How can a country prove that it is strong? In addition to being beaten up by a strong country from time to time, there are nothing more than a group of younger brothers.

Jin State has disappeared on the stage of history, with only one city left in the whole country.

The mountains pressing against the Central Plains are gone, and China Qi is vaguely showing a rise. It is trying hard to take over the Jin State and raise the banner to the overlord of the Central Plains. This is one of the reasons why Qi State cannot get along with Xun State.

Without Jin State, the Central Plains would have no recognized leader, and in fact, the Central Plains countries turned into a mess.

Then, the State of Chu was still there, and they were still in front of their southern overlords.

"Chu is not trustworthy." Lu Wu always likes to think in a worse direction when looking at things.

The Chu State wanted to win over the Han State and destroy Fan State together. Even if the Zheng State was given all the territory of Zheng State to the Han State, Lu Wu would not agree.

It is obvious that what Chu State wants is that the Han State is self-destructed from other vassal states that have emerged from the same source.

It could be that the Han State alone destroyed South Korea, Fan State and Xun State, and then the territory of Jin State was restored to a regime. It really could not be one of them to form an alliance with a certain vassal state, especially before the relationship broke down, it could not form an alliance with Chu State.

Once a vassal state in Han, Fan, Xun and South Korea have a vassal state that unites with the outside world, it is equivalent to a collusion with "outsiders" and will inevitably be hated by the other three countries.

Lu Wu asked Liang Xing to drag the negotiations with Chu as much as possible, and crossing the "red line" was not allowed.

It was similar to what was expected. The State of Chu was asking Qu Dang to open up the conditions better and better. From promising to give two-thirds of the original Zheng State to the Han State, to the later period, not only did the entire State of Zheng return to the Han State, but the State of Chu was also willing to work hard to eliminate Zichan's regime.

In other words, in order to allow Han to "mount the ship", Chu was willing to kill his younger brother.

Later, the State of Chu continued to bid, including the State of Han, without having to send troops in large numbers, but only had to make a move. The original entire State of Zheng was made of the meat in the bowl of the State of Han, and then the State of Chen could return to the State of Han, on the condition that the State of Han and Chu would divide the State of Song together.

If Zichan and Zicheng knew that Chu was offering the price in "Chang'an", they would definitely be trembling and hatred of Chu?

Lu Wu has never met Qu Dang in person, in order not to give a final reply.

The Han State did not send troops to rescue Fan State, which was actually a good thing for Chu State. This was also the reason why Qu Dang was not received and the Han State did not give a final reply, and he was still willing to stay in "Chang'an" to continue to argue.

"I heard that Qu Dang was looking for people from all over the country to drink every day?" Lu Wu was surprised by the adaptability of the Chu people, and immediately understood the rules of the game when he entered the Warring States Period.

Cui Zhu said: "I have also been invited many times, once."

It is impossible that there is no sense of confidentiality, but anyone who wants to drink will mention it and discuss alliances with the Han State. This way it creates an atmosphere where the Chu State immediately becomes an ally with the Han State.

After Qu Dang's actions, Fan Guo, Xun Guo and Han were both nervous, but Lu Wu had no one to see each other recently, which made Fan Guo, Xun Guo and Han unable to see Lu Wu's true thoughts, and the rest of the countries could not guess what the Han Kingdom wanted to do.

Today, Cui Zhu came to report various financial expenditures.

It is said that it is fiscal expenditure, but in fact it means how much labor service is used and how much food is consumed.

As the right prime minister, Cui Zhu only cared about the output of materials and checked whether the materials were used wherever the left prime minister Ge Cun was.

The Han Dynasty currently consumes the most material resources project is the construction of the Changqu project, which accounts for 60% of the total annual expenditure of the Han Dynasty. The rest is the cost of wars everywhere and the operation of the machine that maintains the state's rule.

Lu Wu looked through the documents and focused on the expenditure related to Bashu.

Four years ago, Lu Wu formulated a plan to spy on Bashu, and the military began to send people to find a way to enter Shu from Jingji and Longyou County.

I don’t know how many people searched and confirmed that Longyou County was blocked by mountains, and it was still the kind of continuous mountains, so it was not suitable to enter Shu from there; the passage from Chencang to Shu was found, and the key was that it needed to build a plank road.

There are two passages to enter Bashu on Chen Cang, one in the west and the other in the east.

The plank road to the west seems to be easier to walk on, and it is not long in many plans, but because there is no water source to obtain, it is not suitable for large marches at all.

It is best to build a plank road along Baoshui on the east side to be used as a main road. You can't walk without building a plank road, but don't think of marching quickly, the army will be as slow as a snail.

Entering Shu from Chencang, it is actually not the first time to enter Shu. The first place to reach over the Nanshan Mountains (Qinling Mountains) is Hanzhong. You have to travel through mountains and rivers to enter Shu, and even some sections of the road have to cross Badi.

