If the most troublesome thing about Qi in the past six months is how to accurately view Wei, then what Wei has troubled the most is how to concentrate all its strength to fight back against Qin.

Even the object of the fight back can include Shaoliang.

In this matter, Xia Yang Jun made his suggestion to King Wei, or Hui Shi’s previous proposal.

Hui Shi's proposal simply means uniting the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Qi.

Needless to say, the alliance between the two countries of Qin and Chu has established an alliance, Wei must obtain the support of South Korea to defeat the Qin and Chu alliance. Conversely, the same is true for South Korea.

Joining Zhao means reconciliation with Zhao State and retracting the fists that were shot.

To be honest, given the Wei State's behavior of betraying Wei State and turning to Qi State, the king and ministers of Wei State regretted the war against Zhao State for the sake of Wei State. If they had known that Wei State was such an unfamiliar ungrateful wolf, Wei State might not have taken care of Wei State's life or death at all, and maybe they would have joined forces with Zhao State to divide the Wei State.

Of course, it is too late to talk about this now. Now Qi is standing behind Wei State. Even if Wei State deeply hates Wei State's betrayal, he will not dare to take revenge on Wei State in a short period of time.

As for the final alliance with Qi, the strategy of "Wei and Qi respect each other", it is to prevent Qi from hindering Wei. After all, the focus of Wei will be completely turned to the west in the next few years. If Qi has any ideas about Wei at this time, if Qi, Chu, Song and Wei will attack Wei again, the Wei State, which is attacked from both sides, will undoubtedly be very uncomfortable.

Having said that, Lianhan, Lianqi is easy to talk about, what should Lianzhao do?

The Wei State fought against Zhao State for a year in the past two years. Not to mention how many people died in the Wei army, Zhao State suffered at least tens of thousands of casualties, which does not include the civilians involved in the war.

Even the capital Handan was captured by the Wei army led by Pang Juan, so how could it be so easy to reconcile with Zhao?

In this situation, Gongsun Yan volunteered to go to Zhao State.

It has to be said that given that Xia Yang Jun insisted on dismissing Gongsun Yan's position and even persuaded the help of King Wei's younger brother, Prince Hu, to help him, Gongsun Yan's position was in danger.

Therefore, in order to maintain his position, Gongsun Yan took the initiative to take over the King of Wei to persuade Zhao Hou.

In the first month of this year, when Tian Ji and Sun Bin were on the mission to Wei State, Gongsun Yan took the lead to Zhao State and went to the temporary palace in Xingtai to meet Zhao Hou, and talked about the reconciliation between the two countries.

Of course, it was impossible for Mr. Zhao to be persuaded by Gongsun Yan so easily, until Mr. Gongsun Yan talked about the pros and cons to Mr. Zhao.

To be fair, in the past few years, if there is a series of wars in Wei State, which country suffers the most, it is undoubtedly Zhao State. Not to mention that all the land occupied by Wei State was vomited out, they also took over the cities south of Handan and Handan, and even suffered more than 100,000 casualties. Gongsun Yan blamed all this on Qin State's instigation.

In fact, it is not bad. Qin and Zhao did have an alliance. A few years ago, Zhao refused to seek peace from Wei. One of the reasons was that Qin continued to send envoys to persuade Zhao Hou and Zhao's ministers.

As a result, Qin took the opportunity to occupy Hexi and even half of Hedong County. Zhao State had nothing to get, and paid for Handan and more than 100,000 troops in vain. It is obviously unrealistic to say that Zhao Hou had no complaints about Qin State.

Therefore, under Gongsun Yan's persuasion, the Zhao Hou was obviously shaken, so Gongsun Yan used the condition of "returning the land to Handan and the south" and finally convinced the Zhao Hou.

So in late February, the King of Wei went to Zhao and met with Zhao Hou at the Zhangshui River south of Handan City. The two countries signed the "Zhangshui Alliance".

Immediately, Zhao expelled Qin's envoy and turned to Wei, barely forming the Three Jin Alliance headed by Wei.

