"In the entire Yan Kingdom, I'm afraid there are no nobles who meet the general's requirements." Qin Yuan shook his head. Although the Yan Kingdom has been inherited for nearly 800 years, the descendants of the Yan family have spread and scattered, and there are countless of them.

But the gentleman's Ze was cut in the fifth generation.

The vast majority of clans have long since disassociated themselves from the royal family, and are no different from ordinary commoners. At most, when you finish your farm work and rest in the field, you can feel the scenery of your ancestors.

The remaining very few deep-rooted nobles were also wiped out in a series of operations such as the Zizhi Rebellion, the destruction of Yan by the Qi State, the Zhongxing of King Zhao, and the murder of the monarch by Gongsun Cao.

Not to mention the big nobles, even the middle nobles Yan Kingdom does not have a few, compared with other countries, at most they are a few kittens, which is not worth mentioning at all.

"Which families are in the hands of the land in Jicheng?" Li Mu said in a deep voice, since there are no big nobles, then they can only attack the nobles who control the most land.

The Zhao State needs to win over the civilians of Yandi, and the five thousand Yan troops who helped the Zhao army open the city gate also need to be rewarded, and where these lands come from can only be given by the nobles of the Yan State.

Of course, Li Mu can't snatch it directly from the nobles, let's be reasonable.

"In addition to Guantian, the three nobles who occupy the most land are the Tian family, the Han family, and the Gu family. They are all nobles who have come to the fore in recent decades, and they have grown rapidly, and each of them has a large amount of land and servants."

Qin Yuan said quickly, although he didn't live in Jicheng, the Qin family was not far from Jicheng, and Qin Yuan knew Jicheng well.

"Then start with these three families to clear the land and divide the acres." Li Mu slapped the table, wrote the words Tian, Han, and Gu on the paper, and began to investigate the information of the three families.

Time back to more than a month ago, on the banks of the Jishui River, a fierce battle broke out between the Qin and Zhao armies again.

Le Yi led the Zhao army to break through the Qin army's Jishui defense line, and Wang Yi led the remaining remnants of the army to flee all the way south until Xingyang, where he no longer dared to retreat, and the grain route of the main force of the Qin army was cut off by the Zhao army.

At this time, Wang Yi couldn't say the bitterness in his heart, he was a general who was good at attacking, and he was beaten by Le Yi into a defensive master.

"General, the heads of the city look at us a little unkindly." Lü Buwei was worried, Xingyang belonged to Korea for most of the time, and the people in the city died at the hands of the Qin army in the long-term war with the Qin State, and they had great hatred for the Qin State.

Moreover, after the Qin State conquered various places, it adopted not benevolent government, but violently engraved the Qin law in the hearts of all people, and those who opposed the Qin law were all reduced to slaves and subordinate concubines, so there would be frequent rebellions.

In the Qin State, about one-tenth of the slaves or concubines of the vassals died every year, so it can be said that as long as they were demoted to vassals, they would not want to get out alive.

If you want to get rid of the fate of your subordinates by military merit, it is just a fantasy, and there may not be one lucky person in a thousand people.

In the past, the system tailored by Shang Ying for the Qin State continued to expose its flaws in the gradual expansion of the Qin State.

Wang Yi also knew that the Qin State was unpopular with the people, so he used to camp outside the city to avoid conflict with the local Qianshou, but now the Qin army has almost lost everything, leaving only some remnants of the defeated generals, if you don't rely on the defense of the city, the Zhao army will be gone with a charge.

"Or ...... Slaughter them all!" Huan Qi made a motion to wipe his neck and said viciously.

"No." Lu Buwei immediately said that although he was mercenary, he was different from Huan Qi's killing talents, and he still had a little mercy in his heart, and war was impossible to avoid, but he didn't want to see unnecessary killings.

"Since the military advisor has proposed it, there must have been a solution." Wang Di asked.

"Expelle them all." Lu Buwei said.

Huan Qi pursed his lips, what is the difference between expelling all these people and killing them directly? Without food, it was as if they could live.

The people of the Six Kingdoms are really hypocritical, and they make it clear that the Confucian gentleman is far away from cooking.

If you are truly righteous and can't bear it, don't eat meat.

Since you have eaten it, do not flaunt that you are kind-hearted, and you must not see it killing.

Eat it in your mouth

sprayed incense, but used the excuse of 'far away cooking, picking himself up completely, what is the difference between covering his ears and stealing the bell.

The poor thief who stole the clock was ridiculed for so many years.

