Zhao Kuo stood up and refuted Lian Po as soon as he came up, which undoubtedly made Lian Po very upset.

The old general glared at Zhao Kuo and said coldly: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Kuo said slowly: "Now the strong enemy of Zhao is still Qin. If Zhao chooses to attack Qi in the east, wouldn't it be that it will directly expose its back to Qin in the west?

Once Qin takes advantage of our Great Zhao's attack on Qi and sends troops to Shangdang again, Great Zhao will be unable to deal with it on both sides! Therefore, for the current plan, it is best to attack Qin first!"

In this matter, Zhao Kuo was not deliberately trying to sing a different tune with Lian Po, but he felt that Lian Po's view was indeed wrong.

Zhao Kuo knew what kind of country Qin was.

That is a country that has successfully unified the world in history! Can such a country be defeated with just one or two victories?

Impossible.

And to put it more carefully, the Shangdang County, which Qin lost to Zhao in the Battle of Changping, belonged to South Korea's territory. The hundreds of miles of land that were forced to give up in the Battle of Lost Li was still the territory of South Korea. The current territory of Qin was actually the same as before the Battle of Changping began, and he did not suffer any losses at all. He just did not successfully expand his territory.

The Qin State is the largest among the seven heroes in terms of territory, and its population is firmly among the top three among the seven heroes in the Warring States Period.

In contrast, the Zhao State has a territory of seven heroes, currently ranks third behind Qin and Chu, and its population ranks fourth to fifth due to geographical reasons.

Although Zhao State won two games against Qin State, it is now the most powerful country in the world, but that is only from a military perspective.

From the perspective of comprehensive national strength, Zhao State is even slightly inferior to Qin State.

To put it more directly, why should Zhao win against Qin?

In fact, it's just a win against Zhao Kuo.

Without Zhao Kuo, Zhao State would be weaker than Qin State! Such a powerful Qin State put aside and did not fight and ran to fight Qi State, which had not taken the initiative to go out to war for more than 20 years since the five countries attacked Qi. Isn’t it stupid?

Since Zhao Kuo has set a goal to seize the power of Zhao State in the future, Zhao Kuo certainly does not want to be a weak Zhao State in his hands in the future.

So Zhao Kuo had to fight for this matter.

Of course, the stronger the State of Zhao, the better! Lian Po narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhao Kuo, and then slowly said: "Zhao Qing, I know that you and the King of Qi are in-laws, and they also have cooperation with the Prime Minister of Qi, the ginseng business, so you don't want to go to war with Qi.

But what I want to tell you is that nothing should be placed above the interests of Da Zhao, do you understand?

If you interfere with the conquest of the Qi Kingdom for the sake of just some money selling ginseng today, then who knows whether you will betray the interests of the Da Zhao for the same reason in the future?"

Zhao Kuo was shocked, really shocked.

He was surprised not because Lian Po said the ginseng business, but because... "I didn't expect that a person with such a straight-hearted temper would sue for a criminal complaint and arrange political enemies. It seems that the stereotypes in history books are undesirable."

But thinking about it, if Lian Po was really a stupid person, how could he suddenly apologize when he had a big fight with Lin Xiangru?

It was precisely because of Lian Po's apology after he joined forces with Lin Xiangru to establish the scholar sect that the two major factions in the political arena of Zhao have been established to this day.

Such people may have a hot temper or speak directly, but they are definitely not a fool and definitely have no lack of experience in political struggles.

It’s just that Yu Xin came out to compete with Zhao Kuo before, but now Yu Xin has fallen, so Lian Po has become the one who competes with Zhao Kuo.

It’s a pity... a smile appeared on Zhao Kuo’s face.

General Lian Po, although you know that I do the ginseng business, you don’t know who the real beneficiary behind the ginseng business is! Zhao Kuo glanced at King Zhao and found that King Zhao’s expression was a bit ugly.

Lian Po's words actually reminded King Zhao that if he went to war with Qi, it would have an impact on the ginseng business in Qi.

Some people may say that ginseng business is just a business, and this is a big deal?

If it is an ordinary business, it will be gone even if it is gone. Anyway, it will be done after the war. Everyone has been doing this for the past few hundred years.

But the problem is that the ginseng business is too profitable, and the people of Qi are too rich.

Since the establishment of Qi's ginseng business channels, the money delivered from Housheng every month is a huge amount.

Not to mention anything else, just say that the cost of ginseng transported from Linzi last month exceeded 10 million, and after the distribution, it was as much as 8 million entered the private pocket of King Zhao.

More importantly, this kind of expense is still rising, and it is likely to be nine million next month, and ten million next month! Suppose that Zhao State starts war with Qi State for one year next year, then in the twelve months, the amount of money directly lost by King Zhao is - 120 million yuan! When he thought of the loss of this number, King Zhao suddenly felt a little difficult to breathe... 120 million yuan!!! How many cities in Qi State need to be occupied, killed Qi State population, and plundered Qi State to recover the loss?

At this moment, King Zhao's eyes on Lian Po had completely changed.

Lian Po, a ruthless minister, is digging for me!!! It was at this time that Zhao Kuo's counterattack also began.

Zhao Kuo sneered Lian Po and then slowly said: "General, do you think I don't want to attack Qi because of my marriage?

Then I also want to say, are you afraid to attack Qin because you lost to Bai Qi?”

As soon as this said, Lian Po's face changed drastically and he shouted: "Zhao Kuo, don't talk nonsense. I have never been afraid of Bai Qi, whether it is the past, present or future!"

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "Yes, the general may not be afraid of Bai Qi, but the general must be very clear in his heart - you are not Bai Qi's opponent at all! Therefore, it is impossible for you to fight Qin. Even if Qin is the strongest opponent of Zhao now, and even if Qi has not used troops to foreign countries for so many years!"

Lian Po was so angry that his formation was blue and white. When he was about to speak, he suddenly coughed.

Lin Xiangru slowly stood up and said, "Zhao Qing's words are a bit too much.

Even if the general can't defeat Qin, isn't Zhao Qing still there?
Chapter completed!