When Zhao attacked Yan and Qi, Wei was not idle either.

The Wei army invaded Bashu, destroyed Ba and Shu, and made Wei's strength also soar.

In this way, among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, only three countries remained in Wei, Zhao and Chu.

Among them, Zhao State was the strongest because Zhang Beichen vigorously developed agriculture, followed by Chu State and Wei State.

No one of these three heroes has the ability to annex each other for the time being, so the three parties began to develop in their own territory tacitly, waiting for the opportunity.

...

Zhang Beichen returned to normal life and began to think about the subsequent battle for hegemony.

If normal development continues, relying on the developed agriculture of Zhao State at this time, the national strength will inevitably surpass that of Wei State and Chu State.

But the problem is that Wei and Chu also occupied a lot of territory, and developed rapidly and Zhao became bigger. If the two countries joined forces, Zhang Beichen would not be sure to deal with the two countries at the same time.

Because Wei Yao is too familiar with him and knows his routines and moves. The King of Chu is too fierce and he doesn't take charge of himself, and the other generals can't stop the King of Chu at all.

"War is certainly feasible, but using the strategy will be faster and better." Zhang Beichen began to think about how to use the resources in his hands to destroy the two powerful countries!

"What is the biggest advantage of Zhao State at this time? It is population, economy, and ultimately, it is food!"

"In this agricultural society, food is everything! After so many years of agricultural development, Zhao State has been able to supply the whole world!"

"With food, you can also defeat others without fighting." Zhang Beichen thought of food wars. In this era, although monarchs from all countries attached importance to agriculture, few people thought of using food to fight wars.

Therefore, Zhang Beichen began to further promote and reform agriculture, and further increased the grain output of the states of Qin, Yan and Zhao.

Therefore, the population of Zhao State is also increasing rapidly.

[The strength of Zhao State grew rapidly. Seeing this, King Wei and King Chu formed an alliance to resist Zhao State together.]

What Zhang Beichen expected still happened. When the world is three points, it will inevitably be the weak and the weak unite to resist the strong together.

...

In the palace of King Zhao, Zhao Yun summoned all the ministers to discuss how to deal with the alliance between Wei and Chu.

Fei Jian suggested: "The king, I think it can be divided into two countries. In the Wei Kingdom, the office is strong. The members of the office headed by Gongzijiu are greedy and profitable. We can give them gifts to them to destroy the Wei Kingdom and Chu Kingdom.

The alliance of the country. In addition, the old nobles in Bashu were also dissatisfied with the King of Wei. We can secretly support them in restoring the country and create unrest for the Wei country."

"As for Chu, we can also use money and jewelry to buy Chu nobles and support the power to oppose the King of Chu. In this way, Wei and Chu will inevitably have internal chaos and cannot devote all their energy to deal with us!"

"This is very good!" Zhao Yun agreed very much.

Fei Jian continued, "When the Wei and Chu are in chaos, we will lead our troops to attack! Defeat the two countries in one fell swoop!"

"Zhang Qing, what do you think?" Zhao Yun asked Zhang Beichen for his opinion.

Zhang Beichen said: "I agree with what Fei saw in the first half, but I don't agree with the second half."

"Please give me advice." Fei Jian looked at him.

Zhang Beichen said: "It is necessary to alienate the countries. In addition, we can use the food of Zhao to make the Wei and Chu collapse directly!"

"Oh, can grain have this effect?" Zhao Yun said in surprise, "Please explain in detail Zhang Qing!"

Zhang Beichen explained: "Now the food in Zhao State is enough to support the people of the world! Our food is piled up in the barn and rotten, so many merchants will go in and out of various countries and sell the food in Zhao State to various countries in exchange for cloth and livestock.

, weapons and other things.”

"We can lower the price of food and sell it in Wei and Chu for a large amount of other materials, such as elk and weapons from Chu; cloth, copper and iron ore from Wei, etc."

Fei Jian puzzledly: "Prime Minister, since we have so much food, why don't we control the price of food to rise, but instead let it sell it at a low price? Isn't this giving food to both countries for nothing?"

"Yes! I just want to send them food!" Zhang Beichen said affirmatively.

"Ah?" Everyone was even more puzzled.

Zhang Beichen continued to explain: "We sell a large amount of grain to Wei and Chu at a low price, so that the grain of Wei and Chu is worthless. At the same time, we buy other items from these two countries at a high price.

”

"You think, if you are from Wei or Chu, are you willing to grow food, or raise elk, silkworms and weave cloth?"

Xinnan said: "Of course, you can make any more money!"

