warring states careerist

Chapter 872
When Master Ying heard the words, his eyes lit up, as if he had realized something.

In fact, after the birth of gunpowder, if you don't take detours and quickly pass through the experience accumulated in blood, the nomads will soon change from the so-called "abundant martial arts" to "able to sing and dance".

Of course, not only nomads, but also primitive settlements with broken hair tattoos in more backward areas.

This point was deeply felt when the Mohists guarded Gaoliu and sought the South China Sea, and when the Qin State conquered the Yuezhi, Yiqu, and Xiqiang westward.

For example, in Qin's Western Expedition, more than a hundred soldiers armed with muskets, combined with the improved method of chariot formation that can fight and walk, can make more than a thousand Yiqu people who ride horses and control strings and use bone arrows helpless.

After immigration, many people captured "slaves", occupied the land, reclaimed it, or directly confiscated a land, relying on more than a hundred people to maintain colonial rule.

As far as Qin is concerned, there are indeed trade profits going west, but compared with the temptation of the Central Plains, the Central Plains is undoubtedly greater.

What Wu Qi meant was that Qin would be a two-headed falcon, keeping an eye on the Central Plains on the one hand, and developing westwards with a back hand on the other.

Anyway, going westward at this time is not a great achievement at this time. Weapon tactics and even the crushing of the logistics population, using muskets to conquer the ethnic groups that have no stirrups and iron tools, even if they gain a thousand miles, may be nothing more than the achievements of five doctors. There is still a distance to Qing's concubine.

It is not only reserved as a follower, but also to be able to obtain more land and population.

To the west, you can take it slowly, but to the east, you need a thunderous blow to stabilize the situation.

Qin State must first obtain Xihe before it can consider seeking hegemony.

Without Xihe, Qin would not have any strategic space, and losing any major battle would be a defeat for the country, so even if later generations enter Shu, they must first seek Xihe as a buffer.

When Qin was weak, it did not consider what would happen after seizing Xihe.

But as the reforms deepened and the national power grew stronger, Qin's monarchs and ministers finally realized the abhorrentness of the Mohists' layout 20 years in advance.

If Qin wants to fight for world hegemony, he must first win the Xihe River, then seize Hanzhong, and find an opportunity to enter Shu. Only in this way can he have a steady stream of military and financial resources to support the long-term war east of the Xihe River.

The problem is that they dare not enter Shu with all their strength if they cannot get Xihe; but when they were able to get Xihe, the Mohists took the first step and got stuck in Hanzhong.

For Qin, the disgusting thing about this move is that if Xihe is won, the relationship with the three Jins will inevitably be tense, and if they go to win Hanzhong at this time, they will turn against the Mohists.Confronting the Three Jins in Xihe, together with the Mohists, would be a dead end.

And when the soldiers leave Xihe, they must make good friends with the Mohists. There is no doubt about this. Even if they know that the Mohists want the Qin State to be the Wu State of the year, they still have to make good friends.Failure to make friends means that the three Jins do not need to face the pressure of fighting on two fronts, and fight with all their strength in Xihe, which is something Qin cannot cope with now.

In other words... the Mohist blocked Qin's way to unify the world, and only allowed them to be a regional overlord.

Either, go west to open up the land beyond Zhuxia; or go east, and become a pawn to contain the Three Jins.Losing the strategic direction of going south to Bashu also lost the capital to conquer the world.

Shu is the best strategic rear for Qin after the reform, especially after Dujiangyan was built in advance, and iron farm tools and new planting methods were introduced to Shu, but it seems hopeless now.

Wu Qi has already seen this clearly, but seeing clearly and having the strength to solve it are not the same thing.

Without the West River, Qin will never be able to conquer the world. Only by seizing the West River can it leave a buffer for the Guanzhong Plain, so that the country will not be in danger of being destroyed if it fails in the First World War.

However, if Xihe is seized, it is equivalent to making friends with the Mohists within at least 20 or even 50 years and coping with the counterattack of the Three Jins.You can only watch the Mohists make efforts from Hanzhong to continue to infiltrate Bashu, cut off the chance of Qin State to win the world, and can only be the hegemony of Xibohou.

That's why Wu Qi said that he should not forget to go west while seeking the West River in the east. He was planning a way for the future of Qin, a way in case of failure and in case the Mohist school became too powerful to be restrained.

Those who are prepared for danger, plan for a rainy day, and are good at planning the country should do so.

Seeing Qin Jun pondering, Wu Qi said: "For a general, one must not be ignorant of the geographical situation of mountains and rivers; for a king, one must not be ignorant of the far-reaching."

"That's why, you can dominate in the east, one in the south, and long in the west."

"However, if you can't dominate even as Hou Bo, how can you conquer it all? If you want to dominate first, it will be difficult to dominate."

How can a king of a country not be clear about these strategic things?The difference between Wu Qi and Marquis Wei was due to strategic issues, whether to maintain Wei's hegemony in multi-line warfare or to participate in the elimination of troops in the Central Plains to resolve the Western Qin matter first.

As time passed, Wu Qi once again proposed his own strategy.

In history, he was in charge of the state of Chu, and what he did was similar. He got Dongting Cangwu to the south and laid a stable rear for the state of Chu.

This time he expressed his opinion, Qin Jun sighed and said: "As you said, I don't know how many years it will take."

Wu Qi understood Qin Jun's sigh, and said: "We must wait for the world to change. Today's friends will be tomorrow's enemies; today's enemies may not be friends tomorrow. The world will be unified, I am afraid it will not happen overnight."

