Chapter 1280: Carrying on the Past and Opening up the Future (One Hundred and Seventy) Where Is the Way?

Qu Zhong took a deep breath, "Although this is just your guess, I think you must have started to make some arrangements for this. Some time ago, you sent Zhao Lin to Yingchuan to meet Tan Feng just for this matter. ?”

Huang Xie smiled and said, "I can't always hide it from you. I can see Zhao Lin's true purpose of going to Yingchuan at a glance. Yes, I am making arrangements in this regard. Zhao Lin went to Yingchuan just to test Tan Feng. "

Qu Zhong frowned, "Are you trying to win over Tan Feng for my use? To be honest, I have reservations about this. I don't like Tan Feng. Although he is talented, he is immoral and capricious. He was born with a bone in the back of his head and is a complete egoist. If you win over this person, you may be feeding a tiger into trouble and hurting yourself. "

"{Pig}Zhudao{小} said 3.zhu I feel the same way about this. Tan Feng, just like the evaluation given by the Taiwei, is nothing more than for us, as long as he is talented and can be We can just use him. Whether he is virtuous or not is none of my business."

"Just using it?" Qu Zhong asked.

"Of course." Huang Xie nodded and said, "Tan Feng is a talented person. He may not have noticed what Lu Chao did, but this person didn't say a word. Instead, when he arrived at Fan Sui and Yingchuan, At that time, Fan Sui returned to Xianyang and sent troops to escort him at the risk of offending Lu Chao. Do you think he is selfless? I don't believe it anyway."

Qu Zhong was a little stunned.

"In Yingchuan, Tan Feng used Fan Sui's name to vigorously implement reforms. Yingchuan's powerful people were exhausted by the war, and there were not many left. Tan Feng used Fan Sui to almost wipe out all the Li school figures in Yingchuan. , which allowed him to achieve today's achievements in Yingchuan. Do you know what Zhao Lin saw when he went to Yingchuan? The economic relationship between Yingchuan under Tan Feng and the Han Dynasty was extremely close. Zhao Lin almost thought it was a country, and Tan Feng took advantage of this convenience to turn Yingchuan into a distribution center for commerce and trade between Qin and Chu, thus amassing a lot of wealth. This money was turned into military expenses, weapons, and food by Tan Feng. What do you think he wanted to do?" Huang Xie sighed.

"What does he want to do?" Qu Zhong asked.

"If the government of Qin is clear and the generals are united, Tan Feng's actions in Yingchuan will be a demonstration area for Fan Sui's reform. It is a model of a strong army and will inevitably become a model for the King of Qin. In turn, if the Qin court If it collapses, or as I said before, Lu Chao does have evil intentions, then with Tan Feng's strength, he can advance and attack, and become a powerful force for the court to attack Lu Chao, and I'm afraid Lu Chao can defend. Don't you dare to ignore him? If I think more sinisterly, or this person wants Qin Ting to fight to the death with Lu Chao, he will benefit from it. Don't forget how Gao Yuan made his fortune in the first place? "Tan Feng is almost copying Gao Yuan's path to success." Huang Xie raised his head to the sky. "Gao Yuan, Tan Feng, Lu Chao, the heroes of this generation. Why are they all from Yandi?"

Listening to Huang Xie’s analysis,

Qu Zhong only felt shuddering and his heart was sinister. It's obvious.

"So, Tan Feng spared no effort to send Fan Sui back to Xianyang, but he also had his own little thoughts?"

"Does this need to be said?" Huang Xie said with a smile: "The success of Fan Sui's reform in Yingchuan was based on the deterrence of Tan Feng's saber. In this special place of Yingchuan, there is a possibility of success. , but if the Qin State is exposed to the whole country, it will be in trouble. Tan Feng will not be unaware of this. Only Fan Sui is probably still complacent about Yingchuan's success, thinking that he can generalize it. Will it work nationwide?”

"So, isn't Tan Feng more insidious than Lu Chao? And he does it in a less eye-catching way. Lu Chao has now made it clear that he will fight against Qin Ting, and Tan Feng, I'm afraid Fan Sui will still regard him as Come for support!”

Huang Xie laughed loudly, "If Fan Sui succeeds, then Tan Feng will indeed be his strong support. But if Fan Sui fails, Tan Feng will not be afraid of giving him another hard push on the back."

"We still want to win over such a ruthless person?" Qu Zhong said dissatisfied.

"It is precisely because he is so ruthless that I am willing to spend money to win over him. Taiwei, don't you think it would be good to use him to deal with Gao Yuan and deal with the Han Dynasty?" Huang Xie smiled and said: "I guess it will be over by then. It was Qin that collapsed, but Tan Feng could still live happily. By then, Qin would no longer be his backer, and Tan Feng would never be able to surrender to Gaoyuan. At that time, who else could he rely on if he didn't rely on us? He can't be our friend, but do you still mind if he becomes a knife in our hands?" Looking at Qu Zhong's somewhat moved expression, Huang Xie continued: "So now, I'm not afraid to sharpen this knife even more. Sharper."

Qu nodded and said, "For planning in the temple, I am not far away from the chief assistant, but Tan Feng is like a double-edged sword, which can hurt the enemy as well as himself. The chief assistant needs to be careful."

"In the past, those people did not understand Tan Feng, including me, of course, but now, I have figured out this person thoroughly. If he wants to be my enemy again, he is overestimating his own capabilities. But don't worry, Lieutenant. ." Huang Xie said proudly.

