The five years when Shaoliang worked hard to govern and actively developed Shangjun was the five years when Wei State once again dominated the world with an absolute overlord attitude.

I remember that in those wars five years ago, the Wei State first joined forces with Zhao to divide the Wei State, occupied all the land of Wei State, including Puyang, south of the Yellow River, and then forced Qi State to ced the Eight Universities of Dong'a, and then occupied several Dingtao by attacking Song State. The territory occupied by these battles was no less than that of the Wei State in the past.

With such a large amount of land, the increasingly intensified land annexation problem of Wei State was temporarily alleviated, and the weak economy of Wei State was also boosted.

For some land, with money, the King of Wei immediately added Wei Wushu, and expanded the remaining 60,000 to 70,000 after the two battles in Hexi and the battle between Wei and Qi to 150,000. This action made Han, Zhao, and Shaoliang uneasy. After all, Wei has always had a precedent for turning the gun head against allies.

So in the years when Wei State expanded its military service, Han Hou led by Han, Zhao, and Shaoliang had frequent private exchanges and even made secret appointments: as long as Wei State betrayed the alliance and took action against any of them, the other two families would immediately join forces to fight against them.

However, the facts have proved that although the King of Wei has been growing in recent years, he has not yet been so arrogant that he dared to betray the alliance and challenged the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Shaoliang. In addition, with Hui Shi, he has not done anything out of the ordinary.

At this time, the former Wei Xiangxia Yangjun had already retired after he succeeded, but died because he was addicted to alcohol, so Hui Shi replaced Wei Xiang.

Hui Shi was also a supporter of "Kin Shaoliang" and "Kin Shan Jin". He was the Prime Minister of Wei. The relationship between Wei and Han, Zhao and Shaoliang was not as close as five years ago, but it was not as good as it was five years ago. However, it was not difficult for anyone with a discerning eye to see that Wei gradually became the arrogant Wei State, and the increasingly expanding King of Wei was gradually dissatisfied with the restraint of Wei State by Han, Zhao and Shaoliang. He gradually began to deliberately act as a leader, intentionally change to passiveness to active, and become the real leader of the "Four Jin Alliance", forcing Han, Zhao and Shaoliang to provide him with his power.

This made Han, Zhao, Shaoliang and the three kingdoms quite dissatisfied with Han, Zhao, and Shaoliang, so their relationship with Wei was not as close as five years ago.

But to be fair, Wei State was not the fuse of this whole incident, the fuse of this whole incident was Qin State.

When Shaoliang Shangtong was ten years old, the secondary reforms of Qin had been basically implemented. At this time, Qin had already lifted the burden on his body and was waiting to go on the road again.

What road?

Then, of course, continue to move eastward!

The Qin monarchs and ministers' persistence in competing for the Central Plains is something that ordinary people cannot understand. The Qin people across the country also strongly support the use of foreign troops under the stimulation of the complete "military merit system".

However, the road to "East Expedition to the Central Plains" is full of obstacles, and the first obstacle to be hit is Shaoliang Kingdom.

Shaoliang, once a small country, has now grown to a powerful country with 100,000 troops and tens of thousands of cavalry.

This "strong country" is definitely not a nonsense. For example, the overall situation is "strong in the west and weak in the east". With Shaoliang's current strength, if it is placed in the twelve vassal states on Si, it can be completely killed. Even Qi, Chu and other major countries may not be able to suppress Shaoliang.

When the eastern expedition to the Central Plains, it is necessary to regain Hexi first. Regaining Hexi means that Qin will once again border Shaoliang in Hexi.

It is undeniable that Shaoliang itself has no conflict of interests with Qin, but once Qin uses troops to Hedong of Wei, Shaoliang will have to fulfill the agreement of the "Missive Three Jin Alliance" and assist Wei in resisting Qin.

In other words, to attack Hedong of Wei, you must first solve Shaoliang, or put Shaoliang in a situation where you cannot rescue Wei.

