In the end, Zhou Bai chose to accept the Yan family into the Cangshan Alliance after confirming that the Yan family had completely lost the ability to be independent.

Of course, this requires the Yan family to pay a lot of costs, at least the alliance will send troops for the Yan family and deal with the aftermath, which will require resource subsidies.

The Yan family handed over most of the clan property in exchange for the blessing of the Zhou family and the alliance, and sought a glimmer of hope for continuation, which was the final result.

In addition to the families near Cangshan who formed an alliance and defended themselves against the Jin soldiers under the leadership of Zhou Bai, other places in Pingcang can be said to have swept the snow in front of the door and suffered heavy losses.

Because there are too many small groups of golden soldiers who have crossed Cangshan, they often wander around the county, which makes the county soldiers dare not leave the county at will, after all, the defense of the county is the top priority.

Only Ji Hongzhe remembered the key mentioned by Zhou Bai, bitter and narrow, he ignored the county lieutenant's obstruction, and forcefully asked the county soldiers to support the pass.

As for Bei'an County, although it was not threatened by the Jin, the heavy snow blocked the road and the long supply line made the county soldiers powerless to support.

For this reason, in the face of the Haoqiang family's organization of a group of township soldiers to train bravery, the government can only acquiesce.

And how about Cangbei County, the court will not mention it, and Bei'an County will not overstep its bounds.

This provided a favorable opportunity for Zhou Bai to further expand his influence, and he led the township soldiers of the Cangshan Alliance to clear and suppress from the north of the county to the south of the county, and pulled more than a dozen villagers to join the alliance.

Of course, there are also levels between allies, except for the first few families who are first-class allies of the Zhou family, which belong to the all-weather strategic alliance.

The rest of the allies are still lacking in their contributions and cannot ask for unconditional support from the alliance.

The families in the alliance must break down business barriers and communicate with each other, and the market does not have to go through the closed county town at all.

Zhou Bai even sold a lot of commercial shares, such as high-grade liquor, red clay, soap, and perfume, and major families could choose to buy shares and then dump them on different trade routes.

For a time, the Cangshan Alliance completed the transformation from a military alliance to a comprehensive alliance, and Zhou Bai also gathered a large amount of funds in a short time.

In just one month, the capital reserves of the inner government have exceeded 50,000 taels, which allows him to accelerate the planning of industrial layout, and a large amount of high-grade liquor is dumped to the north of Cangshan.

The last time of the forty-sixth year of Xiangxing was not wonderful, as the sudden heavy snow and natural disasters swept across the northern border, not only did the Jin State begin to plunder southward, but other border states also had conflicts and frictions with their northern neighbors.

At the same time, various natural disasters have also begun to occur in the inland states, and Quang Nam Prefecture, which has not snowed for thousands of years, ushered in a heavy snow winter, and this is only one of the most common.

Most of the prefectures and counties were plagued by droughts, floods, and earthquakes, and Qin Tianjian's predictions of celestial phenomena were completely out of order.

In this kind of disaster-stricken situation, the response of the Daxu Imperial Court was as slow as a snail, and the central imperial court did not have any means to deal with it, and some only gave local states and counties the right to deal with it cheaply.

But such a second-tier border county like Bei'an is easy to say, but Cangbei County, which is on the front line of the war, can no longer support it.

The food transportation and supply were insufficient, and the border army soldiers could not hold out in the city, and gradually, the border army that opened the city gate and surrendered appeared.

This is a very rare situation for the Daxu border army, because they come from the Celestial Empire and have their own pride.

They have fought with these steppe barbarians for an unknown number of battles, accumulated a deep feud in the sea of blood, and now they are defeated by hunger.

The situation in the north has never been so sinister, just because the Son of Heaven is seriously ill, the Daxu Dynasty, which has lasted for more than 300 years, actually has a tendency to change the dynasty.

Fortunately, the princes in the court are not waste, and before the New Year passes, the heavy snow stops, and the court comes up with a complete set of countermeasures.

It is easy to say that the inland states and counties can open the treasury for disaster relief, but for border states like Dingzhou, which have been invaded, they must be dealt with carefully.

The imperial court's counterattack against the Jin State was very vicious, and the Xiangxing Emperor, who barely supported the sick body, summoned Hu Yanhe, the Marquis of Yin Mountain of the Jin State, who lived in Shenjing, and appointed him as the new lord of the Jin State.

At the same time, he issued a clear edict to the world, reprimanding the current prince of the Jin State as an unworthy descendant, poisoning the former Jin State lord, and not allowing foreign ministers to enter the palace to meet him, which is disloyal, unfilial piety and unrighteous generation.

Hu Yanhe, who held the holy decree, entered Cangbei County under the escort of the three thousand Daxu forbidden troops, and erected the banner of the lord of the Jin Kingdom in Cangbei County.

He wanted to recruit the original old troops in Cangbei County, recruit the army that invaded the south of the Jin State, and recruit the courtiers and generals who were dissatisfied with his eldest brother within the Jin State.

