Chapter 522 Standing on the Sidelines

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What happened to Jin?

It is said that a few years ago, the state of Jin was still very powerful, and the people of the state of Jin walked with their nostrils reaching the sky. However, since the rise of the Shang Kingdom and the defeat of the Jin Kingdom, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

Once a country or a nation loses its pride, the country will not say it will slip, but at least it will not make much progress. Not to mention, in the later period of the Jin Kingdom, it was penetrated by the economy of the Shang Kingdom. The country seemed to be prosperous, but many, many fields were almost all controlled by the Shang Kingdom.

Such a scene gradually exhausted Jin's family fortune.

Later, after the fall of Qi State, Jin State was surrounded by Shang Kingdom, Lu State, and Liu State; the East Sea of ​​Jin State was also the sphere of influence of Shang Kingdom. In other words, since Qi was destroyed, Jin has been a bird in a cage.

Now, Lu Guo and Liu Guo jointly attacked Jin, and Jin finally couldn't stand it anymore.

I can't stand it anymore, but Jin has only one person to ask for help, and that is the Shang Kingdom, which suffers from great hatred!

But there is a possibility that the state of Jin does not want to ask the Kingdom of Shang for help, but the reality is unavoidable after all. If it does not ask for help from the Kingdom of Shang, the State of Jin will have no way out.

The envoy of Jin State is Li Xian's old acquaintance, Prime Minister Sima Xuan; the envoy of Chen State is also half old acquaintance, Prime Minister Yuan Shouzhi. Basically, it can be said that Li Xian has seen all the heavyweights such as the prime ministers of the surrounding countries.

Sima Xuan and Yuan Shouzhi came to Anyang City Lord's Mansion almost one after the other.

Without Xu Ren by his side, Li Xian lacks a think tank; although there are still many think tanks in the Shang Kingdom, Xu Ren is the one Li Xian is most used to. The most important thing is that Xu Ren almost watched the Shang Kingdom grow up, so Xu Ren's suggestions are often the most suitable for the needs of the Shang Kingdom.

However, without Butcher Zhang, you can't eat pigs with hair. Li Xian turned to Yan Ze'an, Li Yuanming and others for advice.

Naturally, Sima Xuan and Yuan Shouzhi could only wait anxiously while Li Xian and others were discussing.

As time passed, Yuan Shouzhi and Sima Xuan were impatient, and Li Xian was also in a dilemma.

First of all, no matter which think tank it is, it is very clear about one principle: the affairs of Chen State and Jin State cannot be simply looked at. The situation of these two countries actually involves the development and changes of the entire East of Yingzhou.

But then, the opinions of various think tanks are different, and each has its own reasons.

Yan Ze'an's main idea is to keep the state of Jin, and then make the state of Jin, Lu, and Liu into a three-legged and intertwined state. In this way, the Kingdom of Shang can act as an "arbiter" and legitimately intervene in the affairs of the three countries.

As for the affairs of Chen Guo and Cai Guo, Cai Guo should be appropriately involved so that a balance can be reached between Cai Guo and Chen Guo. Only in this way can the Shang Kingdom make profits in the middle.

But Li Yuanming's opinion is more radical: stand by and watch!

Regardless of the life and death of Jin or Chen, let things change. Shang Kingdom has sufficient capacity to deal with any possible changes.

Today, the Kingdom of Shang has a great advantage - spaceflight. What Li Xian said at the beginning, the idea of ​​using an aircraft to send people directly to the fairy world, after the second rocket test was successful, gave many practitioners new hope.

This advantage makes all the practitioners who know the truth have a "longing" for the Shang Kingdom. This is a great political advantage. The most obvious manifestation is that within a few days, more than a dozen masters of the transformation stage joined the Shang Kingdom; hundreds of masters of the Nascent Soul stage.

In addition, the industry and military of the Shang Kingdom needless to say.

Since the Shang Kingdom has such a powerful force, what we have to do is to muddy the water; only when the water is muddy can we catch fish. But now we don't need to intervene, just stand by and watch, "the water in the east of Yingzhou" will become muddy by itself, and there are not many such opportunities.

In addition, Li Yuanming had another consideration. The transformation of Shao Guo and Xing Guo brought the Shang Kingdom into a new crisis. And right now there is an opportunity to kill this crisis in its infancy, which is to let the east of Yingzhou be in chaos!

Yan Ze'an said: The Kingdom of Shang now needs a peaceful internal environment for development.

