Inside a dilapidated courtyard outside Beibeiliang.

"Boss, how much do you give for these scraps?" a woman asked, pushing a wheelbarrow.

"I see, this, these boots are not made very well, and the finished product is not very beautiful. I think, a pair, fifty points. Do you think it looks like this?" The scrap boss looked at each other's boots and said.

"Here. Such good boots, look at these leathers. These are good cowhide. These are all I bought from a Korean factory with money. They are just workmanship and they are not well done." The woman watched and did. Speaking of bad boots.

"No one wants bad boots. You know, if these boots are sold, they will have to smash other people's brands. These waste products, I think, no one wears them. Besides. How many boots do you wear, we Central Plains People, wear it for one winter in winter. Now this day is very boring." The boss said embarrassingly.

"Boss, do it well, and you can add more. Add more." The woman pleaded.

"Forget it. I think it is not easy for you, so I will give you ten, ten, a lot. A lot." The boss said at this time.

"Okay. Ten is ten." The woman nodded.

"Let me see, you have a total of??????" The boss nodded quickly.

"Ten, exactly. Six and a half." The boss said at this time, quickly pointing out six and a half.

"Okay." The woman took the money and counted it carefully.

"Right?" the boss asked.

"That's right. That's right." The woman said with a smile.

"Thank you boss. Thank you boss." The woman thanked excitedly.

"You're welcome, you're welcome." The boss said with a smile. The woman also pushed her wheelbarrow and left. There is still a lot of waste in his car. These waste products are waste products that other women have set aside, or semi-finished products, because they are not up to standard, they have to be bought as waste products. However, many women are reluctant to sell, but they have no choice but to reluctantly. After all, these are bought back from the factory with money. There is a certain amount of waste in the finished products that they hand over, and these wastes need to be borne by them themselves. In order to recoup some losses, they had to sell these things. Then recover some losses.

"Don't look. People are walking away. My eyes follow them." At this time, a dark and thin man walked in and said with a smile.

"Haha." The boss smiled awkwardly.

"Hurry up, we don't have much materials." The thin black man said with a smile.

"Okay. I'll order the goods with you." The boss then began to take out his account book.

"However, I am very curious about one thing." The boss asked with the ledger in his hand at this time.

"What's the matter?" the black and thin man asked at this time.

"What do you want these waste products for? People sell them at low prices. These things are not easy to sell." The boss said at this time.

"You can do your business well. There are some things you can't ask. Anyway, these are waste products for you, and they are all useful to me." said the thin black man.

"Yeah. You are right. I really can't interfere with these too much." The boss thought for a while and wanted to say.

"Okay. Let's order the goods." When the boss heard the other party's unexplained reason, he couldn't ask again. After all, if you continue to ask, you may discover the other party's unknowable secrets. These secrets may be the reason for the other party's wealth. .

Xinzheng, South Korea.

There was a recruiting point for the new army of Chu State. It was the busy time in the morning, but the two persons in charge were lying on the table and slumbering.

"Haha." Meng Tian smiled slightly when he saw such a scene.

"It seems that Chu people are really not good at conscripting." Meng Tian said with a smile when he saw such a scene.

"Sir, today we went to several recruiting spots, and what we saw was the same as most of them here. There is nothing good about this." Meng Yun said dissatisfiedly. The two of them changed into plain clothes to see Chu State's conscription point in a deserted look.

"Come on, let's sit there and see what's going on there?" Meng Tian looked at the recruiting point, and then walked towards the tea point on the other side of the street.

"Two cups of soda." Meng Tian looked at the price list of tea points and shook his head. The price of tea here was too high. He could only order a bottle of soda. The price of soft drinks was second only to tea, in the south of Chu State. Almost all the tea supply is monopolized, which makes many people have to give up drinking tea, and the price of tea is too high. Especially South Korea's Xinzheng, and because of the war, the front also needs tea to supply, so the price of tea will be higher.

At this moment, a team of hardworking people came over.

"Boss, salted tea and water. A big bowl for one person." A foreman-like person shouted loudly.

"Okay. Salted tea water." The owner of the tea shop shouted.

"What is salty tea water?" Meng Yun asked at this time without knowing why.

