Zhao Yan's mansion was in the east of Linzi City. He came to the palace to cross the entire city and then entered the small city. So after almost half an hour, Zhao Yan entered the side hall panting. Seeing his forehead sweating slightly, it turned out that he was jogging all the way into the palace, and most likely he thought Han He had something urgent to look for him.

"Me, please see the king." Zhao Yan panted and greeted Han He.

"Forget it." Han He waved his hand impatiently, and suddenly felt a little tired of it.

After more than half an hour of waiting, Han He, the young king, was very impatient. He thought that when he first succeeded to the throne, Han He had expressed his intention to build a base residence for Zhao Yan in a small city to show his favor, but Zhao Yan refused. Although Han He was young, he was a very brain-loving person. He couldn't help but wonder, are you Zhao Yan too noble?

He was unhappy and Han He was too lazy to talk nonsense and asked, "Around the Xu hour, can the military advisor be in the mansion?"

"Xu time?" Zhao Yan replied without hesitation, "Xu time, I was invited by Bishu to Chu camp outside the city."

"Is that right?" Han He's eyes suddenly turned cold and he asked again, "But I don't know why Bi Shu invited the military advisor?"

Zhao Yan couldn't help frowning, and when he turned his head to look at Lou Jing, he found that Lou Jing's eyes were flashing and he didn't dare to look directly at him. At that moment, Zhao Yan understood everything. It seemed that it was Lou Jing's evil man who complained first and wrote a copy in front of the king. The reason why the king summoned him into the palace overnight was to ask if he had secretly communicated with Bi Shu to the song?

A sudden aroused anger in Zhao Yan's heart. A soldier can be killed, but not humiliated!

Seeing that Zhao Yan was silent, Han He said that he was guilty and said, "What did the military advisor say?"

"I have nothing to say." Zhao Yan straightened his chest and said sneered, "It's the king. Do you have something to say?"

Han He was a little angry and embarrassed. Zhao Yan's expression once again stabbed his sensitive and fragile heart. To be honest, it was not only Han He's luck but also his misfortune to be a father with a peerless military strategist like Han Xin. Fortunately, Han He was able to receive Han Xin's earnest teachings since he was a child. Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he would never catch up with Han Xin.

Han Xin's great military achievements made his successor dull, and also planted a very bad inertial thinking for the civil servants and generals of Qi. No matter who they were, even a wise man like Zhao Yan would instinctively compare Han He and Han Xin when encountering problems, and then felt disappointed.

If it were Han Kan, who was honest by nature, became the King of Qi, it would be nothing. Zhao Yan would be the one who decided everything.

But now it is Han He, who is arrogant and ambitious, who is the King of Qi. Then the conflict between the monarch and ministers of Qi will inevitably intensify, and the conflict between Han He and Zhao Yan is particularly acute.

"Zhao Yan!" Han He slapped the table and said furiously, "Are you guilty?"

"I feel guilty?" Zhao Yan glanced at Lou Jing coldly and said sneeringly, "Does the king think that I have already secretly communicated with Chu State and did something to be sorry for Qi State?"

Han He was a little embarrassed by Zhao Yan's irony and said in a muffled voice: "I didn't say that."

"The king didn't say it, but that's what he thought in his heart." Zhao Yan shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, don't think about it. I have repeatedly opposed the alliance between Qi and Chu, so how could I secretly communicate with Chu?" Speaking of this, Zhao Yan laughed again and said sadly. "Your Majesty, I am so untrustworthy?"

Han He looked embarrassed and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Zhao Yan was cold. As an important official of the former king's entrustment, Zhao Yan wanted to do his part, and to help the new king as soon as possible and then send him off for a long journey. However, he did not expect that his efforts were regarded as a tyrant by the new king. The new king had regarded him as an obstacle to controlling the king's power and establishing his prestige. Even if there was no such incident today, there would be no false accusation from Lou Jing. There would be another incident in the future, and there would be a Wang Jing. Li Jing was greedy in front of the king, and Han He would still take the opportunity to make a fuss.

The king and his subjects are already in power. Zhao Yan can't go any further, but why bother?

"King, I don't want to say much about the defense. I just say one thing. If Qi wants to protect it, there is only one way out, that is, joining the Lianheng Alliance! And don't be confused by the appearance of Xiang Zhuang's enfeoffment of Wei, it's just for others to see." Zhao Yan glanced at Han He last, but his eyes were filled with unconcealed contempt.

Han He's anger surged again and said furiously: "Zhao Yan, how dare you despise me?"

Zhao Yan ignored Han He anymore, but just bowed to Nantian from afar, and said sadly: "King, you treat me with a national scholar. I should also repay you with a national scholar. The heroic spirit of the king is not far away, and I am here..." Before he could finish his words, Zhao Yan ran a few steps and hit the stone pillar of the side hall. The collision was extremely powerful, and his brain fractured and died on the spot.

"Military advisor must not..." Han He was half a step late when he was eager to stop him.

But immediately, Han He's heart was filled with anger again. The king Zhao Yan worshipped before his death was obviously not him, but his father Han Xin. In other words, Zhao Yan never really regarded him as a king in his heart, or in Zhao Yan's heart, Han He was not worthy of being a king at all, which was simply outrageous!

