"At the beginning of the emperor's practice, the stars mutated, the northern sky flowed fire, and the night was endless. There is a division to hear, the astrology is up to the national fortune, down to the people's livelihood, Beichen Xinghan, Liang between the two que, or there are changes in the war. If the husband is in turmoil, the world is ominous, and the emperor should be benevolent and virtuous. Emperor Ran said, then reduce the palace room, cut women's music, Zhao Qunchen class to Huairou Zhiyuan, Zhao Beilu to promote the benevolence of the country, but also give gold treasures. The world is salty and obedient. —"Weekend Chronicle"

This account in the "Weekend Chronicle" is often doubted by later historians, first of all, its compiler, Xie Jianming, the Taishi of Emperor Wu of Zhou, was actually a person who was not very literate, he was only twenty-eight years old when he was afraid of crime, and he was completely the hand of a fake secretary when he compiled this book, but he wanted to show the world a history book signed by himself, and leave a name in history. The Chronicle is a huge volume, but the process of revision is not supervised, it is very loose, and many materials that are difficult to verify are cited; Secondly, if we look at it from the perspective of "benevolent government and love for the people".

The misdeeds of His Majesty Emperor Wu of Zhou Qing in the following twenty years make people unable to believe that he will agree with the imperial family of "Huairou Zhiyuan" in his heart. However, some historians explain that Emperor Wu of Zhou had a very bad time in the early days of his reign, so he deliberately put on a posture to emulate his father's "benevolent government" and "inaction", and frequently issued such edicts, just to paralyze the Northern Barbarians and ministers.

There is no escaping the fact that Zhou Qing was an emperor who came to power by a coup d'état, although when he settled all his brothers and stepped into his father's dormitory, he found that the name written on the edict was his own large size - "Zhou Qing", which made his previous efforts seem like a joke. He held his father's will, and was recognized by the formidable widow - Li Zesi, who was the appointed minister, and Zhou Chun, one of the elders of the Zhou clan ancestral hall, was the ordained elder, and also confirmed the authenticity of the edict at the first time. The "three treasures" that prove the identity of the new emperor, the edict, the approval of the appointed ministers, and the approval of the appointed elders, Zhou Qing has them, and it is said that his emperor's seat should be very stable, but the moment the palace door is opened, the corpse of King Zhu, whose blood has not dried up, clearly tears off the gentle veil of the emperor's family of virtue and virtue, telling a cruel and cold story of seizing the heir. And Zhou Qing sat on the pinnacle of power in the Eastern Continent in such an environment.

To make matters worse, his political team is basically equal to zero. The Xuantian Pavilion that brought him to power was a group of young officers with limited experience, and they took advantage of the closure of the nine gates of Tianyuan City to gain absolute superiority in strength with the convenience of Jin Wuwei stationed in the city, and achieved an earth-shattering reversal in the heir seizure incident. But when it comes to government affairs, in the "iron car" that will be enough to dominate the world in the future, only Su Shen has a little reference, Ye Zheng may be a ghost in military command, but his political cultivation is very shallow, and what is worse than him is Ye Wang, if Ye Wang has to say that he has a political concept, it is also very simple, that is, "the Northern Expedition and the Northern Expedition", it is not a problem for Zhou Qing to have this tiger to destroy one or two small countries, let him go around the ministers, coordinate the interests of all parties, mediate in advance and retreat, and quietly solve the crisis, which is undoubtedly delusional;

As for Li Dangxin, this peerless general was still an autistic teenager at this time, he didn't understand that taking the heir was just the first step for their small group to embark on the road to power, and he followed the "brothers" of the "Xuantian Pavilion" to help Zhou Qingyu surround the Taiqing Palace at night, and immediately rushed home, because he participated in this operation without telling his mother, and lied that Jin Wuwei was his turn to be on duty that night. The news of the new emperor's accession to the throne was spread by Hu Benlang to every corner of the Apocalypse City, and the emperor was shaken, and at this time, Li Dangxin's mother did not realize what an important role her son played as the vice sect of Xuantian Pavilion in the plot of the new emperor to seize the heir. She was very angry that her son was mixed with a group of restless young officers and made things so big, so she used "family law" to punish him, but she secretly rejoiced in her heart that Zhou Qing, the thirteenth prince supported by these "little guys", had finally ascended the throne, and might be able to take more care of Li Jingxin's promotion in the army in the future.

