There is no luck in the battle between countries. It is nothing more than accumulating small things and big things together, a rapid or slow brewing process, and then forming the final trend.

Even if a certain monarch dies of illness, isn’t there any reason to “worry becomes illness”? Why worry is definitely because the national situation is not good. Think about it, why it is not good? It is more or less related to external troubles.

So, Lu Wu didn't believe in luck, and he was a little confused when facing the saying of luck.

"Do you have any experiences when you go to Chu?" The person Lu Wu asked was Lu Yang.

Since four years ago... no, it should be five years ago. Lu Yang left the country five years ago, and there were many vassal states, including South Korea, Qi and Chu, among which Chu had been staying for two years.

During that period, Lu Yang went wherever he met someone, did something, and recorded everything he did, and then reported to Lu Wu.

During Lu Yang's travels, it was not without danger. As long as it was not done by a certain force, it was generally handled by Lu Yang and others themselves.

In fact, Lu Wu "exiled" Lu Yang in order to let the eldest son appreciate the various aspects of the world. Sending someone to secretly protect him is a necessary measure. If everything is completely blocked, there will be no taste of experience.

In these days, traveling around is not a simple thing. There are not too many wild animals in the wilderness. Besides, the medical technology is too backward, which leads to minor illnesses that will lead to serious illnesses and death. In short, even if there is no force to deliberately target them, traveling will still be full of various risks.

After five years of travel, even though Lu Yang had not lived a life of soaking in a honeypot before, everything outside still left enough traces on him.

It is inevitable that the skin is tanned and rough, so that at the age of 41, it looks like it is in its fifties. It is only one aspect that it looks old, and it can also be seen that it has experienced all the vicissitudes of life in its temperament.

Now let Lu Wu and Lu Yang be side by side and ask strangers what the relationship is. The result is that the facial features of the father and son are very similar. The most likely answer will be that Lu Yang is Lu Wu's elder brother.

Lu Wu was fifty-seven years old in 539 BC, which means that Lu Yang was born when Lu Wu was sixteen. To be honest, the age difference between father and son is a bit small, which is very unfavorable to the inheritance of the country.

Of course, Lu Yang, who had just returned to China, just looked old and had no physical problems. After a little care, he could always erase some traces of time.

There is something that Lu Wu has always been healthy and healthy. His children are also very healthy. The girls in the harem are also healthy. Over the past forty years, the whole family is alive.

The family is neat and the third generation looks extremely healthy, but in fact it is a miracle at present.

Looking at the other families, no matter how good the conditions are, the baby will die, or the elders are plagued by illness early. Over-interpretation of the situation of the Han family's family will definitely give you something. If you want to play tricks on some magical things, it is really not too simple.

Lu Wu felt that he could live to at least 80 years old or even become a "human auspicious person". As he got older, some worries inevitably arise.

Isn’t there such a saying? Who is shouting? Anyway, it’s the saying “How can there be a prince for thirty years in the world”?

Even the emperor is a father. After hearing what his son said, he must be more sad than angry.

Lu Wu was worried that if he lived long enough, would he live annoying life, would the crown prince he appointed say the same thing, or would cause his son to rebel against his father.

"The child is in Chu, traveling along the river, south to Yang Yue..." Lu Yang was slowly telling.

The territory of Chu State is very large, occupying part of Ba land to the west, the south to the surrounding Dongting Lake in later generations, the east is the sea that drove the Wu court away and then went to the exit of the river, and the north is almost forcing the "Xinzheng" to the nose.

According to Lu Yang's story, the Chu State has a large territory, but its settlements are relatively concentrated. Most cities are concentrated in the middle and upper reaches of the river, as well as some areas with abundant water resources such as the Han River and Qingfashui, and more other places are deserted.

Because there are too many river galaxies in the Chu State, land transportation seems very inconvenient, which is of great benefit to farming.

Previously, the largest grain-producing area of ​​Chu was around the Han River. However, when Lu Wu was still Yuanrong of Jin, he marched to attack the northwest border of Chu, slowly forcing Chu to develop other grain-producing areas, which was a bit of a trend towards developing along the river.

After several years, the farming around the Han River has been restored. If Chu State goes to the river to reclaim the river, it will be more difficult for Chu State to use a long battle to drag down the Chu State.

