In Changsha City, Lu Yuan received the Ningguo envoy from afar in the palace.
"The foreign minister has met the king."
This Ningguo envoy is a middle-aged man who looks to be in his thirties or forties, with handsome appearance and personable demeanor. It is not difficult to tell from his temperament that he should be from a Linhai family.
"No need to be polite."
Lu Yuan looked at the envoy and then asked, "The envoy came from Jinling. What's the matter?"
The Ningguo envoy said solemnly: "Since Longqing, the imperial family has lost its virtue, and two generations of monarchs have been ignorant. The world has been in chaos and the people have been displaced. As a result, the country has been in turmoil, and the world has been suffering for a longer time.
At that time, my lord put down the rebellion in the interior, destroyed Jinghai in the south, slaughtered the Qiang bandits in the west, attacked the Zhou Kingdom in the north, and retreated the Liang people.
This can be said to save the building from collapse, save the people from fire and water, and undoubtedly contribute to the reconstruction of the country.
In this way, all the people admired him, and the common people were moved to tears. All the common people and ministers wrote letters of encouragement to advance, and the emperor who escaped from the throne also issued an imperial edict to abdicate.
Therefore, my lord bore the high hopes of the world and could not bear to reject the hopes of the people. Finally, on the fourth day of the eleventh month of the first year of Chengyou, he accepted the emperor's abdication. It was precisely in this way that he took over the imperial throne and established the dynasty for Ning.
Now my lord has established a great country, changed the Yuan Dynasty to Jianwu, and has replaced Yue Shi as the lord of the five counties and five kingdoms of Yangzhou.
When the emperor ascends the throne, he should inform the princes in all directions.
Therefore, the foreign minister was ordered to come and inform the king of this matter.
He also asked the king to send someone to Jinling to meet with the emperor to determine the status of the emperor and his ministers. Make the country stable and the world orderly. "
The Ningguo envoy talked a lot, and finally revealed the purpose of his trip.
Ask Lu Yuan to send an envoy to Jinling City to meet Shen Qiu to show his submission to Ning State.
Just as originally guessed.
Ning State, which inherited the great unification of Yue State, not only inherited the land of those five counties. As for the tribute systems of Yue State, I also want to take them over at this time.
At this time, I wanted to establish the relationship between Changsha and Ning as kings and ministers, and that was it.
But how could Lu Yuan fulfill the other party's wish?
So when the envoy finished speaking, he looked angry and said with a cold tone: "Go to Jinling to meet the emperor? May I ask the envoy, which emperor is it?
Our country in Changsha is sealed by the Yue clan, and we have always respected the orthodoxy of the Yue clan.
The lonely king only knew that there were Emperor Hongdao and Emperor Chengyou in the world, but he had never heard of Emperor Jianwu.
Your Lord, Shen Qiu, received great favor from the Yue family and was able to take charge of the country's affairs, becoming a general and a highly respected minister. Later, he was granted the title of two counties and established a great nation.
Which minister in the world can receive such grace and honor?
But your Lord is not satisfied with this grace.
Not wanting to serve the emperor, but openly treason and usurping the throne, this is disloyal.
Such violent and rebellious behavior made the whole world angry, and Liang Guo came to attack.
This caused the originally peaceful world to be at war again.
It is unkind to harm the world for one's own selfish interests.
Besides, Emperor Hongdao, despite all his bad deeds, also neglected the state affairs during his reign, causing the world to decline.
But no matter what he is, he is still the emperor and the father of the king.
And facing the emperor and the king, no matter how wrong he is, you can't kill the king.
snort!
There was a great epidemic in the palace, and Emperor Hongdao and his heirs all died from the epidemic.
You can think of such ridiculous reasons. If there was a plague in the palace, why didn't it happen in Jinling City?
Do you really think that such clumsy methods can hide the eyes of the world and block the mouth of Youyou?
After Chen Qiu did this, he was not afraid that those who came after him would imitate him. Would he treat his descendants in the same way in the future?
Killing the emperor, having no king or father, is this kind of virtue worthy of ruling the world?
Moreover, the rebellion at home, the destruction of Jinghai in the south, the massacre of the Qiang bandits in the west, and the attack on the Zhou people in the north, if King Gu remembers correctly, are all due to Marquis Wu'an.
Even if Marquis Wu'an dies, the person who made the first contribution will still be the lone king.
Your lord is sitting in Jinling and high in the temple. He is just talking and scheming. How can you dare to deny this merit?
Did your lord just rely on the power of the river to defeat the Liang people he had attracted in Guangling County?
How can such people with no loyalty, no benevolence, no faith and no justice, be able to achieve the position of emperor?
Besides, our country of Changsha was granted a title by Yue Shi, and we received the favor of Yue Shi. What does it have to do with your rebellious country?
