Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 2951 Those who don’t plan for the overall situation are not enough to plan for a region.

Chapter 2947: Those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough to plan for a region.

Daqin Sea Trade is undoubtedly a piece of cake that is coveted by all forces. After all, it can trade a large amount of materials for development with only porcelain, silk, weapons, and some useless sundries. The huge profits can be called a money grab. .

However, whether it is to open up a new route or join an old route, it requires a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources. Obviously, it is not something that the current Central Plains countries can handle. Before those prerequisites are completed, they can only be filled with envy. He was jealous and hated watching Da Qin make money.

After Liu Yu learned that Da Qin had made a fortune through maritime trade, he naturally arranged for a detail to be sent to Da Qin's maritime trade department as soon as possible. Firstly, he wanted to gather information and understand the specific process, and secondly, he also prepared for the future maritime trade between Shu and Han.

Although Ying Hao had expected this, hostile spies were like leeks, harvested one after another. Unless the unification was completely completed, no matter how many people were killed, they would send more people over, and there would always be one or two lucky ones who could. Escaped the interrogation of Black Ice Platform.

According to the information sent back by the Shu Han spies, Liu Yu learned that the transactions between Annan and Daqin were settled with ores, jewelry, furs, and herbs, and the proportion of real gold and silver was very low.

This is enough to prove that Annan is not as wealthy as Yingzhou. After all, if they were really rich, how could Ruan and Yue not use gold and silver to trade with Daqin?

Without real money, there would not be enough benefits to impress Liu Xiu. This is why Liu Yu said that Annan is a bird.

"Your Majesty, the value of a place does not have to be reflected in gold and silver. Just like Annan, this area actually has many hidden values."

Hearing Su Qin's words, Liu Yu quickly asked: "What about?"

"Annan has a mild climate and fertile land. As long as it can be fully developed, it will be a natural granary..."

Before Su Qin finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Yu with a disappointed look on his face: "Military advisor, you also said that the prerequisite for turning Annan into a granary is to fully develop it, but if you want to develop this wild land, not only It requires a huge investment of manpower and material resources, and it also takes a lot of time to develop, but this is no longer the case in the past.”

Liu Yu thought Su Qin had something to say, but he didn't expect that he just wanted Liu Xiu to develop Annan.

Regardless of whether Liu Xiu would invest resources in developing Annan, even if Ying Hao could, he would not give Liu Xiu time to develop it.

The Qin Dynasty will not stop the pace of unification, and the decisive battle between Qin and Han is imminent. At this time, wasting resources to develop Annan is not courting death.

Liu Yu didn't believe that Su Qin didn't understand this truth, but what he didn't expect was that Su Qin smiled calmly and said: "Your Majesty, the granary is only one of Annan's values. There is another more important value here, and it is this value that will Liu Yu couldn’t refuse.”

"What's the value?"

"The way back."

Of course Liu Yu knew the power of the word 'retreat', but his expression became extremely ugly. After all, if you win the decisive battle, you don't need a retreat, and you only need a retreat if you can't win. Su Qin The words are obviously full of pessimism about the future decisive battle.

In fact, not only Su Qin, but even Liu Yu himself didn't have much confidence, but he would not give up because of this. All he could do was rack his brains and improve his winning rate at any cost.

Before Su Qin proposed the retreat theory, it was not that Liu Yu had never thought about going into exile overseas after defeat and slowly making a comeback overseas, but he finally gave up this idea for two reasons:

First, in Liu Yu's view, even Yizhou's wealth could not defeat the Qin Dynasty, and it was even more impossible to exile to a barren overseas. There was no point in lingering like this.

Second, Liu Yu didn't want to be buried in another land after his death, and he couldn't even return his soul to his hometown.

Therefore, instead of dying in a disgraceful way overseas, it is better to die heroically in a decisive battle, which may leave a better evaluation in the history books.

If he still lost despite all his efforts, Liu Yu could accept such a result. After all, losing to Ying Hao wouldn't be a shame, but he couldn't accept that his mastermind Su Qin had lost confidence before the decisive battle started.

