Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 491 The Waterway
Qin Mi felt the difficulty of this mission from Zhao Yun, a "warrior"...

It's not that Zhao Yun is so eloquent, but... Chu State doesn't play by the rules at all!
To persuade the superior side to stop attacking on the one hand, it is nothing more than starting from two aspects, one is morality, and the other is strength, that is, emphasizing that one's side is not as weak as imagined, analyzing the situation for the other side, and making the other side feel that it is "not worth it."

Moral persuasion also includes two aspects. One is to make the other party worry that unethical war will affect the public support and the opinions of celebrities. The other is to target the generals and leaders themselves and stimulate the other party's sense of shame.

However, now that the Chu army has killed everyone one by one, it was because Yizhou wanted to "destroy Chu". No matter what Qin Mi said, the other party was not at all frightened - and indeed there was no need to be frightened. Anyway, the people of Chu State believed in self-defense and counterattack, and Chu Jun also firmly believes that he is saving the people from fire and water...

No matter how smart the senior generals and counselors are, at most they know in their hearts that Chu is lying about the reason for the war, but they also believe in their hearts that the people's lives will be better.

How stable and stable the people's hearts must be, and it is impossible to expect them to feel moral debt - you can't expect the other party to sympathize with Liu Zhang, right?
As for the views of the famous people in the world on Chu...

The Ministry of Rites of the Chu State has now become a general trend. The combat effectiveness of the "Chu students" is definitely no lower than that of any Confucian scholar. The King of Chu himself has done many righteous deeds and feats to protect his body. There are also celebrities who slander the Chu State. However... they attack each other. That is, no decisive anti-Chu wave could be formed at all.

If it is said that it is to influence talents to invest, it is even more nonsense - in terms of talents, is there anyone more "attracting" than Chu State?
As long as people from the people to officials and generals believe that they are incomparably correct, Chu State has no need for "morality" at all, and it has the style of what Laozi said, "the great sound is loud, the great road is invisible".

Therefore, Qin Mi can only persuade the other party from the aspect of "not worthwhile"...

However, this also has a fatal problem!
That is, no matter what Chu's generals think in their hearts, they have always verbally promoted that Yizhou is very powerful and intends to destroy Chu, so they attack first.

In this case, how can Qin Mi prove that Yizhou is powerful?

When it comes to boasting about Yizhou and Liu Zhang, Qin Mi has to say "submit". It is not easy to boast about Yizhou even more!

You can't try to prove to the other party how cowardly the prince of Shu is and how weak Yizhou is, so as to make Chu State give up, right?

Not to mention how frustrating it would be otherwise, and Qin Mi also understood that she knew very well in her heart and was just pretending to be confused...

If Liu Zhang really had the courage to fight, Qin Mi could still be tougher, but now... he can only use Liu Zhang's conditions to temporarily appease Zhao Yun, so that he will not continue to fight with Yizhou while he goes to Jinling.

As for whether a complete truce can be achieved, it depends on the outcome of Qin Mi's trip to Jinling.

Zhao Yun didn't buy it. He only said that he had the military and political command of Badong. Unless there was an order from Jinling, no one could make him stop his troops.

Of course, in fact, Zhao Yun had already prepared to give up temporarily, waiting for Jinling's order, and at the same time observing whether there is an opportunity. Otherwise, he would just survive this year's harvest season and winter safely, and take this opportunity to completely appease the Badong area... …

But no matter what Zhao Yun planned, there was no need to promise anything to Qin Mi.

However, Zhao Yun did not stop Qin Mi's request to go to Jinling, but instead sent someone to escort him!
Qin Mi also understood that the key to the matter was the result of the trip to Jinling, and the key to the trip to Jinling was precisely what he saw along the way.

Qin Mi had some understanding of how difficult it was to transport grain upstream from Jingzhou to Bajun, but it was not intuitive.

This time when he entered Chu from Yizhou, Qin Mi wanted to observe exactly this. This was a more reliable bargaining chip than Liu Zhang's cowardly conditions!
Chu State is much stronger than Yizhou Prefecture. The only thing that can "threaten" Chu State is to make the other party hesitate. Is it really worth the huge logistical pressure for Yizhou?

For the Wancheng [-]st Division and the Xinye [-]st Division, the journey from Zigui to Kuimen is not easy, but from Kuimen, it is too easy to go to Jingzhou.

Li Bai has a poem that says, "The White Emperor's farewell speech is among the colorful clouds, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are returned in one day"...

Of course, Li Bai's poems have always been famous for their exaggeration and rhetoric. This alone does not seem to be enough to prove it. However, Li Daoyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty also wrote in "Shui Jing Zhu" that "The White Emperor is sent to the morning and arrives in Jiangling at dusk." ", this is very credible, but the premise is "sometimes", that is, when the water is slow and moderate.

But no matter what, if the goal is to rush, as long as you don’t slack off too much or catch up with bad weather, starting from Kuimen, which is also Qutang Pass, it will not take more than three days to reach Jiangling...

However, if it were the other way around, it would not be a matter of three or five days.

"Entering Shu" written by Lu You in the Southern Song Dynasty records his experience of entering Shu from Kuaiji. It clearly states that during the Double Ninth Festival in September, Lu You arrived in Shishou County near Jiangling. However, it was not until October 26 that Lu You arrived in Kui. Prefecture, which is now the Kuimen area.

And the most important thing is that Lu You's boat is a light boat and can "sail against the current" - that is, it can sail with the help of boatmen and trackers!

If you switch to a cargo ship with a large load, the difficulty will increase sharply. In many river sections, you can only take the mountain roads on both sides.

Because it was already August and the flood season was gradually passing, Qin Mi traveled in a light boat along the way. He also saw Chu's transport convoys many times on both sides of the strait, and even passed by Chu's transport ships several times.

It was precisely because of seeing it that Qin Mi became increasingly unsure...

The size of the land transportation team obviously meant that a large number of civilians were mobilized, but they were still full of energy. Everyone shouted slogans and sang songs of humiliation, without any atmosphere of decadence or resentment.

Let’s not talk about it for now. After all, although the morale is high, the efficiency is limited after all.

However, the transport ship...

What the hell is a transport ship that can sail on the water by itself without a "boatman" or a sail?

When Qin Mi saw him for the first time, because it was night, he even felt a chill on his back... Fortunately, the Chu army escorting him on the boat greeted him when they met - at least this proved that he was not the only one who saw him. And it seems that they are not here to pick him up!

Later, Qin Mi took courage and observed several more times, and finally discovered some secrets - it seemed that this kind of boat without sails and oars had wheels covered with wooden boards at the stern and sides, and it was the rotation of these wheels that caused the wheels to rotate. Driving the ship forward...

Qin Mi was relieved!

Although it looks miraculous, at least the principle is understandable, and it is not some weird thing, and... no matter it is just that there are no oars outside, does the wheel inside the boat need to rotate, does it need to rely on human power or animal power?
Indeed, this kind of ship seems to greatly improve the efficiency of countercurrent flow, but the cost is definitely not small!
This is indeed the case. What is sailing on the river now is indeed just a Chu ship of biological power...

　Dongdong: Today I went to install the dishwasher in my new home... Make it shorter, it’s [-] words!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)