In the blink of an eye, another three years have passed.
In the past three years, the world has been completely plunged into chaos.
The four kingdoms of Yan, Zhao, Lu, and Song joined forces to attack Qi. Qi was not an opponent and retreated steadily relying on the geographical advantage. Many nobles were either uprooted or had no choice but to surrender, and then were moved to other places, losing their roots, or even There is no chance to start over.
The Qi State, once a powerful and great country in the world, now only has one city left: the capital.
The states of Yan, Zhao, Lu, and Song were also busy digesting their territory and relocating their nobles, so they were too lazy to attack the capital of Qi for a while.
But there is only such a capital city left in Qi State. Even if various formations are activated and the accumulated resources can be used to kill a great master in a short period of time, that's all. Not to mention without backup, a large number of local nobles will be moved away every day. When these local nobles are completely cleansed, Qi will have no hope at all.
Although there is still one capital city left in Qi State today, everyone with a discerning eye knows that Qi State has no future.
In the past three years, Wei State has destroyed Wei State. It has been very busy in the past three years trying to digest Wei State, relocate local nobles, and further transform and upgrade Wei State.
Qin State destroyed Yiqu State and is now digesting it.
The State of Chu destroyed the State of Chen and the State of Cai successively, and now it is eyeing the State of Zheng with covetous eyes, and Chen troops are on the border of the State of Zheng.
South Korea sent troops to the state of Zheng, and now it has occupied 200 counties of the state of Zheng, and troops are approaching the city.
In fact, South Korea does not have very high military geniuses, but South Korea has a solid foundation and strong strength. It just relied on the model of building strongholds and fighting stupid wars, and ate up 200 counties of Zheng State. Facing such a large Korean army, it was the first time that Le Yi took advantage of South Korea's underestimation of its enemy and ate thousands of Korean prefecture-level Taoist soldiers.
In that battle, they could have taken the opportunity to eat South Korea's 30,000 prefecture-level Taoist soldiers. With South Korea's current strength, they had originally trained 70,000 quasi-earth-level Taoist soldiers. However, 30,000 of them were eaten in one go. Injury to muscles and bones.
If this battle goes well, even if the situation between South Korea and Zheng Guo cannot be reversed, Zheng Guo will feel much better and at least be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
But who would have known that at the critical moment, Han Feizi, regardless of martial ethics, rushed over with Jiuding on his back, stimulating the power of Jiuding with all his strength, and broke the trap that Le Yi had laid long ago.
After that battle, South Korea has been fighting a war in Jiejiaozhai: every time they go to a place, they must first move the local nobles, thoroughly refine the area's earth veins, completely control every aura in the area, and rectify the area's Just like the mainland of South Korea, they will then carefully conquer adjacent areas.
Just occupy a place, transform a place, digest a place.
Faced with this style of play, Le Yi was helpless. After occasionally testing, Le Yi found that the opponent was really cautious and had no chance.
Although this nibbling style of play is slow, it is indeed very stable.
In the first year, South Korea encroached on thirty counties of Zheng.
In the second year, South Korea encroached on Zheng's sixty counties.
In the third year, South Korea encroached on Zheng's 110 counties.
Now, the Korean army has arrived at the city, and Le Yi has heard about it. It is said that Li Si once said that when the capital of Zheng is captured, it will be renamed Xinzheng, and it will be directly used as the capital of South Korea.
As for the people in the capital of Zheng, it can only be said that they are panicked.
Today's Zheng State is crushed by South Korea in the north and is being encroached on step by step. In the south, it is bordered by Chu State and Chen Bing, who may attack at any time.
Within the capital, people's minds have changed.
This is because Le Yi is very capable, both in the military and in government affairs, so he can continue to unite people in such a critical situation. Otherwise, another person would have been sold out long ago.
But even so, Le Yi also knew that people's hearts could not stand the test. The situation in Zheng State was like this and it was almost unbearable.
Therefore, Le Yi had an idea in his mind.
Soon, Le Yi met Zheng Hou.
"Your Majesty, how are your talks with South Korea going?"
"Ah? Ah! Ah?"
Looking at the surprised Zheng Hou, Le Yi said indifferently: "Your Majesty, at this time, it is normal for you and South Korea to negotiate and communicate in private."
It's all like this. Marquis Zheng or the domestic nobles haven't negotiated with South Korea yet. Le Yi doesn't believe it.
You are not such a loyal and unyielding person!
Zheng Hou was still a little thin-skinned, but Le Yi had already spoken out, and Zheng Hou told the truth: "Han Gong said that if it were in the past, he would be willing to reserve dozens of counties as fiefdoms for Zheng Guo, but now Times have changed, centralization has become the mainstream, and it is almost impossible to have a state within a state like in the past."
"Even if he agrees to reserve dozens of counties' fiefdoms for Gu today, then one day in the future, these fiefdoms will be taken back sooner or later."
"So, Mr. Han is finally willing to give Gu two innate spiritual treasures, is willing to let Gu keep all the property in Zheng State, is willing to buy eight large floating islands and eight small floating islands for Gu overseas, and is also willing to give Gu a lump sum of money. With a large sum of money, we can set up a commercial bank to specifically purchase government bonds issued by Yancheng in the future. The interest earned every year will be enough to make Gu Hegu's descendants prosperous and wealthy."
Le Yi nodded: "Mr. Han is quite sincere. He told the truth. He didn't try to deceive you first and then kill him afterwards."
Yes, it was because Han Feizi told the truth and was sincere that Zheng Hou was really tempted.
Zheng Hou thinks that he has worked hard, and Zheng Guo has become the most powerful in history because of his own efforts, but his opponent is more powerful and is no match at all. Even if the ancestors are reborn, facing this situation , I can't do better than myself. Surrendering now, I have a clear conscience!
Thinking of this, Zheng Hou straightened his back immediately.
Seeing this, Le Yi smiled mysteriously: "So, do you want to sell it at a better price?"
"Better price? How to sell this?"
"There are three options: upper, middle and lower. The best option is to sell it directly to Yancheng. Unfortunately, Yancheng will most likely not want it, so this best option only remains on paper."
"The next best thing is to sell it to the Chu State. Your Majesty will take the remaining four hundred counties of the Zheng State and surrender them all to the Chu State. And we will cooperate with the Chu State to trap and kill the main force of South Korea here."
"Then, my lord, you will stay in Chu State and become a great noble of Chu State. However, it is hard to say whether Chu State will be able to dominate the world in the future. This may be a road of no return."
"As for the middle strategy, the front is the same as the lower strategy, except that after surrendering to the Chu State, my lord, you will take the benefits given by the Chu State and go overseas."
Marquis Wei thought for a moment: "Then let's get the right strategy."
"Okay, I will secretly go to the Chu Kingdom and be prepared to cooperate with the inside and outside to kill the main force of South Korea!"
(End of chapter)
