On the issue of the northwest, the Seventh Prince still made concessions, compared with the entire Xinguo, what if a northwest land was given to Chu Jing, as long as the northwest still belonged to the Xinguo, then he would be able to take it back sooner or later.

The Seventh Prince did not fall out with Chu Jing on the matter of accepting the surrender of the second prince, but sent Zeng Fangzhou to Renjin City to discuss the Northern Expedition.

There are still more than 200,000 troops under the Seven Princes, and Chu Jing also has more than 200,000 troops, and the combined army is 400,000, which may be able to make up an army of 500,000.

Zeng Fangzhou originally meant to wait, but he was curious about Chu Jing's means of taking the northwest, and he wanted to communicate with him, after all, Shangguan Xiaobai wanted to take the Xinguo, and he must have the help of Chu Jing, who was the most powerful.

Chu Jing had only returned to Renjin City at this time, and in addition to improving his strength, getting eight cities made him feel unreal.

Maybe he didn't have the ambition to build a country, if it wasn't for the task, not to improve his strength, Chu Jing wouldn't care about the life and death of the people at all.

The brave man saved hundreds of people, but he only defeated the bad guys, and did not teach the people how to live a better life, is he incapable? Of course not, but he likes the feeling of being worshipped.

The brave represents hope, and if everyone is satisfied with life, then the brave will have no meaning in existence.

Dignitaries and nobles would rather donate money to the war-torn people of the world than to help the people under their rule, probably this is the reason.

Of course, Chu Jing still hopes that his Apocalypse Kingdom is beautiful, at least there is a place to rest, occasionally go to other countries to take risks, and return to his paradise when he is tired, isn't it good.

After Chu Jing returned to Renjin City, he was going to hold a wedding with Qin Yingran, and the wedding couldn't be too lively, because Chu Jing didn't have many friends, and he was not easy to make friends with laypeople.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no place to get the certificate, Chu Jing would even cancel the wedding directly.

Chu Jing occupies eleven cities, and he is the duke of Pingxi, plus he is married to a princess, according to the usual rules, he has to invite city lords and various important people from all over the world to celebrate.

But Chu Jing didn't do this, and he didn't invite anyone in the northwest, including Han Dang and Zhou Tai who were stationed in Green Water City and Linshui City.

Xu Sheng and Le Jin were not far away, but Chu Jing also refused to let them come.

Even Shen Yunhe, the owner of the Tiannan Martial Arts Pavilion, was not invited.

Chu Jing felt that getting married was his own business, and when he didn't lack that little bit of money, it was really redundant to invite those who were out of place.

Qin Yingran has some opinions, but in this era of war, several of her brothers have turned against each other and become enemies, and she doesn't seem to have anyone to invite.

Qin Yingran really wanted her seventh brother to come, after all, he was also Chu Jing's top boss, but Chu Jing still refused.

It is better to say that tomorrow will be a sword against each other, rather than an invitation, it is better to give up.

The wedding takes place only in Injin City.

The belongings of the people of Injin City are still in the city lord's mansion, and the civil war cannot be ended in one day, so they can only hold the IOU and cry and have no way to complain.

And the management of Renjin City is too strict, at that time, in order to turn the smoky and sewage-ridden Renjin City into a city that Chu Jing likes, Chu Jing did not use all kinds of excuses to turn the people into free labor.

Although it was not so strict later, the labor reform still existed, and many people were still contributing their free strength to Renjincheng.

In general, the people of Renjin City did not have much of a good impression of Chu Jing.

Chu Jing didn't care about them either, if it weren't for his temporary position as the city lord of Renjin City, and this city had been transformed relatively well, Chu Jing wouldn't have stayed here forever.

On the day of the wedding, the entire Renjin City was covered with flowers and green leaves, like a spring city, which was Zirui's masterpiece, and it was just a gesture for her.

Chu Jing and Zirui's wedding ceremony was simple.

The two put on their costumes and came to the square in the center of Renjin City, kissed and swore in front of everyone, and this was the end.

Then there was the banquet, the city that Chu Jing captured, there were a lot of things collected, but he spent very little, Chu Jing was not short of money, he was very rich.

The banquet was held for three consecutive days, and anyone who was dressed formally could eat elegantly at the banquet.

As for the problem of dress, he set up a long banquet alone outside the city, not that Chu Jing dislikes the poor and loves the rich, it's just that he feels that his wedding needs to be formal, if he doesn't even bother to wear clean and neat clothes, then they are not qualified to participate.

The wedding went on suddenly, and it ended suddenly, but the impact was not small, and everyone knew that the faith country had a new colt.

After all, only a few people knew about such things as the Holy Decree, and most of them only learned all of Chu Jing's identities after the wedding was officially held.

The outdated identities of the Horse, Pingxi Gong, and the Northwest Rulers, as for the martial champions and the disciples of the First Martial Alliance, are often mentioned.

Everyone began to pay attention to Chu Jinglai, including the three princes who had no contact with Chu Jing.

