Chapter 961: Stingy yet Passionate, Rational yet Foolish Loyalty! The Closest People Will Be Hurt the Most!

Zhao Jiang was extremely shocked by the decisions of Qin and Yan!

What followed immediately after the surprise was great joy!

The current state of Dai is more powerful than the state of Zhao. Zhao Jiang can enjoy greater power and more favorable material conditions by staying in the state of Dai, so Zhao Jiang has decided to stay in the state of Dai right away.

After Zhao Jiang expressed his firmness to Dai Wangjia, Dai Wangjia would definitely recognize his loyalty even more and thank him with a high official and a generous salary.

If one day the country of Dai falls, Zhao Jiang can turn around and defect to Zhao Wangqian. Could Zhao Wangqian have treated Zhao Jiang harshly at that time?

Dai Wangjia is Zhao Jiang's nephew, and Zhao Wangqian is also Zhao Jiang's nephew. These are real relatives. Zhao Wangqian cannot treat Zhao Jiang harshly just based on this blood relationship!

What's more important is that there are only three brothers in Zhao Jiang's lineage. The eldest brother and the second brother both died in battle for Zhao State. He was the only one left who ran home crying. With the hard work of his lineage, he helped Zhao State. With sacrifice, Zhao Wangqian did not dare to treat him harshly!

Therefore, Zhao Wangqian's reestablishment of the Zhao Kingdom had only advantages and no disadvantages for Zhao Jiang. It would be strange for him to be unhappy.

It's a pity that the only person who is a descendant of the royal family is Zhao Jiang, not Li Mu.

Sitting down on the soft couch, Li Mu murmured bitterly: "I thought that the king would be captured and the Zhao Kingdom would be destroyed."

"I never thought that the first advice of Marquis Qin Wenxin when he returned to the court was to send the king to the Kingdom of Yan."

"At that time, I didn't understand the deeper meaning of this move. I thought that the Qin State wanted to humiliate the king. I also hated the Qin State because of this and wanted to avenge the king."

"But I never thought that the Qin State would actually order the Yan State to send the king back at this moment and help me, Zhao, restore the country in the name of survival!"

Even with Li Mu's political wisdom, he could see that it was only Qin's task for Yan to help Zhao recover.

The restoration of Zhao State will not only make the Northeast region, which is not broad enough, more chaotic, but also weaken the Dai and Yan countries. It will also make the situation of Dai State become extremely embarrassing, and the name of the legitimacy of King Dai will no longer exist.

The Qin State did not come forward in person, just to prevent the world from thinking that Qin had gone back on its word when the Qin State destroyed Zhao in the future.

But this move also more and more clearly revealed Qin's determination and urgency to unify the world, allowing everyone in the world to see how dangerous the situation of Dai, Yan, and Zhao was!

Dai State urgently needs Li Mu to protect Sheji, and Zhao State also urgently needs Li Mu to protect Sheji, but Li Mu is only one person, and he can't cut himself into two!

Li Mu was confused and at a loss as he murmured: "How should I handle myself!"

"Which king should I fight for?"

"Is this general an acting minister or a minister of Zhao?"

"What should I do to live up to the kindness of my late king?!"

Li Mu was loyal, but his loyalty was not the same as the loyalty promoted and praised by later generations.

Li Mu was not loyal to Dai Wang Jia, nor to Zhao Wangqian, nor even to Zhao State Sheji, let alone whoever sat on the throne would be loyal to anyone.

Li Mu was only loyal to Zhao Xiaocheng, Wang Dan and Zhao Daoxiang Wang Yan for their kindness to him!

Li Mu is loyal, stingy and rational!

In Li Mu's view, Li Mu's life alone was enough to fulfill his righteousness, and there was no need for his family members to die for Zhao.

Therefore, even though the relationship between Qin and Zhao was worse in history. Li Mu surrounded and annihilated the Qin generals and almost shattered Ying Zheng's dream of unification with one punch. Wang Jian repeatedly killed Li Mu's favorite generals and sow discord. The hatred between Qin and Zhao was as deep as the sea. They all regard each other as their number one enemy, and they think about how to kill each other every day.

