In other directions? Yan Wenjun was very confused and couldn't understand his meaning. Xu Zhou's eyes lit up and he exclaimed: "Young Master is indeed a genius in the world! He woke up the dreamer with one sentence!"

The most important thing for a great sage who governs the country is to point out a direction. If the direction is correct, everyone can work together and finally achieve success. The most important reason why Yan State has never been able to get up half-hearted is that it lacks a strategy that can be truly consistent.

The Qin State ended the chaotic times of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In fact, the situation of Qin State is somewhat similar to that of Yan State. Although it is related to the Central Plains, it is not a very fertile place in Guanzhong at that time. If you want to advance eastward to the Central Plains, you will be blocking the giant Jin State in front of you. There are also harassment from the Western Rong and Southern Barbarians on your border, and you will not be able to live in peace.

But Qin State had an accurate strategy that lasted for ten generations. Therefore, the First Emperor fought for the reign of six generations and swept the world with many accidental factors, but the correct strategy is undoubtedly a major key.

Now that Ye Xingyuan said he was facing east, Xu Zhou was like a sudden enlightenment and was amazed.

Yan Wenjun was still a little confused and asked in confusion: "The vast sea is on the east side. Can you ask the people of Yan Kingdom to go to the sea to make a living?"

The territory of Yan State is actually not small, and it is located in the northeast. To the north is the grassland occupied by demons and barbarians, to the west is the vast desert and not crowded. To the south is the wealthy Qi State, and to the east, it has already entered the sea.

Ye Xingyuan smiled and said, "The king looked at him not far away, but he didn't know if there was another area outside the East China Sea?"

Yan Wenjun thought about it carefully and nodded and said, "I heard that there is a place where Jingwei lives outside the East China Sea, and it was also the starting point for Dayu to control the flood, called the Kingdom of Qingqiu.

This place is the ancient demon country. Is the young master's intention to take this demon country? I heard that the demon country is full of demonic atmosphere and the land is barren. Our human race cannot survive. What is the use of it?"

In ancient people, the demon war has been too long since. The demon clan has been outside the Central Plains. Even the king of a country does not know much about the demon clan. In his mind, the country of Qingqiu is a remote countryside, hanging alone overseas, and it is really useless.

Ye Xingyuan laughed in silence and said, "No, it's not! The country of Qingqiu is rich, not under Qi. There are thousands of fertile land and countless minerals. What's more important is that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the Yan State can use this as a base, it can attack and retreat and defend, and it can establish a foundation for a hundred generations!"

When Yan Wenjun heard that there were fertile fields and minerals, he was straightened. Isn’t this what Yan Guo Shao was like? But when it came to easy defense and difficult attack, he nodded and sighed, “Even if the young master said it is not bad, just the four words easy defense and difficult attack will be difficult to kill us.

Yan State is in poverty and there is no naval army. How can we land in the sea to attack Qingqiu State? If we can't take it down, it will still be useless?"

With Yan's current navigation technology, let alone sending an army across the East China Sea, it is not so easy for an individual to take a boat to Qingqiu Kingdom. Of course, the most important thing is that he has no money, cannot build a fleet, and it is impossible to train a navy army.

This may be a difficult problem for others, but it is familiar to Ye Xingyuan. He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. Although the Kingdom of Qingqiu is an overseas island, the tail end is also connected to the northern border.

The Yan army only needs to go north, bypass the territory occupied by the barbarians, move along the coastline, and then turn south. Then they can reach the capital of Qingqiu Kingdom. Although the distance is far away, it is not a difficult journey for the Yan cavalry."

He had walked this path once, not to mention that he had figured out the temperament of the Qingqiu Kingdom. These royal families were fierce but weak on the inside. In fact, they were afraid of the great powers in the Central Plains. As long as the cavalry of Yan Kingdom went around, they would inevitably be invincible and proclaimed. At most, they would spend more effort when attacking the capital.

Yan Wenjun was skeptical, and Ye Xingyuan was not in a hurry. This was just the first time we met, so we could just take out the approximate direction. As for the specific implementation, we will have to wait for it later.

Xu Zhou coughed and poked Yan Wenjun. Yan Wenjun woke up like a dream and said loudly: "Young Master's words have made me suddenly enlightened. I only hope that the young master will stay by my side and ask for advice every day."

Although he had not understood it yet, he was a wise ruler and was not vague at all. He spoke and wanted to be appointed Ye Xingyuan as his superior and participate in state affairs. Ye Xingyuan did not refuse and accepted it calmly.

This incident spread to the southern countries, especially the King of Wu and King Yue, which caused a stir.

The King of Yue was naturally furious. Only then did he realize that Ye Xingyuan, who killed his father, had actually escaped. The people below knew that they would not report it. It was really hateful. In anger, he chopped off the heads of several guards and wrote a letter to Yan Wenjun, asking him to repatriate Ye Xingyuan.

Yan and Yue are separated by 108,000 miles apart. Although Yue has been in great popularity in recent years, Yan Wenjun is not afraid of him, so he naturally ignores him.

However, the King of Wu was frightened and summoned his ministers to ask, "My dear friends, Zhong Qi was originally a family of Wu and made great contributions to Wu. Later, in order to calm the war, he had to send him to Yue as a magistrate.

I felt very guilty when I thought about it. Now that he has left Yue Kingdom and went to Yan Kingdom to be the prime minister, I wonder if he would vent his anger on our country? If he holds a grudge, what should I do? And if the Yue Kingdom is angry, I wonder if he will be angry?"

