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Chapter 59 Lou Chang's Proposal

"Mr. Pingyuan?" As soon as Zhao Dan said this, the ministers present showed surprise.

Zhao Sheng had just returned from Daliang in shame, and now he is sent to him again? Is the king's brain so stupid?

The most surprising thing among them was undoubtedly Zhao Sheng himself. He almost subconsciously refused: "King, I think this person who is on the mission to Daliang should discuss it again."

"No need." Zhao Dan shook his head, looking at Zhao Sheng with a bright look in his eyes, and his tone of speech was very affirmative: "I know how good Pingyuan Jun is. Confucius said, 'Who can be without mistakes?' What happened a few days ago was just a mistake. Therefore, when I went to Daliang, I thought Pingyuan Jun would be able to succeed and live up to my trust!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhao Sheng felt so grateful. The frustration brought to him by successive setbacks suddenly disappeared in his heart. A voice shouted wildly in his heart: "Master, I still trust me!"

Zhao Sheng looked solemn and bowed deeply to Zhao Dan: "Please rest assured, King, Sheng will do his best to live up to the king's entrustedness!"

Seeing this, the other three ministers were also thinking: "It seems that although this Pingyuan Jun has suffered setbacks, his grace remains the same."

Zhao Dan sat upright and showed the faces of the ministers below.

Why Zhao Sheng is still there? There are two main reasons.

First of all, Zhao Dansi thought about it over and over again, and felt that it was basically impossible to find foreign aid to solve the problem of Wei State, and he could only solve it from within Wei State.

The candidate who is most likely and capable of helping Zhao State is undoubtedly Zhao Sheng’s brother-in-law, Xinling Jun Wei Wuji.

Wei Wuji is undoubtedly the first-class person in terms of talent and strategy, but everyone has their own weaknesses. Judging from memory, Zhao Dan feels that Wei Wuji's weakness should be family affection.

This is a person who values ​​friendship, especially for his own relatives.

In history, it was precisely because of the repeated urgent letters from Mrs. Pingyuanjun, Wei Wuji and his mother and sister that the later Xinlingjun saved Zhao and defeated Qin at the city of Handan.

Zhao Sheng's failure to go on a mission last time was somewhat related to not playing this family card well. Therefore, after thinking about it, Zhao Dansi still felt that it would be better to let Zhao Sheng go to the State of Wei than to other people's missions to Wei.

Secondly, this time the Wei State incident actually sounded a wake-up call for Zhao Dan.

After all, it is now the climax of the entire warring world. Zhao State faces a powerful enemy like Qin State, and a combination of wise rulers and wise ministers like Qin King Ji and Fan Sui.

At this time, if a mediocre person is allowed to occupy the position of Zhao State as the prime minister, this will only play a negative role for Zhao Dan.

So Zhao Dan changed his mind again. If Zhao Sheng could not successfully convince Wei this time, at least let Wei remain neutral, then Zhao Sheng's position as the prime minister must have to be replaced.

In his position, one must plan his politics! If Zhao Sheng is in the position of prime minister but cannot make any contribution to Zhao State at such a critical moment, then what use Zhao Dan wants him?

To a certain extent, these successive things made Zhao Dan feel even more urgency.

The ministers of Zhao State present did not have as many thoughts as Zhao Dan. They had no other thoughts except for feeling that Zhao Sheng had indeed become a good child and the king actually trusted Zhao Sheng so much.

Logically speaking, this meeting should have ended, but at this moment, Lou Chang, a doctor from Zhao Guoshang, who had never been very present, suddenly said: "Master, I have a plan, I don't know whether to speak or not."

Zhao Dan looked at Lou Chang with some surprise and thought to himself that this guy was going to do something else? But Zhao Dan still said, "Doctor, it's okay."

Lou Chang coughed lightly, touched the beard under his jaw, and a light flashed through his triangular eyes: "King, why not make peace with Qin?"

"Ask peace?" As soon as Lou Chang said this, everyone in the room was shocked.

Yu Xin frowned and jumped out to object: "Doctor Lou doesn't know if Zheng Zhufang returned from Xianyang? The Qin people were completely unsincere, so where can we start to discuss peace?"

For Yu Xin, peace talks are difficult to accept. After all, Yu Xin finally persuaded Chu to send troops, so he naturally hoped that the Zhao-Chu coalition army could defeat the Qin army. In this way, Yu Xin's contribution as an envoy to convince the King of Chu will naturally be great. But once peace talks, Yu Xin's contribution will be reduced.

Lou Chang was obviously prepared for a long time. After hearing Yu Xin's words, he smiled and said, "Don't Yu Qing know this time and that time? Before, our country of Zhao was weak and it was difficult to be the Qin army, so the Qin people were unwilling to do about peace. Now that our country of Zhao, Chu and Qi have joined forces, their power is stronger than Qin, and their power has changed. If we discuss peace at this time, I think that Qin King Ji and Qin Prime Minister Fan Sui will be able to accept it. Isn't this Yu Qing said before?"

