The current Qin State is not a country that is so powerful that the princes are afraid of it. If there is a comparison of strength, it is about the same level as Zheng State or Song State.
The Jin State is full of martial virtues. As long as all the high-ranking families can cooperate sincerely, they can basically beat most of today's countries one-on-one. The only countries that can be conquered are probably except the Chu State?
Countries such as Zheng, Song, Qi, Qin... and so on. They will definitely have no chance against Jin alone. If they join forces, it depends on who they join forces with. If Wu or Chu are missing, all the other countries will fight.
Even the alliance could not defeat Jin.
There is a fact that Qin was the first country among the princes to form an alliance with foreigners. During the Jinggong era of Jin, they united with Chi Di and Bai Di, and then allied with Chu to invade Jin.
At that time, the Jin State mainly focused on competing for hegemony with the Chu State. It suffered two relatively large sneak attacks by the Qin State. In one of them, the Qin army invaded the "Wei" land and burned, killed and looted wantonly. It was not the Han family and the Zhi family who rescued them in time.
If so, the Wei family would almost be destroyed.
With the painful lessons learned in history, the Wei family is currently mainly digesting the cities acquired from the Fan family, while still working hard to expand southward. Wei Ju is still very afraid of being stolen by the Qin army again.
It is even simpler for the Han family to attach importance to the Qin State. Their fiefdoms are currently mainly concentrated in the west of the Jin State. Once the Qin State has the intention to move eastward, the ones who will be threatened will be the Han family, the Wei family and the Hu family, and the Han family and the Hu family will be threatened.
The Fox family is under greater pressure.
The Wei family attaches great importance to Qin's eastward movement, which is mainly reflected in the fact that Qin and Chu have a history of alliance.
"That seems to be true. Once the Qin State forms an alliance with the Chu State, the Wei family will not only be threatened in the west, but also there may be an alliance between the Chu State, Qin State and the Zheng State. The pressure on the Wei family will suddenly become very serious.
It’s big.” Zhiyao thought to herself.
From this we can see a change in the Jin Kingdom. The Qing family all focused on their own goals. After having the direction of expansion, they never thought about forming alliances with other countries.
In modern diplomatic terms, the Jin State is now pursuing hegemony and implementing a non-alignment policy.
That is also an inevitability under expansion, and the second is trust in one's own strength.
Zhiyao was determined to play a game of distant friendship and close attack. For example, he repeatedly suggested forming an alliance with the Chu State, which was a manifestation of his intention, but there were some things he couldn't say out loud.
If the concept of "distant friendship and close attack" were brought up, wouldn't it mean that Zhiyao was teaching the world to be smart? It would be fine to just keep it quiet for now. If he didn't bring up the concept, he just didn't want someone to use this trick on Zhishi one day.
Zhiyao asked: "Who told Qin that he wanted to go east?"
A bit of a rule-breaker here.
That being the case, if there is any information channel, you should not ask even if you are a partner.
After all, who doesn’t have a secret of their own?
Han Geng replied: "It was Bolu who informed me."
Come to think of it, Han was really a little impatient and didn't even care about the rules.
Why is the Han family so anxious? That is because they are undergoing internal reforms, including learning from the Zhi family and rewarding meritorious people so that these people have permanent property; they are also training new troops and plan to imitate the Zhi family to build an army of about three million people.
A standing army of thousands of people. If the new army shows results, it will be expanded in size in the future.
Needless to say why the Wei family is anxious, Qin Guodong's move to the east will affect their southward expansion plan, and the Wei family is also sorting out its internal affairs. Many things are also learned from the Zhi family's practices.
The situation is like that. Zhi became the pioneer of reform. He used the results to prove that many of the things he did were extremely correct. It didn’t matter if others didn’t know about it. He had the heart and ability to carry out the reform and saw the benefits of the reform. But he didn’t have the ability. To try new tricks, why not imitate Zhi's proven methods?
If it weren't for the inappropriate timing, Wei Ju would have wanted to imitate the Zhi family and carry out a wave of extreme mobilization, to test the effectiveness of his own administrative system and see how many young men he could mobilize for battle if necessary.
Wei Ju wanted to do it but didn't do it. Firstly, doing it suddenly would cause uneasiness among the neighbors. Secondly, after checking, he found that his administrative system was quite chaotic.
Therefore, even if Wei Ju wants to do something, he should first improve the Wei family's administrative system and then complete the management staff. Otherwise, if he does what the Zhi family does, it will suddenly expose the Wei family's internal administration and arouse the prying eyes of other families. .
Do other families want to imitate the Zhi family in mobilizing young people? Absolutely. The reasons for not doing so may be slightly different from the Wei family, but in general the problems encountered should be similar.
Then there is a fact that not only did each family lose to the Zhi family in terms of size, but they were also inferior in other aspects to a greater or lesser extent, so much so that they did not even dare to unite to fight against the Zhi family, and those pretending to be ostriches continued to pretend. , I also try my best to pretend to be friendly, in order not to stimulate Zhi's strategy to change from external to internal.
Wei Ju talked about other topics and said, "Why didn't the Hu family express any reaction to Qin's changes?"
They all knew that the Hu family was trying their best to deal with Bai Zhai, and they speculated that this was one of the inducements for Bai Zhai to associate with Qin again.
Since the matter was related to the Hu family, the Hu family didn't show any expression at all. She wanted to pretend that it was nothing, and she didn't want to contribute to it. What else could it be?
Han Geng knew something about it and said: "The Fox family wants to build a city in Beichuan, so the left side of the Chinese army should be here."
