Because of commercial law, the Qin State was better than the six countries in terms of mobilization systems and grain production, but Qin State also had food shortages. From the tenth year of King Zheng of Qin when Xiong Jing ascended the throne (237 BC), the large-scale war of the Qin army was only interrupted for two years.

The year was the 12th year of King Zheng of Qin (235 BC). Before the Chu army captured Ao Cang, there was no longer any worries about food and fodder in the country. The Qin State had a severe drought, and the Qin State had no rain since June to August. This year, the Qin State stopped its troops; the other year was the 16th year of King Zheng of Qin (231 BC), which was Li Mu defeated the Qin army again. The three countries wanted to send troops to rescue Zhao, so the Qin army had to retreat to defend Jingxing Passage and temporarily suspend the offensive.

In attacking Chu, destroying Zhao, and attacking Qi, the whole country fought every time. Because of the Chu army's boat troops, transportation could not be carried through water, but could only be drawn from land that consumed several times. From ten years ago to now, the potential of Qin State has reached its limit. At the same time, the counties and towns south of the Qin Mountains were all taken away by Chu State, and the corn in Xianyang was burned down when the Chu army invaded, and the cities they captured were either devastated or turned into a foreign land.

Last year, the food was at its limit, and this year it was unsustainable. If the food continued, most of the corn was requisitioned this year, most people would freeze to death in this winter. If no one cultivated it next year, the army would collapse and the Qin State would also destroy the country.

When he was in the court, Zhao Zheng was very angry, but Wang Wan said it was all the truth, so he could only bear the anger and turn this problem to Wei Liao. The strategy of unifying the world was formulated by Wei Liao. It was his advocacy of using a roundabout way to first swallow Zhao Qi and other countries, and finally rely on the food, fodder and armored soldiers in the world to consume the most difficult Chu State. A country like Chu State cannot withstand long-term consumption, and the soldiers under the Chu-style military system was proof that the soldiers in the Nanjun County were dispersed by the Qin cavalry.

Over the years, Zhao Zheng has already known that the so-called battle of wisdom rather than force is actually allowing the Chu army to attack itself and point the troops outside the state of Chu, and relying on plundering other countries to make up for the losses of its own country under the attack of the Chu army. The reason is impeccable, but plundering cannot be compensated immediately. The old power has gone, and the Qin State, which has not yet born new power, is in the weakest state.

When Zhao Zheng asked, he thought about the strategy that Wei Liao had originally formulated. Before Wei Liao answered, he spoke with some difficulty: "I reason should be a peace with the Jing people, so..."

"No, absolutely not!" Wei Liao knew what Zhao Zheng meant, so he quickly made a suggestion. "If I ask for peace, King Jing will definitely ask the Qin army to withdraw from Qi, the country and the three kingdoms of Han. If I do not retreat, how can I reconcile? In addition, only ten years after King Jing ascended the throne, Jing State will have Jing crossbows, giant irons, warships, witchcrafts and other things. What will Jing State have after the alliance?"

"What will happen to Jing State?" Zhao Zheng asked Wei Liao.

"I don't know what Jing State will have." Wei Liao was helpless. "The system of Jing State is different from my Great Qin. What can I do with my Great Qin? I can calculate the Shaofu and the plan of the government. This is the reason for the Qin law. Even King Jing cannot know what Jing State can produce. How can I know?"

The Qin system is a meticulous management of ready-made things, and it is difficult to produce new things because it is not within the scope of Qin's law, and innovation is often regarded as a waste; even if the Chu State neglects to manage ready-made things, it doesn't matter how many calfs a year a cow is born, it doesn't matter whether it is your own cow. Whether or not a calf is born has nothing to do with the government.

In other words, the Qin system can only manage the past, and the Chu system is conducive to the creation of the future. The future is unpredictable. How could Wei Liao know what attacking equipment will appear in Jing's country next year and the next year? Now he only knows that the Chu country's weapons are emerging one after another, and the Chu army's tactics are changing with each passing day. If he had known this before, he would definitely not have adopted roundabout tactics. He would have sacrificed half of the Qin country that year and would have to destroy Chu first.

Regret only for a moment, Wei Liao said again: "I think if we can win in Sanguan, our army will have no worries about Bashu again."

"Victory in one battle?" Zhao Zheng looked at him in disbelief, his anger slowly turned into a smile, and then shook his head hard. "Let's rely on those disabled soldiers without left toes?"

"That's right!" Wei Liao nodded. It was his idea to recruit those aborted soldiers, and they also ate beans, wheat, not corn.

"Ha!" Zhao Zheng raised his hand hard, but in the end he didn't shoot it on several cases. "What if he loses, what?"

"I apologize for my death!" Wei Liao knelt down and bowed.

"You have nothing to do with the Great Qin Dynasty. I just ask, if you lose this battle, how about the Great Qin?" Zhao Zheng said coldly, his words from the bottom of his heart, with the coldness he usually did not have.

"If you cannot win this battle, the Qin Dynasty will be destroyed." Wei Liao was unmoved. He knew that the monarch he served was a very realistic person.

