"Although Chu has three households, if Qin is destroyed, Chu will definitely die." Hu Hai glanced at the wall and whispered: "This shouldn't be possible, right?"
"The eldest son has always been very close to the Chu family. Didn't you say before that the eldest son would be in power? If the eldest son came to power, what reason would the Chu family have to rebel against Qin?"
Fusu's face darkened.
He remembered the scolding that the First Emperor had given him before.
It was because he was very close to the Chu nobles, especially the Mi family and the Xiong family in the Chu region.
It is not without reason that he is close to the Chu clan.
His mother was from the Mi family, but not from the lineage of Mi Bazi, but from the lineage of the Queen Mother Huayang.
He will naturally favor the Chu family.
Ji Heng said lightly: "There are no eternal friends in the world, only eternal interests."
Hu Hai frowned.
Ji Heng continued: "After the Chu Kingdom was destroyed, the prestige of the Mi and Xiong clans in Chu was greatly reduced. Moreover, even if Chu was not destroyed, these two clans would not be able to suppress other nobles in Chu."
"The situation in Chu is different from that of the other six countries. The old nobles there are basically from public families."
"There's just a difference between closeness and distance."
"After Wu Qi's reform, the State of Chu became more powerful and prosperous, and the country's power reached its peak. It basically wiped out the old aristocrats who had restricted the exercise of royal power in the past. However, when wiping out the old aristocrats, the State of Chu relied on side branches that were far away from the Chu clan. power, and after the destruction of the old aristocracy, these clan branches gradually began to dominate the court."
"By the time King Huai of Chu came to power, the three new nobles, Qu, Jing, and Zhao, had already taken control of the government."
"So Chu began to seek reform again."
"That is Qu Yuan's reform."
"It's just that as the reform progressed, it was inevitable to encounter resistance from the three families of Qu, Jing, and Zhao, and the reform ultimately failed."
"Qu Yuan was expelled from the court, and after the fall of Yingdu, he drowned himself in the Miluo River."
"Throughout the hundreds of years of Chu State, the king of Chu and the nobles basically shared the world. Even with Wu Qi's reform and Qu Yuan's reform, it was difficult to shake the deep-rooted and luxuriant aristocratic system. In the land of Chu State, the aristocrats, big and small, often Hundreds of years of private connections and cliques have formed an extremely deep foundation."
"What they are after is autonomy!"
"After Qin destroyed Chu, it was true that most of the Qu, Jing, and Zhao tribes were killed, but it did not solve the actual problem."
"Just like Wu Qi's reform, he changed the soup without changing the medicine, he just changed a group of leading nobles."
"If the aristocratic system of Chu is not uprooted, Chu will never succumb to Qin. The harder Qin suppresses Chu, the easier it will be for the nobility of Chu to unite. How big can the united Chu land be? The power of it, no one knows about it.”
Hu Hai's complexion changed slightly.
If they unite vertically, they will be the king of Chu; if they unite horizontally, they will be the emperor of Qin.
This was Su Qin's judgment on the world situation back then.
This is indeed the case.
When Qin destroyed Chu, it was said that it was overwhelming the power of the country.
It took Qin ten years to conquer the world and four years to destroy Chu.
During this period, he also suffered a major defeat.
If the First Emperor had not used great courage and courage to recruit 600,000 troops and insisted on fighting this war to destroy the country, I am afraid that the world would have continued to fall into pieces when the Chu State recovered.
The foundation of Chu State cannot be said to be weak.
at this point.
Hu Hai also agreed.
Hu Hai cursed: "After destroying Chu, we should have killed all these nobles."
"Otherwise there wouldn't be so many things."
Listening to Hu Hai's curses, Ji Heng secretly shook his head.
It would have been impossible to carry out massacres back then.
The reason why Qin was able to destroy Chu with all its strength was mainly because it persuaded Qi not to send troops to help Chu. If Qin killed the nobles in Chu, what would the nobles of Qi think?
At that time, Qi usually had 200,000 troops.
When Qin destroyed Qi, it directly gathered 400,000 troops.
