The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 621 Do you think I'm being taken advantage of? [Subscribe*Vote for the monthly ticket]

Zhao Jia's escape was not unexpected by the Qin army.

It can even be said that Zhao Jia is actually more qualified than Zhao Cong to establish himself as king.

Before Zhao Qian became the crown prince, Zhao Jia was the crown prince of Zhao, also known as Prince Jia and Prince Jia. He was also the most legitimate eldest prince and eldest son of Zhao.

Compared with Zhao Qian's background, Zhao Jia's mother is the well-deserved queen of Zhao State.

Zhao Qian's mother was just a prostitute. According to the normal system of primogeniture, Zhao Jiacai was the most legitimate heir.

It’s a pity that King Zhao Daoxiang favored prostitutes, deposed the queen and made a prostitute his queen.

This also caused King Zhao Qian to lose the support of the royal family. This was also the reason why Zhao Qian was so wary of Zhao Cong, a member of the royal family. After all, he himself did not come to power in a legitimate way.

Both Zhao Cong and Zhao Jia have far more supporters among the royal family than Zhao Qian.

Therefore, Zhao Jia's last look at the palace was not out of disappointment with King Zhao, but more of a reluctance to leave Handan, this palace that had existed for hundreds of years.

But Zhao Jia knew that there was no point in staying. With Zhao Qian as king and Guo Kai's chaotic rule, the whole State of Zhao was in chaos and had lost the support of the people.

The people of Handan were no longer willing to join them in resisting the Qin army.

They were abandoned by the people of Handan, or rather, they lost the people of Zhao.

The Qin army did not try to stop them from breaking out, or perhaps they valued the Zhao Palace more than them. So when they left, the Qin army they encountered did not want to incur any more casualties since they had already won, so they let them go.

Zhao Jia evacuated Handan with a hundred members of the Zhao royal family. He didn't know where they were going.

The mountains and rivers were broken, the wind and rain were blowing, and the State of Zhao was so big that there was no place for them to settle down.

What made Zhao Jia feel most powerless was that when they evacuated Handan, he could still command tens of thousands of troops in Handan, but after they withdrew from Handan, the army fell apart and would no longer obey his orders.

People were leaving every moment, and the entire army was losing contact as a whole.

Zhao Jia knew very well that he chose to leave because he was disappointed with them.

But what could he say?

They were the ones who abandoned the civilians first, and those soldiers had done the most they could by being willing to resist them until now.

"Let's go to Dai County!" Zhao Jia calmed down and looked towards the north of Zhao State.

The conflict between Dai County and Handan is too old, but no matter what, it was a feud within the Zhao State itself.

Zhao Jia believed that as long as they reached Dai County, they would be able to make a comeback.

After Qin annexed Han and Zhao, Wei was also in a precarious situation and it was only a matter of time before it fell.

Therefore, once the Qin State occupied the Three Jins, it would have the potential to swallow up the world.

By that time, the ones in danger will be Yan, Chu and Bing.

Zhao Jia had reason to believe that Bingzhou and Yan would agree to his establishment of self-rule in Dai County and become the new King of Zhao.

"Dai County has been occupied by Bingzhou!" Zong Bo reminded Zhao Jia.

Now everyone in the world knows that Ying Zheng and Bing Jun are brothers who share the same trousers.

If they fled to Dai County, they would probably be tied up and sent to Qin the next day by Bingzhou.

"Do we have any choice?" Zhao Jia asked, looking at the Zhao family members who escaped with him, "If even Bingzhou is unwilling to take us in, who do you think in Yan, Wei, Chu, and Qi would be willing to offend Qin for a group of stray dogs like us?" "I didn't agree to attack Bingzhou from the beginning, but what about you?" Zhao Jia became more and more angry as he spoke.

His mother was also from a prominent family in the State of Zhao, and the education he received since childhood was the true orthodox education of a king. Unfortunately, his position as crown prince and king was taken away by a illegitimate son of a prostitute.

If these clan members had been tougher at the beginning and dared to confront Guo Kai and stand up to oppose their father's dethronement of the queen and the crown prince, the State of Zhao would not have fallen to such a state.

Now that the country is on the verge of destruction, people suddenly think of Prince Jia and ask him to take on the task in a time of crisis.

Zong Bo and other members of the Zhao family also fell silent.

If they had been more forceful and stood up to oppose when King Zhao Daoxiang deposed the empress and the crown prince, even King Zhao Daoxiang and Guo Kai would not have dared to go against the decision of the royal family.

Unfortunately they did not. They all gained certain benefits from the dethronement of the empress and the crown prince and chose to stand by and watch.

After all, compared to Zhao Jia and the maternal clan behind him, Zhao Qian's maternal clan has no power at all.

Therefore, if Zhao Qian became the King of Zhao, they could gain greater benefits.

Therefore, they acquiesced to King Zhao Daoxiang's dethronement of the queen and the crown prince.

"Prince Jia fled to Dai County with the Zhao clan!" In the Qin army camp, Wang Jian, Yang Duanhe and others looked at the intelligence in their hands and looked at Yan Yan with strange expressions.

Their fear of Zhao Jia was even greater than that of Zhao Qian.

Naturally, they could guess the purpose of Zhao Jia's escape to Dai County.

So they could only wait for Yan Yan to make a decision.

If Yan Yan supports Zhao Jia's independence, then the friendship between Qin and Bing will become a thing of the past.

"Why are you looking at me? Look at the food!" Yan Yan seemed to not care at all and focused on the delicious food in front of him.

"What can Prince Jia bring to Bingzhou?" Meng Yi knew what Yan Yan was thinking and reminded everyone in Qin lightly.

Wang Jian, Yang Duanhe and other Qin generals were also stunned. Yes, if Bingzhou recognized Zhao Jia as the king, what benefits would it bring to Bingzhou?

Dai County itself was already under the control of Bingzhou. In other words, the division of Zhao among the three families had already been tacitly agreed upon by Qin, Bingzhou and Yan. If Bingzhou recognized Zhao Jia's independence, it would mean that Bingzhou would have to give the entire northern part of Zhao and Dai County to Zhao Jia.

Giving away something that belongs to you and offending a powerful enemy out of nowhere is not in the interests of Bingzhou no matter how you look at it.

As for the fact that Zhao Jia's Dai County would make the people of Zhao more loyal, what does that have to do with Bingzhou?

By that time, it will be Zhao Jia who surrenders, not Bingzhou.

"Do you think I've been taken advantage of?" Yan Yan looked at Wang Jian and the others speechlessly.

How sick are you to think that Bingzhou will give up the territory it has worked so hard to obtain?
Wang Jian and others also laughed. How could they forget that Bingzhou was a miser who would pluck feathers from passing geese? Wanting them to hand over what they had was tantamount to killing Bingzhou.

As for Dai County's disobedience?

Don't even think about it. Dai County is located in the north of Zhao State, and the conflict between it and Handan is extremely deep.

The emergence of Bingzhou meant that the people in the north of Zhao State no longer had to experience the tragedy of the Hu people's southward migration. In the north of Zhao State, it was the Lord of Bing, not the King of Zhao, that was built in every household!

Therefore, Yan Yan's words were more effective in the northern part of Zhao State than those of the King of Zhao, not to mention Prince Jia who was deposed from the throne.

So, how crazy is Bingzhou to find a father for its own territory?

(End of this chapter)