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Chapter 1205 – The Winds Are Not Calm
Di Chen asked Wuqi, “With the defensive line of Jiangnan Province along with the Xu Da led 400 thousand Ming troops, how long can the troops block the Great Xia Army for?”
In the Battle of Great Jin, the brightest light was Wuqi.
It was under the leadership of Wuqi that the Great Zhou army managed to crush the Great Jin blazing legion corps, obtaining the biggest result in this battle. Although that was the case, Wuqi showed no signs of arrogance and was really calm.
Facing the question of the king, Wuqi contemplated the matter before seriously saying, “At least a month.”
“Good.” Di Chen was delighted. He seemingly made up his mind as he smiled, “Based on our agreement with the Ming Dynasty, they have to defend until the King legion corps troops return to the border. Seeing that the Great Xia Army and the Ming Dynasty army’s battle is currently festering at the border, the King legion corps do not need to hurry back. You can all rest up in Handan City. After resting up, based on the situation, decide whether to teleport or travel back normally.”
“….”
Di Chen did not even need to blink before he took advantage of his allies.
Xiong Ba, who had been keeping silent, stepped up and said, “Will the Ming Dynasty agree to what we are doing?”
Di Chen waved his hand and said overbearingly, “The army resting up is totally normal. What can they disagree with? Great Ming has taken away Donghai Province, so they need to pay back some price, right?” Giving away two provinces made Di Chen feel really pained.
Seeing that, Xiong Ba did not say anything more.
Following which, the officials discussed the topic of the five country alliance before going their separate ways.
Through this court meeting, Di Chen managed to confirm his power in the dynasty. His power climbed to the highest it had ever been, basically reaching what he had been planning for.
If the following storm did not happen….
In the next week, the flames of war in the mid plains were slowly extinguished.
Although the flames of war were extinguished, making it look like the wind had stopped, waves happened one after another. It was not truly calm.
In the northwest region, Great Jin Queen Feng Qiuhuang was having a huge cleansing of her territory.
Not only were those officials who jumped out to create trouble targeted, but even those in the prefectures and counties who made trouble were demoted or fired. Some were even jailed; no mercy or face was given.
More crucially, using the Feng Tianlie stealing power matter, Feng Qiuhuang decided to be vicious and made 90% of the Feng family people leave the official field.
Such swift and precise actions terrified the Great Jin people, but Feng Qiuhuang was not moved.
The negative effects of Qing Luan’s betrayal continued to fester. Maybe Feng Qiuhuang did not notice it, but her personality was changing. She was becoming more suspicious, more vicious, and more merciless.
In Zhongyuan Province, Great Xia Cabinet Grand Secretary Jiang Shang personally took charge to calm down the former Great Han officials and settle down the people. To make up for the effects of the Leopard Legion Corps amassing grain, the Imperial Court decided to relieve a year of taxes for the province.
Only then did the people feel at ease.
More than half of the Great Han officials were moved to other provinces to work. At the same time, officials from other provinces streamed into Zhongyuan Province, bringing with them the Great Xia system and the Imperial Court policies.
Meanwhile, the Leopard Legion Corps led by Han Xin arrived in Luoyang City. Luoyang would become the new headquarters of the Leopard Legion Corps, and they would be in charge of protecting the safety of the entire Zhongyuan Province.
Ouyang Shuo personally took charge at Jingdu City. Meanwhile, the duties were handled by Beijiang Provincial Governor Han Qi.
Along with the Qing royal family being moved to Luzon Province, the dust finally settled. The Jingdu Qing dynasty officials had all given up hope and cooperated with the Provincial Governor office to complete the huge reshuffling of the Jingdu official field.
All the noble families were moved to the various provinces in Nanjiang and were never to lay foot in Beijiang again.
In Jingchu, Great Zhou Dynasty had completed their withdrawal, and the entire province fell into the hands of Great Song. At this point, Great Song experienced a great leap and became the NPC power with the greatest amount of land, stealing the spotlight.