To this end, in the ninth year of Shangtong, Qin State began to plan at the end of the secondary reform, deliberately provoking the dispute between Yiqu and Shaoliang, hoping that Yiqu could hold Shaoliang. In the view of Qin State, Yiqu and Shaoliang are both hidden dangers of Qin State. The only difference between the two is that Shaoliang did not take the initiative to attack other countries, and the degree of threat was slightly lower. However, on the road of Qin State's "East Expedition to the Central Plains", Shaoliang also hindered.

Whichever wins and Shaoliang is a good thing for Qin. Based on this, Qin implemented this "two tigers fighting each other".

However, even Qin did not expect that Li He led 5,000 soldiers to trap the formation, 3,000 Liang's soldiers, and more than 20,000 Yuanli troops in Shangjun, to defeat Yiqu's army west of Yinshan. The defeat was not enough, but even made Yiqu feel afraid and hurriedly begged to Shaoliang.

Although Qin reacted in time and immediately sent an envoy to Shaoliang, intending to unite Shaoliang to destroy Yiqu, Shaoliang is not a fool. Why bother with Yiqu, which did not have much conflict with the Yiqu Kingdom, which actually had no major interests, and finally let Qin reap the benefits?

In short, the calculation of the Qin State's "two tigers fighting each other" was a failure. Shaoliang did not destroy Yiqu in one fell swoop with his powerful military strength. Although Yiqu suffered a defeat and suffered a considerable loss, if Qin State wanted to take advantage of the situation, Yiqu, which was full of soldiers, would still retain the power to die with Qin State, which would at least delay the Qin State's eastern expedition for thirty years.

In this case, Qin State used the "Qizhai".

In the spring of the eleventh year of Shangtong, Wei Yang, the great-grandfather of Qin, wrote a letter to Wei Zhu, the guardian of Hedong of Wei, that is, Wei Gongzi, saying that the secondary reforms of Qin had been completed, and the people's desire to start a war and make meritorious service are increasing. Xianyang, the latest state of Qin, could not be banned. Therefore, Wei Yang hopes to talk to Wei Gongzi to see if he can find a way to resolve the war.

It has to be said that in fact, Wei Zu has been paying close attention to Qin in recent years. After all, everyone knows that Qin is a country of tigers and wolves that cannot be fed. Although Qin has been very low-key in recent years because of its busy reforms, whether it is the dispute between Wei and Qi, or the later Wei attacks Song, and then joins South Korea to attack Chu, Qin has not stood up to make trouble. But once Qin completes the reforms, it is when the country reveals its fangs again.

Therefore, Wei Yang invited Wei Zhu to see Wei Zhu for this reason, and Wei Zhu still believed it very much, not to mention that when Wei Yang became an official in Wei State, he established a considerable friendship with Wei Zhu.

So Wei Zuo took hundreds of guards to the Luoshui Great Wall in Hexi for the meeting.

Unexpectedly, Wei Yang ambushed the soldiers and captured Wei Zhu when he was attending the meeting. He immediately sent an army that had already assembled in advance to quickly capture Linjin, Linjin, and then attack Hedong.

Wei Se was stunned at that time. After all, such despicable practices were unprecedented at that time, and he simply wanted no face.

But it is undeniable that this shameless approach allowed Qin to take a huge advantage. Not to mention that Hexi was instantly defeated, the Wei army stationed in Hedong had no time to react. By the time Anyi reacted, the Qin army's pioneers had already reached Anyi.

Not only did the enemy's troops come to the city, the chief general was captured by the enemy's commander. At that time, Anyi was the entire Wei army in Hedong, and was almost in a state of great trouble.

The only thing they could think of was to defend the city, then send people to ask for help, Daliang, and Shaoliang.

Within a day, Hedong's request for help was sent to Shaoliang and Shaoliang City.

At this time, there were two prime ministers in Shaoliang. The old prime minister, Dongliang Jun, gradually found it difficult to deal with the whole country due to his age. Therefore, Li He recommended Zhuang Zhou, a Song man who moved at least Liang five years ago, as prime minister.

