When the war broke out in the north, in Nanyang County, Kong Donglai looked grim, and he was powerless to do anything about the reality.
"How did I end up like this!" Kong Donglai roared, but no one could answer.
Jin State completely withdrew its hands and no longer cared about Nanyang County. Later, Dongyuan County had no moral integrity and directly and unconditionally surrendered to Anyang; Yuan Yong, who was once a political evergreen, also became Anyang's think tank!
Later, Anyang announced that it would not accept Nanyang County's surrender and labeled Nanyang County a "traitor". Now, mercenary groups and business houses from Anyang are pouring into Nanyang County like greedy jackals.
"Report, there's new news from Anyang!" A personal soldier brought a newspaper.
Kong Donglai took it and looked at it. The title was "May the friendship between Anyang and Jin last forever", a very high-sounding title. The content was: Thank you Jin for not interfering in the affairs of Daxia. As a testimony of friendship, the 200,000 Jin captives in Dongyuan County have been unconditionally released.
When Kong Donglai saw this news, his eyes went dark!
It turned out that when Jin was defeated, about 450,000 people were captured. There were 250,000 captives in Nanyang County, who had been rescued by Jin; but there were still 200,000 captives in Dongyuan County. Now, after Dongyuan County surrendered to Anyang, Anyang still released these captives unconditionally.
Anyang did this, which should be very beautiful. First, after winning the war, Anyang said that it did not want the captives of Jin State, and left all the captives of Jin State to Nanyang County and Dongyuan County. After Dongyuan County was unconditionally incorporated into Anyang, the captives belonging to Dongyuan County also became Anyang's.
But Anyang had already said that he did not want prisoners from Jin, so Li Xian kept his promise and the prisoners were released unconditionally.
Second, Anyang no longer needs to use these 200,000 captives to coerce the State of Jin. Since the captives can bring no benefits to Anyang, it is better to release them in exchange for reputation.
Third, releasing the captives would help improve the relationship between Anyang and Jin. Especially after Dongyuan County surrendered to Anyang, Anyang and Jin were directly adjacent to each other, and it would be bad if the relationship was too tense.
Now the relationship between Jin and Anyang has both face and substance, and it is more harmonious than ever before - well, the first contact between Anyang and Jin was war.
But no matter what, Jin State reciprocated by not interfering in Nanyang County, and Anyang reciprocated by unconditionally releasing all captives, which laid a good foundation for future exchanges between the two sides.
In this way, Nanyang County, sandwiched between Anyang and Jin State, was in complete danger.
"what to do?"
"How about..." Guo Hongyan took a few deep breaths, "Let's cooperate with Songzhou County and Guangling County. Now that Xiao State, Tang State, and Anyang have appeared in the north, the general trend is set. Only in the south, we have Nanyang County, Songzhou County, and Guangling County, which have achieved nothing. The Qi State in the west is ready to move again, and has been trying to annex Guangling County. Now the three of us can only gain room for development if we unite. And things must be done quickly, otherwise when Xiao State, Tang State, and Anyang consolidate their existing foundations, it will be the time of our demise!"
Kong Donglai gritted his teeth, obviously making up his mind; no one around him spoke, waiting for Kong Donglai to make up his mind. In fact, until now, Kong Donglai's uncle, Kong Xiang, was still controlled by the Wang family.