Standing on the platform, watching the South Korean team gradually disappear from view, Zhao Yong laughed unconsciously. He didn't expect that in this era, there would be such a woman with a strong temperament, let him meet, it seems that the ancients were not so boring.

"Your Majesty."

"Well, uncle, have you packed up?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, we can leave." Zhao Cheng said respectfully. Although this banquet was under the guise of a marriage between the two families, the purpose was to achieve the alliance between Zhao and Han, and both parties were quite sincere.

It's just that at the end of the banquet, Zhong Ji, the second daughter of King Han who sneaked out, re-mentioned the marriage, and between the words, there were many teasing words, which made several men a little embarrassed, so they talked about the marriage by the way.

However, it was such a small episode that made Zhao Cheng a little worried, although the object of Zhao Guo's marriage was not this Zhong Ji, but her sister may not be so lively, right?

"Then uncle, let's leave too." As he spoke, he took the lead in his carriage. Zhao Yong's carriage was different from many carriages in the world, not the kind of "open-top", but the completely enclosed carriage of later generations. Zhao Yong also specially built a mezzanine carriage to facilitate the shelving of some stoves for heating in winter. Unexpectedly, such an initiative was popularized in the Zhao Kingdom, and now many nobles have popularized this kind of closed carriage, and there are few open-top carriages anymore.

Zhao Cheng saw that Zhao Yong was about to board the carriage, Zhao Cheng gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and quickly grabbed Zhao Yong's sleeve, and said: "The king is slow, the minister has something unclear, and I ask the king for advice." ”

Zhao Yong looked at the indignant expression on his face, and suddenly understood his question, so he smiled slightly and said, "Uncle's doubts, Lone already knows. In this way, you get into my car, our uncle and nephew have not had a banquet and drink together alone for a long time, and my uncle is busy with the reform and can't spare time. It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, you and my uncle and nephew will talk about it, how about it? ”

"Yes."

The two got into the carriage, and the people from their own palace came up to lay out a few cases for them, put some dishes, and the two knelt on both sides of the case, poured the wine to the bridle, and then retreated and lowered the curtain. The two of them could feel that the convoy was moving forward, and it was a conversation that gradually unfolded.

"Uncle has been busy with the reform recently, and he has been working on the wedding of Lonely, all he thinks and thinks about is for the life and death of Zhao Guo, I didn't expect my uncle to work so hard, and there is a wind of 'doing his best, and then dying', Lone here, I will give my uncle a cup first." After Zhao Yong finished speaking, he drank the wine in the wine jue in one go.

At this time, the wine was actually mainly fruit wine and rice wine, and there was no so-called wine made from grain. The reason for this is probably that during this period, it would be good if the grain could meet the people's consumption, where would there be any excess to make wine? So this kind of wine is not worth mentioning at all for Zhao Yong, who has been on the battlefield.

Zhao Cheng didn't expect that Zhao Yong, who had been estranged from him since he succeeded to the throne, would be able to put down the monarch's frame and praise himself for "doing his best and dying".

Since becoming this commonplace, he has almost gone to the opposite side of the clan, and many elders of the clan have said that they are messing around with Zhao Yong and do not consider the interests of the descendants of the Zhao family. If it weren't for the fact that he himself had some prestige in the clan, I am afraid that he would have been bowed down a long time ago. These grievances can't be said to Zhao Yong, so they can only be carried by themselves. So Zhao Yong's words finally moved him a little, and he finally knew that his hard work was not in vain.

"This second glass of wine is for the sake of trading with South Korea, suing his uncle and the fourth secretary. This matter is a lonely road, and I may be able to get some benefits for my Zhao country. ”

"Your Majesty, forgive the old minister. If it's an ordinary thing, it's okay to give it to him, but this war horse can't be sold! ”

"Why?"

"Throughout the Central Plains, everyone is running for war horses. And occupying the land where horses are raised is precisely the greatest benefit. If there is no place to raise horses in Qi country, he will support Zhongshan to fight against me and obtain Zhongshan's horses; Although the Yan Kingdom is located in the northeast, the Yan people themselves are not brave and ruthless people, and they are in a safe corner and only want to protect themselves; The rest of the countries are either purchased or raised, so that among the seven countries, only the Qin State and my Zhao State have such fertile soil and produce countless war horses. And the king, he actually wanted to use the bow and crossbow of Korea to obtain my Zhao's horse, and the old minister didn't know what the king's plan was. ”

Zhao Yong put down the wine lord and said lightly: "Uncle, do you think that the horses of my Zhao Kingdom are better than other countries?" ”

"Well." Zhao Cheng thought for a while and said, "Probably because apart from Qin Zhao, there are no very good horses in other countries. After all, horses are not only expensive to raise, but also a huge expense for daily forage. The grassland is natural, the cost is relatively low, and it is more suitable for breeding. ”

"Then uncle, apart from Qin Zhao, do you think there is any other country that has such a pasture?"

