Chu Xuan led his two wives and a cadre of chamberlains back to Kyoto.

As soon as the carriage and horses arrived at the gate of the imperial city, they saw many ministers in official uniforms blocking the city gate, shouting to see the emperor, and the soldiers guarding the gate naturally did not agree.

The two sides were arguing, but when they saw the emperor's car arrive, they got out of the way. When the armor opened the door to let Chu Xuan in, the ministers also took the opportunity to pour in.

Although Chu Xuan on the carriage was unhappy, he also knew that something big must have happened, so these guys were so flustered that they couldn't even take care of the etiquette of the monarch and ministers.

As soon as he entered the imperial city, he immediately met with his ministers in the Fengtian Palace, wondering what was going on.

"Zhongqing, you are in a panic, why are you so busy seeing me?" On the throne, Chu Xuan was still wearing casual clothes when he was traveling, and he didn't even have time to change his dragon robe.

His Royal Highness, Su Haochen hurriedly got up and said: "Your Majesty, there is news that the army of the Jin Kingdom has entered the border of Beiliang Kingdom, and I am afraid that it will be my Great Zhou in the near future, has Your Majesty ever known about this matter?"

"Which Jin country, what are you doing in Beiliang, and what does it have to do with my Great Zhou?" Chu Xuan was puzzled, in his impression, among the hundreds of countries in the Southern Yuan Continent, there didn't seem to be any country with the name of Jin.

Shi Fan on the side hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty doesn't know that the Jin Kingdom is not a country in our Southern Yuan Continent, but a powerful country in the Northern Yuan Continent. The Northern Yuan and the Southern Yuan were different, not only the territory of the Southern Yuan was vast, but there were only three countries in total, the Great Yan in the west, and the Liang and Jin states in the east. ”

Chu Xuan was even more confused: "So what? The Jin army is not good to stay in their own country, what are they doing in our Nanyuan?"

Su Haochen said: "Your Majesty knows that there is a rule in the Three Kingdoms of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, every ten years, they will send people to various parts of the Southern Yuan Dynasty, as short as ten days, as long as half a year, or to extort heavenly treasures, gold and jade silk, or to kidnap ordinary people and bring them back as slaves. Because of our remote location, our Great Zhou has only been blackmailed by the Yan State once in the past two hundred years, and I didn't expect to meet the Jin State this time. ”

Chu Xuan slapped the throne angrily, and said hatefully: "How can this be reasonable! Are the people of the Southern Yuan all soft persimmons? Won't they join forces to fight and drive out those Northern Yuan thieves?"

"That's not what I said. Shi Fan sighed, and continued: "The Northern Yuan Continent is blessed, not only is the spiritual energy more abundant than our Southern Yuan, but also the spiritual stones have a lot of veins, and the cultivation resources are extremely rich, the most terrifying thing is that almost all of the Northern Yuan Three Kingdoms have mastered the method of large-scale cultivation of high-grade elixirs, and the monks of their country are not only far superior to our Southern Yuan countries in terms of quantity and quality, but also their cultivation methods, techniques and body methods are also more subtle and profound than those practiced by our Southern Yuan monks. ”

Listening to the words of the two, Chu Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it turned out that the outside world was so big, but he sighed that his previous vision was simply a frog at the bottom of a well.

He was still a little unrelenting, and asked: "Is it possible that everyone will blackmail them for nothing?" Just our Zhou Kingdom, all the monks combined, I am afraid that if there are not 10,000, there are 8,000, if we can unite a few more countries, or add some sects to it, will there be no chance of victory?"

Su Haochen shook his head helplessly: "Impossible, Your Majesty should accept your fate." In the past, there was a Zheng State in the north of the Southern Yuan Dynasty, and its national strength was so strong that it almost annexed one-third of the territory of the mainland. Later, Zheng Guo was also blackmailed by the Jin State, Zheng Guojun relied on his own strong soldiers and horses, and refused to agree to the other party's request, as a result, the huge Zheng Guo, a large army of millions, was beaten into a pulp by the other party in less than half a month, and Kyoto was also slaughtered, and it is still a dead city. ”

"It's... Is it all true?" Chu Xuan's eyes widened in surprise, with his eighteen years of experience and knowledge, he couldn't imagine what kind of gap it was.

