In ancient Greece's aesthetic, the most beautiful one was a handsome boy rather than a young girl. In mythology, the names of beautiful boys are often listed in vases and vessels, usually depicting "beautiful boys" instead of "beautiful girls". So much so that a custom has been formed throughout Greece: every adult man must become a teenager's mentor, guardian and friend. Some men without a teenager's company are often despised and humiliated.

Of course, Aristotle IV was accompanied by a young man, but all the young men around him were not as noble as King Chuni on the throne or as beautiful as him. He strongly hoped that he could become his life mentor and lead him to enjoy the happiness between the same sex.

The court officials who were in court did not know what he was thinking, but Wu Ji knew him well and blushed in an instant. He knew that the teacher was good at both the female style and the male style, but he wanted to get involved in the King of Chu, which was completely a desperate situation.

Xiong Jing also noticed the strange and eager gaze of Aristotle IV, but his life experience made him seem dull and he did not notice the obscene in his eyes. He heard Aristotle IV's suggestion, and he smiled and said, "The State of Chu had previously signed an alliance with the Seleucid Empire, which included the sale of the armor produced by the State of Chu, so the State of Chu could not make any promises.

A skillful person who claims to himself in the name of Aristotle, although proud, probably should have a certain knowledge, otherwise he would not dare to use it as a name among a group of Greeks.

Xiong Jing was thinking about how to reject Aristotle IV. Aristotle IV walked a few steps forward and said: "My students told me that Chuni and Chuni's allies were suffering a war. The brutal and evil Spartaqin wanted to destroy democracy and the free Chuni, as the most profound scholar in the known world, I am willing to help Chuni resist Spartaqin's invasion.

More than ninety years ago, the great Alexander the Great led 40,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry. In just three battles, he conquered the huge Persian Empire, conquered Egypt, and conquered half of India. The number of enemies in each battle was several times that of Alexander the Great, but in every battle, Alexander the Great won. I will use Alexander the strategy and tactics to teach His Majesty, and Dekeopolis will teach the Chuni army to learn the most advanced cavalry tactics in the world..."

The court officials who were in court sneered at what Aristotle IV said, "40,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry." Such an army is not the world, but also in the state of Chu. Aristotle IV's suggestion seems to be a countryman who has never seen Yingdu boasting about how prosperous a certain county is.

Xiong Jing certainly knew that what Aristotle IV said was true. Alexander's army was indeed only tens of thousands. SB Forum 63 often overturned Alexander against the Chinese countries.

The most important and deadliest Macedonian military system was actually the partner cavalry with only a few thousand people. Later, Macedonia (as the successor) confronted the Roman legion, and there were seven main battles. The victory and defeat of both sides were essentially the victory and defeat of the cavalry confrontation. The only accident was the Battle of Beneventu. The battle elephant chasing the Macedonian army suddenly went crazy, causing chaos in one's own ranks and the Romans successfully counterattacked.

All the cavalry of Chu used stirrups. The stirrups provided the knights with two stable support points, allowing them to shoot stronger bows, lift heavier spears, and make larger-scale fighting actions. The cavalry's huge iron armor tools were not available to cavalry during the same era. And they were sharpened many times, and Gui Jing, Xiang Chao and others were already qualified cavalry generals. Xiong Jing believed that they were not worse than Alexander's partner cavalry, but only stronger than the partner cavalry.

Amid the laughter of the ministers, Xiong Jing said: "The State of Chu does not need Alexander, the State of Chu only needs excellent war horses."

"No, your Majesty, you need it at all." Aristotle IV emphasized: "With these, you will conquer Sparta like the Great conquered Egypt and Persia."

"The Qin State was not Egypt or Persia." Xiong Jing disagreed with his point of view. "Egypt, Persia was an empire, and the empire was always easy to conquer. Babylon welcomed Alexander's army, and he also heard that Persian capital Persepolis was looted by Alexander and burned to death without any resistance. Only on the edge of the empire, Alexander encountered unyielding resistance, and the resistance lasted for several years before it could calm down.

The army that can conquer the empire cannot conquer the kingdom unless the kingdom also becomes an empire, or the kingdom is too small and its military strength is limited. Stones from other mountains can attack jade, but the jade of China is huge and hard, and hundreds of thousands of people can be attacked every battle, and it is not Greek stones that can be attacked."

"The Persians also claimed that they had one million infantrymen, but everything was false." Aristotle IV understood the meaning of the metaphor of Xiong Jing. Compared with the area west of Kunlun Mountain, the scale of the war in China was huge, but he thought it was impossible.

