I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 392
Wei Ju has to admit that since Zhiyao took over the management of Zhishi, what Zhishi is doing and what he is planning has become more and more incomprehensible.

It's not that difficult to understand if it's just expansion. It's nothing more than seeking more cities and population to grow the family.

Many families will expand, and then seek to obtain a higher political status. Once the political status is high enough, it will increase the family's heritage.

Similar trajectories apply to every family, pretty much the same routine.

The reason why Wei Ju didn't understand what Zhiyao wanted to do was simply that Zhishi became less and less concerned about the power brought by "Yuan Rong". This alone makes most people feel strange.

"A strong family will make other people dare not compete with it. It's not about power at all... Does it mean that they don't care about how the country is doing?" Wei Ju thought in this way.

Really, Wei Ju thought about it for a long time, but couldn't figure out why the Zhi family would weaken the authority of "Yuan Rong".

No matter where your butt sits, no matter how stupid you are, you have to worry about the impact of that position, and then affect yourself, right?

A rational person will always maintain the authority brought by the position, and doing so is tantamount to safeguarding the interests at hand. Only fools and people with other plans will completely ignore the authority given by the position.

Wei Ju doesn't think Zhiyao is a fool, whoever regards Zhiyao as a fool will be a real fool himself.

"What exactly is Zhishi doing, what does he want to do?" Wei Ju thought about it countless times, but couldn't think of an answer, or thought of the correct answer and thought it was too shocking, so he gave up the correct answer.

Turn a family into a country?

Whether it was Zhao Wuji who usurped the country of Dai, or the Tian family who tried to restore the country of Chen, the process and trajectory had their own way, and they could not be applied mechanically to the Zhi family.

Wei Ju was so engrossed in his thoughts that he saw Zhiyao's face in a trance, and asked uncontrollably, "What exactly does Yao want?"

A person can probably tell from his expression that he is thinking.What this person is thinking, if you want to guess, you can only guess from recent events.

Inexplicably, Zhiyao knew what Wei Ju was asking, and she would not give a real answer.

"Only Jintu is strong." Zhiyao said.

How about this answer?
If there is no division of expansion directions, it will be more convincing for Zhishen, as the "Yuanrong", to seize power.

Zhiyao simply asked: "If it weren't for what it is now, would it be possible for Zhi, Wei, and Han to get along?"

The state of Jin fell under a curse, and conflicts broke out among the Qing family every once in a while, which turned into civil wars many times.Every time a civil war breaks out among the noble families of Jin State, the scale of the war is often bigger than the national war.

Luan Shu once said that as long as the Qing family can cooperate, Jin can easily win the crown of the overlord of the Central Plains. It is a pity that the Qing family has too many conflicts of interest with each other, and it is impossible to maintain friendship for too long.

Later, Shi Xie believed that the Jin State could not completely suppress the largest and most threatening external enemy, otherwise the Jin State, which lost the external threat, would inevitably have civil strife.

Who doesn't understand the truth?It's just whether you can do it after you understand it.

Most of the time, it's not that everyone doesn't understand, it's just that everyone wants to take advantage, and no one wants to suffer.

"That's right! If we don't focus and choose to expand abroad, the Wei family can only form an alliance with the Han family, which will stimulate the Zhi family, and the country will fall into confrontation. A small conflict may suddenly turn into a large-scale civil war. .” Wei Ju had to admit this.

Those are things that the patriarchs can't control. It's all because even they can't give up the pursuit of interests. Retiring once will only make the other party stronger, and they will have no resistance after each time.

Wei Ju chatted with Zhiyao about some other things, and then chose to leave without revealing the original purpose of coming.

This time, Wei Ju actually came here to discuss the possibility of cooperating with Zhiyao to deal with Zheng Guo, but later he realized that he could not expose his shortcomings.

The Zhi family has successfully annexed most of the territory of the Qi country except Donglai, and the Chen country has not blocked the possibility of the Zhi family's continued expansion. Not surprisingly, there will be no Chen country in five years at most.

Wei's action against Zheng State was not smooth. Only "Xinzheng" can firmly block Wei's southward invasion, and it is impossible to annex Zheng State if "Xinzheng" is not taken down.

"Maybe... I should conquer 'Xinzheng' regardless of the casualties, and then drag on..." Wei Ju was in a trance on the chariot, and was almost thrown off by a bump.

Everyone knows that Zheng Guo's "Xinzheng" is a fortified city. Only when the attack is actually carried out will they know how difficult it is.

