Long Long was talking to Long Hu when he suddenly heard Shi Yao knocking on the door outside.
"Long Long, come out for a moment." Listening to the master's tone, there seemed to be something strange.
So he opened the door and saw Shi Yao winking at Long Hu in the room, which meant "Have you told her yet?"
Long Long nodded first, then shook his head.
That means "I told you, but I didn't tell you completely."
Shi Yao:?
She didn't care about it anymore. Since Long Long didn't ask Long Hu to come with him to listen, she should not let Long Hu know about it yet.
After coming to a nearby quiet room and confirming that he was not being watched, Shi Yao said with a complicated expression:
"As you expected, Xizhou is at war with Beizhou."
"Ah?" Long Long was a little confused.
The current situation in the Eastern Emperor Realm means that Beizhou has to make a desperate move, but Xizhou can take it easy... Logically speaking, Beizhou should start the war first.
"As you said before." Shi Yao continued to say slowly, "Beizhou strictly seals the border and does not allow any foreign monks to enter."
"The people in Xizhou seem to think that Beizhou is planning to start another border provocation, so they are already preparing to strike first.
"Sure enough, the White Tiger Divine General has two brushes." Long Long said thoughtfully.
If two states must go to war, it is of course more advantageous to strike first than to fight back defensively. After all, the former can push the battlefield into the opposite territory, while the latter can only fight at home.
A typical example is the previous attack by Zhongzhou on Nanzhou, which almost destroyed the Lianghe Plain in the northern part of Nanzhou. The original Jiangcheng did not know how many years it would take to recover.
But the problem is that not everyone can have a strategic view of the overall situation...Who can guarantee that Beizhou will definitely attack?
Since Qi Qiaosong has been in power for a long time, there is no benefit in starting another war within Xizhou, so the power of the peace faction must be unprecedentedly strong.
Due to his ability, despite all opinions, there was almost no second choice for Xizhou to start the war against Beizhou except the White Tiger Divine General.
"It's really not the White Tiger General this time." Shi Yao finally showed an expression that said, "You sometimes make miscalculations." She rarely showed a smile, "It was the eldest princess Qi Yingzhu who went to Xizhou in person to convince the White Tiger ancestor to agree to the war.
It turned out to be that tiger... Long Long was silent for a long time and said:
"Anyway, it can be considered a help to us."
"When do you plan to go to Xizhou with me?" Shi Yao asked.
Leaving Dongzhou and going to Xizhou, it is absolutely impossible for the Dragon Clan to agree to it, which means that they can only say goodbye without saying goodbye.
Dongzhou will definitely be shaken by then, and it will be impossible to turn back.
"The sooner the better." Long Long sighed, "The clan's patience with me seems to be running out."
"Are you forced to get married?" Shi Yao chuckled.
"You can't ruin someone's reputation." Long Long replied.
"When you go to Xizhou, you have to pay attention to something." Shi Yao suddenly remembered something and said, "You must not let others recognize you."
"That's natural." Long Long agreed without thinking, then frowned and asked, "Why?"
"What do you think?" Shi Yao said meaningfully.
If your identity is discovered by Xizhou, won't the White Tiger clan be able to find dozens or hundreds of Mao girls? Not to mention, is the eldest princess Qi Yingzhu also interested in you? Maybe she can be taken directly to Zhongzhou to be a consort.
Yeah.
"I don't understand what Master is talking about." Long Long said bravely, "Let's not discuss this topic. I also ask Master to help me and Long Hu make arrangements for the preparations in Xizhou.
"Huh huh." Seeing his embarrassed expression, Shi Yao finally came up with the idea, took the Yang scroll of the World Map of Hundreds of Worlds, and left triumphantly.
Long Long waited here in Dongzhou for several days, and was suddenly summoned by the clan leader Qin Beiwang to discuss matters.
For a moment, he felt guilty that someone had seen through him before he ran away, but he soon realized that
Calm down and attend the meeting calmly.
Sure enough, at the meeting, the elders of the dragon clan from all walks of life gathered together and were discussing the current tense situation in Xizhou and Beizhou. No one knew about his plans.
"Xizhou will never start a war easily." A dragon tribe elder said, "Now that the politics of Zhongzhou are basically stable, Qi Weihong has no hope of becoming emperor. Why would Xizhou take the initiative to attack Beizhou when there is no profit to be made?
"That's right." Other elders also agreed.
"If Xizhou didn't want to start a war, why did it mobilize all the tribes and gather troops again?" Clan leader Qin Beiwang asked Youyou.
"I think it's because Beizhou has sealed off the entire territory, so Xizhou is also too vigilant." Another dragon clan elder said.
Qin Beiwang did not accept this explanation, his brows remained furrowed, and the atmosphere on the court became silent.
As a newly promoted elder, Long Long just stayed silent and watched coldly.
It is obviously unjustifiable to say that they are overly vigilant. The force deployment for a defensive counterattack and an aggressive war are completely different. If you carefully check the situation in Xizhou, you can easily judge that these Dragon Clan elders are telling lies with their eyes open.
But Long Long also knew why everyone was like this - it was just that he didn't want to fight anymore.
If Beizhou, Zhongzhou and Xizhou each have their own interests, and Nanzhou is motivated by hatred towards Zhongzhou, then Dongzhou is the only one who has neither interests nor sufficient motivation to participate in this war.
Smart people all know that when everyone is thinking nonsense, you will get burned sooner or later if you just sit back and watch. It is impossible not to take sides.
But no matter whether it is Xizhou or Dongzhou, most demon clans have nothing to do with intelligence, right?
Since everyone was war-weary, Long Long certainly would not come out to sing the opposite tune, but the patriarch Qin Beiwang refused to let him go and directly asked by name:
"Long Long, what do you think?
What do I think, are you the patriarch or am I the patriarch?
Long Long sighed in his heart for a moment and replied:
"If Xizhou really goes to war with Beizhou, what will happen to our clan?
Everyone was silent.
When everyone hears this question, their first subconscious thought is, “What does it have to do with us?
When Xizhou and Beizhou went to war, the war was concentrated in the northwest of the Eastern Emperor's Realm. Naturally, it would not affect Dongzhou. The main issue was how to express one's stance politically.
"It still depends on what Nanzhou means." Seeing that everyone was speechless, Long Long reminded him again.
Even if Xizhou attacks Beizhou, it has nothing to do with us. But if Nanzhou sees that Xizhou is contained and takes advantage of the situation to attack Zhongzhou, it has something to do with us.
As the saying goes, "The overall situation of the military is affected by one move, and the whole body is affected." It is nothing more than this.
"Not bad." Qin Beiwang nodded approvingly.
The relationship that was originally a mess was immediately made clear by Long Long's words.
If Nanzhou attacks Zhongzhou, Dongzhou must follow. Otherwise, not only will it offend its ally Nanzhou, but entering Zhongzhou may not give Dongzhou a good look due to the previous war. It can be said that the two sides are not human beings.
But if Nanzhou does not move, Dongzhou will certainly not provoke Zhongzhou. It is completely unprofitable. What is there to fight for?
Thinking of this, he looked at Long Cheng with even more admiration.