A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 215 Three Years Reform Is It Easy

Qin State has been repeatedly defeated in the war with Wei State. It has been crushed into dust by Wei State, and its national power has declined. It no longer has the prestige of the Western overlord in Qin Mugong's time.

It has already reached this point, how bad can the reform be?

Therefore, Qin Hou fully supported Gongsun Yang's reform. Even if the nobles of Qin State opposed it, Qin Hou forced it through.

Gongsun Yang's reform was carried out vigorously with the support of Qin Hou.

The reform strategy formulated by Gongsun Yang in Qin State was quickly sent to Wang Pu by the secret guards. Wang Pu was also very surprised when he saw that there was actually a monarch implementing such an extremely domineering reform.

After reviewing Qin's reforms, Wang Pu immediately called for ministers to discuss.

"My dear friends, this is Qin's reform strategy. With such a domineering method, I am afraid that Qin will become stronger."

Everyone in Wu Qi looked at the reform of the Qin State, and all of them looked solemn.

"This Gongsun Martingale reform is so strict, and his method of strengthening the army is even worse than that of Wei Wuzu."

"The law of sitting is just to put everyone in the state of Qin at risk. Maybe one day they will be implicated for no reason. If they want to be exonerated, they can only join the army and use their titles to exonerate them!"

"This reform is indeed an art of strengthening the country, but it is too rigid."

Everyone commented that Huaiguo has seen a lot of various reforms, and they are very clear about the pros and cons of the reforms.Qin's reform cannot be said to be useless, on the contrary, this Qin law is very advanced.

It's just that this reform strategy only focuses on strengthening the country, military achievements, and strengthening the power of the monarch, but selectively ignores other places.

The people's entertainment is suppressed to the minimum, and the people at the bottom have little room for joy and celebration.There are only two choices: farming or joining the army.

This system transforms Qin into a country specially created for war.Everything is in the service of war.

"This kind of system is indeed very strong, but it will not last long. Once a major failure occurs, its national strength will be very serious. The people at the bottom have very poor ability to resist risks. It can almost be said that they have exhausted their strength. If they confront Huai for a long time, Qin The country may not be able to hold on."

"There is another weakness. This reform strategy is too extreme. As the saying goes, extremes will reverse. Now these people can bear it, but if this endurance reaches the extreme, it will be a landslide, which is unstoppable."

Everyone began to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of Qin's reform, and they also made a simple deduction about the future of Qin.

"Everyone, Qin has one of its biggest weaknesses, and that is its territory!" Wang Pu said with a smile.

"The state of Qin promotes domineering techniques, but its territory is limited, so land must be acquired continuously. If new land cannot be obtained, this farming and warfare system will collapse."

In fact, Gongsun Yang also knew the weakness of this farming and warfare system, that is, after winning the war, a large number of military merits and titles would be promoted.And military merit titles have corresponding rewards. Once the harvest after victory is not enough to offset the expenditure of military merit titles, the country will become poorer and poorer.

Therefore, Gongsun Yang set up a large number of ways to reduce the title, and prolong this time as much as possible.He even had just been promoted to a title, and then due to inexplicable reasons, he needed to use his title to pay for his crimes.

This system has caused the instability of Qin State. As long as there are several consecutive defeats, Qin State is estimated to collapse.Of course, if other countries lose consecutively, the situation will not be much better.

Qin State's current territory, if Huai State fights with him, it will soon be dragged down, after all, Huai State's territory is too large.

"Qin's reform will quickly increase its strength and become stronger, but it is obtained by squeezing the people, and this reform, from the common people to the nobles, will not thank Gongsun Yang."

"Gongsun Yang is like a rootless duckweed in Qin State. It looks like it can cover the lake and occupy all the places. But as long as Qin Hou no longer supports him, or Qin Hou who supports him dies, Gongsun Yang will be liquidated. .”

"Do it yourself!"

"Hey, Chu State's original reform was far less violent than Qin State's, and it caused such a big disturbance. One can imagine how much resistance Qin State's reform has encountered this time."

"Jing Mu is dead, and Gongsun Yang will not have a good death. There are very few people who can die well after the reforms in various countries. They are very clear about the consequences of doing so. Maybe this is what they are after."

At this point in the discussion, Wang Pu shook his head slightly, and then continued:
"Include this set of Gongsun Yang's reforms in the Great Ceremony of the Masters. There is no doubt that this set of methods of farming and warfare is powerful. It's a pity that it needs to squeeze the people to the extreme and use their strength. How can it last?"

"Your Majesty, if the State of Qin implements reforms and becomes strong soon, how should Huai State deal with it? How about destroying it before it rises?" After sending the letter away, a minister next to him said.

Wang Pu shook his head and said, "Now that Huai State and Qin State do not border each other, how can we send troops to attack Qin? Besides, even if the princes are willing to make excuses, what if they regret and cut off the way out after our army is dispatched?"

"Instead of worrying about Qin's reform and strengthening, it is better for Huai to strengthen itself."

"And what if Qin's reform becomes stronger? Just fight." Wang Pu looked confident.Of course he also has the confidence.

Huai State is different from Chu State in that it is big but not strong, Huai State is so strong that no other country can compete with it!Three hundred years of reform is nothing to do?
"However, although Qin State is reforming and trying to become stronger, it is very likely that it will fight with Western Chu State." Wu Qi said suddenly.

"Western Chu's reform is also combined with Wei's domineering strategy. More importantly, there are almost no nobles in the Western Chu reform. The smoothness of the reform is unmatched by other countries. At the same time, the country's strength after the reform cannot be underestimated. It is not easy for Qin to rise."

Huai State also paid close attention to the reform of Western Chu State, and Wang Pu had already ordered the formation of mountain troops.The roads of the Western Chu Kingdom are rough and difficult, and it is too difficult to attack, so Wang Pu specially recruited the Shanyue barbarians to form an army.

These mountain barbarians look short and thin, but they are like walking on the ground in the mountains, and they are familiar with the scenery of the mountains and know how to drive away insects, ants, birds and beasts.

Although the Huai Kingdom did not launch troops against the Central Plains countries, there have always been small groups of troops fighting against Baiyue in the south.

The Baiyue barbarians are named Baiyue, and there are many tribes among them, and there are many vendettas among them.After the Huai country demonstrated its tyrannical strength, many oppressed small tribes joined them.

This gave the Huai country the upper hand in the battles with those Baiyue barbarians.At the same time, Wang Pu equipped these mountain-yue barbarians with rattan armor and iron tools. The rattan armor is light and has high defensive power, which is very suitable for use in the mountains.With the addition of Huai country's equipment, these are powerful, and the Baiyue barbarians are no match.

Wang Pu is going to train a group of Baiyue barbarians and Huai soldiers to form an army to use against Western Chu.

(End of this chapter)