Journey to the West: From the Primordial Era

Chapter 144: The Marquis of Qingzhou sets out to Chaoge to meet the new emperor

Qingzhou City.

After Emperor Xin ascended the throne, Yuan Futong of Beihai rebelled first, which attracted the Grand Tutor Wen Zhong to go and fight against him. Then Emperor Xin presented a poem in Nuwa Palace and issued an edict to let Su Hu, Marquis of Jizhou, offer his daughter as an offering.

As a result, Emperor Xin angered the goddess Nuwa, which completely marked the beginning of the great calamity of the Conferred Gods.

"The Emperor is both civil and military, and his actions are not so superficial! He asked Jizhou Marquis Su Hu to offer his daughter as a gift, probably to win over Jizhou Marquis, the richest of the nine marquises, and use Jizhou Marquis to balance the power of Donglu in Chaoge..."

Qin Hua began to recall the information in his memory.

In his opinion, after Wen Zhong's northern expedition against Yuan Futong, Emperor Xin's various actions and decisions all contained certain profound meanings, and he did not just act rashly or listen to the instigation of his treacherous ministers.

If Su Hu was not so straightforward and softened his attitude when Emperor Xin wanted to marry him, Chaoge and Jizhou would have had a close relationship.

By then, Chaoge will have won over Jizhou and can use Su Hu's daughter to balance the power of Queen Jiang of Dong Lu in the harem.

It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Unfortunately, no matter how good Emperor Xin's methods were, his act of offering incense and blaspheming the saint in Nuwa Palace was enough to bring him to an irretrievable situation.

It is said that women are petty and hold grudges. Although Nuwa is a saint, she is also a woman. Even the other five saints would not provoke her.

Emperor Xin, the emperor of mankind, was not as high-ranking as the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of ancient mankind, but he provoked the most unprovoked saint in the world on a whim.

Qin Hua could make a judgment that even if Jiejiao won the Battle of the Gods and the Shang Dynasty did not collapse, Emperor Xin, the Human Emperor, would eventually have to give up his throne.

No one dares to offend the Holy Mother of the human race, and yet he can still hold the throne of the Human Emperor.

"It should be seven or eight years before we go to Nuwa Palace to pay homage. Emperor Xin has just ascended the throne. Before the various hidden dangers of the Shang Dynasty erupt, the Shang Dynasty is still at its peak. No one dares to provoke us at this time!"

Qin Hua controlled Xuankong's divine clone and calmed himself. As the most powerful family in the East, the Xuan clan would take their son, Qingzhou Hou Xuanzong, and the four great marquises to Chaoge to meet the new Human Emperor. Even Xibo Hou Jichang, who was the most feared by the Shang Dynasty, would bring people to Chaoge this time.

Among the four great marquises, Jiang Huanchu, the Marquis of the East, and Ji Chang, the Marquis of the West, were the largest factions among the eight hundred marquises of the Shang Dynasty.

Especially Donglu, which has married Yinshou, and its status is higher than the other three great marquises.

Of course, the greater the power of Dong Lu, the more it would arouse Emperor Xin's fear.

In the future, Queen Jiang was deposed and the two princes Yin Hong and Yin Jiao were captured, perhaps because Dong Lu was too powerful.

"As the leader of the Xuan Clan, I need to go with Dalang to Chaoge this time. Gan Cen and Li Jing will guard Linzi, and Qingzhou will be left to the three of you!"

After receiving the news of the Human Emperor's death, Qin Hua came out of the Marquis' Mansion and began to prepare for his departure.

"Subordinates take orders!"

The people who stayed behind in Qingzhou were the same as before: Feng Feiqing, Di Ying and Zhao Qian.

Seeing this, Qin Hua shook his head slightly.

In his impression, whenever the ruler leaves the country, his son must be left in the capital to govern the country, and his confidants must be used to hold power and stabilize the country.

Fortunately, the customs of the people in this world are still very simple, such as the family generals and slaves have no consciousness of resisting and betraying the master. Otherwise, according to their own arrangements, they go out for a while and come back, and maybe the city will belong to someone else.

"We must be on guard against others. Forget about it now. If my son Xuanzong leads his troops to war in the future, I must ask him to leave a reliable person behind!"

Qin Hua said in his heart.

Under the arrangement of his son, Marquis of Qingzhou, the carriage frame was quickly prepared in the Marquis' Mansion.

In addition to the baggage they must carry for their long journey, the Marquis' Mansion also prepared a number of tributes to the new Human Emperor, including elixirs from Taishang Laojun, as well as some of the natural treasures that the great wizard Xuandu had given to the Xuan clan.

Adding all kinds of rare treasures, fifty or sixty horse-drawn carriages would be needed.

On this day, fifty or sixty fully loaded carriages, escorted by five thousand Divine Wind Guards, clan leader Xuan Kong and Qingzhou Hou Xuan Zong left the city together in their carriages.

In addition to the main city, Qingzhou is also dotted with small towns all over the place.

Although it is called a small city, it is actually just a simply built fortress with many soldiers stationed in the city to control the vast territory of Qingzhou.

If the land of tens of millions of miles were divided according to the later divisions, it could be divided into at least a dozen states and hundreds of counties.

However, there was no sophisticated management in this era as in later generations, and the Marquisate's rule over the people in the territory was rather extensive, and the limit was to ensure the safety of small towns within the territory.

As for the people outside the city, their life or death depends entirely on their luck. If they are unlucky, they may be eaten by wild beasts in the mountains and forests.

The only good situation is that Qingzhou is suppressed by the human destiny.

Ordinary monsters dare not act too recklessly and rarely rush out of the mountains and forests to wreak havoc. They only deal with wild beasts. The people outside the city still have some ability to fight back.

It’s a pity that the aura of disaster between heaven and earth had already begun to spread two years ago.

Not only the monsters in the forest, but even those Qi-refining practitioners with low levels of Taoism were shaken and left the forest to come to the outside world.

As the carriage of the Marquis of Qingzhou traveled along, he saw that the population in the wild was becoming increasingly sparse, and the world was vast and desolate. Many of the villages that were originally inhabited had become deserted.

Seeing this situation, even Qin Hua felt helpless. His original body could not come out, and this divine clone only had the strength of a Daluo Jinxian. If he exploded now, he would be suppressed by Jiejiao. What's more, it was not the time for Qingzhou to explode.

There is no way. The territory of this world is too vast. The entire China occupied by the Shang Dynasty is less than one ten-thousandth of the prehistoric world.

In such a vast territory, whether it was the Shang Dynasty or the princes like Qingzhou, they could only implement extensive rule within their territory. When individual villages were destroyed by wild beasts or killed by monsters, it took them some time to react.

The situation in Qingzhou is relatively good.

After leaving Qingzhou and arriving at the territories of other princes, Qin Hua discovered that within the territories of these princes, except for the capitals where the population was concentrated, the small towns and villages in the wild had disappeared.

When people are on their way, they often run into evil spirits and monsters!

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