At the desk in the Hall of Diligent Governance, Zhou Xu flipped through intelligence on the three powers Great Zhou currently had to face, a trace of worry showing on his face.
Of the three powers, the North Sea Dragon Clan needed no further explanation. It was the most difficult one to deal with, so he would set it aside for now.
As for the Orc Alliance, there were simply too many uncertain factors.
At the same time, according to the intelligence they had, the Orc King's tribe was far away from them, while the few Orc tribes near their Great Zhou's new territories had all suffered at their hands before.
Even beasts were like that. Take wolf packs, for example. Under normal circumstances, they would only mark targets weaker than themselves as prey and would not provoke beings stronger than they were.
If even beasts understood that, there was even less need to explain the Orcs.
Under such circumstances, if their Great Zhou forces took the initiative and went to war with the Orc Alliance, wouldn't that be asking for trouble?
Not to mention, if you were going to ask for trouble, there ought to be some benefit in it.
The Orcs were so poor. After fighting them tooth and nail, surely they weren't going to do it merely to expand the Undead troops' ranks, were they?
Their Great Zhou was not centered around the Undead troops. Here, the Undead troops were a functional force. Doing this would be a total loss.
And that was without even considering how to handle the territory they captured after defeating the Orcs.
Garrisoning it would increase the pressure on their troop numbers, while developing it would increase the pressure on their finances. In short, it would burn money.
But if they simply