Many Children Bring Happiness, Starting From Marrying a Wife and Starting to Dominate the World

Chapter 154 War Breaks Out

Early in the morning.

It was still gray.

Lu Chen rode his horse and went straight to where the craftsmen lived, and then handed some information about coal mining and processing to Mo Fei and others, asking them to study it.

After that, Lu Chen discussed the construction of the earthen kang and the warm room with Mo Fei and others. Lu Chen and the craftsmen discussed the details for a whole day.

This also made the craftsmen in Dayu City feel the sincerity of the King of the North again. Generally speaking, if the King of the North wanted to discuss something with them, he only needed to ask them to go to the King of the North’s Mansion. As a result, the King of the North came to their place of residence in the early morning to discuss things with them in the cold wind.

A few days later.

The King of the North’s Mansion.

Lu Chen was looking through the intelligence collected by the Jinyiwei in the study. At this time, the voice of the maid sounded at the door, "Your Majesty, Commander Qin wants to see you."

Lu Chen immediately said, "Come in."

Then Qin Yushan pushed the door and entered. At this time, Qin Yushan was covered with snow. It was even colder today, and it was snowing heavily outside.

After Qin Yushan entered the room, he simply saluted.

"Greetings, Your Highness."

After paying his respects, Qin Yushan immediately placed the bamboo tube containing intelligence on the desk, "Your Highness, urgent news from the capital!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen, who was looking through the intelligence from Dayue, was stunned for a moment.

After coming to his senses, Lu Chen immediately swept the other intelligence on the table aside with his hand, and then immediately opened the bamboo tube on the table and took out the intelligence from it.

Qin Yushan continued: "Winter is here, and none of the pigeons released by the capital have flown to Yancheng. The Jinyiwei can only send letters on horseback, so the intelligence from the capital is many days later than before."

After Lu Chen took out the intelligence from the bamboo tube, he carefully read the content of the intelligence. As his eyes gradually moved down, Lu Chen's face became more and more serious.

After reading the content of the intelligence, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said to Qin Yushan: "Immediately notify Li Rui and others to come to the Northern Palace to discuss important matters."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Half an hour later.

Li Rui and other officials and a group of generals from Beijun appeared in Lu Chen's study.

They were all a little curious. Today was not a meeting day. Why did the King of the North call them here? Could it be that the King of the North Xian had already gone south?

When everyone arrived, Lu Chen did not speak immediately. His eyes were still scanning the map on the desk, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing that Lu Chen's face was a little serious, everyone did not speak. They just stood quietly in the study and looked at Lu Chen, waiting for Lu Chen to speak first.

After a while, Lu Chen realized that everyone had arrived. He glanced at everyone and then said to them: "The information I just received is that Daxia and Dawu have gone to war."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone was stunned.

How could this be possible?

The several dynasties have been at peace for many years. Although there have been constant frictions between them, there has never been a major war.

Why did Dawu and Daxia suddenly go to war at this time?

Mu Changtian immediately asked, "Your Majesty, was it Dawu who took the initiative to attack?"

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Emperor Xia's original plan was to deal with the noble families in Daxia, so Emperor Xia would definitely not take the initiative to provoke a war at this time. It could only be that Dawu took the initiative to attack Daxia.

After hearing Mu Changtian's question, Lu Chen shook his head and then said, "It's strange to say that it was our Daxia who provoked the war. After seeing the intelligence sent from the capital, I didn't react for a while."

This...

Everyone in the study looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

They also couldn't believe that Daxia actually took the initiative to provoke a war at this time. Would Emperor Xia still deal with the noble families?

At this time, Li Rui asked: "Your Majesty, could it be that the intelligence is wrong? There are already undercurrents in Daxia, how could His Majesty choose to attack the Dawu Dynasty at this time?"

Lu Chen said: "The intelligence is probably correct, the problem is the people who provoked the war."

"A month ago, the major dynasties had already secretly mobilized troops, and the border between Dayue Dynasty and Beijun was stationed with 200,000 soldiers."

"This king suspects that someone colluded with the Dawu Dynasty, took the initiative to provoke a war, and then gave the Dawu Dynasty an excuse to attack Daxia."

After hearing what Lu Chen said, everyone reacted instantly.

Indeed, Emperor Xia was definitely unwilling to start a war at this time. He wanted to clean up the ancient families inside. If he started a war at this time, how could he clean up those ancient families?

So it is only possible that there are families colluding with the Dawu Dynasty and taking the initiative to provoke a war.

The Dawu Dynasty may not really want to defeat the Daxia Dynasty, but as long as it can put enough pressure on Daxia, the families in Daxia will give Dawu a lot of benefits.

Under external pressure, Emperor Xia could only compromise with those aristocratic families and give up the idea of ​​purging the ancient aristocratic families.

However, Lu Chen did not think that this matter was so simple.

At this time, Lu Chen looked at Mu Changtian and said, "General Mu, although you are a military general, you have also been an official in the capital for decades and have a better understanding of the political environment of the capital. According to your analysis, if the war between Dawu and Daxia was provoked by the aristocratic families, what would be the ultimate goal?"

Hearing this question, Mu Changtian replied, "In my opinion, there are three possibilities."

"The first possibility is naturally to use external pressure to put pressure on His Majesty so that His Majesty dare not take any big actions against the aristocratic families."

"The second possibility is that the noble families want to take advantage of this opportunity to unite with other princes and directly force His Majesty to abdicate and replace him with an obedient emperor. Of course, this possibility is the smallest, because the factions headed by the princes still exist, and no one is willing to submit to anyone at this time, so any prince who wants to take the throne may lead to the division of Daxia."

"As for the third possibility..."

Speaking of this, Mu Changtian hesitated, but he finally said: "I have often heard such an argument recently, saying that Your Majesty was sent to Beijun by His Majesty, so the 50,000 black cavalry are not actually His Majesty's, but His Majesty's."

"Even the people of Beijun think so, and those noble families probably think so too."

"So I think the noble families will probably take advantage of this opportunity to ask His Majesty to transfer 50,000 heavy cavalry to the front line to fight against the Dawu Dynasty."

"The Dawu Dynasty is warlike and has maintained millions of troops all year round. Moreover, their strength is not weaker than the barbarians in the north, and they are even more difficult to deal with than the barbarians."

"Although these 50,000 heavy cavalry are very strong, if they go to the front line and fight a war of attrition with Dawu, they may be completely consumed in less than a year."

In fact, not only the common people and the noble families, but also Mu Changtian thought about whether Lu Chen was a pawn specially sent by Emperor Xia to Beijun some time ago. After all, Lu Chen did not have the ability to build 50,000 heavy cavalry in a short time.

However, when Mu Changtian learned about the existence of Dayu City, this idea was dispelled.

But other people in Daxia did not know the existence of Dayu City, so in their opinion, only Emperor Xia had the ability to allow Beijun to have 50,000 heavy cavalry, so in the eyes of others, these 50,000 heavy cavalry were actually Emperor Xia's personal soldiers.

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