But Li Mu still sent his eldest son Li Bo to Da Qin together with Li Bo's three sons soon after King Zhao ascended the throne. While attacking Da Qin, he asked the Li clan members in Da Qin to recommend Li Bo to become an official in Da Qin. During the Tang Dynasty, , Li Bo’s descendants have actually multiplied and developed into one of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes!

Li Mu's loyalty is passionate and stupid!

Zhao Wangdan asked Li Mu to fight for his son, Zhao Wangyan also asked Li Mu to fight for his son, and Li Mu both agreed.

So in Li Mu's opinion, he must fulfill his promise even if he risks his life!

So even though Lian Po's lessons learned from the past were close at hand, and Lian Po's reference answers were at hand, even if he guessed that Zhao Wangqian intended to kill him, Li Mu still tried to use his poor eloquence to explain himself, instead of using Lian Po's poor eloquence to explain himself. Qu generally led troops to break out of the encirclement and defect to other countries.

Therefore, even though Li Mu had a strong control over Dai Di, and even though he knew that the establishment of a kingdom in Dai Di would be harmful to Li Mu, Li Mu still willingly transferred the power of Dai Di and deposed Sui Yu for a long time. His confidants dedicated the Dai land that he had worked so hard for decades to Dai Wangjia.

But Li Mu never expected that his loyalty would encounter a huge BUG.

The sons of Zhao Wangyan who needed him to fight to the death became two!

And these two people are still enemies rather than friends!

No matter which side he chose to fight for, Li Mu repaid the kindness of his late king, but he failed to repay him in full.

This bug shook Li Mu's sense of loyalty!

Zhao Jiang panicked when he heard this and hurriedly persuaded him: "Mr. Wu An, please don't have such thoughts."

"Your Majesty attaches great importance to Lord Wu An. Not only does he promote Lord Wu An to the rank of general, but he also has great trust in Lord Wu An."

"When Lord Wu'an makes his northern expedition and attacks Qin, whatever needs Lord Wu'an has, the king will do his best to fulfill them."

"How can Lord Wu'an be disloyal to the king?"

Li Mu sighed bitterly: "Of course!"

"The king is the former king's deposed prince."

"The deposed prince!"

Zhao Jiang was slightly startled. He did not expect that the focus of Li Mu's rebuttal was actually Zhao Wangyan's wishes. .

Instead of thinking that the money and grain that Wang Jia gave to support Li Mu's Northern Expedition were grown by Li Mu and his subordinates in the past few decades, they were not worthy of Li Mu's gratitude.

Zhao Jiang's manuscript was invalid, and he could only ask tentatively: "Is it possible that Lord Wu'an intends to switch to Zhao to support the king of Zhao appointed by the late king?"

Li Mu sighed even more bitterly: "Of course!"

"Even if I am willing to fight for the king, the king may not trust me!"

Dai Wang Jia treated Li Mu better than Zhao Wang Qian, and was quite capable, so he would definitely win the favor of Zhao Wang Dan, but Dai Wang Jia was the son of Zhao Wang Yan who had clearly abolished the right of inheritance.

Zhao Wangqian is the designated heir of Zhao Wangyan, but Zhao Wangqian not only wants to kill Li Mu, but also causes the overthrow of the State of Zhao. If Zhao Wangdan and Zhao Wangyan come back to life, they may be able to hang Zhao Wangqian and hammer him.

How should Li Mu choose?

No matter what Li Mu chooses, it seems like everything is wrong!

Zhao Jiang persuaded in a low voice: "The general thinks that Lord Wu An would be better off thinking about the present than thinking about the past."

"The kindness of the late king was greater than that of Lord Wu'an. Lord Wu'an also died in the service of King Zhao, so the kindness of the late king has been fulfilled."

"Although King Zhao has returned to the throne and rebuilt the Kingdom of Zhao today, King Zhao is just a puppet launched by Qin and Yan. Although he bears the name of King Zhao, he has no real status as King Zhao."

"The general thinks that such a King of Zhao is not the King of Zhao, and to be loyal to such a King of Zhao is not to be loyal to Zhao, but actually to be loyal to Qin and Yan!"