By the way, the reconciliation with Zhao State was highly unified within Wei. Whether it was Xia Yangjun, Gongsun Yan, who disliked each other, or the new Hedong Shou Pang Juan, they all agreed to reconciliation with Zhao State and fight back with all their strength. The only difference was whether to bring Shao Liang along while fighting back against Qin State.

After all, Shao Liang could not stolen the Pi family of Wei, and with the character of King Wei, he could not let go.

During this period, Tian Ji and Sun Bin still stayed in Daliang and asked Tian Guo, the envoy of Qi to Wei, about information about Shaoliang.

Tian Guojiu was in Wei State and naturally knew the grievances between Qin, Wei and Shaoliang, including why Xia Yangjun was reluctant to mention Shaoliang.

He smiled and said to Tian Ji, "... The doctor of Ziqi asked Xia Yangjun about this matter, which was really the wrong person. When Qin attacked Shaoliang, Xia Yangjun led the Yuanli Wei army to assist Shaoliang in resisting the Qin army. Seven thousand Wei soldiers and more than 200,000 Shaoliang troops, and fought to the death with the 200,000 Qin army for three months. Afterwards, although Shaoliang was not rude to Wei, he respected Xia Yangjun and Yuanli Wei army. According to legend, there was a monument built in Dongliang City to commemorate the Wei army in Yuanli.... Originally, with the friendship between Xia Yangjun and Shaoliang, even if Shaoliang was lifted from the vassal of Wei, he would never turn to Qin. However, Gongsun Yan was very arrogant in Shaoliang and instigated the King of Wei to not allow Shaoliang to be independent, so Shaoliang turned to Qin... After that, Xia Yangjun regarded Gongsun Yan as an enemy bandit and wanted to dismiss the latter to win over Shaoliang."

The "Ziqi" he mentioned is the word "Tian Ji".

"So that's it." Tian Ji and Sun Bin suddenly realized.

Then, Tian Guo took out a map of Shaoliang that he had drawn by himself. Although the drawing was simple, he could roughly understand the size of Shaoliang and the size of the city.

When he saw Shaoliang in the map, Tian Ji said in surprise: "Everyone says Shaoliang is a small country, but in my opinion, Shaoliang is not inferior to Weiguo."

"Oh."

Tian Guo smiled and explained: "This is today's Shaoliang... The Shaoliang two or three years ago, only 30% of them are the size of them."

As he said that, he drew a circle on the map and circled the area of ​​the young beam back then.

"……incredible."

Tian Ji opened his eyes incredibly.

After all, according to Tian Guo, the original Shaoliang area was only equivalent to the twelve vassal states in Si, that is, the small states among small countries. But now the map of Shaoliang in front of him and Sun Bin is more than three times that of the past, and is almost as good as the Wei and Lu states.

A small country sandwiched between Qin and Wei was not only not annexed by Qin and Wei, but even more than tripled in two or three years, which seemed incredible to Tian Ji and Sun Bin.

"This is to mention a person, Li He, the old Liang doctor, and Li Ziliang."

Tian Guo pointed to the old Liang City marked on the map and said to Tian Ji and the others seriously: "This is a person from Pingzhou County, Xihe County, Wei State. Somehow he fell in Shaoliang. He made his mark in the battle of Qin's invasion of Shaoliang three years ago, and he jumped from 500 people to the old Liang doctor... The reason why Pang Juan failed against the Qin army was because of this person."

"oh?"

Sun Bin interrupted in surprise: "I think it was Ying Qian who defeated Pang Juan..."

Tian Guo also knew the grudge between Sun Bin and Pang Juan. He smiled and shook his head and said, "No, it's Li He... According to the news I have learned, the Qin and Liang coalition forces sneaked into Zhengyi and Heyang, cutting off the retreat of the Wei army led by Pang Juan. Pang Juan took the plan and pretended to retreat to lure Ying Qian to lead the army to pursue. If Li He had not seen through Pang Juan's tricks and built a defense halfway ahead of time, the Qin army would not have been able to escape unscathed in the battle of Quwo that day."