"These things are free for the chief minister to worry about. I just need to train my troops well." Qu Zhong said.

"This is the most important part." Huang Xie said: "Speak one thousand, say ten thousand. In the end, you always have to speak on the battlefield. When soldiers meet, it is the captain who relies on me. Apart from these conspiracy calculations, the only thing I can do is to be the logistics manager for you, Taiwei. No matter what, I will try my best to satisfy everything the army needs. A strong army is the foundation for the survival of Da Chu. . Otherwise, everything is false. The Han Dynasty is strong, and no one can defeat it. I hope Taiwei can change this situation. Everything I do now is to win enough for Taiwei. Two years ago, although we won a game, that game was not enough to change the situation of the enemy being strong and we being weak. Instead, it made the Han people more wary of us. If the two sides fight again, I am afraid they will not be like this. "It's easy." Huang Xie sighed, "Our country has been at peace for many years. Even when the Qin State was at its most powerful, it did not dare to attack the Chu army. It has been at peace for a long time and has almost forgotten how to fight. Although there are many soldiers, , but it is large and useless, and it is a waste of money and food. Two years ago, Qu Wan abolished more than half of the local guards in Linyi in one fell swoop, which shocked me. It turns out that our army is no longer able to be used. "

"The chief assistant is right. In the past two years, apart from training the new army, the most important thing I have done is to eliminate the weak and eliminate the weak. So far, there are only thirty soldiers left in the army of millions. Ten thousand people, but it is no exaggeration to say that the combat effectiveness of these three hundred thousand people is far greater than the previous one million."

"With 300,000 people, how many can be brought to the front of Han?" Huang Xie asked.

Qu Zhong frowned slightly and said, "Chief Assistant, the barbarians in the south need an army to suppress the border with Qin. Previously, I planned to withdraw some troops, but now that you have analyzed it like this, I am afraid that there needs to be reinforcements there. Calculating this Calculated, the number that can be deployed to the opposite side of Han will never exceed 100,000 troops. However, if the troops are good but not numerous, 100,000 troops will be enough as a regular defensive force. When war breaks out, it will be difficult to deploy additional troops and generals. Not too late."

"Sometimes I really admire Gao Yuan. In the Han Kingdom, except for the Xiongnu and the Donghu, there are other races that are no less big than me. However, these foreigners are willing to be used by Gao Yuan and become his With the help of others, we still have to divide our troops to suppress these barbarians. If you are not careful, they will stab you in the back. In terms of the ability to govern the country, Gao Yuan is far better than me." Huang Xie sighed: "Mr. Lieutenant, I have carefully studied Gao Yuan's methods of governing the country, and what I have learned is really not worth mentioning, but this is what I can never do. "

"I wonder what Taiwei got?" Qu Zhong asked curiously: "Since we know its key points, why can't you extract its essence and use it for me?"

"Inducing them for profit!" Huang Xie said calmly: "To put it bluntly, Gao Yuan makes these people eat well, wear warm clothes, and have money in their pockets. It may be simple, but I can't do it. I, the great Chu, are said to be rich. , but there is extreme inequality between rich and poor, and regional differences are huge. I simply cannot be as equal as Gao Yuan. Do you know how much subsidies the central government of Han Dynasty allocates to those remote areas every year? Not only does he not provide these? Can we do this by taxing local governments and instead pouring money into these places?”

Qu Zhong was stunned for a long time, and finally shook his head.

"Zhao Lin saw in Yingshui that the local county magistrate gave a monthly subsidy of one yuan to the elderly over sixty years old, two yuan to those over seventy years old, and three yuan to those over eighty years old. Their one yuan is equivalent to ours. One tael of silver, can we do this?"

Qu Zhong shook his head again.

"The Han State has never collected corvees, built cities, and built roads. The labor required has been paid on a daily basis. Can we do this? Gao Yuan promulgated the Han Citizenship Law. As long as the Han people are foreigners, they have equal rights regardless of race. Rights, can we do it?”

Qu Zhong's head shook like a rattle.

"Since we can't do it, we have to face up to the gap with them and find ways to make up for it in other ways." Huang Xie sat down, his eyes full of worry. "I have met many Han businessmen. These people are extremely keen on politics. They talk about the important affairs of the Han country. The recognition of their country in their words makes me secretly shocked. The Han people are rich and the country is poor. It seems unbelievable to us. I talked to these businessmen about this, and what do you think they said?”

"They said that as long as the King of Han needed it, it would not be a pity to ask them to spend all their wealth, because they knew that as long as Han was strong, they would be able to earn it back soon. The amount of national debt issued by Han every year was huge. But we never worry that no one wants them. If we do this again, how many people will trust us and buy these national bonds without reservation to relieve the country’s worries?”

Qu Zhong was speechless.

"I don't have any hope for defeating the Han Dynasty now. I just hope that we can hold on to this family fortune." Huang Xie said slowly: "While guarding the family fortune, make changes little by little. Our generation has no hope of defeating Han, but as long as it exists, as long as we are alive, there is hope. Or if their kings become fatuous or cruel, and changes occur within Han, then we can see hope. "Huang Xie said a little bleakly.

"So, where is the road for me, Da Chu?" Qu Zhong looked a little miserable.

"Where is the road? The road is in our hands, live and exist!" (To be continued...)