The essence of the court discussion is to prepare for war, and only by preparing for war can we have the strength to save Zhao. But after all, it was Chu and Yue who united and solved the problem of harvesting millet, and the bamboo standing on behalf of his tribe in the court suddenly inserted a question: Why must it be three years of millet, but two years is not possible?

"Three years of ploughing and more than one year of food, nine years of livestock for three years, eighteen years and six years of accumulation, twenty-seven years and nine years of storage, although the drought and disaster have suffered, the people are not poor and poor and exiled. Therefore, the country has no animals for nine years, which is insufficient; Without the accumulation of six years, it is said to be compassionate and urgent; If there is no animal for three years, it is said to be poor.

Youyun: The division of tithes, if the tithes are nothing, then the three will die. If one of the three dies, instead of accumulating for a reason, the road will be damaged and barren. The division of tithes, three years of incomprehension, unless there is surplus food, the people have a beard. ”

Bernan, who was in charge of Gaoku, said calmly, trying his best to make the Yue people, who were not very fluent in Chu language, understand. Zhu is a young man, Chu learned the language very quickly, and after Bernan finished speaking, he said: "One of the three crops dies, three years are tired and one year is dead, and only one year of grain is missing, why do you need three years of millet?" ”

"Hehe......" I don't know who suddenly laughed, and then many people laughed along.

"No, I don't know." Xiong Jing was a little displeased, he didn't want to see the Chu people laughing at the Yue people. "Please Boqing."

Xiong Jing's words quieted the scene, and Bernan said: "Tell the king, one of the three deaths is indeed as Yue Chen said, three years and one year. However, people who have nothing to do eat a lot of millet, ordinary people eat one and a half stones of millet a month, and in wartime they need to eat three stones a month, and there are cattle and horses in the army, and there is a shortage of wear and tear in transportation, and those who have nothing to do need to consume one year's corn a year, and three years is three years of corn. Although the rest were farming, the cultivators were all old and weak women, and there were no cattle and horses, and after three years, two-thirds of the crops would die. Therefore, the clouds cannot be a three-year war unless there is a three-year war. ”

Three-tenths of the people are in charge of warfare and logistics, and doubling the amount of food consumes six-tenths of the corn, plus the cattle and horses that are transported, which does require a year's worth of corn, and if the grain is transported too far, it may be more than a year's worth of corn.

The situation of the Chu army was to transport by water, but the configuration of a horse-drawn carriage with 20 people, plus the livestock needed for short-distance transportation, plus the cavalry that was being established in each county and town, was equivalent to making up for the reduced cattle needed for land transportation.

"Zhuqing, do you know the three-year Su?" Xiong Jing asked the puzzled bamboo.

"The minister knows also." Zhu sneered, he didn't expect his question to involve Xiong Jing as well.

"Yes." Xiong Jing nodded at him, and then looked at Bernan, "Chu State does not have a tithe army, because water transportation, it may not need tithe strength to transport, you discuss with the Great Sima Mansion and then calculate the consumption of grain for three years." ”

"Yui." Bernan agreed. "The minister will discuss with the Great Sima Mansion today, but the minister still wants to tell the king that the sky has been very different in recent years, especially Qin. In the third year of the reign of King Qin, there was a great disaster and a great hunger among the people; In the fourth year of the reign of King Qin, locusts in July, a great epidemic; In the fifth year of the reign of King Qin, locusts, epidemics, and catastrophes; In the ninth year of the reign of King Qin, it was cold in April, and many people froze to death; Last year, there was a great drought in the world, and there was no rain from June to August in Qin.

And the catastrophe of Qin Wangzheng three years ago was the great famine in Shangjun twenty-five years ago, and further on, there was no great famine, but only a flood and the land was shaken......"

"Really?" Xiong Jing didn't pay attention to the disasters in the past few years, but now when he heard what Bernan said, he suddenly thought about it.

"To the king, yes." Right Shi replied. "Abandon Qin Ye this day."

"Heaven abandons Qin Ye." The ministers chewed on these four words, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that it made sense.

