"PS: Reading the book review, it seems that some book friends misunderstood and mistakenly regarded "Wang Lu" and "Wang Jian" as the same person. In fact, they are two people, both of whom are based on the historical names of the Qin Kingdom. "
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"...The tyrannical Wei army is currently killing our Sichuan people. I hope your army can send troops to help save hundreds of thousands of our Sichuan people from water and fire."
Facing Qin Shaojun, who still looked shocked, and the solemn-looking Qin army commander, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi, Babuhe clasped his fists and begged respectfully.
However, Qin Shaojun was still immersed in the shock of Wei Gongzi Ji Run's great change, while Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi squinted his eyes and thought about Babuhe's plea.
To be fair, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi never thought of supporting the Wuxu tribe.
After all, the proposal to "win over the anti-Wei forces in Sanchuan" was proposed by Qin Shaojun, and Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, had never thought of relying on those unsuccessful Sichuan tribes to defeat Wei.
The reason is simple - unreliable.
I still remember that in the "Battle of Sanchuan between Wei and Qin" that happened the year before last, Qin Shaojun also adopted the strategy of winning over the Wuxu tribe, Jie tribe, and Ling tribe. But what was the result? Because Wei Gongzi Ji Run single-handedly led the "Victory at Hangu Battle"
, defeated 200,000 Qin troops, so that when
The Sichuan tribes who once fell to the Qin State, under the coercion and inducement of Wei Gongzi Ji Run, launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against the defeated Qin army, which led to the occurrence of the "One-day Battle" and killed a total of 200,000 Qin soldiers.
In the end, only more than a thousand soldiers fled back to Qin.
After that incident, Wuxin Hou Gongsunqi labeled Sichuan people as "untrustworthy".
In the final analysis, it is because the two do not have a solid foundation of interests.
Just like the Sichuan-Luo Alliance and the Wei State, although many of the Yi tribes under the Sichuan-Luo Alliance were strongly dissatisfied with Wei Gongzi Ji Run's decision to go to war with the Wuxu tribe, from the beginning to the end, few people dared to jump out.
The direct challenge to the authority of His Highness Prince Su was not only due to Zhao Hongrun's great reputation, but also because these Shen tribes did not want to give up their current status.
Although the Wusu Royal Court is the belief of the Yi tribe, it is not worth it to withdraw from the Sichuan-Luo Alliance for this reason. Even if the tribe leaders are determined to be ruthless, they may not be able to get the support of the other tribesmen.
But here, the Wuxu Tribe, Jie Tribe, Ling Tribe and other small groups composed of several tribes did not have much solid foundation of interests with the Qin State.
Although the Qin State also imitated the Sichuan-Luo Alliance and started trade with the Jie and Ling tribes, the level and scale could not be compared with the "Weichuan Trade" of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance.
Why?
The reason is simple: Qin is poor.
The main specialties of Sanchuan are mutton, wool, sheepskin, sheep bone products and other sheep products, as well as slaves.
However, in the Qin State, the common people's rations basically consisted of vegetables and miscellaneous grains. The vast majority of the Qin people only wore coarse cloth. The children of the Qin people were so poor that they ran around naked. How could they have the purchasing power?
Going to purchase various specialties of Sanchuan?
It is undeniable that even in the Wei State, mutton is basically a delicacy that only the nobles of the Wei State have the financial resources to enjoy. But the problem is that mutton has never been a large-scale transaction in the Weichuan trade. What is the large-scale transaction in the Weichuan trade?
It's wool, sheepskin and slaves!
No matter how poor the common people of Wei were, they could still afford winter clothes made of wool. After all, after Sanchuan surrendered to Wei, the price of wool was far lower than that of cotton. Wei currently has a total population of almost nine million. Therefore, taking into account the loss of wool winter clothes, the Sichuan-Luo Alliance can only maintain its wool products forever, and even cannot meet the needs of the common people of Wei.
Needless to say about slaves, the various large-scale construction projects that Wei has carried out over the years, as well as those that have yet to be carried out, require millions of laborers. In addition, Wei businessmen are also keen on purchasing slaves as a source of labor. Domestic servants, therefore, no matter how many slaves the Sichuan-Luo Alliance dumped on the Wei State, the Wei State could eat them all in one go, and even that was still not enough.
On the other hand, Wei's products are also very popular in Sanchuan. In addition, due to the private smuggling behavior of Chu Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo and Wei Su King Zhao Hongrun, some of Chu's specialties can also enter Sanchuan. This makes Sichuan people The money just obtained from the Wei people was used to buy specialties from Wei, Wei, Chu, and Song. The transaction amounts between the two parties were almost equal. This was the long-lasting trend of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance when they started trade with Wei. root cause.
As for the trade between Qin and Sanchuan, the transaction amounts between the two are not equal at all. How can it be maintained for a long time?
Mutton was eliminated first, because the common people of Qin basically only ate home-grown grains and vegetables, and rarely went to the market to purchase.
Needless to say wool and sheepskin, the common people of the Qin State who can't even fill their stomachs will think about the problem of keeping out the cold in the winter? The most common way to survive the winter in the Qin State is for a family to hide in the house and burn firewood to keep warm throughout the winter.
Needless to say, there is no need to talk about sheep bone products. This kind of useless decoration is equivalent to luxury goods in the eyes of the common people of Qin.
As for slaves... Qin has no shortage of labor at all.
And what can Sanchuan get from Qin? Bronze weapons? Come on, the weapons Wei privately sold to the Sichuan-Luo Alliance are already alloy weapons. What's the use of Qin's weapons that are two generations behind? ?
