Wu State
More than thirty years have passed, and Fu Chai, who has meditated on Jiuding day and night, has long since become a great master.
Wu State's reforms can be considered relatively early.
It's a pity that I got up early and rushed to a late market.
Obviously, when Baijia was ten or twenty years old, they began to slowly imitate and plagiarize Yancheng. However, when Baijia was fifty years old, they focused their main energy on the Wu-Chu war. Ten years.
In the past thirty years, there has been basically no development.
In the past thirty years, the three clans of Han, Zhao and Wei, under the leadership of Han Feizi, Zhao Wuxie, and Wei Si, began to make great strides in reform.
It was more than eighty years after the Baijia Dynasty and the fall of Jin State that Wu State continued to reform.
As of today, the reform progress of Wu State is not ahead of that of Han, Zhao and Wei. But compared to the past, it is definitely much stronger. As the national fortune of Wu State increased a lot, Fu Chai became more and more comfortable in using Jiuding.
The stronger you are, the tougher your words will become.
Moreover, since Fu Chai became a real person, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu began to slowly return various powers to him. Today, Fu Chai has become somewhat as powerful as Duke Wu.
The former Fu Chai was very grateful to Wu Zixu and Sun Wu. He felt that they were the pillars of the Wu Kingdom. Thanks to them, the Wu Kingdom did not perish. But now, Fu Chai only feels that these two people are threats.
Their reputation is too high and their power is too great. He may have no problem with it, but can his son suppress the two of them?
Maybe it was the changes brought about by the increase in strength, or maybe it was the changes brought about after taking power. In short, Fu Chai's thoughts were different unknowingly.
Not enough. Under the current situation, Fu Chai can only bury these thoughts deep in his heart, because he still has reason. Reason tells Fu Cha that the current state of Wu is in danger. Once Wu Zixu and Sun Wu are lost, the state of Wu will most likely be destroyed. will perish.
Today, Fu Chai, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu gathered together again. In front of the three of them, there were two letters, one from Yancheng and one from Chu State.
"I originally thought that Da Wu was already very powerful, but today I realized that he was just sitting in a well watching the sky."
One hundred thousand prefecture-level Taoist soldiers sounded like a lot, but this almost depleted the Wu country's resources.
Nowadays, in the entire Wu Kingdom, apart from the army, there are only about 30,000 doctors and Taoist priests left. These 30,000 people are mainly engaged in various industries, and it is almost difficult to recruit them to join the army. As for the new generation of Taoist priests and doctors, they have not yet grown up.
This means that within thirty years, the upper limit of Wu's prefecture-level Taoist soldiers will be this much, and one less person will die next.
It's not that Sun Wu doesn't know how to train soldiers, but that he has always been feared. Before Helu's death, Sun Wu stopped training after he became a prefecture-level Taoist soldier.
In the past thirty years, Sun Wu has only trained earth-level Taoist soldiers based on warlocks and scholars, but this is very slow and takes time.
There are only so many geniuses among magicians and scholars. The army is leaving, and there are fewer people in other professions.
As for encouraging childbirth, it is even more slow.
It only takes ten or twenty years for an ordinary person to reach adulthood from birth.
However, on average, a hundred years is a short time for a doctor or Taoist priest from birth to adulthood.
As for Yancheng, on the one hand, Yancheng has a large base and a large population. On the other hand, after the first year of the Hundred Years, education began to be gradually popularized. It is now a hundred years old.
The group born in the first year of Baijia has also grown up today, and there is naturally no shortage of doctors and Taoist priests.
But look at the Chu State next door. Xiang Ji has 50,000 prefecture-level Taoist soldiers, all of whom were trained by Xiang Ji himself.
It only took Duke Chu three days to mobilize 100,000 quasi-prefecture-level Taoist soldiers from the capital and nearby areas. At this moment, one hundred thousand quasi-prefecture-level Taoist soldiers have rushed to the front line. Together with Zheng Guo's 60,000 quasi-prefecture-level Taoist soldiers, this is an army of 210,000.
Then, the Duke of Chu gave an order, and nobles from all over the country began to gather together doctors and Taoist priests. Some counties are relatively small and only provide ten or twenty people, while some counties are more prosperous and can draw forty or fifty people at once.
Today's Chu State has more than 5,000 counties, easily enough to gather 200,000 Taoist priests and doctors.
Although these people are not as good as prefecture-level Taoist soldiers who have been trained for a long time, they are extremely qualified. With a little training, they can go directly to the battlefield and serve as quasi-prefecture-level Taoist soldiers.
Moreover, this time the target of the 200,000-strong army is Wu State!
More importantly, the 200,000 Dao soldiers this time were still not the limit for the Chu nobles.
When the decisive battle between Chu and the Central Plains comes in the future, nobles from all over the country will definitely continue to support Duke Chu and continue to send men. By then, how many troops can be gathered? Who knows!
Wu Zixu spoke slowly: "In the past, Chu was the second most powerful country in the world."
"But if you only look at population and territory, Chu is undoubtedly the most powerful country."
"Now, the Jin State is destroyed. The Chu State has passed reforms and successfully achieved centralization."
