Zheng Guo was destroyed by South Korea, his ancestors went into exile to Zhao and intermarried with the Zhao royal family many times.

Now there is a Mrs. Zheng in the Zhaodan Palace who is the sister of Zheng Zhu, so Zheng Zhu is actually a relative of Zhao State.

There are really everything in Zhao's political arena.

Zhao Dan sighed in his heart, for nothing, the water is clear, there will be no fish.

Zhao Dan's face turned apart and began to get to the point.

"Your Highness must have known what happened to the Qin delegation, so I summoned you to ask how you should answer the Qin people now?"

Everyone is smart, so I suddenly realized that the king is going to determine the next step.

Some people may ask why it is not until this time that we will come and discuss the next national policy. We cannot make a long-term plan. What is the five-year and ten-year plan?

This is actually a very interesting topic.

If you look at it from the perspective of later generations, you will feel that many times the monarchs of the Warring States Period did not seem to have a long-term goal and often made some actions that seemed very short-sighted to future generations.

Many articles hold this view, and the more typical and famous ones include "Theory of the Six Kingdoms", "Theory of the Over Qin", etc.

But are these Warring States monarchs really that stupid?

First of all, it must be noted that before the Warring States Period, there was never a powerful country in the entire Chinese land that could be called a unified dynasty.

In other words, even the ultimate winner, Qin, himself, did not know what the unification would look like before victory.

So in history, there is nothing strange about the six countries scrambling to bribe Qin.

When Qi was strong, wouldn’t Qin also have to cede land so that the Qi army could withdraw from Hangu Pass?

When Chu was strong, it also asked for the Han and Wei countries.

Zhao State is now strong, and Wei State and Qin State have also ceded large tracts of territory.

Why? Because all the vassal states think that if you are overlord, you will be overlord. Anyway, you will be at most for decades, and then you will be finished if you siege one by one.

Didn’t the hegemons in history fall like this? Didn’t Qin and Zhao rise like this?

Under such a mentality, it is impossible to rely on the six countries in history to work together to fight against the powerful Qin Dynasty.

Anyway, Qin will definitely decline and will not continue to be strong. Just wait for an opportunity, an opportunity similar to the five countries' attack on Qi.

This is what the monarchs of the six kings in history think.

Zhao Dan is also sure, this is also the idea of ​​the other six countries except Zhao.

This is the so-called "limitations of the times".

These monarchs who lived in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period could not imagine the appearance of a unified dynasty. It was like an earthling in 1900 that a hundred years later, people could only use a thing called a mobile phone to have "face-to-face" conversations across tens of thousands of kilometers across the earth.

Or to put it this way, although the seven kings of the Warring States Period are all glorious, who knows whether their country will be killed directly in a battle?

There were hundreds or thousands of vassal states in the early Spring and Autumn Period. By now, in 257 BC, there were only seven left, absolutely one in a hundred.

This tragic reality is enough to make every king of the seven kingdoms feel a sense of crisis and a feeling of being in danger.

Under such circumstances, these monarchs must face it and must obtain enough capital for their country to survive in every battle.

In such a situation, it is simply unrealistic to have a long-term vision.

If you want to survive, you must first make utilitarianism.

The word "utilitarian" has always been synonymous with "short-sightedness" and is not the same as "long-term".

So among the many vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, are there any unutilitarian countries?

have.

But the problem is that those unutilitarian countries have long been submerged in the surging waves of history for hundreds of years.

Moreover, even if you want to have a long-term vision, it is actually quite difficult.

Seven countries, seven kings, hundreds of ministers, thousands of officials, and millions of people.

With so many factors combined, who can think of what will happen in the future?

The variables are too big.

For example, Zhao Dan, Zhao Dan’s plan before the Battle of Hedong County was to rely on the power of the Three Jin Alliance to defeat Qin until it perished, and then plot against other countries.

This is actually not a long-term plan, but even such a not-long-term plan immediately created variables after the Battle of Hedong.

Wei Wuji, who was supposed to be pro-Zhao faction, led Wei to rebel against Zhao in a minute and stood with Qin. Then Zhao was forced to attack Qin first, and then the next battle of defense of Handan was found.

Who would have thought of this before the war?

After all, every monarch faces too many choices before each war. In the most extreme case, a lobbyist may be able to decide whether a war begins, or which side the country stands on in this war.

How to guess this? This is too difficult to guess.

So Zhao Dan got an experience in this matter. It is a long-term vision, but it is still reliable to take one step at a time.

Anyway, as long as you keep winning battles, one day, Zhao State will be so powerful that all the six countries will not be opponents.
Chapter completed!