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Chapter 729: Chapter 322 Eliminate or Die Together_3

This time, the news of the loss of Chu State’s Inborn Grandmaster was just a fuse to trigger this event.

Even without Jihui’s departure, there would have been various other reasons to promote this matter in Ning Country in the future.

However, while Ning Country was expanding its military, Lu Yuan had no time to focus on that.

Now Chu State is busy preparing for the Hanzhong War, so even if they are aware of the movements in Ning Country, they have no extra energy to interfere.

On the contrary.

Although Ning Country’s current military expansion is certainly not good news for Chu State, it may not be a bad thing for them at the moment.

Expansion of the army is not something that can be done with a snap of the fingers.

It requires enough weapons and armor, recruiting enough qualified soldiers, training these new recruits, and coordinating the work among various units that have added new soldiers.

Back then, Chu State expanded its army by more than 100,000 and it took five years to train and integrate them.

Today, Ning Country has expanded its army by 150,000. Even if they have a larger base and smaller influence,

even so, it would take at least two or three years to restore the strength of the Ning Army after expansion.

Before that, as long as Ning Country is not driven mad, Chu State does not need to worry about the threat from the west.

For Lu Yuan, this is also important news.

Without interference from Ning Country and with the southern countries not strong enough, he can fully concentrate on dealing with the Hanzhong War.

As another protagonist in the upcoming war, Zhou Country is also excited about the news of Jihui’s death.

Even many Zhou people believe that Heaven is helping them.

Originally, Zhou Country had doubts and was cautious about the grain trade with Chu State, worrying about any hidden plots against Zhou Country.

But now with Jihui’s death, most of the worries and doubts in Zhou Country’s heart have disappeared.

With Jihui gone, Chu State has one less person to maintain peace in Qianzhong County.

Beyond that county, there are three tributary states of Chu State, each with different desires, and even further, there are the two Yi countries Dali and Nanzhao, eyeing like tigers, and the aggressively expanding Su Country at the south. The surrounding situation is extremely complicated.

In such a complicated situation, where conflict could break out at any moment, Chu State would not be able to stabilize the southwest situation without a strong person stationed there.

Therefore, it has become imperative to send a new Inborn Grandmaster to take over the position left by Jihui after his death.

But if you look at the whole of Chu State,

Grand General Zhou Qing is stationed in Xiangyang Prefecture, where the complexity of the situation is not inferior to that of Qianzhong County. He can’t move lightly.

Huang Xuan, the True Person who protects Chu, has to guard against Hanzhong County at the north, take care of the southwestern countries at the south, and at the same time be responsible for the security of Xichuan and Hegu counties. The burden on him is even greater than that of Zhou Qing, and he cannot be moved either.

Excluding these two, Chu State can only use the three Inborn Grandmasters in Baling City.

That is, Lu Yuan, Lan Cai’er, and Sun Siwen. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Of these three, no matter who goes to Qianzhong County, there will be only two Inborn Grandmasters left in Baling City.

Thanks to Lu Yuan’s low profile all along, many people now know that he is adept at both immortal and martial arts and has strong strength.

But those people only consider him an expert at the second realm of the Inborn, and they do not know his true capabilities.

So under these circumstances, even if there are only two Inborn Grandmasters left in Baling City, including Lu Yuan, outsiders do not think that they can spare another Inborn Grandmaster to participate in foreign wars under the intense pressure from Ning Country.

After all, Marquis of Wuan Bai Mengyang was under siege by four Inborn Grandmasters from the Zhou and Shu alliance back in Xichuan, and he did not dare to go out of Yuzhong City.

Nowadays, after the promotion of two new Inborn Grandmasters, Ning Country can deploy four Inborn Grandmasters that do not have to guard northern Yangtze River and Guangling lines. Among these, there is also Shen Qiu, a veteran expert at the second realm of Inborn.

With such a threat, outsiders do not think Chu State would dare to attack other countries without considering Baling’s safety.

If Chu State really dares to do so, Ning Country will be overjoyed.

That Heavenly Son of Jianwu would definitely order 500,000 soldiers and horses immediately and head west with the four Inborn Grandmasters along the Yangtze River, straight to the empty Baling City, to completely annihilate Chu State.

So due to this consideration, if Chu State’s real strength and the existence of Qingyunzi are not known, Zhou Country’s concerns and threats about Chu State will naturally be significantly reduced.

Originally, Zhou Country planned to temporarily withdraw 50,000 soldiers from Guannei Prefecture to Hanzhong during the grain trade between the two countries, but the plan was completely abandoned after receiving the news of Jihui’s death.

However, in Hanzhong County, Zhou Country still plans to mobilize 200,000 civilian workers during the trading period to make full preparations to guard against Chu State’s betrayal.

But this second round of lowered security was quickly readjusted after another news from Chu State came in.

In the eighth month of the ninth year of Shenwu, there was news from Baling in Chu State.

Chu State’s Prime Minister, Cui Changqing, who had supported and assisted Lu Yuan from the time he was a Chu lord in Yue State, had served in the Shaoyang Prefecture period, Changsha State period, and Shenwu period of Chu State, died of exhaustion in his mansion after half a year of rest.

This person, who had single-handedly established the civil official system of Chu State, was now gone.

If it was previously said that the collapse of Chu State was somewhat exaggerated,

the death of Cui Changqing was not the least bit exaggerated.

The importance of Cui Changqing in the hearts of Chu State’s king and the officials was far greater than that of Jihui.

From the king’s public display of sorrow, and his declaration of a three-day mourning period, it is clear.

Even in Chu’s political circles, where Cui Changqing’s disciples are everywhere, the importance of the prime minister is far greater than that of chance opportunity.

The death of such a figure is enough to shake the entire Chu State and its bureaucratic circles.

To say that the sky has collapsed might be a bit exaggerated, but the appearance of a hole is about right.

Before this hole is filled, the chaos in Chu State’s officialdom and the chaos in the court’s political situation are inevitable.

Before stabilizing these chaotic situations, it would be difficult for Chu State to integrate all its forces and mobilize the efforts of the whole country to do one thing.

And war is precisely something that requires gathering the strength of the entire nation.