Under the urging of Lihou Han Wu, the Wuan Han army launched a fierce offensive against the high walls from mid-July.

But what made the Han soldiers feel quite helpless was that the Wei soldiers repaired the Great Wall in this area very fast, and could build hundreds of feet away in three or five days.

What's more important is that the Wei army adopted something like mud as the adhesive between bricks and stones, making the repaired Great Wall particularly solid. Even if the Han army built a catapult to smash it, the effect would be minimal. Their damage to this high wall was not as fast as the Wei army's repair.

During this period, although the cavalry guarding Qin Kai in Yuyang continued to harass the Wei soldiers, attempting to delay the speed of the Wei soldiers repairing the high walls, to be honest, the effect was not obvious. The Wei army used a Wugang chariot to pose a defensive posture on the periphery of the high walls, so that the harassment of the Korean cavalry by the crossbows was not painful at all for the Wei soldiers repairing the high walls.

Under such circumstances, the Korean army launched a fierce attack with high walls regardless of everything, but unfortunately, they were all repelled by the Su Wang Army and the Wei Wu Army.

As it was almost the end of August, Lihou Han Wu finally decided to send someone to Handan to negotiate with the Prince Wei of Mr. Run.

The best candidate was originally the scholar-official Han Chao. Unfortunately, Han Chao did not escape before and after the fall of Handan that day. Therefore, Lihou Han Wu sent Zhao Zhuo, who had previously negotiated with the Wei side, as an envoy.

On July 27, Zhao Hongrun learned that Wu'an envoy Zhao Zhuo came in Handan, so he met with the lobbyist who had met once in the Han Palace.

In fact, Zhao Hongrun knew very well what Zhao Zhuo came to, it was nothing more than the autumn harvest coming, and Wu'an could not hold on.

After all, before and after the autumn harvest, South Korea will be jointly attacked by many foreign tribes such as Lin Hu, Xiongnu, and Donghu. These foreign robbers' attacks on South Korea are not like the troops of Central Plains such as Wei.

It is no exaggeration to say that the actions of the Beiyi Army were far less than the attitudes of the grassland aliens towards the people of the Central Plains.

In the mouths of some cruel foreign tribes, the people of the Central Plains are called "two-legged sheep". You can imagine how cruel and bloody it is.

In the courtyard where hundreds of birds were kept in the Han Palace, Zhao Hongrun met with the Wu'an envoy Zhao Zhuo.

I have to say that Zhao Zhuo was really surprised that Zhao Hongrun would choose the place where he would meet.

Zhao Zhuo knew this courtyard. This was the "Hundred Bird Garden" of their puppet king Han Wangran. The courtyard housed many birds with bright feathers and pleasant singing.

As far as Zhao Zhuo knew, there were hundreds of birds in this courtyard at the most, so Lihou Han Wu once wrote the word "Bird Forest".

"Young Master Wei...is also a bird?"

When he walked into this courtyard and saw Zhao Hongrun, who had once met once, standing in front of a bird cage, teasing the precious birds in the cage, Zhao Zhuo was surprised.

After all, their king, Han Wangran, has long become a typical example of "playing with things and losing their ambition" because of his love of playing with birds, and has been privately discussed by many Koreans. The young master Wei Run in front of him doesn't look like this kind of person no matter how he looks.

Therefore, Zhao Zhuo asked with a bold smile: "Young Master Run also likes to raise birds?"

Zhao Hongrun turned his head and looked at Zhao Zhuo, and said with a smile: "I have an uncle named Wang, whose name is "Qi", who likes all kinds of rare and toys, and the sounds of dogs and horses..."

"So it's Lord Ji Qi!" Zhao Zhuo said in surprise. The "Ji Qi" he said was Zhao Hongrun's six kings and Zhao Yuanqi.

"Your instructor has heard of my sixth uncle?" Zhao Hongrun was also a little surprised when he heard Zhao Zhuo's words.