"A kind of tea water, there is coarse salt in it, these people who work, lack a lot of salt. Therefore, they need this kind of tea, but the tea of ​​this kind of tea is the kind of tea that other people's tea can't make anymore. Tea water, I don’t know how many times this kind of tea has been brewed. You may not be able to taste the tea after a sip.” Meng Tian explained.

"Oh. What does it taste like to drink such tea?" Meng Yun asked curiously.

Meng Tian just shook his head, he didn't know.

"Hey, this tea can't be brewed anymore. In our country of Chu, there are many such things. We only need to pick a little secretly, and then we can drink it." The foreman also brought some Chuyin with him. Speaking of.

"Oh. That is, it is never money to drink tea. It is a pity that this tea now costs money. If we knew this earlier, we would go and get more." A coolie said helplessly.

"Come on, drink more, it's hot, drink more water." The foreman grumbled to fill it up.

"This brother, I think you are from Chu country?" Meng Tian asked respectfully at this time.

"Oh. Yeah. Don't you know what's going on with your husband?" The foreman asked Meng Tian, ​​looking at Meng Tian suspiciously at this time.

"Oh. That's it. I think you are all from the Chu country. It is very hard to live in this way. I just don’t know why you don’t go there. There is a recruitment point for the new army of the Chu country. Wouldn't it be better for soldiers?" Meng Tian asked curiously.

"Oh." The foreman suddenly realized when he heard it.

"Being a soldier, if you don't go, it's no good to be a soldier." The foreman waved his hand and said at this time.

"Is that the reason?" Meng Tian asked curiously.

"For this reason, nothing else." The foreman said at this time.

"Sir, you should think about it. Although we people are bitter, we make a lot of money. Just a train station, a wagon of goods, a few of us can unload in half an hour. A few wagons a day, every time Personally, you can get at least fifteen and a half taels, fifteen and a half taels, and you can eat meat. How much is a catty of meat." The foreman said at this time.

"If you live a lot, you can get fifty and a half a day. Where can I find such a thing?" said the foreman.

"You are looking at the soldiers over there. They are in charge of food and housing, and they have to work hard and pay for the army. They are not clear at all. Unlike our work, where you can pay as much as you say, if the owner is in a hurry, Give us more money, or extra meals, there is meat in it. Such a good thing. It's better than being a soldier, earning less, and it's not a small amount of life." The foreman said.

"Furthermore. The Chu State Lord, who knows what he is going to do, and he also asked Chu people to serve as soldiers, people from other countries don’t want them. We Chu people finally escaped from Chu State, and then we go back. I don't want to be tortured anymore. We can't bear that sin." The foreman said.

"Oh. Why is this?" Meng Tian asked at this time.

"Chu's tax revenue is horrible. The army is actually not as good as here. The tax revenue here is very low. And it can live well. Although it is not Chu, it is much better than Chu. As a soldier, there is really nothing to do. Do it." The foreman said at this time.

"Don't you want to do something for your country?" Meng Tian asked.

"No. The country is too big for us. Chu is full of nobles, the nobles are Chu, and we are not nobles, we are coolies, and we can live well here." The foreman said.

"In Chu State, many people have run out. Why, in Chu State, only those nobles can survive, and we can't do anything to those nobles. There is no way, we can only do this." The foreman said helplessly to Meng Tian. Speaking of.

"Oh. I understand." Meng Tian nodded. Show that you understand.

"Serving as a soldier, it doesn't have much to do with us in any country. We only need to live well, have work, and earn some money every day, buying rice and noodles. And now the treatment is good, and sometimes we can still eat. Meat. In Chu country, I can’t eat meat for a year. If I get it right, I can still marry a daughter-in-law. With a daughter-in-law, the child is Korean, and I can go to school in the future. If I go to school, I can get out of my family. It can be considered stable." The foreman said to Meng Tian. These are all thoughts in the foreman's dream.

"Hahaha. Our foreman can still marry a wife." The others laughed.

"If you laugh, I can marry a daughter-in-law. I didn't see that I didn't drink alcohol every day, so I don't believe that if I don't drink, I can't even save money for a daughter-in-law?" The foreman stopped by waving his arm.

"Yeah. Thanks a lot." Meng Tian may know the result he wants to know. Then I said goodbye to these foremen.

On the way back, Meng Yun stopped talking. Meng Tian smiled after seeing it.

