The country of Yue perished.
When Lu Yuan received the news, even though he had expected it, he was still stunned for a long time.
Could a dynasty that had dominated the south of the Yangtze River and been inherited for more than two hundred years simply be destroyed like this?
The rise and fall of this world is really sad.
But after sighing for a while, he started to take action.
The Yue Kingdom has been destroyed, and it seems that the new Ning Kingdom that replaced the Yue Kingdom has also survived the catastrophe of its own founding.
Through a Northern Expedition, he defeated the Zhou people, completely repelled external threats, and gained a firm foothold in this troubled world.
If this is the case, the relationship between his own Changsha Kingdom and the new Ning Kingdom will have to be carefully calculated.
"I now practice the art of Taiping, which is the way of luck.
According to this theory, if the Yue Kingdom is compared to a big tree, and our Changsha Kingdom originated from the canonization of the Yue Kingdom, they are the branches and leaves on the big tree.
Changsha's gathering of luck is like the photosynthesis of leaves, absorbing nutrients from the outside world. Some of the difference in nutrients sucked out from the leaves can be retained, but some must eventually be separated to maintain the survival of the main trunk.
Therefore, 20 to 30%, or even more than half, of the luck gathered by the Changsha Kingdom will be given to the Yue Kingdom.
This is the meaning of the origin of branches. "
Nowadays, as the practice of Taiping Taoism becomes more and more profound, some things that Lu Yuan did not notice when he was practicing are now gradually discovered.
For example, every time he breathes in and out of Qi, he can always feel that the Qi he absorbs is not all of the Qi he has gathered.
It seems that some of the luck provided by millions of people across Changsha's vast territory has been intercepted and led to nowhere.
This blocked luck probably accounts for about 30% of his total luck.
It turned out that Lu Yuan was new to this practice and had no one to guide him, so he had no idea why his luck was blocked.
Even though I was angry and unwilling, there was nothing I could do.
But just a few days ago, most of his luck that had been intercepted suddenly returned, and the final loss of luck dropped to about 10%.
This naturally made Lu Yuan concerned.
But after careful consideration, he couldn't figure out too much because of his limited vision and experience.
In the end, I could only accept this fact with confusion and joy, and then work harder to practice Taoism.
It was not until today that news came back from Jinling City in the east, informing that the Yue Kingdom had been destroyed and the Ning Kingdom was established. Lu Yuan suddenly realized that it was the Yue Kingdom's court that had been blocking his luck.
Think about it too.
The Changsha Kingdom came from the Yue Kingdom. It was originally a vassal state established by the Yue Kingdom after it ceded Dongting County.
In terms of status, the two countries are divided into masters and slaves.
In fact, all the flags Lu Yuan has always used are also the names of the Changsha Kingdom of Yue Dynasty. In the eyes of outsiders, Truong Sa is also a vassal state of Dai Viet and is not independent.
Not only him, but also the four countries of Nanhai, Ninghai, Xichuan and Hanzhong are all princes under the banner of Dai Viet in the eyes of outsiders.
Once the five kingdoms were established, they were basically one.
Otherwise, during the previous Northern Expedition, why did Changsha, Nanhai, and Ninghai accept the deployment of the Yue court and each send 100,000 troops to participate in the Northern Expedition?
After participating in the Northern Expedition, the kings of the three kingdoms were all present. Why did they follow the command of Bai Mengyang, the Marquis of Wu'an, and obey the orders of the ministers of other countries with the voice of the king?
Don't all the above facts illustrate the master-slave status between the vassal states in places like Changsha and the Yue court?
Don't worry about the facts. What's the real story?
Anyway, in the eyes of outsiders, this is the case.
It is precisely because of this that although the strength of the Yue Kingdom has greatly declined, only five counties are left in its directly administered territory. But he could still, as the overlord of Yangzhou, be on an equal footing with the Liang State, which occupied ten counties, and lost half of Hanzhong County and most of Xiangyang County, leaving only seven counties.
What is the reason?
Counting the five vassal states under the Yue Kingdom, doesn't the entire Yue Kingdom nominally rule the land of ten counties?
It is this seemingly vast territory that maintains Yue's dominance.
It was precisely because of this feudal tributary system that the Changsha Kingdom was controlled by the Yue Kingdom in terms of origin and status.
Under this situation, 30% of the luck he had gathered had to be divided and left to the Yue court.
