Da Zhou, Autumn.

More than three months have passed since the Zhou army was defeated in the southern region and more than four million troops were wiped out.

In the past three months or so, the Ming army has conquered the Qing Dynasty and expanded its territory. It is so overwhelming that no one dares to challenge it. It has already shown a hint of the momentum of a tiger that can swallow up the world and unify the eight wastelands.

The strong posture was completely forged. Not only was the myth of invincibility not broken, but it became even stronger.

Looking back at the Great Zhou Dynasty, most of the elite main force was lost in the great defeat of the Southern Territory, especially the losses of the Wu family nobles, which were extremely heavy!

Many of the backbones of the Wu family nobles were captured and killed in the decisive battle in the southern region. They lost their clan leaders and heads of families, leaving them without a leader.

The entire Great Zhou Dynasty Hall was mostly empty.

Most of the senior generals in the army were empty.

The four major shrines of the shrine, Tiancheng and Sword Gate are also mostly empty!

Most of the saint-level experts were also captured.

It can be said that most of the elites of the entire Zhou Dynasty were captured or killed by the Ming army. Of course, almost all of these elites came from the Wu family nobles.

The forces of the Shenzhou martial arts family suffered unprecedented and unbearable losses!

Although the power of the Wu family was in tatters, the previous strength of the Zhou Kingdom, as well as its ambition to unify the Divine Continent and aspire to be the world's hegemony, were also in tatters.

The distribution pattern of political and military forces in the Great Zhou Dynasty suddenly underwent major changes!

Originally, the Wu family nobles controlled the territory of sixty-two states, but there were only forty states under the direct jurisdiction of the Zhou Dynasty.

Most of the prefectures and counties of the Zhou Kingdom were nominally the territory of the Zhou Kingdom, and were under the orders of the Zhou court and the empress. However, the actual owners were still the nobles of the Wu family, and the officials in the counties and counties were almost all children of the nobles.

Whether it is in the army, the court, or the local area, the influence of the Wu family nobles is deep-rooted, intricate, and pervasive.

It can be said that although Yu Kuan was very strong and did hold a lot of power, she still had to rely on the power of the Wu family to maintain the overall situation of the Zhou Kingdom.

Before the defeat of the Southern Territory, the power of the Wu family nobles exceeded that of the Zhou court and the Zhou emperor. The Zhou kingdom was called a country ruled by laws and regulations, but in fact it was still an aristocratic government.

However, after the defeat in the Southern Region, the power of the Zhou Dynasty's martial aristocrats plummeted and they suffered heavy losses.

The originally strong and relatively independent military aristocratic groups in the Northern Territory, such as the original anti-demon camp, anti-demon camp, etc., experienced a great defeat in the Southern Territory and lost almost all their elites!

Relatively speaking, the strength of the direct subordinates and direct descendants of Zhou Ting and Yu Kuan has suffered much smaller losses, and now they are overwhelming the remaining power of the Wu family nobles.

At the beginning, Lord Zhou led his army southward with the slogan of occupying the southern region. The nobles of the Wu family were eager to destroy the Ming Dynasty and strongly supported the troops. As a result, they lost all their money.

Thinking about it now, all fools know that Lord Zhou probably had the idea of ​​killing two birds with one stone. One of them was the power of the Wu family nobles.

However, when Yu Kuan went on a personal expedition, she suffered a huge defeat that annihilated her entire army. She lost more than four million elites and a large number of strong men. She only led a few hundred people to flee back to the north in embarrassment. Her prestige also plummeted!

Therefore, Emperor Zhou and the Wu family were both big losers.

What the Wu family lost was real strength, and what Yu Kuan lost was the emperor's prestige and even legitimacy!

The huge failure caused the remaining Wu family forces to burst into rage.

Yu Kuan, it was you who ruined the Wu family and the Great Zhou Dynasty!

Why do you have the dignity to continue to be emperor?

………

In the 21st year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on the eighth day of the eighth month, the Shenhua Tiancheng in Zhoujing was held.

In the Starry Sky Palace, Zhou Lord Yu Yan was sitting there quietly, drinking Tao Ming calmly.

She still looked like she had the pearls of wisdom in hand, and she didn't have the despondency that she should have after a disastrous defeat.

Despite her peerless beauty, which is like a disaster in the world, she still carries a supreme noble demeanor.

It is difficult for outsiders to imagine that the Zhou Kingdom suffered such a defeat, and the Zhou Lord Yu Kuan actually looked like nothing happened.

Opposite her sat Nangong Lingyi, on the left sat King Ye Yu Xuan, on the right sat Princess Shenhua Yu Shu, and below her sat a purple-haired enchantress.

A petite woman entered the palace quietly, bowed and said, "It's just as your Majesty expected."

This woman is Huaying.

"How is their connection going?" Yu Kan asked lightly, with a playful smile in his eyes.

Huaying reported: "Tomorrow morning, we will launch an attack in Xuanfeng Palace. We will attack both inside and outside at the same time..."

"...The purpose is exactly as expected by His Majesty. The plan is to establish Xuanxun as the new emperor, keep the country's name unchanged, and change it to Yongjia..."

Yu Kan smiled, "Very good, I have been waiting for this day for a long time."

