In early March of the ninth year of Wei Xing'an, South Korea declared war on Wei. After this happened, most of the Wei merchants who stayed in South Korea abandoned their goods, money, and their plots against South Korea and fled back to Wei.

Those Wei merchants who were concerned about the goods and money in their hands had their goods and money confiscated by the Korean army soon after. Even they themselves were executed by the Korean army on the charge of "spies" - since South Korea

Having decided to declare war on Wei, there is no need to appease these hateful Wei merchants again just because they are afraid of angering Wei.

The most famous among them is a Wei Shang named "Feng Zhu". It is said that this person is a good friend of Wei Shang Wen Shaobo. Under the latter's instructions, he went to Handan North County to attack South Korea's economic system and monetary system, and successfully lured

This caused the civilians in Handan North County to abandon Korean copper coins and use Wei Guowan coins as their currency, which dealt a heavy blow to South Korea's local market. It is no exaggeration to say that this person played an important role in Zhang Qigong's strategy.

However, due to the inability to retreat in time, when South Korea declared war on Wei, Feng Zhu was in "Xiaquyang" near Dai County in Handan North County, inducing local civilians to abandon Korean copper coins. He was captured by the local Korean soldiers before he could escape.

It is worth mentioning that according to later rumors, when the Korean soldiers in Xiaquyang went to arrest Feng Zhu, Feng Zhu had already realized that something was wrong, so he left all his money and goods behind and prepared to escape from Xiaquyang in disguise.

It is a pity that the local county government in Xiaquyang hated Feng Zhu so much that they mobilized 500 soldiers stationed in the city to hunt down Feng Zhu. Although Feng Zhu was surrounded by dozens of Hu slaves who tried their best to protect him, in the end he was unfortunately killed.

He was captured by Han soldiers who went to Quyang.

When he was about to be arrested, Feng Zhu shouted that he was a merchant from Wei State, but unfortunately, this time, his identity as a merchant could not save his life - in the past, generally speaking, people like envoys and merchants could not save his life.

Groups enjoy certain special treatment in other countries. Unless they have done something extremely evil, all countries will give them some forgiveness.

It can only be said that Wei merchants like Feng Zhu were too eye-catching and hated by others in these incidents.

This also led to some Wei merchants who had obviously not participated in the previous commercial wars to be implicated. Not only were their money and goods confiscated by South Korea, but they themselves were also executed by the South Korean army on charges of spies.

Later, when the news came back to the Wei State, the merchants of the Wei State were filled with anger. This also made the merchants of the Wei State extremely united in the subsequent wars and spared no effort to help the Wei State court launch foreign wars. Maybe they also realized that,

Only when the Wei State becomes extremely powerful can merchants like them, who travel around the Central Plains, be protected by their own country and be truly safe. Otherwise, no matter how much money they have, they will be nothing more than rootless duckweeds.

This view is said to have been put forward by Wen Shaobo. Some people speculated that he wanted to unite the power of Wei merchants to avenge his friend Feng Zhu, but in the end, his words were agreed by most merchants.

On the other side, Wei King Zhao Run also received a letter from Wen Shaobo, and immediately learned the news that South Korea had declared war on his Wei State.

Of course, when South Korea declared war on Wei, it was not as simple as "I will fight you." In order to achieve greater justice, when South Korea declared war on Wei, it also listed various "unjust" behaviors of Wei, among which the main crimes were

'There are two.

First, the State of Wei indulged its own merchants and engaged in unfair and malicious competition against the State of Wei, causing heavy losses to South Korea.

Second, Wei merchants tried to destabilize South Korea (actually attacking South Korea's economic system and monetary system).

All in all, South Korea puts all the blame on the Wei State - of course, in fact, the fact that South Korea is in the situation it is today is mainly due to the Wei State.

