A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

After Emperor Qianming took control of the court, he faced a situation where war raged everywhere.

The countries are so enraged that even if he were to step in to mediate, no one would listen to him.

The current Great Qian Empire has no way to command other countries. Relying solely on the power of the Great Qin Empire, it can only influence a ring of countries surrounding the Great Qian.

Further afield, it's simply beyond our reach.

In the past, when the Han and Qian dynasties were able to launch expeditions, they did not deploy many local troops. Instead, they relied more on allied forces gathered from various vassal states, and their provisions were mostly sourced locally.

With all nations at war, who cares about the Great Qian Dynasty?

Without the support of these overseas vassal states, the Qin Dynasty had no strength to launch expeditions.

Emperor Qianming was aware of this, and he knew that the most important thing now was to rebuild the prestige of the Great Qian Dynasty.

Emperor Qianming issued an edict, bestowing upon the Duke of Yan the title of Prince of Yan.

An Shou Gong was King An.

The hereditary title of duke was directly transformed into the title of king.

Although it doesn't have any real impact on them, it just sounds nicer, but there's no need for them to refuse.

Emperor Qianming's bestowal of this title made many of the newly appointed princes feel much more comfortable.

Who can understand the pain of having a duke stand above all those princes?!

But they didn't have the guts to bring down the duke.

Now that we're all kings, even if you're powerful and stand above me, I can't say anything.

It sounds much better than having a duke standing above them.

After the Wei family accepted this reward, the flames of war throughout the known world subsided considerably.

They were all waiting for the Wei family's attitude. If the Wei family really came forward to ask for a ceasefire, they would have no choice but to stop fighting and wait for a new opportunity unless they could all work together.

Although the Wei family is powerful enough to suppress the world, it cannot suppress the world indefinitely.

When the spring rebounds, everything will be settled.

After accepting the reward, the Wei family continued to live a secluded life and made no comment on the war between the vassal states.

Emperor Qianming sighed, and the feudal lords all breathed a sigh of relief. They all knew that the Wei family had tacitly accepted the current situation.

Emperor Qianming and several insightful princes realized that this seemed to be intentionally pushed by the Wei family, who were hoping for the emergence of a unique emperor in the world.

But this is clearly a bad thing for the Wei family. An emperor who can swallow the whole world would absolutely not tolerate the existence of the Wei family, and he also has the ability to destroy the Wei family.

With the tacit approval of the Wei family, the various states were completely freed from their constraints, and all the countries were moving towards a single goal: to unify the world.

Even if this goal is out of reach due to the limits of dominance.

But they must continue working toward this goal, for unifying the world has been ingrained in the very bones of the Chinese nation.

Emperor Qianming pondered for three days and three nights in his study, and finally, as the ruler of the Great Qian Empire and the leader of the Chinese civilization, he officially announced that the alliance signed by the various countries in those years was officially null and void, allowing each country to expand on its own.

In the same year, he issued an imperial edict as the Emperor of Qin to prepare for war.

He wanted to bring all the countries surrounding the Great Qian Empire under his control and expand his sphere of influence.

At the same time, domestically, the government actively promoted education, cultivating generations of scholars and storing up a sufficient reserve of officials for the expansion of the Qin Empire.

The commotion caused by the Qin Empire startled the surrounding states, and they tacitly ceased their wars and formed a coalition.

The saying goes, "If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold," meaning they couldn't just watch as the Great Qian Dynasty swallowed them up one by one.

Some kings even suggested that the allied forces should directly invade Daqian before Daqian was ready.

If they could conquer several prefectures and counties of Daqian, given the wealth of the Qin Empire, it would be enough to feed each of their countries, and they would have more national strength to resist Daqian's attacks.

This suggestion was endorsed by most of the allied nations, and together they amassed an army of 150 million. The alliance, acting as a vassal state alliance of the Han Empire, declared war on the Qin Empire, which had replaced the Han Empire.

Emperor Qianming had anticipated this; from the moment he issued the decree to prepare for war, he knew that these vassal states would not sit idly by and wait for their doom.

He had sent his trusted confidant Liu Yu to the border early on to command the border army.

However, the Qin Empire had been at peace for a long time, and the military preparedness on its borders was no longer what it used to be.

Moreover, he did not expect that these nations, after forming an alliance, would actually be operating under the banner of the Han Dynasty.

However, he trusted Liu Yu, and since the other party was not a direct descendant of the Han Dynasty, this could not shake Liu Yu in the slightest.

Liu Yu's outstanding combat prowess and command abilities were fully revealed.

He always managed to seize opportunities precisely, fully utilizing all his advantages to drive the Allied forces into a series of defeats with inferior forces.

After Emperor Qianming sent the large army organized within the country to the border, he directly led the army out to fight and conquered the surrounding kingdoms of Changsha, Liao, and Huainan.

Then they requested an imperial decree from Emperor Qianming to change these places from kingdoms to prefectures and counties.

Emperor Qianming was overjoyed and named the place Gezhou, which is derived from both the Gobi Desert and the military.

These three kingdoms were divided into prefectures and counties, and a group of officials were transferred from within the country to govern them.

The military might of the Qin Empire shocked the nations overseas.

The fact that these three countries still exist today is enough to prove that they are not among the weakest.

Each of the states that survived nearly a century of conquest possessed considerable strength, yet even so, three of them were directly destroyed once the Qin Empire began its expansion.

As expected of the only empire in the Chinese civilization sphere, its strength far surpasses that of those vassal states.

The conflicts between countries have intensified, especially in Golden State.

That place was once home to an equally powerful empire. With the advanced technology and superior breeds they brought, it's possible that an empire no less powerful than the Great Qian could be born here.

Whoever can first unify the former Roman territory will have the potential to become the ruler of Jinzhou and northern Huozhou, and together with the Zhuolu Tuzhou of the Great Qian Empire, become one of the world's two great empires.

The war between Shuizhou, Muzhou, and Huozhou intensified. Logically, given the potential of each state, each state could give rise to a vast empire.

Given the current transportation situation, the future will likely be characterized by several large empires ruling over various states.

This situation will continue until the empire is able to rule across states.

But this is on the premise that no other states interfere when the empire is unified.

Just now, Shenzhou's hand has already reached out to Tuzhou; if Jinzhou is quickly unified, their hand can also reach out to Tuzhou and Huozhou.

Whichever state, Shuizhou or Muzhou, unifies first will be able to expand into the other's territory.

This is a race against time.