I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 310

The current state of Qin is not a country that is so powerful that the princes fear it. If there is a comparison of strength, it is about the same level as Zheng State or Song State.

In the state of Jin with abundant military virtues, if all the noble families can cooperate sincerely, one-on-one can basically beat most of the countries today. The countries that can be conquered are probably except Chu State?

Like Zheng Guo, Song Guo, Qi Guo, Qin Guo... and some other countries, it is definitely useless for them to fight against Jin alone, and they have to join forces to see who they unite with. Without Wu or Chu, all other countries will fight against each other. The alliance can't beat Jin.

There is such a fact that Qin is the first country among the princes to form an alliance with a foreign race.They united Chi Di and Bai Di in the Jin Jinggong era, and then formed an alliance with Chu State to invade Jin State.

At that time, the Jin State was mainly focused on fighting for hegemony with the Chu State, and was attacked by the Qin State twice, one of which allowed the Qin army to invade the "Wei" land and wantonly burned, killed and looted. It was not the timely rescue of the Han family and the Zhi family If not, the Wei family will almost be abolished.

With the painful lessons from history, the Wei family is currently digesting the cities they acquired from the Fan family, while still working hard to expand southward. Wei Ju is still very afraid of being stolen by the Qin army again.

It is even simpler for the Han family to attach importance to Qin.Their fiefdoms are currently concentrated in the west of the Jin State. Once the Qin State has the intention to go east, the Han, Wei, and Hu families will be threatened, and the Han and Fox families will be under greater pressure.

Wei's emphasis on what happened to Qin Guodong is mainly reflected in the history of alliance between Qin State and Chu State.

"It seems to be true. Once the Qin State forms an alliance with the Chu State, the Wei family will not only be threatened from the west, but also an alliance of Chu, Qin and Zheng will appear. The pressure on the Wei family will suddenly become very strong. It's too big." Zhiyao thought to herself.

From this, we can see a change in the state of Jin. The noble families are all focused on their own goals. After they have the direction of expansion, they have never thought about forming alliances with other countries.

In modern diplomatic terms, Jin is now pursuing a kind of hegemony and implementing a policy of non-alignment.

That is also an inevitability under expansion, and then there is trust in one's own strength.

Zhiyao actually intends to play a long-distance and short-distance attack. For example, repeatedly proposing to form an alliance with Chu State is a manifestation of intention, but there are some things that cannot be said.

If the concept of "distance friendship and close attack" is proposed, it means that Zhiyao is teaching the world to be smart.

Zhiyao asked: "Who told Qin Youdong about his intentions?"

A bit of a rule breaker here.

That is, if there is any news channel, even the partner should not ask.

After all, who doesn't have a secret of their own?

Han Geng replied: "It was Bolu who told me."

Thinking about it, the Han family was really in a hurry, so that he didn't care about the rules at all.

Why is Han Shi in such a hurry?That is, they are undergoing internal reforms, including imitating Zhishi's generous rewards to those who have meritorious service, so that these people have permanent property; they are still training new troops, and plan to learn from Zhishi to create a standing army with a size of about 3000 people.If the new army shows results, it will increase in size in the future.

Needless to say why the Wei family is in a hurry. Qin Guodong's departure will affect their southward expansion plan, and the Wei family is also sorting out internal affairs. Many things are also learning from the Zhi family's approach.

The situation is such that Zhishi became the pioneer of the reform and used the results to prove that many things he did were extremely correct. It’s fine if others don’t know. If he has the heart and ability to implement it, he sees the benefits of the reform, but he doesn’t have the ability To play new tricks, why not emulate Zhishi's proven initiatives?
If it wasn't for the inappropriate timing, Wei Ju would have wanted to imitate the Chi Clan and engage in a wave of extreme mobilization. While testing his own administrative system and effectiveness, he would also see how many young men he could pull out for battle if necessary.

Wei Ju wanted to do it but didn't do it. Firstly, doing so abruptly would cause uneasiness to the neighbors, and secondly, after checking, he found that his administrative system was rather chaotic.

Therefore, even if Wei Ju wants to do it, he should first improve the Wei family's administrative system, and then complete the management staff. Otherwise, if he does what the Zhi family does, the Wei family's internal administration will be exposed all of a sudden, causing other families to spy on him. .

Do other families want to learn from the Zhi family to mobilize young and strong?Absolutely.The reason for not doing it may be slightly different from that of Wei's, but in general the difficulties encountered should be almost the same.

Then there is a fact that each family not only loses to Zhishi in terms of size, but also is inferior in other aspects, so that they dare not even unite against Zhishi, and those who pretend to be ostriches continue to pretend , pretending to be friendly is also trying his best to act, in order not to stimulate Zhi's strategy to change from outward to inward.

Wei Ju talked about other topics, and said, "Why didn't the Fox family express anything about Qin's changes?"

They all knew that the Fox family was trying their best to deal with Bai Di, and guessed that this was one of the reasons why Bai Di hooked up with Qin Guo again.

Since the matter was related to the Fox family, the Fox family did not express it at all. He wanted to pretend that there was nothing like that, and he didn't want to contribute to it, or what was the situation?
Han Geng knew a little bit, and said: "The Fox family wants to build a city in 'Beichuan', and the Zhongjun Zuodang is here."

Speaking of which, the current fiefdom of the Fox family is not small, what is more embarrassing is that there are not many cities.

