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Chapter 499 The Game Behind He's Bi
Fifteen cities?hehe!

Meng Tian couldn't help sneering in his heart. In history, there was a story about the Fifteen Cities between Qin and Zhao.

Moreover, this also involves a priceless treasure - He's Bi.

Today's Heshibi is naturally in Xianyang Palace, carved by craftsmen, and in accordance with Yingzheng's meaning, eight characters are carved on it: Ordered by the sky, life will last forever.

At that time, during the period of King Zhaoxiang of Qin Dynasty, Heshibi was still in the hands of Zhao Guo, and King Zhaoxiang offered to exchange fifteen cities for Heshibi.

The final result was that Lin Xiangru reprimanded the King of Qin in court, and brought Heshibi back to Zhao State in its entirety. Later generations derived an idiom here: return the jade to Zhao.

It seemed that Zhao Guosheng had indeed won this round!

Relying on Lin Xiangru's wisdom and courage, he reprimanded the tyrant, and finally He's Bi was still in Zhao Guo's hands.

However, if ordinary people think this way, then there is nothing wrong with it, after all, the scenery you see is different from where you stand.

Meng Tian has a deeper understanding of this.

Although he has never met this former king in the history of the Qin State, he can also feel deeply how talented and bold King Zhaoxiang was at that time. It has always been Qin who took the initiative to occupy other people's land, and when was there a precedent for ceding the city's land to others?

Almost no one thought about such a question, why did King Qin Zhaoxiang ask Zhao Guo in exchange for Heshibi?

You must know that King Qin Zhaoxiang has almost no entertainment activities, let alone some sensual hobbies, and never touches jade and antiques.

It can be said that no matter how valuable Heshibi is, to King Qin Zhaoxiang, can it be compared to a real city?
I'm afraid that in the eyes of King Qin Zhaoxiang, this is not as good as Shibi, even dung.

And King Qin Zhaoxiang made such a request, without him, it was a question for Zhao Guojun and his ministers.

At this time, the State of Zhao was already dressed in uniform, riding and shooting, and its national strength had greatly increased. However, King Zhao Wuling had passed away, and the reigning King Zhao Huiwen was still young. King Qin Zhaoxiang was really not sure about the strength of the State of Zhao.

And Zhao Guo's attitude in dealing with the matter of He's Bi, naturally, invisibly revealed Zhao Guo's family background to Qin Guo.

If Zhao Guo ignores this, or even takes an extraordinarily tough attitude and is full of confidence, then Qin Guo understands that Zhao Guo is not afraid of Qin Guo, and his attitude towards Zhao Guo must be improved.

But if Zhao Guo showed a little bit of trouble and timidity in this, it means that Zhao Guo is just a paper tiger, and it's nothing more than a strong outsider!

And the attitude shown by King Zhao will make King Zhaoxiang clearly test out how good the king of Zhao is.

Sure enough, while Lin Xiangru angrily reprimanded the King of Qin in the court, he also unknowingly revealed Zhao Guo's family background completely.

Before sending He Shibi away, King Zhao fasted and bathed, and burned incense to sacrifice to the heavens, which clearly showed that Zhao State was full of fear for Qin State, so King Zhao had such a low profile.

Now that he has achieved the result he wanted, why doesn't Lin Xiangru scold him a few words?What does it have to do with He Shibi being taken away?
I really thought that I could escape from Qin by pretending to be dressed up. Is this too disrespectful to the army and intelligence system stationed by Qin's border guards?

Moreover, this He's Bi is not just a luxury item, to be precise, it also contains political significance.

Heshibi was originally one of the few national treasures of Chu State. Later, Heshibi entered Zhao State in order to obtain the princess of Zhao State.

The meaning contained in it is to hope that the alliance between Zhao and Chu can resist the strong Qi in the east and resist the violent Qin in the west.

Now Zhao Guo sent people to bring He's Bi to Qin, and Zhao Guo showed fear again.

Undoubtedly, this shows that when Qin State attacks Chu State next, Zhao State will most likely not have the guts to stab him in the back.

The state of Chu is huge, and fighting against it must not happen overnight. The two sides need to go through a protracted see-saw. If the state of Zhao stabs the state of Qin in the back, then the state of Qin will undoubtedly fall into an extremely passive situation.

How similar this situation is to the current situation, Qin Guo is also afraid that Zhao Guo will stab him in the back.

However, Qin Guo concealed such emotions very well.

Speaking of Meng Tian, ​​he was also worried about his younger brother, even if he took out those five cities, they were still part of his fiefdom, and he finally did it only after begging to help Su.

This shows that Fusu himself is not willing to exchange five cities for Meng Yi.

At least that's what Zhao Guojun and his ministers thought at this time.

It's just that Meng Yi is Meng Tian's younger brother after all. In terms of state affairs, it is understandable for Meng Tian to favor some private affairs for Meng Yi's sake.

With such an idea, Zhang Er and Chen Yu did not have the slightest doubt.

For this reason, it is not impossible to ask Meng Tian for some benefits.

Meng Tian had a full view of Zhang Er and Chen Yu's face, although he felt very disgusted in his heart, he still had a smile on his face and said: "Even if I can agree to fifteen cities, my king can't agree."

Meng Tian also decided that Zhao State had the intention of forming an alliance, but now he was asking for benefits, if Zhao State could not get any advantage from Qin State, he would definitely turn his head and turn to Chu State.

It's just that the benefits are big or small, Meng Tian doesn't want Zhao Guo to eat this piece of fat so easily.

The two sides bargained again, but neither of them met the other party's bottom line and expectations, and because of this, the situation fell into a stalemate.

Meng Tian felt that time was running short, after all, every minute he was late, Meng Yi's situation would be even more difficult.

Immediately, Meng Tian opened his mouth and said: "I want to report to King Zhao, Meng Tian is willing to propose marriage to your country on behalf of my king, and use ten cities as a betrothal gift to ask for Princess Zhao. I don't know what King Zhao wants?"

"Ten cities?" Zhang Er and Chen Yu couldn't help showing surprise in their eyes. Undoubtedly, this had already achieved their goal.

Meng Tian also snorted coldly in his heart, if it wasn't for the urgent time, no matter what he said, he would not have revealed this hole card so quickly.

It's just that, even if your country Zhao eats up these ten cities today, you will spit them out in full in the future. Even your country Zhao can't escape.

Meng Tian secretly swears in his heart.

To be honest, if it weren't for the worry that Qin would fall into a two-front war, Qin would be worthy of Zhao. After all, Zhao, which was once so powerful, fell into the hands of Qin. Now Zhao is stronger than Zhao. Back then, it was far worse.

It can only be said that at the right time and at the right place, Zhao Guo made a profit that did not belong to him.

(End of this chapter)