Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

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Miao Xian responded and was about to leave, but Zhao Dan stopped him after walking a few steps.

"By the way, you should send someone to inform the ministers, that is to say, I want to discuss with them the matter of the Qin envoys."

Basically, Zhao Guo's battle to destroy Qin's Lianheng has come to a perfect end.

For Zhao Guo, it is time to determine the next expansion direction.

Chapter 457 Contradiction Between Utilitarian Shortsightedness and Longsightedness (Second Update)

The next morning, the main hall of Longtai.

Since Lou Chang was punished, and then Pang Nuan and Zheng Zhu entered the core successively, there are now a total of seven Ministers of the State of Zhao.

Zhao Dan looked around the crowd, and then stopped on Pang Nuan.

Although Pang Nuan was born as a commoner, Zhao Dan supported him in order to restrain Lian Po, and Pang Nuan was well aware of this, so Pang Nuan would not get close to Lian Po.

Zhao Dan thought to himself: "According to Miao Xian's secret report, Pang Nuan seems to be getting closer to Zhao Sheng recently. It seems that he will soon become a member of Zhao Sheng's faction."

In this way, the Gongzu faction may restore three people again.

But Lian Po and Yu Xin's actions are not small.

I heard that Yu Xin and Yushi Li Bo have been walking around a lot recently, and because of some officials' problems, Li Bo and Si Kou Zhao Bao seem to be a little unhappy, so it is very likely that Li Bo will join Yu Xin Lianpo's side.

To be honest, Zhao Dan doesn't really like this situation.

You courtiers should be courtiers well, thinking in your heart that it is good to be loyal to the widow, why do you form cliques all day long?

But Zhao Dan is also very clear in his heart that alliances for political interests are actually a very normal thing, and any dynasty has them.

In the court halls of many dynasties, there are usually two factions or even more factions. These factions usually include ministers, generals, nobles, eunuchs, relatives, etc. Basically, you will sing and I will appear on the stage.

That is to say, this era is rather special, because the distinction between ministers and military generals began at the end of the Warring States Period. Before that, both military and military generals were required, so the sharp confrontation between officials and military generals like in later generations does not exist yet.

However, other factions have also begun to appear. For example, Miao Xian is an eunuch. Although he is not one of the seven ministers, his influence is actually not bad compared to any of the seven ministers.

Another example is Zheng Zhu, the only one among the seven ministers who has not yet stood in line. Zheng Zhu is a descendant of the Zheng family.

Now there is Mrs. Zheng in the palace of Zhao Dan who is the younger sister of this Zheng Zhu, so Zheng Zhu is actually a relative of Zhao Guo.

This Zhao country really has everything that one expects to find in the political arena.

Zhao Dan sighed secretly in his heart, that's all, if the water is clear, there will be no fish.

Zhao Dan's expression changed, and he began to get to the point.

"You must have known about the arrival of the Qin mission, so I summoned you today to ask, how should I answer the people of Qin now?"

Everyone is a smart person, so it was immediately obvious that the king is about to determine the next strategy.

Some people may ask, why do we have to wait until this time to discuss the next step of national policy, why can't we make a long-term plan, what is the five-year and ten-year plan?

This is actually an interesting topic.

If you look at it from the perspective of later generations, you will feel that many times the monarchs of the Warring States Period did not seem to have a long-term goal, and often made some short-sighted actions in the eyes of later generations.

Many chapters hold this point of view, the more typical and well-known ones are Six Kingdoms on Qin and so on.

But are the monarchs of these Warring States really so stupid?

The first thing to note is that before the Warring States Period, there had never been a powerful country that could be called a unified dynasty in the entire land of China.

That is to say, maybe even Qin himself, the final victor, didn't know what the great unification looked like before the victory.

Therefore, in history, it is really not surprising that the six countries competed to cede land and bribe Qin.

When Qi was strong, didn't Qin have to cede land so that Qi's army could withdraw from Hangu Pass?

When the state of Chu was strong, it also demanded anything from Han and Wei.

Zhao Guo is now powerful, and Wei Guo and Qin Guo also ceded large areas of territory.

why?Because all the vassal states think that if you are the overlord, you will be the overlord. Anyway, you will be prosperous for decades at most, and then everyone will besiege you and you will be finished.

Isn’t that how the historical overlords Qi and Chu fell?Didn't Qin and Zhao rise just like that?

Under such a mentality, it is simply impossible to expect the six countries in history to work together to resist the strong Qin.

Anyway, his state of Qin will definitely decline, and will not continue to be strong, just wait for an opportunity, an opportunity like the Five Kingdoms' attack on Qi.

This is the thinking of the monarchs of the six countries in history.

Zhao Dan can also be sure that this is also the current thinking of the other six countries except Zhao.

This is the so-called "age limitation".

These monarchs who lived in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods could not imagine the appearance of a unified dynasty at all, just like a person on earth in 1900 would not imagine that people would be able to control the world 100 years later with just a palm-sized thing called a mobile phone. It is possible to have a "face-to-face" conversation at two ends of the earth separated by tens of thousands of kilometers.

Or to put it this way, don't look at the current seven heroes of the Warring States period, each of whom is well-known, but who knows if one day his country will be directly killed in a single battle?

In the early Spring and Autumn Period, there were hundreds of thousands of vassal states, and now in 257 BC, there are only seven left, absolutely one in a million.

This tragic reality is enough to make every king of the Seven Kingdoms feel a sense of crisis, a feeling of precarity.

Under such circumstances, these monarchs must face up to the present, and must try their best to obtain enough capital for their country to survive in every battle.

Under such circumstances, it is simply unrealistic to want to take a long-term view.

If you want to survive, you must first be utilitarian.

The word "utility" has always been synonymous with "short-sighted", and it is not the same as "long-term".

So among the many vassal states in the Zhou Dynasty, are there any states that are not utilitarian?

Have.

The only problem is that those non-utilitarian countries have long been submerged in the torrent of history in the past hundreds of years.

Moreover, even if you want to take a long-term view, it is actually quite difficult.

Seven countries, seven kings, hundreds of ministers, thousands of officials, and millions of people.

With so many factors added together, who can imagine what will happen in the future?

There are too many variables.

For example, Zhao Dan, Zhao Dan's plan before the Battle of Hedong County was to rely on the power of the Three Jin Alliance to beat Qin until its destruction, and then plot other countries.