The Atlas of Mountains and Seas, compiled by the Taifu Guanji, is actually a general description of the whole world on the basis of ancient texts, which not only introduces geography, but also records animals, plants, minerals and many ancient myths in various places. The ancient classics are not very comprehensive, and the Wuzang Mountain Sutra and the Sea Sutra have been available since ancient times, but the Overseas Sutra and the Great Wilderness Sutra can only rely on the compiler's half-guessing and half-understanding.

Xiong Jing's description of the world makes up for the lack of primary sources. Of course, such a huge world also frightened the witches and scholars who compiled this scripture, even if Xiong Jing took out a sketch of the six continents of the world and stated that the earth is round, there are still many people who are skeptical. As the deputy editor-in-chief of the "Illustrated Book of Mountains and Seas", the reason why he was in such a hurry to present the picture to the king of Chu was to persuade the king of Chu to make Xiong Jing the crown prince. Xiong Jing is the crown prince, he is the prince Fu, and in the future, Chu Guoxing will be his Huang Lao's learning rather than Xun Guo's Confucian learning.

Whatever the reason, everyone has their own reasons for acting. This is the case with the Crane Guanzi, and so is the King of Chu Xiong Yuan. His experience is very similar to that of his father, Xiong Heng, King of Chu Qingxiang, and he has the experience of going to Qin as a hostage as a prince. It's just that Xiong Heng's era of Chu State has just weakened, and it is not impossible to raise his shame again, which is also the reason why Xiong Heng dared to fight with the Qin State doctor who slandered Chu State and killed him in anger; In Xiong Yuan's era, Bai Qi seized Yan and pulled out Ying, the land where Chu lost his heart moved eastward, and Chu was no longer the Chu country before, even if he escaped from Qin and became king, Xiong Yuan still had to accept Qin and grovel.

Forbearance is the motto of Xiong Yuan's life. His hatred for the Qin State was unforgettable, but he had to marry the Qin girl; He became more and more dissatisfied with Ling Yin Chun Shenjun, but he had to be false to him; He wanted to make Xiong Jing the crown prince more and more, but he didn't dare to do so.

“…… There is a peninsula in the south of the continent, which is more than 3,000 miles long, with dense forests on it, and there are many miasma in the middle, and it is uninhabitable for non-barbarians; "Que Guanzi recalled Xiong Jing's introduction, and was introducing the Indochina Peninsula to the King of Chu, "In the south of the peninsula, there are more than 1,000 islands, and the islands are many rare and rare, and the most expensive ones are cinnamon, pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and the fruit, root, and skin of this sacred tree." and the kingdoms of the sea in the midst of the earth, the price is the same as gold.

To the west of the peninsula, there is India, which takes Buddhism as its religion and governs the country with religion. The territory is 5,000 miles wide, there are two major water systems of the Indus River and the Ganges River, the land is vast and fertile, and Dingkou is not inferior to the Xia countries. The nobles and lows of the people are all surnamed, the most noble is the Brahmins, all of whom are witches in the religion, the second is the Kshatriyas, the king's officials, and the rest are either countrymen or savages......"

Geography is often a political journal because the political systems of each country are different. Although there are many obscene shrines and witches in the Chu country, the great wizard is actually the king of Chu himself, and religion is in the service of ruling the royal power, which is diametrically opposed to what Xiong Jing said about India.

With the state of Chu as the center, the western kingdoms were first introduced from east to west, and then to the east, Dongzhou and Nanzhou were introduced. When the crane was finished, he still pointed to the map and asked, "How is Hanzhou?" Mr. did not say anything about the geography of Hanzhou. ”

"King, Prince Jing said that the cold continent is all cold, it has been frozen for 10,000 years, although there is land, people do not exist, and there are no treasures." Crane Guanzi explained: "The people of Dingkou are the two continents of China and the West, with Zhuxia, India, Persia, and the countries of the sea in the ring land as the most important. ”

"If you trade with the nations, you should bring in the grain and livestock of the nations?" The king of Chu put his hand on the map, thoughtful.

