Chapter 20: Routines

Wei Yi's clear distinction between public and private made Zhao Zheng slightly stunned, he was always used to using the Qin State to set the Chu State, and the results of such a set were often wrong. The state of Chu was not a centralized state since its founding, according to Wei Yu, the state of Chu was a northerner who moved south and ruled many Yue people; The Qin State was a westward migration of the easterners, and the Duorong people were under their rule, but the difference between the east and the west was not as great as the difference between the north and the south.

Since the Yin Shang period and even the Xia period, the Beiren have centered on clans, and the clans have been centered on witches, thus forming a close-knit samurai-witch group, and all of them are loyal to this group. Xia people, Yin people, Zhou people, all like this. The southerners are different, the southerners are mostly the Yue people, and the Yue people take the boat as a chariot and horse, and often have no fixed residence. There may be groups, and they do not revere witches like the northerners. Even if it is revered, it is also reverence for the local witch, the clan witch or the house witch who is not a clan.

After the death of the Yue people, they did not necessarily inform the whole clan, and the funeral was very simple, so they used the wooden boat before their death as a coffin, and their relatives and friends hung it to the high cliff, thinking that the coffin was hanging. The northerners are different, they all converge and stop the coffin according to their identity, and then bury them in a beautiful way.

In a nutshell, the northerners pay attention to face and are afraid that their clansmen will look down on them. A common people, if someone can 'treat them as a national soldier', he will definitely 'repay them as a national soldier'. The southerners are different, they rarely have the concept of clans, and even if they do, they are not close. Even if they are a clan, they are often scattered everywhere, isolated from each other or fighting each other, Baiyue, Baipu, and so on.

Nanren don't care about the evaluation of others, and they don't care about the honor given by large groups (groups that cannot be reached). If you 'treat him as a countryman', he may not 'repay him as a countryman'. If you force him with force, he will be unruly and resist to the death. This kind of governance of the people is bound to be 'obeyed after the way, and rebel first if there is no way', and if they want to plant the concept of family and country in their hearts, it is necessary to force it.

Of course, this is also a reason why the northerners invaded the south and the southerners were defeated. They are also Yue people, but they are scattered all over the south, fighting each other, there is no way to concentrate all the armor soldiers to fight, and there is no way to establish a country themselves. The state of Chu was founded by the northerners, and the state of Wu was also built by the northerners, and the state of Yue was influenced by the north, which turned the clan into a country......

was originally a native barbarian, but because of the Ao system of the Chu State, it became 'public and private'. Thinking of the past of the southerners, Zhao Zheng, who was slightly stunned, had a smile on his face again. Those barbarians who don't know what the clan and the country are, how can they know public and private.

Zhao Zheng laughed, Wei Yi reflected on what he said, and said busily: "The minister is mistaken." Jing people only know the great selfishness, but they don't know what the grand duke is. King Jing and the Queen Mother of Jing will not allow Jing to damage the selfishness of Jing for their own selfishness. ”

"The selfishness of the king is the public of the whole country, and it is also a fallacy to do not do the public of the whole country for the sake of his own selfishness." Zhao Zheng corrected Wei Yu's mistakes. "The benefit of the Great Qin is the benefit of the Qin people, and the widow is the country, so the benefit of the widow is the benefit of the Qin people, and this is the Grand Duke. The courtiers of Jing State did not do the justice of the country for their own selfishness, and they were rebellious. ”

"Be respectful and teachable." If you study Chu more times, your values will be reversed, and now Zhao Zheng will correct the upside-down three views, and Wei will not stop worshipping.

"Jing people are selfish and don't save Zhao, so should I be promoted from Hanzhong and Bashu?" Zhao Zheng, who had taken care of the situation, turned his mind back to the map, and he became more and more worried about the situation in the southwest.