After he entered Qin, he naturally studied the mountains and rivers of Qin State. The Mohist occupied Nanzheng and had a lot of trade with Qinchuan. Before the Mohist entered Nanzheng, Qin and Shu had been fighting around Hanzhong for decades. Can you not know the situation of Qinchuan, Bashu?

From Hanzhong to Sichuan, from Wu Qi's point of view, there are actually four paths.

Three of them failed.

Ziwu Valley Road has existed since ancient times. Zhang Yi once said that an army would stop the Wudao. When King Wu defeated Zhou, the Ba people went to the alliance through the Wudao.

This road is not going to work, as long as the Mohists defend Hanzhong, with the Mohist way of defending the city, it is useless to take down Nanzheng if there are few people, and they will be blocked to death if there are too many people.

Chencang Road and Baogu Road, these two roads are also impossible to break through, at least for now, the roads are steep and the Mohists are good at guarding.

The only one left is to enter Sichuan through the Wudu at this time, that is, Longnan Longyou in later generations, which is about the direction of Yinping Road where Deng Ai entered Shu in later generations.

That is the only way to bypass Hanzhong and attack Bashu, otherwise, you will have to fight hard at the Qinling Mountains and several fortresses guarded by the Mohists.

The so-called Long Wangshu, if you want to look at Shu, you have to get Long, that is, you have to continue to expand westward.

The state of Qin has been going west all these years, crushing Yi and Di, and benefited a lot, but Wu Qi felt that it was not enough.

The state of Qin has two types of administrative divisions: "county" and "dao".

To the west, there are two more directions.

One is the Hexi Corridor, which is becoming more and more important with the development of trade. Qin's power has penetrated there, and there are many immigrants.

Now the second largest lake in ancient times, Zhuyeze, is still there, and the rivers have not dried up. Irrigated agriculture can be developed there. With the westward trade, there has gradually begun to have a lot of civilization.

The other direction is to follow Qin Mugong's road to the west, passing through Longxi and Longnan. Qin has already set up some counties and roads here, with the foundation laid by Qin Mugong's era, and the development is not bad.

To the northwest, through the Hexi Corridor, it is not only for trade, but also to leave a road for Qin... Since the ancestors of the Qin people could migrate here from Shandong, in the future, if the world is really difficult to accommodate, the Qin people can also go west along this road Continue to migrate and try to seal another country.

To the southwest, it is to wait for the opportunity of Wu Qi's so-called "the world has changed and the world has changed", that is, the opportunity to capture the Shu Kingdom and obtain Bashu, although it seems that this opportunity is a bit slim now.

But in the end, you still have to prepare early.

If one day they really fell out with the Mohists, they could make a surprise attack from Ziwu Road, Baogu Road, etc., or they could find a way to enter Shu directly from Longnan.

The purpose of the Emperor Shu entrusting the Mohists to Nanzheng is obvious.

It is quite similar to the state of mind of the Shu emperor in history.

One is that there were constant battles between Ba and Shu, and the state of Qin fought for Hanzhong and Shu for decades, which made the Emperor of Shu unable to hold Hanzhong at all, so he had to hand it over to the Mohist family and get married in order to keep the northern gate.

The second is that the power of the Mohists in Shu is getting bigger and bigger, and their reputation is getting higher and higher. It will inevitably involve the issue of the inheritance rights of some nobles. Shu is a closed country, and such a branch is here to dig wells for salt, trade mercury and open mines. The external forces of Xiujiangyan must find a way to throw them outside to avoid internal accidents.

The relationship between the Kingdom of Shu and the Mohists in Hanzhong is very delicate. Those people from the Mohists in Hanzhong also often conquered some small neighboring Yidi countries, and they did a good job in guarding the northern gate.

But... the Kingdom of Shu is also very worried about the Mohists in Hanzhong.

In later generations, there are stories of the stone cow's conspiracy and the story of Wuding opening the mountain. In fact, the way of the stone cow has existed for a long time, but it was not suitable for the passage of the army. When it comes to the fact that both Ba and Shu participated in King Wu's crusade against Zhou, this path has long existed.

Now the Mohists are repairing the stone cow road, which is not called stone cow road at that time, on the grounds of "convenience for trade exchanges", which makes the land of Shu very disturbed.The Kingdom of Shu itself is a country of witchcraft worship. With the infiltration of the Central Plains culture, it gradually transformed into the Xia Dynasty, and the people who went to the Mohists were the most advanced group of people in the Central Plains culture. , with the spread of some theories of Mohism, it is impossible for Shu not to worry.

This is also the important reason why Wu Qi believes that it is necessary to develop both eastward and westward.

Obtaining Hexi from the east is the first step for Qin to dominate and even participate in the affairs of the Central Plains.

In the northwest, through the Hexi Corridor, it is a trade road and a road to the wealth of the Qin State treasury.

It is also in case one day the Central Plains unifies the Qin State and migrates westward to create a way out in the Western Regions.When that day really comes, it will be a big deal to establish a country in the west, seize the Persian county named Bhaktra, and seek a way out of the rumor that the wealth and prosperity of the Central Plains will be poisonous.

To the southwest, the operation of Longxi and Longnan is for the sake of one day in the future when an opportunity comes, when the time comes, Qin can directly enter Shu and cut off Hanzhong, so as to obtain the rear of the whole world.

If you want to dominate, you must be close to Mo; if you want to be one, you must rebel against Mo.When to kiss and when to oppose, you need to prepare early.

(End of this chapter)