He was a timid and weak person. When he was the prince, Zhong Qi was his backbone, and he did not do anything big, and he performed quite well. After ascending to the throne and the Zhong family withered again, he became more and more exposed and his behavior was in a mess.

A mature minister smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking to himself that you know that the Zhong family has made no mistakes, and it would be fine if he was thrown away. Later, he saved the Wu Kingdom once, but he was betrayed by the king and sent to Wei Kingdom as a hostage. God knows how much suffering he suffered.

Now that he has left everything to Yan State, he must be determined to take revenge, which cannot be resolved.

Someone advised him: "It is impossible to imagine that things are now. On the one hand, they send envoys to Yan State to make friends, and on the other hand, they vented the words of Mr. Zhong, and then apologized to Yue State, so that they should not cause conflicts between the two countries."

In fact, these ministers could understand that although the Wu Kingdom had not improved much in the past few years, three years later, the Yue Kingdom was no longer as powerful as it was before. When King Yue came to power, he fought with his brothers for the throne, and killed him for a while, which hurt the vitality of the Yue Kingdom.

After ascending the throne, King Yue did not have the ambition of his father. He was greedy for pleasure every day and was in power in the court. Today, the Yue Kingdom cannot threaten the existence of the Wu Kingdom.

The King of Yue probably wouldn't be able to get along with Wu because of just Ye Xingyuan. They simply went there vaguely to rest assured as King of Wu. As for Yan, there were still several major countries that could not be defeated by Wu, so there was no need to worry.

After the audience of the King of Wu analyzed, he felt relieved. On the one hand, he sent an envoy to Yue Kingdom and apologized in a low voice. He was harshly slandered by Yue Kingdom. On the other hand, he sent someone to Yan Kingdom and gave gifts to Ye Xingyuan.

Ye Xingyuan received a gift from King Wu and laughed at him.

Yan Wenjun was worried that he would like to think of his homeland, so he asked carefully: "The young master is a great clan of Wu. The King of Wu apologized to the young master now. I wonder if the young master has the intention to return to the country?"

In the court these days, he heard Ye Xingyuan’s profound plans and his policies were amazing. He knew that his reputation was well-deserved and was really a great sage. How could he bear to let Ye Xingyuan go?

Ye Xingyuan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. Wu State abandoned me like a worn-out shoe. How could I turn back? Since I have been on the Golden Platform, I should help the king enrich the country and strengthen the army and dominate the north."

The long-term strategy formulated by Ye Xingyuan is of course to allow Yan State to cultivate internal strength, slowly develop, to get along with each other, to erode whales and swallow them, and to gradually have the opportunity to unify the world.

However, this goal has not been achieved within more than ten years, because there are the Emperor Zhou, the Emperor Zhou, and the saints who are standing in front of them.

If the saint does not leave, no one can completely change the current order. Therefore, Ye Xingyuan is not in a hurry. He sets a phased goal first and can dominate the north. For Yan State, which has always lived in the cracks, it is an unimaginable beautiful result.

Sure enough, Yan Wenjun was overjoyed and bowed to the end to thank Ye Xingyuan.

After that, Yan Wenjun trusted Ye Xingyuan and entrusted all the government affairs to him. Ye Xingyuan worked hard to govern, practiced reforms, and revitalized the economy of Yan. In three years, the common people were not hungry.

After three more years of training, he personally led his troops to fight to wipe out the ancient and weak Qingqiu Kingdom in one fell swoop, and opened a route, connecting the Qingqiu Peninsula with the northern plains of Yan Kingdom, and the climate has become established.

This was a rare time for the Yan State to be prosperous in turbulent times, with talents gathering and good weather. Without Ye Xingyuan, Yan State had also relied on several talented generals to suppress the neighboring Qi State, and even the army was pressing to the border and reaching the vicinity of Qidu.

However, in Ye Xingyuan's view, it is impossible to destroy Qi State because of the saints. In this way, this is to consume resources and accumulation in vain, and the direction of the strategy must be changed.

In addition to military operations, Ye Xingyuan also paid close attention to economic and technological progress, especially maritime trade.

After obtaining the springboard of Qingqiu Kingdom, he used the southern end of Qingqiu Kingdom as a springboard and continued to sail eastward to trade with the countries of Fuyu. In exchange for a large number of overseas treasures and gold and silver treasures. He devoted all of these profits to the infrastructure and military construction of Yan State.

For the demon barbarians in the north, Ye Xingyuan adopted a two-pronged approach of combining suppression and comfort. At this time, Ye Xingyuan had not yet risen yet, and the demon barbarians outside the border were still in a mess. On the one hand, Ye Xingyuan used mutual trade to win over some demon barbarians who were relatively close to the human race, and on the other hand, he dispatched elite troops of Yan State to attack and kill some hard tribe leaders in the mode of special war.

On the one hand, it plays a role in training troops, and on the other hand, it also suppresses the development of demon barbarians.

The slightly more powerful demon barbarian tribe either chooses to be friendly with humans or slowly migrate westward under the pressure of Yan State. The pressure under Yan State is more tilted towards Zhao State to the west.

After ten years of preparation, the national strength of Yan State has been different from the past and has been greatly improved. Compared with the other countries of the same period, it is no longer on the same level. It is just because its main direction is the northwest and the Central Plains countries, and it has not been noticed.
Chapter completed!