"It can't be delayed any longer."

The windows were all closed, and there were only a few lights in the room, and Fusu's face looked a little blurry in the dim light.

Han Wang Zhe led the army back to the capital of Nanling, Zhao Wang Xie, Han Wang Cheng, Wei Wang Ji, Yan Wang Xia and these kings also went with him, Han Wang Zhe's goal of controlling most of the territory of China has been achieved, and the Neishi County, Shang County, and Beidi County of Qin have not been included in the palm of his hand, and have forced Qin to a more dangerous situation.

"Yang Zi wrote back a letter, reminding that Han Wangzhe's patience was decreasing little by little, and the call for the Han court to send troops to Qin was getting louder and louder."

In the dimly lit room, Fusu was naturally sitting on the main seat, and on both sides of the main seat were a group of trusted courtiers, whose figures showed blurred outlines in the lamplight, and the dark sight also made their faces look cloudy.

"Your Majesty, Han Wangzhe now uses a lot of troops, in addition to the four or five hundred thousand main forces entangled with the Hu people outside the Sai, the newly occupied Central Plains and the south also involve a large number of troops, even if you have the intention to send troops to attack us, you are also powerless, right?"

The person who spoke didn't know who it was, his voice sounded slightly hoarse, and he was wearing a black robe, so he should be an important member of the clan?

The Qin clan has been suppressed since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, and the Qin Wangzheng generation is the most stringent period of suppression of the clan, not only the clan relatives with the surname Zhao Ying can only eat and wait for death, but also the relatives who have been active in the Qin dynasty and politics have all been swept into the garbage heap, and only some talented people with far blood can serve in the court, and generally it will not be an important official position.

Every ruling family carries out the family's "self-bleeding" is to ensure that the position of the ruler is stable, but this practice is not smart, the ruler of the Qin State surnamed Zhao is not the only one who has eaten this evil fruit, many ruling families in the past dynasties will always lose their dominance when they encounter turmoil after self-oppression, and only some ruling families who have not carried out self-oppression can still have blood relatives to turn the tide when the world is turbulent. The most representative is Liu Xiu at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu continued the Han Dynasty and established the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Under the pressure of the general situation, Fusu seems to be aware of the danger of having little power in the hands of his blood relatives, and has been trying to re-support his clan relatives for several years. During the War of Unification, Win Teng (Nei Shi Teng), who was extremely good, had become an important minister in the court, and when the time came, he would become the prime minister of Qin, but at present, Fusu still needed the support of Wang Juan and Kui Lin, and it was difficult to start for a while. In addition, some clan relatives also began to gradually infiltrate the administrative field, and it was only because of the special status of the Montessori in the army that it was difficult for Fusu to meddle in the military.

Fusu is very clear about the current general trend of the world, because of the strong rise of Han Wangzhe. It is also because of the tolerance and benevolence expressed by Han Wangzhe, and that kind of extraordinary broad-mindedness and generosity have a fatal attraction to many people.

Looking at the collapse of Zhao, Wei, and Han by the power of the blow, and seeing the people left behind after the demise of Chu, Qi, and Yan were quickly integrated, it is not that the royal families did not stop it, but that the royal families had no way to prevent the Wenchen and military generals under their command from approaching Han Wangzhe, and preventing those people from moving closer to the past in order to gain greater development space or wealth and glory under the command of Han Wangzhe.

Sometimes Fusu really doubts that there is such a thing as the Mandate of Heaven in the world, it is the Mandate of Heaven that allowed the Zhao family to dominate the world, and then the Mandate of Heaven drifted away, and then the Zhao family name weakened in a series of administrative mistakes and national policy decisions.

Fusu suspected that the destiny of leaving the Zhao family was in the hands of Lu Zhe. It took Lu Zhe less than ten years to create the current situation.

It was useless to think so much, Fusu knew that the Zhao family no longer had the general trend because of a series of mistakes, and that was based on the premise that even the Qin people were disappointed in the ruling class. The people are the foundation of a country, after all, it is one family after another that makes up a country. For a long time, the "home country" referred to as this. The people's will is not attached, the general trend of the world is urgent, Fusu knows very well that the struggle is just a struggle against time, if it is not in line with the general trend, the Zhao family is very likely to become powder.

Sometimes it's not enough to see the big picture alone. There are always a large number of people who can't see the situation clearly and want to hit the stone with an egg, like the group of people gathered by Fusu, many of whom are trying their best to turn the situation around.

