Heavy taxes, harsh conscription, newspaper propaganda, rumors, brocade guards...... After this whole set of offensives, Emperor Shengguo will soon be reduced to a figure like Emperor Yang of Sui, quickly losing the support of the people, the monarch and the ministers will be centrifuged, and he will not be able to recover for decades.

Of course, Yang Mu just listened to these things as stories, and listened to them occasionally, because in his heart, Sheng Guo was no longer the main opponent.

Next, it's time to face the Jin Kingdom.

The country of Jin, just the land area is many times that of the rest of the countries, the national strength is strong, and the Wei Alliance behind it gathers more than a dozen younger brothers, which is simply a behemoth.

At the beginning of the spring of the fourth year of Taiding, the country was peaceful and peaceful, and when the Spring Festival was being celebrated, news came from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bad news.

The State of Wei was forced to move its capital!

Moving the capital is something that only happens when a country is fighting to the death.

Generally speaking, when the two countries were at war, whenever there was a little leeway, they would hold peace talks instead of moving the capital, and Wei moved the capital to the north, which meant that the capital was about to fall, to the point of no resistance.

Is the war that has lasted for nearly two years about to come to an end?

Yang Mu sighed, originally thinking of sending someone to contact Wei Guo and smuggle some weapons and equipment to him, but he didn't expect it to be impossible so soon.

However, there is also a gratifying news, that is, after nearly two years, Nguyen Guo has successfully swallowed up all the threats around him, and asked the envoys of Cangguo to come back two months ago to buy a large number of weapons and equipment.

Among them, 300,000 simple knives, 20,000 cavalry scimitars, 200,000 sets of battle armor, plus 6 million arrowheads.

If you don't consider upgrading, these equipment can almost equip the entire Cangguo.

Of course, Yang Mu would not agree to this.

Sheng Guo's iron and stone has just been delivered, and Cangguo's production capacity can't even meet its own needs, how can so many weapons and equipment be sold to Ruan Guo?

The landlord's family has no surplus food!

was thinking about refusing, and suddenly, Yang Mu thought of a question.

It stands to reason that now that the battle of Wei has come to an end, the surrounding small countries that can be destroyed, Ruan State has almost been destroyed, with Yang Mu's understanding of the Empress Ruan, the other party is definitely not a reckless empress, after this battle, the most important thing is to recuperate, let the people resume production, hoard national strength, and digest the annexed land.

This point, let alone Yang Mu, even an ordinary courtier understands this truth.

Take the Jin State as an example, after this war, if it is not a necessary war, it will at least allow the country to recover for a year or two, and take a little respite, instead of expanding the army on a larger scale, costing the people and money.

Unless...... Is there still a war in Nguyen Kuo?

Thinking of this, Yang Mu immediately asked Shen An to fetch the map, and after spreading it out, he looked at it carefully.

Comparatively speaking, the territory of the Dali Dynasty today has undergone great changes from two years ago.

In this change, Cangguo annexed Dongguo and seized most of the land in the southwest of Shengguo, which seemed a bit inconspicuous.

First of all, the Jin State swallowed up the Mangguo, which happened early last year.

Ruan State, Feng State, Cao State, the Three Kingdoms Coalition Army defeated Zhu State, and then because of the land distribution issue, Feng State and Ruan State fell out, was ambushed by the Ruan army once, large-scale rout, and was destroyed by the powerful Ruan State.

The Liang State in the north also took advantage of the opportunity of the Great War of the Nations to destroy the old enemy Ukraine in one fell swoop.

In the south, it was even more treacherous, the army of Wu attacked in two ways, and destroyed Feng and Ou in one fell swoop, and Mang destroyed Zhi .

The Chu State destroyed the most countries, first destroying the adjacent Lu State and the Jin State, and then annexed the Yu State and the Kang State by half-attacking and half-luring the country.

The most unexpected thing is the cloud country.

It can be said that the Yun State is a sudden uprising, and the Yun State, which has always been based on defensive national policies in the past, eliminated the Xu State and the Tang State in one fell swoop, and formed an alliance with the Chu State to destroy the Shi State.

In less than two years, the kingdoms of the Dali Dynasty can be compared with the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history, with large-scale melee in the north, and the behemoth of Chu in the south, leading a drama of big fish eating small fish and small fish eating shrimp.

Why are the countries of the South small?

This has a historical origin, when the Dali Dynasty divided the countries, it was actually divided from the north, and later found that there was less and less land that could be used to divide the country, so it could only be a small country.

Even after two hundred years of annexation, the southern states are still very small, and most of the countries that were destroyed this time were southern states.

After carefully looking at the map and sorting out the situation, Yang Mu shifted his attention to Ruan Guo.

In fact, in this battle against Wei, Ruan was the country that benefited the most.

Among the states to the west of Wei, Ruan can already be called the boss.

Poor Jin State carefully planned a big war against Wei State, but he didn't want to let another country take advantage of the situation and become another Wei State!

It is estimated that the emperor of the Jin Kingdom also had a headache at this time......

Yang Mu was thinking about it, but he vaguely understood the intention of Empress Ruan.

She was afraid of the Jin Kingdom.

Once Wei is completely swallowed up, will Jin immediately take advantage of the situation to advance westward and attack Ruan?

In other words, Ruan Guo is also making a preparation, a preparation to turn against the Jin State at any time, so he ordered a large number of weapons from Cang Guo to build a trump card elite to compete with the Jin State in the future.

Judging from its intended weapons, 20,000 cavalry scimitars, discarding and upgrading, it means that a cavalry force of no less than 10,000 people will be formed.

Thinking of this, Yang Mu became a little interested.

What Cangguo lacks is time, whether it is the training of recruits, or the digestion of the cave country, plus the hoarding of strategic materials, etc., these are not something that can be done in one or two months.

Now, the Wei State can't count on it, is it possible for the Ruan State to have it?

Even if it is impossible for Jin and Ruan to do it, can it be delayed for a while?

Immediately, Yang Mu announced Kong Shangxian into the palace, Kong Shangxian has always been the best at this kind of vertical and horizontal affairs, and he also has his own set of opinions.

Sure enough, after some discussion, Kong Shangxian also had the same opinion, and suggested that according to the purchase quantity requested by Ruan Guo, he would compromise half and sell the weapon to Ruan Guo.

Half of the number, that is, 150,000 simple knives, 10,000 cavalry scimitars, 100,000 sets of battle armor, plus 3 million arrowheads, according to the selling price set by the Ministry of Commerce, a total of more than 8 million taels of silver.

Today's Cangguo is not inferior to this silver, but the strategic significance is very important.

After dealing with this matter, Yang Mu did not slack off.

Instead, he ordered the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce to immediately expand the scale of the steel plant, and did another thing non-stop.

Road!