"What Wu An should consider more is the kindness and trust of the king!"

With Zhao Jiang's continuous and extremely sincere persuasion, the balance in Li Mu's heart gradually wavered.

But the voice of the family soldiers came from outside the tent: "Report to the family master! Letters from Du Weihong, Du Weixian and Junzibo have arrived!"

Li Muqiang braced himself and shouted in a deep voice: "Pass!"

The curtains of the tent were lifted, and the soldiers stepped inside with three bamboo tubes on them.

Li Mu first picked up the bamboo tube of Li Xian, who was responsible for the defense of Jicheng, and opened it for inspection.

When Li Mu saw Li Xian's truthful record of the exchange in the account, especially Ying Chengyu's words, Li Mu's heart skipped a beat and he shouted in a low voice: "Qin Changan Junshu wants to kill me with the curse he said in front of the battle array." General, I tried my best to avoid being killed."

"Now that the three kingdoms have ceased war, why does Lord Qin Changan still want to kill me!"

Li Mu's political struggle wisdom is very low, but Li Mu's experience in political struggle (being fought) is very rich.

Although Li Mu couldn't see the reason, Li Mu's intuition told him that Ying Chengyu's words would probably make him die without a burial place!

With some hope, Li Mu quickly picked up the bamboo tube passed back by the relatively more mature and steady Li Hong.

But Li Mu didn't expect that as soon as he opened the bamboo slips, twelve big characters came to him.

[Aweng, why don’t you and me, father and son, return to Great Qin? 】

Li Mu:? ? ?

[Qin Changan Jun is very fond of food, so my son has agreed with Qin Changan Jun to send a batch of ragged sheep to Qin as a gift to Qin Changan Jun, so...]

Li Mu did not continue reading, but couldn't help but go back and check the clay seal letter again, and then...

Almost myocardial infarction!

This actually turned out to be a letter from his second son home!

"Rebellious son!"

"What a traitor!"

"Qin Chang'an Jun wants to kill Nai Weng, but you, the rebellious son, also want to take Nai Weng's life!"

Li Mu's hands holding the bamboo slips were trembling with anger.

It's just that you were invited to two banquets by Lord Qin Chang'an, and you, a kid, have become a lobbyist of the Qin State? !

Not only did he lobby Naiweng for Lord Qin Changan, but he even sent ragged sheep to Lord Qin Changan for his enjoyment?

Are you afraid that people in the world will not think that Nai Weng has a close personal relationship with Lord Qin Changan?

What kind of tattered sheep are you sending?

You rebellious son directly gave the Yang-making Deer to Lord Qin Chang'an, implying that Nai Weng wanted to give Dai State's Sheji to Qin State!

Seeing that Li Mu, who had always been calm, was now in a state of chaos and speaking eloquently, Zhao Jiang accompanied him and carefully asked: "Mr. Wu An?"

Li Mu quickly closed the bamboo slips, forced a smile and said: "The traitor is Wu Zang, making Captain Zhao laugh."

"I will reply to Nizi's family letter first, and then discuss the matter with Captain Zhao in detail later."

Zhao Jiang hurriedly handed over his hands: "Wei!"

By the time Zhao Jiang left the tent, Li Mu was no longer in the mood to read Li Hong's family letters. Instead, he opened Li Bo's family letters with great trepidation.

The two sons who follow him are already like this, so what will the eldest son who has already served as an official in Qin say?

[Aweng, what are you fighting for, and what should you fight for? 】

[Today, the Lord of Chang'an first asked Erdai if King Erdai would help the people of Daidai. The second question was whether King Erdai would seize the opportunity to escape from Aweng's sphere of influence. The third question was if King Erdai wanted to harm Aweng, Aweng. What should be done? 】

[Except for the third question, the son didn’t know how to answer, so he had to ask Aweng full of doubts. 】

[Would King Dai really allow a severe drought to harm all the people of Dai? Will King Dai really move the capital to Jicheng and cultivate the powerful people in Jicheng to check and balance Aweng? 】

[The king is so wary of Aweng, suppresses Aweng, and kills me, Paoze, and he is the deposed prince of the late king. Why are you fighting for the king? 】