When Master Ying heard this, his eyes lit up and he felt like he had realized something.

In fact, after gunpowder is born, if the experience accumulated with blood is not quickly overcome after the detours, nomads will soon change from the so-called "full of martial ethics" to "being able to sing and dancing."

Of course, it is not just nomads, but also the original settlements of hair-breaking tattoos in more backward areas.

This was deeply felt when the Mohist family defended Gaoliu, planned the South China Sea, and the Qin State went west to conquer Yuezhi, Yiqu and Western Qiang.

For example, when Qin attacked the west, more than a hundred soldiers holding muskets and combined with the improved chariot formation that can be fought and taken, more than a thousand Yiqu people who rode horses and controlled strings and used bone arrows could do nothing.

After immigration, most people captured "slaves", occupied the land, reclaimed and lived, or were directly enfeoffed, and could maintain colonial rule by relying on more than a hundred people.

For Qin, there is indeed a profit in trade to the west, but compared to the temptation of the Central Plains, it is undoubtedly greater in the Central Plains.

Wu Qi's intention was to say that Qin wanted to be a two-headed falcon, and on one hand, he had to keep a backhand to explore the west.

Anyway, it is not a great achievement to explore the west at this time. The weapons and tactics and even the logistics population are crushed. Using muskets to conquer the tribes without stirrups and iron tools. Even if they have a thousand miles of land, they may be just a masterpiece of five major officials, and they are still a distance from the eldest son of the Qing.

It is not only a way to save it, but also to gain more land population.

You can slowly draw it to the west, but you need a thunder strike to stabilize the situation.

Qin must first obtain the Xihe River before considering the matter of dominance.

Without Xihe, Qin State had no strategic space. Any big battle could be a defeat for destroying the country. Therefore, even if later generations enter Shu, they must first seek Xihe as a buffer.

When Qin was weak before, he did not consider the matter after seizing Xihe.

However, as the reform deepened and the national strength became stronger, the Qin monarchs and ministers finally realized the aversion to the Mohist plan twenty years in advance.

If Qin wanted to dominate the world, he had to first get the Xihe River, then seize Hanzhong, and find an opportunity to enter Shu, so that he could have a steady stream of military, financial, manpower and material resources to support the long-term war east of the Xihe River.

The problem is that if you cannot get the Xihe River, you dare not enter Shu with all your might; but when you have the ability to get the Xihe River, the Mohist school took the lead and got stuck in Hanzhong.

The disgusting thing about this move for Qin is that if you get the Xihe River, your relationship with the Three Jins will inevitably be tense. At this time, you will get into Hanzhong and you will get into evil with the Mo family. In Xihe, you will fight against the Three Jins, and with the Mo family, you will be seeking death.

If the troops go out of Xihe, they must make good friends with the Mo family. There is no doubt about this. Even if they know that the Mo family made Qin the Wu country of the past, they still have to make friends. Not having friends means that the Three Jins do not need to face the pressure of fighting on both sides and fighting in Xihe with all their might, which is something that Qin cannot deal with now.

In other words... the Mo family blocked the Qin Dynasty's way of unifying the world and allowed them to be regional overlords.

Either, we will explore the land outside the Xia Dynasty to the west; or we will go east and become a chess piece that restrains the Three Jins. If we lose the strategic direction of going south to Bashu, we will lose the capital to win the world.

Shu is the best strategic rear of Qin after the reform, especially Dujiangyan was built in advance, and this was even more so after the introduction of iron and agricultural tools and new planting methods into Shu, but it seems that there is no hope now.

Wu Qi had already seen this clearly, but seeing it clearly and having the power to solve it is not the same thing.

If the Xihe River is not obtained, the Qin State will never be able to seek the world. The Xihe River will be taken away to leave a buffer for the Guanzhong Plain and not be able to destroy the country if it fails in a battle.

But if you seize the Xihe River, it would be equivalent to having a good relationship with the Mo family within at least twenty or even fifty years to deal with the counterattack of the Three Jins. You can only watch the Mo family make efforts from Hanzhong to continue to penetrate Bashu and cut off the opportunity of Qin to win the world. You can only be a overlord like Xibohou.

Therefore, Wu Qi said that while he was planning to the west, he could not forget to go west, which was to break a way for the future of Qin State, and a way for the Mohist family to fail, if the Mohist family was so powerful that it could not be restricted.

Those who are prepared for any trouble, plan ahead, and are good at planning the country should do this.

When Wu Qi saw Qin Jun pondering, he said, "As a general, one must not ignore the trend of mountains, rivers and geography; a emperor, one must not ignore the profoundness."

"So, you can dominate the east, you can dominate the south, and you can take a long time to go to the west."

"However, if you can't even dominate the lord, how can you dominate the world? If you want to dominate first, it will be difficult to dominate one."

How can these strategic things be unclear as the king of a country? Wu Qi’s differences with the Marquis of Wei back then were because of strategic issues. Should we maintain the domineering situation of the Wei State in multi-line combat or participate in the Central Plains to resolve the disputes in the Western Qin first?

As time goes by, Wu Qi once again proposed his own strategy.

In history, he was in charge of the State of Chu and did a similar job. He went south to find Cangwu, Cangwu, and established a stable rear for the State of Chu. Then he hurriedly planned to seek the Central Plains.

This time he expressed his opinion, and Qin Jun sighed: "As you said, I don't know how many years it will take."

