After such a thing happened a few times, Xiao Yin couldn't help it, and took the initiative to find Deng Yuanjue and propose that he want to Zen him. But how could Deng Yuanjue agree once, naturally he had to excuse himself a few more times.

Back and forth, the two of them acted in this play for two years, and in the middle, Xiao Yin took the initiative to ask for the Zen position nine times, and finally at the last time, Deng Yuanjue agreed.

The people were also numb after knowing it, and the first time the news of Xiao Yin's Zen position came out, the people were still talking about it, and many people felt that Deng Yuanjue should not accept it.

But later, with each time the news came out, there were fewer and fewer people to discuss, and in the end, even the group of people who supported the royal family the most stopped talking, they were tired of seeing it, and they couldn't find new arguments after discussion, so they had to let it go, anyway, whoever became the emperor would not affect their lives.

After nine times of Chan concessions, Deng Yuanjue ascended the throne in Jianye and became the emperor, changed the name of the country to Wei, and established Deng Wenying as the crown prince, Wu Shiqi as the prime minister, and Wu Teng as the general.

Deng Wenhao was named King Wu, Deng Wenjie was named King Lu, Zhou Yunjing was the general of the chariot cavalry, Lei Zhengming was the general of the hussars, Wu Shuang was the general of Wei, and the three of them were crowned marquis at the same time, and other civil and military officers were also rewarded for their meritorious deeds.

It is worth mentioning that at Deng Yuanjue's enthronement ceremony, Emperor Jiang Huan Chu of Qi sent Zeng Dong as an envoy to Jianye to congratulate, and Tianluo Sect also sent Yang Yi as an envoy to watch the ceremony.

Compared with the development of Tianluo Sect and Wei in the past two years, the performance of Qi State is somewhat unsatisfactory, they have only recovered to the pre-war level, and the economic growth rate has declined significantly, which has a lot to do with the opening up of Beihai City.

Among the two major port cities of Qi, Jiaozhou is mainly responsible for the military, and Beihai is responsible for the economy. Before it was occupied by the Tianluo Sect, Beihai brought 20% of the country's total income to Qi every year.

Later, through negotiations, although he wanted to return to Beihai City, he had to implement a policy of opening up to trade.

Originally, opening up was a win-win thing, and the prosperity of Beihai in the past two years was far better than before, but the economic income brought to the Qi State had dropped significantly, and Song Chong knew after a check that a large amount of silver had flowed into the pockets of the Tianluo Sect through trade.

Open trade means competition, since the death of Jiang Huanyan, the ability of Qi to go to the sea has decreased significantly, and the goods transported by the Tianluo Sect from the west have a great impact on the local goods, and the people always have a hunting mentality, and their purchase of these imported goods has also led to the loss of a large amount of silver.

Later, Tianluo Sect imported a commodity called tobacco out of nowhere, and at first let the people try it for free as a new thing, but after trying it a few times, the people gradually formed a dependence and could no longer do without.

As a result, tobacco began to be charged, and the price became higher and higher, and some average-income families even spent one-third or even more than half of their income on it in a year. This has led to a strange phenomenon in which people's incomes have risen, but their living standards have gradually declined.

Song Chong was also helpless after discovering this situation, because the negotiations under Hanzhong City had already been agreed that Beihai would open up trade to the Tianluo Sect, and now he couldn't go back on his word and ban other people's goods, right?

He had no choice but to adopt the means of propaganda and education to let the people know that smoking is harmful to their health, and also ordered the local Taishou to post notices in the market and the port, calling on everyone to boycott tobacco.

But after a month, these practices have had little effect, and those who have started smoking have already become addicted to smoking, how can they quit so easily. I haven't started sucking it yet, but after watching such a publicity, I also sucked it with an attitude of trying it out.

Seeing that the development of the situation was getting more and more uncontrollable, Song Chong had no choice but to go to Tian Wuji to discuss, Tian Wuji didn't say a word, and asked the commander of the city defense army to lead the troops to confiscate all the tobacco on the market and burn it in public.

What puzzled the two of them was that the Tianluo Sect's reaction to this matter was not any other than to send people to protest.

Just when the two thought that the tobacco incident was successfully resolved, the underground trade quietly developed.

The tobacco transported by the Tianluo Sect no longer enters the North Seaport, but stays at sea and is sold directly.

Merchants are all profit-seeking, and the local merchants of Qi are no exception. In the face of huge profits, many people choose to take risks, they take small boats to buy goods on the merchant ships of the Tianluo Sect, and then quietly transport them back to Hong Kong and sell them secretly.

Tian Wuji naturally continued to suppress after knowing it, but the more he suppressed, the less goods on the market, the fewer the goods, the more expensive the price, in just a few months, the price of tobacco rose three times, although the sales of Tianluo Sect decreased, but the profit was more than before.

In the end, Tian Wuji had no choice but to order the Nujiao Gang to let Lu Xinghai transfer people to import tobacco overseas to stabilize prices. As a result, as soon as the fleet approached the vicinity of Oman, it was ambushed by local pirates and suffered heavy losses.

It was like this kind of ending several times, and Tian Wuji roughly guessed that it had something to do with the Tianluo Sect.

