News that Northern Li had dispatched troops on a northern expedition to attack Great Yuan soon spread throughout the world through the spies of various nations.
For a time, all the great dynasties were astonished.
No one had expected Northern Li to possess such courage, taking the initiative to attack a dynasty!
Moreover, the excuse Northern Li used to send its troops was utterly laughable.
They claimed that the Great Yuan Dynasty had occupied Northern Li's territory and demanded its return.
The territory Northern Li referred to was the stretch of desert bordering its lands.
This had once been the territory of the Great White Upper Kingdom, later passing through the hands of the Loulan Ancient Kingdom, Tubo, and many other nations. However, these nations had all belonged to the nomadic peoples of the north and were later unified by the Great Yuan Dynasty.
Northern Li had been founded less than a century ago. Strictly speaking, it was Northern Li that had occupied the Great Yuan Dynasty's territory. It was merely that Northern Li lay in the Western Regions, where the situation was relatively complicated, and these desert regions were extremely barren and impoverished, so the Great Yuan Dynasty had not bothered to pursue the matter.
Yet now, Northern Li had turned around and blamed the other party. It was clearly looking for trouble.
Once word spread, it immediately drew the attention of many nations.
After all, Northern Li had developed rapidly over the past few years.
In just a few short years, it had unified the nations of the Western Regions and was riding high. Its national strength was second only to the great dynasties; it was merely that its rise had been too recent for its foundations to compare with theirs.
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