"Now that the Yue Kingdom has been destroyed, the original tributary system in the name of master and slave naturally no longer exists. Therefore, the 30% of luck that was intercepted has returned to 20%.
Then why doesn't the remaining 10% of luck come back with it? "
Lu Yuan frowned when he thought of this: "Is it because the newly born Ning Kingdom inherited the orthodoxy of the Yue Kingdom, and therefore also inherited part of my righteousness, so that it can retain the remaining 10% of luck?
So if I continue to recognize Ning Guo's dominant position and become a vassal state under its tribute system, will the two layers of luck that have come back now be intercepted again?
If this is really the case, then my relationship with Ning Guo needs to be discussed carefully. "
For him, in today's situation, nothing is more important to him than his luck.
The more luck you have, the faster you can improve your realm by practicing Taiping Dao Shu.
Under the tribute system, it seems that only 30% of luck has been cut off, leaving 70% left.
But for Lu Yuan, it was not only 30% of his luck that was cut off, but also his own cultivation speed, which was abruptly cut off by 30%.
This is 30% of the cultivation speed!
In the short term, it may not matter, but in the long term, if your cultivation speed is slowed down by 30%, what a huge loss is this?
Don’t even say 30%.
Even if 10% of his luck has been cut off and his cultivation speed has been slowed down by 10%, it is still an unacceptable thing for Lu Yuan.
He governs the country by himself, stabilizes the people, leads troops on expeditions, expands territories, earns his fortune through hard work, and sacrifices his life to practice Taiping Taoism.
After paying so much, you end up making a wedding dress for someone else?
Thinking about this makes people feel uncomfortable, okay?
It feels like a child you have raised for twenty years, only to find out that it is not yours. Not to mention how disgusting it is.
The luck that was stolen now was the child that Lu Yuan raised for others.
How unfair must one be to accept such cuckoldry?
He couldn't accept it anyway.
"Therefore, not only the master-slave relationship must be severed, but the tribute system must also be severed. The Yue Kingdom happened to be destroyed, so we should take advantage of this opportunity to simply cut off everything."
Lu Yuan realized this and his expression became determined.
You must never let others share your hard-earned luck.
This new Ning Guo has nothing to do with him, and that Shen Qiu, a person he doesn't even recognize, wants to share his luck, and wants to take advantage of it?
Let's take this opportunity to completely separate from those Linhai aristocratic families.
…
Although they decided to completely cut off from Ning Guo, the relationship between Changsha State and Ning Guo cannot be broken off easily.
And even if it needs to be cut off, how to cut it off is also very particular.
The simplest and most direct way is to send someone directly to Jinling as an envoy, then scold Shen Qiu in person, condemn his despicable act of usurping the throne, and then declare that he will not recognize Ning Guo and directly go to war with the other party.
The above method is undoubtedly the fastest cutting method.
Not only can the relationship between the two be completely severed. You can even use the name of crusade against Ning State to win over the hearts of the scholars and people who love Yue State, and reap a wave of luck in the opposite direction.
But can it be done this way?
Obviously not.
Not to mention the newly born Ning State, after accepting the foundation of Yue State, its strength is far stronger than that of Changsha State. If we really want to declare war, it is basically impossible to win.
As far as the current situation of Changsha State is concerned, it simply does not have the ability to fight a war that will overwhelm the country.
Therefore, the above approach will not work.
It is impossible to implement it directly, so if you want to cut it clean, you can only use roundabout methods.
So after receiving the news of the demise of the Yue State, he decided to cut off from the Ning State.
Lu Yuan made a prompt decision and sent envoys to the four countries of Ninghai in the South China Sea and Hanzhong in Xichuan on the same day.
There is no other purpose for going here, just to unite these four countries and cut off the master-slave status and tribute system of He Ning Kingdom.
It was just a country in Changsha, and it seemed that it was not confident enough to sever its relationship with Ningguo alone.
But if we can bring other countries together, our strength and confidence will be greatly increased.
For the Ningguo court, there was a big difference between dealing with the Changsha Kingdom alone and dealing with all the vassal states.
One is a trouble that can be solved alone, and the other is an opponent that even if he tries his best, he can't deal with it.
Which of the two is more important is naturally self-evident.
The only troublesome thing is that Lu Yuan wants to independently establish the Ningguo tribute system, and whether other countries are willing to follow.
Among the four countries outside Changsha, the newly established Xichuan and Hanzhong countries are unlikely to agree.