Su Qin saw that Liu Yu looked so ugly, and knew that his words had pointed him out. On the surface, he said that Annan was Chu's fallback, but in fact, he was using Chu to hurt Liu Yu.

The Chu State still has a way to retreat. If the Southern Barbarians cannot be destroyed, the Shu Han will not even have a way to retreat.

Su Qin had two purposes for doing this. One was to increase the sense of urgency in Liu Yu's heart, and the other was to make him change his attitude towards exile overseas, at least not be so resistant.

Su Qin had always known that as a warrior, Liu Yu's attitude towards decisive battles was to win or die. This was indeed a relief for him, but as a scholar, he didn't want Liu Yu to die like this.

After Ye Qingmei started the Age of Discovery, the widespread dissemination of the Wan Guo Kan Map made Su Qin know that the world outside China was equally vast. At the same time, he also realized that they were experiencing a great era that had not been seen in thousands of years, so naturally he did not want to be involved in this era. Exit hastily.

The reason why Liu Yu was unwilling to go into exile was because he saw no hope of coming back. However, in Su Qin's view, although the possibility of coming back was low, it was not without hope at all.

As long as there is hope, we must fight for it. Besides, the current Great Qin is the fire that was retained by the pre-Qin Dynasty but started a prairie fire four hundred years later!

Therefore, while Su Qin was helping Liu Yu plan to destroy the Southern Barbarians and prepare for the decisive battle between Qin and Han, he was also planning to go into exile overseas after the defeat to preserve the fire for the future revival of the Han Dynasty.

In his view, the Shu Han could perish, but the great cause of anti-Qin had to continue, and the fire had to be retained. And if it really came to the point where it had to withdraw from China and go into exile overseas, then Liu Yu would be indispensable as the backbone.

Therefore, Su Qin must dispel Liu Yu's idea of ​​​​death in order to ensure that after the defeat of Shu Han, he can establish a country again overseas and retain the spark of revival.

Liu Yu actually understands Su Qin's painstaking efforts, but he is a man whose heart is already riddled with holes. For him, dying to protect the country is the best relief. Shamelessly lingering is a kind of torture, but Su Qin In Liu Yu, even thinking about death is a luxury.

The reason why Su Qin doesn't make it clear now is that he hopes Liu Yu can figure it out on his own, otherwise he can only use the righteousness of the country and his ancestors to carry out moral kidnapping, and this is still called pua in later generations; Shu Han is now in a good situation and is in exile. Overseas is still a bit far away, and if the Southern Barbarians cannot be destroyed, the Shu Han who has no way out will not even be able to go into exile overseas. Therefore, for the Shu Han, the top priority is to solve the immediate trouble of the Southern Barbarians.

"Military advisor, will Liu Xiuzhen capture Annan just because of the word 'retreat'?"

Liu Yu believed that he knew Liu Xiu very well. Given Liu Xiu's disdainful attitude towards overseas affairs, he should have similar ideas to him. Instead of living in exile overseas, it would be better to die heroically in China to gain fame in life and death.

I have to say that Liu Yu was quite right about Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu was a person who cherished his reputation very much. Otherwise, he would not have broken his defense due to the rumors with Cao Ying and let him live in exile overseas after the country's collapse. Might as well let him die.

But after hearing Liu Yu's words, Su Qin smiled lightly. Although he didn't make any reply, it was more silent than loud, and Liu Yu also became silent.

Yes, just like here, if the country is really reduced to the point of subjugation, there will definitely be a lot of people under Liu Yu who are not willing to let him die in battle, and they will kidnap him and take him overseas to establish a separate Chu Kingdom.

Liu Yu originally thought that it was enough that he could not help himself because he was forced to endure hardships in order to avenge his shame, but until this moment, he had a deeper understanding of the word "uncontrollable".

It is one thing to be passive and unable to control yourself, but it is another thing to be active and unable to control yourself.

Liu Yu shook his head violently. After dispelling the distracting thoughts in his heart, he realized that if it was true as Su Qin said, leaving the exile overseas for the time being, but if the Chu State really captured Annan with all its strength, the Shu Han's certainty of destroying the Southern Barbarians would be greatly improved.

