In the afternoon of the next day, members of the six ministries, the cabinet, and the advisory group came to the Yinghua Hall for a meeting as scheduled.

The Emperor's gaze swept over the faces of the people from the three ministries one by one, and then said, "Today, I have summoned all Aiqing to make a detailed analysis of the situation we may be facing at the moment, and to discuss specific coping strategies. ”

After saying that, his expression suddenly changed solemnly, and he said solemnly: "Now that my country and Yun have divided the Shu country equally, the territory and national strength of the two countries have become larger, which is a good thing, but this will definitely cause dissatisfaction and panic among the Yan and Ye countries, in order to protect their own countries and territories, they are likely to strike first - join forces to attack us."

Now that our country and Yunguo are immersed in the joy of sharing the Dawn Kingdom, it is inevitable that they will be a little complacent, which just gives them an opportunity. If they attack suddenly, we will be caught off guard, and we will lose a lot if we are not captured by them, so we must take measures immediately.

The Third Prince and Jiang Yueting proposed to me to strengthen the management of the border passes, which I agree with very much, and if others have anything to add or have any opinions, please bring it up. ”

The ministers immediately whispered, and soon made suggestions, and the emperor listened carefully one by one, and did not make a final conclusion for the time being.

During this period, the emperor asked Jiang Yuetang to explain the plan she made.

Jiang Yuetang then said: "Judging from the current situation, the most direct way to deal with them is to send enough people to guard the border passes, and in the long run, it is best to merge Zhao and Yun into one country, so that even if Yu and Ye join forces, they may not be able to beat us." ”

Immediately, a minister said: "Yunguo may be willing to join forces with us, but if the two countries are merged, they will definitely not agree." Think about it, what king would want to give up the throne?"

Jiang Yuetang said unhurriedly: "That's right, the monarch of Yun State will definitely not be willing to hand over the throne, but in order to keep their territory and interests, Ye State and Yu State are likely to merge into one country, and then the situation in the entire Central Plains will change greatly - the country after the merger of the two countries will be the country with the largest territory and national strength, at that time, if our country and Yun State are not merged, it is very likely that they will be captured one by one, and then unify the Central Plains."

This is something we must recognize, so even if the monarch of Yun refuses to merge, we must find a way to merge the two countries. ”

Originally, it was just talking about how to deal with the sudden attack of the two countries, but now it has brought up such big issues as the 'merger of Zhao and Yun' and 'unification of the Central Plains'.

Soon, a minister spoke: "Jiang Moushi, you should talk about how to make the 'Zhao and Yun merge', you should understand - if this step does not work, 'unifying the Central Plains' is just a dream." ”

There was a lot of disdain in his tone, thinking that Jiang Yuetang, a hairy child, just wanted to attract everyone's attention. In his opinion, 'unifying the Central Plains' is everyone's dream, but this dream is even more difficult to realize than ascending to the sky.

Jiang Yuetang said: "Okay, before talking about countermeasures, let me talk about the necessity of merger: at the beginning, the territory and national strength of the five countries in the Central Plains were equal, and in this case, there would basically be no war between countries, but after several or even more than a dozen sessions of the 'Ninth Five-Year Games', there will inevitably be a situation in which the territory and national strength of some countries have increased greatly and some countries have decreased sharply.

Now that there are only four countries left in the Central Plains, the national strength of Zhao and Yun is much higher than that of Ye and Yu, and an unequal situation has been formed, which will inevitably lead to war. It can be said that the moment we destroyed the Dawn Kingdom, the pattern of the Central Plains had already changed, and if we wanted to survive permanently, the best way was to unify the Central Plains. Of course, the unification of the Central Plains is not a matter of overnight, so we will come step by step - first merge with Yun to form a country that is larger than the merger of Yu and Ye, and then further merge with the merging countries of these two countries to finally achieve unification.

Although the monarch of Yun will not agree to the merger, he must also realize that if he does not cooperate with us, Yun will be regarded as an attack by Ye and Yu, so he will agree to join forces with us.

Since we have agreed to join forces, we will have to send some people into Yunguo, and then we can paralyze them little by little until he has to agree. ”

The minister laughed and said, "Shi Jiang said it lightly, the monarch of Yun is a very suspicious person, and it may not be so easy for our people to paralyze him." ”

Jiang Yuetang said: "Then it depends on who we send." After that, he turned to the emperor and asked, "Your Majesty, is there anyone in our country who is extremely capable of diplomacy?"

At this time, Xiao Diyuan spoke: "The minister has already sent such a person to lurk in Yunguo. ”

Everyone in the audience was shocked and looked at Xiao Diyuan blankly.

Xiao Diyuan then told him how he sent Wang Ding to become an official in Yunguo under a pseudonym, and said that there were two other people from his side besides Wang Ding among the powerful ministers in Yunguo.

The crowd was in an uproar.

The Emperor was curious, "What is the reason for you to do this in the first place?"

Xiao Diyuan replied: "First, I want to have a hiding place when I leave Shuguo one day, and secondly, I hope to help Zhaoguo slowly realize the desire to unify the Central Plains from this step." ”

Emperor: "So you had doubts about your origins a few years ago?"

Xiao Diyuan nodded.

The emperor asked again: "What is the weight of Wang Ding and the other two in the heart of the monarch of Yun Kingdom?"

Xiao Diyuan: "They have become the right and left hands of the monarch of Yunguo, and their opinions will generally be adopted by the monarch." ”

The emperor smiled and said, "That's easy." ”

Then start the deployment-related work.

Within ten days, the manpower sent to guard the border was in place.

At the same time, after receiving Zhaoguo's proposal, Yunguo also sent additional manpower to guard the border passes.

The kings of Ye and Yu were discussing how to keep their country recently, and finally decided to join forces to attack Zhao and send some soldiers to restrain Yun and prevent them from coming to the rescue of Zhao.

But just as they were preparing to act, they learned that a large number of soldiers were stationed on the border between Zhao and Yun.

The kings of Ye and Yu immediately met again to discuss countermeasures.

As Jiang Yuetang expected, they thought of merging the two countries, but neither of them was willing to surrender to anyone, so the plan had to be postponed again and again.

However, the two monarchs also knew that if this dragged on, the situation would only become more and more unfavorable to them.

The so-called dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and as a last resort, the monarch of Ye sent someone to secretly kill the monarch of the Yan country, and quickly seized the ruling power of the Yan country.

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