The strength of these two countries is very weak, each has only 700,000 to 800,000 people, and the total number of troops and horses does not exceed 50,000. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are small countries.
But even these two small countries of Zuer had to resist the 150,000 troops deployed by Zhou State in Hanzhong County.
With such a powerful enemy on their heads, it would be crazy for Hanzhong and Xichuan to break away from the big tree of Ningguo, give up a tiger skin that they can rely on, and choose to stand alone and face a circle of powerful enemies around them.
Therefore, if you want to win over them, the probability of success is low.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan didn't expect much from them, nor did he expect them to help him much.
His real hope lies in the two countries of Nanhai and Ninghai.
These two countries and themselves are also old allies. They had formed an alliance together before, and stood up for a showdown with the country of Yue, thus kicking off the feudal state.
Later, the three countries have always been a small camp, advancing and retreating together to cope with the pressure from Yue and other countries.
Now the country of Yue is dead.
Lu Yuan believed that he was not the only one who was shaken by this breaking news and had other thoughts.
He wanted to take this opportunity to cut off from Ningguo and make Changsha independent.
Don’t the other Ninghai and Nanhai countries also want to do this?
Well……
That old man Yan Wangqiu might really not want to.
This old man is older, he seems to be one hundred and forty-five or sixteen years old now. Like Marquis Wu'an who just passed away this year, he has less than two years to live when he is dying.
Under such circumstances, what he naturally wanted was stability and the ability to pass on the Nanhai Kingdom.
Therefore, Yan Wangqiu would most likely not support Lu Yuan's desire to cause trouble.
But old man Yan doesn't support it, but that guy Su Xuange doesn't necessarily support it.
Unlike Yan Wangqiu, who is on his deathbed and old.
Su Xuange is only eighty-three years old now, and he can live for more than sixty years in the future, which is his prime.
And this person's temperament is not peaceful either.
Judging from Lu Yuan's contact with the other party, he is a rather ambitious man with broad aspirations.
The small Yulin County can never restrain the other party. Only a broader world is what this person wants in his heart.
"According to the reports from the spies I placed in Ninghai Country, Su Xuange began to levy taxes in the country since he returned from the Northern Expedition.
In just over half a year, Ninghai's taxes have doubled than before.
It has made the people in the country overwhelmed, and the people are in dire straits. Even in some places, large-scale people fled.
And all the extra tax money was used by him to expand the army and raise troops.
Su Xuange used the 20,000 Zhou soldiers captured during the previous Northern Expedition and the 10,000 county soldiers as the backbone. He also recruited 20,000 civilian warriors brought back from the Northern Expedition to form a large-scale army. In fifty thousand soldiers.
Later, in local prefectures and counties, there was a large-scale expansion of prefecture and county soldiers, with 50,000 prefectural and county soldiers recruited at a scale of 3,000 per prefecture and 200 per county.
They even followed my example and formed a local vigilante group.
After this operation, he almost raised 100,000 regular troops and hundreds of thousands of militiamen.
Although the combat capabilities of these newly trained combat soldiers, county soldiers, and militia groups are very doubtful.
But this number of more than 200,000 troops and horses was increased in number. Moreover, 50,000 soldiers and 50,000 county soldiers are very bluffing.
Today's Ninghai State can be considered a small military power in terms of paper strength. "
Lu Yuan thought about the information that had come from Ninghai Kingdom in the past few months. He had already guessed what Su Xuange was thinking in his heart.
If the small Ninghai Kingdom was just for self-defense, why would it need so many soldiers and horses?
As long as there are about 50,000 soldiers, county soldiers, and Su Xuange, the innate master, even if an outsider comes with an army of 200,000, it will be enough to fend off the enemy and ensure the survival of the entire Ninghai Kingdom.
Therefore, for self-protection, Ninghai Kingdom only needs 50,000 soldiers and horses, which is enough.
But now, Su Xuange ignored the fact that Ninghai Kingdom had just been established and the local people were not attached to it. He insisted on levying excessive taxes and forcing the people to flee. He also imposed heavy taxes and forced people to die.
This method of exploiting the entire lake to fish, killing chickens to lay eggs in order to expand the army, if you want to say that it is purely for self-defense, even a three-year-old child wouldn't believe it, right?
So since it was not for self-defense, Su Xuange raised many soldiers and horses at home, and naturally they were not for watching, but for external expansion.
