Chapter 12: Retirement
According to the operational plan of the Operations Division, in the previous stage of the operation, the Chu army had either annihilated Li Xin's troops, causing a great loss of the strength of the Qin army and stopping the war, or pulled out Xianyang and established Fusu as the king, and began to influence the national affairs of the Qin State. It's a pity that after two months, none of them have been completed. It did not greatly damage the strength of the Qin army, nor did it kill or capture Zhao Zheng, and established Su as king.
The war continues, and it is getting worse. With Xiong Qi's identity, the car was broken, and King Qin Zhaoxiang was just chasing the four nobles, and only the night pots that Shang Ying and Fan Sui threw away after the king used them were this treatment. Xiong Qi was torn apart by the car, and Mi Qian was severely beaten, both of which mean that King Qin is comprehensively purging the Chu forces in the country, and it also means that Chu Qin is gradually falling into a deadlock.
Advancing westward, withdrawing Zhao, and forcing Qi were the main strategies, but everyone avoided talking about expanding new divisions and brigades on the basis of the original. This is the urine nature of the aristocracy: there are no more officers to form new troops, and it is also a stubborn disease in the political system of the Chu State: force is power. The conscripted commoners immediately had a power similar to that of a citizen, and this power was unwilling to be given by those with vested interests.
In addition, another drawback of the Chu political system was its reluctance to expand. Fuying, Fufang City, Fuhanzhong, and Fushang in ......, these are all the hometowns before the Chu State, and after the recovery, they were just divided into landless clans and honorable scholars. But apart from these places, the ministers have no interest in any other placesβ
If there is no organization and no nobles in the newly occupied area, and the nobles and scholars must be sent to re-establish the grassroots organization, they will be very unhappy to leave the Chu State and go to the place. Originally, he could hunt and live six games with others in Yunmengze every month, but he had to go outside Fang City to live a boring life, which was something that no nobleman was willing to do.
The Macedonian general Cretos, who was killed by Alexander's drunken mistake, once said: 'I would rather starve to death on the streets of Macedonia than show off in Asia, dressed in oriental fancy clothes.' This is not a sign of white supremacy, and any general in Chu would say, 'I would rather starve to death on the streets of Yingdu than show off in Western costumes in Europe.'" 'The aristocracy is always an exclusive and inseparable group, and no one wants to be separated from one another.
And if the newly occupied area is organized and has a nobility, there is no need to send people to the local area. Then something even more terrible will happen: the nobles of the Western Lands, who had an absolute advantage in the Orthodox Dynasty, suddenly found that they had become numerically inferior because of the new nobles who had newly entered the Orthodox Dynasty. This is also intolerable to them, and it is more terrible than giving power to the common people. If there are more and more new nobles who have entered the dynasty, and in the end they become a minority, and they will rebel.
Just as constant whack-a-mole was the only requirement of the Qin political system, the balance of power was the only requirement of the Chu political system. This point is fully reflected in the westward expansion strategy, and Li Ji, Nao and others suggested not to include Ba and Shu in the Chu state, because the local tribal chieftains joining the Zheng Dynasty would greatly affect the balance of power in the court.
Xiong Jing was suddenly a little stunned when he heard their statement, isn't this the United States not wanting the Philippines? The inclusion of the Philippines in the United States will add more than 10 million people, not counting the sudden increase in population, but also the addition of more than 10 million Catholics, and these people are still very poor. No matter how much the Philippines has immeasurable military value, rich labor resources, and irreplaceable natural resources, it absolutely cannot be incorporated into the United States.
From the standpoint of the United States, it turned out that it was completely correct to allow the Philippines to become independent at that time. The Philippines was incorporated into the United States, and later it was inevitable that the Philippines would be expensive. With a population of just over 30 million blacks, the American political system has been turned upside down, and the Philippines, with a population of more than 100 million, is sure to cause a second civil war.
