When the winning teacher heard this, his eyes lit up, and he realized something.

In fact, after the birth of gunpowder, if the experience accumulated in blood is quickly crossed without taking a detour, the nomads will soon change from the so-called "abundant martial virtues" to "good at singing and dancing".

Of course, it was not only the nomads, but also the primitive settlements of the more backward regions with broken hair and tattoos.

This point was felt very deeply when the Mo family guarded Gaoliu and sought the South China Sea, and when the Qin State went west to conquer Yueshi, Yiqu, and Xiqiang.

For example, in Qin's western expedition, more than 100 soldiers armed with muskets, combined with the improved chariot formation method that can be fought and walked, can make more than 1,000 Yiqu people who ride horses and control the strings and use bone arrows are helpless.

After immigration, many of them captured "slaves", occupied land, cultivated for livelihood, or directly received a land, relying on more than 100 people to maintain colonial rule.

For the Qin state, it is true that there are trade profits to the west, but compared to the temptation of the Central Plains, it is undoubtedly greater than the Central Plains.

Wu Qi's meaning is that Qin wants to be a two-headed falcon, one side must keep an eye on the Central Plains, and the other side must also have a back hand to open up to the west.

Anyway, opening up westward is not a great achievement at this time, weapons and tactics and even the crushing of the logistics population, and using muskets to conquer the ethnic groups that still have no stirrups and no iron weapons, even if they have thousands of miles of land, it may only be the work of five doctors, and there is still a distance from the equivalent of the chief of the Qing.

It is not only to keep it behind, but also to be able to get more land and people.

To the west, you can slowly draw it, but to the east, you need to stabilize the situation after a thunderous blow.

The Qin State must first obtain the West River before it can consider hegemony.

Without the West River, the Qin State does not have any strategic space, and losing any major battle may be the defeat of the country, so even if the future generations enter Shu, they must first seek the West River as a buffer.

When the Qin State was weak before, it did not think about what happened after the capture of the West River.

But with the deepening of the reform and the growing national strength, the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State finally realized the hatefulness of the Mo family's layout twenty years in advance.

If Qin wants to dominate the world, he must first win the West River, then seize Hanzhong, and find an opportunity to enter Shu, so that he can have a steady stream of troops, financial resources, manpower and material resources to support the long-term war east of the West River.

The problem is that he can't go west and dare not go all out into Shu; But when he had the ability to get the West River, the Mo family took the first step and got stuck in Hanzhong.

For the Qin State, the disgusting thing about this move is that if he wins the West River, the relationship with the Sanjin Dynasty will inevitably be tense, and if he goes to seize Hanzhong at this time, he will have a bad relationship with the Mo family. Fighting against the Three Jin Dynasty in Xihe, plus the Mo family, is self-defeating.

And when the soldiers go out of the West River, they must make friends with the Mo family, there is no doubt about this, even if they know that the Mo family is to let the Qin State be the Wu State back then, they still have to make friends. Not making friends means that the Three Jin do not need to face the pressure of fighting on two fronts, and fight with all their strength in the West River, which the Qin State cannot deal with now.

In other words...... The Mo family blocked the way for the Qin State to unify the world, and only allowed them to be regional overlords.

Or, to the west, to open up the lands beyond Zhuxia; Either to the east and become a pawn to contain the three jins. lost the strategic direction of Bashu in the south, and also lost the capital to dominate the world.

Shu is the best strategic rear of the Qin State after the reform, especially after Dujiangyan was built in advance, iron farming tools and new planting methods were introduced to Shu, but it seems hopeless now.

Wu Qi has long seen this clearly, but seeing clearly and having the strength to solve it are not the same thing.

Without the West River, the Qin State will never be able to seek the world, and the West River must be captured, so as to leave a buffer for the Guanzhong Plain, and not to lose the first war and destroy the country.

But if you take the West River, it is equivalent to making friends with the Mo family for at least 20 or even 50 years and dealing with the counterattack of the Three Jins. can only watch the Mo family continue to infiltrate Bashu from Hanzhong, cut off the opportunity for the Qin State to win the world, and can only be a hegemon like Xibohou.

Therefore, Wu Qi said that while seeking the west river in the east, we must not forget to go west, that is, to pounce on a road for the future of the Qin State, a road in case of failure, in case the Mo family is too strong to be restrained.

Those who are prepared, take precautions, and are good at planning for the country should be like this.

Wu Qi saw Qin Jun pondering, so he said: "As a general, you must not ignore the geographical trend of mountains and rivers; As a monarch, you must not be far-reaching. ”

"Therefore, it can be dominated to the east, one to the south, and one to the west."

"However, if you can't be the hegemon, how can you go down in one day? If you want to dominate first, it is difficult to dominate. ”

How can these strategic things be unclear as the king of a country? The disagreement between Wu Qi and the Marquis of Wei was because of the strategic problem, whether to maintain the hegemony of Wei's multi-front operations or to participate in the Central Plains to settle the Western Qin affairs first.

Time passed, and Wu Qi once again put forward his own strategy.

Historically, he was in charge of the Chu State, and what he did was similar, to the south, to the south, to lay a stable rear for the Chu State, and then Xu Tu Chen Cai, seeking the Central Plains.