In addition to the fact that "Xinzheng" is not easy to fight, no matter how weak Zheng Guo is, the foundation is actually relatively strong.

Let's put it this way, after repeated weakening of the Zheng State, their total population is still about 130 million. After being concentrated in the south and east, productivity has not declined, but has also shown an upward trend.

That is the concentration of the population, which facilitates the deployment of labor to improve production efficiency, and the sense of crisis is enough to spur Zheng people to work hard.

The Zhi family of the Jin State also taught Zheng Guojun and ministers to be good, so that Zheng Guo began to try to recruit young and strong soldiers for military training. Once he was forced to rush, he should not look at the quality but the quantity. Pulling out 15 troops should be able to do it. arrive?

Going to war with the goal of destroying the country?Zheng Guojun and his ministers realized that what was breaking out was a war of annihilation. How could they not fight it with their heart? The worse the situation became, the more crazy they would become.

Otherwise, how can it be said that victory is easy, but the war of destroying the country is difficult?
It is precisely because once a certain country knows that they are facing life and death, they will most likely abandon all internal conflicts and turn to the outside world!

"The Wei family will definitely try their best to attack Zheng Guo after taking over?" Zhiyao was looking at the relevant information.

Not only Wei's information, their information is too simple, mostly around the game with Zheng Guo, plus the diplomatic relations with Chu State and Song State.

Among them, the diplomatic relationship of Chu State was helped by Zhishi.

What is more depressing for the Wei family is that Yin Bai Gongsheng, the new order of the Chu State, has turned all his attention to countering the rebellion in the country, which means that it is impossible to have too much interaction with the Wei family in the short term.

"Should the Wei family have the intention to divide the Zheng country equally with the Chu country? Now that the Chu country is like this, the Wei family should be glad that the proposal has not been formally proposed. However, it seems that the Wei family wants to destroy the Zheng country alone. It seems that the difficulty is not ordinary. ?” Zhiyao knew very well that the opportunity had come.

what chance?That is, once the Wei family lost too much force when attacking the Zheng state, it was precisely the time for the Zhi family to launch a civil war and annex the Wei family in one fell swoop.

In the final analysis, if he could do it alone, why would Zhiyao carve up Jin Kingdom with others?
"The Han family..., they are not born with enough talent, and they can't accomplish anything by themselves without strong allies." Zhiyao found the information about the Han family's new invasion of Qin.

No, the new time is to attack Qin in the form of a national war.

This time, Hu Jie, as the nominal general, was played by Sun Wu throughout the whole process.

They attracted the Qin army to the territory of Baizhai, and the three parties fought no less than [-] large-scale battles in various places.

Sun Wu received Zhiyao's entrustment in advance, mainly to consume the troops of the Han family and the Qin State.

Of course, rushing to consume troops, but doing things without leaving traces, it is a test of Sun Wu's ability to handle affairs.

Zhiyao concluded from the intelligence that General Sun Wu did a great job, and all the losses seemed reasonable, even if a certain part suffered heavy losses, it was entirely caused by the person in charge who did not follow the order.

This kind of operation is actually not difficult. If you have insight into someone's personality or way of doing things, if you know that there will be problems and then delegate, something will definitely happen!
As for why you know that there will be problems and still delegate?Sun Wu just made a suggestion and talked about what might happen, and it was up to Hu Jie or Han Geng to decide how to appoint him.

In this wave, the Han family turned in about [-] troops, and as a result, they wiped out nearly [-] Qin troops and about [-] Baidi people who participated in the battle.

Of course, the Zhi family, Wei family, Hu family, and Zhong family also suffered losses. The total is about [-], which is really not a small amount.

What Zhiyao knew was that the Han family was very satisfied with this expedition, and treated Sun Wu courteously from the beginning to the end. Someone contacted Zhi's family before the army returned to the division and sent a batch of gifts.

Those gifts were not given by the Han family to the Zhi family. To put it bluntly, Han Geng could not directly reward Sun Wu, so he had to pass the gifts to the Zhi family, and then the Zhi family would reward Sun Wu for his merits.

In fact, Han Geng's method is the most correct operation method in the present age, and any method will cause disputes.

Zhiyao finished reading the information and began to deal with state affairs.

Including the state of Qin entrusting the royal family of Zhou to express its softness to the state of Jin and willingness to pay tribute.

Undoubtedly, the State of Song moved closer to the State of Jin, but the person in charge of diplomatic relations became the Wei family.

