Two months later, Han envoy Zhao Zhuo returned to Jicheng, the capital of South Korea, and returned to Han Wangran.

"According to the king's instructions, Han Chao stayed in Daliang and tried to find out information for our country. However, the Wei State was on guard against him. I think there will be no results in a short period of time."

Han Wangran nodded when he heard the words. He also knew that Han Chao stayed in Daliang, the royal capital of the Wei State, as the "Han Envoy to Wei", so he was bound to be monitored by the Wei State. But what was different from the ordinary work was that in Daliang

In this era, envoys from other countries have more or less privileges. Take Han Chao as an example, as long as he does not anger

King Zhao Run of Wei, even if Wei officials find out that Han Chao is using the identity of an envoy to do some secret work, spying on their Wei State intelligence, for the sake of the envoy, they will basically not embarrass Han Chao, even if Han Chao

If he went too far, the Wei court basically only gave him a stern verbal warning.

This is different from Qi Shi Tian Hu, who was ordered to be executed by Zhao Run. That Qi Shi Tian Hu was simply seeking death on his own and could not blame others.

"That's okay. According to my inference, in the next three to five years, Wei will not take any action easily..."

According to the news sent back by South Korea's detailed work, Han Wangran learned that Wei State was currently sparing no effort to carry out domestic construction, and various signs showed that it would not use troops externally for at least three to five years. This made him feel relieved, but inevitably a little wary.

Obviously, the current Wei State is accumulating resources and digesting previous benefits. A country that can still endure loneliness after gaining absolute advantage and hide its capabilities and bide its time to accumulate resources is really terrifying - because it will explode when the time comes.

When it comes out, it will be even scarier than it is now.

"Have you met Zhao Run? What has he been doing recently?"

After asking about some news about the Kingdom of Wei, Han Wangran couldn't help but ask about the current situation of Wei King Zhao Run.

"Still as diligent in serving the country as before." Zhao Zhuo simply told Han Wangran what he saw with his own eyes.

Han Wangran nodded. On the one hand, he secretly encouraged himself, but on the other hand, he also felt an inexplicable feeling of sympathy.

The person he admired most in his life, apart from King Jian of Han, was probably the King of Wei, Zhao Run, who was about the same age as him. Although it was said that the new king of Qi, Lu Bai, was also a quite intelligent and wise monarch, in Han Wangran's view, only

The king of Wei, Zhao Runcai, was worthy of spending his whole life chasing after him.

"By the way, Your Majesty, when I returned home, the King of Wei also entrusted me to deliver a letter to your Majesty."

With that said, Zhao Zhuo took out the letter from his arms and handed it to Han Wangran.

"Zhao Run? Do you have a letter for me?"

Han Wangran was a little surprised. He took the letter, opened it and glanced at it twice. He frowned slightly at first, but soon an inexplicable smile appeared on his face.

Zhao Zhuo looked on curiously and couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, I wonder what King Wei wrote in the letter?"

"Haha." Han Wangran smiled but said nothing.

In fact, not all of what Zhao Run wrote in the letter was good. There was also a lot of satire on South Korea's imitation of Wei's reform measures. However, in the eyes of Han Wangran, these satires seemed to be praise - the famous Wei

Wang Zhaorun had no choice but to ridicule him by writing letters to him. What is this if not praise?

Han Wangran felt happy when he thought that Zhao Run might be quite afraid of him.

What could be more satisfying than being feared by an opponent he recognized?

After thinking for a while, Han Wangran asked: "I heard that Zhao Run's concubine "Qin Ji" is about to give birth?"

The "Qin Ji" he refers to refers to Qin Shaojun - but the world still only knows that she is the princess of Qin, but they don't know that she is also pretending to be the prince of Qin.

Zhao Zhuo was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and said, "Probably...it must have been within the past few months."

After hearing this, Han Wangran said with a smile: "I will prepare a congratulatory gift for you to take to the Kingdom of Wei to celebrate Zhao Run's birth of another child... When the time comes, I will give you another letter, and you can deliver it on my behalf.

