Chapter 810: Helplessness and Speculation
Lü Zhe had privately deduced that according to the feudal system he envisioned, it was very likely that the land of China would become a federal system in the future, which would not only be a powerful empire but also have more branches of the kingdom, and ensure the intimacy between the empire and the various kingdoms with the same cultural and blood relations, forming a political system centered on the emperor.
To put it more clearly, the empire and the kingdom may be both cooperative and competitive in the direction of history, but the same subject nation will continue to expand, during which if the empire has been strong, the various kingdoms as branches can only be subordinate to the empire in politics, if the empire falls into weakness, it is very likely to be replaced, but with the increase of the habitat of the same ethnic group, the kingdom that replaces the empire can only achieve the strength of forming an "empire", and it is difficult to form a situation of comprehensive unification. What will it look like?
Unable to form a comprehensive unification situation, it replaced the new empire of the Lü dynasty, which could only be committed to maintaining the pattern created by the Lü dynasty, existing as the strongest under the same race, and striving to make the various kingdoms of the same race submit to themselves in politics.
It may also be a different situation, after the fall of the Lü dynasty, the kingdoms of the same ethnic group will fall into a kind of long-term war because they want to gain the leadership of the ethnic group, repeating the Spring and Autumn Warring States pattern formed after the decline of the Zhou royal family.
"That's why the widow said that he couldn't guess Han Wangzhe's thoughts," Fusu swayed with the swaying of the car, kneeling and kneeling, and his eyes looked at the green outside the car window: "Han Wangzhe must have expected such a pattern, but he still implements the national policy of separation, which has to be said to be admirable." ”
Fusu and his entourage have been from Xianyang for half a year, and their first place of stay is at Hangu Pass, and a series of policies to stop at Hangu Pass to watch Nanling are also waiting for the Central Plains Army of the former Qin State to be stationed in Sanchuan County.
They waited until Xu Yan led the troops to finish pulling out to avoid embarrassment, after all, that legion was the original Central Plains Army of the Qin State. The Central Plains Army was subdued by Lu Zhe, and three legions were reorganized, and the rest were either converted into second-line troops or disbanded, Fusu didn't know what kind of attitude to face those old departments of Qin, and it was estimated that those old departments didn't know how to face the new king of Qin, so it was better not to see them.
After staying at Hangu Pass for about three months, Fusu had been paying attention to any administrative order issued by the Han State, hoping to find news that was favorable or unfavorable to him, but unfortunately Lu Zhe had not made any announcements about the separation, but had optimized some military and political systems. In addition, there are some new rounds of mobilization for foreign wars, and many incentives for navigation.
Fusu also paid special attention to one thing, that is, about Lu Zhe's reward for meritorious officials, but he waited for a long time and did not hear any news about Lu Zhe's reward for meritorious officials.
"Maybe it's still under discussion, after all, there are many important generals outside the Cypriots, and there are also many civilian officials running around in various newly ruled areas." Meng Yi sees it this way.
Fusu had other ideas, he thought that Lu Zhe had not been founding the country for a long time, and he had always seemed to be focusing on military affairs, and he might not have a comprehensive idea of Wenzhi.
"Why does the king think so?" Meng Yi was extremely curious.
"The founding of Han Wang Zhe is only seven ...... Eight years. Looking at the rewards that have been awarded, Han Wangzhe has adopted a cautious strategy, and he is cautious about rewards, and less than forty people have been knighted in eight years. And most of them are honorary nobles such as lords, and none of them have reached the level of marquis. Fusu paused and thought for a while before continuing: "There are rumors that Han Wangzhe will take out at least five marquis to reward this time, of which Han Cheng and Xiong Xin will take up two shares, and Xiao He, Sima Xin, and Ji Bu will get three of them?" ”
Han Sung is the king of Korea. Han Cheng has already expressed his reluctance to go out and expand. In view of the fact that South Korea's land is not large, and the South Korean army is only 50,000, the 50,000 Korean troops were still trained with the help of Lu Zhe. In terms of equal exchange value, everyone thinks that Lu Zhefeng Han becoming a fourth-class marquis is already preferential treatment.
For Lu Zhe, Xiong Xin's role is much greater than Han Cheng's, it was because of Xiong Xin's cooperation that Lu Zhe was able to form a rule over Chu lightly, and it was also because of Xiong Xin's circling around the old Chu State civil and military officials that there were no radical behaviors. It can be said that if he loses some of Xiong Xin's cooperation, although Lu Zhe can get Chu Land, he will also have to face a situation where there is no chaos, so Lu Zhe's reward to Xiong Xin is a first-class marquis, and no one has any objection to this.
