Yao Jiahe, who had been scolded with twenty canes, limped in, and was led to a side room by the old eunuch's order, where the imperial doctor had already waited, and the others had lunch by the way.

Although Yingzheng beat Yao Jia and Dun weak, he still paid more attention to the two.

In Ying Zheng's eyes, the territory of the future Great Qin Empire is not just the world of the Seven Kingdoms.

When Han Fei said that the world of the Seven Kingdoms would be ninety-nine, Ying Zheng became interested in the Western Regions, Baiyue and more distant places.

Hehe, grapes from the Western Regions?

In the future, it will be renamed as the grape of the Western Regions of Great Qin.

After lunch, everyone started a new round of discussion, this time Yingzheng wanted to listen to the discussion of the Yan faction.

However, before Ying Zheng could speak, a young and loud voice shook the seat, and everyone looked sideways and noticed that Li Xin had already flashed out from behind Zhang Fuselage.

"Your Majesty, the last general has something to say!"

Li Xin...... Good! But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”

Ying Zheng happily took the case, with a bit of expectation in his eyes.

Although Li Xin in this life was fifteen years ahead of schedule because of the war to destroy the Six Kingdoms, Li Xin was not the famous general of the Qin State who was loved by Yingzheng so much, but Li Xin and Qiang were born in Yingzheng's Langguan after all.

Compared with Tu Sui, Ren Huan and other young generals with extraordinary talents, these generals who were born as Lang officials naturally have a little more favor and trust in Ying Zheng's heart, and they are absolute confidants and favorite generals, so Ying Zheng is also very much looking forward to Li Xin to bring him some surprises.

Li Xin said generously: "I believe that the current use of troops in the war of annihilation should not be too hasty or too slow. If you are too hasty, you will not be able to reach it quickly, and if you are too slow, you may miss the opportunity. Of the remaining four kingdoms, Qi Chu is the largest, and they should be destroyed alone. ”

Li Xin's remarks completely rejected the previous remarks of only one or two people who had previously proposed to destroy the three kingdoms of Yan, Wei, and Qi at the same time.

Li Si nodded sideways, and added on the side: "What General Li Xin said is very true. ”

"The four kingdoms of Chu, Qi, Wei, and Yan were all great powers in the past, except for Wei, which shrank slightly, and the remaining three kingdoms were all more than 3,000 miles wide. If the troops were divided and the three kingdoms of Qi, Wei, and Yan were annihilated, at least 800,000 soldiers and horses would be needed, and millions of people would be needed to ensure logistics, which would shake the national foundation of Great Qin. ”

"Once the Qin army falls into a quagmire in a certain country, it will inevitably suffer from the overall situation, and it will destroy the three kingdoms together, how unwise it is!"

Imperial Historian Wang Juan also stood up and spoke: "As a Imperial Historian, the minister has the responsibility of recommending and assessing officials, and he also knows the number of scholars in the Qin State. ”

"To put it bluntly, the Qin State, which was regarded as a barbarian state by the Shandong countries in the past, no longer lacks scholars, and the number of scholars far exceeds that of other countries!"

"And yet!"

Wang Juan suddenly changed his words when the ministers just wanted to applaud: "If my Qin State increases the territory of thousands of miles in one go, the government and the people's governance will not be able to follow up calmly. ”

"If the newly established official offices all use the old officials of the destroyed country, it will inevitably leave a great deal of room for the remnants of the nobles of the six countries to stir up civil unrest. At that time, even if the country is destroyed, there will be a trend of turmoil. If I am not able to calm down, I will be constrained in all sorts of ways. This, where the scruples of the ministers are! ”

Zhang Ji looked at Wang Juan and couldn't help but be a little surprised, this imperial historian who didn't have much ink in the history books is no wonder that he later achieved the position of the left prime minister of the Qin State, this vision, at least the current Li Si does not have.

In history, the Qin State did not have such a general world, which absorbed so many patriotic scholars through the marriage of Zhang Ji and Gongsun Li, and took over South Korea, which was originally Qin, in the form of Chan concession, and did not make the Zhao people and the generations really convinced when they attacked Zhao.

And this also led to the end of the ten-year war, although the Six Kingdoms were destroyed, they had to continue to use the old officials of the Six Kingdoms, which eventually led to the rapid disintegration of the Qin State after the death of Yingzheng, who could deter Xiaoxiao.

However, Wang Juan's words are still a little easy to offend people.

Because when the Qin State lacked scholars, it always liked to use martial artists to govern the place.

Officials such as Wang Qi, Yang Duanhe, Wang Qian, Meng Fu, and even the old Duke of Qi all served as local county guards, forming an efficient administrative system similar to that of the military government, but this administrative system is ultimately not stable enough, and it is easy to ignore the problems of people's livelihood and people's hearts.