"You have a profound knowledge, why don't you know that the words of the empire are mostly false, and the words of the kingdom are mostly true?" Xiong Jing's smile changed a little.

Although some things are cruel and not worth boasting about, the fact is that in the hundreds of years of war in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chinese world has developed a complete overall war system. Anyone, any grain of corn, or any piece of cloth has been included in this system.

The West will not truly implement the strict wartime rationing system until the First World War. However, in "Mozi Zashou", the standards for fighting food, ginseng food, four food, five food, six food, and five types of wartime food for the whole people have been formulated in detail. Most people think that Qin is ruled by the Legalists, but in fact, without the Mohist helping Qin to establish a complete set of large-scale digital management systems and coordinate the manpower and material resources across the country, the overall war could not be played with a group of Legal scholars.

Xiong Jing is familiar with these things. Aristotle IV has just come into contact with the Chinese world and with inherent pride, he does not agree with everything that Wu Ji has said. He said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I don't believe that there will be a large-scale battle of more than 300,000 people in the world. I can't imagine how to transport the food of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and how much wheat can be consumed for them for a long time.

I have even more difficulty in illegitimately why, as non-free people, they had to take the initiative to report to the government that they were already seventeen years old, and why they obeyed all the battles as soon as they were summoned, without hiding them, and no one asked for military pay."

Aristotle IV admitted his doubts that, except for the Battle of Issus and the Battle of Gaugamira, he had never heard of a battle of more than 200,000 people. However, in China, the number of participants in any large-scale battle exceeded 200,000, and the Battle of Changping even exceeded 900,000, close to one million. The scale of such a battle was unimaginable.

Originally, the courtiers only laughed at Aristotle IV for being a countryman who had never seen the world. Now, after hearing so many questions from him, no one can laugh. His questions were just like someone questioning why the sun rose from the east, making the courtiers feel a little pitiful: the most knowledgeable and wise scholar in the world is known to be a fool.

Xiong Jing also felt that he was a little pitiful. It is difficult for people to surpass their inherent cognition. Even if tens of thousands of people participated in the war, even if the West was in the war, it was ahead of most countries in China in tactics and cavalry use (except for Zhao State, and Li Mu defeated the Huns, the proportion of cavalry was close to 10%), but in strategy, especially in overall war technology, it lags far behind the Chinese countries.

"If you can stay in Yingdu for a long time, you will naturally know in the future." If Aristotle IV only doesn't know for the time being, you will naturally correct your cognition in the future. But if he is stubborn and insists on thinking that what the West cannot do, and the backward East cannot do it, then there is nothing you can do. You can't wake up a person who is not asleep.

Xiong Jing quickly ended the topic and talked about the important matter of this visit: "The State of Chu was at the same time with Seleugu and Bactricia. Seleugu and Bactricia both had the good horses needed by Chu. In terms of fairness, the prices of horses and armor of the two countries should be the same. If you think the price is low, you can't change it."

A war horse was exchanged for eight sets of soldier armor, which was the price of Nissa horses. Although the sweat-blooded horse was not suitable for heavy cavalry, it could be used as a light cavalry. However, the price of the japanese horse was extremely high, so he asked for a horse to exchange for at least thirty sets of soldier armor, which was of course impossible. The negotiations failed for a few days, and the first batch of more than 500 male and female horses transported from Seleucid had arrived at the Yangma Island, so those sweat-blooded horses that were castrated were optional.

"Your Majesty, the merchant of Sogdiana cannot be ordered by me." Aristotle IV said. "As far as I know, Sparta Qin also hopes to buy those horses. If His Majesty does not agree to the merchant of Sogdiana, they may really sell the horses to the Qinnis."

The world knows about the bloody horses. The four countries of Chu, Qi, Zhao and Wei even think that Qin would send troops to rob these horses. Aristotle IV's speculation made the atmosphere of the dynasty suddenly tense. Although Xiong Jing was worried, he calmly told him: "The merchants in the Bactrician country can naturally sell horses to the Qin people, and there is no way to stop them. However, they need to know that Chu, Qi, Zhao and Wei will definitely report later on this.

Indeed, Bactricia must choose between Qin and the four countries. If he sells war horses in Qin, he should no longer trade with the four countries; if he trades with the four countries, he should not sell war horses in Qin."

"My Majesty, does Chuni also want to choose between Seleucci and Bactrice? If you sell weapons to Seleucci, you should not hope that Bactrice will remain neutral between Qinni and the four countries?" The admiration for Xiong Jing was fading from Aristotle IV's heart. After knowing the situation in the world, he felt that he could completely balance Chu through Qin.
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