As long as the Shu Han can destroy the Southern Barbarians, the two major regions of Siam and Hongwasha will also completely open their doors to the Shu Han. By then, whether it is trading with them or directly sending troops to plunder, the comprehensive national strength of the Shu Han will be greatly improved.

If the Shu and Han Dynasties really come to this point, and then jointly occupy the Chu State in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, they may not be able to compete with the Qin Dynasty that destroyed the Wei, Song, and Ming Dynasties in the direction of the Yangtze River.

At this thought, Liu Yu's eyes became brighter and brighter. Although he would rather die than go into exile overseas, if leaving a "fallback path" can strengthen himself and improve the victory rate in the decisive battle, he naturally doesn't mind leaving a way for himself to never die. Enabled back roads.

"The military advisor is truly a god. One word made me enlightened."

After saying this, Liu Yu repeated the plan proposed by Lu Pheasant to Su Qin.

After Su Qin heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and said: "Concubine Lu, this plan is very clever. If you can improve it, it can at least increase our army's chance of winning by 10%."

Even Su Qin had to admit that Lu Pheasant directly attacked Chi You's character weakness, which even he did not expect.

On the surface, although Lu Pheasant's plan is a bit crude, it is not certain whether it will succeed or not, but if it is actually implemented, Su Qin will definitely improve it to maximize the possibility of success.

Hearing what Su Qin said, Liu Yu was relieved. Now he had at least a 70% chance of winning.

As long as Chi You, a powerful enemy, was still there, even if Da Qin did not directly send troops to intervene, Liu Yu would only be 50% sure of destroying the Southern Barbarians at most.

But if the Chu State captured the Annan coast and cut off Great Qin's material support, then he would be 60% sure.

If Su Qin's perfected Lu Pheasant's plan is added to it, and if it is successfully implemented and the chance of winning increases by 10%, it will be 70%.

There is never a 100% winning battle in the world, and the probability of 70% is already quite high. If this fails to defeat Chi You and destroy the Southern Barbarians, then Liu Yu will have no shame in competing with Ying Hao.

"Chi You, I won't give you another chance this time."

Looking at Liu Yu who was full of fighting spirit on his face, Su Qin felt a little guilty. He actually wanted to increase Shu Han's winning rate, but there were only so many cards he could play, so he could only do this to this extent.

As the saying goes: Those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough to plan for a region.

Su Qin is undoubtedly the one who plans the overall situation. However, Shu Han does not have many trump cards available. Therefore, even if he counts Qin, Chu, Shu and other forces, and even overseas forces, he can only bring 70% to Shu Han. Winning rate, this is not counting the variables after the actual implementation.

Su Qin knew that the plan was completed early, but as long as Ying Hao intervened, variables were bound to occur, but he had no way to do it. All he could do was reduce the risk coefficient of the variables.

"Your Majesty, the envoy from Cao Wei is about to arrive. Cao Cao sent another envoy. He was afraid that he would be dissatisfied with us for detaining Cao Ying, so he sent someone to protest." Su Qin said with a smile.

"Cao Cao is too busy taking care of himself right now. Although we don't need to pay attention to it, it won't sound good if word spreads about forcing someone else's daughter to marry someone else's daughter. It's better to send Cao Ying to Chu State before Cao Wei's envoys arrive."

It has to be said that Liu Yu wanted all the benefits, such as half of the proceeds from Chu's sending troops to Yingzhou, but he didn't want the disadvantages at all, such as detaining the infamy of Wei's envoy Cao Ying.

If Cao Ying is sent out before Cao Wei's envoys arrive, it will not be Liu Yu's responsibility. Whoever marries Cao Ying in the future and who Cao Wei goes to, even if there will be disputes, all the infamy will be borne by Liu Xiu.

Of course, Liu Xiu was well aware of this, but the hidden benefits of marrying Cao Ying were too great. Although there might be some hidden dangers, they were nothing to him, so he could only express his disapproval. While scolding Liu Yu, he cooperated honestly.