Only the "Emperor Master" Baili Yu, who is still respectable and terrifying even hundreds of years later, is an unborn conspirator, a peerless dancer in the power field, and the government and the opposition are just a game of chess under his iron fist. But in the first three years of Emperor Wu's accession to the throne, the name "Baili Yu" was not mentioned in the court and the opposition. After the night of the coup d'état, Shi Baili Yu, the commander of the divination supervisor, received a letter from his boss, reprimanding him as a subordinate of the divination supervisor, not only did not fulfill his duty to study the art of divination, calculated the good fortune for the national society, but also exceeded his authority to participate in Jin Wuwei's private military operations, so Bai Liyu received the punishment: cut off the three-year fortune, demoted to the secretary of the divination supervisor, transcribed the astrological dossier, and thought about it.

As an upstart who participated in the coup d'état and won, it is undoubtedly ridiculous to receive such a small punishment. But the problem is that the person who issued this punishment is very difficult to deal with, and Baili Yu's boss is called Li Zesi. As an appointed minister, Li Zesi has become the nominal leader of the imperial ministers and the pillar of the country at this time, and Zhou Qing did not dare to openly disobey his orders.

The reason behind the punishment of Baili Yu should be quite complicated, and it is difficult for future generations to peek into the treacherous political situation of the Apocalypse, and they cannot restore the historical truth. As an appointed minister who recognized Zhou Qing's identity, Li Zesi was already regarded as an "imperial party" at this time, and he was one of the leaders of the imperial party, but why did he deliberately "hide" Bai Liyu, who was also an imperial party and the "elite of the elite", at this critical moment? The possible reasons include, first, Li Zesi believes that if this young man from Qin Tianjian suddenly stepped onto the political stage, his identity would be exposed;

Second, with the character and ambition of the young people of Baili Yu and Xuantian Pavilion, they will use the momentum of the successful coup d'état to completely subvert the political situation of the Apocalypse, and thus be collectively counterattacked by the hostile political forces of the government and the opposition. Therefore, Li Zesi wanted to weaken their strength and warn them not to act rashly. Third, for other unknown reasons, Li Zesi believes that the time has not come, and it will be three years before Baili Yu officially debuts on the stage of God's capital.

But without Baili Yu, there are only some muddy boys left in Zhou Qing's team who have never seen real royal decency. On the one hand, the lack of talent is one thing, and on the other hand, the new emperor ascended the throne without any governance program in his hand. Before taking the throne, all the members of the imperial party pressed up, and all their energy was put into the great plan of the imperial capital's armed coup, and when Zhou Qing sat on the throne of the Taiqing Palace, he realized that what he wanted to hold was not a sharp sword to command thousands of troops and horses, but a pen to write edicts. There are historical materials to prove that Zhou Qing's handwriting is very ugly, and he is the most elegant person among the princes, and he hates handwritten edicts all his life, and he is very reluctant to dictate. There is also an edict in the "Weekend Chronicle" that is said to have been written by Zhou Qing to Su Jinshen that year, and as an emperor, it is indeed crude and unwritten.

"I already know what you played, this person only relied on his family to get this official position, except for his surname, he is a pig. But you can't help but guard against him, he is a pebble of the water mill, an old thief in officialdom, so slippery that he can't grasp the handle, don't fall into his trap in your words, cut it. ”

But at this time, he had to get to work immediately, preparing to issue new decrees, sign the mountain of documents, and try to be as steady and reliable as possible, because except for his Xuantian Pavilion sworn friends, the Manchu civil and military all looked at the new emperor with wariness and suspicion, waiting for him to establish his prestige or make mistakes. With Emperor Wu of Zhou's temper, he probably also thought of directly kicking out the power of the family and immediately establishing his own dictatorship. But he suddenly found that the chips in his hands were pitiful, and he, the emperor who came to power in an armed coup, did not even have the power of military deterrence.

At that time, the composition of the imperial family in the imperial capital was as follows: Hu Benlang, Ti Qilang, Jin Wuwei, Yulin Heavenly Army, and Jingwei. Zhou Ming may not be very good for his thirteen sons, but in the end, he finally handed over the elite force of Hu Benlang to his son. Unfortunately, the number is small. Zhou Qing tried his best to use all means, and he could be regarded as deeply rooting his strength into Jin Wuwei. Led by the backbone of Xuantian Pavilion, Jin Wuwei, who had five thousand people, had completely fallen to him before Zhou Qing ascended the throne.

