Why did Zhiyao choose "Tang" as the country's title? Just look at the reactions of Chu Junzhang, Qin Junci and other princes!
They speculated that the Tang State would take the destruction of the Jin State as its primary goal in the future, so that the choice of the country's name would be legal, and either their emotions would be relaxed all of a sudden, or they would be hostile to the new Tang State from the beginning.
To a certain extent, after the princes receive the signal released by Zhiyao, they will definitely weigh and decide what choice they will make, which actually depends on the current situation of their country.
There are not many countries that can take the lead. If you look around, there is only one country, Chu.
The Chu State's own troubles have not yet been resolved, and there is still more to come after the demise of the Wu State. Even if they know that the Tang State will replace the Jin State as the dominant hegemon in the Central Plains, they will most likely choose the current interests.
Zhiyao had made arrangements in Chu State a long time ago. It was impossible to control Chu State, but it was still possible to get some Chu nobles to help speak.
What we are looking at now is how big the role those bribed nobles can play.
In addition, let me tell you again, repeating the country name means recognizing the father. What is the matter with Ji Tang? Is it because he recognizes Qitang as the father?
In other eras, such as Cao Wei, they also recognized Ji Wei as their father?
There are too many repeated country names in the history of Zhuxia. Some of them are because they want to obtain legal inheritance, more because of their geographical location, and a few are just messing around without studying.
In the same way, the name of the country is to recognize the father. Obviously this statement... is a bit different.
In terms of brain circuits, Zhiyao has always been different from many people, and it took him a lot of effort to come up with a way to deal with it that others can "understand".
Fortunately, Chu Junzhang's choice was not to fight immediately. He might turn around later, but that would be a matter of the future.
With Chu Junzhang and Qin Junci taking the lead in cooperating with the Tang State, at least the crisis of the princes besieging the new Tang State in a short period of time has been resolved. This is very important to the Tang State. If it were to establish a country, it would be besieged, even if it could withstand it
Come on, how many years will it take for Zhiyao to come back to his senses?
So, some inexplicable actions or choices actually have extremely obvious pertinence!
Achieving something may be a matter of luck, but more of a matter of whether you seize the opportunity.
Zhiyao's timing was very good. At present, the princes all had their own troubles that they could not ignore. Even if they wanted to jointly destroy the newly born Tang State, in fact they were unable to form a coalition army.
Next, Zhiyao and Chu Junzhang have many things to talk about, such as developing in the south and north respectively, not causing trouble for each other, and committing to annexing countries in the south and north, etc.?
Of course, things will not be that simple. At the same time, it is impossible that there will be no sabotage. Zhiyao just wants to let Chu Junzhang know that the Tang State will not go south in a short time. Once the Chu State rejects the proposal, there will not be much.
Change is nothing more than confrontation.
Zhiyao believes that Chu Junzhang has a greater chance of accepting the proposal.
After all, with the lessons learned from Wu State in front of them, Chu State would not want to see Yue State rise on the basis of Wu State.
Then, there is the temptation to destroy the Jin State, and at the same time, the Tang State and the Chu State have the goal of targeting the Yue State.
Now it depends on the choice of the kings and ministers of Chu State, whether to cooperate with Tang State or to unite with the princes to attack Tang State.
Zhiyao still firmly believed that the Chu State would seize the time and annex the southern countries in order to gain an advantage before the confrontation between the north and the south was formed, and launch a northward war earlier than the Tang State's southward movement.
"I am in the most dangerous moment now. If the princes do not form a coalition immediately and attack directly on the border of Song Dynasty, the crisis will be temporarily relieved, and then we can divide and win over..." Zhiyao thought.
To be honest, Zhiyao never thought the princes were stupid.
Even if some princes are really stupid, they still have smart ministers.
What I fear most is actually a stupid guy who is strong enough and will do whatever he wants, for example, he just wants to kill the newly born Tang State regardless of other things.
Are there really such princes? The existence of their ministers is Zhiyao... In other words, the Tang Dynasty is lucky.
Of course, Zhiyao also has another insurance policy, which is that she has repeatedly demonstrated the power of the Zhi family.
As for how powerful Zhishi is, Zhiyao showed it repeatedly in the early years in order to keep the princes rational.
Once the princes think about how much loss they will suffer if they want to kill the Tang State, and it is very likely that they will be killed by the Tang State instead, they must be cautious and cautious before making a choice.
Now there is a question, how big is the territory of the new Tang Dynasty?
The original Wei Kingdom was completely annexed by the Zhi clan.
The east of Qi State was still the territory of Chen State.
The Jin Kingdom is missing half of its western half and a small piece of its hinterland.
In terms of modern administrative units, the Tang State controlled eight-tenths of Shanxi, enjoyed all of Hebei, occupied northern Henan, controlled about two-thirds of Shandong, and invaded southern Inner Mongolia. Calculated by area, it was about 550,000 square kilometers.
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Only 550,000 square kilometers? It seems quite small, but it is the early Warring States period!
In terms of territorial area, Tang State was slightly inferior to Chu State.
If calculated from the degree of development, there is no doubt that the Tang State has the most essence areas among the current vassal states.
Taking the grain-producing land as an example, the original "Wen" and "Yuan" of the Jin State were both held by the Tang State. The Zhi family also reclaimed 780,000 to 80,000 hectares of farmland east of "Handan", and later increased it to 130,000 hectares.
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Do you think that 130,000 hectares of farmland is very small? It is indeed a bit small. Or to put it that way, it is the early Warring States period, and the territory of many vassal states may not be 130,000 hectares.
