Just as Lu Yuan was starting to worry about the insufficient troops at his disposal,
the Monarch and Ministers of Zheng Kingdom, far away in Yuzhou, also began to worry endlessly about their own Altars of Soil and Grain.
Compared to Zhao, Wei, and Liang—the three nations fiercely resisting Chu State—Yuzhou, where Zheng Kingdom was placed between two of Chu State's Military Expeditions, was just as heated.
However, Zheng's national strength paled in comparison to the other great powers of the Nine Provinces.
The population of the other dominant states each boasted over twenty to thirty or forty million people, and also more.
As for Liang, with a population of seventy million, it had long stood as the world's foremost hegemon.
But when it came to Zheng, ever since the civil strife and the split, the reunified Zheng had seen a significant decline in power, no longer the once dominant force of a single Province.
Back then, the national population barely totaled twenty million.
