448th Spring and Autumn to the Warring States Period

Mao Jiuzhong has a strong military talent.

In a short period of eight years from 1566 to 1574, Mao Jiuzhong made countless achievements on the front line of the Vietnam-Wu War and quickly won the honor of the world famous general. When Mao Jiusheng and the noble forces tried to overthrow Mao Sigu's political reform and designated heir, Mao Jiuzhong decisively led more than a thousand elites to return to China and helped Mao Jiusheng capture the twelfth state official of the Wei state in one fell swoop. If it had not been for Mao Jiuzhong to leave the country for eight years without a political foundation, it would not even be Mao Jiusheng's turn to inherit Wei Guoguo.

Mao Jiuzhong became famous in the State of Wu, and he liked to call himself a "disciple of Qi Xiang", and he had a special interest relationship with Qi Jiguang's cabinet. Perhaps I want to make use of Mao Jiuzhong, Earl of Shuofang, to make a high-profile publicity about the significance of Mao Jiuzhong's visit, even exaggeratingly claiming that Mao Jiuzhong's visit symbolized "the opening ceremony of the new relationship between Wu and Wei."

The cabinet level paid attention to Mao Jiuzhong's visit, and the Hangzhou government and the Imperial College naturally paid more attention. Regardless of convention, Guozijian announced that it would stop all graduation assignments and require all supervising students to unconditionally cooperate with the reception. As an ordinary graduate, Wei Dongsheng could only stay in the Imperial College to wait for Mao Jiuzhong to arrive.

The reception is trivial and boring, and nothing is worth talking about.

Only when Qi Jiguang and Mao Jiuzhong appeared, Wei Dongsheng was slightly interested.

Qi Jiguang's interest lies in his contrast with the real world. In the history of the Zhu Ming Dynasty in the real world, after Zhang Juzheng passed away from illness, Qi Jiguang was first transferred to Guangdong by the court, then impeached and dismissed from office, and eventually died of illness at home. However, in this time and space, Qi Jiguang has risen because of the Yuewu War. He not only compiled the world-famous Wu Wuzu phalanx, but also presided over the Wu's cabinet under the prestige of Qi, which is more beautiful than the real world.

Mao Jiuzhong's interest lies in his madness. When facing all the supervising students, Mao Jiuzhong was very modest in the first half. He praised Qi Jiguang's Wu Wuzu phalanx reform as his "disciple of Qi Xiang" and praised Qi Jiguang's Nantang supervising reform, as if he were a humble gentleman. However, this is by no means the true face of Mao Jiuzhong. In the second half of the speech, Mao Jiuzhong suddenly revealed: "Our age belongs to the ocean and artillery. The State of Wei not only needs artillery, but also sails to the ocean. Wei State needs the ocean, and must own the ocean."

Wei Fan’s fiefs were mainly in Inner Mongolia, and the territories covered the real-world cities of Datong and Shuozhou in Shanxi Province and Alxa League, Wuhai City, Ordos City, Bayannaoer City, Baotou City, Hohhot City, Ulan Chabu City, Inner Mongolia, Xilin Gol League and other places. Hulunbuir City, Xing'an League, Tongliao City, and Chifeng City in Inner Mongolia did not belong to Wei State. Because the four lands lacked conquest value when Wei Guo established the feudal clan, when Wei Guo wanted to conquer these four lands, Chifeng City was occupied by Zhao State, Tongliao City was occupied by Yan State, and Hulunbuir and Xing’an League were formed as Weiyan buffer zone. The pastureland of Horqin tribe.

Wei was surrounded by five vassal states including Tang, Zhou, Jin, Zhao, and Yan. The Xilin Gol League, the nearest to the sea, was also three to four hundred kilometers away. Naval construction was simply a pipe dream. If Wei wants to embrace the ocean, he must expand eastward, either grabbing the territory of Zhao State or Yan State.

No matter who the expansion target is, Mao Jiuzhong's remarks are a declaration of war.