After hearing Zhao Hongrun’s inquiry, Zhao Zhuo smiled and said, “Mr. Ji Qi, can Zhao not know him? When Lord Ji Qi visited my Mingchuan in Dahan, even if he was the former king, he had warmly entertained Lord Ji Qi and presented Lord Ji Qi as a guest of honor.”

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Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth, and was shocked.

He could naturally guess that the former king in Zhao Zhuo's words should refer to the Korean wise king "King Han Qi". In other words, Zhao Yuanqi, the sixth uncle who had received him, was regarded as a guest of honor?

Zhao Hongrun, who was originally just mentioned casually, was not only a little stunned after hearing about this incident, but also felt that the Sixth Uncle Wang’s connections were really powerful, and they had developed into South Korea. Even King Qi of Han regarded him as a guest of honor.

Zhao Hongrun really didn't know what to say about this.

At this time, Zhao Zhuo didn't know what Zhao Hongrun was thinking, and stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Zhao is blessed and has never visited Lord Ji Qi in person. However, as far as Zhao knows, Lord Ji Qi had visited my Dahan many times when he was young. However, in the past seven or eight years, Lord Ji Qi has not visited my Dahan to visit friends again, and I don't know why."

Of course, Zhao Hongrun would not think it was because of the evil relationship between Wei and Han. After all, in this era, public is public and private is private. Even if the war between Wei and Han countries begins, a Wei person visits a Han person, or a Han person visits a Wei person, it is not a strange thing.

Unless the conflict between Wei and Han countries rises to ethnic conflicts, just like the Wei and Ba people, the country generally does not care about such things.

Of course, the premise is that you have to be a "civilian" without an official position. If you are an official, the situation will be completely different.

Although Zhao Hongrun's six kings were born noble, he had no official position before and had a position. Therefore, even as a guest of honor for King Han, no one would say anything more. Instead, some people would admire him and be regarded as a guest of King Han.

As for why Zhao Yuanqi, the sixth uncle, stopped coming to Korea seven or eight years ago, Zhao Hongrun can answer his doubts: because Zhao Yuanqi went to Longxi.

Of course, there is no need for Zhao Hongrun to explain this kind of thing specifically to Zhao Zhuo. Therefore, after smiling, he brought the topic back: "What can I do if I have any advice when I come here?"

"I dare not see the sect." Zhao Zhuo owed his body and said, "I came here this time to follow the order of Marquis of Li. Marquis of Li hopes to discuss the military affairs of the two countries with Prince Run.... I hope that the two countries will shake hands and make peace again."

"Lihou...is that Han Wu?"

"Ha." Zhao Hongrun sneered when he heard this, and said lightly: "I also hope that you and our countries will be harmonious and neighbors. However, your country has frequently attacked our Great Wei for decades. Even if it is swallowed up Shangdang, it is still not satisfied, and it still covets the Hedong County of our Great Wei..."

"Young Master Run." Zhao Zhuo was about to speak, but was interrupted by Zhao Hongrun's hand.

Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhao Zhuo and said seriously: "I know why Mr. Li sent a noble envoy to come. It's just that the autumn harvest is approaching, and the borders of your country may be attacked by foreigners... Although gentlemen do not take advantage of others' danger, in my opinion, this is not a fighter opportunity."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhuo's expression changed drastically and immediately said seriously: "Prince Run, please listen to my words!... The evil of Han and Wei is the siege of brothers; the evil of Rong and Di is the evil of neighbors outside the family. Rong and Di is the hair and the left lapel, does not cultivate benevolence and morality, and does not respect the king's way. This is not my race. If Prince Run, if he is close to Rong and Di and attacks my Dahan, he will lead a wolf into the house and cause disaster to the Central Plains."

"..." Zhao Hongrun said silently.

To be honest, he just used Zhao Zhuo's mouth to pass on his to Wu'an to scare the Koreans. Will he really do this? Of course not.

