Next, while I was recuperating in peace, I kept an eye on the situation in the court. The rebellion of the Feng family army caught the imperial court off guard, and they saw that they were approaching and occupied Dachengzhou County south of the Huang River. The world is in turmoil, the displaced people are everywhere, and the Yun family's business is mainly in the south, which is greatly affected, and the normal transportation and information channels are cut off, and only relying on the hidden forces in various places to transmit news is slightly insufficient than before. At the same time, news of the defeat of the Northern Xinjiang Army came from the DPRK and China. All of a sudden, the court was in an uproar, and the 20,000 elite soldiers led by King Jing were an elite army under the former Silent Surprise Cloud, and they were invincible and invincible with Silent Surprise Cloud, but they didn't expect to change the boss, but they were defeated in Northern Xinjiang, the boss was killed, and the 20,000 elite soldiers lost ten. King Jing suffered from the enemy on his back, the Feng family army was approaching day by day, and the people of Chenxing were getting closer and closer, and they actually hoarded troops on the north bank of Yushui, which was only a river away from the Beijing Division, ready to go. And according to the latest battle report, the army of Chenxing Kingdom is not at all a remnant army that is nothing to blame as the King of Prospect thinks. They are not the army of the Chenxing Kingdom, but a mysterious race in the hinterland of the glacier north of the Chenxing Kingdom, for many years, because they have little contact with the outside world, even the Chenxing Kingdom does not know that this race has developed so large in that uninhabited land, so large that it has enough strength to destroy the Chenxing Kingdom after years of war and replace it.

Today's Chenxing Country is no longer called Chenxing Country, but has been renamed Snow Wolf Country by this clan. Their king is known as the Snow Wolf King, and their army is brave and good at fighting, and the reinforcements of the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom are in chaos whenever they fight, because the Snow Wolf King has a cavalry army that the world has never seen before. The cavalry of the Tiancao Kingdom and the surrounding countries all use horses as mounts, but the cavalry of the Snow Wolf Clan is mounted on the tall and fierce Snow Wolf Clan, and their cavalry is called the Wolf Cavalry! I think those war horses saw the evil wolf, and they were so frightened that they were scurrying around, where did they dare to rush forward, and they lost half of them before they fought. So much so that the wolf cavalry was like a bamboo, and they went straight to the vicinity of the Beijing Division.

The Fengjia army probably also received the news of the wolf cavalry, and after seizing the military and political power in the south of the Yangtze River, they no longer went north to attack, and hoarded troops on the south bank of the Huang River, making a wait-and-see posture, which had the intention of letting King Jing and the Snow Wolf King compete with each other and reap the benefits. The situation in the court has changed greatly, and the old ministers who supported the Nine Kings have asked King Jing to step down, wanting to welcome back the Nine Kings and return to the overall situation; King Jing's party scolded the nine kings as chaotic ministers and thieves, and made matters worse when the country faced external troubles; The courtiers of the neutral faction said, "If you go outside, you must first settle inside", King Jing should first ask the nine kings for peace, and unite the Fengjia army to fight against foreign enemies; The Jingwang Party has just gained power, where is it willing to follow, with the idea of "rather with the foreign cowards than with the family thieves", it is better to negotiate peace with the Snow Wolf King first, cede the land and pay compensation, ask for peace for a while, and then concentrate on dealing with the Nine Kings together; Some people were frightened by this unheard of wolf cavalry, and they wrote letters proposing to move the capital to other counties...... Outside the court, the people were instructed by the "oracle" to put the crime of causing the war on King Jing, all kinds of speculation and rumors became more and more intense, and at the same time, a more mysterious and sensational rumor began to spread throughout the Tiancao Kingdom, pointing the spearhead of the emperor's serious illness to King Jing.

In the face of the stalemate, King Jing knew very well in his heart that he could not fight with the Snow Wolf King. Once the fight starts, regardless of whether you win or lose, the Fengjia army is waiting for you to finish the fight, so that you can wave the army north to pick up the bargain with the banner of righteousness; It is even more impossible to move the capital, moving is not as good as the people moving, not to mention the loss of money and labor, just abandoning the family business selected by the ancestors is enough for him to cause greater criticism, and he will be able to settle down in the royal family and clan; Make peace with the Nine Kings? It's even more of a dream. He forced the Nine Kings to pretend to be crazy and fled the capital, and he was giving the Nine Kings a great opportunity to raise troops, how could they easily negotiate peace with him? The only way to go, the only way left is to negotiate peace with the Snow Wolf King, after all, there are only interests between him and the alien race, there is no personal enmity, it is convenient to talk about the conditions, throw away a few states and counties, lose a little money, although the country is damaged, but it can allow King Jing to maintain his current power, which is more beneficial than harmful to him. Sure enough, within a few days, King Jing sent an envoy across the Yushui to ask for peace talks between the two countries. It is estimated that King Jing was also very depressed in his heart, if he had known that he would kill an inexplicable Snow Wolf King when he seized power, which made him scramble, I don't know if it would be arranged like this, but I am afraid that only he knows.