Wu Qi understood Qin Jun's sigh and said, "When the world changes, we will change. Friends today are enemies tomorrow; enemies today may not be able to be friends tomorrow. The world is united, and it is afraid that it will not be a matter of one day or one night."

After entering Qin, he naturally studied the mountains and geography of Qin. The Mohist family occupied Nanzheng and had a lot of trade with Qinchuan. Moreover, before the Mohist family entered Nanzheng, Qin and Shu had been fighting around Hanzhong for decades. How could they not know the power of Qinchuan and Bashu?

From the perspective of Wuqi, there are actually four roads now when Hanzhong enters Sichuan.

Three of them cannot be understood.

Ziwu Valley Road has existed since ancient times. Zhang Yi once said that a single army blocked Wu Dao. When King Wu attacked Zhou, the Ba people also went to the alliance through Wu Dao.

This road cannot be understood. As long as the Mo family defends Hanzhong, with the Mo family's technique of defending the city, there will be no useless people and no way to take over Nanzheng, and many people will be blocked.

Chen Cang Road and Baogu Road, these two roads are also impossible to break, at least it is impossible now. The road is steep and the Mohist school is good at guarding it.

The only thing left is to enter Sichuan through Wudu at this time, which is Longnan Longyou in later generations, which is probably the Yinping Road where Deng Ai entered Sichuan in later generations.

That was the only way to bypass Hanzhong and raid Bashu, otherwise you would have to fight hard at several passes guarded by the Qinling Mountains and the Mo family.

The so-called "Looking for the greed and looking for Shu" is the reason that if you want to look for Shu, you will have to gain greed, which means you have to continue to expand westward.

The Qin State has been heading west over the years, crushing the barbarians and making a lot of profits, but Wu Qi felt that it was not enough.

The Qin State has two administrative divisions: "county" and "dao". County is the basic base of direct jurisdiction, and Tao is similar to colonies. The so-called county has barbarians, which means that it is Tao.

Going west, there are two more directions.

One is that with the increasing importance of trade, the power of Qin has penetrated there and there have been many immigrants.

Today, the second largest ancient siege, Zhuye Lake, is still there, and the rivers have not yet dried up. Irrigation agriculture can develop there. With the westward trade, there is gradually becoming more civilized.

Another direction is to follow the western expedition of Duke Mu of Qin and explore Longxi and Longnan. The Qin State had already set up some counties and roads here, with the foundation laid by the Duke Mu of Qin and its development was quite good.

Going northwest and passing the Hexi Corridor is both for trade and for leaving a way for the Qin State... Since the ancestors of the Qin people could migrate here from Shandong, if the world is really difficult to accommodate in the future, the Qin people can also continue to migrate west along this road and seek another country to be enfeoffed.

Going southwest is to wait for Wu Qi’s so-called opportunity to “change the world and the whole world”, that is, to conquer Shu and get Bashu. Although the opportunity seems a little slim now.

But after all, you have to prepare early.

If one day I really turn against the Mo family, then you can raid through Ziwu Road, Baogu Road and other channels, or find a way to enter Shu directly from Longnan.

The purpose of Emperor Shu to conferred the Mo family in Nanzheng is obvious.

It is quite similar to the mentality of Emperor Shu in history that he conferred the country of Zhu.

First, there was constant struggle between Ba and Shu, and Qin fought for Hanzhong and Shu for decades, which made the Shu emperor unable to defend Hanzhong at all. He had to hand it over to the Mo family and got married in order to guard the northern gate.

Second, the Mohist family's power in Shu became increasingly powerful and its reputation became increasingly high, which inevitably involved the inheritance rights of some nobles. Shu was also a closed country. With such an external force that was digging wells, salt, and trading mercury and mining, Xiujiangyan, must find a way to throw it outside to avoid internal accidents.

The relationship between Shu and the Mohist families in Hanzhong is very delicate. The people of the Mohist families in Hanzhong often conquered some small barbarian countries around them, and they did a good job in guarding the northern gate.

But... Shu Kingdom was also very worried about the Mohist family in Hanzhong.

Later generations had the plan of Shiniu and the story of Wu Dings opening the mountain. In fact, the Shiniu Road had already existed, but it was not suitable for large army access, because after all, Shu had fought several battles with Qin around Nanzheng, and it also involved the involvement of Bashu and Shu who participated in the attack on King Wu of the attack on Zhou, and this path had long existed.

Now the Mohist school is repairing the Shiniu Road, which is not called Shiniu Road at this time, on the grounds of "convenient trade", which makes Shu very uneasy. Shu itself is a country of worship of witchcraft. With the infiltration of Central Plains culture, the people who went there are also one of the most advanced people in Central Plains culture. They have grasped cultural advantages and financial advantages, and have the hearts of the people. With the spread of some Mohist theories, it is impossible for Shu to not worry.

This is also an important reason why Wu Qi believes that it should develop both east and west.

Going to the east to the west was the first step for Qin to dominate and even participate in the Central Plains.

Northwest, passing through the Hexi Corridor, it is the trade road and the wealth path of Qin's treasury.

It is also if one day the Central Plains unify Qin and migrate westward to the Western Regions to create a way out for the future. At that day, at least one would have to establish a country westward and seize the county named Baktra, which was rumored to be rich and powerful to the Central Plains.

Going southwest, the Longxi and Longnan are managed in order to see if one day the opportunity comes. Once the time comes, Qin can directly enter Shu and cut off Hanzhong, thereby gaining the back of the whole world.
Chapter completed!