But Yulin Tianjun and Jingwei are not under the control of Zhou Qing, the imperial capital of the important minister "Jiumen Sili Commander" firmly controls the security force of Jingwei, and the transfer of Yulin Tianjun needs to use the emperor's talisman to cooperate with General Yulin's talisman, Zhou Qing has only half of the talismans in his hand, and the five hundred Tiqilang mastered by Guangluqing, this force was originally attached to King Zhu, and appeared as Zhou Qing's opponent when the Taiqing Palace Incident occurred. The command was weak, but Zhou Qing could not replace Guang Luqing, so Ti Qilang was still not controlled by him.

In Zhou Qing's hands, there were only two teams, Hu Benlang and Jin Wuwei, which combined with less than 6,000 people. And the core of the royal armed forces with 30,000 elites, the Yulin Heavenly Army, is still controlled by the ancestral party, and the non-emperors have foreign enemies to invade, and the emperor cannot mobilize them. The hero lies in the word "forbearance", and Zhou Qing is probably also the truth of Ming Zhou, so he chose to be an obedient young emperor very sensibly. Therefore, in the first year of his reign, Zhou Qing still followed his father's governing program, although there was some friction with the ancestral party in the court, but he could still maintain the courtiers' loyalty to the emperor, and the emperor cared for the dignity of the courtiers.

But soon, the restless emperor quietly cocked his tail. At such a sensitive moment, the princes of the two small kingdoms of Liu and Wu in the west of the royal domain should have been secretly bewitched and openly objected, and for a time all eyes were focused on these two small countries, and the princes watched and watched, all wanting to take these two countries as the vanguard to test the emperor's reaction. Liu and Wu could not even be considered a state in the eyes of the princes. It is worth mentioning here the Zhou Dynasty's feudal system, when the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded, the sons of the Zhou clan and their important ministers were rewarded, and those who made outstanding achievements were not only awarded important official systems and titles, but also territorial feuds.

The Great Zhou learned the lessons of the previous dynasty and decreed that "if you are not the Zhou family, you must not be the king, and you must not be crowned if you are not a great meritorious", these two points were implemented very well even after Zhou Zhou's death, ensuring that the Zhou Dynasty did not fall behind other families. The earliest feudal state was only the size of a county, so the county was so large, there were often counties to change the country or the country to change the county, and the feudal princes enjoyed supreme power in the country, but after all, the land was not large, and it was equivalent to a county guard. However, by the time Emperor Ning arrived three generations later, there were more than 200 large and small vassal states, and the territory that the emperor could directly control was not even half of the current royal domain.

Since Emperor Ning of Zhou, the royal family began to take back the power and land in the hands of the princes by collecting taxes and not territories, so from this moment on, the princes' annexation and disputes that lasted until the end of the week began...... Emperor Ning of Zhou's temple is called "Ning", but he didn't expect that he would start the longest and deadliest dispute in the Zhou Dynasty. Liu and Wu are both surnamed Zhou, hereditary dukes, and their territory is at the foot of Mingluo Mountain north of the royal domain. When it comes to intimacy, he is still Zhou Qing's uncle and brother. It is said that it is a feud, but it cannot be like the "Sixteen Kingdoms of the Troubled Times" that was later said, they only receive the taxes of the fiefdom, although they also have a public government, but their authority is far less than that of the local county guard, saying that Zhou is just a rich man who eats national food for generations, but it is also considered a noble status within a county.

After the issuance of the "Eleven Tax Laws", before the princes could react, these two idlers who should have hid and made a fortune in silence took the lead in making trouble, saying that this practice "violates the ancestral system", and even accused Zhou Qing of being a rebellious king. Upon closer examination, even if the harsh tax of the "Eleven Tax Law" is really implemented, Liu and Wu Guogong are still their rich and noble idlers, and there is no fundamental damage to the interests of Liu and Wu. However, the problem is finally in front of Zhou Qing, although there is the edict of Emperor Ren, but the rationality of relying on the coup d'état to come to power has always been the focus of the world, and now Liu and Wu openly question this rationality as a means of resisting the edict. Perhaps Emperor Ren's methods are too soft, and he has been adhering to the principle of "governing the world with light canons, non-disobedience and no life", especially for the royal family surnamed Zhou who has made mistakes, most of the punishment methods are painless reprimands, closed-door thinking, etc., and the heaviest one is only a first-class cut.

