"You are here, I don't know what you are doing?"

Sima Yue sat on the dragon chair sickly, half-squinted his eyes, and asked Qin Mu.

Qin Mu replied: "On the orders of our emperor, the foreign minister has come to sign a friendship treaty of non-aggression and non-interference between Zhao and Jin with your country, and at the same time, for the mutual benefit of the two countries, my emperor is also willing to open a treaty port, set up a bazaar, reduce tariffs, and reach a consensus with your country!" ”

Sima Yue was nothing, and Yu Bing, the general of the cavalry on the side, stood up: "Does your country really have such a good heart?" Hmph, I'm afraid it's not likely, right? Everyone knows the ambition of the wolf son of your Zhao State, since the establishment of your Zhao State, you have never made any covenant of friendly relations with a country, but on the contrary, you have frequent wars and enemies on all sides, who knows that your Zhao State proposed to have mutual benefit with my Great Jin at this time, what kind of wishful thinking is playing? ”

Hearing this, Qin Mu smiled faintly: "This must be Lord Yu Bing, right?" Yes, our Great Zhao is now signing a treaty of friendship and trade with your Jin Kingdom, and it is indeed a different plan. But what kind of wishful thinking is our Zhao Guo's playing, I'm afraid everyone knows it, right? ”

"What did Lord Qin say about this?" Sima Yue asked very cooperatively.

Qin Mu said: "As Lord Yu said, since the founding of the country, my Great Zhao has been conquering for many years, and the people and national strength have long been miserable. Our emperor took pity on Li Shu, so he had the heart to stop the army and recuperate with the people. ”

"Lord Qin's words are passable, but." Yu Bing sneered and said, "As far as I know, now you Zhao State is not the so-called emperor, but Shi Min, the king of Wei, right?" ”

In front of the envoys of Zhao State, it was really too rude to question like this, Rao is Qin Mu's belly was big enough, and he couldn't help frowning: "I don't know where Lord Yu got the news from, it's just groundless news, and it's inevitable that it's exaggerated." King Wei does have a lot of authority in my Zhao country, but he is by no means above the emperor, so please don't say this. ”

When Yu Bing heard this, he said: "Your country intends to establish a non-aggression and mutually beneficial relationship with my Great Jin, and my monarch and ministers are very happy, but the matter is very serious, please go down first, let me wait for the discussion, and then give the lord a word." ”

"The minister retired."

When Qin Mu and the others retreated, Yu Bing crossed his hand and said to Sima Yue on the dragon chair: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that you must not make a mutually friendly alliance with Zhao State. ”

"Why?"

"Now, although the minister doesn't want to admit it, he has to, Zhao is indeed very strong. The national strength of Jin and Zhao is almost evenly matched, and even the population and military strength of Zhao are stronger than my Great Jin! As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will think about change. ”

"The real strength of a country lies in its national strength, and when the country is strong, the country is strong. And what is national strength? National strength, the embodiment of comprehensive national strength is political, military, population, urban land, wealth, etc., a strong country must have an advanced political system, strong military force, a large population, a vast territory and countless wealth! ”

"During the Warring States Period, there were many powerful countries, and the seven heroes competed for hegemony, why did the Qin State stand out, sweep away the heroes, and establish a unified Qin Dynasty? Because of the Shang Dynasty's reform of the law, the Qin State had an advanced political system and a strong military, which enabled the Qin State to sweep away the six kingdoms and unify them during the reign of the Qin Dynasty. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was divided into three kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu stood on three legs, and finally the three kingdoms returned to Jin. That's all because the Great Jin Dynasty was built on the foundation of the Wei State, and the original Wei State went through decades of hard work to become completely powerful. ”

"Now it has been divided into several countries, and the one that is on par with my Great Jin is the Zhao State. If my Great Jin gives Zhao State such a respite, so that it can work hard to improve its national strength, I am afraid that the future Zhao State will be like Qin and Wei, with strong enough national strength, and enough national strength to sweep down! Your Majesty, is this not a concern? ”

