Three days later, seven ministers, including Li Si, Wang Xuan, Wei Xuan, Wang Jian, Meng Wu, Han Teng, and Yang Duanhe, jointly met with Qin Wangzheng and submitted a plan to Qin Wangzheng to fight against Yan.

Wang Juan is the prime minister of the dynasty and is in charge of the government of Qin, while Li Si is only a long envoy, but because he has won the trust of Qin Wangzheng, he is actually in charge of the government of Qin with Wang Juan, and he is actually not the prime minister of the prime minister, so whatever happens in Qin, the two of them also have the right to participate in interrogation.

And Wei Yu is the national lieutenant of Qin, equivalent to the Minister of Defense of Qin, Wang Jian, Meng Wu, Han Teng, Yang Duanhe are the four people with the highest military positions in Qin, attacking Yan State, so the formulation and planning of the military is naturally indispensable to the participation of several of them.

In fact, the military plan to attack Yan was sent to Qin Wangzheng's desk yesterday, and Qin Wangzheng has already read it, today it is just that Qin Wangzheng has some details to ask all of them, if the answer is reasonable and Qin Wangzheng feels satisfied, then this plan can be implemented.

Qin Wangzheng looked at the seven civil and military ministers standing on the left and right, and said: "Zhongqing has worked hard, the widow watched Zhongqing's performance yesterday, this time the battle of attacking Yan, it is necessary to collect 300,000 troops and 1.2 million civilian servants, not to mention that my Qin State still has 100,000 garrisons in Zhaodi, so that it adds up, there are enough 400,000 troops, such a force, to deal with the weak Yan State, is it too much, although it is also necessary to prevent Daijun from sending troops to rescue Yan State, but there is no need to collect 300,000 troops." ”

Wei Yu came out and said: "If you just want to attack Yan Kingdom, you naturally don't need 400,000 troops, only 100,000 troops are enough to sweep Yan Kingdom, and you need to collect 300,000 troops, just to prevent Daijun." According to the discussion of the ministers and others, Daijun will never sit idly by and watch the Yan State be destroyed, and will definitely send troops to intervene, and there will be two ways to intervene, and the response of our Qin army has all been written in the table. ”

Qin Wangzheng nodded and said, "The widow has already seen it." ”

Originally, according to the results of the discussion of the ministers, the army that was really used to attack Yan was actually only 100,000 people, and the number of troops used to garrison the front line of Jingcheng to defend and contain the Dai army reached 200,000, and the remaining 100,000 troops were reserve troops, responsible for transporting grain and grass materials in peacetime, and stationed in Zhao to maintain law and order, and when needed, put into the battlefield to reinforce the battle.

There are no more than two possible military actions for Daijun, one is to directly send troops to rescue Yan and help Yan defend Jijing, that is, the reenactment of the battle to aid Wei. Although the conditions of Jijing's city defense facilities are far inferior to those of Daliang, after all, it is also the capital, which is still quite reliable, and Daidu borders the territory of Yan State, so the conditions for aiding Yan State are far better than granting assistance to Wei State, if Daijun can send 100,000 troops to help Yan State hold Jijing, then it will have a heavy impact on the Qin army's attack.

And if Daijun adopts this method, the Qin army's response is that the army attacking Yan will confront the Dai army under Jijing City, while the Qin army stationed on the front line of Jingcheng will attack like Daijun, forcing Daijun to withdraw troops from Jijing to help, and then take the opportunity to capture Jijing.

Another military action of Daijun is to ignore Jijing, or only send a small number of troops to help Yan defend Jijing, but concentrate forces and launch an attack on the Jingcheng line, that is, to use the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, forcing the Qin army to withdraw from Yan, if the Qin army does not withdraw, take advantage of the situation to seize Zhao, so that the Qin army's back is unstable, and it can only be withdrawn from Yan. The Qin army's response was to take a defensive position on the Jingcheng line, and attack Jijing with all its might on the other front, striving to conquer Jijing in a short period of time, and threatening Daijun from the flank, so that the Daijun army would also take the initiative to withdraw and retreat to Daijun.

These two plans are actually asymmetrical operations, to put it simply, it is to avoid a decisive battle with the Dai army as much as possible, and try to destroy the Yan Kingdom in a short period of time to complete the goal of this battle.

Because these seven civil and military ministers all knew that now was not the time for the Qin State to launch a large-scale war, but the Yan State actually sent assassins to assassinate the Qin Wangzheng in the name of submission, and the Qin State could not swallow its anger no matter what, so it was inevitable to send troops. However, since the national strength of the Qin State has not yet recovered, it is not easy to expand the scale of the army this time, and try to shorten the time of the war, and quickly resolve the battle, as long as the Yan State is destroyed, the goal of this battle will be achieved.

As for Daijun, the goal of the Qin army is only to prevent the Daijun from rescuing the Yan State, not to destroy the Daijun, because the Qin army and the Daijun have fought many times and have not taken much advantage, so with the current national strength of the Qin State, it is not the time to have a head-on decisive battle with the Daijun. Moreover, after the destruction of the Yan State, the Qin army did not plan to attack Daijun immediately, but guarded the territory it occupied, and waited for the national strength of the Qin State to recover before attacking Daijun.

