Chapter 256: Taking into account both public and private
It is indeed easier to get granted if you make some requests when others are happy. Generally speaking, if you want to achieve something, there is nothing wrong with following this approach.
However, the above-mentioned situation either occurs when the younger generation treats their elders, or it is a way of dealing with things when the status gap is too large. Discussing the matter is a kind of caution.
Later, when Zhao Bolu and Zhao Wushe left, Zhishen did not mention the decision to lend grain to the Zhao family at all to Zhiyao, but Zhiyao only saw the relevant records some time later when he was reviewing family expenditures.
Although Zhiyao is a person with a strong desire to control, she cannot forget who the real head of the family is, and she certainly cannot deliberately ask Zhishen for questioning because of the shortage of food.
"It was lent to the Zhao family." Expo Road gave the answer.
Regarding the Zhao family's frequent borrowing of food from the Han family, Zhiyao had known about it a long time ago.
As for the Zhao family asking the Zhi family to borrow grain? Zhi Yao must have known about it. She mentioned to Zhishen that the Zhi family needed to reserve a large amount of grain, which was why Zhishen was hesitant to borrow grain from Zhao Bolu later.
Logically speaking, the Zhi family should help the Zhao family when they know that they are in trouble. Who makes the two families have a marriage relationship, right?
However, there is a saying that "rescue the emergency but not the poor".
Take a look at the embarrassing situation faced by the Han family. They lent grain to the Zhao family once, and then lent it again and again for more than two years. They were treated a bit like a cash machine. In the end, Han Buxin simply refused the Zhao family's loan again.
Food can be regarded as blocking that kind of request.
What made the Han family unbearable was not only that they lent too much food to the Zhao family, but also that they didn’t know how long they would need help. If you can help for a while, don’t help for the rest of your life!
In fact, as long as the Zhao family can develop the north side of "Jinyang", which will later be known as Taiyuan, they will be able to ease their balance of payments, and they should be able to slowly pay back their food debt?
The Zhao family was indeed reclaiming Taiyuan, nearly a hundred years earlier than in the original history. This was a greatly reduced fiefdom, a choice made out of desperation.
"Two thousand stones?" Zhiyao thought for a moment and felt that Zhishen had lent out a fraction of his family's grain reserves.
Zhishen who did this must have not forgotten Zhiyao's instructions. Zhishen has a second five-year plan in the future, followed by the training of new troops and the annual military use and food consumption.
From here, Zhiyao was sure of one thing. Regardless of whether Zhao Bolu was willing or not, Zhao Wushe would persuade Zhao Bolu to continue borrowing grain from Zhishi, so that Zhao Wushe would bypass Zhao Bolu and borrow it himself.
From a purely onlooker's perspective, Zhiyao truly felt that Zhao Wuxie was indeed a person who did great things.
What should I say? Being thick-faced and bold-hearted yet daring to do something, isn’t that what many people who achieve great things need to be like that? People who want face at every turn but can’t lose face will sooner or later lose their fortune no matter how big they are.
The cost of big things can also be beyond imagination.
The Zhi family has a large territory, but they usually need to feed so many people, and they have to use troops from time to time. In fact, even if they have energy reserves, they can't store much food.
Under Zhiyao's planned storage plan, it took Zhishi ten years to reserve only 152,000 shi of grain. This was because too much grain was consumed during the first five-year plan, and there were continuous
During wartime, being able to have reserves is considered a good business operation.
Without Zhishen's state some time ago, Zhiyao would have interfered with the matter of lending food to the Zhao family, but now Zhiyao is unable to do so.
It's not that Zhiyao has a grudge against Zhishen, it's just that she feels sorry for her old father.
"If you ask, sir, I hope you can stop me with words." Zhiyao instructed the Expo Road.
Gubu Ziqing was the first retainer of the Zhao family.
Bo Dao was also the first retainer in the Zhi family. It was indeed more appropriate for him to give some advice to the head of the family than for his son Zhi Yao to do so.
Zhiyao added: "My family may start the project after the age of three. If there is insufficient food storage, it will be delayed."
The east side of "Handan" has been open to wasteland, and the Zhi family also has grain-producing areas in other areas, among which "Yuan" has the largest output.
As the population of Zhishi has been on the rise, it is obvious that we need to take precautions in advance. It is very necessary to build canals from Daluze and Dahe.
Expo Road said: "Three years old? The state of Wu is at its peak. Every year it sends troops to the north. I don't know when they will invade the country."
The Qi State was first weakened by the Jin State, and then invaded by the Wu State one after another. It was really hard to know when it would fall.
Once Qi is forced to surrender, Wu will definitely implement the next national policy and launch a head-on challenge to Jin, trying to achieve the goal of hegemony by stepping on Jin.
Speaking of Wu State, Zhiyao immediately remembered Zigong's report.
Zigong went to the south to establish diplomatic relations, and openly made good friends with Chu and Yue. Secretly, his main task was to contact Sun Wu and invite Sun Wu to serve in Jin.
At this stage, Chu State really wants to live in peace with Jin State. While sorting out its internal affairs, it is preparing to start a new round of competition with Wu State.
Gou Jian of Yue State has been working hard for several years. As he accumulates more and more strength, his desire for revenge is rising every moment.
In view of the fact that the Jin State did not fall, and that the Jin State punched and kicked other countries, and even destroyed the Zhongshan State, the Yue State openly respected the Wu State as its suzerain state, but secretly wanted to rely on the Jin State.
