Wang Lin chose a safe way to annex Han State, but he did not give up force. On the contrary, force was still part of the entire strategy. What if there was not enough force and others finally stopped playing, turned over the table, and sent troops to rob them? ?
Therefore, there must be a strong country as the backing to be able to afford this kind of operation.
The southeast of Huai State reached the Yangtze River. Wang Lin ordered people to build a city here and prepare to build ships and form a naval army. The navy is very important to the Huai Kingdom. Whether it is crossing the Yangtze River to enter Wu or fighting the Han Kingdom, the navy is very important.
Han State.
The arrival of a large amount of food made the price of food in Han extremely low, which caused a large number of people to replant their land with other crops, leaving only a small part to grow food. Some even went so far as to plant jute on the entire land.
The nobles sent slaves who were originally cultivated into the mines to dig ore, and then forged them into various weapons.
The fine wine and delicacies from the Huai Kingdom were sought after by the nobles. After Zijue established the Huai Kingdom, with the stability of the surrounding environment and the development of the Huai Kingdom, he also began to make his life better.
After all, Zijue still wanted to satisfy his appetite after traveling from a materially rich modern society to this almost barbaric society. However, the level of science and technology in this era is really not high, and most of the things Zijue comes up with are specious, but even so, it is enough to shock these people.
These things were enough to make the nobles of Han become obsessed with them.
Han's problems were not obvious at the beginning, and even over time they would not become obvious, and they would even become prosperous due to the prosperity of business. It's just that these prosperity are rootless and false prosperity.
Huai Guo's plan was implemented very successfully. In the first year, Han Guo's land for growing grain dropped by 30%. Because many people think that low food prices are only temporary, a large amount of food is still grown.
However, if this situation continues for several years, most people will choose to grow jute instead of growing food.
As long as this plan is implemented, Han Guo's final fate is already doomed. As for Han State asking for help and buying grain from other surrounding countries, they must have money, not to mention that Xu State is an ally of Huai State and Zhongwu State is a vassal of Xu State.
How could he help Han State at the risk of offending Huai State? More importantly, it was very difficult to do business in this era. The wild jungles were densely covered with thorns, there were many wild animals, and there were Rongdi living in the wild. It was not easy for Han State to buy food.
When Wang Lin was implementing his plan, the land of Bangzhou was also turbulent. After the emperor killed Duke Ai of Qi, the princes with different surnames stopped paying tribute to Zhou and stopped paying tribute. Some princes even began to rebel against Zhou Wangji.
A more important reason is the rise of the Quanrong in Bangzhou.
After Bang Zhou established the feudal system, he began to compete with barbarians for land and living space, and a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed for planting.
The vassal states of Bangzhou built cities one after another, but these cities could only control the land near the cities. Further away, there are a large number of barbarians living.
A large number of barbarians live in the uncontrolled land between cities.
The development of the princes basically consisted of first defeating or driving away the barbarians, and then establishing cities. In this process, a large number of barbarians were either killed or expelled, surrendered, or became slaves. Of course, there are also barbarians who are powerful enough to conquer the vassal states.
But civilization replacing barbarism is an inevitable process. It has been a hundred and twenty years since Bangzhou was established. The power of the barbarians has become smaller and smaller, and they are no longer able to shake the rule of the vassal states. However, there are still a large number of barbarians on the borders of Bangzhou.
There were two royal territories in Bangzhou. One was Haojing, where Bangzhou arose, and the other was Chengzhou Luoyi, which was established during the reign of King Cheng.
In recent decades, Haojing's power has weakened due to the royal family moving eastward to Luoyi. During the period of King Zhao of Zhou, the Quan Rong had already begun to flourish. King Zhou Zhao attacked the Quan Rong twice, which made the Quan Rong weak. Only a few decades later, Quan Rong's strength had recovered and they invaded Wang Ji again.
In order to deal with the Quanrong, Ji Lie began to reorganize his arms. After Rong Di saw the weakening state of Zhou, he began to invade Wang Ji. Although Ji Lie cooked and killed Duke Ai of Qi, which caused the princes to dislike him, his ability to lead troops in battle was still good.
After the emperor's six armies were rebuilt, and the troops defending Haojing were added, the Qin State was also recruited to send troops to deal with the Quanrong. The army of Liu Bang and the State of Qin attacked from the northwest and southeast respectively, forming a pincer attack. General Yu of the Zhou Dynasty led the private army of ministers, with a total of hundreds of chariots and thousands of infantry, and took the lead in breaking through the dog-rong defense line, and the state of Zhou was victorious.
Ji Lie defeated Rong Di, killed 8,000 Rong Di, and captured 3,000 prisoners. He returned with a great victory. The victory of the war increased Ji Lie's reputation, and even the impact of cooking and killing Duke Ai of Qi was much smaller.
Although Ji Lie defeated Quan Rong and greatly increased his prestige, the problems he faced were far more than these. Since the period of King Zhao, a large amount of Wang Ji's land has been enfeoffed to the princes in Jin. By the time of King Xiang, the princes of Jinei have occupied 70% of Wang Ji's land.
In order to expand his financial resources, King Xiang had to carry out reforms, but this reform was not thorough. Later, during the period of King Yi, the campaign failed, and Wang Ji's problems became more serious. Nowadays, the power of the princes in Wangji has exceeded that of the royal family, and the rights of the royal family have also been eroded.
The royal family's economy had been almost hollowed out by the conquests during King Yi's period. If Ji Lie wanted to reform, he had to suppress the nobles within Wang Ji.
After Ji Lie defeated Quan Rong, he gained high prestige, and then began to want to implement reforms. It's just that any reform is a redistribution of interests. Now it is the princes in Wangji who occupy a large amount of interests. They are very resistant to Ji Lie's reforms. After all, this is cutting off the flesh of the princes to support the royal family.
However, due to Ji Lie's prestige, these princes could only tolerate it for the time being.
Although the royal power of the Emperor of Zhou has declined, the Emperor is still stronger than any other prince in the world. After all, the Sixth Army of the Emperor is still there. The nobles among the princes are not as powerful as the emperor.
But once the Emperor of Zhou pushed all the nobles into opposition, the combined power of these nobles was greater than that of the Emperor, and the Emperor changed from a strong party to a weak one.
At the beginning, King Zhao used vassal states to check and balance the vassal states. He used the method of division and disintegration to prevent the vassal states from working together to check and balance the vassal states, maintain the majesty of the emperor of Zhou and the strength of the emperor's six armies, and let the vassal states pay tribute.
This approach was very successful, so until the time of King Yi, all the princes in the world did not dare not pay tribute. Of course, by the time of King Yi, the tribute materials from the princes had become much less, and it almost became a ceremonial way.