The idea of the three princes is very clear, that is, to quickly solve the mess of the Xinguo, and the most feasible and effective way is to force the eldest prince to admit that he is the legitimate prince of the Xinguo.

In his eyes, the second prince only relied on the strength of his uncle Fuchun City Lord to gain a foothold in the northwest, but he had no way to take a step out of the northwest, so he could only stand still, and he was really not a threat.

The Seventh Prince is the youngest, although he doesn't know why there are more people who support him, but he has no power at all, politics only needs one mouth, but the most important thing on the battlefield is the army, and the Seven Princes are not as good as the second prince.

But now the situation has suddenly changed dramatically, the second prince surrendered, and the object of surrender was not any prince, but a concubine, and this concubine was a subordinate of the Seventh Prince, but he had no less power than the Seventh Prince, and the Seventh Prince obviously could not order him.

This kind of situation is not what the three princes want to see, the battle between the four princes, at least everyone knows the roots, but there is an outsider who stands up to disturb the situation, and he no longer knows how the situation will develop after that.

The three princes absolutely quickly trained their troops, decided the victory and defeat with the eldest prince as soon as possible, and then quickly eliminated the seventh prince and this concubine.

The eldest prince also felt very ridiculous, and now that the situation in Xinguo had not yet been decided, Chu Jing couldn't wait to marry the princess.

The marriage contract announced by the previous emperor, even the future emperor has no right to interfere, Chu Jing should not be in such a hurry.

However, Chu Jing was not only in a hurry, but the wedding was also held in an unusually sloppy manner, not to mention that he did not receive the invitation, and even the Seven Princes did not notify him, which was incredible.

Qi Lin said: "Maybe Chu Jing got the northwest and married the princess in order to consolidate his power, so that the seventh prince would not take away his northwest." ”

"Perhaps. "The eldest prince has no reasonable explanation.

But he still knew that Renjin City had to be defended tightly, and the current Renjin City plus the defenders of the three cities of Renjin, Yuanwang, and Heiyang who stayed behind were all about to gather 300,000 people, maybe Chu Jing was not greedy enough, and he was going to attack the city around him.

It was only now that the eldest prince realized how bad his position was, there was a threat from the three princes in the north, and the seven princes and Chu Jing in the south.

The Seventh Prince didn't say anything about Chu Jing and Qin Yingran's wedding, he was waiting, waiting for Zeng Fangzhou's reply after meeting with Chu Jing, as long as Chu Jing could help him ascend to the throne of Xinguo, he could tolerate all behaviors.

As for whether he will settle accounts after the autumn when he ascends to the throne, it depends on Chu Jing's ability.

It is said that Zeng Fangzhou arrived in Renjin City, and it was not the right time to go, and he only arrived on the last day of the three-day banquet.

There are all kinds of delicacies inside and outside the city, and there are many service staff, so it will definitely not make the scene chaotic.

Of course, the waiter can only help clean up the tabletop, and the work of cleaning up the scum still has to be completed by the soldiers, this is the first time that Ren Jincheng has abolished the labor reform system, and all those who dare to make trouble will be solved directly with knives.

The number of soldiers in Renjin City is only one drop less than that of the common people, and with them managing order after eating and drinking, there are not too many unpleasant things happening.

As for the drinkers, in fact, after seeing the blood a few times, there were not many people who touched the wine glasses, and the old drunkard was the first batch of people to clear out of the Divine Continent.

Zeng Fangzhou hurriedly sent the most valuable jade pendant on his body as a congratulatory gift, although it was only a jade pendant, but it was also thousands of years old, it was still smooth and intact, it was Zeng Fangzhou's favorite thing, if it wasn't for the fact that there was no other thing on his body, he would be reluctant.

Yu Ban, who was in charge of the reception in front of the City Lord's Mansion, recognized Zeng Fangzhou, such an important person, the portrait has been spread all over, and it is naturally impossible for Yu Ban not to even know him.

"It turned out to be Lord Zeng, and I missed the distance, please don't be surprised. ”

"Deputy City Lord Yu doesn't have to be polite, why didn't Chu Yuma and the princess get married to such a major event, the old man also happened to come here, and he didn't bring anything, this thousand-year-old jade pendant is regarded as a congratulatory gift, don't dislike the courtesy. ”

Yu Ban didn't answer, and said: "Lord Zeng may not know, our city lord has issued an order not to accept any gifts on the day of great joy, and you also know that the city lord has recently captured a lot of cities, and there are no good things, and it is normal not to accept gifts." ”

Zeng Fangzhou saw that Yu Ban said it bluntly, and he also understood that Chu Jing didn't care about the number of gifts, but he just had too many and didn't want them.

"In that case, then forget it, I'll just go in and have a glass of wine, I don't know where the master is now?"

Yu Ban sent someone to lead Zeng Fangzhou into the city lord's mansion.

Chu Jing was not addicted to wine because of the wedding, and at this time he was using the golden crystal to improve his strength.

Before he had not inherited the summoning of the demon, he actually encountered a bottleneck, resulting in his strength not being able to improve even with spars, but after getting the inheritance, his strength was broken through, indirectly because of the breakthrough of internal force.

