The King of Wei sat at the top, looking at the civil and military ministers below, except that the most familiar figure was missing.
The figure of Wei Wuji appeared in King Wei's mind. He grew up together, studied together, and played together. Although he was not a sibling from the same mother, he was no different from his sibling.
Wei Wuji is younger than him, but smarter than him. He has been faster at things than him since elementary school. Wei Wuji is the one who makes the decision in everything they do, but it is he who takes the blame when they get into trouble in the end.
At that time, the King of Wei only loved his younger brother. The King of Wei once told Wei Wuji that when he became the King of Wei in the future, he would make his younger brother the prime minister and leave the Wei Kingdom to him to govern, and he would be responsible for eating, drinking and having fun!
Later, he became the King of Wei, but he became jealous of Wei Wuji's talent, worried that Wei Wuji would usurp his throne, and wanted to drive Wei Wuji away.
As Wei Wuji performed better and better and had more and more followers under his command, King Wei became more and more worried.
How could he not know that Wei Wuji killed Duan Qianzi for his own good, but he was afraid!
He doesn't dare to gamble!
Now that Wei Wuji has gone to Zhao Kingdom, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and no longer worried about someone taking his throne.
But I felt very disappointed and missed Wei Wuji in Zhao Kingdom.
No matter what, they are brothers after all.
The broken bones are still connected with tendons.
"Re-confer Xinling to Lord Xinling, Wei Wuji." King Wei sighed deeply, waved his hand and said, "Let him... talk to King Zhao, and he can come back to see when he has nothing to do. The Kingdom of Wei... is still him
s home……"
The ministers of the Wei State did not stop him. After the news came that Wei Wuji was appointed prime minister by Zhao Kuo, everyone understood that Wei Wuji was not just a hostage in Zhao State.
The king of Wei granted the Xinling Mausoleum to Wei Wuji not only to ease the relationship with Wei Wuji, but also to bring him closer to Zhao.
"Your Majesty, I heard that King Zhao sent someone to deliver a thousand pieces of white paper. I wonder if I can let you take a look at it." Fan Zuo said with cupped hands.
Compared with other things, he is more concerned about whether paper is really as magical as the legend says.
"Go and get the white paper sent by King Zhao, and give each person twenty pieces of paper." King Wei ordered.
"No." The old eunuch next to him bowed respectfully and walked toward the palace next to him with his head lowered.
When the Wei ministers heard this, they were so excited that they couldn't help themselves. Their eyes followed the eunuch closely. For the first time, they felt that the old eunuch was walking so slowly, and they wanted to step forward and carry him.
But they forgot that there was a eunuch who was rude and was sprayed by them for half an hour because he left too fast.
Not long after, several eunuchs came in carrying white papers.
"It's so white, so smooth, and it has a faint fragrance." Minister Wei gently stroked the white paper, and there was not a single wrinkle on it.
Each of these white papers is three feet square. After improvement, although it is still a little yellowed, it is almost pure white and the thickness is much more uniform.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward." Fan Zuo held the white paper that belonged to him, carefully placed it on the eucalyptus table in front of him, pressed it gently with his fan, then walked to the middle, leaned down and bowed.
"I would like to thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."
All the ministers walked to the center of the hall and bowed to King Wei.
No matter how the King of Wei usually behaves, after getting the paper, he took it out and shared it with them without saying anything. This alone makes him worthy of their loyalty.
"Okay, now I have given the reward to you. If you want to see it, you can wait until you get home. Now let's get down to business." King Wei waved his hand and said, "A few days ago, there was news about the library from the State of Zhao. As long as you have the household registration of the State of Zhao, you can
You can borrow books freely. Now there is news about the construction of a library in the Qin State. Dear friends, do you have any good ideas?"
"We will also build the Kingdom of Wei." Someone immediately said.
"No, this will anger the State of Zhao. The State of Zhao built a library to attract scholars from all over the world. If our country also builds a collection of libraries, it will compete with the State of Zhao for scholars. King Zhao will definitely be displeased." Tai
Fu Zhangyan stopped him.
"Why should I, the State of Wei, care whether King Zhao likes or not what he does?"
