Chapter 482: It may be easy to destroy the state of Chu, but it is difficult to rule the state of Ch
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Do you know what is the best way to destroy a country? That is to cause chaos in the country from within!
It is precisely like this that Zhiyao wanted to destroy the powerful Han family. Even though he was 90% sure that nothing unexpected would happen when he killed the Han family, and there was only a 10% possibility that it would lead to failure, he still did not take action.
Not because of other factors, external countries are watching with eager eyes, and internal chaos will inevitably suffer. Too many times, an event can be started at will, but it is beyond human control to end it.
Now the king of Chu in Chu State is a prisoner in the original state, and the original state has many ways to influence the situation in Chu State.
The best way for the Chu State to deal with the situation is to choose the crown prince to ascend the throne after the Chu king has died in battle, and then lead the domestic conflicts to the original country.
In the original history, King Huai of Chu was deceived by Qin to join an alliance and was captured again. This is what Chu did. Not only did they prevent Qin from making a fuss about King Huai of Chu, but they also succeeded in making the people of Chu hate the people of Qin.
King Qingxiang suffered a lot of criticism.
What is the problem now? The problem is that there are no heirs among the Chu kings, which means that the Chu country does not have a crown prince who can legitimately ascend the throne.
"Because there is no crown prince, they can only find ways to redeem Chu Junzhong." Zhiyao has learned that Chu State's willingness to redeem Chu Junzhong is extremely strong.
In fact, even though the Chu State has abolished the tradition of "killing generals when defeated armies", Chu people still dislike losers from the bottom of their hearts. Even if Chu Junzhong can eventually return to the country, there is a high possibility that he will not be able to stay on the throne and want to avoid it.
It's nothing more than the Yuan Kingdom using Chu Junzhong to do things here and there.
For this reason, Chu State not only humiliatedly accepted the fact that the land was occupied by the original army, but was also willing to cede the old lands of Chen and Cai to the original state.
Throughout history, Chu State has never taken the initiative to accept the fact that its land was occupied, and it has never cut off the land. Once Chu Junzhong returns in this way, his prestige and face will be lost. This is why Chu Junzhong
Even if he goes back, he won't be able to sit on the throne for a long time.
Chu State now wants to redeem Chu Junzhong, and the greater significance is to make the transfer of power smoother.
"If Zhao Gu usurps the throne, Chu will also be in chaos!" Sun Wu said.
Meetings are generally just a formality, and any decisions that arise must have been made in advance.
No matter what era it is, it will always be a few people who really decide major events. A series of matters regarding Chu State will still be decided in the form of a small meeting today.
According to the discussion between the original monarchs and ministers, they unanimously determined that there would be chaos in Chu in the future.
That is the consequence that will occur regardless of whether the original country is willing to be released to the Chu lord or not.
The monarchs and ministers of the original state were discussing how to make the Chu state more chaotic, or how to control the chaos. The goal was for the original state to obtain the maximum benefit when civil strife broke out in the Chu state.
Zhixuwu asked: "Is it possible for the Chu State to be destroyed like this?"
The topic has extended to this step, and the next step is to make any possible guesses, and then decide on each plan based on those guesses.
What they know most is that even if the Chu State is weak in military resistance, the Yuan State still cannot easily annex the Chu State.
All because the Chu State is really too big, especially the mountains and rivers of the Chu State are far more advantageous than those of the Central Plains. Just the numerous water systems are a trouble for the original country.
Zhiyao thought to himself: "If the Yue State is not destroyed, it will be difficult for me to devote all the troops to the war against Chu. The situation I face is different from the Qin State that unified the world. The Yue State and the Song State are not like the Qi State that was defeated.
I have lost confidence, and Qi State hates the background of all princes."
Why did the Qi State in the original history take no action against the successive annihilations of other countries? The background is that there was an incident of "Five Kingdoms Destroying Qi", which caused the monarchs, ministers and people of Qi State to be afraid of war. It was not simply a case of powerful officials being bribed.
In this historical version, the Chu State was repeatedly defeated by the original state, and even the king was captured by the original army. Is the Chu State afraid of war because of this? It is obvious that the people of Chu State are different from the people of Qi State. The top leaders of the country may be afraid of war, and the local nobles may be afraid of war.
And it is impossible for ordinary people to surrender just because of an order from the top of the country.
Zhiyao believes that ministers should understand the character of Chu people and not think that letting the top leaders of Chu surrender means they can manipulate Chu at will. Even if Chu collapses from its upper structure, they should still be careful of counterattacks from the middle and lower classes of Chu.
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"The laws used in other countries are difficult to apply to Chu?" Sima Ranju said.
That means not treating them differently, opening up channels for advancement, etc.
Can these methods offset the Chu people's hatred for the country's subjugation? Maybe it will have some effect to a certain extent, but just wanting to spread the Four Directions in Chu is difficult, and the cost of investment will be far higher than in other places.
nation.
On the one hand, the environment in Chu State is very complicated, and on the other hand, the current southerners are actually more afraid of local powerful people than the central government, and they also like to do whatever they want, regardless of the overall situation.
To put it bluntly, people in the South now pursue gratification and revenge, and their assassination of officials from the original country will definitely far exceed those in the North.
This led to the fact that no matter what method the original state used to destroy the Chu state, after officials went to take office in various places in the Chu region, how to ensure their own life safety was a difficult problem that was bound to be tested.
The same problem will appear in Yue State, and the troubles it faces will not be much less than Chu State!
"Historically, the Qin State encountered similar difficulties in the Chu State. The Qin State's choice was to kill. It continued to use a high-pressure policy, killing once and then killing again."
"The killing did not make the people of Chu surrender. On the contrary, it aroused their hatred for Qin even more. It is said that during the reign of Qin II, various countries destroyed Qin. The real fact is that the main force against Qin was the people of Chu."
"I can't expect to use a gentle policy to influence the people of Chu. That would be as useless as the First Emperor trying to influence Confucian scholars with his own actions, and it would most likely become the biggest joke recorded in the annals of history."
"Of course, I can't think of using blind killing to try to make the Chu people surrender. History has proven that killing alone is ineffective against the Chu people."
"Perhaps... we can learn from the method used by the First Emperor to gather the defeated soldiers and young men of the Six Kingdoms as the main force, and combine them with reasonable regular troops, and use them to attack Baiyue, and in the process create new hatred between the Chu people and the Baiyue people?"
While Zhiyao was listening to the discussions among the ministers, he kept thinking about it.
Zhong Wu, who was participating in a small meeting for the first time, was an audience member for almost the whole process. He couldn't help it and asked, "Can the princes fight in a melee?"
Of course you can.
The reality is that when the original country is the only powerful country, the princes may have conflicts. If their minds are not broken, even if a war breaks out, it will never turn into a big war, and the fight will be a small fight with restraint.
However, the significance of the discussion is how to make the impossible possible.
Sun Wu answered and said, "Maybe we can give it a try?"