Chapter 291: It's Time to Prepare to Dispatch Troops to the Yan Kingdom (First Update)
Zhao Dan didn't plan to tell the ministers of Zhao State in front of him about these thoughts immediately.
Although it is said that these ministers of Zhao State can be regarded as the top talents in the world today, after all, the limitations of the times are here, and it is undoubtedly too naΓ―ve to want these ministers of Zhao State to believe Zhao Dan's words.
Even Zhao Dan doubted in his heart that if he really said the kind of industrialization and modernization in his mind, would these ministers of Zhao State think that they were crazy.
Sometimes things that are too advanced should not be depicted in advance, but should wait until these ministers of Zhao State can witness it with their own eyes, so that they will be more acceptable.
It's like in 1900, if someone told an earthling that one day a person living on the earth would be able to talk to someone tens of thousands of miles away by pressing a few numbers on a strange rectangular glass thing, then the earthlings from 1900 would definitely think that this person was not in his right mind.
In addition to this, the new will always pose a challenge to the old forces, which will lead to the counterattack of the old forces.
Copernicus was burned to death when he proposed heliocentrism, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Inquisition, and Bruno was burned at the stake for opposing religious theology.
When the feudal landlord class appeared, it was strongly opposed by the slave-owning aristocracy.
When the bourgeoisie first appeared, it was also bloodily suppressed by the feudal landlords.
And more than 20 years before Zhao Dan's crossing, the more advanced red camp had just suffered one of the biggest setbacks on the planet, the leader of the red camp, the Soviet Union, fell apart under the siege of the bourgeois state led by the US imperialism, and the whole of Europe was completely occupied by the bourgeois counteroffensive, leaving only Zhao Dan's mother country, the eastern power, to support and suffer countless unfair treatment.
With the continuous development of the productive forces, the new relations of production will inevitably replace the old relations of production, but during the period of replacing the old and new relations of production, it is not beautiful and harmonious, but full of blood and cruelty, and it is a long struggle to the death that cannot be compromised by either side.
Today's Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of the Chinese land is actually still in the last period of the slave owners and aristocrats, the six kingdoms of Shandong more or less have the influence of the slave owners and aristocrats, only the emerging Qin State after the Shang Dynasty reform is the representative of the feudal military landlord class.
It was precisely because the new production relations of the feudal military landlord class represented by the Qin State met the needs of the development of the productive forces that the Qin State was able to rise from a country located in the remote west and considered a barbarian by the Central Plains countries, and finally dominated the world.
From this point of view, whether it is the victory of the Qin State or the defeat of the Six Eastern Kingdoms, in the final analysis, it is a matter of system.
It is a historical inevitability that an excellent system may suffer a short-term defeat, but it will certainly defeat a backward and decadent system, and this has been the case throughout the ages.
This is the greatness of Shang Ying's reform, it is precisely because this Shang monarch completely changed the system of the Qin State, so that the Qin State truly surpassed the six eastern countries at that time for an era, and there was the foundation for the Qin State to dominate the world.
Although there is a lot of controversy about Shang Ying, from this point of view, his contribution is absolutely unprecedented in the history of Legalism and even in Chinese history.
It is really because of this that Zhao Dan had already made up his mind at the beginning of the crossing, not only to compete with the Qin State in the national strategic and diplomatic positions, but also to catch up with or even surpass the Qin State in internal strength, that is, the national system.
Only by cultivating both inside and outside can Zhao hope to completely change history and become the country that can truly dominate the land of China.
Countless thoughts flashed through Zhao Dan's mind, but these were actually only a few seconds away.
Therefore, in the eyes of several ministers of Zhao State, Zhao Dan just lowered his head and pondered for a few seconds, and then raised his head in a sunny manner, smiled at the ministers in front of him and said: "Very good, since the discussion of the war in Hedong County of Qin State has ended, then let's ask Zhu Qing and the widow to discuss the issue of Yan State." β
After Zhao Dan said this, he looked up at Mixian next to him.
Mi Xian immediately stepped forward and said to the ministers of the Zhao State in front of him: "According to the news quietly transmitted back by the Jun Lejian of the Changguo Kingdom of Yan Guo, King Yan's condition is now incurable, and Yan Jia's return to heaven is probably in the near future. β
As soon as Zhao Guo and several ministers heard Mi Xian's words, they immediately came to their senses.
As the saying goes, people must have near-term worries if they have no long-term concerns, and Yan Guo is one of Zhao's near-term worries, and it is also a more troublesome kind.
For a long time, Zhao Guojun's ministers were actually somewhat worried in their hearts, that is, they were worried about when King Yan's illness would suddenly improve.
If King Yan's illness is really cured, then Yan Guo may be like during the Battle of Changping, quietly stabbing Zhao Guo from behind.
Although the current Zhao State is not afraid of the Yan State at all, the problem is that if the Yan State has to be backstabbed from behind every time the Zhao State sends troops, then the Zhao State will not be able to go all out to go west or south to deal with other strong enemies.
Therefore, after hearing the news that King Yan was about to die, the atmosphere in the hall became a little cheerful for a while.
Zhao Dan also showed a smile on his face, and said to the ministers present: "According to the current situation, once King Yan dies, then Gongzi An will undoubtedly become the candidate for the next King Yan." However, the widow has decided to support Gongzi, the son of Queen Yan, as the next generation of King Yan, I don't know what Zhu Qing thinks? β
In fact, Zhao Dan's thoughts had already been followed by the ministers of Yan Guo present, and the reason why he asked again this time was just to unify his thoughts one last time before making a move on Yan Guo.
Sure enough, all the ministers present did not have any opinions on Zhao Dan's question, and they all agreed.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Sheng said to Zhao Dan: "King, now that the main force of the Southern Army is fighting against the Qin people in the Hedong Army, if it is according to the King's plan, then the attack on the Yan State is obviously imperative. So is the king planning to use the main force of the Northern Army to go north? β
In this battle of the Three Jin Coalition Army's invasion of Qin, the 100,000 troops dispatched by the Zhao State were mainly built with the Southern Army originally stationed on the Southern Great Wall as the core team, so now only the elite Central Army of the Northern Army is left in the territory of Zhao State.
In the eyes of Zhao Sheng, the minister of Zhao State, Yan Guo is also one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States no matter what, and if he wants to defeat Yan State, he must send elite troops.
But Zhao Dan shook his head very decisively, and said to Zhao Sheng: "This time, the widow does not plan to use a single soldier of the Central Army. β