ps: Reading the book review, it seems that some book friends have misunderstood, and mistakenly mistaken Wang Ji and Wang Jian for one person, but in fact, these are two people, both of whom are based on the historical masters of the Qin State. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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“…… At present, the tyrannical Wei army is brutalizing our Sichuan people, and I hope that your army can send troops to help save hundreds of thousands of my Sichuan people from fire and water. ”

Facing Qin Shaojun, who was still shocked, and the solemn Qin army commander, the Marquis of Wuxin, Babuhe clenched his fists and pleaded respectfully.

However, Qin Shaojun was still immersed in the shock of the great change in Ji Run, the prince of Wei, while the Marquis of Wuxin, Sun Qi, squinted his eyes and thought about Babuhe's plea.

In all fairness, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi never thought of supporting the Wusu tribe at all.

After all, the proposal to win over the anti-Wei forces in Sanchuan was put forward by Qin Shaojun, and he Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi did not think at all about relying on those Sichuan tribes who had not done anything to defeat Wei.

It's simple – it's unreliable.

I still remember that in the battle of Wei and Qin Sanchuan that happened the year before last, Qin Shaojun also adopted the strategy of winning over the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe, but what was the result? Because Wei Gongzi Ji Run single-handedly led the victory of the Hangu War and defeated 200,000 Qin troops, so that those Sichuan tribes that had once fallen to Qin at that time launched a stone-like encirclement and suppression against the defeated Qin army under the coercion and lure of Wei Gongzi Ji Run, which led to the occurrence of a one-day battle, so that the entire 200,000 Qin army, only more than 1,000 soldiers finally fled back to Qin.

After that incident, the Marquis of Wuxin, Gongsun Qi, labeled the Sichuan people as untrustworthy.

In the final analysis, it is because the two do not have a solid foundation of interests.

Just like the Sichuan Alliance and the Wei State, although many of the Zong tribes under the Sichuan Alliance were strongly dissatisfied with the decision of Wei Gongzi Ji Run to start a war against the Wuxu tribe, but from beginning to end, few people dared to jump out and challenge the authority of His Royal Highness King Su head-on, on the one hand, because of Zhao Hongrun's prestige, on the other hand, it was also because these Zong tribes did not want to give up their current status.

Although the Wuxu royal court is the belief of the Qiang people, it is still not worth it to withdraw from the Sichuan Alliance for this reason. Even if those patriarchs are ruthless themselves, they may not be able to get the support of the rest of the clansmen.

But here, the small groups composed of several tribes such as the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Lingling tribe did not have much of a solid foundation of interests with the Qin State.

Although the Qin State also imitated the Sichuan Alliance and launched trade with the Qiang and Ling tribes, the grade and scale could not be compared with the Wei and Sichuan trade of the Sichuan Alliance.

Why?

The reason is simple: Qin is poor.

The main specialties of Sanchuan are mutton, wool, sheepskin, mutton bone products and other sheep products, as well as slaves.

However, in the Qin State, the rations of the common people were basically vegetables and miscellaneous grains, the vast majority of the Qin people only wore coarse cloth clothes, and the Qin children were even poorer to the point of running all over the ground with bare butts.

It is undeniable that even in the Wei State, mutton is basically only a delicacy that the nobles of the Wei State have the financial resources to enjoy, but the question is, mutton has never been a large transaction in the Weichuan trade, what is the large transaction in the Weichuan trade? It's wool, sheepskin, and slaves!

Even if the commoners of Wei were poor, they could afford to buy winter clothes made of wool, after all, after Sanchuan surrendered to Wei, the price of wool was far lower than that of cotton, and Wei currently had a total national population of almost nine million, so counting the loss of wool winter clothes, the Sichuan Alliance could only maintain wool forever, and even more, it could not meet the needs of the common people of Wei.

And slaves needless to say, the various large-scale engineering construction carried out by the Wei State over the years, as well as those that have not yet been carried out, require millions of laborers, plus those Wei merchants are also keen to buy slaves as domestic servants, so even if the Sichuan Alliance dumps more slaves into the Wei State, the Wei State can eat it in one bite, and even so, it is still insufficient.

On the other hand, the goods of the Wei State were also extremely popular in Sanchuan, and because of the private smuggling behavior between Xiong Tuo, the king of Chu Xuancheng, and Zhao Hongrun, the king of Wei Su, some of the specialties of the Chu State could also enter Sanchuan, which made the money that the Sichuan people had just obtained from the Wei people change hands to buy the special products of Wei, Wei, Chu, and Song - the transaction amount between the two sides is almost the same, which is the fundamental reason why the Sichuan Alliance and the Wei State have been trading for a long time.

And the trade between Qin and Sanchuan, the transaction amount between the two is not equal at all, how can it be maintained for a long time?

Mutton was excluded first, because the common people of the Qin State basically only ate their own grain and vegetables, and rarely went to the market to buy them.

Needless to say, wool and sheepskin, the civilians of the Qin State who can't even fill their stomachs will think about the problem of wintering and keeping out the cold? The most common way to spend the winter in Qin was for a few families to hide in the house all winter and burn firewood to keep warm.

Needless to say, mutton bone products, this kind of almost useless ornament is equivalent to luxury in the eyes of the common people of Qin.

As for the slaves...... There was no shortage of labor at all in the Qin State.

And what can Sanchuan get from Qin's side? Bronze weapons? Please, the weapons that Wei sold to the Sichuan Alliance privately were already alloy weapons, what was the use of asking for a weapon like Qin that was two generations behind?

