My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?

Chapter 369 Qin is hoarding grain and I am hoarding knives. Qin is my granary!

How to treat?

Kneel down and watch!

The productivity of the Chang'an plow has exceeded the imagination limit of the kings and ministers of Chu!

But for a while, there was silence in the imperial study room.

After a few breaths, Da Sinong Xiong Ke just said in a deep voice: "This is a sacred item for farming!"

"If what Young Master Qi says is true, this thing will be particularly good at farming in our Chu land."

"If I, the great Chu, get this thing, I will definitely be able to get fertile fields, so that the grain production will increase dramatically and the population will prosper!"

"I advise you to send candidates deep into Qin to explore the details of this plow. You must learn how to make this plow!"

Xiong Ke knew why no one spoke.

However, as the chief agricultural officer of the Chu State, he was in charge of the agricultural affairs of the Chu State, and he bluntly stated that it was his duty to give advice.

He is also a member of the royal family of the Chu Kingdom. He cannot just watch Chu fall behind other countries!

Jingchou spoke slowly: "Chang'an plows are light, so they are easier to transport into the mountains and forests."

"The Changan plow occupies a small area, so it can cultivate narrow land in the mountains."

"The plow in Chang'an can be operated by one ox and one man, allowing small groups of refugees to cultivate acres of land."

"And since it can be managed by one cow and one man, it seems that even if there are no cattle, three men can work together to complete the farming. This is a great joy for thieves who have difficulty obtaining cattle."

Jingchou looked at Xiong Ke and said in a thicker voice, "So I think what Xiong Sinong said is totally wrong."

"This thing is not that it is particularly good at farming in our Chu land, but it is particularly good at farming in places like Yunmengze where thieves gather!"

"If this thing flows into our Chu country, our Chu country will benefit, but the thieves will benefit even more!"

Qu He nodded in agreement: "What Jing Sima said is true."

"The reason why many of the rebels in Chu State cannot endure a long war is because they have no food to eat."

"But if this Chang'an plow is introduced to my country, it will definitely be used by thieves."

"This plow is beneficial, but it does more harm than good to my great Chu!"

The one who knows you best is always your enemy.

The three clans of Qu Jingzhao ruled slaves for hundreds of years.

For more than three hundred years, Qu Jingzhao's clan suppressed thousands of medium- and large-scale slave rebellions.

Looking at the world, Qu Jingzhao and his family can proudly say: No one understands slaves better than us!

Ying Chenglong?

How many slaves did he keep?

How many slaves did he kill?

How many slave rebellions did he put down?

Someone who has never seen a slave in his entire life, how can he understand slaves better than we do?

Ying Chengxuan deliberately used the Chang'an Plow Sword to cut down the superstructure of the Chu Kingdom.

But the Qu Jingzhao clan didn't even know what the Chang'an plow looked like, so they had already judged its significance to slaves based on Xiong Qi's description!

This thing would do far more harm than good to the slave-owning nobles!

They were slave-owning aristocrats, they were not capitalists.

Even if they are given a hundred times the profit, they are still unwilling to sell the rope that hangs them!

Chief Xiong stood up, pointed to the north and said angrily: "Jing Sima, Qu Dazai, do you only have eyes for the thieves in our Chu Kingdom?"

"In recent years, Qin has won successive battles and continued to advance eastward, swallowing Wei and destroying Han."

"Even I, the great Chu State, had to cede all the territory north of Yingshui River."

"If it weren't for Qin's lack of food and grass, last year might have been the day Zhao's demise!"

"The enemy!"

"On the side!"

"Now that Qin has obtained such a powerful tool for farming, in just a few years, Qin will have no worries about famine and can raise troops at will!"

"What about me, Da Chu?"

"More and more depressed!"

Xiong Ke faced the King of Chu with his cud in his hands and solemnly raised his hands: "If we, the great Chu, want to survive, we must rise up!"

"If we don't catch up and acquire the skills of Chang'an's plow, our great Chu will be destroyed!"

The king of Chu sat on the high platform with his cud in his hands, silent.

Jingchou scolded in a deep voice: "Scaremongering! It's all fallacy!"

"If Chang'an's plow really enters Chu, then there will be a great rise of thieves in Chu."

"There will even be more child servants who disobey the rebels, flee into the mountains and forests, and form an army!"

"By then, our country will be in constant civil strife!"

Jingchou solemnly raised his hands and said, "I advise you not to allow Chang'an's plows to flow into Da Chu."

