"Is the little ghost strong? ”

Compared to Ye Wuji, who was shocked by Whitebeard's strength, Whitebeard was also a little surprised by Ye Wuji's strength at the moment, not only Whitebeard, but also the red-haired Shanks on the side, Ben Beckman, and the recovered Pheasant and Yellow Ape, Crane and others also looked at Ye Wuji in surprise.

Just look at the fact that the green pheasant and the yellow ape didn't block Whitebeard's attack in a row just now, you can know how powerful Whitebeard's strength is.

Theory: The three major generals of the Navy and the emperor of the pirates are strong men at the same level, and they are all the top combat power in this world, and there is no absolute difference in strength between the two sides.

But it's a pity, even at the same level, there is a very big difference in strength, especially the current One Piece Emperor Whitebeard and Bigu Mamu, whose strength is really beyond imagination, if it weren't for the fact that there is also a Karp in the navy, the situation of the navy may be even more embarrassing than now.

Although it is a bit demeaning to say about the navy, I have to say that there is a considerable distance between the strength of the three natural fruit generals of the navy and the four emperors of pirates who are about to appear.

In the navy, only Karp and the Four Emperors are considered to be at the same level, and the Warring States, even if they add the ability of the Devil Fruit of the phantom beast species of the animal department, their strength is still a line behind.

"Withdraw. Tsuru quickly regained his composure and ordered the naval warships to begin retreating, and since Whitebeard had made a move, the plan had failed.

The navy and the pirates are two distinct lines, you can feel it from Whitebeard's shot just now, there is no spare hand, if it is not for Ye Wuji's action to block, the navy will definitely suffer heavy losses.

For this operation, the navy dispatched all elites, not a single soldier, and the lowest on the warship were all ensigns.

"Hmph. When the warship turned around, Ye Wuji suddenly showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, and with a movement of his feet, the person had already appeared in mid-air, and in the other shocked eyes, he appeared in the sky above the Modibia, and slashed at the whitebeard below.

With Ye Wuji's sword slashing, a powerful, incomparably sharp sword qi shot towards Whitebeard.

Bang.

In the face of Ye Wuji's attack, Whitebeard's face was full of smiles, and his right fist punched the void in front of him, and the white cracks extended like spider webs towards the sword qi emitted by Ye Wuji.

Rumble.

The entire space was shattered like a mirror in an instant, and at the same time, the shattered was also the powerful sword qi emitted by Ye Wuji, and Ye Wuji's figure involuntarily retreated dozens of meters in the air.

"Do you break through the void? Ye Wuji, who stabilized his body, was full of shock in his heart, the Devil Fruit was really powerful, and if he wanted to shatter the space with his fists, even if he used the Six Dao Immortal Mode, he couldn't do it.

"Little ghost, if it weren't for my son. Whitebeard suddenly said with a smile at Ye Wuji in mid-air.

"I'm in the Navy. "If you don't know what Whitebeard is and what he means, Ye Wuji is going to scold people at this moment, and ordinary people ask others if they should be your son when they see someone, but even if they know the meaning of Whitebeard's words, Ye Wuji is very unhappy at this time.

Of course, he had to vent his unhappiness in his heart, and Ye Wuji immediately rushed forward with a sword.

"That's a shame. Whitebeard said with some disappointment.

In the face of Ye Wuji's attack, Marco and the others wanted to make a move, but he stopped them.

"What a troublesome ability. Ye Wuji looked at the slowly recovering injuries on his body, took a deep breath, and the sword in his hand was erected in front of his chest, at this time, the sword in Ye Wuji's hand had turned into pure black, and it looked like it was hardened by the armed color, but it was actually the Seeking Dao Jade plus the hardening of the armed color.

In an instant, a powerful momentum erupted from Ye Wuji's body, and the powerful overlord color immediately covered the space he was in.

On the surface of the sea, which was tens of meters below his feet, waves several meters high swelled.