Counting and counting, the only thing Sanchuan could get from the Qin State was a title - as one of the Central Plains countries, the Wei State was almost impossible to confer a foreigner as a king or a marquis. "Note: The aliens mentioned here refer to people with different cultures, such as Sichuan people and Hu people. But they do not include Qin people. Even if the Central Plains people also look down on the Qin people, they will not regard the Qin people as aliens. At most, they will bring them with them. Some people call each other contemptuously mountain people or mountain monkeys, because Qin also learned the culture of the Central Plains and is not considered a foreign race."
Because of this, the trade that the Qin people started with the Jie and Ling tribes in imitation of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance was aborted not long after.
There was no solid foundation of interests, and the Sichuan people had a history of desertion. Therefore, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi had no sense of trust in the Sichuan people. He even wanted the Jie, Ling, and Wuxu tribes to fight against the Wei army, let alone send troops to assist them. If you have to live and die, it is best to die together. In this way, the Qin State can not only obtain the land of Sanchuan, but also greatly weaken the Wei State.
Of course, this is just the selfishness of Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi, and it does not mean that he will really do that. After all, he does not want the Wei army to take advantage - although various signs indicate that the Wuxu tribe, Jie tribe, and Ling tribe are unlikely to be defeated. Wei Gongzi Ji Run accepted it, but who can guarantee that this matter will not go wrong? Besides, even if Wei Gongzi Ji Run did not accept Wu Xu and other tribes in the end, if the other party eradicated these tribes , the Qin army will also face a Wei army that has no worries in Sanchuan County.
But having said that, there were various reasons involved in sending troops out of Han Valley to support the Wuxu, Jie, and Ling tribes.
How do you think about the elongated grain and grass transportation routes? How to ensure that the army can get sufficient water sources on the grassland?
And the most fundamental thing is whether it is possible to defeat the Wei army led by Wei Gongzi Ji Run.
The year before last, why did only a thousand survivors of the 200,000 Qin army finally escape back to Qin?
The reason is that the battle line was stretched too long, so that when the Qin army was defeated like a mountain, the Wei army and the tribes in Sanchuan who were in trouble could only follow the defeated Qin army to cover up and kill them all the way. According to what happened afterwards.
I guess, in fact, the war was
Only tens of thousands of Qin troops died in Hangu, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of Qin troops died on the way to escape - this was something that the then commander of the Qin army, Wang Lu, did not expect. If he had known it earlier.
If such a situation arises, the order to retreat will certainly not be issued.
Now, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi has replaced Wang Lu as the commander-in-chief of the Qin army. But how to defeat the Wei army led by Wei Gongzi Ji Run, or the Wei-Sichuan combined army? To be honest, Gongsun Qi has no idea how to defeat the Wei army led by Wei Gongzi Ji Run.
grasp.
After all, he and Wei Gongzi Ji Run had never fought against each other before, so they didn't know each other's preferences and military habits.
Therefore, without complete assurance, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi did not want to go too deep into the hinterland of Sanchuan.
It was not because he was afraid of defeat, but because Qin was afraid of defeat.
It is no exaggeration to say that when 200,000 Qin troops died in battle the year before last, Qin really felt sorry for only the tens of thousands of regular soldiers, but it did not feel any pain at all for the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of tattooed soldiers who were more numerous -
-The Qin State had civilians who actively participated in the war.
In this case, why is Qin afraid of defeat?
The reason is that the myth of Qin's previous victory in every battle has been broken: the Qin people are not afraid of war, nor are they afraid of defeat. What they are afraid of is that after making huge sacrifices, they do not get the rewards they deserve.
Just like what happened in the "Battle of Sanchuan of Wei and Qin" the year before last.
You must know that the foundation of Qin's strength lies in the military merit system, and the most basic condition for maintaining the military merit system is to continuously win foreign wars, step by step strengthen the people's confidence in foreign wars, and encourage more people to actively join the army
, allowing the entire country to steadily embark on the pace of external expansion.
Just like a snowball, it gets bigger and bigger.
But there is a problem here: the snowball can only absorb more snow by rolling continuously. If it is forcibly blocked by an external force, it will stop. Once it stops for a long time, the snowball will collapse on its own.
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The same goes for military honors.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the Qin army is defeated again by Wei Gongzi Ji Run this time, then the people of Qin will lose the confidence to "expand their territory eastward" and no one will join the army enthusiastically. This will lead to the gradual weakening of the Qin state.
It is no longer possible to plunder the wealth of other countries or tribes through force, and without this wealth, Qin will not be able to carry out domestic construction, and so on, a series of vicious cycles.
This is also the reason why the Central Plains countries abandoned the military merit system because it was too unstable.
"Are your troops afraid of the young master of Wei?"
Seeing Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi talking to Zuo and talking about him again and again, Ulu Batu, a thousand-man general of the Yanjiao Army, couldn't help but interrupt.
His words caused the expressions of many Qin generals in the tent to change suddenly.
At this time, Wuxinhou Gongsun Qi said expressionlessly: "Our army is not afraid of Wei Gongzi Run, let alone the Wei army... It is just a decision to 'start at Hangu and end at Hangu'."
As he spoke, he looked at Ulu Batu and said decisively: "I have already decided to defeat the Wei army led by Wei Gongzi Run in Hangu to wash away the shame of our army the year before last. I hope your envoy will forgive me!"
Hearing this, Ulu Batu was speechless.
There was no way, after all, the words of Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi were so beautiful and high-sounding.
Although he, Ulu Batu, didn't believe it at all, he couldn't think of how to refute it.