In addition, South Korea also listed some unjust things done by the Wei State in the past years. For example, the Wei State was actually the overlord of the Central Plains. It originally set an example to stop the conflicts in the world, but in fact, the Wei State instigated the Qin State to attack South Korea.

In an attempt to further weaken South Korea, the other side openly and covertly carried out arms and arms transactions with Qin and South Korea at the same time. Their behavior was despicable and shameless. What followed was a series of words criticizing and criticizing Wei.

In this matter, Wei's reputation was more or less affected. Fortunately, South Korea's reputation was not much better after going through so much. Therefore, South Korea's accusations against Wei were more widely known by the world.

Understood as a 'routine accusation before declaring war', it did not receive much attention.

The one who received the news of "South Korea declared war on Wei" almost at the same time as Wei King Zhao Run was Gao Kuo, the Zuodu Lieutenant of Tiance Mansion. In fact, Gao Kuo even heard the news an hour earlier than Zhao Run.

, after all, the number of informants under the Tiance Mansion is many times greater than that of those Wei merchants.

Because of this, when Zhao Hongrun was carefully reading Uncle Wen's letters in the Ganlu Hall and standing at the window with his hands behind his back, thinking deeply, he saw Gao Kuo and Zhai Huang walking hand in hand from a distance.

Come.

"Ah, I will pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"Let's talk about it after we enter the palace."

Zhao Run smiled and said hello to Gao Kuo and Zhai Huang, indicating that they should go into the palace to talk in detail.

In the Jiande Palace, Gao Kuo was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, I have received news from South Korea and learned that South Korea declared war on the Wei Dynasty half a month ago..."

"Han Ran can't hold on any longer..." Zhao Hongrun nodded slightly.

Just as Han Wangran knew a lot about Zhao Run's character, Zhao Run also knew a lot about Han Ran's character.

In his opinion, Han Wangran has a slightly feminine personality and is good at forbearance. If Wei had not pushed South Korea to a dead end, the Korean monarch would never have easily started a war with Wei - because both of them understood that,

South Korea's current strength is not enough to resist Wei. In other words, it can only resist Wei's army for a short period of time, but it cannot defeat Wei's army by itself.

This allows Zhao Run to easily grasp the general situation in South Korea.

Seeing that the monarch in front of him showed no surprise, Gao Kuo was slightly surprised and asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, have you already heard about this?"

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, casually handed the secret letter sent by Mr. Wen Shaobo to Gao Kuo, and said, "This is the letter sent by Mr. Wen Shaobo from Feicheng."

Gao Kuo took the letter and looked at it twice.

At this time, General Zhai Huang of the Tiance Mansion stood aside and said, "Your Majesty, the Tiance Mansion is ready. Please give the order."

Zhao Run nodded, and then said in a deep voice: "Zhai Huang, according to the previous plan, ordered Wei Wujun to attack Dongjun in the name of Tiance Mansion! ... Send troops to Qi State!"

"Yes!" Zhai Huang responded with cupped fists.

On that day, the Luoyang court and Tiance Mansion issued royal orders respectively.

The difference is that the Luoyang court declared war on both Korea and Qi at the same time - the main one was against Qi.

In the declaration of war, the Wei State on the one hand denied South Korea's various crimes of "slandering" them, accusing South Korea of ​​being an immature wolf. Regardless of the Wei State's tolerance for it time and time again, it still did not forget its ambition to annex the Wei State;

On the other hand, Wei State also exposed Qi State's "crime", that is, Qi State surrendered to Wei State on the surface, but secretly colluded with the "unjust South Korea", secretly helped South Korea, and used some of the armaments built by South Korea.

Transported to Chu State and so on.

It is worth mentioning that although in this statement, the State of Wei clearly revealed that they had learned about the secret collusion between the "Han, Qi, and Chu" kingdoms, they did not declare war on the State of Chu. In the words of Wei King Zhao Run:

It's not the time yet.

