Volume 1 Chapter 3: An Empire That Exists in Name Only

In today's situation, it seems that this empire is about to fall, but in fact, although the empire is now divided, the Blue Sky Army is not monolithic. Chen Guang claimed to be the chosen son and the leader of the Blue Sky Sect, and now Chen Guang saw that the Blue Sky Sect founded by him was so powerful, and of course he was complacent in his heart, so he chose the most prosperous city in the richest east of the empire - Pingcheng, as the capital, officially called the emperor, and the country name Chu Zhang. The political system is also copied from the Great Yan Empire, but there are slight differences, in order to make the emperor not conflict too obviously with his original intention of the Blue Sky Sect, Chen Guang changed the first product only the prime minister to the first product only the emperor, and the emperor was also included in the rank. In doing so, power was concentrated in the hands of the emperor, and nominally the emperor's status was reduced. The second product is the head of the three departments under the command of the emperor, and the general stationed in the frontier, the original imperial family of the empire except for the emperor are all three-grade officials, called the regent, but the Blue Sky Sect has developed rapidly, Chen Guang has also recruited many powerful helpers in the process of the development of the Blue Sky Sect, and now Chen Guang is called the emperor, and the power is concentrated, so they must also appease them, so the regent will be changed to the regent, and the regent will be set as the second grade, this series of actions really made Chen Guang the emperor, the prestige has not changed. The third rank is the three officials in the national capital, the fourth product is the city lord, and at the same time, the city is the center of the jurisdiction of the periphery, commanding the army of the city, the fifth product is the various officials in the city under the control of the city lord, and the sixth product is the sesame official who deals with various miscellaneous matters at the bottom. In doing so, not only did his claim to the emperor not obviously go against the original intention of establishing the Datong Society when the Blue Sky Sect was founded, and made the power more concentrated in his own hands, but also made Chen Guang's right-hand men become the recipients of benefits, so that the Blue Sky Army turned from an irregular army into the national army of the Chuzhang Empire. Therefore, the Blue Sky Sect, where people's hearts were condensed, was transformed into the Chuzhang Empire.

The Chu Zhang Empire has become the most powerful empire in the world at present, and it seems that victory is close at hand, however, just as the decline of the empire surprised Yuan Zeng, the collapse of the Chu Zhang Empire was also so fast that Chen Guang was caught off guard. After the capital of Pingcheng, Chen Guang and the regent were deeply attracted by the prosperity of the city, and the life of poverty and luxury was finally their turn to enjoy, Chen Guang repaired the palace room, not only Chen Guang, the regent also began to build a large number of buildings, a magnificent palace rose in Pingcheng, not only Pingcheng, due to the rapid development of the Blue Sky Sect, so there were more and more powerful helpers, to the establishment of the Chuzhang Empire, the regent actually sealed more than 2,000 people, therefore, other cities were also occupied by the regents, the upper echelons of the Chuzhang Empire, In order to satisfy their increasing desires, they even grabbed the land of civilians at will, and used the materials originally used to fight the war to build palaces, due to war and famine, a large area of land was already deserted, and the soldiers of the original people and the Blue Sky Army thought that after the establishment of the Chuzhang Empire, the situation would be relatively stable, and normal production could be restored. Unexpectedly, not only could normal production not be restored, but a large area of land was occupied to build a palace. The Chuzhang Empire lost the hearts of the people as quickly as it gained the hearts of the people, and there was also a lot of friction between the excessive number of regents, and only a year later, more than 2,000 regents were one thousand less. At the same time, because of the extravagance of the emperor and the regents, the problem of famine was not improved, but worsened. The people were miserable, and even missed the time of the Great Yan Empire in the past. This year, the regent and Chen Guang were busy building palaces, and they didn't even continue to wage war against the empire, and even the Great Yan Emperor Yuan Zeng didn't expect that the empire would continue to survive.

And Wang Jing, the prime minister of the Dayan Empire and the head of the Wang family, did not have time to be surprised, because this opportunity was simply a golden opportunity for him, and only the periphery of the empire was under the direct control of the emperor, and internal strife broke out within the rebels, and turmoil broke out. Wang Jing immediately ordered the northern city lords of the Wang family to launch a comprehensive counteroffensive against the rebels, and the rebels who had become scattered were naturally defeated and retreated, and at the same time, the power of the Wang family was also able to expand rapidly.

At this time, the Yuan monk who was far away in the northwest, when the rebels broke out, there was only one city left, that is, the northwest general's residence - Yezhou City, in the hands of the Yuan monk, but even so, the Yuan monk did not give up resistance to the rebels, because he thought that as long as he contacted the emperor, the Northwest Army and the army directly controlled by the emperor jointly attacked the rebels in the northwest, as long as the northwest stabilized, the north of the national capital was less threatening, because the national capital was in the west, and when the northwest and the national capital were connected, the empire had the possibility of counterattacking the rebels, but the emperor refused, At such times, he only cared about his own life and the opportunity to continue to enjoy his drunken life, and did not want to risk losing it again to give the empire new hope. Yuan Seng knew that Yuan Zeng was disheartened after refusing, but he didn't expect the rebels to stop attacking this year, and he was in civil strife, Yuan Seng took advantage of the situation to launch a year-round counteroffensive, and took most of the northwest into his own hands, Yuan Seng was originally a concubine, and when he was a child, he was not as favored by thousands of people as his eldest son, but he still regarded Yuan Zeng as his brother, and when the rebellion occurred, he also wanted to face the difficulties and solve the difficulties hand in hand with his brother. However, his brother resolutely abandoned him. At the same time, Yuan Seng also saw Yuan Zeng's weakness and incompetence, and under such an emperor, there would be no hope for the empire. Therefore, after the rapid expansion of Yuan Sheng's power in the northwest, he published an essay detailing Yuan Zeng's various sins, abolishing Yuan Zeng's position as emperor, and establishing himself as emperor.

