After Kong Ming and Hu Hao and others met, they had a lively time, and then they returned to the white tower together.

It took Kong Ming and the others a full year to break through the road to heaven, and they didn't know what kind of changes in the outside world during this time, so when everyone was chatting, they quickly shifted the topic to the current situation on the mainland.

The development of the Cangnan Empire in the past year has been very smooth, and the Karasuma Iron Cavalry of the Cao family has broken through the Qilin Mountains and entered the territory of the Barbarian Prefecture, among which the Barbarian State, one of the three major barbarian states in the Barbarian State, has basically existed in name only, and about seventy percent of the land has been incorporated into the territory of the Cangnan Empire.

However, the barbarians are warlike by nature, and most of them are inflexible, and even if they know that the situation is unfavorable, they will fight to the death, so it will take time to completely calm down the territory they occupy.

As for the black barbarian country and the white barbarian country among the three barbarian countries, even if the national strength is better than the living barbarian country, it is not enough to worry, mainly because these two barbarian countries are mortal enemies of each other, and the blood feud between each other after thousands of years of struggle cannot be resolved at all, even if they know that it is a great crisis for the Cangnan Empire to enter the barbarian state, they cannot join hands to fight against the enemy, but they are still fighting with each other.

As long as the Cangnan Empire can completely pacify the living barbarian country, it is not difficult to conquer the black barbarian country and the white barbarian country, maybe it will only take a few years before the entire barbarian state can be incorporated into the Cangnan Empire.

Although Manzhou is mostly a land of poor mountains and bad waters, its special environment has created a lot of special products, and there are so many strange flowers and fruits that it can be said to be the best in the entire Tianyuan Continent!

During the reign of the three barbarian states. These barbarians don't know much about how to operate, and they don't bring out the potential of the barbarian state at all. If the Cangnan Empire is allowed to annex the Barbarian State, it will definitely be able to run the Barbarian State several times better than before!

And. After having the natural treasure house of the Barbarian Prefecture, the strength of the Cangnan Empire will also be greatly contested, and it can even restore the tradition of the Barbarian Prefecture being rich in mercenaries in the past, and recruit the barbarians into mercenaries to fight, which will greatly increase the source of troops in the Cangnan Empire!

While Manzhou has made quite good progress, the Cangnan Empire can also be said to be in a gratifying situation in Liangzhou!

The terrain of Liangzhou is mostly a grassland area, with many nomadic peoples, and a total of more than ten tribal alliance countries have been established, among which only the three kingdoms of Gaotang, Tiening and Fengyu can truly represent the general trend of Liangzhou. It is known as the Three Kingdoms of Liangzhou to the outside world.

Over the years, the Cangnan Empire has had quite good friendships with the Three Kingdoms of Liangzhou and some weak tribal countries, and has carried out various transactions with various forces in Liangzhou almost at any cost. Without the active participation of the major merchants of the Cangnan Empire, the good horses abundant in Liangzhou would not have sold well in the entire Tianyuan Continent!

After so many years of operation, except for the Three Kingdoms of Liangzhou, the rest of the tribal countries have been almost infiltrated by the Cangnan Empire, and many tribal leaders have been bought by the Cangnan Empire. As long as they are promised heavy benefits, they can throw themselves into the Cangnan Empire at any time!

After the second prince Hu Xiong took over the entire territory of Shazhou, he did quite well, and the entire Shazhou was integrated in a very short period of time, so that the army of the Cangnan Empire could free up. Towards Liangzhou.

At present, except for the three kingdoms of Liangzhou to form an alliance to compete with the Cangnan Empire, the rest of the tribal countries are all on the sidelines, and have made up their minds to be the grass on the wall to see the wind and turn the rudder. Wherever one side has the upper hand, they throw themselves on that side.

For these tribal nations. Their national concept has always been very indifferent, and they care more about their own vital interests!

Liangzhou is rich in good horses. It is also rich in excellent cavalry, especially their cavalry and archery skills are the best in the world, and the army formed by the three kingdoms of Liangzhou is nearly 10 million, even if the Cangnan Empire has increased its troops to Liangzhou by one million, plus recruited a large number of Shazhou sand pirates to supplement the army, but the number of troops that Hu Hao can command is about three million, which is far from the Liangzhou coalition army.

However, even in the face of the Liangzhou coalition army, which has a superior military strength, the Cangnan Empire is not without a chance, because the three kingdoms of Liangzhou cannot fully trust each other. In particular, with the help of the contacts accumulated in dealing with various countries in the past, the Cangnan Empire almost took the divisive plan to the extreme, making the three kingdoms suspicious of each other, for fear that the Cangnan Empire would join forces with one country and swallow the remaining two countries!

If this goes on for a long time, the alliance of the three kingdoms of Liangzhou will inevitably be broken, and then the Cangnan Empire can be completely broken one by one, and finally Liangzhou will be included in the territory!

The Cangnan Empire has hidden its strength for so many years, and it is indeed the time to accumulate and develop, so that it can expand the empire's territory to the land of the four states in just a few years!

If the Cangnan Empire really completely integrated the four states of Liang, Sha, Man, and Liang, then the entire empire's territory would be almost half of that of Yuanzhou. And even in Yuanzhou, where many powerful forces gather, there is no empire with such a large territory!

Of course, the power of the Cangnan Empire expanded so quickly, which naturally attracted the attention of other states. If the Cangnan Empire was really allowed to expand so rapidly, wouldn't it be possible to become the second Holy Empire?

However, the current strength of the Cangnan Empire is no longer something that ordinary forces can compete with, and perhaps only a few super forces in Yuanzhou can suppress it. However, the Cangnan Empire did not show the banner of dominating the world, whether it was to capture Shazhou in the past, or to send troops to Barbarian and Liangzhou now, it was to find a high-sounding excuse in advance, and only dispatched a large army in the name of having to be forced to counterattack!

Of course, to what extent the so-called "counterattack" will be carried out is entirely up to the Cangnan Empire.

As far as the power of the rest of the states is concerned, it is not easy for them to declare their enemies with the Cangnan Empire on the surface, but they can secretly use some means to suppress the Cangnan Empire.

Therefore, in the past year, the business exchanges between the Cangnan Empire and Haizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Yunzhou were almost completely interrupted due to various strange reasons. Only Yuanzhou seems to be self-sustaining and strong, and does not think that the Cangnan Empire can threaten Yuanzhou's status, or has normal transactions with the Cangnan Empire!

It can be said that the situation in the Tianyuan Continent has changed greatly in the past year, and the land of Kyushu has its own plans because of the rapid rise of the Cangnan Empire, and it is very likely to fall into a Warring States Era! (To be continued......

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