"I, Ye Zhanfei, have made up my mind to do grain trading, even if I am my son, he will not want to stop me. Ye Zhanfei said proudly, and then drank the wine in the cup in one gulp, with great heroism.

Hearing this, Yan Zhendong also came over and said, "Brother Fei, after I heard about you, I admired you very much." Even my father, after reading your recital, was very appreciative of your strategy for stockpiling grain. ”

Hearing this, Ye Zhanfei was a little flattered and said, "Oh, Yan Xiangguo has also seen my plays?"

"Well, my father said that your strategy of hoarding grain complements the method of 'increasing troops' that he thought. Yan Zhendong continued, "A few days ago, my father wrote to the king, proposing to expand the army and increase the army by 100,000 within five years. ”

Hearing this, not only Ye Zhanfei, but even Yang Ming was so shocked that he almost knocked over the wine glass in his hand, Yang Ming's face was surprised, and he immediately raised his own question, and said: "Increase the army by 100,000? Jiang Guo's current population is only one million, can Jiang Guo's national strength afford such a large army?"

The expansion of the army is not simply a change in numbers, a change will affect the national strength of the entire country. On the other hand, if people go to serve as soldiers, then the number of people who farm and do business will be reduced, and the country's money, grain, and taxes will be reduced accordingly.

For a country, it must be extremely cautious in expanding its army!

Yan Zhendong said: "With Jiang Guo's current national strength, he naturally can't afford it. Therefore, my father explained to the king that in order to increase the army, it is necessary to increase the country's population and increase the country's money and grain, and Feige's policy of hoarding grain coincides with my father's idea of increasing money and grain. In addition to hoarding grain, my father also suggested to the king that the inherent land boundaries should be broken, a large amount of wasteland should be reclaimed, and grain production should be increased, so as to double the grain output of Jiang Country. ”

"Great, Yan Xiangguo really governs the country well. Listening to Yan Zhendong's words, Yang Ming's heart suddenly became excited.

Listening to the conversation of several people, Chen Sheng couldn't help but come over, "Not only food, but also weapons." Now that Jiang and Wei have formed an alliance, although half of the armor iron ore in the border mountains has been given to Wei, we still have half of it. Yesterday, the king had ordered the mining of armor ore, and ordered my father to supervise the armory workshop, which was used to smelt iron and make weapons. After the armor is unearthed and transported to the national capital, we can start to build weapons on a large scale for the expansion of the army. ”

Listening to the passionate words of the people, it shows the prosperity and hard work of Jiang Guo.

At this time, Meng Bo looked worried, and suddenly asked: "Jiang Guo is hoarding grain on a large scale and is determined to expand the army, isn't it a bit unfounded?" I'm thinking, after all, the Great Zhou Dynasty is still there, although there are disputes among the mainland countries, the overall situation is still stable, and now that we have formed an alliance with the Great Wei, in the future, ten years, maybe twenty years, if there is no war, then our Jiang Kingdom is not busy in vain?"

Hearing this, Ye Zhanfei sneered and said directly: "Hehe, child's words." The four sides of the mainland seem to be stable, but in fact the dark tide is surging, and the princes and hundreds of countries are even more ambitious, eyeing the tiger, and the Great Zhou Dynasty has existed in name only. If Jiang doesn't try to become stronger, when the dynasty collapses and the mainland wars break out, our Jiang country will be ruined. ”

Seeing Ye Zhanfei's serious face, Meng Bo was suddenly frightened.

Ye Zhanfei breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "I can't be alarmist. Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that this time, Liang Guo can send 100,000 troops to conquer our Jiang State under the pretext of the death of the envoy. Jiang's territory was given by the ancestor emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but Liang wanted to occupy it, which was simply contempt for the Great Zhou Dynasty. However, the Great Zhou Dynasty turned a blind eye and allowed the Liang State to act recklessly. Fortunately, this time, Jiang Guo sought the protection of Wei and avoided the disaster of losing the country. You see, in the world of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if we Jiang Guo want to survive, we have to rely on other powerful countries, where is the majesty of the Great Zhou Dynasty? Let me say a big disrespectful word, in the eastern territory, this Great Zhou Dynasty is only a bullshit name, and he can no longer control these powerful countries. ”

