In the Qingyun Palace, the Emperor of Qingyun angrily drove everyone out and stood alone by the wall, looking at the map on the wall.
Above the map, the words "Shangguo Geographical Publishing House" were so eye-catching. It was ridiculous that a country as huge as Qingyun could not print its own maps and had to buy them from Shangguo.
This map is actually a map of the entire Yingzhou and part of Haozhou. On this map, there are three eye-catching countries—Shang, Tang, and Longya Empire!
Yingzhou is a million li in radius, or 500,000 kilometers in radius. In fact, Yingzhou is long and narrow from north to south, more than 500,000 kilometers from north to south and less than 300,000 kilometers from east to west. On such a map, the Shang Kingdom alone occupies a land area of 100,000 kilometers in radius in the east. In the north is the Tang Kingdom, which is 50,000 kilometers in radius.
Well, the Tang State has shrunk now, but the Tang State on the map is still 50,000 kilometers.
To the northeast of Haozhou is the Longya Empire, whose territory has expanded to 30,000 kilometers. From the Banshan Strait in the west to the former border of the Baihong Empire in the east, it is like a tiger entrenched above Haozhou, ready to hunt at any time.
The core of these three countries is Shang! Longya Empire is Shang's standard younger brother. Tang can have its current scale entirely relying on the support of Shang.
To the west of Shang State, the largest country around it is Qingyun State.
Fifteen years ago, Qingyun and Shang were about 250,000 miles apart; but now, Shang has expanded to 100,000 kilometers, or 200,000 miles; and Qingyun has also expanded to 80,000 miles. So, the two countries are now... neighbors!
Some time ago, Shang State spread the rumor that it wanted to purchase Qingyun State, and at that time Yuanshan Alliance jumped out to make trouble and also wanted to purchase Qingyun State.
Shang State made a mess, and the price of acquiring Qingyun State exceeded hundreds of billions of taels of gold. In the end, Shang State withdrew, leaving the Yuanshan Alliance in an awkward situation. Yuanshan Alliance was certainly unwilling to be tricked, so... naturally, it did not acquire Qingyun State.
In fact, the Yuanshan Alliance jumped out to prevent Qingyun from joining the Shang Kingdom; since the Shang Kingdom left, the Yuanshan Alliance would of course also leave. It was a pity for Qingyun Kingdom, and in the end, it had no choice but to join the Yuanshan Alliance reluctantly and become a part of the Yuanshan Alliance.
In other words, the Yuanshan Alliance made some trouble and lured Qingyun Kingdom over without spending a penny.
Let’s not even mention how frustrated the Emperor of Qingyun was.
Fortunately, all the countries suddenly formed an alliance and besieged the Shang Kingdom, which made the emperor of Qingyun Kingdom overjoyed - his country had an advantageous geographical location and its national industrial strength was very good; as one of the first countries to accept the Shang Kingdom's ideas, Qingyun Kingdom's industrial base even surpassed that of Zhao Kingdom.
However, the good times did not last long. Something went wrong! The alliance of countries was a mess and could not stand any setbacks. When the artillery shells and missiles of the Shang Dynasty poured down like rain, the armies of various countries collapsed one after another; many armies abandoned their armor and fled, and all their weapons were abandoned.
The industrial production capacity of various countries was not very sufficient, and the front line was in chaos. As a vanguard country, Qingyun had to bear enormous pressure from arms production and military pressure.
As Shang's defense gradually recovered, Qingyun's breathing became increasingly difficult.