A few days later, at the end of July, Liyang received a letter from Ying Qian.

It was similar to Ying Qian's reaction. When the King of Qin learned that Xihe County of Wei was violated by Lin Hu, he was gloating, but he was only limited to gloating.

After all, the King of Qin also knew that the Central Plains was more sensitive to foreign tribes. Anyone who dared to "collude with foreign tribes" or used "foreign tribes to attack" would definitely be the ending of "the world is fighting together".

He half-jokingly discussed with the Zuo Shuchang Wei Yang and said, "If Wei is willing to ced the Shangjun to me, the Qin Dynasty may send troops to expel Lin Hu for him."

"Shangjun..." Wei Yang frowned and thought about the words of the King of Qin.

To be fair, in the strategy formulated by Wei Yang for Qin, he did not have much thought about Shangjun in Wei. After all, Shangjun was too remote, and the local situation was even more desolate and poor than that in Qin. Moreover, after getting Shangjun, Qin had to replace Wei to guard the north for the Central Plains and endure harassment from foreign races such as Lin Hu and Lou Fan. It felt that it was not too profitable.

Of course, it is not entirely true if there is no benefit. After all, the area of ​​Shangjun is a natural pasture. After Qin obtained Shangjun, he could grazle war horses, cattle and sheep there. Moreover, after Qin obtained Shangjun, it was like forming a three-sided bread clip for Yiqu, which was conducive to Qin's removal of Yiqu, a major concern.

In short, in Wei Yang's opinion, it was a matter of seizing Shangjun that he could do something when he had nothing to do, but the priority was far from being able to seize the entire Hedong County. After all, Hedong County of Wei was so rich that everyone in Qin was coveted.

But then again, isn’t Qin now ‘nothing to do’? Can’t he jointly attack Wei with Lin Hu?

Based on this point, Wei Yang felt that it would be bad to discuss with Wei State.

Of course, what we said here is that Qin State cannot launch a foreign war for the time being, and it is not that it is really nothing to do. In fact, Wei Yang is planning to implement the second reform in Qin State to further weaken the power of princes, nobles and even local clans, and to grasp the resources of the whole country - it is best to implement the comprehensive official business of important resources such as salt, rice, iron, and other important resources, as well as the comprehensive control of iron, copper, and coal and other minerals, just like Shaoliang.

It has to be said that Shaoliang's salt and rice specialty and his comprehensive control of minerals are really Taihe's appetite.

In the past two years, Wei Yang has been paying attention to the development of Shaoliang through travel letters. It was not because he had any precautions for Shaoliang, but because he was very interested in Shaoliang's development model.

Why has Shaoliang developed so rapidly in the past two years? He believes that it is because Shaoliang implements all-round resource control and official business.

For example, the Mo Zhuang Bureau is going to make steel recently. As long as you report to Dong Liangjun, the prime minister, you will start mining immediately, iron ore and coal mines at the same time, and open wherever you want, because Shaoliang's mineral deposits, land and other resources belong to the state.

But this set did not work in Qin, because Qin was also a fiefdom system, and princes and nobles and local clans occupied a large amount of minerals. Even if Wei Yang, as the Zuo Shuchang of Qin, wanted to start mining and develop smelting industry, he had to discuss with princes and nobles and local clans. Not to mention that the efficiency was far less than that of Liang Gao. Sometimes the two sides could not reach an agreement due to interest issues, and in the end they had to make trouble in front of the King of Qin, and even quarreled in front of the King of Qin.

This made Wei Yang feel that he was bound with his hands and could not promote development as quickly as Shao Liang. Therefore, he decided to implement the second reform to further weaken the power of princes and nobles and local clans, and integrate important resources into the hands of the country like Shao Liang.

This is certainly not an easy task, or even extremely dangerous.

Because of this, Wei Yang's relationship with the princes and nobles of the Ying surname represented by Ying Qian, as well as with important officials of the Qin State such as Gan Long and Du Zhi, became worse and worse. Fortunately, the King of Qin understood his good intentions and gave him a lot of support and help. This was probably the only driving force for Wei Yang to implement the second reform.

