Chapter 14 Seeking Peace
Because of commercial law, Qin's superiority over the Six Kingdoms lies in the mobilization system and grain production, but Qin also had times when there was a shortage of grain. From the tenth year of Xiong Jing's accession to the throne of Qin (237 BC), the large-scale warfare of the Qin army was interrupted for only two years.
One year is the twelfth year of the reign of King Qin (235 BC), before the Chu army captured Aocang, there was no worry about grain in the country, and the Qin State was in great drought, 'no rain since June, as for August', this year the Qin State striked; the other year was the sixteenth year of the reign of King Qin (231 BC), this year Li Mu defeated the Qin army again, the Three Kingdoms wanted to send troops to rescue Zhao, the Qin army had to retreat to Jingcheng Sai, suspend the offensive.
Cutting Chu, destroying Zhao, and destroying Qi, every time it is a national battle, because of the Chu army's boat division, the transportation can not be transported through the waterway, and can only be transported by land that costs several times, from ten years ago to the present, the potential of the Qin State has been tapped to the limit. At the same time, the counties south of the Qinling Mountains were all taken away by the Chu State, and the Xianyang Taicang corn was burned when the Chu army invaded.
Last year's grain was already at its limit, and this year's grain is unsustainable. If we continue to fight, most of the people will freeze to death this winter after most of the corn is requisitioned this year. Next year, if there is no one to cultivate, the army will collapse, and the Qin state will also fall.
Facing up, Zhao Zheng was very angry, but what Wang Juan said was all the truth, he could only endure his anger and throw this question at Wei Yu. The strategy of dominating the world was formulated by Wei Yu, who advocated the strategy of fighting with wits rather than strength, using a roundabout way to first swallow up Zhao Qi and other states, and finally use the world's grain and armor to consume the most difficult state of Chu. A country like Chu cannot withstand long-term attrition, as evidenced by the fact that the Nanjun soldiers under the Chu-style military system were scattered by the cavalry of the Qin army.
Over the years, Zhao Zheng has been very clear that the so-called battle of wisdom rather than strength is actually to allow the Chu army to attack itself and point the front of the troops outside the Chu state, and make up for the losses of his own country under the attack of the Chu army by plundering other countries. The truth is impeccable, but plunder cannot make up for it immediately, and the Qin State, where the old power has gone and the new force has not yet been born, is in the weakest state.
When Zhao Zheng asked, he thought about the strategy that Wei Yu had formulated again, and he said with some difficulty before Wei Yi answered: "Daniel, you should make peace with Jing Ren, so ......"
"No, never!" Wei Yu knew what Zhao Zheng meant, and hurriedly spoke out. "If I seek peace, King Jing will definitely want the Qin army to withdraw from the three kingdoms of Qi, Guo, and Han, if I don't retreat, how can I make peace? And King Jing has only been on the throne for ten years, and Jing has Jing crossbows, giant irons, war boats, witch weapons and other things. ”
"What will Jing Guo have?" Zhao Zheng asked Wei Yi rhetorically.
"The minister doesn't know what Jing will have." Wei Yi was helpless. "The system of Jing is different from my Great Qin. What can I do in Daqin, Shaofu and Jifu can be calculated, and the reason for this Qin law is also; What can come out of the Jing Kingdom, even the King of Jing can't know, how can the ministers know? ”
The Qin system was a meticulous management of existing things, and it was difficult for it to produce new things, because it was not allowed by Qin laws, and innovation was often seen as waste; Even if the state of Chu is negligent in managing ready-made things, it doesn't matter how many calves a cow gives birth to a year, this is your own cow, and whether or not you give birth to calves has nothing to do with the government.
In other words, the Qin system can only manage the past, and the Chu system is conducive to the future. And the future is unpredictable, how does Wei Yu know what offensive tools will appear in Jing next year and the year after? Now he only knows that the weapons of the Chu State are endless, and the tactics of the Chu army are changing with each passing day, if he had known this, he would definitely not have adopted roundabout tactics, and he would have destroyed the Chu State first if he sacrificed half of the Qin State back then.