After counting, the only thing Sanchuan could get from the Qin State was the title - as one of the Central Plains countries, it was almost impossible for the Wei State to canonize a foreigner who was a monarch and a marquis. Note: The alien race mentioned here refers to people of different cultures, such as the Sichuan people and the Hu people. But it does not include the Qin people, even if the Central Plains people also look down on the Qin people, they will not regard the Qin people as aliens, at most they call each other mountain people or mountain monkeys with contempt, because the Qin State also learns the culture of the Central Plains, and is not a foreign race.

Because of this, the trade between the Qin people and the Qiang and Ling tribes imitating the Sichuan and Antelope tribes was aborted not long after.

There is no solid foundation of interests, and the Sichuan people have a history of betrayal, therefore, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi has no sense of trust in the Sichuan people, not to mention sending troops to help, he even wishes that the tribes of Qian, Ling, and Wuxu and the Wei army will be killed to the death, and it is best to die together, so that the Qin State can not only get the land of Sanchuan, but also greatly weaken the Wei State.

Of course, this is just the selfishness of Gongsun Qi, Marquis of Wuxin, and it doesn't mean that he will really do that, after all, he doesn't want the Wei army to have an advantage - although all indications indicate that the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe are unlikely to be accepted by Wei Gongzi Ji Run, but who can guarantee that this matter will not change? Besides, even if that Wei Gongzi Ji Run did not accept Wuxu and other tribes in the end, if the other party eliminated these tribes, the Qin army would also face a Wei army that had no worries in Sanchuan County.

But then again, the soldiers sent Hangu to support the Wusu and Karma and Antelope tribes, which also involved various reasons.

How do you think about the lengthened grain and grass transportation routes? How to ensure that the army can get enough water in the grassland?

And the most fundamental - whether it is sure to defeat the Wei army led by Ji Run, the prince of Wei.

The year before last, why did only more than 1,000 of the 200,000 Qin troops flee back to the Qin State in the end?

The reason is that the battle line was stretched too long, so that when the Qin army was defeated like a mountain, the Wei army and the tribes in Sanchuan who fell into the well only needed to follow the defeated Qin army to cover up and kill, chasing and killing all the way, according to later estimates, in fact, only tens of thousands of Qin troops died in Hangu at that time, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of Qin troops died on the way to escape - this is something that Wang Ji, the commander of the Qin army at that time, did not expect, if he had known that such a situation would occur, he would definitely not have given the order to retreat.

And now, Gongsun Qi, Marquis of Wuxin, has replaced Wang Yi as the commander of the Qin army, but how to defeat the Wei army led by Wei Gongzi Ji Run, or the Wei-Sichuan United Army, to be honest, Gongsun Qi is not completely sure.

After all, he had never fought with Wei Gongzi Ji Run, and he didn't know the other party's preferences and habits of using soldiers.

Therefore, in this situation of not being completely sure, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi did not want to go too deep into the hinterland of Sanchuan.

Not because he was afraid of defeat, but because Qin was afraid of defeat.

It is no exaggeration to say that the 200,000 Qin troops died in battle the year before last, and what the Qin State really felt sorry for was only the tens of thousands of regular soldiers, and for the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of more than 100,000 black-faced soldiers, the Qin State did not feel pain at all - the Qin State had civilians who actively participated in the war.

In that case, why was Qin afraid of defeat?

The reason is that the myth of the Qin state before winning a hundred battles has been shattered: the Qin people are not afraid of war, nor are they afraid of defeat, what they are afraid of is that after paying huge sacrifices, they will not get the due return, just like the previous year during the battle of Sanchuan of Wei and Qin.

You must know that the foundation of Qin's strength lies in the military merit system, and the most basic condition for maintaining the military merit system is to continuously win victories in foreign wars, step by step strengthen the people's confidence in foreign wars, and encourage more people to join the army, so that the whole country can steadily step into the pace of foreign expansion.

It's like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.

But here's the problem: the snowball can only absorb more snow by rolling constantly, and if it is forcibly stopped by an external force, it will stop, and once it has stopped for a long time, the snowball will disintegrate on its own.

The same is true of the military merit system.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the Qin army is defeated again in the hands of Ji Run, the prince of Wei, then the people of Qin will lose confidence in expanding their territory to the east, and no one will enthusiastically join the army, and this will lead to the gradual weakening of the Qin state, and it will no longer be able to rob other countries or other ethnic groups by force, and without this wealth, the Qin state will not be able to carry out domestic construction, and so on and so on.

This is also the reason why the Central Plains countries abandoned the military merit system, because it was too unstable.

"Could it be that your army is afraid of the prince of Wei?"

Seeing that Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi looked at him again and again, the Yanjiao Army's thousands of generals Ulubatu couldn't help but interject.

His words made the faces of many Qin generals in the tent change suddenly.

At this time, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi said expressionlessly: "Our army is not afraid of Wei Gongzirun, let alone the Wei army. …… It's just that it was decided to start with Hangu and end with Hanya. As he spoke, he looked at Ulubatu and said categorically: "I have already decided to defeat the Wei army led by Wei Gongzirun in Hangu and wash away the shame of our army the year before last, I hope your envoy will forgive me!" ”

Hearing this, Urubatu was speechless.

There is no way, after all, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi's words are too beautiful and high-sounding.

Although he Urubatu didn't believe it at all, he couldn't think of how to refute it.