In the plan of Liu and Wu Lianggong, they can be dragged to the water by the princes with the support behind them, and they can also receive their remuneration with peace of mind and hide behind the scenes to continue to be their rich men. Baili Yu must make a choice for Zhou Qing, if he does not conquer and solve these two small princes who are in rebellion, then there is no chance for the implementation of the "Eleven Tax Laws", and Zhou Qing himself may be forced to abdicate; And if the army is sent to fight, will it completely anger the political forces of the family who are hiding behind the scenes and manipulating all this, thus forcing the new emperor Zhou Qing to the point where he must fight the entire Eastern Continent political arena alone?

Baili Yu was undecided, and the ancestral party was also unable to sleep. Liu, the forces behind Wu Ergong are undoubtedly them, they played a very poisonous move, but after this move is played, the ancestral hall party can only wait for Zhou Qing's response. Zhou Qing had already caught them off guard many times, and this time they didn't dare to take it lightly. The ancestral hall party in the eyes of the Yulin Heavenly Army day and night constantly monitoring the movement of the army, seeing that the emperor will suddenly mobilize a large army to fight, at the same time they are also waiting for the emperor to summon the courtiers to the palace to discuss, if Zhou Qing wants to solve this matter safely, he must consider bowing to the ancestral party this time and revoking the "Eleven Tax Law", naturally Liu, Wu Ergong will bow his head and continue to obey the emperor's order under the mediation of the elders of the ancestral hall.

Just as the heads of the family and the ministers of the royal family gathered in the secret room to discuss, consider various possibilities, and prepare a complete countermeasure, the terrible news came that the emperor had conquered it himself! And the Yulin Heavenly Army actually didn't get any news that it was going to go on the expedition, and the emperor went out with only 5,000 Jin Wuwei. The emperor took all the pro-army guarding the imperial city to go on a crusade against his uncles and brothers, which had never happened in the history of the Zhou Dynasty. When the ministers got the news, Zhou Qing had already left the Apocalypse for more than one hundred and forty miles, and now the imperial capital was empty, leaving only the guards of the Jingwei who had no combat effectiveness. Liu, Wu Ergong and the ancestral party once again misestimated Zhou Qing, this emperor who had no royal education and started by a coup d'état did not have the "general common sense" of the imperial family, and similarly, the general constraints could not be done in front of him.

Zhou Qing made the simplest and long-weakened decision that the Zhou royal family would not easily make - declaring the two countries a traitor, asking the princes to be the king of Qin and the royal conquest. He didn't think about leaving anyone to defend the imperial capital, anyway, he himself was no longer in the imperial capital, so he didn't care about the lives of those old ministers. He was not ready to use the very troublesome Yulin Heavenly Army, this was probably a choice made by Baili Yu, and at a critical moment, he still believed in the Xuantian Pavilion that he had single-handedly supported, and he believed that these young officers had matured and could fight. Five thousand gold guards were not much, but they were enough for him to win the battle. Baili Yu has been a gambler all his life, and when he decided to gamble on this one, he no longer had any hesitation, and he made the biggest bet. He wants to use this to train his troops, and he almost can't wait to put out the strongest lineup:

Su Shen, the commander of the Jinwuwei cavalry, was appointed as the general of the chariot cavalry, Li Dangxin, the commander of the Jinwuwei cavalry, was the commander of the vanguard battalion, Ye Wang, the captain of the Tiger Benwei, was the general of the guard, and Ye Zheng, the commander of the Jinwuwei army, was the commander of the ranger battalion. Emperor Zhou Qing personally served as the commander of the general, this lineup is so gorgeous, ten years later, if the lord of a northern barbarian tribe sees such an army to crusade against him, he must also feel a little honored.

The "Iron Brigade Car" poured out of the nest, and for any opponent, it was a very respectful battle, and of course it was also a very unlucky battle. The emperor did not have no people who left the town guards, but there was only one person who guarded the town - "Lantai Order" Baili Yu himself. This elegant young man rushed to the mansion of the great family and smiled and begged to see the heads of the family. The heads of the family, who had not yet recovered from the shocking news, were forced to meet the rookie of the royal minister, and carefully deal with the young man who seemed to be as warm as water, but in fact was as brave as an eagle, and talked about his loyalty and worries to the royal family. Baili Yu is good at dancing with long sleeves, shuttling through the political situation in the imperial capital, and he successfully exerted pressure on the important figures of the ancestral hall, so that they could not see through the maze laid by themselves, and quietly put pressure on the hearts of these people.