"If anyone dares to smuggle plows from Chang'an into Chu, it's the Yi tribe!"

Seeing Jing Chou and Xiong Ke facing each other tit for tat, the King of Chu had a serious look on his face.

In the eyes of Jingchou and Ying Chengxuan, the Chang'an Plow was a sword that slashed at the superstructure of Chu State.

But in the eyes of King Chu Chu, this was a sword aimed at him!

Why did the King of Chu ascend the throne because he carried the cud? Why was King Han of Chu killed?

The reason is all due to the support of the nobles of Chu State!

And the vast majority of the nobles of Chu State are slave owners!

For the slave-owning class, the Chang'an plow was a deadly poison.

But for any monarch, Chang'an plow is a good way to rejuvenate the country!

The same is true for King Chu of Chu.

Whether the main power group in Chu State was slave owners or large landowners was not important to King Chu of Chu.

Whether Chu State can be strong and prosperous is very important to King Chu of Chu!

Ying Chengyu's sword broke the honeymoon period between King Fuchu and the nobles of Chu.

Let the irreconcilable contradiction between the king and the slave-owning class be exposed!

After a few breaths, the King of Chu held the cud before speaking slowly: "Jing Aiqing said that the plow in Chang'an would do more harm than good to our great Chu, and I deeply believe it."

"Of course, what Xiong Aiqing said is also true."

"The violent Qin is like a tiger or a wolf, and it has coveted our great Chu for a long time."

The King of Chu held his crotch behind his back and said in a solemn voice: "Qin's land is vast but sparsely populated, and the constraints that restrict Qin are always food and population."

"But if the Chang'an Plow is really what Young Master Qi said, as long as the Chang'an Plow is pushed away from Qin, Qin's grain output will at least increase several times."

"This can not only ensure the needs of the Qin State for the expedition, but also support the Qin State to raise more people."

"In more than ten years, the number of people in Qin will be doubled!"

"The Qin Dynasty takes the plow in Chang'an, which is like a tiger with added wings!"

"How should I, the Great Chu, resist?"

The king of Chu did not offend either side and went straight to the core of the problem.

Not to introduce Changan plow?

can.

But I can't just sit back and watch the great Chu fall!

Zhaocen cupped his hands and said: "What the king said is true." "It doesn't take a few years to get the plow in Chang'an, and the grain output of Qin will be doubled."

"This will definitely cause the price of food in Qin to drop significantly, so that we in Chu can purchase a large amount of grain from Qin at a low price to support our people in Chu."

Xiong Ke sneered: "You can obviously use our land in Chu to cultivate more food, but you still have to spend huge sums of money to buy food from Qin?"

"Your Majesty's plan is extremely absurd!"

"Not to mention how much money I, Da Chu, have to pay for food every year."

"If Qin doesn't sell Chu to me, what will happen to Chu?"

“Don’t you hear the policy of ‘Qi Wan Lu Zhen’?!”

In Xiong Ke's opinion, Zhaocen's brain was going crazy!

It is ridiculous to entrust a country's food in the hands of an enemy country.

Do you understand economic war, trade war and food war?

If you don’t understand, just watch "Guanzi" twice more!

Zhaocen said quietly: "If I, the great Chu, don't take the Chang'an plow, all the countries in the world will also take the Chang'an plow."

"Qin does not sell grain to Chu, but all other countries can sell grain to Chu."

"As long as the world's food production skyrockets, the cost of obtaining food for my great Chu will become lighter and lighter."

"I thought that our Da Chu land was not conducive to farming, but it was rich in copper and iron deposits."

"Instead of using the Chang'an plow to cultivate the land, we, the great Chu, should focus on forging weapons, working hard to prepare for war, and regain the lost land!"

"Besides, this is also a strategy to weaken Qin!"

Zhaocen faced the King of Chu with his cud in his hands and bowed his hands, and explained in a deep voice: "I believe that the Chang'an plow will do more harm than good to Qin."

"Qin's method is to weaken the people and lead them to war."

"However, Chang'an's plow allows the people of Qin to have enough to eat without having to win titles. If things continue like this, the people of Qin will surely become addicted to comfort and lose the courage to fight!"

"We, the great Chu, buy grain from Qin and sell all kinds of pleasure things to Qin, which will definitely increase the pleasure of the people of Qin."

"Qin likes plowing and fighting because of the plow in Chang'an, but we, the great Chu, can sharpen our swords at this time."

