Just when Lin Yue racked his brains and calculated with the king of alien beasts, just when Sanxiao stayed in Huadu to receive guidance, the world turned again.

After the end of the Western Shu War, the Shu army, which was supposed to go east to conquer the imperial court, was stumped. The first was the newly established Suzaku Dynasty, which entered the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty and swallowed most of the territory of the Song army. Also along the Shunan Road to the north, directly take the Shuhou base camp Rongcheng.

There are only three avenues that can allow the army to enter Shu, Wuguan in the north, Tianfang City in the east, and Shunan Road in the south. Tianfang City is in the easternmost part of Shu, surrounded by mountains, it is the throat road in and out of Shu, called Tianfang, it is taken from the meaning of each side of the sky, if it is an ordinary few people, it can still go over the mountains and mountains, but the army of the imperial court wants to enter the whole army, it must go to Tianfang City. Since the battle of Tianfang City, the Taishi Demon Cloud Sea soldiers were defeated and retreated, although they could no longer attack Shudi, but there were still 100,000 troops after all.

As for the southern Shunan Road, it is also a trade route connecting Shu and southern Xinjiang, but it is also not suitable for the army, but it is much more spacious than other places, and the messy southern camp was also marched from here. Although the strength of the Suzaku Dynasty was not much, it was like a bamboo under the leadership of the line, and once hit the Qingxia Pass at the bottom of the Qingfeng Gorge, which was only a stone's throw away from Rongcheng.

Fortunately, the main force of the Shu army retreated and beat the Suzaku Dynasty back. However, the other party seemed to have been prepared for a long time and was not very in love with the battle, so he just made contact and retreated. Then he tightly guarded the southern section of Shunan Road, so that the Marquis of Shu would be blind, because as long as the main force of his army left, the troops of the Suzaku Dynasty could go north at any time to threaten his hometown. It is not easy to recapture Shunan Province. Shu Road is difficult, not only to come in, but also to go out, it is almost impossible to defeat the Suzaku Dynasty that came out of the mountains in Shu South Road.

The Marquis of Shu also asked the court for help many times, after all, it was his own business to fight life and death within the Great Zhou, but the Suzaku Dynasty was a foreign power, and when the king was a king, could he watch his princes being wiped out by foreign races? But the 100,000 troops of the Demon Cloud Sea only adhered to their own defense line, and had no intention of supporting at all, but gave up the Shu and Song lands, and let the Suzaku Dynasty toss them.

In this matter, Mo Yunhai is actually very entangled himself, the strength of the imperial court is not much in so many years of consumption, and the financial resources are also stretched, and the Shu army is too strong to compete. It can only be consumed with the help of aliens. From the standpoint of the state, this is tantamount to asking outsiders to beat their own people, which is tantamount to luring wolves into the house. But from the standpoint of the royal family, it is not beneficial to the country to let two powerful enemies kill each other, but it is beneficial to the royal family.

Today's southwest of the Great Zhou presents a three-legged situation, the eastern expedition of the Marquis of Shu will be beaten by the Vermilion Bird Dynasty to hit the hometown of Rongcheng, the Moyun Sea will enter the west to attack Shu, the Vermilion Bird Dynasty will turn around and go north to hit the Central Plains, if it can't enter the defense line of Tianfang City, the main force of the Moyun Sea will be eaten by the Shu army and the Vermilion Bird Dynasty. And now the Three Dangers Country was wantonly slaughtered by the Demon Cloud Sea, this army of more than 100,000 people is also the last hole card of the people of Southern Xinjiang, they must maximize their interests, whether they continue to attack Shu or attack the Central Plains, it will be a consumption, and then let the third party pick up the cheap. Therefore, the main force of the Shu army retreated, and the Vermilion Bird Dynasty also retreated.

The three sides did not dare to strike first, and at this moment, another group of people came to kill Shudi. Shu Di didn't expect that in addition to the three armies of Southern Xinjiang, Shu Di, and the Imperial Court, there was also one that took advantage of the fire to rob all the way, that is, the Duke of Jin was slippery.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the highest ruler was the king, and then the prince, the marquis, the uncle, the king, and the scholar were sent in turn.

From the king down is the duke, and the duke is divided into the state duke, the famous duke, and the lieduke. Guogong is the title of the royal family, and the king's brothers are named Guogong, such as Cai Guogong, Yue Guogong, etc., and then the name of the duke, that is, the single word duke, which is the highest title of the foreign surname of the non-royal family.

The imperial court found the two strongest among the many princes, the north was the Marquis of Jin Chonghua, and the south was Wei Gong Wendu, who were promoted to the Duke of Jin and the Duke of Wei respectively. Ordering them to be the chief of the princes, they can exercise the power of rewards and punishments on behalf of the king, and they can even attack other princes in the name of their ministers, which is naturally to provoke the internal strife of the princes.

Jin and Shu are not far apart, and they have long coveted this fertile country of abundance, but they are nameless, and they are afraid of the military strength of Shu, coupled with the drought of the past few years, so they have been holding back. This time, not only was the Vermilion Bird Dynasty chasing and fighting, but there was also the Demon Master waiting for an opportunity to move, and Jindi was ready to take advantage of this opportunity to get a piece of the pie.

