On the side of the Hezong Alliance, Su Xuange was stimulated by Zhou Qing's breakthrough innate and accelerated the preparation of the Su State to conquer the Southwest Yi.

In addition, Xichuan and Song Guo, after receiving the news, also felt pressured and couldn't help but step up their preparations.

Originally, they saw that the Chu State was attacking the Southwest Yi in advance, and in confusion, they thought of taking this opportunity to let the other party try the Southwest Yi first, and consume more of the strength of this commander.

But now the catties of Southwest Yi have been tried, and the catties of Chu have also been tried.

That King of Chu is still the original King of Chu, leading the troops to fight, and he is still so invincible and invincible.

It has only been half a year since he sent troops, and he has already broken 100,000 thieves, occupied thousands of miles of land, and almost defeated half of the Great Changhe Kingdom, which is worthy of his title as the god of war.

But all of the above, if everyone can still predict it.

Zhou Qing of Chu State broke through the innate nature, which was unexpected.

The king of Chu is already so capable of fighting, and his deterrence alone is enough to make all countries jealous and dare not offend.

Originally, the countries still thought that although the king of Chu could fight, there were only two innate people in the country, and it was barely enough to hold the current territory, so there should not be much spare power for external expansion.

So although I am afraid of each other, I am not too afraid.

But now that there is another congenital in the Chu State, there are grandmasters in Jiangbei and Jiangnan, and they have directly liberated Lu Yuan, the big murder weapon, and they can fight abroad without any scruples.

The deterrence and threat of the Chu State to the outside world was instantly raised to a new level.

This also led to a sharp rise in the pressure in the hearts of the countries adjacent to the Chu State.

Therefore, in order to protect themselves and improve their strength, Xichuan and Song also followed in the footsteps of the Soviet Union and stepped up preparations to conquer the Southwest Yi.

These two countries are also determined to advance time and strive to send troops to the southwest by the end of the year.

A sense of urgency pervades the country.

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In fact, not only the Hezong Alliance, but also other countries close to the Chu State also reacted.

Qiao Kangquan, the lord of Han China, immediately ordered that another 10,000 new soldiers be trained in the country, so that the military strength of the country was expanded to as many as 40,000.

The two counties of Hanzhong and Xiangyang of Zhou also increased their troops by 20,000, making the garrisons of the two counties reach 80,000 and 50,000 respectively.

Jiangxia County of Liang State added 30,000 soldiers and horses, making the garrison here reach 100,000.

South China Sea ...... Well, there is still no movement in the South China Sea. It's just that I heard that Yan Wangqiu, the lord of the country, is getting worse and worse, and he has been sick in bed all day long, and he can't go to court once a month, and he doesn't know when he will die of illness in bed.

At this time, the South China Sea was in chaos at home, and there was no leisure to care about foreign affairs.

Of course, compared with the above countries, the one who reacted the most was naturally Ning Guo, who had always regarded Chu State as a big trouble.

Ningguo, Jinling City.

After these years of governance, as the place gradually stabilized, the complicated labor and military service were gradually reduced, and the four counties of Jiangdong in Ningguo gradually regained their vitality under the governance of the new Jianwu Tianzi.

Nowadays, business travelers from all over Tiannan, Haibei and all over the country continue to come to Jinling City along the trade routes, bringing a steady stream of goods here.

All kinds of businesses and industries in the city have gradually recovered their prosperity, and there is once again the beautiful scenery of Qinhuai and Qinhuai, day and night. …

Shen Qiu stood on the Mingsheng Pagoda built in the imperial palace, looking at the prosperous Jinling City in the distance through the window, and his heart was full of pride.

This prosperous and rich land south of the Yangtze River has become more and more prosperous under its own governance.

And this phenomenon all shows that now Ningguo replaces the mediocre and incompetent Qianyue, which is the destiny of heaven and the desire of the people.

