The center of gravity of the Yin clan will always be placed in the west, that is, the Qin state. This is a family strategy that will never change no matter what, until the Yin clan finally completes the replacement of the Zhao clan Ying surname and becomes the lord of the Qin state.

In such a thing, the method of doing things should not be too rough, that is, it should be too obvious. Lu Wu should show the side of a powerful minister and be able to strive for the Qin State.

As a powerful minister, you cannot just be arrogant and domineering, without giving other families the benefits. Just relying solely on pressure, you must face the situation where everything will be reversed.

Controlling the government is one aspect. If you can bring benefits to most people, you will be loved. If you can lead the country to be positive, you will not be a simple powerful minister. Historical books call this kind of person "restoring ministers" or "famous ministers".

Of course, Lu Wu did not want to be a good minister of Qin, but to be the master of Qin.

He also needs to handle the exchanges between Jin and Qin carefully. It is obvious that when encountering some things, he should try his best to meet the needs of Jin and not let Qin suffer only losses.

This is very difficult, very difficult!

Having said that, why didn’t the Yin family simply move to Qin? There is only one reason here: Jin was the hegemon of the world, and Qin was just one of the powerful countries.

To be honest, Lu Wu was one of the "Chief Secretary" of Jin State, so he could control Qin State without much difficulty.

If Lu Wu's background and strength were both in Qin, it would be impossible to control Jin, and it is hard to say whether he could even make a difference in Jin.

It is natural for a powerful person to manipulate a small country; no matter how strong a small country is, how strong can it be? The greatest possibility of reaching out to the hegemonic country is to be slapped to death.

This logical relationship must not be confused, as it is anti-intellectual.

Because the etiquette system cannot be destroyed too much, although Lu Wu became the ruler of Qin, he still had to follow the rules.

Therefore, Lu Wu's enfeoffment in Qin has a reason, and his achievements must be supported.

Whoever he wants to promote, that person must also have credit as the basis.

This set of rules is absolutely inconsistent!

Some people have added countless halos to themselves for no reason, but they don’t know that doing so is shaping the platform for themselves. It is extremely difficult to put the platform on again.

Just simply pursuing pleasure, destruction will also be destroyed. One day, the platform collapsed and fell to death.

Lu Wu was not trying to have fun in Qin. Once the rules were destroyed, the Yin family would be the one who took over the mess.

"It seems that something is wrong? Lu Yang, Yin Yang, Lu Wei, Yin Wei. What should I call them outside? Yang Wei's two brothers?" Lu Wu never thought about this.

Now Lu Wu can actually have quite a lot of prefixes. At first, he obtained the "Yin" land and became the Yin clan, and became famous by the Yin clan. Later, he obtained the "Lu" land, the "Huo" land, the "Yuan" land, and the "Wen" land. All of the above can become the prefixes of Lu Wu.

That "Wen" land has been used by Lu Wu to exchange for "Yang" land with Zhao Wu, and is no longer one of the titles of Lu Wu.

Now there are many seals under Lu Wu’s name, including the “Yin” land, the “Lu” land, the “Huo” land, the “Yan” land, and the “Yang” land are considered to be fully developed seals. Later, they established “Ganquan” and “Luliang” on their own, and also snatched “Pu” from the Hu family, destroyed the Rong of Dali and built a “Yin Jin” named “Yin Jin”, and military control of “Hou Li”, and recently obtained a “Sui” land with good farming and reclamation.

Lu Wu's seals on the Qin State were "Wuyang", "Qi" and "Chen Cang".

How many fiefdoms is that? Fourteen pieces are coming.

It would be too stupid to just look at the production value, just looking at the number or area of ​​the fiefdom.

At that time, one "warm" could support two or three "teachers". Some nobles had a large number of fiefs under their names but could not even support one "teacher".

Under Lu Wu's name, the "Huo" land covers the largest area, but the production of "yin" can be comparable to at least ten "Huo" lands.

Therefore, based on the current technological level, whether a piece of land has value depends on how much grain output it can be, not on the area of ​​land.

The "Wen" land is so good, why did Lu Wu replace the "Yang" land with Zhao Wu? Then we have to see what the starting point is.

What Lu Wu wants is to control the major transportation routes from "Xintian" to the northeast, that is, he is interested in this type of strategic value.

Zhao Wu extremely needed a fiefdom that was well produced.

If the "Warm" land is not good enough, will Zhao Wu be willing to exchange it for the "Ancestor Land"?

The situation of their two people is to take their own needs. No one suffers a big loss, and no one takes a big advantage unilaterally.

Speaking of which, Zhao Wu's prefix should actually be changed to Wen Wu, and it is only an inertia to still use "Zhao" as the prefix.

Once Zhao Wu emphasized himself, the prefix will change.

"Can't continue to expand..." Lu Wu was watching the family's information.

The fiefdom under his name was increased to fourteen, and the "Hou Li" among them could not be taken back from control by the monarch at any time, and most of them were fiefdoms that needed construction to produce.

Lu Wu general Song Bin called over and asked, "When has my family been investigating the public recently?"

Song Bin said embarrassingly: "Before three years old?"

ah?