When Lou Chang said this, Yu Xin opened his mouth and suddenly realized that it seemed a little difficult to refute.

Why is it difficult to refute? Because Lou Chang’s claim at this moment was the suggestion that Yu Xin gave to Zhao Dan before Zheng Zhu took the envoy to Qin!

A few months ago, when Zhao Dan was about to send Zheng Zhu to Qin, Yu Xin had fiercely opposed this suggestion.

At that time, Yu Xin said: "When the king listens to my opinion, I send envoys to bring treasures to build a favorable treasure in Chu. If Wei, if Chu, if Wei gets the treasures of the king, he will treat me Zhao envoy well. If Zhao envoys enter Chu and Wei will treat me well, Qin will doubt that our three kingdoms will attack Qin, and the people of Qin will be afraid of it. In this way, peace can be made."

Although Zhao Dan, who had not been traveling through time at that time, did not adopt Yu Xin's suggestion, but sent Zheng Zhu to Xianyang to negotiate peace, which directly led to the subsequent passive situation in Zhao State.

But even Yu Xin did not expect that even though the king did not adopt the suggestion at that time, after a while, things were still the same as what he said before!

Moreover, what Yu Xin had imagined was just to reveal the news of the Three Kingdoms' Union to force Qin to make peace, but the current situation was that the Chu army had directly sent troops to attack Nanyang County of Qin, and the situation was a little better than what Yu Xin had imagined at that time!

Under such circumstances, forcing Qin to negotiate peace is no longer an impossible dream, but a very likely fact.

After all, the Chu army is now just like Sun Wukong who has entered Princess Iron Fan's stomach, making a big fuss in the Tiangong Palace in Nanyang County of Qin. On the other hand, Qin's attitudes to help Wei and Yan are quite ambiguous. At least, there has not been a public war against Zhao yet. In the overall situation, Qin's situation is more passive than Zhao.

When war cannot achieve one's goals, it may even make the situation worse, peace talks and stop losses are something that Qin has no choice but has to do.

More importantly, if Zhao and Qin now negotiate peace and use the current line of actual control of both sides as the border of armistice, Zhao would have taken a big advantage.

Now, the Shangdang County that Qin and Zhao countries compete for is almost entirely located in the Taihang Mountains, so it is divided into three parts by the Taihang Mountains, namely the North Shangdang with Tunliu as the center, the West Shangdang with Duan as the center, and the East Shangdang with Xuanshi City at the Changping battlefield.

The records of the "Shangdang military and civilians traveled to Zhao, and Lian Po switched to the switch" refer to the fact that the South Korean military and civilians of the Western Shangdang fled to the Zhao-controlled area of ​​the East Shangdang and were accepted by the Zhao-general Lian Po switched to the switch.

Among these three pieces of land, the North Shangdang is now owned by Zhao State, the West Shangdang is occupied by Qin State, and the Changping part of the East Shangdang is half of the everyone.

If calculated by area, since the Northern Shangdang Party of Zhao was larger than the Western Shangdang Party of Qin, Zhao actually controlled 55% of the land in Shangdang County, while Qin controlled 45% of the land.

Zhao State has been fighting in the Battle of Shangdang until now, and the casualties of about 40,000 to 50,000 people have been paid, which is much less, but it is not much more.

What about Qin? Qin began to attack South Korea and plot against Shangdang five years ago. As a result, after five years of hard battle, it paid more than 100,000 people, several times the casualties of Zhao, and occupied less than half of Shangdang County!

This is why King Ji of Qin wanted to fight so hard and fight with Zhao in Changping with his country. I, Qin, finally won the victory and hope that Zhao will pick peaches. How can such a good thing be in the world? If you don’t teach you a lesson, you won’t know how to write a typo!

During the last peace talks, the bottom line of peace talks that Zhao Dan gave to Zheng Zhu at that time was that he had to keep the North Shang Party, and the West Shang Party and the East Shang Party could be given to the Qin people.

But the situation is different now. Since Zhao State has a temporary advantage in the overall situation, it can be confidently protected the 55% of the territory of Shangdang County that it currently possesses, and even go further, requiring the Qin army to withdraw from the East Shangdang and allocate nearly 70% of the Shangdang County in the East and North areas to the Zhao State!

In this case, Zhao State will definitely make a big profit.

So when Lou Chang's proposal was a bit nonsense at first, but if you think about it carefully, it seems to be - it's not bad.

The hall fell silent again for a moment, and everyone turned their eyes to Zhao Dan, the top leader.

Due to the wise decisions over the past few days, Zhao Dan's prestige in the hearts of these ministers has greatly improved, and now he has a vague weight of being able to "decide with one word".

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