Sun Bin said in surprise: "So that's it...it seems that I underestimated the heroes of the world."

"This Li He is indeed a hero." Tian Guo nodded, then lowered his voice and said to Tian Ji and the others: "Can you know the truth about Qin's withdrawal from Shaoliang three years ago? Although Qin and Shaoliang claimed that it was the King of Qin who thought that the people of Shaoliang and the people of Qin had the same clan and origin, and could not bear the suffering of war, so he reconciled with Shaoliang Yan, but in fact, it was because Li He led hundreds of Shaoliang's strange soldiers to Liyang to capture the King of Qin, which forced Qin to submit..."

"Captaining the King of Qin? Hundreds of people?" Tian Ji opened his eyes wide again.

Sun Bin was also incredible and asked curiously: "What is Shao Liang Qibing?"

"Shaoliang's elite!"

Tian Guo lowered his voice and said, "Although there are not many people, they are good at sneak attacks. Last year, the reason why the Qin army was able to capture Anyi overnight, and then also capture Zhengyi and Heyang overnight was because of the help of Shao Liang's soldiers... This elite army was the first to sneak into the city, kill the soldiers guarding the gate, open the city gate, and put them in the Qin army, and it will be decided in one battle."

Tian Ji couldn't help but look at Sun Bin: "Unbelievable..."

Seeing this, Tian Guo said mysteriously: "In fact, this is not the most incredible. The most incredible thing is that the Qin army that first attacked Shaoliang, and the Wei army in the two battles in Hexi and Hedong last year, so far, there are no examples of Shaoliang's sudden troops losing their battles."

"How could it be?" Tian Ji looked disbelief, then frowned and guessed: "Have you taken away the body of his companion?"

Tian Guo spread his hands and said, "I don't know this. Anyway, there have been no instances of Shao Liang's sudden death in battle so far, so there are rumors that they were ghost soldiers and generals recruited by Shao Liang using witchcraft."

"Ghost soldiers and ghost generals?" Tian Ji said in surprise: "Where is such absurd thing in the world?"

As Tian Guo shrugged, Sun Bin smiled and said with interest: "I didn't expect that there was such an elite man in Shaoliang Xiaoguo... If I had the chance, I really wanted to see him with my own eyes."

Tian Ji nodded when he heard this, and then asked Tian Guo: "What is Shaoliang's attitude towards our Qi State?"

Tian Guo shook his head and said, "As far as I know, the only three countries who have contact with Shaoliang are Qin, Wei and Han. It is rumored that Han and Shaoliang have a private alliance. Although Xinzheng denies it, Wei has confirmed that South Korea has privately taught Shaoliang the technology of making crossbows..."

"Not surprising." Sun Bin said with a smile: "Shaoliang and South Korea are in a similar situation, and there is no conflict of interests. They are natural ally. With Shaoliang's help, South Korea will be easier to balance the Qin and Wei countries... However, South Korea is willing to take such a risk to teach Shaoliang the crossbow-making technology. It seems that the Han Hou today has a long-term vision..."

After pausing, he smiled and said, "It's an alliance with Qin and Han secretly support it. No wonder Shao Liang could let Wei ced the Pi clan."

"Sir, hit the nail on the head."

Tian Guo glanced at Sun Bin with praise, and then said to Tian Ji: "In my opinion, since Doctor Ziqi has come to Wei State, you might as well spend more time to go to Shaoliang. In my opinion, Shaoliang can now influence the balance between Qin and Wei State better than Han Dynasty. If he can win over, I believe it will be helpful to my great unity."

"Um."

Tian Ji nodded thoughtfully.

After hearing what Tian Guo said, he also developed a strong interest in Shaoliang.

Anyway, he was not in a hurry to return to Qi State. It would not be a bad thing to spend more time to go to Shaoliang.
Chapter completed!