Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 287 The Chance of Qi Country

Qi Wang Hanxin has never relaxed his attention to the Central Plains.

Ever since he got the King Qin Yuxi, Han Xin's mind was no longer to be a king and to return home with clothes. When Chen She launched a riot in Daze Township, he once said that princes and generals would rather have kindness?Now, Han Xin wants to say, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, would they rather have a kind?Ying Zheng can be the emperor, why can't he, Han Xin, be the emperor?
Since you want to be emperor, you naturally have to dominate the world like winning politics.

Therefore, while reforming the law and accumulating national power, Han Xin never relaxed his attention to the general trend of the world.

However, South Korea's reform is essentially a limited improvement, and its thoroughness is far from being comparable to that of Chu and Han's "Junyao Service and Pingsu Fu". Lou Jing also suggested to Han Xin to follow the example of Chu Han implemented the national policy of uniform Yao service and equal calculation of taxes in Qi State, but was rejected by Han Xin.

Because if the state of Qi follows the example of Chu and Han in uniforming Yao's labor and calculating their taxes, they must start with the powerful gentry and nobles in the same area. However, Han Xin is a very nostalgic person. He believes that the powerful gentry of Qi once helped him ascend The king of Qi is kind to Han Xin, and those honored relatives and dignitaries are his old trilogy, so he can't let go of this hand.

From this point of view, Han Xin's political blackness is far from being comparable to that of Xiang Zhuang and Liu Bang.

Xiang Zhuang and Liu Bang absolutely do not have such benevolence for women. There are hundreds of gentry families and thousands of heads in Guanzhong. After reading it again, in the two countries of Chu and Han, Xiang Zhuang and Liu Bang basically have the same promise now.

But in the state of Qi, Han Xin has not yet fully received the support of the gentry in Qi.

Yaxiang Lou Jing saw that he was anxious in his heart. In the past ten years, the Chu and Han countries have greatly improved in terms of national strength, population and military strength, while Qi is still standing still. So far, The population of Qi is not more than 300 million, and the reserves of Taicang are less than one million stones, which is far from the reserves of Xianyang Taicang.

If we continue to wait like this, the gap between Qi and Chu Han will only grow wider and wider!

Lou Jing knew very well that if Qi State wanted to sweep the world and conquer other countries, there was only one way to go. Loot wealth, land, and population, then reward your soldiers with huge rewards, and continue to wage war!
Lou Jing is worthy of being Lou Jing, and he is also worthy of being a great man in history. This guy once offered Liu Bang such a super black-bellied national policy of "marriage", and his vision is really not ordinary!

In fact, at this time, the reforms of Han and Chu have come to an end, the national power, manpower, and material resources have grown significantly, and the foundation has been laid, and the momentum will only become stronger in the future. , Time is running out, the only way Qi can go now is to reward military exploits and support war with war.

Rewarding military exploits and using battles to support wars is what the world calls the best route.

In fact, Xiang Zhuang also considered this at the beginning, but at that time, Chu State was against the whole world. If he still pursued the political line of supporting war with war and constantly provoked wars, it would definitely lead to the alliance of the princes of the world. Therefore, in the end, Xiang Zhuang gave up this idea.

But Qi State has no such concerns. So far, Qi State has only had tense relations with Chu State and Huainan State.

However, in the past ten years, there has been no major movement in Chu State. Due to the covenant between Chu State and Huainan State, Qi State did not dare to persuade it lightly, but now, Qi State's opportunity has finally come!
Linzi, a small city palace, Lou Jingzheng was talking to Han Xin: "Your Majesty, the Han army is about to attack the Xiongnu in a large scale, and the Chu State has gathered the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces, and it is about to fight with the Liang State. At this juncture, Chu and Han have no time to distract him. , Da Qi should take this opportunity to attack neighboring countries, expand the territory, plunder the population, and forge a strong army at the same time!"

Han Xin nodded happily, and General Cao Can and Prime Minister Wang Ling also nodded.

"I have three strategies, upper, middle, and lower, for the king to choose." After a pause, Lou Jing said again, "The best strategy, this spring is very cold, the river is frozen for several feet, and pedestrians, vehicles and horses can pass. Crossing the north and sweeping the land of Zhao, in order to get all the land, population and millions of stone reserves of Zhao State, the national power will be greatly strengthened, which will help the next expansion!"

Cao Shen and Wang Ling glanced at each other, with expressions of deep approval on their faces.

In the past ten years, Zhao Guoguo Xiangguangao has always been committed to building water conservancy and improving farming, so that the four counties of Hanoi, Julu, Handan, and Hengshan have bumper harvests every year. The country can not only get this batch of accumulated millet, but also get ten thousand hectares of fertile land in Zhao land, which will greatly support the Qi army's foreign operations!
Han Xin shook his head and said: "The widow has always been friendly with Zhang Er, the first emperor of Zhao Guo, and the king of Zhao, Zhang Ao, treats the widow as his uncle in everything. How can the widow bear to do something to his nephew?"

After saying this, Han Xin said again, "Yaxiang, let's talk about your middle strategy."