Zhuang Zhou did not want to serve as prime minister, but he could not resist Li He secretly asked Tian Xiangzi to deliberately incite the Song people who defected to Shaoliang to petition. In fact, it was not only the Song people who moved to recommend Zhuang Zhou, but many people in Shaoliang County also supported Zhuang Zhou, including Mozhe.

It is no wonder that after all, in the years when he moved at least Liang, Zhuang Zhou had done more than 20 errands such as farmers, fishermen, wine workers, craftsmen, etc., and did the same job as ordinary people. He could only take out the books he carried and read or write articles in his spare time. Only then did his colleagues realize that the guy who was as clay as them was actually an unfathomable and well-educated man.

As a result, Zhuang Zhou's reputation gradually spread among his large number of workers, and then Shaoliang County knew about such a strange man.

There were thousands of people who acted as lobbyists for Li He, and even Zhuang Zhou finally agreed because he was afraid of trouble.

However, he proposed the conditions to Li He that he would only work for three days a month, that is, on the tenth, twenty or thirty of each month, he would go to Shaoliang Palace to handle the accumulated government affairs, and let him free the rest of the time.

Of course, Li He agreed immediately, but Dong Liangjun, who had a good impression of Zhuang Zhou, was quite angry when he learned about this and privately criticized Zhuang Zhou as a madman. Until the tenth day of the lunar month, Zhuang Zhou wore his own woven clothes and came to Shaoliang Palace on a donkey. It took only one day to solve all the government affairs that had accumulated for ten days. The judgment of the pen was not bad at all. Dong Liangjun was shocked and finally realized that this was a genius and would never give any lessons to this arrogant young man.

Since then, Dongliang Jun has been mainly responsible for handling some emergency affairs, and the rest is left to Zhuang Zhou to handle, and the pressure has been greatly reduced. Zhuang Zhou was called the "three-day prime minister" by Shaoliang people because he only served as the prime minister for three days a month.

When the news of Anyi's request for help was sent to Hedong, Zhuang Zhou happened to be on duty. Although he was like a divine helper after reviewing the memorials of doctors from various towns during this period, he had never dealt with such an emergency, so he quickly sent someone to invite Dongliang Jun.

But the problem is that Dongliang Jun has no experience. After all, Qin's actions this time were really despicable. Not to mention Hedong, Shaoliang was unexpected.

So the question is, should Shaoliang support the Wei Kingdom Hedong as promised?

Dongliang Jun urgently sent someone to summon Li He. The three of them discussed it. Before the decision was made, the Heyang Doctor Yin Zhi urgently sent someone to send news that a Qin army of tens of thousands was stationed on the border between Linjin and Heyang County and set up camp.

Yin Zhi sent someone to visit the Qin general who led the troops. What a good guy, Gongsun Yan, who disappeared from Wei after losing his position a few years ago, actually defected to Qin and turned into a guest minister of Qin.

The generals of Qin State had so many familiar faces that Li He was familiar with, but the King of Qin sent Gongsun Yan, who had a grudge with Shaoliang, and at this critical moment, he stationed troops at Heyang and approached the border of Jin. The threatening meaning was obvious.

Of course, Shaoliang was not afraid. On that day, Li He gathered his troops and led 5,000 soldiers to capture the formation, 3,000 Shaoliang soldiers, and 20,000 Dongliang troops to send troops to Heyang.

Although the troops are still inferior to Gongsun Yan's army, if they really fight, they may not be able to win.

The question is, how many people in the Qin State, which had been in a full five years, were eager for war and to make contributions on the battlefield.

The alliance naturally had to be fulfilled, but Li He was naturally unwilling to take the initiative to be cannon fodder for Wei when there was still choice.

"Look at Wei's reaction first."

With Li He's order, his 28,000 Liang army and Gongsun Yan's army, which were several times more powerful than him, confronted Heyang and approached the border of Jin. Both sides maintained restraint.

Half a month later, the news reached Daliang. The King of Wei was furious and sent envoys to urge the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Shaoliang to form a coalition force of the Four Jin Dynasties again to attack Qin.
Chapter completed!