Looking back at the Wang family, when the Yuan monk established himself as the emperor, the Wang family had already taken all the northeast regions of the empire into their own hands, leaving only Chen Guang's Pingcheng, the rebels were defeated and retreated, Chen Guang was terrified, and Pingcheng also fell into chaos, both the commoners and the regent fled with the property they could take away, Chen Guang then fled alone in the chaos with the soft and the most loyal regent, but his subordinates saw him so embarrassed, Finally realized that the ambitions of those who wanted to realize the Datong society before were just an excuse sought for his hegemony as emperor, this regent was called Wu Kuo, and he followed Chen Guang when he first raised troops, it can be said that if Wu Kuo did not provide support for Chen Guang at the beginning, Chen Guang would definitely have the opportunity to establish the so-called Chu Zhang Empire, Wu Kuo had seen Chen Guang repair the palace before, and he had also wavered and wanted to persuade Chen Guang, but Chen Guang couldn't listen to anything at all, and when the regent began to fight, Wu Kuo thought that Chen Guang could wake up, but in this situation, Chen Guang could directly drop the throne and escape, he finally saw Chen Guang's true face, when he counted Chen Guang's sins, Chen Guang knew that Wu Kuo had killed him, so he could only kneel on the ground and beg Wu Kuo to spare his life, Wu Kuo only let out a sneer, his hand rose and fell, and Chen Guang, who was once invincible, finally ended his life. Wu Kuo, on the other hand, took the fine soft, planning to find a deep mountain seclusion, and no longer witness the disturbance of this land with his own eyes, and the lives of the people were devastated. It's a pity that Chen Guang, who was powerful in the world and established a hegemony, finally died without a place to be buried, and only served as the emperor for one year, but the ending was so embarrassing, it is embarrassing. At the same time, the Wang family's army received Wang Jing's order to enter the Yuanyang Pass west, and the officials stationed in the Yuanyang Pass knew what Wang Jing wanted to do, but what ability did they have to resist at this time? The royal army's army poured into the national capital in large numbers, and the emperor's army was simply powerless to resist the royal army, and the generals of the army all declared their allegiance to Wang Jing. At this time, except for the power of the Yuan monks, all the north fell into the hands of the Wang family. At this time, the emperor completely lost his power, and even life and death were in Wang Jing's hands, and Wang Jing did not kill him at this time, just to avoid the infamy of killing the king. At the same time, the emperor Yuan Zeng also realized this, Yuan Zeng wanted to live, wanted to continue to enjoy the glory and wealth, but also did not want to let the ancestors' more than 200 years of foundation be destroyed in his hands, and Yuan Seng had already broken with him, he realized that he only had one place to go, that is, the southeast region where Yuan Yan was located. Only when he went to Yuanyan could he survive and continue his previous extravagant life. So, Yuan Zeng secretly changed into civilian clothes, took advantage of the night, in the hole under the root of the city wall, like a lost dog, left the palace where he had been living, he did not look back, and did not dare to look back, for fear of being discovered by the guards of the soldiers. At dawn the next day, the curfew was lifted, the gates of the national capital were opened, and Yuan Zeng finally left the national capital. But Yuan Zeng didn't expect that his departure would bring a series of chain reactions......

The Chuzhang Empire established by Chen Guang collapsed after Chen Guang's death, and after the north had no power, the rebels in the southeast were also wiped out under the continuous attacks of Yuan Yan. Yuan Yan's power expanded to the entire southeast part, and finally, the powerful Chuzhang Empire was only a small part of the southwest region, don't forget, most of the southwest was occupied by the barbarians, and now the rebels are scattered, and the barbarians are like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, completely destroying the Chuzhang Empire, and the barbarians finally took all the southwest part as their own, but the national teacher believes that the Wang family at this time is still very powerful, so they still submit to the Dayan Empire on the surface.

Since then, the Chuzhang Empire has withdrawn from the stage of history, and the Chuzhang Empire has expanded rapidly in a very short period of time, and at the same time, it has also collapsed rapidly in a very short period of time, which is embarrassing.

And the Great Yan Empire, which once dominated the world, nominally unified the world again, but in fact, the emperor could no longer control any place. In the past few days, the people of the national capital are also wondering, the emperor has not been to the court for several days, and the prime minister Wang Jing can't figure it out, the palace door has not been opened, what does the emperor want to do, does he still want to resist? And the other officials in the national capital don't want to see the Wang family occupy the world like this, because unlike the Yuan royal family, the Wang family has a large population, if Wang Jing ascends to the throne, the official positions are occupied by the people of the Wang family, they will never come out, they also want to know, what the emperor's next step will be, of course, there is little hope, these officials will have long been packed up and ready to flee......

The northeastern part and the surrounding capital are occupied by the forces of the Wang family headed by Prime Minister Wang Jing, the northwest part is occupied by the forces of the Yuan monks who established themselves as the Great Yan Emperor, the southwest has completely fallen into the hands of the barbarians, and Yuan Yan has also successfully swallowed the entire southeast, and the four evenly matched forces are currently superficially subservient to the Great Yan Empire, but they all have the ambition to dominate the world, what is the future fate of the Great Yan Empire......