On the eighth day of the eighth month, Wei Yang arrived in Anyi. First, he granted Ying Qian the power to truce with Wei at any time on behalf of the King of Qin. Then he went to Quwo, invited Pang Juan and Xia Yangjun to make the suggestion of the King of Qin.

Xia Yangjun refused as soon as he heard this.

Just kidding, do you think Shangjun is a county of the level of Heyang County, Shaoliang? How big is Heyang County in Shaoliang? It’s just two counties. Although they are two counties that actually occupy a relatively large area, no matter how you fight, how can you compare Shangjun with fifteen counties?

Although most of the fifteen counties in Shangjun are rural, and only a few hundred households are killed in one county, the key is that most of the fifteen counties are located on the key land of the high plateau where Shangjun is located. Rather than being a rural-scale county town, it is actually a fortress used to monitor the entire Shangjun to promptly learn about the invasion of Linhu and other foreign tribes.

More importantly, there is a vast pasture in Shangjun area, which is an important pasture for Wei to grazle war horses and cattle and sheep. How could it be ceded to Qin just because Qin was willing to send troops to expel Lin Hu for Wei?

It would be better to hire Shaoliang to take the fifteen counties of Shangjun to hire Qin to send troops. At least Shaoliang would not let the Wei State ced the fifteen counties in one breath.

Is your Qin army stronger than Shaoliang?

Others don’t know that Xia Yang Jun is very clear. Shao Liang’s army put aside the disadvantages in terms of numbers, and compared with Qin soldiers, Wei soldiers are no less powerful than Qin soldiers.

Furthermore, there are military soldiers in Wei State and there are strange soldiers in Shaoliang State. What do you have in Qin State?

Regarding the elites of the Three Kingdoms, in fact, Qin is at the bottom here, and it depends entirely on the stimulation of the sea of ​​people and the military merits and ranks.

Therefore, Xia Yang Jun refused Wei Yang without hesitation and asked Wei Yang to return to Liyang unhappily.

Of course, before returning to Qin, Wei Yang visited Shaoliang again and saw Shaoliang's rapid development with his own eyes with envy - the Qin State he wanted to reform was probably like Shaoliang.

In late August, nearly a month after Long Jia led 30,000 Wei troops to assist Xihe County, Pang Juan and Xia Yangjun finally received Long Jia's first battle report.

When I saw this battle report, Pang Juan and Xia Yangjun were simply unbelievable.

Because according to the war report, Long Jiana, which contained 30,000 Wei soldiers, had no results in nearly ten days after arriving in Xihe County. Not only did the several encirclements and suppressions organized by the front and rear failed, but even thousands of people were shot and killed by Lin Hu.

In contrast, Lin Hu had almost few casualties.

Damn it, the Wei army was just like this kind of casualties when facing the Shaoliang soldiers. Could it be that Lin Hu were all Shaoliang soldiers?

"The key is horsepower."

Pang Juan frowned and said to Xia Yangjun: "Lin Hu is all knights, good at riding and shooting, and has no trace of coming and going. Maybe he is still in Xi County today, and will be one or two hundred miles away tomorrow. Long Jia can't catch them, so it will be useless to send many troops."

"yes."

Xia Yangjun nodded with a headache. The Central Plains army was at a disadvantage when fighting against the nomadic cavalry of the nomadic cavalry. It was a bit difficult to catch up with the camps of the Linhu tribes, unless they found the camps of the Linhu tribe and used a surprise attack to remove them. Otherwise, it would be a bit difficult to catch a group of alien cavalry on the vast grassland.

In this regard, the Central Plains countries generally adopt the stupidest but most effective method, sending a large number of troops to advance step by step, compressing the range of activities of those foreign cavalry little by little, and ultimately forcing the other side to retreat.