Once Qi intervenes, the nobles of Chu will fight to cause chaos, and Qin will simply not be able to bear it.
What's more, there is a country of Yan watching from the side.
When Qin destroyed Chu, there were constant rebellions in Zhao, Wei and Han, which required a lot of troops to suppress. However, Yan and Qin did not deal with them at all and kept harassing them all around. Although Qin was strong, it could not spare so many troops. This is why Initially Ying Zhenghui agreed with Li Xin's suggestion.
The impact of Qin's defeat of Chu was also far-reaching.
Qin wins and the world is determined.
If Qin loses, his achievements will fall short.
Not only could Zhao, Wei and Han not be able to defend it, but Qi Yan would also take advantage of it and rob them.
It's just that in this ultimate game of the world, Ying Zheng had the last laugh by relying on his courage and heart.
However, in order to seize the rare window period in the world, Qin annexed the six countries in a way of swallowing up the world. The time to sweep the world was too short, and it was inevitable that it also inherited the shortcomings of the six countries. These are what Qin will need to solve in the future.
The First Emperor chose to ignore the long-standing abuses of the Six Kingdoms.
Directly promote the new system.
The six lands in Guandong were already dissatisfied with Qin and could not give in easily.
Qin also wanted to completely exterminate the cultural traditions of the Six Kingdoms, which aroused strong opposition from the nobles of the Six Kingdoms.
So much so that now there is a lot of resentment among the people.
Fusu's face darkened.
He had good relations with the Chu clan in the past, but he actually had his own thoughts.
Just want to appease Chu Di.
But after hearing what Ji Heng said, he suddenly remembered Xiong Qi, Lord of Changping.
At that time, Xiong Qi was the prime minister of Qin and had great power. However, at the critical moment when Qin was about to destroy Chu, Xiong Qi chose to rebel and attacked with Xiang Yan internally and externally, defeating the army led by Li Xin and causing heavy losses to Qin.
He had always been incomprehensible in the past.
Qin's unification of the world was clearly inevitable.
Although Xiong Qi is a son of the Chu State, he has served in the Qin Dynasty for many years. If Xiong Qineng really waited until the Qin Dynasty unified the world, Xiong Qineng would be rewarded, and he would not be worse than Wang Wan, Li Si and others. Why would Xiong Qi choose to rebel? Especially at that time, the First Emperor had great trust in Xiong Qike.
Now he vaguely understood.
There is a difference between inside and outside.
No matter how much strife there is within the Chu State, it will ultimately be an internal matter within the Chu State.
Precisely because Xiong Qi had served in the Qin Dynasty for many years, he knew what the First Emperor would do after he destroyed the country, so in order to preserve the inheritance of Chu State, Xiong Qi chose to betray.
Xiong Qi is like this.
The same goes for other nobles in Chu.
Even other nobles did not have as many ideas as Xiong Qi.
They care about their own interests.
Fusu raised his head and sighed deeply, "There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. This is not a true portrayal of the world in the past."
"Qin's destruction of Chu affected the interests of the nobility of Chu, big and small, and aroused the common hatred of Chu's nobility."
"The Qu, Jing, and Zhao tribes have been destroyed."
"However, other nobles in the Chu region, such as the Xiang family, the Song family, etc. still exist."
"They will continue to fight against Qin."
"Because if Qin really pursues the policy of unification, the past glory of the nobles will be burned down."
"This is unacceptable to them."
"The nobles of Chuland..."
Fusu took a deep breath and his eyes became cold.
He has now corrected his attitude towards the nobles of the six countries.
If the nobles of the Six Kingdoms still refuse to integrate into the Qin Dynasty and continue to clamor for restoration, he will never continue to show his compatibility, but will wipe out these ugly people with a thunderbolt!
Ji Heng took a sip of wine and said calmly: "Chu has always been a relatively loose country. After hundreds of years of development, the autonomy of the major nobles in the region has long been the norm in Chu. They can accept having a king above their heads, but We cannot accept that the king above them is too strong, especially if he is so strong that it threatens their power in the fiefdom."
"This is the biggest contradiction between Qin and Chu."
