Shu Kingdom, String City.

Huan Wu's death spread all over the world, and it also officially represented the end of the stage of the life of the overlord who dominated the world, and the Central Plains overlord Liang will also change his appearance.

The new Liang Hou Huan Qi served a hundred days of mourning, and the transfer of power in Liang was also in full swing. Due to the arrangement and arrangement of Huan Wu before his death, the handover went smoothly and there were almost no twists and turns.

All the generals in the Liang army declared their allegiance to the new Liang marquis, and the monks in the Three Guards and One Mansion who served in the Great Liang also submitted to Huan Qi. With these two helps, Huan Qi has mastered the situation. Next, for the adjustment of internal and external relations, it will take a lot of effort from Huan Chi.

However, no matter how Liang changes at home and abroad, the impact on Shu is the smallest. Because in any case, Shu is the great enemy of Liang, and Yang Xian is a great trouble that the Huan clan must get rid of, and there are even more irreconcilable contradictions between Liang and Shu.

Therefore, it is possible for Huan Qi to show kindness to the lords of Wu, Chu, Yan and other countries, but it is impossible for Yang Xian.

Unlike the rest of the vassal states, Shu's greatest concern was not the outside world, but the interior.

The land controlled by the Liang State has become devastated after years of war. Huan Wu unified the Central Plains, but in just ten years, it was far from enough to calm down.

Wu and Chu have been under pressure from the Liang army for many years, and everything is in the service of war, but the economic development is very backward, which is why Cai Tong and Hou Tao are so active in the crusade against the Hai Clan.

As for Zhu Zi and Jing Yun, they have a strong military under their command, but they are trapped by various internal and external pressures, and they can't exert their military strength at all, and the wasteland and Fengyuan are the best outlets.

Therefore, in addition to the Shu Kingdom, the internal development of many vassal states has not reached the level of saturation.

However, Shu is different.

The biggest upheaval in Yizhou occurred a hundred years ago, and the Jisun Rebellion set off a bloody storm, but after all, it was very old.

In addition, the greatest turmoil in Yizhou occurred more than twenty years ago, when Ye Dongyang led 100,000 Dongyang disciples into Shu to confront Yang Zhong and fight for the land of Shu.

However, this crisis was quietly resolved after all because Yang Zhong captured Ye Dongyang and many high-level leaders of the Dongyang Sect were wiped out. The 100,000 cultists were leaderless and could only retreat into the mountains.

After the collapse of Emperor Qi, the world was in turmoil, but because of the topography of Yizhou and the strong internal regime, it did not affect much.

For many years after that, until the Liang army's two battles against Shu, Shu did not suffer from major wars. And these two times, the scope was only narrowed to one county in southern Zhou, and the scope of the war was not expanded.

Although Xia Yunhua is faint and a pastemaker, she has not made much achievements inside and outside, but she has not built a lot of construction and wasted people's resources.

Over the years, Shu has been developing. In the case that the population did not skyrocket, the internal development of Shu was saturated. Then a county in the southwest was set up to open up the sea area, but the conditions of Shu were there, and the development of the naval army was far from the innate superior conditions of Wu and Chu.

This is where the upper limit of Shu is, and Huan Wu can see it very clearly.

Yang Xian has more than 200,000 troops under his command, and that's because Shu can only have more than 200,000 troops. No matter how much it is, it will only be an empty waste of national strength.

And the Liang army has more than 100,000 troops in Yongzhou alone, which does not mean that the Liang army can only have these more than 100,000 troops.

Therefore, as long as Huanwu's successor can stabilize the situation in Yongzhou and wait for another ten years, the national strength of Liang will recover, even if it cannot reach the level of the last years of Emperor Qi, but the huge gap between the two sides that will quickly open up cannot be changed by one person.

After years of governance, there is no room for development in the entire Shu Kingdom.

"Cai Tong, the old fox, Huan Wu died, so he put the army at the gate of our army."

Yang Xian took the information sent by the school and threw it away.

The Chu general Wei He led an army of 20,000 to reinforce Pingling. 20,000 people are not much, but you must know that there are only 10,000 people in the entire Wuchu border. But Cai Tongguang was in one place in Pingling, and he had 30,000 troops.

The meaning of prevention is clear.

"Cai Tong, this old fox, is probably afraid that the lord will take advantage of the new mourning of the Liang State and take the opportunity to send troops to attack the Chu State!"

Huang Yan said with a smile, as if he was laughing at Cai Tong thinking too much. However, Yan Le on the side couldn't laugh, his eyebrows were furrowed.

"Lord, in addition, Hou Tao, the lord of Wu, has decided to let Hou Zhaoji, the lord of Wu, marry Cai Yun, and Cai Tong has also agreed. Wu and Chu officially married, and the relationship will be even closer. ”

The situation in the world has become quite delicate, and the meaning of the Huan family has become more and more obvious.

No matter how the various vassal states fight openly and secretly, on the surface, they are still the vassal states of the Great Zhou and the courtiers of Emperor Xia Yunqi of Zhou. But once Huan Qi becomes emperor, then this prerequisite does not exist, and the world will inevitably be turbulent.

At that time, the choices of the princes of Wu, Chu, Yan, and Liang will also become quite delicate. If they still want to stay in the old system, they must be vassals to the Xia Palace, which is equivalent to becoming a courtier of the Shu Kingdom, and they are more than one head shorter.

And if they join the new system, that is, join the Liang State, as a vassal state of the Liang Emperor, then the Shu State will fall into an isolated and helpless situation.

Of course, the most likely thing is that these princes are outside the two systems, and no one can be offended, they take advantage on both sides, and sit back and watch the two sides fight to the death.

But in this way, the biggest problem also comes, what Liang can give to the princes is definitely much more than what Shu can give.

And what direction it will eventually develop depends on Huan Chi's means. However, people who pin their hopes on the stupidity of others are obviously even more stupid.

And the worry in Yan Le's heart stems from this. Since Huan Wu issued a national policy of recuperation, the disputes between the various vassal states and the Liang state were not as acute as before.

On the one hand, it was due to the restraint of the Liang army, and on the other hand, it was because the vassal states were either insufficient in strength or repaired by Huan Wu to lack strength.

But despite this, for the Shu State, the Liang army was vigorously guarded and continuously increased its military strength on the border.

"My lord, there is a very strange guy outside the mansion who asks to see my lord."

Yang Gui walked in from outside and said.

"Strange guy?"

"He is the phantom demon of the demon clan, claiming to be the messenger of the demon emperor, and wants to come to meet the king of Shu."

Yang Gui's explanation made everyone present very puzzled, what kind of mess was this.

A demon clan actually dared to come to the door to meet the prime minister of Da Zhou? And he claimed to be the messenger of the Demon Emperor, and came to meet the King of Shu, but he arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Where's that phantom now?"

Yang Xian asked.

"At the door, blocked by the brothers. But he was very arrogant, and he didn't look worried at all. ”

"Let him in!"