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Chapter 1122: Chapter 454: A Plan to Save Xu Chapter 1122: Chapter 454: A Plan to Save Xu Le Ling City, the Imperial Palace.

With a loud “bang,” the sound of objects hitting the ground echoed throughout the grand hall.

“Liang has misled me, Liang has misled me!”

Atop the high platform, Emperor Xu, shoving aside the numerous memorials on the table before him, couldn’t help but bellow, “A great nation, yet unable to defend itself for even a year, has lost the Imperial Capital in just the month of May.

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Where is the once paramount overlord that single-handedly withstood the siege of ‘the world’?

In the past, against my Xu, Wei, and Zhao—three nations—so awe-inspiring and invincible.

Now confronted by a single Chu person, so incompetent!

Waste, all of them are waste!”

The rage of the Emperor of Xu was unstoppable at this moment, frightening the many ministers of the Xu State, seated in rows below, into lowering their heads.

In fact, these individuals also felt rage.

The news from the south had already arrived.

In the end, Liang could not hold the Imperial Capital, Xian’an City was breached by the Chu people, and the last emperor of Liang took his own life, meeting his demise.

This once great nation that had dominated Central State for a thousand years ultimately met its downfall.

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To be honest, the shock of this news spreading throughout ‘the world’ was indescribable.

After all, Liang had been the paramount overlord of ‘the world’ for over thirty years, and its awe and power remained palpable to this day, leaving ‘the world’ trembling in fear.

So even as Liang fell into destitution, when people looked upon it, they couldn’t help but regard it with heightened respect, still considering it among the top three hegemonic nations of ‘the world’.

But who would have thought?

This powerful nation would perish just like that.

The impact on people’s hearts was akin to mountains crumbling and tsunamis, utterly shattering conventional wisdom.

Everyone realized that with the fall of Liang, an overlord of the old era, Chu, as its successor, was like the rising morning sun, constantly emitting blinding, awe-inspiring radiance.

Under the sun of the new era, the former state hegemons of the old times seemed so glaring and jarring.

Like the dark filth melting away in the sunlight, just as snow would.

Especially given the onslaught of the Chu military, with nations collapsing one after another, none able to withstand, this trend seemed all the more evident.

The times had changed, and a new era had arrived.

Many who soberly realized this fact began to view Chu, and the future of the Nine Provinces, with a deeper understanding.

Therefore, many people of the Nine Provinces, faced with the changing times, began to actively join the movement.

Seeking out connections with Chu, the leader of the new era, they attempted to join the transformation, hoping to secure a place in the coming new world.

In practical terms,

it meant that the spies dispatched by the foreign ministry of Chu’s royal city to other nations were increasingly operating with ease, many of the nobles from these nations were happy to engage with these representatives of Chu.

Though they couldn’t directly betray their homeland and abandon everything to defect to Great Chu,

under the overwhelming trend, maintaining some level of intimacy with Chu to safeguard an exit strategy for when the overwhelming tide would arrive was a comforting option for many.

Even those aiming for a gamble straightforwardly joined the game, becoming high-level spies for Chu, starting to betray the interests of their homelands for the benefit of Chu.

For instance, among those hundred-odd officials currently seated in Xu’s court, there might be Chu spies, starting to probe for high-level information from Xu.

This point,

many in the court who had had dealings with Chu knew all too well in their hearts.

The Emperor Xu seated on the throne above knew even better.

But even though he understood, there was nothing he could do.

The trend of Chu uniting ‘the world’ had become increasingly clear and unstoppable.

Although Xu was striving to resist and even prepared to rally other nations like Zheng and Jin to make a final stand,

how effective such a fight could be was indeed uncertain.

Anyway, Emperor Xu harbored a pessimistic attitude in his heart.

All of Central State, encompassing the entire territories of Qing and Yu, along with small parts of Yong and Yang,

added up to about thirty-three and a half prefectures.

Now, out of these thirty-three and a half prefectures, Chu had already occupied twenty-one and a half.

The remaining twelve were divided among the nations of the Nine Provinces.

Out of three parts of Central State, Chu already possessed two.

And this was just the disparity in territory.

In terms of population, although Emperor Xu didn’t know the exact number of people in Chu at present,

based on the figures previously published by various nations and the territory Chu had now occupied, minus some loss due to war, an approximate number could still be determined.

That was, the population across the Qing, Yang, Yong, and Yu regions occupied by Chu, conservatively estimated, also exceeded one point eight billion, and approaching two billion wasn’t beyond possibility.

On their side, despite appearing to span five states with Xu, Tang, Xu, Jin, Zheng, and other nations, having a multitude of forces and seemingly impressive strength,

it was only a facade.

Behind that veneer, the combined population of these five nations didn’t even reach one hundred million, and might just be seventy or eighty million people, possibly just a third of Chu’s size.

And this population was continuously dwindling as Chu kept eroding their lands.

In just three years of the Northern Expedition, Chu’s strength had swelled from the second greatest in ‘the world’ to this extent.

And as someone who understood these disparities, how could the Emperor of Xu not feel despair and fear?

The more one knew, the more they realized their own insignificance.

As an emperor, if he was so fearful of Chu,

then the ministers below him were all the more so.

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