The military strategy says: A war that defeats others without fighting is a good one.

How should I understand this sentence? Yuwen Wen will tell his son about his experience now.

As a ruling person, if you want to look at the problem from the perspective of the country, then it is quite difficult to achieve "a defeated force without fighting" from the perspective of the country.

First, the country must be strong and the army must have strong strength; second, you must let other countries know that you are strong and that your army must have strong strength.

Third, you have to let other countries know that you can mobilize your army at any time and punish any country that dares to infringe on your own interests.

Fourth, you have to let other countries know that when your army goes to war, the other party cannot win in the war, and it is a sure loss.

In short, you have to let others know that you are strong and have a sword with a strong body and a slim waist. If he dares to provoke you, you will dare to draw your sword and chop people on the spot. Even if you can't kill him, you can cut him into a disabled person, and no one dares to stop him.

If you just grow up a big guy, but you are extremely cowardly, with a knife around your waist, but you dare not use it or don’t know how to use it, then the rascals will only come up and insult you without fear, throw stones at you, or even kick them.

Let you learn to crawl in public and crawl through his crotch.

Yuwen Wen gave an example: Han Xin’s humiliation under his crotch.

This story is widely known and reflects Han Xin's forbearance. Yuwen Wen said that if Han Xin draws his sword to kill people with passion, he will be wanted by the government. If he cannot escape the wanted and beheaded, he will not have any subsequent actions.

However, Yuwen Wen gave this example, the purpose was to let his sons know that if the country was weak, he should endure it when facing a strong enemy, just like Goujian, the King of Yue, lying on firewood and tasting gall, waiting for revenge in the future.

But if the country is already strong, you cannot be a turtle. Otherwise, other countries would think you are easy to bully and come to provoke from time to time, just like the butcher provoking Han Xin.

Why did the butcher dare to provoke Han Xin who was wearing a sword on his waist? It was very simple. He and the evil boys knew that Han Xin did not dare to draw his sword and chop people.

Similarly, if a country has a strong army but its neighbors think that it dares to send troops to attack them, or cannot send troops to attack them, then will these neighbors take this country seriously?

For example, the countries in the West (Western Regions) have only a few cities. In terms of national strength, they are different from the Zhou State, but they are not afraid of the Zhou State.

Could it be that the monarchs and ministers of these small countries have not heard that the Zhou State has a vast territory and a strong army?

Yes, so what?

The Central Plains and Jixi were thousands of miles apart, and there were deserts and Gobi during this period. Therefore, these small kings and ministers believed that no matter how powerful the Zhou army was, they could not cross thousands of miles to attack them.

So, why are these small countries afraid of Zhou?

Similarly, even if the Western Turks are not as strong as the Zhou Kingdom, they are the overlord of the West of Ji and far away from the Central Plains. Then the Western Turks will definitely not be afraid of the Zhou Kingdom.

Therefore, over the years, the envoys of Zhou have been constantly lobbying in the west of Ji, hoping to win over the country to join Zhou, but the results have been very little. Except for Khotan, no country is willing to risk offending the Western Turks and surrender to Zhou.

Faced with this situation, the Zhou State either sent a large army to station in Mingsha (Dunhuang) or even Khotan, and used direct force to intimidate the countries in Jixi.

Or, let the other party deeply understand how strong the Zhou State's national strength is and how strong the Zhou army is. When one day the emperor of Zhou State is unhappy, he really dares to send troops across thousands of miles to destroy their country.

The former method is extremely costly, because it is currently necessary to maintain tens of thousands of troops stationed in Jixi, and the logistics consumption is extremely high.

The latter method is very low in cost. You only need to invite envoys from all over the country to come to Zhou, take a train that travels thousands of miles a day, see various steam machinery, experience the power of cannons, and keep the other party's heart so scared that it jumps out of your throat.

When Yuwen Weili heard this, his eyes lit up: "No wonder, in the past two years, the envoys from various countries in the Lixi River entered Beijing, and the imperial court arranged for them to take trains, steam ships, and even arranged for them to watch steam machinery and even experience telegrams."

Yuwen Wen nodded: "That's right, they live in Chang'an, and the officials of Honglu Temple also have to subscribe to them and explain it to them so that they can understand that if they hear anything from Mingsha, Chang'an will know that day."

"We also need to let them know how strong the train's capacity is, and know that the court will keep building railways. After six years, it will build Mingsha. At that time, who dares to disobey, the official and military soldiers will take the train to Mingsha, and then start the battle to destroy the country with Mingsha as the starting point!"

"What envoys from various countries see and hear in the Central Plains will inevitably be known to their monarchs and ministers. Then, they have been thinking clearly for six years, when the train was opened and the Zhou army gathered on a large scale, where should they kneel to!"

When Yuwen Weili and Yuwen Weimin thought of the scene where the official army gathered at Mingsha on a train, they felt that the blood in their bodies was about to boil. They were excited and asked again: "But in this way, will the Western Turks be prepared?"

"So what? In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless." Yuwen Wen said, speaking faster: "East and western Turks have to face reality, and reality is not something they can change."

"If the Shuoge Railway is repaired, it will extend to Fengzhou in a few years, and to Wuchuan on the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain. The Eastern Turkic envoy stationed in Chang'an has not passed this news to Shibi Khan of the Eastern Turkic?"

"There must be, but Shibi Khan can do nothing except despair."

"The Longyou Railway is completed, and in another year, the Guanlong Railway will be opened to traffic. In another five years, the railway will extend to Mingsha. All these matters have been said in the newspapers. Don't the Western Turkic envoys to Beijing know? Will they not report to the Western Turkic Khan?"

"There must be, but the Western Turkic Shekui Khan can do nothing except despair!"

"The absolute gap in national strength, technology and military makes them have no way to change such development momentum. You must realize that in today's Central Plains, technology confidentiality is necessary, but it is also necessary to fully demonstrate national strength."

"It is not only necessary to defeat the enemy without fighting, but also to let these countries know what despair is."

"Let the envoys of various countries stay in Chang'an and watch the rapid growth of the dynasty's national strength with their own eyes, let them know that the railway for transporting troops, horses, weapons, and food is extending outward, so that they can only feel helpless in the face of fear."

"The railway leads to Wuchuan and Mingsha. The khans of the East and West Turks had no choice but to go further north and west, but they would be frightened to find that the railway was still extending and following them."

"The railway extends to the northern end of the southern grassland of Chi, which means that the Khans of the Eastern Turks are not safe to hide in the northern grassland of Chi, which means that the Khans of the Eastern Turks are not safe to hide in the northern grassland of Chi, which means that the Khans of the Western Turks are not safe to hide in the Hezhong area."

Speaking of this, Yuwen Wen asked his son: "Are you so desperate for such a feeling?"
Chapter completed!