Shengchuo, who had been silent, suddenly asked after hearing Wu Qi's words: "If... if the Mo family had completed the road from Nanzheng to Pingzhou first, what would it be like?"

Pingzhou refers to a vassal state between Shu and Nanzheng. It is not orthodox. It should be called a square state rather than a prince. It was built by Emperor Yan. It was mostly in Guangyuan in later generations, which is the only way from Hanzhong to Chengdu Plain.

There is no stone ox road at this time, and Pingzhou is still a Fang country. If the Mo family in Nanzheng built the road from Hanzhong to Guangyuan, Qin would probably lose the opportunity to seize Shu.

When Wu Qi heard this, he chuckled and said, "In the past, when Shang Tang established the country, he might have known about King Wu's attack on Zhou. When Fuchai destroyed Yue, he might have known about sleeping on firewood and tasting gall? When Goujian tasted gall in the past, could he be sure that he would definitely swallow Wu in the future?"

"If the Mo family has Bashu, Si Shang, or even destroy Chu, then the general situation has been achieved and unstoppable. If there is more planning at that time, what's the use of?"

"So I said, we have to wait for the world to change to have a glimmer of hope. If there is change in the world, the Mo family will not be able to seize Shu, but we have no soldiers in Longnan. Wouldn't we regret it then?"

"If there is any change in the world, the Mo family will be forced to Taihang in the south of Shu and Chu in the north of us. At that time, we will have no power west of Zhuyeze, and there will be no land to move the ancestral temples, and there will be no land to be the king. Wouldn't we regret it then?"

"For the matter now, we can only seize the Xihe first and then plan to Bashu, so as to wait for the future."

"As far as the lord says, if Qin wants to dominate, he must first take the Xihe River. If he wants to take the Xihe River, the best time is within ten years. One way, the ministers of the emperor and the emperor are all outstanding, and the other way, the ministers are like the lords... We are old and the emperor is still strong. If we die, who will the prince dare to use to take the Xihe River?"

That letter asked people's hearts and said some secret and unwritten so-called "imperial mind skills" as a very common thing.

Ying Shijian nodded and said, "It should be like this. In the battle of Yinyang, 50,000 soldiers of Wei Han were destroyed. The weak state of Wei can be seen."

"At that time, there were tens of thousands of soldiers in Wuluo River, and Qin State was shivering and trembling from left to right. Looking at the current state of Wei State, there was no power of the past."

"If you want to get the West River, you will rely on your achievements."

After saying that, he glanced at Wu Qi, and wanted to speak but stopped.

When Wu Qi fled to Qin, he once said that if he did not die, he would never personally lead troops to attack the Xihe martial soldiers whom he had worked hard to train.

This is a kind of commitment, a unique feeling for scholars. He traveled and worked as a hostage in the Central Plains for a long time, and he could understand this kind of sentiment of scholars.

Otherwise, he would not have gathered these heroes of the time.

Wu Qi felt the gaze of Qin, stood up and sighed, "Since I entered Qin, I have known that there will be a battle in Xihe. The martial soldiers of Xihe will be soldiers for life unless they are old and cannot hold weapons. I have only been in Qin for a few years, and the old soldiers are still there."

He sighed and looked at the pillars of the palace, as if he recalled something that had happened a long time ago.

After a while, he said, "In the past, I was in charge of Xihe and was the general of Xihe. I wore the same clothes and ate the same food as the lowest-class soldiers. I did not lay the mattress when I marching, did not ride horses and carriages, and I personally carried the tied grain and shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers."

"There was a soldier who had a vicious poisonous sore, and I used my mouth to suck the pus for him."

"But when the soldier's mother heard about it, she burst into tears. Someone said: Your son is an unknown man, but the general sucks the pus for him personally. Why are you still crying?"

This is fashionable and few people know about it. Even the Qin State, which has been reformed, is still a bit shocking.

Even if the reforms are made, hundreds of years of customs are not so easily subverted, and the innate inequality and hierarchy between people are deeply rooted in people's hearts, and it is not so easily obliterated.

Many ministers looked at Wu Qi in surprise, feeling quite incredible. The commander of the first army, who is also a figure like a noble official, could he absorb poisonous sores from the bottom private soldiers?