In which direction is he expanding?
From a geographical point of view, there are only four directions: southeast, northwest and northwest.
To the north of Ninghai Kingdom is Changsha Kingdom.
Lu Yuan has a territory of thousands of miles and has more than 200,000 powerful soldiers. There are also two innate masters in the country. With such strength, which is twice that of Ninghai Kingdom, as long as Su Xuange is in his right mind, it is unlikely that he will provoke him.
To the west are the barbarian countries in the southwest.
Although most of the barbarian countries in the southwest are very weak, many of them are no more than one prefecture and one county, with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. They are truly small countries.
As long as there is an army of tens of thousands, countless countries can be destroyed there.
In the southwest area, besides these small countries, there are also several overlords. They are Dachanghe Kingdom, Dali Kingdom and Nanzhao Kingdom.
On the southwest border, those small Yi countries are basically vassals of the three big Yi countries.
If the Ninghai Kingdom wants to take advantage of the Small Yi Kingdom, it will inevitably face the Sanyi Kingdom.
But these three Yi kingdoms all cover thousands of miles, govern millions of people, can field tens of thousands of soldiers in the country, and have innate masters to guard them.
In terms of strength, it is not weaker than Ninghai State at all, and is even worse.
As long as Su Xuange wasn't stupid, he wouldn't be able to poke this hornet's nest.
Therefore, his remaining expansion goals are to the south and east.
To the south of Ninghai Kingdom is Jiuzhen County, which originally belonged to Dayue and now belongs to Daning.
Today's Jiuzhen County, after several years of recovery, has about 200,000 households and a population of just over one million.
In this county, there are 50,000 soldiers led by Xie Ning, Marquis of Wuping in the imperial court, and 20,000 county soldiers formed locally to guard it. And if necessary, more than 100,000 local people can be recruited.
With these strengths, Su Xuange's plan to conquer Jiuzhen County was basically just a dream.
"So his final target is only Nanhai Country."
Lu Yuan was silent in his heart.
When the alliance between Changsha, Nanhai, and Ninghai was first established, he knew that it would break down sooner or later.
And I have been guarding against this, preparing for a break in the future.
But Brother Su Xuan started thinking about Nanhai Kingdom so quickly, and he really changed his mind too quickly.
But no wonder.
In this country, Yan Wangqiu will soon die of old age, and then the Nanhai Kingdom will have no innate master to protect him.
After Yan Wangqiu returned from the Northern Expedition, he did not start to build his own military system like Su Xuange.
Nowadays, in the entire South China Sea, there are only more than 10,000 county and county soldiers as before.
This little strength, once Yan Wangqiu dies, will be no different to outsiders.
However, the Nanhai Kingdom is so wealthy. In this troubled time, under the gaze of wolves, everyone naturally wants to take a bite of this fat sheep.
It's normal for Su Xuange to be tempted.
Don't talk about him, even if Lu Yuan said he wasn't moved, he was lying.
The only difference between him and Su Xuange is probably that he will not take the initiative to betray the alliance. During the alliance period, he will not attack this ally, right?
After all, in this troubled world, the strong survive and the weak perish.
If you don't work hard to eat others, others will come to eat you. How else can we talk about a world of great strife?
Su Xuange, who has this kind of awareness, will naturally be like Lu Yuan under the current general trend of the destruction of the Yue Kingdom. It is impossible to accept the previous situation willingly and be controlled by the new Ning Kingdom under the righteousness of the name.
There is basically no problem for him to stand up and become independent with Lu Yuan.
When Changsha and Ninghai moved, as a member of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, even if the Nanhai Kingdom was unwilling, Yan Wangqiu could only follow along and leave the Ning Kingdom.
Therefore, after this cut and break, there is no doubt that the Three Kingdoms Alliance will still advance and retreat together.
The Three Kingdoms are one, and there are four innate masters and nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses. This level of strength is already on par with Ning Guo.
With such a deterrent, it was enough to make the Ningguo court feel wary and make compromises.
Therefore, after sending the envoys, Lu Yuan began to wait patiently for responses from various countries.
At the same time, he was also waiting for the first wave of envoys sent to Changsha after the founding of the Ning Kingdom.
Regarding the transformation of Yangzhou regional hegemony, it will soon begin.
The old system will eventually be broken, and the time has come for the thousand-year dynasty of the Linhai Family to sound the horn of destruction.