Li Yuanming said: We have enough power to ensure internal stability; and a chaotic external environment can provide a huge market for Shang Kingdom.

Finally, He Zhiguo, once the prime minister of Qi State and now the deputy minister of education of the Shang Kingdom, said: Yingzhou East is already in chaos, and the current situation is "the tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps on", the times have changed, and the pursuit of peace is impossible! In this situation, we should learn to adapt to chaos and be proactive.

If chaos cannot be avoided, then we would rather take the initiative to "lead" chaos! Avoid being too passive when disaster strikes.

He Zhiguo's remarks can be said to be penetrating. The demise of Qi State made He Zhiguo start to think about the reasons; this is the reason for the current remarks.

After arguing for a long time, Li Xian finally made a decision: stand by and watch!

However, even though he was standing on the sidelines, the face project was still necessary. Li Xian gave Sima Xuan and Yuan Shouzhi the following reply:

First, we are only a kingdom after all, and we are mainly engaged in business. If we directly intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and send troops to interfere, it will have too much impact on our business kingdom.

Second, however, we also hate aggression. Although we cannot directly send troops to support, we can provide indirect support, such as 20% off the price of arms; you can exchange money, treasures, land and other actual items.

(It must be actual items. Don’t take out tariffs, taxes, etc., who knows how long your country can last.)

Thirdly, there are "mercenary groups" in the Shang Kingdom. You can go to the "Adventure and Mercenary Association" to post tasks. Well, in order to adapt to the development of the times, there is now a new section in the association, which is "war missions".

After finishing these things, Li Xian kicked him out. Sima Xuan and Yuan Shouzhi still begged hard, but it's a pity that it's not just about begging. Li Xian's decision must be considered for the development of the Shang Kingdom.

The ass decides the head, and we are talking about the present.

Sima Xuan and Yuan Shouzhi sighed helplessly when they saw Li Xian not let go, and had no choice but to release the mercenary mission.

Speaking of which, among the adventurers and mercenary regiments of the Shang Kingdom, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is also seen in the Nascent Soul stage; It wouldn't be bad if we could invite an adventurer in the transformation stage to protect the country. Is it just the price...

Although the release of tasks in the Adventure and Mercenary Association is very flexible, there is one thing, there is no way to negotiate the price. They are all released missions, let adventurers or mercenary groups choose. For those who issue tasks, it is a very passive process.

Allowing Jin and Liu to issue war missions, and then promising a 20% discount on the price of arms, Li Xian is actually very kind.

However, no matter what, the fact that the Kingdom of Shang stood idly by could not be changed. The chaos in the east of Yingzhou seemed to be foreseeable.

Following the complete demise of Great Xia and Qi, and the almost complete demise of Cai, Chen Guo and Jin, these established countries, have also fallen into crisis one after another.

In addition, Liu Guo's national power was greatly consumed during the war with Jin, and there were already dark waves surging in the country.

Although the reforms in the early stage brought great benefits to Liu Guo; however, the large-scale war brought even heavier disasters to the people who did not enjoy the benefits of the reforms.

Different from the Kingdom of Shang, in the territory of Liu State where the law can be said to be deformed, the right to trade is almost controlled by the middle and upper class, and the people at the bottom now have a new kind of exploitation!

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As night fell quietly, Anyang City turned into a city that never sleeps, with bright lights and melodious songs floating around.

But at the gate of the mansion of Gongsun Wushang, Minister of Justice of the Shang Kingdom, a man dressed in ordinary clothes came.

"What are you doing?" The guard stopped the man.

The visitor's tone was full of restraint: "Big brothers, please inform me. My servant, Gongsun Chengde, is the distant cousin of Lord Gongsun Wushang, from the Liu Kingdom. I have something important to see."

Lord Gongsun's cousin? The captain of the guard is helpless, "This is the 100th cousin of Lord Gongsun, right? Are you really Lord Gongsun's cousin? If you lie, you will be beaten to death with a stick! Really, I will do it myself !"

The captain of the guard bared his teeth to show his terror.

"Really, I can swear! My father's name is Gongsun Jianming, and my grandfather's name is Gongsun Haifeng. My grandfather, Gongsun Haifeng, is the third brother, and Gongsun Wushang's grandfather, Gongsun Haitao, is the second."

"Hey... it seems to be true. Just wait."

After a while, the captain of the guard came out, "Come on, I'll take you away. But I want to seal your cultivation. Master Gongsun said that he does have a cousin named Gongsun Chengde, but you may not be Gongsun Chengde. "