"Daddy. After Marco and the others saw the state of Ye Wuji, they looked at Whitebeard in front of them with some worry, several of them had already raised their guns and were about to shoot, but then they were stopped by Whitebeard.

"What a powerful little ghost. Whitebeard looked at Ye Wuji in front of him with a solemn face, and on the side of his body, there was a white circle of light on his right hand, and he opened his posture.

"It's scary, is this going to be a one-hit victory? "The warship that was supposed to retreat, because of Ye Wuji's sudden action, the warship's movements immediately stopped.

"Ready to answer. ”

"Understood. ”

"Who is this guy, who dares to do it to Whitebeard. The surviving pirates, hiding from a distance and watching this scene, shouted in surprise.

"Be careful, Whitebeard. ”

"Come on, little ghost. ”

"Hundred steps flying sword. ”

After receiving Whitebeard's answer, the sword in Yewuji's hand immediately flew towards Whitebeard with lightning speed, and at the same time, Whitebeard also punched the void in front of him.

Rumble.

The moment the black sword came into contact with the crack of the whitebeard shocking fruit, the powerful and dazzling white light closed everyone's eyes involuntarily for a moment.

Then there was an explosion that resounded throughout the sky, and a powerful shock wave, which instantly rolled up hundreds of meters of monstrous waves on the surface of the sea.

However, at this time, everyone didn't care about the monstrous waves around them, because compared to this monstrous waves, the strange scene between Whitebeard and Ye Wuji was really surprising.

The black sword and the trembling pattern of the Shock Fruit were constantly stalemate there, and the space was constantly shattering, and then it was restored, and Whitebeard and Ye Wuji were still in the same posture as they were at this time.

As the stalemate continued, cold sweat broke out on both of their foreheads.

"How is this possible, Daddy didn't even shatter the sword. ”

"It can't be. ”

The members of the Whitebeard Pirates looked at all this in disbelief, there was no better understanding than these people about the power of Whitebeard's Shock Fruit, they had never seen anything that Whitebeard couldn't break.

In 403 B.C., King Weilie of Zhou, the co-lord of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, ordained the three princes of Han, Zhao and Wei, and the situation of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States was officially formed. From more than 140 princes in the early Spring and Autumn Period, after more than 360 years of annexation, only more than 20 remained in the early Warring States period. Among them, Xiying's surname is Qin, Dongfei's surname is Qi, the Central Plains Sanjin (Zhao, Wei, and Korea), Nanmi's surname is Chu, and Beiji's surname is Yan. It is known as the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States" in history. As a result of the wars of annexation, there were fewer princes, and the victors became larger, more populous, and more wealthy. The wealth of the land and population, which was originally scattered in the hands of various princes, was concentrated in the hands of a few princes.

The world has been integrated from hundreds of small countries to more than a dozen large entities, and the original strategic buffer space no longer exists, and various major powers have to face the pattern of direct and brutal competition. The concentration of resources has led to a sharp increase in the scale and intensity of wars between countries. In the continuous fierce attacks between each other, how to survive the competition, and to enrich the country and strengthen the army has become the primary consideration of the decision-making level of various countries. Under the general needs of this era, a series of reforms and reforms were carried out in response to the times, and the curtain of the Warring States period was also opened.

According to statistics, in the 255 years from the first year of King Yuan of Zhou (475 BC) to the 26th year of the reign of King Qin (221 BC), there were 230 large and small wars. When the war broke out, the two sides often dispatched tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled various materials about this period of history into a book and named it "Warring States Policy", and from then on, this historical stage was called the Warring States Period.

Seven heroes stand side by side

During the Warring States period, the princes were divided and fought with each other, and the international community was very unstable. In the early Warring States period, there were still more than a dozen countries in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, among which Qi, Jin, Chu, and Yue were the strongest, and they had the tendency to divide the world.

