A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 32 Ji Lie's Innovation
Wang Lin chose a safe way to annex Han, but he did not give up force. On the contrary, force is still a part of the whole strategy. If there is not enough force, what should we do if others stop playing and turn over the table and directly send troops to grab it? ?
Therefore, there must be a strong country as the backing to be able to afford this kind of operation.

The southeast of the Huai Kingdom has reached the Yangtze River. Wang Lin ordered people to build a city here, and at the same time prepare to build ships and form a navy.The navy is very important to the Huai State. Whether it is crossing the river to enter Wu or fighting Han, the navy is very important.

Han country.

The arrival of a large amount of grain has made the price of grain in Han country extremely low, which has caused a large number of people to replant their land to other crops, leaving only a small part to grow grain.Some radicals even planted jute all over the land.

The nobles sent the originally planted slaves to mines to dig ores, and then forged them into various weapons.

The fine wines and delicacies from the Huai country were sought after by the nobles.After Zijue established Huai Country back then, with the stability of the surrounding environment and the development of Huai Country, he also began to make his life better.

After all, Zijue still wants to satisfy his appetite after traveling from a materially rich modern society to this almost barbaric society.However, the level of science and technology in this era is really not high, and most of the things Zijue makes are specious, but even so, it is enough to shock these people.

These things are enough to make the nobles of Han country obsessed.

Han country's problems were not obvious at the beginning, and even with the passage of time, there will be no obvious problems, and it will even become prosperous because of the prosperity of business.It's just that these prosperity are rootless, false prosperity.

The implementation of Huai State's plan was very successful. In the first year, the grain-growing land in Han State decreased by [-]%.Because many people think that the low food price is only temporary, so a lot of food is still grown.

However, if this situation continues for several years, most people will choose to grow jute instead of growing food.

As long as this plan is implemented, Han Kingdom's final fate is already doomed.As for the state of Han asking for help from other surrounding countries to buy food, but they also need to have money, not to mention that the state of Xu is an ally of the state of Huai, and the state of Zhongwu is a vassal of the state of Xu.

How could he help Han country at the risk of offending Huai country?More importantly, it is very difficult to do business in this era. The wild jungle is densely covered with thorns, there are many wild animals, and Rongdi live in the wild. It is not easy for the Han Kingdom to buy food.

When Wang Lin was implementing the plan, the land of Bangzhou was also surging.After the emperor killed Duke Ai of Qi, the princes with different surnames did not go to Zhou, and the tribute stopped directly. Some princes even began to rebel against King Ji of Bang Zhou.

A more important reason is the rise of Bangzhou Quanrong.

After Bangzhou established the enfeoffment system, he began to compete with the barbarians for land and living space, and a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed for planting.

The vassal states that were enfeoffed by Bangzhou established cities and cities, but these cities can only control the land near the cities.Farther away, there are a large number of barbarians living.

There are a large number of barbarians living in the uncontrolled land between the cities.

The development of the princes basically first defeated or drove away the barbarians, and then established cities. In the process, a large number of barbarians were either killed or expelled, or were surrendered or became slaves.Of course, there are also barbarians who are powerful and break through the vassal states.

But it is an inevitable process that civilization replaces barbarism.It has been 20 years since the establishment of Bangzhou. The power of the barbarians has become smaller and smaller, and they have been unable to shake the rule of the vassal states. However, there are still a large number of barbarians on the border of Bangzhou.

There are two lands in Bangzhou's Wangji, one is Haojing, which is the place where Bangzhou rose, and the other is Chengzhou Luoyi, which was established during the Chengwang period.

In recent decades, due to the royal family's eastward relocation to Luoyi, the strength of Haojing has been weakened.In the period of King Zhou Zhao, the dog army had already begun to prosper, and King Zhou Zhao conquered the dog army twice, which weakened the dog army.Only a few decades later, Quan Rong's strength had recovered, and he invaded Wang Ji again.

In order to deal with the dog army, Ji Lie began to rearm his army.After Rong Di saw that Bang Zhou was weakened, he began to invade Wang Ji. Although Ji Lie killed Duke Ai of Qi and caused the princes to dislike him, his level of commanding troops was still good.

After the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven was rebuilt, together with the army defending Haojing, Qin was recruited and sent troops to deal with Quanrong.Bang Saturday's army and Qin State attacked from the northwest and southeast respectively, forming a pincer attack.General Yu of the Zhou Dynasty led the private army of the ministers, with a total of hundreds of chariots and thousands of bare soldiers, and took the lead in breaking through the dog army defense line, and Bang Zhou won a great victory.

Ji Lie defeated Rong Di, beheaded [-] Rong and captured [-] prisoners, and returned with a great victory.The victory of the war increased Ji Lie's reputation, and even the influence of cooking Qi Aigong was much smaller.

Although Ji Lie defeated the dog army and greatly increased his prestige, the problems he faced were far more than these.From the period of King Zhao, a large number of lands in Wangji were allocated to the princes in Jinei. By the time of King Xiang, the princes in Jinai had already occupied [-]% of Wangji's land.

In order to expand his financial resources, King Xiang had to carry out reforms, but this reform was not thorough. In the later period of King Yi, when the battle failed, Wang Ji's problems became more and more serious.Now the princes in Wang Jinei are stronger than the royal family, and the rights of the royal family have also been eroded.

The royal family's economy has been almost emptied after the wars during the reign of King Yi. If Ji Lie wants to reform, he must suppress the nobles within Wang Ji.

After Ji Lie defeated Quanrong, he gained high prestige, and then began to want to implement reforms.It's just that any reform is a redistribution of interests. Now it is the princes in Wang Jinei who occupy a large amount of interests. They are very resistant to Ji Lie's reforms.After all, this is cutting the princes' flesh to support the royal family.

It's just that due to Ji Lie's prestige, these princes can only bear it for the time being.

Although the royal power of Zhou Tianzi declined, the emperor was still stronger than any prince in the world. After all, the six armies of the emperor were still there.The nobles among Wang Ji are not as powerful as the emperor.

But once the emperor of Zhou pushed all the nobles to confrontation, the combined strength of these nobles was higher than that of the emperor, and the emperor changed from a strong side to a weak one.

At the beginning, King Zhao used the vassal states to check and balance the vassal states. Through the method of division and disintegration, the vassal states could not be united, check and balance the vassal states, maintain the majesty of Zhou Tianzi and the strength of the six armies of the emperor, and let the vassal states pay tribute.

This approach was very successful, so until the time of King Yi, all the princes and states in the world dared not refuse to pay tribute. Of course, by the time of King Yi, the materials for the princes to pay tribute had decreased a lot, and it almost became a ritual.

(End of this chapter)