Guo Yun said goodbye and left, only Gao Yuan and Cao Tianci were left in the Xiaoyao Pavilion, looking at Gao Yuan thoughtfully, Cao Tianci wanted to speak and stopped, and wanted to speak several times, but he endured it alive. Looking at Cao Tianci's appearance, Gao Yuan smiled: "Tianci, is there something you don't understand?" If you have any questions, ask them and don't hold them back. Between you and me, there should be nothing that can't be said, right? ”

Cao Tianci nodded, "Master, I just don't understand, why bother so much?" Now regardless of national strength, military strength, we have an absolute advantage over Qin, if we concentrate superior forces, pour the strength of the whole country, it is not very difficult to destroy Qin, but I think what the master is doing now, there is no intention of attacking on a large scale, but trying to promote the civil strife of Qin, why is this? Why not make it simpler? ”

"Simpler?" Gao Yuan laughed, looked at Cao Tianci, and asked gently, "What you said is simpler, is it to send a large army to attack?" ”

"Yes, that's what I meant. The First Military Region has assembled almost most of our country's elite troops, morale, and weaponry, and the opposite Lu Chao can't be compared at all, so why not just fight it? Cao Tianci asked.

"It's easy to fight, but have you thought about it, how much price do we have to pay while winning with such a hard fight?" Gao Yuan played with a folding fan and looked at Cao Tianci.

"There is always a price to pay for war." Cao Tianci disagreed.

"Yes, there is always a price, but as the superiors, as the commanders of the army who only discuss how to fight in the war room, do we have to think about how to minimize the casualties?"

"Of course. But it's impossible to have no casualties. ”

"God-given, the life of every Han person is precious, and if one less person dies, one less person must die. It's not impossible to push the past now, but the price to pay is something I don't want to bear. You're also someone who has been on the front lines. After every battle victory, while we cheer for victory, there are countless families who have lost their sons, husbands, and fathers crying. Have you ever thought about this again? Gao Yuan said slowly.

Cao Tianci was stunned, and finally shook his head embarrassedly.

"Victory is not just cheers, there are losses." Gao Yuan said word by word. "Although the Qin State is dangerous, it is a hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen. If we really face the pressure of our army, we will fight hard, not to mention the auxiliary victory, and the casualties of our army will inevitably be too great for us to bear. ”

Cao Tianci lowered his head, obviously still a little unconvinced in his heart.

"Godci, do you remember the battle when we surrounded and suppressed Li Xin on the grassland?" Gao Yuan stood up, walked to the window, held the lattice with both hands, and looked at the lotus leaves swaying in the wind. The brow furrowed slightly.

"Of course, I remember that Li Signal is called the number one military god in the world, and under your strategy, master, you will not be defeated in the same way." Cao Tianci's expression became excited.

"I'm asking if you still remember what it was!" Gao Yuan said slightly angrily: "Maybe you only remember the cheers of victory at that time." But I still remember that when Li Xin was besieged and there were only more than a thousand soldiers left around him, those soldiers sang war songs. The scene when we gathered in formation and charged at us. ”

"It's just that the trapped beast is still fighting, and the dog is just jumping off the wall in a hurry." Cao Tianci said disdainfully: "Master, what do you remember this for?" ”

"What do you remember this for?" Gao Yuan muttered to himself. "The spirit of the people of the Qin State is still there! Under the leadership of King Wulie of Qin, the Qin people were strong for a while, and the soldiers were all over the world and all countries were afraid, which made the Qin people develop a very high spirit, even if they failed for a while, they would not be discouraged, because they firmly believed that they would be able to win the final victory. This is the accumulation of victories over the past few decades, just like our Han army now. ”

"But master, what does this have to do with our attack on Qin? The left and right are just fighting one after another, slowly wearing out their spirit. Cao Tianci said.

"You have to say a way, but if you continue to fight like this, you will kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, and you will not be wise enough to do it." Gao Yuan shook his head and said: "What I am doing now is to make the Qin people discouraged and discouraged, let them fall into civil strife and cannot extricate themselves, let them gradually lose their sense of identity with this country, and when we do this, or we only need a very small number of troops and pay a negligible price, we can get the victory we want." Gao Yuan smiled: "It will take longer and require our patience, but we will get more." First of all, we will minimize the loss, countless families will be saved, and secondly, after the Qin people lose their identification with this country, after we include him in the territory of the Han Dynasty, their rule and governance will also be twice the result with half the effort, on the contrary, it will be twice the result with half the effort, as you said, I am afraid that after we defeat the Qin State, there will also be smoke and riots everywhere, right? We're going to have to spend countless efforts to wipe them out. ”

Cao Tianci realized slightly, "Master is imagining to deal with the State of Qi and the State of Wei, right?" ”

