When he returned to the mansion, Zhao Kuo looked at the many allies who had been waiting for a long time and his confidants smiled: "You guys have been waiting for a long time!"

Everyone present smiled tacitly about Zhao Kuo's words.

As we all know, a storm will begin in Handan.

Moreover, they were all very confident and believed that Zhao Kuo would definitely win in the future! A few days later, a routine court meeting was held.

In the morning, Zhao Kuo got on a carriage as usual and headed towards the Zhao Palace.

On the carriage, Zhao Kuo asked Su Li, "Is everything done?"

Su Li nodded slightly and smiled, "It's all solved, just wait for those people to get into the trap themselves."

Zhao Kuo nodded and reminded: "That's good, but you should also pay attention. Before the last moment, you must not relax at all."

After so many years of political struggle, Zhao Kuo learned a truth.

In fact, things are not always smooth as expected, because people's ideas are too changeable. Many times, inferences in advance can only mean that things will likely go in that direction, and they cannot make things 100% towards the expected results.

To avoid this, the more detailed the preparation, the better, so that you can respond quickly enough when an accident occurs.

One minute on stage, ten years of hard work off stage.

In order to perform today's big drama, Zhao Kuo has done a lot of work.

Today is the time to witness the results! Zhao Kuo thought about it, suddenly opened the window and stared at the approaching Zhao King Palace.

The coldest time of winter has actually passed, and the snow outside has slowly shown signs of stopping. Although the palace of Zhao State is still covered by ice and snow, everyone knows that spring is coming soon.

Because of Zhao Kuo's father, Ma Fujun Zhao She, Zhao Kuo had actually entered this palace when he was very young.

Over the past twenty years, Zhao Kuo has witnessed the palace gradually getting bigger, becoming more magnificent, and more majestic.

The changes in the palace are actually a microcosm of the changes in the national strength of Zhao State.

These twenty years are actually the time when Zhao State continues to become stronger.

Moreover, Zhao Kuo knew very clearly that the power of Zhao State was not only for the past twenty years, but also became even stronger in the future, even the kind of power that everyone could not expect.

However, the person who controls such a powerful Zhao State in the future cannot be the King of Zhao in front of him, but will definitely be Zhao Kuo himself.

In order to achieve this, Zhao Kuo has carefully cultivated his power over the past 10 years, slowly extending his tentacles to every corner of Zhao State, and finally has the power he has now.

Now the highest throne is close at hand. Zhao Kuo only needs to overthrow the last two political enemies to completely control the government of Zhao and achieve a weakening of the King of Zhao.

At this critical moment, Zhao Kuo would never allow any failure.

Finally, the carriage slowly stopped, Zhao Kuo walked off the carriage and looked at the high platform palace in front of him that seemed to be in the clouds.

Let the storm come more violently.

Zhao Kuo had just walked a few steps, and then heard the sound of a carriage. Pang Qian and Li Mu also arrived one after another.

The three of them walked side by side, and walked into the hall with Zhao Kuo as the center.

In the hall, the Zhou brothers had already sat down, and their expressions seemed to be a little excited.

Of course, Zhao Kuo knew where their excitement came from, because in the eyes of the Zhou brothers, today is the day to defeat Concubine Li.

Zhou Shaofen smiled and greeted Zhao Kuo: "Wu Xinjun went to Daliang City to make great contributions to our Zhao State. Thank you so much."

If Zhao Kuo did not know the plan of the Zhou brothers today, then Zhao Kuo would feel that Zhou Shaofen was eased.

But now Zhao Kuo knew what the Zhou brothers were thinking, so he knew very clearly that this was actually Zhou Shaofen vaguely provoking Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo smiled calmly and said to Zhou Shaofen: "Yes, yes, I went to Daliang City this time mainly to solve some sluts who only hide in the secret and practice conspiracies. It is said that there are many such people in Handan City. Next, I also want to find them out and let them know what it means to be powerful."

When Zhou Shaofen heard this, he was stunned.

Zhao Kuo's words sound impeccable, but if you savor it carefully, it seems to be pointing out, and it seems to be pointing to the Zhou brothers, which inevitably made Zhou Shaofen have some associations in his heart.

Before Zhou Shaofen could specifically transform these associations in his heart into a positive thought, the voice of the eunuchs had already sounded.

"The king is here!"

As soon as King Zhao came, everyone immediately cheered up and stood up to salute King Zhao.

King Zhao was in a very good mood and said to everyone present with a smile: "There is no need to be too polite today, it is just a routine meeting.

I took a look and found that there should be nothing important. Everyone just discussed it casually and then went home to roast the stove."

This King Zhao is very young, so he doesn't put on any airs. Although he has shortcomings, he has advantages.

The most important thing to discuss this time was of course Zhao Kuo's experience in Daliang City. Zhao Kuo told everyone all the way, which made everyone's hearts secretly admire him.

King Zhao couldn't help but slam his thigh and said, "I heard Wu Xinjun roughly talk about the incident a few days ago, but today after listening to all the details of the whole thing, I think you may have killed too few people.

If it were me, I'm afraid that Daliang City would be dyed red by blood."

King Zhao never concealed his side of killing. For this young man, those who disobeyed will die.

When Zhao Kuo heard this, he also showed a helpless smile and said to King Zhao: "The king is so serious. After all, the old minister has to solve the problem. If he really killed so many people, he would probably have fewer people to pay taxes to the king next."

King Zhao waved his hand and said disapprovingly: "What's there to be afraid of?

The market in Daliang City is there. Even if we kill a group of merchants, a new group of merchants will rise up. The people who pay taxes will always be there. We don’t worry about this at all.”

