Chapter 1: Ascend the throne as king

In the 16th year of Deng Wang'an, the king of Deng'an of Nanyang passed away. He died at the fifth son of the king and the Marquis of Xinye.

King Deng’s capital, Wancheng.

A young man about sixteen years old was wearing a mourning uniform and stood quietly on the city tower of the Wancheng Royal Palace.

This person is Deng Sheng. Sixteen years ago, Deng Sheng accidentally traveled to this world. At the same time, he also came with a summoning system called Contestant and He can summon civil and military officials of Chinese history. However, this system is a bit troublesome. Deng Sheng must ascend the throne and become the king of Deng State to activate it, otherwise it would be a decoration. After sixteen years of planning, Deng Sheng finally defeated his brothers and successfully obtained the position of crown prince. And tomorrow it will be the throne ceremony.

After sixteen years, Deng Sheng slowly learned about this world. This was an era similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China. There were great powers competing for hegemony, and there were many small countries. Those with a little strength dared to be king.

This world is actually very similar to China in some history. For example, there are also Yao, Shun, Yu, Yu, and Yu established the Xia Dynasty, which opened the era of family life, as well as the existence of Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States Period. In the end, Qin Shihuang unified the world and opened the chapter of feudal dynasty. However, after the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, history went astray. After the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, it was still the Chu and Han Dynasty competing for power. However, the King of Western Chu who refused to cross the Yangtze River was not defeated. Instead, he fought a bloody road at Gaixia, retreated back to Pengcheng, reorganized his troops, and confronted Liu Bang in the Central Plains.

In the Battle of Gaixia, the vitality of Chu and Han countries was greatly damaged and could no longer suppress the entire world. Therefore, the nobles of the six countries occupied the counties and counties and became kings.

Deng State was also a product of that era. However, the founding king of Deng State was neither aristocrat of the six countries nor the leader of the peasant uprising army at that time, but a small noble in Nanyang County. The Chu and Han countries were in power, but because the two sides were evenly matched, no one could do anything to each other, so they had to stick to their respective territories. Han State retreated to Guanzhong, Bashu, Chu State retreated to Pengcheng, Huainan, and the world rose up in a while. In order to win allies, the Chu and Han State emerged. The Deng Kingdom was established under such circumstances. At that time, the founding king of Deng Kingdom, King Deng Xuan, took advantage of the chaos in the world and formed a team to occupy Nanyang County. Because Nanyang County was close to Guanzhong, King Liu Bang of Han sent envoys to enthrone the title. King Deng Xuan also followed the flow and became a vassal of the Han Kingdom and passed to Deng Sheng. Deng Kingdom had been established for 223 years and had experienced eighteen kings. Deng Sheng was the 19th king of Deng Kingdom.

Although the Chu and Han countries are still strong, they can no longer suppress the world. After more than two hundred years, many of the vassal states of the Chu and Han countries have risen and become powerful countries in the world. For example, today, the powerful countries that are capable of competing for the world include Chu, Han, Qin, Qi, Yan, Zhao, Wei, Wu, and at the same time there are Deng, Jing, Yue, Dai, Chen, Zhongshan, Shu, Nan, Lu, Song, Xiang, Han, among which Dai, Zhongshan, is in the north, neighboring Zhao, Yan, Chen, Han, Lu, Song, Chen, Chen, Han, Lu, Song, Central Plains, Jing, Deng, Xiang, Jingzhou, Yue, the South Country, the South Country, the South Barbarians, and Shu in Shu.

He will ascend the throne tomorrow. Deng Sheng’s main task now is to clearly understand the strength of Deng State.

Deng State occupied 36 counties in Nanyang. Later, Shu State rose and threatened the Han Dynasty's Hanzhong. With the acquiesce of the Han State, Deng State occupied the nine counties of Shangyong. Now Deng State has two counties, a total of 45 counties, known as forty-five prefectures, with 400,000 households, more than 1.6 million people, and more than 1.5 million soldiers. It is strong among many small countries. You must know that the eight powerful countries have more than 500,000 soldiers and strong strength. Among the small countries, Lu, Song, Jing, and Chen State are as strong as Deng State, and they have about 150,000 to 200,000 soldiers. South Korea, Dai State, Yue State, Nan State, Xiang State, and Shu State are sparsely populated. The troops were relatively small, and the Yue Kingdom was better. It had at least about 80,000 troops, and the others were more awkward, all of which were about 50,000, of which South Korea was the least. It was logically located in the Central Plains and occupied the twenty counties of Yingchuan, which are known as the center of the world. It has a large population, but South Korea values ​​literature and has many families. It was surrounded by two powerful countries, Han and Wei, resulting in the fact that the entire South Korea had only 30,000 troops. It was not enough. It was even worse than Dai Kingdom in the north. Although the Dai Kingdom was sparsely populated, it was neighboring the Hu people and had a strong folk custom. Although there were only more than 30,000 troops and less than 40,000 troops, it had extremely strong combat power. Even the two powerful countries, Yan and Zhao, dared not provoke them casually.

However, that was the Deng State in the past. The strength of Deng State has declined. The reason is that Deng Sheng's father Deng Wangan. When Deng Wangan ascended the throne, Deng State was still strong. He defeated Jing State in the south. Later, Deng An expanded and planned to expand his territory, strengthen Deng State's strength, and fought for the dominance of the world. So he turned his attention to South Korea, which had a large population, fertile land, but few troops. He formulated the strategic policy of annexing South Korea, suppressing Jing, Chen, wining over Lu, Song, and Wei. As the saying goes, the ideal is full, and the reality is skinny. Just as Deng An led a hundred thousand troops into South Korea, and the momentum was broken. Zhu surrounded the capital of South Korea, Yangdi, but because of its sharpness, it was feared by the Han and Wei. They did not want to see a powerful Deng State, so Han State left Wu Pass and threatened Deng State's capital Wancheng. Wei sent troops to Yangdi to rescue Han, so Deng State was defeated, and nearly half of the 100,000 troops were reduced, and its strength was greatly damaged. It was also because of this war that Deng An ended in depression. Today, Deng State, due to that war, directly made enemies with Han State, Wei State, and South Korea. In addition to the enemy in the south, Jing State was enemies on all sides. In addition to the troops guarding the four directions, Deng State could take less than 50,000 troops.

After one night, the throne ceremony was held grandly. Deng Sheng wore a black royal robe and a nine-bead crown on his head, and ascended to the throne that symbolized the ruler of Deng State.

"Meet my king, I will never last forever!" Deng Sheng officially took charge of Deng State under the mountain call of his ministers.

"All my dear friends!" Deng Sheng raised his hand slightly.

After the ministers stood up, Prime Minister Cai Feng handed over the seal of King Deng to Deng Sheng, which was considered to have completed the entire throne ceremony.
Chapter completed!