"Speaking of a major event that happened last year, a merchant of Wei encountered robbers and robbers in Song State, and nearly 100 people died, when Wei State was furious, although later Song State sent troops to encircle and suppress the robbers, and all the bandits were beheaded to show the public, and in order to apologize, they were willing to pay compensation to Wei State, but Wei State rejected Song State's apology, and directly sent 150,000 troops to conquer Song State, occupying nearly half of Song State's territory, Song State was afraid, so he wrote to the Great Zhou Dynasty to protest, asking the emperor to be the master of Song State. However, in order to appease Wei and stabilize the situation in the eastern territory, the Great Zhou Emperor did not want Wei to start another war, and was afraid that after Wei launched a war, other countries would follow, and the whole East would fall into war. Sure enough, Wei received this love, so he quit the army. ”

Hearing this, Chen Sheng nodded and said, "I have also heard about this matter, since then, the Song State has lost half of its territory, and it has directly changed from a second-class country to a third-class small country. Now that I think about it, Liang Guo's behavior towards our Jiang State is really like what Wei Guo did to Song State last year, I am really afraid to think about it. ”

Hearing this, Yang Ming slapped the table heavily and said indignantly: "It's really unreasonable. How could the Great Zhou Dynasty be so stupid, his conniving approach, relying on sacrificing the territory of a small country to appease a big country, is this undoubtedly raising tigers?"

Hearing this, Ye Zhanfei nodded approvingly, and said: "Raise tigers!" Yang Ming, what you said is very right, the Great Zhou Dynasty is throwing meat to feed the tiger. He thought that throwing a few pieces of meat would make the tiger full and stop making trouble. However, in such large countries as Wei and Liang, how can their appetite be fed with a few pieces of 'meat'? Moreover, the more they are fed, the greater their appetite becomes, and as long as the meat does not stop, the tiger's ambition will not be extinguished. And blindly 'feeding the tiger' and conniving at the big countries will only make the big countries grow stronger day by day, and sooner or later, these big countries will eat the entire Great Zhou Dynasty!"

Listening to Ye Zhanfei's words, everyone nodded one after another, and all their little faces were serious.

At this time, Ye Zhanfei asked again: "Speaking of big countries, do you know what big countries are on the continent today?"

"In the eastern frontier, the great powers must be the Wei, Zhao, and Liang, the three great powers. As for the other territories...... "After talking about the three major eastern powers, Chen Sheng didn't know the situation in other territories.

Ye Zhanfei smiled slightly and said, "You guys, you only know that you are bored in the academy all day long, practicing all day long, reading military books, but you don't look at the situation in the world. Over the years, I have often slipped out of the academy and heard nothing from the mouths of the businessmen who come and go to various countries to do business. Would you like to hear it?"

Hearing this, everyone suddenly became interested and stepped forward one after another, "Don't sell it, tell us about it." ”

"You all know very well the three major countries in the East, among them, Wei is the strongest, with an army of as many as 350,000. And in the north, there is also a strong country, called Yan State, I heard the merchants in the north say that Yan has more than 400,000 troops, which is the largest country in the north. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly grew in surprise, "Huh, mom, more than 400,000 troops! I heard that the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty is only 600,000. If this continues, the Yan Kingdom will not surpass the Great Zhou Dynasty. ”

Hearing this, Ye Zhanfei smiled coldly again and said, "Don't worry, this is just a country in the north." It is said that in the entire southern territory, there are two major powers, namely South Korea and Chu, of which South Korea is slightly weaker, with an army of 200,000, while Chu is stronger, with an army of 300,000. Finally, the western territory, compared with the other three territories, the western countries are the weakest, but also the most stable, there has not been any major war in the past ten years, but in recent years, I heard businessmen who often go to the west to do business say that there is a country in the west that is changing the law and making great efforts, although it has not yet become a big country climate, but the national strength is gradually increasing year by year, it is said that now it has an army of 150,000, this country is called Qin. ”

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