The unequal treaty required the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom to cede the sixteen states of Northern Xinjiang to the Snow Wolf Kingdom, compensate the military expenses of 20,000 taels of silver, and recognized that the Snow Wolf Kingdom was the suzerainty of the Tiancao Kingdom, and the strict terms of the peace talks made the court quarrel again. The compensation for land cession is still negotiable, and the Tiancao Kingdom, which has always prided itself as the superior country of the Celestial Empire, if it recognizes a barbarian tribe as the suzerain, how can it save face? But I don't want to be beaten to the point where I want to cut the land and pay compensation, and the face of the Heavenly Empire has long been gone. The hundred officials of the court were divided into two factions, one faction was the main battle, which was bound to save the face of the Tiancao Kingdom, and the other faction was the main peace, believing that recognizing the Snow Wolf Country as the suzerainty was a temporary right and right plan. King Jing was forced by the situation to go to the north bank of Yushui to negotiate, but the Snow Wolf King did not give in, and performed a terrifying game of wolf cavalry feeding wolves with captive corpses in front of King Jing. King Jing returned in fear, and tried his best to discuss with the court, agreed to the terms of the peace talks with the Snow Wolf King, and set the date, and signed a peace negotiation agreement with the Snow Wolf King on the Yushui River three days later.

Because of the war between the Snow Wolf King and the Fengjia Army, the first scientific examination of the Tiancao Kingdom was originally scheduled to be held at this time, and the examination period had to be temporarily postponed, and a large number of students from all over the country were stranded in the capital. Since the year before last, he gave the emperor the idea of selecting officials for the imperial examination, and the emperor's mind moved. He planned for almost two years, and at the beginning of the year, he suppressed the opposition of the famous family, and the scientific examination system was implemented in full swing. In order to test the effect of the imperial examination, the first emperor did not take the examination according to the academy examination, the township examination, the general examination and the palace examination, and slowly selected, but could not wait for the local state capitals to organize a township examination, and then immediately let the children of the middle school entrance examination enter Beijing to participate in the general examination and the palace examination in batches. After the edict was announced to the world, the children of the poor family were very excited, and they wanted to take advantage of this God-given opportunity to "become famous in the world in one fell swoop", and then move forward to show their talents. The previous recommendation system, so that most of the poor students have no hope of entering the office, the emperor's "wise and benevolent" decision-making, since the gratitude to the tears, praise, sycophants endless, cover the current saint is "the genius of heaven, wisdom is unparalleled, a hundred years rare, comparable to the saint of the saint", the emperor's prestige for a while in the folk students reached an unprecedented peak. A large number of students from all over the country poured into Beijing, among which there are even many children of famous families, in addition to the idea of trying this novel scientific examination, there are about the children of the family who are born proud, that is, even if the children of the family do not have a prominent family background, they may not be able to fight for a scholar Wanhu Hou.

If in normal times, so many students stay in the capital, it's nothing, after the exam, they brag to each other, compare their talents, and then have a good time with Qinglou Yanji, there will be no big trouble. But in the face of the national disaster, it is different, these guys usually have to do something to do with everything, and now the situation in the country is in chaos, this group of people get together all day long, talk loudly, and express their opinions on the situation of the country. I can quite understand this sour mentality of readers, I remember that I read an article called "Chinese Readers" in my previous life, which satirized Chinese readers extremely bitterly, saying that "Chinese have always exaggerated the importance of reading, but in fact, what they value is not reading itself, but the benefits that reading can bring, once reading does not bring benefits, they despise reading and reading people, the most common is to ridicule them as poor talents", and said that they "read but cannot be officials and even often suffer from poverty, This is also very annoying for the readers themselves. Therefore, they are often dissatisfied, often pretentious, often make strange opinions, and often disobey the leadership, which shows that scholars are not as noble as they think they are." He also said that "Chinese scholars cannot get rid of the trap of studying and becoming officials, which is why they are particularly fond of caring about national affairs." Consciously or unconsciously, they always put themselves in the position of guiding the country and worrying about the people, and there is no way to serve the country, as if the country will perish without them, and they will not ......turn the earth without them."

Although I don't fully agree with this author's radical, mean-hearted, and bitter words, some of his views do point to some of the ugly habits that have persisted in Chinese readers for thousands of years. The Kingdom of Heaven is an agrarian people with similar Chinese culture, and with the recommendation system that has been implemented before, when they suddenly have a chance to enter the coveted officialdom, they will definitely show their magic like the eight immortals crossing the sea, and concentrate on the inferior roots and surnames that exist in the scholars. When the country suffers hardship, it is the time for them to "worry about the country and the people, and judge the world".

(To be continued)