Regret was only for a moment, and Wei Yu said again: "The minister thinks that if we can win the battle in Sanguan, our army will win Bashu again, and the grain will be worry-free." ”
"Win the battle?!" Zhao Zheng looked at him in disbelief, his anger slowly turned into a smile, and then he shook his head, shaking his head vigorously. "Just those left-toeded pawns?"
"Yes!" Wei Wei nodded, it was his idea to recruit the debris, and they ate wheat instead of corn.
"Huh!" Zhao Zheng's hand was raised with all his might, but in the end it was not slapped on several cases. "What if you lose?"
"Apologize for your sins with death!" Wei Yi knelt down and bowed.
"Whether you die or not has nothing to do with Great Qin, the widow only asks, if this battle is lost, what will happen to Great Qin?" Zhao Zheng had a cold face, and the words came out from the bottom of his heart, with a coldness that he usually didn't have.
"If you can't win this battle, Great Qin will die." Wei Yu was unmoved, he knew that the monarch he was serving was a very realistic person.
"If you sue for peace, Daqin will also die?" Zhao Zheng continued.
"Yes, yes." Wei Yi nodded heavily, "You must not give Jing people a chance to breathe, otherwise they will ......"
"If you don't win the war, you die, and you die this year; Seeking peace and dying, but dying in the next year and the year after ......" Zhao Zheng, who spoke, suddenly thought of a person, he wanted to say that the Qin State might not die, but he didn't say it.
"If you fight, the victory of Great Qin can be in one day; Seeking peace, although Daqin may not die, it will never be able to go down in a day. Wei Yu told Zhao Zheng what he didn't mean to say, and told him about the consequences of doing so.
"The minister heard that King Jing didn't want to go down for a day, this mistake is also! The Spring and Autumn Rites collapsed, the Warring States killed people, and today, the world will be one in one country, and this destiny is not something that can be stopped by manpower. No matter how strong Jing people are, can they be stronger than people's hearts? Jing Jun is good at fighting, can he win the Mandate of Heaven? I thought otherwise. I don't think so, the minister thinks that those who go under the sky in one day must not be Jing people, but Qin people. ”
"Why?" The courtiers were tempting themselves to dominate the world in order to persuade themselves to bet on the Qin State Sheji, and Zhao Zheng was naturally vigilant.
"Jing people only want to be Jing people." Wei Yu sighed. "Jing people regard Jing people as completely different from people from other countries, Jing people only want to live in Jing land and do not want to go to other countries, Jing people are proud of being Jing people, and they are ashamed of non-Jing people.
Jing people are good at fighting, but Jing people know that they are Jing people, and their comrades are brothers and sisters, and they will lead their fathers and brothers. Although there is a system of honorable scholars, the ministers have heard that there are Jing people who are willing to be honored scholars. Why? The person said: The whole teacher is a scholar, why do you push me alone? ”
"Really?!" Zhao Zheng's body was shocked, unable to believe it.
"This Hou spy has reported, how can the minister talk nonsense." Wei Yu said. "Jing people only want to be Jing people, only want to live in Jing land, and only be proud of Jing country. The minister heard that the sea is tolerant of all rivers, there is tolerance is great, with the narrow heart of the Jing people, and the ambition of the king of Jing to do nothing, how to do it in one day? How to rule the world in one day? Therefore, the minister often says: Whoever goes down in one day will be my Great Qin! If King Jing does not accept the mandate of heaven, he will lose his country; The king does not accept the mandate of heaven, and he will regret it. ”
"However, if this battle is lost, the grain will be ......" Zhao Zheng said Wei Yi's heart was pounding, but when he thought of the reality again, he sighed again.
