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Chapter 735: Chapter 324: Alliance and Marriage_3

Under the influence of the spiritual woman, the original rebellious hearts would instantly be reduced by more than half.

Those gathered rebels would also give up fighting against Chu State because of their faith.

The Hegu county, which might have needed another five to six years of turmoil, would instantly stabilize and become a solid foundation for Chu State.

All these are the influence of a spiritual woman.

Besides the influence, the spiritual woman, who is the faith leader of millions of Snow Plains Nomads and a practitioner of Great Mohism, has top-notch Cultivation in this world.

How strong her specific strength is, is not very clear from the information Lu Yuan has at hand.

But Great Mohism has been passed down for ten thousand years, and its origin comes from myths. Even if it has declined in recent years, its foundation is definitely stronger than ordinary Inborn Cultivation.

As the core of this faith, the spiritual woman’s Cultivation is definitely at the Inborn level and may even be among the stronger ones.

With such a person joining Chu State, it would be like adding wings to a tiger, directly increasing its Qi Fate by three points.

“By the time I marry the spiritual woman, Chu State’s Innate Combat Power will directly increase to as many as seven people.

By then, even if we conquer Su Country and Nanhai Country, and annex Lingnan, Chu State will only have eight counties.

No, Xiangyang, Hegu, and Tonghai County in Su Country are only half a county each in size.

So, in reality, Chu State only has six and a half counties in its territory.”

Lu Yuan calculates the benefits of having the spiritual woman and cannot help but feel exhilarated.

Originally, with Chu State’s strength, swallowing just Hanzhong County was almost the limit.

But if they ally with the Snow Plains Nomads and marry the spiritual woman, it would increase Chu State’s strength by thirty percent, allowing them to quickly expand their territory.

If they can really swallow Su Country and Nanhai Country, coupled with Hanzhong County which they are about to seize now, and digest these three and a half counties’ land, Great Chu will become a solid hegemony, with its strength and resources directly crushing Ning Country.

By that time, after recuperating for ten years, they would be able to launch an eastern expedition, wipe out Ning Country, and unify Yangzhou.

In the face of this vast prospect, the final bargaining chip of the barbarians, the five hundred Divine Pills, seems insignificant.

Divine Pills are actually elixirs, made from the Spiritual Blood of the Divine Blood Variant species, just with different names in the Snowy Wilderness and the Nine Provinces.

Since the White Phoenix Temple offered tribute, Chu State’s elixir reserves amounted to 1,200 pills.

In the past few years, Jianchuan, Chilih, and Kunhai countries have also consecutively offered dozens of elixirs, plus the elixirs produced by Chu State itself, amounting to about one hundred more.

Therefore, Chu State’s total number of elixirs stands at 1,300, and it continues to increase steadily, no longer considered scarce.

Even if they added another 500 pills at this point, it wouldn’t make much difference.

However, with five hundred elixirs, an Inborn Grandmaster could be trained. By giving these many elixirs to Chu State, the Snow Plains Nomads were practically giving Chu State a future Inborn Grandmaster.

This was not a small gift after all.

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A spiritual woman would equal the spiritual belief of the barbarians and an Inborn Combat Power.

Five hundred divine pills would equal a future Inborn.

‘These three treasures are indeed precious. The Snow Plain Barbarians must have bled heavily to offer these.’

Lu Yuan was pondering, and couldn’t help but have a deeper understanding of the difficult situation the barbarians were in now.

Silver and divine pills may be considered external possessions.

But the spiritual woman, who could be seen as the core of the barbarians’ spiritual beliefs, was also offered as a gift.

The situation of the barbarians at this time could be imagined.

Over the years, Lu Yuan has been paying close attention to the war between the barbarians and Zhou People, and often hears news from that side being passed back.

Almost every autumn, just before winter, the barbarians from the snowy plains all gather together and form a huge army to invade the Zhou Country, in order to plunder enough supplies for winter.

Similarly, every spring, after winter, they also gather together to invade the Zhou Country and wage war to replenish the tribe’s meager supplies after a winter’s consumption.

In these wars, there are often news of Zhou Country’s county cities and Fu cities being captured by the barbarians.

Even the Hexi county city was captured the year before last.

In just over four years of war, over a hundred cities in the Hexi and Longxi counties of Zhou Country have been raided and plundered by the barbarians.

The number of civilians who were robbed, slaughtered, and killed during this period has also exceeded one million, and the death toll of soldiers is in the hundreds of thousands.

There is a deep-seated hatred between the people of Zhou and the barbarians.

However, while the people of Zhou suffered heavy losses, the barbarians as the aggressors suffered even greater losses.

In the reports sent back from the Imperial Court and the news released by the people of Zhou, there were often words of annihilating the barbarians in battle, tens of thousands of them being defeated and slaughtered.

Even Zhou people occasionally sent people into the snowy plains to find the barbarian tribes and counterattack.

In these proactive attacks, they achieved quite a few victories, often reporting back the annihilation of various tribes and the pillaging of tens of thousands of people, cattle, and sheep.

If we summarize these great victories, it is shocking to discover that in just over four years, the number of barbarian soldiers annihilated by Zhou has exceeded 1.5 million.

Like the proactive attacks of Zhou people, the plunder of their barbarian tribes has led to a population of about one million.

In this war alone, the barbarians have lost more than 2.5 million people, with the majority being men of fighting age.

These figures only account for the population losses resulting from war.

And what about the casualties suffered outside of war?

It is important to remember that the barbarians have taken such a desperate and even life-threatening approach to invading Zhou Country just to obtain enough supplies to ensure their own survival.

During the floods in the sixth year of Shenwu, and the several years of cold winters that followed, how much of their population was lost?

One could argue that the non-war casualties may be of the same order of magnitude.

After pondering a while, I realized that the barbarians living on the snowy plains have lost nearly 5 million people in just four or five years.

Such a large population loss must be taking a heavy toll on them, even if they have a deep heritage.

Does the remaining barbarians still number in the tens of millions?

Even if they do, after losing so much vitality, they must face the continuing disasters and the increasingly oppressive Zhou people as well as a worsening food and supplies crisis within their tribes.

If they do not make a change under such internal and external pressure and seek a way to break the deadlock,

Then I’m afraid that these barbarians, who have a history of millions of years, would not be far from the day of their demise.

It’s no wonder that under such a threat, they are willing to go all out and send out a spiritual woman, just to seek help from the Chu State.’

After weighing the situation, Lu Yuan completely understood the barbarians’ thoughts and had no doubts left in his heart.

As for the proposal put forward by the barbarians,

He looked down at the five messengers looking up at him expectantly, a slight smile appeared on his face, and he immediately spoke with moral righteousness: “The people of Zhou are tyrannical. They have previously sent troops to ravage the people of Jiangnan. Now they have engaged in border conflicts and slaughtered the people of the snowy plains.

Such despicable acts and oppressors are hated by the heroes of the world.

Thus, Wei Country in the north border attacked Zhou’s Shuofang County.

Qingzhou Liang Country attacked Zhou’s Henan County.

And now your esteemed envoy has come, and the Great Chu State is a benevolent and righteous nation, we will naturally do our part for the people of the world.

We agree to form marital alliances with the people of the snowy plains and establish an alliance.

From this day on, we will dispatch troops to march northward to attack Zhou Country, to uphold the Heavenly Path and fulfill the alliance promise.”