Zhao Cheng thought for a while and said affirmatively: "No." ”

Zhao Yong smiled and asked again: "Uncle thinks that apart from crossbow arrows in South Korea, what other things are coveted by other countries?" ”

"Dreaming of it?" Zhao Cheng didn't know what Zhao Yong meant, so he had to follow his train of thought and answer, "Is it food?" ”

"The things that Korea produces are nothing more than grain and crossbow arrows, and the rest of the products are not its characteristics. Due to the attack on the blessed land of the Three Jin Dynasty, South Korea's grain is full of government treasury. But its merchants were thriving, but they were not managed. Therefore, Lone came up with such a plan. ”

"What's the strategy?"

"If I release the news that Zhao Guo intends to exchange horses for bows and crossbows, then in Korea, the production of bows and crossbows will inevitably be increased, and more people will be recruited to promote the completion of bows and crossbows." "However, when a large number of people are displaced to the place where the bow and crossbow are made, the land will be abandoned, and its grain production will inevitably decline." Of course, this mainly depends on the size of the subscription amount. ”

"And then?" Zhao Cheng somewhat believed that this was all arranged by Zhao Yong, but he had not yet found the magic of Zhao Yong's strategy.

"Uncle, after the prime minister of the Five Kingdoms, the Three Kingdoms of Qin, Qi and Chu will definitely not give up. In particular, the Qin State, the Rodent Sang Alliance, and the Three Kingdoms actually showed no signs of relaxation, which was what the Qin State did not want to see. If Gu is the king of Qin, he will definitely give color to Wei. ”

"What does this have to do with South Korea?"

"After Wei, it will definitely be South Korea, if you hit the door and are preparing, wouldn't it be too late?"

"Do you mean that if Korea abandons its land for the sake of the bow and crossbow, it is precisely killing itself? Does he have to choose to cling to others? ”

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. If there is no food and grass, how can we go to war? ”

"But what about the war horse?"

"Uncle just said that if there is no pasture in the Central Plains countries, it will inevitably cost a lot to maintain the number of horses. The more wealth Korea lacked, the more it wanted to sell its bow and crossbow in order to nourish its horse population. As a result, if I Zhao Guo tightens his breath, he will feel breathless, and if I loosen him, he will feel happy. Why not do such a deal? ”

Zhao Yong looked at Zhao Cheng proudly, but he didn't know that four hundred years ago, the Xiangguo Guan Zhong of Qi State had already begun to use this so-called simple economic warfare method. The most famous is the so-called Hengshan scheme.

It is said that when Duke Qi Huan wanted to seize Hengshan between Qi and Lu, he asked Ji Guan Zhong. Guan Zhong began to direct the Qi State to purchase weapons made in Hengshan on a large scale. Because the equipment made in Hengshan is famous all over the world, other countries heard that Qi bought weapons, and thought that Qi was going to mobilize the whole country to wage war, so they also went to buy Hengshan weapons.

Seeing that the business was good, the king of Hengshan called on the people to make weapons, so the land was abandoned, and Hengshan made a fortune.

Later, Qi began to buy Zhao's grain at three times the original price, so many countries began to send grain to Qi. A year later, Qi announced a moratorium on the purchase of weapons from Hengshan. Since it took more than a year to manufacture this weapon, Qi decisively broke the contract before the weapon was built, and other countries also broke the contract one after another.

This kind of economic warfare thinking, which Guan Zhong used skillfully, was also extremely rare in the pre-Qin period. After that, he successively used various economic tactics to launch an economic offensive against the Lu State, the Ju State, the Dai State, and even the Chu State, plundered a large amount of wealth, and made the Qi State rich and strong, but at that time, it was called the "light and heavy technique", and its fundamental idea was to raise prices, cause excess productivity, and then control trade rules, resulting in an imbalance between economic products and food products, thereby hitting the other party's economy. But in any case, in the end, it is the control of grain, because in this era, the most important hard currency is grain.

Zhao Yong's approach to South Korea this time is similar to Guan Zhong's approach. It's just that four hundred years ago, Guan Zhong fooled Hengshan, and this time, Zhao Yong really wanted to turn Korea into his vassal. Four hundred years have passed, and I wonder if Koreans can remember that period of history and fight against businessmen like Zhao Yong.

"What the king thinks and thinks, it is really beyond our guess." After listening to Zhao Yong's explanation, most of the tension in Zhao Cheng's heart suddenly disappeared, after all, it was just a verbal agreement now, and it didn't hurt. "I just hope that the Zhao Kingdom can prosper, and the situation that has been suppressed by other countries for many years, if the land cannot be preserved, my generation will not be able to return to Jinyang Gaomiao and meet the ancestors and ancestors."

"Don't worry, uncle." Like to Zhao Cheng, but also to himself, Zhao Yong muttered: "The current Zhao State, all it needs is time, time, a year, a year, you can see the results of the reform, can you blossom into a huge fruit." ”

"Your Majesty? Your Majesty? What do you mean? Zhao Cheng looked at Zhao Yong's sluggish expression, and whispered with some worry.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yong smiled at him and said two more words, but he still didn't understand.

What Zhao Yong said was: "Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and there are thousands of trees in front of the sick tree." ”