Chapter 143: Prelude to War
The media hyped up population growth versus land scarcity for two or three months.
By late October, however, the media had changed direction.
The collective turned to report the news about the evil cultivators in Nanyuanzhou and the evil deeds in Zhongyuanzhou.
For example, evil cultivators kidnap and kill the rich people of the country of Wancheng and plunder the property of the people.
For example, evil cultivators infiltrated the factories of the Ten Thousand Vehicles Kingdom and stole advanced technical information.
For example, if the evil cultivators plundered the men and women of the Ten Thousand Vehicles Kingdom, they were killed after refining them as furnaces.
Many of the criminal incidents that occurred in the country of Wancheng were all committed by the evil cultivators of Nanyuanzhou who had infiltrated the country of Wancheng.
What attracted the most attention and anger of the whole country was that more than two months ago, at the recruitment competition held by the Mu family in Xingtang City, the youngest immortal Mu Xianzi in Wancheng Country was abducted by evil cultivators in public.
Even for the much-watched "Mu Xianzi Abduction Incident", the National Special Operations Bureau also specially held a press conference to announce the details, show the tools of the crime, demonstrate its modus operandi, and combined with the previous investigation, it was concluded that if Mu Xianzi was excluded, the criminal gang formed by the Snake Ancestor and his apprentices took the lives of at least seven women and three men, a total of ten geniuses of the Ten Thousand Kingdoms.
His criminal behavior is simply cruel and unreasonable, and he is mad!
Not only that, at this press conference, Mu Xianzi, Mu Feiyan, was also invited to the scene by officials of the National Special Operations Bureau, faced hundreds of reporters, answered a few questions, and talked about her views on the matter.
Mu Feiyan cleared her throat and said a few words according to the manuscript that someone had prepared for her in advance:
"The evil cultivators of Nan Yuanzhou are doing evil in our homeland and wantonly plundering, we should face up to their danger and protect our safety. ”
"But the evil cultivators are cunning and insidious, always hiding in the shadows, shooting cold arrows at the kind people of our country, no matter how strong the country's strength is, it is always difficult to guard against, so they can only rely on themselves to strengthen their vigilance and provide more clues to the Special Operations Bureau. ”
"After all, these measures are helpless and passive choices, and if you want to completely stop those evil practices, you need a smarter way. ”
"I believe that with the prosperity of the country and the wisdom of the leaders, those unscrupulous cultivators will eventually be punished as they deserve."
After Mu Feiyan's speech was reported by hundreds of media, it aroused heated discussions throughout the country.
The focus of people's heated discussions, one is the stunning appearance of Mu Xianzi in the newspaper, and the other is those rampant and cruel Nanyuanzhou evil cultivators, how can they be completely eliminated?
How can we completely stop these evil cultivators, who are not engaged in wind and rain and wanton stumbling in a country where there is peace and wealth, advanced science and technology, and many geniuses?
In other words, how can we get rid of all these evil practices more thoroughly?
It is impossible to fortify on the border, tens of thousands of miles of border, how many manpower does it take to block the evil cultivators from Nanyuanzhou?
What if you think differently and directly send military forces to Nanyuan Continent to eliminate all those evil cultivators from the source?
That's the best way to solve the problem once and for all.
As a result, in the newspapers of some small and medium-sized media, words such as "going out to Nanyuanzhou and entering the nest of evil cultivators" and "capturing Nanyuanzhou, pulling out the tumor, and exterminating all evil cultivators" began to appear.
Zhou Ming, who was in Daxian Academy, immediately smelled the smell of the approaching storm.
hurriedly wrote a letter to Mu Feiyan, asking why she attended the press conference and acted as a key chess piece?
Mu Feiyan wrote back and said, "Originally, I didn't want to go, but an official gave me five million spirit coins, and I thought about it and passed, it shouldn't be nothing, right?"
"Poof~"
Seeing this reply, Zhou Ming squirted out.
"Are you willing to be a pawn of some big people just for the sake of five million? Do you know how many people will die because of your words?"
Probably millions!
Zhou Ming said loudly in his heart, thinking that Mu Feiyan was simply a stupid and sweet person, and she dared to do anything for the sake of ordering spirit coins.
But......
He also realized that even if Mu Feiyan didn't say that, now the top leaders of Wancheng Kingdom still have to do something.
A little big thing!
……
Ten thousand times the country.
The Capitol.
A closed door in the conference hall.
A huge, ring-shaped conference table.
The important high-level leaders in China gathered together to discuss major matters.
If Zhou Ming was also present at this time, he would recognize many old faces.
For example, the Hongping Daozu of Qingyun Mountain, the Shengkong Daozu (Ye Kong) of Guanglei Mountain, and the parents of the previous life - Yingshi Yu and Mei Qianhong of Feiyun Mountain.
There are also many new faces.
For example, the current head of state, vice president, minister of defense, minister of economy, director of intelligence, director of the special operations bureau, and so on...... It's all unfamiliar faces.
They were discussing something.
After taking Nan Yuanzhou, the question of how to distribute the benefits.
Not bad!
Although the people are still discussing how to deal with the evil cultivators of Nan Yuanzhou, the high-level leaders of Wancheng Kingdom have already reached a high degree of unanimity: they must dispatch the army to swallow up Nan Yuanzhou!
