The two sides have been arguing for a long time, but both are reasonable, which is difficult to determine.

Qi Hou thought about it for a long time and wanted to send someone to ask about the attitude of the three parties.

Qin, Zhao, Sishang.

He went to Sishang to test the official attitude of the Mo family, and tested the idea of uniting the unresolved states seven years ago into Kyushu.

This is not to say that Qi Guo means this, but to see what the Mo family thinks.

After all, all countries send troops to intervene in Sishang, either they don't do it, and if they want to do it, they will do it absolutely at all.

And the prerequisite for countries to send troops to intervene is whether the grievances between Qin and Sanjin can be discussed?

If you talk about it, the Qin State will definitely ask for all the West River as a condition, can the Three Jin Dynasty agree?

Unless the Qin State supports the Mo family's policy, the two sides are not scolding each other all day long, the problem is that the slowest rise and death of the Mo family is the Qin State, so the Qin State has a lot of bargaining chips.

It is true that Nanzheng is not far from Xianyang, the new capital of Qin, but it is difficult for the Qin army to cross the Qinling Mountains and attack Nanzheng, and it is equally difficult for Nanzheng to cross the Qinling Mountains to attack the Qin State.

If it was really time for the Qin State to destroy the country, the eastern countries might have cut off the sacrifices, and the grass on the temple would grow three feet high.

Although Qi Hou Yan is not a hero, he still understands some of the situation in his heart.

Once all countries intervene, if they can't exterminate Sishang and completely eradicate the Mo family, then the Qi country will have to suffer great revenge in the future, and it will bear the brunt.

Wei looked like this and had no hope for a few decades, and if Sishang was defeated, Qin and Zhao would expand.

Qin Zhao's foundation is in Weishui and Hebei, but Qi is different.

In the past year, the dispute between Wu and Yue, 20 years of recuperation and recuperation, and the first war to destroy Wu; How can the Mo family be compared to the Yue Kingdom? If the Mo family can't be completely strangled to death and wounded, once the Mo family is relieved and suddenly attacked, how long will it take for the princes to help?

In May, when the internal quarrel of the Qi State was over, the Marquis of Qi sent three waves of envoys to Handan, Xianyang, and Pengcheng to test the attitudes of all parties and make favorable decisions.

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Xianyang, the new capital of Qin.

The elderly Wu Qi was lying on the bed, suffering from scabies and dying of old age.

Qin Jun knelt aside, looking at this old minister, feeling sad.

Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements, and those who are good at planning have no great reputation.

Qin Jun understands this truth very well, this once famous man who raised 30,000 troops in the world, who dared not be a man-eater, who had no heart to rebel against the north, and who captured the West River in one battle and then fought against the Great Liang After coming to the Qin State, it seems that he did not lead his troops to fight a shocking battle.

But his credit is far greater than when he was in Wei.

For more than ten years, the Qin State had an army that only obeyed the king's orders, and it was trained and disciplined.

In the Battle of the West River, this old soldier had already said that the Wei State had been weakened by the Mo family to such a state, and many ministers of the Qin State could lead troops to defeat the Wei State, and because of his oath back then, it was impossible for him to personally lead the troops to attack the Wei soldiers who had been trained by him.

Wu Qi was busy opening up the Qin state westward, stabilizing production, opening up land, recruiting soldiers, and acquiring horses.

In the years when Qin opened up westward, it did not fight a major battle with tens of thousands of people.

Muskets, stirrups, ironclad, iron, discipline, improved defensive tactics for chariot warfare, potatoes and corn and other high-yielding crops...... The Qin State's westward expansion was almost all the way flat, and one or two thousand cavalry could chase after the primitive tribes of tens of thousands of people and flee.

There is nothing too big about this to shock the world.

In this insipidity, the Qin State built four new counties, gathered more than 100,000 people, expanded millions of acres of cultivated land, and advanced its forces and reclamation policies to the surrounding areas of Inoze.

This Daze, which ranked among the top three in the world at this time, is located near Wuwei in later generations, and it is also an important water source for the development of the Hexi Corridor in later generations.

With the trade in the west, it gradually became rich, and it also became the base of Qin's westward advance, and became the westernmost point of Qin's actual control and effective rule.

Some tribes further west also began to submit to Qin, not daring to move lightly, so that Qin could draw more population and troops to expand eastward.

It's all a nobody's work.

At this time, the old men who have made these nameless achievements have run out of oil.

"The world is in chaos, what can General Qin do?"

Qin Jun asked like this, and Wu Qi asked rhetorically: "Do you know that the emperor knows where it is difficult to destroy Chu in the first battle?" ”

This is exactly what Qin Jun wants to know, in a battle with Wei, although Qin won, it seems that it is extremely difficult to destroy Wei in a battle.

But the Mo family destroyed Chu in one battle and pacified Jianghan, which made Qin Jun extremely worried, thinking that could it be that the gap in strength between the two sides was already so big?

The new army of Qin was similar to the new army of Chu, although Qin had ingenious flint guns, but this flint gun was too heavy to be equipped with spearheads as short spears, so Qin's legions still adopted a mixed pattern of musketeers and spearmen.

It's just that although this flintstone gun is heavy, it can be lined up extremely densely compared to the arquebus that can't be too close, so the firepower is several times stronger than the arquebus.

Therefore, the Qin State used spearmen as an auxiliary, replacing the heavy flint muskets of the historical Qin crossbows as the main output, stirrup cavalry to cover the two wings, and adopted the tactics of spearmen defending and covering the musketeers to export cavalry flank assault.

The battle of Xihe was full of power, but it was still won after a hard battle, and it was a little out of reach to capture the entire territory of Wei later.