When Lu Wu watched the documents, he mainly looked at the expenses invested in the construction of the plank road, compared the construction progress, calculated the cost of building the plank road, and came up with the answer to how much manpower and material resources it would take to repair it.

"The matter on the plank road cannot be stopped. If it is consumed, the right minister will give priority to supporting him." Lu Wu said.

Cui Zhuying: "Promise!"

I invested 3,000 people to build the plank road, and only two miles were built in a year. Can you believe it?

With the local terrain, it is not suitable for the time being to increase the investment.

In the early stage, we will focus on accumulating experience. After waiting for enough experience, grassroots management will be trained and we can prepare a plan for segmented construction later.

Because there were not many people invested in the early stage and the expenditure was not large, considering the importance of occupying Bashu to the Han Dynasty, it would definitely take time and effort to carry out the construction of the plank road to the end.

Lu Wu looked at Zhishuo and asked, "The king of Kui Can Country is Du Qi?"

The name of this ancient Shu Kingdom was given to later generations, and they called themselves "Kui Silkworm Kingdom".

The ancient Shu Kingdom was now in the "Enlightenment Dynasty". They became kings around 666 BC. Any posthumous title that the king of a country died must have been given the "throne".

What's the meaning?

The king of the ancient Shu Kingdom died, and then the dead king was promoted to the "Emperor".

On the "Eastern World", the ancient Shu Kingdom was the only one who proclaimed himself emperor, and even the Emperor of Zhou did not do that.

In other words, the other countries did not know that the ancient Shu Kingdom had made that thing, otherwise they would definitely form a coalition force to teach the ancient Shu Kingdom to be a human being.

The prefix of the ancient Shu Kingdom was the surname "Du", and their clan was "enlightened", so the current historical stage was also called "enlightened Dynasty". Not to mention later generations, people could not understand the rest, even those in Lu Wu's era could not understand it.

The reason? The people of Ba had at least contacted the Zhou royal family and a limited number of vassal states, while the people of the ancient Shu were living their own lives in the mountains.

Jie Shuo had reported on the ancient Shu Kingdom's proclaimed emperor and found out the name of the current ruler.

Du Cha was the sixth generation of the "Enlightened Dynasty", and his ancestor Du Ling was a very amazing figure.

Du Ling was called "Bitling". He successfully managed the floods in Shu and built the capital Piyi. You can tell how good the water is by looking at the word "Bitting". After all, you can only choose the wrong name and not call the wrong nickname.

It is precisely because of Du Ling's contribution that the "Enlightened Dynasty" was born, which also made the ancient Shu people love each other.

"The king, there is not one country in Shu, but another country in the past, the two countries occupied the plains of Shu. I have heard that "Enlightened" has coveted the plains of the plains for a long time, and there are wars in the three countries." Jie Shuo said.

What's the thing?

In the past, Lu Wu only knew about an ancient Shu Kingdom and had never heard of the past peaceful Zhou Kingdom. He received more and more news about Shu. He was surprised to find that most of the famous ancient Shu Kingdom originally lived in mountains and forests, which looked like a hunting nation. On the contrary, the past peaceful Zhou Kingdom was a farming nation with relatively developed agriculture.

Of course, only Lu Wu has different differences, otherwise people nowadays will not have the concepts of farming, nomadic, and hunting nations.

Most people are familiar with farming and nomadic peoples, and may be more unfamiliar with hunting people.

The so-called hunting nations are not farming or nomadic. They rely on collection and hunting to make a living. The most representative ethnic groups are the Jurchens and the various ethnic groups in Jianzhou (there are Jiannu in the Ming Dynasty).

On the North American continent, a large number of Indian tribes are actually the so-called hunting nations. At most, they had no data on the population. Later, they were killed by white skin and blood flowed into a river. The beautiful country alone killed 18 million, almost killing the Indian species, causing the whole world to almost trample the hunting nations when evaluating farming nations, nomadic nations and hunting nations.

I don’t know if it’s a weirdo or what’s going on, but the hunting people on the “Oriental World” are more fierce.

It is not only about the Jurchens who defeated civilization with barbarity, but also the ancient Shu people who hunted the nation also supported several farming countries surrounded by the mountains. Later, they even came out of the mountains to capture the capital of Qin, "Yong", and were able to hold the Chu army in the prosperous period to the ground on the battlefield.

In history, the ancient Shu Kingdom fought with the Qin Kingdom for nearly 150 years, and most of the wars occurred in Hanzhong, with "Nan Zheng" as the main battlefield.

The information found by the people sent by Jie Shuo was that there were people in Hanzhong, but they were just similar to the real savages.