"The child saw that the Chu people were evasive and moved to the 'Jiuzi' and had already started to reclaim the matter. The person who was in charge was Gongzi Pingxia. Gongzi Pingxia was lured and killed, and he became Gongzi Lu." Lu said.

How could these things be possible to escape from the spies from the Han Dynasty? That is, the central officials such as Lu Wu had known about them for a long time, and the intelligence was more detailed than the oral part of Lu Yang.

That young master Lu is the eldest son of the new Chu King Xiong Wei. If nothing unexpected happens, he will become the crown prince of Chu. It is still unknown whether he can succeed to the throne.

"Reclaim the land of 'Juzi'?" Lu Wu remembered correctly. That was one of the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which was the Suzhou Plain in later generations.

It is always said that the Xia Dynasty is vast and the vast variety of things is very empty. In the feudal era, there are actually very few plains that can be used as grain-producing areas.

Until the Industrial Age, even after the Industrial Age, the various resources of Zhuxia were not considered abundant, especially the various mountains were so numerous that it caused great difficulties in various construction and development.

To put it bluntly, even if there are any precious resources in a certain place, can there be no road to transport them? If you can't transport them, no matter how precious resources are, they cannot be cashed in. In fact, they are just piled up there.

Zhuxia is a mountainous terrain, and building roads will be extremely difficult. The investment cost before gaining something will be exaggerated.

Lu Wu now has a large territory. Before he could achieve "great unification", he deeply felt the malice brought by the terrain, deeply felt the fragility of rule, and speculated how amazing the cost of maintaining rule would be.

The central court has prestige and can convince the public, maintain the centripetal force in people's hearts, and has a stable society. Even in this way, the dominance seems fragile. Once people's minds change, they will immediately become the "Son of the Capital" trapped in the city.

Therefore, it is a joke in Zhuxia that he wants to rely solely on violence to maintain his rule, so he has repeatedly emphasized the importance of justification or expectations. Of course, the reason is that he is limited by transportation factors!

"In your opinion, how many years will it take for Chu State to reclaim?" Lu Wu asked.

It is not easy to develop a place from scratch. Even if you use national power and do not have a reasonable development plan, and a team that can do things will become more and more mistakes.

Lu Yang replied: "The terrain of 'Juzi' is smooth, and there are many water systems in the area, so it is very easy to cultivate. If the Gongzi Lu does not act recklessly, it will be five years faster, and it will be eight years later?"

That said, it doesn't take too long.

Originally, it was a bit difficult to drag down the Chu State. Whether there is an additional grain-producing area is actually not a big difference.

Lu Wu never thought of using a drag-down method to solve the Chu State. Even if he was not familiar with the Spring and Autumn Period, could he not know that Chu State was a country that could not cross the supply of food and fodder?

The fact is the same. No matter in the Spring and Autumn Period or to the Warring States Period, no records of the Chu army's shortage of food were seen in any historical book.

In history, Qin State tried to drag down Chu State, but Qin State itself was almost dragged down. It realized that Qin State, which could not be dragged across Chu State, took the risk and chose to do his best to fight.

Lu Wu needs to be grateful now that the territory of Xu and Zhongwu did not fall into the hands of Chu.

Once the State of Xu and Zhongwu became the territory of Chu, the State of Chu was clearly aware of the need to increase the grain production area, and the Sishui area was developed into a granary. In the future, it was unknown how many times the difficulty of the Han Dynasty to defeat the State of Chu was increased.

Lu Yang also mentioned the powerful and powerful people of Chu.

During the period when Jin State was still the hegemon of the Central Plains, the Zhou royal family divided the feudal states into one system, Chu State formed its own system, and Wu State's system was very similar to Chu State.

The power structure of the various countries in the Zhou royal camp is probably divided into one country's kings, public clans, nobles, and kings of one country cannot and cannot kill the nobles at will. The two sides are in a state of balance.

The Chu and Wu were the kings of a country like "slave owners", and everything else under the rule was "slaves". The king would kill whoever he wanted, and there was no restraint for what he wanted.

Therefore, the former Duke Jing of Jin wanted to kill the Zhao family and needed to make arrangements, and then he spent his time to win over the other families. If the King of Chu wanted to kill his Lingyin, he could pull the Lingyin out and chop it out with an order, and then liquidate the Lingyin family, so how could it be so troublesome?

