In the early morning, a caravan slowly moved forward on the mountain road, and this caravan was Yang Yun and others who were preparing to go to Yuyue, a small northern country.

Yuyue is the northernmost country near the Chu State, which is mountainous and has very low temperatures, and spends nearly half of the year in ice and snow.

In such climates, the crops that can be grown in a month are very limited. And most crops can only be grown in spring and summer, and in autumn and winter due to the cold temperatures, crops cannot grow at all.

However, due to the high mountains and dense forests, many high mountains do not melt with ice and snow all year round, but have become a paradise for many rare medicinal materials and precious animals.

The country is rich in precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and reishi, so many merchants come from far and wide to buy various Chinese medicinal materials such as old ginseng and precious reishi. The picking and planting of medicinal herbs has become the most important income for the people of Yuyue.

In addition, due to the abundance of animal resources, hunting and selling animal skins, and even using the bones of rare animals as medicinal materials, is also an important means of livelihood for the common people of Yuyue.

Like Zheng Guo, Yu Yue, who had a rich natural resource and a weak national strength, also became the object of exploitation by the Chu State, and every year Yu Yue would pay tribute to the Chu State with many precious medicinal materials and animal skins.

The people here in Yuyue are fierce, and of course they are unwilling to be bullied, so the people of Yuyue have taken up arms many times, resisted, and fought to the death against the greedy Chu people.

However, due to the disparity in strength, every resistance of Yu Yue ended in failure, and a large number of Yu Yue's ordinary people paid for their lives in one battle after another.

Many wars have caused a large number of men to die in battle, and in the long run, it has caused a situation where there are more women than men in Yuyue.

The bloody facts have told the people of Yuyue that before they have sufficient strength, all resistance will only increase casualties. In desperation, Yu Yue had no choice but to accept the reality of paying tribute every year.

But the people of Yuyue buried their hatred deep in their hearts, and their resentment towards the Chu State was even greater than that of the people of Zheng State.

A large number of men died in one war after another, resulting in a far outnumber of women than men. Women began to step out of the family and take on the burden of raising a small family and strengthening the country. As a result, many outstanding female talents have emerged in many important fields in the month.

The current king of Yuyue, Lee Sung-young, is a woman, and his father and brothers are all resisting. In the violent war of the Chu State, lives were lost. As the sole heir of the Li dynasty, Li Chengying became the king of Yuyue.

The bloody facts of his father and brother in front of him made Li Chengying understand a truth: before he has strong strength, he can only taste his courage by lying on his back.

So, soon after Li Chengying ascended the throne, he presented a surrender table to the state of Chu. Admit that you are a vassal state of the Chu State, and you have to pay a sufficient amount of precious medicinal materials and animal skins every year.

This year is Li Chengying's fifth year as the king of Chu. In the past five years, Li Chengying led the people of Yuyue to pay various tributes to the state of Chu on time every year.

At the same time, he issued a decree in the country: all ordinary people are not allowed to make remarks that are unfavorable to the state of Chu, and it is forbidden for the common people of Yuyue to have conflicts with the people of Chu.

Therefore, in the five years that Li Chengying has been the king of Yuyue. Yu Yue never had any friction with Chu again, and a large number of children slowly grew up, accumulating some strength for Yu Yue secretly.

Yang Yun took the team of envoys who incarnated him as a merchant traveler, and it was against such a background that he came to the territory of Yuyue.

The weather in Yuyue is cold, and the harsh climatic conditions have created the habit of Yuyue people who like to drink very much.

Once, Yuyue people drank alcohol to ward off the cold in winter, but as time went by, this way of avoiding the cold gradually became a habit that many Yuyue people couldn't quit.

It is precisely this habit of knowing Yu Yueren, so this time, Yang Yun made a special trip to bring a lot of high-grade liquor from the Cheetah Department. This thing is a rare good thing for Yu Yueren!

Compared with Zheng Guo, Yu Yue and Da Fu are even farther away. Therefore, Yang Yun has a relatively small grasp of the situation in Yue's country, and he can't find a friend in Yue's country who can be trusted and can help them, which makes it very difficult to promote the alliance between the two countries.

However, these things are not in a hurry, after discussing with Ju Yuanguang, Yao Xia and others. Yang Yun asked Yuyue's imperial city to rent a shop and become the owner of the wine shop.

As expected by Yang Yun and others, Yu Yueren liked the high-grade liquor brewed by the Cheetah Department very much. They believe that only drinking this kind of wine is particularly enjoyable.

Therefore, these high-grade liquors brewed by the Cheetah Department were quickly sought after by the Yuyue people. Later, Yang Yun sold the liquor in the shop at a very high price, which still made Yu Yue's dignitaries and nobles frantically rush to buy it.

At this time, Yang Yun adopted the principle of limited sales, and only sold a small amount of cheetah high wine every day, making this kind of wine quickly become a luxury in Yuyue.

Just like these princes and nobles who live in the capital of the Moon King City, they are only willing to take out this high-grade liquor for people to taste on some specific memorable days.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Yun used these high-grade liquors as gifts, got acquainted with many princes and nobles in Yuyue, and gradually learned about some of the situations in Yuyue's court.