"Yes, yes." Crane Guanzi nodded vigorously, "Especially the sweet potatoes of Dongzhou and the dragon horses of Xizhou." The yield of sweet potatoes per mu is 10,000 catties, and the potatoes are watery, so they are folded into 2,000 catties, which is ten times the size of corn. Let the wide planting, our Chu country produces ten years of grain a year, the grain is abundant, the Ding mouth is doubled, and the Ding mouth is doubled, and the soldiers are full, and major events can be expected. ”

The core of the Shang Dynasty reform is ploughing warfare, and the system of receiving knights for military merit is the concrete embodiment of the idea of ploughing warfare. Among the Seven Kingdoms, the Qin State came later, and the Western Zhou Dynasty was only named the Bomeranian's son of King Zhou Ping, the son of the King of Zhou You, who was a prince of the Beacon Fire Opera, compared to history, tradition, and culture, the Qin State was not as good as the Six Kingdoms of the Kwantung Kingdom, but compared with the cultivation technology and the war system, the Six Kingdoms of the Kwantung were not as good as the Qin State.

The culture of Chu is splendid, Chu is magnificent, and the arable is fire and water, which is the worst and worst among the countries - the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the rice and soup are fish, since you can get food without work, what kind of field do you plant? Even if you farm, it is just a fire in winter, a good time to sow seeds in spring, leave the growth to the sky, weeding to water, and flooding will cause the grass to die.

Only in the north of Huaishui, near Wei and Qi, those places are crowded and narrow, and the people will work diligently to cultivate, but no matter how hard they work, the output of one mu is only two or three hundred catties, and only three years can accumulate one year of grain storage, and only three years of grain can be used for war in ten years. If you really want sweet potatoes, the annual output will increase tenfold, which is equivalent to saying that you can fight for eight to nine years in one year of cultivation, and if you endure for ten years like Gou Jian of Yue Guo, you may not be able to defeat Qin and recover your hometown.

Heart spurts and protrusions...... beats, but the corners of the heart ache faintly. The somewhat excited King of Chu hurriedly took a long breath and said with a smile: "Sweet potatoes were born in Dongzhou, thousands of miles away, and there are many dangers, so it is better to take the horse of Xizhou first." Although there are high mountains and quicksand to obstruct each other, there is a grassland path in the north, and you can walk along the shore in the south. ”

"The Great King is wise!" The crane crest praised loudly. He was a general, and knew better than anyone else the importance of horses.

The eight-foot horse is a dragon, and the seven-foot horse is a horse, and if there is really an eight-foot horse in Xizhou, the combat power of the Chu army will be greatly improved.

More than 20 years have passed since the Battle of Changping, and Que Guanzi has also studied the Battle of Changping for more than 20 years, and as a Zhao man, he attaches great importance to cavalry - if the Qin general Bai Qi did not send 5,000 cavalry to capture the Zhao army barrier, more than 400,000 Zhao troops would not have been surrounded and annihilated between the two army barriers. If you get the Xizhou Dragon Horse, form an army, and travel thousands of miles a day, it is equivalent to the Chu State has a strategic mobile force in its hands.

Then there is the baggage, the eight-foot horse is equipped with a four-wheeled car, the efficiency of the baggage is doubled, and some of the apprentices who were originally used for the baggage can be compiled into armor. One and two disciples, this is the proportion of combat and logistics personnel summarized by King Wu of Chu before the Spring and Autumn Period without chariot troops, hundreds of years later, if the marching distance is too far and there is no water transportation, the number of disciples who are transported must be more than two, at least three. The population of Chu is much smaller than that of Qin, but if you can turn a teleporter into a soldier, it will be equivalent to doubling the strength of the Chu army.

No one has ever seen an eight-foot horse, and the Crane Crown's imagination is too beautiful. Xiong Jing does not understand horses, his understanding of horses comes from his understanding of World War I and World War II - four Yanmar can tow field artillery, with Chinese horses to eight, eight horses to increase the length of the artillery column, the turning radius is extremely large, there is no way to go, so the Chinese army is equipped with mountain artillery, most of the field artillery is thrown in the rear warehouse; The Japanese army has spent 30 years cultivating half-hung Yanmars, whose passing ability and load weight are much stronger than those of Chinese horses, and the result is that even if the performance and quantity of weapons prepared by both sides are the same, the Japanese army often completely destroys the Chinese army in terms of firepower density and durability.

