"The Battle of Yingchuan breaks out here, and the foreign policy over there must follow suit." Zhao Kuo then said to Lord Pingyuan.
"Yes." Mr. Pingyuan agreed immediately.
Zhao Kuo, who was worried, immediately told him again: "There is no need for Qi State to say more. We must continue to follow up. No matter whether it is the king of Qi or a noble family, both sides must bet on it. Whichever side is weak, help it, so that Qi State can have unlimited power." Amid the internal strife, that is victory. If I do not ask Qi State to come closer to me, but if I can keep Qi State neutral, that is victory."
"Yes, Wei Chen understands." Mr. Pingyuan agreed immediately.
"Yes." Zhao Kuo nodded and continued: "As for the State of Wei, although the State of Wei has obviously turned to the State of Qin, it has not yet turned against our army. Of course, as the next battlefield, the State of Wei has not fought for it. It’s necessary. Just put enough pressure on it so that it doesn’t dare to stretch its hand during the battle in Yingchuan.”
"Yes." Mr. Pingyuan continued to nod, then looked at Lian Po and Tian Dan, and asked: "In order to better deter Wei, can we ask the Yingchuan army to attack the Wei army if necessary? .”
After hearing this, Lian Po and Tian Dan both turned their attention to Zhao Kuo.
Although it was just a gesture, both of them knew that this already involved strategic matters, and Zhao Kuo could and only made the decision.
Of course, Zhao Kuo's decision was not easy to make.
Taking an offensive stance can naturally suppress Wei State very well, but no one can guarantee whether Wei State will react excessively.
Whether Qin State will even make the mistake of uniting with Wei State to launch a large-scale campaign because of such a gesture needs to be taken into consideration.
It can be said that if the provocation against Wei is allowed, then Zhao Jun must be prepared to fight a big battle at any time.
Zhao Kuo tapped his fingers on the table for a while, but suddenly smiled, and then asked and answered himself: "Even if our army does not threaten the Wei State, will the Wei State definitely not join the battle?"
"Obviously not." Zhao Kuo shook his head and said, "What's more, if we look forward and backward, how can we fight this battle!"
After saying this, Zhao Kuo looked at Lian Po and Tian Dan and said, "If the Qin army is willing to fight piecemeal with small frictions, that would be the best. If the Qin army insists on starting a war, our army will definitely accompany them. "
"Yes." Lian Po and Tian Dan agreed in unison.
The two of them knew very well that as long as Zhao Kuo's words were there, they could let go.
And as Zhao Kuo's order was issued, the entire Zhao Kingdom finally became operational again. But this time, Handan City did not become busy due to preparations for war. On the contrary, the people of Zhao State were still living in an orderly manner.
On the contrary, Qin State was not preparing for any war, but the lives of its people were already in dire straits.
If Chu had not returned two mouthfuls of old blood in a row, Qin would have been even more miserable at this time.
There is no way, the heavy cavalry is too wasteful of manpower, material and financial resources.
But in the face of Zhao's heavy cavalry, Qin had no choice but to fight. Seeing that it could no longer support the equipment and training of three thousand heavy cavalry by continuing to oppress the lower classes, Chu, the grandson of Qin, finally decided to target the powerful families.
And Fan Sui, who had just died, became the sharpest knife in Zi Chu's hand.
When Fan Sui was there, he was the prime minister of the Qin State, and one person was less than ten thousand people. Even if there were aristocratic families in the Qin State, who would not give Fan Sui face.
Naturally, starting from Fan Sui, as long as Zichu is willing, he can find anyone he wants to find.
Fortunately, because the King of Qin was still around, Zi Chu still knew how to restrain himself. However, after raiding several families with the most resentment and the richest families, Zi Chu took the initiative to stop.
Under the mediation of Tu Jia and the pressure of the old King of Qin, the old families of Qin also pinched their noses and admitted the misdeeds of those families and reconciled with the Ying family.
However, Zichu obviously didn't know that taking action against his own meritorious class often indicates that a regime has turned from prosperity to decline.
Once the crack exists, sooner or later it will become a huge ravine.
Maybe Zichu didn’t know, it’s just,
As a young man, he urgently needed to express himself, and even more urgently to re-establish Qin's transcendent status.
It's a pity that Zhao Guo won't give him much time to grow.
Soon, the news of General Lianpo of Zhao State's garrison in Yingchuan Army reached Xianyang. Zichu had no choice but to make a counterattack - transferring Wang Lu, one of the auxiliary ministers left to him by the King of Qin, to Chen County. (formerly the Chendu area of Chu).
The two veterans, like enemies in their previous lives, met again on the battlefield.
The three-year confrontation between Bieshui was once again staged between Yingchuan and Chenjun, but this time, Zhao and Qin exchanged roles.
