Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

"Your Majesty, I believe that you should not annex Yun Kingdom rashly."

Zhi Su Nei Shi Fan Li stood up slowly, bowed to Qingji on the majesty's platform, and said, "Yundi is now the hub of the Wu and Qin countries, if our Wu country annexes the Yun country without authorization, it may cause Wu and Qin to turn against each other." ..."

"Leaving aside whether the people of Qin will become suspicious, the Silk Road, the commercial route in the west that my country Wu has just opened up, must pass through the land of Qin."

"If the Wu-Qin alliance breaks down and the two countries turn against each other, I'm afraid the people of Qin will lock up the main throat, strictly prohibit the business travel of our Wu country to the west, and prohibit foreign trade..."

Hearing this, Qingji just waved his hands and said, "I don't care."

"The Silk Road, in the final analysis, was only opened up by a few people to let the people of the world open their eyes to see the world. With my country of Wu being rich now, I don't have to care about these three melons and two dates!"

"Furthermore, once the Qin people take the initiative to cut off the throat of the Silk Road, Qin will lose the most."

Qing Ji is not scaremongering.

In fact, Wu's paper, tea, salt, silk, weapons, etc., various commodities, are very popular and sought after by all countries in the world.

Wu Guo was no longer worried that there would be no market for his products, and he had already made a lot of money.

As for Western trade, the money obtained through the Silk Road is already dispensable to Wu.

Why did Qingji assert that once the Qin people cut off the Silk Road and banned Wu from commerce with the West, Qin would suffer the most?

Because the Qin State is located in the western frontier, the land is barren, and although the folk customs are strong, it lacks commercial prosperity.

Be it the handicraft industry, or other industries, Qin State is not Wu State, and its annual fiscal revenue may not even be comparable to that of medium-sized countries such as Song State, Wei State, and Zheng State.

In the final analysis, it was all caused by Qin people's lack of business acumen.

The Qin people are tough and can serve as an excellent source of soldiers, but it is too difficult for the Qin people to let them do business and trade without much manufacturing foundation.

The Silk Road opened up by the state of Wu, in fact, the Qin people can take advantage of a lot.

The tariffs collected every year alone are an astronomical figure for Qin's finances!
Under such circumstances, how dare the people of Qin provoke Wu Guo so easily?
How dare the Qin people cut off the Silk Road Economic Belt?

Could it be that Qin is going to return to the past self-produced and sold, barely self-sufficient living standards?
Uncle Qin was happy, even the people of Qin would not be happy.

"Great Wang Mingjian!"

Hearing what Qingji said, Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and other ministers couldn't help but praise him.

Even Fan Li, who is an internal historian of millet, couldn't help his eyes light up.

Until now, what is the meaning of Fan Li's opening up of the Silk Road before finally celebrating his death.

Let the Chinese nations open their eyes to see the world?

This is indeed the main purpose.

However, Wu State can also control Qin State economically through the Silk Road.

Although it cannot be called real "control", the high profits brought by the Silk Road to the Qin people every year are enough to make Qin not dare to easily tear up the covenant with Wu...

On the contrary, the people of Qin must maintain good relations with the state of Wu, so as to prevent the state of Wu from prohibiting trade with Qin and carrying out an economic blockade!
"I don't know how the king plans to destroy Yun?"

Sun Tzu asked curiously.

"Although the territory of Yun is not small, it is vast and sparsely populated. With the current strength of our Wu army, it can be destroyed with a snap of our fingers, but..."

Qing Ji chuckled lightly and said, "If you can exchange for the greatest victory at the least cost, would it be the same?"

"Now the people of Yun present a form of surrender to the widow, which may be an opportunity to lure the king of Yun to form an alliance with the widow, and then go down with one drum and destroy the country of Yun!"

"..."

In this way, is it too disrespectful of martial arts?

Fortunately, Yun State is just a country in the south. It used to be a vassal state of Chu State. Even if Wu State stopped practicing martial arts and destroyed Yun State in one fell swoop, who would dare to talk too much?

The world has long since collapsed, and the state of Wu has been regarded as a barbarian by the Central Plains. Qingji has long since ignored those false names of benevolence, righteousness and morality.

"In addition, Uncle Qin, you went to Qin as an envoy on behalf of the widow, and told the people of Qin that I sincerely invite Uncle Qin to meet at Shaoxi Mountain."

"promise!"

Bo Tong immediately agreed.

Although Wu State and Qin State signed an alliance eight years ago to communicate with each other, the monarchs of the two countries have never met, which is really a pity.

In order to strengthen the alliance with the Qin people, Qingji planned to take this opportunity to have an alliance with Qin Bo to deal with the old overlord Jin.

……

The next day, Qingji formally mobilized [-] soldiers from Yingdu, headed northward in mighty force, and headed for Yundi in the northwest border.

Duke Yun Douxin heard the news and rushed to make an alliance with Qingji.

Qing Ji wiped out the country of Yun almost effortlessly!

Why?

Because Douxin is a person who knows the current affairs.

In the original history, Chu Zhaowang Xiong Zhen and his party fled to Yun.

Duke Yun is Xin, and his younger brother You Huai and Chao. Dou Huai wants to kill King Zhao and avenge his father, but Dou Xin categorically stops him.

Xin Hechao escorted King Zhao and his party to escape to Sui Kingdom...

Even if he treated his father-killing enemy like this, how could Dou Xin have the guts to confront the notorious Wu Jun?
Furthermore, it turns out that Yun State is nominally a vassal state of Chu State, but in fact it is similar to a county of Wu State, with a vast land and few people, few soldiers...

The time has entered the 18th year of Wu Wang Qingji, that is, 496 BC, the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

Qingji and Qin Bo made an alliance at Shaoxi Mountain.

Compared with Uncle Qin who came here non-stop day and night, Qingji came to Shaoxi Mountain early to survey the terrain.

Travel thousands of miles far away from Qincheng, go out of Shangzhou in the chaotic mountains.

Close the door and don't lock the cold stream water, bubbling all night to see off guests!
Standing on a mountain in Shaoxi Mountain, Qingji and others climbed up and looked into the distance, taking a panoramic view of this magnificent mountain and river.

Legend has it that Yu Hualong, the general of Emperor Xin (King Zhou of Yin), sent his third son Guang to garrison Wuguan, and built a stone bridge between the ravines at the foot of Shaoxi Mountain in the northeast of the city, hence the name "Yuhua Bridge", commonly known as Dashi Bridge.

Qingji can still see that big stone bridge.

"Second and third sons, do you know where our feet are?"

Qingji's heart was surging for a while, and he looked at Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Bo Tong and other ministers behind him and asked with great interest.

After hearing the words, Young Master Hong, who was basically recovered from his injuries, replied after pondering for a moment, "Father, this place is Shaoxi Mountain."

"Dan water flows from the southeast of Shangmi, at least Xishan, the mountain road is dangerous, and it was originally a pass from Chu to Qin."

"good."

Qing Ji nodded slightly, and glanced at Young Master Hong appreciatively.

It seems that Gong Zihong has done his homework and studied the terrain of this land of Shang Yu.

"Hong'er, do you know why Shaoxi Mountain got its name?"

"I have heard a little bit about it."

Gong Zihong replied: "It is said that when the emperor of Zhou divided the world, he once enfeoffed a small country—Xi Country, and its fiefdom was in Shaoxi Mountain. Because the place was named Shaoxi Mountain, "Xi" was taken as the country's name."