Chaoge City, Zhaixing Tower.

Emperor Xin drank depressedly and watched the singing and dancing performed by his concubines and daughters. The war to fight against Xu Yi has entered its third year, and the empire's money, food, and people seem to be unable to fill this bottomless pit.

The palace maid brought a plate of white chopped chickens, then took out a small plate from the plate and placed it in front of Di Xin. Di Xin looked at the powder glowing with a blue-white luster in the plate and asked the palace maid: "What is this?"

"Your Majesty, this is green salt. Use it as a flavoring. Dip the chicken into a little salt to eat it, which can increase the fresh and salty taste." The palace maid replied.

Di Xin tried to do it as the palace maid said, dipped a piece of white chicken leg meat with a few grains of salt foam, and then put it in his mouth to chew it.

"It really feels different." Emperor Xin praised. He was about to ask the palace maid where this thing was produced, Fei Zhong hurried in.

He said loudly: "Your Majesty, great victory, great victory. General Fei Lian finally surrounded Xu Yi's main force on the coast of the East China Sea. He killed more than 70,000 enemies and captured no one."

Emperor Xin quickly snatched the bamboo slips from Fei Zhong's hand and read them. He said happily: "It's great, the battle against Xu has finally come to an end. Should we take advantage of the victory and capture the rest of the Dongyi tribes in one fell swoop?"

"Your Majesty, although we win this battle, our soldiers have suffered a lot of casualties and consumed money and food. The newly acquired population and newly occupied land cannot be converted into our national strength for the time being. In the opinion of the minister, we should temporarily stop the army and accumulate national strength before attacking the Dongyi. This defeat of the Dongyi is not a matter of one day or one night. As long as we persist in attacking and eroding for a long time, the Dongyi will eventually be pacified."

"Then let Fei Lian stay outside some of the defenders, and let the troops return to the court for the time being."

"I have another thing. In the past two years, the Zhou side of Xiqi has recovered its vitality and formed an alliance with Bashuyong in the southwest, Di Rongqiang and other parties in the northwest, and expanded to the northeast and southeast directions, conquered cities and countries, obtained a large area of ​​population and land, and claimed to be king without authorization..."

"Fei Qing, you also know that now we can only concentrate on doing one thing first. Before the Dongyi is completely defeated, we cannot free up our hands to deal with Zhou Fang. As long as it has not directly threatened the royal capital of our Da Shang, don't worry about him first." Emperor Xin interrupted Fei Zhong and said.

"Your Majesty, I understand this principle. I mean we should be on guard against it before it happens."

"Oh, how can you prevent it from happening?"

Fei Zhong replied: "Now, Zhou Fang should not be able to cross the river in the north through Xia Nanbo's land and attack my royal capital. However, it can also attack my royal capital from several mountain passes in the Five Elements Mountain. I have already found out that there are eight mountain passes that can be connected from the west of the Five Elements Mountain to Shandong."

"Our merchants only need to set up passes in these eight dangerous places and use a small amount of troops to block their roads."

"In addition, Chong State and Li State can also play a huge role in restraining Zhou State, especially Li State. Its location is very important to our Da Shang Dynasty. It is separated from the capital of our Da Shang Dynasty. It can be said that it is an important barrier to the west of our Da Shang Dynasty. So no matter what, we must control Li State."

Emperor Xin nodded and asked, "What strategy does Fei Qing have to control the Li Kingdom."

"Marriage" Fei Zhong spit out two words.

Fei Zhong continued: "The eldest son of the monarch of Li Kingdom has not yet been married, so our business can marry the daughter of the royal family of similar age to him."

Di Xin agreed: "Just do it like this, let Yu Yiren first consider who is better to be the candidate."

...

The Palace of King Zhou of King Zhou in the West.

"Congratulations to the Lord for ascending the throne." Jiang Ziya congratulated Lao Jichang. He had just returned to Haojing from Chaoge and missed Lao Jichang's ascension ceremony.

In the past two years, due to the surge in salt prices, Zhou Fang, who actually controlled the two western salt-producing areas of Bayong, quickly recovered his vitality and his power expanded. Ji Chang believed that the time was ripe, so he became king in the world.

"Jiang Qing is exempt from courtesy, take your seat quickly." Ji Chang always treats Jiang Ziya as polite and polite.

"Master, I have come back from Chaoge this time and bring back some news about the merchant."