The supervising student is less sensitive. He simply thinks that Mao Jiuzhong is warlike, and despise a word of martial artist is a martial artist. Other vassal states knew Mao Jiuzhong's influence in the Wei state, and did not dare to ignore Mao Jiuzhong's declaration of war. They condemned Mao Jiuzhong for trying to lead the people of the Wei state into the quagmire of war. Wu Guodu received a certain degree of public criticism, and envoys from various countries rushed to Hangzhou to question what Qi Jiguang wanted to do.

Who is Wei going to declare war on?

Public opinion unanimously believes that it is Zhao Guo. Since the king of the Zhao Kingdom, Wei Shunzong, went out to the Wei State on his own, the Zhao State has actually formed a warlord melee pattern. Various nobles have carried out cruel strangulations with the secret support of the Wei, Jin, Zhou, Lu, and Yan states. The county was burned to nothing, which is even more tragic than the real world scenes of the end of the Zhu Ming Dynasty. At this moment, there are more than ten powers in the State of Zhao, and it is difficult to resist Wei State's massive attack. If Mao Jiuzhong chooses Zhao to break through, Wei is likely to smoothly annex the land of Zhao's number of residences and embrace the ocean from then on.

The various vassal states tried their best to prevent the eastward expansion of the Wei state, and even coordinated the nobles of the Zhao state to sign an uncertain armistice agreement.

These international games full of gunpowder smoke have nothing to do with Wei Dongsheng for the time being.

Since graduating from the Imperial College, Wei Dongsheng has spent three hundred silver dollars in bribes to apply for an unemployed job with no oil or water and no cumbersome affairs. The idle job has no real power and no gray income. The pay is not high. The salary and benefits add up to only about 32 silver dollars per year, which is far inferior to the Qianfaqun who worked in Xiaowei's house. Wei Dongsheng is willing to bid 300 silver dollars for such an idle job. Who can rob him?

Why is Wei Dongsheng willing to spend 300 silver dollars for this idle job?

The answer is official status.

What Wei Dongsheng needs is only the official body represented by the idle position.

Because the Wu system does not prohibit officials from doing business, many well-known chambers of commerce are behind high-ranking officials. Even if there is a taboo that prohibits one from doing business, officials can remotely control the large chamber of commerce and large business groups through methods such as holding by relatives, holding by classmates, and holding white gloves. As long as Wu's cabinet does not really put an end to the extreme ideas of official business, official business forces will always be stronger than civil business forces. The Chamber of Commerce is used for profit grabbing, and the official body is used for political protection. This is an unspoken rule that merchants in Wu are accustomed to.

The day after Wei Dongsheng took office, he established Weihe Commercial Bank in the suburbs of Hangzhou.

The meaning of the word is explained, Wei is Wei Dongsheng's Wei, and He is the harmony of harmony and wealth.

In fact, Wei refers to the Wei of the Wei Xia dynasty, and He entrusts Wei Dongsheng's simple wish that Wei Xia's twenty vassal kingdoms will not have frequent civil wars.

Wei Dongsheng first injected his 34.5% equity in Wei Wujia Commercial Bank (30% at the beginning of the share restructuring and 4.5% from the transfer of Qian Faqun) into Weihe Commercial Bank, so that Weihe Chamber of Commerce became an entity; secondly, a subsidiary Weihe Chamber of Commerce was established. Weihe Securities, a subsidiary of Weihe Securities, made it specialize in the stock trading of Wei’s five commercial banks and expanded its business scope at the right time.

In the days to come, Wei Dongsheng frequently investigated the commercial potential of Hangzhou government, looking for the fastest way to rise.

In the summer of 1588, Wei Dongsheng was trying to persuade a small ocean trader's association to merge with Wei's five trading houses. Suddenly news of war came from the north.

Mao Jiuzhong is at war!

Mao Jiuzhong did what he said, saying that Wei needed the ocean and marched into the ocean.

But beyond the expectations of the world, Mao Jiuzhong's expansion target was not the Zhao State that everyone thought, but the unexpected Yan State.

Mao Jiuzhong's choice is surprising.

After years of expansion, the Geinyan Kingdom not only ranks first in the Wei-Xia Twenty Domains, but also has a population of 15 million. On the other hand, in Wei State, the population size of only 2.1 million people is less than one-seventh of Yan State. How can it be qualified to fight Yan State on its own? Before Mao Jiuzhong, Wei had to sign alliance treaties with Jin, Zhao, Lelang and other vassal states to curb the expansion of Yan, in order to effectively restrain the Horqin tribe, which did not dare to annex the buffer zone.

