Dahan first prince

Chapter 14 Another Year and Nine Months

After a while, the hall of the Phoenix Hall was brightly lit.

Liu Ying stood solemnly in front of a wooden table, spread out a huge Kanyu with a length and width of more than ten feet, and immediately drew gestures on the Kanyu with her fingers.

As for the maidservant who volunteered before, now she is holding an oil lamp and standing beside the wooden table with a resentful face, acting as a lamp holder for human flesh.

As for the resentful expression of the maidservant, and the slender figure that I still feel sorry for, Liu Ying can't care about it at all...

"generation……"

"Zhao..."

"together……"

Looking at the somewhat obscure small seal characters on Kanyu, Liu Ying couldn't help but straighten up a little, and as usual, put her thumbnail on her mouth, and began to bite regularly.

"Go, go to Dongchu, get a piece of carbon ash."

After ordering coldly, Liu Ying naturally took the oil lamp from the handmaid's hand and put it on the wooden table.

As for why we are looking for carbon ash, it is because: In this era, the usual writing material is not paper, but bamboo slips...

Unless it is particularly urgent or particularly grand, such as military reports, battle reports, sacrificial ordinances, edicts, etc., silk cloth will be used as the writing carrier. The minutes of the meeting are all written on bamboo slips.

The writing carrier is bamboo slips, which naturally means that the writing tool at this time is not the brush in the impression of later generations, but the knife and pen used for engraving.

Obviously: Liu Ying can't use a knife and pen to make any marks on the geomancy in front of me, which is made of sheepskin and has the "Territory Map of the Kwantung Princes" written on the top.

Soon, the servant girl returned to the dormitory with a sad face, her clothes covered in ashes, and brought back a few pieces of dark charcoal.

Liu Ying took a piece of charcoal without hesitation, and then refocused her attention on the Kanyu in front of her.

"Go down."

"Close the door."

She mercilessly pushed back the maidservant, and when the sound of the palace door closing slowly came, Liu Ying finally frowned, and drew a large dark circle with the charcoal in her hand on the right side of Kanyu.

"together……"

After thinking about it for a while, he drew two circles in the middle of Kanyu, and combined the two circles seemingly dissatisfied. Finally, a touch of clarity appeared on Liu Ying's face.

"No wonder."

"No wonder we start from Qi!"

As far as Liu Ying saw at this time: Above Kanyu, the entire land of Kanto, starting from Hangu Pass in the west, adjacent to the East China Sea in the east, reaching the Great Wall in the north, and connecting Wuling Mountains in the south, is now occupied by various vassal states!

In the northeast corner of Kanyu, Yan State stands alone, bordering the Korean Peninsula to the east, Qi State to the south, Dai to the west, and Zhao to the southwest; and the Great Wall to the north, which is the junction of Han and Hungary!

The Dai State to the west of Yan State and the Zhao State to the southwest are both under the control of the Prime Minister Chen Xi at this time; once Chen Xi is determined to rebel, Dai and Zhao will be separated from the control of the Chang'an Central Committee as soon as possible!

At that time, the state of Qi will become the only channel for the Han Dynasty to reach the state of Yan, and they can directly contact the state of Yan by land.

That is to say, once the Qi State is also separated from Chang'an's control, the Yan State, which is located in the northeast corner of the Han Dynasty's territory, will completely become an 'enclave'!
Dai and Zhao are out of control, Yan is out of contact, and Qi is out of control, which is equivalent to the entire Kanto north of the Dahe (Yellow River) being out of the control of the Han Dynasty!
So, Lu Zhi started from the state of Qi and threatened Liu Bang to dispel the idea of ​​Yi Chu. Is it really as simple as "letting the northeastern half of the Kansas out of control"?
Much more than that!

