Therefore, there really weren't any major conflicts between Chu State and Liang within the short term, within the recent decades, before the cold wave fully descended.
Previously, Lu Yuan hadn't considered launching a Northern Expedition immediately after unifying Yangzhou.
His original plan was also to recuperate and observe the situation in the North slowly over several decades.
However, even though Liang knew that Chu would not immediately engage in conflict, it planned to pull Ning Country into an alliance with Jiangnan as a precaution, to establish a foothold in Yangzhou.
In the future, even if Chu wanted to take advantage of the situation when Liang was exhausted from battling other countries and launch a Northern Expedition against Liang,
Having Ning Country there could at least buy Liang some buffer time.
Not much was needed, just a delay of one or two years would suffice.
