An earth-shattering bang in Kangping City shattered not only the hundreds of meters of walls of Kangping City and the will to fight, but also the hearts of all the people in power in the only two remaining countries on this continent. In one fell swoop, the Han army was able to break through the chain defense of hundreds of kilometers carefully built by the Taiwei of the Chu State.

As soon as Kangping City was broken, the central link of the chain defense suddenly ceased to exist, and the original elastic chain defense suddenly became a stiff dead snake, beaten everywhere, Meng Chong's Nanye Feng Zhong Chang drove straight in, Bai Yucheng was on the left, Zhang Hongyu was on the right, and this defense line of hundreds of kilometers was shattered, and nearly 100,000 Chu troops were crushed, all the way back to the Daba Mountain Range, using the steep form here, this regained a foothold, but at this time, they had lost thousands of square kilometers of land.

The state of Chu is located in the south, the territory is vast to nearly one million square kilometers, in the Qin state of successive defeats to the Han state, when the vitality of the great injury, they seem to have become the only country that can compete with the Han state, but this head-on collision, still ended in the defeat of the state of Chu, the loss of thousands of square kilometers of land will not make the state of Chu lose its vitality, but it greatly hit the self-confidence of the state of Chu.

That loud bang made the entire Chu country lose its soul. The first time the thermal weapon was used in the war, it played a huge role that even Gao Yuan did not expect, not only in the war, but also in the spirit.

When everyone didn't figure out what the reason for this loud bang was, more people attributed it to heavenly punishment, thinking that God was punishing the Chu State, and this cognition made the fighting spirit of the entire Chu State suddenly drop several notches. The sound of peace with the Han State suddenly resounded throughout the Chu State.

The capital of Chu State, although it is in the season of high autumn and cool weather, the wind and sunshine, but the whole city is in a gloomy cloud, and the whole city seems to be filled with a heavy and dead air, not only the court of Chu, but also the people of Chu.

The details of the defeat of Kangping City have spread throughout the city, and the discussion of heavenly punishment is all over every corner, everyone is careful when they speak, everyone is thinking, if one day, when this kind of heavenly punishment falls on Yingcheng, what will be the result, is Yingcheng capable of resisting such a heavenly punishment?

"What a heavenly punishment!" Qu Zhong was furious, "Those who spread this kind of remarks should be arrested and thrown into prison immediately, disturbing the hearts of our army and our people."

"How?" Huang Xie frowned bitterly, although the two pillars of the Chu State, one article and one martial arts, were all shocked by the loud noise in Kangping City, but they were the first two people to wake up." I'm afraid that nine out of ten people in Yingcheng are spreading this matter, and until the truth is clarified, I'm afraid that the discussion of heavenly punishment will not stop."

If King Chu Huai is the most leisurely and wealthy king in the world, then Huang Xie and Qu Zhong are undoubtedly the two busiest people in Chu State. encountered an unreliable king, but the state of Chu still lived in the south, and maintained a deterrent to the state of Qin for decades, so that the originally powerful state of Qin did not dare to use troops against the state of Chu, and was forced to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the border of Qin and Chu to prevent the state of Chu from hitting their target, relying on the two ministers of Wen and Wu.

Hearing Huang Xie's words, he let out a long sigh and sat down dejectedly, as Huang Xie said, until the imperial court did not come up with convincing evidence to prove that this was not a heavenly punishment, any justification would be pale and unconvincing.

"What is the king doing now?" Qu Zhong looked at Huang Xie, these days, Qu Wan took a group of generals to return to Yingcheng from Daba Mountain, Qu Wan's spirit was almost completely destroyed in this battle, although he was physically fine, but he was psychologically hit hard, and it became a question whether he could go into battle in the future, and he also had some other generals, these people were in Kangping City to witness the explosion of Huihong. Qu Chong had been summoning these people for the past few days, wanting to learn more details from their personal experiences, and he didn't have time to pay attention to what King Chu Huai was doing.

"The king summoned a witch to do something in the palace!" Huang Xie spread his hands and said with a wry smile. The state of Chu is located in the south, and in the early days, Wu played a very important role in the country, but with the development of the times, these people have lost their previous status, but I am afraid that with this discussion of heavenly punishment, these witches will take the opportunity to make waves.

Qu Zhong was dumbfounded, "No, what kind of bullshit is this heavenly punishment, it is clear that the Han Kingdom has made some shocking weapons, witch methods, can make the Han Kingdom no longer use this kind of weapon?"

Huang Xie sighed, "The king finally mustered up a little ambition, but he was hit hard by this, he always needs some psychological comfort, just do it by recruiting witches, in short, it is impossible to interfere with the government."

"Don't underestimate it, I'm going to warn these witches when I go back, don't make waves, otherwise my knife won't recognize people." Yielding and murderous.