'Six years, in another six years, I can make Ningguo more prosperous, and the national strength will be raised to a higher level than now, and I will completely restore the prosperity of the former Yue and Ningning. , Shen Qiu thought in his heart.

Kangning was prosperous, this was the last prosperous era in the pre-Yue period. Eighty years have passed since then.

At that time, it was the time when Shenqiu was at its most prosperous.

It was in this prosperous era that he grew into the prime step by step, and then watched the end of this prosperous era with his own eyes.

The best time in his life was spent in the prosperous era, which naturally made Shenqiu full of great feelings and love for that prosperous era.

Therefore, after replacing the former Yue and establishing a new dynasty, the biggest vision in his heart is to rebuild the country that is now full of defects and decay back to that prosperous era.

And now that he has been on the throne for four years, after continuous combing and reform, lightly requisitioning and rectifying the rule of officials, more than half of the various maladministrations of the previous dynasty have been removed.

There are still some stubborn diseases, and they are also trying to slowly manage and improve.

Under the support of a group of virtuous ministers, the entire Ningguo is showing a situation of striving for progress and vitality, and everything is developing in a good direction.

Especially this year, with the continuous improvement of local officials' governance, the control of the local government has been further strengthened, a large number of hidden households have been reorganized into households, and the first population inventory has been completed in China, and statistics have been counted as of the end of the fourth year of the establishment of the armed forces.

The number of accounts found out this time surprised Shenqiu.

On the side of Linhai County, the number of households obtained is 1.03 million, with 5.37 million people. Yuzhang County is 1.12 million households, 6.01 million people. The seven prefectures of Guangling County are 620,000 households and 3.23 million people. Jian'an County has 410,000 households and 2.02 million people. The three prefectures of Xiangyang County are 180,000 households and 910,000 people.

In this way, there are 5 counties and 48 prefectures in the country, with a total of 3.36 million households and 17.54 million people.

And that's not all.

The annual revenue at the end of this year has also been counted.

In the entire four years of the establishment of the armed forces, the five counties of the country received a total of 51.2 million taels of silver, and after excluding various expenditures, there was still a surplus of 10 million taels of silver.

Moreover, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, with the further governance of the local government, after six years, this tax will go further, and eventually reach an annual income of 70 million taels.

With a population of nearly 20 million and a tax of 70 million taels of silver, this gave Shen Qiu great confidence.

Because this means that as long as he continues to accumulate in six years, he can reach the limit of 70 million in the country's finances.

At that time, relying on this money, Ning Guo can fully afford to raise an army of 800,000.

At that time, with this heroic division, Shuojiang River will go up, wave troops to the west, and the thieves will rebel, and they will not be captured?

A bright future is coming, and Daning is going to prosper and glory in his own hands, and Shen Qiu is naturally very happy in his heart. …

"Hmph, that Chu thief Lu Yuan has gathered a group of rebels, and he still wants to disobey the mandate of heaven, disrespect the Son of Heaven, and get out of the control of my Ning country.

As everyone knows, in front of me, it's just a clown jumping off the beam, and the mantis arm is big in the way of blocking the car.

Now that it is rare to take a breather, I don't know how to recuperate, and I dare to lead a group of rebellious ministers and thieves to fight the Southwest Yi.

Let's go and fight.

Do you really think those Yi people are so easy to fight?

Dynasties and dynasties, don't you want to open up the southwest?

Let those Yi people come to hold back your rebellious feet, shed the blood of ***, and consume your strength for my Daning.

Now let you jump for a few years, and as soon as the ten-year rest period is over, I will personally raise the male army and destroy the thief.

The thief king Lu Yuan was personally beheaded on the Yangtze River to deter the people of the world. ”

Shen Qiu thought like this in his heart, and the smile on his face became more and more intense.

He naturally also knew about Lu Yuan's dispatch of troops to the southwest this year.

But for this big event, Shen Qiu was not in a hurry.