Now you dare to lick your face and ask me to go to Jinling to worship?
You have no sense of shame and are willing to accept as your master a man who has no loyalty, no benevolence, no king, no father, no faith and no justice. But the lonely king is a hero in the world, and he has his own etiquette and integrity, so how can he associate with you and other treacherous people?
Go back and tell Shen Qiu that it is absolutely impossible for the lonely king to recognize him as the emperor in this life.
How can a treacherous traitor be my master?
If he is dissatisfied, he can raise his troops to attack.
The lonely king is waiting in Baling City with his troops. When the time comes, the two armies will form an array to decide life and death.
If he can defeat me and destroy our country Zuo, then he has some ability.
If not, wash up early and go to bed.
There is everything in the dream. "
Lu Yuan's mouth seemed to be loaded with a machine gun at this time, spitting out a series of output.
This long speech was full of satire, and even more vividly refuted the original words of the messenger, tearing away the last fig leaf of Shen Qiu's establishment of the Ning Kingdom.
After hearing these remarks and being insulted like this, the messenger was naturally extremely angry, and his entire face darkened.
The original calm demeanor disappeared without knowing when.
He wanted to refute.
But when it comes to what Lu Yuan said, they are all facts.
On the bright side, Yue Shi did not let Shen Qiu down. He gave everything he could, and even gave him what he couldn't.
It can be said that I treat him with all my heart.
But what about Shen Qiu?
After receiving these many honors and rewards, he committed regicide and began to usurp the throne.
As for Shen Qiu's achievements in publicity, they were basically achieved by Wu Anhou, Lu Yuan and others, and they actually had little to do with him.
The only battle worth bragging about is the Battle of Guangling, which is also suitable for two people to face each other across the river and survive the other by staying up for a long time.
These deeds, these achievements...
All right.
The envoy thought about it carefully. If he only looked at the superficial things, then Shen Qiu was really not worthy of sitting on the throne of the Emperor. And what are the people who follow him if not treacherous villains?
But if you put aside these superficial phenomena and only look at the core essence, after understanding the operating logic of Linhai County aristocratic families using an election system, each family recommends the emperor together.
So this time the change of dynasty and the Ning Dynasty's transition into another family were actually not as serious as it was said on the surface.
Because in essence, this is just a matter of those aristocratic families who actually control the shares of Yue State, replacing the previous unfavorable shopkeepers and introducing a new agent.
If your boss changes to another shopkeeper, what does it have to do with you as an outsider?
The only thing that was a little rough was the matter of killing Emperor Hongdao.
It can be seen that the reason why this person was killed was because he colluded with outsiders and wanted to sell everyone's interests in exchange for his current position.
It was Emperor Hongdao who betrayed the rules first, and then they counterattacked.
The other party was unkind first, and the Linhai County family was unjust later.
However, these rules challenge secular ethics and cannot be stated openly.
Unspoken rules can always only be unspoken rules.
If you expose it, you will die violently.
Therefore, in the face of Lu Yuan's accusation, although the envoy was angry, he could not refute it.
'It's all Xiao Ji's fault. It would have been nice to have accepted the arrangement properly and resigned.
Bringing things to this point not only made the new emperor bear the stigma of regicide, but also caused a lot of trouble.
This witch-god emperor who killed his father has really done a lot of harm to people. I wish I could resurrect him and kill him again. '
The envoy killed the dead Emperor Hongdao again in his heart. Then he gathered his thoughts, looked up at Lu Yuan, and asked angrily: "Is what the king just said serious? Changsha Kingdom really wants to do it. This conspiracy to start a war with the imperial court?"
"What does Ningshi do to me?"
Lu Yuan immediately asked, "Since you don't have any kindness from me, how can you dare to call me my lord? If you are not my lord, how can you dare to call me a treason?"
After asking three questions in a row, he sneered: "As for whether to start a war, messenger, I'm afraid you can't make the decision. You'd better ask your master to see if he dares to fight me."
"You..." When the messenger below heard this, he couldn't hold back any longer, and his face turned red with anger. He was about to have an attack, but when he met Lu Yuan's calm eyes, his heart suddenly felt cold.
This reminds me that the King of Changsha in front of me is the new generation military god known as the second Marquis of Wu'an.
Not only is he extremely powerful at leading troops in battle.
He even personally killed two innate and peerless murderers on the battlefield.
Living with such a talented person, he really didn't have the confidence to say anything provocative.
So in the end he had to say: "Since the King of Changsha means this, the foreign ministers have no choice but to return to Jinling and tell my lord exactly what the king said. If the two countries raise troops by then, I hope that the king will not I regret what I said today.”
Lu Yuan remained indifferent: "Envoy, please excuse me."
"snort."
Seeing that he still had this attitude, the envoy couldn't help but wave his sleeves, turned around and left.
