Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

The architectural style of the Zhao State camp in the east is more bold, with sharp lines revealing a sharp and aggressive meaning, just like the color of the national flag of Zhao State, which is as aggressive as fire.

On the other hand, the Qin State camp in the west is square and upright, looking extraordinarily solemn and solemn, just like the black color advocated by the people of Qin State, which is as immovable as a mountain.

These two camps were built by two groups of craftsmen from Qin and Zhao respectively.

The two camps are not close together, but separated by several miles, leaving a large and extremely wide open space in the center of the two camps, enough to accommodate an army of tens of thousands of people.

In the center of the open space is a high platform, eight feet high, with a total of 56 steps. At the top is a hall. Standing in the hall and looking out of the window, you can easily overlook every move of dozens of miles nearby.

With the efforts of thousands of craftsmen from both countries, the two camps and the high platform were built in a total of six days.

When the camp was completed, a large number of palace officials and soldiers from the two countries settled in and began to prepare for the arrival of the two kings.

On January 259, 1 BC, a meeting called the "Qinghe Meeting" by later historians was held here.

That morning, Zhao Dan set off from Changzhi City, and came here under the escort of [-] Zhao Jun soldiers.

Today's Zhao Dan is dressed in a red royal suit and a black crown on his head. He is sitting in a carriage with a straight body, looking energetic and majestic.

In front of Zhao Dan, six red horses galloped side by side, pulling the carriage forward steadily under the control of the driver.

Wang Du Ji said: "The emperor drives six, the princes drive five, the ministers drive four, the high officials three, the scholars two, and the common people one.

Having said that, in this era, the rites are broken and music is broken, and the princes have long since stopped taking the majesty of Zhou Tianzi seriously.

Today's Zhou Tianzi is just a poor wretch curled up in Luoyi and shivering, even inferior to the princes of some big countries.

So naturally, no one will follow the etiquette system of the Zhou Dynasty.

Of course, it is impossible for only Zhao Dan to be present at such a meeting between the two countries.

In addition to Le Cheng, the general of the state of Zhao who was responsible for the guard duty, and [-] soldiers of the state of Zhao, there were dozens of carriages behind Zhao Dan, all of whom were ministers and officials of the state of Zhao.

These ministers of Zhao State are mainly headed by Shangqing Yuxin and Shangdafu Lou Chang. They will be responsible for the main details of the negotiations, and at the same time advise the monarch during the negotiations.

As for Zhao Guo's two lords, Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng and Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao, they were responsible for sitting in Handan during the negotiation period and maintaining the stability of Zhao Guoda's rear.

The 2 soldiers and horses marched with astonishing momentum. The horseshoes stepped on the snow-covered ground, and soon the whole road became extremely muddy, and countless small animals that were awakened from hibernation ran around.

Around noon, Zhao Dan and his party came to the Qinghe camp in a mighty manner.

Zhao Dan left most of his troops in the camp, and only let Le Cheng lead three thousand elite soldiers to escort him to the open space between the two camps.

Just when Zhao Dan's team arrived at the open space, Qin's team also entered the field on the other side of the open space.

Because of the high platform in the center, Zhao Dan couldn't see the appearance of the Qin team on the opposite side, but could only see a black "Qin" flag flying high.

Soon, Zhao Dan's carriage came under the high platform.

Zhao Dan got off the carriage and led a group of ministers of the Zhao Kingdom up the stairs to the hall at the top of the high platform.

The moment Zhao Dan stepped into the hall, he suddenly felt something and looked up to the opposite side.

Just across the hall, a group of people was also coming in in an orderly manner. The leader was an old man with a figure about the same height as Zhao Dan, with gray hair, wearing a black royal suit and a black crown.

Just as Zhao Dan looked at the old man, the old man also looked at Zhao Dan, and the eyes of both sides met in the air.

The old man's eyes narrowed slightly, and a burst of momentum suddenly broke out.

At this moment, an illusion suddenly appeared in Zhao Dan's heart, as if what he was facing was not a dying old man, but a towering and insurmountable mountain!

"It's so powerful." Zhao Dan was secretly surprised, knowing that this must be the king of Qin, the strongest king among all the countries in the world today, Qin Wangji.

Zhao Dan let out a sigh of relief, walked forward a few steps, then listened, and bowed to Qin Wangji.

This was not because Zhao Dan was willing to show weakness, but because this negotiation was held on the territory of Zhao State, so as the host, Zhao Dan had to salute the guests first as usual.

Qin Wangqi also saluted Zhao Dan.

After the two greeted each other, they took their seats in the main seats on both sides.

After the two were seated, the officials of the Qin Kingdom behind Qin Wangji stepped forward at the same time and saluted Zhao Dan respectfully: "I have seen you, Your Majesty."

Zhao Dan also returned the gift.

The officials of Qin State sat down separately.

After the officials of the Qin State were seated, the officials of the Zhao State also stepped forward and saluted King Ji of Qin: "I have seen you, Your Majesty."

Qin Wangji also returned the gift, and the officials of Zhao Guo sat down.

It was at this time that Zhao Dan had the opportunity to look at the ministers of Qin State in front of him.

These Qin ministers all wore long robes, with the front skirt covering the feet and the back skirt trailing the ground. Several of them had narrow and thin robes, shaped like a trumpet mouth, which were similar to the Hanfu known in later generations, and the colors of each robe were different. Brown, green, red and black.

The Chinese ancient and modern notes: "Three grades and above, green robes and deep clothes, common people's white robes, are all made of silk."

So the grades of these Qin ministers are obviously not low.

Zhao Dan's eyes wandered among the ministers of the Qin State, but he thought to himself: "I don't know which of them is Fan Sui?"

Soon, Zhao Dan fixed his eyes on a middle-aged man with a short face, long face, small eyes, and a beard under his chin beside Qin Wangji.

Judging from the portrait presented by Hu Yiwei, this person should be Fan Sui.

"I hope this Fan Sui won't cause too much trouble." While thinking in his heart, Zhao Dan gestured to Yu Xin who was beside him.

Now that everyone has arrived, it is natural that the peace talks should begin.

Chapter 162 Our State of Zhao is not demanding, your State of Qin only needs to cut some land (second update)

Peace talks are a very interesting way to end wars.

Throughout the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, more than 90.00% of wars ended in peace talks.

Even if you look at the whole world, among the tens of thousands of wars that have been fought for thousands of years, the peace talks have still reached the vast majority of them.

Generally speaking, there is only one way to truce without peace talks, and that is to completely eliminate one of the parties.

The location of the peace talks is also very particular. When choosing the location of the peace talks, the initiative is not in the hands of the disadvantaged or defeated party, but by the superior or victorious party.

Of course, the disadvantaged side and the defeated side are different concepts after all, and the dominant side and the winning side are also different concepts.

For example, after the Battle of Changping in history, Zhao Guo, who lost all 45 Zhao troops, had to accept the harsh demands of Qin, the victor, and made King Zhao Xiaocheng run to Xianyang in desperation. He apologized in front of Ji and begged for mercy.

Now, although Zhao Guo was the out-and-out dominant side in the Battle of Changping, sometimes the dominant side does not mean victory, so Zhao Dan was not able to recruit Qin Wangji to Handan to listen to his own words. Although Zhao Dan really wanted to reprimand him.

It is precisely because the outcome of the two sides is still undecided at this moment, so the location of the peace talks this time was chosen as Qinghe, which is the demarcation line between the actual control of the two sides.