In history that has not been changed, even though Jin's hegemony was in danger, Gou Jian chose to rely on Jin and colluded with Chu to complete his final revenge plan.
Not to mention the version of history that was changed by Zhiyao, Jin still seemed to be able to bluff people, which must have strengthened Gou Jian's determination to attach himself to Jin.
Therefore, Zigong's diplomatic relations with Chu and Yue went smoothly, but he encountered many difficulties in contacting Sun Wu. It was not easy for him to get in touch with Sun Wu. Sun Wu had no desire to develop Jin at all.
According to Sun Wu, the Jin State already had its own military style, and with Zhiyao's repeated performance, there was no need for him, an old man, to contribute to the Jin State's hegemony. He just wanted to stay in the mountains and study knowledge, and then
Compile the military book carefully.
After listening to Zigong's report, Zhiyao really didn't understand that Sun Wu really resisted going to the Jin Kingdom, or was being closely monitored by Fu Chai and was just talking nonsense.
"Send your grandson to Jin?" Bo Dao was a little confused.
What Zhiyao asked just now was whether it was possible to secretly bring Sun Wu back to Jin.
Expo Dao certainly had a positive attitude towards his eldest son's thirst for talents, but he said: "If grandson is unwilling, it will be a small matter to lose men, but Wu will immediately send his army to do a big thing."
Zhiyao would want to do this, firstly because she really hopes to get Sun Wu's service, and secondly because the opportunity is really rare.
At present, Fucha is commanding the troops in "Ailing" to compete with the Qi army, and most of the domestic affairs are handled by Boxi.
Bo Xi was originally very jealous of talents, and he was also quite greedy for money and lust.
Zhiyao felt that Zhiyao was willing to pay the price to deal with the villain Bo Gu, and it was very possible to bring Sun Wu back to the Jin Kingdom.
"I will definitely fight Wu You. There is no difference between fighting early and fighting late. It may even be beneficial to me to fight early." Zhiyao said.
However, Expo Road said: "The Zhao family wants to attack the Dai country, and the family is still recuperating. If the war starts due to this matter, my family will definitely fall into the mouth of Youyou."
This is where the thinking of most people now differs from that of Zhiyao and Zhao Wuxie.
Many times Zhiyao suspected that Zhao Wuxie was also a time traveler. Otherwise, how could Zhao Wuxie, a native of the Spring and Autumn Period, do so many things that were not in line with his education and contemporary views.
Needless to say, Zhiyao, as a time traveler, has always controlled himself and tried hard to keep his way of doing things and moral bottom line from breaking through the lower limit of contemporary three views. Otherwise, there are really not many ways to learn from it.
This time, Zhiyao decided to stick to her point of view. It didn't matter if she couldn't convince Expo Road or anyone else, she just did it anyway.
Of course, in the end Zhiyao will still convince Zhishen first so as not to scare her old father out again.
"Whatever Yao wants to do, just do it." Zhishen actually decided that it was unnecessary for Zhiyao to go out of his way to convince him, which made him feel weird in his heart.
Zhiyao, who had prepared a lot of words, was stunned on the spot.
Zhiyao originally wanted to ramble on, including the fact that it would be harmful to draw Wu Guogang to face the Jin State at this stage, but in fact it is the best thing to do for the Jin State.
The reason is that the Wu State has made too many big moves, and the canal has not been built yet. Even the Jin State is in a weak moment, and it is actually more beneficial to the Jin State to start a real contest.
Another point is that the State of Qi is probably hesitant about whether to be soft to the State of Wu. If the State of Jin does not perform well and even suffers a loss from the State of Wu, the State of Qi will probably make up its mind to be soft to the State of Wu first.
Then, once the State of Qi surrenders to the State of Wu, they will become the support for the State of Wu to challenge the State of Jin, and there will also be a series of effects due to the State of Qi's submission to the State of Wu, such as the State of Lu, the State of Song, and the State of Zheng stand against the State of Wu
On one side, and then against the Jin State together.
Zhiyao had no chance to tell Zhishen that. In the next few days, she simply visited each house and asked Wei Ju, Zhao Bolu, Han Geng, Hu You, and Zhong Wu respectively to explain the pros and cons of inducing Wu to invade Jin.
Of course, Zhiyao would definitely not mention the Zhi family's desire for Sun Wu to serve. It would be enough to just talk about the overall situation.
What’s interesting is that Wei Ju expressed his strong agreement with Zhiyao’s proposal, and also listed some points that Zhiyao had not raised.
Han Buxin believed that various families had not yet recovered their strength, so he expressed his opposition clearly through Han Geng.
Zhao Bolu looked like he didn't know what to do.
Hu You and Zhong Wu are the fathers of the war, so it will be difficult to express their opinions for a while.
As far as the matter is concerned, although Zhiyao has selfish motives, he also takes the overall situation into consideration.
Whether it is in the late Spring and Autumn Period or in the long term, it is relatively normal to have selfish motives. If you can realize your selfish motives and benefit the country at the same time, who can blame you?
After Zhishen officially ended his career, the idea he came up with was to wait for the outcome of the "Battle of Ailing".
It would be fine if the Jin-Qi coalition defeated the Wu army, but if the Wu army won instead, it would be the implementation of Zhiyao's suggestion.
So, how far is the ongoing "Battle of Ailing" going?
