Chapter 81 Planning
After saying his own judgment, he said: "Thinking about it, Wei Ji seemed to have inherited the hegemony of Wenhou, but there was fire on all sides. Things were priorities, so Zhao State affairs were the first, assisting Chen and Cai was the second, defending Xi Qin was the third, and perhaps the fourth was the turn of Si Shang."
"Wei State must have the power to attack before it will think about Si Shang. At this time, there was a fire on all sides, and it was still difficult for him to protect himself. How could he have the heart to think about Si Shang's affairs?"
Gong Zaoye thought about it and asked, "As you said, then can the Wei State ignore it?"
Shi smiled and said, "As long as the change in Feiguo is within a controllable range, it will not arouse too much reaction. Therefore, we can use Feiguo as a preview, watch the country coldly, wait for the opportunity to intervene again, and let the people of the world learn from history and understand what to do in the future."
Qin Huali nodded, patted the table with his fingers and said, "In this case, only Qi State may interfere."
After considering it, he replied: "This is almost inevitable. This year, the Tian family has just moved Jiang Qi away. The civil strife in the Tian family has ended. Now it is time to win a big victory to gather people's hearts."
"We blocked the attack on Lu back then. Qi could not open up the situation on Lu's side. Lu has always been worried about Qi's entry into Qin."
"This time, after Lu, as Duke Zhou, was close to Fei, he would inevitably panic. At this time, as long as Qi has an excuse, Lu may even allow Qi to enter the country and withdraw from the non-aggressive alliance to fight us."
"It turns out that Qi is strong and Lu is weak, and Lu can join the non-attack alliance to defend. Now, it seems that we will scare the Lord of Lu, and we will inevitably jump back."
When everyone laughed when they heard that they wanted to scare the Lord of Lu. Thinking about it, Fei State was also divided by the three Huans and Jisun clans of Lu. Lu State was close to each other. It would be impossible if it was not nervous.
But I think the Marquis of Lu would not be stupid enough to be the sword and shield of Qi, and would help Qi send troops in the early stage. At most, if you see that the Mo family is defeated and have advantages to take, you may send troops, but once Qi is unable to win, Lu's attitude will become ambiguous. If the Marquis of Lu had some skills, they might be able to survive in the gap between Wei, Mo and Qi.
After thinking about the situation of Fei State, he said, "If the name is not correct, the words will not go well. If Qi State wants to send troops, the premise is that the nobles of Fei State elected the monarch and established another monarch to refuse to recognize Ji Sunluan, and then announced that they would withdraw from the non-aggressive alliance and invite Qi State to quell the rebellion. At that time, we will naturally support the real regime of Fei State, so this battle will be within a controllable range."
"But, in my opinion, we will change from passive to active in this battle. If Qi sends troops, then concentrate its forces and break through the Great Wall of Qi."
"One shows our military strength. If we can break the Great Wall of Qi, the princes will not dare to touch us lightly within ten years as long as we are not going to be enemies with the world."
"Second, we can reform the land in the places we occupied, and we can return it to Qi afterwards, but we have left seeds to prepare for the future."
"Three... Yue Kingdom is leaving, and the Si Shang East Sea land has changed from a triangle to a tug of war. We must take advantage of the opportunity of Yue Kingdom's retreat to shrink south, so that Qi cannot get involved, and tell Qi not to think about Si Shang and the East Sea."
The King of Yue could no longer hold on in the north. The Mo family penetrated all day long. After being captured, the prestige of the Wu Kingdom lost its prestige. The nobles of the Wu Kingdom became increasingly powerful in the foundation. If he did not leave, the Yue Kingdom would be completely trapped in Jiangbei.
Now, I will give up the hegemony that is not in line with my own strength, and have a strategic contraction, and maybe I can live a few better days. Moving the capital to Langya is a bridgehead for Goujian to fight for hegemony, but now I have no power to fight for hegemony, so I will overestimate myself in Langya.
Since the Yue people were about to leave, before leaving, the situation where Yue and Mohism worked together to guard the north to prevent Qi from going south would become a one-man show for the Mohism. This required the Mohism to take the initiative to fight back and make Qi a mess.
Neither destroy the country nor ceded the land. They just took it back and retreated after occupying it, and quickly launched a land reform in the occupied place, and waited for the old nobles to return.
