April 20, 6th year of China.

Foreign Minister Yang Pingwei hurried to the Marshal's Mansion to see Li Kang.

Li Kang: "Fighting?"

Yang Pingwei: "It's a fight!"

Li Kang frowned and said, "No! How did you choose this time? Removing the time when the news was delayed on the road, the war should have started last month... Fighting in the spring sowing season... Are they not afraid of famine in the coming year?"

Originally, Li Kang thought that the war in Hedong would start in the second half of last year, but he didn't expect that it would only be thunder and rain until the New Year, but just when Li Kang thought that it would drag on for another year, Yang Pingwei told him that the fight started again. Fortunately, Li Kang didn't say his speculation before, otherwise his face would be swollen now.

[What is Jin Yiwei doing to eat? Why do you want the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to tell me about such a big thing?] Li Kang scolded secretly.

"Because someone bribed the people of Zhongshan to act as assassins and assassinated His Royal Highness of Ming Kingdom. Yang Pingwei said calmly.

The cause of the war in Hedong was the old king of the Ming Kingdom, the eldest prince and the fourth prince competed for the throne, and then all countries used this as an excuse to support one side and intervene, Zhongshan is the strongest of the many countries that supported the four princes of the Ming Kingdom, and it is also the leading brother of the four princes, and the role is equivalent to the Gallic rooster in the European War.

Li Kang: "The assassination failed?"

Yang Pingwei: "It really failed!"

"It's a failure... In this way, they have a reason to fight a protracted war vigorously. Li Kang said with a smile.

If the assassination is successful, then although the eldest prince's side can still participate in the war in the name of avenging the eldest prince, after all, the name is not right, and it is your business if the prince dies!

"It seems that in addition to us, there are people who want to fish in troubled waters!" Li Kang suddenly had a rush of 'I am not alone'.

Yang Pingwei also nodded with a smile and said, "If they don't start for a long time, we will do the same, it's better now, don't have to do it yourself!"

"Hehe... Let's talk about the specifics!"

"No!"

Ming in the Hedong region, belongs to the second-tier countries, an area of more than 900,000 square kilometers, population of 12 million, located in the central south of the Hedong region on the plain, fertile land, densely populated, is one of the most densely populated areas in the entire Hedong region, but also the most famous place of the four wars in the Hedong region, all sides are transparent, almost no danger can be defended, and the Chinese Warring States period of Wei State, South Korea is somewhat similar, so it has not been able to promote the super first-class power.

The surname of the country is Zhu, maybe there is a providence in the dark, otherwise there is no way to explain this coincidence, the old king Zhu Jia suddenly drove in March last year, and he has not had time to establish an heir, according to the order, it should be Zhu Xinhe, who is the eldest son, ascended the throne.

The result is obvious, the rules are used to break, and Zhu Xinzhou, the powerful fourth prince of the maternal family, expressed dissatisfaction.

The saying of the literary point is: The son of a cheap maid, dare to live on me?

The popular saying is: The old man drank too much and didn't hold the door, but he dared to ride on Lao Tzu's head and?

No wonder Zhu Xinzhou was not convinced, he was about to be promoted to queen soon, but he knew that the old man suddenly burped, and the crown in his hand flew like this, and it also flew to the head of the waste brother he had always looked down on, Zhu Xinzhou's lungs almost exploded!

If you are not convinced, you will naturally have to find foreign help.

Zhu Xinzhou's mother is the princess of Lin Guo, and now King Lin is his grandfather, seeing that his grandson has been wronged, King Lin saw that this is okay, and immediately stood up to support Zhu Xinzhou, and constantly put pressure on Ming Guo.

In addition, this King Lin has more than such a daughter, his other two daughters are married to the current king of the Yellow Kingdom and the former king of the Nagato Kingdom, the latter has been promoted to the empress dowager of the Nagato Kingdom, and now his sister (sister) and nephew are being bullied, and these two countries naturally want to express themselves.

Zhu Xinhe is more hard, he doesn't have a noble mother, not only there is no Austrian aid abroad, not even at home, if it weren't for the inexplicable death of Lao Wang, he would not have had a chance to reach the top anyway, of course, there was no domestic minister to invest in him early, and when it came to the end, he and the ministers had not yet recovered from it.

However, there is always such a group of people in this world who are anxious for justice and righteousness, especially the head of state, no, when Zhu Xinhe felt helpless, someone immediately extended a helping hand.

Among the sixteen countries in Hedong, the Zhongshan Kingdom, the Daqi Kingdom, the Lin Kingdom and the Longwei Kingdom are the strongest, and these four countries are located in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the Hedong region, and do not border each other.

This time is no exception, Lin Guo, Huang Guo, and Changmen Guo under the guise of supporting their grandson (nephew) want to meddle in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty, their old opponents smelled the breath of conspiracy from a distance, and the nearest Zhongshan State reacted immediately, and the excuse of "presiding over justice" came as soon as he opened his mouth, and personally went down to support Zhu Xinhe, saying that it was to maintain the 'aristocratic tradition', which made people look at the cheekiness of the king of Zhongshan, and those who ascended to the throne through a coup d'état were embarrassed to say what aristocratic tradition?

But people just don't blush and don't beat their hearts to say!

The bosses expressed their position, and the younger brothers, who have always looked forward to their horses, naturally cannot be left behind, and they have stood up to show their loyalty, standing behind the boss and waving their flags and shouting.

On the third day of Zhongshan's play, Fuguo, who has a relationship with Zhongshan by marriage, followed suit, saying that he could not tolerate this kind of 'tradition-destroying' behavior, and then Xiguo, Xinguo, and Banguo...

The other party made it clear that the carriage and horses, and the Lin country was naturally not to be outdone, Hengshan country, Wanhai country, Tian country... All of a sudden, they all jumped out.

As a result, it was just a trivial matter in a local area, but they made the whole river unpredictable.

As time passed, the smell of gunpowder smoke became stronger and stronger, and the entire Hedong region, except for a few places, became a powder keg, and the countries located in the central hinterland, whether they wanted to or not, were all involved in it, with only one fuse missing.

The assassination played this role very well! just as the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in the Old World triggered World War I.

"Say, who sent this assassin from Zhongshan Kingdom?" asked Li Kang.

"On the surface, of course, the two major powers that have not expressed their stance are the most likely, and among them, the big flag country is the most likely!" Yang Pingwei replied without thinking.

Li Kang smiled, didn't continue to ask, and couldn't ask the correct answer, there were too many possibilities, it didn't make much sense.

"Pay close attention to the situation in Hedong, and send back a report every week when the situation allows. In addition, order the spies to play freely, let them lose as much as possible, if one side has to win, I hope it is Zhu Xinzhou!"