Chapter 162: The Wheels of History Roll Forward
Wang Pu ordered the establishment of 13 stargazing platforms throughout the country to observe the movement of the stars and the moon. These people will be responsible for calibrating the calendar in the future.
This is a long-term work, Wang Pu ordered the formation of Taishi Supervisor, set up Taishi Ling, Taishi Cheng two members, and set up supervisors in various places, doctors, etc.
Taishi Ling is served by the children of the public office, and Taishi Cheng is served by the disciples of the Mo family. Taishi is in charge of testing astronomy, testing the calendar, calibrating the time, and reporting the agricultural solar terms every year.
The compilation of the calendar will not be completed in a day or two, and this calendar will be implemented in Huaiguo. As for whether countries are willing to implement it, Wang Pu is not worried, the current implementation of the calendar agricultural time error is very large, as long as they do not want to miss the agricultural time, resulting in a poor harvest of acres, then they can only use the Huai calendar.
Because Huai State annexed most of the land of Chu State, its territory became very vast, and a large number of scholars were needed to help.
During this time, Huaiguo needed to compile the "Hundred Schools of Thought" canon, and had to rewrite the calendar, and for a while it became very busy, and there was no time to expand outward.
Huai focused on developing internal affairs and no longer sent troops, which made all the princes of the world breathe a sigh of relief. After Sanjin occupied half of the land of Nanyang, he also began to digest the fruits in his hands.
At the same time, because after obtaining the land of Nanyang, the Sanjin needed to defend the Huai State, and the Sanjin Alliance, which had been broken, was maintained again. It's just that although the Sanjin is still an alliance on the surface, there are many contradictions on the inside. It's just that because of the immediate interests, the three Jin are temporarily united.
The Three Jin Dynasty got the benefits, but the Qi State gained nothing, which made the Qi State very dissatisfied, and thought that the Yan State took the opportunity to attack the Qi State not long ago and occupied several cities, so he immediately decided to attack the Yan State.
Yan is located in the bitter cold, the population is not abundant, plus there has been no law change, and Qi has begun to change the law to become a strong country, Yan State is not as good as Qi State, how is it the opponent of Qi State.
The army of Qi broke seven cities in a row, and Yan was defeated in successive battles, seeing this situation, Yan Hou hurriedly sent people to ask Zhao for help.
Le Zhong, the envoy of the Yan State, hurried to the Zhao State to meet the Marquis of Zhao.
"The foreign minister has heard that in the past, the king of Ra attacked the Huai State, the Huai State asked for help from the Xu State, and said that the Xu State sent troops to help, and today the Yan State was attacked by the Qi State, and the Yan State was defeated, if the Yan State was occupied by the Qi State, then the Qi State would surround the Zhao State from the southeast and southeast directions."
"The state of Qi is strong, the south is the Huai state, the east is the sea, and the west is the Wei state, if the Yan country is annexed, the Qi country can only obtain the land from the Zhao state."
"Qi State is attacking Zhao State from the northeast and southeast sides, how can Zhao State stop it?"
"Yan State and Zhao Kingdom are dependent on each other, if Yan Kingdom is destroyed, can Zhao State last long?"
Zhao Hou discussed with the ministers and felt that what Le Zhong said was very right, if Qi was allowed to annex Yan State, then Qi State's money and grain plus Yan State's elite soldiers, Zhao State would not be an opponent at all.
Immediately, Zhao Hou said to Le Zhong: "Your envoy, Yan and Zhao are two countries, lips and teeth depend on each other, and the Lone Society will send a large army to save Yan!" ”
After Le Zhong left, Zhao Hou immediately gathered a large army and prepared to go to help Yan State, and at this time, another minister suggested: "Your Majesty, this time to help Yan State, there will definitely be losses, why not invite Wei State and Korea together?" ”
The Marquis of Zhao immediately sent people to contact Wei and Korea, and soon the Three Jin Dynasty again formed a coalition army to attack the Qi State.
