Yang Rui revealed to Emperor Xian that Young Emperor Liu Bian and Empress Dowager He were still alive in order to give Liu Xie a warning.
Although Yang Rui informed Liu Xie using the identity of Cao Cao, the existence of Liu Bian and Empress Dowager He clearly pointed to Yang Rui. When dealing with certain matters, Liu Xie probably had to consider this point.
Liu Xie was smart. Although he was unable to escape from Cao Cao's control in the end and was even forced to swallow his anger, there was a certain probability of change in the direction of the game.
For example, in the process of dealing with the country war, Liu Xie first appointed Yang Rui as the Viceroy. Even if on one hand he was threatened by Cao Cao, one had to admit that part of Liu Xie's purpose was to express goodwill to Yang Rui.
And when Yang Rui appeared in front of Liu Xie again using the identity of Cao Cao and proposed to issue an imperial edict for all the vassals to send out troops at the same time, Liu Xie agreed without even thinking about it. Actually, there was no need to think about it carefully. Liu Xie definitely had to balance the various vassals.
The consideration of the vassals' strength.
After Liu Xie gave the order to issue the imperial edict, he found out that Liu Bian and Empress Dowager He were still alive in the world. While he was in a daze, Yang Rui took the opportunity to leave.
At this time, with the teleportation formation and perhaps because it was related to the country war, the imperial edict was issued very quickly. Not long after Yang Rui teleported back to Jiwu City, a new imperial edict arrived.
In fact, as the Viceroy of the Yi Expedition, Yang Rui was bound to send out troops himself. However, the imperial edict was still sent to Yang Rui. Perhaps because of the news of Liu Bian and Empress Dowager He, Liu Xie was even more worried about him.
Perhaps because the imperial edict this time was only issued to the vassals and did not involve other groups, there was no system announcement like when Yang Rui was appointed as the Viceroy.
After receiving the imperial edict, Yang Rui knew what was going on. However, in order to further confirm that the imperial edict was indeed issued to the other vassals, Yang Rui specifically visited Liu Bei, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian.
Liu Bei, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian all took the initiative to mention the imperial edict and communicated with Yang Rui about how to do it. Although the three vassals did not fully disclose their plans, they all said that they would follow the imperial edict and send out troops to participate in the war against the Wei Nation.
Although the Han imperial family was in decline, as long as it wasn't too difficult, the feudal vassals were still willing to put on an act. As for how many troops they would send in the end, as well as the quality of the troops, it was difficult to guarantee.
Among the three vassals, Sun Jian was the most proactive. He said that he would definitely send a strong force to participate in the war and fully cooperate with Yang Rui to complete the crusade against the Dongyi.
Moreover, Sun Jian should be the most qualified. After all, the Sun family's forces were almost all in the Gangdong. Their navy and ships had already reached a considerable level a long time ago. At this time, they should have even deeper development.
Previously, the rules of the war had mentioned something about the number of people participating in the war. Yang Rui was worried that there would be a limit to the number of people participating in the war. However, from the reactions of the vassals and Emperor Xian, there should not be a limit to the number of people participating in the war. It was just that the vassals would have to prepare for the number of people participating.
They would have to prepare the necessary ships and other conditions.
This was because there was a relevant clause in the rules of the war. All the troops participating in the war had to meet the prerequisites of naval warfare. If the prerequisites were not prepared, it would not be possible to participate.
These were not things that Yang Rui had to worry about. Since the vassals did not want to bear the burden of disobeying the imperial edict, they naturally had to worry about it. It was inevitable that they would need to prepare ships and equipment. However, Yang Rui was not worried that the navy of the vassals would become stronger because of this.
When Yang Rui went to Xu Province, Liu Bei and Yuan Shu's territories, Liu Bei and Yuan Shu had proposed to Yang Rui about large-sized transport ships. However, Yang Rui rejected them with the reason that he did not have enough needs. However, it could be seen that the vassals were only doing this to complete the Han Imperial Family.
It was just an imperial edict quest. They just needed to find some transport ships to deal with it.
Under the current situation, although there was a lack of large-sized ships in the game, it should be possible for the vassals to invest in them. Only Ma Teng from the northwest and Gongsun Zan from the northeast would have a headache.
As for Cao Cao and the other vassals in the central region, it should not be difficult for them to obtain the ships needed for the war. They probably just needed Yang Rui's navy to not interfere.
Yang Rui was interested in whether Cao Cao would send out 50000 troops. Yang Rui used Cao Cao's image to make a promise to Cao Cao. As for how Cao Cao would react when he found out about this and how he would be entangled with Liu Xie, Yang Rui thought to himself.
Just thinking about it made him sweat for Liu Xie.
After confirming that the vassals had received the imperial edict and would most likely send troops to respond to the imperial edict, Yang Rui once again threw himself into preparing for the war and building his territory.
Yang Rui needed to make a lot of preparations. The construction of the turtles and ships was only one part of the preparations for the war. At the same time, Yang Rui also had to consider the safety of his territory during the war.
Fortunately, the Liegeman's loyalty in Yang Rui's territory was very high. There was basically no need to worry about internal strife. As long as Chen Liu, Xu Province, the plains, and other important areas were properly defended against external threats, it would be enough to prevent the other vassals from threatening them.
It was not that Yang Rui had not thought of raising the flag of war against external forces, like the Yellow Turban Uprising and the heroes against Dong Shi, pulling out most of the vassals. However, compared to the Yellow Turban Uprising and Dong Zhuo Uprising, the war did not pose a threat to the Han Dynasty. At the same time, the war did not affect the interests of the vassals. Yang Rui did not think that he had the prestige and ability to pull all the vassals together.
Therefore, Yang Rui could only prepare for the defense. He tried his best to accurately dispatch the troops in various key areas to speed up the upgrade process of the navy, checkpoints, and other equipment. At the same time, Yang Rui also visited the soldiers in various areas whenever he was free to raise the morale of the soldiers.
There was no room for tricks in the defense of the territory. At this time, the weakness of Yang Rui's insufficient number of generals was highlighted again. It was quite difficult to make ends meet, but it was difficult to make any new gains for the time being.
However, in terms of the war, Yang Rui thought of another factor to win, and that was to start from the inside of the Nihon civilization.
Yang Rui had spies like Wako Uesugi and Takeda Nobutaka in the Nihon civilization. At the same time, he also had Bocai and the other Yellow Turban Tribes who had already entered the Nihon civilization. If he could make use of these forces, they might play an unexpected role in the war.
(To be continued.)
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