The Seven Heroes of the Warring States after the division of the three families

The Seven Heroes of the Warring States after the division of the three families

Later, the Jin civil strife, with the Zhi family, the Fan family, the Zhongxing family and the Han, Zhao, Wei six families as the main "six Qing" and annexed each other, after the Fan and Zhongxing fell, the Zhi family headed by Zhi Boyao, in 455 BC united with the Han and Wei families to attack Zhao, Zhao Xiangzi surrounded Jinyang, and the city was irrigated with Fen water. Han and Wei suddenly joined forces with the Zhao clan and eliminated the Zhi clan in 453 BC, dividing up all of Zhi's land. Soon, the three families divided the land and people of the Jin office, except for Quwo (now Wenxi County, Shanxi) and Jiangzhou (now southeast of Yicheng, Shanxi). At this time, the monarch of the Jin Kingdom descended to the three families, and he was so humbled that he wanted to meet the three doctors (the three families were divided into Jin). From the Tian clan of the Qi Guoqing clan to Tian Heng, the fifth grandson of Chen Wan, united with the Bao clan and destroyed the then autocratic Luan and Gao Er clans to usurp the power of the Qi State (in 386 BC, the Tian clan replaced Qi). Later, the rise of the Yan State, the rise of the Qin State, and some other small states were successively annexed or reduced to vassals. By the middle of the Warring States period, the remaining seven major powers, Qin, Chu, Han, Zhao, Wei, Qi, and Yan, were known as the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.

The pre-Warring States period form

The pre-Warring States period form

Seven Heroes' Territory:

Southeast, Northwest, Upper, Middle and Lower[4];

Qi Chu, Qin Yan, Zhao Wei, Han.

Qin: It occupies about Guanzhong and Hanzhong in present-day Shaanxi, southeastern Gansu, and central and eastern Sichuan.

The situation in the Central Plains of the Warring States period

The situation in the Central Plains of the Warring States period

Wei: It occupies about the southwestern part of present-day Shanxi, and the northern, central, and eastern parts of Henan.

Zhao: It covers about the northwestern and central parts of present-day Shanxi, the central and southwestern parts of Hebei, and part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Han: It covers about the central and western parts of present-day Henan and the southeastern part of Shanxi.

Qi: It occupies about the northeastern part of present-day Shandong, the southern and western parts of Hebei and the southeastern part of Shanxi.

Chu: It occupies about the whole province of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Hunan, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

Yan: It occupies about the northern part of present-day Hebei, Liaoning, and Jilin.

Social

During the Warring States period, iron tools began to appear and were used, replacing stone tools and using them at the same time as bronze tools, and the prosperity of commerce promoted the development of money, and the Ida system in the Spring and Autumn period was abolished. Agriculture has further developed and the population of various countries has increased. The production level of the handicraft industry has been significantly improved in iron smelting, bronze casting, lacquerware, and silk weaving, and commercial trade between countries has been vigorously developed. The contradiction between population and resources has intensified. The annexation of land wars by vassal states for living space replaced the political hegemony struggle in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Wu Qi

Wu Qi[8]

With the construction of water conservancy, the use of iron tools and the promotion of cattle farming, the economy of the vassal states developed in the middle and late Spring and Autumn periods, and the political situation also changed accordingly. The power of the ministers and doctors in the vassal states gradually developed, such as the three huans of the Lu state, the Tian family of the Qi state, and the six secretaries of the Jin state. They used their economic power to control and divide the office, and fought each other to expand their territory. The six kings of the Jin State fought to the end, leaving the Han, Wei, and Zhao families. In the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC), King Zhou officially recognized the three families as princes. In the eleventh year of King An of Zhou (391 BC), Tian He abolished the Duke of Qi Kang and established himself as the monarch, which was also recognized by the King of Zhou. The victory of the Sanjin and Tian clans announced the cruel political law of the survival of the strong and the elimination of the weak. As a result, starting with the reform of Li Kui in Wei, various countries rushed to carry out a reform movement with the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army. At the heart of the reform was the immobilization of laborers to the land in order to increase the state's tax revenue. The deepening of social civilization has caused the rulers' greed for material pleasures to swell rapidly. The most direct way to increase the amount of exploitation is to plunder more land, and the easiest way to plunder land is through war. So, wars were frequent during this period.