He thought about using force to solve the problem, but after these few battles, he clearly knew that since Jiang Huanyan's death, the Qi State Water Army had been surpassed by the Tianluo Sect. If you rush to send troops, you will only be bored with yourself.

It is also in this context that the growth rate of Qi's economy naturally cannot keep up with the other two major forces.

"Your Majesty, the tobacco imported by the Tianluo Sect has spread from Beihai to several nearby cities, and if it is not stopped, in a few years, the whole country will rely on this drug, and then the economy of the whole country will collapse." After the two of them tried all kinds of methods to no avail, they went into the palace to find Jiang Huan Chu and decided to use the last resort.

"Then what do you say should be done to stop it?" Jiang Huanchu had heard about tobacco for a long time and wanted to solve this problem.

"Lian Wei Vaming." Tian Wuji slowly spit out four words.

"Is there no other way than this step?" Jiang Huan Chu frowned, compared to two years ago, he had already integrated into the role of the emperor, but when he really wanted to use troops against his friends, he was still a little hesitant.

"Your Majesty, you know the person of King Ming, and you really can't think of any other way to persuade him to give up the tobacco trade than by force." Tian Wuji shook his head.

"Okay, if there is no other way, just do what you want, pass the decree to Tian Kangyou, and let him secretly go to Jianye to visit Emperor Wei." Jiang Huan Chu finally made up his mind to start a war with the Tianluo Sect.

"Your Majesty." Tian Wuji was very relieved, knowing how difficult it was for Jiang Huanchu to make this decision, which also showed that from this moment on, he could be regarded as a real emperor.

Tian Kangyou served as Jiang Huanchu's deputy general for many years, and his envoy to Wei can also prove that Jiang Huanchu attaches great importance to this matter.

A month later, Tian Kangyou brought back news that Emperor Wei and Deng Yuanjue had agreed to jointly send troops to attack the Tianluo Sect.

He has also heard about tobacco, but because Wei and Tianluo Sect have not implemented trade openness, they have not been introduced for the time being, but this does not mean that it will not be transmitted in the future, and it is not wrong to take precautions first.

"Deng Yuanjue has already agreed to jointly send troops, general, tell me the specific details." Jiang Huan Chu once again gathered the ministers together.

Tian Wuji asked people to open a large map, pointed to the map and said to everyone: "Tian Kangyou and Emperor Wei have already negotiated, we will each send troops in three ways, General Sun Zhongmou led an army of 150,000 to attack Hanzhong City, Tian Kangyou led an army of 100,000 to attack Nanjun City, and Zeng Dong led 100 warships to take Penglai. ”

After speaking, Tian Wuji's hand pointed to Jian Ye again: "As for the Wei side, Emperor Deng Yuanjue of Wei will send Wu Shuang to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Guangyuan, Zhou Yunjing to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Jeju, and Deng Wenhao to lead an army of 150,000 to attack Qingzhou. ”

As soon as the words fell, the ministers below were shocked, 600,000 troops plus 100 warships, divided into six ways to crusade against a country that had been founded for less than two years, this should be a sure victory.

"At present, this use of troops is still in the secrecy stage, everyone should not leak the news, we can't give the Tianluo Sect a little time to prepare." Song Chong saw that everyone was surprised, and added another sentence.

The ministers have agreed, occupying absolute superiority, and also taking the means of sudden sneak attack, it seems that this will be another war to destroy the country.

In the next two months, both Qi and Wei used their own merchants as a cover, secretly transported various strategic materials to the front line, and troops also arrived on the battlefield in batches.

After everything was ready, the Sixth Route Army launched a fierce attack on Qin and Yan at the same time, and the Tianluo Sect was caught off guard because of insufficient preparation, especially in Qin, due to the dispersion of troops, less than a month after the start of the war, it was occupied by Deng Wenhao.

Rongcheng, the high-level leaders of the Ming Kingdom and several masters of the Tianluo Sect all gathered in the Ming Palace, discussing the current way to deal with it.

"Your Highness, Qi and Wei suddenly divided their troops to attack us in six ways, except for General Ning's Guangyuan City, the other five routes, we have suffered heavy losses, especially Qindi, Qingzhou alone has already fallen one-third of the territory." Shi pre-reported the casualties first.

"The enemy army has sent a total of 600,000 troops, and there are 100 warships, and our total strength on the front line is less than 300,000, especially in Hanzhong and Qindi, Sun Zhongmou and Deng Wenhao both led 150,000 troops, if they don't send reinforcements, General Niu and General Gao are afraid that they will not be able to withstand it." Then Ling Zhen said the deployment of his own side's troops.

"And Jeju side, Guo Taishou and General Xun used to be from Emperor Wei's side, will they sacrifice the city and surrender?" Yang Yi, the current leader of the Tianluo Sect, is skeptical of Guo Xu and Xun Yuqing's loyalty.

Shi Luosheng waved his hand: "This time Qi and Wei joined forces to sneak attack us, although there are some surprises, but it is also reasonable, we have been preparing for the past two years, you don't have to worry, solve it all the way." ”

"Your Highness is right, the reason why Qi and Wei joined forces and chose to use a sneak attack is enough to show that they are also afraid of us. Economically, they have completely lost to us, and if we can defeat them militarily this time, then who else can complete the great cause of unifying the five countries in the future but us? Wang Lun also stood up to cheer everyone up.