After being silent for a long time, Jiang Yu asked:

"Did Lord Sinon expect this early in the morning?"

"Hehe, how can the minister anticipate things like a god, the minister just said, the market has the laws and rules of the market, as long as you do things according to these rules, you can sail along the river. In other words, whoever breaks the law and rules will reap the consequences.

When the minister remembered that when he first met the former king, he said that the law of replacing government with commerce is important in the legal system, and the legislative system can establish trust in the world. Nowadays, the legal system of the princes of various countries is chaotic and unjust, and they are stuck in red tape and shackles, and they can no longer adapt to the legal norms of today's business operations, and they will be harmed by this in the future. ”

"So it turns out that the businessmen have become accustomed to the fairness and justice of our country's legal system, coupled with the fact that our medical skills, education, and commerce are more advanced and developed, and we have industrial production, and only in our country can we get rich and make more money in the future."

"Yes, merchants are profit-making, gold and silver will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but these money cannot be stored, and the money is not happy with the merchants, because other merchants are making money, there is no money to earn, although the money in their hands will not be reduced immediately, but they are left behind by others, and the wealth is getting bigger and bigger.

And the king was not happy, because the merchant was rich and rich, and one day he might rebel and even be richer than the king.

Therefore, it is necessary to give them opportunities and industries, so that they can put their money into operation, into the market, into production, and use their money to develop the productive forces, to develop light industry, and to hire more labor for the production of goods. And the kings only need to make a reasonable tax law to collect their taxes all the time.

As there are more and more workshops and more and more workers are employed, even if the tax rate is not raised, the tax will be more and more in the treasury.

The merchants' money had a place to go, and at the same time they fed more unemployed and homeless people, so the king naturally did not worry about the people rebelling and the merchants seeking power. At the same time, the law will bind and punish the nation, and the nation will last forever. ”

"What Si Nong said is not very clear, but the widow believes that Si Nong's way of governing the country will not be wrong." King Xian affirmed Bailiyan's strategy, but still did not understand the economic connections.

"The king doesn't have to worry, it's unknown today, there is time in the future, and the clues will be revealed in three or five years."

"In this case, the widow is relieved."

"Then the king summoned his ministers to the palace, it should not only be for the purpose of defending the country."

"Oh, Si Nong didn't say that the widow forgot it. After the Son of Heaven entered the city, there were many people to see, but it was only the appearance, and he privately sent secret envoys to secretly communicate with the envoys of various countries. ”

"In fact, guns are not expensive equipment, but guns need to consume ammunition, but the accumulation is very alarming, and the guns are also worn out due to war, so the first purchase actually does not cost much gold and silver, the problem is consumption, that is, it is to sell them 100,000 old guns at a low price, and it doesn't hurt to sell 500,000 grenades, but advanced rear-loading artillery, mortars, and rocket artillery can't be given."

The production of guns is relatively easy, the current production line has basically realized electrification and mechanical semi-automatic assembly line production, if it is not for the number and scale of equipment, the production capacity can be further increased, so the cost of guns is not very high.

But if you go to war, the guns damaged in the war need to be replenished, and the ammunition that has been knocked out must also be replenished, and the cumulative consumption is quite staggering.

And artillery is different, although it will also be consumed because of war damage, but the technical cost of cannons and shells is high, the industry takes longer, and the productivity is low, which naturally leads to the price being much more expensive than gun bullets, and once it is lost, it will be very troublesome to replenish.

The Son of Heaven tried to use the Yan War to sponsor the younger brother, just to use the qualifications of the suzerain, to show his status and identity, at this juncture of the alliance, King Xian did not give it to the obvious scene. In short, take your money and belongings and give him to be a man.

The next day, Bai Liyan went to visit Zhao again, a true inland prince with a land area of more than one million square kilometers and a population of more than five million people. It is located in the southwest of Weiguo, southeast of Xibeiyi, and south of Chen.

Unlike the Song State, which still lived on agriculture and was supplemented by grazing, Zhao was a half-ploughing and half-pastoralizing prince, and its "sinister" geographical location was often extorted by the Wei State and invaded by the Western Barbarians, coupled with the inland, information and logistics were closed, the resources of the agricultural era were relatively scarce, and large-scale and widespread farming was technically difficult, and grazing filled the dilemma of insufficient food and agricultural economy.

Zhao is very similar to Xu, the cavalry is developed, but it is mainly light cavalry, and the population is small, and the source of troops is not very large. Bailiyan did not expect Zhao to send troops to the war, but Zhao's troops could go nearby to fill the defense lines of Chen and Qi to increase the garrison of the two countries.

Zhao Guoguo is a small country with few people, and in the face of the behemoth of Xianguo, he naturally lacks confidence, and the conditions put forward are more pragmatic, which are all some iron and steel, agricultural means of production, and agricultural and animal husbandry technologies.

Chen Guo and Qi Guo have similar national conditions, but Chen Guo is larger than Qi Guo and has a larger population, and Qi Guo is Baili Yan's own family, even if he wants to use Qi Guo, as long as he is not too demanding, he will try his best to meet it.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, Yan Guo finally found an opportunity to make a request to King Xian, and his appetite was not small, he asked for 150,000 guns, 60,000 651 guns, 400 new artillery, 500 mortars, rocket artillery, automobiles, etc.

Jiang Yu neither refused nor agreed, and dragged it on the grounds of "considering consultations", and this delay was delayed until February. At this time, the princes were staring at the attitude of Xianguo, and as a family member, Gongliangxiu was naturally no exception.