Hearing this, Sima Yue nodded very heavily and said, "Not bad." What Yu Qing said coincided with my thoughts. Zhao has ten states in the Central Plains, rich land, large population, and strong military power, if Zhao is given the opportunity to develop, it is not difficult to imagine how strong Zhao's national strength will be in the future! ”

Yu Bing said again: "Your Majesty! Zhao is strong, at this time, Zhao Guo must not be given this opportunity! In the Three Kingdoms era, Zhuge Wuhou knew that Shu was weak and Wei was strong, so he repeatedly went on northern expeditions and went out of Qishan six times! When it was time for Jiang Wei to unify the army, the Shu army was even more nine attacks on the Central Plains! Why did the weak Shu State repeatedly invade the powerful Wei State? The people of Guyin Shu knew very well that once the Wei State became completely strong, with the weak national strength of the Shu State, it would no longer exist! ”

"Now I'm facing such a bad situation. At present, the national strength of Jin and Zhao can be said to be evenly matched, but Zhao is stronger than our Jin State in terms of military and population and cultivated land. Because of this, my Jin Kingdom can't sit back and watch Zhao State become stronger. ”

Hearing this, Sima Yue's face was very solemn: "Yu Qing, what are you going to do?" ”

Yu Bing is right, the Shu State repeatedly attacked the Cao Wei regime in order to gain a longer survival time.

In the years following Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang adopted a policy of recuperation.

The number of Shu troops gradually rose to 70,000, a figure that was the highest the state finances could sustain.

Even so, the army needs to cultivate its own fields.

It was very miserable, and during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the population of the Han Dynasty was still more than 4,000. However, by the middle of the Three Kingdoms, the population of the whole country did not exceed 8 million!

Of course, there are those black households, but even so, the population of the country is only more than 10 million.

On the books, the total population of the Cao Wei regime was more than 4 million, the Eastern Wu regime was more than 2 million, and the Shu Han regime was the most helpless, with only more than 900,000 people. The Central Plains region was faced with a vast and sparsely populated situation, so Cao Pi formulated a plan for recuperation.

Cao Pi planned to try not to start a war in 10 years and make every effort to develop the productive forces, so that after 10 years, Cao Wei's national strength would be incomparable with that of Wu and Shu. Seriously, the plan is very ambitious.

Zhuge Liang saw the problem, and if he didn't attack Wei, let it recuperate.

Although Shu Han can enjoy a few years of peace, once Cao Wei develops to a certain height, what will Shu Han do against the powerful Cao Wei.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang must constantly attack Cao Wei in order to break Cao Pi's recuperation plan.

Zhuge Liang attacked Cao Wei many times, but each time he led an army of only more than 30,000 people. Relying on this army to defeat Cao Wei is inevitably too unrealistic. Use the constant offensive to break Cao Wei's development plan, or to get more time to survive.

In fact, the real opponent of the Cao Wei regime was Eastern Wu, and the two countries repeatedly fought fierce battles in the Jianghuai region.

Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wei and others made many northern expeditions, but it was difficult to succeed from any point of view. Northern Expedition, you will perish; If you don't go on the Northern Expedition, you will perish.

The Northern Expedition could gain more time, which was the way of survival of Shu Han.

Yu Bing replied, "Your Majesty, at this time of crisis. I, the Great Jin, should unite as one, just like the Shu Han of the year, constantly attack and harass the Zhao State, exhausting its soldiers, tired its people, and plundering its land, so as to disrupt the development plan of the Zhao State. ”

"This ...... Do you think Yu Qing's policy is feasible? ”

In this regard, there was a sudden disagreement in the court of the Jin Kingdom.

Some think that Yu Bing's strategy is feasible, and some think that it is impossible to take the initiative to attack Zhao after all, and once Zhao Guo's troops attack, they are afraid that the Jin State will suffer heavy losses.

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