Just lowering her head a little, Liu Ying saw: immediately to the south of Zhao State, Guanzhong is outside Hangu Pass, the last gateway to cut off the Guandong: Liang State!
Hundreds of miles west of Liang Guo is the last line of defense in Guanzhong: Hangu Pass!
And the Kingdom of Liang, as well as the Kingdom of Huainan to the south of the Kingdom of Liang, and the Kingdom of Changsha further south, are now ruled by princes with different surnames!

Once the situation of "half of the Kanto is out of the control of the Chang'an Central Committee" appears, then there will inevitably be changes in these vassal states where princes with different surnames are kings!
Not to mention Huainan Wang Yingbu, nor Changsha Wang Wuchen, just take Liang Wang Peng Yue as an example: If Peng Yue is a little soft-hearted and blocks Hangu Pass, it can completely cut off the Han Dynasty Central Army’s eastward exit from Hangu. .

In this way, completely losing the entire Kanto, and only controlling the Han Dynasty in the Guanzhong area, will become the Qin State before the unification of the world!

What's more, if Peng Yue is more ruthless and directly leads troops to attack Hangu Pass, it will directly pose a threat to the Guanzhong area!

However, when the northern half of the Kanto region is completely out of control, and the Liang and Huainan states in the southern half are about to move, the two kings of Chu, Liu Jiao, and Jing, and Liu Jia, who are inserted in the center of the Han Dynasty in Jing and Chu, can only do so. It can pinch mud in the swamps of the southeastern coastal areas.

By then...

"Han will be the next Qin!"

"Guanzhong will become another Qinzhong!"

"And I, too, will become the Crown Prince of Han, not the Crown Prince..."

Whispering softly, Liu Ying couldn't help shivering suddenly.

——This is the reason why Liu Ying was terrified when she heard her mother Lu Zhi's plan, and even lost her mind on the spot!

Empress Lu Pheasant, without any military power in her hands, and even her own post was crumbling, just relying on a letter sent to Linzi, the capital of Qi, brought together the entire Kanto region and completely separated from the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty in an instant. Energy in control!
The survivors of the pre-Qin Fen VI spent countless human, financial and material resources. It took nearly a hundred years before the Zulong Yingzheng completely unified the Kanto region. Now, at the flick of Lu Zhi's fingers, they are ready to re-split and return to the future. Prepare for the Warring States Period!

"In this way, Zhao Wang Liu Ruyi can only be Zhao Wang Liu Ruyi..."

"Liu Bang can only rely on Lu Zhi's will to settle the rear position, reserve position, and even the pacification of the Chen Xi Rebellion, and he has no means of countermeasures..."

Talking to herself, Liu Ying's stern expression did not diminish at all, but became more gloomy because of this conclusion.

If it were someone else, or even Liu Ying herself in her previous life, she would definitely feel joyful when she learned that her mother had such a powerful power.

But at this moment, Liu Ying, who had returned to the starting point after seven years as a puppet emperor, was not happy at all.

Because Liu Ying clearly understands that Lu Zhi's sophisticated and ruthless political skills do not mean that Liu Ying's reserves will be impregnable in the next two years.

This also means: two years later, when Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty died, it would become Liu Ying's own task to wrestle with such a sophisticated and ruthless politician...

"Whoo~"

"Two years."

"No, it's one year and nine months!"

Shaking her head solemnly, she wiped the black circles on the map with her bare hands, and Liu Ying couldn't help feeling the urgency of time.

"Time is running out..."

Turning sideways while talking to herself, Liu Ying felt that there seemed to be a figure in the corner of the wall outside the palace door?
"Who!!!"

With a stern shout, Liu Ying pushed open the palace door in the blink of an eye, only to see the maid from before, slumped on the ground with eyes full of astonishment, shaking her head in horror.

"The servant girl, the servant girl didn't hear anything..."

"Your Highness, Your Highness, spare me!"

Looking at the maidservant's horrified gaze, wishing she could find a hole to burrow down in fear, Liu Ying's dim eyes slowly ignited the last trace of warmth...

(End of this chapter)