Munitions Empire

Chapter 1078: 1000 anxious King of Qin

In the capital of Qin Country, Wuyang, within the Royal Palace, a joyful scene was unfolding. Qin Country had achieved a phased victory in the war against Shu Country, and the trade route between the Great Tang Empire and Qin Country had been restored, which was certainly a double blessing for Qin Country.

However, the mood of King of Qin, Qin Duo, was not that great, as he was troubled by two matters. The first issue was that the Great Tang Empire clearly had the capacity to resolve the transport line issue, yet they let Qin Country take the risk to attack Shu Country, leading him to feel that things were not as straightforward as they seemed; the second issue was that the territorial dispute in the northern part of Shu Country with Chu Country had indeed planted some hidden dangers for Qin Country.

The first issue was something that Qin Duo and several of his confidants realized after the fact: The civil war within Dahua Empire had cut off the trade route between Qin Country and Tang Country, but in reality, the Great Tang Empire always had the ability to resolve this issue.

If the Great Tang Empire were willing, they could have launched a missile attack early on, thereby forcing Dahua Empire to restore the railway transport line—just like they did recently.

Yet the Great Tang Empire did not do so in advance, but instead turned a deaf ear, leaving Qin Country to deal with the transport line issue on its own, ultimately directly promoting a series of decisions by Qin Country to declare war on Shu Country.

This meant the Great Tang Empire was openly coercing Qin Country into declaring war on Shu Country, which is to say, the Great Tang Empire was involved in the strategic decision-making of Qin Country’s campaign against Shu Country.

Any country’s decision-makers would be wary of such occurrences: other countries actually being able to deeply influence one’s own national strategic decisions, does this not mean that one is being led by the nose?

What concerned King Ying Duo even more was actually the various implications behind this event: Why did the Great Tang Empire want Qin Country to invade Shu Country in the first place? What exactly did the Great Tang Empire want to gain from the war between Qin and Shu?