"Then expel it." Wang Yi was silent for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

"I heard that the Zhao army is gathering the Qianshou, and our expulsion of the Qianshou in Xingyang City can also delay the Zhao army's time, and in a few days, our reinforcements will be able to arrive. Wait until the reinforcements arrive, and then rely on Xingyang to hold on, even if it is Le Yi, it is not so easy to capture Xingyang." Lü Buwei seemed to see Huan Qi's thoughts and explained.

He can't be as thick-skinned as Confucianism, even if these people are expelled, with Zhao Jun outside, the vast majority of them will survive.

As for what to do if Zhao Jun doesn't accept it, then wait to be scolded with Qin Jun.

If Zhao Jun didn't look at these Qiantou from beginning to end, no one would scold Zhao Jun.

But if the Zhao army gathered the people from all over the country, they only turned a blind eye to the people of Xingyang, resulting in the vast majority of them being starved to death.

Lü Buwei was sure that Zhao Jun would definitely be scolded along with Qin Jun.

"What is Zhao Jun doing when he gathers his head?" Wang Yi said strangely, after so many years of fighting, it was the first time he had seen the head of Qianshou who gave military rations to eat, and it was still the head of Qianshou from other countries.

If someone else did this, Wang Yi would definitely think that the other party was a fool, but it was Le Yi who did this.

"Qianshou is also a kind of resource, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the taxes collected by the state all come from Qianshou." Lu Buwei said.

"Then why did my Qin State drive out all the local Qiantou after defeating some places?" Wang Di asked.

"On the one hand, in order to reduce hidden dangers, these ancestors of the Qiansan have lived here for generations, have a deep affection for the homeland, and have a lot of opinions about our Qin State. On the other hand, our Qin State implements a military merit system, and this system requires a large amount of land to maintain. If we don't drive out the people of this land, our Qin State will not have land to distribute to the meritorious soldiers." Lu Buwei said.

This is the disadvantage of the military merit system, but it should be said that it is the disadvantage of the Qin law.

The military merit system is the food in front of the donkey, which attracts the donkey to move forward, and the Qin law is a whip on the donkey's back to drive the donkey forward.

If there is no food to tempt in front, the donkey will be whipped in a hurry, and will have to turn its head and bite.

In order to make the donkey obedient, the Qin State could only continue to expand its territory and obtain land.

Of course, there is another way for the Qin State, that is, to change the harsh Qin law, so that the Qin law becomes less harsh, and give the donkeys a sigh of relief.

The donkeys in this land are the most docile donkeys in the world, and as long as they have food to eat and do not die of hunger, they will not jump up and bite.

But this is not possible.

Qin Law gave Qin the most advanced blood drawing system, he was able to accurately extract the blood of all the people into the treasury, but did not starve the people to death, so that the Qin State could accumulate wealth far more than the six countries in the same time.

If you are used to seeing that a donkey can pull ten discs of mill a day, you will never want it to pull only nine discs a day.

When a donkey eats only one pot of bran a day, he will never give him a soybean or a second pot of bran.

Qin Guo only thought about how to make the donkey eat only half a pot of bran every day, and pull enough for eleven plates of grinding.

Because of Fan Ju's existence, Lü Buwei never got the rights he wanted, and it also gave him more time to observe the Qin State and think about the Qin State's system.

The Qin State seems to be powerful, but in fact, it is enough to see the end at a glance.

If it is not changed, it will either perish at the hands of the enemy or at its own hands.

However, Lü Buwei did not tell Qin Wangji about this.

If Qin Wangji was twenty years younger, he might still have the ability and courage to change all this, but now Qin Wangji will only make a desperate bet and put all his chips on a war.

Qin Wangji's eyes had been blinded by the victory he had imagined.

"In that case, why does Zhao have so much land?"

Wang Yi asked strangely.

"The State of Zhao is not the same as the State of Qin. Although Zhao has a military merit system, the military merit system in the past is not perfect, and the latest military merit system has only been implemented for a few years, so Zhao has enough land to reward soldiers. On the other hand, in my Qin State, it has been a full hundred years since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, and almost all the land that can be rewarded has been rewarded."

"Second, Zhao regained the Hetao a few years ago and immigrated from Hebei. There are a large amount of vacant land in Hebei and Hetao, and these lands alone are enough to support Zhao ***'s meritorious system for decades. Not to mention the placement of these Qiantou, even if it is increased tenfold, Zhao Guo can also be placed. Moreover, what Zhao gave them must be part of the reclaimed land and part of the unreclaimed land. In addition, with the same title, the land rewarded by the Zhao State is much less than that of my Qin State, but the money is a lot more. Obviously, King Zhao also understood that sooner or later the land would be divided, so he reduced the rewarded land and replaced it with money." Lu Buwei said.

Among the Six Kingdoms, he paid the most attention to Zhao Guo.