When Hua Ying retreated, Yu Kan smiled and said: "If you can't be the Emperor of Zhou, you can only be the Empress of the Ming Dynasty. I'm not letting you down, it's just that the ginger medicine is too strong."

…

night.

The moment of application.

Suddenly a voice shouted:

"Yu Kuan is unethical! He colluded with Jiang Yao to ruin the army of one million people on Great Friday! He is called Emperor of Zhou, but he is actually a traitor to Zhou!"

Another voice also yelled: "Yu Kuan is rebellious! He is unfit to be the emperor! China and foreign countries are united to capture the traitor!"

At the same time, the roar of the formation was heard.

The densely packed city defense formations and palace defense formations were all roaring, opening and closing.

"Xiang..." The terrifying iron curtain of the battlefield fell, sealing off the entire Shenhua Tiancheng.

The hundreds of thousands of Wuzhen troops, 10,000 Wushen troops, and a thousand Wuxian troops stationed in Zhoujing were all mobilized.

Immediately afterwards, more than a hundred powerful martial saints appeared in Xuanfeng Palace in the imperial city. Among them were Xuanzhou, Jihua, Zhongli Dingnai, Gaili, Danxizi, Zongji, Pei Zhong, etc.

Everyone is a big shot who has been famous in China for many years and is the pillar of the Wu family nobles.

One of the very young martial saints is Xuan Song!

Behind these more than a hundred powerful martial saints, there are also a large group of martial immortals and martial gods, all of whom are from the martial nobles.

They looked at the towering Xuanfeng Palace silently, with cold and stern expressions.

At this moment, the huge capital city and the imperial palace were blocked by large military battle zones and numerous formations.

To be precise, it was blocked by Xuan Zhou and others.

The imperial army and formations all fell into their hands.

"Yu Kuan rebelled! He is unfit to be the emperor!" one of them shouted again.

Above Xuanfeng Palace, several figures appeared, and one of them was a graceful figure, none other than Emperor Zhou Yu.

"What are you going to do?" Yu Kan shouted with authority, his phoenix eyes filled with evil and his jade face as ice-like.

"How dare you rebel?! Am I too merciful?"

Xuanzhou shouted: "Yu Kuang! You are the one who rebelled! More than twenty years ago, for the sake of the overall situation, we had no choice but to support you as emperor, and that's how the Great Zhou Dynasty came into being!"

"If it weren't for us, with your virtue, how would you be qualified to be the Lord of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"

"But as the Emperor of Zhou, you are bent on covering up the fake discovery of ginger medicine, and have repeatedly delayed the suppression of the discovery, thus causing great trouble today!"

"You led more than 4 million elites to march south. Was it to conquer the Ming Dynasty and open up the frontiers? You wanted to deliberately destroy my elites of the Great Zhou Dynasty! You and Jiang Yao colluded and deliberately lost to him!"

"Yu Kuan, Yu Kuan, what you have done is outrageous to both humans and gods. It is outrageous. You are sitting on the throne with your face, so how can you face the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"

Zhongli Dingnai shouted: "For the sake of your claim to be emperor, I allow you to commit suicide! If you resist, you will be turned into powder!"

The others also stared angrily, wishing they could eat Yu Kuan.

They thought that Yu Kuan must have lost to Jiang Yao on purpose, which was intolerable.

Xuan Song took a step forward and said in a cold voice: "Junior Sister Yu Kan, you don't distinguish between public and private affairs, you harm the country with your love, you secretly collude with the Ming Dynasty, and conspire to ruin the Great Zhou Dynasty, how can you be worthy of being an emperor?"

"In troubled times and in times of danger, I really don't want to be emperor, and I don't have the virtue to be emperor. But I can't let you continue to sit on the throne of Emperor Zhou."

"I don't know what the future holds for Great Zhou Dynasty, but I don't want Shenzhou to be unified by Jiang Yao. Anyone can do it except Jiang Yao and Charming Tapir!"

"Junior Sister Yu, go on your way. I hope you leave with dignity."

"Also, you thought our plan was leaked and tried to use it to kill us. Unfortunately, you miscalculated. We also know your plan."

"So, we have changed our plan. Your arrangement is useless. Now the only thing you can mobilize is a group of strong men and guards around you. You lose."

Yu Kan sneered and turned to look at Huaying, "Is it you? Huaying, did I make a mistake in handing the Shadow Organization over to you?"

Huaying swayed and stood beside Xuan Song, "Your Majesty, you are very kind to me, but I can't help you."

"If what I expected is correct, you were the one who killed the sect master, right? Doesn't your majesty know that I was raised by the sect master?"

"You can seize the position of the leader of the Dongyu Sect and unite the Void Sea. For your sake, I don't care. But you can't kill the leader for the sake of power! She is also your master!"

"Your Majesty, you are too cruel. Also, we don't want to see the Ming Kingdom unify the Divine Continent."

Xuan Song took Hua Ying's hand and said, "I'm sorry for you."

Yu Kuan smiled softly, "I killed the sect master? Who told you?"

"It's me!" A powerful Mahayana man came out and pointed at Yu Kuan, "Yu Kuan, it was you who killed Xianyan!"
To be continued...