Wang Jian was stunned for a moment before he said," The Xiongnu are located in the desert grasslands and cannot be cultivated. South Vietnam is mostly deep in the mountains and forests. The two places are far inferior to the Central Plains. They are like chicken ribs and tasteless!”
Wang Jian's answer was basically a very official answer.
South Vietnam has a lot of miasma, and the Xiongnu have a lot of deserts. It's useless to attack them.
Little did they know how important the Hetao Plain was to the Central Plains?
The Xiongnu's location was a natural horse racing ground that could provide a large number of warhorses for the Central Plains.
As for South Vietnam, although it was mostly deep in the mountains and forests, there was a lot of land that could be reclaimed, and the climate was better.
These two were far from useless!
At the end of the day, Great Qin could no longer continue fighting!
"No!" Zhao Ye shook his head.”
Zhao Ye stood up and looked straight into Wang Jian's eyes as he said,""Great Qin has just unified the six countries, so it has to appease the people of the six countries and reward the meritorious soldiers. They also had to compensate the injured soldiers and take care of the families of the dead soldiers.”
Zhao Ye thought for a moment and then said," Everyone knows that the general destroyed Chu in one battle. However, how much food did the 600,000 strong army consume in a year?”
Zhao Ye smiled and said,"General, have you calculated how much of Great Qin's treasury is left?"”
"His Majesty's Epang Palace was already in preparation for construction long before the destruction of Chu, but it was immediately stopped after the destruction of Chu. What is the reason for this?”
"General, have you thought about it? If His Majesty ordered the destruction of the Xiongnu and South Yue, how many more troops would be needed? How much grain? The national treasury was empty, and the soldiers had no food. Would they starve to death on the battlefield?”
"If we forcefully collect food, how many of Great Qin's people will starve to death?”
"You're a General, Marquis Che, and the backbone of Great Qin's army. You only need to win every battle, but His Majesty needs more than that.”
Even though craftsmen were not considered cheap in Great Qin, Generals and Civil Officials like Wang Jian looked down on craftsmen.
For example, if Wang Jian's son planned to become a craftsman and enter the Shao Fu, Wang Jian would probably hang him up and beat him up.
As Great Qin's soldiers, they had always been respected by others. Moreover, Great Qin had a system of military merit and nobility, so soldiers had quite a high status.
Even though during the Great Qin Era, craftsmen were not considered cheap jobs and there were no such things as fancy skills, it was not without reason that craftsmen were considered cheap jobs.
The craftsman's work seemed too simple.
Isn't it just forging things!
He would not need to get injured if he exerted his strength.
I can do it too!
This kind of discrimination was similar to the regional black in the future, such as the situation where a river crab in a district was comparable to a diamond in the suburbs.
Zhao Ye stood up and looked into Wang Jian's eyes as he said,""General looks down on craftsmen, but I, Zhao Ye, respect them.”
"Take just now for example. A mere modification of farming tools can allow the people to grow more than half of the land and save more than half of their strength. Does the general think it is important?”Zhao Ye looked straight at Wang Jian and asked.
Wang Jian was speechless for a moment and could only nod in agreement.
"In other words, if it weren't for the craftsmen's spirit of constantly creating new things, we would still be slash-and-burn farming and fighting against wild beasts.”
Zhao Ye smiled and said," In other words, the clothes and shoes the general wears, the pots and pans used in the residence, the carriages that rush on the road, the swords used to kill the enemy, the armor he wears, the bow he draws, the arrows he shoots, and the crossbow he uses. Which one of them wasn't the work of a craftsman?”
"The soldiers are using their lives to kill the enemy, and Zhao Ye is so impressed. However, the craftsmen are working hard and constantly improving Great Qin.”
"Even though Great Qin's martial strength is the strongest in the world, it can't advance an inch. It still depends on the craftsmen!"
Zhao Ye said word by word," Craftsmen are the foundation of a country. The army is the sharp blade. The civil officials are the brains. None of these can be missing. Everyone is equal. How can a general differentiate between high and low?”
In fact, from Wang Jian's tone of disdain towards the craftsman industry, it could be felt that most people in this era still felt that craftsmen were not that important.
This was not a good sign.
History had proven that technology was the number one productive force.
Great Qin's craftsmen were the scientists that were born and bred in Great Qin.
Only then would they truly be able to control Great Qin's development speed.
To put it simply, if a craftsman could create a steam engine, Great Qin would be able to develop by leaps and bounds.
This kind of development would allow Great Qin to unify the world and increase the number of humans entering the city by thousands of years.
However, even if Great Qin sent out eight or ten Wang Jians, they would at most increase Great Qin's territory by several times.
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