Chapter 872: Evenly matched
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Once upon a time, this was the center of the Oriental world, and the merchants of Dayi sealed the city for hundreds of miles, and the rough but high-spirited sculptures of Xuanyao and the huge bronze tripod guarded this Yin capital together, until it was conquered by the Zhou people, the majestic platform was destroyed, the treasures were burned or buried under the dust, and the status of the Yin people also plummeted.
After that, Wei Guo, Chi Di, and Fan successively became the masters here, until a reincarnation in six hundred years, and the surname Zhao who was once listed as the Marquis of Fang Guo in this Dayi, returned here with the Xuanniao totem, and occupied the palace and temple established by Fan.
It has been six years since the Zhao clan occupied Chaoge, and Fan's rule in the local area was not good, and heavy taxes were levied, and as time passed, the Chaoge people gradually forgot about them, and only some of the retainers who had served Fan for generations have been obsessed, and when Zhao Wuxian entered Chaoge at the end of March, he was also assassinated in an attempted assassination......
Fortunately, there was no danger, and the Yulin guard quickly noticed the anomaly, and he kicked the assassin to the ground and searched for the dagger hidden in his arms.
Although there was no danger, it still shocked the Zhao family's retainers, and Chaoge Ling Chengjun proposed to block the entire Chaoge, and for three days, the remnants of the Fan family must be searched and arrested.
Zhao Wuxian refused: "Just ask for it secretly, you don't need to mobilize the people, that will make the price of food in Chaoge City increase sharply, if the people are dissatisfied, the number of people who shelter the rebellious party will only increase." ”
Hedong, Hanoi and Henan these three places live in the center of the world, like the three feet of the tripod, is the place where the ancient emperors changed and built the capital, the founding of the country has hundreds of years or even thousands of years, the land here is small but fertile, the population is the largest, so the local folk customs are stingy and thrifty, familiar with the world, and it is not easy to get their loyalty.
Therefore, it will take at least one generation to digest a conquered land, and more than ten years will take only subtly through various means. Zhao Wuxian did not ask Chaoge and the people of Hanoi to be as loyal to him as Jinyang and Wen County, and he did not even use Hanoi as the main source of troops, but as a granary, and before the development of Yecheng, one-third of Zhao's grain came from the Hanoi region.
Zhao Wuxian came to the court to sing, or to inspect the spring ploughing situation.
Food is a necessary prerequisite for the country, the government, and the army to function, and in this era of relying on the sky for food, if there is a famine in Hanoi one day, Zhao Wuxian's regime will have to stop.
Ji Ran was the chief architect of Zhao's "planned economy", although his strategy did not seem to be too brilliant: first reduce the taxes of the people, return the people to the rich, and then actively guide and reward farming, support and rescue the people who suffered natural and man-made disasters. Let the people concentrate on ploughing and weaving, let the fields be cultivated, the granaries will be full of grain, and the people will be rich and prosperous. But don't let the people have nothing to do, waste manpower and material resources, this is a point of contradiction between him and Ren Zhang's extreme "rest with the people", Ji Ran advocates using up the people's power, creating greater wealth, and returning it to the government's dispatch.
Only by laying a solid material foundation can the army be adequately prepared and trained to defeat an enemy country that is slackly prepared and unprepared. Historically, it was by virtue of the strategy that the Yue Kingdom, which had lost its combat effectiveness, could gradually recover and complete the great cause of destroying Wu......
Here, Zhao Wuxian ended the war with Qi early, quickly disbanded the Hanoi and Hebei laborers who had been recruited to transport grain, and let them return to the land to cultivate, while his eyes also watched the wrestling between Han and Zheng with interest.
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Zheng Guo is not a fish belly role like Wei Guo, the peaceful development of the past 50 years after the Soldiers' Meeting, and the stable and cooperative relationship between Qi Mu have made Zheng Guo prosperous again. It has come out of the historical shadow of "only the strong is the dependent", and began to pursue the principle of "the country does not compete with the tomb, what is the country's doing?" The independent diplomatic strategy was relatively active in the international arena in the late Spring and Autumn period.
In the sixth year of Lu Dinggong, Zheng Guo destroyed the vassal state of Chu Xu State, and in the same year, the rebellion of the Zhou Prince Dynasty, Zheng Guo took the opportunity to attack the six Yi of Zhou, Feng, Slippery, Mi, Negative Mill, Fox Man, and Quewai, and opened the door to Yiluo. Later, they formed an alliance with Qi and Wei to try to get rid of the Jin State, and when the Song Guole Daxin Rebellion, they seized the gap and built six cities, although after the Zhao clan won the Jin civil war, they had to return to the Song State, but they once again grabbed food and got the Shangluo region.
