Chapter 12: Summer

Aristotle IV's directness made Zhao Zheng unspeakably embarrassed, and the ministers all bowed their heads, pretending not to hear this heart-wrenching truth, but they didn't expect the barbarian to add mercilessly: "This is the difference between Chu Ni and Qin Ni."

What Qin Ni can do, Chu Ni can't do. Chini can declare tomorrow: all the power of the state belongs to the common people, but Chuni does not dare. His Majesty thinks that if Chini seems to be more democratic than Chinny, if Chini civilians seem to be more empowered than Chini civilians to decide the fate of the country, more like the masters of the country, what will happen to Chinny? ”

"I don't know." Zhao Zheng had no experience in class struggle, let alone what democracy was.

"The plebeians of Chuni will hate the nobles, and even the king of Chuni. And then," Aristotle IV laughed. "They will riot, they will rebel, they will fight the armies of the nobility to fight for the power they deserve. As long as blood is shed, the line between commoners and nobles is automatically created and will never be bridged. ”

"Good! Great goodness!! Zhao Zheng's earlier embarrassment was swept away, and he was succumbed to Aristotle IV's political philosophy.

At this time, he had the feeling of 'seeing this person swimming with him, and he didn't hate it' when he read Han Fei's works before. When he walked to Meixian, Wei Yi's car arrived, and he brought news that Feixun could not express clearly: "King Qiqi, Jing, Qi, and Wei are the three kingdoms of the Great Expedition, and they want to send 600,000 people to save Zhao." ”

"600,000 troops?" Reality finally woke Zhao Zheng up, and he found that victory was real, and everything else was fake.

"Yes, yes." Wei Yu reported that the number of enemy troops was high. "The Guowei Mansion thought that the Jing people sent 250,000 troops, the Qi people sent 200,000 troops, and the Wei people sent 150,000 troops, totaling 600,000 armor soldiers, and they would send Daliang north to rescue Zhao in 40 days."

To the north of Daliang is the Qin realm, and there is still some distance from the Yellow River, but no one will be naΓ―ve to think that the Qin army can fight a decisive battle with the Hezong army south of the Da River, which will only be cut off by the Chu army's war boats. The decisive battle will be held near Gongyi, outside of Baicheng.

"How about Da Qin?" Zhao Zheng's face lost the usual joy of the past few days, only as heavy as lead.

"Please send all the soldiers of the whole country to fight with him!" Wei Yu said. "600,000 people are only good at fighting, and Qi people and Wei people are weak. If our army has a million, we will be able to defeat it. ”

"Millions?!" Zhao Zheng was taken aback by the number in Wei Yi's mouth. "How is the grain transported?"

"The grain is safe." Wei Yu said. "Shangdang, Hanoi, and Dong Counties, the three counties have more than 50 counties, each county has more than 10,000 households, a total of more than 600,000 households, each household is taxed and sold in the market 50 stones, there are 30 million stones. There are still more than 10 million stones of millet stored in Gongyi and north of Baicheng today. Fighting food for three stones in January can be eaten by millions of people for four or five months. ”

It was difficult to transport grain from Hedong Road to the south of Handan, and Henan Province was easily cut off by the Chu army. In the last war, the Qin army began to build granaries in the north of Gongyi and Baicheng, and stored grain and weeds from more than 50 counties of Shangdang County, Hanoi County, and Dong County on the spot. This is basically a land transportation within 300 miles, and there is also water transportation, but the grain stored in the warehouse is only more than 17 million stones.

"What about after April?" Zhao Zheng asked. He was well aware of the constraints of the Qin army, and grain was the most important factor.

"After April, the millet will be harvested, and if they don't fight with us again, the river will be frozen, so they can only retreat." Wei Yu said. "Although the Three Kingdoms have boats, once the rivers are frozen, the boats will not work, and they must fight with me. I can also retreat to Baicheng and not come out, only to order Wang Jian to lead 300,000 men to storm Handan, if the Three Kingdoms go north to Handan, I can cut off their way back. ”

In the case of internal operations, if there are preparations, grain is not much of a problem. The reason why the Chu State stopped building sea boats and built large ships was also because the sea boats could not enter the inland river to transport grain.

After Wei Yu finished speaking, he said: "If the Three Kingdoms don't fight with me, the Zhao State will die." If Zhao Guo dies, I will win one of the three worlds and one of the worlds, and I will win. The Three Kingdoms fought against me, and I may postpone the battle with the Great River until the Great River is frozen, so that the spirit of their army has been lost and their morale has fluctuated, and I have won a great victory. If the Jing people attack my camp with the weapons of breaking the city and the magic weapons, and fight me quickly, I will need a million soldiers to win a great victory.

Please know, the king, this battle is the battle of my Great Qin to destroy the four kingdoms and the whole world, if this battle is won, the world will be decided. ”

Destroy the four countries, one day! These six words frightened Zhao Zheng's soul, didn't he pursue it exactly one day? If this battle is won, the Qin army defeats the Three Kingdoms Combined Columnist Army, and in the future, it will be a matter of course to destroy Wei, Chu, and Qi. But if this battle is lost......

"Wei Qing thinks ......, will our army win?" Zhao Zheng, who had forgotten to breathe, asked.

"There are no 850,000, and they cannot be defeated." Wei Yu said. "The minister thinks that if he wants to defeat the Jing people, he must be twice as dead. There are 250,000 Jing people, so 500,000 are needed, and the rest are equal enough, and more is better. ”

There are 3 million households in the Qin State, and each household has 3 million people, and the key is whether the grain can support it. In that year, the decisive battle was fought in Changping, and the first king Zhaoxiang gave the common people of Hanoi a first-class knighthood, just to transport grain. Now that there is enough food to eat until the autumn harvest of millet, there is nothing to hinder the millions of Qin troops from fighting a decisive battle against the Three Kingdoms in Gongyi.