Lou Jing sighed, and said: "The middle policy, when the battle between Liang State and Chu State, Huainan State, and Linjiang State was in full swing, a surprise army broke into Dingtao from Dongjun and destroyed Liang State in one fell swoop. Although Liang State did not have much accumulation Su does not have a large population, but there are [-] tiger and wolf soldiers who have experienced many battles. If the king can recruit these [-] tiger and wolf soldiers, the Qi army will definitely increase in strength!"

This is another poisonous trick, but it must be admitted that this poisonous trick is very insidious. If Han Xin makes a sudden move, Liang Guo will be unable to parry it if he is caught off guard. It is inevitable that the country will be destroyed. Ding Tao, then Liang Jun must choose to surrender to Han Xin, which is almost inevitable.

This is interesting. Xiang Zhuang set up the stage and invited Yingbo and Gongwei Fei Laozi to sing a big show, but Han Xin could get all the rewards dropped by the audience. If this is the case, Xiangzhuang, Yingbo and Gongwei Wei is afraid that he will vomit blood with anger, right?But what if they spit blood at that time?Han Xin is relying on Qi and Liang Bingfeng, who will fight for the front?
Han Xin frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Qi State once signed an alliance with Liang State, and the alliance has not yet been lifted. If Liang State really goes to war with Chu State, Huainan State, and Linjiang State, it would be too much for me not to help him. How can you break the alliance, abandon the covenant, and then sneak up on him from behind? Wouldn’t the world laugh at him if he behaved like this?”

Lou Jing said anxiously: "Your Majesty, the so-called covenant exists only to deal with a common powerful enemy. Now that Xiang Yu has died early, the general situation of the world has long since changed from what it used to be. The covenant between Qi and Liang should have been dissolved long ago. So, why not take this opportunity to dissolve the covenant between Qi and Liang, and then attack Liang Guo?"

"No, I will definitely not do such an unjust act!" Han Xin shook his head, and said again, "Let's talk about the worst policy."

Lou Jing sighed again, and said helplessly: "The so-called worst strategy is to unite Liang Guo and Zhao Guo to attack Huainan Kingdom. Huainan Wang Yingbu broke his promise and occupied the three counties of Xuejun, Sishui and Donghai that the King of Han entrusted to the king. It is famous, but the Huainan people's livelihood is poor, and the Huainan army is strong, attacking the Huainan country is really not worth the loss."

After a pause, he continued: "Furthermore, after conquering Huainan, Qi will directly face Chu's army. Today's Chu not only has infantry and cavalry, but also a navy. It can be said that there are many soldiers Guang, our army does not have an advantage against it, the king's use of troops has never been matched, but the tiger can't stand the pack of wolves."

Lou Jing's worry is not unreasonable, Han Xin is indeed powerful, but you only have one person, right?
Looking at the state of Chu again, let’s not talk about Xiang Zhuang. He is also a ruthless man who forcibly brought thousands of remnant soldiers to destroy Liu Bang’s general situation. The general of Zhan, and Bi Shu, the contemporary descendant of Guigu, is said to know all of Qimen, Dunjia, land warfare, water warfare, and cavalry warfare. What a great talent!

Han Xin said: "Xiang Zhuang, you are a gambler. The King of Han dare not gamble with him, so he was defeated by him. I will not repeat the same mistakes as the King of Han. As for Gao Chu, Pang Yu, Meng Ji, Bi Books and others are all mediocre, and Cheng Hei, Zhao Xi, Xu Zhang, and Lu Qing are no worse than them, so why worry about them?"

Cheng Hei, Zhao Xi, Xu Zhang, and Lu Qing were all Qi generals, and were highly regarded by Han Xin.

After saying this, Han Xin said again: "I am determined to conquer Huainan myself, and send troops soon!"

"Here." Cao Can, Wang Ling, and Lou Jing hurriedly knelt up and bowed to Han Xin.

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The big city of Linzi.

The big city that was burned down by Xiangzhuang in the past has already restored its old appearance at this time. Rows of warehouses and shops are row upon row. They are almost connected into a long queue, this scene is more prosperous than before.

In the southern city of Linzi, there is a three-story Fengyue Restaurant.

The wine maids in Fengyue Restaurant are either pretty girls or charming young women. The atmosphere in the Qin and Han Dynasties was extremely open. If these wine maids meet a happy drinker, it is not impossible for them to kiss Fangze , and Fengyue restaurant has Jiangdong specialty "baijiu" supply, so the business is particularly hot.

It's just that no one knows that this Fengyue restaurant is actually owned by Wumuya.

Today's Wumuya, the intelligence network has already spread all over China, how can a big city like Linzi be spared?
In the backyard of the restaurant, a man with five short stature and a rat-headed mouse looked around and saw no one was around, so he pushed open the secret door in the firewood room and walked into a secret room. There were more than a dozen bamboo cages in the secret room. A few cooing birds, the man opened one of the bamboo cages and caught a cooing bird from it.

Then, the man took out a very thin piece of paper with small characters written on it from his bosom, first carefully rolled it into a small roll, then stuffed it into a small bamboo tube and tied it to one of Cuckoo's feet. Finally, the man hugged Cuckoo came out of the dark room and came to the backyard. Once he let go of his hands, Cuckoo flew into the night sky with his secret letter.

(End of this chapter)