Chu saved Zhao a total of four times. The first time was the twentieth year of King Chu Mourning, Qi Wei assisted Wei to attack Zhao, Wu Qi led the army to attack Wei, fought in the west of Zhou (now Qinyang East, Henan), and then went out of Liangmen to attack Dahe; The second time was the sixteenth year of King Xuan of Chu (the grandson of King Chu Mourning, the father of King Chu Wei, and the father of King Huai of Chu), Jing She led the army to rescue Zhao and take the land of Wei and Mao; the third time, it is known that Xinlingjun rescued Zhao; The fourth time was that Xiang Yan led the army to fight with Wang Jian in Anyang.

After each war, the borders of various countries will change, five years ago Qin will attack Wei, Dingshu Zao, Yan, Xu, Changping, Yongqiu, Shanyang City, all pull out, take 20 cities, the first place in Dongjun. The following year, the five kingdoms jointly attacked Qin, but they were defeated, and Wei had to give up the idea of recovering the lost territory. Of the six Kwantung states, Dongjun was like a wedge between Zhao and Wei Chu, making Zhao completely isolated, while Qin bordered the easternmost state of Qi.

Of course, the Qin people's intentions understand that he thinks that the current strategy of the Chu State should be to help Zhao, and to help Zhao is to help himself. Although he is from Zhao, it is not wrong to save Zhao. If you really want to break the situation at the moment, you can only save Zhao and delay time. It takes time to build a ship, and it takes time to sail to the Americas. With sweet potatoes, a high-yield crop, Jiangdong may be able to become the rear of the Chu State, if Xiazhou can withstand it - when the Mongols destroyed the Song Dynasty, Jiangnan was also very rich, and as a result, Xiangyang was lost and the country was destroyed.

The conditions of the Southern Song Dynasty were much better than those of the Chu State, the Southern Song Dynasty at least did not lack the population, and the Chu State lost nearly half of its population after moving eastward, although it was supplemented by the Song Dynasty and the Lu State, but these populations were all north of the Huai River, and the population of Jiangdong was less than 200,000 households.

The disciples who closed the door did not understand the art of war, but they understood strategy. Yu Guanzi nodded in agreement with Xiong Jing's statement, and he smiled: "If Zhao Chu attacks Qi, what about it?" ”

"Attack?" Xiong Jing was stunned, although the State of Qi was almost wiped out once, but there was Muling Pass on the side of Chu State, and there was the Yellow River on the side of Zhao State, and the Yellow River at this time entered the sea from Hebei, which happened to be the national boundary of Zhao Qi, and there was a big problem ....... "Teacher, there is Muling Pass in the south of Qi, there is the Yellow River in the north, and the peninsula is long and narrow. And Qin Qi is on good terms, my Chu State and Zhao State are in Qi, and Qin State will not sit idly by. ”

Xiong Jing said while laughing: This disciple has a strong view of the overall situation, and what he lacks is only experience in the art of war. He just smiled and listened to Xiong Jing's words, and then said: "Zijing once said that the boat of the sea is more than 20 zhang long, and it can travel thousands of miles in a day against the wind. ”

"Yes." Xiong Jing nodded, the length of the sea ship he wanted to build was more than fifty meters, and the speed of the wind and current could reach ten knots, so that it was four hundred and forty kilometers a day, and the Li of the Chu State was less than five hundred meters, and the sailing ships traveled thousands of miles a day, and the few sailed ships were six hundred.

"The ship of the wind is unique to my Chu country, and the Qi country does not know it. If you carry more than 10,000 soldiers by ship from the sea to Anling...... How? ”

“…… Teacher," Yu Guanzi asked, Xiong Jing was really a little stunned. Anling is west of the port of Qingdao, and the approximate location is Jiaonan Lingshanwei, close to the Great Wall of Qi, which was built by the Qi State to defend the Chu State.

