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Chapter 67 Winning

As the saying goes, "One day the emperor is the emperor, the other day the minister is the emperor."

Any leader wants to do things and do things well, then a group of obedient and capable subordinates is an indispensable task, and the emperor is of course no exception.

Therefore, for any monarchical country, whenever the old king dies and the new king takes office, personnel changes at the top will inevitably occur.

After the new monarch and the new team took office, even if there was no civil strife caused by the throne, it would take at least two or three years or even longer to fully control a country, especially a big country like Qin.

In history, after the death of King Ji of Qin, Qin changed the three kings, King Xiaowen, King Zhuangxiang of Qin and Emperor Shihuang of Qin, in just five years. This led to a certain degree of chaos in Qin and gave the six Eastern countries a chance to breathe.

What Zhao Dan needs to ensure now is to let the chaos that has occurred in history appear in Qin again.

As long as Zhao Dan's plan can continue now, Zhao Dan can send a large number of Huyiwei spies from Zhao State to sneak into Qin through the line of Lu Buwei and infiltrate all aspects of Qin State.

In this way, under the most optimistic situation, Zhao Dan did not even need to use a sword or a soldier. As long as Lu Buwei, Hu Yiwei spies and sufficiently meticulous plans, Qin itself could collapse from the inside!

Even in the worst case, it can make Qin more chaotic than in history, and this is also beneficial to Zhao State.

As Zhao Dan thought about it, his eyes fell on Lu Buwei again.

If this plan continues smoothly and succeeds, Lu Buwei's cooperation is essential, and it can even be said to be crucial.

Because Zhao Dan knew very well that once he continued to follow the trajectory of history, Zhao Yiren ascended the throne and became the king of Qin, he would enthrone Lu Buwei as the prime minister of Qin. There were too many ways for a prime minister to destroy his country.

At that time, how can we ensure that when Lu Buwei becomes the prime minister of Qin, he will not bite Zhao, but cooperate with Zhao to continue to carry out this plan to dismember Qin? This is a problem that Zhao Dan must solve.

Zhao Dan had already planned on this issue.

So Zhao Dan coughed and said, "Lu Qing, Qin is the great enemy of our Zhao State. If Lu Qing can help Zhao destroy Qin, when our Zhao State unify the world, Lu Qing will be the prime minister of our Zhao State!"

This sentence was actually the second time that Zhao Dan said to Lu Buwei, but Lu Buwei was still a little excited when he heard it, and hurriedly saluted: "I, I dare not die for the king!"

Although Zhao Yiren has promised to give Lu Buwei the position of Qin Prime Minister after becoming the king of Qin, Zhao Yiren is just a proton after all, and Zhao Dan is the real king of the world's second most powerful country. The difference between the promises between the two can be imagined.

But if that's the case, Zhao Dan felt that it was not enough.

For such a smart businessman who is extremely smart and does not have any profits and an investor who has a vicious vision and has a reputation in history, if Zhao Dan feels that he can kneel down and lick it for the rest of his life by hooking his fingers and drawing a big cake with Lu Buwei, then Zhao Dan may need to test his IQ index.

What is the businessman talking about the most? Of course it is profit. Didn’t Lu Buwei help Zhao Yiren to take power because he saw the huge benefits he could gain after supporting Zhao Yiren?

Only with sufficient interests can Lv Buwei be firmly tied to the chariot of Zhao State.

Moreover, the benefits obtained by Lu Buwei in helping Zhao must be more than the benefits obtained by helping Qin. Otherwise, how could he expect Lu Buwei to betray Qin wholeheartedly?

Judging from the current situation, Zhao State is just the second most powerful country in the world, while Qin State is the most powerful country in the world. The weight of Qin State's prime minister is more heavy than that of Zhao State's prime minister.

From a future perspective, Zhao Yiren actually has a stronger bargaining chip used by him to win over Lu Buwei than Zhao Dan.

So Zhao Dan felt that he had to increase his investment.

So Zhao Dan continued to smile and threw out the next bargaining chip: "I heard that Lu Qing has a legitimate daughter who is young and is gentle and kind, and is about the same age as my eldest son, Gongziheng. With my intention, Lu Qing's daughter deserves to be the eldest wife of Gongziheng. I wonder what Lu Qing wants?"

That’s right, Zhao Dan’s big killer weapon is marriage!

Zhao Dan wanted his eldest son Zhao Heng to marry Lu Buwei's daughter as his wife and as his eldest wife (that is, the real wife).

You should know that Zhao Heng is the future heir to the throne that Zhao Dan has appointed. After Zhao Heng is in his prime (twenty years old), Zhao Dan will make his eldest son the crown prince. At that time, Lu Buwei's daughter will be the genuine crown prince's wife (the crown prince's concubine)!

