Chapter 207 Competition
Everyone fell silent, looked at the cold spear in front of them with fear, and took several steps back.
Zhao Yuanxi's face turned cold. "Can you be quiet now?"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
They all knelt down in front of Zhao Yuanxi, and she couldn't help twitching her eyelids.
"Do you still remember what you promised me?" Zhao Yuanxi said calmly to the Qin people, "I asked you to come here to teach me about farming, not to quarrel with me."
"The Qin people are the subjects of my Qin State, and these former Zhao people are also the subjects of my Qin State now. If you have old grudges, I can let you fight each other somewhere, but not here."
She turned to the people of Zhao and said, "I know you still have grievances against my Qin, but now that the King of Zhao has surrendered, my state no longer exists. If you wish to die for your country, I will not stop you and will even give you a lavish burial. But if you wish to continue living, you must obey the laws of my Qin. Since my Qin has accepted you, I will naturally consider you my fellow citizens."
"Also, although I was once a Zhao person, I am not a princess of Zhao. Don't take this seriously! If you like to call me princess, I don't mind, but I am not a princess of Zhao."
Seeing that they all hung their heads and dared not speak anymore, Zhao Yuanxi's expression softened a little. "Do you have anything else to say?"
"Empress Dowager, we know we were wrong. We shouldn't have argued with them." The Qin people all looked ashamed. The Queen Dowager had clearly reminded them at the beginning, but they still made such a mistake.
Zhao Yuanxi: "It's not me you scolded. You should apologize to them."
The Qin people looked at each other, pulled each other behind their backs, and all bowed their hands in apology, saying, "I'm really sorry for what happened just now."
Seeing this, the Zhao people could only go down the slope with sour faces.
Someone couldn't help but ask, "Since you are not a princess of Zhao, why are you so kind to us?"
Even King Zhao didn't care about them. I guess only their parents would care about them so much and find a way to survive for them when they were desperate.
They truly regarded the Queen Mother Zhao as their princess, as if as long as the princess was there, they, the people of Zhao, would have a backbone.
But now that Queen Mother Zhao has denied this fact, they feel as if they have been abandoned again and have become exiles of a lost country.
"I've said it before. Now you are my people, Qin. I should treat you this way."
However, the people of Zhao couldn't help but retort in their hearts that the Queen Mother of Zhao would not be so good to them. The Queen Mother of Zhao was good to them only because she was a good person.
Although they still felt uncomfortable, they had to accept this reality. Everything before was just their delusion.
Seeing them fall silent, Zhao Yuanxi sighed slightly and said, "You guys are arguing so much today, and you might quarrel again later. Do you want to replace someone?"
"Need not."
"don't want."
Both parties spoke at the same time, looked at each other, and turned their heads away in disgust.
"We will work together well from now on and never quarrel again!"
"We've been doing this for a few days now, and we're all familiar with each other. Changing people won't bring us any better."
In fact, they did not want to be looked down upon by others, nor did they want Queen Dowager Zhao to think that they only knew how to fight each other. They wanted to prove that if others could do it, they could do it too.
Seeing them so united, Zhao Yuanxi couldn't help but smile, "Okay, if that's the case, then you can continue!"
This can be considered as a case of no acquaintance without fighting.
This brief disturbance, however, aroused another idea in Zhao Yuanxi.
The feud between Qin and Zhao has lasted for too long. Neither the Qin nor the Zhao people are willing to submit to each other. As a result, internal division may occur at any time, just waiting for a flag to appear.
On the way back, Zhao Yuanxi looked at Li Mu and couldn't help asking, "General Li, if the world is in chaos and Qin can't hold on to Zhao, what will you do?"
Li Mu was stunned, and his face suddenly became extremely ugly.
Zhao Yuanxi smiled, as if he knew the answer. If the Qin State had not persuaded Li Mu to surrender, but had defeated Li Mu directly, and the King of Zhao had not poisoned him, when the Qin State fell into chaos, Li Mu would have led the Zhao royal family to make a comeback, just like the nobles of the other six states at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty.
"It's really difficult to deal with!" Zhao Yuanxi couldn't help but sigh.
Li Mu suddenly said, "As the Queen Mother just said, you regard the people of Zhao as subjects of Qin. Now I am a general of Qin, and my responsibility is to protect this land. I believe that with you in Qin, there will be no chaos."
Zhao Yuanxi was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Who said General Li wasn't good at speaking? I think you're quite good at it. I didn't even believe I was that good, but you do believe me."
"The Queen Mother possesses the talent to stabilize the nation, and she is one of the few people in the world who can persuade the King of Qin. This is not empty talk."
The State of Qin was a chariot charging forward, the King of Qin was the one driving the chariot, and the Queen Mother sat on the chariot, seemingly doing some insignificant things, but each of them was guiding the direction of the chariot.
Li Mu always felt that although the Qin State was powerful, it was actually very fragile internally. It had developed to its current state by relying on years of warmongering. If a ceasefire was reached, it would inevitably fall into civil strife. But when he met the Queen Mother Zhao and learned what she was doing, he realized that the Qin State was no longer what he had once known.
Zhao Yuanxi's smile deepened. Who doesn't like to be praised? And the person who praised her was a rare talent in this world!
"It seems I can't let General Li down!"
Zhao Yuanxi changed the subject, "Since the Qin and Zhao people here are constantly at odds, and this resentment can't be stopped, why don't we hold a competition? Let them vent their anger!"
"Competition, what competition?"
Zhao Yuanxi: "Does General Li know how to play Cuju?"
"The people of Zhao use Cuju to strengthen their bodies, so I naturally know a little bit about it. However, I am old after all, and I haven't played Cuju in many years."
"General Li is still strong and healthy, so how can he be considered old? But since you can do it, it's even easier. After the spring plowing is over, let's have a Cuju game. We'll select three teams from the 100,000 Zhao people and three teams from the Qin people, and have them compete for first place. How about that? You'll lead one team, and Major General Meng will lead another!"
"So are you ready to watch the show?" Li Mu asked back.
Zhao Yuanxi laughed heartily, "Could it be that General Li still wants to compete with me?"
She didn't mind, but if she led a team, it could only be a women's Cuju team. She could beat the men, but the other women were still weaker than the men, which was not fair after all.
But this gave Zhao Yuanxi a new idea!
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