Chapter 38 Gandi

The king is the lord of a country, the king is seriously injured and lying on the couch, if it were not for the Empress Dowager Zu sitting in Qutai Palace, Qin State may not know what will happen. Taking this opportunity, she did not object to Chu Guoyan and Mi Thorn, although she hated Xiong Jing who killed her own nephew. The left and right prime ministers were even happier in their hearts, but the national lieutenant Huan Qi was supportive, and Wei Yi was clearly opposed, but the two of them could not reverse the overall situation.

On the same day, the envoys and military talismans were sent from Qutai Palace, all the way from Wuguan Road to Chengyang of Chu State day and night, and Changwenjun Xiong Zhan personally served as the chief envoy; All the way down the Weishui River to the Yellow River to Xinzheng and Daliang, reminding the front-line generals to prepare for the withdrawal of troops. One step ahead of Yingdu, Lü Buwei, the Marquis of Wenxin in the Hejian fiefdom, heard the news of Zhao Zheng's serious injury first.

"The king is seriously injured? The king was seriously injured as a result? Lu Buwei was full of alcohol, and it was difficult for him to have a moment of complete soberness when he was drunk every day.

"My lord, the king was refining in Shaofu, and the refining furnace exploded, and the crotch was splashed with molten iron, so he was seriously injured." The doorman suffers and grows old as usual. In the past, Lü Buwei had 3,000 soldiers, but now there are very few customers around him, and there are even fewer people who can give advice.

"Alchemy?" Lü Buwei finally sobered up a little, "The art of refining is owned by Jing State, how can Qin State ......"

"Lord, I think it was the Hou who stole the secret of Jing Guoju's technique, but failed to steal it all, so he blew up the furnace." Bitterness becomes a constant measure. This is also the common feeling of the Qin State, and there is nothing strange about it. "The villain thinks that the lord should go to Xianyang."

"To Xianyang?" Lu Buwei threw aside the wine reel in his hand, but once he thought about it, he picked it up again after his heart was moved. "No, the king knows that I leave the river to Xianyang, and he will kill me."

"Why is this so, the Lord!" Ku Cheng often snatched the wine from Lü Buwei's hand, "The lord is the middle father of the king, and now the king is seriously injured, those Jing people control the government, and they also release rumors that the queen is pregnant, and if the lord does not go to Xianyang, the Qin country will be in chaos." ”

The word middle father was like a panacea, and it made Lu Buwei completely sober up in an instant, and he muttered: "I am the middle father of the king? I am the king's father......"

"The lord is the middle father of the king, and in the army of the country, all the people who died effectively, to Xianyang, the wind and clouds changed immediately. If the king is a king, he can see whether the queen's heirs are or not, so as to set up a new king; The king recovered from his injuries, but he returned to the fiefdom. ”

Ku Chengchang continued to speak, and when he heard that he said that he would return to the fiefdom again, Lu Buwei laughed and said, "Why do you need to go back? If the king kills me, kill me. ”

Ku Cheng often listened to Lu Buwei's laughter and felt uneasy, if the lord really went and died in Xianyang, then he would never be able to rise again.

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A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America, with an occasional flap of its wings, can cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later. Later generations would laugh whenever they heard this assertion, but when he saw what he had done in the past three years, and then compared the original history with the current history, he could no longer laugh.

He is the king of the state of Chu, and his every move will cause a storm. It's just that the storm didn't happen in Texas, but in the state of Chu itself. Now, he finally understands a problem that is easily overlooked, but also the most fatal:

The state of Chu is a part of the world, just as modern China is a part of the world. As long as it is not in the interests of the world hegemon, any changes in modern China will be interfered with by the outside world. The same is true of the state of Chu, any move of the state of Chu must be in the interests of the state of Qin, currying favor with the state of Qin is the only correct way out, and confronting it is self-defeating.

Unfortunately, it was too late for him to understand this.

