At the same time, in Zheng Guo, thousands of miles away, in the palace hall of the capital, the ministers were in the ranks, and they were seriously killed, discussing state affairs.

Zheng Guo has Langming Pass in the east, confronts the Song State, west to Yuqian County, intersects with the Chen State, borders the Yangtze River in the south, divides the river with Shu and governs, crosses the Bishan Mountain in the north, and borders the Zhao State. It spans about 30 million miles.

Among the ten major vassal states, it is ranked high and is the superpower of the Central Plains.

At the end of last summer, Zheng fought against Shu and achieved a major military victory, relying on the iron cavalry to connect several states, and in one fell swoop captured two counties and fifteen states north of the Yangtze River in Shu.

However, there were major military victories and economic troubles. After Su Qin presided over the reform of the law, for a long time, Zheng Guo's economy was mainly based on the people's taxes, excluding the farmers' payment of money and grain rents, a large part of which came from the taxes provided by the brewers and the profits from the sale of wine.

In order to keep this fragrant gluttony, Zheng Guo protected the interests of wine merchants in terms of policy.

But at the end of last summer, a new liquor from Yan Guo became popular in the market, and with its excellent aroma, purity and taste, it quickly entered the traditional market of Zheng Guo Liquor.

After half a year of hard work by Yan wine merchants, Zheng Guojiu was unable to compete with it at all, and all withdrew from the Song State in a short period of time.

In the face of this, Zheng Guo was greatly annoyed, not to mention the huge loss of interests, the reduction of money and food will also cause a decrease in the materials in the army, after all, most of the money and grain of Zheng Guo's iron cavalry come from wine merchants, and it costs money to fight, Zheng Guo must have a stable source of income in order to compete for hegemony!

In the New Year, Li Zhao, the emperor of Zheng State, sent someone to beat the envoy of Yan State in public, which was to teach the other party a lesson, hoping that the other party would retreat in the face of difficulties, and not be distracted by interests and infringe on the interests of Zheng State.

It's a pity that Yan Guo didn't pay any attention to Zheng Guo's warning, and the news sent back by the spies of Shu showed that the Wen family of Shu State started to run Yan Kingdom, and the news that Yan Guo came back that at the end of the year, the Duan family caravan also entered Yan Kingdom.

As a result, among the eight gate valves, two large gate valves began to pass through the Yan country, breaking the tradition of the gate valve monopolizing a country.

Li Zhao was angry when he heard the news, and he also had a sense of crisis. Chu is a big country in the south, and Zheng has many items sold to Chu, and it is the largest vassal state of Zheng Guojiu in the south. Not long after the war between Zheng and Shu, the Wen family of Shu went to Yan, which may have something to do with Zheng.

Moreover, the Yan people have always fought fiercely, and the northern countries are all known, the current Yan homeland is divided, and many states are merged into Zhao, Jin, Song, Zheng, or independent city-states, but the Yan people's fighting style has not changed, and the first two battles against the Rong people are the best examples.

According to the current situation, the strength of Yan State will be restored, and it will inevitably become another old enemy of Zheng State in the north in addition to Zhao State, so Li Zhao will not give the other party time to rise.

At present, the iron cavalry warriors of the navy annexed the two counties and fifteen states north of the Yangtze River in Shu, and the south has no worries, and continues to go south, and the Shu country has the Yangtze River to rely on, and the sailors are excellent, and the combat effectiveness is not weaker than that of the Zheng navy.

Li Zhao judged the situation and no longer invaded south, and was attacking north with the courtiers and merchants, but there was a disagreement between the ministers and the Song State in attacking the Yan State or the Song State.

Some people think that they should go north and unite with the Jin Kingdom, and the two sides will attack the Widow Yan Kingdom from the north and south. After all, Emperor Yan robbed Su Huanqing, who was married to Zheng and Jin, and Zheng was fighting against Shu in the south at the time, and had no intention of going on a northern expedition, so he never mentioned it.

Now Zheng Guo wants to be the king and hegemon in the Central Plains, and the Jin State is Zheng Guo's traditional ally in the north, how can the great humiliation of Zheng and Jin not be reported, His Majesty the Emperor has an order, and 300,000 tiger warriors are enough to level the Yan State.

Moreover, when the prince of the Jin Kingdom, Beichen Qiong, led the army to conquer the Yan State and defeated it, he has been angry for two years, and it is rumored that since he ascended the throne, he has been constantly preparing to march eastward, and he will be ashamed of the humiliation of the year.

If the two super princes of Zheng and Jin raise troops to attack, and the north and south are flanked, even if the Yan army fights fiercely, it will make the Yan Kingdom invincible with both fists and four feet, and it will fall apart in a short time.

The Shaozhuang faction led by Xing Yike always firmly believed that according to the current comparison of strength between Zheng and Yan, Zheng Guo should first annex Yan State, expand its territory, population, and army, and then move its army eastward and attack Song State on both sides, this was the last time.

In doing so, Zheng Guo has an absolute advantage, and has enough ability to annex the precarious Yan State.

It is different for the Song State, the two countries are both big countries, the Song State is bigger than the horse, and now it is difficult to annex the Song State, and besides, the Song State mechanized troops defeated Zheng Guo's iron cavalry, and the shame has not yet been washed away, and the enemy must not be careless.

The other faction, the old ministers led by Zhu Hai, thought that the Zheng and Song countries were feuds, and now that Zheng was strong, they should destroy the Song State first and avenge the revenge of the year.

The Song State emphasized literature and light martial arts, the status of domestic literati was extremely high, but the treatment of military generals was extremely poor, and the strength of the two sides was really not at the same level, in the eyes of Zhu Hai and others, Song Guo was just a paper tiger.