"The battle of destroying the country is not the same as the ordinary battle for the city and the land! The key to this lies in the concerted efforts of the military, the government, and the people. One country at a time, step by step, each calmly. The bulls are fighting together, and they are all busy. Back then, the strategy of attacking from afar and close to the Hou was also here! May the king be careful in his thoughts. ”

Zuo Prime Minister Kui Xiang also held the same view, especially believing that a country like Qi, which did not cultivate military equipment and was close to Qin, should be put on the last crusade.

Li Xin said impassionedly: "Now Wei and Yan are extremely weak, and they can be destroyed at the same time. With the national strength and combat strength under the eyes of our Great Qin, there should be no worries about dividing the troops into two routes. Li Xin is willing to lead 100,000 troops to destroy the Wei State, in order to echo the north and south of the main army of Yan! ”

Ying Zheng did not immediately take Li Xin's words, but turned to Wang Jian and asked, "Does the old general have good words to dedicate to the widow?" ”

Ying Zheng still wanted to listen to the discussion of the Yan faction first, after all, Li Xin was still a little too young after all, although he liked these young and energetic young and courageous young and strong generals, but he also had to admit that the experience of the older generation of generals was also very important to the Qin State

Wang Qian's ravine-lined face was majestic and solemn, without any smile. Said slowly: "From ancient times to the present, the affairs of only the soldiers are unfathomable. The country that is dying is not without elite soldiers. The state of prosperity is not a division without defeat. If you look at the big country of Shandong with dead wood and rotten plants, the minister thinks that sooner or later it will cause a big disaster. Yao Jia and Dun were weakly imprisoned in the state exchange, but they lost their foundation. Li Xin and Wang Ben were imprisoned on the battlefield and lost their ignorance of the political situation and the people's feelings. All these are not the way to go to the army, and I hope that the king will be cautious! ”

Ying Zheng understood that Wang Jian was not in favor of attacking the two countries at the same time, so he looked at Meng Wu, a general who was about the same age as Wang Qian, and Meng Wu thought for a moment and said: "Ting Weizheng's "Han Feizi: The Death Campaign" has clouds, 'Although the wood is rotten, it will not break without a storm. Although the wall is gap, it is not damaged without heavy rain. And in the case of the Yan State, although its strength is weak, it is connected to the Xiongnu in the north and the Donghu in the east. The four sides have flying cavalry and light soldiers, fast and agile, if the alliance is one, the Qin army will defeat with all its might, and it is not known, why should the two countries be wiped out? After many meetings and consultations, the ministers and generals all thought: In the war of destroying the country, we must not be rash and rash. ”

Wang Jian said: "The minister and Mengwu have the same idea, and it is to destroy the Yan Kingdom first. As General Mengwu said, the difficulty of destroying Yan is not in its strong national strength, but in its location in the north, connecting Zhuhu. If you can't break it with all your might, and make it flee north to the Huns, or establish a country again, the Central Plains will have endless troubles! Only in this way, not only did the Yan exterminate not only have to mobilize all the troops, but also have to dispatch from the north to cut off the connection between the Yan State and the Xiongnu Zhuhu. ”

"Otherwise, you can't wipe out the Yan Kingdom!"

Wang Jian and Meng Wu's words were loud, and even Li Xin, Yao Jia, Dun Liang and others, who were unconvinced, couldn't help but feel admiration for the foresight of Wang Jian and Meng Wu.

Indeed, the steppe wolf clan has indeed been gradually ignored by the Qin State.

At the beginning of the Qin state, he rescued Zhou Tianzi from the steppe wolf clan, and then crusaded against Xirong, and most of the land of Qin was taken from Xirong.

Later, the seventy-two states of the grassland such as the Wushi State lived in harmony with the Qin State under the efforts of King Qin Huiwen, and were gradually assimilated into the Qin people, and the most threatening Yiqu State also perished in its hands, and the old land of Yiqu was completely annexed and absorbed by the Qin State during the reign of the Empress Dowager Xuan.

And the other wolf clans on the grassland have also completely extinguished their covetousness for the Qin State since then, where do they dare to go south to fight the autumn wind?

Only then did the targets of Zhao and Yan be targeted, so the Qin State gradually ignored the enemies on the grassland over the years.

But it's no wonder that the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period all stood out from hundreds of vassal states, even the Yan State, which had just been beaten twice by Lian Po and Pang Xuan, could immediately lead the army north after the war to vent the anger of the beating on the Donghu who plundered in the south, so that the cattle and sheep of Donghu could contribute to the recuperation of the Yan State.

Therefore, it is normal for Ying Zheng and the young Zhuang generals who have never faced the steppe wolf clan to ignore this problem, but it is a fact that the combat strength of the steppe wolf clan is far inferior to that of the Central Plains countries, but it is very difficult to eliminate them.