"When Qin is tired of fighting, we, the great Chu, can raise our troops and go north to seize all the lost territory, and then seize Qin's food!"

"If this is the case, great Chu will be prosperous!"

Zhaocen was not just opposing for the sake of opposing.

The reason why the Qin army was so brave was closely related to the laws of the Qin State and the living environment of the Qin people.

Are there many examples of regiments and ethnic groups that dared to fight and fought well in times of poverty, but turned into soft-footed shrimps and doughy armies after they had no worries about food and clothing, and became prosperous and wealthy?

Countless throughout the ages!

Once the Qin people can farm safely and have enough to eat and drink, how many Qin people are willing to put their heads in their belts to fight for wealth?

Poverty is a weapon that makes people willing to be exploited and even actively ask to be exploited!

If the speed of Qin's reforms cannot keep up with the speed of Chang'an Li's promotion, what Zhaocen said may become a reality!

Jingchou and others' eyes lit up, and they all raised their hands: "I second the proposal!"

Looking at the ministers who all agreed, the King of Chu sighed softly in his heart.

Self-interest is more important than the interests of the country.

The pillars and beams of the Great Chu are all like this, so how can the Great Chu prosper?

For a moment, King Chu Chu suddenly understood that King Chu was brave.

The King of Chu asked with an unchanging expression: "What if Qin takes the initiative to raise troops before the people are rich?"

"The war will consume all the increased food production!"

"The lives of Qin people will not change much. The only change is the increasingly protracted war in Qin!"

The king of Chu pointed out the problem with his words.

Zhaocen's inference may be useful in countries that promote Confucianism or Huang-Lao techniques.

But it is useless to Qin!

Ying Zheng is not the lord who maintains the status quo, but he is actually the hero!

Ying Zheng will definitely make every drop of Qin's blood flow into his fangs and claws, turning it into nourishment for biting the enemy!

Zhaocen narrowed his eyes slightly.

Compared with the overthrow of his own strategy, what concerned him more was the attitude of the King of Chu!

The King of Chu suddenly changed his subject: "I think your plan is a good one."

"But I only take the first step, not the last step."

"We, the great Chu, should not pin our hopes on Qin's own decline, but should take this opportunity to strengthen our great Chu!"

"I, the great Chu, will be able to purchase grain from other countries this year. Based on this batch of grain, we can use this batch of grain to raise a large number of troops, destroy internal traitors, and take back Yunmengze and other places where thieves gather."

"At the same time, we recruit young people and continue to build external roads with the existing big city as the center."

"When the thieves are eliminated and the road is smooth, we will introduce the Chang'an plow!"

The king of Chu made concessions.

First spend money to buy food to save Chu's young manpower, and then use these manpower to spend several years to pacify Yunmengze and other areas where rebels gather, and wipe out the existing rebellious boy servants in the country.

Then roads were built to extend the actual control range of each slave owner, further reducing the space for the child servants to escape.

After protecting the interests of slave owners to the maximum extent, the Changan plow was introduced.

However, Jingchou was still a little dissatisfied. He raised his hands and said solemnly: "It takes a long time to build roads, and many deep mountains in Chu are difficult for the army to pass."

"According to Ling Yin's plan, when the Chang'an plow enters my country, there will be some servants who steal the Chang'an plow and escape into the mountains and forests!"

The King of Chu said firmly: "Then let them escape!"

"A few servants, nothing important."

"I can't let my great Chu lag behind other countries for the sake of a few child servants!"

"Dear ladies!"

The King of Chu stood up and said sincerely: "Look north to the old Han!"

"This year, King An of Han was poisoned, Prince Cheng of Han was killed in battle, and all the dignitaries of Han were either killed or exiled."

"How miserable!"

"Do you, dear ones, want me to follow in the footsteps of my old friend Han?"

Jingchou wanted to remonstrate, but Zhaocen gently shook his head and held his hands solemnly: "Your Majesty is wise!"

King Chu Chu is willing to make concessions for the benefit of the powerful, so the powerful should respond in good faith to King Chu Chu, rather than being aggressive.

The King of Chu is still the King of Chu after all!

And what the King of Chu said about carrying the cud was right.

As long as the Chu State exists, only powerful people like them can continue to exist.

If the Chu Kingdom is destroyed, these powerful people will surely make the same mistakes as the Korean powerful people!

Jingchou and others looked at each other and after thinking for a moment, they also handed over their hands: "Your Majesty is wise!"

(End of this chapter)