Chapter 276 Time flies, we are all old friends

Since then, the Moon God of the Yin-Yang School disappeared, and there was an additional Lord Dian Gong in the Palace of King Qi, who was in charge of the palace's internal affairs. Although he was not an official of the outer court, he was also an existence that could not be ignored.

Yue Shen is obviously capable of doing this job. When she was in Yin Yang Family, she had to manage a large number of disciples. Now she has just changed her environment and is still managing people. There is no difference. The only difference is that now Yue Shen also has to deal with Yang Chong, which makes her a little uncomfortable.

Because Yue Shen found that she seemed to be naked in front of Yang Chong, and she couldn't hide any secrets. Moreover, Yang Chong's eyes were only admiring, and he never made any other moves, which made her have some illusions.

Of course, this is just an illusion of the Moon Goddess and has no effect on reality.

Amid the joys and sorrows of countless people, time passed slowly, and Yang Chong also fell into real busyness.

The operation of a country is complex and involves all aspects.

Although the battlefield is dangerous, at least you know that your enemy is right in front of you. However, governing a country is different. Even a small mistake by a decision maker will turn into a disaster for countless people when it comes into reality.

A country is very large, and naturally there are many people in it, including loyal ones, kind ones, bystanders, and naturally there are countless people with ulterior motives.

Yang Chong fully experienced this in the process of governing the State of Qi.

However, although these problems brought some troubles to Yang Chong, they could not be considered big troubles. After all, he conquered Qi State with swords and guns. He seized Qi State by force. When encountering so-called troubles, he could completely suppress them with force.

Therefore, in the following period, although there were occasional incidents of clan extermination in Qi State, there was no major turmoil.

On the contrary, with the implementation of a series of policies in Qi State, Qi State remained stable overall, and the development of some industries was even better than that of the original Qi State.

For example, the Qi State's salt-making industry, which was distributed along the coast, introduced Raoan's salt-drying method because of Yang Chong. The output increased greatly, but the cost was greatly reduced. This positive and negative combination meant a huge increase in profits.

What's more, the salt produced by the solar-dried salt method is of higher quality, and the refined salt is sold to various countries. It is a luxury that only nobles can afford, and the profits are huge.

The salt industry alone was enough for Yang Chong to pay for military expenses every year. You have to know that Qi's military expenditure was huge at that time.

In the process of forming an army, every link, from soldiers to armor and weapons to daily training, consumes a lot of resources. Even though the Fubing system is considered a relatively resource-saving military system, it still requires a lot of resources.

After all, the current Qi State is different from the era when the fubing system was prevalent in later generations. In that era, due to wars, there were few people and a lot of land, and the imperial court controlled a large amount of surplus land resources, which was how the fubing system could be implemented. You must know that the fubing system is linked to the equal-field system.

But the situation in Qi was different at this time. Qi had been closed to the outside world for decades. Although it withdrew from the stage of competing for world hegemony, on the other hand, it also enjoyed decades of peace. During these decades, the population of Qi was increasing, but the territory of Qi was decreasing. This created a situation where there were too many people and too little land.

The key to the implementation of the fubing system is land resources. In this era, for soldiers, no reward is as practical and attractive as land.

Land is the persistence engraved deep in the blood and soul of this agricultural civilization.

Therefore, Yang Chongbian's process of training the palace soldiers was not smooth sailing.

Although most of Qi's land was controlled by wealthy and powerful families, Yang Chong also exterminated many wealthy and powerful families under various reasons, thus controlling a lot of land resources. However, these land resources were only enough for Yang Chong to train 200,000 soldiers. Even if the existing soldiers in Yecheng, Dong'a, Raoan and other places were added, he could only barely expand the military force to 300,000.

Three hundred thousand elite soldiers are certainly a very powerful force that can challenge any country, but this country does not include Qin.

According to Yang Chong's plan, Qi would only be able to confront Qin head-on when its troops expanded to more than 400,000.

Therefore, Yang Chong needs more land resources, but blindly engaging in killing is not an option. Killing is certainly the fastest means, but it is not the best means. Such means may be used in extraordinary times, but if it is used as the only means, it would be a big mistake.

