Chapter 597 Weak State Diplomacy

In the army of the Great Chu State in the past dynasties, those officers could not be said to be wine bags and rice bags, but they would never train hard.

Although the soldiers are still poor people, they don't need to train well, as long as they find a good boss to stand in line, eating and drinking are also very nourishing!

The strong army of the Great Chu State has not been in a day or two, and the number and equipment of the army have gone up, but they just can't fight well, because the officers are afraid of death, and the soldiers don't sell their lives, so naturally they will collapse at the touch of a button!

These ills can be seen clearly by those people in the big family, even the emperor can see them clearly, but there is no way to change them!

Because strengthening the army is not a slogan, it requires money! Now that the money is in the hands of the family, if you don't let the children of rich families become officials, what will you use to support the army?

Besides, military power is also a very sensitive issue, as far as the royal family is concerned, the army is much safer in the hands of wine bags and rice bags than in the hands of famous generals!

The current royal family, the Xiang family, snatched the throne from the Xiong family thousands of years ago because of a military wizard in the family.

The iron law of the Immortal Cultivation Realm, although it does not allow the war of annihilation of the country to happen, will not interfere in the war of overthrowing the rule of another family within the country!

Therefore, in the past thousand years, there have been thousands of large and small battles between the Great Chu State and the Great Han State, but the number of defeats of the Great Chu State has exceeded 800 times.

Every time the Great Han Kingdom is bored, after a period of time, it will find some reasons to knock on the Great Chu State, and its purpose is twofold: one is to train the troops, and the other is to compensate!

When the Great Han State threatened to attack the Great Chu State, the famous ministers and generals of the Great Chu State naturally would not lose their mouths, and immediately launched a powerful propaganda offensive.

First of all, it is to publicly condemn the Great Han State for trampling on the sovereignty of other countries, believing that the Great Han State is not respecting the rules and bullying people too much, and must fight to the end!

Secondly, it is to send a large number of envoys, with rich gifts or promises, to other countries of the kamikaze continent to seek their verbal support.

Although the Great Han Kingdom is strong, it cannot be the enemy of the world, and the envoys of other countries still receive high-standard treatment, and at the right time, give other countries a favor!

The army of the Great Chu State confronted the army of the Great Han State, and they were not left behind in terms of quantity or equipment!

At the beginning, the Great Han Kingdom did not dare to be careless, for fear of being deceived by the Great Chu State! Because of their few defeats, it was because they had obtained false information and underestimated the Chu army.

Once the real decisive battle begins, the army of the Great Chu State is still about to collapse, and after several defeats, the peace talks will be put back on the agenda by both sides!

Fortunately, there is an iron law in the world of cultivating immortals, and the Great Han Kingdom does not dare to forcibly occupy the land of the Great Chu State, and there is no need to cut the land and seek peace.

The conditions for the withdrawal of troops are not unacceptable, it is nothing more than to let the Great Chu State give some commercial convenience and compensate for some losses caused by the war.

Although we have the protective umbrella of the world of cultivating immortals, the diplomacy of a weak country is still very important! If we surrender without a fight, this will definitely not work, and we will not be able to pass the level of patriots at home, so we must do a good job in propaganda work, and we must not chill the hearts of patriots!

It was not only the Great Han Kingdom that made war money, because during the war, the propaganda of the Great Chu State was in place, and the people had money to contribute and donate grain!

Naturally, this money goes into the treasury and distributes to the army, and in fact to those who control the army.

When the people's patriotic enthusiasm has subsided, and the family property has been donated, the war should be over!

Of course, the Great Han State will also take care of some of the faces of the Great Chu State, and does not treat the Great Chu State as a defeated country, but a truce agreement signed on the basis of equality and mutual benefit!

However, in return for the favor, the Great Chu State also needs to recognize some of the privileges of the merchants of the Great Han Kingdom in the country, and buy a large number of long-standing products of the Great Han Kingdom at a high price.

In this way, everyone is happy, even if the war is over temporarily, but the pockets of those patriots and ordinary people are already empty!

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The Great Chu State is known as a water town, and the capital is built on the bank of the Yangtze River, built on the mountain, with the danger of mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Although the capital is some distance from the river, there are several docks and water villages along the riverside, one of which is the shipyard, which is used to manufacture and repair ships, and it is where Xia Kai's official office is located.

It sounds good, Xia Kai is a member of the military department, and he is in charge of the country's weapons manufacturing and maintenance, but in fact, he can manage this shipyard.

The manufacture and maintenance of weapons and ships is the main item of the military budget of the Great Chu State, and such a large piece of cake, even if the Xia family is one of the four major families of the Great Chu State, cannot be enjoyed exclusively.

In fact, even if it is the manufacture of warships, the Xia family is only in charge of the construction of the hull, in fact, the four major families are involved, and in terms of the supply of materials, the major families have a share!

The situation here is very complicated, and it is also linked to the distribution of the interests of the major families, and it is also related to the amount of funds allocated by the imperial court.

Xia Kai was awarded the Wailang of the military department of the sixth grade, and the four major families still supported it, after all, the Xia family gave up some benefits, and only got an official position, and they still did the things that the Xia family should do.

But if Xia Kai wants to use chicken feathers as arrows and really take care of the manufacture and maintenance of those weapons, I'm afraid he won't be able to get into it!

Before Xia Kai came to Yamen to work, Xia Shan, the servant of the Ministry who came to see him off, was also the core member of the Xia family, and he also knew Xia Kai's identity and was very in awe!

But it turned out that Xia Bao, the head of the military department in charge of the shipyard, was not enough to know Xia Kai's secrets, and he didn't pay much attention to the children of the branch like him.

He, the head of the military department, was originally in charge of the shipyard, but suddenly a top boss came, although he didn't like it in his heart, but he was still very welcome on the surface!

Xia Kai still has a lot of interest in being in charge of the shipyard. The South Ship and the North Horse are a high-level summary of the transportation mode of the kamikaze continent.

As a large country in the south, the Great Chu State is mainly used by boats, while the area north of the Yangtze River is dominated by horses!

The reason for this is that the southern part of the country has a humid climate, abundant precipitation, and a dense network of surface rivers, so in order to adapt to the reality of "water towns", ship transportation came into being.

In addition to providing dairy products, horses were domesticated as a means of transportation for their good endurance and fast speed, and became a means of transportation in northern countries.

The most important thing is that the warships of the Chu State are very famous, and they are also the confidence of the Great Chu State to dominate the Yangtze River Basin, and he can participate in the manufacture of warships in the shipyard, and Xia Kai is also very much looking forward to it.

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