"The principle is the same, but the method is different." Gao Yuandao: "In the past few years, we have been committed to doing one thing, that is, to destroy the economy of Qin, after several years of unremitting efforts, we have finally seen the results, Qin's economy has been eaten away by us little by little, destroyed, of course, there are also their own reasons, this move forced Yingying to use Fan Sui to reform, and this is exactly what we want." The times are different, what our Han State can make, in their Qin State, but it may not be able to be done, and now it seems that this is the case, and the Qin State has begun to be chaotic. ”

Cao Tianci nodded and said: "Yes, represented by Shu County, the peasant uprising in the Qin State has been spreading like a spark, which is why I think the opportunity has come." ”

"It's not enough." Gao Yuan shook his head and said: "The military strength of the Qin State still exists, Lu Chao, Tan Feng, Zhou Yu, Bai Qi, the army held by these Qin generals is not chaotic, if we attack on a large scale at this time, these people will inevitably give up the internal struggle and turn to deal with us together, which will greatly increase our difficulty, and the increase in external troubles will also stimulate the patriotic plot of the Qin people, but maybe they will do them a favor and let them transfer the domestic contradictions to the foreign war." ”

"But master, how can you be sure that Lu Chao will definitely harbor bad intentions?" Cao Tianci was puzzled. "Just because he has the army now? Quietly smuggling weapons, steel, and stockpiling these strategic materials, maybe he is doing these things against us, and then we will shoot ourselves in the foot. ”

Gao Yuan laughed: "God, you have to learn to look at the problem from a higher place now, Lu Chao, hehe, I'm afraid no one knows him better than me." I'm afraid that since Yingying opened Fan Sui, Lu Chao began to have strange thoughts, he saw that the Li school was about to face the risk of being suppressed in the Qin State, but I was afraid that from then on, he began to arrange, speaking of which, Li Ru is famous all over the world, whether it is governing the country or learning, he is a good hand, but if you really want to talk about intrigue and conspiracy, I am afraid that his disciple is much stronger than him. ”

"Master, I don't quite understand." Cao Tianci shook his head and said.

"Li Ru's death is a signal, as soon as Li Ru died, Yingying restarted Fan Sui and there was no mountain on his head, but at this time, Lu Chao could prevent Fan Sui from restoring, but he didn't do it, but indirectly contributed to Fan Sui's return to the dynasty. At that time, I was thinking, as the new flag leader of the Li School, should Lu Chao really be willing to back down? You must know that if Fan Sui succeeds, then Lu Chao will not have the current scenery and power, and it is conceivable that Fan Sui will inevitably suppress Lu Chao after his success and completely disintegrate the Li school. ”

"I've always been very skeptical of this, and with Fan Sui taking over the government smoothly, several core figures of the Li school in the imperial court were dismissed, and the Li school that had ruled the Qin State for decades collapsed in an instant, I finally determined what Lu Chao wanted to do."

"What does he want to do?"

"It's very simple, those Li schools are not really disintegrating, but they are making premeditated concessions, deliberately dividing and winning Fan Sui, in fact, they must have other plans, and this plan is, of course, Lu Chao. As for the core figures in the court, they are just abandoned sons thrown by Lu Chao. Fan Sui thought that he had defeated these people, and reached an agreement with Lu Chao to stabilize Lu Chao, so he thought that he could let go of his hands and feet and do a great job, but he didn't know that he happened to fall into Lu Chao's trap when he came, and in the center of Qin State, there was indeed no one in charge of the Li School, but in the Qin State, it was still their people who held real power, and Fan Sui's reform would eventually be implemented in the locality. Haven't you already seen the final result? ”

"Smoke everywhere!"

"Yes, Lu Chao's first step has been reached, although Fan Sui's reform has only been carried out for less than a year, the result of failure is already doomed. Or a year, or two years, the Qin State will inevitably be in chaos, and at that time, it will be Lu Chao's opportunity. ”

"He wants to usurp the position of King Qin?" Cao Tianci's eyes widened and he asked in disbelief.

"Who knows, maybe he wants to be under one person, above ten thousand, to re-establish the unshakable position of the Li school above the court, maybe as you said, he became the king of Qin."

"This, that's unlikely, isn't it?" Cao Tianci shook his head in disbelief.

Gao Yuan laughed, "It sounds a little impossible, but now I seem to see that in front of Lu Chao, there are only Bai Qi's new army and Xianyang's 30,000 Xuanyi guards." The reform of the Qin court has made the local heavens angry and resentful, whether it is the local tyrants or the common people, they all feel that they have been injured in this reform, and the prestige of the king of Qin has been reduced to the minimum. At this time, if Lu Chao planned properly, under the slogan of rectifying the chaos and the Qingjun side, it was not without hope of success. ”

"He has always wanted to say goodbye to me, he has always thought that he is better than me, what I can do, why can't he think he can't do it?"

Gao Yuan suddenly laughed, "So, I'll help this big brother." ”

"Fuel the fire!" Cao Tianci's eyes lit up: "The day Lu Chao succeeds is the time when we attack Qin on a large scale. ”

"That's right, but there's no prize!" (To be continued......)