The Qin army was noisy all night, with loud thunder and little rain. After the hour of Mao, the early morning night seemed even colder. The Qin army seemed to be tired of it. After releasing its unique crossbow arrows, it turned its head and retreated to the military camp.

The sharp triangular arrow broke through the air and pierced on the Zhao army soldiers. The slight barbs inside completely made the injured lose their combat effectiveness.

The Qin people's powerful crossbow once again made a cool feeling in the hearts of the Handan people.

"The damn Qin people are more cunning than foxes. They have no advantage to take advantage of them. They are unwilling to come and attack the city on their own initiative!"

Jianzhi opened his swollen eyes and punched the battlements, feeling very resentful. The harassment tactics of the Qin people gathered and dispersed, and the cavalry came and went like the wind, and they fired cold arrows from time to time. Jianzhi was full of anger, and had nowhere to use his strength, so he could only watch the Qin army teased Zhao army.

The Zhao soldiers on the city wall ignored the anger of Jian Zhi. They leaned against the city wall with the long halberd in their hands and were drowsy. Some of them fell asleep as soon as they sat down.

"Who was on duty tonight? I was fussing, I had to not sleep well all night!"

"The Qin people didn't attack the city at all. The golden drum beats the sky and the earth, it's really frizzy!"

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The residents of Dongcheng yawned, spoke in resentment, stretched, called their children and daughters, and returned home exhausted.

These words came to Jianzhi, who had just walked down the city wall, and were like a bitter north wind hit Jianzhi's heart.

After Jian Zhi joined the army, he finally got promoted to the city gate supervisor and was determined to achieve some results. However, Jian Zhi had no actual experience in the battle. The Qin army attacked in large numbers last night. Jian Zhi thought he had made the right response, but unexpectedly, the Zhao people did not understand.

At the middle of Mao, the streets of Handan were silent and empty, and there was no trace of the noise of last night.

"After the noise last night, those unorganized antiques have already run away without any shadows!"

Jianzhi smiled bitterly, went to the Dabao Warehouse, checked the grain that was stored in the warehouse last night. Seeing that there was indeed no problem with the grain, he completely relieved. He just couldn't recruit some people from the updater to defend the city, Jianzhi felt a little regretful.

Just as Jianzhi had just returned home and was extremely tired and fell asleep, a trace of dawn light had just appeared in the sky to the east.

At the side door of the residence of Prime Minister Guo Kai of Zhao State, the merchants who transported fresh meat to wait in front of the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion early in the morning.

“What kind of meat was shipped today?”

Guo Kai's wife Wei Zhong asked while rubbing her tired eyes, yawning.

"Beef, good beef, good beef from the west."

The mole with a fleshy face filled with faces smiled, with a cunning smile in his eyes. When a businessman saw it, he knew that such a person was not easy to deal with.

"That's almost the same. Let your officials come out and follow me to get the reward."

Wei Zhong rubbed his eyes and suddenly put his hands down, staring at the young boss in the crowd. He was wearing thick burlap clothes, a yellowed old dog-skin hat, a warm smile on his face, and a string of cow lungs in his hand.

"Is this Meng Tian? Why does it really look like the son of the butcher's family?"

Wei Zhong looked at Meng Tian secretly in his heart, with a natural expression and no panic at all. The greasy dirt covered his original face and could not be associated with the Qin general who was rushing and beating outside the city.

"Come with me, don't look around, don't talk nonsense. The rules of the Prime Minister's Mansion, you who kill chickens and dogs don't understand......"

"It's a small one to save money and will never cause trouble to the Weisheren."

Meng Tian bent over and smiled, but she felt a little annoyed. Before she met, Guo Kai began to create psychological advantages and wanted to give Meng Tian a warning.

"That's good, follow me."

Wei Zhongxin nodded secretly. Meng Tian in front of him, although he looked young, he was different from other commanders, and he was calm. Since he pretended to be a butcher, he showed the butcher's expression and was not upset when he should lower his posture.

Thinking of Guo Kai’s explanation, Wei Zhongxin felt that Guo Kai would not get any advantage when he negotiated with the Qin people this time.

The villa of Guo Kai is located at the end of the Prime Minister's Mansion and is rarely visited. Usually, Guo Kai cannot sleep at night or thinks about certain things, he will come here alone to rest.

At this time, even the charming woman Zhao Tongjin presented could not let Guo Kai change his mind.

"Zhao Ye, I've brought you the person."

Wei Zhong led Meng Tian from a deep path to the villa in Guo Kai.

I saw Guo Kai wearing a thick coat with mink fur and a pure white fox fur hat. He looked in his forties, with his hands in a handbag for wind-proofing, sitting upright in the middle of the hall of the other courtyard.