At that time, the imperial capital had fallen into extreme unease, and there were repeated rumors that the emperor was in danger, and there was no one in the Taiqing Palace, and there were rumors that the barbarians in the north were ready to move. However, this statement soon disappeared, and the Green King was not recalled in the end. It is very likely that after weighing, the ministers of the ancestral party think that the risk of recalling the green king is too great, and there is such a dangerous opponent as Baili Yu in the imperial capital, and the ancestral party does not know how he will play his cards next.

Analyzing the situation at that time, Bai Li Yu just used a suspicious move, and he wanted to drag the entire situation of the Apocalypse by himself until Zhou Qing returned victorious. Although the decision to send troops was made quickly, Zhou Qing was not in a hurry to advance. Five thousand Jin Wuwei elite - at this time, Jin Wuwei was no longer a gold lacquered puppet during the reign of Emperor Ren Xiuwen, and his combat strength was close to that of the princes' armies - if he advanced lightly, it would only take three days to reach the city. However, Zhou Qing walked for 15 days along the way, and 15 days was enough for Yi and Fang Ergong to get reports from all sides and prepare for war. It should not be out of the instructions of the ancestral hall party, Liu and Wu Ergong recruited "volunteers" in the country and openly organized a private armed force of more than 1,000 people. If the people behind the ancestral hall party had learned of this news earlier, they would have found that this was a suicidal move and prevented it. The conscription of troops confirmed the name of rebellion of the two princes. Zhou Qing was not only waiting for Liu and Wu Ergong to recruit troops, but also waiting for the army of the princes King Qin, who personally signed the edict of King Qin before the expedition, and passed it to the princes of the Quartet at high speed in various ways. Chu Weiguo, as a royal family and loyal minister for many years, took the lead in responding, and the Chu army led by the lord Zhou Yi personally assisted the royal division, counting 6,000 shield armor infantry.

The royal division has a large lineup and moves slowly, and it is extremely royal grace. But beneath the lax exterior was a restless desire for war, and the first-time Jinwuwei soldiers longed for the battlefield and began their exploits with a complete victory. At Su Shen's suggestion, Zhou Qing took advantage of this mentality, and with the slow march, the fighting spirit of the soldiers accumulated day by day. When the royal division finally lined up under the food of Liu and Wu Ergong, the "volunteers" in the city faced a whole column of lions who wanted to get out of the cage. This strategy was called "suppressing the war" by later generations, also known as "a hundred single strategies", because this strategy is not seen in the "Hundred Battles Tao Strategy" written by Su Wenye, a classic of soldiers and the Eight Pillars of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is also the reason why later generations of soldiers respected Su Shen.

At this time, Wang Shi continued to meet Zhu Tingshen, the Duke of Ming Guo, who rushed to King Qin. The successor of this snake family emblem is still a teenager under the age of twenty, and what puzzles later historians is that he has always stood firmly on the side of Zhou Qing on the changing power chessboard, and he will be the most loyal follower and ally of Emperor Wu of Zhou throughout his life, and he has never betrayed in the slightest. Perhaps it was the barbarian locusts that lasted for decades that caused great harm, or maybe Zhou Qing did have a leadership charisma that later generations did not understand, in short, from the moment Zhu Tingshen saw Zhou Qing, the Ming Kingdom was firmly tied to the huge chariot of Emperor Wu of Zhou.

At this moment, Wang Shi has become a trend of destroying the city, and the wise choice of Liu and Wu Ergong is to immediately hold the flag and surrender out of the city. But God knows what Liu and Wu Ergong think, these two useless people are still preparing to fight with Zhou Qingxiao, talking about the price, and in their eyes, it is really a provocation to the clan to mobilize troops to come to the city just for the sake of paying taxes, so they are still preparing for war in the city. Of course, they were ready to surrender, but the surrender was premised on not losing the dignity of the duke. The battle between the two sides began on December 19 of the third year of Zhenyuan and ended on this day.