So an army of 150,000 attacked Shu from Wuguan in the north. The Marquis of Shu was isolated and helpless, so he could only leave 50,000 troops in Qingxia Pass to prevent the Suzaku Dynasty from sneaking up on Rongcheng, leaving 80,000 troops in the defense line of Tianfang City to monitor the Demon Cloud Sea camp, and then raising 100,000 troops to the north to meet the Jin army, and he also held back his fire under the Yushan Gate in Shu. The Sea of Demons has the backing of Butterfly Valley, the Vermilion Bird Dynasty is supported by the Nine Stars, and the means of Yushan are still somewhat limited, and you dare to come over and send him to death as a Duke of Jin?

Facts have proved that he can be named the chief of the princes, and the Duke of Jin is not without hole cards, not only the military is strong, but also a few monks who have taken refuge, and the battle of Jin and Shu dragged on for nearly a year. And the Suzaku Dynasty in the south of Shunan Province took the opportunity to go north, and the battle situation in Shu can really be said to be two flowers, which also delayed the time for Jin and Shu to divide the victory and defeat in disguise.

It would be really great if the Demon Cloud Sea also joined in at this time, but the Demon Cloud Sea showed rare restraint, because his eyes were attracted by an incident that happened in the north.

The Ma family asked for the closure of the public society. This is a major event that has not been seen in thousands of years.

The Ma family is the largest family in the north, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is even the largest family in the Great Zhou. Due to historical reasons, the real Ma family does not exist, the Ma family in Youcheng is composed of dozens of families of different bloodlines, and they never intermarry with each other, that is, they marry a woman surnamed Ma, and the man also has to be rich, and over time there is the largest family in the world.

And the Ma family has been operating in the north for two thousand years, not to mention the Great Zhou Dynasty, that is, the previous three or four dynasties did not have the power of the Ma family, and they only knew that there were horses but did not know that there was a king in the north.

The monarchs of the past dynasties also have many gifts for the Ma family, and the internal forces of the Ma family are too intertwined, nearly eight adults in the ghost city are surnamed Ma, in order to facilitate the distinction, the same family will take a similar location before the Ma surname, such as the Ma family in the back street, the Ma family under the bridge, the Ma family on the left river, etc., among which the three most powerful branches are, Dongcheng, Nancheng, and Xicheng.

This time, it was not the Dongcheng, Nancheng, and Xicheng families who asked for the seal, but the Ma family on the left river bank that was not famous. All the forces understand that this family is estimated to be the product of compromise that was pushed out as puppets, if there are only two in the East City, South City, and West City, they will definitely be divided into two sides, but if there are three families, it will become a strange balance, and they can only negotiate to launch the puppet, so that everyone will be better.

The Ma family became a prince, which meant that the first family became the first force, and in the north they surpassed the chief of the princes, the Duke of Jin, and throughout the Great Zhou, they also replaced the first prince Shudi.

Although I don't know why the Ma family, which has been outside of Game of Thrones for 2,000 years, chose to get involved at this time, there is one person who is more anxious than the sea of magic clouds, and that is Ying Rui, who has just become the Marquis of Qi.

Yingrui is located in Cang, Tang, Kang, Ba and other state capitals. Although these places have been devastated by the war, after two years of steady development, the power of Qi Hou has been initially formed, and only the Ma family in northern Xinjiang and Luhou Chai Yaozu can be compared.

Now that the Ma family has changed from a family to a prince, the first thing to bear the brunt of is his power, as for the Yun, Lu, Hua, Gao, Tai and other states under Lu Hou, half of them have already been lost, if it weren't for his daughter Chai Shengnan still garrisoning the east, I'm afraid the loss would be even worse.

Although Ying Rui is a nobleman, he was also from the grassroots in his early years, and his family has nothing except Mingju, what is the comparison with the family of these two thousand years, and in his eagerness, the staff came up with an idea, and he also had to use the family to deal with the family. Under the rule of Qi Hou, the largest family was the Fire-Eyed Sun family, which was as famous as the Ma family among the four major families.

But why did the Sun family help themselves and the Ma family to become enemies? Simple, because he had been busy with his career, Ying Rui really didn't take care of his own problems, and the staff's suggestion was only two words: marriage.

Even the nouveau riche Ying Rui has nothing to make the Sun family look at, but if the daughter of the Sun family becomes the main family of Qi Hou, it means that the future Qi Hou family has the blood of the Sun family.

In fact, if the Sun family wants to set up their own temple, it is very easy, but there are only thousand-year-old families in the world, and there are no thousand-year-old dynasties, they don't understand why the Ma family wants to give up this advantage and play this game in person, but they don't plan to do it. Marriage is a good plan, not only to be able to participate in the game, but also to stand on the shore without getting yourself wet. In the future, Yingrui will soar, and there will naturally be benefits for the Sun family. But if Ying Rui is completely defeated, they will lose nothing more than a daughter and a son-in-law. No one will do anything to the Sun family, and it has been like this for two thousand years. But after the matter was finalized, the candidate proposed by Ying Rui made the person in charge of the Sun family frown.

With the Ma family's self-reliance, winning the marriage of grandchildren and other operations, Chai Shengnan, who guards the east, is also a little panicked, his own family (Lu Hou) can't be counted on, and these forces in her hands are not enough to deal with any family, the power of the princes is getting bigger and bigger, if one day the troops in their hands can't play a threatening role, and the brand of the court's righteousness is left, then the north will really be chaotic.