In fact, Tian Heng, who is far away in Xinzheng, South Korea, is also actively raising money for military payments. The most critical issue for whether to fight the war is not the strength of the troops, but assistance. It's funding. This war is obviously fought with financial problems.

But now any country does not want to participate in the case of Qi, because the benefits from Qi are too small. Participating is actually detrimental to your country. Chao country is in chaos. Yan Guo couldn't breathe the war. They need to rebuild their country. South Korea is unwilling to participate in the financial constraints. It consumes a lot of water power in its own country, and South Korea has no financial resources to support it.

Qin's situation is also not good. Qin State was at a time when the country’s finances were shrinking. Qin State is reducing fiscal expenditures, especially defense expenditures, and then concentrates on great domestic infrastructure construction. And other scientific infrastructure. In this way, Qin cannot help Qi.

Qin State Xianyang. In the backyard of Guowei Mansion.

"You are so leisurely." Wang Jian said as he sat down and looked at Wei Liao who was slowly drinking tea.

"Occasionally leisure, only occasional leisure." Wei Liao personally poured a cup of tea for Wang Jian at this time.

"Taste the tea from the south of Chu State. The taste is not bad." Wei Liao said at this time.

"Forget it. I'm not used to drinking this thing." Wang Jian said after looking at the tea. The trend of drinking tea has already emerged in Qin, and even countries have followed suit. From the nobles to the common people, they have accepted the tea-drinking style. It is also true that the State of Chu has a new business project, tea business income. But Wang Jian is not used to it. He believes that drinking tea is a bad thing for soldiers, because drinking tea is too easy. Too much comfort and enjoyment will reduce the soldiers' will. Wang Jian firmly refused to accept this.

"En. Then don't force it." Wei Liao said, looking at Wang Jian.

"You invited me here, maybe it's for tea. If that's the case, I'll say goodbye. The old man doesn't have the time to chat like this." Wang Jian said.

"Haha." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian with a smile at this time. Wang Jian recently returned to his post, but he was called acting chief of staff. In other words, King Qin did not formally give Wang Jian the title of Chief of Staff.

"Wang Shang sent a telegram, wanting to hear our views on the Qin-Han Alliance. I don't know what the old general's views are?" Wei Liao said leisurely while drinking tea.

"En. I'm also thinking about this matter, this matter. I can't just look at it from a military point of view. But I only know how to look at the problem from a military point of view." Wang Jian said.

"The old general talk about it." Wei Liao said.

"Okay. I'll just talk about it." Wang Jian sat down. Then straighten up.

"The current State of Qin is the strongest in combat power," Wang Jian said.

"But the most problematic period." Wang Jian said. Wei Liao nodded at this moment.

"The total strength of Qin is limited to about 250,000, but the territory of Qin has reached the largest area at present. The north, as well as the western regions of Qin. These places require far more defensive forces than 250,000. As a result, Qin's mobile force has been greatly reduced. The maximum force that can be deployed is no more than 50,000." Wang Jian said. Wang Jian carefully analyzed the current situation of Qin State.

The territory of Qin's expansion is too large. A larger territory is naturally a good thing for a country, but there are always pros and cons to problems. The advantage is that Qin's resources have expanded a lot, but the downside is that Qin's territory is very large, so it needs a lot of defense forces, and it needs a lot of money to spend on national defense. At present, Qin can only passively adopt such a situation to defend. As a result, the original military force of a country that is not much, the military mobile force that can be extracted is only about 50,000. This 50,000 or so was calculated. The 50,000 was established on the borders of the Qin State without any war. In this way, the Qin State cannot expand eastward, nor can it move in any direction. expansion.

"The May tax bill restricts Qin's current inability to increase taxes. As a result, fiscal expenditures will be reduced, and defense expenditures will be reduced first." Wang Jian said.

"The Qin army in this period was an army that was unable to expand. Although the strongest, it was unable to send troops to the east to attack the Six Nations." Wang Jian said.

"Although Qin has the strongest military, the predicament lies here. Really." Wang Jian shook his head, then irritably picked up his tea and drank it.

"Gudong". With a clean mouth, Wang Jian stuck out his tongue.

"This tea is really terrible." Wang Jian said.

"Haha." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian with a smile.

"If the Qin army cannot send troops, or send troops very few, its control will be weakened. If it is to form an alliance with South Korea, will there be a very powerful enemy on the side of Qin. This is an important point that I am worried about after the Qin-Han alliance, sir. I have said that we have close and distant relations. This South Korea should be a country that we can attack, not a country that can be allied. I am really worried about this." Wang Jian said.