According to the battle report, Zhou Qing did not personally command, but parked his car on a hill not far from the battlefield, and only took a hundred of the most elite Xuantian Pavilion people as guards. Duke Zhou Yi of Chu was driving, and Duke Zhu Ting of Ming was cautious of charging the car to the right. It was Su Shen who really fulfilled the responsibility of battlefield command. The "general of the broken army" Su Shen's strategic talent did not get much opportunity to play in this battle. He took Li Dangxin as the striker, and the decisive battle broke out in an instant, and Li Dangxin beheaded Liu Gong. In this battle, the young Li Dangxin won the admiration of the whole army for his superb infantry combat skills, and achieved his reputation in the future. In front of the two armies, Liu Gong Zhou Changyi originally looked down on this seemingly weak Jin Wuwei pioneer, and he relied on his martial arts, so he personally went out to face this young man who dared to challenge the prince of the clan, because the Li family could only rank second among the nobles in the imperial capital, and a young man of the second-class nobles dared to challenge the descendants of the Zhou family, which was simply arrogant in Zhou Changyi's opinion.

The main general hedged, and Li was careful not to let go of the horse before the battle, when Zhou Changyi's horse was still fifty steps away from him, he jumped off the saddle, rushed forward like lightning, and drew his sword and killed Zhou Changyi in the moment he passed by. At this time, the honorable Liu Gong probably hadn't figured out whether the other party was going to surrender when he dismounted. After the war, Su Shen submitted a battle report, describing the course of the battle, explaining the death of Liu Gong, saying that the battle began and ended suddenly, which was unexpected by anyone. And as the leading general, he was still mobilizing troops and horses behind the battle at that time, and he didn't have time to rush to the front of the battle to watch the battle, of course, there was no way to prevent Liu Gong, who was a nobleman of the clan, from being killed, and he blamed himself very much. There is no doubt that this explanation could not satisfy the ministers of the family party, and reading the results of this battle report could only make some people's hearts rise with great pain, but Bai Li Yu still allowed this war report to be presented to the ministers of the family in the imperial capital, which itself contained a threat.

Zhou Qing, who was watching the battle on the mountain, already knew the outcome of this battle, but he just took the opportunity to show his strength to the two princes. On the battlefield, the Great Zhou Banner and the three-color grass flag were mixed, the voices of people and horses were neighing, and the dust was flying, Zhu Tingshen saw a Jin Wuwei officer who was only wearing a long coat far surpassed his peers in the Wang Division, galloping and killing, single-handedly capturing eighteen flags, and rushing straight to the front of the enemy camp. At this time, the future emperor and the princes who controlled the power could only be spectators, and the young officers broke through the enemy fence, spears pierced out, and the city could be destroyed, and the power of Pei Mo Nengyu directly hit the gate of Liu's military camp, and the camp gate was broken in response.

The emperor and the princes would not have imagined that the spear would repeatedly leave its name in history, when the hegemony was shattered, the palace city was destroyed, and their incomparable exploits dissipated in people's memory, the legend of the spear and that person was still quietly circulating in the unheard corners, perhaps until the arrival of the end of the world. Zhu Tingshen was shocked by this heroic battlefield, as if he was thundered, he couldn't help but praise "the real world is strong", and asked Zhou Qing who the officer was. It is difficult to say whether Zhu Tingshen is a little suspicious of slapping Zhou Qing's ass, but although Zhou Qing is not a fully mature lion at this time, he also has a bit of fox cunning, and he took the opportunity to ask the personal guard Song Yi.

Song Yi replied: "This Tiger Benwei Captain Ye Wang." Zhu Tingshen took advantage of the situation to flatter, and it was recorded in the "History of the Great Zhou Dynasty Royal Mirror" that he said: "Your Majesty is extremely powerful, and there are many capable people under the banner of the Heavenly Army." This captain is the third army of the Ming Kingdom! Zhou Qing was overjoyed and immediately said that he would reward this elite to Zhu Tingshen to revitalize the military. Zhu Tingshen probably came to the emperor's intention at this time, and when he opened his mouth to flatter, the emperor had already decided to find a good position for his fierce general in the Ming Kingdom. At this time, it happened that after Ye Wang offended the ministers of the Imperial Capital Ancestral Hall, it was not necessarily a good thing for Ye Wang to continue to stay in the team of Hu Benlang, even if there was Emperor Zhou Qing who protected his shortcomings.

