Originally, they were full of confidence and wanted to attack the state of Chu and divide the interests of the state of Chu.

But now they have been taught by Chu State to be human beings.

In just a few days, the 2.5 million troops of the five countries suffered heavy losses!

However, for the more than one million troops of the Chu State, there were almost no losses, nothing more than a waste of more than 100,000 bombs.

But bombs can be made, and for the Chu State, it only takes them a month or two to make more than 100,000 bombs.

Such a fiasco made the emperors of the five countries deeply understand the terrible state of Chu!

At the same time, they are also struggling, how to gain a foothold next?

The confidence I had at the beginning is now gone.

They no longer have any idea of being an enemy of the Chu State, so what they are struggling with now is how to face the Chu State next, and how to gain a foothold in the southwest?

If the state of Chu has the intention to retaliate against them, then with the power of these bombs in the state of Chu, the five countries are basically cold.

Even if the Chu State does not retaliate against them, then the next commercial and trade cooperation will not be possible with the Five Kingdoms, coupled with the heavy losses this time, the Five Nations are likely to be kicked out of the ranks of the Ten Kingdoms in the Southwest.

Even because of this war, coupled with the lack of commercial and trade cooperation of the Chu State in the future, the five countries may be turned into small countries......

This is undoubtedly a disaster for the five countries.

So the five emperors sat in this hall, all very silent, none of them spoke, and they didn't know what to say.

After being silent for a long time, the Emperor of the Ice Kingdom sighed and said, "There is nothing to do now, let's apologize to the State of Chu and offer compensation as much as possible...... If you can, make every effort to resume commercial and trade cooperation with Chu, even if you can't resume commercial and trade cooperation, you should try to improve relations. ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at the faces of the other four emperors!

The faces of the four emperors were very ugly, and their resentful eyes were a little blaming the Ice Emperor Emperor.

Because it was the Emperor of the Ice Kingdom who persuaded them to do this.

Now it's impossible to make this mess like this, it's impossible to have no opinion on him.

The Emperor of the Ice Kingdom also knew that he was at a loss, and took the initiative to say: "If the Chu State accepts the apology, I am willing to give the greatest sincerity and compensation." ”

The other four emperors still didn't speak, but they all shook their heads helplessly and sighed.

At the same time, in the palace of the Han Kingdom, the female emperor heard the news of the victory of the Chu State over the Five Kingdoms, and couldn't help laughing, and said:

"I still have a good vision, I thought that Chu was not easy to mess with, so I chose to cooperate with Chu from the beginning, I never thought that the Emperor of the Ice Kingdom and the other four guys would be so stupid to go against Chu State.

Now it's okay, there's no place for playing with yourself, and you really have to see how they end. This matter, if he can't give a good explanation to the Emperor of Chu, I think Qin Ming will definitely not give up. ”

And at this time, there were four other emperors of countries who were not involved in this matter, and they all exhaled with great joy.

The reason is very simple, when the Ice Kingdom went to them and tried to persuade them to attack the Chu State together, they gave a refusal answer.

Now they are very glad that they are not enemies of the Chu State, otherwise, they are probably anxious now.

There is no doubt that the attack on Chu by the Five Nations Alliance is the hottest thing in the entire southeast.

It also illustrates a problem from the side, Chu is now the most powerful country in the southwest.

No one can deny it anymore!

The strength mentioned here is not only economic strength, but also combat effectiveness.

Even a very terrifying kind of power!

Because the state of Chu can achieve a great victory without losing a single soldier, just relying on some weapons.

This is undoubtedly very unimaginable for countries, and it even breaks their perception of the strength of a country.

In the palace of the Chu State, Qin Ming didn't pay too much attention to this matter.

How strong the Chu State is, he knows better than anyone else.

How powerful the bombs of the Chu State were, he knew better than anyone else.

Again, if the rest of the world does not have thermal weapons, then the state of Chu is invincible.

Sitting on the dragon chair in the main hall of the palace, Qin Ming looked at the hundreds of ministers standing above, and after dealing with some twists and turns, he began to make some decisions of his own, and said to the head of the household:

"If the five countries including the Ice Kingdom want to resume trade with our Chu State, you can tell them that I will not ask them to make war reparations.

But there is one requirement, that is, in terms of commercial and trade cooperation, all the taxes collected by their Ice Country will also be attributed to our Chu State. ”

Hearing this, the Tobe Shangshu said, "Your Majesty, will this be too light for them?" The minister thinks that he might as well ask him for a compensation of one billion taels of silver, right? ”

Qin Ming shook his head with a smile and said, "You are still a member of the household department, don't you know how to count such an account?" Think about it, how profitable is the trade between our Chu State and them?

Not to mention much, the trade between several countries is also as high as billions of taels of silver a year. And this is only one year, which means that in the trade of these billions of taels of silver, we could have collected five percent of them a year, that is, hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

If we ask for the tax revenue that the five countries should have, then the tax revenue we collect from the trade route will be doubled, while the other five countries have no taxes.

In this way, a rough calculation, in a year, from the tax revenue of the trade road, we can have more than a billion taels of silver, and we can pit them so much money in a year, why should I only need eleven taels of silver at a time? ”

Hearing this, Tobe Shangshu nodded, then bowed down and said:

"Your Majesty is wise, and from the very beginning, the minister only thought about business and trade, and did not think about the amount of taxes. I just think it's very profitable to ask him for a billion silver.

Now it seems that the actual tax revenue generated has far exceeded this figure. Come to think of it, the emperors of the five countries will also ignore this problem and let us take advantage! ”

Qin Ming smiled and said, "Even if they react, so what? Do they still dare to bargain? In the long run, the courts of their five countries will become poorer and poorer, and in the future, I am afraid that they will not be as good as a second-rate country. ”

The ministers all nodded.

Immediately, Qin Ming said: "There is another matter, send an imperial list to announce the world, and the content says:

I will never take the initiative to be an enemy of any country, but if any country harms the interests of Chu State, harms the people of Chu State, and takes the initiative to provoke Chu State, then my Chu State will definitely be destroyed!

Hundreds of officials knelt down together: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live......"

(End of chapter)