In the apocalyptic calendar, in August 2003, the Gray Tribe officially established a country. The country was named Kane Country, Kaidin was the king, and Bain was the national advisor.
On the one hand, Xiao Yifeng was a little happy about the establishment of Kane Kingdom, but on the other hand, he was a little unhappy. The founding of a nation by the Gray Tribe was indeed something Xiao Yifeng hoped to happen, but he did not found the nation because of Xiao Yifeng. Previously, Xiao Yifeng tried hard to persuade Kaidin and Bain to let them establish the country at the same time as Ao Lie. But they deliberately delayed, and it was not until Jiang Feng made several missions to the Gray Tribe that the Gray Tribe decided to establish a nation.
This is like saying to Xiao Yifeng: "The relationship between our Gray Tribe and Yan Country will only be closer than that of Menis."
Although Xiao Yifeng felt a little unhappy, he quickly adjusted his mentality. Because he knows that even if you, the Gray Clan, have a good relationship with Jiang Feng now, it will be difficult to say the same in the future. As long as Yanhuang is divided into multiple countries, conflicts and disputes will inevitably occur. Even if there is peace now, it will be short-lived. As long as you take a longer-term view, you won't be unhappy.
Now, there are four countries in Yanhuang. The largest one is Yanguo, which occupies four provinces in Hedong. Next is the Southern Kingdom, which occupies the four southern barbarian provinces. After that came the Kane Kingdom, which occupied the three provinces of Xichuan. Finally, there was Lieguo, which occupied the province of Xichuan.
But the Four Kingdoms alone could not satisfy Xiao Yifeng. What she wanted was five points of Yanhuang, so he secretly established diplomatic relations with the Ghost and God Clan early on, and privately sent a lot of talents and technology to Feng Du to help them modernize their development.
On the one hand, Feng Du happily accepted Xiao Yifeng's material and manpower assistance. On the other hand, he used the small population of the Ghost Tribe as an excuse to delay the founding of the country.
The current population of the Ghost Clan is only about 100,000, and they are basically all soldiers. To a certain extent, the Ghost Clan has no civilians at all. If they want to develop internal affairs, they need to lay off their soldiers and become civilians. There are only 100,000 people in total, which is difficult to support modernization construction. At present, the focus of the Ghost Clan is only in one city, and that is Langfang City.
Langfang City is a large city that can accommodate millions of people to live comfortably, but the Ghost Clan only has 100,000 people, so it currently only develops military industry. However, if a country wants to improve its comprehensive strength, it needs to focus on three major aspects: politics, economy and military. One hundred thousand people is definitely too few, and those hundreds of thousands of dark zombies are now being raised in large concentration camps like livestock. These hundreds of thousands of people, just like chickens, ducks and pigs, do not need so-called personal space. They all live together, sleeping or eating. As long as there is no external stimulation, they will not move. Basically, only one small town is needed to easily accommodate these hundreds of thousands.
In other words, it is already difficult for Feng Du to develop just one Langfang City, let alone develop other cities. A new city has to provide electricity and construction, so he is too lazy to expand for the time being. At most, he can just build some factories and set up some small bases in some mountainous areas with rich resources.
So, with a city like this, what is Jianguo doing and making fun of the world? If a city could build a country, wouldn't there be countries everywhere in the world?
However, Xiao Yifeng still tried his best to persuade Feng Du. He tried to convince Feng Du that the opinions of the people in the world were not important. A city could build a country. As long as the strength was there, there would be no problem.
Feng Du finally promised Xiao Yifeng that there would be no problem in founding the country. He would at least occupy a few surrounding cities first, and then he would need some talents to impart knowledge and materials to build and develop the cities.
Xiao Yifeng frantically provided help in order to help the Ghost Clan build a country, sending tens of thousands of manpower and countless supplies there every month, including some technical talents. Because of long-term contact with the ghosts and gods, there are always some people who fail to protect themselves properly and become infected. Hundreds of people are infected almost every week, for reasons that no one can tell. The people who were sent to the land of ghosts and gods were in fear all day long. These people became increasingly anti-imperialist and defected many times. Some lucky people will successfully arrive at the Yan Kingdom and be discovered and rescued by patrolling soldiers. Some unlucky people will be captured or simply die in the dangerous wild.
From May to August, in just a few months, the number of people sent to Yanhuang had reached one hundred thousand, which was more than the number of ghosts and gods.
Jiang Feng deliberately sent the American imperialists who escaped back to the Menes Empire, and used them to spread public opinion and speak ill of the king.
Demonstrations and protests gradually appeared within the empire, and the voices condemning the king became increasingly strong. The most critical thing is that some senior military officials also began to oppose Xiao Yifeng.
Xiao Yifeng had no choice but to stop all aid plans and call back all the people of the empire who were sent to the land of ghosts and gods. However, more than 100,000 people were sent there one after another, and only about 80,000 people were finally sent back. A total of 20,000 people evaporated, either missing or accidentally infected.
As the king of the empire, Xiao Yifeng's reputation plummeted. But the king's power is still too great. Even if someone opposes it, Xiao Yifeng can still keep his throne. However, there may be some small actions within the military headquarters. Xiao Yifeng did not want to follow in the footsteps of Lao Po Kong. He convened many meetings to fully absorb and adopt the opinions of the majority.
After several meetings, Xiao Yifeng and the top government officials decided that since the Ghost Clan could not afford to support them, they would impose sanctions. Anyway, even if the Menes Empire punishes the Ghost Clan, Jiang Feng will not care. Because the whole world knows that Jiang Feng's enemy is the Ghost and God Clan. If Jiang Feng aids the Ghost and God Clan or establishes diplomatic relations with the Ghost and God Clan, many people will be unhappy, especially the Gray Tribe and the Zerg Tribe.
