Time passed day by day, and half a month froze.

During this period, Zhao Kuo sat firmly in the Zhao army camp outside Linzi City, and relied on the two channels of Zhao State and Nightingale to receive information from all directions.

Li Mu led 30,000 Zhao cavalry to attack the Jiaodong Peninsula of Qi State and achieved great success in military operations. In just half a month, he conquered ten large and small cities of Qi State and annihilated more than 40,000 Qi troops. He obtained countless gold, silver and wealth, food, grass and weapons.

Although Qi State in this era had a large number of plains, there were not much arable land in it, and the most was saline-alkali land.

Therefore, when the country was established, the first king of Qi, Jiang Taigong, encouraged Qi people to eat from the sea. Men either went out to sea to fish or make sea salt, while women encouraged embroidery at home.

Under Jiang Taigong's wise policy, Qi quickly opened up the trade market with sea goods, sea salt, cloth, etc., gained a lot of wealth in trade with many neighboring countries, and thus quickly became stronger.

Later, Qi Duke Huan, Qi Wei King, Guan Zhong, Zou Ji and other wise rulers and ministers of Qi also kept following the times in line with the times, making Qi one of the most developed and traded countries among the Chinese princes with the most developed business and the largest amount of trade.

More than 30 years ago, Le Yi led the coalition forces of the five countries to invade Qi, bringing a catastrophe to Qi, and a large amount of Qi's wealth was plundered.

More than 30 years later, the people of Qi finally recovered and accumulated a batch of wealth again. Then... Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo and Li Mu and other subordinates came again.

The people of Qi have worked hard to accumulate wealth for more than 30 years, and they easily fell into the hands of Li Mu, Zhao Kuo.

More than three thousand jade pieces, tens of thousands of gold pieces, tens of thousands of sets of weapons and armor, hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth, millions of stones of weapons, hundreds of millions of dollars... The numbers recorded in the list given by Li Mu were even Zhao Kuo, who was already the top three richest men in the world, could not help but take a breath after seeing it.

Although Zhao Kuo is good at making money, he really cannot compare with a country like Qi, which has a century of national destiny. This is the foundation.

Fortunately, this kind of background is now over to Zhao Kuo! Zhao Kuo smiled slightly and threw the list to Xu Li quietly: "Uncle Xu, please arrange it and take out part of it for us, and then go to the Zhao Guotou."

This is the trophy of Zhao State, so Zhao Kuo naturally cannot take it alone.

Money is just a number for Zhao Kuo now, and there is no need to be greedy for these things.

But Zhao Kuo doesn't love money, some people love money.

To use these money belonging to Qi to buy the hearts of the people of Zhao, Zhao Kuo, it would be a profit without any capital, so why not do it?

As for the empress dowager's side, it doesn't matter even if someone reports it.

Which general did not reward a large amount of spoils to his subordinates when fighting?

From King Wu of Zhou to Duke Huan of Qi, from Bai Qi to Wang Jian, they all did this. Can the Empress Dowager still blame Zhao Kuo for taking the blame for the world?

This will make the Queen Mother lose the support of the army directly! After responding to Zhao Kuo's order, Xu Li said: "By the way, the lord, there is another thing.

I just received a notice from Handan that at the strong request of Chang Guojun Lejian, the envoy of Yan State, the Empress Dowager had agreed to negotiate peace with Yan State."

Zhao Kuo raised his eyebrows without surprise and said, "What are the conditions?"

Xu Li said: "Yan State will ced five cities to Da Zhao, but not Wuyang City; Yan State will also compensate Da Zhao with a considerable amount of money and property; Yan State will re-comply with the ginseng sale agreement that you reached with the Lord of the Lord, and will no longer sell Yan State ginseng to other countries including Qi."

Zhao Kuo tapped the table with his finger and said, "This condition... is actually very ordinary. Did Le Cheng make a fool of himself?"

In Zhao Kuo's opinion, since Yan State has been crippled by himself, the ceasing of only five cities is simply too cheap for Yan State.

If Zhao Kuo was asked to preside over the peace talks, Yan State would have to ced at least twenty cities to start.

Xu Li said: "The Lord is indeed as expected. Judging from the feedback from our people in Handan City, Wen Xin Jun Lin Xiangru and Grand Sima Lecheng played a significant role in it.

Le Cheng even had all previous punishments canceled by the Queen Mother because of his contribution to peace talks."

The sound of Zhao Kuo tapping the table with his fingers increased significantly, which was a sign of his unhappiness.

The result of this Hou and many soldiers of the Great Zhao fought bloody battles on the battlefield was actually sold by these bastards as political achievements?

After a while, Zhao Kuo said: "Has anyone spread the rumors that Le Cheng made before that have been spread recently?"

Xu Li said: "This is gone."

Zhao Kuo was silent for a few seconds and suddenly said, "Then mobilize our people and let those rumors spread in Handan again."

"ah?"

Xu Li was obviously stunned, and after a few seconds, he said, "But don't all those rumors say bad things about you, Lord?"

Zhao Kuo smiled slightly and said, "That's right.

Le Cheng will probably be very proud now, so I don’t mind making him more proud and letting him fly higher.”

If you don’t fly higher, why will it be heavy when you fall down? How will it hurt when you slap in the face?

Xu Li suddenly realized and bowed, "The Lord is so proud, I will make arrangements!"

So soon, another rumor that was exactly the same as before slowly spread in Handan, Zhao State.

After hearing this rumor, Le Cheng was puzzled: "I didn't let others do such a thing?"

So Le Cheng went to ask his allies Lin Xiangru and Zhou Shaofen for questioning, and the two of them also said that they had nothing to do with me.

Just when Le Cheng was speechless, Zhou Shaofen suddenly raised a possibility: "You guys say, will this rumor be spread by Pingyuan Jun and Pingyang Jun?"

Le Cheng was surprised and said in disbelief: "This is impossible. Isn't the relationship between Pingyuan Jun and Wu Xinjun known to everyone?"

Lin Xiangru's expression moved, touched his white beard and said, "Zhou Qing's words are right, there is really such a possibility.

Didn’t Pingyuan Jun support Da Sima before the Battle of Luoshui? You took the position of Wu Xinjun as the leader?

Wu Xinjun's loyal ally Pang Xian and Pang Qing also quarreled with Pingyuan Jun at the entrance of the hall because of this incident. We have witnessed it with our own eyes.

I have worked with them for many years and have some understanding of their temper.

They are the younger brothers of King Huiwen. They have always been arrogant and unwilling to take people like me and Wu Xinjun, who are from civilians. Although Wu Xinjun is very happy when they cooperate with them, as long as they find that Wu Xinjun shows signs of getting out of them, they will definitely start to suppress Wu Xinjun.

Isn’t spreading such rumors the best way to crack down on Wu Xinjun?”
Chapter completed!