Before this, Zhao Shu had read the royal books and knew a lot about Chu State, not to mention that his teacher was Li Si.
Although Li Si is the long history of the Qin Dynasty, he is an out-and-out Chu person.
He once served as a Chu official in Shangcai.
His understanding of the Chu State was far superior to that of other Chu princes like Chang Pingjun.
He remembered that Li Si once told him that Chu's expansion method was different from that of conquest and annexation in the Central Plains.
Because the south is too big, densely covered with jungles, and obstructed by high mountains.
This resulted in the Chu State’s method of conquest and annexation being soft expansion that forced neighboring tribes to surrender.
This is generally an integration of forces, an annexation of territory, and a fusion of civilizations.
Because of this, the Chu State allowed the surrendered tribes to continue to exist autonomously and independently in their original ways in general on their original land.
They can have their own fiefdoms and armed forces, and the king of Chu cannot seize their fiefdoms at will.
This led to the fact that throughout the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the Chu State, with its vast land, had never been truly powerful.
During the Warring States Period, Wei was the most powerful country in the early days.
In the mid-term, except for Qin, which has been on the rise, Qi, Zhao, and Yan have all been stable and strong for a period.
Even South Korea rose rapidly during the period of Han Zhaohou Shen Buhu's reform.
However, throughout the Warring States Period, Chu was the only state that was weak.
At that time, the best state of the Chu State was that it had falsely led several Zongyue leaders to join forces to resist Qin.
Even at the worst time, even the King of Chu was imprisoned by King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and finally died tragically in a foreign country.
Zhao Shu knew in his heart that the biggest reason why Chu State was like this was that the Chu State's aristocrats were divided and ruled, and they were never able to gather national power.
However, this kind of Chu State exploded into its most brilliant side in its last years.
During the process of Da Qin's destruction of the country, even the Zhao State, which had the most powerful army, failed to achieve a commendable victory in the confrontation with Da Qin.
However, the Chu State's various efforts in its last years were stimulated to the maximum extent under the coercion of national subjugation and genocide.
Under the crisis of destruction, the various constraints of the Chu state's dignitaries on the royal power were minimized, and their collective power was maximized.
It was precisely because of this that Chu suffered the most tragic defeat in the end.
Six hundred thousand warriors of the Qin Dynasty went south and annihilated the Chu State in one fell swoop.
However, the mighty Qin finally perished in the hands of the Chu people in history.
Because of this, Zhao Shu called Chu a civilization rather than a country.
It has connotations that a country does not have!
Under such circumstances, we must be fully prepared to destroy Chu.
Otherwise, what happened in history will happen again.
China is vast and difficult to govern, with most of its land in southern Xinjiang.
Failure to govern southern Xinjiang means failure to govern China.
Although Chu State has a vast land, its rich land is always between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River.
In the past few decades, the capital of Chu State moved from Yingshou to the north to Chencheng, and from Chencheng to the south to Yingshou.
This resulted in the Chu State's people, wealth, and military strength being limited to the area between Jiangbei and Huainan.
Nowadays, the south of the Yangtze River, the so-called Lingnan, is all desolate and barren land; the Baiyue tribes of Southern Chu live scattered in the mountains, each guarding the city, and they have no ability to gather a large army.
His eyes moved around the map, and at this moment, a light appeared in Zhao Shu's eyes.
He seemed to see a hope.
Once Qin goes south to destroy Chu, it only needs to divide its troops into three groups.
All the way south from Jiangdong Wudi, all the way south from Dongting County, all the way south from the Xiang River.
In this way, Da Qin not only destroyed Chu in one fell swoop, but could even move south to occupy the Five Ridges.
After thinking about this, Zhao Shu's finger landed on the five ridges.
The Land of Five Ridges is a stretch of mountains in the middle of China.
This large mountain range starts from the south of the Xiang River and runs from the northwest to the southeast coast. They are: Tailing, Qitianling, Dupangling, Mengzhuling, and Yuoling.
As long as we guard this five-ridge mountainous area, we can cut off the northern and southern China!
At this thought, Zhao Shu's eyes were full of excitement. He saw an opportunity to defeat Chu and Baiyue in one fell swoop.
Moreover, he can definitely seize this opportunity.
Once caught, it would be equivalent to saving the lives of 400,000 Great Qin warriors.
When he thought of this, Zhao Shu couldn't help but get excited. He must do this and persuade Qin Wangzheng, Li Si and others.
When Chu was destroyed, Baiyue and other places were included.
It can be laid out in one piece!
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"Young Master, I would like to see you, Yao Jia!" Yaoyao walked in and reported to Zhao Shu, "I am in the living room at the moment!"
Hearing this, thoughts flashed in Zhao Shu's mind.
For a moment, he didn't know what Yao Jia was looking for.
After all, one of them is a veteran in the army and a prince of Great Qin, and the other is in charge of the pedestrian office and is a diplomat. The two do not belong to the same system.
The most important thing is that the two sides didn't have much interaction before, and he mostly dealt with the weak.
But today Yao Jia suddenly came to the door.
After a change of thought, Zhao Shu decided to meet Yao Jia to first determine what the other party wanted to do before talking about anything else.
"Prepare a small feast!"
"promise."
Nodding in agreement, Yaoyao turned around and left.
Yaoyao, this guard, has become like his maid.
"Sir, I'm here. I don't know how to do it. I hope you won't be welcomed from afar. I hope you won't blame me!"
Walking into the living room, Zhao Shu smiled calmly at Yao Jia and said.
Hearing this, Yao Jia quickly stood up from his seat, raised his hands towards Zhao Shu, and said: "I hope you will not be surprised by the sudden visit. I came here today because I have something to ask you."
"oh?"
Hearing Yao Jia's words, Zhao Shu was a little surprised. He knew very well that the two people were responsible for very different things. One was subordinate to the civil servants, and the other was subordinate to the generals.
Logically speaking, a military general like him couldn't help with diplomatic matters.
After thinking this, Zhao Shu motioned Yao Jia to sit down, then chuckled and said, "I wonder what you want, sir?"
"If it's within our ability, Shu will definitely agree."
Hearing this, Yao Jia took a sip of tea, cupped his hands towards Zhao Shu, and said: "The Pedestrian Office plans to send an envoy to the Chu State. This envoy will have a great impact on our Great Qin's plan to unify the world."
"We must ensure that nothing goes wrong. I'm here to ask you for advice!"
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Hearing this, Zhao Shu's thoughts started to change. He knew Yao Jia's experience very well.
This man was in Zhao State at that time and was ordered by the king to unite Chu, Han and Wei to attack Qin.
Later, the envoys of the Qin Dynasty tried to alienate each other and were expelled from the country by the State of Zhao. Later, they were treated politely and appreciated by the King of Qin.
When he was ordered to go on a mission to the four countries, the king of Qin actually had hundreds of chariots, thousands of pounds of gold, clothes like his, and swords to dance with.
Zhao Shu had heard about this matter, and he knew very well that this kind of treatment was rare in the Qin generation.
Moreover, Yao Jia was on mission for three years and achieved great results.
So much so that the King of Qin was overjoyed and worshiped him as Shang Qing, granting him the title of Thousand Households.
This is a diplomatic genius who is not much inferior to Dun Dun!
