Diplomacy issues are always the top priority for Zhao State now.

The founding ancestors once said this: "In the process of struggle, we must pay attention to uniting the majority and attacking a small group." Zhao Dan deeply agreed with this sentence.

As the second son of the seven heroes of Zhao State, the master jumped out and faced the big brother of Qin State, and then suffered a loss-win situation like the result of the Battle of Changping in history? This is a very stupid behavior.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t beat you in a single fight. I’ll call someone and fight in a group. One can’t beat you, but I can’t beat you five?

More than 20 years ago, the king of Qi's land annexed the Song State, making the Qi State unparalleled at that time. It was the veritable number one in the world, right? Then Qi State was attacked by five countries and was beaten by the other six countries. If it weren't for Tian Dan, even the country would have been destroyed.

Now the feng shui changes, and it is Qin's turn to be the boss. But can Qin, the boss, deal with the second Zhao State, lead a few brothers to fight? Obviously, it is not possible, because compared with Qi State in the present, Qin State is actually only half a pound, and a country on the same level. It is strong, but it has not yet reached the point of crushing.

Today, Zhao State is undoubtedly at a disadvantage in terms of national strength, so Zhao Dan believes that if he wants to overthrow Qin State, then the principle of "unifying the majority (the other five countries) and attacking a small group (the Qin State)" is necessary to persist for a long time.

Under such a premise, the diplomatic trends of Wei and Yan, which have not yet joined the anti-Qin alliance, are worthy of attention.

Of course, Zhao Dan had made arrangements in advance, and now he has attracted several ministers, mainly because the situation in these two countries (mainly Yan State) has changed again.

Two days ago, the fast horse from Yan State brought back a secret letter written by Pang Qian, who was an envoy of Zhao State, who was sent to Yan State as an envoy of Zhao State. In the letter, Pang Qian briefly described his mission. Judging from Pang Qian's description, the King of Yan was obviously not too cold to Pang Qian, the envoy of Zhao State.

What made Zhao Dan wary of was a sentence mentioned in Pang Yan's letter: "I have been walking along the way, although the Yan people deliberately concealed it, but I found that although there were many women and children in the farmlands along the roads of Yan State, there were fewer men and women. The harvest is coming this autumn, and this matter seems to be strange. Please ask the king to investigate it clearly."

When Zhao Dan took out the letter and let the ministers present circulate it, all the ministers present noticed this and frowned at the same time.

As usual, during the autumn harvest, it should be a time when a family of men, women, young and old mobilized all the people to fight. However, there were only women and children in the farmland of Yan State, and the most important labor force for middle-aged and young people was very scarce, which was undoubtedly unreasonable.

In addition, the Yan people concealed this scene and did not want to be discovered by the envoy of Zhao Pang Yuan, so the meaning here is very worthy of conception.

In this era, under what circumstances can a country mobilize a large number of young and strong labor? There are generally two types: one is that the country needs to build large projects, and the other is that the country needs to launch a war.

Although Yan State also has a national-level project like the Yan Great Wall, the Yan Great Wall was completed as early as the time of King Zhao and King Hui of Yan. In recent years, Yan State has basically made minor repairs and repairs, and it is not suitable for construction after the autumn harvest. At this time, it is obviously a very stupid behavior to recruit farmers to build the Great Wall. This possibility can be basically ruled out.

Since this is the case, then there is obviously only one behavior that can explain the movements of Yan State, that is, war!

Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng snorted heavily and said, "The Yan State and our Zhao State are in-laws. Could it be that the King of Yan wants to go to war with our Zhao State at this moment?"

Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao frowned, looked at Zhao Dan, and said carefully: "I have heard that because the queen of Yan has no son, the King of Yan seems to be disliked by the queen of Yan. In addition, several years ago, the Prime Minister of Tian led his troops to attack Yan. Yan and Qin has been closely following this in recent years, so we must guard against it."

The "Tian Xiang attacks Yan" mentioned by Pingyang Jun refers to the fact that when Zhao Dan's biological mother Zhao Wei was still in power in the regent of the court a few years ago, Tian Dan, the then prime minister of Zhao State, once led the border troops of five northern counties of Zhao State to attack Yan State.

Although the incident ended with the King of Yan marrying the Grand Princess of Zhao (now Queen of Yan) as a bargaining chip to seek peace with Zhao, it also caused a crack in the relationship between Yan and Zhao, which had been in contact for decades and reached the peak of the honeymoon period when the five countries attacked Qi.

Since then, Yan State began to change its diplomatic strategy, gradually alienated Zhao State, and moved closer to Zhao State's biggest opponent, Qin State.

