Since Daxu divided the countries of the Central Region and achieved results, he began to implement the global division.

On September 8, Dongtai and Kyushu were divided, and the holy decree sealed 36 countries, and 13 countries recognized their suzerainty; On September 12, the seven states of Xishu were divided, and the holy decree sealed 28 countries, and nine countries recognized their suzerainty; On September 18, ten southern states were divided, and thirty-nine kingdoms were sealed by divine decree, and only ten kingdoms recognized their suzerainty.

The division outside the middle region was far below the expectations of the imperial court.

Except for some of the royal family's children and loyal vassals, most of those who accepted the division and were willing to recognize the Daxu Sect were not powerful feudal towns.

The lords of these feudal towns are either not strong enough to need a name, or they have no ambition to covet stability......

The aura was revived, and all the Fulong sects on all sides rushed to the end, and all the hidden dragons with a foundation understood the pros and cons of accepting the name of the feudal state.

For the hidden dragon, the advantages are temporary, but the disadvantages require great efforts to erase later.

Do you have to put a shackle around your neck and be limited by "righteousness" from now on?

It can be said that the less influence the central government of Daxu, the fewer feudal towns are willing to accept this feudal order.

Half of the feudal kingdoms in the Middle Domain can respond, recognizing the suzerain, and defending the Quartet.

When they arrived in Dongtai and Xishu, they plummeted, and the trend of self-reliance and statehood was very obvious.

No one cares about the south of the Yangtze River, and the feudal kingdoms in the south are all in Jinghu.

These rich and prosperous places are still like this, and the north is even more predictably unbearable.

Because since the founding of the Great Xu, the status of the northern border is not high, and it has rarely been favored by the policy of the imperial court.

Outside the Central Dynasty, there were many states, and the steppe vassal states in the north were the strongest, and every male lord had the idea of going south.

There is a saying among the people in the north that Daxu just used the seven states in the north as a barrier to distribute criminals and resist rebellious vassals.

The trend of self-reliance and nation-building started from Liangzhou in the north, and the people in the north have never been accustomed to you.

But after all, it is a huge land of seven states, tens of millions of people, and it is impossible for the imperial court not to fight for it.

On September 24, the imperial envoys arrived in the north and divided a total of 35 kingdoms.

The land of seven states is divided into thirty-one countries, and how many small countries in it can be imagined.

The three princes of Lingzhou, the city of Dezhou and the land of the three counties, were named the Marquis of Lingzhou, which is the largest country.

In the other six states, there are basically very few counties, and most of them are princes and barons, which seems to be very stingy in the imperial court.

Only Dingzhou because of Zhou Bai's sudden rise, resulting in a three-legged pattern is more obvious, and it is divided into three big countries.

They are the governor Lei Haomiao as the marquis, and the founding territory is Dingzhou County, Longfeng County, and Yongquan County; Lüding is Dingxibo, and the territory of the founding of the country is most of Pinghe County, Xingyun County, and Yongquan County; Zhou Bai was named Anbeibo, and the territory of the founding of the country was Pingcang County, Ruinan County, and Border City County.

However, except for Lei Haomiao accepting the title of Dinghou, neither Lu Ding nor Zhou Bai accepted the order, and they didn't need the title of the imperial court.

Especially Lu Ding, who was very dissatisfied with the imperial court's move to divide Yongquan County, controlled a few ports with the Dingzhou Naval Division, even if he occupied a small half of the territory?

Zhou Bai didn't care much about how Lu Ding drove away the imperial envoys and how he built momentum in Dingxi.

He just felt that the title of Dinghou on Lei Haomiao's head was a little dazzling, a person who was not a royal family or a prince could be crowned with the title of "state" when he came up.

According to Zhou Bai's judgment, the imperial court's luck business in Dingzhou must be at a loss.

No matter how prosperous Dingzhou County is, the population is not outrageously large, only more than two million, plus hundreds of thousands of Longfeng County, the population of a Hou State is less than three million.

Being made a marquis like this, the imperial court has to spend a lot of luck, this is not Lei Haomiao's loyalty and performance to impress the imperial court, and it is not in line with the practical interests.

It can only be said that either Lei Haomiao has a great backstage, or the imperial court wants Lei Haomiao to suppress Zhou Bai and Lu Ding.

For the latter reason, Zhou Bai can really understand that in terms of the situation of the seven states in the north, there are only three forces in one state.

Even in Liangzhou, in addition to Liang Hou Zhao Qi, there are still four or five separatist forces.

The three kingdoms seem to be stable and balanced, and at the same time, they are also the easiest pattern to unify.

Because Zhou Bai and Lu Ding rose too fast, Lei Haomiao did not have the ability to control the overall situation.

The country of a state can establish a state tripod, which will completely sever the connection between a state's luck and Daxu.

On September 25, the day after rejecting the imperial court's edict, Lei Haomiao and Lu Ding released news one after another, announcing the founding of the country.

And Zhou Bai, who is well-prepared and has a clear goal, does not have to wait at all.

……

On September 27 of the first year of Tongzhi, in the north of Dingzhou, a brand new country was established, which was named Anbei Kingdom.