Zhiyao felt that the next thing she needed to find out was how much farmland there was in Tang State, but she knew in her heart that it would be difficult, difficult, difficult to get accurate data!
In fact, at present, no one or any country can be precise on any matter. Even unreliable data is considered good, but most of them are just in the dark.
Zhishi..., from now on we should talk about the Tang State. Once the second five-year plan is completed, more than 200,000 hectares of fertile land will be added, which will surely become the foundation to support Zhiyao's repeated national wars.
Of course, we don’t just rely on the agricultural areas east of “Handan” or around the river, we must also include grain-producing areas in other areas.
We cannot ignore how large the population of the original Qi State was. They could not all rely on purchasing food from abroad to survive. It was not possible to maintain food rations for a population of nearly two million people.
Previously, Zhishi had been counting how much farmland there was in Qi State. It would be difficult to figure it out for a while. The only thing he could figure out was that the old Qi State had a terrifying amount of mulberry fields.
That's a natural thing. How could Qi, which was once a big textile country, lack mulberry fields if it wanted to obtain enough raw materials?
The same situation was the same for Zhishi in the past. There were a lot of mulberry fields. Later, under Zhiyao's intervention, they were gradually converted into grain-producing fields. This affected the Zhishi's acquisition of mulberry and mat, which in turn reduced the Zhishi's ability to grow.
textile industry.
Nothing is perfect, the difference lies in how people choose and arrange it.
Zhiyao later deployed the mulberry fields to Hebei, which proved to be an excellent move because the rainfall in that area was too sufficient, and a large number of mulberry fields could play a role in changing the geographical environment.
In terms of population, the population of Tang State is about 4.7 million, which is the largest among the vassal states in terms of quantity.
With such a large population, it is natural that the Zhi family has successively annexed so many countries and families. Just destroying the Wei family can increase the number by about 500,000.
The population of 4.7 million in the early Warring States period was undoubtedly a terrifying number. It would be up to see whether Zhiyao could eliminate the status of the old countries in the hearts of Li Shu.
Zhiyao, who was thinking about something, was hardly listening to Zhong Quan's meeting with Handa.
Now that Zhiyao is already the king of a country, he needs to organize his own affairs. How can he discuss state affairs with others in person?
The person responsible for communicating with Handa is Zhong Quan.
Zhong Quan will then obtain a high position in the Tang Dynasty, but it will not be anything like governing.
"Ji Zhou originally implemented the system of three princes and nine ministers, but it was an incomplete version. The establishment of the Tang State was still a bit hasty, but it could not continue the current practices of the vassal states, and some changes had to be made." This is what Zhiyao was thinking about.
Sangong and Jiuqing indeed came from the Jizhou Dynasty, and were later fully perfected in the Western Han Dynasty.
It is said that the founding of the country was too hasty this time, mainly because Zhiyao was still hesitant about what system to use, so that the country was established without confirming what system to use. As a result, there were no appointments to official positions, but only high-standard treatment.
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According to others, besides continuing the system of a vassal state, what else could the Tang state be?
"It's definitely not suitable to use three provinces and six departments. There are not that many talents at present. Even if you make up the numbers, you won't be able to get the required personnel. Besides, it's worse than nothing." Zhiyao saw Handa standing up and stopped thinking and took his attention back.
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"In this case, I retire." Handa saluted Zhiyao.
Why would Handa call himself "Chen" to Zhiyao? That's right. Regardless of Zheng Junyi or Tang Junyao, they are all one of the princes of the Emperor of Zhou, which means that their respective ministers are not under the control of the other, they should be "one family".
In addition, how did it become Zheng Junyi? It was because Zheng Junsheng had passed away.
Under the current situation, unless it is a very small number of kings, it is difficult for the death to attract the attention of other countries.
Zheng is still a second-rate power, but the timing of Zheng Junsheng's death is a bit wrong. Everyone is attracted by Chu's alliance and the Zhi family's transformation of the country. The process of sending an envoy to express condolences will be completed, and it is difficult to expect anything else.
Under the background that Chu State did not take the lead in forming a coalition to attack Tang State, Zheng State changed its king and was eager to have a good start with the new Tang State.
"Your Majesty." Zhong Quan felt a little uncomfortable using the new title, but he would definitely not show it. After a pause, he continued: "Zheng Guo is willing to replace the 'sacrificial' land with the 'Yan' land."
This "Yan" place refers to the original Nanyan.
Zhiyao smiled and nodded, saying, "That's good."
The Tang Dynasty had the strategic location of "Hulao", and it didn't matter whether there was a "sacrifice" place or not.
To put it more clearly, the "sacrifice" place has no dangerous mountains and rivers that are difficult to attack. If the Tang State did not want to overly stimulate the Zheng State, it would not have the energy to resume production. If it was developed, it might be destroyed by war. Replacing "Nanyan" would be an appropriate solution.
choice.
For the Tang State, the "sacrifice" place was not important, but for the Zheng State, the "sacrifice" place was the northern gateway of "Xinzheng". The replacement would be beneficial to the subsequent diplomatic relations between the Tang State and Zheng State.
The people from Zheng Guo left.
Han Geng, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately asked to see him.
After Han Geng saluted, he said: "Geng is not the official minister of the Jin Dynasty."
It was just one sentence, and Zhiyao was obviously stunned.
Zhiyao asked: "So, what does Geng want to do?"
Han Geng said without any hesitation: "Enter the Tang Dynasty!"
Say it again.
What is this?
To be honest, Zhiyao had expected this situation, but she didn't expect it to actually turn out like this. She couldn't react for a while and was stunned.