That night, when Zhao Hongrun was about to take a rest in the Manlu Palace and plan to review the strategic thinking of this war, a chamberlain suddenly came to report that Queen Mi Jiang had come with several maids and was waiting outside the palace.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Hongrun immediately asked the eunuch Gao He to invite Mi Jiang to the palace.

As soon as Mi Jiang, who saw a phoenix crown and a beautiful woman, walked into the study room of the inner hall of Ganlu Hall, she immediately saw a map of the Central Plains countries hanging on the wall. Her husband, King Zhao Run of Wei, was standing next to this map at the moment.

He looked at her with a slightly complicated expression.

"Everyone, step back."

Mi Jiang said warmly with an expressionless face.

"Yes, Queen."

The left and right left in response, but the eunuch Gao He was a little at a loss. He glanced at Zhao Run subconsciously, and when Zhao Run nodded, he bowed and exited the study, and gently closed the door from the outside.

"Why are you here?"

Zhao Run took a few steps forward and stretched out his hand towards Mi Jiang.

The two have been married for many years, so when they get along, they are not as 'dishonest' as they were in the first few years - they obviously have each other in their hearts, but they pretend not to care, and even ridicule and ridicule each other.

But today, both parties are already familiar with each other. For example, when Zhao Hongrun stretched out his hand, Mi Jiang also extended his hand in cooperation.

"I thought the palace was a little boring, so I went out for a walk to relax, and somehow I ended up at the Manna Palace..." Mi Jiang explained softly.

Zhao Hongrun smiled slightly and asked pretending not to care, "Is it really unintentional?"

Mi Jiang was silent for a moment, and then said: "In addition, I also heard some rumors..."

Zhao Hongrun was not surprised by her words.

It was not difficult for him to guess that Mi Jiang must have come specifically for the Chu Kingdom, or in other words, for her cousin, King Xiong Tuo of Chu, who was as close as her brother.

"Did someone from the chamberlain secretly leak it to you?"

Zhao Hongrun asked casually.

Hearing this, Mi Jiang's eyes flashed with nervousness, and she quickly said: "Don't blame those people, I forced them..."

"With your personality, would you force others?"

Zhao Hongrun sneered, but he didn't say anything.

To be honest, he was not surprised by this matter. After all, Mi Jiang, as the queen of the Wei Kingdom, had a transcendent status. Naturally, someone in the palace would inevitably tip her off. Not to mention that according to the ancestral system, even the inner chamber supervisors were half under the supervision of the previous queens.

Moderate and help him take care of his harem.

However, the contemporary Wei Queen Mi Jiang has a quieter personality than the previous Queen Wang. She seems to be aloof from the world and never cares about the affairs in the palace. As a result, the harem is still occupied by the concubine Yang Yanxing.

- As for Qin Shaojun Ying Ying, she only showed her presence when she returned to Wei State. She is also a person who is too lazy to take charge of affairs.

This makes the relationship between the concubines of Zhao Run's generation extremely harmonious and harmonious, which is simply unprecedented.

As for the reason, it is simply because the girls lived together in Prince Su's Mansion back then. They already know each other well and are familiar with each other. It is unlikely that they would become intrigues over certain things.

"Are you in trouble in Chu country?"

After being silent for a while, Mi Jiang suddenly asked.

Zhao Hongrun pondered for a moment, but still did not speak, probably because he was not sure of Mi Jiang's purpose.

However, at this time, Mi Jiang sighed slightly and said: "Back then, you told me that the harmony between Wei and Chu could last for twenty years, which made me quite happy. I never thought that after only nine years, Wei and Chu

The two countries have reached the point where they are about to meet each other..."

"yes."

As if seeing the disappointment in Mi Jiang's eyes, Zhao Run also sighed with emotion.

To be fair, even though Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng of Chu State, frequently attacked Wei State more than 20 years ago, and Zhao Run once hated this person and even this country, but in fact, Zhao Run visited various countries in the Central Plains several times.
To be continued...