Chapter 038: The Cornerstone of Hegemony

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The battle of Hangu Pass, the Qin State won a great victory, the world was tilted, the three Jin Dynasty coalition army lost soldiers, which belonged to Han and Zhao suffered heavy losses, among which South Korea was the worst, Hangu Pass lost 50,000 in the first battle, and Xiuyu lost 82,000 Han soldiers in the first battle, and the national strength of South Korea was hit hard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

At the beginning of spring this year, this great war and the war in the Central Plains gradually subsided as the approach of late spring.

Early summer has arrived, and the land of Qinchuan is still cold.

Yi County.

In the early morning, the fog was elegant, and the three or five cavalry and armored sergeants rode their horses and galloped into Yixian, led by Gongzihua, the first tiger general of the Qin State.

Yinghua came on the orders of the King of Qin.

After returning to China, he told King Qin about the matter, and learned that Zhu Liji personally said that Bai Qi supported the talents of Wu'an in the world, and the King of Qin ordered Yinghua to come to Yixian County to "invite" Bai Qi's family to Xianyang.

"General, there is no one in the house."

Yinghua's team came to Lao Baili but pounced, Gongzihua frowned, "Come on, ask the surrounding neighbors." ”

After a while, a young man came to Yinghua: "Report to the general, the little name is Bai Zuo, and the Bai family has been neighbors since childhood. ”

"Let me ask you, why is the house of Bai Qi empty?" Yinghua asked.

"Oh, the general said this, back to the general's words, the little one happened to see a few outsiders three days ago...... Yes, it was from the Central Plains, they came to visit Bai Qi's parents, and soon after they left with them. ”

Yinghua's face froze when she heard this, and she couldn't help but snort, "I was preemptive, straight to the thief——!。 ”

"Withdraw ——!"

Bai Zuo was stunned, looking at Yinghua and the others who were hurrying back and forth.

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"What? People are gone? King Qin stared.

"Wang, the last general is one step late, and the Bai Qi family has already left Yixian three days ago." Gongzi Hua, who returned to Xianyang to recover his life, replied.

"This matter is quite strange, could it be that Bai Qi expected that there would be such a change in the family and preempted us?" But it was Yu Li who frowned and was inexplicably surprised.

Gongzihua glanced back and forth in front of the two eldest brothers, King Qin raised his head slightly, thought a little and sighed softly, "Wei Hou is not simple, if this person is in charge of any of the six countries, his country will become a disaster for my Great Qin." No, defending the country has become a problem for my Great Qin. ”

Zhu Li was stunned and said: "The king means ......"

"The person must have been taken away by Wei Hou!" King Qin replied earnestly, but his tone was extremely affirmative, "It can't be Bai Qi, even if he thinks of the time, it's too late, it must be someone else." The widow didn't want this to be the work of the Marquis of Wei......"

For some reason, since that negotiation with Zhang Yi, he has become more and more regretful about helping Wei Zheng restore the country.

"The widow has received the reported news, the land of Bashu has been in chaos, and the two countries of Tho and Ba are fighting with the swords and soldiers of Shu, and this matter will be discussed in the court tomorrow." Ying Si swept away the melancholy in his heart, and smiled again, "Forget about the white thing, Wei Hou took a young handsome talent from the widow, but my Great Qin is full of talents, there are the two of you, there is Sima Cuo, I have never lacked generals since the founding of the Great Qin." ”

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Morning song.

This thousand-year-old ancient capital has been weathered, because Wei Zheng once again decided to set the capital here and let this ancient capital rejuvenate, Shang Xun had built the Star Picking Tower in the Chao Ge, which means that he climbed on it, he could pick the stars and the moon, and now the Star Picking Tower has disappeared, and even the ruins have not been found, and it has become a legend.

This famous capital on the west bank of Ranqishui is still as beautiful as a picture, thriving like a singing dawn.

Since the fire burned a large part of the inner hall of the original dormitory to ashes, it has been rebuilt, and a majestic new palace has appeared, which is more magnificent than before, showing the majesty of the Warring States.