It is a bit too much to say that it is a savage. It is purely because there is still a primitive social form of slash-and-burn farming. There are dozens, hundreds, and thousands of people living in one tribe. There are few tribes with more than a thousand people. Each tribe is in its own right, and no "common-lord" can turn everyone into a rope.

"I think a brigade can be sent to Hanzhong first to conquer local tribes, and plunder men as laborers, and women will return to their country to be exiled." Jie Shuo said it lightly, but his connotation was so bloody.

Lu Wu asked, "If Kui Cancao Kingdom learned about it, wouldn't it be worth the loss?"

Jie Shuo thought so.

The ancient Shu Kingdom has always been mainly targeting the Past Peace Zhou and the Chinese Kingdom. Once the Han army appears in Hanzhong, it will definitely alarm the Past Peace Zhou and the Chinese Kingdom, which is almost equivalent to letting the ancient Shu Kingdom know that there are new foreign forces involved.

Lu Wu asked again: "Can Kui Silk Country and the Great Snake Country be harmonious?"

Jie Shuo was a little embarrassed.

It is not easy to detect that the ancient Shu Kingdom frequently broke out with the Xilan Peace and the country on Tuesday. If the ancient Shu Kingdom and Ba Kingdom had not broken out in recent years, how could they know what the relationship between the ancient Shu Kingdom and Ba Kingdom was.

The reason why Lu Wu asked that was nothing more than that in history, the ancient Shu people committed suicide by themselves.

At that time, the ancient Shu Kingdom could not defeat Ba Kingdom, remembered that he suffered a loss in Qin Kingdom and sent people to Qin Kingdom to say good things, but never thought of making a big drama of "leading the wolf into the house".

Have you heard of the "Taurus"? I don't know if it's true. Anyway, the ancient Shu people in Qin's literature were very stupid. They actually believed that what the cow pulled out was not a baba, but gold.

I'm so bored! Is there no creature like "ox" in the ancient Shu Kingdom? It shouldn't be!

Another point is that the Qin army's road to Shu was built by the Shu people themselves!

"Well, I'll send a 'brigade' to Hanzhong!" After calculations, Lu Wu came to the conclusion that even if he alarmed the ancient Shu Kingdom, considering that many people would die when building a plank road, it would be better to capture primitive people as laborers.

If you are not your own, you will die no matter how much you die. This has nothing to do with whether you can be a good person. It is not like this.

As the king of a country, it is not a pity to die for several signs, but it is a big deal to die for a person under the rule.

Jie Shuo was obviously stunned for a moment, and he saluted and said, "OK!"

Well, the population of Han State is only about 4.5 million even in the rule of each nobleman, which is really too small!

Lu Wu also wanted to try to be together in his lifetime. In the future, there will be only 4.5 million "old Han people" in the future. If he repeatedly destroys other countries, he will increase by hundreds of thousands, millions, and millions of "new Han people". The difference in the proportion of old is too big, so it is strange that the rule can be stable.

So, men from those tribes in Hanzhong contributed their labor force to the Han Dynasty, women contributed their uterus to the Han Dynasty, and mosquito legs are still flesh.

Why only one "brigade" Han army was dispatched? There is no way to do so. The more it is not only because of the lack of logistics supply, but also because of the strategy of "food for the enemy" is probably difficult to adopt.

A "brigade" of the Han army had 1,500 soldiers, and it was enough to deal with the "primitive people" in Hanzhong. Even if they went to war with the Central Plains, a "brigade" Han army would not be timid when facing two "divisions (5,000 soldiers)".

Lu Wu has asked the relevant personnel that the manpower is not used to build the Baoxi Road, and it is really not enough. The consumption of materials will be very large, and the number of shocking casualties will be caused.

In terms of time-consuming, the answer given by the Shaofu is that it will take at least thirteen years to complete the entire section.

It took so long that it was simply a matter of Lu Wu's life!

If the plank road is not built, it is a joke that the army advances.

First occupying Hanzhong, building a city with local materials, then reclaiming farming, and creating a "bridgehead" became the only solution that Lu Wu could choose at present.

What Lu Wu didn't know was that the Qin State in the original history did the same, first managing Hanzhong and then annexing Bashu.

By then, Hanzhong will produce, and the logistical pressure on the use of troops on Bashu will be reduced.

At this stage, the Han Kingdom not only needs to take action in Hanzhong, but also take the initiative to create opportunities. Either the ancient Shu Kingdom and the ancient Lan Kingdom and the war against Zhou was more intense, or they would pull the Ba Kingdom into the water. Anyway, they would not be able to unite to resist the Han Kingdom.

"At this stage, I can't do it at all. In another five or six years, I will try to lead the army to go east. I have reversed the order by me?" Lu Wu thought to himself.

In history, Qin State first took over Bashu and built water conservancy, making the central plain a granary for Qin State to attack and destroy various countries.
Chapter completed!