About an hour later, Li He came to the Central Army Commander alone.

He clasped his fists to the soldiers on duty outside the earthen house and said, "Hundreds of generals Li He, begging to see Sima Zhai and the generals of Wei Ying, please inform me."

As soon as the two soldiers entered the house, Zhai Hu's hearty laughter came from the dirt house: "General Li Bai is welcome to come in."

Seeing this, Li He strode into the coach's house and saw Zhai Hu sitting high in the main seat, and Wei Zhu, who was sitting on the right.

He hugged Zhai Hu and thanked him solemnly: "Thank you, Sima Zhai and Wei Ying will send someone to invite a doctor and give him the medicine..."

That's right, he came to thank him specifically. After all, Zhai Hu released his kindness to them, so he must be indifferent.

"It's just a small matter."

Zhai Hu waved his hand and then smiled and said, "Li Baijiang, sit down."

Seeing this, Li He turned to look at Wei Zhu and asked the latter for instructions.

In fact, Wei Zhu was very satisfied with Li He's attitude, but he didn't express it on his face. He said with a stern face: "Since Lord Zhai Hu asked you to sit, just sit."

"Yes!" Li He hugged his fists, then hugged Zhai Hu and thanked him: "Thank you, Sima Zhai!"

It can be seen that Zhai Hu admired Li He's actions just now and said to Wei Zhu with a smile: "Look, how could such a polite young man take the initiative to provoke the soldiers in the same camp? I guess it was done by another group of people. This battle in the camp will not blame Li Baijiang..."

Wei Zhu nodded, turned his head to look at Li He who was sitting in the seat on his right, and said with a stern face: "Anyway, if you say that, you should be punished if you don't know the right way to do it..."

After saying that, his tone changed and he said in a deep voice: "Li He, Lord Zhai Hu admires your courage very much and wants to promote you to a general of thousands of people. However, I think you do not know the importance of your actions and should be punished. Therefore, I persuade Lord Zhai Hu to promote you to a general of five hundred people. What do you think about this?"

Li He was stunned when he heard this.

In fact, he could see that Zhai Hu admired him very much, but Wei Zhu had said before that he would temporarily record this matter, so Li He also thought about being promoted, but he didn't expect that he would be promoted.

"Do you blame Wei in your heart if you don't speak?"

Seeing that Li He didn't speak for a long time, Wei Zhu frowned slightly and said unhappily.

Seeing this, Li He shook his head and explained: "No, Wei Ying will misunderstand, but I didn't expect... I didn't expect to be promoted because of 'this incident'."

At the end, he felt a little embarrassed.

Although the 500 generals have good official positions, they are promoted because they fight with soldiers in the camp, which is a bit embarrassing.

If someone asks you what achievements you have made to be promoted to 500 generals, how should Li He answer?

Could it be that he would say: I fought with more than 200 soldiers in the same camp, rewarded nearly 200 times, and killed two more, so I was promoted to 500 generals?

It is certain that if he accepts this promotion, this matter will definitely become a "black material" for others to attack him in the future.

Thinking of this, Li He clasped his fists firmly and said, "Thank you for your kindness in Sima Zhai, but please allow me to refuse this promotion."

Zhai Hu asked strangely: "Don't you want to be promoted? Even Zhai feels that with your courage, you are too talented to be in the position of a hundred generals..."

Li He shook his head and explained: "It's not that I don't want to be promoted, but I hope I'm promoted by making contributions, rather than fighting with soldiers in the same camp."

Hearing this, Zhai Hu and Wei Zhu showed a look of surprise at the same time, and then their eyes looked at Li He became more and more appreciative.

"Ambition!"

Zhai Hu looked at Li He up and down a few times again, and suddenly said solemnly: "It was Zhai's fault, and he underestimated the ambition of Li Baijiang..."

"Zhai Sima Yan is so heavy." Li He clasped his fists and said, "It's good if Zhai Sima doesn't blame me."

"Hey." Zhai Hu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Zhai has always respected people with abilities, and the other is respected people with ambition. Li Baijiang has both. Zhai is too happy, so how can he blame him?"

He paused and said, "Zhai also believes that with the courage of Li Baijiang, we will be able to make contributions on the battlefield in the future. It just so happened that our neighbors in the west were about to move recently. Zhai looked forward to seeing Li Baijiang's courage on the battlefield..."

"Neighbors in the west? I'm ready to move?" Li He showed a few surprises on his face and asked curiously: "Is Sima Zhai referring to Qin?"

"ah."

Zhai Hu nodded, and then his expression became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "According to the news sent by Xiaozuo, there was a guy named Wei Yang in Qin State last year who implemented reforms with the support of the King of Qin..."

Wei Zhu coughed and interrupted, "Mr. Zhai Hu, Li He's military post is not qualified to learn about these major events..."

"It's okay."

Zhai Hu waved his hand and said indifferently: "With his ability, it's just a matter of time."

He then continued: "Wei Yang mentioned just now was said to have tried to become an official in Wei State, but because he was not valued, he defected to Qin State. This man had some skills. With the support of the King of Qin, he now served as the Left Prime Minister in Qin State. After he took office, he issued the "Kei Cao Order" and several government orders. Then he censored the population, encouraged farming and weaving, suppressed the nobles, and confiscated private land... Especially the "Military Merits" and "Shiwu Co-sitting Law" he promulgated. The former was a decree to encourage Qin people to join the army actively. As long as he made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, Qin State would reward famous titles, houses, fields and slaves according to the law. The latter was a decree to punish escaped soldiers and fleeing service. One person fled and feared war, one person would be punished. One person would be punished. One person would be punished if he fled and feared war..."