For the development of the entire Yangzhou Jiangnan region, for more than a thousand years, it has been led by these seaside families.

But in the past two thousand years, the entire Jiangnan has only been opened up by them to the land of eight counties.

Oh no, maybe add a Jiuzhen County that just fell.

In 2,000 years, the territory of nine counties has been developed, and on average, it is almost 200 years to open up one county.

There's a reason why efficiency is so slow.

Those razors may be easy to defeat.

After all, barbarians, ignorant and no different from savages. Whether it is military power, economy, or even political system, they are far inferior to the orthodox dynasty of Jinling, and it is easy to defeat them.

But it is easy to defeat the barbarians, but it is easy to destroy their country. But it is not so easy to destroy their race and their culture.

In those barbarian countries, there are more or less one or two innates, or even three or four innates.

The barbarian people also gathered in the mountains, and if they could not defeat them, they would retreat into the mountains, and it was extremely difficult to clear them.

So when you defeat the barbarians on the frontal battlefield and take their land and cities.

What you have to face is those innate grandmasters who rushed into the mountains, and then led those mountain people to fight a continuous guerrilla war with you.

People don't confront you head-on.

It's just that today I will fight your town, and tomorrow I will destroy your village. Kill dozens of you today, hundreds of you tomorrow.

Raiding day by day, attacking year by year, it is simply a constant process of bloodletting for the countries that want to rule these newly occupied lands.

It's just that the innate grandmaster can't beat you head-on, but relying on the familiar terrain and the various mountain people to respond, it is extremely easy to hide.

You won't find a chance to round them up.

In the end, they could only rely on boiling to boil those barbarian innate grandmasters to death, and at that time, there was no place to support them, and the barbarians who could not cultivate the next generation of innate grandmasters naturally couldn't toss up.

In this way, a county can be effectively digested.

In the past, the imperial courts of Jinling were backed by the entire dynasty, so they could naturally spend more than a hundred years slowly consuming with those barbarians.

Even if it continues to bleed, it can quickly mobilize manpower and materials from all counties in the world to repair the wounds and replenish the vitality. …

But what is the situation in the Chu State today?

As far as the eye can see, there are enemy countries all around.

What kind of national strength is the state of Chu?

It is said that it is a country of three counties, but in fact, it is just a land of two counties, and it is still a small county with few people.

With such a little strength, who gave him the courage and who gave him the confidence to do the kind of pioneering thing that only a state overlord can do?

I really thought that everyone was the kind of person who sold women for glory in the Five Poisons Sect, and rushed to marry the innate grandmaster to Lu Yuan, so that this kid could easily control Dongting County and eliminate the biggest hidden danger.

Or is everyone like Xiqiang Li Xiong, who fled when he smelled the wind, and didn't know where he went.

Normal innate grandmasters, especially those of different races, are supported by a clan and have a privileged status, almost like a guardian saint.

You destroy other people's clans, take away other people's land, and destroy the wealth that has been passed down from generation to generation, how tolerant and cowardly should you be to forgive this kind of thing?

If you don't die to trouble you, everyone will be a congenital grandmaster in vain.

Therefore, in this battle of the Four Kingdoms, Shen Qiu was not optimistic, and he didn't think that Lu Yuan and them could gain much.

Perhaps without the intervention of external forces, relying on the current national strength of the Chu State, he will be able to gnaw on the land of one or two counties in the hands of Southwest Yi for a hundred years.

But will he look at each other and slowly grow his strength?

Joke.

How stupid should Shen Qiu be to give up this opportunity and let the Chu State continue to expand its strength.

At this time, he had already begun to calculate, six years later, it was time to take advantage of the fact that the Chu State was dragged in the southwest Yi and continued to bleed, how to attack the other party with the power of thunder, directly recover the three counties of the Chu State, and by the way, receive the results of the other party's development of the Southwest Yi.

With the size of the Chu State, it is very reluctant to open up the southwest.