He didn't know the changes in his disciple's heart, so he pointed to the map and asked again: "My Chu State destroyed Lu, but it stopped at Muling Pass, why not?" ”

"The army has not moved, and the grain and grass go first. I Chu destroyed Lu, Surabaya, Yishui and Mushui, Surabaya originated from the south of Liangfu Mountain, and there was no way to go north; Muling Pass is to hold Yishui and Mushui, and it is impossible to break Muling Pass if you attack Qi. Xiong Jing replied.

"Yes, yes." Yu Guanzi smiled, "To attack Qi by land, it is necessary to break the Muling Pass, so the Qi State is set up here with heavy troops." Zijing, you build a sea ship, attack Qi when the sea opens, if you can capture Anling, attack it with your belly and back, Muling Pass will be broken. Although the Qin State does not want Chu Zhao to destroy Qi, if I fight quickly, the Qi State will die overnight, and there will be no way to save it. ”

Xiong Jing was stunned again, as a nautical fan and a World War II fan, he knew exactly how difficult it was to land an operation. Although Qingdao Port is a good port, only God knows the hydrology of the port area 2,000 years ago, and I took it for granted as a cheap master.

He still didn't know what his disciple was thinking, and then said, "Zixuan is my disciple and your senior brother. If you are the eldest son, you will be the king of Chu in the future, and you can use the strategy of destroying Qi. At that time, the two countries were bounded by Wenshui Linzi, with Zhao in the north and China in the east. Qin Ruoxing troops came to attack, Xu Wei to the east of the county, the land of southern Qi, and then allied with Korea, and forced Yan with the sea division, and the five countries connived at Qin. If this battle is won, my Chu country will become stronger, and I can attack the old Ying, and the old Ying, and the Qin country will go to the general trend. ”

"Teacher, what if Linzi can't be attacked for a long time?" Xiong Jing considered the feasibility of the plan.

"Surprise and attack unprepared. Zijing's crossbow, the public doctor said that it can shoot stone bullets, stone bullets to attack the city, and the strong city can be broken. "In addition to accepting Xiong Jing as a disciple during this time, Yu Guanzi also went to the mansion to see the strong crossbow made by Xiong Jing.

"Who's the doctor?" Xiong Jing had heard this man's name more than once.

"The head of the house-building worker Yin is after Luban. If shipbuilding gets its help, it will get twice the result with half the effort. When the crown said this, he said: "Zijing is still not the eldest son? Han Wei had the defeat of Yique, the State of Qi had the attack of the Five Kingdoms, the State of Chu had the wound of Yan Ying, and the State of Zhao had the pain of Changping. The former power no longer exists, and the countries take Qin as their hegemon. In the past few decades, Qin attacked Wei and broke Zhao, and Zhao has been weak. Only Qi Chu has the opportunity to cheer up again, but the king of Qi is mediocre, the minister of state is corrupt and bribed, and only I Chu can control the violence of Qin in the world. Zijing is not the eldest son, and the world belongs to Qin. ”

Kuangzi understands Xiong Jing's ambitions, but as a Zhao person, he also wrote sixty volumes of "Kuguanzi", of course he doesn't want his disciple to sail on the sea. Xiong Jing wanted to ask, 'Why can't the world return to Qin', but he felt that it was too disobedient, so he had to say: "The disciple is tired and confused, and he doesn't know how to choose. The matter of the eldest son, the temple is undecided, this must be the destiny of heaven, why not wait for it? ”

"Zijing believes in the Mandate of Heaven?" The crown asked, surprised in his voice.

"Faith." Xiong Jing nodded without hesitation. "Heaven has its destiny, people have ambitions, and the ambition of disciples is not in the court, but in the stars and the sea. The world has been fighting for hundreds of years, and one nation will rise up and destroy the nations. If it is not Qin, it is Chu, and if it is not Chu, it is Qi, they are all unified, what is the difference? However, by sea to the world, I will change the situation of my loneliness and ugliness, even if the disciple dies one day, it can also benefit the Chinese people. ”

One is to become an inevitable tool of history, and the other is to open the navigation for China, as an otaku who is familiar with modern military history after 2,000 years, he knows very well which is more important and which is lighter. In his view, only by opening up the sea can the nation set up those sufferings.

