After learning about the changes in Zheng Guo in Yuzhou, the hall was a little silent for a while, and everyone was silent.

It's just magical.

A huge empire collapsed in such an instant, or because of the Chu State...... Well, just one of the reasons.

But no matter what, it's still shocking.

"Everyone knows what happened, let's talk about it, for Zheng Guo, how should I deal with it?"

Lu Yuan saw that everyone didn't speak, so he took the initiative to break the silence.

The ministers below glanced at each other, and then Sun Siwen walked out and saluted: "Your Majesty, the rebellion of Zheng Guo lies in the fact that for thousands of years, the contradiction between the imperial family and the minister on the issue of cutting the feudal domain is an old disease of the past, and it just broke out at this time.

I'm a great Chu envoy, but I'm just unlucky, and I just caught up.

Then it was used by Emperor Zheng as an excuse for his feudal strife, which led to this Zheng civil strife. ”

Sun Siwen first defined the nature of this Zheng civil strife, determined the righteous and innocent position of the Chu State on this matter, and then said: "Now that Zheng State is divided, Yuzhou is without the existence of this overlord, and peace will definitely not be maintained.

From the perspective of the ministers, in the next few decades, Yuzhou should be a situation of Tang, Xu, Jin, and the two Zheng, fighting each other.

The five parties are fighting here, and it is difficult for each other to overpower the other, and the war will continue indefinitely. ”

Sun Siwen still sees the situation in Yuzhou relatively clearly.

Although from this point of view, the Zheng State of Yuzhou is divided into two, and then counting the Jin State in the northeast of Yuzhou, the three forces all occupy the land of the five counties, and the strength is difficult to distinguish.

To the west of Yuzhou, Liang was also overwhelmed by Wei, Zhao, and Xu, and had no extra energy to take care of the affairs of Yuzhou in the east.

At this time, the only people who can meddle in the affairs of Yuzhou are Jingzhou Tang State and Liangzhou Xu State, which are next to Yuzhou and are located in the north.

Of course, the state of Chu, which lives in the south of the Yangtze River and has sea routes with Yuzhou, also has the ability to meddle in the affairs of Yuzhou.

However, with Lu Yuan's current policy, he would not do so.

Therefore, at this time, the only ones who can affect the battle situation in Yuzhou are Tang and Xu.

Tang and Xu were both large countries that dominated one state, and in terms of size, they were not as powerful as Chu, Liang, and Wei that unified one state, or spanned two states.

But like Zhao and Xu, they have the same hegemonic background as they should be.

Both countries are hegemonic countries with a population of 20 to 30 million each, capable of pulling out an army of 1 or 2 million.

Judging from the current situation that the spiritual energy is extinct today, the original reserves of divine blood xenomorphs in various countries have been slaughtered and used in large quantities, and the spiritual elixir reserves of all parties have increased significantly.

It is conservatively estimated that the innate grandmasters of Tang and Xu Erguo, after this wave of growth, may not be less than thirty.

After all, after Lu Yuan had previously collected the national divine blood xenomorphs, the spirit pill he refined could cultivate twenty-three innate ones.

Other countries are all from high-ranking families, and there is no reason to be worse than him, a rising low-level family, and the foundation is worse, and the elixir should be more.

Therefore, even if the original hegemons had only a dozen innate numbers, after this wave of foundation harvesting, the innate number could at least explode to more than thirty people.

Therefore, even if the most conservative situation is calculated, how can a hegemon like Tang and Xu mobilize a million soldiers and horses, more than 20 innate people, to interfere in the war of Zheng State.

This force is not weak.

Zhao and Xu Erguo in the north only showed the same strength, and the Liang State, the overlord of Zhongzhou, had to use more than half of their strength to deal with it.

And here in Yuzhou, there is no second, and the Liang State is only three small countries that are divided and hostile to each other.

With this kind of strength, they have to fight separately, how can they be the opponents of Tang and Xu.

Of course, although the three kingdoms of Yuzhou can't beat the two kingdoms of Tang and Xu, that's for sure.

But it doesn't mean that the Three Kingdoms have no power to fight back in front of Tang and Xu.

The two Zheng states in the north and south, as well as the Jin state, are also big countries that occupy the land of the five counties, and their strength is no less than that of the Chu State or the Ning State before the decisive battle in the south of the Yangtze River more than ten years ago.