But with the size of the Ning State, which destroyed the Chu State, it is much easier to open it up.

'At that time, I will not only be able to destroy the Chu State, but also follow the example of the previous dynasties, and open up one or two counties of land in the southwest for my three emperors and Miao descendants.

This kind of feat, among the founding kings of the past dynasties, can be ranked in the top three.

Later, when I entered the Yellow Spring and saw the first emperors of various dynasties, I could also hold my head high and look at it proudly. ，

When Shen Qiu thought of this, the pride in his heart couldn't help but get deeper and deeper.

However, at this moment, the footsteps under the tower hurriedly came, and I saw a eunuch close attendant, holding a secret letter, and came over.

"Your Majesty, there is a secret music from the state of Chu."

"Chu State?" When Shen Qiu heard this name, he frowned, took it and looked at it, and his face sank instantly.

Because there are five words written on it, Zhou Qingcheng is congenital.

Seeing this content clearly, Shen Qiu's original pride dissipated in an instant. Instead, a wave of anger came to his head.

"It's just a small country, how can it be able to cultivate a grandmaster?"

He crumpled the tantric music into a ball and threw it directly on the ground, shouting loudly.

Just like Su Xuange.

After learning the news that Zhou Qing had become an innate child, Shen Qiu suddenly understood, what did this mean to Ning Guo?

The important value of an innate grandmaster to a country is no less than 100,000 soldiers.

This is a Pillar Country-level artifact-level figure.

There are even times when 100,000 male soldiers are not as important as an innate grandmaster. …

Because of the value of 100,000 male soldiers, it can sometimes be replaced by ordinary people. But the value of the innate grandmaster is not something that those first- and second-rate martial arts masters can replace with quantity.

A country that does not have 100,000 soldiers will not necessarily be destroyed.

But if there is no Innate Grandmaster, it will definitely perish.

But with such an important figure, there is one more person in the Chu State.

There is one more in the Chu State!

As soon as he thought of this, Shen Qiu gritted his teeth in anger, and at the same time, a trace of imperceptible fear arose in his heart.

You must know that on his side of Ning Kingdom, with the death of Marquis Wu An, after Marquis Xie Ning of Wuping took Jiuzhen County to secede from the founding of the country, he had already lost two innate grandmasters one after another.

Without these two, now there are only Yang Jing, Marquis of Wuxuan, who is stationed in Xiangyang County, Shangguan Ming, Marquis of Wucheng, who commands the water division, Mu Changqing, Marquis of Wuming, who is stationed in Guangling County, and him, the Son of Heaven, a total of four people.

Originally, there were two innate grandmasters in Chu State, and there were four on Ning State's side, with four against two, twice the difference in strength, plus he was a master of the innate second realm, he didn't panic at all.

But now, with Zhou Qing's breakthrough to the innate level, the original huge advantage of four against two has instantly turned into a weak advantage of four against three.

[In view of the general environment, the gap between the two countries at the top level of combat power has narrowed sharply.

I said it earlier.

The value of an innate grandmaster is no less than 100,000 male soldiers, and it is irreplaceable.

There are three innate grandmasters in the Chu State, and they have this power in the top-level combat power, so although the number of soldiers at the bottom is still not comparable to the Ning State.

But these low-level soldiers are not irreplaceable.

Relying on the kind of militia and township warrior system of the Chu State, hundreds of thousands of militia can be pulled up at any time to help defend the city and resist the attack of the Ning State.

If it's just defending the city, then it doesn't matter if it's an elite soldier or not, anyway, just pour boiling water and throw stones.

Therefore, in this way, six years later, even if Ning State was able to dispatch an army of five or six hundred thousand, it would not be so easy to defeat Chu State with the advantage of military strength.

Originally, Shenqiu wanted to rely on the gap in combat power at the top level, coupled with the advantage of troops, to make a breakthrough.

But now the gap in the combat power of the top level has been quickly erased with the emergence of Zhou Qing.