Not only is Zhao Guo strong, but also because when he went to Zhao State, King Zhao said to him, "Your wife, I will raise her."

Although he was asked to tell Wang Sun Zichu, this sentence was deeply engraved in Lu Buwei's mind and he was deeply ashamed.

He swore to take revenge on King Zhao, so he studied King Zhao every day and studied the Kingdom of Zhao.

After a lot of research, it is inevitable that Zhao and Qin will be compared together.

The more he compared, the more Lü Buwei felt that there was no hope for Qin's system, it seemed to be full of flowers, but in fact, it was cooking oil with fire, and sooner or later there would be a thunderstorm, and once it thundered, it would be completely hopeless.

"So...... The Zhao State has lost capital because they have excess land, but I, the Qin State, do not have it. Is that so?" Wang Yi was silent for a moment and looked at Lü Buwei.

He suddenly felt a little heavier on his shoulders.

"Nope. Zhao Guo also can't afford to lose. The short time for Zhao Guo's reform is an advantage, but it is also a disadvantage. Although Zhao had surplus land, the reform and reform were not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Once the front line is defeated, the country will be shaken, and everyone will question the correctness of the change. When the time comes, the situation of the Zhao State will not be much stronger than that of my Qin State." Lu Buwei said.

"No wonder the king must fight this battle." Wang Yi muttered.

This is to bet on the national fortune of the Qin State to bet on the national fortune of the Zhao State, the winner will be qualified to dominate the world, and the loser will withdraw forever.

Lü Buwei didn't speak, he wasn't optimistic about this battle, because Qin Wangji was anxious.

In the past, every time Qin launched a war, it would put diplomacy ahead of the war.

Win over all the countries that can be wooed, cut off all foreign aid from the target, and then concentrate on killing the target.

But this time, the Qin State failed to separate the Zhao State and Han Wei, and put the war ahead of diplomacy, although it won over the Yan State and the Qi State in time afterwards, but at this time, the Qin army had been defeated on two fronts, and the only hope was that Bai Qi could turn the tide.

The most correct thing for Qin to do was to slowly accumulate strength, and then wait for Zhao to start a war and unite the other five countries to attack Zhao together.

In the final analysis, Qin Wangji is old, and Zhao Wangji is in his prime, and Qin Wangji is afraid that he will not be able to wait for that day......

"If only the Great King could be twenty years younger......" Lü Buwei sighed.

On the other side, the Zhao army chased the Qin army all the way to Xingyang, and after seeing the Qin army fleeing into Xingyang, he began to camp ten miles outside the city.

"I just got the news that the Yan State and the Qi State have declared war on our Zhao State, and the Qin State has sent troops to capture Yewang and is attacking Shangdang." In the tent, Le Yi told everyone the news that had just come from Handan.

"How many troops did Yan and Qi send? Where's the hit?" Yan Zhou hurriedly asked.

"Shall we withdraw?" Jia Yan asked.

Xunzi and the others also frowned, Yan State and Qi State dared to declare war on Zhao State is something they did not expect, especially Qi State, in the past few years, the Empress Dowager Qi has been in power, and it can almost be said that she does not cultivate military equipment.

"Don't worry, the king has already sent Lian Po, Pang Xuan, and Li Mu to lead the troops to fight against the Three Kingdoms, as for why the Qi State declared war on my Zhao State, everyone will know by looking at it." Le Yi handed the letter to Xunzi.

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This is not what Qi Guo did. Either the state of Qin or the state of Chu." After Xunzi saw the Qi people slaughtering Zhao Guoyixiang, he shook his head directly and said.

He had seen the Empress Dowager Qi and the King of Qi, both of whom were very weak and couldn't do such a thing.

Besides, if Qi State wants to attack Zhao State, it doesn't need to be so troublesome, just like Yan State, just under the banner of recovering lost territory.

Doing so would only infuriate Zhao Guo completely.

There must be someone who wants to provoke the contradiction between Zhao and Qi.

But Xunzi couldn't guess whether it was Qin or Chu behind it by relying on a letter.

A war broke out between the states of Zhao and Qi, and both Qin and Chu were able to benefit from it.

"King Chu and Chun Shenjun don't look like such people." Gongsun Long was a little unsure, "And as far as I know, the State of Chu has been attacking the State of Lu before, even if it provokes the conflict between the State of Zhao and the State of Qi and profits from it, it should wait until after the annexation of the State of Lu." But...... It is also not ruled out that the state of Chu is to confuse the public. A Lu country, for the Chu country, can be destroyed at any time."

"No matter who dares to kill my Zhao country, I will slaughter him." Le Cheng said in a deep voice.