After listening to Wu Qi's words, Sheng Xuan, who had been silent, suddenly asked, "If so...... If the Mo family first completes the road from Nanzheng to Pingzhou, and its momentum has been achieved, what will happen? ”

Pingzhou, refers to a vassal state between Shu and Nanzheng, which is not orthodox, and should be called Fang Guo rather than princes, but was built by the descendants of Emperor Yan, probably in the later Guangyuan, that is, the only way from Hanzhong to the Chengdu Plain.

If the Mo family of Nanzheng repaired the road from Hanzhong to Guangyuan, the Qin State was afraid that it would lose the opportunity to seize the Shu State.

When Wu Qi heard this, he chuckled and said, "In the past, Shang Tang founded the country, maybe he knew about King Wu's war?" The husband is worse than the other, maybe he knows the matter of lying on the salary and tasting the guts? In the past, when Gou Jian tasted the gall, could he be sure that he would definitely be able to swallow Wu in the future? ”

"If you don't plan for eternity, you can't make a fortune for a while. If the Mo family gets Bashu, Sishang, and even destroys Chu, the general trend has been achieved and is unstoppable. What's the use of having more plans then? ”

That's why I said that only when the world changes can there be a glimmer of life. If there is a change in the world, the Mo family has no ability to seize Shu, but we have no soldiers in Longnan, won't we regret it when the time comes? ”

"If there is a change in the world, and the Mo family has to be forced by Shu and Chu in the south and Taihang in the north, then we will have no power in the west of Inoze Inoze, there will be no land to move the temple, and there will be no land for the heirs to be the king, won't you regret it at that time?"

"Today's thing, the only way to do this is to seize the West River first, and then seek Bashu, so as to wait for the future."

"As Yan Zhishi said, if Qin wants to dominate, he must first take the West River. If you want to take the West River, the best time is within ten years. One is that the king's ministers are all outstanding at the moment, and the other is as the ruler said...... If I wait for death, who does the prince dare to use to take the West River? ”

The letter asked people's hearts directly, and said some secret so-called "imperial mental techniques" as a very common thing.

Winner nodded and said, "That's exactly how it should be." In the first battle of Yinyang, 50,000 soldiers of Wei and Han were destroyed, and the weakness of Wei can be observed. ”

"At that time, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, and the soldiers were in Luoshui, and the Qin State was trembling up and down, trembling left and right. Looking at the Wei State now, there is no longer the prestige of the past. ”

"If you want to get the West River, you all depend on your work."

After speaking, he glanced at Wu Qi and stopped talking.

When Wu Qi went to Qin, he once said that if he did not die, he would never personally lead his troops to attack the Xihe warriors he had painstakingly trained.

This is a kind of commitment, a kind of unique feeling of scholars, and he can understand this kind of scholar's feelings after traveling as a hostage in the Central Plains for a long time.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to gather these momentary talents.

Wu Qi felt Qin Jun's gaze, got up and sighed, "Since I entered Qin, I have known that there will be a battle in Xihe. Xihe soldiers, unless they are old and cannot hold weapons, they will be soldiers for life. I have only been in Qin for a few years, and the old man is still there. ”

He let out a long sigh and looked at the pillars of the palace, as if recalling an incident from a long, long time ago.

After a while, he said: "In the past, I was in charge of Xihe and was the general of Xihe. Wear the same clothes and eat the same food as the inferior soldiers. He slept without mattresses, marched without riding horses and chariots, and personally carried bundled food and shared weal and woe with the soldiers. ”

"There was a soldier who had a malignant sore, and I sucked pus for him with my mouth."

But when the soldier's mother heard this, she burst into tears. Someone said: Your son is a nobody, but the general himself sucks pus for him, why is he still crying? ”

This matter is fashionable and few people know about it, even in the Qin State that has changed the law, this matter is still a bit shocking.

Even if the law is changed, centuries-old customs are not so easily subverted, and the inherent inequality and hierarchy between people are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and they are not so easily erased.

Many ministers looked at Wu Qi in amazement, and felt quite incredible, how could the commander of the first army, who was also a figure like the secretary doctor, suck poisonous sores to the lowest private soldiers?

Wu Qi half-closed his eyes, raised his head, and seemed to recall those things that he did not want to recall, and said for a long time: "The mother replied: No, in the past years, Wu Qi sucked poisonous sores for his father, and his father died at the hands of the enemy when he marched bravely on the battlefield; Now he is sucking my son again, and I don't know how he will die, so that's why I cry for him. ”

No one expected such a result, and everyone looked at Wu Qi blankly, thinking back to what the old mother said, and their hearts finally softened.

