Ministers Offer Strategies, Chancellor Decides, Blood Butcher Can Be Destroyed!

"How can 'doing my best' be enough? This humble servant has also heard..."

Guo Kai was not satisfied with the answer from Lord Chunping, so he jumped back in, eager to reveal something more.

"Hmph!" Lord Chunping let out a cold snort, cutting off Guo Kai's words. "The Chancellor need not worry. Since it concerns the safety and survival of the state, I shall certainly do my utmost to persuade Ji Xue'er to make a trip to the Qin State."

He felt deeply stifled, yet he had no way to deal with Guo Kai, so he could only grit his teeth and swallow his resentment.

Ji Xue'er was his granddaughter, born to his daughter and a nobleman of the Ji clan from the Yan State; that nobleman had once been a leader within the Mohist School.

In those days, the Yan and Zhao states were sometimes at war and sometimes at peace, and political marriages became an important means of maintaining their relationship.

As a noble of the Zhao royal clan, Lord Chunping had his daughter betrothed to a prince of the Yan royal clan, Yan Wu.

However, when Ji Xue'er was still a child, the relationship between Yan and Zhao deteriorated once again, and the Qin State was constantly expanding eastward. To protect itself, the Yan State secretly colluded with the Qin State, attempting to partition the territory of the Zhao State together.

After the news leaked, the Zhao State launched a fierce retaliation against the Yan State, and the flames of war spread across the borders.

As a member of the Yan royal clan who had participated in the planning, Ji Xue'er's father became a thorn in the side of the Zhao State.

To appease the anger of the Zhao State, the Yan State pushed Ji Xue'er's father