In addition to the intransigence in his heart, the Chu people, who already hated Qin and hated Qin, were no longer at odds with the Qin people, and the King of Qin also realized that the Chu State would be the biggest obstacle to the Qin State to unify the world, so he had to defeat the Chu State. This time it's 800,000, so how many are it this time? The Chu people in Huaishang migrated to Jiangdong, and if the Qin army attacked Jiangdong next, where could the Chu people move to?

When he was excited, he was full of pride, not afraid of the million-strong army of the Qin State, and vowed to fight the Qin people to the end; At night, I slept alone on the collapse, thinking about the difficulties and problems I had seen and heard during the day, and then tracing back to the root of these difficulties and problems, and I wanted to scold myself for being stupid.

Fortunately, Xiong Jing is not an unsuspecting person, he has experienced the life-and-death struggle on the battlefield and the narrow siege of the 400-meter Tucheng, and he can withstand these pressures. It's just that I can't sleep, it's just an immigrant, it's just a war.

Yingdu Palace, Zhengding, Zhengchao, Ruoying Palace, Chunyang Palace, Qiuhua Palace, and ......even Yangyuntai, Lantai Palace, and private mansions in various counties, as long as the wood is hardwood or cypress, as long as it can build a large-wing warship, all of them are dismantled and sent to the shipyard for shipbuilding. The difference is that the large-winged warships made of wood from private mansions are privately owned (privateers), but they have to pay for their construction; The rest of the large wings made of wood are owned by the county and the king. From then on, the state of Chu no longer had a mausoleum division (that is, a land army), only a boat division.

The dismantled timbers were sent to the shipyard one by one, and the columns, columns, beams, and whirlpools were piled up into a mountain, at the cost of which the magnificent palace had experienced a catastrophe, leaving only one lonely platform after another. Not to mention the temple people and palace maids, the Queen Mother Concubine Zhao and Xiong Jing themselves can only live in tents or carriages.

In addition, the people were extremely panicked - only the temple was left in Yingdu, and the entire palace was demolished, which was a sign of moving the capital again. Even if the Dachu News continued to publish news to refute the rumors, it was to no avail, Xiong Jing had to choose a day to enlighten the foreign dynasty at the suggestion of Zhao Huang, and announce to the people the decision of Da Sima to abolish the tomb division of the mansion and replace it with a boat division.

On the eve of the opening of the outer court, the lights in the tent were on, and Xiong Jing couldn't sleep. After the adjustment, he was calm and calm, holding a map of Chu in his hand, and his eyes fell on the south of the Yangtze River.

...... immigrating to Zhejiang, most of the other regions of Zhejiang were poor except for the north during the agricultural era. Poverty is not because of laziness or stupidity, but because of the lack of land. Yin Yin thought that if each household was granted 100 small mu (100 steps per mu, 100 steps is equal to 0.273 city mu, that is, 27 city mu per household) of land, it would be the limit for 150,000 households to go beyond the land. The rest of the people can only be arranged in Wu Di, and the surrounding Ze is the field, so that more than 200,000 households can be arranged.

There are 400,000 households in the two places combined, which is almost equal to the existing number of households in the Chu state - the immigration is only for the Chu people in Huai, and there are still many counties in Huainan, and these people do not have to migrate for the time being, unless the Qin army crosses the Huaishui to occupy Yingdu.

In the military plan instructed by Xiong Jing and drawn up by the Great Sima Mansion, the Wei capital Liang was the first line of defense, Yingdu was the second, the Yangtze River was the third, and Yuebei was the fourth and last line.

It is absolutely not feasible to leave 200,000 or 300,000 Chu people outside the fourth line of defense, and there is no land to be granted when they move into Vietnam. It was at the suggestion of Qu Gan of Lan Yin (in charge of Shanze) that the military plan of the Great Sima Mansion was partially adjusted, that is, the Fanyi Plain south of Peng Lize was included in the final line of defense.