The son born to this eldest lady, the grandson of Lu Buwei, will become the next generation of Zhao State after Zhao Heng dies in the future!

Lu Buwei took a deep breath, and his whole face turned red due to excitement. He immediately lowered his body again without any hesitation, and said to Zhao Dan in the most respectful tone and attitude: "What kind of virtue is that I can win the favor of the king so much. I thank the king for my little daughter!"

Lu Buwei agreed.

Of course, Lu Buwei would agree.

You should know that although Lu Buwei is now known as a guest official, who doesn’t know that Lu Buwei made his fortune by doing business and is a “lower businessman”. Even if the wealthy people such as Lu Buwei can be called “simple-fair”, they are still the most looked down upon among the “scholars, farmers, industry and commerce” and the most controlled by intellectuals.

Even if Lu Buwei is rich in the world, he will not be favored by the upper class aristocrats in the Warring States Period.

Not to mention the upper class nobles, even the lower class of the nobles, there are not many ordinary scholars who can admire Lu Buwei and be willing to serve Lu Buwei.

With Lu Buwei's current status, it is a delusion to marry a nobleman at the level of a doctor, not to mention marrying a king like Zhao Dan, the second most powerful country in the world.

This was like an extremely huge pie fell from the world and hit Lu Buwei's face directly.

As long as he agrees to Zhao Dan's marriage, Lu Buwei is a true royal relative, the father-in-law of the future Zhao State, and even the future monarch of Zhao State will have the bloodline of the Lu Buwei lineage!

Is it worth mentioning the glory and wealth of the Lü clan?

As he thought about it, Lu Buwei was so excited that his whole body was trembling.

Zhao Dan looked at Lu Buwei's appearance, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then said to Lu Buwei with a smile: "By the way, I also heard that Lu Qing's eldest son Lu Ling was smart since childhood and could be a talented person. I want Lu Qing to enter the palace to study as a companion for Gongzi Heng, but I think Lu Qing would not object, right?"

As soon as Zhao Dan said this, Lu Buwei's body shook violently again and almost fainted happily.

Lu Buwei was about to kneel down for Zhao Dan!

In this society where men are superior to women, a daughter is actually nothing. For Lu Buwei and even the entire Lu family who are dependent on Lu Buwei, the most important future hope is Lu Buwei's 16-year-old eldest son Lu Ling.

This Lu Ling has been very calm and intelligent since childhood, which is very popular with Lu Buwei.

Once Lu Ling becomes Zhao Heng's companion, when Zhao Heng ascends the throne in the future, as long as Lu Ling does not die, he will definitely become one of the core officials of Zhao State.

There is a daughter in the palace as the queen, and there is Lu Ling outside the palace as an important minister of Zhao State. The Lu family can be the top wealthy family in Zhao State for at least a hundred years!

Lu Buwei forcibly suppressed his inner excitement and performed a solemn etiquette towards Zhao Dan, with his voice extremely solemn and serious.

"I dare not die for the king!"

Zhao Dan looked at Lu Buwei's behavior, and a tricky smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Now, you, Lu Buwei, can't escape from my palms, right?

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Looking at the back of Lu Buwei who was almost floating out of the palace, the Taoxian, who had been standing next to him silently, finally couldn't help but whisper: "King, although Lu Buwei is talented, he is just a merchant. If the king ordered Gongziheng to marry his daughter, it would be incompatibility..."

The so-called disagreement of Yu Li is of course just an excuse. The sentence of Zhu Xian is actually a tactful advice to Zhao Dan not to put such heavy bargaining chips on Lu Buwei, a guy who is a "businessman".

A prime minister (Lu Buwei), a future queen (Lu Buwei's daughter), and a future important minister of Zhao (Lu Ling). Such bargaining chips are simply too heavy!

Zhao Dan waved his hand and smiled and said, "Don't worry too much about Qingqing. Lu Buwei is a talented person. He will definitely help our Zhao State. By the way, from now on, Qingqing will also have more contacts than Lu Buwei. The infiltration of Hu Yiwei into Qin State will be all this person."

The reason why Zhao Dan dared to put such a big bargaining chip on Lu Buwei was of course not because he was blinded by Lu Buwei's reputation.

Zhao Dan's real purpose was to completely destroy Qin through Lu Buwei, an internal thief lurking into Qin.

As long as the strongest Qin State in history is completely annexed, Zhao State will be truly invincible!

In history, Qin State began its journey of unifying the world after defeating Zhao State. Then after Zhao Dan led Zhao State to annex Qin State, the world will definitely be Zhao State!

Compared with the destruction of Qin, what is this mere position of prime minister and queen? Just give it to him.
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