Zhu Tingshen didn't care about the emperor's petty conspiracy, and happily accepted the reward. Ye Wang's official fortunes after that were prosperous to the extreme in the Ming Kingdom, and finally he was the nominal "commander of the three armies of the Ming Kingdom", nominally leading the national military of the Ming Kingdom. When Wu Gong Zhou Zhong heard that Liu Gong was dead, he realized that this incident was completely different from what he imagined. The emperor did not come to arrest him, but to behead him. He saw the opportunity very quickly, and immediately prepared to retreat from behind the formation, as long as he could escape, the ancestral party of the imperial capital would naturally try to rescue him. But Duke Wu couldn't wait for the comrades in the imperial capital to come to save his life, and he bumped into Ye Zheng on the way to escape. Zhou Zhong knew better than anyone before he died, compared with meeting Ye Zheng, meeting Li Careful was actually a good ending. At that time, Ye Zheng had already begun to train his subordinate "Seven Columns of Wolf Teeth", this army known for its cruelty and bravery had never been mixed with other legions, it was prepared for the Northern Expedition from the beginning of its establishment, and it had to adapt to the dangerous environment of the grassland, snow and high mountains, carry its own food and ration it to any supply corps, travel thousands of miles in a seemingly impossible environment, and go around the enemy formation to kill the main general with one blow. It is an absolute wonder force, and every soldier is as precious as gold and fierce as a hungry wolf. Ye Zheng used soldiers all his life without taking prisoners, and the captives would inevitably slow down his marching speed.

Therefore, the guards of Duke Wu who faced the seven columns of wolf teeth were like sheep into a wolf pack, and they were slaughtered rather than glorified in a battle. Ye Zheng captured Wu Gong without any interrogation process, and directly ordered to push out the rectification law. After that, he stayed in the local area, and Zhou Qing's envoy arrived half a day later to ask if Wu Gong had been captured, and Ye Zheng showed him Zhou Zhong's body, saying that it was irretrievable. The envoy also understood the intentions of the emperor and Ye Zheng, and wrote the results into a battle report and sent it to the imperial capital. At this point, this one-sided war ended completely, Zhou Qing waved his army in triumph, and the lands of the two countries were completely incorporated into the royal domain, becoming the fourteenth and fifteenth counties of the royal domain.

After Zhou Qing returned to the Apocalypse, he made great fanfare his cronies one after another, Su Shen Jin Zhongyu Marquis, Li Dangxin, Ye Zheng, and Ye Wang were all made by the Great Shangzao, and the rest had their own rewards, Zhou Qing promoted his cronies to high positions in one fell swoop, and made the marquis to exterminate thousands of enemy troops, opening a precedent for Zhou Wu to reward military merits. The biggest mistake of Liu, Wu Ergong and the ancestral party this time was that they didn't really understand the new emperor's way of thinking. For Zhou Qing, a person who used to hang out with peddlers and pawns on the black street, "saving trouble" is always very tempting. Killing is the easiest thing to do, it saves judgment, it saves judgment, and the person who wants to oppose him will inevitably appear in a rage because of it, which is what he desperately needs.

As of this time, Zhou Qing could not really figure out whose hands were manipulating everything behind the heavy political shady scenes in the imperial capital. Bai Li Yu was probably also anxious to see the result, and took such a thunderous method. And what happened later proved that Baili Yu was not immune to mistakes. The success of the first expedition brought them not only an opportunity to establish power, but also did not pave the way for the implementation of the "Eleven Tax Laws", on the contrary, this expedition exposed the weakness of the imperial party. Only the two princes of Chu and Ming responded to the emperor's edict of King Qin and sent troops to support, which was unprecedented in the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty for about 700 years. The Saga party came to a clear conclusion that the princes were not afraid of the emperor. Let them pay for the huge deficit of the royal family, and they will resist even if they risk the name of sinning.