In short, according to the etiquette system, the Jin State is a subject country of Daxu, and now Huyanhe has the canonization of the Son of Heaven, and he is the orthodoxy of the Jin State.

At this time, the Jin country is unstable, an old country owner, a prison country, and a new country master, who should the Jin people listen to.

Then Hu Yanhe did not wait for the Jin army to enter Cangbei to crusade, and turned his head and pulled the old department deep into the grassland, he wanted to give Daxu time to sort out the border and lead away the Jin army that was plundering in the south.

Some people may laugh at Yanhe being used as a knife by the Daxu Imperial Court, but they don't know how long he waited before waiting for the opportunity to be a knife.

It is precisely because of the various means of the imperial court, as well as the poor loss of the opening of the warehouse for disaster relief, after the end of the forty-sixth year of Xiangxing, the world has returned to a little calm.

After all, Emperor Xiangxing, who has been sitting on the dragon chair for forty-six years, is not dead, after all, there are no rebels in the world who have really rebelled, and everything seems to be under control.

However, an even more bizarre natural disaster has swept the whole world.

On January 15, Zhou Bai was explaining to Yu Yueyun about the affairs of the family, because he was going to leave home to take the exam again, this time to Shenjing, and he needed to prepare enough time to travel.

The bamboo shadow is shining, the lights are swaying, and in the quiet study, some people are reading to the moonlight, and some people are adding fragrance to their red sleeves.

Zhou Bai held the Taoist scripture and seemed to inadvertently ask Yin Ren who was studying ink next to him: "Why, are those few loose cultivators still unwilling to become worshippers of our clan?" ”

"Alas, the channels for us to collect spirit stones and spiritual objects are still not enough, and we can't come up with the resource conditions that make them excited, but Brother Bai, I have already selected a few seedlings for cultivating Dao seeds." Yu Yueyun glanced at the Dao Sutra in Zhou Bai's hand, and the corners of her mouth curved.

Obviously, the Dao industry has surpassed me, and I am still studying like this, and I am not afraid to enter the Tao in advance.

Zhou Bai bowed slightly: "Well, the lineage must be cultivated, and there must be thugs from the outer lineage, but it doesn't matter, when I am named on the gold list, they will naturally take the initiative to come to the door." ”

Not to mention the same Jinshi, he is a descendant of the imperial court and has a lot of resources.

Jinshi has the hope of immortality, and on the road in the future, it is worth serving them to take them with you.

"The basic magic circle needs too many spirit stones, so it's better to reduce the area covered by the magic circle first, I think it's okay to protect the area around the ancestral hall." Yu Yueyun thought about it and gave her own suggestions.

During this time, she had been secretly expanding the Protector Formation according to Zhou Bai's request, and almost all the spirit stones collected by various industries were filled in.

"No, there must be a magic circle, this is a matter of family foundation, rest assured, there will be no shortage of spirit stones." Zhou Bai glanced at the direction of Cangshan and said very firmly.

He recently read the newspaper of the Imperial Palace, and felt that the frequent natural disasters in various places were really wrong, and this infinite calamity almost permeated the entire world.

Yu Yueyun also wanted to refute, building a magic circle is a waste of manpower and material resources, the key is what crisis can be used in order to use such a magic circle, isn't it a few Taoist priests who came to the door?

"But when those spirit stones are vacated, they can make those Dao species in the clan ......"

Suddenly, the two of them felt the aura between heaven and earth at the same time, and the cool night breeze instantly blew out the candles in the room, and there was a lot of commotion outside.

Zhou Bai and Yu Yueyun hurriedly walked out of the house, and the sky that was originally full of stars became dim, and the starlight was dim, as if the sky and the earth had fallen into a dead silence.

Before they could figure out what was going on, the moon, which had been hiding in the clouds for a long time, poked its head out, and an endless blood-red moonlight covered the land.

This is definitely not a normal moon!

"The Scarlet Moon, a precursor to the Great Tribulation." Zhou Bai's heart was pounding, and he whispered silently.

"Yueyun, immediately open the magic circle, block the moonlight, and let everyone stay at home and not go out!"

The eager and serious tone made Yu Yueyun have no time to ask, so she turned her head and went straight to the ancestral hall, where the eye of the array was.

At the same time, the crisp and majestic sound resounded all the way with mana.

"The patriarch has an order, everyone closes the doors and windows, is not allowed to go out, is not allowed to look directly at the moon, and violators of the order will be severely punished!"

Zhou Bai used his soul power to protect his whole body, and he squinted his eyes and looked up at the blood moon, where there seemed to be some truth.

The first collision of the two worlds, with the help of the Taiyin Star to transmit the chaotic power of the other world.

Hmmm~

Without waiting for Zhou Bai to ponder, another wave of abnormalities appeared in the sky, and meteors with dark red blood colors pierced the sky, as if they were bringing ominousness to the world.

Sure enough, if you don't play your cards according to memory, the beginning of the world catastrophe, there are not so many outsiders coming.