Give it to Zhao Run."

"..."

Zhao Zhuo opened his mouth with a strange expression.

He said to himself, after all, I am a well-known messenger, not a messenger sending letters back and forth between the two kings. Can you give me a more meaningful task?

However, he did not say what was in his heart in the end, or he felt that not everyone was honored to be the messenger for correspondence between the two monarchs, King Zhao Run of Wei and King Han Ran of Han - after all, these two were both recognized by Zhao Zhuo.

The respected king of the world.

After that, Han Wangran asked some more about the situation in Wei.

Zhao Zhuo recalled while replying: "According to my own eyes, there has not been much movement in Wei State recently, but something seems to have happened in the neighboring Wei State..."

With that said, he told Han Wangran exactly how Wei Wangfei and Wei Gongziyu had turned against each other, and how Wei Gongziyu died unfortunately. Han Wangran was quite surprised when he heard this.

"Wei Yu...did he show up soon when the Wei State held a "meeting" in Daliang last year? You and Han Chao told me at that time that he was also a quite outstanding leader."

"That's right." Zhao Zhuo said with emotion: "Although Wei Yu is not as good as the King of Wei, he still enjoys a high prestige in his country. I am also very surprised that such an outstanding leader died unexpectedly...

By the way, Your Majesty, it is said that Wei Yu is also the cousin of King Wei."

Hearing this, Han Wangran glanced at Zhao Zhuo, thought for a moment and asked, "What is Zhao Run's attitude towards this?"

As if guessing Han Wangran's thoughts, Zhao Zhuo replied: "The King of Wei adopted Wei Yu's children, and other than that, he never interfered in the internal affairs of the Wei Kingdom... However, because of Wei Yu's death, the people of Wei seemed to

I was quite disappointed with the King of Wei, so when I and others were on envoys to Daliang, I often heard that people from Wei were trekking and moving to the territory of Wei."

"Is it just the adopted child of Wei Yu..."

Han Wangran murmured in surprise.

Because in his opinion, the Wei State could take this opportunity to annex the Wei State in disguise - that is, support Wei Yu's youngest son Wei Yun to become the King of Wei, and gradually merge the Wei State into the territory of the Wei State.

"Is it because "Wei" is a vassal state and it is difficult to attack? Or is it because of other reasons?"

Han Wangran secretly guessed in his heart.

But having said that, this is just to satisfy Han Wangran's own curiosity. After all, Wei State is a vassal state of Wei State. Even if this country declines to the point of extreme decline, Han Wangran will never have any evil thoughts towards Wei State - because in his opinion

Come on, Wei Guo is the piece of meat that rotted in Wei Guo's pot. If anyone wants to use chopsticks against Wei Guo, then they may have to face the wrath of Wei Guo.

The general direction in Han Wangran's mind right now is Donghu in the north and Qi in the eastern part of the Central Plains!

The reason why the Donghu tribe was chosen is that South Korea needs a large number of war horses. After all, the war with Wei in recent years has caused South Korea to lose a large number of cavalry and war horses. Now, whether it is to restore cavalry or follow the example of Wei in

War horses are needed to lay track and carriages in the country. When there is a shortage of war horses in the country, Han Wangran will of course think of the foreign races on the northern grasslands.

Of course, using force is the last resort. If Donghu is willing to reconcile with South Korea and start trade with them, Han Wangran will also be willing to trade excellent war horses in a peaceful way. After all, the current general trend is that the Central Plains is strong and the grasslands are weak. Han Wangran will not

He is not afraid that his move to expand trade with Donghu will make those grassland aliens stronger.

As for the Qi State in the eastern part of the Central Plains, the reason is even simpler: for money!

You must know that some time ago, the state of Qi spent tens of millions of money to recruit martial arts warriors to fight against the Chu army. It really shocked the world and allowed the world to truly appreciate the financial resources of the state of Qi. In this world, there are really people who can rely on wealth.