At that time, the state of Chu and the state of Ning, in terms of military strength alone, were not bad, proper hegemon-level forces.

With all their efforts, they can mobilize millions of soldiers and horses, and more than ten congenitals are used for combat.

And that's just the frontal battleground.

Like the Ning State in the back, even if the front line was defeated and hundreds of thousands of troops were lost, it could be called a loss of vitality.

But after withdrawing to China, within two years, 800,000 soldiers and horses were continuously pulled out, and the military strength was still not reduced too much, and it was still able to maintain its hegemon-level status.

At the beginning, the Zhou State was besieged by all sides, and the loss of soldiers and horses before and after was three or four million, almost all the men in the country were wiped out, and finally it lasted for 20 years before it was destroyed.

It's amazingly tenacious.

This shows how difficult it is to destroy a hegemonic country.

In the past, Lu Yuan was able to destroy Ning Guo so easily, but he still relied on the internal collapse of Ziyun Dao, as well as the fluctuation of Jiangdong people's hearts, and finally sacrificed the big killing weapon of the feudal country, so that he could surrender without a fight.

Otherwise, if the above conditions are missing, Jiangdong will never be so easy to reunify.

But at this time, the two kingdoms of Tang and Xu did not have such good conditions as the Chu Kingdom, and there was a Purple Cloud Dao for him to be the internal response.

The two Zheng in the north and south, as well as the Jin State, did not experience the same fiasco as the Ning State, which caused the domestic people's hearts to fluctuate.

Even they are not from Yuzhou, but from other states, and for the people of Yuzhou, it is a proper invasion of foreign enemies.

In this case, even at this time, the Northern Zheng and Jin Kingdoms had temporarily succumbed to the Tang and Xu Kingdoms and became emperors.

But it is impossible for the two countries to eat Yuzhou so easily.

If they want to eat Yuzhou, the only way is to learn from Wei.

With absolute strength, we will encroach step by step, and finally eliminate all the forces in Yuzhou and achieve the goal of entering Zhongzhou.

Now that the Northern Zheng and Jin kingdoms have succumbed, they just want to temporarily stabilize the two strong enemies in the north and relieve themselves of the trouble in the north.

At the same time, with the help of the opponent's strength, he actively attacked Nanzheng to the south to gain more living space and strength.

Then turn around and fight to the death with two strong enemies in the north.

The contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable.

Tang Xu wanted to lay down the entire Yuzhou as a land for future survival.

The Three Kingdoms of Yuzhou wanted to keep their foundation so that they would not be annexed by outsiders.

The contradictions and positions of the two sides in this regard are doomed to be impossible.

Thinking about it, they are also very clear about each other, and the so-called emperor and cooperation at this time are just using each other to see who has better means.

This time, which was involved in Yuzhou, the cooperation between the five countries is destined to be the main theme of the future.

Perhaps, these conspiracies and conspiracy will be carried out in the end, and the two Zheng of the north and south will be reconciled and reunified as they did thousands of years ago?

Or maybe the two Zheng formed an alliance with the Jin State and chose to carry the great enemy in the north?

Everything is possible.

And under this chaos, the five countries contain each other, and it is difficult for anyone to completely eliminate any of them.

What Lu Yuan didn't want to see on the ground in Qingzhou had already been staged in Yuzhou at this time.

With such a balance reached, it is almost impossible for Yuzhou to want to be unified.

Sun Siwen saw this and said that Yuzhang would continue to fight indefinitely.

In the case of no external interference, close to the five forces in Yuzhou today, it is a real war with no end in sight.

Zhou Qing next to him also agreed with this point of view, only to see him say: "What the prime minister said is right, with the situation in Yuzhou, it is no longer solvable, and it is difficult to break this situation after countless centuries of death battles." ”

After speaking, he arched his hand towards Lu Yuan: "Your Majesty, since my Da Chu has no intention of directly interfering in the affairs of Yuzhou, it is better to be between these five countries, left and right, stir up their contradictions, and make them fight to the death."

Killing for decades like this has turned Yuzhou into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, making them self-weakening.

After the hatred and resentment of various countries are difficult to resolve and mutual suspicion, it will be difficult to reconcile.

My Great Chu is moving eastward, and who can stop the country of Yuzhou?

However, the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, and it was destroyed with one blow. ”

As a military general, Zhou Qingxian's strategy is undoubtedly much more ruthless.