They may have killed many, many people for a certain purpose, and the Qin State changed the law, and hundreds of heads were killed by the river, but that was just a number.

When these figurative words form images in their minds, they are heavier than hundreds of severed heads.

Wu Qi didn't look at everyone's expressions, just shook his head with a wry smile and said: "This is my method of military training, as the Mo family said, it does have the heart of 'employing people' rather than 'loving people'." ”

"Yes...... But after all, I don't want me to take my former enemies to slaughter the soldiers of Xihe. There are hundreds of thousands of people out there like the soldier I sucked the sore, and I don't want to kill them with my own hands, defeat them. ”

This is the insistence of the scholars.

Just like when he killed many people for a sentence, this is the feelings and spirit of scholars, if you don't do it, you won't do it.

Wu Qi knows very well what kind of person he is, in order to make an oath that I will not come back if I don't mix well, he didn't go back to mourn when his mother died; In order to become famous, without being taken seriously by Wei, you can join the great enemy of Wei in the blink of an eye......

He knew that he was not a "good man", and he knew that sucking the sores for the soldier was for "use" and not for "love".

But that didn't stop him from sticking to his promise.

Qin Jun felt that Wu Qi was the only one to capture the West River, but he didn't want Wu Qi to directly refuse.

was about to say something, but Wu Qi said: "Don't worry, your lordship. Judging from the situation of the Battle of Yinyang, and my knowledge of the military soldiers, the new army of Qin is enough to defeat the soldiers of the West River. ”

"My talent, out of the general. Sun Wuzi said, a good fighter, no outstanding achievements. In the past, I entered Qin through Si Shang, and when I watched the situation in Si Shang, I figured out one thing...... The victory or defeat of the war now lies in internal affairs, then in the military system, and finally in the battlefield. Now that the military system has been changed, and the law has been changed, as long as you are not mediocre, you can seize several cities in Xihe in a few years. ”

He may have been afraid that Qin Jun would not believe it, so he said solemnly: "If the battle of Yinyang is like, where is Chu Guosheng?" ”

Of course, everyone knew the whole situation of the Battle of Hidden Sun, and it may have been just hearsay in the past, but since the rise of the Mo family from above, the tactics of the time will be restored in the newspapers in every battle, so as to avoid those who only talk about strategy and do not understand tactics.

If you understand people, you will naturally understand.

Everyone thought for a while, and Sheng Xuan was the first to understand, and nodded: "That's right." In the battle of Yinyang, the Chu people won within a quarter of an hour, and the reserve could march to the left flank and deploy, blocking the Pythagorean formation of Wei and Han. ”

In other words, win in the discipline, training, and military formation of the new army of Chu. Without these training systems, even if Chu Sima made a decision at that time, what could he do? ”

Qin Jun was stunned, and after thinking about it again, he felt even more reasonable.

Yes, if the state of Chu is not a new army system, but a heavy infantry formation or an even more ancient chariot battle formation, in that case, how can it be possible to block the left flank in a quarter of an hour, even half an hour? If the left flank can't be blocked in half an hour, even if the cavalry of the Mo family raids the Wei flank, it will be the Mo-Chu coalition army that will lose.

The state of Chu won in the ink who helped the state of Chu to train the new army, and won in the ten years of hard work before the Battle of Hidden Sun, not in the battle that was only half a day.

Wu Qi's words have been very clear, in the current situation, as long as the Qin State wants to recapture the West River and fight steadily, it can at least advance a hundred miles, so that the front line is no longer the last Weishui and Beiluoshui.

Slowly, every time Qin seized a piece of Wei land, Qin would be one point stronger, and Wei would be one point weaker, and by the time the real decisive battle came, Wei was no longer able to fight back.

For the Qin State, after the reform, every time a place was conquered, the local people could quickly turn into the population of the Qin State, soldiers, logistics, and farmers who produced food.

Wei...... I'm afraid that it won't work, because Wei State does not have a chance to completely liquidate the aristocracy, and foreign enemies are eyeing each other and surrounded on all sides.

