Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Lu Buwei pondered for a moment, and then slowly said: "Your Majesty, Yiqu is the old place of the Great Qin Dynasty. It is understandable that the King wants to bring Yiqu back, but I also want to ask the King to think about it. Today's Yiqu is facing It's not someone else, but Zhao Guo!"

As soon as Lu Buwei said these words, Qin Wangchu's face suddenly became a little unhappy.

If the relationship between Qin Wangchu and Lu Buwei can be described as intimate when they succeeded to the throne, then at this moment, the relationship between Qin Wangchu and Lu Buwei is still close, but it has begun to slowly change. Faded.

This is not because Qin Wangchu doesn't value feelings, but because Lu Buwei has not helped Qin to obtain much benefit in the past few years as Prime Minister.

Without a single foreign victory, where is the benefit to speak of?

In the state of Qin, the military aristocrats are very powerful. For these aristocrats, what they desire most is victory, but what the state of Qin lacks is victory.

Someone has to take responsibility for this situation.

King Qin Chu, as a superior monarch, naturally does not need to be responsible, so the only one who can be responsible for this is of course Lu Buwei, the prime minister who is under one person and above ten thousand.

It is precisely because of this that in recent years, doubts about Lu Buwei within Qin have gradually increased, and an undercurrent of "falling Lu" is quietly surging.

For such a situation, Qin Wangchu was well aware of it.

But the problem is that Qin Wangchu has no good solution.

No matter how close the relationship is, a Xiangbang will not make Qin King Chu and the entire military aristocratic class an enemy, because that is the cornerstone of Qin's farming and war system.

So under the pressure of these military nobles, Qin Wangchu had to alienate Lu Buwei.

As soon as Lu Buwei finished speaking, someone from the other side spoke.

The one who spoke was none other than Lu Buwei's old enemy, Cai Ze, Gang Chengjun, the royal official of Qin State.

Cai Ze said slowly, "Your Majesty, Zhao Guo's wolfish ambitions are well known in the world, and I heard that Zhao Guo has been making frequent moves in the direction of the Central Plains recently, and it seems that he is about to start conquests against other countries. Yiqu is in Guanzhong. If the northern barrier allows Zhao people to go to Yiqu, then the east and north sides of Guanzhong will be owned by Zhao, and Xianyang cannot be guarded!"

Lu Buwei was not happy when he heard this, he stared at Cai Ze and said, "Mr. Gang Cheng, do you think that the current Great Qin has enough power to fight Zhao Guo?"

Not to be outdone, Cai Ze stared back, and said, "Wu Chengjun's words are wrong. Now it's not Daqin who wants to fight against Zhao Guo, but Zhao Guo is aggressive, Daqin has to fight back! If you follow Wu Chengjun's intention, don't you just sit back and watch righteousness?" He was annihilated by the State of Zhao, and then let Li Mu lead the cavalry of the State of Zhao to go south in a mighty manner, and then surrounded Xianyang City?"

Lu Buwei said angrily: "Why don't I know Zhao Guo is aggressive? But the current Daqin needs to recuperate!"

Cai Ze also blew his beard and stared at his eyes: "Da Qin has used troops every year in the past decades, why hasn't he seen any need to recuperate? If this continues, Da Qin will really die at the hands of your recuperation policy!"

"Okay, okay, stop arguing!" Qin Wangchu interrupted the quarrel between the two impatiently: "Gang Chengjun is right, Daqin doesn't need to recuperate, what Daqin needs now is a victory! Widow It has been found out that this time Li Mu led southward with only [-] cavalry. I may not be able to defeat Zhao Guo, but I don't believe that I can't even defeat [-] cavalry! Come, call Wang Jian, Wei Linger into the palace!"

Lu Buwei waited to say more, but after seeing Qin Wangchu's face as black as the bottom of a pot, he finally closed his mouth unwillingly.

The matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more.

Soon, Qin Wang Chu's order spread throughout Xianyang City and Qin State.

With Wang Jian as the chief general and Wei Liao as the deputy general, the Qin State will lead one hundred thousand Qin troops to the north to assist Yiqu and fight against Li Mu!