However, in other countries, the central government is the princes themselves, while the power of Chu State is concentrated in the noble assembly, but it can be regarded as the central government, and it has completed the centralization of power.
From the past when the country was divided into feudal states, where the feudal princes and the central government were in conflict, to the current situation where all the feudal princes and nobles are united as one, there has indeed been a qualitative change.
"Today, the Chu State is just relying on reforms to give full play to its strength."
"Yancheng has also sent a letter." As he said that, Fu Chai sighed.
He found it so difficult.
The current situation is really difficult.
In the past, with Yancheng supporting Wu, Chu rarely did anything to Wu directly.
Even in the past thirty years or so, the overall peace has been maintained, with occasional secret fights, and the lives of Wu and Chu have been pretty good.
But now, Yancheng no longer supports Wu State, and Yancheng also suggests that Wu State join this battle.
The Chu State made Fu Chai feel a lot of pressure. Coupled with Yancheng, Fu Chai felt that his head was a little numb at the moment. Looking at Sun Wu and Wu Zixu again, I found that their expressions were as usual, and I immediately felt: As expected of Mr. Zhong and his father, they have really strong ability to withstand pressure.
At this time, Fu Chai suddenly realized that it was quite good for Wu Guo to have two seniors. At least the seniors were experienced and well-informed and would not panic.
"For Yancheng, the more intense the battle, the better. This will help Yancheng sweep the world. Although Yancheng is already very strong, it is good to save a little energy." Sun Wu said directly.
"Then Chu Gong, Han Gong and the others can't see it?" Fu Chai asked directly.
"I can see it, but I have no choice."
"It is impossible for the Chu State to give up the opportunity to take over the Central Plains, and it is impossible for South Korea to directly give up its territory to the Chu State. Even if it is really given away, it will only be peace today, but what about tomorrow? What benefits should South Korea give to the Chu State? Sooner or later, there will be peace One day, Korea will be completely annexed by Chu."
"To put it bluntly, instead of giving it to Chu State, it would be better to give it to Yancheng. At least the compensation will be more."
"Obviously, South Korea is unwilling to give in, so it can only fight."
"In the end, it will be the decisive battle between Chu and the Three Jins."
"That's why the Chu State invited us to go north together because they were afraid that when the decisive battle came, we would sneak attack the Chu State from behind."
"Moreover, if we go north together, Chu State can mobilize more forces to go north."
"Send troops, we have no choice. If we don't send troops, then Yancheng and Chu State may have a tacit understanding to carve up Wu State first."
"Today's Wu State has basically no defense against Yancheng. No one knows how many secrets Yancheng has inside Wu State. Once a war starts, it will be almost unilateral and transparent."
"Could it be that even possessing Jiuding can't guarantee enough safety?" Fu Chai suddenly asked a question in his soul.
"With Jiuding, you are considered a big country. However, in today's world, big countries cannot decide their own destiny. Only Yancheng can be considered safe enough."
"Even the Chu State may want to take the opportunity to create a saint."
"Saint, sir, do you have a chance to become this saint?"
Feeling Fu Cha's hot gaze, Sun Wu nodded and shook his head: "I am still some distance away from the saint."
The main reason is that the resources have not kept up. In the past, most of Wu's resources were used on this prefecture-level Taoist army. The resources used for Sun Wu's own experiments and training are not small, but compared with the big dogs in Yancheng, There is still a gap.
Moreover, over in Yancheng, Zhuge Liang often pulled out a lot of inheritance from the past.
There are also a large number of great masters in Yancheng, and research results are produced every moment.
There are thousands of real people and first generations in Yancheng. These real people and first generations can be found in almost every field.
If Sun Wu wanted to conduct a research in the Kingdom of Wu, he would mobilize up to a dozen real people and first-generation people to cooperate. Much of the knowledge involved in the research would have to be deduced from scratch.
But over in Yancheng, there are more than a thousand real people and first generation people who are engaged in research, and each category has achieved certain results. When needed, it can be used on site.
(By analogy, Sun Wu is equivalent to the top scientist, but Wu’s industrial chain is incomplete, Wu’s manufacturing level is fifty years behind Yancheng, and Wu’s worker quality is fifty years behind Yancheng. The same experiment, Sun Wu could complete the top-level design, but when it came time to implement the experiment, he couldn't keep up. Wu Qi could easily mobilize a large amount of resources to do this experiment. It might only take three months, but Sun Wu needed three or even ten years.)
"So, unless the Duke of Chu is willing to let me command the allied forces of Chu, Wu, Zheng and other countries, and then fight and win, only in this way can I have the chance to become a military saint after winning this battle."
"However, the state of Chu has the status of a young master, and the Duke of Chu happens to be very optimistic about the status of a young master, and has always treated him with sincerity."
As for Xiang Ji's character, senior officials from various countries have studied him eighteen hundred times. This man is very loyal. If you treat him well, he will treat you well. Although he is not a monarch, with the way Chu Gong responded, even if Xiang Ji becomes a saint, he will still be loyal and not think about anything. It’s time to kill Duke Chu and seize the bird throne!
"The times are really different. If you want to become a real person, you need the size of a big vassal state. If you want to give birth to a real person, you need the size of a big country. If you want to give birth to a saint..."
(End of chapter)