Yu Xin also said: "Now that our Zhao State has a good relationship with Qi State, I think Yan State will be dissatisfied with this, but two months later it will be winter, and Yan State is located in the bitter and cold state. I think the King of Yan is willing to start a war and he will have to wait until next spring."

The current territory of Yan State is mainly the later Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Dynasty and the Liaodong Peninsula. This area is not comparable to the Taihang Mountains in the Central Plains and the Jianghan Plain further south. At this time, it belongs to the unrivalled border of ice, snow and bitter cold.

This is why Yu Xin felt that the Central Plains could fight, but Yan should not move.

In this era when cotton was not used to sew clothes on a large scale in China, the reduction in staff due to the cold in winter was very terrible.

When you get up and sleep, you will freeze one hand or one foot, and your ears will suddenly fall off as you walk. This is not a joke, but a cold and cruel fact. Otherwise, the population of Yan State would not always be the bottom among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period.

But Lin Xiangru had different opinions on this. He saw that the Shangqing of Zhao State coughed and then said with some difficulty: "This King of Yan is a man who colluded with Gongsun Cao to kill the king and resigned. He is a capricious and arrogant person, and he cannot be judged by common sense. In my opinion, Yan State must be guarded!"

The King of Yan who is now in power is actually not a descendant of the previous king, King Hui of Yan, but a brother of King Hui of Yan.

Twelve years ago, the King of Yan, joined forces with the Yan General Gongsun Cao to launch a coup, killing the then king of Yan Hui and taking over the throne, which aroused dissatisfaction in Zhao's country, and Zhao Xiangtian attacked Yan alone.

Lin Xiangru was obviously skeptical about such a usurper.

After some discussion, Zhao Dan finally made a decision and made a decision: "Let the border soldiers and sentries from Dai County and Yanmen County be vigilant to prevent Yan State from sending troops to our Zhao State suddenly, and make the five northern counties ready to mobilize. If the Yan people attack, the border soldiers from the five northern counties will face the battle!"

The five northern counties of Zhao State refer to the five counties of Wuyuan County, Jiuyuan County, Yunzhong County, Yanmen County and Dai County. Among the five northern counties are a large number of nomadic peoples conquered by Zhao State (such as Loufan and Linhu), and are also the horse-raising base and cavalry base of Zhao State.

Due to the characteristics of the nomadic people, the five northern counties can almost be said to be the whole people. Although Zhao Dan had previously dispatched 50,000 elite cavalrymen to go south to support the Changping battlefield, the problem of the five northern counties now having a population of about 400,000 and 60,000 troops is not too big.

In fact, this unit is the last little force that Zhao State can gather. In addition, most of the troops of Zhao State have gathered in Changping and are in a confrontation with the Qin army.

Yu Xin thought about it and said, "King, Qi and Yan are a country of hatred. If Yan goes to war with our Zhao State, the king might as well send envoys to Qi State. If Qi State is willing to send troops to help our Zhao State resist the Yan State's army, then our Zhao State will be free of worries."

This sentence instantly awakened Zhao Dan.

You should know that the five countries attacked Qi more than 20 years ago was that the prime minister of Yan State, Le Yi, was the head coach. Yan State occupied the most territory in the battle to destroy Qi, and most of the losses of Qi must be recorded on Yan State.

Therefore, after the restoration of the country, the people of Qi always regarded Yan as the culprit of the five countries' attack on Qi. Both the top leaders and the people's hatred for Yan was very serious. When will the Qi State be pulled into the water?

Besides, in order to borrow food from Qi, Zhao Dan even sent out a rare treasure like Heshi Bi, which was considered to be a link with the tyrant kings and slander officials of Qi Wang Jian and Housheng. Isn’t it a pity that this line was built at such a great price and left it alone after using it once?

So Zhao Dan said, "Yu Qing's words are good! Since this is the case, I will be responsible for this matter with the traveler Su Dai. If Yan dares to send troops to our Zhao State, then Su Dai will be sent to Qi State again!"

The matters about Yan State came to an end.

As for the Wei State, due to the failure of the mission of the Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng, the Zhao State ministers and ministers could not think of any good solutions for a while.

However, since the situation is relatively optimistic at this moment, the king and ministers of Zhao quickly reached a consensus that as long as Wei can remain neutral, it will be good news for Zhao.

So after the topic of Yan and Wei countries ended, the monarchs and ministers of Zhao discussed some specific issues such as food and grass logistics, and then the meeting was over.

But what the Zhao kings and ministers who were immersed in optimism did not know was that a big trouble in Zhao was coming, and the source of this trouble came from Daliang City, the capital of Wei, which they intentionally or unintentionally ignored.
Chapter completed!