"The minister thought that our army would win this battle." Wei Yu said with certainty. "When the Qi people are defeated, the ministers will perceive the destiny of heaven, and whoever goes down will be my Great Qin. Great Qin should fight with the Jing people again, and must not make peace with the Jing people. ”
In order to convince Zhao Zheng, Wei Yi even said that he perceived the Mandate of Heaven, which Zhao Zheng was deeply suspicious of. "Stand down." He said.
"The minister has another thing to tell the king." Wei Yu said again.
"What?" Zhao Zheng pressed his forehead, puzzled by the difficult decision at the moment.
"Hou Spy said, King Jing knows that the eldest son is hostage to Qiang, and he has killed King Qiang." Wei Yu said.
Zhao Zheng was stunned when he heard this, anger rose on his face, and he said fiercely: "Who is it? Who?! Who is the Jing people's Hou Spy. ”
"Only the king, Lord Bai Di, the eldest son, Wuji, and the five ministers know about this matter." Wei Yu said: "I think it's not the eldest son." ”
The first thing Zhao Zheng thought of was his son Fusu, but he didn't expect that he had worked hard to educate for many years, but he was still towards King Jing, but Wei Yi said that he was not a son. This makes Zhao Zheng wonder, who would it be if it wasn't Fusu?
"The eldest son is accompanied by temple people and guards from time to time, and he is summoned to King Jing, but he can't." Wei Yu dispelled Zhao Zheng's suspicions about Fusu, and then said: "This is either not taboo, or ...... Or a native of Zhiyang Palace. ”
"People from Zhiyang Palace?" Zhiyang Palace is the dormitory of Bai Di Taifu, and most of the people in the palace are Bai Di people.
"Yes." Wei Yu said. "Lord Bai Di has first been envoys in Yingdu, and then he has entered my Daqin as envoys, and only Di is spoken in the palace. If Lord Bai Di knew that Pisi bribed him with a lot of money when he was in Yingdu, he thought that the Marquis of Jing was a spy ......"
"You just said that you will win this battle!" Zhao Zheng wanted to laugh but couldn't, a cold sweat broke out on his back, and he felt the feeling of the rest of his life.
"Because of this, the ministers will win this battle." With a smile on his face, Wei Wei said that he would win and not completely nonsense.
"If this is deliberately done by the Jing people, how can they fail in their plan to die?" Zhao Zheng returned to his previous calm tone, with some complaints. After many blows, he no longer believed that the National Governor's Mansion could fight against Zhibisi. "Stand down."
Wei Yi was stunned by his question, and he also wondered why the other party would tell him about King Jing competing to kill King Qiang, Zhao Zheng's questioning made him speechless, so he could only bow down and retreat. Wei Yi, who hoped that Zhao Zheng would listen to his advice, heard the bad news when he saw the court on the third day: Qin would send envoys to make peace with Jing Guo. As soon as the king's order came out, the ministers, who usually did not dare to speak, suddenly shouted Long live the king.
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"The Qin people sue for peace?!" As soon as the envoy came out of Xianyang, he knew that the news of the company had arrived in Yingdu, and Nao was dumbfounded when he looked at the news.
"Yes, yes." Don't let me smile at all, "Qin envoy Ganluo has come out of Xianyang, and he will be able to reach Fangcheng in a few days." ”
"Ganro?" Gan Luo's ancestral home is also a Chu person, and his nationality is in Xia Cai. He will not be as close as an envoy as a weak envoy, nor will he be as close as Chang Wenjun as an envoy, this is a suitable candidate for an envoy. The State of Qin sent someone suitable for the envoy to Chu, and that was because he really wanted to make peace with the State of Chu.
"There was a great hunger in the Qin State for two years, and the pavilion chief did not allow the common people to die in the road, but there were many dead people in the lu." Don't talk to me.
"Yes. The Qin people were ultimately short of food and grass. Nao nodded slightly. When Qin destroyed Zhao, Chu was accumulating millet, if it weren't for the urging of Cheng Jie and others, and the defeat of the Zhao people, the attack on Qin would have been delayed by one year. Fortunately, the effect still came out, and the Qin State, which had exhausted its food, barely dragged it out until this year, and it couldn't drag it out any longer.
