I’m The King

As Huang Xie’s attitude became clear, the arguing in the Chu court about whether to fight with Han or to maintain the status quo finally fell to the dust, the main and the faction took the upper hand, the news came out, and Guo Hanchang, who was still waiting for the news He breathed a long sigh of relief. This trip to Yingcheng was a complete victory. I really didn’t expect that Fan Zhuo had such a big influence on Huang Xie, so Huang Xie, who had been hesitating, made up his mind all at once. .

The task was fully achieved. Guo Han set off to leave Chu State contentedly. He still has a lot of things to do. The top priority is, of course, to send the latest silk reeling and satin looms to Chu State as quickly as possible after returning home. In order to help Fan Zhuo set up the factory as soon as possible. At the same time, according to the agreement, Han will also send technicians to assist Fan Zhuo in establishing a factory for silk reeling and satin weaving machines in Chu country, so that Fan Zhuo can make it faster. Locally promote this intensive factory.

To Guo Han’s surprise, the people of Yingcheng welcomed the court’s decision with their hands. Their aversion to war far exceeded Guo Han’s imagination. The days of peace have been too long, and war is for ordinary people. It's Dream Health. Once a war starts, it means that the court will levy more taxes, which means that more children will step onto the battlefield at any time, and fall on the battlefield at any time. How nice it is to have a peaceful wife! If the Han country fights the Qin country, they can do it. What's up with me?

This is the most common mentality of Chu people!

Except for some of the main combatants such as Qu Zhong, Chu State was greatly relieved.

Huang Xie cleaned up the scattered Wen Zong on the public case. The great victory of Chu State in Pengcheng more than a year ago swept away the decline of Chu State from Linyi a few years ago and retreated thousands of miles from Linyi, which greatly boosted Chu's morale. It also brought his reputation in the country to a new level. Now, if he is covering the sky with one hand, it is not an exaggeration.

In the eyes of outsiders, Huang Shoufu, who is so powerful, is now proud of the spring breeze, but those who really know Huang Xie know that these two years have been the most difficult years for Huang Shoufu.

The Battle of Pengcheng eased the strategic crisis of Chu, and knocked back the hand that Han extended. But it was only a relief, and it did not fundamentally solve the problem. The alliance with Qin is better than nothing. The current situation of Qin is in a terrible state, and the general has his own strength and self-respect. The domestic economy is in turmoil, and the regime is shaky. In Huang Xie's view, Qin Wang Yingying is still too young.

If he wants to implement reforms, he has to deal with conservative generals like Lu Chao first calmly. How could he easily expose his political leanings during the Fan Sui incident and let Lu Chao discover the clues? So much so that caused today's situation.

Qin's self-protection is still a shame, and the threat to Han is gradually reduced.

at this time. The war against Han that Qu Zhong shouted out was naturally out of place.

Qin's special envoy has been lobbying in Yingcheng during this period, which is more ridiculous. Two groups of people actually came, one group was sent by the court of the State of Qin, and the other group was actually sent by their new Taiwei Lu Chao from the letter to Guguan.

Qin Wang Yingying and first assistant Fan Sui were unable to shake Lu Chao, and had to give Lu Chao an official title, a lieutenant who was not in the court. Huang Xie shook his head slowly.

A familiar figure was glimpsed from the corner of his eye, and Huang Xie couldn't help but smile a few times. With the hurried steps, the tall figure, and the temperament that rushed straight out without telling him, who else could anyone besides his old partner Taiwei bend down?

With a hum, he bowed his **** and sat down, staring at Huang Xie with straight eyes, the dissatisfaction in his eyes was obvious.

Huang Xie spread his hands together, "Taipei, just tell me if you have anything to say. Staring at me like this makes me a peerless beauty!" He tried to relax the atmosphere.

"Shoufu, are you going to sit and watch us being defeated by the Han people? The Han and Qin dynasties are in a bad relationship. If we don't take the opportunity to send troops, the great opportunity will be fleeting. Now that the Qin country is so chaotic, let the Han country defeat them, we But it's the next goal." Qu Zhong said with an anguish.

Huang Xie sat down and watched the angrily bends, "My dear Taiwei, you also know that Qin is in chaos right now! But the more so, the less reason we have to send troops at this time, for Qin. Do people go to get chestnuts out of the fire? It didn't make me feel cold when I saw that Qin Kingdom actually had two different groups of envoys coming to our Yingcheng."

Qu snorted: "No matter how messy they are, their army's combat effectiveness is still considerable."

"This is not what a lieutenant should say." Huang Xie's face sank. "Qu, lieutenant, if you fight on the front line, I'll mess it up behind you, can you win?"

Yielding stunned, "Why are you doing bad things in the back? This is our common cause."

"But what about Qin? Now Fan Sui is eager for Lu Chao to have a big defeat!" Huang Xie sneered.

"Lu Chao is defeated, what good is Yu Fansui? He is not afraid that the Han people will drive straight ahead and take Xianyang?" Qu Zhong asked back.