Hearing this, the crown shook his head vigorously, "Zijing is fallacious." The unification of Chu, Qi and Zhao, the sea route may benefit the people of Li for a hundred generations, but the unification of the Qin State is not. ”

The words of the crown made Xiong Jing think of many bad things, Huaxia did not have the opportunity to discover the world before the West, but the opportunity was so ridiculously missed. With Xiong Jing's efforts, the Age of Exploration may not be impossible to open, but there must be an enlightened government that supports navigation, otherwise, a sea ban can make everything go to naught, and maybe it will marry people.

"Teacher......" Xiong Jing wanted to say something.

"Zijing is tired, go back." The crown waved his hand and said indifferently.

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The temperature is higher than that of the Warring States two thousand years later, and it is hot in May of the lunar calendar. After more than two months of construction, the shipyard at the foot of the Purple Mountain has been cut down and some outlines can be seen, but there are few houses built, and the site is mostly mud and ravines, and more than 1,000 common people recruited from the Xiongjing fiefdom of my Yuling and the common people recruited from the vicinity are working to the death—not that the overseers are strict, but that the benevolent Prince His Royal Highness pays according to the amount of earthwork, digs more and earns more, eats meat, eats soup, and drinks wine, and this day is much more comfortable than at home.

Xiong Jing, who sneaked to the shipyard on the day of the mid-year holiday, was standing on the bank of the Huaishui River, and he was no longer just Ge these subordinates, except for the master and apprentice of the Guanzi, Ji Lingjun, Ji Fujun, Yi Yuyangjun, Lu Yangjun, An Lingjun, these feudal monarchs who had long lost their fiefdoms, and Yin Gong, who was specially invited from the palace, and the group was looking at the keel waterwheel under the embankment.

Today is the finalization day of the new waterwheel - more than a month of hard work, the shipyard craftsmen have built six models of a total of 12 waterwheels, each waterwheel has to be lifted to the shore of Huaishui to test, one test of water, two tests of lightness, three tests of reliability, so as to find the problem, improve the previous design.

"The prince's step is really a heavenly achievement, and this car is completed." Six waterwheels under the embankment are like dragons, because the embankment is so high that it takes two relays to pump the river water up the riverbank. Looking at the waterfall of white flowers, Gong Yi couldn't help but sneer at Xiong Jing.

Gong Yi Jian is the Chu State to build the house of Yin, and the skill of wood work may be called the first in the world. When the shipyard engineer saw him, Xiong Jing was very polite to him, and replied: "It's just a small skill of carving insects." Everyone calls me Zijing, and the doctor doesn't have to call me a step. ”

"Zijing is too humble." Gong Yijian didn't care too much about the etiquette of respect and humility, he looked at the waterwheel on the riverbank and said, "Can I see the secret of the waterwheel?" ”

"Absolutely." Xiong Jing doesn't care if the waterwheel leaks secrets, the waterwheel is a civilian product, and it will definitely be imitated if it is sold. "Please."

The waterwheel stopped, it was a two-person pedal waterwheel, and the two workers who were treading the waterwheel were still unsatisfied, but the engineer shouted to stop and they had to stop and stand aside. After the water was cut off, the original structure of the waterwheel suddenly appeared, with wood as a long trough, wheels at both ends, and a wooden chain sandwiched a piece of square leaves, which lifted the water to a zhang height.

"Drive the chain with the wheel, bring the plate with the chain, and lift the water with the plate." The principle of the waterwheel is simple and clear, and it can be understood at a glance, but the simpler it is, the more admirable it is. Gong Yijian thought of the ballista, he thought that the ballista was an enlargement of the bow and crossbow, who knew that although the ballista and the bow and the crossbow had the word 'crossbow', one was bent and the other was twisted, which were fundamentally different things.

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