The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"You are so leisurely." Wang Jian said as he sat down and looked at Wei Liao who was drinking tea slowly.

"Occasionally free, just occasionally free." Wei Liao personally poured Wang Jian a cup of tea at this time.

"Try it, the tea from the south of Chu State. The taste is not bad." Wei Liao said at this time.

"Forget it. I'm not used to drinking this stuff." Wang Jian looked at the tea and said.The trend of drinking tea has risen in Qin State, and even other countries have followed suit.Up to the princes and nobles, down to the common people, have accepted the wind of drinking tea.It is also true that Chu State has a new business project, tea business income.But Wang Jian was not used to it. He thought that drinking tea was bad for soldiers, because drinking tea was too relaxing.If you enjoy it too comfortably, it will reduce the will of the soldiers.Wang Jian firmly refused to accept this.

"En. Then don't force it." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian and said.

"You invited me here for tea, right? If that's the case, I'll leave. I don't have time to chat like this." Wang Jian said.

"Hehe." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian with a smile at this moment.Wang Jian recently returned to his post, but with the title of Acting Chief of Staff.In other words, King Qin did not officially give Wang Jian the title of chief of staff.

"Your Majesty sent a telegram to hear our views on the Qin-Han Alliance. I don't know what the old general thinks?" Wei Liao said leisurely while drinking tea.

"Well. I'm also thinking about this matter, this matter. I can't just look at it from a military point of view. But I only know how to look at it from a military point of view." Wang Jian said.

"Talk about it, old general," Wei Liao said.

"Okay. Let me talk about it." Wang Jian sat down.Then straighten your body.

"The current state of Qin is the strongest in combat power," Wang Jian said.

"But it is also the period with the most problems." Wang Jian said.Wei Liao nodded at this time.

"The total military strength of Qin State is estimated to be around 25, but the territory of Qin State has reached the largest so far. The north, and the western regions of Qin State. These places need far more than 25 defensive troops. As a result, , Qin's mobile force has been greatly reduced. The maximum force that can be mobilized is no more than [-]." Wang Jian said.Wang Jian carefully analyzed the current situation of Qin State.

Qin's expanded territory was too large.A larger territory is naturally a good thing for a country, but problems always have pros and cons.The advantage is that Qin's resources have expanded a lot, but the disadvantage is that Qin's territory is very large, so it needs a lot of defensive troops, and it needs a lot of money to spend on national defense.At present, Qin can only passively adopt such a situation to defend.As a result, the military mobile force that can be mobilized from the originally small national military force is only about [-].The [-] or so is calculated, and the [-] is based on the fact that there are no wars on the borders of Qin State. In this way, Qin State cannot expand eastward, nor can it expand in any direction. expansion.

"The tax bill in May means that the Qin State cannot increase taxes at present. As a result, fiscal expenditures will be reduced, and defense expenditures will be the first to be affected," Wang Jian said.

"The Qin army in this period was unable to expand. Although it was the strongest, it was unable to send troops to the east to attack the six countries." Wang Jian said.

"Although Qin State has the strongest military, this is where the predicament lies. Really." Wang Jian shook his head, then irritatedly picked up the tea and drank it.

"Gudong".With a clean mouthful, Wang Jian stuck out his tongue.

"This tea is really bad." Wang Jian said.

"Hehe." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian with a smile.

"The Qin army can't send troops, or if they send very few troops, the control will be weakened. If it forms an alliance with South Korea, will there be a very powerful enemy on Qin's side? This is an important point that I worry about after the Qin-Han alliance, sir As I said, we should make close friends and attack close. This South Korea should be a country we attack, not a country that can be ally. I am really worried about this." Wang Jian said.

"En." Wei Liao nodded upon hearing this.During the unification process of the Qin State, Wei Liao indeed proposed such a strategic policy, using diplomatic and military strikes to speed up the unification of the Qin State, but now the Qin State has changed a lot.The original policy does not seem to be so useful anymore.

"It turns out that I did propose such a strategic policy to the king, but at present, such a policy is no longer applicable." Wei Liao said lightly.Then he picked up the teacup and took a small sip.Hearing this, Wang Jian looked at Wei Liao in surprise.

"Don't look at it this way, General. The current situation is indeed different from the past. If it is considered unified, Qin has already been unified." Wei Liao said with a smile.

"Here, sir." Wang Jian sat upright and looked at Wei Liao.

