With Huang Xie's attitude Minglang, the debate above the court of Chu about whether to start a war with the Han State or to hold the status quo finally fell into the dust, and the Lord and faction gained the upper hand, the news came out, Guo Han, who was still waiting for the news, breathed a long sigh of relief, this trip to Yingcheng can be described as a complete victory, I really didn't expect that Fan Zhuo had such a great influence on Huang Xie, so that Huang Xie, who had been undecided, made up his mind at once.

The task was fully accomplished, Guo Han set off to leave Chu with satisfaction, he still had a lot of things to do, and the top priority, of course, was to send the latest silk reeling and weaving machines to Chu as soon as possible after returning to China, so as to help Fan Zhuo set up the factory as soon as possible, and at the same time, according to the agreement, Han would also send technicians to assist Fan Zhuo in establishing a factory for the production of silk reeling and satin looms in Chu State, so that Fan Zhuo could promote this intensive factory more quickly.

What surprised Guo Han was that the people of Yingcheng actually welcomed the resolution of the imperial court with both hands, and their disgust with war far exceeded Guo Han's imagination. As soon as a war starts, it means that the imperial court will collect more taxes, which means that more children will go to the battlefield at any time and fall on the battlefield at any time. How nice it is that the wife is still peaceful! The Han State will fight the Qin State, and they will fight it, what does it matter to me Dachu?

This is the most ordinary mentality of the Chu people!

Except for some main battle faction figures such as Qu Chong, the whole Chu State was greatly relieved.

Huang Xie cleaned up the scattered Wenzong on the public case, a great victory of the Chu State in Pengcheng more than a year ago. Let the state of Chu sweep away the decline of retreating thousands of miles from Linyi a few years ago, greatly increase the popularity of the Chu people, and also bring his prestige in the country to a new level. Now he is not an exaggeration to say that he is covering the sky with one hand.

In the eyes of outsiders, the powerful Huang Shoufu can now be described as a spring breeze, but those who are really familiar with Huang Xie know that the past two years have been the hardest years for Huang Shoufu.

The battle of Pengcheng alleviated the crisis of the Chu State on the strategic level, and knocked back the outstretched hand of the Han State hard, but it was only alleviated. It did not fundamentally solve the problem, and the alliance with the Qin State was better than nothing. The current situation of the Qin State is precarious, the generals have self-respect, the domestic economy is in turmoil, and the regime is already crumbling. In Huang Xie's opinion. Qin Wang Yingying is still too young.

If he is going to implement reforms. had to deal with a conservative general like Lu Chao quietly first, how could he easily expose his political tendencies in the Fan Sui incident, so that Lu Chao found the clues, so as to cause today's situation.

Qin's self-preservation is still in danger at the moment, and the threat to the Han State is gradually decreasing.

At this time, it was naturally inappropriate to start a war against Han that Qu Zhong shouted.

The envoy of the Qin State has been lobbying in Yingcheng these days. What's even more ridiculous is that there are actually two groups of people. One group of people were sent by the Qin Imperial Court, and the other group was actually sent by their new Taiwei Lu Chao from Hanguguan.

Qin Wang Yingying, the first assistant Fan Sui couldn't shake Lu Chao, and had to add an official to Lu Chao, a lieutenant who was not in the court, Huang Xie shook his head slowly.

Catching a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye, Huang Xie couldn't help but smile bitterly, the hurried footsteps, the tall figure, and the temperament that rushed straight without retribution, who else could there be besides his old partner Taiwei Quing?

With a thud, he sat down with a bent ass, looking at Huang Xie with straight eyes, and the dissatisfaction in his eyes was obvious.

Huang Xie spread his hands, "Captain, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, staring at me like this, it's like I've become a peerless beauty!" He tried to relax the atmosphere.

"Shousuke, do you want to sit back and watch us being defeated by the Han people? Han and Qin are at loggerheads, and if we don't take the opportunity to send troops, the great opportunity will be fleeting. Now that the Qin State is so chaotic, if the Han State really defeats them, we are the next target. "Qu Zheng said angrily.

Huang Xie sat down and looked at the furious Qu Zheng, "My good captain, you also know that the Qin State is in a lot of chaos now!" But the more this is the case, the more we have no reason to send troops at this time, do we go to the fire for the Qin people? When I saw that there were two different groups of envoys from the Qin State coming to our Yingcheng, my heart was half cold. ”

Qu snorted: "No matter how messy they are, their army's combat effectiveness is still considerable. ”

"That's not what a lieutenant should say." Huang Xie's face sank, "Captain Qu, if you fight on the front line, and I make a bad deal in the back, can you win?" ”

He was stunned, "Why are you doing bad things in the back?" This is our common cause. ”

"But what about the Qin State? Now Fan Sui can't wait for Lu Chao to have a big defeat! Huang Xie sneered.

"Lu Chao is defeated, what is the benefit of Yu Fan Sui? He wasn't afraid that the Han people would drive straight into Xianyang and take Xianyang? Qu asked rhetorically.

