Chapter 445: Responding to Change with Unchanged (Second Update)
As soon as they arrived in Yinggao's hall, before Yinggao asked, everyone wanted to speak, and finally after looking at each other, it was Meng Yi with the highest status who said it first, after Meng Yi finished speaking, several people nodded again and again, obviously, what Meng Yi said was exactly what they thought.
Everything was possible before, and there was only a slight possibility, but this time with Wu Sheng's words, it was different.
Xu Fu connected with the people of the Peacock Dynasty several years ago, not to mention whether Xu Fu really ran to other people's territory with Daqin's belongings for the second time, people must have known about the existence of Daqin.
In other words, they will have to prepare for war for several years longer than you, and you may be building warships and ships while you're still building warships, and their warships and sailors are already marching to your place.
"In that case, how do you think my Great Qin should be prepared?"
The expression on Yinggao's face didn't look so anxious, he sat down in his place unhurriedly, and then motioned for all four of them to sit down, and then asked slowly.
When it comes to precautions, the most vocal ones are naturally Meng Yi and Han Xin, because the enemy must come from the sea, but the tricky thing is that Xu Fu may have provided the charts to others, so it is very likely that people will not land from the south of the nearest Nanhai County, or they may go around to the place where Xu Fu set off before and land in the sea area east of Daqin, once such a situation happens, it will definitely be unimaginable to anyone.
Therefore, Meng Yi and Han Xin said that they were not in a hurry to answer this question, because the things involved were too extensive, and it was possible for four or five counties to land at once, and it was also possible that people would not land from the sea area of your Great Qin with great fanfare at all, but from the territory of the South Vietnamese who had been suppressed by Fusu and retreated to the barren land south of Guilin and Xiang County, and then attacked by Xiang County, which was not very well defended by Great Qin, or even Yelang.
With such a completely uncertain enemy, it is naturally very difficult to defend it.
After a long time, Meng Yi sighed slightly, and then opened his mouth.
"Your Majesty, the only way to do this is to recruit a large number of naval troops in Great Qin, but to recruit foot soldiers extensively, and then gather heavy troops in all the places where the so-called Great Qin of the Peacock Dynasty may come, so that I can ensure that Great Qin is absolutely unharmed!"
Obviously, this is what Meng Yi said when he had to do it, although the method was a little stupid, but what Meng Yi wanted was stability, he wanted to make Daqin's territory stable and not be annexed by any foreign race, as for other things, he didn't think about it so much.
"Has Taiwei ever calculated that if the Peacock Dynasty has more than 20 million households, how many soldiers can they fight, and how many warships can they have, even if they set out to capture my Great Qin, how many men and horses will be dispatched?"
Yinggao's series of questions were suddenly thrown to Meng Yi, which made Meng Yi a little difficult to answer for a while, and finally he could only say to Yinggao: "Although I don't know how many enemy troops there are, if my Great Qin is so prepared, I will definitely be prepared!" ”
"It is better to be prepared, but if so, my Daqin will miss the excellent opportunity to develop a naval army, even if the Peacock Dynasty comes with a group of people, my Daqin can only be passively beaten, this wave is back, they will also send the next wave of stronger soldiers, so the cycle is endless, I am the emperor of my Great Qin, not to let Daqin always be in a passive situation of being beaten, but to let Daqin's banner check the vast land of Shenzhou! A mere Peacock Dynasty, how can I let Daqin waste food because of choking? ”
Yinggao's words were said loudly, although Meng Yi was incomplete, but he really didn't feel faceless.
He just thinks that Yinggao at this time may be the Yinggao that Great Qin really needs, and he, just like the First Emperor, may be drowned in the dust of history sooner or later.
"The king's ambition is naturally good, but once the situation that Taiwei fears becomes a reality, won't the people of my Great Qin suffer heavy losses?"
Xiao He, who hadn't spoken much, couldn't help but justify Meng Yi a little at this time.
He naturally knew that Meng Yi was not easy and that he was loyal and emotional in the face of Daqin, and at the same time, for such a situation, Xiao He also wanted to know what kind of strategy Yinggao could use to deal with it, after all, this was not something that could be treated as if nothing had happened.
"Now that the establishment of my Great Qin sergeants, there are at least 20,000 standing garrisons in each county, and some of the counties located on the border have more than 30,000, how can these sergeants be wasted? The next thing Daqin has to do is to let each county train the defenders in its own county, and the counties located on the coast or the border, but also let the defenders tightly guard the transportation arteries in the county and the sea areas where warships can land, if these can't be done well, what is the use of this county guard? ”
Ying Gao's words, obviously, have already expressed his meaning, that is, today's matter, the four of you just know, but I definitely will not make any changes to Daqin's military strength, if you want to guard your own counties, then you can only follow the standard sergeants in each county now, and the rest, Xianyang Palace will not give any support.
"Your Majesty, since this is the case, it is better for me to divide a few roads with Zhang Han, Sima Xin and other generals and soldiers tomorrow to check the combat effectiveness and guard situation of the defenders of each county, if it is not satisfactory, even if the county lieutenant is instructed to rectify, if the county lieutenant does not act, directly select qualified generals from the Great Qin Army to make up for it, and be sure to make the defenders in each army make full use of everything within a few months! I don't know what you think? ”
This time, it was Han Xin who followed Yinggao's words, and if you want to say that you can best understand what Yinggao means, it is Han Xin, he naturally knows that Yinggao will not give up the development of any navy, nor will it stagnate or slow down the development of the navy because of any so-called threat.
That is Yinggao's lifeline, it is the type of military that Yinggao mainly wants to rely on in the future, Yinggao's sentence wants to let Daqin's handsome banner check all over the land of Shenzhou, others don't care what it means, but Han Xin knows.