"King, the heavens have indeed abandoned Qin, and the ministers think that they should accumulate an extra year's corn." Bernan is a safe person, in recent years, natural disasters have been frequent, he is worried about when there will be a natural disaster in the Chu State, all the corn will be eaten up by war, and the common people will really starve to death.

"No." Xiong Jing nodded in agreement. "In this way, when you accumulate four years of Su before you can fight the Qin people again?"

"Your Majesty, it will take nine years for four years of millet to be four." Sun Yu replied.

"Nine years before you can fight the Qin people?" Xiong Jing sighed in his heart, "Zhao Guo is dead." ”

"The king, it will take seven years at the shortest." Sun Yu replied again. His previous calculation of seven years took into account the big and small years and disaster years, and subtracting these, it would take more than seven years, barely counting seven years.

"Seven years?" Xiong Jing calculated silently again in his heart, feeling that it was still too late. The first expedition of the Qin State is three years, the rest of the two years is five years, and the second expedition will be in the sixth year. Now that Qi is not in the alliance, and he will save it in the eighth year, can Zhao really hold out until then?

"Seven years, necessary." Sun Yu nodded. This is the shortest estimate, and there is no less.

"I don't know that Wei has 30 million stones of surplus grain every year, and Qi people buy 2......0 million stones every year," Xiong Jing Youyou said, but he knew that this was not realistic. Chu's own corn can be purchased by minting coins, and Wei's corn will cost real money. Unless ......, engage in real estate in Daliang Beicheng, and speculate the house price to tens of thousands of dollars per square meter, so that a large amount of Chu currency can flow into the Daliang housing market?

Xiong Jing is really whimsical, but think about it again, isn't Daliang Beicheng the concession, or the capital of Wei, those Wei doctors want to move into Chu, why not buy a house in Daliang Beicheng, one villa building per household, each household sells dozens of gold, hundreds of gold, if you can sell 10,000 households, then there are hundreds of thousands of gold.

The king was distracted, and the ministers in the court did not pay attention, they were mainly thinking about what to do in seven years, save Zhao or not?

There are benefits to saving Zhao, and not saving Zhao also has the benefits of not saving Zhao. Save Zhao, Qin has one more enemy, and Chu has one more potential helper; If you don't save Zhao, after occupying Zhao, Qin is stronger again, it turned out to be half of the world, and after destroying Zhao, it will account for two-thirds of the world - don't forget that Zhao and Yan are connected; Then there are horses, once Qin occupies Zhao, the source of horses for Chu will be cut off, and Hu Shang will not be able to trade.

"The king, the minister thinks that after accumulating Su, he should save Zhao Guo, but if he doesn't save it, there will be no horse." Seisuke and the others told that this was their opinion.

"The king, the ministers thought they should save Zhao." Peng Guan, who had previously fiercely opposed the Blue Luxury Alliance Zhao, also agreed to save Zhao.

"The king, the ministers also think that Zhao needs to be saved, otherwise the world will be overturned, and the state of Chu will be in danger." Su Kai and Great Elder Song also agreed to save Zhao.

"King, save Zhao and cut off the south road of the Qin army." Xiang Yan didn't speak, he tried to wait for the ministers to show his attitude. "When you ask Zhao Envoy to inform Zhao Guo......"

"The minister thought that he should not tell the Zhao people." Nao sly objected. "Zhao Guo has many Qin Marquis, Zhao Zhi is Qin Zhi, and it is impossible."

"The king, maybe Sun Bin's strategy may be feasible." What Zhao Huang said was very vague, but the meaning was very clear: take the opportunity to recover the old Ying.