The Great Song Dynasty also became the biggest winner apart from Great Xia. They did not use a single soldier and picked up huge gains, making Qin Shihuang and Tang Taizong look on with envy.
In comparison, the process that the Great Ming Dynasty went through to get Donghai Province was much more complicated.
First, the Jiangnan war matter was still ongoing.
400 thousand Ming Dynasty troops were kept on the frontlines and were unable to return to Jianye. Without these batch of soldiers as a shield, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the ability to accept Haidong Province. Great Zhou’s attitude was clear. Before the King legion corps returned to Jiangnan Province, they would not give Great Ming Haidong Province.
A week had passed, and during this time, the Great Xia Army had been unceasingly taking down cities and land at the border. It was the sentries at first to the castles now. Currently, they were using cannons to take down castles.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt bitter, but he did not dare to act upon it.
After giving up Jingchu Province, Great Zhou re-established their footing. 800 thousand troops were not something that Great Ming could touch. They could only keep sending out envoys to rush them to send the King legion corps back to King City.
For this, Zhu Yuanzhang even volunteered to pay the teleportation costs of the King legion corps from his own pockets.
Secondly, Donghai Province had a really strategic position in Great Zhou. The headquarter of Great Zhou’s Haizhou Squadron was set in Haizhou Port in Donghai Province. At the same time, they had a navy base in Shanghai as well.
To move the Haizhou Squadron away from Donghai Province was not something that could be done within a day.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang had a doubting personality and was not willing to allow the Great Zhou Haizhou Squadron to remain in Donghai Province. For this matter, both sides kept on quarrelling, and they still had not reached a settlement.
The ceding territory matter was dragged on just like that.
During this period, Qin, Tang, Song, Ming, and Zhou, these five countries, kept on sending envoys to one another to discuss about going against Great Xia. An alliance stronger and more closely knitted than the six countries alliance was being formed.
Apart from the mid plains, a huge piece of news exploded out in other regions of China.
In the Shu Lands, the Shu Han Dynasty could be said to be on its last legs. Under the lockdown strategy of Great Xia, Chengdu was blocked off from the rest of the war. Even Di Chen did not consider the Shu country when forming the alliance.
Along with the grain production falling, the lives of the Chengdu people were becoming harder and harder, and even eating became a problem.
Great Xia did not forget to take the chance to send out letters to try to persuade them to surrender. Great Xia said, “I have learned that Shu King loves his people like his children. Since Chengdu Prefecture is trapped, please put aside your honor and surrender to Great Xia and give the Chengdu people peace.”
Even then, Liu Bei was not willing to give up, arduously holding on. Liu Bei did not surrender, but the Shu Han people were the ones that could not hold on.
The Chengdu players were the first to flee outward. Apart from super guild Laojun Temple who joined Great Zhou knowing that Great Xia would not treat them well, the remaining guilds basically all joined Great Xia.
One could rarely see any players on the streets of Chengdu, and it instantly became really cold.
Following which were the civilians. Especially those who had no more grain. The Imperial Court was helpless to save them. As such, they could only escape into Shu Lands Province under Great Xia.
Ouyang Shuo instructed Shu Lands Provincial Governor Tian Wenjing to do a good job in settling them down. They would use this as a chance to attract more Shu Han people to move to the Shu Lands Province.
As long as they managed to empty the Chengdu Prefecture of civillians, Shu Han Dynasty would just be an empty shell.
Reaching the second half of Gaia’s 6th year, not only people, but even merchants, scholars, and officials started to flee, seeing Chengdu as a scourge.
Everyone knew that Shu Han Dynasty was not going to be able to hold on.
Now, it was time to see how long Liu Bei could last. When even the military grain ran out, the Shu Han Dynasty would collapse. What Ouyang Shuo had in abundance was patience,
Apart from Shu Lands, the famous Mongol Empire had made new moves.