Therefore, in order to fully support Yinggao's ambitions, Han Xin could only run more errands by himself, and then put some infamy on his back, and quickly presented what Yinggao wanted on the land of Daqin.
"That's very good, just do as you say, bring with you more than a dozen people who are good at leading soldiers carefully selected in the army, and once you find out which county lieutenant is not capable of completing what I requested, replace it immediately!"
With Yinggao's clapping, today's response to this matter is undoubtedly like this, and everyone summed up one sentence, that is, to respond to all changes with the same.
Although they didn't know if Great Qin had that kind of strength, judging from Yinggao's confident expression, they weren't worried about the so-called Peacock Dynasty attacking the realm of Great Qin.
Just like Ying Gao said, their empire of 20 million people, how many warships can be built when they are full, even if they bring over 100,200,000, the soldiers of Great Qin are not afraid at all, unless there are 500,000 or 600,000 to come, which can really pose a fatal threat to Great Qin.
But according to the population of the Mauryan Empire, it would be good for them to have a total of five or six hundred thousand soldiers, so no matter what, Daqin was not afraid of him, and it was right.
This night's deliberation, after Han Xin applied to supervise the deployment, even if it was over, after everyone returned to their own mansion, the more they thought about it, the more wrong it became, since Ying Gao was not very afraid of the attack of the Peacock Dynasty, but why did he have to let them know about it......
Of course they don't know, although Yinggao didn't know as much about the history of the Peacock Dynasty as he did in his previous life, he still knew it in general.
He knew that at this time, the Peacock Dynasty had reached the sixth king, known as the Relic Loser, who was an out-and-out tyrant, if he really wanted to invade Daqin, he estimated that he would have sent troops a long time ago, and now that at least five or six years have passed since Xu Fu's matter, the possibility of coming should not be great.
And not only that, since the Mauryan Empire reached its peak when it reached its peak with the third king, Ashoka, it has actually been going downhill in the past few decades.
According to Yinggao's calculations, if their strength is really calculated, it may not be as good as achieving a high degree of unification with Great Qin, except that there may be thousands of elephants in their army, there is really nothing unusual.
The next day, Han Xin, Zhang Han, Sima Xin and the other three prepared for half a day, and sure enough, as Han Xin and Ying Gao suggested before, they set off separately, Sima Xin went to the land of Sanjin and some other counties located in the northeast of Daqin, and Zhang Han went to several counties in the central and eastern regions.
Han Xin, on the other hand, under Yinggao's special instructions, went to several counties south of Xianyang, including Bashu, Qianzhong, Yelang, Guilin, Xiangjun and Nanhai.
It can be said that in these places, the previous defense must be insufficient, and before leaving, Yinggao called Han Xin in front of him alone, and he didn't know what to tell in his ear, in short, when Han Xin set off, his eyes had a different brilliance, obviously, his task this time was not simple.
By the time Han Xin set off, it had been a few months since Hu Hai was sent by Yinggao to Xiangjun.
In the past few months, Hu Hai can be said to have become an official that he had never thought of before, and he managed an entire county, but these months were also the most unbearable months in the twenty years he lived.
When he arrived in Xiangjun, it was very different from what he imagined, he originally thought that the county seat of Xiangjun was in Linchen County, although it was definitely not as large as Daqin's, but it had to be about the same, wasn't it?
But once he arrived in the so-called Linchen County, Hu Hai did not see anything but low adobe houses like primitive tribes, countless dense forests and barren land.
How did he know what to do in such a situation? At that time, I was almost dead, if it weren't for the fact that I knew in my heart that the more places like this would be for my freedom, the better it would be for Hu Hai to stay in such a place for a day.
But soon, he ushered in a nobleman, just arrived in Xiang County less than ten days later, a person came to the mansion he had just built for himself and Qi Yi, claiming to be the county guard of Guilin County, which was close to him, and heard that it was Hu Hai, the son of Great Qin, who arrived in Xiang County, so he came to visit one or two.
Of course, this person is Liu Wei, the county guard of Guilin County, for Liu Wei, who looks flattering, Hu Hai is not surprised, after all, he is the son of the first emperor, the younger brother of the current emperor Yinggao, and the first son sent by Yinggao to manage an entire county in addition to Fusu.
Liu Wei's arrival this time was not just as simple as stammering, he helped Hu Hai tell Hu Hai about his idea of how to plan Guilin County, so that Hu Hai, who had no experience in the management of any county, suddenly understood a lot.
This made the development progress of Linchen County and other counties in Xiang County improve a lot at that time, and when he wanted to say goodbye to Hu Hai for two days, Hu Hai was a little reluctant to let this big brother look like a smile at any time.
And Hu Hai had only arrived in Xiang County for less than two months, and even when he had just learned some about how to build and manage a county, one day after dragging his tired body back to the mansion, Qi Yi mysteriously said to Hu Hai that the mysterious person's letter had arrived again.
"Sure enough...... Since they have been in contact with us and others, they will not let go easily, and this time the king has only sent one of my sons, he must want to use me to achieve something in his heart......"
Hu Hai looked at the letter and explained to his wife. In this free world, Hu Hai is obviously more confident in handling things, and Qi Yi has deeply felt such a change.
"How is the boy going to respond?"
"There is no need to respond for the time being, since he said that he has reached the Nanyue border in the south, he will naturally try his best to develop his own power, but if his power cannot enter the eyes of this son, this son will not cooperate with people like him, this person is ambitious, and he should be cautious when contacting him......"
In this way, after Hu Hai secretly memorized the contents of this letter, he directly burned it, and then restored to the image of a county guard who diligently wanted to develop a ruined Xiang County into a county that could be ranked on the boundaries of Daqin.