"So they come to lobby us! I hope we will send troops. With the current situation of Qin, I am afraid that Han is about to target us. Once we send troops to war with Han, Han will inevitably turn around and aim at us. , It will buy more time for the Qin people to clean up the domestic mess, Taiwei, do you think this is good for us?" Huang Xie knocked on the table and said.

Qu Zhong was silent for a while, "Shoufu, although you are right, there is no perfect thing in this world. If we want to keep the great Chu country, we have to pay some price. I heard that Fan Zhuo went two days ago. In your house, I have had a long talk with you. You tell me the truth, if you decided to negotiate a peace with the Han, did you gain the benefits of the Han? I know that Fan Zhuo has made a lot of money in doing business with the Han in the past few years. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he is now richer than an enemy country!"

Huang Xie chuckled, reached out his hand to pick up a stack of files from the table, and handed it to Qu Zhong, "Taiwei, you have always focused on military affairs. You never ask about civil affairs at all. Take a look at this and know why. I don't agree to go to war!"

Qu Zhong looked at the stack of files marked as top secret with some doubts. Slowly, his face changed a little. When Yizhuxiang Shiyin left, he raised his face to look at Huang Xie, his face was full of heavy colors.

"In three years, our grain output has been reduced by 30%, and the loss of gold and silver has reached 20 million taels!" Huang Xie opened the drawer, took out a few colorful tickets from inside, and slapped them on the table. On, "This is a banknote issued by the Central Bank of Han State, what do you think?"

Seeing that Qu Zhong was playing with these tickets, Huang Xie slowly said: "Each of these, from the perspective of the ticket, is worth a hundred taels of silver, but to us, he is not worth anything. We Chu People are holding real gold and silver in exchange for these paper tickets. The amount of gold and silver lost to Han nation every year is shocking."

"Since Shoufu knows the problem, why not stop it?"

"How to stop it?" Huang Xie asked, "Han's products are beautiful, durable, and cheap. Our merchants import their products from Han and go with gold and silver, but Han's imports from us, But there are very few. In addition to silk and satin, the high profits made by silk and satin have caused the destruction of grain and mulberry in the Huguang area, leading to a reduction in grain production. This is the instinct of capital to seek profit. We can forcibly order those merchants to destroy the mulberry trees and replant them. Food?"

"Why not?" Qu Zhong* said authentically. "Food is the foundation of a country."

"Everyone understands this truth, but Taiwei Qu, one-tenth of the tax in a country in Da Chu now comes from Huguang, let alone some people, the reason is from these silk merchants who destroy mulberry and grow grain. Where does the tax come from? Come? Where do your military expenses for training come from? Where do the expenses for maintaining an army of hundreds of thousands come from?" Huang Xie's brow furrowed into a word "Chuan", "Difficult, dilemma. Make my heart bleed."

"But if this continues, won't our situation get worse and worse? So it's better to take advantage of the present and fight with Han Guo!" Qu Zheng said.

"It's okay to win, but Taiwei Qu, can you guarantee that you will win?" Huang Xie asked, "Han and Qin confronted each other in Jinyang. How much force did Han dispatch? It's just the original Zhao Guo. Some of the soldiers and horses of the army plus the four infantry corps and two cavalry divisions of their first military region. How many troops are there in the Han country, which is more than 20. What are the remaining troops doing? Is it just eating hard food? Really? In my opinion, Han has no plans to go to war with Qin on a large scale. I even suspect that their real goal is us."

"This is impossible. Intelligence from all sources shows that Han has no plans to use our troops." Qu Zhong shook his head.

"It’s always hard to do things high-end~www.wuxiaspot.com~. We have to guard against it, Taiwei Qu, now we can’t send troops. We have to instigate Qin and Han to fight as harder as possible. It’s the only way to transfer Han's troops to the West. So for Qin, we can provide financial and weapon support, but it’s absolutely impossible for us to send troops directly. Qin’s hundred-legged bug, even now We lose our strength, but we can't tell the victory or defeat in a few years. These years are our golden age, Taiwei, in the past few years, you have to develop a team that can rival the Han. The army, and I, want to revitalize the people’s livelihood and build a stable and solid rear for you. In the end, Han Chu will have a battle, and we will not be able to rely on the sky and the earth. In the end, we have to rely on our own. The great Chu crosses thousands of miles. It’s not as small as Han, and it’s a few trillions of people, and it’s even more than Han. As long as we are ourselves, why should we be afraid of Han?"

Qu Zheng opened his mouth, but swallowed the words back into his stomach. Huang Xie also made sense. Now that he is fighting with Han, even if Han is fighting on both sides, he does not necessarily win.

"The point is to be yourself!" he murmured.

"Yes, so we have to provide limited support for the Qin country, and for the Han country, we have to make false claims. I believe that as long as we give us time, the powerful State of Chu will surely step up to the ZTE stage again. Dare to say that we can defeat Han at that time, at least so that Han will not dare to go to war with us easily." (to be continued)