Lou Jing next to him was also shocked. He never expected that Zhao Yan was so intense. Just because the king did not trust him, he actually had the idea of ​​showing his ambition with death! He was surprised and Lou Jing was also a little ashamed. Today, he knew what a true scholar died for his confidant. Zhao Zijin, the national scholar should be like this!

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Early the next morning, Hu Yan hurried into Bishu's tent and said, "General, news has just been heard in Linzi City that Zhao Yan has already died in front of you." After a pause, Hu Yan said with admiration, "The last general really didn't expect that Zhao Yan, a weak scholar, could be so intense, how could Qi people be afraid of."

"Ba." Bi Shu threw a chess piece in his hand onto the chessboard and sighed, "Another Kuai Che, it's a pity, it's a pity for a national sage."

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Two days later, the plain ferry.

Bai Mo and his team of more than 300 cavalry had just crossed the river when a sudden sound of horse hooves came from the road ahead, and then the cavalry rushed over with rolling smoke and dust.

Zhou Guanfu said: "Prime Minister, it seems to be from the Black Ice Platform!"

Bai Mo's eyes sterned and said in a deep voice: "It's probably because something big happened in Linzi!"

In less than a moment, the rider flew to Bai Mo and his team, but he didn't get off the horse. He just gasped and asked Zhou Guanfu: "Is the champion Hou the opposite side?"

"It's this marquis." Zhou Guanfu pressed the hilt of the sword and shouted loudly, "Who are you?"

The knight quickly got out of his saddle and said with a bow: "The villain is a swordsman from the Black Ice Platform. If you have any urgent matters, please report to the Prime Minister."

Zhou Guanfu naturally would not get out of the way and said in a deep voice: "The Prime Minister is behind. Just tell me what you have to do."

"Here." The swordsman knew the position of Champion Hou in the Han Dynasty, so he naturally did not dare to disobey it. He said now, "Champion Hou, Zhao Yan, the Qi army who strongly advocated joining the Lianheng League, had committed suicide last night. The Qi Prime Minister Lou Jing advocated joining the Hezong League. Qi may betray the Han Dynasty and turn to form an alliance with Chu."

Zhou Guanfu frowned and said in a deep voice: "I understand, I will report to the Prime Minister truthfully."

"So, the villain said goodbye." The swordsman bowed again, then turned over and ran along the way, and disappeared into the rolling smoke and dust within a moment.

Zhou Guanfu rode his horse to Bai Mo's carriage, conveyed the news about the swordsman, and finally said: "Prime Minister, it seems that the direction of Qi has changed. Let's go back to Handan."

"No." Bai Mo shook his head and said, "My junior brother must have been reluctant to take this downside because he was not sure. He tried his best to get rid of Zhao Yan, who was inclined to be inclined to Linzi before he arrived in Linzi. Zhao Yan's suicide just shows that the change in Qi State is not yet determined, so Linzi still has to go."

Zhou Guanfu had no choice but to order the horse team to go on the road again.

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In March, the new grass has sprouted, but the grassland in northern desert is still cold.

The Shanyuting, located on the southern foot of Langjuxu Mountain, no longer has the same old atmosphere. Because of the craftsmen who have been plundered from the Central Plains, Maodun accepted the advice of Gongshu and decided to build a city in the Shanyuting.

At this time, the outline of a medium-sized city had been taken.

Outside the city, the women and children who were captured by the Xiongnu were bravely exploring wasteland with great difficulty. From time to time, there were teams of Xiongnu horses galloping by. When someone was lazy, they would whip over without hesitation. When someone fell ill, they would drag them to a secluded place to beheaded without hesitation.

Not far from the Shanyu Court is the Yuwu River. Tens of thousands of Xiongnu tents are scattered on both sides of the Yuwu River. Groups of cattle, sheep and horses are leisurely eating the green grass that has just been sprouted on the river beach. The Hun men are hunting in the mountains, the women are busy milking the horses, and the children are riding pony and playing on the grassland.

Uncle Gong said that he bent down and crawled out of his cowhide tent. The cold wind blowing towards him made him subconsciously tighten the tiger-skin cloak wrapped around him. Looking at the crowds of cattle, sheep, horses and animals on the river beach, and the Hun women busy squeezing their horses. Uncle Gong said that a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he had fallen in love with this prairie.

Uncle Gong said he was walking leisurely on the river beach, but the nearby Hun women and children suddenly became turbulent, and then he rushed to the east of the Shanyuting in groups like a swarm. Uncle Gong said he stopped a happy Hun woman and realized that there was a team of Northern Diao Hu merchants coming to Shanyuting!

Since the Huns went south to build Caogu last fall last fall, the entire Central Plains has completely interrupted trade with the Huns. Not only did Central Plains merchants with official background no longer come to the grassland, but even the peddlers who went north to make a few hard money in previous years have disappeared. Other supplies are fine, but the days without salt are really hard to bear.

After a whole winter, the Huns' mouths were almost fading out, but they finally waited for the Northern Diamond Caravan, and they sold tens of thousands of kilograms of salt. However, the brows of Gongshu were instinctively frowned. Is this Northern Diamond Caravan a coincidence? The Huns were short of salt, so they sold so much salt?


Chapter completed!