There has been no renewal of the population under its rule for three years.

Three years ago, the total population of the Yin family was about one million or one million, and the slaves accounted for about two hundred thousand.

In the past, there were few territories, so it was difficult to do a census, but I just wanted to do it.

Now that the territory is getting bigger, the difficulty of doing a census will inevitably increase geometrically, which will become extremely difficult.

Lu Wu closed his eyes and searched back, mainly based on the original basic data, and then analyzed one by one where the increase brought about a population increase. There will be no accurate data. The figures obtained can only be said to be generally reliable.

"Including the fiefdoms of Qin, it should be between 1.4 million and 1.5 million?" Lu Wu came up with this number.

In the current era, even if there were only 1.3 million people under Lu Wu's rule, it was much more than many countries.

In the coming era, one million and four hundred thousand people were not a big deal.

Do you know how many people are in some small vassal states now? They are just 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Of course, the family population of 1.4 million to 1.5 million is an estimate of Lu Wu and cannot be regarded as accurate data.

Earlier, Lu Wu had thought about encouraging more children, but later gave up.

Even if you don’t care about sanitation conditions and premature death rates and the era when output has not kept up, encouraging more lives will cause great humanitarian disasters, and it may not be said that the family will collapse on its own.

This is also one of the reasons why Lu Wu believes that it is necessary to temporarily stop expanding.

What they need to do now is to use the controlled areas, that is, to make actual controls also produce output, and even to build one or more grain-producing areas, not to blindly increase territory.

To make it clear and thorough means that food must keep up with it before it has the capital to encourage more childbirth. This set of principles is common in any era.

"My family may build another city between 'Hou Li' and 'Qi'." Lu Wu looked at Song Bin, thought for a while and continued: "This place is a plain, and it is also located on the edge of the Wei River. The Qin State had not yet cultivated it, but was afraid of the Jin army and attacked it. My family had no such concern."

Song Bin is very familiar with the terrain in Qin State, and he is not so clear about farming matters, and can judge the benefits of a new city between "Hou Li" and "Qi".

"I am not good at farming." Song Bin must be clear about his positioning.

Of course, Lu Wu knew that Song Bin was not good at agriculture, so he didn't want Song Bin to come over to preside over the meeting, saying: "Building a city here is a matter of the future. I will discuss when to build a city."

Song Bin immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Which family will build cities so frequently now?

How many cities did the Yin family build in just five years? There are even more "counties" and "countries" below the city level.

That was Lu Wu's plan to arrange the "network", which was one of the plans for targeted development.

Song Bin talked about some other things, including Lu Yang going to Qin to serve as a guard, which retainers should follow, and how much manpower and material resources should the Yin family mobilize.

"It should not be strong for a while, but it will be smooth and flowing." Lu Wu did not want to make the move too much, causing misunderstandings between the king of Jin and other nobles.

"The Lord's destiny is to 'follow' and put the little clan here?" This is what Song Bin's thinking is.

Lu Wu couldn't say that he didn't want to split up, as it would be very unfair.

According to the established routine, when Lu Wu's generation became stronger, his sons would definitely split up, and new families such as Lu, Sui, Yuan, etc. would appear in Jin State.

Perhaps at some time in the future, the main sect of Yin will merge those small sects into it, which may be the independent development of those small sects.

Everyone does this, and Lu Wu insists that no family will become an alien.

Lu Wu opened up the topic and reminded Song Bin to keep a close eye on the north and not to let Chi Di have any chance to counterattack.

Time passes, winter ends, and spring is ushering in.

Because nothing major happened in the middle of the country, Lu Wu visited the monarch like other colleagues, and inspected various fiefs and supervised the spring sowing.

After the spring sowing, Shiyi began to carry out the first task of this year, which is to recruit "scholars", "students", and "Xian" to become a system and prepare to cross-border travel to Ju State.

Shi Yi recruited three "departments" from his own family, gave up the quota of two "departments" to the remaining small and medium-sized nobles, and took a full "army" to the war.

They wanted to destroy Ju and restore the country, including the Zheng Kingdom that was annexed by Ju before liberation, and then deter the various vassal states in the east.

The Ju State is not large in terms of size, and is still a country with the Dongyi system, but its military combat effectiveness is not weak.

Before Shi Yi went to war, he asked Shi Feng to find Lu Wu and asked if he could make Qi obey the call, but Lu Wu refused very directly.

Lu Wu just used the diplomatic power of Ju State to exchange for the "sui" land with Shiyi.

What does it mean to extend your hand to Qiguo?

This is actually one of the urinary natures of the Jin Dynasty's Qing family. In an idiom, it is "to be greedy for Shu".

Fan, who was directly rejected by Lu Wu, no longer asked for anything, that is, he retracted his hand.

Because the king had explained before that Lu Wu's vacation had ended, he would definitely not be able to stay in his fiefdom.

This year, Jin State is waiting to see what kind of development the south is, and needs to wait for the subsequent results of Dai Shiyi's expedition.

If nothing happened, Jin State needed to make a big fuss, it would be fine if each family would develop its own family.
Chapter completed!