When it comes to the demise of the Zhao Kingdom, we have to say Guo Kai!
Who is Guo Kai?
He was The favorite of Zhao Wangqian, and everyone should understand the meaning of the favored minister, they spoke with a heavy weight, and even a sentence was related to the life and death of a minister.
King Zhao qian trusted Guo Kai, just as Qin II Hu Hai trusted Zhao Gao, and was a hundred times better than his own woman. Just as Zhao Gao asked Hu Hai to kill the two brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi, he killed the two ministers of the society.
Zhao Gao asked Hu Hai to kill his brothers and sisters, he killed his brothers and sisters, Zhao Gao also asked him to kill Li Si and other ministers, and when everyone was killed, Zhao Gao killed Hu Hai.
Similarly, Zhao Wangqian was also such a faint lord.
In 229 BC, the Qin king Yingzheng asked Wang Qi and others to lead an army to attack the State of Zhao, and the King of Zhao ordered Li Mu to be the main general, and Sima Shang as the deputy general to lead the Zhao army to meet the enemy.
Li Mu was a famous general of the Zhao Kingdom, with great combat experience, he had always fought against the powerful Xiongnu, and he had never lost. The point is that as long as Li Mu was guarding the frontier, the Xiongnu would not dare to attack the Zhao State at all, and such a person was obviously a terrible opponent. Even a famous general like Wang Qi had to deal with Li Mu carefully when dealing with it. Without full certainty, Wang Qi could not go to war with Li Mu.
We all know that during the last great war of Qin and Zhao, that is, the Battle of Changping, the Qin state used a counter-plan and replaced Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, and they were able to win the victory.
With the experience of the last time, Wang Qi learned to be smart this time, instead of fighting a protracted war for zhao guo and consuming national strength, it was better to directly use the counter-plot to get rid of Li Mu.
It was under this circumstance that the State of Qin sent emissaries to the State of Zhao and asked them to bribe the ministers of the State of Zhao, among whom Guo Kai, the favorite minister of King Qian of Zhao, was the target of their key bribes.
Guo Kai is a person who sees money and opens his eyes, he accepts people's money, he has to do things for others, and the rules of the jianghu cannot be broken.
Therefore, he gave Rumors to King Qian of Zhao to slander Li Mu, saying that Li Mu and Sima Shang had the intention of plotting rebellion, and wanted to join forces with the Qin army to destroy the State of Zhao.
At this time, King Zhao had to ask, what good would this do to Li Mu?
Guo Kai said that the State of Qin had promised Li Mu to become the new King of Zhao, and it was such a remark that King Qian of Zhao actually believed it, and he did not investigate, so he arbitrarily removed the loyal Li Mu.
Originally, he wanted to replace Li Mu and directly change the general, but Li Mu did not even lead the army to resist. This made King Zhao even more suspicious that Li Mu had misdeeds. In this case, King Zhao moved and had Li Mu secretly killed.
Zhao Guo really did not have a long memory, fell twice in one place, the Battle of Changping replaced Lian Po, so that Zhao Guo lost the battle and lost 400,000 soldiers.
This time, he actually attacked the famous generals of his own country again.
Without Li Mu in the Zhao Kingdom, the Tiger and Wolf Division led by Wang Qi would have no fear. Under this circumstance, Wang Qi could destroy the Zhao Kingdom if he hit him casually.
It can be said that destroying Zhao Guo is Guo Kai!
We all know that Zhao Guo also has a famous general, this person is Lian Po, although he is very old, but it is still possible to fight.
King Zhao wanted to use Lian Po to see if he could lead an army for Zhao Again. This matter was known to Guo Kai again, and Guo Kai and Lian had a vendetta. He wanted to prevent Lianpo from coming, after all, Lianpo was reused and would not be good for him. Therefore, he contacted the emissary, bribed the emissary with heavy money, and told the emissary to find a way to prevent Lian Po from taking office.
The messenger visited Lian Po, who was indeed very strong and boneless, and there was no problem in fighting. However, when the emissary reported to King Zhao, he said that Lian Po was indeed very strong, but when I gave him time to talk for a while, he went to the toilet more than a dozen times.
The implication was to tell King Zhao that this man was old and could not use him. Fighting wars was not allowed to go to the toilet so frequently, so King Zhao gave up the famous general Lianpo.
Originally, Lian Po and Li Mu were both the Great Wall of the State of Zhao, and only when the two of them were there could the State of Zhao resist the tiger and wolf division of the State of Qin and be possible not to be annexed by the State of Qin. However, I didn't expect that these two people were actually killed by Guo Kai's villain.
It can be seen that sometimes one mouth can beat two famous generals! I had to sigh that Guo opened this mouth, it was really unbelievable, opening a mouth to destroy a general of the Zhao Kingdom, two of the four famous generals in the Warring States period were destroyed in his mouth.
If it is said that Zhao Guo died in Guo Kai's mouth, it is not an exaggeration at all! He was the greatest contributor to the qin state in destroying Zhao. Of course, in the end, the Zhao kingdom was destroyed, and even if the King of Zhao knew that he had wronged them, it would not help at this time. To hate oneself is to hate oneself without the world can only it!
Reference: History