In contrast, the Mo family's victory in destroying Chu in the first battle made Qin Jun very nervous, which was related to Qin's subsequent strategic decisions.

Seeing that Qin Jun's face was solemn, Wu Qi coughed lightly a few times and squeezed out a smile and said, "Don't worry, your lordship." ”

"The power of the ministers of the Chu State, the selfishness of the feudal monarch, and the coup d'état started, with the military strength and training of Sishang, 70,000 troops were raised to destroy Chu, and in my opinion, there are no less than ten people in Sishang who can do this."

"Don't say that Sishang, it is Qindi, if the six fingers of Sishang are handsome to destroy Chu, there will be no less than ten people who can win the battle. The matter of destroying Chu has been expected since the beginning of the war. ”

"Chu and Wei are different."

"Wei has changed the law, the monarchy is centralized, the feudal monarchs are few and the power is light, the people are organized into Shiwu, the West River is steep and the field is fighting, although it cannot win the Qin, but it is also unified."

"It is extremely difficult to destroy Wei. But once all the main field forces of Wei were defeated, then the destruction of Wei was extremely simple, and it was difficult to restore the country, and Xihe could become one of Qin's counties in an instant. ”

"Chu State...... If the division is too heavy, the country can be destroyed if it is defeated in a war, but it may be easy to restore the country after it is destroyed, and it is difficult to rule. ”

"The difficulty of destroying Chu lies not in destruction, but in governance. In the past, the war of Wu Chu and Chu destroyed the country, and what was the use of recovering from a war? ”

These words made Qin Jun feel a little relieved, it sounded like the gap between the two sides was not so big that heaven and man were separated.

Wu Qi fought with Chu once when he was in Wei, and that time he directly captured Daliang and killed a lot of feudal monarchs by the way, in Wu Qi's opinion, with the military system of Chu State, he could really raise 50,000 people to destroy Chu.

Therefore, the changes of the Chu State over the years have not become, and after the Mo family defeated the Yue State Naval Army, they suddenly attacked Chu in the west, and Wu Qi had already concluded that the Chu State was finished.

The Mo family destroyed Chu and sent nearly 70,000 elite field soldiers, which Wu Qi envied.

The Qin State is too poor, even though it has been strong in the past few years, but the land climate cannot be changed by changing the law.

Agriculture has developed, people are hungry and fed, but the limit of productivity is there.

Regarding the news that Sishang sent 50,000 or 70,000 troops at every turn, Wu Qi could only sigh bitterly.

The 30,000 standing army beat 100,000 peasant soldiers, which Wu Qi had long inferred, and he often sent 100,000 troops in previous battles, but only 10,000 or 20,000 could be beaten, and the rest were just logistics and heavy people.

The Qin State was also fortunate to open up to the west and monopolize the trade in the extreme west, so that it would be able to raise a standing army of 50,000 or 60,000, which was already the limit, and now the wealth of the Qin State could not be as arbitrary as Sishang to organize and arm such a large-scale, disciplined and combat-ready army.

Wu Qi comforted Qin Jun, but after the relief, there was something that had to be made clear.

"The monarch already knows that the state of Chu is easy to defeat but not easy to govern, but this time in order to destroy Chu, the Mo family has obviously prepared more than ten years in advance, and a large number of ink people are proficient in the Chu language, and as soon as they enter Chu, they immediately set up counties and counties and change the land, which is what is terrible."

"The monarch has the opportunity to destroy Chu in one battle, can he quickly set up counties in Chu and rule? But there are so many officials? But there is so much wealth and iron tools to win the hearts of the people? ”

Qin Jun was silent and sighed: "Sishang is rich, and the world knows it. Cotton cloth is dozens of times that of me, grain is ten times that of me, and iron is a hundred times that of iron, which cannot be compared. ”

"If you have a lot of wealth, you can build a school so that everyone can be a scholar, which is not comparable to the bitter cold Qin."

"What's even more terrifying is that he is meticulous, I am afraid that the matter of destroying Chu has been decided more than ten years ago, otherwise how can he be able to rule after victory?"

Wu Qi also sighed and said: "The land of Jianghan is all due to Mo, three or five years later, with the financial and material resources of Sishang and the manpower of Jianghan, the army can be expanded by another 50,000, who in the world can stop it?" ”

Qin Jun nodded and said, "I'm also worried about this matter, the Mo family's skill in governing the country is far better than that of the princes." And rich and rich, literate people crown the world, if it is Chu, the world will return to ink. ”

"What do you mean, you must interfere with the Mo family? It's the last chance, isn't it? ”

Wu Qi sighed, and said after a long time: "The king has captured the commercial land, this is a clever plan. If the commercial land is not allowed, then the Mo family can station troops in the business, detain Lantian, and go straight to Weishui. The Chu people are finished, and the capture of Shang Land can still save Chu. In the future, if the Mo family is defeated, it can go down from the commercial land to Nanyang Wandi. ”

"What the king said, the last chance, this is true, and it is not alarmist. If you can't solve the Mo family this time, you can't force the Mo family to withdraw from Jianghan...... The king can consider continuing the expedition to the west and making another fief as king. If you don't win this time, within 20 years, it will be the world of the Mo family. ”

"Even if it is a big victory, it will take three generations of descendants to work hard, or they can fight."

Qin Jun also had this intention in his heart, he already had a plan in his heart, and he was not ready to continue to fight against Wei, and even carved up Wei with Qi and Zhao, but also wanted to contact the princes to suppress the expansion of the Mo family, even if from the topography of the Qin State is likely to be affected last.

However, Wu Qi's non-alarmist words made him worry again, and with this remark, it seems that Wu Qi has no confidence in the princes working together to completely solve the entire Mo family.