The State of Zhao is no longer cramped. Lian Po can squander the countless grains and abundant reserves of troops as he pleases, and the terrain of high in the north and low in the south is more conducive to Zhao's attack;
The Qin State is no longer rich, and the pressure of the three thousand heavy cavalry has made the Qin State somewhat breathless. Coupled with the current confrontation, the granary that the Qin State is proud of is being consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The only good news is that after three years of confrontation in Bieshui, Lian Po and Wang Lu have become extremely familiar with each other.
Therefore, even though Zhao State had the advantage of attacking, Wang Lu relied on the mere tens of thousands of troops in his hands to block the Zhao army from the periphery of Chen County.
It has to be said that under such a disadvantageous situation, being able to block Zhao's attack is actually considered a victory in itself.
What Wang Lu has to do is to buy more time for Qin and Meng Ao.
Therefore, even if it is a draw, it is already a very acceptable result for Wang Lu.
However, what Wang Hao didn't know was that the achievements he was proud of were just the result of Zhao Jun's military training.
Neither Lian Po nor his successor Tian Dan ever thought of breaking through the Qin army's defense line in Chen County.
It's very simple. The Wei army and even the Chu army on the side are already gearing up to join the battle.
Once the Zhao army really invades Chen County, there is no doubt that the Wei army will appear on the flank of the Zhao army as soon as possible, but whether the Chu army dares to stab the Qin army in the back is beyond the control of the Zhao army.
But no matter what, starting a war is not Zhao's goal.
Round battle is what Zhao Guo wants.
While Zhao State was training new recruits on a large scale with Yingchuan County as the front line, new policies for various places were also rolled out.
Different from the previous New Deal, in addition to policies such as farming, this New Deal also carried out large-scale relocation of powerful clans in the newly attached lands.
This is almost breaking the foundation of these wealthy families.
Land has always been the most important means of production in feudal society.
Especially in the Warring States Period when iron tools were not yet fully popularized, it was almost very difficult to open up wasteland without enough iron tools.
This means that those cultivated fields are extremely limited and precious non-renewable resources.
Although moving a wealthy family to its original residence will take over its land at market price, this is almost equivalent to forcibly exchanging a dead sum of money for a chicken that can lay golden eggs.
If this metaphor is not clear enough, to put it another way, it is like the ugly country forcibly acquiring all the shares of Apple from the Wall Street giants at the stock price of that day.
To the ugly country, money is just a button on the money printing factory; to the giants on Wall Street, it is just a string of numbers.
As the world's largest technology company, Apple means a lot more.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a money printing machine.
Using limited money in exchange for a money printing machine that can print unlimited money, you will know who will lose and who will gain.
What's more, this so-called market price can only be an official definition. It is almost impossible for these powerful people to exchange the same money for the same land after arriving at their destination.
Therefore, even if it is just a change of land, the court has already made a lot of money.
Such a set of operations is much more effective, direct and cleaner than searching a house.
After all, it is destined to be impossible to raid all houses.
If they are exhausted, there will be hiding. Regardless of whether there will be a problem of gangsters taking advantage of others, the loss will always be to the court.
Such a wholesale move of all clans will inevitably benefit the powerful people in the moved areas, but more importantly, it will keep the court well fed.
To put it nicely, this is a redistribution of interests, and it is also a redivision of power.
To put it mildly, this was of course a "shameless" robbery.
However, the target of his plunder was a wealthy family that had always been domineering. And what Zhao Kuo got back from them was less than one-tenth of what they had exploited from the lower class people over the years.
Resistance is almost inevitable, but it is a pity that in front of Zhao Jun's steel sword, these families that have perished are not enough to watch.
Also because it was just migration rather than direct massacre and house confiscation, more nobles from local aristocratic families did not feel the same sense of crisis. At the same time, the process of repurchasing properties after migration also allowed more nobles to gain profits, and naturally there was no arousal. Massive resistance.
Without any suspense, the powerful nobles in Jibei County, Huaisi County and Dongjun County were cleared by Zhao Kuo almost without even landing.
In the eyes of other countries, such "cutting wounds" are no different from turmoil.
It gave Zhao Guo more time and space for development.
With the implementation of the farming system and the redistribution of large amounts of land, these three barren newly attached counties soon bloomed with vitality again.
The most obvious situation is that the populations of Wei, Qi and Chu are constantly moving towards the nearby counties and counties of Zhao.
However, the State of Zhao still adheres to the principle of "whenever you come, you are a member of the State of Zhao", and almost all the refugees are included in the scope of regulation.
Thus, under the long stream of water, quietly, the national power of Zhao State once again reached a new level.
When the other countries finally reacted, Zhao had become extremely powerful in just two years.
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