Chapter 291 Mother and Son Fight
"Didn't you say that I shouldn't come to you unless it's necessary? As for my younger brother, I sent someone to deliver a gift."
"You still think you're right? Am I wrong to teach you a lesson?"
"You are not wrong. It is my son who is wrong. I have disappointed you." Zhang Liang lowered his head and whispered.
Madam Mi's lips moved slightly, her eyes reddened, and she looked at her son in front of her and sighed deeply, "Mother is also wrong."
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Zhao Yuanxi walked until she reached the Zhengyang Palace. She asked a palace attendant nearby, "Is the king in the palace now?"
"The king is discussing matters with the generals."
Summoning military generals must be to discuss the attack on the State of Wei.
"Your Majesty, General Wang Ben has sent troops to capture Chen County, Shangcai, and Pingyu in Chu. Chu has not dared to return to support him. Now the general is at the gates of Daliang City in Wei. However, the King of Wei does not seem to have any intention of surrendering. Instead, he plans to retreat to the city and hold his ground."
"If we fight the King of Wei, it will be disadvantageous to our Qin army."
The daily expenditure of 400,000 troops is not a small amount for the Qin State.
Behind the high walls of Daliang City, there are three years of food and fodder stored in the city. If the Qin army continues to defend the city, they will be the ones who can't afford it.
Ying Zheng showed no hesitation. In fact, he had already received Wang Ben's letter. "General Wang Ben has already made some plans."
Everyone looked at each other, "I wonder what plan the General has."
Ying Zheng said slowly, "He plans to follow General Bai's example and launch a naval attack on Wei."
Wang Ben planned to divert the water of the Honggou into Daliang to flood the city. When the city collapsed, the city would naturally be conquered. The letter was to ask Ying Zheng for some people to help build water conservancy projects.
Ying Zheng approved of this plan, but still wanted to hear if anyone else had any other ideas. After all, this was still a very bad idea.
"Flooding Daliang?" someone couldn't help but exclaim.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in Daliang City, most of whom are civilians. If Daliang is flooded, these civilians will probably not survive.
But they were also clear about the situation in Daliang. If the King of Wei insisted on defending the city, it would take at least one or two years for Qin to take it.
Wei could drag it out like this for one or two years, but Qin could not.
This plan is ultimately against the harmony of nature!
But they couldn't think of any other solution at the moment, so they could only agree, "Although this plan is cruel, it is also a clever one. Your Majesty, why don't you send someone to persuade the King of Wei to surrender first? If the King of Wei insists on not surrendering, then it's not our fault."
Everyone discussed it again, and in the end there was no other way, so they had to use this trick.
It is better for the Wei people to die than for the Qin soldiers to sacrifice themselves in repeated sieges.
So, the matter was settled.
Zhao Yuanxi felt a little uncomfortable after listening to the whole story. The people who would suffer the most from the flooded city would definitely be the civilians. The flood would destroy their houses, soak their food, and even drown them.
Floods, famine, epidemics... will push them into a desperate situation.
"Have you finished listening?"
"You know I'm here?" Zhao Yuanxi came out from behind.
"Does the Queen have any ideas?"
When the Queen Mother entered Zhengyang Palace, a palace maid reported it to him, and he allowed her not to stop her.
"You ask me, but I don't know how to attack a city." Zhao Yuanxi shrugged. She was just a farmer and didn't know how to fight.
If she were a martial arts master, she might be able to sneak into the King of Wei's palace, capture him, and force him to surrender. Unfortunately, she is just a rookie.
Ying Zheng didn't feel disappointed. "What is the Queen Mother doing here today?"
"I was just walking around and ended up here." She found a place to sit down, and Zhao Gao very attentively served her tea.
Zhao Yuanxi glanced at him dimly, then smiled at him, "I've been so busy lately, it reminds me of the days when you were by my side. With you around, I don't have to worry about a lot of things. Otherwise, you should just come back to me."
Zhao Gao's hand trembled, and the cup was almost knocked over. "Please forgive me, Queen Mother."
"Why are you so nervous? Are you reluctant to give up your position beside the king? That's right, it's really a compromise for you to come to me! It's not as comfortable as being by the king's side!" Zhao Yuanxi sighed with a strange tone.
Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly. The Queen Mother rarely spoke in such a sarcastic way. What did Zhao Gao do to annoy her?
"That is not my intention!" Zhao Gao knelt down in fear.
"Then tell me if you're willing or not?"
Regardless of whether Zhao Gao made any mistakes or not, Zhao Yuanxi had no intention of letting him stay with Ying Zheng.
"Your servant, your servant is at the command of the King and the Queen Mother!"
Cunning guy!
Zhao Yuanxi snorted coldly and looked up at Ying Zheng who was sitting on the high ground. "What do you think?"
Ying Zheng did not agree directly, but asked, "What does the Queen Mother plan to do with Zhao Gao?"
Zhao Gao is now the Minister of the Imperial Chariots appointed by her personally. He holds an important position and has not committed any mistakes. The Queen Mother now wants him back, obviously to dismiss him from his post.
Ying Zheng wanted to know why.
"He's my man. Can't I ask you to come back? I'm really too busy right now. Counting all those accounts is giving me a headache, aching hands, and aching heart. I'm old and can't stand being tired. There are many things I really can't do. I can only find some helpers to come back!"
Zhao Yuanxi complained in her heart that she should have firmly rejected Ying Zheng's decision at the beginning. So what if she had cut off Zhao Gao's path to success? It was better than cutting off her child's life.
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Ying Zheng looked at the queen mother who could kill a cow with one punch and was silent for a long time.
If he remembered correctly, the Queen Mother had taken the Pi Xiu for a walk to Shanglin Garden not long ago, saying that she wanted to take the little guy to see his mother. It was fine when they went there, but when they came back, the little Pi Xiu couldn't walk, and it was the Queen Mother who carried it back. How could she have the nerve to say that she was powerless?
If she had not been held in Xianyang, Ying Zheng even doubted whether she would have the energy to run around in the Qin territory, or even run abroad.
The Queen Mother seldom made requests of him. If he was just an ordinary eunuch, she would have accepted him. But now he had a lot of things that needed Zhao Gao's attention. If he was transferred away, his place would probably be in chaos for a while.
"Zhao Gao has done nothing wrong. Besides, I am already familiar with his skills. If the Queen Mother needs help, I can transfer some others to you."
Zhao Yuanxi pursed his lips, took a deep breath, and suppressed the urge to curse, "You really won't return it to me?"
Ying Zheng frowned, "It's not that I won't return it, it's just that it's not possible right now."
"Then give me an exact time."
Zhao Gao should have been happy that the Queen Mother and the King had quarreled over him, but now he really couldn't be happy.
Now that he has tasted power, how could he possibly go back to the Queen Mother? But if the Queen Mother insists on taking him back, the king will certainly give in.
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