"You said that our Great Yan Guozuo has been in power for hundreds of years, ruled Kyushu, has a vast geography, and the Central Plains and Jiangnan Prefectures are even more wealthy. The population is tens of millions, ten times that of the population, why do they always lose more than they win?"

"It's a pity that my distant nephew, who was forced to serve, followed the army north. Now three years have passed, and not a letter has returned, alas!"

Jiang Heng was silent after hearing this, the Great Yan Kingdom has been true for hundreds of years, and the land area and population are also the largest among the nearby countries. However, in the past one or two hundred years, foreign wars have been extremely conservative, and they have frequently ceded land and sought peace.

It is said that a few decades ago, there was a small country in the west, although the territory was the size of the five states of Dayan, but the population was less than one million, but the border army of the western state capital begged for mercy again and again, and now the general land of Yunzhou in the north has been reduced to a foreign land.

The south is also unbearable, although there is no big country in the south, there are only ten small barbarian countries, which belong to the Nanban vassals who were subjugated at the beginning of the founding of the Great Yan, at that time, because the land of the Nanban is vast and sparsely populated, and the roads are inconvenient, and the jurisdiction is difficult, Gu and Taizu specially sealed the ten largest tribal leaders to give the king his country name.

However, as time passed, those Nanban began to gradually learn the culture of Dayan and learned a little bit of Dayan's system. They began to grow more and more dissatisfied with the accusations being made against them by people above them.

Therefore, in the past hundred years, the ten small southern barbarian countries have ignored the decrees and instructions of Dayan. Now it is even more intense, and those small southern barbarian states have begun to send their subordinates from time to time to encroach on the rich lands of the southern state capitals.

They were very eager for the exquisite products of Dayan, and the fair-skinned women of Dayan were even more wantonly taken captive.

The previous emperor of Dayan sent three southern states to gather 100,000 heavy troops to attack the ten countries, but the 50,000 allied troops of the ten countries were defeated because they were familiar with geography in the local war, and took the opportunity to counterattack Jiangzhou in the south and break ten cities.

At that time, Dayan had a northern trouble, so he chose to compromise and signed some unequal contracts with the ten countries. and opened up some trade towns.

Although the 10 countries in the South have been temporarily stable for more than 10 years, no one knows whether they will take the opportunity to make trouble. The north is in a stalemate with the plateaus, and the west is also eyeing the tiger.

Jiang Heng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how similar is the current Dayan to the Song in his previous life, the literary style is prosperous, but the national strength is declining, and the military and government are rotten.

It's just that Jiang Heng is a little confused, as the saying goes, this war often produces a tendency of cultural integration, but Cangzhou is also located on the border, and there is only one Liuzhou separated from Yunzhou. But why have you never seen a stranger?

I haven't even seen the shadow of a plateau person, could it be because during the war stage, Dayan strictly cut off the business contacts between the two sides?

But this is not the information age of the previous life, how can it be managed!

Even in the information age, there will be spies lurking between countries, how can the court of this world be able to control it?

Or is it that the people of the plateau and the surrounding countries have exactly the same population and customs as Dayan? Isn't this funny?

Jiang Heng thought a lot, and then thought of everything that happened in the council hall today.

"Demons happen to be there at this time...... And now it happens that Dayan is confronting the plateau people....... This ....."

Jiang Heng's brows tightened as if he was thinking about a very complicated matter, but as time passed, the noodles on the table were a little cold, and a terrible thing that might appear appeared in his mind at this time.

"It seems that since I was reborn into this world, I have not seen a detailed record of the surrounding kingdoms, and some of them are just simple names!"

Jiang Heng remembered that he had read miscellaneous books for a long time when he was in Hengjiang City before, but for the introduction of those miscellaneous books other than Dayan, those miscellaneous books were all very obscure, as if they were just hearsay, and they were generally consistent.

But this is too abnormal, since Dayan has been with these countries for so many years, there is no reason why the entire Dayan people have such a lack of understanding of the outside world, right?

Or was the news deliberately concealed by the imperial court?

Only the imperial court has this ability!

Jiang Heng looked at the stall owner on the side and said softly: "Shopkeeper, you said that your distant nephew joined the army and did not return?"

Hearing the guests talk about his nephew, the stall owner also came to talk and sighed: "No! No one who joined the army in these years can come back, and several young people in my village have joined the army and gone north." But that ghost place is like the Yama Palace, if you go, it's like it's gone! I haven't even replied to the letter from the family!"

Jiang Heng on the side became more and more frightened the more he listened, and now he felt more and more that the imperial court might really be hiding something.

Generally, there are people in the army who are responsible for helping to write family letters, but according to his understanding, the garrisons in various states can write at home. Only the garrison that went north to fight against the plateau people did not have a letter from home!

No matter how tragic the war is, people should leave a letter before the war so that they can send it back to their hometown as a last word later.

But this .....

Abnormal!

It's so abnormal!

Unless those armies who went north saw something that the imperial court did not want to be exposed to the eyes of the world!

What is it exactly?

Jiang Heng vaguely had some guesses for a while, but this couldn't be confirmed at all, because that guess was too terrifying!

"I hope the world won't be as scary as imagined!"

Thinking silently, Jiang Heng didn't have the mind to eat noodles, so he took two bites casually. I saw two pitiful figures on the side.

It was the two emaciated little beggars from before.

From the first time he saw them, he saw that they had a completely different temperament from ordinary people, that is, Juanxiu, who was born only in the best of everyone's ladies, although the face was filthy, but it was undeniable that the other party's behavior was incompatible with ordinary beggars.

He sat in his seat, his ears whispering between the two little beggars.

"Sister, I'm hungry!" the shorter beggar whispered. His voice was very childish, as if he could hear it as a boy with a stubborn air.

"Bear with it, it's someone else's. The taller beggar sister said in a deep voice. Her timbre is very soft and moving, and she can clearly hear that she is a female voice, revealing a faint calm and calm.

"But I'm hungry!"

"I don't want to eat rotten leaves. The younger brother replied.

"I don't want to...," my sister said silently.

"Sister, I miss my father...", the younger brother lowered his head and was about to eat, when he suddenly said again.

"I want to too.... Let's go, find a warm place to sleep, and when you fall asleep, you won't be hungry!"

The two sisters and brothers have obviously fallen into despair and become beggars, but they still speak with a straightforward temperament, and their conversation is not an ordinary person, more like a scholarly family. Be very principled.

Jiang Heng listened on the side, his heart moved, and he had an idea, so he simply stood up, picked up the pasta on the table and walked straight to the two beggars.