As Zhao Zhuo said, whether it is the evil between Wei and Han, or the evil between Qi and Han, it is all a conflict between brothers and a national contradiction between the Central Plains countries, but Rongdi and Central Plains are ethnic contradictions that are incompatible with water and fire. "Note: The race here refers to cultural differences, not racial differences in a narrow sense."

If Zhao Hongrun was close to Rongdi in order to attack South Korea, he instigated the latter to take the opportunity to invade South Korea, then there would be countless scholars in the world who would stand up to accuse Zhao Hongrun.

Zhao Hongrun even heard that when the father of King Lu Xi of Qi, Lu Zhu, had a feud with South Korea when he was reigned, and war broke out between the two countries. However, when King Lu Zhu of Qi heard that the Beiyan County of South Korea was invaded by the Donghu, he immediately stopped attacking South Korea and sent a letter to urge the South Korean army to go north to resist the enemy.

Later, before South Korea defeated Donghu, Qi did not violate South Korea.

This is enough to prove that when facing foreign ethnic groups, the attitudes of the Central Plains countries are consistent.

Zhao Hongrun was not unclear about these things, but he did not have the noble ethics as King Lu Zhu of Qi, and did not scrape anything from Korea to return, so as to make up for the huge manpower and material resources that Wei State invested in this battle.

And his expression of silentness at the right time was just to give Zhao Zhuo a chance to further persuade him, or to put it bluntly, to give South Korea the opportunity to "buy" him with practical interests to retreat.

Sure enough, seeing Zhao Hongrun's face showing hesitation, Zhao Zhuo took advantage of the iron heat, quoted the words of his ancestors, and gave up many examples to persuade Zhao Hongrun. Finally, Zhao Hongrun "returned after he was lost" and gave up his plan to marry Rong Di and attack South Korea.

"The words of the envoy have moved me, but... how can I return Handan so easily? How can I explain this to the court in the country, the people of Wei?" I looked at Zhao Zhuo in dismay, and Zhao Hongrun said angrily: "The Rong Di invaded your border, and it was not my instigation!"

So Zhao Zhuo understood that in his opinion, the young master Wei Run in front of him should have been persuaded by him, willing to terminate the military service of Wei and Han, and return Handan to him to Han, but this young master Wei Run was unwilling to give up like this.

After all, Zhao Zhuo also understood that in recent decades, South Korea has indeed forced Wei too much, and he would beat him whenever he wanted to fight. No wonder this young master Run was resentful.

But this is easy to solve. As long as sufficient compensation is given to resolve the resentment in the heart of Mr. Wei, Wei Bing will naturally retreat.

As for what price to pay to persuade Mr. Wei to withdraw from the army, it is not his Zhao Zhuo task. Marquis of Li, Han Wu, will personally negotiate with Mr. Wei. As long as he and Zhao Zhuo ensure that Mr. Wei is willing to make peace with Han, his mission will be achieved.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhuo said to Zhao Hongrun: "It's not advisable to go back to Wu'an and report this to Mr. Li. I believe Mr. Li will definitely give Mr. Run a satisfactory reply."

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun wanted to nod, but suddenly he saw the numerous bird cages in the courtyard from the corner of his eyes, and his heart moved slightly.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Hongrun deliberately said with a stern face: "Why is the Marquis of your country negotiating with me? Isn't this king worthy of negotiating with King Han in person?"

Zhao Zhuo was stunned when he heard this.

God sees pitifulness. Now that he is in Korea, who dares to underestimate the young master Wei Run in front of him? But the problem is that his king of Korea, "Han Wangran", is just a puppet, how can he make the decision?

Therefore, he said obscurely: "Young Master Run doesn't know that in this matter, Lihou is more suitable than the King... well,"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said seriously as if he was unaware of it: "If the name is not correct, the words will not be smooth. This matter is of great importance. King Han should come forward!"

"this……"

Seeing Zhao Hongrun insisting, Zhao Zhuo couldn't refute it, so he simply returned to Wu'an with this news and asked Wu'an to agree on it.

Anyway, his mission has been completed.
Chapter completed!