"What do you want to say?" Meng Tian asked.

"I think we are not likely to succeed if we help Chu Guo do this." Meng Yun said.

"Why?" Meng Tian asked.

"Sir, you have seen it too. Those Chu people are not willing to be soldiers at all. The wages offered here are far more than those written by the new army of Chu, but there is no clear mark of the military salary, not only that. Also, the living conditions here, they live here and can live well, and if they are soldiers in war, their lives are in danger. They can’t do this. The conditions offered by the people of Chu are very limited. If this continues, , I am also not optimistic about the conscription of the Chu people. I think their conscription is unnecessary." Meng Yun said.

"Well. It's not just that you see it, but I also see it this way." Meng Tian said.

"However, with such a flower, we can't complete the mission of the new army of the Chu State. I think the above really wants Qin to participate in this matter." Meng Yun said at this time.

"I know. But to do this, we need the Chu government to offer a high price, and to do what the Chu people are unwilling to do, we can only do our best, not aimlessly like this. Do it." Meng Tian said. Regarding the Chu State New Army, he felt that he could not do too much, after all, there were too many restrictions. The new Chu government will not have too much capital investment, and the people of Chu will never agree to such a condition.

"The idea of ​​the people of Chu is very difficult. We must report the situation here to let them know the difficulties here and find a way to solve the actual difficulties of the people of Chu. Only in this way can we solve this problem." Meng Yun said To.

"Well. Don't worry, sometimes, don't be too anxious." Meng Tian said. For this matter. Meng Tian himself didn't know what to do. He lacks a very purposeful plan.

Just when Meng Tian and Meng Yun felt that they couldn't do enough to deal with the difficulty of conscription of the new army of Chu State. The South Korean Ministry of Defense has already thought of a good way.

"Chu's problem is difficult to solve." An officer of the South Korean New Army colonel shook his head and said.

"Think about it, the money given by the people of Chu is very limited, but now, soldiers are paid, and the people of Chu are very vague on this point. Moreover, the treatment of soldiers and the issue of honor The Chu people have not solved these problems very well. I think it is very difficult to form a new army of Chu." The colonel of the new South Korean army shook his head and said.

"It can be said that the new army of Chu State should not exist." The colonel said with a smile.

The other officers laughed. In their opinion, what the colonel said was very reasonable, because they all knew what the people of Chu were thinking, and the young man wanted to save more money to do a lot of things. In this way, the investment of the new army of Chu would not be enough. There will be too much, after all, too much, it will be very unfavorable for them to do other things. They all know this.

"Sir, I don't think so." Zhang Qing said at this time. His military rank is only a lieutenant colonel. Serving as a security consultant in the Ministry of National Defense is a consultant, just a consultant, without much real power.

"Oh. What kind of insights does our security consultant have?" The colonel looked at Zhang Qing and asked. The colonel relied on his previous military merits to sit in this position. It can be said that his qualifications can achieve such a position. Zhang Qing, on the other hand, relied on his own analysis to judge the promotion. In order to be promoted, he was also selected to study in Qin State. After returning to China, his job was mainly to analyze and provide his own judgment as a reference basis.

"My opinion is that we don't have to help Chu people on a large scale to recruit Chu people in South Korea." Zhang Qing said.

"As everyone knows, these Chu people live very well in Korea, and their conditions are much better than those in Chu. They can earn an average salary of about one and a half two per hour. And such a salary, Chu State The government can't get it out." Zhang Qing said with a smile.

"If these Chu people were to give up such conditions and join the Chu New Army, I think many of them would not do it. In order to prevent them from being unemployed, they would choose to go to Qin. To drive higher, the conditions are better than here, but unfortunately, the journey is far away, and the toll will cost an astonishing cost." Zhang Qing said.

"Furthermore, if these Chu people don't do these jobs, they will also have a certain impact on our South Korea. For example, some coolies, without them??????" Zhang Qing said slowly.

"Enough. My consultant Zhang, I want to know, what way do you have to solve this problem?" The colonel looked at the other person and asked.

"Very simple, adapted." Zhang Qing said while looking at each other's eyes.

"Adaptation?" The colonel looked at Zhang Qing puzzledly and asked.