Wu Qi closed his eyes halfway, raised his head, as if recalling the things he didn't want to recall, and said for a long time: "The mother replied: It's not like that. In previous years, Wu Qi sucked poison sores for his father, and his father went forward bravely on the battlefield and died at the hands of the enemy. Now he sucked poison sores for my son again, and I don't know how he would die, so I cried to him."

No one expected this to be the result. Even Master Ying was watching Wu Qi blankly, recalling what the old mother said, her heart finally felt soft.

These people may have killed many people for a certain purpose. Qin State reformed hundreds of heads and were killed by the river, but that was just a number.

When these very concrete words form images in their minds, they are heavier than the hundreds of heads cut down.

Wu Qi did not look at the expressions of everyone, but just smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "This is my method of training troops. As the Mohist school said, I do have the intention of 'use people' rather than 'loving people'."

"But...but after all, I don't want me to take my former enemies to slaughter the Xihe Wushu. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers who are like those who have been sucked by me. I don't want to kill them and defeat them with my own hands."

This is the persistence of scholars.

Just like when he killed many people for one word, this is the sentiment and character of scholars. If you don’t do it, you won’t do it.

Wu Qi knew very well what kind of person he was. I would not come back in order to make a bad fortune. My mother did not go back to mourn even if she died. In order to achieve success and fame, she could not be taken seriously by Wei and become the great enemy of Wei. In a blink of an eye, she could join the Qin State, the great enemy of Wei State...

He knew that he was not a "good person" and knew that sucking poison sores for the soldier was for "use" rather than "love".

But this did not prevent him from sticking to his original promise.

Qin Jun felt that Wu Qi was the only one to conquer Xihe, but he didn't expect Wu Qi to directly refuse.

Just as he was about to say something, Wu Qi said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. Judging from the situation of the Battle of Yinyang and my understanding of the Wushou, the new Qin army is enough to defeat the Xihe soldiers."

"My talent is to become a general and become a prime minister. Sun Wuzi said that those who are good at fighting have no great achievements. In the past, when I entered Qin through Si Shang and looked at the situation of Si Shang, I figured out one thing... The victory or defeat of the war is now and internal affairs, later on the military system, and finally on the battlefield. Now the military system has been changed and the reform has begun to be completed. As long as I am not a mediocre person, I can seize the Xihe City in a few years."

He might be afraid that Qin Jun would not believe it, so he said solemnly: "Like the Battle of Yinyang, where is the victory of Chu State?"

Of course, everyone knew the entire situation of the Battle of Yinyang. In the past, it might have been heard of it, but since the rise of the Mohist school, every battle will restore the tactics of the time in the newspaper to avoid those who only talk about strategy but not tactics.

If you understand people, you will naturally understand.

Everyone thought for a while, Shengchuo understood first and nodded, "This is what you say. In the Battle of Yinyang, the Chu people won within a quarter of an hour. The reserve team could march to the left wing and unfold, blocking the Wei Han Pythagorean formation."

"In other words, we won the discipline, training, and military formation of the new army of Chu. If there were no such training system, what would it be if Sima Chu made a decision at that time?"

Qin Jun suddenly realized and thought about it again, and felt it was more reasonable.

Yes, if the Chu State was not a new military system, but a heavy insurgent formation or an older chariot and soldiers formation, in that case, not to mention a quarter of an hour, how could it be possible to block the left wing in half an hour? If the left wing could not be blocked in half an hour, even if the Mo family's cavalry raided the Wei State side, the loss would be the Mo Chu coalition.

The State of Chu won by those Mo who helped Chu train the new army, and won by the ten years of hard work before the Battle of Yinyang, rather than winning in that battle that only half a day.

Wu Qi's words were already very clear. In this situation, as long as Qin wants to regain the Xihe River and make steady progress, at least it can move forward a hundred miles, so that the front line will no longer be the last Weishui and Beiluo River.

Slowly, every time Qin takes a piece of Wei land, Qin becomes stronger and Wei becomes weaker. By the time of the decisive battle, Wei is no longer able to fight back.

For Qin, after the reform, every time a place was captured, the local people could soon be converted into the population, soldiers, logistics, and farmers who produce food in Qin.