Perhaps it was because the State of Chu had exchanged more with the Central Plains, and it might have been because of the weakening of the State of Chu. Anyway, the "monarchy" was greatly weakened, and local aristocrats showed a tendency to jointly protect themselves.

"When King Xin of Chu was in rebellion, the child happened to be in 'Ying' and saw the Chu nobles running away overnight with their own eyes." Lu Yang said.

Can escape be called a feat? How big should it be?

Lu Wu had related situations. That night, the capital of Chu State, "Ying" and his family escaped, and there were no less than a hundred nobles. The head of the family, relatives, guards, and entourages were hundreds of, which made "Ying", which had originally squeezed more than 60,000 people, only a little more than 30,000 people left after one night.

"These nobles returned to their fiefdoms and recruited soldiers, cutting off the road and not allowing their families to travel back and forth. The situation is harsh," said Lu Yang.

The State of Chu was in the "public political stage". More than 80% of the nobles were actually descendants of a certain generation of Chu kings. Only a very small number of nobles were awarded titles for their merits, and even a few of the nobles were the surviving tribes that were annexed.

For example, Yang Youji, the world's number one archer, is a descendant of the Yang country's public clan.

Although Yang Yuji is very awesome, from the handling of King Gong of Chu, Chu State has a very average trust in the undefeated tribes. No matter how awesome it is, it is just a "thug" character, and it is impossible to hold power at all.

Xiong Wei did the matter of killing the throne, but he was not the first Xiong family surnamed Mi to do this.

Not the first person to take the lead. He was so scared that a group of relatives ran home to play "build a village to protect themselves". Can it indirectly prove that the conflict between the Duke of Chu is extremely sharp?

Lu Wu thought: "How did Qu, Jing, Zhao gain power in history, and even control the change of the throne?"

Now there are Qu, Jing and Zhao clans that appear before decades or more than a hundred years.

The "finance of the king" stage of Chu State began with the rule of Qu, Jing and Zhao. Although the current Cheng, Ruoao family (Dou family) are powerful, I don't know if I have the courage to play other fun things?

The Qin unification did not rely solely on force, and many of them were used to bribe and discord.

What Lu Wu was more distressed was that even if the Han Dynasty was willing to move out the mountains of gold and silver to buy, there were probably only a few nobles from all countries who were willing to collect money.

To put it bluntly, it is not that the current aristocrats are very well-managed, they want land and population.

After the Warring States Period, with the progress of the times, many things changed. Some of the original "poor families" could also hold power, and the ideas of the nobles of the high families changed, making money more and more useful.

"Xun Chen's army was at Hukou, so that I needed to advance to the Lu family with a large army. I heard that King Xun sent troops to the 'Handan'. If Zhao came to ask for help, what would the prince think?" Lu Wu asked.

This "Hukou" has become an important pass for Xun to resist the Han Dynasty. It uses the Taihang Mountains as a barrier and establishes a pass to cut off traffic routes.

Previously, the Han family replaced the Quwo clan, and Zhao from Handan became a Korean noble.

Seeing that South Korea has been in name only, it has not been a year or two for the Bank of China that Wu targeted "Handan" for a year or two. He first stationed 30,000 troops in "Hukou" and later sent people to ask Handan Zhao to give up "Handan".

"Handan" is the old nest that Handan Zhao has been operating for nearly a hundred years. They have no other fiefdoms except "Handan". Moving away from "Handan" will definitely cause damage. After leaving the old nest, they will also give their lives to others.

Handan Zhao has the "Handan" solid city as a support, and the Han Dynasty can count on it. Will he be willing to not even struggle for a moment and hand over "Handan" to accept his fate?

Lu Yang asked: "How many soldiers are there in Handan Zhao?"

He did not immediately ask for giving up or support. He first asked how long Zhao of Handan could last. He could at least be able to maintain his success by becoming the king of a country.

How many troops are there in Zhao in Handan? If it were someone else, it might not be possible to answer. Lu Wu, who had been "looking at all directions and listening to the six directions", could have made a general idea even if he did not have accurate numbers.

"There are about three 'teachers'." Lu Wu said.

One Handan Zhao has three "departments" of troops? It depends on how long they have been insufficiency and how much they are willing to fight forever at any cost when facing the stage of life and death.

One of Lu Yang's mothers was a woman from Zhao from Handan. She thought of many things in an instant, such as whether she could let the descendants of Zhao from Handan play "replace them".
Chapter completed!