Yanguo Jidu.

The young Empress Dowager Yan sat in the upper head seat, staring at the envoy of Qi in front of him with a serious expression, and slowly said word by word: "Are you really sure this matter is true?"

The envoy nodded and said respectfully to Empress Dowager Yan: "Return to the Empress Dowager, this matter was concluded by General Kuangliang, the Grand Secretary of my country, who personally observed the Zhao army's actions on the front line. He would definitely not be fake."

After a pause, the envoy of Qi continued: "Now that King Zhao plans to unite Han and Chu to divide Wei, Wei is already in danger. If Wei is destroyed, then Zhao will dominate the whole country, and no one can restrict Zhao from now on, and Yan will be in danger. For the sake of the overall situation, please send troops with our king to support Wei."

Although it sounds very inciting, Empress Dowager Yan did not agree to the request of the envoy of Qi so easily, but subconsciously glanced at the prime minister of Yan who was sitting in the lower head.

Judging from the expression of Yuejian, the prime minister of Yan State was obviously thinking and could not give any answer for a while.

So Empress Dowager Yan turned her attention to the Qi envoy in front of her and said to the Qi envoy in front of her: "I would like to ask the envoy to turn around and rest first. If there is news, the old woman will be the first to inform the envoy."

After watching the envoys from Qi leave, Empress Dowager Yan returns to Lejian again and says to Lejian: "Mr. Chang, why haven't you spoken just now?"

As soon as this sentence was said, Lejian's body moved slightly, and then he suddenly came to his senses.

In fact, what this Chang Guojun just thought about was not this war, but another thing.

Things about the Loss clan.

Speaking of Lejian's father Le Yi was from Zhao, but if you trace the root of it carefully, the ancestor of the Le clan was Le Yang, the general under Wei Si, the first overlord of Wei Wenhou in the early Warring States Period.

At that time, Leyang destroyed the Zhongshan Kingdom under the order of Wei Wenhou and incorporated the Zhongshan Kingdom into the territory of Wei. Then the Le family guarded Zhongshan for Wei.

However, more than 20 years later, Zhongshan Kingdom successfully restored its country, and the Le family located here became a citizen of Zhongshan Kingdom.

It was not until later that King Wuling of Zhao destroyed Zhongshan Kingdom, and the Le family once again joined China, and from the nationality of Zhongshan Kingdom to the people of Zhao Kingdom.

After Le Yi, the Le family was divided into two branches. One was still in the former Zhongshan land of Zhao State, with Le Cheng as the clan leader, and the other branch returned to Yan State, with Le Jian as the group leader.

Logically speaking, Lejian is the prime minister of Yan State, and has a throne as a lord, and is young enough. In addition, he is the son of Le Yi, the previous generation of patriarch Le Yi, and in all respects it is better than Lecheng. Therefore, it seems normal for the Le clan in Yan State to prosper and develop.

But the problem is that among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period today, Yan State is just a weak country of the last few days, while Zhao State is the strongest country as today.

Therefore, although Le Cheng was just the General of the Southern Army of Zhao State, and even under the Zhao State military, he could only be regarded as the third person under Lian Po and Pang Yan, under the leadership of this mere third person, the Le family of Zhao State has developed very steadily and low-keyly over the years, but its momentum has already vaguely surpassed the Le family of Yan State.

This result is undoubtedly something that the Le family in Yan State, who considers themselves orthodox, does not like to see.

Under such circumstances, when the princes met in Handan last year, the Le family of Yan and the Le family of Zhao also took the opportunity to meet.

The purpose of this meeting was originally to make the two tribes who came from the same source connect with each other, but in the end it was very unpleasant. The reason for all this unpleasantness was that Le Cheng, the leader of the Le family of Zhao, hoped that Lejian could cooperate with Zhao's state to incorporate Yan into the territory of Zhao's state by using internal and external cooperation.

It is naturally impossible for Lejian to agree with this.

If Yan State was really incorporated into Zhao State like this, not to mention that Lejian, the traitor of Lejian would be cursed by many Yan people, the ending that the Lejian of Yan State would be merged into the Lejian of Zhao State would be completely unacceptable.

There was a big quarrel between Le Cheng and Le, and eventually it ended up in disagreement.

What Lejian was thinking about just now was actually this question. If Lejian really agreed to Lecheng's plan to annex Yan State inside and outside, then Zhao would probably not attack Wei State now, but chose to go north with Qi State again to attack Yan State?

