I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 455

From the bottom of her heart, Zhiyao didn't think that the country of Yue would end now, and the reason why she sent envoys was nothing more than a gesture.

Otherwise, the Yuan country will not fight for it, and the Chu country will try its best to fight for it. What if Goujian chooses to side with Chu?

At the same time, Zhiyao also sent envoys to many parties, including the original enemies of Chu and Qin.

Chu State gathered so many princes to jointly attack Yuan State, Yuan State can also unite all forces that can be united, can't it?

The problems Zhiyao faced before were nothing more than unfamiliarity, or only heard of a name, it will definitely take time to explore and get familiar with.

In fact, it was time for Zhiyao to do it very early on. However, a person's energy is limited, he knows what to do, and wants to do it. A thought may be distracted by the next thing and then forgotten.

It was three years ago that Zhiyao sent people to contact the enemies of Chu State and Yuan State. Due to the traffic relationship, not only did the envoys sent spend a lot of time on the road or finding routes, but also the delay in sending back news was too long. Quite a few missionary teams simply disappeared.

Don't be surprised.

Because they are in the birthplace of civilization, the countries of the Central Plains have been developed much earlier and longer than other places. At least the roads to communicate with each other have been established, which is not the case in other regions.

Take Chu State as an example, although Chu State has the qualifications to fight for hegemony, the basic transportation in the country seems to be in a mess.

The state of Chu is like that, can you expect how good the transportation construction of powers or countries such as Yangyue, Baipu, and Ba can be?
Take Ba, which already borders the former state-owned border, as an example. Zhiyao knows that Ba has fought against Chu in recent years, which means that Ba is the enemy of Chu. The envoy sent to Ba five years ago directly He disappeared, and the two envoys sent later also ended up in a situation where no one was alive or anyone was dead.

How did it disappear?It wasn't necessarily that he was intercepted, it might be that he got lost in the vast forest.

"If there is no self, Yiqu is the chief enemy of Qin?" Zhiyao asked Zhongxingqi.

One of the reasons why Zhongxingqi appeared here was that the Qin army and the Dai army withdrew their troops from the Jingshui line.

"The enemy's withdrawal this time is precisely because Yiqu invaded Qin." Zhong Xingqi said.

Of course Zhiyao knew about Yiqu's influence.

It's not that Zhiyao had contact with Yiqu during the Jin Dynasty, most of it came from the impression of "the previous life", and part of it was the understanding of the envoys sent after the founding of the country.

Yiqu's invasion of Qin State was not something that happened in the past few years. It should be said that they have been enemies of each other since more than a hundred years ago, which means that no one can do anything to each other.

"Your Majesty, have I already made an alliance with Yiqu?" Zhong Xingqi shouldn't have asked, but asked anyway.

In general, except for Qin who doesn't pay attention to it, most princes will not choose to form alliances with foreign forces even if they need it.

Improperness is only one aspect, and more of it is mutual disapproval, and the Central Plains people feel that it is very shameful to form an alliance with a foreign race.

In the past, the Qin State formed an alliance with Baidi and Chidi to invade the Jin State. Even if they succeeded, they would be ridiculed. What's more, the invasion of the coalition forces was defeated by the Jin army, so that they were repeatedly ridiculed and shamed. After the Qin army swept Yunei Many survivors of the Six Kingdoms still took it out and continued to ridicule Qin.

Zhiyao squinted at Zhongxing Qi, she still had to give the positive response she should have given, and said, "There has never been such a thing."

Alliance with aliens?To be honest, Yuan Guo still needs it right now.

Looking at the attitude of Bank of China, it is obvious that Yiqu's invasion of Qin State rescued Jingshui, but Bank of China not only did not appreciate it, but also had a strong sense of repulsion for forming an alliance with Yiqu.

Not only is Zhong Xingqi having that kind of mentality, there are countless people with similar thinking in Yuanguo.It's not that they don't know that the enemy of the enemy can be a friend. What's a bit terrible is that in the three views, they don't regard alien races as people at all, and think that forming an alliance with alien races is no different from being with animals.

Zhiyao said: "It's all right to make it work for me."

Bank of China responded without any moral offense: "It should be so."

Having said that, people in the Central Plains really don't regard foreign races as human beings now. Even those small countries that cannot defeat foreign powers still have a sense of superiority when facing foreign races.

Take the once powerful Zhongshan Kingdom as an example. In fact, Zhongshan Kingdom is stronger than most of the Xia kingdoms, but the princes still have a psychological advantage over Zhongshan Kingdom.