The state of Wu is more interesting. They protested against the annexation of the state of Jin by the state of Qi. Not only did they go to the Zhou royal family to protest, but they also called on all countries to condemn the state of Jin.

"Is Gou Jian kneeling and licking her husband again?" Zhi Yao saw a piece of information, said that, but her expression became serious.

The thing is like this, Gou Jian didn't stay in his own capital, but went to "Wu" to serve Fu Chai's daily life, including but not limited to cleaning the toilet and chatting with him.

Anyone who hears that the majestic king of a country does those things will find it absurd, but Gou Jian is really doing it, and he also shows a posture of flocking to it.

Zhiyao felt that one day Gou Jian could cook food for Fu Chai, and basically Fu Chai would not be far from being poisoned to death.

Or, wait for the day when Gou Jian can stay in the bedroom when Fu Chai sleeps, and that day is probably Fu Chai's death.

No kidding, whoever can endure to that extent as a monarch, which one will not bring drastic changes to the present age?

At the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Ji Changming knew that the meat in the meatloaf was his son's meat, so he ate it without changing his face. Later, Ji Zhou replaced Yin Shang.

Later, Gou Jian was able to help Fu Chai taste his illness with a flattering face, interrupting Fu Chai's great cause of hegemony, and even cut off their sacrifices after destroying Wu.

Of course, in this version of history, only the first half happened, that is, Goujian really ate shit, and did a lot of hard work. He has no chance to destroy Wu State for the time being, and I don’t know if he still has a chance to destroy Wu State.

To be honest, Zhiyao didn't like Goujian, no matter before or after time-traveling.

Why?Purely from Zhiyao's point of view, I feel that Goujian has lowered the lower limit of everyone's code of conduct by his own efforts.

Of course, that is only Zhiyao's own opinion, and does not represent the rest of the people.

In addition, Zhiyao also gained some insights from Goujian's actions. It doesn't matter if you do things without compromise, but you can't lack grandeur.

"Farming, planting with peace of mind... No, I should change my mind and be ready to start a civil war at any time, or prepare to draw someone to carve up the Jin country." Zhiyao needs to have a plan for the upheaval in the southeast.

If she can farm with peace of mind, Zhiyao certainly hopes to lead the times when Zhishi is ready.

The question is, how can there be any good things that will usher in the drastic changes of the times when you are ready?
Knowing that time is getting tighter and tighter, Zhiyao didn't stay in "Xintian" at all, and rushed to "Handan" in the snow, and then went to "Ye" to stay for a long time.

After the arrival of the new year, just after the spring sowing, Zhiyao, who was in the city of "Ye", received news that the Wei family had mobilized two legions and went south to "Bai Ma Jin" to enter the territory of Zheng State.

Why did the Wei family go to "Bai Ma Jin" this time?It's not that there is a bridge across the river built by Zhishi, which is convenient for crossing the river more quickly, and then it is to test Zhishi's attitude.

"Wei's request to borrow 'Bai Ma Jin' for future supplies?" Zhiyao looked at Sun Wu who was sitting opposite.

Currently there are only two bridges across the river, one is "Mengjin" and the other is "Baimajin".

"Meng Jin" is in the territory of the royal family of Zhou, and the procedures to go there are actually quite troublesome.

Sun Wu said: "The Wei family's move is to show goodwill to my family."

How should I say it?The Wei Clan dispatched two legions to the south, and the supply line was arranged within the Zhi Clan's sphere of influence. It wasn't a deliberate show of trust in the Zhi Clan, but what was it?

Zhiyao is fascinated by Wei Ju's approach.

What a heart!Otherwise, how can there be a way to actively hand over your lifeline to others?

"Even if there is still a 'Meng Jin' as an alternative, Wei Ju really showed absolute sincerity this time." Zhiyao knew this in every possible way.

Are you moved?

Zhiyao really felt ready to move!

What makes Zhiyao feel a little terrible is that when they started the big project, they had to annex the Qi country. It was less than a year after the annexation of the Qi country, ushering in an opportunity where the Wei family might suffer heavy losses.

Under this current situation, it is impossible for Zhishi to make a big move without affecting others.

"Look first, then look again, make necessary preparations and set up a plan first, lest when you want to take action, you will be in a hurry when you really move." Zhiyao felt both expectant and apprehensive.

Let's see if the Wei family can conquer the fortified city of "Xinzheng", and how much they will lose if they can.

Or, should Zhiyao do something when the Wei family attacked Zheng Guo.

That doesn't depend on Zhiyao, in fact it depends on whether the Wei family will give him a chance!
(End of this chapter)