"But our country, Wei, needs the help of Zhao to train cavalry, and we need to rely on Zhao to resist Qin. If our country still wants to obtain paper from Zhao, we must not anger King Zhao." Zhang Yan raised the paper in his hand and said, "I heard that
, all countries in the world received the paper presented by King Zhao, even Wei and Lu received three hundred pieces of paper, but Qin did not receive even one. You don’t want me, Wei, to become like Qin."
When everyone heard this, they immediately fell silent. If it had been before, they would have had the courage to break up with Zhao Guo.
Now that they have seen the paper, they really don’t want to write with the rough and heavy bamboo slips anymore. Their hands have already developed a thick layer of calluses, and they have to peel it off with a knife every time they make a mistake. If they are not careful, they will get scratched.
finger.
King Wei heard nothing else but remembered one sentence: Wei Guo got three hundred pieces of paper.
"Is this true?" King Wei looked at the eunuch next to him.
"This matter... I don't know about this either, but since it was said by the Taifu, it should be true." The eunuch said quickly.
"Send an order to Lord Wei and ask him to send two hundred pieces of paper to Daliang." King Wei said.
Although Wei State still existed at this time, it was no different from being destroyed. Only the capital Puyang remained. Wei State asked him to go east, but he did not dare to go west.
"No." The eunuch responded in a low voice.
"Your Majesty, even if our Wei State does not build a library, we must still select talented people from all over the world to revitalize the Wei State." Fan Zuo said solemnly.
As Fan Zuo, who had helped Wei suppress Zhao for more than ten years and became the leader of the Hezong Alliance, how could he be willing to let Wei continue to be Zhao's younger brother?
"Ai Qing, what suggestions do you have?" King Wei asked immediately.
It would be best if we could get talents without offending Zhao Guo.
"I suggest that the king send an order to the whole country, and each county recommends two talents to the country. The king will assess and appoint officials and titles. Each of the ministers present should also recommend one talents." Fan Zuo said.
Since you can't build a library, you have to use other methods to obtain talents. The method is thought up by people.
"Okay. I will give the order now." King Wei followed the advice smoothly.
"Your Majesty, I recommend Mang Mao." Jin Bi took a step forward, cupped his fists and said.
Today's Jin Bi is different from the past. He exudes a powerful aura and is not inferior to most famous generals at all.
After Jin Bi was defeated and returned to Daliang, he asked King Wei to resign. Even though King Wei repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay and said that he did not blame him, Jin Bi still refused.
He felt that he was not worthy of King Wei's favor, could not shoulder this responsibility, and was not worthy of commanding the army of Wei.
After the frustrated Jin Bi returned home, he had to accept the fact that he was just an ordinary person. No talent was just talent, and no matter how hard he worked, it was useless.
He did not train hard every day as before, but chose to be an ordinary person, spending time with his wife and concubines, educating his children, and going to the fields to farm with the tenant farmers when he had nothing to do.
Half a month later, Jin Bi suddenly felt something strange in his body while sleeping. When he opened his eyes, he had broken through to the transcendent realm and had a talent.
Diligence can make up for weakness: every time you train or fight, you and your soldiers can improve their weak strength.
After the King of Wei learned the news, he immediately sent someone to call Jin Bi back, and recruited 20,000 soldiers from Hedong and Hanoi to be trained by Jin Bi.
Now that the Wei State has a larger territory, it no longer needs to fiddle with things like before. It can still afford a mere 20,000 professional soldiers.
This time Jin Bi did not refuse and accepted it happily. He felt that he could support this heavy burden now!
When the king of Wei heard this, he hesitated a little.
Mang Mao was once a general of the Wei State. The famous Battle of Huayang was starred by Mang Mao and Wu'an Army Bai Qi. In the end, Mang Mao was defeated and the 130,000-strong army was annihilated.
Although he was defeated, it is undeniable that Mang Mao was one of the few capable generals that Wei could find. Even Jin Bi now dared not say that he could defeat Mang Mao for sure.
If there is a choice, if the Wei State is like Zhao and Qin, and the famous generals are like rain, the King of Wei will never use Mang Mao again, but the Wei State does not have that many famous generals...