"My dear, please tell me quickly."

"This time, the Shang Dynasty defeated Xu Yi. Although it won a great victory, it also caused a loss of troops and generals and a great loss of national strength. Although a lot of new land and population were added, these populations were difficult to convert into the national strength of the Shang side for a while, and they also had to consume the food of the Shang side. I thought the time was coming to destroy the Shang side."

Ji Chang replied: "I and I have the same views as each other, otherwise I would not have been king. Now there are five out of ten princes in the world who have joined us in Zhou. However, Xia Fang is a tiger and wolf army. As for the last battle, I still feel scared. Xia Fang is blocked at Hangu Pass, so we can't reach Heluo or cross the river. Even if there is a road, we have to be wary of Xia Fang's sneak attack on our Haojing City."

When the Lord talked about Xia Kingdom, Jiang Ziya's mouth twitched slightly and said, "Actually, the Xia Kingdom's military armor may not be very beneficial. The last time we defeated was entirely because the other party was lucky enough to attack. If it were..."

Ji Chang followed Jiang Ziya's words and smiled: "If there were any beloved ministers at that time, there would never be such a defeat."

Jiang Ziya felt proud and stroked his white beard and continued: "Your Majesty, go to the Shangfang royal capital and walk not only on the Heluo Mengjin road. We can first take Li Kingdom west of the Five Elements Mountain, and go from Li Kingdom to the Shangfang royal capital. If we want to worry that Xia Fang will attack our royal capital, we can completely block the Hangu Road by filling stones, and station them with a few elite soldiers, which can completely prevent Xia Fang from coveting our royal capital area."

"When our Great Zhou conquers the Shang Dynasty and is in charge of the world, it will be natural for us to contact the Yi tribes of the world to defeat the Shang Dynasty. Even if he really has many soldiers like wolves and tigers, he will not be able to withstand the joint attacks of the world's princes and our Great Zhou 10,000 soldiers!"

Jiang Ziya paused for a while so that Lao Jichang could slowly digest his long speech. Then he continued:

"In addition, this Li State is an important vassal state and wings of the Shang side, with a large population. Recently, the eldest son of the king of the country married the daughter of the Shang king. This is a major obstacle to the great journey of our Great Zhou Dynasty to destroy Shang. It should have been eliminated before the Shang Dynasty was destroyed."

After hearing this, Old Ji Chang suddenly opened his slightly closed eyes and said firmly: "As far as my dear said, I will take Bo Yikao, Ji Fa, and Ji Dan's three sons ready to attack Li immediately!"

"Master, please wait. There is one thing we have to do before we attack Li, which is to first destroy Chonghouhu, who is under our noses. Although Chongguo is nominally under Your Majesty's management, Chonghouhu cannot be used by Your Majesty."

Old Jichang nodded: "Then let's attack and destroy Chongguo first."

...

Chonghouhu carried two bronze axes in his hand and commanded more than 200 personal guards to make the final resistance. The Zhou army had already broken open the gate of the palace city, and a large number of Zhou soldiers flocked in.

At this moment, Chonghouhu waved his big axe frantically. With one axe, he split the skull of an armored soldier, and another axe hit the shield of another Zhou army. He stepped back five or six steps and sat on the ground. His personal guards were all in Chong's bloodline, and they fought to the death, and pushed the shield and swung the sword to fight the Zhou army to death.

The Chongzhou War only lasted three weeks before it came to the end. The Great Shang reinforcements that Chonghouhu had been looking forward to have been delayed.

In fact, it was not that Emperor Xin didn't want to save him, but that he really couldn't save him. Although Fei Lian returned to Chaoge, most of the troops were still stationed in the southeast. All available militias in the royal capital had been recruited into the East Camp.

With the existing troops that can be mobilized, it is difficult to defeat the three thousand tigers recently trained by the Clan Zhouliu Division and Zhou Fang. Moreover, there is still more than a thousand miles from Chaoge to Chongguo. Emperor Xin had to summon Xia Fang to support Chongguo, but the Hangu Road had been blocked by Zhou Fang with a huge rock.

Chonghouhu now regrets that it is too late to move the country to the Wei River Basin. At that time, he never expected that Zhou Fang would openly claim to be king and rebel against Shang Fang and directly send troops to attack and destroy his own country. He did not expect that under such circumstances, he would not get reinforcements from Shang Fang.
Chapter completed!