Qin Mi felt the difficulties of this envoy when he was here with Zhao Yun, who was a "martial artist......

It's not that Zhao Yun is so skillful, but ...... Chu State doesn't play cards according to the routine at all!

To persuade the advantage to stop the offensive on the one hand, it is nothing more than to start from two aspects, one is morality, and the other is strength, that is, to emphasize that one's own side is not as weak as imagined, analyze the situation for the other side, and make the other side feel that it is "not cost-effective".

Moral persuasion also includes two aspects, one is to worry the other side that the battle of no way will affect the people's hearts and minds, and the other is to target the generals and leaders themselves to stimulate the other party's shame.

However, now that the Chu army has bitten to death one by one, Yizhou wants to "destroy Chu", no matter what Qin Mi says, the other party does not have the slightest confusion - there is indeed no need to be confused, anyway, the people of Chu believe in the statement of self-defense and counterattack, and the Chu army also firmly believes that they are saving the people from fire and water......

Even the high-ranking generals and strategists who have brains only know in their hearts that Chu State is lying about the reason for going to war, but they also believe in their hearts that the people's lives will be better.

How stable and stable the people's hearts should be, and it is impossible to expect them to have a sense of moral indebtedness - you can't expect the other party to sympathize with Liu Zhang, right?

As for the views of the world's celebrities on the Chu State......

The Ministry of Rites of Chu is now also in full swing, and the combat effectiveness of a group of "Chu Sheng" is definitely not lower than that of any Confucian student, and the King of Chu himself has many righteous deeds and feats to protect his body, and it is not without celebrities who slander Chu State, however, ...... Attacking each other means that there is no decisive anti-Chu wave at all.

If it is to influence talents to invest, it is even more nonsense - in terms of talents, is there anything more "absorbed" than Chu State?

As long as you go from the people to the officials and generals, to the point where you think you are incomparably correct, the state of Chu does not need "morality" at all, and it has the style of "the sound of the great voice and the invisible avenue" as Lao Tzu said.

Therefore, Qin Mi can only persuade from the aspect that makes the other party think that it is "not cost-effective......

But there is also a fatal problem!

That is, no matter what the generals of Chu State thought in their hearts, people always verbally preached that Yizhou was very powerful and intended to destroy Chu, so they struck first.

In this way, how can Qin Mi prove that Yizhou is strong?

On boasting about Yizhou and Liu Zhang, Qin Mi had to say the word "service", and it was really not easy to blow Yizhou stronger!

You can't try to prove to the other party how cowardly Shu Hou is and how weak Yizhou is, so as to make Chu give up, right?

Otherwise, how aggrieved it would be and not to say it, and Qin Mi also understood that people already understood it very well in their hearts, but they were just pretending to be confused......

If Liu Zhang really had the courage to fight against the odds, Qin Mi would still be tougher, and now ...... can only use Liu Zhang's conditions to temporarily appease Zhao Yun, so that he will not continue to fight with Yizhou during his trip to Jinling.

As for whether the army can be completely suspended, it depends on the results of Qin Mi's trip to Jinling.

Zhao Yun didn't buy it, and only said that he had the military and political command of Badong, and no one could let him stop the army unless he was ordered by Jinling.

Of course, in fact, Zhao Yun had already prepared to stop for the time being, wait for Jinling's order, and at the same time observe whether there was a chance, otherwise he would only spend this year's harvest season and winter in peace, and take this opportunity to completely appease the Padang area......

It's just that no matter what Zhao Yun plans, there is no need to promise Qin Mi anything.

However, for Qin Mi's request to go to Jinling, Zhao Yun did not block it, but sent someone to escort it!

Qin Mi also understood that the key to the matter was the result of the trip to Jinling, and the key to the trip to Jinling was precisely what he had seen and heard along the way.

How difficult it was to transport grain from Jingzhou upstream to Ba County, Qin Mi had some understanding before, but the feeling was not intuitive.

This time from Yizhou to Chu, Qin Mi just wanted to observe these exactly, this is a more reliable bargaining chip than Liu Zhang's cowardice conditions!

The State of Chu is much stronger than the Yizhou Mansion, the only thing that can "threaten" the State of Chu is to make the other party hesitate, for the sake of Yizhou, is it really worth paying such a lot of logistical pressure?

Wancheng No. 1 Division and Xinye No. 1 Division, it is not easy to set off from Zigui to Kuimen, but from Kuimen, it is too simple to go to Jingzhou.

Li Bai has a poem "Between the white emperor and the clouds, thousands of miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day"......

Of course, Li Bai's poems have always been known for being good at exaggerated rhetoric, and this alone does not seem to be enough to prove it, but Li Daoyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty also wrote in the "Notes on the Book of Water" that "Emperor Bai of the Dynasty and Jiangling at dusk", which is very credible, but the premise is "sometimes", that is, when the water is slow and moderate.

However, no matter how you say it, if you aim to rush, as long as you don't slack off or catch up with bad weather, it won't take more than three days to get to Gangneung from Kuimen, that is, Qutang Pass......

However, if it were the other way around, it would not be a matter of three or five days.

Lu You's "Records of Entering Shu" in the Southern Song Dynasty recorded his experience of entering Shu from Huiji, which clearly wrote that during the Double Ninth Festival in September, Lu You arrived in Shishou County near Jiangling, but it was not until October 26 that Lu You arrived in Kuizhou, which is now in the area of Kuimen.

And most importantly, the land tour is a light boat, and it can also "sail against the current" - that is, it can be sailed by the manpower of the boatman and the slender man!

If you change to a cargo ship with a large load, the difficulty increases dramatically, and even many sections of the river can only be taken on both sides of the mountain road.

Because it was already August, the flood season was gradually passing, and Qin Mi also traveled lightly all the way, and saw the transport team of Chu State many times on both sides of the strait, and even passed by the transport ship of Chu State several times.

It was precisely because of seeing it that Qin Mi's heart became more and more bottomless......

The land transport team, judging by the scale, obviously mobilized a large number of people, but it was still full of energy, shouting trumpets and singing Chu songs one by one, without the slightest atmosphere of decadence and resentment.

Not to mention, after all, although morale is high, the effectiveness is limited after all.

However the transport ship ......

What the hell is a transport ship that has no "boatmen" and no sails, but can sail on the water on its own?

When Qin Mi saw it for the first time, because it was night, he even had a cold back...... Fortunately, the Chu army, who was escorting him on the boat, also greeted the other party when they met - at least this proves that he is not the only one who saw it, and it seems that he is not here to pick him up!

Later, Qin Mi was especially bold, observed a few more times, and finally discovered some mysteries - it seems that this kind of boat without sails and oars, the stern and both sides of the ship have wheels covered with planks on the outside, and it is the rotation of this wheel that drives the ship forward......

Qin Mi breathed a sigh of relief!

It may seem amazing, but at least the principle is understandable, it's not something weird, and it's ...... Whether it's just that there are no oars outside, and the wheels need to be turned inside the boat, or is it not human or animal power?

It is true that this kind of boat seems to greatly improve the efficiency of counter-current, but it must not be small!

It is true that what is sailing on the river now is indeed only a Chu steamer with biological force......