"What do you think, it has been more than a month since the princes' envoys arrived in Chenling, why has King Xian not been able to meet the alliance so far." Gongliang Xiu asked angrily, he was very worried about the battle situation in Yan Kingdom.

Bailiyan was very indifferent, he said:

"Your Zhiguo is inland, and Yan is thousands of miles away, what does the matter of Yan have to do with my brother."

"I don't dare to agree with this, although Yan Guo has nothing to do with my Zhiguo, it is the only way to endanger the Central Plains, Yan Guo is broken, Liang Guo, Qi Guo, and Wei Guo are all under the armpit soldiers, you should know better than me."

"The foolish brother knows better than the elder brother, so I have sent troops to the Xianguo country a few years ago, and I am now fighting in the Yan country. But you Zhiguo didn't send a single soldier, didn't spend a single shot, what are you anxious about, brother Gongliang. ”

"I ......"

Gongliang Xiu was speechless, but Bailiyan didn't give him a chance to exonerate, and said:

"Do you know how many things the princes wanted, but it was really fifty years ago, and you can subdue the princes with a wave of your hand. Now it is steel, cannonballs, and the country, and the princes have nothing, but they want everything, who will do it.

When Zhiguo made an alliance, you Zhiguo was also so generous, did you give whatever you wanted. ”

In the traditional cold weapon alliance, the forces of all parties are relatively balanced, and one or two are stronger. Or a hegemon with multiple small princes attached. If it is the former, the benefit is that those who can work more, or it is agreed before the war. The latter is the overlord who takes the majority, and the rest is the turn of the younger brother. Therefore, the alliance leader rarely needs to spend favors on the younger brother, or cut the meat from the target.

Now that the situation of the war has changed fundamentally, there are almost no benefits to be made in the war, at least there are almost no benefits outside the general interests of the nation, and at the same time, the princes have no industry and no competent weapons, so they naturally need to reach out to the alliance leader and ask for more benefits to make up for the lack of practical interests.

In this case, the essence of the alliance is that the Xianguo spends money and equipment, and arms a group of foreign armies that are completely uncontrollable and will turn around at any time, and if the industrial output value allows, Bailiyan may consider doing this, but the production capacity is seriously insufficient, and it is impossible to allocate resources that exceed the total amount on the basis of the total amount of existing resources.

"Brother Gongliang, you will also think about it from your heart, and if it is the Zhiguo Alliance, what do you think about the current situation."

"The princes are unapologetic, but they have to fight to the death, and if they have no weapons, how can they fight."

"This principle is good, but back then, you and I were trapped in the Qiubigong Mountain, with no weapons and no food and grass, and we fought for four years to break out, and now Xian has state-owned industries, guns and cannons, the situation is a hundred times better than back then, and now it is more comparable to the armpits, if this situation is not cherished, how can the princes be worthy of the soldiers who died in battle."

Gongliangxiu's face was solemn, although he knew that Baili Yan was just trying to persuade him to lower the asking price, but it was undeniable that the current situation was not easy to come by. The current situation is only evenly matched, and the Central Plains' greatest reliance is on the vast territory and long coastline, and the armpits do not understand the landform of the inland and the entire territory, and the Central Plains still has an advantage in terms of military strength.

But at the same time, the Central Plains is not clear about how many people and how many troops there are in the armpits, and the advantage of manpower in the Central Plains will be lost at any time because of the increase in armpit troops.

After thinking for a long time, he said slowly:

"So what are you going to do?"

"With the current attitude of the princes, it is impossible to meet the alliance together, and they can only meet the alliance one by one, first solve the enemies of Rongcheng and the entrenched Liang State, and then go on a northern expedition."

Gongliang Xiu couldn't understand Baili Yan's intentions, he had never heard of the truth that the princes could still meet one by one, so he hurriedly asked:

"Why the Alliance?"

"The strength of the Xian country is insufficient, and with the current attitude and situation of the princes, it is not enough to meet the requirements of the princes, so the equipment is given priority to be used for individual princes, and then immediately reorganized, so that hundreds of thousands of people can be gathered in a short time.

After the princes of the first alliance lost their troops, they pulled the soldiers to the rear to repair and rest, replenish the troops, and adjust domestic production to recuperate. At the same time, the Xian State was still producing a steady stream of weapons and equipment, and then it could equip a prince with hundreds of thousands of people before carrying out wars.

This reciprocating rotation can not only solve the current predicament, but also give priority to the concentration of equipment on a single prince, so as to ensure that the princes of various countries will not be cobbled together, and then there will be a tragedy of intrigue and intrigue in the mountains and mountains, and they will not be saved in the face of death. ”

The fundamental contradiction of the alliance was that the princes' asking price was too high, and the "resources" that could be allocated to the Xian state were insufficient, and if they continued to wait, they would completely lose their fighters, but they would have to launch a counteroffensive to contain the armpit invasion and alleviate the adverse effects of the war.

After thinking about it, the only way to do this is to concentrate resources and equip a larger prince to fight on the front line, while the Xianguo will continue to produce more equipment every year and take advantage of the time gap to accumulate resources and arm other princes. Wait for the first prince to run out of combat power, and then replace it with the other princes' armies.

Such a rotation of battles can ensure that each prince has enough time to repair and replenish, so that the coalition army will not continue to fight fatigue after a major injury.

At the same time, as much as possible, the princes of Qianyue Mountain were stewed in one pot, and everyone intrigued with each other, and even fell into the ground.

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