In other words, why do weak and small countries look down on Zhongshan?Just because they were members of Zhuxia, and there was such an overlord as Jin in Zhuxia at that time, they could knock down the Zhongshan army who dared to go out of the mountains at any time.

There is a reason for the countries to look down on the power of foreign races. Whoever makes the foreign races fall from Duke Huan of Qi.Since Zhuxia's strength is strong, and he repeatedly smashes the alien forces, why should he look down on the aliens?
If the dynasty on Zhuxia's side had been pushed to the ground and beaten violently by foreigners for a long time, there would definitely be a fear of barbarians.

Things like this are just too normal.

There is such a fact that before the emergence of the "Five Random China", Zhu Xia maintained a psychological advantage in the face of aliens, and it changed after the occurrence of the "Five Random China".

There is another factor for BOCQ to appear here.

The Qin army and the Dai army withdrew their troops back to deal with the invasion of Yiqu, which was equal to the liberation of the original country's troops in the western battlefield.

Under Zhiyao's arrangement, [-] troops were left on the western battlefield to be stationed in Jingshui to guard against the comeback of the Qin army and the Dai army, and the remaining troops went to the southern battlefield.

Therefore, not only BOC Qi came to Zhiyao's side, but Han Geng was also there.

Under the premise that there are other differences between closeness and closeness, there will be nothing wrong with Zhongxingqi meeting Zhiyao first.

In addition to reporting on the situation in the western battlefield, Zhongxingqi inevitably explained Han's performance in the western battlefield.

"So, Han's coping well?" Zhiyao frowned upon hearing this.

The Han family found a way to deal with Qin Jun?This is because the proportion of cavalry in the Qin army has been increasing again and again. The Han family made full use of their housekeeping skills, relied on the defense line organized by the Zhi family headquarters, and then took advantage of their own good shooting. It was difficult to successfully penetrate the defense, and a large number of cavalry were shot to death outside the line of defense.

Zhong Xingqi said: "My family also has a lot of cavalry, so this and that may have increased the confidence of the Han family?"

Zhiyao admired Zhongxingqi's thinking.

The Zhi family, the Zhongxing family, and the Cheng family are still thinking of "family world", believing that everything is their family property, whether they are Zhi family or Yuan country, and they maintain considerable vigilance in the face of possible internal and external threats.

Of course, as the king of a country, even if Zhiyao was pretending, she had to pretend to treat everyone equally, and reprimanded Bank of China hypocritically.

Afterwards, Zhiyao said casually: "[-] new reinforcements have been added, and the widows are about to divide their troops and attack Chu directly."

Zhong Xingqi understood almost instantly, and said, "So, can the Han family go?"

After more than two months, although the battle situation in the main battlefield around "Xinzheng" has been a bit tepid, it is inevitable that there will be no shortage of battles, but there has not been a phenomenon that a large number of troops of a certain party have been wiped out in a single battle.

After repeated battles, Zhiyao's effective combat power is still in the early [-]s, and the results that can be counted are about [-] Chu troops eliminated.

Elimination does not mean killing, taking them captive, or causing the enemy to lose combat effectiveness; the loss of nearly [-] combat effectiveness of the original army does not mean that all of them were killed in battle, it could be due to injury and temporary loss of combat effectiveness, or illness.

In fact, the most worrying thing for the commander-in-chief is the aspect of non-combat attrition. For example, there are too many sick soldiers, and it has even evolved into an infectious disease.

Yuan Guo's medical skills in treating trauma have been greatly developed, but there is still no good way to treat fever and colds.

After an autumn rain, there were hundreds of thousands of cold soldiers in the original army. It is hard to say what happened to the coalition army.

The original army is already spying on the real situation of the coalition forces, and intends to take the opportunity to play a big game. At the same time, it is one of the established plans to divide the troops to invade the mainland of Chu.

The Chu country in the south has more rains than the Yuan country in the Central Plains. It is normal for Chu people who have lived in that climate for a long time to suddenly get caught in the rain. It is a habit. It is less likely to get sick.

In the current Central Plains, there is a lot of rain in spring, and the summer is a muggy climate. In autumn, there is not much rain, and in winter, there are occasional bursts of sleet.

"Split the troops to the south?" Han Geng was a little stunned when he heard the plan.

They have just arrived, so they won't be ordered to go south immediately, will they?

Even if Zhiyao wanted to weaken the Han family, she really wouldn't handle things so rough.

"The army going south is still being selected." Zhiyao said.

Han Geng relaxed a little, knowing that his actions just now were inappropriate, so he hurriedly remedied: "The army transferred from the south may be exhausted, and it is our duty to serve the king."