Unlike the typical image of a treacherous minister, Guo Kai has a thick beard, a solemn face, and a shrewd eyes, which does not give people a sinister and deep feeling.

A great treacherous is like a loyal person.

Meng Tian gave Guo Kai such an evaluation in his heart. A true treacherous minister would never be seen from the surface. Thinking about the later Zhao State, when Ying Zheng was still alive, Zhao Gao was a loyal minister who was deeply loved by the king.

"I didn't expect that Meng Ao, who left Qi in a panic, wandered like duckweed. Decades later, the Meng family not only gained a firm foothold in Qin, but also had three generations of outstanding children of the Meng family, and there were endless streams!"

Guo Kai looked up at Meng Tian, ​​and a shrewd light flashed by, and in an instant he returned to his old look.

"People from the six countries entered Qin one after another and were in the temple. If they were quiet, they would make suggestions, and if they were active, they would lead troops to conquer cities and territories. To use talents boldly, Zhao State is indeed not as far away as Qin State now."

"The Zhao family prospered by fostering scholars. However, a hundred years have passed, and the Zhao family has lost the tradition of reincarnated talents."

Faced with Guo Kai's sigh, Meng Tian responded lightly.

When the Zhao family rose, there were not many disciples under their sects, but they were all heroes who were both resourceful and decisive, helping Zhao family survive many crises of destruction.

Cheng Ying tried to protect the orphans of Zhao, Dong Anyu managed Jinyang, and Zhang Mengtan persuaded Han and Wei to jointly attack the Zhi family, and promoted the formation of a situation where the three families divided Jin.

But like Wei, as a vested interest in the division of Jin by the three families, the lessons of the Zhao royal family on the demise of Jin are vivid and still in front of them. After the establishment of the Zhao family, Zhao has always had the tradition of using the royal family.

It was extremely difficult for ministers who were not from the Zhao clan to be granted a title. Lian Po fought for Zhao throughout his life, not only did he not realize his wish to be granted a title, but instead had to leave Zhao and die in a downfall.

When Zhao Sheng, the king of Pingyuan, was in power, he had no talent and a general idea, but he was still very knowledgeable and had the upper hand. After the Changping War, Handan responded in a critical situation and decisive manner, united with Chu and Wei, and finally allowed Zhao to survive the crisis of national destruction.

After Zhao Sheng, Zhao Cong, a newly-rise Zhao Cong, a clan of the Zhao State clan, was very energetic, but he didn't even have the upper hand to be a middle-class person. Guo Kai saw it and completely lost hope for the future of Zhao State.

"What a saying goes without saying that the talent is subdued. It is worthy of being the Montessori tribe from Qi, and it has not lost its family tradition."

Guo opened his eyes and exclaimed: "I designated to talk to you for your ancestors to be the Qi people. As for the Qin people, those reckless men who only know how to roar and dance and tremble only know how to understand the etiquette and civilization of the East."

"Meng Tian can't bear the Prime Minister's praise. My eldest father is from Qi, right, but I was born and raised in Qin. Deep in my heart, Meng Tian believes that he belongs to the Qin people."

Meng Tian sat upright and said seriously: "Half Shen colluded with Quanrong to attack Haojing. After the Zhou Dynasty moved eastward, the kings of Qin fought bloody battles, took over the Zhou people, absorbed Zhou civilization, and updated them in time, so that today. Not to mention that Qin protected the Zhou people, so that they would not become citizens of Quanrong."

Although the people of the six countries did not recognize it, those who truly studied history understood that Qin made great contributions to the development of Central Plains civilization to ensure that the heartland of the Central Plains is not invaded by the Hu people in the Northwest. Guo Kai's eyelids twitched, without interrupting Meng Tian's words.

"Since Duke Mu, Qin has actively moved closer to the Xia in the Central Plains and formed the Qin and Jin love with Jin. The Qin people actively learned Jin and treated Jin well, but suffered a lot. After Shang Yang's reform, scholars from the six countries entered Qin in large numbers. The current Qin State is not a wasteland of culture. The Qin people did not appreciate poetry and books, but did not affect the children of nobles' reading poetry and books. As long as they did not want to move the society in poetry and books to reality, the Qin people did not appreciate the desolate sound of Zheng Wei's land, nor did it affect the daughter of Zheng Wei's entry and exit from the Qin family. Qin State was no longer a barbaric country called by the people of the six countries, but became a member of the Zhongxia civilization circle. Why did the prime minister still have past prejudice against Qin? Learning from the Chu people to carve boats and seek swords!"

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