"So they're here to lobby us! Hopefully we will send troops. With the current situation of the Qin State, I am afraid that the Han State is about to be the main spearhead against us, once we send troops to war with the Han State, the Han State will inevitably turn its horse around and aim at us, but for the Qin people will buy more time to clean up the domestic mess, Taiwei, what benefit do you say this will be for our Great Chu? Huang Xie knocked on the table and said.

Qu Zhong was silent for a long time, "Shoufu, although what you said is reasonable, but there is no perfect thing in this world, if we want to keep the country of Dachu, we have to pay some price, I heard that Fan Zhuo went to your house two days ago, and talked with you a lot, you told me the truth, you decided to negotiate peace with the Han State, is it the benefit of the Han people, I know, Fan Zhuo has been doing business with the Han people in recent years, but he has made a fortune, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is now rich and rivals the country!" ”

Huang Xie laughed, reached out and picked up a stack of files from the table, and handed it to Qu Chong, "Tai Lieutenant, you have always focused on military affairs, and you have never asked about civil affairs at all, you look at this, you should know why I don't agree to go to war!" ”

Qu Zhong looked at the stack of top-secret case files marked with some doubts, and slowly, his face changed a little, and when a pillar of incense was gone, he raised his face to look at Huang Xie, his face was full of heaviness.

"In the past three years, our grain output has been reduced by 30 percent, and the loss of gold and silver has reached 20 million taels!" Huang Xie opened the drawer, took out a few colorful tickets from the inside, and slapped them on the table, "This is the banknote issued by the Central Bank of the Han Kingdom, what do you think?" ”

Looking at Qu Zhong playing with these tickets, Huang Xie said slowly: "Each of these, judging from the face of the ticket, is worth a hundred taels of silver, but for us, he is worthless at all, but we Chu people are holding real money and silver, in exchange for these paper tickets." The annual loss of gold and silver to the Han Kingdom is shocking. ”

"Since Shousuke knows what the problem is, why don't you stop it?"

"How to stop it?" Huang Xie asked rhetorically: "The goods of the Han Kingdom are beautiful, durable, and cheap, and our merchants import their products from the Han Kingdom, and they take gold and silver, but the Han Kingdom imports very few things from us, except for silk, the high profits obtained by silk and satin make the Huguang area destroy grain and grow mulberry, leading to a reduction in grain production, this is the instinct of capital to pursue profits, can we forcibly order those merchants to destroy the mulberry trees and replant grain?" ”

"Why not?" Yielding and hard erection is authentic. "Food is the foundation of a nation."

"Everyone understands this truth, but Taiwei Qu, one-tenth of the tax of a country in my Dachu now comes from Huguang, and some people are fine, it is from these silk merchants, who destroy mulberry and grow grain, so where does the tax come from? Where does your military spending for military training come from? Where does the cost of maintaining an army of hundreds of thousands come from? Huang Xie's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, "It's difficult, it's a dilemma, it makes my heart bleed at the tip of my heart." ”

"But if this continues, won't our situation get worse and worse? So it's better to take advantage of the present and have a fight with Han! Qu said.

"It's okay to win, but Captain Qu, can you guarantee that you will win?" Huang Xie asked rhetorically: "The Han State and the Qin State confronted each other in Jinyang, how many troops did the Han State dispatch?" It's just that some of the soldiers and horses of the original Zhao State plus the four infantry corps and two cavalry divisions of their first military region, how many troops did the Han State have, more than 20 of them, and what are the remaining armies doing? It seems to me that the Han have no intention of going to war with the Qin at all, and I even suspect that their real goal is us. ”

"This is impossible, from all aspects of intelligence, the Han Kingdom has no plans to use troops against us at present." Qu shook his head.

"Gao Yuan's work has always been unpredictable, we have to guard against it, Captain Qu, now we can't send troops, we still have to instigate Qin and Han to fight as much as possible to fight bigger, and we can transfer more Han troops to the west, so for Qin, we can provide financial and weapon support, but if we want to send troops directly, it is absolutely impossible. The hundred-legged insect of the Qin State, even if it loses strength now, but it is impossible to distinguish the winner from the Han State in a few years, these few years are our golden period, Taiwei, in the past few years, you have to train an army that is enough to match the Han people, and I want to revitalize the people's livelihood and create a stable and thick rear for you. In the end, Han Chu will have a battle, and we can't rely on heaven and earth, and we still have to rely on ourselves in the end. The land of Dachu spans thousands of miles, not smaller than the Han Kingdom, with trillions of people, more than the Han Kingdom, as long as we do our best, why are we afraid of the Han Kingdom? ”

Qu opened his mouth, but swallowed the words back into his stomach. Huang Xie is also reasonable, now that he is at war with the Han State, even if the Han State fights on both sides, he may not necessarily win.

"The whole thing is to be yourself!" He muttered.

"Yes, so for the Qin State, we have to provide limited support, and for the Han State, we have to be hypocritical, I believe that as long as we are given time, the powerful Chu State will inevitably step up to the level of Zhongxing again, and I dare not say that we can defeat the Han State when the time comes, at least let the Han State not dare to start a war with us easily." (To be continued......)