"That's it, this is all a small section, what do you think of the discussion and this discussion in the court?" Huang Xie asked.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to hold it this time." Qu sighed, "I can only negotiate peace temporarily, and then let's discuss it in the long run, I just don't understand, why our ministers just can't see it, Han is a Qin country again, and it is more menacing than the previous Qin state, and the peace negotiation can stop the Han State from plotting against our Great Chu, and now the Qin State has been beaten down by the Han State, and there is no capital to argue with the Han State in a short time, if Gao Yuan's next target is not us, then I will write the name upside down."

"Da Chu has been comfortable all these years, everyone regards war as a daunting path, but what everyone doesn't understand is that sometimes it's not that you want to avoid it, you can avoid it, shrink your head and be a turtle, you can only be hanged and beaten, this time the defeat of Kangping City, although it scared some people, but I think, will eventually wake up some people, if Da Chu doesn't rise up, I'm afraid that when the Han State accumulates enough strength and waves the army again, Da Chu will face the risk of destroying the country." HUANG Xiedao.

"This failure will also be a good opportunity!" Qu Shen groaned for a moment, "Lord Shoufu, this time the two of us can cooperate sincerely and rectify the Great Chu Dynasty Gang well."

"We've been working together very well, I guess you're trying to lure the snake out of the hole this time, right?" Huang Xie suddenly laughed.

"Those who know me, Shousuke-sama too. If this war led by the two of us fails, there will inevitably be people who will jump out and use the matter of peace to attack our prestige, so as to enhance their own strength, then, let us stand by and watch, and when they are almost jumped, they will be surrounded and annihilated in one fell swoop, Da Chu needs to rise up, we don't need to be comfortable and happy, and we need people who are self-motivated and have a sense of crisis to enter the court."

"Then you must first get the king's support."

"You and I work together, don't you know the king's temperament?" Qu Zhong laughed.

Huang Xie said with a smile: "Although the king is indulged in pleasure and does not want to make progress, but the king is not a foolish king, he is shrewd in his heart, it is precisely because he knows that we are loyal and capable, so the two of us are in charge of the government, don't go too far."

"I understand that it is precisely because the king is such a person that I dare to do it boldly." Qu Zhen laughed. Shoufu, you and I are both people who have known the destiny of heaven, and this time it is also interesting to compete with a rising star like Han Wang Gaoyuan."

"The afterlife is terrifying!" Huang Xie shook his head and said: "This person has created an unprecedented miracle in just over ten years, starting from a small soldier, creating a huge country, swallowing Yan and destroying Qi, eating Wei and Han, and beating the Qin State to retreat, this time we will be beaten to the point of despair, I am afraid there will be no one to come."

"It's not necessarily a good thing if the edge is too much, it's easy to break if it's too rigid, his edge will force the other two great powers in the world to join forces to deal with him, Chu and Qin join forces, how long can the Han State last?"

"How easy is it to unite Chu and Qin?" Huang Xie sighed: "The two countries have their own ghosts, and if they want to cooperate sincerely, I'm afraid it will not be an easy task. In fact, in my opinion, although we have the danger of mountains and rivers in Daba Mountain, it can be said that at that time it was already a group of remnants of the defeated generals, if the Han army attacked in a big way, it would have to be two hands if they could not defend it, but why did they stop again?"

"They also have a lot of problems in the country!" Qu said solemnly: "In a short period of time, Gao Yuan swallowed the land of Qi, Wei, and Korea, and turned half of Zhao into a vassal, and it is not easy to integrate and reorganize, if such a high-intensity external military pressure has been maintained, the national strength of the Han Dynasty may not be able to bear it, and this king keeps tossing some surprising things, and the internal pressure is not small."

"Speaking of which, I'm very interested, some information from over there in the past two days, do you know what happened to this king?"

"I've been paying attention to Kangping City's affairs during this time, and I haven't paid attention to anything else, what did he toss?"

He set up several new yamen, one of which was called the Grand Court, which was the highest body in the country to adjudicate cases, from top to bottom, the prefectures and counties were called intermediate courts, and the counties were called primary courts, and the power of adjudication was separated from the counties. That's fine, but the other thing is something that shocked me, you know what?"

"First the Great Council, then the Great Court, the Great Council is in charge of legislation, reviewing national policies, and the power can be placed above their political halls, and now it is the Grand Court that is in charge of adjudicating cases, what new tricks does he have?"

"He set up a central bank, in the whole territory of the Han Kingdom, no longer use gold, silver, copper and silver as the currency in circulation, but will issue paper money, and now the first batch of paper money has been listed, and it is beginning to be exchanged in Jicheng and Tianhe County, a one-to-one ratio!" Huang Xie stared at Qu Zheng, "Do you know what that means?"

Qu Zhong looked at Huang Xie a little blankly.

"This means that Gao Yuan will exchange a worthless piece of paper for gold and silver in the hands of the common people, which means that he will accumulate an astonishing fortune in a very short period of time." Huang Xie said word by word.

Bowing his body to a shock, he leaned forward and looked at Huang Xie, "Gao Yuan is not a stupid person, why did he kill himself for this act?"

"That's exactly what I don't understand." (To be continued......)