In terms of resisting foreign enemies, the Yan country can achieve the same hatred of the enemy, be good at hard fighting, and protracted war, otherwise, according to the national strength of the Yan country, as early as the time of the dispute, it was annexed by the surrounding powers.

Once the Song State was destroyed, Zheng Guo relied on the victorious army to take the opportunity to move north and annex the Yan State in one go.

Xing Yike, Zhu Hai are all famous generals with the same name as Zhao Guofeng Zixiu, the two have an extraordinary position in the army, Xing Yike is good at surprise attacks, interspersed, field battles, commanding the 300,000 elite iron cavalry of Yan State, stationed in the Bishan Plain where the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Zheng meet, resisting the southward movement of Zhao in the north.

Zhu Hai was good at attacking fortifications, defending cities, fighting hard, and commanding 200,000 iron cavalry troops to garrison Liangming Pass on the border between Zheng and Song to block the Song soldiers.

The two world-famous generals almost divided the 300,000 land divisions of Zheng State, and the remaining 300,000 sailors were led by Han Xian, a famous general of the naval army who had recently cleared the city north of the Yangtze River in Shu State.

Zheng Guo has three people in charge, almost as stable as an iron bucket, however, it can be seen from the army led by the three that the division of power is easy to cause different interests in major matters, especially Zheng Guo's two famous generals of the land division, both want to lead their Tiger Ben army to fight, strive for greater interests, and are extremely popular ministers.

Therefore, at present, there will be disputes in the court of Zheng Guo, and people of different factions are fighting for the interests of their respective camps.

Moreover, many hermits and talents who interacted with Zheng Guo thought that Zheng Guo's court had a pompous and arrogant style, and they were eager to succeed, especially after Su Qin's successful reform, Zheng Guo's ambitions began to be exposed, and no one was in sight.

was defeated by the Song State five years ago, and Zheng Guoren always believed that it was not that the soldiers were not strong, and that the soldiers were not brave, but that the Song people were cunning and evil, and used KitKat's lewd skills to make Zheng Jun fall into the way.

Li Zhao glanced at the arguing ministers, and shifted his attention to the ministers headed by the left side of the court, and said, "Taiwei Su, what do you think, you must have an idea in your heart to attack Song Fayan." ”

Su Qin is the captain of Zheng Guo, controlling 800,000 iron cavalry troops, and has great power in Zheng State, except for the gate lord Han clan and the royal Li clan, the Su family ranks third in Zheng State.

Therefore, there was also a marriage with the Jin Kingdom, the Han family, and the Li family couldn't bear to let their daughters go north, and they were replaced by Su Huanqing, a woman from the Su family.

Li Zhao decided to be decided by the Taiwei Su Qin, in addition to Su Qin's loss of his daughter, in addition to the emotional compensation, more importantly, Su Qin was a powerful minister of the court, and he was responsible for Zheng Guo's decades of changes.

He played a pivotal role in the DPRK and China, especially in the military, and he put forward the military strategy of first the south and then the north. Now that the Jiangbei region of Shu has been captured, it is time to start showing its muscles north.

Su Qin is tall and wide, with strong sword eyebrows, looking mighty and extraordinary, thinking that he should also be a good hand in the army when he was young, he sent someone to bring a map of the countries, and placed it in the center of the court like a screen, with deep eyebrows, pointing to the map.

Said: "Your Majesty, please see, geographically speaking, the two countries bordering only Qizhou and Gyeongju, these two places are flat and open, and the status of these two places is increased from south to north, which is very unfavorable to the Zheng cavalry.

Zheng Guo's iron cavalry is dominated by water divisions and land divisions, and the cavalry is only 100,000, and the cavalry of the two countries fights, Zheng Guo has no advantage, and besides, the minister heard that Emperor Yan has subdued 80,000 Rong cavalry, and its strength cannot be underestimated.

However, under the land area of Yan State, there are only five states, which is not as wide as Zheng State. The 180,000 cavalry were stationed in various places, and they were the closest garrisons to Gyeongju and Qizhou, and the 60,000 Rong cavalry stationed in Gyeongju, which was handed over to the Song State, was the Yulinwei in the mouth of Emperor Yan, and there was little suspense about attacking.

Your Majesty looks at Zheng and Song again, Zheng Guo's Shannan Province and Huainan Province border with Song State's Donglin County and Qianlin County, Zheng State is divided into 36 provinces, but Song State also reaches 29 counties, and the land area of the two countries is comparable, and the Song State is even larger.

Once the two countries ignite their arms, I am afraid that it will be a protracted war. It is necessary to know that the Song State stationed the most elite army in the country, 200,000 infantry phalanxes and 100,000 mechanized soldiers, all stationed in Qianlin County and Donglin County.

At present, Zheng Guo has won a great victory in the south, and he urgently needs a victory in the north to boost the morale of the Iron Cavalry. Therefore, the minister still adhered to the strategy of first attacking the south and then the north, attacking Yan first and then attacking the Song Dynasty. ”

As the Ming Jun of Zheng Guo for a hundred years, Li Zhao thought that he understood Su Qin's thoughts, and said with a smile: "What Taiwei means is that you should attack Yan first, and then attack Song." That's fine, it's just a shame. ”

Su Qin shook his head, with a hint of cunning in his expression, and said: "The minister thinks that attacking Yan first and then attacking Song is only a few days apart in time, but in fact, two wars will be launched at the same time!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Li Zhao was stunned, Taiwei's plan was very big, and he was a little puzzled.

In his opinion, Zheng Guo's efforts to expand the army and train his troops must have exceeded five years, and the Song State, which focuses on business, will definitely be able to wash away the shame of the year if he fights at this time, and as for Yan Guo, he is not afraid, but Su Qin said that he was indeed puzzled when he launched two wars, thinking that it was too risky.