The war is about logistics, but logistics relies on horses, but before the Yuan Dynasty, East Asian horses were not completely degraded, and Western horses were not scientifically bred, and the difference between them was not as big as Xiong Jing imagined, and eight-foot horses may not have them.

It is a tenfold valley again, and an eight-foot horse, the king of Chu is a little intoxicated, and his voice is a little louder, seeing this, the crane crown once again said: "Dare to ask the king to help Prince Jing build a boat across the sea, and send someone to take the valley of Dongzhou and the horse of Xizhou as soon as possible." If you can make Prince Jing the eldest son as soon as possible......"

"The eldest son should not stand early." The mood was really good, and the king of Chu restrained his smile and told the truth.

"Is the king afraid of Lingyin?" The crown of the crane and the sword are no longer tactful.

"......" was really in words, King Chu nodded slightly, and then immediately shook his head.

"The one who ordered Yin, the king's servants, dare to disobey the king's orders and do injustice?" Que Guanzi said that the color of the king of Chu changed immediately, "Today, the great Sima is cunning, cunning, brave and faithful, proud and loyal, promising in the army, and the order is in the hands of the king, so does Yin dare to do unrighteous things?" ”

The words were so explicit that the King of Chu was no longer silent, he sighed: "Yingdu is in chaos, what about the nations?" ”

One sentence made Que Guanzi stunned, but he was not so easily convinced. "King, you can ask Zhao Guo for help in advance."

"Zhao Guowei?" The king of Chu smiled, perhaps considering that Que Guanzi was originally a Zhao person, and his smile was very shallow, but Crane Guanzi understood the meaning of King Chu's smile - Zhao was in trouble, asked Chu to send troops, and Chu sent troops to rescue Zhao; Chu was in difficulty, so he asked Zhao to send troops, but Zhao shirked in every possible way, not once or twice, but many times. After Changping, the state of Zhao was weak, and if the state of Chu was in turmoil and the state of Qin was fighting, the state of Zhao would definitely not send troops, so the 'help of Zhao' said by the king of Chu was useless in the eyes of the king of Chu.

"King, this time is not another time." The crown of the bird is positive, and the tone is heavy. "Now the Qin State is getting stronger, and the strategy of far-distance friendship and close attack is to attack Zhao is to swallow Korea, and if Han dies, Wei is in danger, and Wei is in danger. Prince Jing said: 'The three levels of the underworld are not enough to be held, and they cannot be held. If the enemy attacks, he will never go through the underworld, but will go south along the Rushui and Yingshui, or raft on the river and ride the wind to the east.'" The Zhou division of the Qin State is weak, inferior to my Chu State, and it is the next policy to attack me by boating on the river. lest it swallow Han Wei, and then use the chasm as the road, you, and Ying as the road, and rejuvenate the whole country to fight me.

Therefore, Zhao Qiang is Han Cun, Han Cun is not in danger of Wei, and if Wei is not in danger, Chu Guo'an, unwilling or willing, Chu State should be good friends with Zhao State. ”

Based on Xiong Jing's military geography, Crane Guanzi actually accurately deduced Qin's strategy of destroying the Six Kingdoms, which has to be admired. The king of Chu listened and thought, combined with the targets of Qin's attacks and diplomatic focus in the past few decades, Qin's invasion of Zhao was indeed to annex Han and Wei. Han Wei is the transportation center of the world, Han Wei is in hand, and it can be cut down on all sides.

"Although Zhao is a person, the grace of the first king does not dare to forget, and the king's encounter will be reciprocated, this is for Chu's planning, not for Zhao's contribution." He saw the King of Chu smiling, and then he said again: "Prince Jing's mother is the princess of Zhao State, and King Zhao is the uncle of Prince Jing. If it is successful, Chu Zhao and Han Wei will resist Qin, and lead the valley of Dongzhou and the horse of Xizhou, and it will be completed in 20 years. ”