The opening of the mouth is to provoke the chaos of the five countries in Yuzhou, let them kill the mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, and there are many grudges, leaving no room for them.

But I have to admit that if this matter can really be done, then even if the five states of Yuzhou are a foregone conclusion, it will be difficult to become an obstacle to the unification of Zhongzhou in Chu in the future.

Because before that, they were already exhausted by the continuous war.

Even if the Chu State finally called, people of insight from all countries in Yuzhou saw the crisis.

Limited by past grudges and conflicting interests, it is no longer possible to unite.

And as long as the other party is not a whole, one or two countries alone, it will not be worth mentioning at all for the Chu State, which has already accumulated strength and is ready to unify Zhongzhou.

Isn't this the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves?

"The general has a point."

After listening to Zhou Qing's words, Lu Yuan nodded, waved his hand and said, "Since this is the case, then for the matter of Yuzhou, my Da Chu will act with this strategy." As much as possible, stir up the dispute between the five countries, so that they cannot be united, and wait for the time when the Great Chu Ta day sweeps Yuzhou. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Yuan looked at Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing and said, "Prime Minister, General, this matter will be handed over to you." How to implement this policy will be discussed by your Cabinet and the Privy Council. ”

In recent years, with the stability and development of the Chu State, various systems in the country have been slowly established and improved.

Today, it has officially confirmed that the system of political affairs coming from the cabinet and military affairs from the Privy Council.

The imperial court used the two major institutions of the cabinet and the Privy Council to govern the operation of the huge institution of the Chu State.

In order to provoke a chaotic war among the five countries in Yuzhou this time, it is indispensable to use economic, military, diplomatic and other means, and the departments and materials to be mobilized are also destined to be extremely huge.

This inevitably leads to the union of the military and political departments.

"Obey the order!"

When Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing heard the order, they glanced at each other, and they both saw the wry smile in each other's eyes.

They don't know that this is their friend (Master) who is going to be lazy again and start to be the shopkeeper.

However, as friends (apprentices), as well as their responsibilities, as well as their feelings for the common cause of Chu State, they cannot shirk these responsibilities.

Fortunately, Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing are old acquaintances, and their decades-long friendship has long been tacit.

There will be no civil and military disagreements in other empires and mutual demolition.

It's not that hard to work with.

"Then let it be settled."

Seeing that his friends and apprentices had no opinions, Lu Yuan nodded with satisfaction, reassured himself as the shopkeeper, got up and said, "That's it for today, if there is nothing to do, disperse." ”

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As the state of Chu continued to adopt the national policy of partial peace, the wind and waves caused by the two major accidents in Qingzhou and Yuzhou did not cause too many waves in the south of the Yangtze River, and the heat quickly subsided.

Except for some scholars who don't know whether they are really outstanding, or they want to be famous, they are innovative, and they say some alarmist words, they are still tirelessly talking about the war in Jiangbei.

The attention of the other scholars of the Chu State quickly shifted back to the Thirty Litong River, to those newly famous Oiran, and to those talented people who were in the limelight at a literary meeting.

In this prosperous and prosperous world, I care about those who fight and kill, and always think about the dead, because I have a brain disease.

Is it not good to have that idle time, indulge in pleasures, and make a name for yourself in scientific research?

This move in the court, Jinwu nephrite, is the right thing in the world!

Of course, not all wars are excluded.

For example, in October, when the protector of the country, the governor of Hanzhong County, and Huang Xinzhen led 200,000 troops out of Longshan, he broke 500,000 barbarians who attacked the frontier in Longxi and beheaded more than 200,000 prisoners.

Those steppe barbarians who migrated south were frightened by this battle, and they became discolored when they heard the sound of Chu and the flag.

After that, Huang Xin took advantage of the victory to pursue, and in two months, he swept the five counties of Yongxi, captured millions of barbarians, and the news of tens of millions of cattle and sheep was transmitted back to China, and the entire Baling cheered.

Lu Yuan was also very happy.

Not only to defeat the barbarians, but also to be happy with the performance of their two children in this war.

In this battle, the two brothers Lu Hao and Lu He, with the army marching, were each assigned 10,000 soldiers and horses, and they were responsible for the aspect, which can be described as of great use.

And they are worthy of Lu Yuan's cultivation over the years.

In this war, although the two did not have much outstanding performance, they acted in a decent manner, did not make any mistakes, and performed their duties well.

