This conjecture put a lot of pressure on Sheng Guojun and his ministers.

If you can't figure out the enemy's movements, you don't know how to deal with them.

If you rashly send troops to the border, you will violate the original covenant, and I am afraid that it will cause some misunderstanding, which just gives Cangguo a pretext and expands the situation.

However, if you don't do anything, I'm afraid something will happen.

This is a dilemma, in desperation, the emperor of the Sheng State Min Lei, can only go to the Jin embassy in person, state the stakes, and hope that when the Cang State attacks, he can rely on the overlord of the Jin State.

The name of the envoy of the Jin State stationed in the Sheng Kingdom is Su Mu, and he is also a member of the Su family, and he has always been friendly to the Sheng Kingdom, but he has no choice at this time.

"Could it be that your envoy just watched my Sheng Kingdom being annexed by the Cang Kingdom?" Min Lei was worried and persuaded.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to be so sad, the strength of the Cangguo is not what it used to be, and it is no longer my Jin State that can retreat, if the Cangguo insists on attacking your country, it is helpless."

"Before, when my Sheng country was in danger, His Majesty the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom could still protect my country, why ...... now" Min Lei was very unwilling and wanted to ask again.

Su Mu sighed: "Two years ago, Cangguo had just annexed the Cave Kingdom, and there were less than 300,000 soldiers, and my Jin Kingdom could still be easily defeated, but now Cangguo has managed as much as the locals, and the people's hearts are obedient. ”

"But ......"

"Your Majesty doesn't need to say it again, the foreign minister can only make my Jin court clear first, and then make a decision, Your Majesty, don't have too much hope, after all, my country is currently preparing for a big war, and I really can't spare troops to support your country, and I can't talk about coercion in vain, which can only annoy Cangguo and make this war unpredictable."

Min Lei was taken aback: "Could it be that Cangguo also dares to interfere in the war between the Jin State and the Chu State!" ”

Su Mu smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "Your Majesty is also the lord of a country, and he has been the regent for many years, how can he not know the hardships of this war?" After all, my Jin Kingdom is a foreign battle, and if Cangguo does something along the way, it will be related to the success or failure of this battle. ”

Hearing this, Min Lei looked up to the sky and sighed.

After a long time, he bowed down and said: "Labor and annoyance of the noble envoy and the Jin Emperor to show their interests, if the Cangguo annexes my Dasheng, the great enemy of the Jin State is now!" ”

Su Mu hurriedly picked up Min Lei and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the foreign minister will do his best, but this time comes and goes, it takes too long, the current predicament of Sheng Guo is the most important, if Cang Guo wants to use swords against Sheng Guo, it may be mobilized immediately, if you just want to disturb Sheng Guo, Your Majesty does not have to worry too much." ”

"That's fine."

Min Lei nodded, and he also had a set of countermeasures in his heart, the purpose of Cangguo determined how Sheng Guo would respond, if it was just to take the opportunity to make trouble and disturb Sheng Guo, then he would definitely not be too worried, if he took the opportunity to attack Sheng Guo, then it would be tricky, and he had to ask Jin Guo to help.

Back at the palace, Sheng Guo Min Lei immediately convened the ministers to discuss the matter, and at the same time ordered several armies to prepare for war, and mobilized government soldiers from all over the country to suppress the rebellion.

This time, Prime Minister Zhu Lixing was busy and crazy.

He is a civil official, has the ability to govern the world, and can show his skills in peacetime, but if it comes to troubled times, it is very insufficient, such as the transfer of grain and grass, military decision-making, etc., as a prime minister can not decide at all.

So that in the past two years, many military generals in the DPRK have complained about him, and scolded him as a servile prime minister, the reason is that he spared no effort in preparing the silver, but he stuck the military spending, resulting in the military spending of Sheng Guo is very tight, in the past two years, with the retirement of some old soldiers, Sheng Guo's conscription is more difficult, the enthusiasm of the young and strong people to join the army is very low, originally Sheng Guo has 600,000 regular army, and now there are 560,000 left.

The government soldiers around the country are even more unbearable, in order to save military spending, the government soldiers have no longer recruited new soldiers, the local government adheres to the principle of not raising idlers, many government soldiers are sent to supervise the mining of iron ore, and also undertake the task of escorting iron and stone every month, which can be said to be much more tiring than in the past.

As a result, the party-government dispute that had been hidden in the court for many years was finally completely exposed, the forces of the two parties quarreled endlessly, and the entire court was as chaotic as a pot of porridge.

Min Lei sat on the dragon chair with a gloomy face.

In the past, in order to balance the forces of the DPRK and China, he single-handedly intensified the contradictions between the two parties.

Since ancient times, the two parties have fought against each other, unless they have absolute loyalty to the country, otherwise once they encounter the invasion of foreign enemies, the DPRK and China will be in chaos, which is a very clear thing to all countries, and many countries have perished because of this, including Shengguo once took advantage of this to slowly annex a small country.

Now, is Shengguo also reduced to this?

Looking at the ministers who were quarreling endlessly and were even about to fight, Emperor Sheng Min Lei had no choice but to announce the dissolution of the dynasty and gather several major courtiers to discuss matters in the inner court.

Soon after, news came from the local government that a large amount of official silver had been looted, and based on the data provisionally reported by various localities, it was estimated that it was 3 million taels.

That's a huge number!

Originally, the silver for the tribute was already stretched, and the date of delivery was approaching, and Sheng Guo had not yet raised enough silver.

At this moment, there is no way to do it.

Immediately, Emperor Shengguo was furious and ordered the local governments to do their best to recover the silver, if they could not successfully recover the silver, the officials in charge would be beheaded.

It is based on this that many officials of Shengguo were secretly bribed by Jinyiwei and surrendered to Cangguo.

That's right, the looting of tax and silver was done by the brocade guards of Cangguo.

There is no room for error in this matter, and it can't let Sheng Guo grasp any tricks, saying that Cangguo did it, so it is very secretive.

……

At the beginning of March, the Jin State waved 1.6 million troops south, and joined forces with several of its vassal states, totaling 2 million coalition troops, divided into two routes, one by borrowing the Great Gift of the Son of Heaven, Wang Ji, and the other by passing through the country, with the goal of directly targeting the Chu State.

Subsequently, the kingdoms of Wu, Shao, Luo, Yun, Cai, and Xiang in the south also took advantage of this opportunity to respond positively because of their respective interests.

Wu sent a million troops, Chen soldiers Wu and Chu border, just wait for the Jin army to go south, you can attack left and right.

Perhaps because of the smell of fish, the Yun State, which had just emerged in recent years, also directly turned against the Chu State, and dispatched troops and horses on the border between Yun and Chu, as long as the war started, they could invade the eastern part of the Chu State and take the opportunity to pick peaches.

Such a rapid pace made all the countries realize that a situation that was more chaotic than the battle of the Wei State had arrived.