"Yes!" Zhang Beichen affirmed, "As long as a large number of farmers and nobles in these two countries give up farming, they will inevitably begin to rely on our country's food!"

"As long as this dependence reaches a certain level, the lifelines of these two countries will be in our hands. At that time, aren't we allowed to control it?"

After Zhang Beichen explained, everyone's eyes lit up.

Fei Jian took a deep breath and sighed: "Killing people without blood, destroying the country without military force. The Prime Minister's plan really makes people shudder!"

"The Prime Minister is really a genius!" The ministers flattered them one after another.

No one has used this strategy in this time and space. Because there has never been such a sufficient amount of food in various countries!

Even in those powerful countries, the annual food can only be enough for the people to fill their stomachs!

Zhang Beichen has achieved this situation by improving planting technology and improving crop varieties, using hybrid technology to increase grain output several times.

...

After listening to Zhang Beichen's story, Zhao Yun was also very excited. She had never thought that this could be used to destroy other countries!

She immediately started to implement it.

Zhao Yun first asked Fei Jian to bribe the nobles of Wei and Chu, and let them cause trouble in the two countries and hinder the alliance between Chu and Wei.

Secondly, let Xinnan start training the army to prepare for the future war.

Finally, he gave all the domestic agricultural and economics collection to Zhang Beichen and asked him to let go of it.

...

Zhang Beichen did not directly start selling food at a low price, so as not to be aware of the wise men of the two countries.

He first created a character for himself!

[You began to sing with King Zhao and King Qin every night, have a corruption in life and a luxurious style. You have repeatedly embezzled the money from the treasury to buy luxury goods such as land, mansions, horses, etc. for yourself. You will show it to the secret agents of Wei and Chu.

, Everyone in the world thinks you are addicted to enjoyment, luxury and corruption.]

After Zhang Beichen created a degenerate personality for himself, he began the formal operation.

[You asked King Zhao for the power to manage the national granary. In order to meet your luxury needs, you began to "secretly" sell Zhao's grain at a low price.]

...

Wei State, in the grain shop in Daliang.

It was the autumn harvest season again, and landlords from Wei came to sell grain.

"What? The price of food this year is only half of last year? You are a black store!" The landlord was furious and shouted loudly.

The grain store owner said helplessly: "Your misunderstanding, not only my store, but all grain stores this year purchase grain at this price!"

"Absurd!" The landlord didn't believe it, "If it were this price, I would not only not sell the food, but also buy a few trucks to take it back!"

The grain shop owner quickly said, "If you buy grain, no matter how much you buy, I have it!"

"It's all this price?"

"It's all this price!" The grain shop owner asked him to look at the warehouse. Sure enough, the warehouse was full of grain.

The landlord wondered: "Isn't there no bumper harvest this year? How could there be so much food? Why is the price of food so low?"

The grain shop owner explained: "These are all grains from Zhao State. Not only are they large in quantity and cheap in price, but they are also better than those from our Wei State. Look, these millets are full in grains and have excellent quality! Now everyone is starting to buy them.

The food in Zhao State is so cost-effective!”

The landlord didn't believe it very much, so he visited several grain stores and found that this was indeed the case.

He asked his friend, who said, "Who still grows grain now? You don't know that the king of Zhao and the prime minister liked a kind of clothes called cheongsam, which were made of silk, which attracted the aristocrats to imitate. The price of silk is very high now.

, Our land does not grow grain, instead plant mulberry trees, and raise silkworms and screws to sell silk!”

"So that's the case. The food is so cheap. Why are you planting? I'll also change to plant mulberry trees this year!"

...

Similar situations have also happened everywhere.

The Wei and Chu countries had mulberry trees and silkworms, and they were specially smelted weapons, armor, pottery, elk breeding, trees and wood cutting... all kinds of business began to grow and grow.

The merchants from Zhao Guolai would buy these things at a high price.

Of course, Zhao State does not have that much money, so if you don’t have enough, you can use grain to supplement it. For the people of Wei and Chu State, you can get more without growing grain, so why not do it?

In just three years, the grain planting area of ​​Wei and Chu was reduced by half!

...

In the court of Wei, Gongsun Yan took the lead and said to Wei Yao worriedly: "The king, I visited the people and found that there was a lot of land in Wei. The farmers did not farm, but instead went to raise silkworms, make irons, and do various business.

.”

"Now, the people of Wei rely on buying Zhao's food. If one day Zhao does not sell food to us, a great famine will occur in Wei! At that time, Wei will be in danger of destroying the country!"

Wei Yao immediately became alert and thought, could this be Zhang Beichen's trick? She asked, "Is this really that?"
To be continued...