On this day, outside the Chaoge City, Wei Zheng stood on the chariot in a military uniform, looking at the west from afar, looking forward to and waiting for the triumphant Zhaoge of the king of the western expedition.

"The prince of Qiqi, the army is within ten miles." A scout galloping from a horse landed on one knee.

Wei Zheng looked into the distance, thinking back to the exploits of the past few years, which was enough to be called prominent, and he forcibly transformed a vassal country into one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States in just a few years.

The Wei State is no longer good, and the current Wei State can no longer afford the title of the Seven Heroes Warring States.

The country has included the territory north of Jishui, its territory is more than 700 miles, and South Korea is only 800 miles.

At this moment, Wei Zheng had been standing on the chariot for more than two hours, and while waiting for the army of the triumphant division, he was also thinking about what Wei Guo should do in the future.

Now the defense of the country has surpassed the heyday of Wei Wugong, but it is still not strong enough, the war without war in the Warring States is tantamount to a fool's dream, the defense of the country can not stop here, the country must be strong, and the country is nothing more than a strong army to seize the country, this is the Warring States.

Wei Zheng calculated the time in his heart, now it is the fourth year of King Shenliang of Zhou (317 BC), this year is the end of the battle of the joint attack on Qin, Gongsun Yan was defeated, and the Qin State won a great victory.

However, a wave of unsettled waves is about to rise, and the hurricane has not stopped since it swept the world.

Not surprisingly, the next situation in the world is more complicated, if Gongsun Yanhe attacked Qin before the land of Kunshan was in a golden iron horse sound, then the whole world is in chaos.

This chaos will arise from the land of Bashu.

The civil strife in Bashu was not taken seriously by Wei Zheng, Qin took advantage of the civil strife in the land of Bashu to destroy Bashu, and then Li Bing and his son repaired the capital Jiangyan, Qin from then on there will be known as the "country of abundance" Bashu bag into his arms, not only Hanzhong Shu This large fertile land into the bag, but also occupy the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and obtain a strategic advantage overlooking the land of Jingchu.

Qin Debashu laid the foundation for going east to sweep the world in the future.

Thinking that Qin has Bashu as a solid backing for Qin's national strength, Wei Zheng thinks about what solid backing he has to provide an inexhaustible source of national strength for the country?

The answer is no.

Not only that, the fact that the geopolitical territory of the country is now very embarrassing, there is no danger to defend in the four realms, once it encounters a big defeat, there will be no Qin State that can retreat to Xilong and even deeper on the edge of the western border and slowly lick the wounds, waiting for the next day.

Wei Guo does not have such an advantage, so Wei Zheng knows very well that Wei Guo cannot tolerate any big defeat, the sword will never be sheathed once it is out of the sheath, and its edge is the only way to survive if it is indomitable, and there is no second way and there can be no mistake.

In the current situation, Qin defeated Gongsun Yanhe's army, South Korea suffered the most losses, almost inseparable from Qin, and the variables of civil strife in Bashu gave Qin two choices, continue to go east to South Korea to open up Yiyang Sanchuan or take the opportunity to recover the land of Bashu.

And Wei Zheng roughly determined that Qin was the latter, once Qin conquered the land of Bashu, he had no time to take care of Shandong for the time being, and Qi also took advantage of Qin's limited energy to control the changes in Shandong and took the opportunity to move north to Yandi, and Chu also focused all its attention on the western border of Chu because of Qin and Bashu.

There is also a Song country who is not willing to be lonely.

"Wei, Song, Qi, Chu, Yue ......" Wei Zheng, who was staring ahead, was suddenly stunned, "Yue Guo......??? ”

Wei Zheng's twisted eyebrows gradually relaxed, and he suddenly smiled, thinking of the current situation, the smile was even worse, "Qin has the land of Bashu, which is known as the 'Land of Abundance', and the country is definite...... It is also necessary to have the backing of the strategic rear of inexhaustible national strength. ”

At this moment, Wei Zheng had already figured out how to expand externally next.