Fortunately, Yang Chong thought of another way. Although this method was a little slower, it was enough for Yang Chong to complete his military organization plan and even exceed the original goal, expanding the palace soldiers to 500,000.

During this process, time passed slowly. During this process, Qin sent troops to help Wei attack Chu. Chu suffered successive defeats and lost all the former territory of Song. It was pushed all the way to Pengcheng and Peixian by the Qin-Wei coalition forces, and only then was it able to barely stabilize the situation.

In order to retaliate against the Qin State and also to contain it, the Chu State even ceded part of the southwest of Nishan, which was originally a city that the Qin State passed by, to the Northern Qi State.

The former Lu State and Qi State had been fighting each other for hundreds of years. Qi State, with stronger national strength, had been unable to conquer Lu. A big reason for this was the mountains that ran across the two countries, making it easier for Lu to defend against attacks from Qi State.

The State of Chu gave several cities at the exit of the Nishan Mountains to the Northern Qi, so that the Northern Qi troops could move freely in the Nishan Mountains. The area southeast of the Nishan Mountains was the Southern Qi that was supported by the Qin State.

It can be said that the State of Chu really hated the State of Qin. If this were the case, it would not have taken the initiative to give the city to Northern Qi to disgust the State of Qin.

Of course, this only benefited Yang Chong. It was not known whether Chu's move could disgust Qin, but it would inevitably be self-defeating, because many of the territories that originally belonged to Qi were now occupied by Chu. If Northern Qi could make Qi return to its peak, these homeland would have to be taken back.

However, these are only local conflicts.

In another direction, the Qin army still attacked Zhao every year, and chose to attack during the farming or harvest time. Of course, the Qin people also needed farming, but Qin had a larger territory and a larger population, so it could completely withdraw part of its troops and launch an attack on Zhao without affecting production.

“Prince Chong of Qi, I really misjudged him. I thought he was just a military man, but I never thought that his ability in governing is so unexpected. Li Si, tell me, was this idea thought up by Prince Chong of Qi himself or by your teacher?” In the Xianyang Palace in Qin State, King Zheng of Qin, who had already regarded Qi State as a great enemy, looked at the intelligence gathered by Luowang with a look of agreement.

At this time, King Zheng of Qin discovered that Yang Chong was actually the same person as him.

The intelligence recorded an event that the King of Qi moved 3,000 powerful households of Qi State to Raoan and exchanged the undeveloped land in Raoan for the powerful people's land.

This approach can be said to be overbearing, but compared to killing people, it seems much milder. The powerful people may not accept it, but can they afford the cost?

But the knife is in the hands of King Qi.

On the contrary, if they accepted it, although they would lose their land and houses, they could take their property to Raoan.

Raoan is a vast area with few people, numerous rivers and frequent floods, and is not suitable for living or farming. But this does not mean that Raoan is really a wasteland.

Raoan is just not suitable for living at this stage, but once it is developed, it will be completely different.

Raoan is a plain area, and the perennial river flooding has brought it fertile soil. As for the flooding caused by the crisscrossing rivers, it can be solved by dredging the rivers and digging more ditches, which can also be used for irrigation.

However, this process takes a long time and the cost is a bit high. Ordinary people may be willing to reclaim land in Raoan, but they do not have the strength. Those powerful people do have enough strength, but they can obviously plunder from the common people. Why should they waste time in Raoan?
It is precisely because of this reality that Raoan has never been developed.

But now Yang Chong forcibly moved the powerful to Raoan. On the one hand, a large number of fields and houses were vacated around Linzi, and on the other hand, it did not make the powerful completely desperate, forcing them to rebel. At the same time, he could use the power of the powerful to develop Raoan. It could be said that he achieved three goals with one stone.

Such a move, even from the perspective of King Zheng of Qin, must be called "brilliant".

At this time, King Zheng of Qin looked at this information and couldn't help but sigh to Li Si.