A country that can win a national war by force.

Of course, conquering Qi does not mean that you must use the army. If you can use diplomacy to promote "the exchange of supplies between Han and Qi", this is also a strategy.

After losing Shangdang, they also lost southern Handan. Even Handan, the old royal capital, fell into the hands of the Wei State. South Korea is really short of money at present. The lack of money here does not mean that it is short of money.

There is a lack of real copper coins.

I still remember that after the third Wei-Korean Battle of Northern Frontier, South Korea lost the battle and had to pay a large sum of money to Wei. However, in this case, Lihou Hanwu still exhausted the treasury and built five

Bandai County's decision to reload the cavalry once plunged South Korea into an embarrassing situation similar to an economic crisis.

How did South Korea solve this problem at that time?

It's very simple, that is, a large amount of materials were exchanged for copper from the Wei State, and then the domestic nobles and families minted copper coins privately. In this way, the losses of the domestic noble class were passed on to the common people.

It is precisely for this reason that the later Korean court still had funds to support Daijun's heavy cavalry, and the domestic aristocracy still had money to squander, but it was a misery for the common people in the country, with a bunch of messy copper coins, good and bad, but

Can't buy what they want.

As a wise king with outstanding vision, Han Wangran would certainly not do anything like Lihou Han Wu who passed on the losses of the country and the losses of the nobility to the common people. He hoped to make the country rich and strong with the help of trade flow like Wei did.

Therefore, in addition to Wei, Qi was also included in South Korea's choices.

In addition, he also intended to secretly contact Qi State and sign an alliance with Qi State specifically to target Wei State. After all, Wei State had gradually become so powerful that it was making it difficult for other countries to sleep and eat.

A few days later, the Zhongqing of South Korea, "Kai Kaidi", followed Han Wangran's order and went to Qi as an envoy.

Around April, waiting for the Han envoy to come to Linzi, the capital of Qi State.

After seeing the prosperity and liveliness of Linzi, he opened his mouth and said in surprise: "I heard that Qi State has become increasingly depressed since the death of King Xi of Qi. I never thought that Linzi is still as lively as before."

In fact, he didn't know that there was a reason why Linzi became lively again: although the war between Qi and Chu was over, the hundreds of thousands or more martial arts warriors had not yet left Qi.

.These martial arts warriors from various countries in the Central Plains and the mainland of Qi State, because of the war between Qi and Chu, received a large sum of money from the Qi State court. With their money bags full, they stimulated the Linzi market.

This made Linzi glow again, as prosperous and lively as in the past.

Otherwise, in normal terms, Qi State's Linzi has gradually been surpassed by Wei State's Bolangsha Port City.

The next day, the Korean envoy openly asked to see King Lu Bai of Qi. After presenting his credentials, he agreed to the request of Qi and Han to communicate with each other.

If it had been more than ten or twenty years ago, the arrogant Qi people might not have accepted this kind of equal transaction requirement. Even a few years ago, there were still many Qi people who refused to face reality until the last time they returned to Chu.

The state declared war on Qi, and the state of Qi was almost attacked by the Chu army all the way to Beihai County, and almost fell. This made the Qi people who once thought so highly of themselves gradually put away their pride.

It has to be said that when the Qi State was finally willing to face up to its status as a Qi State, the Korean envoy Kai Kaidi established trade relations with the Qi State without any extra effort, and privately formed a business relationship with the Qi State.

became an alliance.

There is only one article in the treaty, that is, if South Korea or Qi is attacked by Wei, the other country shall provide unconditional support.

For the State of Qi, the arrival of the Han envoy Kaidai was only expected. Therefore, Qi Wangbai, Zhao Zhao, Tian Bao, Guan Zhong, Bao Shu and others were meeting with the Han envoy Kaikaidi on behalf of Han Wangran.

After reaching an agreement, they once again invested their energy in Weiguo, or in other words, in Dongjun, which was invaded by Weiguo in the last war.
To be continued...