Daqin Engineers

Xiang Yan didn't know much about politics, so she suggested:

"My lord, if I wait to take the people's relatives as a hostage, once the people escape, we will punish their relatives!"

Chu Wangqi only asked back:

"I wait for the household registration to be complete?"

"And the city may be managed by this method, how can the people living outside the city stop it?"

Xiang Yan would have nothing to say.

Due to its national conditions, the household registration registration in Chu is very messy, especially after many new laborers moved in during the war. At this time, even if you want to implement Xiang Yan's method of "taking relatives as quality", you can't do it.

After a pause, Xiang Yan could only ask:

"Then, in the opinion of the king..."

Chu Wangqi frowned and replied:

"For the present plan, the only way to do it is to make a general reform with Qin."

You know that King Qi of Chu served as minister in Qin, so of course he knows how to face this problem:

In the face of Qin's superior system, neighboring countries such as Zhao, Wei, and Han either reformed like Qin, or waited for their population loss to eventually perish.

The reason why Chu State was less affected was that its border with Qin State was in the northwest of the Bashu area, which was extremely inconvenient for transportation. Therefore, the Chu State system has been maintained until now.

But as the saying goes, "born in sorrow and dying in happiness"

It is precisely because Chu State is far away from Qin State that there is no reform crisis, so even though it has a vast territory and a large population, it is scattered because of no reform.

At this time the crisis finally came, and Qin Jun was in Huaibei.

Without the propaganda offensive of Shen Bing's flyers, Chu State would only have a few months of buffer time... News of the outdated communication spreads slowly, and the scope is not large and it is easy to block.

But as soon as Shen Bing's propaganda offensive came out, this absolute system advantage immediately manifested and intensified its internal contradictions.

As a result, if Chu wants to prevent population loss, it must adopt the same system as Qin, so that the system of Qin will no longer be attractive to the people of Chu...Both sides are the same. Of course, no one wants to leave the country.

however……

Xiang Yan said hesitantly:

"Majesty, if we wait for a reform, we will take back the fiefs of all races."

"Will all races be willing?"

Chu Wangqi also considered this.

To be precise, it is not to take back the fiefs of all races.

The fiefs of the various races still belong to the various races...just like the Qin State, except that the various races no longer have the management power of the people, and all the management powers are collected and concentrated in the hands of King Qi of Chu.

Will all races be convinced?

After thinking about it, Chu Wangqi replied:

"If the law does not change, Chu State will die, so how can it come to a fief?"

"Convene all ethnic groups to come to Korea to discuss reform together."

Xiang Yan responded and sent someone to issue Chu Wangqi's order.

But even though Xiang Yan did this, he had no hope at all, because he knew what kind of people these Chu nobles were.

A few days later, all ethnic groups sent envoys to Dongting.

The Zhao clan came from the old minister Zhao Xie, the Qu clan was Qu Wei, and the Jing clan was Jing Yu. They were all people who could speak for themselves.

See this item, I will decide a little bit.

Because this shows that all ethnic groups pay much attention to this matter. After all, it is they, not Chu Wangqi, who are facing greater difficulties at this time, so they are also eager to find a solution.

There are also small clans such as the Dou clan and the Ban clan, and the people who came are more than when the Chu king convened the court meeting.

I don't know whether it was Chu Wangqi's prestige or forced by the situation.

The crowd gathered together to give courtesy to the king of Chu, but it was quite a bit like.

Chu Wangqi nodded in satisfaction, motioned for everyone to get up and said:

"Zhuqing should know why the court met this time."

"Qin's army suppressed the territory and used notices to confuse my people in Great Chu. Now the people are going northward. I don't know what countermeasures the Qings have?

This is Chu Wangqi's wrist.

In fact, King Qi Da of Chu knew from the very beginning, and even decided how to do it, but he wouldn't straightforwardly say how you want to drip...This shows that King Qigang of Chu is self-conscious and disrespects the opinions of the nobles.

As soon as the topic was thrown out, the nobles felt the same.

After a discussion, Zhao Xie replied:

"My lord, the minister suggested building a line of defense in the north direction and patrolling with cavalry."

"In this way, the people who went north to Qin were intercepted, and if caught, they would be severely punished."

"After a long time, the people dare not run away."

After hearing this, everyone agreed.

This seemed to be a way. The people thought that there was a way to survive, so they cut off their way of survival, so in desperation they had to stay in Chu Land and let the nobles exploit them.

But Chu Wangqi shook his head and said:

"Since the Huaihe line of defense was occupied by the Qin army, our army has not had a complete line of defense to the north."

"At this time when our army is in short supply, how can we build a defense line for hundreds of miles in the north?"

"If it was built in a hurry just to guard against the people, how could Qin Jun sit back and watch?"

"What's more, the Qin Army also has the Shenwu Army... How can I use the cavalry to prevent the people from going north?"

When Chu Wangqi said so, the nobles were silent.

Zhao Xie's statement is indeed too idealistic.

Where can we find manpower, material resources and financial resources to build a line of defense?

The more serious problem is the garrison.

This is not to say that the Chu army is insufficient in strength. In fact, if the Chu army unites the strength of all ethnic groups and recruits more at this time, it can still make up 400,000...This is also twice the strength of the Qin army.

The problem is that after Xiang Yan was defeated several times before, who would dare to go out of the city to fight the Qin army?

Especially Zhao Xie also mentioned the use of cavalry... isn't that the fish of the Shenwu Army?

After being silent for a while, Qu Wei suggested:

"The minister thought that I could send troops out of the city to supervise the people's farming..."

Before he finished speaking, he was opposed by others.

Dou Shi said:

"I have always sent troops out of the city to supervise."

"However, soldiers are not as good as the people."

"Often you are still out of the city, and many are missing when you return to the city."

Ban's is more anxious:

"If one is not careful, the soldier will kill all the people. Few can escape back to the city..."

"If Diao Min makes chaos, he is bolder than the sky!"

Everyone kept saying.

Seeing that the time was about to come, King Qi of Chu winked at Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan understood, and went out to pray:

"Great King, the minister has something to say."

Chu Wangqi gave a "Oh" and asked knowingly:

"What's the opinion of the general?"

Xiang Yan replied:

"The officials thought that the reason why the people rushed to descend to the Qin Dynasty was because the Qin system was better than the Chu system."

"The many strategies discussed before are just a temporary solution, not a permanent cure."

"If you want the people to stop going north and descending Qin's heart, the officials thought that there was only reform."

Chu Wangqi pretended to just know this, and gasped in a cold breath:

"Law reform? This is a big trouble..."

Xiang Yan interrupted Chu Wangqi and said:

"My lord, if you don't change the law, it won't take long for Chu Land to be available to the people."

"Even soldiers will flee to Qin, and they will regret it at that time!"