Chu Jing found a serious problem, it seems that he can only upgrade through the system, although the method of the spar can make his internal strength increase rapidly, but it cannot surpass the level of inheritance.

However, after Chu Jing's internal strength was improved, his swordsmanship would also be smaller, and he would be able to fly with swords immediately, shoot ten thousand swords at the same time, and unite human swords and so on.

Mingyu said from outside the door: "Donkey, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Zeng Fangzhou asked to see you." ”

Mingyu is Qin Yingran's personal maid, and now that Qin Yingran is married to Chu Jing, she is naturally Chu Jing's warm bed.

Chu Jing woke up from the cultivation process and put the golden crystal into the mustard seed bag, expecting that the Seven Princes would send someone or come in person, but he didn't expect that the person he arrived would be Zeng Fangzhou.

Zeng Fangzhou is not an ordinary person, he is a spy planted by Shangguan Xiaobai in Xinguo, and he can't be said to be a spy, in short, this guy is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

Chu Jing decided to go out to meet him.

"Congratulations to the Red Lotus Envoy on his wedding. ”

Seeing that there was no one else around, Zeng Fangzhou directly shouted the identity of the red light to Chu Jing.

Chu Jing frowned, he didn't want to be a red lotus envoy, Shangguan Xiaobai had helped him a lot, and this favor would have to be repaid sooner or later.

"What are the plans of the Holy Maiden?"

Zeng Fangzhou said: "There are no saints anymore, only Her Majesty the Empress now." ”

"What?" Chu Jing was taken aback, this Shangguan Xiaobai also wants to establish a country, or be the empress?

"Which country is she the empress?"

This question made Zeng Fangzhou a little embarrassed, because Shangguan Xiaobai's country had not been officially established, and it was only in the expected stage, but with the help of himself and others, it should not be difficult to become a complete and huge empire.

"Eternal Empire...... There's a lot going on, and it's hard to put into words. ”

"Eternal Empire?" Chu Jing thought for a moment, as if he hadn't heard of it, "Where?"

Zeng Fangzhou said: "It will be established on the basis of many countries such as Xinguo, Pingguo, Wanfangguo, etc., and the specific implementation is still in progress, you know that I am only in charge of Xinguo's side, and I don't know much about the situation in other countries." ”

Chu Jing heard it in a fog, but Shangguan Xiaobai seemed to be preparing to reverse the latent inner affairs of all the countries, and then form an eternal empire of his own.

Chu Jing did not doubt Shangguan Xiaobai's energy, the city lord of Xinguo, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and the Dali Temple Qing were all her subordinates, so the situation in other countries must be similar.

It would have been difficult for these ministers to overthrow these countries on their own, but after the defeat of the coalition forces and the turmoil in the countries, the seemingly impossible mission showed great possibility.

Before, Chu Jing thought that Shangguan Xiaobai had raised the Seven Princes and just wanted to control Xinguo behind his back, but now Shangguan Xiaobai wanted to get it directly.

"So......" Chu Jing said, "Do you want me to help the Seventh Prince defeat the other princes first and ascend to the throne?"

That's exactly what I mean. ”

Chu Jing thought for a moment and asked, "Then what can I get?"

"......" Zeng Fangzhou was a little speechless, "You are already a Red Lotus Envoy, you are a person trusted by the Holy Maiden, what else do you want?"

He didn't know that this red lotus token was just thrown to him by Shangguan Xiaobai, and the so-called identity was just to tell the other believers who were shining with the red light that Chu Jing was the person she was covering.

Maybe one day Shangguan Xiaobai suddenly remembered this token, and directly canceled the meaning it represented, anyway, the red light has disappeared, and the red lotus envoy naturally has no need to exist.

Chu Jing thought about it for a while, and agreed to come down.

In fact, Chu Jing didn't know what to ask for, he didn't know what the next task would be, and before the task came, he was not good at making a decision, as for whether the Apocalypse Kingdom should announce its name to the public, since the system did not ask for it, and also admitted that Chu Jing owned ten cities, it was naturally unnecessary.

Zeng Fangzhou didn't stay long, so he went back to report to the Seven Princes, as for the specific joint plan, it still needs to be formulated slowly, and the Seven Princes sent him here this time, more to see Chu Jing's attitude.

Chu Jing's attitude made the Seven Princes very satisfied, as Zeng Fangzhou said, all the current goals are to defeat the other two princes first and ascend to the throne, and everything else has to be on the side of this.

As for the preliminary plan, the Seven Princes had the same idea as the Third Prince and the Great Prince, they had to hoard troops first, and even if the soldiers of the Seven Princes were added to Chu Jing's soldiers, they were only 500,000, which was still a relatively large gap between the Three Princes and the Great Prince, not to mention, if they wanted to attack the city and plunder the land, they would need more soldiers.

War is not a children's fight, it can be directly agreed, and the victory or defeat can determine the belonging of the entire faith country.

As the saying goes, build high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become kings.

The civil war in Shinkoku may need to end immediately, but no one can afford to do so long before they are fully prepared.