Generally speaking, Qin Wangzheng did not have a big opinion on this combat strategy, but he had to dispatch 400,000 troops, and this was not counting the troops stationed in Han and Wei, which also made Qin Wangzheng have some objections, because fighting a war is not only a matter of dispatching troops, and the number of requisitioned civilian servants is much more than the army, generally a soldier needs three to four civilian service supplies, and 400,000 troops need to recruit at least 1.2 million civilian servants, which will add up to 1.6 million people, and even more than 2 million, not only need to consume a lot of food and materials, It would also have a heavy impact on the agricultural production of the Qin State.

If the current national strength of the Qin State is sufficient, it will not be a big deal, but with the current national strength of the Qin State, it will be quite difficult to dispatch nearly two million manpower and material resources. At the beginning of the destruction of Han, Zhao, and Wei, the scale of the army dispatched by the Qin State was no more than that, but the strength of the Yan State was far inferior to that of the Three Kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei, and although the strength of the Daijun was strong, the area was small and the population was not large, and it was difficult to compare with a big country like Zhao Wei.

Wei Yu said: "King Mingjian, although the population of Daijun is not much, but there are nearly two million people, it is not difficult to recruit two or three hundred thousand troops, and the plateau has only been in charge of Daijun for four years, but it has prospered agriculture and Housang, and has come to live in Qi and purchased a large number of food and materials, so with the current strength of Daijun, it can supply 200,000 troops for two years to fight, and my Qin State must not be underestimated." ”

At this time, Wang cut out the column and said: "King, the plateau is proficient in the art of war, and the strength of the Dai army is not under our Qin army, whether it is foot combat or cavalry battle, it has extremely strong combat effectiveness, and this battle, or Zhao Tu, or Yan Land, are close to Dai County, because it is the Dai army is the remnants of Zhao State, and the Zhao people have not yet completely annexed to our Qin State, and the plateau will not be unused, if there is a Korean rebellion in Yingchuan last year in Zhao Land, it will inevitably make my Qin army difficult to take care of, so it must not be guarded against. ”

Qin Wangzheng was silent for a while before he nodded and said, "Okay, the number of troops dispatched, as well as the civilian servants recruited, will be according to the opinions of the people." After a pause, Qin Wangzheng said again: "But now the supply of money, food, materials, ordnance and utensils of my Qin State is enough?" ”

Li Si and Wang Juan glanced at each other, and Wang Juan said: "Back to the king, in the former battle against Wei, my Qin State has consumed a lot of money, grain and materials, and the treasury is only one-tenth or two-tenth. Therefore, with the grain and grass materials that our Qin State has now stored, it is only enough to supply the army for four or five months at most. ”

Although this news was not unexpected by Qin Wangzheng, but after listening to Wang Xuan's words, there was still a little discoloration, four or five months is definitely not enough to complete a war to destroy the country, from the perspective of the war to destroy the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei, in addition to the weakness of South Korea, and there is such an internal response as Han Teng, so the war to destroy Han only took three months, and it took more than a year to destroy Zhao, and it took nearly two years to destroy Wei.

Wang Juan said: "The king, the only way to do this is to increase taxes in order to maintain this war, otherwise you can only wait for another year, and after the autumn harvest this year, the taxes will be collected, and there is no need to increase taxes, and there will be enough materials and financial resources to launch a war to destroy Yan." ”

Qin Wangzheng pondered for a moment before he said, "How much tax do you have to increase to be able to support this war." ”

Wang Juan sighed secretly in his heart, from his heart, he didn't want the Qin State to launch the War of Exterminating Yan immediately, because it only took a year to wait, and the Qin State would be able to accumulate enough materials to maintain the War of Exterminating Yan. It's just that Wang Juan also understands Qin Wangzheng's temperament, and knows that once he makes a decision, he will never change it lightly, so he doesn't dare to persuade him clearly, so he can only knock on the side and euphemistically advise Qin Wangzheng, hoping that Qin Wangzheng can change his original intention. But judging from Qin Wangzheng's answer, Qin Wang Zhengxian didn't plan to wait another year, and Wang Juan naturally didn't dare to say anything more.

At this time, Li Si came out and said: "Back to the king, according to the calculations of the ministers, now there are more Han, Zhao, and Wei in the Qin State, and the tax sources are extensive, just increase this year's tax by one to five, and the money and grain collected are enough to support this war for more than two years." Moreover, our Qin State has been implementing the policy of rewarding cultivation and warfare for many years, so the common people are not poor, and there is more surplus grain at home, and only one or two percent of the tax will be increased, which will not cause much reaction, but it must be collected before June, at least half of it, in order to be able to supply the front-line military supplies. ”

Qin Wangzheng nodded, since it is a tax increase, it must naturally be collected in advance, if it is collected together with this year's normal tax, it is better to wait for another year, so Qin Wangzheng immediately said: "Okay, pass on the order of the widow, all the people of Qin, each household will increase the tax by 20%, the area near Xianyang, before March, must be collected, and the other areas must be collected before June, and the money and grain collected in the area east of Hangu Pass, as well as the land of Han and Wei, do not need to be transported back to Xianyang for storage, and directly delivered to the army for use." The two of you are solely responsible for this matter, and there must be no mistakes. ”