"I want to dispatch [-] cavalry and three 'divisions' to go south. Since Situ said so, I can select a 'division' of soldiers for the widow and go south with me." Zhiyao seemed to accept Han Geng's proposal.

No more, no less, just the strength of a "division", and Han Geng picked from within the Han family.

Han's deployment of a "division" is really not a lot of troops, but in a sense, it is a great improvement in the original country.

In the past, which family's private army was commanded by that family.If this practice is not broken, it will be no different from that in the Jin Dynasty.

This time, Zhiyao was able to transfer a "division" of troops from the Han family to be under the chain of command of others. Once the gap is opened, it will become a practice, and then gradually blur the line between private troops that cannot be easily handed over to others. rules are formed.

Han Geng was just being polite, but Zhiyao did not expect Zhiyao to follow the words and make a request, and immediately knew the bad food.

The worst thing is that Han Geng overthrows and rejects everything he says, isn't he playing Zhiyao?At that time, I don't know what will happen.

"When the Zhi family was the noble family of Jin, how could it be possible to hand over the Zhi family's army to other people? Sure enough, they have changed their identities, and everything is different." Han Geng thought to himself.

Han Geng talked about other things with Zhiyao, and asked casually at a certain point: "Your Majesty set up a 'county', but what are the names of Hexi and Hedong?"

Zhiyao said: "It is Hexi County and Hedong County. Zhongxingyin will concurrently serve as the governor of Hexi County, and Situ needs to recommend another person in Hedong County."

The jurisdiction of Hexi County starts from the edge of the big river to the line of Jingshui, and at the same time includes the Weishui River beach to the upper reaches of Luoshui River in the north.

The west side of Hedong County is Dahe, the east side is along the Shaoshui line, the north side reaches the "Pu" land, and the south side is a mountain.

If you want to say which one is the most important in Hedong County, it is the salt pond that Jin people have eaten for hundreds of years, and it is also the only large-scale salt producing area in Jin.

Before, Yanchi belonged to co-management, that is, all the high-ranking families had "shares".

Hearing what Zhiyao said, Han Geng felt that Yanchi was going to be managed by Hedong County, so he couldn't help but become active.

Which family's fief is in charge, right?The governor of Hedong County was appointed to the Han family. Does it mean that Hedong County belongs to the Han family's autonomous region, and Yanchi is also equal to the Han family's?
Zhiyao knew what Han Geng was thinking. From the perspective of the country, the key is to prioritize and implement the county system, and the rest can be resolved later.

The previous salt pond was very important. One had to look at the size of the original country's current territory and what areas it covered.

To put it bluntly, the Yuan country can not only obtain salt from the salt pond, but after the technology of drying salt is researched, the salt in Qidi can be said to be as much as it needs.

Zhiyao, who gained control of Qidi early on, never transported a large amount of salt back to Baba. Those who didn’t know thought that the salt-producing area of ​​Qidi was destroyed by the war and was not rebuilt. It seems that Zhiyao was waiting to catch Han’s with the salt pond. Take the bait?

Han Geng looked thoughtful.

Zhiyao said again: "Yanmen County is elected by the Hu family, and Shangdang County is elected by the Zhong family."

If you know the situation of each family, you will find that most of the fiefdoms of the Fox family and the Zhong family are actually in those two counties.

If you look at the map of the administrative district, you can see that a considerable area assigned to Yanmen County is now Lou Annoying territory.

Han Geng now confirms one thing, if the sheriffs of those counties are appointed by people from various families for generations, it means that Zhiyao still cares about his appearance.

Zhiyao said slowly: "The territory of the original country is so large that no princes can hold it."

Han Geng was taken aback for a moment, then opened his eyes wide.

is not that right?No prince has ever had such a large territory, which is more than half the size of the Western Zhou Dynasty's territory, and most of the elite areas are already part of the original country's territory.

Now apart from the original country, there are not many regions that can be regarded as the essence. The Zheng country is one, and the Song country is absolutely counted. The other places were called wild lands a long time ago.

"My lord, this is..." Han Geng probably understood, but he was still shocked by Zhiyao's ambition.

That is to say, the original country is now the enemy of the whole world. Even if Zhou Tianzi knew that Zhiyao had the intention to replace him, there are really few countries that the Zhou royal family can call on to attack the original country. Those countries with strength have long been enemies of the original country. , Zhiyao was willing to reveal her big goal to Han Geng.

Zhiyao said earnestly: "I have great ambitions, and I am a person who can share wealth and honor. I really hope that Mrs. Han can help me achieve great things!"

Han Geng, who seemed so shocked that he couldn't help but feel his heart turning back and forth...

(End of this chapter)