Although the ancestral hall party and the princes' party were not completely in the same boat, they found common interests and tacit understanding in the matter of confronting Zhou Qing. Sure enough, the matter of Liu and Wu Ergong had just subsided, and the princes who did not send troops to King Qin sent envoys one after another, and the envoys did not come to celebrate, but to cry poor. They took the accounts kept by the princes, counted the contributions of the princes to the imperial family in the fifty-seventh year of the revision of the text and the early days of the Zhou and Qing dynasties, and tragically reported that the princes had been unbearable in order to serve the imperial family, and now they really had no money to pay the special tax of the clan, and if the emperor really wanted to forcibly promote this tax law, it would be tantamount to forcing the princes to abdicate. The powerful opposition came so violently that even Baili Yu didn't expect it, which made him even more convinced that there was a huge black hand manipulating behind the whole incident. Zhou Qing couldn't cope with these crying envoys, so he chose to temporarily suspend the dynasty for a month, but the emergency meeting in the palace was held day and night.

The emperor did not have no people who left the town guards, but there was only one person who guarded the town - "Lantai Order" Baili Yu himself. This elegant young man rushed to the mansion of the great family and smiled and begged to see the heads of the family. The heads of the family, who had not yet recovered from the shocking news, were forced to meet the rookie of the royal minister, and carefully deal with the young man who seemed to be as warm as water, but in fact was as brave as an eagle, and talked about his loyalty and worries to the royal family. Baili Yu is good at dancing with long sleeves, shuttling through the political situation in the imperial capital, and he successfully exerted pressure on the important figures of the ancestral hall, so that they could not see through the maze laid by themselves, and quietly put pressure on the hearts of these people.

At that time, the imperial capital had fallen into extreme unease, and there were repeated rumors that the emperor was in danger, and there was no one in the Taiqing Palace, and there were rumors that the barbarians in the north were ready to move. However, this statement soon disappeared, and the Green King was not recalled in the end. It is very likely that after weighing, the ministers of the ancestral party think that the risk of recalling the green king is too great, and there is such a dangerous opponent as Baili Yu in the imperial capital, and the ancestral party does not know how he will play his cards next.

Analyzing the situation at that time, Bai Li Yu just used a suspicious move, and he wanted to drag the entire situation of the Apocalypse by himself until Zhou Qing returned victorious.

The lineup of the Hundred Commanders is large and slow, and it is extremely graceful to the royal family. But beneath the lax exterior was a restless desire for war, and the first-time Jinwuwei soldiers longed for the battlefield and began their exploits with a complete victory. At Su Jinshen's suggestion, Zhou Qing took advantage of this mentality, and with the slow march, the soldiers' fighting spirit accumulated day by day. When the royal division finally lined up under the food of Liu and Wu Ergong, the "volunteers" in the city faced a whole column of lions who wanted to get out of the cage. This strategy was called "suppressing the war" by later generations, also known as "a hundred single strategies", because this strategy is not seen in the "Hundred Battles Tao Strategy" written by Su Wenchun, a classic of soldiers and the Eight Pillars of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is also the reason why later generations of soldiers deeply respected Su Jin. Things are really difficult to solve, the embarrassment of the princes is also half-truth, there is certainly a camouflage component, but according to the "Eleven Tax Law" This tax law is undoubtedly a bone sucking for the princes, some poor princes, such as South Korea in the remote Qingzhou Mountains, the treasury is so poor that there is no grain for March, and they have to ask other princes to borrow grain for disaster relief in the famine year, even if Zhou Qing pressed the knife on Han Hou's neck, it is difficult for him to dismantle the palace in Jiuyuan to make up the annual tax.

Baili Yu and Zhou Qing, whom he was loyal to, had been driven to the edge of the cliff, and the Jiang clan's support could not last long, and the mutiny of the Yulin Heavenly Army could recur at any time. One step back, the entire Zhou Qing group will be destroyed, and Bai Liyu at this time will no longer be bothered by the risky decision to kill Liu and Wu Ergong, he now needs to use the ultimate thunder means to pacify all opponents. Judging from some of the actions that followed, Baili Yu harbored great anger this time. Shi Yecheng, the governor of the Cargo Colony Prefecture, died, and the accounts were burned, but it was true that the princes paid the taxes and the royal treasury did not receive them, and the royal family was poor, and the princes were also poor, so who was quietly rich? Where are the embezzled taxes? Such a huge sum of money must have a direction to flow, and it will not be hoarded in a secret place waiting for it to be dusted.

There is only one conclusion, some people are absorbing the national strength of this country for personal interests, to resist the rule of Zhou Qing, and these national forces are the basis for Baili Yu to use to conquer the barbarians in the north and establish the ideal country of "unification of nine continents". He had to dig this man up!