When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 496 Marriage with Qi, and then discuss attacking Zhao!
In June of the tenth year of the Qin Dynasty, wheat and other grains had been harvested and put into storage.

From then on, the headache of treating millet diseases changed from the shortage of grain to the shortage of granaries.

Zhengguo Canal has provided great help to the agricultural development of the Guanzhong area, especially the Weihe Plain.

In addition, Yingchuan County and Dong County, established by the old lands of Korea and Wei, are also fertile places rich in food. Some places have even achieved five-year-old crops!
And all of this is inseparable from the contribution of Master Xun.

Master Xun was not the leader of a family among hundreds of families, but he had more prestige than the leader of a family. Naturally, he shouldered the task of preparing for the establishment of the Great Qin Academy.

Since he had to be responsible for these affairs, Ying Zheng took advantage of the situation and found a reason to appoint Master Xun as Shangqing. At the same time, he expanded the royal library in Zhangtai Palace. There were two buildings in total, named Tianlu Pavilion and Shiqu Pavilion. Master Xun was a doctor and a historian, and was responsible for managing two library libraries.

In this regard, Master Xun happily accepted the order.

Tianlu Pavilion is not just a simple royal library of the Qin State, but contains the remaining books after the wars in the library libraries of the Qin State, Korea, and Zhou Dynasty.

The collection of books in the Zhou Dynasty alone was enough to seduce the hearts of many masters in the world who were called "Zi". The Taoist ancestor Laozi and the Confucian sage Confucius could not resist these temptations and even fought over it.

And that's not all, it's just the books in Tianlu Pavilion.

The other Shiqu Pavilion is a library that collects hundreds of classics and basic exercises sent by various schools of thought as needed for the establishment of the Great Qin Academy. It contains the essence of hundreds of schools of thought, which is of great significance.

It seems that the official positions of Shishi and Doctor are just low-level official positions, but they are of extraordinary significance. If he is not a great sage recognized by hundreds of schools of thought, he will never be qualified to hold such official positions, otherwise Master Xun will not accept the order happily.

As soon as he received the official edict from Ying Zheng, Master Xun couldn't wait to enter Tianlu Pavilion and Shiqu Pavilion. He forgot to eat and sleep. If it hadn't been for the palace ban, Master Xun would have lived there.

For a great sage like Master Xun, Ying Zheng was not worried that he had any evil intentions. He simply asked the Shaofu to build a courtyard near Tianlu Pavilion and Shiqu Pavilion for Master Xun to live in, and allowed Master Xun to bring books there. In the courtyard, Master Xun was also given the right to enter and exit the palace at will.

It is precisely for this reason that Master Xun discovered the method of planting rotation when he was reading farmers' classics.

Originally, the Guanzhong land where the Qin State was located was fertile, but many lands such as Longxi County, Shang County, and Taiyuan County could only harvest wheat once a year due to climate, soil, water conservancy and other factors.

Master Xun discovered that there were many explanations on planting rotation, land raising and land use in farmers' classics, so Master Xun concentrated on studying and took several disciples to tour the land of Qin, and discovered that beans could be grown all year round. The land is often surprisingly fertile and soft, making it a rare fertile and fertile land.

After considering the actual situation in many places, Master Xun proposed that those lands that could only harvest wheat once a year should implement a rotation system of beans and cereals.

It is further subdivided into many rotation systems such as "mai under grass" (planting wheat after millet harvest) and "planting beans under wheat". In short, beans are used to maintain and improve the fertility and softness of the land. This increases the yield of wheat, which can only be harvested once a year, and can also harvest a batch of legume crops.

But the funny thing is that these peasant classics have been forgotten by the peasants and shelved. They have studied internal fighting and martial arts for many years, completely abandoning the agriculture that is the foundation of the peasantry.

These principles, which had been discovered by predecessors, were forgotten by later generations. However, they were discovered by Master Xun, the Confucian master, from classics.

However, Xunzi was not a man proficient in agriculture after all, so the implementation and further improvements were left to the Taicang Order under Zhi Su Neishi, who was proficient in agriculture.

While the grain harvest was good, Qin's smelting technology was also improving once again in cooperation with the Mohists.The Mohists built defense equipment for the Qin State. Each city of the Qin State installed many Mohist defense equipment according to local conditions, formulated defensive measures, and forged a set of thick and hard armor and shields for the Qin State.

The Gongshu family is not far behind. Although it is not as big as the Mohist family, with the cooperation of the Shaofu order and the tilt of resources, the number of Gongshu family disciples has also experienced a surge!

Gongshujia built many siege equipment for Qin. For example, the bat wings used in the previous siege of Xinzheng have been mass-produced.

Although Gongshujia's siege equipment was expensive and the manufacturing process was slow, it was gradually distributed to every army of the Qin army, forging an extremely sharp Qin sword for the Qin state.

In terms of diplomacy, Qi, the country that Qin was most worried about, received an invitation from Ying Zheng to celebrate his ten years in office. Regardless of the obstruction of the officials, Qi Wangjian went to Xianyang to participate in the celebration and personally toasted and sang for Ying Zheng.

The political signal sent by Qi State was undoubtedly to show the fact that it would not be at odds with Qin State, and after the banquet was over, Ying Zheng and Qi Wang Jian also talked for a long time.

In the end, Qin and Qi announced an alliance, and King Yingzheng of Qin married Princess Liqiu, the daughter of King Jian of Qi, as his concubine, and she became the concubine of Qi.In addition to the betrothal gift, he also gave King Jian of Qi ten times of gold, jade, and jewelry as a gift, hoping that the two countries would always have a good alliance, and promised that if any country invades Qi, Qin will attack it with all the strength of the country!