"If we seek peace, the Qin Dynasty will also perish?" Zhao Zheng continued.

"Yes." Wei Liao pointed his head, "You must never give Jing people a chance to breathe, otherwise..."

"If you cannot win the battle, you will die, but you will die this year; if you seek peace, you will die next year and the next year..." Zhao Zheng suddenly thought of someone, he wanted to say that Qin might not die, but he didn't say it.

"If you fight, you can win the Qin Dynasty in one day; if you seek peace, even if the Qin Dynasty may not perish, you will never be able to do it." Wei Liao expressed his intention that Zhao Zheng did not say and told him the consequences of doing so.

"I heard that King Jing did not want to be in the world. This is a mistake! The Spring and Autumn Period and the rituals and music were broken, and the Warring States Period killed people to the city. To this day, the world must be one country. This destiny of heaven cannot be stopped by human power. No matter how strong the Jing people are, can they be stronger than the hearts of the people? The Jing army is good at fighting and can surpass the destiny of heaven? I think it is not. I don't think so. I think that those who are in the world must be not the Jing people, but should be the Qin people."

"Why?" The minister was luring himself to unify the world again, so as to convince himself to bet on the Qin country. Zhao Zheng was naturally alert.

"The Jing people only want to be the Jing people." Wei Liao sighed. "The Jing people regard Jing people as people who regard Jing people as completely different from those who regard other countries. The Jing people only want to live in Jing but not go to other countries. The Jing people are proud of being Jing people, but are ashamed of not Jing people.

The Jing people are good at fighting, but Jing people all know that they are Jing people, and their comrades are brothers and sisters, and they are the generals to lead them to fathers and brothers. Although there is a system of honoring scholars, I heard that there are Jing people who are not willing to be honoring scholars. Why? The man said: All teachers are honoring scholars, why do you recommend me alone?"

"Take it seriously?" Zhao Zheng's body was shocked and he couldn't believe it.

"How can I talk nonsense when I report this to the spy?" Wei Liao said. "The people of Jing only want to be the people of Jing, only want to live in Jing, and only be proud of Jing's country. I heard that the sea embraces all rivers, and be tolerant is great. With the people of Jing to strengthen their narrow minds and the king of Jing's ambitions, how can I rule the world? Therefore, I often say: Those who are in the world must be my Great Qin! If the King of Jing does not inherit the destiny of heaven, they will lose their country; if the king does not inherit the destiny of heaven, they will regret it later."

"However, if you lose this battle, you will be fodder..." Zhao Zheng was moved when Wei Liao said, but when he thought of reality, he sighed again.

"I think our army will win in this battle." Wei Liao said with certainty. "When you defeat the Qi people, I will perceive the destiny of heaven. Those in the world will be my Great Qin. The Great Qin should fight again with the Jing people, and never talk to the Jing people."

In order to convince Zhao Zheng, Wei Liao even said that he could feel his destiny, and Zhao Zheng was deeply suspicious of this. "Get back." He said.

"I have something to tell the king." Wei Liao said again.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Zheng held his forehead, confused about his difficult decision.

"Hou Ji said that King Jing knew that Prince of the eldest son was in charge of Qiang affairs and had killed King Qiang," Wei Liao said.

Zhao Zheng was stunned when he heard this, and his anger rose on his face. He said hideously: "Who? Who is?! Who is the Jingren Hou spy?"

"Only the king, Lord Bai Di, the eldest son, Wu Ji, the five of me know about this matter." Wei Liao said: "I think it is not the eldest son."

The first thing Zhao Zheng thought of was his son Fusu. Unexpectedly, he still looked at King Jing for many years, but Wei Liao said that he was not his son. This made Zhao Zheng wonder, who would be if he was not Fusu?

"There were temple men beside the eldest son, and the guards were with him and sent to King Jing, which was not possible." Wei Liao dispelled Zhao Zheng's suspicion of Fusu, and then said: "This is either Wuji, or... or Zhiyang Palace."

"Zhiyang Palace?" Zhiyang Palace is the bedroom of Taifu Bai Di, and most of the palaces are Bai Di people.

"Yes." Wei Liao said. "Master Bai Di has been envoyed in Yingdu first, and then entered our Daqin as envoy. Only Di is spoken in the palace. If Master Bai Di knew that his officer bribed his subordinates with a large sum of money, he thought he was a spy from the Jing people..."

"You said you would win this battle just now!" Zhao Zheng wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh. He felt cold sweat broke out on his back, and he felt like he had survived the disaster.

"For this reason, I will win this battle." Wei Liao had a smile on his face. He said that winning is not completely nonsense.

"If this is done by the Jing people, what will happen if they do the trick in the death?" Zhao Zheng returned to his previous calm tone, with some complaints. After many blows, he no longer believed that the National Wei Mansion could fight against the Knowing Master. "Get back."

