Later that day, the Zhou brothers left the palace in a carriage.

The younger brother Zhou Shaoliang seemed quite excited and smiled at his brother Zhou Shao in front of him and said, "You are right. Although Wu Xinjun's power is already very powerful, it has also attracted the king's vigilance. Now it is time for him to be ruined."

For Zhou Shaoliang, Zhao Kuo was definitely the object he wanted to get rid of the most, no doubt about it.

Because Zhao Kuo has been suppressing Zhou Shaoliang in various ways over the years, Zhou Shaoliang has no power to fight back at all.

Zhou Shaofen looked obviously not as excited as Zhou Shaoliang. He just said lightly: "This matter has not been successful yet. It is not too late to wait until the matter is successful before being happy."

After hearing this, Zhou Shaoliang was shocked.

He said: "Will there be any other accidents in this matter?

Could it be that the king was also placed around him, and the spy from Zhao Kuo was not there?"

Zhou Shaofen shook his head and said, "Wu Xinjun is not a fool. It is very risky to install spies around the king. Once the king discovers, the king and him will break up immediately. I believe he would not do that.

But don't forget that he has a good relationship with the queen, and it is not surprising that there are people who sympathize with him on the queen's side, so we must be careful not to let this matter come into the wind."

Zhou Shaoliang nodded, then remembered something, and said gritting his teeth: "It was that damn brothel prostitute who caused the position of queen of our Zhou clan to be abandoned. After Zhao Kuo was liquidated, this brothel woman must also die."

You should know that the previous Queen Zhou was Zhou Shaoliang's daughter, and the eldest prince was also Zhou Shaoliang's grandson, so Zhou Shaoliang was definitely very anxious to regain the position of Queen.

Zhou Shaofen shook his head slowly and said, "There is priority for the matter. We should not worry about the position of queen first, but we should get rid of Zhao Kuo first.

As long as Zhao Kuo is eliminated, the power in the entire Zhao State belongs to us. At that time, we are slowly making arrangements and we can naturally take back the position of queen.

But if we go to war with Zhao Kuo and Queen Li at the same time, then maybe the king's attitude will change, which will cause changes that are not conducive to us. Do you understand?"

Although Zhou Shaoliang was indeed very anxious, after hearing Zhou Shaofen's words, he could only nod helplessly and said, "Okay, get rid of Zhao Kuo first, and then make other plans."

Things seem to be no longer suspense, you just need to wait for Li Mu's return.

But the problem is that Li Mu will not be able to come back for a while, after all, the war on Qi State has not yet ended.

What is surprising is that when the people of Qi learned that the King of Qi was captured, they had developed stronger combat power.

Among the other soldiers sent out, only one of Li Mu was progressing smoothly, and the other soldiers and horses all encountered setbacks.

So after leaving a unit to guard Linzi City, Li Mu continued to lead an army of 60,000 to march eastward to conquer the remaining cities of Qi.

Li Mu's action was reported to King Zhao immediately. King Zhao was speechless when he heard it, but King Zhao knew that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Instead, if he was too anxious, Zhao Kuo would see abnormality, so he naturally agreed.

Therefore, Li Mu has not returned yet, but Xu Li and Zhao Kuo have returned to the court one after another.

Xu Li is the most recent, so he came back a few days faster than Zhao Kuo.

Since there was no war on Xu Li's southern line and Zhao Kuo's western line this time, there was naturally no grand welcome and triumphal ceremony.

Su Li was obviously quite dissatisfied with this: "This king is too much. Although he did not win a battle, at least we expelled enemies from Qin and Chu for Da Zhao. He was not even willing to act like this?"

When Zhao Kuo heard this, he couldn't help but smile: "This is the king, young people, many times, although they are not impatient, they actually show their strength."

For Zhao Kuo, in fact, any triumphal ceremony is a triumphal event. In the past ten years, Zhao Kuo has not returned triumphantly, and in which year has it been cheering for everyone?

As for this year... Although there was no cheering to go out for triumphal success, Zhao Kuo knew that another grand, completely different triumphal ceremony was actually waving to him! Thinking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Kuo's mouth.

According to the regulations of Zhao State, the first thing a general who led his troops back to Handan was to enter the palace, return the tiger talisman, and return the axes and halberds in the ancestral temple. Zhao Kuo this time was of course no exception.

Although there was no triumphal ceremony, King Zhao still had to be present for rituals such as the return of tiger talismans and axes.

In front of the ancestral temple, Zhao Kuo met King Zhao.

"I've seen the king."

Zhao Kuo was still as calm as ever.

The eyes of King Zhao looking at Zhao Kuo were obviously much more complicated. After a while, he said, "Mr. Wu Xin, don't have to be too polite."

Next, the ceremony was held step by step.

Today, it is very deserted outside the ancestral temple, and the same is true inside the ancestral temple, with only King Zhao and Zhao Kuo.

King Zhao looked at Zhao Kuo respectfully put the axe back to its original place, and suddenly said, "Mr. Wu Xinjun, I heard that you had a meeting with the Qin general Wang Jian when you were fighting with the Qin people?"

Zhao Kuo paused and said, "Yes, I want to see if I can persuade Wang Jian to surrender and serve our Great Zhao."

"Please surrender Wang Jian?"

When King Zhao heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "This matter is probably not that simple."

Zhao Kuo nodded and said, "It's really not that simple. Wang Jian is actually still concerned about Qin. What I can do now is to lay a nail in his heart, which may be useful in the future."

King Zhao smiled and said, "I think I may not be able to use it."

Zhao Kuo didn't say anything.

In such an atmosphere, the two left the ancestral temple together.

Subsequently, the eunuch ordered the reward to Zhao Kuo.

It is said to be a reward, but because there is no war, the so-called reward this time is actually some money that is not painful, and it has no meaning to Zhao Kuo.

Next, there was no celebration banquet at all, so King Zhao asked Zhao Kuo to go home directly.

Zhao Kuo had no objection and returned home happily to reunite with his wife and children.

That night, a secret guest came to Zhao Kuo's study.
Chapter completed!