It is normal to follow the name of the governor of Anbei, and he did not arrogant and rob the marquis, but just called himself Anbei Bo.

On the same day, the entire Andu City was decorated with lights, and red silk was hung all over the front and back of the house, and all the Andu people were crazy.

No one thought that the monarch would set the capital in an inconspicuous county seat, and most people thought that it was three county towns, at least Pingcang County, a place of dragon prosperity.

Aside from Zhou Bai's determination of Andu as the gathering point of luck, if the country is really chosen, Andu City is discussed on the bright side, and there are indeed many advantages.

First of all, Anbei has three counties, of which Andu City is located at the junction of Ruinan County and Bei'an County, and there is a road leading to Baishazhou, which is geographically suitable as the national capital.

The capital is here, which can take into account the three counties and drive the development of Ruinan County and Border City County the fastest.

In addition, whether it is to Longfeng in the south, or to the grassland in the north, or to Liangzhou in the east, Andu City is a more suitable political center area.

In addition, to put it simply, Andu City was the capital of the small country of Andu a hundred years ago.

The current Andu City has not changed much, the area is large enough, the city wall is high enough, and the drainage system is also there, and the building is the best in the county, even if it is not as good as the county seat.

What's more, there is something that the three major county towns do not have in Andu City, that is, the palace left over from Andu Kingdom.

It has been banned for a hundred years, and it is decayed, dilapidated, and has no grade, and there are even only a few of them, which is very in line with the value of a small country in Andu.

But in any case, having and not are two different things.

Compared with the warlord feudal towns, the complete state pays more attention to the etiquette system, and many feudal towns that have been entitled, have not established the country and become the king, that is, the etiquette system is not in place.

Lu Ding and Lei Haomiao, it is impossible to say that they did not worry about the affairs of the palace.

Of course, because of the hasty preparation time, today's founding ceremony has only barely cleared out a main hall and a side hall.

The main hall is used for the court meeting of the monarch and the ministers, named the middle pole hall, and the side hall is the temporary residence of Zhou Bai, which is regarded as a temporary harem.

However, in the end, there is a place to open the dynasty, and it does not lose the dignity of Zhou Bai's monarch.

Early in the morning, Zhou Bai woke up on the sandalwood bed in the side hall, took a deep breath, and calmed his mind a little.

It was also the first time for him to live in a palace and be a monarch.

At this time, the outside seemed to hear a noise inside, and a female officer appeared and asked softly, "Your Majesty, are you awake?" The time has come, can I summon a change of clothes? ”

"Well, follow the process, pass it." Zhou Bai glanced at the female official and replied with a bow.

With the clapping signal of the female officer, rows of maids walked in from the outside, all of them with beautiful and dignified appearances, and their clothes and accessories were firmly in their hands.

The eunuchs didn't have time to recruit, but they recruited a lot of palace maids.

There are those who are from major families, and there are those who are from good civilian families, and they are all checked by the clan and the rites.

Zhou Bai did not forcibly change the rules, but limited the number of people to ensure that there would not be a reputation for arrogance and lasciviousness.

As he got up slowly, he basically didn't need to move after that, all the maids came to wash his face and comb his hair, and he couldn't get dressed in the back.

The regulated earl's crown dress is very troublesome to wear, and if Zhou Bai is based on his usual mortal body, it will take a lot of time just to practice walking.

Fortunately, although the land of the three counties is partial, there is no shortage of officials who understand the etiquette system after the serious imperial examination.

Most of these maids are from everyone's background, have good upbringing, and after passing the training, the cumbersome crown dress can also be successfully completed.

The crown dress is the dress of the Tianxia regulation, usually the official dress worn by the emperor, king, clan and other nobles, and is a gorgeous, graceful, dignified representative, marking power and dignity.

It is mainly composed of crowns, Xuanyi, silk clothes, white Luo big belts, yellow knees, plain yarn in the single, red and so on.

According to the level of the title, the regulations on the wearing of crown clothes are different, and the emperor to the doctor can wear the crown clothes in the order of the big crown crown, the crown of the gon , the crown of the eagle, the crown of the crown, the crown of the skull, the crown of the Xuan.

In addition, the embroidered crests on the Xuanyi are also differentiated, and the emperor wears a crown dress with twelve crests on the most important and solemn sacrificial occasions.

The twelve crests are the most expensive, namely the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountain, the dragon, the Chinese worm, the Zongyi, the algae, the fire, the pink rice, the yellow, and the yellow.

The emperor uses 12 chapters, the crown of the prince from the mountain with 9 chapters, the marquis and uncle's crown clothes from the crest of the Chinese worm with 7 chapters, the son and male crown from the algae with 5 chapters, and the crown of the prince from the powder and rice with 3 chapters.

The strict and cumbersome dressing system gave Zhou Bai a headache, and even the crown on his head could only be the seven crowns allowed by the marquis and earldom.

But can he change it? Not really.

The greatest beneficiary of the etiquette system is himself, the king of a country.

Zhou Bai was completely dressed in the standard Seven Crowns and Seven Chapters Uniform, and noticed that there was more fear and shock in the eyes of the maids and attendants, and he couldn't help but think of a passage.