"Prime Minister Shangwen, good opinion." Wei Liao said.

"I have thought about it carefully recently. Thanks to this tea. It is a good thing that can calm the mind." Wei Liao said.

"Oh. This thing still has this effect." Wang Jian looked at the tea and said.

"En." Wei Liao nodded.

"When the king sent the telegram, I had reconsidered Qin's current strategic direction. Qin." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian.

"It is no longer possible to use the original method to unify. In other words, Qin State has achieved the goal of unification to a certain extent. At present, Qin State is digesting the resources brought by this unification." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian and said.

Wang Jian still didn't understand.

"Our Prime Minister Shangwen thinks farther and longer than us." Wei Liao said.

"Before, what we thought was to use force to conquer countries as much as possible, but what is the purpose of conquering countries? It is to unify the resources of this country. But Prime Minister Shangwen is different. He adopted a trade-driven approach to bring countries together resources will be mobilized," Wei Liao said.

"After the unification of Qin State, Qin State's territory has increased greatly. It may not necessarily increase its national strength. Although Qin State's taxes have increased, its strategic direction has been lost. However, Prime Minister Shang Wen turned Qin's guns to the north. , turned its guns to the west, and expanded a lot of land. In this way, the strategic direction of Qin State was even greater. Although Qin State could not expand eastward, occupy the six countries, and unify the world, it has achieved the effect of unifying the world. At present, all the wealth is in Qin State. As long as there is a little movement in Qin State, it will alarm the reaction of the six countries. Although Qin State cannot agree with the world, it has achieved the effect of unifying the world. As long as it takes some time, these countries are like branches on a tree. When the fruit is ripe, there is no need for Qin to pick it, it will naturally fall into Qin's pocket." Wei Liao said with a smile.

"Oh." Although Wang Jian knew some of Shangwen's thoughts.But there seems to be something hidden in Wei Liao's mysterious statement.this kind of thing.Wang Jian couldn't figure it out.

On the contrary, Wei Liao has recently thought about Shang Wen's approach from a higher perspective.On the surface, Shangwen seems to be turning Qin to change something.This change seems to have such a purpose from the beginning.In fact, Shang Wen himself had no such plans.But Wei Liao was pondering carefully.

Qin State attacked the Xiongnu and Donghu in the north.Then the Western Regions were expanded westward.In this way, it seems that Qin State has expanded a large land territory, and obtained resources that Qin State and the six countries did not have before, but the expansion of these lands actually restrained Qin State's military power, that is to say, Qin State's National defense forces were consumed invisibly.At the same time, the country changed its previous single agricultural structure, and Shangwen took advantage of the opportunity of the war to vigorously develop commerce, industry, and banking.The industry used the military industry as a backboard, and quickly turned to civilian use after the war.The banking industry that served military expenses quickly turned to the civilian market.These have established a complete system for Qin, and this system appeared unconsciously.The emergence of this system has completely changed the situation of Qin as a single large agricultural country since Shang Yang's reform.All walks of life in Qin State developed rapidly.With the help of this system, agriculture is quickly transformed into the strongest agriculture.Everything seems unreasonable, but it subtly promoted the internal reform of Qin State itself.This reform was completed quietly and unconsciously.

Wei Liao was greatly amazed by the internal changes, which were only noticed after they happened.During the change, Wei Liao didn't notice it.This greatly gave Wei Liao a new understanding of Shangwen.

In terms of diplomatic strategy, according to the current situation of Qin State.The strategy of long-distance and close-attack seems not to be applicable.Or, it still exists in the new territory of Qin State, but in the east, it needs to be changed again to have a new intention.And such an intention is the significance of the current Qin-Han alliance.At this point, it also explained the theoretical conditions for the establishment of the Qin-Han Alliance.

1519 The Trash of Jixia Academy

"The current military expenditure is closely related to the combat power of our Qin army, not only because of human factors, but also because of weapons. Once the gap between weapons expands, it will form a powerful attack force. This kind of The attack power is very obvious. But this attack power cannot be viewed as a single thing." Wei Liao said.

"Today's general situation is different from the past. The ties between countries and Qin are very close, especially in the area of ​​trade. The general may not know that when the Qin army attacked any of the six countries, in fact, it had already shown that , this is fighting against Qin’s own commercial trade. Once the trade stops, the interests of Qin’s merchants will be damaged, and if the interests of merchants are damaged, it will affect Qin’s industrial production. Business and industry will stop producing benefits It will cause a serious loss to Qin's finances and taxation, which is no less than Qin's attack." Wei Liao said.