The incorporation of one or two million people in Bashu will definitely cause turmoil in the political system of the Chu State, but it will not be incorporated into ....... Xiong Jing looked at his courtiers, of course he didn't want to make anything expensive in the future, but if he didn't merge Bashu into the Chu State, could there be any other way?
"The minister thinks that he can be allowed to be a vassal state." Nao said slyly, this is a political strategy. "The same is true of the Qin people. Ba Renshi married a Qin girl, if you want to rebel against Qin, you should marry a Chu girl. β
Mi Xuan is already married, married to Yiyang Hou Yidrunk, but there are still several unmarried princesses in the palace.
"No." He shook his head again and again. "Ba people can marry Chu women, what about Yue people?"
After announcing that the next four generations with the same surname could be married, Xiong Jing's wives were hot when they saw it. If you marry a Ba person, the more people are displeased, and if you marry a more people, the Chu people are displeased. Two peaches can kill three soldiers, and a few princesses can disrupt the political situation in Chu State.
"So what?" Xiong Jing looked at everyone, and before he could talk about the military part, the diplomatic part alone was stuck.
"The minister thinks that he should be allowed to return to the country." Li said.
"No." To everyone's surprise, Xiong Jing said no. The ministers were surprised, Xiong Jing may have forgotten the grand plan to restore the country a few years ago, but they all remembered.
"It can only be allowed to be autonomous." Xiong Jing didn't pay attention to everyone's expressions, and only said what he thought.
"Great king, a state is self-government. Why did the Ba people rebel against Qin and return to me? Jin Yidao, others were also puzzled.
"If the Ba people don't rebel against Qin and return to me, they will be defeated." Bear's toughness is unusually uncommon.
"The king is fallacious! My westward march is to collect the Ba people and the Shu people and use them, to crusade against the Qin people, not them. Jin Yi was even more puzzled. Allow them to return to their country, and they will gladly obey it. β
"No, no!" Xiong Jing said angrily. "If they don't accept it, they will crusade."
"What is the use of the king's crusade against the Ba people and the Shu people?" This time it was Li, and he couldn't understand why the king had become so fast.
The minister thought, "Don't talk to me." "Maybe you can allow it to return to the country first, and wait for the Qin State to ...... in the future"
"I'd rather die than repeat it!" Xiongjing's anger was directed towards me. He also wanted to scold him for being despicable, so he endured it.
"What does the king want?" Nao and Zhao Huang didn't understand what Xiong Jing meant, and they didn't understand why he didn't allow the Ba people and Shu people to return to the country.
"How about not wanting to?" Xiong Jing said solemnly: "First, only the Ba people and Shu people are allowed to be autonomous, and they are not allowed to return to the country; Second, it is not necessary for the Ba people and the Shu people to use the Chu State to attack Qin together; Third, if they don't want to, they will crusade against it! Fourth, it is better not to die than to talk about it, autonomy is autonomy, and the restoration of the country will restore the country, how can the two be confused. β
One, two, three, four, Xiong Jing said it clearly, and everyone's faces turned gloomy after hearing it. If you ask the Ba people and the Shu people like this, there will definitely be no result, they will always stand on the side of the Qin people, maybe the Qin people will coax them to allow the restoration of the country.
"What is the king?" Nao said slyly. "Why can't Bashu return to the country?"
"Why can't you return to the country?" Xiong Jing Road. "Because the world will be one, how can it be allowed to return to the country."
"The world will indeed be one, but it will be one in Qin, not one in Chu." Nao Wei stood up and waved at Xiong Jing, "Please retreat." β
"Please retire as well." Zhao Huang also stood up and saluted, and after him, everyone else stood up and said to Xiong Jing, "Please also retire." β
"You wait......" The courtiers bowed and retreated, Xiong Jing couldn't stop shouting, and when they were all gone, he still said to himself: "Even if you lose the country and the society, you will have to go down for a day." β