Lu Yuan just watched this person leave without making any move.
Today's words and attitude were part of a strategy he had already decided on, but now he was just executing it.
Ningguo is powerful, with five counties and five innates.
With Changsha's strength alone, it is no match for the opponent, so it is not advisable to take the initiative to start a war.
But if we don't go to war, we will have to break the relationship between master and slave with the other party, and break away from the tribute system under the Jinling court, so we have to find another way.
Among them, contacting other vassal states and standing up to resist with oneself is one way.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of Ning Guo to send envoys, it is another way to sever diplomatic relations with the other party and sever them in name.
The former can strengthen oneself, and the latter can express one's attitude.
Now the envoys from the Nanhai and Ninghai countries and the Changsha country have gone to work. It will take less than a month for the good news to come back.
On the other side of Jinling City, Lu Yuan also stated in front of the envoys of Ning State that he would never obey the Jinling court and wanted to be independent.
Preparations are complete in both aspects. How things will develop next depends on the attitude of the new emperor of Ningguo.
…
After breaking with Ning Guo in front of the other party's envoy, Lu Yuan had already come to the opposite side of the Jinling court.
So no matter what the final reaction of the Jinling court is, preparations must be made here.
So after Lu Yuan sent away the Ningguo envoy, he urgently issued two more edicts.
One is to draw two more forbidden troops from Changsha and join his main force in Baling City. This brings the strength of the troops here to five forbidden armies and 100,000 soldiers and horses.
Then, in Dongting, 10,000 prefecture and county soldiers were mobilized from various places and asked these people to gather in Changsha City.
As a result, in the temporary capital of Changsha Kingdom, there will be a forbidden army and 10,000 prefecture and county soldiers, totaling 30,000 troops.
A total of 130,000 troops from Baling and Changsha lined up along the Yangtze River and Xiangshui River, confronting Yuzhang County and Ningguo troops across the border.
On the side of Changsha Kingdom, troops and horses were mobilized frequently, in a posture aimed at Ning Kingdom.
This kind of movement naturally aroused the vigilance of Ning Guo.
Shangguan Ming, who was in charge of a hundred thousand navy in Yuzhang County, heard about Lu Yuan's movements. This old acquaintance who once wanted to be his father-in-law immediately gave the order.
Withdrawing 50,000 naval troops to the west, they directly blocked the Yangtze River waterway, split Changsha into two, and completely isolated the land south of the Yangtze River and north of the Yangtze River.
Then he led the remaining 50,000 naval troops from Xunyang Camp to Chaisang Mansion to confront Lu Yuan's 100,000 soldiers and horses in Baling City.
Then he ordered that the soldiers from the prefectures and counties of Yuzhang County gathered together, gathering 30,000 troops, and rushed to Yichun Mansion to confront the soldiers and horses of Changsha City.
In this way, both sides sent out 130,000 troops each, and started a confrontation on both land and water.
For a time, troops gathered along the front line of the river, and the battle clouds were thick.
Dongting and Yuzhang counties are filled with the dull atmosphere of an approaching storm.
The surrounding countries also took action upon hearing the news and sent a large number of spies and messengers to Baling and Chaisang to spy on the news.
…
“We, the countries along the river, rely on boats to travel north and south, transport goods, and send out armies.
But now the Ningren navy has no obstruction and wantonly blocks the rivers in our country, making our waterways blocked and our territory divided into two sides: south and north of the Yangtze River.
Such things are truly a great shame and humiliation. "
In Baling City, on a high building in the north of the city, Lu Yuan led a group of ministers and generals. Looking at the Ningguo Navy showing off its power on the river in the north, he couldn't help but sigh: "After this crisis, I must build a new navy and establish a powerful force." Ships to guard against the river.
Our land in Changsha, even the waterways, cannot be allowed to be visited by outsiders at will.
This situation of being controlled by others must never happen again in the future. "
This time the two sides faced off, although the strength of both sides' soldiers and horses were extremely similar. They both had an army of 130,000 people and had an innate talent. No one was weaker than the other.
But on the surface, no one on either side is losing.
But in terms of details, for example, the Ning Kingdom Navy in front of them has already overwhelmingly defeated Changsha Kingdom in water warfare.
The Yue Kingdom was originally a large country in the south of the Yangtze River, with crisscrossed waterways in the country and the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, so it was natural for it to develop its navy.
And its navy was powerful, with 100,000 boats crossing the river, saving Yue from danger countless times.
In the distant Dongting Rebellion, an army of 300,000 Zhou people gathered in Tianmen Mansion, shocking the outside of the Yangtze River, and directed their troops towards the south of Dongting County.
But no matter how many troops and horses the Zhou people had, facing the surging Yangtze River and the turbulent water, they were still blocked by the navy and blocked in the north of the river, unable to move.
