Of course, this is true to a certain extent.

For two countries with the same or similar national strength, one country can only exert 50 or 60 percent of its combat strength, and at most it can burst out with 780 percent of its combat strength, while the other country can maintain an output of more than 90 percent of its combat strength for a long time.

But the question is, what if the other country is twice as powerful as the other? Obviously, under such circumstances, even if this country can only sustain 50 percent of its combat strength, it will still be better than another country's 90 percent output.

And once this country explodes slightly, it is a height that is difficult for another country to reach.

Obviously, what Zhao Kuo is doing is such a thing.

The system portrayed by Zhao Kuo, the rules implemented by Zhao today, although far from being as capitalist as possible, are also a system that has experienced the baptism of a thousand years of feudal dynasties, and can be said to be a peak of feudalism (of course, compared with the extremes of feudalism in the Qing Dynasty, it is still a bit far away).

Such a system is undoubtedly more advanced in today's society and can better promote the development of productive forces.

Undoubtedly, the Qin state's farming and warfare system was indeed able to tie all the Qin people to the chariot of conquest, but at the same time, such a system also greatly constrained the development of productive forces.

Productive forces are often the concrete embodiment of a country's national strength.

However, the promotion of productivity often requires unconscious, even unconscious, and even unconscious inventions and creations.

Just like the invention of the electric lamp, it is clear that the candle is bright enough, but the exploration of tungsten filament requires thousands of trial and error, so such an invention and discovery is almost impossible to achieve in the Qin State, which is known for its efficiency.

From bronze to iron, this is already the limit of the Qin system.

For further development, more advanced systems are needed, such as the system implemented by Zhao Guo today.

It can be said that Zhao Kuo and his current Zhao State, compared to the Qin State, are completely standing in another higher dimension.

The so-called "summer insects can't speak ice".

Similarly, even if Zhao Kuo told Qin that his Zhao was now implementing a more advanced state policy, the ruling class of Qin, including the King of Qin and Prime Minister Fan Sui, was not destined to believe it.

Even, even the people of the Qin State would not believe that the people of the Zhao State would live better than them.

Perhaps, only when the territory of the Qin State is completely incorporated into the Zhao State, the people of the Qin State will know how miserable their life was.

Perhaps only when Zhao's army stepped into the capital of Xianyang, would the King of Qin know that there is no perfect system in the world, only a system that is constantly updated and developed with the continuous progress of productive forces.

This was true of the tribal system born in the Stone Age, the slavery system born in the Bronze Age, and the "ploughing and warfare" system (semi-slave and semi-feudal system) of the Qin State born in the Iron Age.

Nowadays, with the vigorous development of the iron-smelting industry, the national strength of the countries has also risen sharply, and the cultivation and warfare system of the Qin State may still have certain advantages for other small countries, but the Zhao State has already gone ahead of the Qin State.

Having said so much, in fact, in just one sentence, the times have limited the horizons of the elites such as King Qin and Fan Sui, and the limited horizons have finally forced them to misjudge the future of Qin and Zhao.

And such a misjudgment eventually led to the deviation of Qin's national policy.

After all, thousands of years of experience still give Zhao Kuo an absolute advantage.

The liberal arts are never for nothing, both in the modern era and in the midst of time-traveling.

The song "You don't see, the end of the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is the captive please be long", how many young talents "abandon my old pen, and use my wartime jin";

The "scream" of "cannibalism" woke up many "hesitant" Chinese sons and daughters at midnight;

If literature is just a cry for the development of society, then political science, economics and even history, including the historical Legalists, Confucianists, Zonghengists, etc., are all looking for a good way to save the world.

Not to mention the east wind of Marxism-Leninism......

How did it ever be

Xianxue, but now it has become a pile of old papers in the corner?

Even if you want to bring the knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry, even if you are slightly biased towards the liberal arts, it is just the so-called "300 Tang poems", and being a "poetic immortal" can be regarded as a top liberal arts crossing.

Of course, this is not unrelated to the century-old trauma of our country.

1840, *** war, let us remember the British ships and guns;

In 1931, the Japanese invaded and made all Chinese remember the lesson of "backwardness is to be beaten";

In 1950, the United States shouted, which made the Chinese people yearn for nuclear weapons for the first time;

In 2001, the Wang Hai incident made all Chinese people feel the importance of weapons;

2003, Yugoslavia, let China understand what it means to be "a weak country without diplomacy";

In 2019, the blockade of science and technology made all Chinese hold their breath.

Chinese The yearning for science and the hope for engineering have been deeply rooted in the blood of Chinese, and the concept of "learning mathematics, physics and chemistry, and not being afraid to go all over the world" has taken deep root in everyone's minds.

The best learning seedlings must be in science, and the strongest genius must be in engineering.

Coupled with the poison of Soviet reportage, articles on "abandoning wives and children" for the sake of work are still proliferating, and the exaggerated technique of stamping hundreds of millions of chapters a year is still being abused.

People seem to have forgotten the iron backbone and heroic righteousness of "articles are written for the time, and songs and poems are written for things";

People seem to only remember the poison of the "Eight Strands" of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but they have forgotten the "Hundred Schools of Thought" of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the irony of the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

It is true that China can have one less singer "Jiang Ying", but it cannot have one less physicist "Qian Xuesen".

It's just that China is also indispensable to Marxism-Leninism, Maote, and ......

The Song people valued literature over military force, and were invaded by Jin and Liao, and destroyed by Mongolia, so they were not advisable.