However, this stupid method consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but the effect is not good, and it cannot seriously damage those foreign tribes, achieving the goal of not daring to invade the Central Plains.

In most cases, these foreign races are driven away this year and come back next year, just like using the Central Plains as a granary, which is very annoying.

If it were not for the threat from Qin, Wei would certainly be willing to give up supplies and troops, but now Hedong has not been recaptured, and more than 200,000 Qin troops are eyeing Hedong. Not to mention Pang Juan, Xia Yang Jun would not dare to draw too many troops to Xihe County to expel Lin Hu.

What should I do?

Just when he was in a headache, Xia Yang Jun suddenly thought of the thought he had seen Wei Yang before and said to Pang Juan: "How about asking for help from Shaoliang?"

"Shaoliang?" Pang Juan was stunned for a moment and didn't react for a while.

"No," Xia Yangjun nodded and said, "The above 15 counties ask for help from Qin State for the price, so it is better to ask for help from Shaoliang. I guess one or two cities can move Li He."

"Is this a show of goodwill to Shao Liang?"

Pang Juan glanced at Xia Yangjun, frowned and said, "I can go to Xihe in person..."

Xia Yang Jun shook his head and said, "Mr. Pang still needs to be in charge of Hedong. As for what you said to show kindness to Shaoliang, I do not deny that I do have such an idea... Shaoliang is currently more pro-Qin than we are. The key is that Qin has assigned Heyang to Shaoliang in the past. Although Heyang was the city of our Wei Kingdom in the past, the people of Shaoliang were grateful to Qin. Moreover, in recent years, Qin has often threatened Shangjun. Given the inconvenient journey between Shangjun and Hedong, it is difficult for Hedong to support Shangjun. In the long run, Shangjun will not fall into the hands of Qin. Since this is the case, why not take advantage of this opportunity to ced several counties in Shangjun to Shaoliang, such as... Dingyang."

Pang Juan showed a little surprise on his face when he heard this, and said with a smile: "The intention of Xia Yang is too exposed... Xia Yang just gave Diaoyinyi to Shaoliang."

"Oh? Is it so obvious?" Xia Yangjun asked, then laughed out loud.

It turned out that Dingyang was located on the east bank of the upper reaches of the Luo River. The Diaoyin of Wei was across the river. In recent years, the Qin army attacked Shangjun, and most of them took this route. If Shaoliang accepted these two cities, the Qin and Wei were basically not bounded in the Shangjun area in the north. When Qin wanted to attack Shangjun again, they had to cross the Diaoyin and Dingyang that had been handed over to Shaoliang. With Shaoliang's tough foreign policy, the Qin army's move was tantamount to breaking Shaoliang.

If Qin chooses to negotiate with Shaoliang... Shaoliang advocates that it is basically impossible to agree to lend the country to Qin and let Qin send troops to attack Shangjun.

In other words, the Wei State gave up two cities, but greatly ensured the safety of the other thirteen cities. Even in Pang Juan's opinion, this was a very good idea.

But as he said, the method of using Shaoliang to block the knife is too obvious, and Shaoliang will not be able to see the profound meaning.

"It's okay to try it."

Xia Yang Jun said seriously: "Although Lin Hu's invasion of our country this time does not necessarily require the assistance from Shaoliang, if this can be promoted, it will also help improve the relationship between the two countries. Shaoliang has been close to Qin in the past two years and is completely related to the so-called "sheep and crossbow trade" between them. On the contrary, although our Wei State has recognized the independence of Shaoliang, it has not had any trade deals with Shaoliang so far. In the long run, Shaoliang will definitely be close to Qin and far away from our Wei State."

Pang Juan nodded in all his thoughts, then chuckled: "As long as Xia Yang Jun can convince Daliang, Pang has no objection."

Hearing this, Xia Yang Jun bowed and said, "But I hope the county magistrate will report to Daliang Lin Hu's power so that I can convince the king."

Pang Juan thought for a while, and finally nodded slightly.

"good."
Chapter completed!