Needless to say, anyone can see the importance of Xiao He, because Xiao He has excellent logistics scheduling ability, so as to ensure that the Han army can continue to expand externally without worries in a few years, even if it is only with such credit, Lu Zhe has enough reasons to give Xiao He a reward to the Marquis, not to mention Xiao He's achievements in some internal affairs, so Xiao He won the reward of the first-class marquis can be said to be due to public expectations.
There are some controversies about rewarding Ji Bu as a fifth-class marquis, Ji Bu followed Lu Zhe's rise in Weimo, but there are many people who follow Lu Zhe's rise in Weimo, and no one knows how much talent Ji Bu himself has, but Ji Bu's performance in repeated wars can only be said to be decent, which is also the reason why many people think that Lu Zhe looks down on Ji Bu, according to some people's opinions, Ji Bu was too high to be named a fifth-class marquis, and he should be a second-class or first-class earl.
Sima Xin was awarded the title of third-class marquis, but no one had much objection, even if there was any dissent, it was because of Sima Xin's previous incident, that time he led the army to attack Lu Zhe has been repeatedly mentioned, but the talent and role that Sima Xin played after being loyal to Lu Zhe were all seen.
Of course, no matter who was awarded what title, it was all private speculation, and Lu Zhe never publicly took out a list to make any statement. Their speculations so far were based on the merits of some civil and military affairs, and Lu Zhe's appreciation of someone, from the number of jù and the king's preferences.
In addition, there are opinions that the matter has been determined, and Zhao Xie and Wei Ji will still be a king.
Zhao Xie was because he handed over the four counties in his hands, and the army also had nearly 300,000 to accept Lu Zhe's reorganization, in exchange for Lu Zhe to build a new Handan city for Zhao Xie, and at the same time give a city and 30,000 private troops to be attached to it.
Wei Qi was crowned king for another reason, Wei and Korea were protected by Lu Zhe in order to survive, Wei was slightly stronger than South Korea in terms of military strength, and Wei Qi currently had 100,000 new Wei troops in his hands. He has also chosen to leave his homeland and go to the southwest to build a new foundation.
"I didn't expect that people who were not valued by us once came to Han Wangzhe's side but were so dazzling." Fusu is talking about Sima Xin, who was originally the chief of the Qin State, and was the only Sima Xin who was appointed as the chief general of the Qin army in the south.
Meng Yi said: "Sima Xin's performance in military talent is amazing, but if it is really exciting, it will definitely not be. There were quite a few generals in the Qin State who were stronger in military talent than Sima Xin. ”
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Fusu's face, but it was quickly disguised. He was already angry in his heart that Meng Tian, whom he had always supported, had clearly stated that he would accept the solicitation from Han Wangzhe, but now that Meng Yi said that kind of thing, the dissatisfaction in his heart was even worse, but now he still had to rely on Meng's influence on the army, which was also a relationship of temperament. He could only choose to remain silent.
"It's a pity, no matter how good they are, many people will no longer be used by the Zhao family, and they will become the sword in the hands of Han Wangzhe to expand the territory." Fusu said in a helpless tone.
Yes, there are a lot of excellent generals in the Qin army, whether it is the older generation or the new generation of generals, there are quite a lot of talents, but even with so many excellent generals, the Qin State still can't change the fact that it is weakening, doesn't it mean that as the king of the Qin State, the two generations of kings will not use people?
Meng Tian accepted the solicitation from Lü Zhe, and Zhang Han also showed an attitude of being inclined to serve the new empire. In addition, such as Su Jiao, Dong Peng, Shijian, and other old or newly rising generals, the recent changes of many Qin military warriors have made Fusu feel disappointed and helpless.
Fusu couldn't prevent many things, just like he couldn't prevent the decline of the Qin state with the full rise of Lü Zhe, and in the face of Lü Zhe, a guy named Chen Ping sent frequent contact with the civil and military officials of the Qin state. Unless Fusu is willing to completely tear his face with Lu Zhe, even if he is very dissatisfied, he can only be regarded as not seeing.
"Maybe the widow should also learn from Han Cheng and become a carefree person who survives the wings of the new empire, and no longer bears so many burdens. Under unbearable pressure...... Fusu lowered his head, unable to hide a strong sense of loss in his tone.