They did not invade cities, but plundered people, wealth, and food, and most of them were lightly armed cavalry, coming and going like the wind.

It is really difficult to leave such a light cavalry force that far exceeds the number and scale of the Central Plains countries, so the northern countries build more Great Walls, and take advantage of the disadvantage of the steppe wolf tribe who are good at cavalry and field warfare, but not good at attacking fortifications, to block them from the Great Wall.

"Wang, there is still one end to the destruction of the swallow."

Lu Buwei closed his eyes silently, as if he was asleep, but no one dared to disturb the right prime minister, but at this moment, Lu Buwei finally got up and said loudly.

"Oh? Father, please solve your doubts for the government. ”

Seeing Lu Buwei speak, Ying Zheng also sat up, and the rest of the people also sat upright.

"Although Yan is weak and good at attaching to a big country, he should be the first to cut off this wing for the countries of Shandong!"

Suddenly, Ying Zheng's heart was stirred, and a famous assertion in the original period of vertical and horizontal immediately came to mind.

Since Zhang Yi, Gongsun Yan and others withdrew from the stage of the Warring States period one after another, when Yan Guo was in a panic, Su Dai made a famous judgment on Yan Wang's analysis of Yan Guo's situation.

Su Dai said: "Where the world is the Warring States Seven, and the Yan is weak!" If you fight alone, you can't, and if you have a sideline, it's all heavy. If the south is attached to Chu, Chu is heavy; The west is attached to Qin, and Qin is heavy; Han Wei is attached to it, and Han Wei is heavy. And the weight of the country will make the king heavy! ”

In other words, although Yan Guo cannot be alone, it can be used as a decisive weight.

The Yan State is attached to any country, or it is either vertical or horizontal, and its power will increase dramatically.

The importance of the Yan State lies in its dependence on the big country, not in its own hands; can only greatly increase the weight of a great country, so that Yan Kingdom will inevitably have a decisive weight in the world.

Su Dai's rhetoric was originally intended to seek a stable and long-term strategy for the Yan Kingdom in the Seven Kingdoms, and to avoid the spasm of suddenly leading and retreating.

However, in fact, except for the period when Yan Zhao Wang Leyi was strong for a while, and briefly broke Qi and took charge of itself, before and after, most of them sought dependence between powerful countries and wavered. During the most intense period of the Qin State, it was able to form alliances with the Yan State many times and break the alliance, which was actually done under the situation that the Yan State pursued the "strategy of attaching the country".

Although Yan did not implement the strategy of the vassal states consistently, Qi, Zhao, and Qin, who were most often allied with them, were also uncertain, and Chu, Wei, and Han were even more fickle. But in any case, it is an indisputable fact that the Yan Kingdom may turn to any major country for support at any time, and it has a decisive value among the kingdoms of the heavens.

If the Yan State annexes Qi or Chu to the east in the future, won't it make the resurgence of the joint anti-Qin rebellion?

From this point of view, Yan is the most mobile country among the remaining four countries.

Only if it is uncertain, there is a possibility that the world will be provoked by Yan Guo's move to find a way out again.

That is to say, the three kingdoms of Qi, Chu, and Wei are based on the tradition of great powers, and once they fall into ignorance, it is difficult to change the inertia of the national policy for a while; On the contrary, the Yan State, which has no definite opinion and seeks vassal states to survive the Society, may have spared no effort to seek an alliance with the army.

In the face of such a seven- or eight-hundred-year-old princely power, who dares to say that the other three major powers can categorically refuse?

If it is readily accepted, won't Shandong's resistance to Qin inevitably lead to an unpredictable situation?

If Wang Qian's words are loud, then Lu Buwei's words are deafening.

The necessity of cutting down swallows mentioned by Lü Buwei has never been considered.

Since the establishment of Dongjun and the countries were cut off by the north and south, the Qin State was no longer afraid of the countries joining forces, but if the Qin State conquered the south, it would be a troublesome matter for the Yan State to join forces with the steppe wolf clan in the north to attack the rear of the Qin State.

It's just that, logically, Yingzheng is ...... Yan Guo After all, there is still a touch of different emotions.

After all, Yan Dan was the one who shared the hardships with him in the past, at least in Handan in the past, he only had Yan Dan as a friend.

When I was a child, I would ally and inter emperors, and the words were still in my ears.

However, this hesitation is only fleeting, since the Qin State successively destroyed the three kingdoms of Wei, Han, and Zhao, the Yan State seems to have made no moves, but Yan Dan has privately gathered the princes and nobles who have been displaced after the fall of the Three Kingdoms and the anti-Qin elements in the world, and there is a faint tendency to build himself into a new anti-Qin banner like Xinling Jun, and this friendship has begun to deteriorate.

Even though Ying Zheng still remembered the old friendship in his heart, it was impossible to let Yan Guo develop like this.

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