"So, the current state of Qin can't follow the previous strategic situation. Qin should choose an alliance so that the economies of the two countries can complement each other, and then gradually form a country. After all, there are some advantages of other countries that cannot be conquered by force. .” Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian and said.

"En." Wang Jian nodded.

"So, at present, I think that an alliance with South Korea may be able to achieve such a situation, or this is an attempt to cooperate with the interests of Qin and South Korea. As for the specific attempt, it depends on how the prime minister will do it." I did it." Wei Liao said.

Wang Jian didn't say anything. He knew that it was impossible to send troops now, because pure military means could no longer meet the needs of the complicated domestic situation.Qin State needs a lot of raw materials.cheap labor.At the same time, a larger market is needed.To meet the sales origin of their own domestic industrial products.Otherwise, Qin would not be able to produce enough commodities, and in that case, Qin's entire economy would be shut down.With such a big risk, Qin State no longer sent troops as frequently as before. On the contrary, Qin State became more cautious in its military operations as a whole.

Xinzheng, South Korea.

"Your Majesty, it's a good thing. It's a great thing." Xiao He excitedly ran in to report to Han Shu.

"What's the matter? So flustered." Han Shu looked up at her female officer and continued to look at the report.The report is about military production. The report shows that Qin's cannon casting technology is getting more and more advanced, but it doesn't use many new technologies to improve the cannon. On the contrary, it uses a lot of mature technology to recast the cannon.This made Han Shu feel strange.But the problem is that South Korea has not mastered these mature technologies. For example, during the pouring process of the cannon, some craftsmen mentioned that the Qin Dynasty would apply a layer of black substance, and the Korean craftsmen did not know what it was.They didn't even get a chance to touch it.In fact, the Qin State smeared a layer of graphite on the inner wall. The smoothness of the graphite allowed Qin's artillery to break away from the iron mold.Because the Qin State used iron molds instead of soil molds, the repeated iron molds required a special material to prevent the pouring material from sticking to the mold, otherwise the entire mold would be completely abolished.

In South Korea, soil molds are still used.It is very time-consuming and labor-intensive to pour soil molds, and the efficiency is not as good as that of Qin's iron molds.South Korea's technology cannot catch up with Qin State in a short period of time, because Qin State has Shangwen, and Shangwen attaches great importance to education, many things cannot be improved all at once.

"Hey, it seems that this Shangwen thinks farther than anyone else. This education should be grasped." Han Shu looked at the report and said to herself.

"Your Majesty. Jixia Academy in Qi State. Jixia Academy. Most of them have come to Korea." said.Jixia Academy is the education system of Qi State, and it is also a place where literati debate fiercely.But most of the Jixia Academy in Qi State has the taste of learning but not using it.

The prestige of Jixia Academy, and Jixia Academy avoided because of the war in Qi State. However, the world is so big that there is no place for them. Qi State does not welcome such flashy Jixia Academy, because The next school palace is mostly debates, not practical.Qin is another very pragmatic country.It can be said that the nature of the two is different.It is also true that those high talents in Jixia Academy are unwilling to go to Qin State, and they will not choose Qin State.They didn't think about Tiger Wolf Qin at all.

As for the other countries, they were too embarrassed to choose. The country of Zhao was in the midst of civil strife, and the nobles now only thought about how to recruit soldiers and horses. It was not like spending extra money on these nonsense people. The country of Yan had no money at all. To support such a group of useless people.But King Wei of Wei was greedy for enjoyment, and spent money to buy back all the things he could enjoy.The same is true for the king of Chu, while the nobles are busy collecting money. They gather together every day, just thinking about how to collect more money.

There is no way, the talented people of Jixia Academy aimed at South Korea. They believed that South Korea was facing the threat of Qin State, and South Korea’s national power was rising. They believed, and had reason to believe, that the Queen of South Korea would respect them and give them a gift of money. A lot of money to support them to stay in Korea.

"Hmph." When Han Shu heard the words Jixia Academy.Immediately got angry.

"What is Jixia Academy?" Han Shu said angrily.

"They're all trash, a big man who doesn't talk about researching some things, but just plays tricks. Just like that shrew on the street." Han Shu said angrily.