Qi Hou learned that the three Jin coalition forces attacked, and quickly recalled the army and the three Jin to fight, the two sides fought in Lingqiu, the Qi army was defeated, had to cede several cities to sue for peace, and the three Jin retreated.
Qi Hou originally wanted to teach Yan Guo a lesson, but he was beaten by Sanjin again, Qi Hou was very angry, and then asked the ministers if there was any way.
Qi Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, do you still remember Zhongshan Kingdom?" ”
"Zhongshan naturally remembers, but haven't they been wiped out by Wei?" Qi Hou said.
Gao Po said: "Your Majesty, the minister heard that although Zhongshan Kingdom is dead, but its people have not surrendered, Zhongshan Monarch has been hiding in Taihang Mountain, if you want to contain the Three Jins, you can send someone to contact Zhongshan Monarch." ”
Qi Hou was very happy, and immediately said: "Good! ”
The Marquis of Qi sent an envoy to secretly contact the Zhongshan State, the Zhongshan State was destroyed for more than 20 years, since the destruction of the country, the people of the Zhongshan State have been living in the Taihang Mountains, after learning that the Qi State is willing to support the Zhongshan State, the Zhongshan State monarch was very happy, and immediately agreed to the alliance with the Qi State.
So Qi sent a large amount of food to Zhongshan, and sent people to help Zhongshan train the army, and even supported weapons to Zhongshan. Zhongshan is in the land of four wars, very close to Yidi, it is half farming and half herding, the people are fierce, and they are good at riding and shooting.
When he was defeated and destroyed the country, he also ran into Wu Qi and Wei Wushu, otherwise if he wanted to defeat Zhongshan Kingdom, it would not take decades and several generations to fight, and he would not want to destroy Zhongshan Kingdom.
With the support of the Qi State, the Zhongshan State increased in strength and soon began to rebel secretly. Because of the perennial conquest of the Wei State, the Zhongshan State was rampant, and this time the monarch of the Zhongshan State played the banner of recovering the country, and the people flocked to follow for a while.
However, in a few months, Zhongshan successfully recovered. Moreover, after the restoration of the country this time, the strength of Zhongshan was even greater, and Zhao Hou sent a large army to exterminate it, but instead of winning, he was defeated by Zhongshan several times in a row.
Zhao saw that Zhongshan was getting bigger, and asked Wei for help, and Wei sent 30,000 troops to help in the war, and Qi took this opportunity to suddenly send troops and took the opportunity to take back the cities captured by Zhao and Wei.
Zhongshan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and its people are good at riding and shooting, coming and going like the wind, especially the Zhongshan monarch has been working hard for more than 20 years, and his strength is at its peak, Wei Hou is unwilling to fight with Zhongshan State, coupled with the minister's words, Zhao State intends to go south and interfere in the affairs of the Central Plains, and cannot be unguarded.
So the Marquis of Wei immediately let Zhongshan rise, Wei was unwilling to contribute, and there was a place for Qi State, and Zhao State could not defeat Zhongshan State at all. And with Zhongshan on his side, Zhao Guo can be said to be like a man, and if he wants to meddle in the Central Plains, he is also powerless.
Although the Central Plains was chaotic, the war was not fierce, and the Marquis of Wei fought for many years, and the territory expanded rapidly, completely disrupting the strategy of Marquis Wenhou of Wei, but Marquis Wei did not have a clear strategic goal, several conquests, the surrounding countries were beaten again, although they occupied a large area of land, but also offended other countries.
The territory of Wei turned out to be a strange shape that was wide at the east and west ends and thin in the middle.
Huai Guo spent a lot of manpower and material resources to begin to compile the great canon of Zhuzi, there are so many sages in the world, if it is not for Huaiguo to compile the canon, the wisdom of the hundred schools of thought will be passed on, many people will not come at all.
These people were originally very worried about whether their ideas could be circulated, but now that they have the promise of Huaiguo, they are naturally willing to let their ideas and theories be passed on and go down in history.
Therefore, after compiling some time, more people came to the Huaiguo Academy, and many doctrines that were originally annihilated in history also appeared.
(End of chapter)