In addition, Qin State even sent envoys to Han, Chu, and Qi, hoping that the three countries could fulfill the agreement reached before and send troops to fight against Zhao State.

After recuperating for more than a year, Qin Guo finally made a decision again, and once again stood on the opposite side of Zhao Guo.

Chapter 836 Li Mu's siege is different (third update)

Regarding this dispatch of troops, Qin Wangchu obviously made a lot of determination.

In fact, Qin Wangchu did have the confidence to send troops. After a year of farming, the industrious Guanzhong people have initially restored Guanzhong to [-]% of the original harvest level. Can fully return to the previous normal years.

This was the first good news, but this good news did not make Qin Wangchu more excited than the second good news.

With the smooth progress of the whole set of dredging water conservancy projects called Dujiangyan in later generations, large areas of wasteland have been opened up, and more fields have become irrigated land. A full [-]% more than the year before last!

This figure means that the grain output in Shuzhong has increased by one-third directly than before, which is definitely a great improvement.

More importantly, this increase in production was completed before Dujiangyan was fully completed.

According to the project progress reported by Li Bing, the magistrate of Shu County, the entire Dujiangyan project will not be completely completed until the end of next year or the beginning of the next year at least.

At that time, the area of ​​fields and irrigated land in Shu County will have a substantial increase, which will inevitably lead to a substantial increase in grain production.

Li Bing has already vowed in the report submitted that after the completion of Dujiangyan, the grain output of Shu County will definitely be doubled compared to before the construction of Dujiangyan.

what does this mean?

This means that the Qin State can use the extra grain to feed a larger population, obtain more soldiers, supply the army for a longer period of combat, and be able to award more fields to those who have done meritorious service.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is all that the current king of Qin, Chu and the state of Qin, need!

At the same time, the population of Shu County has begun to increase significantly because it has not experienced wars all year round, and it seems to be approaching Guanzhong vaguely.

In fact, Qin soldiers from the land of Bashu now account for almost [-]%, which is an important source of the Qin army's strength.

The development of Bashu is exactly the strongest confidence that Qin Wangchu dared to speak out at this time.

The young king of Qin knew very well that he was actually racing against time.

Lu Buwei's recuperation may indeed be a worthwhile method, but the problem is that Qin doesn't have so much time now!

Once Zhao Guo is allowed to continue to grow, then no matter how Qin Guo recuperates, he can only end up in a doomed end.

In order to fight against Li Mu of Zhao State, Qin Wangchu also boldly abandoned Wang He, who had been defeated when he was facing Zhao State, and promoted the young and promising general of Qin State who impressed Qin Wangchu deeply in quelling Mi Chen's rebellion. Wang Jian was the main general.

Zhao Dan, who was far away in Handan, couldn't help but be surprised by this series of actions when he learned about it, thinking that this time Qin Wangchu can be said to have shown a rare decisiveness this time.

Just as the [-] troops of the Qin State set out from Xianyang and marched northward to Yiqu, the [-] Zhao cavalry troops led by Li Mu also arrived at the city of Yiqu and surrounded the city.

This time, Li Mu's style of play surprised everyone.

"He's actually attacking the city?" Yiqu Lie, who was determined to stick to Yiqu City and wait for the source of Qin's army, widened his eyes and looked at the situation in front of him in disbelief.

Yes, Zhao Jun is attacking the city.

A small number of Hun soldiers were cheering and holding up the ladder, and they were attacking the city in a decent manner.

What made Yi Qulie even more amused was that there were still many Zhao soldiers rushing to the base of the city, and then digging hard under the cover of their companions holding up shields.

What do these Zhao people want to do, are they going to tear down the entire city wall?

I don't know when the tension in Yi Qulie's heart completely disappeared, replaced by a heart full of laughter.

"Could it be that this Li Mu actually only knows how to fight cavalry field battles, and is completely a layman when it comes to siege? That's right, it must be like this!"

Yi Qulie felt relieved.

Although the walls of Yiqu City are not too high, there are [-] defenders here. It is almost impossible for Zhao people to take this city with [-] cavalry without any heavy siege equipment. matter.

Yiqulie has already received the exact news that Qin's army will be able to arrive outside Yiqu City in a few days, and the siege of Yiqu City will naturally be lifted by then.