"The Hu people outside the Saiwai dragged nearly half a million Han troops. If you want to maintain stability in the Central Plains after the war, you need at least one million soldiers, and in order to guard against Donghu north of Yandi in Liaodong, you also need to garrison at least 200,000 troops, and the newly conquered south of the Han State must also leave 120,000 or 200,000, is there still any remaining troops in the hands of Han Wang Zhe? ”

Fusu, who was in the dark, didn't have any change in his expression when he heard that sentence, but he must have been smiling bitterly in his heart.

The Han State was different from any other country before it, not only that Lu Zhe, as the ruler, had been investing in the people to gather the people's hearts, but also that the emergence of the compulsory military system directly changed the potential force of a country.

Only people who don't know what the compulsory military system is will think that Han Wangzhe's troops at hand are not enough, and the number of Qianshou currently living in the territory ruled by Han Wangzhe exceeds 15 million, which is 15 million after the war, not 15 million in peacetime, and the environment in the turmoil of war makes a large number of old and weak, women and children who do not have much ability to protect themselves, but it is relatively easy for the prime of life to survive.

Fusu did not know the age and gender distribution of the Han population, but he could imagine that the Han State under the rule of Han Wang Zhe had a population of 15 million, of which the number of soldiers who could become a source of soldiers was at least about 5 million, and so far it had only mobilized more than 2 million, and there was still a lot of room for excavation.

"Han Wangzhe's main battle strength outside the Sai is less than 300,000," Nei Shiteng's voice is relatively strong: "Among them, more than 100,000 are from our Wang Ben's department, 50,000 are from the Sima Ang department of the former Zhao State, and about 150,000 are the descendants of Han Wangzhe." ”

I don't know who took the lead in cursing Wang Ben, and then the room was filled with "Wang Ben, this messy thief", "Wang Family III enjoys the preferential treatment of the Qin State, he is really an ungrateful thief", and many other curses.

At that moment, Nesteng quietly moved his gaze to Fusu in the main seat, and he naturally couldn't see Fusu's expression clearly in the dim light.

Everything has a cause, and then there is an effect. If you want to say who knows best why Wang Ben turned his back on Qin and defected to Han Wang Zhe, it should be Fusu after becoming the king of Qin, and it was not overnight that the Wang family would make such a choice. The reason is that Wang Jian has made too much credit.

Zhao, Wei, Qi, Yan, and Chu among the countries were all destroyed by Wang Jian as the commander, that is to say, except for Han, the destruction of the rest of the Warring States was related to Wang Qian, and Wang Jian contributed big and small in the process of destroying the country, but in general, Wang Jian made immortal achievements.

Once Bai Qi also made a lot of contributions to Qin Zhaoxiang King Yingji, among which the Battle of Changping can be described as an immortal achievement, the Qin army under the command of Bai Qi won the victory in the Battle of Changping, laying the situation of Qin State to dominate the world after the Qin State, but Bai Qi, who made immortal achievements, did not get a good end, and had to commit suicide and die under the suspicion of the king.

There is a word called "meritorious service", that is, as a courtier, once he has too much merit, he will shake the position of the ruler. That's because when they make a profit, the courtiers have a service to the king, but they also contribute to the country and the community, and they often gather unimaginable popularity.

What happens when a person has unimaginable prestige? Zhao Kuangyin at the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is the best example, once a person has unimaginable prestige, then what will happen is completely not up to him alone.

Bai Qi's credit is too great, almost the whole Qin State only knows the majesty of Wu Anjun and forgets that Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji is the master of the country, what would Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji think in his heart at that time?

Wang Qian's merits are even higher than those of Bai Qi, but Wang Jian obviously knows the way of being a courtier better than Bai Qi. Wang Qian's approach is to repeatedly state that his great achievements are completely out of the appreciation of the great Yingzheng, and he does not learn to focus on mastering military power in vain. even stated that "for the king's general, he will not be crowned a marquis if he has merit, so the king's ministers, and the ministers will also invite Yuanchi as their descendants in time!" ”。 is really not a marquis in his life, and he deeply reveals the way to protect himself.

Mingzhe, who knows how to be a courtier, protects himself so that Wang Jian can retire after Qin dominates the world, but it does not mean that the Wang family will also withdraw from the stage of fame and fortune. The ruler could not repeatedly target a person who had relinquished his authority, and even show his wisdom by showing favor to his descendants. Therefore, even if the merit is not enough, he must be made a marquis, and Wang Ben will also enjoy the title of Marquis of Tongwu.