The overall strength of the Fox family is very weak. After they returned to Jin, they also discovered that if they want to catch up with the other families, they must first develop agriculture.

Now, if you want to develop agriculture, you need to find a piece of land suitable for reclamation, and building a city there will become a rigid standard.

The reason why the city needs to be built is actually to form an administrative fulcrum, and then build hard facilities such as workshops in the city. The security brought by the city wall is not the first priority in the positioning of the Jin family.

To put it bluntly, there are not many countries that dare to invade Jin, and even fewer are capable of reaching the hinterland. The existence of city walls is more to prevent wild animals from jumping in and wreaking havoc.

Han Geng said again: "Since the Qin State has the intention to go east again, can I invade it first?"

One sentence made Zhiyao and Wei Ju stunned, and they couldn't believe that Han Geng would have such a proposal.

For a long time, the rest of the noble families of the Jin State were very fond of making troubles, but the Han family only made a high profile for a while when Han Qi was the "Yuan Rong", and seemed extremely low-key more of the time, and hardly proposed to attack any country.

Han Geng saw that Zhiyao and Wei Ju were a little stunned, and said with a smile: "You two are like this, Qin Guo would think that I will attack first."

Wei Ju was stunned for a short while, and then said appreciatively, "Geng's words are very good. How to make them attack, I should attack first."

Zhiyao probably knew what Han Geng was thinking, and understood why Wei Ju was so eager.

The Han family is reforming, and they don't want to take the initiative to provoke trouble, and they don't want the reform to be interrupted, so it is better to take the initiative.

With the Han family taking the lead to attack Qin, even if the Wei family needs to send troops, it will suddenly reduce the pressure on the Wei family in the west.In this way, Wei Shi will definitely agree.

Although the Qin State poses no threat to the Zhi Clan due to its geographical location, Zhi Yao is still in favor of beating the Qin State, and it is best to continue to weaken it.

Just one thing, Zhiyao also asked: "How many troops do we need to attack Qin?"

Wei Ju looked at Han Geng, probably meaning: Han's main force is to attack Qin, so it is up to Han Geng to determine the scale of troops.

Han Geng, who was stared at by the two, looked a little unconfident, and said, "Maybe we need two 'armies' of soldiers?"

Once upon a time, a single legion of the Jin State could fight all kinds of dissatisfaction except the Chu State. How come it is the turn of the Qin State, which has not been heard from for many years, and needs to use two legions?
Wei Ju asked the key point, and said, "How much will the Han family send troops?"

This is very important.

Han Geng answered quickly, and said, "My family can send out an 'army'."

Just to test the Han family's new army, and then the rest of the Nafu personnel should also move around, so as not to forget the fundamentals of settling down if they don't fight for too long.

What's more, every family is using troops, but the Han family is the only one that doesn't use troops on a large scale. It is inevitable that they will be afraid of keeping so many troops.

Wei Ju thought for a while and said, "My family may have a 'teacher'."

Han Geng immediately looked at Zhiyao.

To be reasonable, as the working family of the "Yuanrong" of the Jin State, the practice is that the most troops need to be sent during the national war.

Many conventions have disappeared in the state of Jin. It is obvious that the Wei family played a scoundrel regardless of the actual situation, and the Zhi family should not follow suit.

Zhiyao made a thoughtful gesture.

Everyone knows that the Zhi family deployed two legions on the "Jinyang" side, and deployed troops in the Qi State, Weidi, and Xianyu respectively.

Zhiyao was thinking: "There are almost no cities at the junction of Qin and Jin, and Qin is currently a country with half-separated nomadic and farming. I heard that the border between Qin and Jin is dominated by nomadic tribes? "

Even though Lao Zhi’s family has multiple channels for obtaining war horses, they have also built a lot of horse ranches, and the breeds of horses obtained in each place are different. Can they go to Qin to obtain war horses wantonly?

Furthermore, Qin Feizi himself raised horses for Emperor Zhou. They were rewarded with the qualification to establish a country because of their meritorious service in escorting Emperor Zhou. I believe that the quality of the horses raised should not be bad.

Zhiyao still has other thoughts. As the family of "Yuan Rong", it seems that it has suffered the most from sending troops, because it did not take into account the distribution of spoils.

In fact, the more troops sent, the larger the amount of spoils of war. On the basis of being able to win and lose less, getting more spoils is beneficial to the family.This is also one of the reasons why the families of Jin Guoqing are rushing to become "Yuan Rong".

Zhiyao smiled and said: "So, my family sends out two 'divisions', and then the Fox family and the Zhong family each send out a 'division' to form two 'armies' to attack Qin together."

Don't think that the Zhi family sent two "divisions" less than the Han family when they attacked Qin, and don't forget that it was Han's idea to send troops.

Since it is the Han family that needs the help of other families, and it is still in the mode of national war, the command of the war may not fall in the hands of the Zhi family, but the distribution of the spoils must be decided by Zhi Shen, let alone Zhi Shen. Shi's weight in dispatching troops has been blessed.

Han Geng knew what was going on, and he had nothing to say about Zhishi's greed, and he was even more pleased that the crusade against Qin was a foregone conclusion.

Then, next, they should mobilize food and grass, and then mobilize the expedition personnel in place, and then send people to "Yong" to declare war on Qin Ting.

(End of this chapter)