In the Yuyue Dynasty, Li Wenke, the king of Ning, was the imperial uncle of Queen Li Chengying and the queen's most trusted minister. Many powers in the court were in his hands, making him the second person in the Moon Kingdom after Queen Yi Sung-young.

Yang Yun's envoy to Zheng Guo and Yu Yue this time was completely different from his last envoy to Liuyi, and he could not contact the two countries in a public capacity.

If the news spreads, the alliance will not succeed at that time, and it is even possible that these two small countries will capture Yang Yun and send it to Chu in order to clear themselves.

Da Fu and these two small states were located in the north and south of the Chu State respectively, and if they had a choice, Yu Yue and Zheng Guo would certainly rather offend the distant Da Fu than provoke the neighboring Chu State.

In this case, Yang Zheng couldn't go directly to meet Li Chengying, the queen of Yuyue, so he had to find someone to secretly introduce himself to the queen, and this Ning King Li Wenke, who was deeply trusted by the queen, became a good choice.

Ning Wang Li Wenke has no other weaknesses, that is, he likes what is in this cup. And since tasting the cheetah high liquor in Yang Yun's caravan, he was immediately ecstatic, and immediately fell in love with this very enjoyable liquor.

King Ning sent people to purchase this kind of good wine, but because this high-grade wine was very popular in the month, it was quickly sold out, and the people he sent returned empty-handed.

Just when King Ning was very disappointed, a one-armed merchant came to King Ning's mansion and asked to see King Ning.

Li Wenke, the king of Ning, originally didn't want to see this one of the people of unknown origin

Arm businessman. But seeing that the gift brought by this merchant was actually Shitan's favorite high-grade liquor, he gladly met with the one-armed merchant.

This one-armed businessman is Yao Xia, when he saw Zhao Wenke, the king of Ning, Yao Xia followed Yang Yun's instructions and said straight to the point, the purpose of coming to meet Li Wenke.

Li Wenke is the king of Ning who is under one person in the Yue Kingdom and above ten thousand people. He is also not reconciled, his own country, living under the endless oppression of the Chu State.

Hearing that Dafu was willing to form an alliance with Yu Yue to fight against the powerful Chu State, Li Wenke became interested.

So one afternoon a few days later, in a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere. Under the leadership of Yao Xia, Li Wenke met Yang Yun, the thirteenth prince of Dafu.

Li Wenke, who was full of interest, felt a little disappointed the moment he saw Yang Yun. Dafu actually sent such a young prince to come over to negotiate an alliance with him, it seems that this sincerity is not enough!

But after some exchanges with Yang Yun, Li Wenke was shocked, this very young-looking prince quoted scriptures and said many truths, which made him admire from the bottom of his heart.

After talking with Yang Yun, Li Wenke was very happy, as if he saw the hope of Yu Yue's rise. For a moment, he felt that his old body seemed to be full of vitality again, and he was determined to go out and fight for Yu Yue's future.

With the approval of King Ning Li Wenke, it will be much easier to meet Li Wenying, the queen of Yuyue.

A few days later, under the arrangement of Li Wenke, the king of Ning, Yang Yun met Li Chengying, the queen of Yuyue, a beautiful woman about twenty-seven or eight years old.

A long black hair is coiled at the back of his head like a cloud, with a smooth forehead, a light and delicate makeup, and his eyebrows are full of sassy and heroic appearance.

It can be seen that sitting in the position of Yu Yue, the pinnacle of power in this small country, for a long time has made her very decisive and confident. But in the deepest part of her eyebrows, there seemed to be a trace of sadness.

"Uncle Huang has already told me all about your intentions. But how do you prove it to me? You have the ability to help us overthrow the mountain of Chu in Yue. At the same time, will your Fu State become the new Chu State in the future? ”

Li Chengying can sit in the position of Queen Yu Yue for so long, and he is not an ordinary person, and he suddenly found the key to the problem.

"Don't hide it from Your Majesty, even if you don't participate in the alliance in Yuyue, my Dafu and Chu will also fight. And you Yu Yue have not been bullied by the Chu State, we have a common enemy, this is the premise for us to reach an alliance. ”

Yang Yun had been preparing for this meeting for a long time, so he calmly said what he had already prepared.

"At the same time, this king hides his identity and comes to see His Majesty in this way, just because he doesn't want the news of the alliance between our two countries to be made public, so that Yu Yue is in danger, which is enough to represent the sincerity of my alliance with Yu Yue." Seeing that his words had successfully attracted Queen Li Wenying, Yang Yun continued.

"Although I have formed an alliance with you Yu Yue, we also know that your strength is limited. Therefore, at the beginning of the war, we don't need you to send troops in Yueyue, and we will confront the Chu State head-on. And we just need to send troops to attack the empty rear of Chu's defense at the critical moment of the big war between Dafu and Chu, and I believe that under this kind of front and back attack, Chu will definitely be defeated. ”

In order to impress the queen, Yang Yun's plan was to minimize Yu Yue's danger as much as possible.