This time he said his opinion, and Qin Jun sighed and said, "As you said, I don't know how many years it will take." ”

Wu Qi understood Qin Jun's sigh, so he said: "We must wait for the world to change." Today's friends, tomorrow's enemies; Today's enemies may not be friends tomorrow. The world is one, and I am afraid that it will not happen overnight. ”

After he entered Qin, he naturally studied the geography of the mountains and rivers of Qin, and the Mo family occupied Nanzheng and had a lot of trade with Qinchuan, and before the Mo family entered Nanzheng, Qin and Shu had been fighting around Hanzhong for decades, where could they not know the trend of Qinchuan and Bashu?

Hanzhong into Sichuan, in Wu Qi's view, there are actually four roads now.

Three of them don't work.

Meridian Valley Road, which has existed since ancient times, Zhang Yi once said that with an army to plug the noon road, when the king of Wu fell, the Ba people also went to the alliance through the noon road.

This road does not work, as long as the Mo family guards Hanzhong, with the Mo family's technique of defending the city, it is useless to take Nanzheng with few people, and many people will be blocked.

Chencang Road, Baogu Road, these two roads are also impossible to break, at least for now, the road is steep, and the Mo family is good at guarding.

The only one left is to enter Sichuan through the Wudu at this time, that is, the Longnan Longyou of the later generations, which is about the direction of the Yinping Road where Deng Ai entered Shu in the later generations.

That was the only way that could bypass Hanzhong's surprise attack on Bashu, otherwise it would have to be fought hard at several passes guarded by the Qinling and Mo families.

The so-called to get Long Wangshu, if you want to look at Shu, you have to get Long, that is, you have to continue to expand westward.

The Qin State has been going west all these years, crushing Yidi, and has gained a lot, but Wu Qi feels that it is not enough.

The Qin State is divided into two administrative divisions: "county" and "dao", the county is the basic plate directly under the central government, and the dao is similar to the colony, and the so-called county has Yidi is the dao.

To the west, there are two more directions.

One is the Hexi Corridor, which is now increasingly important with the development of trade, and the Qin state has penetrated deep into it, and there are many immigrants.

Today, the second largest pig in antiquity, Nozawa, is still there, the rivers have not dried up, irrigated agriculture can develop there, and with the westward trade, there is gradually beginning to be more civilized.

The other direction is to follow the road of Qin Mugong's westward expedition, passing through Longxi and Longnan, Qin has set up some counties and roads here, with the foundation laid in the era of Qin Mugong, and the development is not bad.

To the northwest, through the Hexi Corridor, it was both for trade and to leave a road for the Qin state...... Since the ancestors of the Qin people could migrate here from Shandong, once the world is really difficult to accommodate in the future, the Qin people can also continue to migrate westward along this road and seek another feudal country.

To the southwest, it is to wait for the opportunity of Wu Qi's so-called "the world has changed and the sky is down", that is, the opportunity to attack Shu and get Bashu, although now it seems that this chance is a little slim.

But after all, it is necessary to prepare early.

If one day you really turn your face with the Mo family, then you can either raid from Meridian Dao, Baogu Dao and other ways, or you can find a way to directly enter Shu from Longnan.

The purpose of Emperor Shu's Feng Mo family in Nanzheng is obvious.

It is quite similar to the mentality of Emperor Shu in history.

One is that there was a constant struggle between Bashu and Shu, and the Qin State fought for Hanzhong and Shu for decades, so that the Shu Emperor was unable to hold Hanzhong at all, so he had to hand it over to the Mo family, and married in law in order to guard the north gate.

The second is that the Mo family's power in Shu is getting bigger and bigger, and its reputation is getting higher and higher, which will inevitably involve the inheritance of some nobles.

The relationship between Shu and the Hanzhong Mo family is very delicate, and those people from the Hanzhong Mo family often conquer some small surrounding Yidi countries, and they do a really good job in guarding the north gate.

But...... Shu was also very worried about the Mo family in Hanzhong.

In later generations, there is a strategy of the stone ox, there is a story of the opening of the mountain, in fact, the stone cow road has long existed, but it was originally not suitable for the passage of the army, because after all, the Shu State and the Qin State have fought several times around Nanzheng, and it also involves the fact that Bashu participated in the Wuwang War, and this road has long existed.

Now the Mo family is repairing this Shiniu Road, which is not called Shiniu Road at this time, on the grounds of "convenient trade", which makes Shu very uneasy. Shu itself is a country of witchcraft worship, with the penetration of the Central Plains culture gradually Zhuxia, and the Mo family went to those who are the most advanced group of people in the Central Plains culture, with cultural advantages and money advantages, and the people's hearts, with the spread of some doctrines of the Mo family, it is impossible for Shu not to worry.

This is also an important reason why Wu Qi believes that it is necessary to develop both east and west.

Reaching the east to the west of the river was the first step for the Qin State to dominate and even participate in the Central Plains.

In the northwest, through the Hexi Corridor, that is the trade route, is the road of Qin's treasury wealth.

It is also in case one day the Central Plains unifies the Qin State and migrates westward to create a back road in the Western Regions. If that day really comes, it is a big deal to establish a country to the west, seize the feudal county of Persia named Bactla, and seek the back road of the poisonous body of the Central Plains.

To the southwest, operating Longxi and Longnan, that is in the future, in case one day the opportunity comes, when the time comes, the Qin State can directly enter Shu and cut off Hanzhong, so as to obtain a large rear under the day.

If you want to dominate, you must kiss ink; If you want one, you will reverse ink. When to kiss and when to reverse, you need to prepare in advance.