Wei State... I'm afraid it's not possible, because Wei State does not have an opportunity to completely clean up the nobles. Foreign enemies are eyeing each other and are surrounded on all sides. It is better to burn it to Lutai if you dare to deepen reforms under this situation.

Wu Qi looked at Shengchuo and bowed to Qin Jun and said, "In the past, Shengchuo fought with me, but he had the ability to resolve the situation. Attacking Wei is no problem. Although Gongshuzhuo had the wisdom of the court, he had no ability to be a general. Our army was steady and steady, three miles today and five miles tomorrow, and we were exhausted from the Wei people."

"The Wei people were newly defeated by Yinyang and dared not fight to the decisive battle because there was still Mo and Zhao Hushi could only give in. A few years later, when Wei was exhausted, he could win in one battle."

He gave the merits of Xihe to Shengchuo.

Sheng Chuo was happy, and Wu Qi said again: "Your Majesty, since I talk about the matter of advancing west, it is better to hand over the matter of advancing west to me."

The Western Expedition is not a simple military issue.

It also involves some issues such as internal affairs, taxation, systems, laws, colonial policies, assimilation, etc.

If the Western Expedition is based on military analysis, it is only the result of the five major officials. However, if the western part is transformed into the depth and territory of Qin, one must “go from generals and prime ministers” to be able to be talented.

Moreover, the deep-rooted nobles cannot be killed.

Looking at the court, there is no better candidate for those who can capture military, internal affairs, taxes, systems, laws and regulations.

It is not difficult to drive a thousand miles westward.

The difficulty is that the thousand miles of land can be transformed into the Qin state's local and power, collect taxes, create soldiers, create horses, and stabilize rebellion.

Yingshijie was also a person who dared to use people. Besides, Wu Qi was already old and had almost no descendants, so everyone opposed it in the court. When he was involved in Xihe, most of the Qin nobles died at his hands.

Therefore, after hearing this, he was overjoyed and said, "Good things are hard to accomplish without you."

He won the gap between the army and hired people, and there were various constraints. He immediately decided to hand over the various rights and responsibilities of the Western Expedition to Wu Qi.

Of course, the dispatch of officials has to be done through the king, and the Qin official system is monopolized by those who rebel against Mo and are not in the same system as Wu Qi.

The matter has been settled, and Ying asked again: "After the Battle of Yinyang, the Mo family must have an alliance with Chu, Wei and Han. The Mo family has been talking about the matter of stopping the war and not attacking the League of Nations... How should this matter be dealt with?"

Shengchuo laughed and said, "This matter is easy."

"In the Battle of Yinyang, Wei and Han were powerless, and the matter of stopping the war was in Qin but not in Wei Han. Since the reform of the king, Qin has become stronger and stronger. In the past, there was the domineering of Duke Mu and without the League of Qin, what League of Nations is considered?

"Just send someone to join the alliance, just say: Xihe is an inseparable place in Qin since ancient times. The ancestors of relatives and ancestors are struggling to achieve a size. If they are not taken back, they will be ashamed of their ancestors."

"If you want to form a league of nationals, you should return to the Xihe River first. If the Wei people dare to return to the Xihe River, the Qin people can enter the league of nationals, otherwise there will be no talks."

"If the Wei people do not return, our army will fight and take it. If the Mo family really wants to attack, why should we 'reprimand' Qin's idea of ​​getting the Xihe River? The Mo family will definitely mediate, but they are afraid that they will make half-and-half of the Xihe River, Wei and Qin, and the Wei people will refuse to do so."

"If the Wei people refuse, the National League will not be able to stop the war. If the war is not able to stop the war, the Mo family can only be neutral. If the Mo family is neutral, the Wei people in Yinyang have been defeated, and our army will take it on its own. Who can stop it?"

Speaking of this, Shengchuo thought of the hateful person in Shangqiu City that year, and kicked him out of the Mo family, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Neutrality is not an attack? There is no battle between Yinyang, and the Mo family is neutral and is truly neutral. The battle between Yinyang has been decided, and the Mo family is neutral and not an attack... How can it be like a strong man beating a young child, and a person next to him says that he is neutral and not an attack will not help anyone?"

"Is the neutrality of a strong man who beats a young child considered neutral and non-aggressive?"
Chapter completed!