The topic they have been arguing about these days is mainly the issue of the distribution of benefits.
Because Nanyuanzhou has a radius of 200,000 miles, there is one large spiritual vein, three small spiritual veins, and thousands of mortal cities.
There is no doubt that the thousand cities of the mortal world belong to the kingdom of the Ten Thousand Vehicles.
But how to distribute the four spiritual veins, Qingyun, Guanglei, Chixing, and Feiyun Four Mountains, it can be said that they are very noisy, and they will break the dog's brain.
The first to put forward the war motion was the Yingshi Jade and Mei Qianhong couples of Feiyun Mountain, because with the increase in the number of immortals in each mountain over the years, the spiritual veins of Zhongyuanzhou can be described as overwhelming.
During the low tide period when the spiritual energy gushes out, not to mention the interruption of the flow of Feiyun Mountain, even the Chixing Mountain in the central part of the country also has the problem of insufficient supply of spiritual energy.
As a result, the supply of spiritual energy in the spiritual veins was insufficient, and the four major sects were constantly in conflict, contradictions and frictions arose, and the relationship became more and more stiff.
Or did Yingshi Yu realize that even if he found trouble with the three upstream sects, it would be impossible to solve the problem, because there were 167 immortals in Feiyun Mountain, and even during the period when the spiritual veins were abundant, the supply of spiritual energy was insufficient, so it could only be replenished by the Gathering Spirit Pagoda, and the number of immortals would be more in the future?
Even if Feiyun Mountain occupies the entire spiritual vein, I'm afraid that the spiritual energy will not be enough.
It can only engage in external expansion.
So Yingshiyu made a special trip to visit Wu Xinyu, the head of the Wancheng Kingdom, and asked to jointly send troops with the Wancheng Kingdom to destroy Nanyuanzhou, and then the Wancheng Kingdom got the mortal land and cities, and Feiyun Mountain got all the spiritual veins, mutual benefit and win-win, and sincere cooperation.
Wu Xinyu and the other high-level officials of the Wancheng Kingdom did not change their expressions, but their hearts moved.
The same idea of sending troops to Nanyuan Zhou to swallow up the new territory was moved.
Why?
Interests, but also interests.
commercial interests.
In recent years, with the strong commodities of Wancheng Country, they have been exported like a tide and earned a huge amount of spirit coins, forming a huge surplus for the surrounding continents, and absorbing tens of billions of spirit coins every year.
The extreme imbalance in trade has made it more and more difficult for the high-level leaders of the surrounding continents to do their export business, from the initial welcome, to the later restrictions, and then to the final boycott and hatred.
Especially in Nanyuanzhou, many good and evil sects even joined forces to organize a professional plundering team to attack the caravans of Wanchengguo and kill the merchants of Wanchengguo, and the economic interests of Wanchengguo suffered heavy losses in Nanyuanzhou.
The shrinking of foreign exports, the rapid growth of the country's population, and the decrease in the inflow of resources have caused the country's economic growth to slow down markedly in recent years, and the national living standards have dropped significantly.
Internal contradictions caused by the unemployment rate continue to emerge.
And this situation must be improved, and a way to deal with it must be found!
After thinking about it, it seems that only external expansion can solve the core contradiction.
And the overpopulation and the crime of foreign cults entering the country are just excuses, and although they exist, they are far less serious than those advertised in the newspapers.
In addition, Feiyun Mountain took the initiative to come over and expressed his willingness to dispatch all his combat strength to help swallow Nanyuanzhou, which completely coincided with the thoughts of Wu Xinyu and other high-level leaders.
However, for the sake of balancing the four major sects, Wu Xinyu also sent people to call the Dao ancestors of the three mountains of Qingyun, Guanglei, and Chixing to the capital city to discuss major matters.
So there was a scene where Wu Xinyu and others were drinking tea while drinking, and the heads of the four major sects were spitting and arguing fiercely.
This quarrel lasted for four or five days, and finally it was successfully negotiated.
The agreement was reached as follows:
The Wancheng Kingdom sent 50% of its troops to occupy all the mortal cities and minerals.
Feiyun Mountain dispatched 18% of the troops, occupying 40% of the upstream section of the large spiritual veins in Nanyuanzhou.
Guanglei Mountain dispatched 16% of the troops, occupying 40% of the middle reaches of the large spiritual veins in Nanyuanzhou.
Chixing Mountain dispatched 10% of the troops, occupying 30% of the downstream section of the large spiritual veins in Nanyuanzhou.
Qingyun Mountain dispatched 6% of troops, and it was the only one to obtain two large small spiritual veins in Nanyuanzhou.
The remaining small spiritual vein, depending on the losses of each sect in the war of conquest, if a certain sect has large casualties, this small spiritual vein will be compensated to the sect.
In this way, several domestic power giants have basically reached an agreement.
And after the hype and warm-up of the national media, the public support rate in favor of swallowing Nan Yuanzhou by force exceeded ninety percent.
As a result, the Wancheng Kingdom, which has quickly entered the state of war preparation and mobilization, is about to show its sharp fangs and turn into a fierce beast.
Zhou Ming clasped his hands and secretly paid attention to all this.