He took a deep breath and continued: "Using the stimulation of these two laws, the Qin people enthusiastically joined the army. According to the previous detailed news, in just one year, the Qin State recruited at least 300,000 troops... Today's Qin State may be able to dispatch 500,000 troops!"

At the end, Zhai Hu's expression became extremely solemn. After all, Shaoliang was next to Qin. Now Qin has suddenly recruited hundreds of thousands of troops. How can Shaoliang not be surprised?

Even Li He was shocked by the 500,000 figure and frowned and asked, "Sima Zhai, I wonder how many troops I have in Shaoliang?"

Zhai Hu touched his beard and said a number: "Twenty thousand."

"Twenty thousand to five hundred thousand? This gap is too big..."

He frowned slightly, and Li He didn't know what to say.

It can only be said that compared to the world's great powers like Qin, Shaoliang is too weak, so weak that Qin may not look at Shaoliang more in front of his eyes. The aftermath of the war with Wei State alone is enough to destroy this small country.

If such a thing really happened, where should he go? And can the Hu clan, who is kind to him, survive?

Seeing Li He suddenly fell silent, Zhai Hu regained his smile and joked: "I was scared?"

Without waiting for Li He to answer, he said with emotion: "When I first learned this news, I was shocked... Tsk tsk, 500,000 troops are really amazing. I, Shaoliang, have only a total of more than 100,000 troops. It is not easy to be able to gather 20,000 troops, but Qin State can recruit hundreds of thousands of troops within a year... It is really shocking and enviable."

As he said that, he seemed to comfort Li He, and seemed to comfort himself, and continued: "Fortunately, there is still the State of Wei behind me, Shaoliang. Otherwise, I really don't know how to face a beast like Qin."

The Shaoliang Kingdom was a vassal of Wei, and Li He knew this before, otherwise the Wei Kingdom would not have moved westward to enhance the strength of Shaoliang. But even so, Shaoliang was still a mantised mantis in front of Qin. Unless Wei sent a large number of troops, once Qin launched an attack, Shaoliang could hardly resist it.

The problem is...

Li He looked up at Zhai Hu and said hesitantly: "Before moving to Shaoliang, I heard that Wei was fighting with Zhao..."

"Um."

Zhai Hu naturally understood Li He's implication and nodded and said, "This is exactly what Shaoliang City is worried about now. Recently, Qin is ready to move, just to take advantage of the war between Wei and Zhao to take advantage of the opportunity to seize Hexi. If Wei had not been restrained by Zhao, how could Qin have such an idea?"

It is not difficult to judge from his words that he highly respected Wei and did not think that Qin could defeat Wei, even if Zhao was there to help him.

"Can't you find a way to reconcile Wei and Zhao?" Wei Zhu asked with a frown beside him.

"Disaster!"

Zhai Hu shook his head and said with a deep face: "The old man from Dongliang Jun sent an envoy to Anyi before, hoping to convince the King of Wei to be at peace with Zhao, but this matter is probably not easy... This time, Wei State attacked Zhao because Zhao State attacked Wei State. Wei State was also a vassal of Wei State and was attacked by Zhao State. If Wei State stood by and watched, what was his face? Moreover, now Wei State is gradually gaining the upper hand, and many people in the country covet the land and wealth of Zhao State. At this time, it is difficult to persuade Wei State and Zhao State to stop fighting and reconcile!"

After a pause, he continued: "Besides, Zhao also has an envoy from Qin, and he will definitely try every means to persuade Zhao to continue to restrain Wei, so that Qin can have the opportunity to seize Hexi... Now Zhao has repeatedly failed but has not been asking for peace from Wei for a long time. I am afraid that the envoy of Qin from Zhao is working behind the scenes..."

"Zhao State does not hesitate to pay huge losses, but also needs to restrain Wei State and help Qin State seize the Xihe River. What is the benefit of this to Zhao State?" Wei Zhu asked in confusion.

"Ha." Zhai Hu snorted and explained: "Wei, Zhao and Han, although they were called the Three Jins, Zhao had already been drifting away from Wei in the early years. At that time, Qin took the opportunity to win over Zhao, and Zhao was eager to use the power of Qin to fight against Wei. Han and Han, and both sides hit it off. Now Zhao did not hesitate to pay huge losses and secretly helped Qin, just to make Wei lose control over Hexi, and even use Qin to severely damage Wei... Now, Wei is the dominant country in this world, and the rest of the countries are all determined to try to pull Wei from the position of hegemony..."

"They won't succeed!" Wei Zhu's voice said in a hatred.

"Ah, they underestimated the power of Wei State too much!" Zhai Hu showed a proud look.

"Is this really the case?"

Li He, who was listening, felt a little worried in his heart.

Compared with Zhai Hu and Wei Zhu who were full of confidence in the Wei State, he doubted whether the Wei State was really as strong as rumored.

In other words, did the Wei Kingdom still maintain its former strength?
Chapter completed!