"Yes!" Zhao Zheng nodded, and after he agreed, he looked at Wei Yu again and admonished: "This battle can be won and cannot be defeated!" ”

"The minister knows." Wei Yi understood what Zhao Zheng meant, and his heart was a little cold.

"Who's the general?" Zhao Zheng asked again. He was not at ease when the army of millions was handed over to others.

"Take Li Xin as the general. Feng Zheng is the right general, and Meng Tian is the left general. "Wei Yu informed." The protector is Zhao Hai. ”

The army protector is an important way for the imperial court to control the army, and I heard that Zhao Hai is the army, and Zhao Zheng no longer says more. Zhao Gao was ordered to write the royal decree, and after stamping the seal, it was handed over to Wei Yu. Wei Yu did not stop, and on the same day he hurried back to Xianyang, more than 200 miles away, and a few days later, when Zhao Zheng's car returned to Xianyang, the soldiers from all counties and counties across the country had begun to be requisitioned.

Zhao Zhengxi went to Di Dao to greet the barbarians, so that he did not look at the court for more than two months. In the early morning of this day, the Xuanduan outside the Gao Gate of the palace trembled, and it was extremely lively, and almost everyone was whispering to the Lord Yidi who had returned from the royal family.

"Your Excellency?!" Fu Qiu Bo shouted loudly, "How can there be adults in the clan of Ru Mao who drink blood and are clothed in feathers and skins? He is Bai Di, Bai Di jackal, not to be tired. The king must have been bewitched by others, so he welcomed him into Qin. ”

"The king also wants the eldest son Fusu to worship him as the prince...... "Qin ministers have many guest secretaries, and most of the guest secretaries are people who offer advice and advice to strengthen Qin, not some erudite people. As a disciple of Xun Kuo, Uncle Fu Qiu was itchy with his teeth towards Lord Bai Di, but these guests did not have so much resentment, and they mostly had a lively attitude towards this matter.

"That's a big fallacy!" Fu Qiu Bo was furious. "The eldest son worships Bai Di as the prince, and this is the one who changes the summer, how can you sit idly by?"

No matter how much Uncle Fu Qiu slanders Lord Yidi who is welcomed by the king, the ministers are also watching the excitement, but he wants to pull everyone over to oppose Lord Yidi together, especially if the king is on the rise, then everyone will not participate.

After Fu Qiu Bo finished speaking, everyone stepped back and distanced themselves from him. He was even more angry when he saw everyone like this, and then a voice came from behind him: "Why should Uncle Zi be like this? "It's Han Fei.

"They didn't know the difference between Yixia and Xia. Now the king wants to make Fusu Bai Di the prince, and he wants to do the way of Yi Di in the future! Fu Qiu Bo was furious, and the jade wat in his hand was almost broken by him.

"The prince welcomes Lord Bai Di, and he must have a plan to force Qin." The teacher is a Confucian, but Han Fei is not, he does not have the slightest indignation like Uncle Fu.

"But this is Yiyi to change summer!" Fu Qiu Bo seemed to want to transfer all his anger towards others to Han Fei.

"What about summer?" Han Fei didn't care at all about the change of summer that Fu Qiu Bo said, he said: "'The guests and ministers can come up with strange plans to strengthen Qin, I will respect the officials and share the land with them', this ancestor Mu Gong's order to seek merit. Great Qin can become today's Great Qin because no matter whether it is high or low, does not distinguish between Yixia and Xia, and does not distinguish between enemies and me, but all plans that can strengthen the country and benefit must be carried out. Zheng Guo was originally Han Hou, and he entered Qin as a plan to exhaust the enemy, but so what? Repairing the canal is beneficial to Daqin, but what if it is Hou Spy? ”

"You!" Fu Qiu Bo was furious. Confucianism values 'righteousness', but Legalism values 'profit', what he cares about, Han Fei doesn't care at all.

"They are all teachers and disciples, why are they angry at each other?" The older the official, the later he arrived, Li Si came, and when he saw Fu Qiu Bo arguing with Han Fei, he came over to speak. He said Fu Qiu Bo lowered his head, and then looked at Han Fei, "You are also a teacher and student, why do you want to help Bai Di speak?" ”

Li Si also glanced at Han Fei in a word, and he said again: "Among the disciples, you are the most eloquent, and today you should refute that Bai Di with me." ”

"No." Relying on Xiong Jing's reminder and Xun Jing's protection, Han Fei did not die tragically in prison. Lord Bai Di was actually very happy to enter Qin Han Fei's heart. With that Master Bai Di here, he is no longer a thorn in Li Si's eyes and a thorn in his flesh, but has become the object of his wooing. After Li Si finished speaking, he replied with a promise, and he didn't want to argue with that Master Bai Di at allβ€”once he did, Li Si might be worried that he would rob him of his position.

Han Fei thought so much in his heart, and after entering the court, he realized that he was obviously thinking too much, and Lord Bai Di didn't want to debate with everyone at all.

"I was told that Qin Ni was a powerful nation, and that he had the wisest monarchs, the most warlike soldiers, and the wisest ministers. I, Aristotle IV, as a sign of my respect for His Majesty, have made a crown of pure gold for His Majesty. ”

Aristotle IV stood under the throne of Zhao Zheng, dressed in a white Greek-style toga robe, and calmly spoke to the more than 700 courtiers of the Qin state. With his words, the servant offered the beautiful golden crown.

"However, I was concerned that the artisans were mixing silver, white lead, or red copper. Since Qin Ni has so many of the wisest ministers, please help me to discern whether this crown is pure gold? I only have one request, which is not to damage it during screening. ”