Shi Fan nodded and said in a deep voice: "What Su Xiangguo said is true, Your Majesty should prepare in advance, so that you can welcome the other party when the time comes." At that time, no matter what excessive demands the other party makes, please ask Your Majesty to take the overall situation first and agree first. ”

Chu Xuan had already run out of ideas at this time, and hurriedly said: "I am too young to understand many things, everything depends on the arrangement of the two old gentlemen, please." ”

Su Haochen said again: "If the other party kidnaps some people, it is just a matter of asking for some jade silk, in case the lion opens his mouth and asks us to provide a large number of spirit stones and elixirs, the old minister has a headache, and there are not many resources in our Great Zhou treasury." Except for Kyoto, most of the rest of the Zhou Kingdom was barren, and the little resources stored in the previous were all squandered when Chu Mo crossed the catastrophe. "Su Haochen's words are only half right, not all the spirit stones and elixirs in the treasury were used up by Chu Mo, and Chu Xuan also had a share in the tribulation a few days ago.

But this is not a problem, when Chu Xuan came out of Xuanhuang Mountain a few years ago, he brought out a lot of good things, including many excellent elixirs, originally he had been reluctant to use them, but this time he could just take them out for emergency.

After thinking about this, he spoke: "This Xiangguo doesn't have to worry, I still have a lot of resources in my hands, and when the time comes, it will be used to eliminate the disaster." ”

Although the words were said lightly, Chu Xuan's heart twitched. No way, whether it's a person or a country, weakness is the original sin, and you deserve to be humiliated by others. This world was originally the survival of the fittest, but Chu Xuan was too smooth sailing before, so he didn't realize this.

He secretly swore in his heart that one day, he must lead the Great Zhou, no, it is the entire Nanyuan Continent that rises in the world, making the world look sideways.

...

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Jin army to leave the Northern Liang Kingdom and come to the territory of the Great Zhou.

The defenders of the states and counties of the Zhou State received the order, and before the other party arrived, the city gate had been opened early, and they did not dare to make the slightest resistance.

The Jin army that arrived in the Zhou State was only more than 300 people, and they raped and plundered all the way, killed people and set fires, and came to the city of Kyoto in the Zhou State unimpeded.

In view of what the Jin army had heard in the past few days, Chu Xuan did not dare to let people open the gate of Kyoto, but mobilized a large amount of manpower in advance and built several residences for the Jin army outside the city, and this temporary residence was not simple, almost comparable to the emperor's palace.

It's just that he didn't expect that after arriving in Kyoto, the Jin army would not give up, and insisted that the defenders open the gate of Kyoto and let them in, saying that they wanted to appreciate the customs of Kyoto. The commander of the Jin army also threatened the Zhou court with an immediate attack that would raze the whole of Kyoto if they were not allowed in for three days.

Chu Xuan was young and vigorous, and when he heard the other party's words, he was immediately furious, and almost decided to personally lead the army out of the city and fight to the death with the other party. However, under the hard persuasion of Su Haochen and Shi Fan, Chu Xuan still endured this breath, and finally sent someone out of the city to negotiate with the other party to see if he could send some spirit stones and elixirs, so that the other party could raise his noble hand and harm other countries.

The commander of the Jin army outside the city finally gave a reply, and it was okay if the Jin army did not enter Kyoto, but Chu Xuan, as the emperor, must bring the prepared gifts and his own family members and go out of the city to bow to the other party.

When the news reached Kyoto, the civil and military officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty immediately discussed it. For the monarch of a country, there is probably nothing more humiliating than kneeling down to someone.

To everyone's surprise, Chu Xuan agreed without even thinking about it. In fact, there is no way to do this, he can't beat others, if he can kneel, he can be safe and secure, and he Chu Xuan can't let go.