Chapter 320: The Granary
Qin Qing was stunned for a moment, her delicate body trembled, and a complex look of helplessness and heartache flashed in her beautiful eyes.
Lu Yunzhou sighed lightly, and sighed spontaneously: "When King Ping moved eastward, there were hundreds of countries in the land of China, and hundreds of years have passed, but there are only the last seven big countries left in this world, as well as the three small countries of Lu, Wei, and Zhou. The other two small countries, Lu and Wei, are all unpopular in power, but as weak countries, they have been able to survive in the cracks, which in itself can already show that these two countries must have their own unique ways of survival!"
Qin Qing was stunned, thinking of the cruelty of Wei Jun and the corruption of Lu Guosanhuan's government, he felt both depressed and desperate.
Lu Yunzhou said: "For a big country, instead of sending troops and spending time and effort to defeat a small country, it is better to eat down a small country one by one, wait until the small country is empty, and finally pocket it, which is the most in line with the interests of the big country." Therefore, before the defense of the country is completely squeezed dry, it will only be robbed by the surrounding powers in turn. In the final analysis, in this world of the jungle, for a small country like Weiguo, weakness is the original sin of everything!"
Weakness is the original sin!
Qin Qing's delicate body was shocked, and he chewed this sentence repeatedly in his heart, thinking of his hometown, thinking of the brutal oppression of the Qin army, for a long time, he sighed softly: "Wei Jun is hateful, but the insatiable big country is the root of sin!"
Lu Yunzhou shook his head and said: "Meanness is the pass of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble." In this troubled world, no matter how big or small the country is, if it does not save itself and improve itself, the end will be the same, just like the competition for survival in nature, no one is safer than anyone, and no one is nobler than others. The law of the jungle is the most natural law between heaven and earth, and in the face of this fundamental law, there will be no difference between humans and animals, everything ...... It's all about survival. ”
Qin Qing was deeply shocked, and unconsciously read softly in his mouth: "Meanness is the pass of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble......"
Lu Yunzhou looked at Qin Qing quietly, he had high hopes for Qin Qing, as a big family in Ba County, if the Qin family could persuade the Qin family to ally with him by befriending Qin Qing, then his plan to break Qin would be able to make fundamental progress!
Lu Yunzhou once peddled the second of the three strategies to break the Qin Dynasty - to break the granary. This granary mainly refers to the Bashu region with thousands of miles of fertile soil!
The Qin State had two main granaries, as the biggest strength for its conquest everywhere, and even later swept through Sihe - the Guanzhong Plain of Qinchuan for 800 miles and Bashu in the land of abundance.
The yield per mu of the Bashu region is several times higher than that of the Central Plains, and it is called the country of abundance in later generations, and the meaning of the country of abundance is the granary of the Son of Heaven!
The Guanzhong Plain, as the land of Longxing in the Zhou Dynasty, before the Tang Dynasty, had the reputation of winning the world since ancient times, and its agricultural development is needless to mention!
The grain production capacity of these two places has also undergone two revolutionary upgrades in the past decade - the Dujiangyan project, which will be completed in Bashu this year in 256 BC, and the Zhengguo Canal project, which will be built on the Guanzhong Plain in 246 BC, that is, ten years later.
The Dujiangyan project has achieved the land of abundance in fertile fields, and the Zhengguo Canal project has created more than 40,000 hectares of fertile land for the saline-alkali land of the Guanzhong Plain.
It is these two upgraded main grain-producing areas that ensure the strong production capacity of the Qin State, so that the Qin State can not only completely recover the national strength at its peak in less than ten years after the huge losses of the two earth-shattering wars, but also surpass the grain reserves in the heyday step by step, and truly have the appetite to annex the world!
The most important part of the strategy of cutting off the granary is to win over Bashu in the process of attacking Qin by the Hezhong army, instigate it to cooperate with the offensive of the Hezhong army, stab the Qin State in the back, and take the opportunity to rebel against independence!
Although it has only been 60 years since the destruction of Ba and Shu, during which Shu has even rebelled three times, after all, Qin has been controlling and operating in the Bashu region for a long time, and it is not easy to instigate the independence of Ba and Shu under the prestige, so if Lu Yunzhou can pass Qinqing and the alliance of the first family of the pianist in Ba County, it will definitely play a key role in attracting the local forces of Ba and Shu!
Sima Cuo once said to King Qin Huiwen: "If you get Shu, you will get Chu, and if Chu dies, the world will be united." ”
Ba and Shu are not only economically rich, the geographical location is also very critical, is the only way for Qin to attack Chu, once Ba and Shu are independent, Qin will not only lose a large grain production area, the recovery ability will be greatly reduced, and at least within a hundred years, will lose the possibility of annexing the world!
And Qi is the farthest country from Qin, once Qin loses the possibility of annexing the world, at least Qi will be safe accordingly!
Of course, the independence of Ba and Shu is only one part of the policy of cutting off the granary, and the strategy of breaking the granary is only one step in Lu Yunzhou's overall plan, and what Lu Yunzhou wants is far from stopping at just letting the Qi country get security.
Qin Qing's eyes showed a heavy sadness, and he whispered softly to Lu Yunzhou's words, and his beautiful eyes flashed with touching shock and deep thought, as if he was grieving the ruthless way of heaven and earth, and looked at Lu Yunzhou's gaze with admiration and apology.
Qin Qing suddenly bowed to Lu Yunzhou, and said softly: "Fang is the one who misunderstood Qi Gongzi, Qi Gongzi is really a rare wise man in this world, but Qin Qing sees everything in front of him too shallowly!"
Lu Yunzhou said with a smile: "Miss Qin is merciful and cares about the people of the world, I admire it very much in my heart, how can I blame you!"
Qin Qing was a little uncomfortable by Lu Yunzhou's gaze, and her jade face was slightly red, but this time she did not choose to escape, but rose to the challenge, straightened her chest, and looked at the handsome and extraordinary Lu Yunzhou with great courage.
Just as the two were looking at each other with a smile, there was a "poof" sound on the other side, and there were homeless people falling into the water again!
Lu Yunzhou and Qin Qing were suddenly awakened, and they didn't care about the embarrassment, and hurriedly looked at the other side.
The soldiers in the water had already rushed to save people, Lu Yunzhou was quite relieved, and when he saw that the homeless people on the other side were happy, he had a guess in his heart.
Sure enough, after the fighters rescued the second person who fell into the water, there were constantly homeless people lining up to jump into the water, and apparently they all found out that only through this method could they come to the boat!
Lu Yunzhou was amused and distressed about these homeless people, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to let the soldiers go and help settle these newly landed homeless people.
Soon Fu Zisheng, the big steward of the fleet, hurriedly came, and said with a sad face: "Childe, if you take it in like this, the entire homeless people of the country will come over, and the ship will really not be able to fit people, and our food will not be enough!"