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A map of Chen's territory was placed on the table.

In the map, Chen Guo is located in the center of the whole map, with a territory of millions of miles, from the Storm Desert in the west, the Han River in the north, Dayue in the south, and the Canghai Sea in the east.

It can be described as surrounded by danger on three sides, and it is really a godsend.

However, this reflects a problem from the side, the east, west, and north directions are all natural hazards, and naturally there is no possibility of expanding outward from here, and can only expand from the south, but the Dayue Kingdom in the south is a principality, which is a level higher than the Chen State, and the strength is naturally much stronger, and it is probably a little difficult to bite off a piece of meat from it.

In this way, Chen Guo could not fight and beat, and was often affected by various natural disasters, so that Chen's national strength plummeted, and Da Yue Guo also saw Chen Guo in such a situation, so he first sent Yue Tian, one of the four fierce generals of Yue State, to ask for advice in the name of the Qiankun Continental Agreement.

However, soon Chen Cheng discovered another area, at the junction of the Great Yue Kingdom and the Tempest Desert, there was a dark area called the Twelve Cities of the Great Desert.

Here, Chen Cheng found that there were as many as eighteen cities in this area, which was much more than the cities of Chen Kingdom.

Chen Guo has a population of 3 million miles in a radius of one million miles, and the territory is full of mountains and rivers, mostly hills, and there are many mountains and few places, so the population is also small.

On the map, there are only nine cities in the Chen Kingdom, and there are as many as twelve cities in this dark area, which is three more than the cities in the Chen Kingdom. Therefore, Chen Cheng was very puzzled as to why this place was named the Twelve Cities of the Great Desert instead of forming a country.

The nine cities of Chen State are the imperial city located on the bank of the Hanshui River, also known as Chen Capital, and the other eight cities are Cangshui City located on the shore of the Canghai Sea, the White Jade City at the corner of Yushan, the Moon City adjacent to the Dayue Kingdom, the Wind City near the Wind Desert, which is the five major cities of Yanbian, and the Linshui City, Lanshan City, and Moling City in the middle.

Each city has a population of at least 100,000, and the imperial city of Dachen is even more than 500,000, which can be described as the first city of Dachen, with a large population and a prosperous market.

Judging from the map, the territory map of Chen Guo was mainly based on these nine cities, supplemented by the surrounding counties and villages.

To the east of the Chen Kingdom, that is, above the Canghai Sea, there are a lot of islands scattered around, and among these islands, there are even a few cities on them, which shows that the islands in this Canghai Sea also have a certain population.

As for the north of the Han River, it is blank, because the Han River originates from the distant Central Continental States, the birthplace is in the invincible imperial Han Dynasty, passing through several prosperous kingdoms, dozens of kingdoms, hundreds of principalities, countless Hou States, county countries, and finally in the north of the Chen State into the Canghai, its length is hundreds of millions of miles, its width is at least hundreds of li, the widest is thousands of miles wide, it can be seen that the vastness of the Han River, its water collapse is more than human rival, difficult to cross.

With Chen Guo's current national strength and shipbuilding level, he can only build some sailing ships and ships, and these ships cannot withstand the impact of the waves of the Han River, so where is the north of the Han River, Chen Cheng has no answer, and he has no way of knowing.

As for the wind desert in the west, because of the separation of a mountain, so that the Han water does not pass through the wind desert, so that the wind desert can survive for a long time, and because there is no river water injection, for hundreds of years, the wind desert is getting wider and wider, the desert spread is obvious, the desert in the south of the twelve cities, originally the plain land, belongs to the land of a principality, but unfortunately after hundreds of years of erosion of the wind desert, now it has gradually become a desert, and the principality has also fallen apart, and the desert twelve cities are the twelve cities in the principality that year.

Finally, there is the country of Da Yue in the south, and several smaller countries bordering it. Da Yue is a principality, with a population of 10 million, dozens of big cities, and an army of nearly 1 million.

But in this area, although such a large Yue country can be called the first, but it is not without opponents, the first is the desert twelve cities, which was originally a principality, and later although it fell apart, but also against the Great Yue country all the time, and in the south, there is also Shu State, a strong and prosperous marquis on the verge of the principality, and there are dozens of small alliances in the west of the Great Yue State to deal with the strength of the Great Yue State.

As for the east of the Great Yue Kingdom, it is the sea, and most of the people on its islands are pirates, who do things to rob their homes and houses, and often plunder the coastal areas of the Chen Kingdom, but the plundering of the Great Yue Kingdom is even heavier.

Because in this region, no country can compare with the powerful Da Yue country, if they want to protect themselves and not be bullied, they can only fight against the big Yue country with the same hatred and hatred, otherwise the big Yue country will kill one of them, and it will be able to free up its hands to deal with other countries, and then they can only face being occupied by the big Yue country one by one, and even perished.

This side of the world, although the Tao is respected, the martial arts become a god.

However, the higher the strength, the more things and even resources that are naturally consumed. Therefore, a country's army is generally strong people, and under the influence of this, the resources provided by the state for them, etc., need at least a hundred people to serve one of them. On the other hand, of course, it is the reason for the low production.

If productivity is not high, then there will not be many resources provided, so the pressure caused by the consumption of the army can only be shared by a large number of people.

So, that is to say, out of a hundred people, there is generally only one person who serves as a soldier, or someone who is strong and consumes a lot of resources.

Like today's Chen State, it has a population of 3 million, but the number of troops is only 300,000, of which 30,000 are emperors, and 3,000 of them are the Imperial Forest Army, which belongs to the prince's personal guard. Most of them are deployed in Cangshui Castle and Mochizuki Castle on the border.

The city is close to the sea and is often attacked by pirates, so there are 30,000 people stationed there. Mochizuki City is stationed with 200,000 troops to prevent the brazen invasion of the Great Yue Kingdom, and the Great Yue Kingdom is stationed 250,000 people on the border of the Chen State, which is 50,000 more than the Chen State.

The remaining 40,000 were divided equally among the other cities.

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Looking at Chen Guo's territory map, Chen Cheng frowned slightly.

He didn't expect that Chen Guo's situation was so poor, although it was good to be surrounded by dangers on three sides, blocking the possibility of the enemy's attack, but at the same time, it also made Chen Guo lose the possibility of attacking, so that Chen Guo could only expand to the south if he wanted to expand.

And in the south, the first to bear the brunt is the Dayue Kingdom, but the Dayue Kingdom is a principality, and the strength is not a star and a half stronger than the Chen State, even if you do your best to overturn it, the gap between the two is too big.

However, at the moment, although he can't defeat the Great Yue Kingdom, he can make some profits in the Twelve Cities of the Great Desert. The Twelve Cities of the Great Desert, although they belong to the alliance, jointly deal with the Great Yue Kingdom, but they belong to different countries, although they are related to each other, but there are also a lot of hostilities, and they all want to be together with the Twelve Cities of the Great Desert.

In this way, Chen Cheng was given an opportunity.