Is Mao Jiuzhong crazy?

Facts have proved that Mao Jiuzhong is not crazy.

After the start of the Wei-Yan War, Mao Jiuzhong was shocked and won repeatedly, all the way to the city of Liaodong Mansion, the capital of King Yan. The victory of Jianmen Mountain, the victory of Guangning, the victory of Shaling, the victory of Liaodong, the victory of Haizhou, the victory of Gaizhou, the victory of Jinzhou... Mao Jiuzhong drove straight into the territory of Yan, wherever he went Ning Enemy of Hehe.

The development of the Weiyan War stunned the world.

It has long been known that Mao Jiuzhong was a famous general who emerged during the Wuyue War, but no one thought that he was so powerful.

Is Mao Jiuzhong too strong or Yan Guo too weak?

Seeing the defeat of Yan State all the way, the various vassal states began to analyze afterwards Zhuge Liang why the defeat of Yan State was so miserable. After looking for the reasons, public opinion gradually blamed Wei Jilei, the frail king of the Yan Kingdom. If Wei Jilei hadn't insisted on centralizing power, how could the Yan Kingdom be collapsed? If Wei Jilei hadn't arbitrarily suppressed the aristocratic group, how could the aristocratic group tacitly stand still and just watch the commander Wei drive in? After investigating Mao Jiuzhong's marching route, military observers from various countries even suspected that the so-called Wei-Yan War was entirely a combination of the inside and outside of the aristocracy of the Yan Kingdom and Mao Jiuzhong.

However, Mao Jiuzhong failed to completely conquer the country of Yan.

After all, the Kingdom of Yan is a large country with a population of 15 million and a territory of 7 million square kilometers. With the arrival of the kings and soldiers from all over the country, the Wei-Yan War gradually became protracted. Even because Wei Jilei urgently transferred field troops to reinforce the capital, even if Mao Jiuzhong had three victories during the field battle, he failed to tear through the dense fortresses surrounding King Yan. Wei Jilei's move to guard against the sudden rebellion of the nobles to raid the bastion fortress of the royal capital turned out to be a surprise to prevent Mao Jiuzhong from capturing the capital of Yan.

As the Wei-Yan war continued, the situation gradually became unfavorable for Wei. Other vassal states were unwilling to see Wei indirectly annexing Yan. Even if Wei occupied the Thai half of Liaoning Province and had access to the sea, the nations tacitly blocked the coastline of Liaoning Province in various names, which indirectly led to the difficulty of Wei’s naval development. Increase tenfold.

However, people are not as good as heaven.

Time came to 1590 when Wei Jilei, king of the Kingdom of Yan, suddenly passed away. On the night of Wei Jilei's death, some pretenders who hated Wei Jilei for a long time led their troops into chaos. All of Wei Jilei's direct bloodlines were brutally slaughtered except for an incompetent child born from a close relative. The rebels praised Wei Fengxiang as the new king of Yan State, and immediately signed a shameful alliance with Wei State. With Liaohe River as the new eastern boundary of Wei State, the cities of Tongliao, Fuxin, Panjin, Jinzhou, Panjin, and Huludao Wait for the fertile soil to be ceded to the State of Wei; the north is bordered by Lake Berga, the Horqin tribe and the Mongolian plateau tribes are all ceded to the State of Wei, and the State of Wei recognizes the ownership of Lake Berga and beyond by the aristocracy of the Yan State.

The alliance under this city is known as the alliance of Wei, Yan and Liaodong in history.

The Liaodong League shocked all the vassal states of the Wei Xia Empire.

It is not surprising that Yan's humiliation and seeking peace, Yan's domestic chaos until the remnants of the nobles slaughtered Wei Jilei's bloodline, it is impossible to continue to fight against Wei. What shocked everyone the most was that Yan's cession of land and begging for mercy was not the secret operation of the indirect puppet of the Yue Kingdom, Wei, nor the euphemism of Lu's three-part Henan province, but the naked expansion of the land.

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