King Zhao's words were immediately recognized by everyone present, and even the Zhou brothers were no exception.

For the ruling class of this era, the merchant class is not considered a human being in the eyes of the ruling class. Among the four levels of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, merchants actually have the largest wealth on average, but they are the lowest social status.

This is mainly because in this era, agricultural society is still the main focus, and food, a necessary product that maintains the operation of the country, can only be produced through land. If a large number of farmers abandon their land and go to do business, then the interests of the country will be seriously damaged.

Against this background, it is not surprising that all Chinese dynasties have adopted the policy of suppressing merchants. Even during the Song Dynasty, which claimed to be the most tolerant of merchants, the status of merchants was still relatively low, and no one was willing to choose to take the initiative to be a merchant between being an official and a merchant.

This situation changed. After the Industrial Revolution, the huge development of productivity promoted the huge development of grain output. In this way, the excess agricultural population could be finally invested in business. In addition, the merchants and business aristocrats who gained benefits from business took control of the state power, and the whole thing really changed.

At least at this time, businessmen are definitely not a decent profession, which is why Lu Buwei has actually become the top ten richest people in the world, but he still has to try every means to please Ying Zichu, a down-and-out Qin prince grandson.

In general, this time the court discussion was quite harmonious.

Because no new war broke out recently, and winter also led to the political struggle not as fierce as before, so everyone discussed some things and then they could break up, just as they said before the meeting with King Zhao.

As time passed by minute by minute, Zhao Kuo's eyes quietly swept over the Zhou brothers, and indeed found that the expressions of the two brothers began to be a little calm enough.

Because according to the previous plan, the Queen of Zhou should have appeared at this time.

So the question is, why didn’t Queen Zhou appear?

Zhao Kuo also wanted to know the answer to this question. In fact, Zhao Kuo was also worried. Could it be that Queen Zhou had discovered something wrong?

Fortunately, what should come at this time has come.

An eunuch quickly walked into the palace and reported to King Zhao: "King, the queen has something to ask for a meeting and said she must meet the king immediately."

Without any mental preparation, King Zhao was stunned after hearing this sentence.

Generally speaking, as the lord of the harem, the queen could not have anything to do when she suddenly ran away at such a time when the King of Zhao started a court discussion. Instead, she should come to see King of Zhao after the court discussion was over.

At this time, Zhao Kuo felt that the Zhou brothers' gaze seemed to sweep across his face, and he showed a surprised expression in great harmony.

King Zhao couldn't help but speak, "You go and tell the queen what's wrong. I'll talk about it after the meeting. It's not suitable now."

When King Zhao said this, his tone was a little unhappy.

In the eyes of King Zhao, this is a very ignorant manifestation. Why do you, a woman, come to make trouble while you discuss national affairs?

When King Zhao said this, the Zhou brothers were immediately anxious.

Zhou Shaofen couldn't help but speak, "King, the Queen has always been a very sensible person. If there wasn't something that must be said, she wouldn't be so impatient. Please summon the Queen to see what happened."

Zhou Shaofen couldn't help it. If King Zhao did not summon the queen at this time, then the Zhou brothers' plans to make things worse will be ruined.

After hearing Zhou Shaofen's words, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but feel funny in his heart. You thought this was your path to success, but you didn't know that this was actually a trap.

In order to make the whole drama more realistic, Zhao Kuo immediately objected: "Zhou Qing's words are wrong. The queen is in charge of the palace, that is, the king's family affairs.

Since it is a family matter, it is not our foreign ministers who will intervene. If there is anything, the king and the queen will discuss and resolve it. So let’s wait until the court discussion is over."

When Zhao Kuo said this, on the one hand, he maintained the image of being against Zhou Shaofen on weekdays, and on the other hand, he also proved to Zhou Shaofen through an extremely obscure means that Zhao Kuo was actually not prepared.

Sure enough, after hearing what Zhao Kuo said, Zhou Shaofen's expression calmed down and said to Zhao Kuo: "Wu Xinjun, what you said is not right. The king is the master of our Zhao State. The king's family affairs are the state affairs of our Zhao State.

Since it is a state affairs, we are of course qualified to share the troubles of the king in this matter.

If someone betrays the king, then we can also help the king to destroy this person.”

When Zhou Shaofen said the last sentence, King Zhao's expression suddenly changed.

King Zhao suddenly remembered the thing that Queen Zhou had said before was the betrayal of Concubine Li.

Today, the Queen of Zhou suddenly came to find King Zhao in a hurry. Could it be that this matter failed?

King Zhao's eyes turned on Zhao Kuo and Zhou Shaofen, and finally spoke: "Since that's the case, let the queen come in and see what she wants to say."

After a moment, Queen Zhou walked into the hall.

As ministers, Zhao Kuo and others naturally stood up and saluted the Queen of Zhou.

The expression of the Queen of Zhou looked quite rapid. She just nodded politely to Zhao Kuo and others, then locked her eyes on King Zhao and said to King Zhao: "Do you still remember what I said before?

Today I have already got a definite answer, and some people have indeed betrayed the king.

I also asked the king and the concubines to know the truth.”

As Queen Zhou finished speaking, King Zhao's face suddenly changed.

For King Zhao, it was proved that Concubine Li’s betrayal was definitely not something that could make him happy.

King Zhao immediately stood up angrily and said, "What are you waiting for?"

Take me to take a look right away.”

It was at this moment that a smug expression flashed across Zhou Shaofen's face, and he quickly spoke, "Master, what happened?
Chapter completed!