"The Great King." Xiang Yan did not agree with Zhao Xiao's opinion. In the past, Sun Bin attacked Wei to save Zhao, attacked Wei Chengye, but failed to save Zhao, and the Wei army invaded Handan and retreated and returned to China. If this policy is implemented, it can be achieved to restore the old Ying, but it is impossible to save Zhao. ”

"Oh." Xiong Jing couldn't help but glance at Xiang Yan a few more times, it was not appropriate to only discuss the strategy in the court, he said: "This is handed over to the Great Sima Mansion in advance for planning, and he will discuss it later." ”

After Xiong Jing finished speaking to Xiang Yan, he looked at the ministers and said, "After this matter is discussed, what else is there?" ”

"Please don't break with the king." Dong Ye Gu took the lead and talked about Qi Guo.

When it comes to Qi State, it is natural to talk about the marriage alliance between the two countries. Xiong Jing's attitude is very clear, he will no longer marry the princess of Qi as the queen, but he will not break off diplomatic relations with Qi and maintain general diplomatic relations. Dongye Gu and others insisted on marrying the princess of Qi State, believing that this was one of the means to win over Qi State.

It's just that the State of Qi has not been co-opted by the State of Chu from beginning to end, and the Qi people who have called the Eastern Emperor even look down on the Chu people a little, and use the Chu language as the tongue of the Southern Barbarians. Some people care about this psychological superiority of Qi people, and some people don't care about it. Xiong Jing didn't think that Qi Ren was too proud, he just didn't want to marry the daughter of a cowardly king, and he didn't want his son to be contaminated with cowardly habits.

Marriage is a major event in life, and except for Mi Xuan, he has never met any other attractive woman. If he really wants to choose one of the women he has seen, it is naturally Mi Xuan, and Mi Xi of Fu Jian is also very good, but unfortunately the two have the same father, and then it is Wei Daughter-in-law Sun Yan, reluctantly.

There was a commotion in the court, arguing fiercely with Cheng Jie and others, who opposed the continued marriage with Qi State, and Dong Ye Gu and others, who were in favor of continuing the marriage with Qi State. The reason for Cheng Jie's opposition is very simple, that is, they think that Qi is another Zhao state, and if Qin attacks Qi after marriage, they will definitely ask for help from Chu. If it is not saved, the state of Chu will fall into the passivity of humanity.

In turn, the Qin State will not be saved by attacking the Chu Qi State, which has been proven. Even if the King of Qi agreed, the Qi people would not be saved, which has been proven. Since Qi and Chu can only achieve such a relationship of mutual trade, then why is there a need for marriage? As long as the two sides abide by the alliance of Mulingguan and maintain friendly diplomatic relations, it is fine.

The reasons of Chengjie and others are different from Xiong Jing, which is a realistic consideration. Such considerations are absolutely correct. The marriage of kings is a diplomatic method, but this method cannot be used frequently, and many times it can only be used once, because there is only one queen. Since the marriage could not make Qi and Chu diplomatic relations go further, there was no need to waste this opportunity on Qi State.

"Jing'er doesn't want to marry Qi people?" The matter that has not been completely determined in the court, Concubine Zhao heard about it the next day, and Xiong Jing invited Empress An to dine together on this day, and Concubine Zhao specially talked about it.

"Yes." Xiong Jing's chopsticks hung in the air, and he forgot to mention this to Concubine Zhao. "Please forgive the Queen Mother."

"It's okay if you don't marry a Qi girl." Concubine Zhao laughed. "When Jing'er was not married to Qi State, Zhao Envoy once mentioned to me Princess Yingnan, she is one year younger than you......"

"The Queen Mother." Unexpectedly, Concubine Zhao talked about Princess Zhao, and Mi Xuan laughed vigorously beside her. "Jing'er is still young......

"Huh." Mi Xuan smiled even more happily. "It's still young, and everyone outside the palace says that Brother Wang is fortunate to have a Wei girl."

"It's nothing." Xiong Jing glared at her.

"Jing'er." Concubine Zhao said again. "You are the king of Chu, and you are already in power, so the marriage should be decided early."

"Queen Mother!" Xiong Jing was in a hurry, "Qin State is making a big move on Zhao State, if you marry Zhao State......"

"What if? Didn't Chu save Zhao? Concubine Zhao looked at Xiong Jing and the meaning was very clear.