The old King of Qin had mixed feelings... one could say he was both happy and worried!
The original plan was to send one of my sons as a hostage to ensure my safety for the time being.
Who would have thought... that Ying Zhuang wasn't taken as a hostage, but instead was made King of Chu!
Although the State of Chu lost most of its territory in the previous battles, it compensated the State of Chu with the territory that had originally belonged to the Great Gan court, including the capital city of Luoyi.
Although the territory is not as large as before... the population and level of wealth are about the same!
After all, the Central Plains, where Da Gan Tianxia is located, is the most grain-producing area in the world. Otherwise, why would Da Gan royal family have built the capital here when they still had a say in the country?
The old King of Qin was initially relieved... but now he's a little jealous of his son!
It seems that Ying Zhuang, that brat, got more by being taken hostage than I, the King of Qin, did!
But from another perspective...
With his two sons, one occupying the State of Yan and the other occupying the State of Chu, as well as the land of Luoyi... that's a kind of success for him in a roundabout way!
In short, his feelings toward Jiang Ming were very complicated, including pride, apprehension, and jealousy!
It depends on which perspective you're looking at it from!
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As for the King of Wu!
Although, at the beginning, the ministers all said that Fangbo Jiangming, leading the armies of the realm, was destined for a fierce battle with the Wu Kingdom, it was only a matter of time...
But judging from Jiang Ming's expression, it doesn't seem like he's about to start a major battle at all!
After all, he had already led the main force back to the State of Yan, leaving the mess in Luoyi and the State of Chu to his younger brother Ying Zhuang.
Ying Zhuang also showed no intention of reclaiming the lost territory...
His mother was from the State of Chu, but she was just a maid and didn't have a deep sense of aristocratic national sentiment!
Ying Zhuang was a Qin citizen who possessed half of the Chu kingdom and the lands formerly belonging to the Da Gan court; he was already quite content with that.
It seems that... Jiang Ming has achieved a "political outcome" that satisfies all parties!
The State of Chu was satisfied, the State of Qin was satisfied, and they themselves were satisfied...
As for the feudal lords, they were all quite happy because there was no more fighting, to prevent the great powers from taking advantage of each other and accidentally destroying them in the process!
Faced with such a harmonious situation, the King of Wu began to make his own calculations.
He had previously amassed an army of 500,000, preparing to face the storm of Jiang Ming's war of annihilation. But now that Jiang Ming had stopped fighting, he was hesitant. Should he launch an offensive or continue to defend?
If we take the initiative to attack, whether we can digest it directly is a question!
If my digestive capacity were strong enough, I would have digested the entire Chu Kingdom back then. Why did I have to leave 40% behind?
But now Jiang Ming's main force has retreated north, taking that incompetent emperor Ji Bochang to the State of Yan.
With such a large "power vacuum" left, it would be a shame not to get involved!
After much deliberation, King Wu adopted a conservative strategy, choosing to remain on the defensive and address the internal problems first, lest Jiang Ming use trickery: nominally returning while actually waiting for his main force to launch an attack from behind!
Now that a new emperor has ascended the throne, all the countries under heaven are seeking stability. If he does not know when to stop and instead provokes war for no reason, he fears that he will incur the wrath of the people!
Therefore, the King of Wu ultimately chose to lie low and observe the consequences.
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Jiang Ming's original plan was to move the emperor of Da Gan to Ji City, and then rebuild a capital city in his base area of Dukang!
The new emperor, and the first emperor of the Great Gan Dynasty, is now Ji Bo Chang Lai...
That makes things much simpler!
Jiang Ming ordered the capital to be moved directly from Jicheng to Dukang!
They began large-scale construction to rebuild the new capital!
Furthermore, he issued an order for currency reform: abolishing all coins in the world and minting coins according to the gold content ratio he stipulated, while the right to mint coins was given to the states of Yan, Zhao, Chu, and Qin!
Jiang Ming has already sent the size of the gold coins, the gold content, and the templates for the engravings to the Zhao, Chu, and Qin states.
Nations can use gold, silver, their own currencies, and goods to exchange for new currencies in these countries!
The general principle is to ensure that your country's assets do not shrink, but to firmly control the right to mint currency in the countries that Jiang Ming can deeply control.
Zhao Yong of Zhao and Ying Zhuang of Chu are his trusted confidants. They will carry out whatever Jiang Ming tells them to do!
His father, the old King Qin, was currently quite obedient, so Jiang Ming allocated a portion of the minting rights to him.
The goal is to get the new currency circulating nationwide as quickly as possible!
As for the State of Qi, although... they also have large gold mines.
However, the State of Qi was subdued by Jiang Ming and appeared obedient, but their loyalty was questionable. Therefore, Jiang Ming did not grant them the right to mint coins.
They simply had to hand over the gold to the Yan state, and then the Yan state would mint coins for them!
Throughout history, implementing a new policy has never been an easy task, and it often encounters great resistance!
The main reason is that they didn't use enough force!
Humans are base, and excrement is stinky—this has remained unchanged throughout history!
Jiang Ming had made it very clear beforehand: all nations must cooperate with the implementation of the new currency; any nation that disobeys will be annihilated and its territory divided without any room for negotiation!
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