"My teacher is unconventional in his conduct and his knowledge is so profound that I have never seen anyone like him in my life. But before this, he had never served in any country, so I am not sure about his ability to govern a country." Li Si's answer was a little more cautious.

He had not lived a very comfortable life in the past two years. He had successfully used his knowledge to gain the appreciation of King Zheng of Qin, and was able to enter the decision-making level of Qin, and was about to get a high position.

But at this time, Han Fei also came to Qin, which made Li Si upset.

The Qin State was full of talented people. Although Li Si was proud of his talent, he did not think that he could surpass everyone. If he was jealous of others for this reason, his whole life would probably be filled with jealousy.

As the saying goes, every profession has its specialties. Although Li Si could not beat everyone, he had strengths that no one else could surpass. This was the basis for his foothold in the Qin State.

But the appearance of Han Fei changed this situation. Before, Li Si was good at things that others were not good at, but now Han Fei is better than Li Si at things that he is good at. As a result, his position became embarrassing.

What followed was a subtle change in Li Si's relationship with Han Fei as a teacher and a disciple.

It can be said that Han Fei is now Li Si's nightmare.

It was also because of this that Li Si was even more cautious when facing King Zheng of Qin, fearing that he would make some mistakes, which would make his already bad situation even worse.

Therefore, when facing King Zheng of Qin's questions at this time, his answers were inevitably more cautious and careful.

"I don't have much time left." King Zheng of Qin did not comment on Li Si's answer and turned the subject to other things.

Now Li Si didn't know how to respond.

"Han State can no longer exist. Within two years, I must conquer Zhao State, and then concentrate on conquering Qi State." While Li Si was silent, King Zheng of Qin spoke to himself.

When Li Si heard this, a strange light flashed in his eyes.

There was actually a deadlock between Han Fei and King Zheng of Qin, and that was the State of Han.

King Zheng of Qin aimed at conquering the whole world, and Han was his goal. However, Han Fei was a prince of Han and was determined to maintain the continuation of Han. In this case, no matter how much King Zheng of Qin valued Han Fei, it would be easy for him to make a choice between the whole world and one man.

It was impossible for King Zheng of Qin to change the grand plan of Qin because of Han Fei. Han Fei was also a man of strong temperament. As a result, the conflict between the two on the issue of Han State would be difficult to reconcile.

What was the final result? Naturally, Han Fei lost, and Han Fei's loss also meant that Li Si won.

When Li Si thought of this, he felt that the pressure that had accumulated in his heart for the past two years was gone. Although this was Han Fei's misfortune, Han Fei's misfortune was always much better than his, Li Si's.

Besides, even if Han Fei lost everything, he was still a nobleman. But Li Si was different. He was born in a humble family and had no choice but to struggle.

Yang Chong naturally didn't know what happened in Xianyang thousands of miles away because of him, but he knew that because of him, the Kingdom of Han would inevitably perish early, but this had nothing to do with him.

If Korea had not perished, how could he accept the legacy from Korea?

However, South Korea, as the center of the story, has truly felt the pressure from Qin.

The Qin State increased its troops in Sanchuan County.

Xinzheng, formerly Sima Mansion, now Liu Mansion, Mrs. Hu, who has been widowed for many years, is still as beautiful as before, but her gentle face has a hint of old age, making it lose some of its luster.

"Sister, why are you here?" When Mrs. Hu was admiring herself in the huge courtyard, a slim peach-colored figure came into her sight. The person was her sister, Lady Hu.

"Sister, I have something to discuss with you." Lady Hu, who used to have a smile in her eyes even when she didn't smile, now had a serious look on her face.

Seeing her sister's expression, Mrs. Hu's heart sank. She knew that her sister was not as weak as herself. When faced with big things, her sister was a very decisive person. There was a strong heart beating in her beautiful body, but now?

"Sister, have you encountered any difficulties?" Mrs. Hu ignored her own sadness and asked her sister with concern.

"Sister, we have to consider our way out." Lady Hu said.

"Our way out? Sister, what happened? Did you do something wrong to the king?" Mrs. Hu asked hurriedly.

(End of this chapter)