Because Ning Guo went on an expedition, he was in the country, and at least two innate grandmasters had to be left.

Guangling County guards against Liang Guo and needs one. Jinling City, as a capital teacher, also needs one.

Then for the rest, Ning Guo could only send two innate grandmasters.

But on the Chu side, Jiangnan and Jiangbei have an innate grandmaster, and in the end, there can be one more to support other aspects.

Although judging from the current situation, the extra innate grandmaster of the Chu State, that is, Lu Yuan, was dragged to the southwest Yi, and he might not be able to get out of it for decades.

But if Ning Guo attacked Chu State on a large scale, in the face of the danger of Sheji's death, who knows if the other party will directly give up the land in the southwest and return to the country to support the front line.

After all, compared to the undeveloped Southwest Yi, the three counties of Chu State are already familiar with the land, and that is the real foundation. …

It is easy to make a decision on which of the two sides is more important.

Then the question arises.

The military disadvantage of the Chu State can be offset by the militia and the township to help defend the city.

The innate grandmasters at the top level are two on both sides, and at the same time, the Chu State also has the advantage of defense. In this way, even if Lu Yuan's strength is not as good as Shenqiu, relying on the city to defend, it is not impossible to resist.

The advantages of the top and bottom are gone, in the face of such a turtle shell as Chu State, how should Ning Guo bite?

As soon as I thought of this situation, and when I thought that I might not be able to do anything with the Chu State in the future, Shen Qiu, who was still immersed in the great cause of creating a prosperous era, suddenly felt a little dizzy.

No, you can't let that happen. ，

Sensing that his great achievements might be lost, Shen Qiu suddenly felt a little anxious in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Pass on the order, let the Marquis of Wucheng lead the water division to garrison Chaisang, and coerce the Chu State."

Tell Shangguan Ming, drag down the Chu State for me, let them gather their troops in Baling, and never let them attack the southwest Yi easily. ”

The minister who followed him obeyed the order and immediately hurried down to deliver the decree.

After saying this order, Shen Qiu thought about it again, and then said: "In addition, I will pass on the Duke of Chengguo, and I will hold a banquet to entertain him in the palace." ”

Daning's current Chengguo Gong, named Bai Yi'an, just listen to the name, he is from the late Wu'an Hou Bai Mengyang family, and he is the grandson of the military god.

Now the entire Bai family, after Bai Mengyang's death, has no innate grandmaster.

But this does not mean that this family is going to decline, in fact, Bai Yi'an, who is now forty years old, is the next generation of heirs carefully cultivated by the Bai family, and now he is a first-class peak strength, and he is not far from the innate generation.

The reason why they haven't broken through the innate at this time is just because the Bai family's accumulation is not enough, and they haven't been able to come up with enough divine blood elixir to help the other party purify their internal strength, nourish their souls, and accumulate the conditions for breaking through the innate ones.

Originally, Shen Qiu didn't want to meddle in this matter, he just wanted the Bai family to accumulate slowly and find the elixir by himself.

But now, with Zhou Qing's breakthrough through the innate and the news that Chu has added another grandmaster, the gap in strength between the two countries has been further narrowed, and this Jianwu Heavenly Son is a little unable to sit still.

'The accumulation of my Shen lineage is still relatively sufficient, and there is no suitable heir in the clan, so I can take out some of it first to help Yi'an, a descendant, break through the innate nature.

In this way, you can not only sell the favor of the white family, but also collect the loyalty of Ngee An. It can also add a congenital to my Daning and save the gap opened by the Chu State.

However, there is only one person, and the number of innate grandmasters seems to be a little insufficient.

That kid from the Li family, his strength is almost touching the side of the innate grandmaster, this time why don't you pull him up together and cultivate two innate people at once. ，

Shen Qiu looked out the window, frowning, thinking a little chaotically in his heart.

The sense of oppression that came from the Chu State step by step made this Jianwu Heavenly Son a little confused.