"I think so." Wei Yu said. "The Jing people will move their capitals when they return to Ying, and the country will be ruined in the past, and now they will be reinforced. Hanzhong and Bashu will go all out to seize it, so the ministers think that the Qin army should go all out to the east, and after the death of Zhao, it should die quickly. ”

"Dead Qi?" Zhao Zheng had the intention of refusing in his heart, Qi State had always been submissive to Qin State, and this time he was defeated again, which made Jing people lose good generals, and he wanted to put Qi State in the last forced landing.

"Yes." Wei Yu knew Zhao Zheng's psychology, in fact, he also wanted to finally sweep away the Qi State that had no combat effectiveness, which was the case in history, but now everything is different. "Jing people are strong, but no matter how strong Jing people are, they are only four or five million people, and it takes seven years to have three years. And Wei's accumulation of millet is transported to Chu, and Qi's clothing, shoes, fishing and freight are in Chu.

If I cut down Wei and die Qi, the Jing people will have no millet in Wei, no clothes in Qi, and it will be difficult to accumulate corn. Su, the foundation of war. Without the help of Wei Qi, it will be difficult for Jing people to accumulate millet, and if they attack and defend in spring and autumn, Jing will die. ”

Wei said in a voice. Good generals have become less important at the end of the Warring States period. What is important is the overall strength of the country, and the concrete embodiment of the overall strength of the country is the inexhaustible corn and the inexhaustible armor. Only a country with sufficient corn and armor can mobilize more soldiers and hold out for a longer time.

In the Battle of Changping, Zhao's grain was still able to be maintained, but King Zhao was afraid of the confrontation over time, so he increased his troops by 200,000, hoping that Zhao Kuo would attack and win, and negotiate peace with Qin. If Zhao Guo has more Su than Qin State, and is not afraid of long-term confrontation, he will not be able to attack at all, and it will be impossible to be cut off by Bai Qi. The reality is that Qin State's cattle are not able to transport water to Zhao State, so they can only attack.

This was the case in the Battle of Changping, and the same was true in the later Battle of Wang Shearing and Destroying Chu. It is impossible for the number of the Chu army to exceed 300,000, but the 600,000 Qin army actually 'defended the wall and refused to fight. The boring Qin soldiers could only play games such as 'throwing stones over distance', and when the Chu army ran out of food and retreated, Wang Jian immediately 'raised troops to chase after them, so that the strong men could attack and break the Jing army'.

The war required costs, constantly eliminating the allies of the Chu State and encroaching on the cities of the Chu State, making it impossible for the Chu State to obtain material supplies from the outside world; At the same time, from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, from Guanzhong to the Central Plains, from the Central Plains to Qilu, there were constant wars and confrontations with the Chu State on a land of more than 3,000 miles - it didn't matter whether the Qin army won or lost, what mattered was whether the war or confrontation consumed the Chu State's accumulated corn? Did you lose the soldiers of the Chu State? Did it hinder the cultivation of the Chu State?

As long as the Chu State's corn was consumed, the soldiers were lost, and the cultivation was hindered, the Qin army would surely win the war in a few years. The reason why Wei Yi insisted on destroying Qi was that during the last three-year attack on Chu, it was the Qi State that brought in corn to support the Chu State. If the Qi State is not destroyed, the cunning and profit-heavy Qi people will continue to support the Chu State, in order to seek the Qin and Chu to compete and the fishermen to profit.

How to destroy Chu Weiyu said in detail to Zhao Zheng on that day, but he also gave a comprehensive explanation of how to do it today. In fact, this is the same routine as the indirect strategy adopted by Britain and the United States to strangle the Soviet Union in later generations.

A certain big country in the East just played a game of table tennis, and the last coffin board of the big brother was officially nailed, and a blockade line of more than 10,000 kilometers from the Baltic Sea to the Whale Sea was formed. Since he was in the coffin, death was a matter of time, and after just over a decade, Big Brother took his last breath.

The destruction of Qi is also to nail the last coffin board to the Chu State, and then use war and confrontation to wear down for many years, Wei Yi believes that in less than five years, the Jing State will die.