Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 585 All Nations Come to DPRK
Three years later.

The time has entered the 17th year of Wu Wang Qingji, that is, 497 BC, the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

The pattern of the world has become relatively stable.

Since Qingji asked Tian Rangju and Fan Li to lead their troops back to the country from the land of Zhou and Zheng, and signed an alliance with the Jin people to eliminate the soldiers, Wu's forces withdrew from the Central Plains, and Jin has become a well-deserved overlord of the world.

Qi, Lu, Wei, Song and other northern states sent envoys one after another to submit to Jin, and even the vassal states that originally belonged to Wu.

Xu, Cai, Zhongwu and other small countries in the land of Huaisi were forced to change their course and pay tribute to the Jin State due to the strength of the Jin people.

Even Qingji had already sent envoys to make peace with the state of Jin, assuming an attitude of indifference to the world and peaceful development.

Wu's army did not dare to go north, and Jin's army did not dare to go south.

The new pattern of the world was thus formed.

At this time, the state of Wu was able to devote all its experience to building large-scale construction projects in the country and building official roads.

The Xindao and Lingqu from the mainland of Wu to the six counties in Lingnan were all completed.

The new roads and bridges leading from the mainland of Wu to the three southwest counties have all been completed.

Even, in order to facilitate the northward struggle for hegemony, and at the same time to facilitate exchanges with other countries in the Central Plains, the state of Wu also dug Hangou, which was completed within one year...

In three years, before and after, Wu Guo invested millions of manpower and quickly completed the infrastructure construction. This is undoubtedly a miracle!
How did the Wu people do it?

Among the many laborers, apart from certain guards, corvees, and prisoners, most of them were natives from Southeast Asia.

For example, Malays, Japanese, Yizhou people, etc., there are hundreds of thousands of indigenous people who were forced to be captured in Wu State and became free laborers.

They have a brand new name——

Kunlun slave (named after Qingji)!
It was these hundreds of thousands of "Kunlun slaves" who helped the state of Wu to overcome obstacles, build bridges and pave roads, and completed the miracle of official Taoism being popular in all counties and counties of the state of Wu within three years.

However, this is all piled up with human lives.

In the process of building official roads, bridges, and digging canals, tens of thousands of laborers died and were buried there.

Therefore, under the broad official road, there are actually white bones...

But from Qing Ji's point of view, from Wu people's point of view, all this is worth it.

In recent years, the number of rebellions in the southern part of the state of Wu, that is, the six counties in the south of the Lingnan and the three counties in the southwest, has been decreasing day by day.

This is all thanks to the establishment of the official road and the various measures taken by the state of Wu, so that those rebellious "new Wu people" dare not act rashly.

Three years of continuous peaceful development has brought Wu's national strength to a higher level.

While people's livelihood has recovered, Wu's population has also shown a blowout explosion.

According to the latest census statistics of this year, Qing Ji concluded.

At this time, Wu State had sixteen counties and six cities.

The sixteen counties are: Wu County, Kuaiji County, Jiujiang County, Sishui County, Minzhong County, Lujiang County, Cangwu County, Nanhai County, Xiang County, Guilin County, Nan County, Nanyang County, Yuzhang County, Jiaozhi County, Dian County and Qianzhong County.

There are 140 million households and 710 million people!

What concept is this?
In the whole of China, the total population of the vassal states is only over 1000 million, and the state of Wu accounts for almost half of it.

Of course, this also benefited from Wu's various measures to benefit the people, which attracted many Li Shu from the Central Plains countries to migrate to Wu to settle down.

Furthermore, the three counties in the southwest were developed three years ago, and there are still people who have been constantly searching mountains and seas to encourage births.

Now is the period of peaceful development of Wu State, so there are extraordinarily many newborns.

Having said that, there are actually not many resources that can be truly used by Wu Guo.

The State of Wu is the same as the State of Chu back then, with a vast territory and rich resources, but at the same time, a large territory and a sparse population.

If we blindly focus on the development of the nine counties in the south, the state of Wu will definitely have no spare power to go north to compete with the state of Jin.

If Qingji tries to seek hegemony, he may lose some control over the nine counties in the south...

It is worth mentioning that the Wu State caravan led by Mrs. Zhu Di has safely returned to Jinling and was welcomed by the Wu State subjects.

The caravan brought grapes, walnuts, carrots, peppers, peas, spinach, cucumbers, pomegranates and other local specialties to the state of Wu. At the same time, they sold precious commodities such as paper, tea, silk, and ceramics, earning a lot of money. Full.

Originally a caravan of 5000 people, only more than 1000 people returned to Wu.

Among them, except for those who were killed by thieves on the road, most of the scholars stayed in the local area to learn the local language and educate everyone.

After many years, they will all return to their homeland...

Zhu Di and his party can be said to have made great achievements. They have opened up a Silk Road for the cultural and economic exchanges between the East and the West for the country of Wu and China.

Moreover, this time following Zhu Di to the country of Wu, there are also many envoys from small countries in Fanbang.

Among them, the envoys of the Persian Empire were included!
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At this time, in Fengtian Hall, Qingji was holding a grand court meeting.

Qingji was wearing a black and red-striped mian suit, a flat sky crown on his head, and a Longyuan sword in his hand. He sat upright on his own throne.

A posture of not being angry and arrogant.

Through the twelve crowns, everyone could vaguely see the sharp light refracted by Qingji, which made people dare not look directly at it.

Qingji, who has been called lonely for many years, vaguely has this kind of aura of dominance.

In fact, that's exactly what it is!
Among the Huaxia kingdoms, which monarch is more powerful than Qingji?
No!

Qing Ji is well-deserved number one!

At this moment in the court hall, all the ministers with a rank of more than six hundred shi in the Wu Dynasty have all been in place.

More than 200 people sat together under the Majesty's platform, looking at their noses, noses, mouths, and hearts. They sat there with a solemn look and posture.

"woo woo woo woo--"

Outside Fengtian Hall, on the square, there are forests of spears and spears, and banners cover the sky.

Hundreds of guards with big arms and round waists, two of them carried a horn and played it alone.

The solemn yet loud sound of the horn resounded through the sky, making people's spirits invigorated!
"Xuan, the envoys of the Western countries have an audience—"

On the majesty platform, accompanied by the scream of the CRRC House Commander.

The envoys from the small western countries who had been waiting outside the Fengtian Hall for a long time entered the hall in an orderly manner with low eyebrows.

Obviously, before this, they had already received some training on Chinese etiquette, so they had such coordinated movements.

"See the Great Wu King! The king lasts ten thousand years! The Great Wu Wannian!"

All the envoys spoke in broken Wu dialect and shouted in unison.

In order to show their respect to King Wu Qingji, they knelt together and paid homage...

This made Qingji very satisfied.

All nations come!

Nothing more than that!

"No gift, flat!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After receiving Qingji's response, the envoys from various countries dared to stand up slowly.

To be honest, if it weren't for the Fengtian Hall in Wu Kingdom to be spacious enough and occupy a huge area, it really wouldn't be able to accommodate so many people standing together.

(End of this chapter)