All of the above sounds a bit mediocre, and it seems that they are not eye-catching enough compared to their status as princes.

But Lu Yuan didn't need Lu Hao to be eye-catching.

With the current volume of the Chu State, if there is no accident in the future, even if it is pushed hard by strength, it will be able to sweep Zhongzhou and unify the world.

Under this premise, honestly follow the righteous path and plan, and push it sideways.

In the face of hard power, as long as you don't make mistakes, then the enemy will not have the slightest chance, and it will be difficult to escape the end of destruction.

What kind of bells and whistles are played, but instead they give up their greatest advantage to compete with the enemy for their only advantage.

Isn't this asking for trouble?

Therefore, for Lu Yuan, being safe is the most important thing.

His subordinates, including his son, are qualified and can carry out the correct orders.

Any other genius and talent, even if the talent is outstanding, but as long as they do not listen to the command, it will affect the overall situation, and it is also a mistake of inferior talent that must be abandoned.

Lu He and Lu Hao passed this test, which naturally made him feel happy.

So in order to continue to train his two sons, Lu Yuan directly ordered them to stay in the Hanzhong army, follow up the war against the barbarians in Longxi, and exercise their abilities in the frontier.

Yes, the war against the steppe barbarians is not the end.

This time, although the state of Chu broke the barbarians, it almost wiped out the grassland barbarians in the two counties of Longxi and Hexi in one fell swoop, and achieved an unprecedented victory.

But this victory was only against the steppe barbarians of the two counties.

As time passes, as long as the cold weather in the north does not end, a steady stream of grassland barbarians will migrate from the grassland, re-enter the second county of Helong, and continue to harass the frontier of the Chu State.

Even after the cold wave in the West, it seems that something has changed.

Some people from tribal states living in the Gobi Desert in the Western Regions also began to migrate to Yongzhou.

This time, Huang Xin swept the five counties of Yongxi, and found many people who had migrated from the Gobi in the Western Regions in the original area of the Xiliang Kingdom.

They told them that there was a terrible earth movement in the west, and the mountains and rivers were torn apart, and the ground was shattered like a spider's web.

And this fragmentation is not a one-time pass, but an area that continues to turn and shatter.

Many tribes living in the west have been affected by this and have begun to migrate to the east as if they were fleeing for their lives.

They were the first tribes to arrive in Yongzhou under the influence of this wave of migration.

Following the Arctic cold wave, the West Pole earthquake finally followed.

Things did not follow the order of the North Pole first, then the South Pole, and then the East and West Poles, as Lu Yuan and the Kyushu monks guessed, and the natural disasters that came step by step.

It seems that the four poles of heaven and earth are one and the same, and if there is a problem in the North Pole, the other three places will also begin to collapse.

The state of Chu swept away the barbarians in Longxi this time, but it was only temporarily stable.

There will be more barbarians to the north.

Even to the west, at this time, there was a steady stream of people who wanted to save and began to arrive.

It is conceivable that for a long time in the future, before the four-pole disaster spreads to the edge of Zhongzhou, this border war between Hanzhong and Longxi will not stop.

The state of Chu will also face a long, continuous, and endless war, like Wei, Zhaoxu, and other states.

This was the inference that Lu Yuan made after receiving the change in the west, and he was also prepared for a long war.

But he didn't wait for him to take a break after the war on the Northwest Frontier was over, at the end of December, after the beginning of winter, near the New Year.

It was sealed by Lu Yuan, and the original Linhai family Mu was transferred to the Jinghai Kingdom.

It is said that outside the South China Sea, a large number of enemy ships have floated into the sea and entered the Jinghai country.

It didn't take long for Lu Yuan to seal a small coastal country in Lingnan, and they also sent back a report that there was an invasion of pirates.

After another period of time, the Lingnan countries, with the help of the Chu State, barely resisted the invasion of the Haikou and captured many captive ships.

Lingnan re-transmits the report.

According to the captured pirates, they are a small country in the South China Sea, because mountain fires broke out in many areas of the country, and large fires also gushed out from the bottom of the sea, and most of the country was reduced to a sea of fire.

As a last resort, these people had to go to sea by boat, far from their hometowns, in search of a new place to live.

Eventually, along the trade route, we arrived in Yangzhou, Chu State.

Not only the West Pole earthquake, but also the Antarctic sea of fire, 20 years after the cold wave appeared, also began to emerge.