If you really have to fight against Qi with all your might, you can either win quickly and withstand the interference of various countries. Otherwise, it would be better to leave if you win.
The time to sweep the world has not yet come, and the conditions are not ripe enough.
Now the fruits of education more than ten years ago have just been harvested, and it still needs to accumulate enough cadres and talents for a few years. Otherwise, even if you seize the world, it will be meaningless. In the end, there will be chaos in the world. If there are not enough cadres, you can only appoint low-level aristocrats to implement some laws and regulations. If the grassroots say it, the people will believe it. At that time, they will probably face the situation at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
When Qin Huali talked about the fact that Wei sent an envoy to question Wu Qi and Si, he said, "It seems that Wei has also noticed the movements of Chu. Is this to test our attitude?"
Shi spread his hands and smiled, "No need to test it. The messenger of Chu has arrived. Wei Ji must be muttering in his heart. He must be anxious now, and he is eager to solve the matter of Zhao first. The faster the better, so as to free up his hands to guard against Chu and us."
"In terms of the Three Jin Dynasties, we must first stabilize the country when fighting against foreign countries. In the battle between Prince Zhao, Wei Dao had eaten the candy set by the prince, and now he must still hope that the situation in Zhao State will be like this."
"There is a chance to split Zhao State. Don't forget that Zhao State has the legal principles of Dai State. Since Zhao Xiangzi and Zhao Jianzi, the people of Zhao began to covet Dai State. If Zhao State could be divided into two, Wei State would definitely do its best. This is an excellent opportunity."
"Ximen Bao is in Ye, but he has talent. Ye is forced to Handan in the north and suppress Zhongmu in the south. How could Wei State miss this opportunity?"
In addition to judging reality, Shi also recalled history. In history, the Prince of Zhao State Rebellion, Wei State besieged Handan, but failed to defeat, and miscalculated Handan's defense.
Now, the planning of the Mo family over the years has made Wei even more impatient than in history. This time, it will inevitably do its best to solve the matter of Zhao. If it is not solved, Qin has Wu Qi and Chu has Mo family to help, and Wei will be surrounded by all sides.
According to Wu Qi's plan back then, Wei should continue to oppress Qin. If it could own the Wei River Plain, then Wei would have a stable rear.
At that time, the Wei State had cultural advantages, and the Xihe School completely crushed the Qin State, which was backward in culture, and had many talents.
At that time, the Wei State had institutional advantages, and the Xihe reformed a large number of Qin people fled to Wei State to settle down.
At that time, Wei State also had military advantages. As long as Wei Hou could trust Wu Qi, he agreed to the Mohist proposal of the Central Plains to use the power of the Mohist family to maintain the balance of the Central Plains and exclude Qin from the Central Plains' Treaty of Suppressing the War, and there was great potential for things.
I don’t know if Wei Ji regrets the current situation, but even if he regrets it, there is no chance to implement this policy again.
The cultural advantages of the Xihe School were offset by the rebellion and Mo, the institutional advantages were offset by the Shengchuo's changes, and only the military advantages were left with the military soldiers. However, Wu Qi, who had trained the military soldiers, went to Qin, and in the end, he had no three advantages, and he would not be able to regret it.
In the past few years, in order to curb Zhao's involvement in the Central Plains, there were many conflicts with Zhao. He also took advantage of the fact that Zhao Hou's brother and his own descendants to interfere in the internal affairs of Zhao's country. This clearly means that one way to go: solve the Zhao problem, be the boss of the Three Jins, and expand in the Central Plains.
This is a problem of the overall route, and it cannot be decided by just a slap in the head. The State of Wei has been following this path for the past ten years, and Wei Da must have his own strategic judgment and concept.
In this way, the Wei State could not slap his head and ignore the affairs of Zhao State, but instead gave up the strategic plan that lasted for ten years to attack Si Shang.
After this judgment was made, everyone agreed, and Qin Huali said: "In this way, the root cause of the problem of Feiguo is actually solved in Handan, Zhongmu. Hu Feizi did well, and we can control the situation on Feiguo. If we don't do well, the situation will be ugly."
