Three years later.

The time entered the seventeenth year of King Qingji of Wu, that is, in 497 BC, the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

The pattern of the world has become relatively stable.

Since Qingji let Tian Sui Tho and Fan Li lead troops to withdraw from the land of Zhou Zheng to the country and enter into an alliance with the Jin people, the forces of Wu have withdrawn from the Central Plains, and the Jin State has become a well-deserved overlord of the world.

The northern states such as Qi, Lu, Wei, and Song all sent envoys one after another to submit to the Jin, and even the vassal states that originally belonged to the Wu State.

Xu, Cai, Zhong Wu and other small states in the land of Huaisi, forced by the strength of the Jin people, had to change their ways and pay tribute to the Jin State.

Even Qingji has already sent an envoy to reconcile with the Jin State, putting on a posture of no quarrel with the world and peaceful development.

The Wu army did not dare to go north, and the Jin army did not dare to go south.

A new pattern of the world has thus been formed.

At this time, Wu was able to devote all his experience to building a large number of buildings and official roads in the country.

The new road and Ling Canal leading from the mainland of Wu to the six counties of Lingnan were completed.

The new roads and bridges leading from the mainland of Wu to the three southwestern counties were all completed.

Even, in order to facilitate the northward struggle for hegemony, and at the same time facilitate exchanges with the Central Plains countries, Wu also dug a ditch and completed it within a year......

In the past three years, Wu has invested millions of manpower and quickly completed the construction of infrastructure, which is undoubtedly a miracle!

How did the Wu people do it?

In addition to a certain number of soldiers, conscripts, and prisoners, many of them were natives from the East Nanya region.

For example, the Malays, the Japanese people, the Yizhou people, etc., there are hundreds of thousands of natives, who were forced to capture the state of Wu and become free laborers.

They have a brand new name –

Kunlun Nu (Qing Ji named)!

It was these hundreds of thousands of "Kunlun slaves" who helped Wu to overcome obstacles, build bridges and pave roads, and complete the miracle that within three years, the official road was popular in various counties and counties of Wu State.

However, this is all piled up with human lives.

In the process of building official roads, bridges, and digging canals, tens of thousands of laborers died there and were buried there.

Therefore, under the wide official road, there are actually white bones......

But in Qingji's view, in the eyes of Wu people, all this is worth it.

In recent years, the rebellions in the southern part of Wu, namely the six counties of Lingnan and the three counties in the southwest, have been declining.

This is all thanks to the construction of the official road and the various measures made by the Wu State, so that those unruly "new Wu people" dare not act rashly.

The continuous development of peace for three years has raised the national strength of Wu to a higher level.

While people's livelihood has recovered, the population of Wu has also shown a blowout outbreak.

According to the latest census statistics this year, Qing Ji obtained.

At this time, the state of Wu had sixteen counties and two hundred and sixteen cities.

The sixteen counties are: Wu County, Huiji County, Jiujiang County, Surabaya County, Minzhong County, Lujiang County, Cangwu County, Nanhai County, Xiang County, Guilin County, Nan County, Nanyang County, Yuzhang County, Jiaozhi County, Dian County and Qianzhong County.

There are 1,420,000 households, and 7,160,000 people!

What is this concept?

In the whole of China, the total population of the vassal states combined is only more than 10 million, and the Wu state accounts for almost half.

Of course, this is also due to the various measures to benefit the people of Wu, which attracted many Li Shu from the Central Plains to migrate to Wu to settle down.

In addition, there are the three southwestern counties that were opened up three years ago, and there are still populations that have been continuously searched to encourage births.

It is now a period of peaceful development in the country of Wu, so there are many newborns.

Having said that, there are not many resources that can be really used by Wu Guo.

The state of Wu is like the state of Chu back then, with a large land and abundant resources, and at the same time, the land is vast and sparsely populated.

If he blindly focused on the development of the nine southern counties, Wu would inevitably have no spare strength and go north to compete with the Jin state.

If Qingji plotted to dominate, he might lose some control of the nine southern counties......

It is worth mentioning that the caravan of Wu led by Madame Judy has returned to Jinling safely and has been welcomed by the subjects of Wu.

The caravan brought grapes, walnuts, carrots, peppers, beans, cabbage, cucumbers, pomegranates and other local products to the state of Wu, and at the same time, sold precious goods such as paper, tea, silk, and ceramics, and made a lot of money.

The caravan of 5,000 people originally returned to Wu with only more than 1,000 people.

Among them, except for those killed by thieves on the road, the vast majority of the soldiers stayed in the local area, learned the local language, and educated the people.

After many years, they all return to their native land......

Zhu Di and his entourage can be said to have worked hard and made great achievements, opening up a Silk Road of cultural and economic exchanges between the East and the West for Wu and China.

Moreover, this time, those who followed Judy to Wu were also many envoys from small countries.

Among them are the emissaries of the Persian Empire!

……

At this time, on the Fengtian Temple, Qingji was holding a grand court meeting.

Qingji was wearing a crown dress with dark red stripes, wearing a flat heavenly crown, and a Longyuan sword in his hand, sitting on his own throne.

A posture of not being angry and self-assured.

Through the twelve crowns, everyone can vaguely see the sharp light refracted by Qingji, which makes people dare not look directly.

Qingji, who has been lonely for many years, vaguely has this kind of self-respecting momentum.

In fact, that's exactly what happened!

Among the Chinese countries, which monarch is more powerful than Qingji?

No!

Qingji is a well-deserved first!

At this moment, above the court, all the ministers with an official rank of more than 600 stone in the Wu State Dynasty have all been in place.

More than 200 people sat together under the majestic platform, looking at the nose, nose, mouth, mouth, and heart, and sat there with a solemn look and posture.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo-"

Outside the Fengtian Palace, on the square, the spears are like a forest, and the flags cover the sky.

Hundreds of guards with big shoulders and round waists, two carrying a horn and one blowing.

The solemn and loud sound of the horn resounded through the sky, making people's spirits tremble!

"Xuan, the envoys of the Western countries have come to see you—"

On the platform, accompanied by a scream of the CRRC Mansion.

The envoys of the small countries of the Western Fanbang who had been waiting outside the Fengtian Hall for a long time entered the main hall in an orderly manner, with low eyebrows.

Obviously, before this, they had already received some training in Chinese etiquette, so they had such coordinated movements.

"See King Wu! Ten thousand years of kings! Great Wu Wannian!"

All the envoys spoke in a broken Wu language, and shouted in unison.

In order to show respect for Wu Wang Qingji, they knelt down together and bowed to worship......

This made Qingji very satisfied.

All nations are coming!

That's it!

"No courtesy, flat body!"

"Thank you!"

After receiving Qingji's response, the envoys of the nations dared to stand up slowly.

Seriously, if it weren't for the fact that this Fengtian Hall in Wu Kingdom was spacious enough and covered an extremely wide area, it really wouldn't be able to accommodate so many people standing together.