In the end, I had to look at the river and sigh, unable to cross the river.
The most recent one is the Shenqiu Campaign to the North two months ago.
Five hundred thousand Liang soldiers were lined up along the Yangtze River, while the Yue Kingdom just placed a hundred thousand naval troops on the river, and there was nothing they could do.
In the end, hundreds of thousands of troops were blocked in Jiangbei. After spending a lot of money, they had to retreat in frustration.
These examples all illustrate the importance of a strong navy to a Jiangnan regime.
Now that the Yue family has been destroyed, Ning Guo has inherited the mantle of the Yue State and has also gained control of the original 100,000 navy of the Yue State.
Therefore, with this naval force, the other side can run rampant in the Yangtze River Basin and oppress the south of the Yangtze River just like the Yue Kingdom did before.
But the country of Changsha did not have such a good life.
Lu Yuan is not from a noble family in Jinling. He comes from a humble background. He has struggled all the way to this day, all thanks to his own hard work.
When the Changsha Kingdom was established, it was also a grass-roots team. All the waste and waste were just white cloth and needed to be accumulated slowly.
Now that a few years have passed, the country has stabilized, and a strong army of more than 200,000 has been accumulated, and it is slowly getting on the right track.
But as for the navy, Lu Yuan, who had never accumulated any resources before and had no need for it, seemed helpless.
Previously, when he had the support of the Yue Kingdom and could borrow the other side's navy, he didn't feel much about it.
Now that he has turned against Ning Guo, the navy that he relied on has become his biggest enemy.
Lu Yuan immediately felt how the Zhou and Liang people felt, and how disgusting it was to face a powerful navy.
So subject to this, he naturally wanted to make changes.
Building a new powerful navy after the war was Lu Yuan's strategy to address his own weaknesses.
He has decided.
In the next five, ten years, or even longer, a lot of energy will be invested to achieve this goal.
'It's just that as a result, the expenditure on various items of money and food has become an astronomical figure. '
Lu Yuan's heart couldn't help but twitch slightly when he thought of this.
The Navy is not a cheap force. The cost of raising a naval force of the same number may even be twice that of an army of the same number.
If he wanted to raise a navy of 100,000 people, it would be equivalent to raising an army of 200,000 people, which would almost double Changsha's current military expenditure.
Even if we only have enough navy to protect ourselves and the Yangtze River waterway, we still need more than a thousand ships and 40 to 50 thousand people.
This is equivalent to raising another hundred thousand troops.
Today, the Changsha State is struggling to maintain its current 240,000 troops and horses, and it has to demolish the east wall to make up for the west wall.
If you are raising a navy of 50,000 people, don't doubt it, it will definitely bankrupt the Changsha Kingdom's finances in an instant.
'Fortunately, the navy cannot be built overnight. I can spend five or ten years investing slowly and accumulating slowly. In this case, the expenditure will not be very large, and the finances can still support it. '
With this in mind, Lu Yuan looked at Ningguo outside the city. After confirming that the other party did not dare to go ashore, he lost interest and ordered the man to get off the city wall and return to the city.
Then the next day.
The Changsha Kingdom's army guarded the river bank, while the Ning Kingdom's navy was showing off its power on the river. One on both sides did not dare to go down, and the other did not dare to come up, so they were quarreling across the river.
Amid this commotion, another half month passed.
So on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Jianji, the envoy sent by Lu Yuan to Ninghai Kingdom finally received a reply.
Su Xuange agreed to his request, formally raised troops in Ninghai State to respond, and announced with Lu Yuan that Ninghai State would break away from the Jinling court's tribute system if it did not obey the Ning State who committed regicide and usurped the throne.
Then Ninghai State sent 100,000 troops to the front line bordering Jiuzhen County in the country and deployed heavy troops to confront Wuping Hou Xie Ning over there.
Changsha and Ninghai have made news one after another, and the Nanhai Kingdom, which has been following the footsteps of the two countries, naturally cannot escape.
Finally, on December 13th, Yan Wangqiu received the news that Su Xuange had responded to Lu Yuan and broke with the Ningguo court.
In desperation, he had no choice but to announce that Nanhai Kingdom would also break away from the Jinling court and become independent.
I just don't know whether it's because he doesn't want to completely offend Ning Guo, or because Yan Wangqiu is too old to do anything anymore.
After announcing the news of independence, Nanhai State only sent envoys to notify Jinling City, and did not station troops on the border with Ning State to confront each other like the other two countries.
But no matter what, with the successive statements of the South China Sea and Ninghai countries.
So far.
On the matter of independence, Lu Yuan and his small circle of the Three Kingdoms Alliance were advancing and retreating together.
After the three countries expressed their attitudes one after another, the pressure was put on Jinling City and Ningguo.