These developments have also brought about changes in the structure of society. The hereditary hierarchy was dismantled, and some of the former nobility lost their status, while others of the time became rich through business or other opportunities, and even became prominent figures in the political group. The bureaucracy has changed.

Warring States Policy

Warring States Policy (22 photos)

In response to these changes, countries have adopted different approaches. The first to start reforms was the Wei state. After Wei Wenhou succeeded to the throne in 445 BC, he studied under Confucian figures such as Zixia, Tian Zifang, and Duan Ganmu, and recruited a large number of talents. Later, Wei Chengzi, Zhai Huang, Li Kui, Le Yang, Wu Qi, Ximen Bao and others were appointed to carry out reforms in various fields such as politics, military and economy.

The analysis of the bipolar world theory points out that during the Warring States Period, Guanzhong was the political form of the scholar nationality and the economic form of serfdom, the Central Plains was the political form of the Qing Dafu and the subordinate agricultural economic form, while the south was the political and economic form of the primitive tribes, and the overall social form of China was the political form of the Qing Dafu and the subordinate agricultural economic form. [9]

Qi and Qin fight for hegemony

During the 200-year period of the Warring States Period, with the successive decline of Wei and Chu (see Warring States Historical Periodization), a situation of east-west confrontation between Qi and Qin was formed, so Qin and Qi launched a struggle to win other vassal states and isolate each other, while Han, Wei, Zhao, Chu, Yan and other states swayed in the joint Qin against Qi and the United Qi against Qin. At this time, two famous politicians appeared - Zhang Yi and Gongsun Yan, who were horizontal and vertical respectively. This situation is also known as vertical and horizontal (the vertical one, the one who is weak to attack one strong, and the horizontal one, one strong to attack the weak).

Zhongshan Country

Zhongshan Kingdom[10]

The powerful state of Qin continued to expand its territory to the east. In the 40th year of King Xian of Zhou (329 BC), Zhang Yi, a Wei man, came to Qin and proposed to Qin Huiwenjun to make peace with Wei and Chu, and then with the cooperation of Wei and Chu, he attacked Xincheng and Yiyang in Korea, drove the army to Luoyang, coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and finally turned back to capture the territory of Wei and Chu, forcing the princes of the world to face Qin in the west and complete the great cause of being the king. This strategy was in the hands of King Qin Huiwen, so he took Zhang Yi as a guest. Zhang Yi repeatedly instigated the Qin army to attack Wei, and returned the seized land to Wei, forcing Wei to take charge of Qin first and accept fifteen counties of Shang County to Qin, posing a great threat to other eastern countries, and Zhang Yi was appointed as Qin's state minister. In the forty-sixth year of King Xian of Zhou (323 BC), the Wei general Gongsun Yan implemented a strategy of combining and indulging, prompting the five kingdoms of Wei, Han, Zhao, Yan, and Zhongshan to recognize each other's monarchs as kings in order to jointly resist Qin. But soon, the state of Chu sent troops to attack Wei, and Gongsun Yan's strategy was frustrated. Wei Xianghuishi's activities to unite Qi and Chu also failed and were expelled. King Hui of Wei was attacked by Qi and Chu, and had to appoint Zhang Yi as the minister of Wei in the forty-seventh year of King Xian of Zhou (322 BC), wanting to unite the troops of Qin and Han to defeat Qi and Chu. But Zhang Yi's real intention was to make Wei do Qin first, and let other vassal states follow suit. King Hui of Wei did not listen to Zhang Yi's advice, and with the support of Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Han and other states, in the second year of King Shenliang of Zhou (319 BC), he drove Zhang Yi away and took Gongsun Yan as Wei Xiang. In the following year, Gongsun Yan launched the first joint attack on Qin by the five kingdoms of Wei, Chu, Yan, Zhao, and Han.