"You can't make peace with the Qin people!" Nao Cunning threw the news on the case and said his attitude.
"The king will make peace with the Qin people." Don't let me smile and say the king's attitude.
"The king of Qiang made peace with the Qin people, and the king killed the king of Qiang. If the king makes peace with the Qin people, wouldn't the king be, wouldn't it be ......" Nao's cunning voice was raised, there was no possibility of alliance between Chu and Qin, and one side must fall completely.
"What if the Qin State can withdraw from the three places of Qi, Zhao and Han?" Don't talk about a possibility that is difficult to achieve. "Then take the west as the boundary, and the land to the west will be cut off from the Qiang people......"
"As far as Qin is concerned, how is this different from the death of the country?" Nao sneered.
"The grain of the Qin army may be able to support the corn harvest next year, but after next year, there will be no corn in the country, how is this different from the death of the country?" Don't talk to me. "The subordinates think that our army can win without a fight."
"Why?" Nao looked at him slyly, his eyes twitching and twining.
"Only talk about peace, there will be no alliance, drag it out without fighting, the Qin people will be defeated." Don't pretend I didn't see Nao's cunning contempt, and said Cao Penghuan's thoughts. This is the safest way, although it is not without a single soldier, but the casualties of the soldiers can be minimized.
"I know!" Nao didn't react at all, and he knew that I couldn't have any good ideas. "I will tell the king this news."
"Yui." Don't hide the disappointment I hidden, I withdrew from the Ming Hall. Soon, the news of the Qin people sending an envoy to sue for peace reached the Shangluo County Command, and when Nao Xin read this news, the lieutenant general was sitting in the Ming Hall to discuss the army.
"Ah......, the Qin people are asking for peace? The Qin people are defeated! The generals first opened their mouths wide, and then shouted loudly, and people were eager to jump a few times in the hall.
"Rude!" Deng Sui was a little older, and knew that the Qin people were scheming and untrustworthy, and he was even more displeased to be rude in front of the king.
"What else?" Xiong Jing was also stunned just now, King Qin sent an envoy to sue for peace, doesn't this mean that the war can be over? But he soon thought of the price of ending the war, that Qin would not only have to make peace with Chu, but that Qin would have to make peace with the Kwantung states, and that such a price would set Qin's borders back to ten years ago.
“…… The state of Qin may send envoys to sue for peace due to lack of food, and the Qin envoy Ganluo will enter Chu in the near future. The matter of seeking peace concerns all nations, not my own affairs. "Nao Xin continues to read the text." Or maybe this is a plan for the Qin people to leave me, and seeing that the Yingshi army is stationed in Shangluo, he sent an envoy to sue for peace......"
Feixun was sent by Nao Cunning, he was not optimistic, but a little worried, worried that this was the Qin people's strategy. It is not the first time that the Qin people have always fought when they can win the war, and if they cannot win the war, they will divide and divide, create disagreements within the enemy country, and bribe the ministers of the enemy country to replace the generals.
Listening to it, Xiong Jing's joy slowly faded. Qin's quest for peace at this time may be due to the lack of food in the country, but it is more likely to be a ploy. The transformation of the two states of war and peace, the king of Qin can decide in a word. This is not the case with the state of Chu, the Kwantung states plus the tribes of Yue, Ba, and Qiang, and if one is not good, it will make the hearts of the allies unstable, especially the Qiang people.
What to do? Will it really make peace with the Qin State, or will it continue to fight as planned and completely defeat the Qin State?
war, if defeated, the state of Chu will also die; And, assuming that this was a ploy of the Qin state, in order to cause turmoil on all sides, the Qin army suddenly attacked......
"Prepare the car! The widow wants to return to Wancheng. After thinking about it, Xiong Jing suddenly said. Either way, before Ganro arrived, he had to stabilize his interior.
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