While the civil strife and major wars of Qi, Wei, and Song were getting weaker and weaker, Zheng Guo became stronger unconsciously, and their biggest loss was only one or two thousand soldiers lost in the battle of Meng Zhu.
Zhao Wuxian clearly knew that in the original history, the decisive battle of the civil strife of the six secretaries of the Jin State, the "Iron War", only ended last year, and Zheng Guo's grain transportation troops could force the Zhao army of the hundred battles to fear, and once injured Zhao Ying. In the Battle of Tie, Zheng's army was defeated, but it only lost "Qi Su", and the army still had a certain strength, indicating that Zheng's army was very strong at this time.
This copper pea that can't be steamed, boiled or hot, hammered or flattened, and fried can't be a loud one, even Zhao Wuxian doesn't want to be the first to go to fight them, let alone the Han family, who has always been the bottom of the three families.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the Han clan will be defeated by the younger generals of Zheng Guoqi Muli during the raid on Chenggao.
"If you don't have diamonds, don't do porcelain work, who will let you not follow my plan." Duan Gui's amazing strategic planning suffered a shameful failure in the implementation of the tactics of the Korean army, causing the Han clan to be embarrassed to stop the army in Chenggao, while Zhao Wuxian was gloating with a hint of schadenfreude, reminiscent of the "proud" record of the Han clan in destroying Zheng in history.
"In the sixteenth year, Zheng attacked Han and defeated the Han soldiers. In the twentieth year, Han, Zhao, and Wei were listed as princes. Twenty-three years, Zheng Wei Han Zhiyang Zhai "...... At the same time that Zhao Xiangzi easily destroyed the dynasty and Wei Wenhou easily destroyed Zhongshan, South Korea was on par with Zheng Guo, and it was difficult to distinguish between them, and they were defeated by Zheng many times, and they tossed for decades.
Now, the Han clan's population and military strength are similar to Zheng Guo's, except for the first move, they don't have much advantage, and the two sides are evenly matched.
Because Zhao Wuxian did not explicitly stop it, the strength of Han Hu's army was stationed in Nanyan, and they continued to send troops to attack Zhengdi, and their grain was transported from the upper reaches of the river, disembarked at Jianjin, and also purchased from the nearby Song State and Wei State.
Zheng Guo reacted very quickly after being attacked, and the famous general You Su soon came over with a force equivalent to the Korean army, and the two sides were in a stalemate, after Duan Gui's first attack on Chenggao failed, it was like Han Hu was dragged by Zheng Guo and could not concentrate his forces to attack the territory he wanted.
Throughout April, there was no fighting on the eastern front, and the Korean army on the western front went forward to storm Chenggao one after another, losing two or three thousand people, but still did not take it, but only sent 10,000 people to surround the city, expecting the city to run out of food. However, by the beginning of April, when Zheng Guo's labor was also concentrated and he began to go to the front, Han could not drag it out.
As the saying goes, "the siege of the city is bent, and the long-term violence of the division is insufficient for the country", the Han family is determined to win this battle, and wantonly conscripts the Shangdang and Hanoi laborers, delaying the spring ploughing, and now the people's minds are returning, and the army is unstable.
After thinking about it, Han Hu gritted his teeth, and as a last resort, he sent people to ask for help from the Wei family and the Zhao family, and even invited the Song family to help......
However, the Wei clan was already very dissatisfied with the Han clan's rash attack on Zheng and delayed the Qin war next year, and it would not be of the slightest benefit to them to attack Zheng by crossing Zhao Han. They simply rejected Han's request for help, using the excuse that Qin and Zheng were allies, and in order to prevent Qin from helping Zheng, they had to take good care of the western gate of Jin.
As for the Song State, as the traditional enemy of the Zheng State, he naturally agreed, but he was timid to govern Le, so he still sent someone to communicate with the Zhao family first.
On Zhao's own side, there are people who can't wait to attack Zheng.
Zhao Wuxian's identity is the most noble, but his authority is also the most ambiguous, but as the mascot of King Chuping, Wang Sun Sheng, the grandson of King Chuping, did not hesitate at all this time, and immediately came out to ask for war: "Zhao, Han and Song divided Zheng State, fell into its capital, slaughtered its people, and destroyed its community, and the Zhao family's prestige could reach as far as Jingchu and deter Wu Yue!" Please be a pioneer! ”
(To be continued.) )