The Central Plains must not be able to expand anymore, there is no place to expand, no matter which vassal state's territory is plundered, it will cause trouble that cannot be shaken off, and it is never wise to directly confront other warring states (referring to the Seven Heroes) at the moment.

Wei Zheng's next target...... It is the country of Yue thousands of miles away——!

Hanzhong Shudi, the country of abundance;

There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below; Suhu is ripe, the world is full!

There is the land of abundance in the west, and heaven on earth in the east!

If Qin Ruo gets Bashu, he will get a country of abundance after some governance; And if the country gets the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou at the same time, there will definitely be a paradise on earth after a bit of governance.

Wei Zheng set his sights on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Yueguo, which had been in constant civil strife since the destruction of Wu, and had long lost its ambition to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains.

Time has passed, Wei Zheng roughly estimated that the current Yue State should have recovered a lot of national strength, and was ready to make a difference in the Central Plains, but it happened that the Yue State got on the thief ship of the Wei State because of this.

got on the Wei pirate ship, which was the inevitable result of the geography of the Yue State.

Yue is a large country in the southeast of the Central Plains, and the fact that it is located is that it can directly threaten the rear of Qi and Chu, and the most incompatible between the vassal states of the Central Plains and Qi and Chu is the Wei State.

In this way, there was a bond, and Wei and Vietnam naturally became allies.

Because of the uneasiness of the Yue Kingdom, it was beaten violently in the era of King Chu Wei, but it did not destroy the country, and now with the rebellion of Bashu, the Qin State is temporarily unable to deal with the situation of the Shandong States.

With such a great opportunity, how could Wei Zheng let go of the opportunity to secretly join forces with Wei, Qi, and Chu to destroy the Yue Kingdom and divide the Yue Kingdom when he was taking advantage of the chaos?

As long as it occupies a rich land in the Yue country, with the expansion of agricultural tools such as the Quyuan plow, coupled with the suitable climate and temperature in the south, suitable for the growth of crops, the rice and wheat can be rotated and promoted, and the southward migration population will come here, and it will not be long before this place can become the granary of the world, and the Yue country occupies a piece of treasure land and does not know how to use it.

If you get this land, you can lay the same undefeated foundation for the defense of the country as the Qin state, and you will not have strong capital when you compete with the Qin state for comprehensive national strength in the future, so you will not be like the Zhao state.

The cornerstone of Qin's hegemony is in the country of abundance in Hanzhong Shudi, and the cornerstone of the hegemony of defending the country must be in the paradise on earth in Jiangdong, Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Obviously, if Wei Zheng implements this strategy, the course of history will be nearly 2,000 years ahead of schedule, and the southward shift of the economic center of gravity will start from the Warring States period.

The land of Suzhou and Hangzhou, paradise on earth; Of course, it is a place that Wei Zheng desperately desires.

However, Weiguo is in the core of the Central Plains, thousands of miles away from Jiangdong County, which is the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

If you want to pass through this place, if you want to fight down, you can defend it with Qi in the north and Chu in the south...... You can't do without a cavalry corps that is superior in mobility——!

There is no cavalry corps, thousands of miles away, even if the Yue country is destroyed, the land is divided and obtained, there is no cavalry corps, the mountains are high and the road is far away, and sooner or later it will make a wedding dress for the Chu or Qi country.

The formation of cavalry regiments was already imperative——!

It just so happens that at the moment when Wei Guo is expanding its territory, it is already on par with South Korea, and it is impossible to expand in all directions, when it is to temporarily restrain the troops, prostrate down to digest the results of the battle and transform the national strength, Wei Guo is enough to have the capital to undertake a strong cavalry force.

"King Zhao Wuling, I will take a step ahead of Hu Fu cavalry shooting...... Wei Zheng, who was standing on the chariot, smiled and muttered to himself in his heart, and when he looked ahead, he had already seen the battle flag of the army.

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