"En." Wei Liao nodded when he heard this. During the process of Qin's reunification, Wei Liao did put forward such a strategic policy, using diplomatic and military strikes to accelerate the reunification of Qin, but now Qin has changed a lot. The original policy does not seem to be so useful anymore.

"It turns out that I did propose such a strategic policy to the king, but at present, such a policy is no longer applicable." Wei Liao said lightly. Then he picked up the teacup and took a light sip. Hearing this, Wang Jian looked at Wei Liao in surprise.

"Don't look at it this way, General. The situation today is indeed different from the past. If it is considered unified, the Qin State is already unified." Wei Liao said with a smile.

"This. See you, sir." Wang Jian sat and looked at Wei Liao.

"See you, Prime Minister Shang Wen." Wei Liao said.

"I recently thought about it carefully. Thanks to this tea. A good thing that can calm your mind." Wei Liao said.

"Oh. This thing still has this effect." Wang Jian said while looking at the tea.

"En." Wei Liao nodded.

"When Wang Shang sent the telegram, I had reconsidered the current strategic direction of Qin State. Qin State." Wei Liao looked at Wang Jian.

"The original method can no longer be used to unify. In other words, Qin has achieved the goal of unification to some extent. Currently, Qin is digesting the resources brought by this unification." Wei Liao said while looking at Wang Jian.

Wang Jian still didn't understand.

"Our Prime Minister Shang Wen. He thinks farther than us, and it will take a long time." Wei Liao said.

"Before, what we thought was to conquer countries with force as much as possible, but what is the purpose of conquering countries. It is to unify the resources of this country. But Prime Minister Shang Wen is different. He adopted a trade-driven approach to bring all countries together. Mobilized the resources." Wei Liao said.

"After the reunification of the Qin State. The Qin State's territory has greatly increased. It may not necessarily increase its national strength. Although Qin's taxation has increased, the strategic direction has been lost. However, Prime Minister Shang Wen turned Qin's muzzle to the north. , Shifted the gun to the west, and expanded a lot of land. As a result, the strategic direction of the Qin State was even greater. Although Qin could not expand eastward, occupy the six kingdoms, and unify the world. However, it achieved the effect of dominating the world. At present, all the goods are in the State of Qin. As long as the State of Qin has a little movement, it can alarm the reaction of the six countries. Although Qin cannot agree with the world, it has achieved the effect of unifying the world. As long as some time is required, these countries are like branches. After ripening, the fruits of Qin will fall into Qin's pocket without Qin's picking." Wei Liao said with a smile.

"Oh." Although Wang Jian knew some Shangwen's ideas. But there seemed to be something in Wei Liao's mysterious statement. This kind of thing. Wang Jian couldn't figure it out.

On the contrary, Wei Liao has recently considered Shangwen's approach from a higher perspective. On the surface, Shangwen seems to be reversing what Qin has changed. This change seems to have such a purpose from the beginning. In fact, Shangwen himself had no such plans. But Wei Liao was carefully pondering.

The State of Qin attacked the Xiongnu and Donghu in the north. Then it expanded the Western Regions to the west. In this way, it seems that the Qin State has expanded a large area of ​​land and obtained resources that were not available before the Qin State and the six countries. However, the expansion of these territories actually restrained the military power of the Qin State, that is, the Qin State’s military The national defense force was consumed invisibly. At the same time, the country changed its previous single agricultural structure, and Shang Wen took advantage of the war to develop commerce, industry, and banking. The industry used the military industry as a rebound, and after the war, it quickly turned to civilian use. The banking industry serving military expenditures quickly turned to the civilian market. All of these have established a complete system for the Qin State, and this system has emerged unknowingly. The emergence of this system has completely changed the situation of Qin as a single agricultural country since Shang Yang's Reform. All walks of life in the State of Qin developed rapidly. With the help of this system, agriculture is quickly transformed into the strongest agriculture. Everything seemed unreasonable, but it cleverly promoted the internal reforms of the Qin State itself. This reform was quietly completed without knowing it.

Wei Liao was greatly amazed by the internal changes, which were only noticed after they happened. During the change, Wei Liao didn't even notice it. This greatly gave Wei Liao a completely new understanding of Shang Wen.

In terms of diplomatic strategy, according to Qin's current situation. The strategy of distant and close attack does not seem to be applicable anymore. Or, it still exists in the Xinjiang region of the Qin State, but in the east, it has to change a bit before it can have new intentions. And this intention is the meaning of the current Qin-Han alliance. At this point, it also made sense of the theoretical conditions for the establishment of the Qin-Han alliance.