Shi agreed and said, "So I have always said that the affairs of Fei State are not Fei State's affairs. To be resolved, it must be resolved in Zhao State, not in Fei State."
"The nobles of Fei State, two divisions of the righteous division can be destroyed by one. Including the troops sent by Qi State, a thousand 50,000 people were at the top. In one wave of defeat, seven divisions gathered to quickly go north to break the Qi Great Wall, which can be solved in three months."
"So, no matter how the country of Fei argues, we just need to watch first, and see what kind of people will jump out and what experience will be learned when the people choose to change in the future."
"Hu Feizi did a good job in Handan and could defend it. General Qu was able to choose the right time to go south and help Gongzi Zhang quell the chaos in Zhao. Then the breakup between Wei and Zhao is inevitable. Even if Wei wants to interfere with Si Shang, it will take several years. A few years will be enough for us to fill the vacancy after the Yue Kingdom goes south and integrate all the power of Si Shang."
The general route was decided before when Hu Feizi was sent north to Handan. After all, thousands of miles away, the Mohist family only set a strategy on Si Shang, and the specific operation had to rely on the people there. It was impossible to rely on the remote control of the fast horse, which would delay the opportunity to fight.
After the matter was finalized, it was determined that Fei Guo’s affairs would be resolved in Handan. Everyone worked together to draft a letter to Hu Feizi and officially announced the strategy to Hu Feizi.
That is: Once the dispute between the princes of Zhao State begins, Wei State is likely to send a large army to intervene, and Hu Feizi will organize people to rely on the Mo family's city-defense technique to defend Handan.
Gongzizhang was worried about internal and external troubles, and Gongzi Dynasty also had some Zhao nobles support. It would be extremely difficult to increase the military power of Wei in recent years due to the reforms of the Wei State.
In the most difficult time of Gongzizhang, the Mo family in Gaoliu temporarily solved the harassment on the grassland, went south quickly, helped Gongzizhang solve internal and external troubles, and took advantage of the danger to ask Gongzizhang for spoils - as long as the slaves and child servants of the nobles who supported Gongzizhang, who were solved, did not take a trace of land from Zhao State, build a city in the clouds, Jiuyuan, and the armed colonization was still in the hands of the Hu people.
This is actually a ill-intention. Once the Mo family colonized in Hetao, Jiuyuan, and Yunzhong, it would be like the road to Zhao State to go north to be locked, and the Zhao State could only choose to break through the siege in the Central Plains, which undoubtedly exacerbated the contradictions within the Three Jins.
Once Prince Zhang was helpless and agreed to the Mo family's absolute unexcessive request, it would be equivalent to the possibility of reconciliation in Wei and Zhao in the future. Zhao State had no other way except to find a way out in the Central Plains: the land dyed by the Mo family, especially the originally empty cultural land, could not be taken back, and there was no result in going north. If you don't seek the Central Plains, it would be equivalent to Zhao State giving up the desire to compete for a great power.
The bottom line of Wei's alliance with the Three Jins was that Zhao would not interfere with the Central Plains. Once the rebellion of the Prince of Zhao ended, the bottom line of Zhao's alliance with the Three Jins could only be the three families working together to share the benefits in the Central Plains.
The bottom line contradiction between the two families was completely irreconcilable, which completely abolished the most terrifying Three Jin alliance in the early years of the Warring States Period. The Mo family's situation in Si was much better. Once Wei and Zhao completely turned against each other and the armed colonization of Jiuyuan in Yunzhong was successful, the Mo family could start to solve the problem of the Song State.
As long as the matter of Song State is resolved, the King of Chu will die again, and the conservatives and reformists of Chu will take the opportunity to disturb the world. Even if the princes in the world interfere, there will be no need to be afraid.
After carefully checking the agreed brief, they verified it, sealed it in plain clothes and handed it to the secretary to compile it into a secret letter, and immediately sent it to Handan.
After these major events were basically settled, Gao Sunzi told another secret matter.
"In the Zhongshan Kingdom, Le Chi secretly came to our Si Shang. I'm afraid that Zhongshan Kingdom has the intention of restoring the country. We often contacted them over the years, and have been secretly supporting them. It seems that they also feel that the time is ripe."
Shi was stunned and asked, "Le Pool?"
Chapter completed!