Speaking of which, the Hu family's current fiefdom is not small. What is more embarrassing is that there are not many cities.
The overall strength of the Hu family is very weak. They also discovered this after returning to the Jin Kingdom. If they want to catch up with other families, they must first develop agriculture.
But now if you want to develop agriculture, finding a piece of land suitable for reclamation is a prerequisite, and then building a city there will become a hard standard.
The reason why the city needs to be built is actually to form an administrative fulcrum and build workshops and other hard facilities in the city. The security provided by the city wall is not the first priority in terms of the positioning of the family as a high-ranking family in the Jin Dynasty.
To put it bluntly, not many countries dared to invade Jin, and even fewer had the ability to penetrate into the hinterland. The existence of the city wall was more to prevent wild beasts from jumping in and wreaking havoc.
Han Geng then said: "Since the Qin State once again intends to go eastward, can I invade it first?"
This sentence made Zhiyao and Wei Ju both stunned. They couldn't believe that Han Geng would make such a suggestion.
For a long time, the other high-ranking families in the Jin Kingdom were very fond of causing trouble, but the Han family only maintained a high profile for a while when Han Qi served as the "Yuanrong". Most of the time, they were extremely low-key and would hardly take the initiative to propose attacking any country.
Han Geng saw Zhi Yao and Wei Ju both stunned, and said with a smile: "You two are like this, how could the Qin State think that I would attack them first?"
After Wei Ju was stunned for a moment, he said appreciatively: "Geng's words are very good. How to make them attack, I should attack them first."
Zhiyao probably knew what Han Geng was thinking, and even more clearly understood why Wei Ju was so eager.
The Han family is in the process of reform, and they don't want to take the initiative to stir up trouble, let alone have their reform interrupted, so they might as well take the initiative.
With the Han family taking the lead in attacking Qin, even if the Wei family also needs to send troops, the pressure on the Wei family in the west will suddenly drop. In this way, the Wei family will definitely agree.
Although the Qin State poses no threat to the Zhi family due to its geographical location, Zhiyao still agrees to beat the Qin State, and it is best to continuously weaken it.
There was just one thing, so Zhiyao asked: "How many troops are needed to conquer Qin?"
Wei Ju looked at Han Geng, and probably meant that the Han family was committed to attacking Qin, so it was up to Han Geng to confirm the scale of the troops.
Han Geng, who received the attention of two people, looked a little unsure and said: "Maybe we need two 'armies' of soldiers?"
Once upon a time, a single legion of the Jin State could defeat all dissenters except the Chu State. How come it was the turn of the Jin State to fight against the Qin State, which had not seen news for many years, and two legions were needed?
Wei Ju asked the key, "How many troops will the Han family send?"
This is very important.
Han Geng answered quickly and said: "My family can provide an 'army'."
It's just a good time to test Han's new army, and then it's time for the rest of the military personnel to move around, lest they forget the foundation of their lives without fighting for too long.
Furthermore, every family is using troops, but the Han family is the only family that does not use troops on a large scale. It is inevitable that they will be jealous if they retain so many troops.
Wei Ju thought for a while and said: "I can have a 'teacher' in my family."
Han Geng immediately looked at Zhiyao.
Logically speaking, as a family serving as the "Yuan Rong" of the Jin Kingdom, the custom is that the largest number of troops need to be sent during national wars.
Many customs have disappeared in the Jin Dynasty. It is obvious that the Wei family acted rogue regardless of the actual situation, and the Zhi family must not have followed suit.
Zhiyao made a thinking gesture.
Everyone knows that the Zhi family used two legions on the "Jinyang" side, and they used troops in Qi and Wei, and Xianyu. They really want to know how many troops the Zhi family can use on the Qin side.
Zhiyao was thinking: "There are almost no cities at the junction of Qin and Jin, and Qin is still a country that is equally divided between nomadism and farming. I heard that the territories adjacent to Qin and Jin are mostly nomadic tribes?
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Even if Lao Zhijia has multiple channels for obtaining war horses and has built many new horse ranches, the breeds of horses obtained in each place are different. Is it possible to go to Qin to obtain war horses?
Furthermore, Qin Feizi himself raised horses for Emperor Zhou. They were rewarded and qualified to found a country because they escorted Emperor Zhou once. I believe that the quality of the horses they raised should not be bad.
Zhiyao had other thoughts. As the family where "Yuan Rong" belonged, it seemed that it was at a disadvantage because it had always sent the most troops. That was because the distribution of spoils was not taken into account.
In fact, the more troops are sent, the larger the share of the spoils will be. On the basis of being able to win and lose less, getting more spoils is beneficial to the family. This is why the Jin Dynasty's high-ranking families are rushing to be "Yuan Rong"
One of the reasons.
Zhiyao smiled and said: "In this case, my family will send out two 'divisions', and then let the Hu family and the Zhong family send out one 'division' each, and form two 'armies' to attack Qin together."
Don't look at the fact that the Zhi family dispatched two "divisions" less than the Han family when they attacked Qin. Don't forget that it was the Han family's idea to send troops.
Since the Han family needs the help of other families, and it is still in the mode of national war, the command of the war may not fall in the hands of the Zhi family, but the distribution of the spoils must be the final say of Zhishen, let alone Zhishen.
The clan's weight in sending troops has been enhanced.
Han Geng knew what was going on and had nothing to say about the greed shown by the Zhi family. He was even more pleased that the crusade against Qin had become a foregone conclusion.
Then, next they should mobilize food and grass, mobilize the expedition personnel, and then send people to "Yong" to declare war on Qin Ting.
