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Chapter 960: Chapter 400 Earthquake and Sea of Fire Chapter 960: Chapter 400 Earthquake and Sea of Fire After learning about the catastrophe in Yu State Zheng Country, the great hall fell silent for a moment; everyone remained mute.

It was just too fantastical.

A vast empire had collapsed in an instant, and it was due to Chu State’s actions…well, it was one of the reasons.

But no matter how you looked at it, it was still shocking.

“Now that everyone is clear about the course of events, let’s discuss our response to Zheng Country, how should Great Chu deal with this situation?”

Seeing that no one spoke, Lu Yuan took the initiative to break the silence.

The ministers glanced at each other before Sun Siwen stepped out and bowed, saying, “Your Majesty, the turmoil in Zheng Country stems from the millennium-old conflict between the royal family and the nobles over the issue of reducing the power of the fiefs.

It’s an old ailment that has simply erupted now.

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Our Great Chu’s messenger just had the bad luck to arrive at the time.

Then he was used by the Emperor of Zheng as a pretext for reducing the power of the fiefs, thereby leading to this civil strife within Zheng Country.”

Sun Siwen first defined the nature of the internal conflict in Zheng Country, confirming Great Chu’s position of righteousness and innocence in this matter, and then said, “Currently, Zheng Country is divided into two, with the presence of this dominant power removed from Yu State; peace will undoubtedly be hard to maintain.

In my view, for the next few decades, Yu State will likely witness a battle for dominance among Tang, Xu, Jin, and the two Zhengs.

The five factions will battle each other, with none able to suppress the others, leading to an endless conflict.”

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Although at present, Zheng Country in Yu State was divided into two, including Jin Country located in the northeast of Yu State, the three powers each held the territory of five counties, with their strengths difficult to distinguish.

To the west of Yu State, Liang State was also overwhelmed by the combined pressures of Wei, Zhao, and Xu; they simply had no spare energy to concern themselves with the affairs of Yu State to the east.

At present, the only ones capable of intervening in the affairs of Yu State were Tang Kingdom in Jing State to the north and Xu State in Liang State.

Of course, Chu State, located far away in Jiangnan with the capability for maritime engagement with Yu State, also had the capacity to get involved in the affairs of Yu State.

However, given Lu Yuan’s current policy, he would not do so.

Thus, the ones who could influence the battlefield of Yu State were Tang and Xu States.

Tang and Xu States, each dominating a province, may not be as large as Chu, Liang, Wei and other countries that were unified in one province or crossed two provinces.

But they were on par with the likes of Zhao and Xu, holding the foundation of a regional hegemon.

Both countries had populations of twenty to thirty million and could muster an army of one to two million – they were dominant forces.

Given the current situation where the Heavenly and Earthly Aura had vanished and the Divine Blood Variants originally stored by all countries were being slaughtered for resources in large quantities, thus increasing the stockpile of elixirs significantly.

A conservative estimate would suggest that after this surge, the number of Inborn Grandmasters in Tang and Xu might well exceed thirty.

After all, Lu Yuan had previously collected all the Divine Blood Variants in the country, and the elixirs he refined were enough to cultivate twenty-three Inborns.

The other countries, being of noble origin, should naturally have a deeper foundation than that of his own lowly commoner background; they should have even more elixirs.

Hence, even if the original number of Inborns in each of these dominant countries was only in the teens, after this wave of resource harvesting, the number of Inborns would at the very least surge to over thirty.

Therefore, even by the most conservative estimate, hegemonic countries like Tang and Xu could mobilize over a million troops and more than twenty Inborns to intervene in the Zheng conflict.

This force was already quite formidable.

To the north, Zhao and Xu States had deployed a similar strength, forcing Liang State, the hegemon of Central State, to allocate more than half of its forces to face them.

In Yu State, however, there was no second Liang State; there were only three smaller countries that were fragmented and hostile toward each other.

With such forces, yet fighting their own battles, how could they possibly stand against Tang and Xu States?

Of course, although it was certain that the three countries of Yu State could not defeat Tang and Xu, it did not mean that they had no power to fight back against these two countries.

The two Zhengs, north and south, as well as Jin Country, were, after all, big countries occupying the land of five counties, their foundational strength not inferior to that of Chu State or Ning Country before the decisive battle in Jiangnan several years ago.

At that time, Chu and Ning Countries, in terms of military strength alone, were not lacking; they properly possessed regional hegemon-level forces.

When fully committed, both could mobilize an army of a million, along with more than ten Inborns, for combat.

And that was just the conventional battlefield.

In the case of Ning Country, even after suffering a defeat at the front lines and losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers, which was said to have drained its vitality,

it was able to pull together eight hundred thousand troops within two years of retreating to its own territory, its military strength not significantly diminished, retaining its status as a regional hegemon.

Previously, Zhou Country, despite being attacked on all sides and losing three to four million soldiers, almost exhausting all able-bodied men in the country, persisted for twenty years before being conquered.

Its resilience was astonishing.

From this, one can see how difficult it is to annihilate a regional hegemon.

Lu Yuan was able to eliminate Ning Country so easily because he relied on the Purple Cloud Dao dissolving the internal resistance, the unrest among the people of Jiangdong, and eventually deployed the trump card of offering the status of a fiefdom to bring them to surrender without battle.

Without any of these conditions, conquering Jiangdong would not have been so effortless.

But at this moment, Tang and Xu States did not have the same favorable conditions as Chu Country, with a Purple Cloud Dao as an ally within.

The two Zhengs and Jin Country had not undergone a devastating defeat like Ning Country, which led to domestic unrest.

Moreover, they were not from Yu State but were countries from other provinces; to the people of Yu State, they were undoubtedly foreign invaders.

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