The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 229: The Unsalvageable Yan State

When Yan Dan arrived at Sanghai City, Jing Ke and his companions had not left yet, and Yan Dan was overjoyed.

Now we can go back to Yan State together.

Qing Yue treated Yan Dan with great respect and courtesy, while also observing Yan Dan carefully.

After observing him, one cannot help but admire that the Prince of Yan is a humble person who respects the wise and humbles others. He is also quite generous and not stingy with money. No wonder he has so many people working for him.

At the same time, he was even more worried. Such a person, with such an identity, treated others so disregardingly. He must have great ambitions and was destined to be involved in the disputes in the world. If Ke'er followed the Crown Prince of Yan, with the importance that the Crown Prince of Yan treated Ke'er with, if there was a need, it would definitely be an extremely important and dangerous matter.

Ugh.

A good man has ambitions, a real man has great aspirations, what can he do?
Who can stop a man with great ambitions and a desire for gratitude and revenge from entering the vortex of disputes?

It has to be said that Yan Dan's true nature was hidden very well. Even someone like Qing Yue, who had seen a lot of things in the world, could not see anything wrong with her in these few short days of daily life.

During this period, Qing Yue visited many famous doctors, but they were helpless. Although his injury was healed, his right hand was definitely disabled. However, Jing Ke no longer cared about it. He had already recovered from the blow and had been practicing his left-hand swordsmanship more diligently recently.

The amazing thing is that the sword skills he mastered are more suitable for his left hand. When performed with his left hand, they become even more tricky, ruthless and unpredictable.

Although I am still not as skilled as my right hand, hard work can make up for it. After a few years of hard practice, I will be able to get better than before.

But Qing Yue sighed in his heart as he watched, Jing Ke's original swordsmanship was sharp but still full of righteousness, but now although his swordsmanship is more powerful, it is only ruthless and determined to kill, although it is more powerful, it is by no means a good thing.

Yan Dan stayed for a few days and was anxious to return to Yan. Jing Ke was even more determined and insisted on following Yan Dan back to Yan. Jing Ke knelt down to bid farewell to Qing Yue, who could only concentrate on seeing him off.

What to do, what to do.

When Yan Dan returned to Yan State, Yan State was already fighting the Battle to Defend Ji Capital.

When Yan Dan heard the news, he was completely stunned and laughed out of anger. A mere 100,000 Zhao troops captured 30 cities of Yan State, including the big cities Wusui and Fangcheng. Were the soldiers defending the cities all pigs?

Even if there were tens of thousands of pigs, it would be impossible to capture them in such a short time!

Defend the city!
It wasn't a field battle. It was understandable that they couldn't defeat the elite cavalry led by Li Mu in a field battle. But the defenders of the city were beaten back step by step. It was unbelievable that the Zhao army crushed them all the way!
It is understandable that they could not defeat Li Mu, and it is also understandable that they could not defeat the Zhao army, but to be defeated like this and lose a quarter of the most prosperous city of Yan State is too outrageous!
In fact, Li Mu stopped not because he was blocked, but because he did not have enough soldiers to occupy the city!

Unfortunately, when Yan Dan returned to Ji City, King Xi of Yan not only did not remember his contribution in delivering the message, but also did not consider the humiliation of being driven back by Qin. Instead, he scolded Yan Dan severely.

He was scolded for being in Xianyang and allowing Qin and Zhao to form an alliance while being a hostage and tearing up the alliance with Yan.

There is no point in sending a message and still falling behind.

Yan Dan was extremely angry. "Father, you also know that I am a hostage? Can a hostage decide the national policy of Qin and Zhao? How is that possible?"

I have sent people to deliver the message as quickly as possible, but it’s still you, a bunch of insects!
Even if it was Li Mu, even if it was the State of Zhao, even if it was a sneak attack, there were only 100,000 people!
How dare you fight like this? How can we make Yan strong by being with you? Do you know how strong Qin is now?
If this continues, I really can’t imagine how many cities will be left in Yan State by the time I succeed to the throne?

Yan Dan was extremely angry and resentful, but he endured it. He had to endure it.

He was the crown prince, but he had no support from his own team. Yan Wangxi had a firm grasp on power, and Yan Dan had no chance. In this extremely corrupt country, even if a man of insight wanted to do something, the entangled aristocratic group would turn everything back to square one. As for reform?
Haha, wishful thinking.

An aristocratic autocratic country that has existed for eight hundred years cannot be changed even by gods themselves. The only thing they can do is to completely overthrow it and start over again.

Yan Dan? Even worse.

If he wants to bring about change, he needs to be in power. However, if he wants to be in power, he can only do so slowly within the rules of the game. The supreme ruler of these rules of the game is King Xi of Yan, who makes him desperate.

Either change the rules, but if you want to change the rules of the game you need to be in power first. Without power, it is impossible to change.

It's an endless loop.

Moreover, the whole world is in turmoil, and Yan State is already at the bottom of the list in terms of national strength. It dares not make any major moves, and has no chance to remove the pus.

Not to mention that Yan State could not do it, even if it could, the other countries would not give Yan State the opportunity to reform and become stronger.

During the throes of Yan's reform, other countries would destroy Yan, especially Zhao.

Dead.

Yan Dan knew very well that it was impossible to change the rules of the game in Yan State in the short term, so he could only compromise within the rules for the time being, gain power first, and then change little by little to become stronger.

There is no other way but to take it slow.

In the current court of Yan State, Yan Dan's power and voice are almost inaudible, but among the people and in the martial arts world, Yan Dan still has his own power.

Farmer, Chu Mo.

Although the Nong family has a much earlier and deeper origin, since the Nong family surrendered to the Qin Dynasty, there are only a few big cats and small cats left around Yan Dan, and this was a foreshadowing secretly planted by Ying Zheng.

Chu Mo is Yan Dan's greatest support. Chu Mo has many rangers and masters, while the Six-Fingered Black Knight and Chu Mo are jealous of Lu Buwei's rare talents, so they imitate Lu Buwei and invest too much in Yan Dan.

Even though the Six-Fingered Black Knight now feels that Yan Dan and the Mohist School are not very compatible and that Yan Dan has not developed very well in the past few years, Chu Mo has no choice but to continue supporting him now. The cost of silence is too high.

Even so, when Yan Dan came to ask Six-Fingered Black Knight to lead Chu Mo to intervene in this war, he was flatly rejected by Six-Fingered Black Knight.

The Six-Fingered Black Knight is very clear-headed. It is no longer the same as it was two or three hundred years ago. There are now seven major powers in the world, and the Mohist School is no longer qualified, especially for the Chu-Mo family alone to stop the conflicts among the major powers.

It is true that the Mohist school emphasizes non-aggression, but it must also be meaningful, rather than doing meaningless things that will lead to death. Times are changing, and I cannot cut off Chu Mo from my own hands.

In today's world, no matter who attacks whom, there is no justice at all. Even the attacked party may not be in the wrong first. After hundreds of years of frequent attacks, the bad debts of various countries can no longer be settled. Now they only care about interests, not right or wrong.

Even if the ancient sage Mozi were to be resurrected, facing such a world and such a situation, he would have to remain silent. Helping some people and not helping others might be wrong.

(End of this chapter)