However, Mongolia is not literate in cultivating martial arts, how short is its ambition, and it is better to take it?

As a traverser, it is far more important to understand the laws of social operation, to be able to use the rules, and then to become rules and change the rules, than to be able to point the salt-making process and the iron-smelting process.

This group of time-travelers seems to have forgotten that only a more advanced system can give birth to the emancipation of the mind and the development of the productive forces. Only the emancipation of the mind and the development of productive forces are the best way to promote the enhancement of national strength.

Of course, making salt can make huge profits, but in the feudal system of salt and iron monopoly, salt making is a capital crime!

Even if you finally get a salt guide, you want to use your own salt-making technology to bring down the price of salt?

That's a fool's dream!

In the face of huge interests, countless claws will reach out to you until they tear you to pieces. Everything will go back to square one.

Even if you are the emperor! If you don't have enough political wisdom and want to change the world just by one or two inventions, that's also a fool's dream!

Wang Mang is the best case.

From the stars holding the moon to the betrayal of relatives, it only takes an edict.

Fortunately, Zhao Kuo seems to have the pulse of the times.

And as Fan Sui's words fell, King Qin, who was sitting on the main seat, finally nodded silently after thinking deeply.

Although King Qin did not directly agree with Fan Sui's proposal, in fact, his heart had already been moved by Fan Sui's words.

Of course, the ministers of the Qin State present also nodded in agreement with Fan Sui's suggestion, including General Wang Yi.

Yes, from the very beginning, Wang Yi was planning to advise the King of Qin to let go of the war with Zhao and instead go to other countries to expand his territory, and compare with Zhao to annex various countries, which is obviously much more likely to win than directly fighting with Zhao.

It's just that pointing out the problem is already an extra matter for a general like Wang Di. If you propose a solution to the problem for King Qin, it will really be too much.

will not only be suspicious of King Qin, but also usher in the grudge of Minister Fan Sui.

In this way, it is obviously the best distribution for Wang Di, the general on the front line, to discover the problem, and then to solve the problem by the minister of state in the rear.

"How is this going to work?" King Qin then continued to ask Fan Sui.

"Wei Chen thinks that the most important thing for this policy to be implemented is to let King Zhao understand what we are doing." Fan Sui then continued: "Therefore, Wei Chen suggested that he should tell King Zhao what I want to do in Great Qin."

"Tell me more." King Qin continued to ask with some impatience.

"The writer of the article sent an envoy to reconcile with the Zhao State, although there is no mutual alliance, but it can not be attacked." Fan Sui tilted his head slightly, looked at General Wang Yi on the side, and said slowly, "As for the warriors, it is necessary to choose a direction that does not touch the core interests of the Zhao State, and carry out an attack, so as to achieve a tacit understanding with the Zhao State. It's just that the choice of this direction will have to be made by General Lao Wangyi."

Obviously, Fan Sui is repaying the favor.

Wang Sui set up such a big stage for Fan Sui, and of course Fan Sui also had to pay tribute to Wang Sui for an important role.

Seeing this, King Qin naturally looked at Wang Di, and his eager eyes seemed to say, "Wang Qing, what do you think?"

"Return to my king, Xiangguo." Wang Yi thought for a moment, and then spoke, "Judging from the current situation, if my Great Qin wants to expand the territory eastward, there are only three ways.

First, attacking the party from Hedong, this road directly hit Zhao State, and there was no Hanoi strategy, the chance of victory was not great, so naturally it was impossible;

Second, out of Yiyang and then attack Zhoudi, judging from the battle of Los Angeles, Zhao naturally does not want our country to get involved in Zhoudi;

The third is to go out of Yan Ying and attack Chu again. Maybe it's the only way.

It's just that even the third is difficult."

"How?" King Qin then asked.

"First of all, the land of Chu is advantageous, after crossing Yanying, the ditches are vertical and horizontal, and the advance of our Qin army is unfavorable; Secondly, now that Zhao Chu is on good terms, if I send a large army to attack Chu State, Zhao State may not be a bystander." Wang Yi said helplessly.

Hearing this, King Qin was suddenly a little dumbfounded, saying this, it seems that the Qin State can't attack anywhere!

What can I do?

couldn't help but look at Fan Sui on the side again.

When Fan Sui heard this, he laughed, and then bowed his hand slightly to King Qin, and then said, "The general is too worried. In Wei Chen's view, there are three ways to go east, except for the first one that is not advisable to directly attack Zhao Tu, the other two are possible."

"Oh?" King Qin was slightly stunned, obviously, he also felt that Wang Di's statement just now was very reasonable, but he didn't know how Fan Sui could solve it.

"Let's talk about this Zhao Chu Alliance first." Fan Sui smiled indifferently and said, "Dare to ask the general, can Zhao Chu's alliance have an alliance of direct in-laws?"

"Not yet." Wang replied dryly.

"Is there a common interest of great interest?" Fan Sui continued.

"Anti-Qin?" Wang Yu continued to reply.

"Resisting Qin and Zhao can't benefit from it, how can we say that the interests are common?" Fan Sui then asked.

"But that's unknown." Wang Yi shook his head helplessly.

"There is no alliance of in-laws, and there is no common interest, so how can this alliance not be broken?" Fan Sui smiled and said, "What's more, if the Chu State wants to be around, how can King Zhao have no hatred?"

Hearing this, Wang Yi also frowned and nodded.

Seeing that he had already persuaded Wang Di, Fan Sui immediately clenched his fists and continued to King Qin: "My king ......"