In the apocalyptic calendar, on August 20, 2003, the Menes Empire issued an announcement to the world, launching a military attack on the ghosts and gods. Hundreds of warships set off from the west coast of the United States and headed for the Asian continent.
This move of the Menis Empire not only affected the nerves of the Ghost Clan, but also affected Jiang Feng's nerves, because if those warships wanted to land in Beiming at the Bohai Bay, they had to pass through the East China Sea first.
In the past, when Lao Pokong was around, Jiang Feng would only allow at most thirty US fleets to approach the coast of the East China Sea. But now, Xiao Yifeng came with bad intentions and dispatched hundreds of warships at once. As the maritime gateway of the Yan Kingdom, the East China Sea must be defended. If the fleet of the Menes Empire suddenly turns to attack Jiang Feng's navy in the name of attacking the Ghost Tribe, then the East China Sea may not be protected.
Jiang Feng and Su Kou went to the seaside city, Ningbo City, night after night.
Admiral Xuntian and other important generals did not sleep, but were waiting for the king's arrival.
After Jiang Feng arrived, he convened an emergency meeting, mainly to analyze the potential threats of the US fleet and to compare the strengths of the two navies.
After several rounds of discussions, Xuntian reluctantly revealed to Jiang Feng that if a naval battle really broke out with the Menes Empire, the Yan Kingdom Navy would be no match for the US Navy.
"Everyone, if we can't fight, then should we leave the East China Sea?" Jiang Feng frowned.
"Prince Jiang, if we give up the East China Sea, what if they don't leave?" A general asked worriedly.
"If they don't leave, it will turn into an issue of territorial sovereignty. At that time, we can only go to war."
"Start a war? Do you want to fight even if you can't win?"
"Yes, if you don't fight, you will think that our Yan country is easy to bully."
"General Li, have you ever thought that our navy has finally developed to a certain scale. If we can't fight now, it doesn't mean we can't fight in the future. The time we need should not go to war with the US military now. Besides, now We are not sure about the movements of the US military. Maybe they are really just taking advantage of the East China Sea?"
"The U.S. military will arrive in the East China Sea tomorrow. If they want to use the East China Sea, they will definitely notify us in advance. But they didn't even send us a notice, and they don't take us seriously at all. I don't think we can even let them pass through the East China Sea."
"I cannot agree with General Li. Although I feel aggrieved, I still think it is safest to give up the East China Sea."
At the meeting, almost half of the people supported and opposed the transfer of the East China Sea.
Now, even Jiang Feng and Su Kouye were in trouble.
In fact, Su Kouye really didn't want to fight, because Xuntian hardly spoke at this meeting, and his expression was full of helplessness, which showed that he had no confidence in fighting at all. Although Xuntian is young, he is the mainstay of the navy. If he is not confident, then this battle should not be fought.
However, by silently giving up the East China Sea, wouldn't it prove to the world that our country, Yan, is afraid of Menes?
The Yan Kingdom was established not long ago, and it urgently needed to establish the dignity of the country so as to build a sense of pride in the hearts of all its citizens.
For a moment, even Jiang Feng didn't know what to do. He knew very well that Xiao Yifeng deliberately did not issue an announcement in order to give Yan Guo a disincentive.
Jiang Feng looked at the tea in the cup, as if Xiao Yifeng's figure was reflected in the water. The man also said to Jiang Feng, "Are you afraid? Are you going to give in or not?"
"That's unreasonable!" Jiang Feng clenched his fists and stood up suddenly, his expression very serious.
It seems that the king already has the answer.
Everyone fell silent and looked at Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng turned to ask Xuntian: "Hypothetically, assuming that everything is defeated and the whole army is annihilated, how many fleets of the US military can you destroy?"
Xuntian stood up, saluted, and said in a sonorous voice: "I am confident that I will be able to sink half of the opponent's warships at the risk of losing everything."
"Half of the warships, that's really amazing. Our fleet is less than half of the opponent's fleet. Well, even if we fail, we will not lose. And it is not us who are embarrassed, but Xiao Yifeng. They have numerical advantages and equipment advantages, but they lost more than half. I believe it won’t be long before the top brass within the empire will impeach Xiao Yifeng.”
In this way, Jiang Feng issued a hold order, and the fleets along the Yan Kingdom's East China Sea began to gather in the East China Sea.
The next day, when the U.S. military was about to arrive in the East China Sea, Xiao Yifeng received a report that Yan Guo's entire fleet had deployed its defenses in the East China Sea. Once the U.S. fleet sailed in, there was a high possibility that the other side would open fire.
When Xiao Yifeng heard the news, his face turned very ugly. He cursed Jiang Feng and said, "I've already told you whether Jiang Feng is crazy or not. The people we are going to attack this time are the ghosts and gods of Beiming. Why doesn't he just give way?"
A naval admiral whispered back: "Prince Xiao, according to international practice, if you really need to pass through other countries' waters, you should issue a notice in advance and obtain the other country's permission before doing so. If you don't say anything, just sail in like this In the waters of other countries, unless the other country is a hot chicken country, under normal circumstances, they will not make concessions."
"Didn't we make an announcement?"
"without."
"What's going on? What is the Navy Commander doing? Why didn't he issue an announcement in advance." Xiao Yifeng deliberately threw the blame to the Navy Commander.