Wei Liao was stunned by his question. He was also wondering why the other party told him that King Jing had killed King Qiang in the martial arts. Zhao Zheng was speechless in his questioning, so he could only bow and retreat. Wei Liao, who hoped that Zhao Zheng would obey his advice, heard bad news when he looked at the court on the third day: Qin will send envoys to reconcile with Jing Guo. As soon as the king's order came out, the ministers who usually dared not speak immediately shouted long live the king.

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"Qin people seek peace?" As soon as the envoy left Xianyang, he knew that the news from the other department had arrived in Yingdu. Naojiu looked at the news and was stunned.

"Yes." Don't let me have no smile, "The Qin envoy Ganluo has left Xianyang and will be able to reach Fangcheng in more than ten days."

"Ganluo?" Ganluo saw that his ancestral home was also from Chu, and his family was in Xia Cai. He was not as close as Dunluo and an envoy, nor as close as Changwenjun was an envoy. This was a candidate for a mission. Qin sent someone suitable for an envoy to Chu because he really wanted to make peace with Chu.

"In the Qin Dynasty, two years, the head of the pavilion and the head of the village did not allow common people to die in the road, but there were many people in the village." Don't let me say.

"Well, the Qin people were ineffective in food and grass." Naojiu nodded softly. When Qin destroyed Zhao, Chu was accumulating grain. If Cheng Jie and others had not urged him, the Zhao people would have been defeated in the fight, and the attack on Qin would have been delayed by one year. Fortunately, the effect was still coming. Qin, which had exhausted food, barely delayed until this year, and could no longer delay it.

"You can't be in harmony with the Qin people!" Naojiu threw the news on the case and expressed his attitude.

"The king must be in harmony with the Qin people." Don't let me smile and express the king's attitude.

"The Qiang King and the Qin people have joined forces, and the King will kill the Qiang King. If the King and the Qin people have joined forces, wouldn't the King be, or wouldn't it be..." Naojiu's voice became louder. There was no possibility of a alliance between Chu and Qin, and one side must fall completely.

"What if Qin State can withdraw from the three places of Qi, Zhao and Han?" Don't tell me a difficult possibility. "With the western border as the boundary, the western land will be cut off from the Qiang people..."

"With Qin, how is this different from the destruction of the country?" Naojiu sneered.

"The Qin army's food and fodder may be able to support the harvest of millet next year, but after next year, there will be no millet in the country. What's the difference between this and the destruction of the country?" Don't let me say. "My subordinates think that our army can win without fighting."

"What is it?" Naojiu looked at him, his eyes shook again and again.

"Just talk about harmony, no alliance, and if you drag it down and don't fight, the Qin people will be defeated." Don't let me pretend that I didn't see Naoji's contempt and expressed the thoughts of Cao's officer Huan Qiong. This is the safest way. Although it is not that it is not that one soldier or one soldier, the casualties of soldiers can be minimized.

"I know!" Naojiu didn't react at all, and he knew not to let me say anything good. "I will report this news to the king."

"Nei." Don't let me hide my disappointment and leave the Mingtang. Soon, the news that the Qin people sent envoys to seek peace was spread to the Shangluo County Magistrate's Mansion. When Nao Xin read out the news, the Lieutenant General was sitting in the Mingtang for military discussion.

"Ah..., the Qin people are seeking peace? The Qin people are defeated!" The generals opened their mouths first, shouted again and again, and they wanted to jump a few times in the hall.

"Irregular!" Deng Sui became more mature, knowing that the Qin people were full of tricks and their words were untrustworthy, and even more unhappy that the generals led to rudeness in front of the king.

"What else do you have?" Xiong Jing was stunned for a moment. The King of Qin sent an envoy to seek peace. Doesn't this mean that the war can be over? But he soon thought of the price of ending the war. Not only did Qin want to make peace with Chu, but Qin must make peace with the countries of Guandong. Such a price will bring the boundaries of Qin back to ten years ago.

"... Qin State may have sent envoys to seek peace because they had no food, and Qin's envoy Ganluo was about to enter Chu recently. What is the matter of seeking peace is related to the various countries, not the affairs of our country." Nao Xin continued to read the news. "Or it was the plan of the Qin people leaving me. When they saw Ying's army stationed in Shangluo, they sent envoys to seek peace..."

Feixun was sent by Naojiu. Instead, he was a little worried, worried that this was the Qin people's plan. The Qin people always fought if they could win, and if they couldn't win, they would separate and divide, creating differences within the enemy's internal affairs and buying the enemy's slander ministers to replace the generals. This is not the first time that such a lesson has been learned.

As he listened, Xiong Jing's joy gradually faded away. The Qin State's pursuit of peace may be because there was no food in the country, but the greater possibility was a strategy. The transition between war and harmony between the two states, the Qin King could decide with one word. The Chu State was not the case. The Kanto countries, plus the tribes of Yue, Ba, and Qiang, would have a bad situation that would cause the alliance's hearts to turmoil, especially the Qiang people.

What to do? Should we really make peace with Qin, or should we continue to fight as planned and completely defeat Qin?

In the war, if Chu was defeated, it would be destroyed; and, assuming that this was the Qin strategy, it was to cause turmoil among all parties, and the Qin army suddenly attacked...
Chapter completed!