"The place chosen by the king of Wei is the south, a region that Han Wang Zhe called Southwest Asia." Meng Yi pretended not to hear Fusu's loss, and found a new topic: "Which area will the king ask for with Han Wangzhe?" ”
Perhaps it should be said that it would be more appropriate for Lu Zhe to choose that area as the place for the new Qin State, and Fusu has also been considering it, and in order to pick out a suitable new territory, he even sent someone to ask Lu Zhe for a newly drawn map, that is, the "whole map of the earth" that Lu Zhe drew according to his memory.
Even if he was about to rush to Nanling immediately, Fusu hadn't figured out where to choose so far, and he had been speculating where Lu Zhe would place the Qin State.
The established pattern will be that Fusu will take people out of China proper, and all the internal history counties, Beidi counties, and upper counties currently used by Qin will become the territory of the empire, and Lu Zhe will leave a city-state in the empire itself, which is the original capital of Qin, Xianyang, but Fusu does not have any power to govern Xianyang, and only enjoys part of the economic tax amount.
In fact, Wei Zhi was also treated the same as Fusu, and Wei Zhi needed to take people out of Huaxia proper, but Lu Zhe still gave Wei Zhi a city-state to enjoy the tax amount in the old land of Wei.
Lü Zhe's intention for the city-states of Fusu and Wei was to allow them to have a small source of tax revenue, in some ways to compensate the two kings for the choices they made in favor of the empire in cooperation with the establishment of the new empire, to thank them for avoiding the continuation of the civil war in China, and for the small benefits that the leaders of the Qian, who were about to become members of the rule, to give Fusu and Wei Qi.
Compared with Wei Qi, Fusu is much stronger, although the surname of Zhao won because some decisions disappointed most Qin people, but the ancestors of the Zhao family won more or less left a lot of budding yin for Fusu.
Wei Qi's "escape" could only take with him the 30,000 soldiers who were willing to follow him, as well as about 110,000 family members.
Fusu "fled", but nearly 70,000 Qin soldiers were willing to follow, and even more than 500,000 Qianshou were willing to follow Fusu to leave their homeland.
So there are quite a lot of reasons why Lu Zhe chose Southwest Asia for Wei Zhi in later generations, one is that the strength that Wei Zhe can use in his hands is too limited, if Lu Zhe throws Wei Qi into the Central Asia region, how many resources should be invested in the future empire to ensure that Wei Ji and the 140,000 Chinese ethnic groups will not be torn to pieces by foreign races?
"We will have at least 70,000 soldiers and 500,000 people......" Fusu pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, and there was relief and bitterness in that smile: "The total is 570,000 people." Han Wangzhe has been emphasizing that we are the same race, and will not throw us into a particularly dangerous place, after all, we have just been empty, and in the face of the situation that the land is full of foreign races, if he sits back and watch us being wiped out by foreign races, how should he face the thousands of eyes of the local people? ”
In fact, the population under the current territory of Fusu is about 3 million, and it can win 570,000...... That is, one-sixth of the people are willing to follow, which can be said to be very remarkable, and it can be regarded as the sense that Fusu gives to the Qin people is very little. The problem is that because there are 570,000 people, Fusu has been worried that Lu Zhe will not let go of that many people, after all, the ruler knows best what the population means to a country.
Another concern of Fusu is that the materials used by the 570,000 people "leaving" will definitely be an astronomical amount, and one person will eat three catties of grain a day, which is 30 catties a month, that is, more than one stone. Then 570,000 people will consume at least 600,000 stones in a month, which is 7.2 million stones in a year.
I just left Huaxia and settled down in another place, not to mention anything like production, it is still unknown whether I can gain a firm foothold, so I must carry at least a year's worth of rations before leaving. Even if Fusu sold his **, it would not be enough for the wealth to buy so many rations, not to mention some materials to be used during the migration, such as animal power and vehicles.
"The widow is both happy and headache now, both for so many people to be happy with the widow, and for how so many people should prepare." Fusu looked at Meng Yi with a blank eye: "You say, will Han Wangzhe tolerate 570,000 people leaving?" Even if Han Wangzhe is willing to let go, how can we ensure the required use? ”
After ......a long period of aphasia, Meng Yi used an uncertain tone: "Your Majesty, let the ministers go to Han Wangzhe to fight." ”
Through the car window, he could already see the walls of the majestic Nanling City, and Fusu nodded when he heard this: "Then please govern." (To be continued......)