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Chapter 154 The outbreak of war
Early in the morning.

It was still gray.

Lu Chen rode his horse and went straight to the place where the craftsmen lived, and then handed over some information about coal mining and processing to Mo Fei and the others for research.

Afterwards, Lu Chen discussed with Mo Fei and the others about the construction of the kang and the greenhouse, and the details of which Lu Chen discussed with the craftsmen for a whole day.

This also made the craftsmen of Dayu City feel the sincerity of the King of the North. Generally speaking, if the King of the North wants to discuss anything with them, he only needs to let them go to the Palace of the King of the North. Feng personally came to the place where they lived to discuss things with them.

a few days later.

North Palace.

Lu Chen was flipping through the information collected by Jin Yiwei in the study, when a servant girl's voice sounded at the door, "My lord, Commander Qin is asking to see you."

Lu Chen immediately said, "Come in."

Then Qin Yushan opened the door and entered. At this time, Qin Yushan was covered in snow. It was even colder today, and it was snowing heavily outside.

After Qin Yushan entered the room, he gave a simple salute.

"Meet the king."

After saluting, Qin Yushan immediately put the bamboo tube containing the information in his hand on the desk, "My lord, urgent report from the capital!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen, who was looking through Dayue's information, froze for a moment.

After recovering, Lu Chen immediately swept the other information on the table aside, then immediately opened the bamboo tube on the table, and took out the information from it.

Qin Yushan continued: "Winter is here, and none of the pigeons released by the capital flew to Yancheng, and only Jinyiwei could deliver letters on horseback. Therefore, the information from the capital is many days later than before."

After Lu Chen took out the information from the bamboo tube, he carefully looked at the contents of the information. As his eyes gradually moved down, Lu Chen's face became more and more serious.

After reading the information above, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said to Qin Yushan: "Notify Li Rui and the others to come to the North Prince's Mansion immediately to discuss important matters."

"Yes, my lord."

After half an hour.

Li Rui and other officials and a group of generals from Beijun appeared in Lu Chen's study.

They were all a little curious. Today is not the day for the meeting. Why did the King of the North call them here? Could it be that the King of North Korea has already gone south?

After everyone arrived, Lu Chen didn't speak immediately, his eyes were still scanning the map on the desk, as if he was thinking about something.

Everyone saw Lu Chen's serious face, so they didn't open their mouths to speak. They just stood quietly in the study and looked at Lu Chen, waiting for Lu Chen to speak first.

After a while, Lu Chen realized that everyone had arrived. He glanced at the crowd, and then said to them: "The information I received just now is that Daxia and Dawu have started a war."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone was stunned.

How can this be?

Several great dynasties have been at peace for an unknown number of years. Although there is constant friction with each other, no major war has ever broken out.

Why did Dawu and Daxia suddenly break out at this time?
Mu Changtian immediately asked, "My lord, did Dawu take the initiative to attack?"

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Xiahuang's original plan is to deal with those families in Daxia, so Xiahuang will definitely not take the initiative to provoke a war at this time, so it is only possible that Dawu took the initiative to attack summer.

Hearing Mu Changtian's question, Lu Chen shook his head, and then said: "It's strange to say that it was us Daxia who started the war. After seeing the information sent by the capital, this king didn't respond for a while. come over."

This……

Everyone in the study looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't know what to say.

They also couldn't believe that Daxia actually provoked a war at this time, so the Emperor Xia still didn't want to deal with the aristocratic family?
At this time, Li Rui asked, "Your Majesty, could it be that the information is wrong? There is already an undercurrent in Daxia, how could His Majesty choose to attack the Dawu Dynasty at this time?"

Lu Chen said: "There is a high probability that there is no problem with the intelligence. If there is a problem, it is the person who started the war."

"A month ago, the major dynasties had secretly deployed troops, and the Dayue Dynasty stationed 20 soldiers at the border with Beijun."

"This king suspects that someone colluded with the Great Wu Dynasty, took the initiative to provoke a war, and then gave the Great Wu Dynasty an excuse to attack Daxia."

Hearing what Lu Chen said, everyone reacted instantly.

Indeed, Emperor Xia is definitely not willing to launch a war at this time. He wants to cleanse the ancient families inside. If he launches a war at this time, how will he cleanse those ancient families.

Therefore, it is only possible that a family colluded with the Great Wu Dynasty and provoked the war on its own initiative.

The Great Wu Dynasty does not necessarily want to defeat the Great Xia Dynasty, but as long as it can put enough pressure on the Great Xia, the families in the Great Xia will give Dawu a lot of benefits.

Under the circumstances of external pressure, Emperor Xia could only compromise with those aristocratic families in the end, giving up the idea of ​​purging the ancient aristocratic families.

However, Lu Chen didn't think it was that simple.

At this time, Lu Chen looked at Mu Changtian and said, "General Mu, although you are a general, you have been an official in the capital for decades, and you have a good understanding of the political environment in the capital. What will be the ultimate goal of the war between Dawu and Daxia?"

Hearing this question, Mu Changtian replied, "In my opinion, there are three possibilities."

"The first possibility is naturally to use external pressure to put pressure on His Majesty, so that His Majesty will not dare to make big moves against the family."

"The second possibility is that the aristocratic family wants to take advantage of this opportunity to unite with other princes to directly force His Majesty to abdicate and replace him with an obedient emperor. Of course, this is the least likely, because the factions headed by the princes still exist. I don’t accept anyone, so if I want to elect any prince to the throne, it may cause the Great Xia to split.”

"As for the third possibility..."

At this point, Mu Changtian hesitated to speak, but he finally said: "I have often heard such an argument recently, saying that the prince was sent by His Majesty to Beijun, so the fifty thousand black cavalry are not actually the prince's." , but His Majesty's."

"Even the people in Beijun think so, and those aristocratic families most likely think so too."

"That's why I believe that the aristocratic family will probably take advantage of this opportunity to ask His Majesty to transfer [-] heavy cavalry to the front line to consume the Great Wu Dynasty head-on."

"The Great Martial Dynasty has always been militaristic, maintaining millions of troops all year round, and their strength is not weaker than the barbarians in the north, and they are even more difficult to deal with than the barbarians."

"Although these [-] heavy cavalry are very strong, if they go to the front line and fight a war of attrition with Dawu, they may be completely consumed in less than a year."

In fact, not only the common people and those aristocratic families, but even Mu Changtian wondered whether Lu Chen was a pawn specially sent by Emperor Xia to Beijun some time ago. After all, Lu Chen did not have the ability to build [-] heavy cavalry in a short period of time.

But when Mu Changtian learned about the existence of Dayu City, he gave up this idea.

But other people in Great Xia don't know that Dayu City exists, so in their view, only the Emperor Xia has the ability to let Beijun have [-] heavy cavalry, so in the eyes of others, the [-] heavy cavalry is actually Xia The emperor's private soldiers.

(End of this chapter)