In many cases, the king's preferential treatment is just a show, but in fact, he is secretly carrying out the most thorough suppression. As soon as the time comes, perform the most complete clearance. No matter how beautiful the Wang family is on the surface, it is actually in an extremely dangerous situation, during which there was a case where the first emperor married the queen's family and then found a reason to kill him. In fact, seriously speaking, the rise of the Mengshi clan is also the need of the Zhao family to curb the Wang clan.

The Zhao family's Ying surname's targeting of the Wang clan is not a kind of oppression with quick results, it uses water mills, and it is also hoped to minimize the impact, after all, the Wang family's contribution in the battle of unification is really too great.

The opposition from the ruler can make people shudder, fidget, everything is a trivial matter, live in fear all the time, have no choice and can not resist but accept the ultimate misfortune, and when there is a choice, not many people will be willing to be killed.

If Wang Ben's betrayal was for a reason, then Xu Yan's betrayal surprised Fusu, and it was indeed only surprise, not incomprehension.

The Xu clan has always been a trend of steady development in the Qin State, and they have not made much merit or made any mistakes, and the current situation may only be due to one reason, that is, the Qin State is rapidly declining, and it is so weak that it is unable to provide the food needed by hundreds of thousands of troops.

The importance of food for an army is incomparable, it is the foundation of an army's survival and stability, if it cannot provide an army with food and straw steadily, the collapse of the army is a trivial matter, and many armies that cannot get food supplies will even riot at the instigation of some careerists and become an organized rebel army.

There are too many examples in history of the army lacking food and straw and thus becoming a rebel army, and everyone in power knows the danger of an army lacking food and straw, and of course the Qin center is also aware of that, in order to avoid a greater danger, he can only let Lu Zhe infiltrate.

Han Wangzhe bought too many backbones of the Central Plains Army during a series of grain transportation, and there were examples of Qin generals who defected to Han Wangzhe in the early days, no matter whether Xu Yan opposed or agreed, it could not change the occurrence of the Qin army stationed in Sanchuan County defecting to Han Wangzhe, and because Han Wangzhe was born in Qin, it was a matter of course for a large number of Qin troops to defect after the Zhao family was weakened.

Fusu didn't know what would happen in the original history, if he knew that the Qin people in Qin Land would take refuge in whoever they came, and even the arsonists who entered Qin Land and burned and looted all the way were willing to take refuge, he should be glad that the current Qin people were just watching from the sidelines, at least they didn't stand on the opponent's side and attack Qin State instead.

The Qin people were disappointed in the Zhao family's winning surname, Fusu was able to understand this truth from all aspects, as the supreme ruler of the Qin State in name, he had no way to say many things, and even tried his best to cover up the facts, which resulted in the current situation, a group of clan relatives could not see the situation clearly, and they also dreamed that Great Qin could revive again in a short period of time.

If there were a few more decades, Daqin might be able to revive again, but it was clear that there was no time, and Fusu waited until the quarrel of a group of clan relatives was over.

"The Seventh Mixed Regiment of the Han Army in Qin is moving towards the Han Territory, and the Third Mixed Regiment and the Eighth Mixed Regiment are approaching from the direction of Taiyuan County towards Shangjun......" Fusu's tone still couldn't hear any fluctuations: "The Central Plains Legion is receiving the adaptation of Han Wang Zhe, and it already has the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth regiment numbers. In addition, the Han Realm is also preparing a new legion, which is the number of the fifteenth to twentieth legions. At the same time, the 200,000 Han troops who had originally marched south were also being rotated. ”

A legion of the Han army had an establishment of 50,000 soldiers, and each legion would allocate a different number of auxiliaries according to the different tasks performed. The auxiliary soldier system was first implemented by the Qin State, and they should know that the auxiliary soldiers under each regiment sequence of the Han army are actually a kind of battlefield reservists, and the soldiers who are usually lost are selected from the auxiliary soldiers, so it means that those auxiliary soldiers attached to the twenty officially numbered legions can also be organized into new legions at any time.

"So...... Not counting the huge number of second-line troops, as well as the untapped sources of soldiers under the compulsory military system, as long as Han Wangzhe has enough food and ordnance, he is not troubled by a lack of soldiers? ”

At that moment, many people's hearts were cold when they heard it...... (To be continued......)