Speaking of which, Yan State is now the only one of Zhao's worries. If Yan State can be annexed together, then Zhao State only needs to use a certain amount of cavalry to guard against the nomadic peoples on the grassland that have long been afraid of, and can completely reassure and boldly move south to fight for hegemony in the Central Plains, and even destroy all the other five Warring States countries.

When he thought of this, Le Jian couldn't help but see a layer of fine beads of sweat in his head.

The plots of the people of Zhao really wiped out all other countries from beginning to end!

It was at this time that Empress Dowager Yan's questioning came at the right time, slowly pulling back the joy from his state of trance.

Lejian hurriedly accused Empress Dowager Yan of guilt. Empress Dowager Yan obviously did not want to investigate the reason why Le Cheng was out of the divine world at this time, but continued to ask: "Mr. Changguo, do you think Yan State should act this time?"

Lejian calmed down, thought carefully for a while, and then said to Empress Dowager Yan: "Empress Dowager, I will tell the truth. After experiencing the continuous wars of several years, the country of Yan has become exhausted and the people are determined. It is really not appropriate to continue to fight against the outside world."

After all, Yan State is different from Zhao State and Qin State. Since there is no such thing as a military title system in Yan State, most of the people are actually serving voluntarily to fight for the country when they are recruited on the battlefield, but rewards are basically all over the world.

Under such circumstances, the Yan people naturally have little interest in fighting. They have no rewards to fight to the death. Who can do it?

Therefore, it is impossible for Yan State to use troops to foreign countries like Qin and Zhao, which is the so-called institutional issue.

Empress Dowager Yan said oh, but it was not too surprising.

In the eyes of this empress dowager, if Lejian said this, he would not agree to continue to send troops to Zhao State.

However, what Queen Mother Yan did not expect was that Le Jian said: "But now that Zhao is in great power, if it is really annexed Wei by Zhao as the King of Qi said, even if the other countries are connected together, they will probably not be able to become opponents of Zhao. Therefore, I think that we must send troops to restrain Zhao and prevent Zhao from taking over Wei, otherwise Yan will definitely suffer in the future."

Empress Dowager Yan hesitated for a moment, then said, "But the old woman was still a little worried. If this time, the dispatch of troops could not stop Zhao from annexing Wei, but instead made King Zhao angry with the old woman and Yan, what should we do?"

To be honest, after several consecutive defeats, Empress Dowager Yan felt a little afraid of her mother country.

For women, the mother's family is actually a very special place. Although Queen Mother Yan can fight against Zhao for the benefit of Yan State, if she finds that she is no longer enough to fight against this mother's family, the woman obviously wants to use another method, that is, to cooperate to ease the confrontation between Ying State and Zhao State.

After all, for Empress Dowager Yan, she was indeed married, but the one sitting on the throne of Zhao was also his family. More importantly, in the last war, Zhao returned the lower capital of Yan, Wuyang, and made Empress Dowager Yan believe that long-term peace between Yan and Zhao was not impossible to achieve.

Lejian obviously knew this kind of psychology of Empress Dowager Yan, and Lejian also thought this idea was simply too stupid.

In this situation where the seven kingdoms are competing for the victory, how can we expect the enemy to give him any kindness?

So Lejian immediately said to Empress Dowager Yan: "Don't forget that since King Zhao ascended the throne, Zhao State has always been decisive in its expansion, and has never been merciful to any country. Not to mention that the Empress Dowager is just a woman. I think Zhao Bao, a prince and an important official of Zhao State, has always worked hard and made great contributions to Zhao State, but in the end he was removed from his official position and was confined to his home with just one word? Please think twice."

As soon as these words were said, the hesitation in Queen Mother Yan's eyes suddenly faded away.

After all, men are superior to women. Even a princess like Empress Dowager Yan, who was nominally noble before getting married, was incomparable to the princess who were already important officials of Zhao Bao at that time.

After sighing softly, Empress Dowager Yan said to Lejian: "Since King Chang said so, the old woman naturally has no reason to object. How will King Chang stop Zhao next?"

Lejian thought for a while and said, "Returning to the Empress Dowager, I thought I could reply to the envoy of Qi first and told him that Yan was willing to join this anti-Zhao alliance. But the premise is that Qin and Qi must take the lead in sending troops, otherwise even if Wei destroyed our Yan State, Yan State would not send troops."

The reason why Lejian made this request was mainly because Yan State was indeed too weak compared to Zhao State. If there were few elder brothers in front of him, it would be a dead end to let Yan State jump out and face Zhao State with him.

Empress Dowager Yan thought about it and thought the idea was good, so she nodded and said to Lejian: "Since that's the case, then let the matter be fully responsible for Chang Guojun."
Chapter completed!