Peng Lize is not the Poyang Lake of later generations. Peng Lize is shown on the map of the Chu State to be north of the Yangtze River (Jiujiang), close to the remaining veins of Daxing Mountain, and stretch to the east almost all the way to the territory of Songyang (now Zongyang, Anhui), which is based on the north bank of the Yangtze River, a west-east-northerly direction of Daze; In later generations, Poyang Lake had nothing to do with the Yangtze River, it was just a north-south lake along the Ganjiang River on the Fanyi Great Plain.

Huze is different from later generations, but the geographical key is still in Jiujiang. As long as a city was set up in Jiujiang in later generations to contain the mouth of the Ganjiang River, it would prevent the Qin army from entering the Ganjiang River Valley. To the north of the Jiujiang River, there is a large plain, that is, the Poyang Lake Plain in later generations.

Jianghan Plain, Dongting Lake Plain and Poyang Lake Plain are the three major plains of the Yangtze River Basin in later generations, and Yongxiu, Duchang, Hukou, Boyang, De'an, Xingzi, Yugan, Jinxian and Zhangshu are all located on this plain. Huaibei immigrants are resettled here, plus the land on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the Ganjiang River, it is more than enough to resettle 400,000 households.

And unlike Yuedi, Yuedi has to share Yuedi with Yueren, and the Guwu Basin also involves the land north of Zhejiang (Fuchun River), which is the land opened by Yuejun. The land of Jiangxi is different, the land of Jiangxi is unique to the state of Chu, and the existing cities are only Fanyi (now Boyang County, which was recovered due to the rebellion of Fanjun Wu Shenmou), Aiyi (now Xiushui County), Chaisang (now southwest of Jiujiang City), Yuhan (now Yugan), Jinyuyi (now Zhangshu), Shanggan (now Ganzhou) several towns, and there are not many Dingkou.

Resettlement is indeed feasible, but once the Jianghuai defense line is lost, there will be no defense line in Gandi. The northern defense line of Zhejiang was set up by Xiong Jing with reference to the Southern Song Dynasty. The Yuan and Song dynasties were divided into three routes: one from the Yangtze River to the sea, from the East China Sea to Hangzhou Bay. Xiong Jing was least worried about the two concepts of sea and river, even if the Qin army imitated the large-wing war boat, it might not dare to enter the East China Sea to fight a decisive battle with the Chu army's boat division, but it was possible to cross the Yangtze River with dense boats, regardless of casualties and logistics.

The second road is to cross the Yangtze River, cross Zhenze and enter the Yue from a hundred feet. This is the path of the war between Wu and Yue, Wu attacked the more he took this road, and the more he destroyed Wu, the more he destroyed Wu also took this road, so the wars between Wu and Yue all took place on the hundred-foot line, and the two battles of Li were the most famous. Yuebei looks very wide, but except for this road, it is Daze, so the Qin army can only take this road, especially the Li, deep in the valley, it is difficult to set up even if there are soldiers.

The third road is Liyang south to Guangde, Guangde through Dusong Pass is Yuhang, Lin'an. This road is only known to the Yue people for the time being, and Dusong Pass, Baizhang Pass, and Youling Pass have not yet been established. Retreat to Yuedi, these three levels must be built. If the Qin army detains it, its situation will be the same as that of Li Li, and the force will not be able to deploy due to the terrain.

There is such a pass in the north of Vietnam to be used as the fourth line of defense, and Jiujiang in Jiangxi is completely an opening, once Jiujiang is lost, the Qin army can drive straight in, and it can also make a detour to the northeast of Jiangxi to attack Gu. If you don't arrange the immigrants in Jiangxi, as soon as the Yangtze River is breached, Jiangdong will be finished. Perhaps—Xiong Jing, who didn't know the Qin State Furnace, looked at the map of Chu State—after the loss of Jiujiang, the Chu people could retreat into Yuedi or go south to southern Jiangnan, and if they could open up the Great Yuling Mountains, they could also enter Nanyue along the Beijiang River.