"The prosperity of the husband's dress is also, so he reports merit and virtue, and respects benevolence and virtue. Therefore, the etiquette is noble and noble, and it cannot be exceeded, so it is a courtesy, and no one is allowed to obey it, so it is also a courtesy.

Shun is orderly up and down, those who are thin in virtue retreat, and those who are virtuous are in order. ”

At the beginning of the establishment of the Anbei Kingdom, Zhou Bai needed a strict etiquette system and divided the upper and lower levels in the system, so that he could concentrate his heart.

Everywhere he looked, he didn't dare to look up.

Only a girl wearing a plain Taoist robe and a fairy appearance appeared in the hall at some point, looking back with a smile and walking towards him.

Zhou Bai's solemn face was relaxed, revealing a little joy, and calmly quipped: "Yu Zhenren, is this a successful breakthrough?" ”

Yu Yueyun's divine sense looked around and found that no one dared to look at this side, so he frowned and whispered: "Today is your big day, the king of a country!" ”

"You break through the real person, double happiness is coming, happy."

"Your Majesty, the concubine is so polite......"

After some whispering, Zhou Bai obviously let go a lot, and then after Yu Yueyun personally straightened the collar of his robe, he pushed the door and left.

Outside, Zhou Lin, the deputy director of the Rite Division, saw Zhou Bai's eyes light up, thinking that he was Zhou Bai's second uncle or something.

Paying homage with a big salute, he respectfully said: "Your Majesty, the next step is to hold a ceremony to worship the heavens." ”

Immediately afterwards, a team of personal guards and forbidden soldiers escorted a carriage to Zhou Bai for him to ride.

The festival had to go outside the city of Anto, where there was a newly built altar, a little farther away, and the bloated crown was not suitable for horseback riding.

The founding of the country is called the uncle, so it is natural to sue heaven and earth and ask heaven and earth to witness.

In fact, it was Zhou Bai who took the initiative to sacrifice part of his luck and asked Heavenly Court to recognize the existence of the Anbei Empire in the Tianyuan Continent.

As the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Qu Zhi personally drove the car, and it is worth mentioning that there were five horses, which was also in accordance with the travel etiquette system of the monarch of the Bo Kingdom.

"The Son of Heaven drives six, the princes drive five, the Qing drives four, the doctor is three, the scholar is two, and the Shuren is one."

At this time, Zhou Bai was dressed in a crown robe, which looked extremely noble, majestic and could not be looked at directly.

When passing through the main street of Andu City, it is bustling with activity, and the sound of hustle and bustle soars into the sky.

The demon soldiers standing on both sides hammered the iron armor on their chests and expressed their most loyal greetings to Zhou Bai, and the people of the city were calling for the king......

"How many years have passed, our Andu has become the national capital again, and it is still such a wise monarch who rules us!"

"Hahaha, the old man is happy, you juniors don't understand what it means to be a king who can make the steppe tribes dare not go south."

"The first country of Dingzhou, the day of unification of Dingzhou is not far away, I hope that the king will rescue them as soon as possible......"

Because Zhou Bai wanted to have fun with the people, he often showed his face to respond, and it took half an hour before he arrived at the place of worship.

Although there are still many people watching the excitement here, it is obvious that they are affected by the solemn atmosphere and dare not speak loudly.

Under the towering altar, there were many warriors, full of civil and military officials, who were silent, waiting for the arrival of the lord with their hands down.

The sound of ritual music sounded, and the process was carried out step by step, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites strictly followed the ancient ritual process, and did not dare to slack off.

When the music stopped, Zhou Bai walked up to the altar alone, along the loess road.

There are various offerings, incense and candles...... A vacant sacrificial dome and a stack of manuscripts.

The follow-up process does not need to be reminded by the ceremonial officer, and Zhou Bai also understands that he first bowed to the sky three times, and then lit a huge incense pillar, and then bowed three times.

Finally, pick up the manuscript and skim it, light it, and place it in the sacrificial tripod.

After a while, green smoke rose, and lines of words seemed to convey it.

These manuscripts are the articles of the scribes of the three counties, and there is also a sacrificial text, which connects the heavenly court with a literary tone.

At this time, the dark clouds dispersed, and a golden pillar of sunlight covered the altar and Zhou Bai.

In the distant sky, there is purple qi coming from the east......

Zhou Baifu went to his heart and said loudly to the sky: "Daxu is immoral, and the world is falling apart,...... Forty-eight prefectures have been hit by natural and man-made disasters, and the people are full of complaints...... There is also a peep at the enemy of Qingxu...... This is a troubled era that has never been seen in Tianxia. Today, there is the governor of Anbei, the general of the demon Zhou Bai, close the heavenly scroll Gu, rely on the ancestor Weiling, then take advantage of the autumn of chasing the deer, to the heroes and sages in the left and right, Dingding Bei'an, Ruinan, the border city of the three counties......

Today, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs has a joint message to persuade and advance, respect the orphan as the uncle, build the country as Anbei, and take the main event as the ......"