Wu Qi looked at Sheng Xuan, and saluted Qin Jun again: "In the past years in Lu, Sheng Xuan fought with me, and he actually had the ability to calm down. Attacking Wei is no problem. Uncle acne, although he has the wisdom of the court, he has no ability to be a general. Our army is fighting steadily, three miles today and five miles tomorrow, tired of the Wei people. ”

"The Wei people were newly defeated in Yinyang, and they didn't dare to fight a decisive battle, because there were still Mo and Zhao Hushi, so they could only retreat. A few years later, when Wei was tired, he could win the battle. ”

He is giving up the credit of the West River to Shengqiu.

Sheng Xuan was overjoyed, and Wu Qi said: "Your Majesty, since I said about the westward march, it is better to hand over the matter of the westward expedition to me." ”

The Western Expedition is not a simple military issue.

It also involves a series of issues such as internal affairs, taxation, institutions, decrees, colonial policy, assimilation, and so on.

If the Western Expedition is based on military theory, it is just the work of the five great doctors, but in order to turn the western part into the depth and territory of the Qin State, it is necessary to "go out and enter the prime minister" of talented people.

Moreover, the entrenched aristocracy cannot die.

Looking at the court, there is no better candidate for those who can grasp the military, internal affairs, taxation, systems, decrees, and assimilation, except for Wu Qi.

It is not difficult to open up thousands of miles to the west.

The difficulty is that the thousands of miles of land can be transformed into the territory and strength of the Qin State, collect taxes, get soldiers, get horses, and stabilize the rebellion.

Ying Shijian is also a person who dares to employ people, and Wu Qi is already old, and there are almost no descendants, and everyone is opposed in the court - when he was engaged in Xihe, many Qin nobles died at his hands.

Therefore, he was overjoyed after hearing this, and said: "Good, the matter of Anxi is difficult to achieve without Qing." ”

There is no doubt about the use of people in the winning division, and there are all kinds of constraints, even if it is decided to hand over all the powers and responsibilities of the Western Expedition to Wu Qi.

Of course, the dispatch of officials has to go through the king, and the official system of the Qin State is monopolized by those who rebel against Mo, and Wu Qi is not in the same system.

The matter has been decided, and the winner asked again: "After the battle of Yinyang, the Mo family will definitely ally with Chu, Wei, and Han. The Mo family has been saying that it is not a matter of attacking the League of Nations...... What should I do about this? ”

Hearing this, Sheng Yu laughed and said, "This matter is easy to hear. ”

"In the battle of Yinyang, Wei and Han were powerless, and the matter of killing soldiers was in Qin and not in Wei Han. Since the monarch's change of law, the Qin State has become stronger and stronger, and there was the hegemony of Mu Gong in the past, and there was no League of Nations of the Qin State, what kind of League of Nations is it? ”

"Just send someone to participate in the alliance, just say: Xihe is an inseparable place of Qin since ancient times, and the ancestors of relatives and ancestors have a land of size, if you don't take it back, you will be ashamed of your ancestors."

"If you want to become a League of Nations, you must return to Xihe first. If the Wei people dare to return to the West River, the Qin people can join the League of Nations, otherwise there is no need to talk about it. ”

"If the Wei people don't pay it back, then our army will take it by war. If the Mo family really wants to attack, why should they 'reprimand' Qin for wanting to get the West River before he wants to be unjust? The Mo family will definitely mediate, but I am afraid that they will put forward the theory of half and half of Wei and Qin in Xihe, and the Wei people will refuse. ”

"If the Wei people are unwilling, then the matter of the League of Nations will not succeed. If the matter of killing the army fails, the Mo family can only be neutral. The Mo family is neutral, the Wei people in Yinyang have been defeated, our army takes it for itself, who can stop it? ”

Speaking of this, Sheng Xuan thought of the hateful one in Shangqiu City back then, and the upper line kicked him out of the Mo family, and the corners of his mouth actually rolled into a smile.

"Neutral non-offensive? There is no battle of the hidden sun, and the neutrality of the Mozhong is really neutral. The battle of the Hidden Sun has been decided, and the Mo family is neutral and non-attacking...... How is it different from a strong man beating a young child, and a person next to him is neutral and does not attack anyone to help? ”

"Is the neutrality of a strong man beating a young child considered a neutral non-attack?"

"So, just bite two things. First, the West River will return to Qin, otherwise there will be no talk of the League of Nations; Second, Zheng Guo is independent and neutral, otherwise there is no talk of the League of Nations. Two things can make this soldier invisible. Based on Xihe and Zheng, the technique of specimen leverage is used to stir up this situation. “