"Yes, it is adaptation. It is difficult to solve this problem if the new army of Chu is recruited in South Korea, and the soldiers cannot solve it in a short period of time. Not only that, but also more difficult problems, namely training and equipment. They all need money, a lot of money, and the time and funds spent are an amazing number. I think it is difficult for a government that has just been established and received a limited amount of funds from Qin State Bank to accept such a thing. "Zhang Qing said at this time.

"However, if we adopt the method of adaptation, we must know that in Chu, many nobles have quite a lot of private soldiers. If the Chu government can give the other party great benefits, we can adapt these private armed forces. In this case, , The Chu government’s funding will be reduced accordingly. At the same time, as long as it gives the other party great benefits and stand on the side of the Chu government, I think that time is not a problem, and the new army of Chu is reorganized in this way. If this is the case, the time saved will be very beneficial to our South Korea." Zhang Qing went on to say.

"Not only these, the adaptation can solve many problems. We don't need to recruit on a large scale. The manpower saved in this way is unprecedented." Zhang Qing said.

"Well. In this case, I think the problem will be solved quickly. This is indeed a very good solution." After hearing such a plan, other people nodded in agreement. Also affirmed Zhang Qing's ingenuity. After all, no one can think of such a result.

"I think it's okay. I think this result is feasible. In this way, the reorganization saves time and gives a certain amount of funds. The army is at its current scale. We reorganize, as long as we reorganize the organization of the unit." Others Speaking one after another.

"Of course. If you do this, there are bound to be some bad habits of the old army. In order to solve this bad habit, I think the new army of Chu should establish a military academy. Starting from the backbone of the army, a large number of officers will be trained every year. These officers are trained little by little, and then replaced those officers in the old army. After several years of exchanges, I think this army will be stronger." Zhang Qing said confidently.

"Well. Good way. Good way." The others nodded and said. The colonel's face turned blue, and he thought that the other party had robbed him of the limelight.

Inside the Xianyang Palace of Qin State.

"Does this chemical gas really have such power?" King Qin asked Shangwen.

"Back to the king, there is indeed such a great power, and this is just one of them. If Qin's chemical industry continues to develop, there will be many chemical poisons discovered and applied." Shang Wen replied.

"Oh." King Qin said oh. This means that he was a little surprised. He did not expect that there was also the development of the chemical industry.

"My lord, what Qin has to do at present is to set up its own chemical warfare unit, promote preventive measures in the army, and add corresponding departments to the treatment system of the field hospital. Only in this way can the Qin army be allowed to use it. Free from the poison of chemical poisonous gas." Shang Wen said.

"These are just not enough. Qin should unite with several other countries to sign a contract to prevent the use of chemical poisons in the Central Plains war. The users should be severely punished." Shang Wen said.

"Well. Few people agree on this point." King Qin nodded and agreed. The widow still doesn't know how powerful this chemical gas is, but he knows that weapons that can cause mass casualties are very terrifying. It must be restricted. Especially for special weapons like chemical poisonous gas, they are not guns, they can be controlled very well, and if they kill people, although they are sharp, they also need to be equipped, but chemical poisonous gas is very cheap, and the killing power is also very huge. This is for the Qin country. The threat is too great.

"This matter is left to the prime minister." King Qin said at this time.

"Yes. King." Shang Wen nodded.

"The other thing is the dispatch of reconnaissance airships, aircraft, and the deployment of marines to Yan's Liaodong. Few people think it is feasible. This is a necessary means to stabilize the two countries of Yan and Zhao, and General Wang Jian's plan can also be passed." King Qin said .

"Yeah." Shang Wen nodded. The development of Liaodong and the future development of Liaobei require the two countries of Yan and Zhao to operate. For such operations, Qin Guo still needs help.

"As for the Chu State's new army. Qin State still does not want to see a powerful Chu State." King Qin said at this time. Regarding the Chu State, King Qin’s intention was to split the Chu State, or to become weaker, so that it would not be a big challenge to Qin’s status. You must know that Chu’s territory is very widespread and has a large population. Such a national challenge threat is the greatest.

"My lord, Qin State has sent a military team to solve this problem." Wei Liao stood up and said.

"Yeah. It is very good to be able to solve it." Qin Wang nodded and said.

"But how to solve it? This is the key." King Qin continued.