Chapter 32: Ji Yeol's Innovation
Wang Lin chose a safe way to annex the Han Kingdom, but he did not give up force, on the contrary, force is still part of the whole strategy, if there is not enough force, others will not play in the end, turn the table, and directly send troops to rob what should I do?
Therefore, there must be a strong country as a backing to be able to afford this kind of operation.
The southeast of Huai has reached the Yangtze River, and Wang Lin ordered people to build a city here, and at the same time prepared to build a ship and form a naval army. The navy is very important to the Huai State, whether it is to cross the river into Wu in the future or to fight with the Han State, the navy is very important.
Han country.
The arrival of large quantities of grain has made the price of food extremely low in Han, which has caused a large number of Chinese people to switch their land to other crops, leaving only a small part of them to grow food. There are even some radicals who have planted all the land with jute.
The nobles sent their slaves to the mines to dig ore and forge them into various blades.
The wine and food from Huai have been sought after by the aristocracy. After Zijue established Huaiguo, with the stability of the surrounding environment and the development of Huaiguo, he also began to make his life better.
After all, from a materially rich modern society to this almost barbaric society, Zijue still wants to satisfy his appetite. However, the level of science and technology in this era is really not high, and most of the things that Zijue made are specious, but even so, it is enough to shock these people.
These things are enough to make the nobles of Han obsessed.
The problems of Han are not obvious at first, and even over time, they will not be obvious, and they will even become prosperous because of the prosperity of commerce. It's just that these prosperity are rootless, false prosperity.
Huai's plan was so successful that in the first year, the land used to grow grain fell by 30 percent. Because many people feel that the low price of food is only temporary, they still grow a lot of food.
However, if this situation continues for several years, the vast majority of people will choose to grow jute instead of growing food.
As long as this plan is implemented, the final fate of Han Guo is already doomed. As for the fact that Han asked for help from other countries around it and bought food, but they also had to have money, not to mention that Xu was an ally of Huai, and Zhong Wu was a vassal of Xu.
How could he risk offending Huai Guo to help Han Guo. What's more, the difficulty of doing business in this era is very high, the wild jungle is full of thorns, there are many wild beasts, and Rong Di lives in the wild, and it is not easy for Han to buy food.
When Wang Lin was implementing the plan, the land of Bangzhou was also turbulent. After the Son of Heaven cooked and killed the Duke of Qi Ai, the princes with different surnames did not go to Zhou, and the tribute was directly stopped, and even some vassal states began to rebel against Wang Ji of Bangzhou.
A more important reason is the rise of Bang Zhou Dog Rong.
Since the establishment of the feudal system in Bangzhou, they began to compete with the barbarians for land and living space, and a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed for planting.
The vassal states of the state and Zhou established one city after another, but these cities could only control the land adjacent to the cities. Farther afield, there are a large number of barbarians.
In the uncontrolled land between the cities and towns, there lived a large number of barbarians.
The princes' development was basically to defeat or drive away the barbarians, and then establish cities, and in the process, a large number of barbarians were either killed or expelled, or were annexed or enslaved. Of course, there are also barbarians who are strong and break through the vassal states.
But the replacement of barbarism by civilization is an inevitable process. It has been one hundred and twenty years since the establishment of Bangzhou, and the power of the barbarians has become smaller and smaller, and it is no longer possible to shake the rule of the vassal states, but there are still a large number of barbarians in the frontier of Bangzhou.
There are two pieces of Wanggi land in Bangzhou, one is Haojing, which is the place where Bangzhou arose, and the other is Chengzhou Luoyi, which was established during the Chengwang period.
In recent decades, due to the eastward relocation of the royal family to Naeup, Hokyung's strength has weakened. During the period of King Zhao of Zhou, the dog Rong had already begun to flourish, and King Zhao of Zhou conquered the dog Rong twice, which made the dog Rong weak. It was only a few decades later that the strength of the dog Rong had been restored and it invaded Wangji again.
In order to deal with the dogs, Ji Yeol began to rearm. After Rong Di saw that Bang Zhou was weakened, he began to invade Wangji, and although Ji Lie killed Qi Aigong, which caused the princes to be disgusted, the level of leading the army was still good.
After rebuilding the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven, plus the army defending Haojing, he recruited the Qin State and sent troops to deal with the dogs. The Bang Liujun Army and the Qin State attacked from the northwest and southeast directions respectively, forming a flanking attack. Yu, the general of the Zhou Dynasty, led the minister's private army, with a total of 100 military vehicles and 1,000 soldiers, and took the lead in breaking through the defense line of the dog Rong, and Bang Zhou won a great victory.
Ji Lie defeated Rong Di, killed 8,000 Rong Di, captured 3,000, and returned with a great victory. The victory in the war increased Ji Lie's prestige, and even the impact of cooking and killing Qi Aigong became much smaller.
Although Ji Lie's great destruction of the dog Rong has greatly increased his prestige, the problems he faces are far more than these. From the time of King Zhao, a large number of Wangji's lands were divided into the princes of Wangji, and by the time of King Xiang, the princes of Jinai had occupied seventy percent of Wangji's land.
In order to expand the financial resources, King Xiang had to carry out reforms, but this reform was not thorough, and later during the period of King Yi, the conquest failed, and the problem of Wang Ji became more and more serious. Now the strength of the princes in Wanggi has surpassed that of the royal family, and the power of the royal family has also been eroded.
The economy of the royal family has almost been hollowed out after the conquest of King Yi, and if Ji Lie wants to reform, he must suppress the nobility within Wangji.
After Ji Yeol's great victory over Inurong, he gained great prestige, and then began to want to implement reforms. It's just that any reform is a redistribution of interests, and now it is the princes in Wangji who occupy a large number of interests, and they are very resistant to Ji Lie's reform. After all, this is cutting the flesh of the princes to feed the royal family.
It's just that due to Ji Lie's prestige, these princes can only endure for the time being.
Although the royal power of Zhou Tianzi is weak, the Son of Heaven is still stronger than any prince in the world, after all, the six armies of the Son of Heaven are still there. The nobles among Wangji were not as powerful as the Son of Heaven.
But once Zhou Tianzi pushed all the nobles into opposition, the combined power of these nobles was higher than that of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven went from being on the strong side to the weak side.
King Zhao used the vassal states to balance the vassal states, and through the method of division and disintegration, the vassal states could not work together, check and balance the vassal states, maintain the majesty of Zhou Tianzi and the strength of the six armies of the Son of Heaven, and let the vassal states pay tribute.
This practice was very successful, so until the period of King Yi, the vassal states in the world did not dare not pay tribute, of course, by the time of King Yi, the tribute materials of the princes had decreased a lot, and it almost became a ceremonial practice.