Of course, as a condition, Qi State must not be enemies of Qin State, nor may it help anyone who is an enemy of Qin State in any form.

With the abundant harvest of food, the improvement of military equipment, and the marriage alliance with Qi, Ying Zheng could no longer restrain his inner ambitions, and made up his mind to activate Qin's giant war machine again in the tenth year of his accession to the throne. , make great achievements!

And Ying Zheng's target is still Qin's mortal enemy Zhao!
After all, Ying Zheng is also a human being, and he also has seven emotions and six desires.Ying Zheng naturally wanted to vent the fire of revenge in his heart as soon as possible after suffering humiliation when he was held hostage by Zhao State since he was a child.

Moreover, Zhao Ji, who had not been involved in politics for many years, rarely left Ganquan Palace to participate in Qin's great court meetings.

"In the past, I and the king were in trouble in the State of Zhao as hostages. We worried all day and night and were humiliated by the Zhao people. If I and the king had not endured the humiliation and endured the heavy burden, and Prime Minister Lu Zhao Ting fought hard, how would there be a chance for our mother and son to return to the State of Qin?"

Zhao Ji wore the most formal black phoenix robe and the most noble and gorgeous makeup. Her face was calm and intimidating, carrying a majestic pressure.

With those phoenix eyes smeared with red eyeshadow slightly narrowed, Zhao Ji glanced at the officials in the hall who opposed the attack on Zhao, and asked: "Could it be that our King and Queen Mother of Qin are allowed to be humiliated at will?"

"If that's the case, you can just join Zhao as ministers and help Zhao Yan bully us orphans and widowed mothers. Anyway, Qin State doesn't dare to do anything to Zhao State!"

Zhang Ji, who was asked to serve by Zhao Ji, quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was about to say that Zhao Ji was the Queen Mother of Qin after all. She had been in charge of the power of Qin for several years, and she had a graceful, noble and maternal temperament.

As a result, what Zhao Ji said in the next sentence was a bit surprising.

The first sentence is like what the mother of a country said, but the second sentence... is a bit like a street shrew playing rogue.

Moreover, this sentence is a bit heart-wrenching. It not only accuses these ministers who opposed the attack on Zhao of being disloyal, but also places Zhao Ji and Ying Zheng in the vulnerable position of orphans and widowers. It also secretly satirizes Those ministers who remained neutral and the military generals were incompetent.

If Ying Zheng had said this, several civil servants and generals would have stood up and committed suicide in public, with blood splattering three feet in protest.

But this was said by the Queen Mother Zhao Ji... Do you really want to argue with women?
Moreover, it is not a decent thing to be looked down upon by a woman and choose to spill blood. Therefore, in an instant, the originally neutral courtiers and silent military generals stood up.

Xianyang Palace, the place of great dynasty, is like a pot of hot oil, and Zhao Ji's words are like a ladle of water. The oil pot boils instantly, and the voices of the ministers calling for battle can be heard endlessly, like the sound of hot oil splashing.

Of course, the war between Qin and Zhao could not be just for this reason.

In private, the dignified King of Qin was bullied in the Zhao Kingdom with the Queen Mother when he was young. When the king is humiliated, the country is humiliated. How can this revenge not be avenged?
Yu Gong, although Qin and Zhao have the same ancestors, the wars between Qin and Zhao have never stopped. Especially after King Zhaoxiang succeeded to the throne, there were many wars between Qin and Zhao. The border cities also changed hands several times, and once broke out In a life-and-death battle like the Battle of Changping, the fate of the country was at stake, and the Qin State suffered heavy casualties.

Moreover, Qin had been preparing for this war for two years.

The Qin State married Mi Hua, the daughter of Mi Qi, who was born in the royal family, and was considered to be married to the Chu State. She also had close contacts with the Chu Ling Yin Li Yuan, restored the old alliance with the Chu State, and would not send troops to interfere with the Qin State to destroy Zhao.

Of course, Chu State was naturally not willing to sit back and watch Qin State destroy Zhao, but unfortunately in that final battle, almost all of Chu State's elite were lost.

The formation of an elite team cannot be accomplished in two or three years.

The army trained in this way is, at best, a good army that obeys orders and prohibitions.

The Shadow Tiger Legion, the Thunder Leopard Legion, and the Tenglong Legion are all battle-hardened and powerful forces. Those soldiers who have been trained for two or three years and have not been in battle or baptized by blood and fire cannot be called elites at all.

Therefore, the Chu State focused on Baiyue and Wei, who were often in trouble, and used Baiyue and Wei as whetstones to train their troops and step up their efforts to build an elite force.

On the other hand, the State of Qin sent the State of Yan a lot of weapons and armor that had been eliminated by the Qin army, as well as part of the money, to encourage the State of Yan to attack Zhao.

Even though what was sent was only the weapons and armor eliminated by the Qin army, they were also high-quality products made by Qin Mo.

However, compared to the high-quality products supported by the forging technology provided by the Mojia General Academy, these weapons and armors are somewhat behind, but they are also a considerable aid to the Yan State.

No one would object to the large number of weapons and armor, even for the Yan State, which has rich iron ore resources and developed iron smelting technology. Sometimes weapons and armor are also a kind of hard currency between countries. Just like the status of grain and salt.

Before the Qin State sent troops, the Zhao State actually chose to attack the Yan State, which was intensifying its troops, and besieged Liyang City, an important border town on the Zhao Yan border!
Yan State took the initiative to ask for help from Qin State, hoping that Qin State could attack Zhao State from behind.

Although it is not as good as the time arranged to attack Zhao State now, it is still a good opportunity to attack Zhao State!

(End of this chapter)