"Xiao Chenjun, please don't panic." Shaoyan Mingguang said with a smile, "At this moment, there are only you and me, Your Majesty. It doesn't matter if we can say something from our hearts. No one else will know anyway."
"Heaven knows and earth knows that you know and I know! And you still say that no one knows?" Xiao Chen said loudly.
"The Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty is a heroic and mighty king." Emperor Shenzhao said, "How can I allow Lord Xiao Chen to sleep soundly on the side of Jiangshan's bed?"
"So Xiao Chenjun, you'd better wake up!" Shaoyan Mingguang said, "Everyone is watching you, there's no point in pretending to be asleep."
Xiao Chen could only be speechless.
"Xiao Chenjun, you must think that I am a very ambitious emperor, right?" Emperor Shenzhao said this should be a hypothetical question.
So Xiao Chen didn't answer and listened attentively.
"Actually, I am not. Emperor Li Wanjiang of the Great Zhou Dynasty is an ambitious emperor!" Emperor Shenzhao said, "Jun Xiao Chen, you have been with him for so long, so you must know him very well. Isn't what I said wrong?"
"And Queen Angelina of Ross is also an ambitious woman! The Ross of the Great Zhou Dynasty has a strong national power, but we in Japan only have a small island country, with a small job like Yanyun County... So if we want to survive, we can only take some extraordinary measures, including expansion and war."
"Occupying Gao Juli and attacking Yanyun County were all actions we had to do. Although we failed, I have never regretted it! The Emperor of Zhou Dynasty said that we Japanese people are ambitious. Haha, do we want to To be a lamb in his pen to be slaughtered? He really hopes so."
"I am neither a wolf nor a sheep, so I would like to ask Xiao Chenjun, do you want to be a sheep or a wolf?" Emperor Shenzhao asked.
"Or do you want to be the watchdog of the Emperor of Zhou?" Shaoyan Mingguang said, "Wait until the birds are gone and the dogs are cooked!"
"I'm not going to be a sheep, a wolf, or a watchdog. Can I just be a human being?" Xiao Chen avoided the important and took the easy.
"Sooner or later, a man will turn into a ghost!" Shaoyan Mingguang was rarely aggressive.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Shaoyan, what do you want from me?" Xiao Chen put on a wry smile.
"I'm not forcing Xiao Chenjun to do anything, but Xiao Chenjun, you have to recognize the situation clearly, be honest with me, and make the right decision!" Emperor Shenzhao said, "Do you still remember what you said today? There is no danger of self, and I have no danger of deception! Now I have no danger of deception, please Xiao Chenjun, please do not have any danger of self!"
"Jun Xiao Chen, I am willing to make a blood oath with you in the name of the Lord God of the Heavenly Palace. From now on, for the rest of my life, we, Yanyun of Japan, will always be of one mind and be allies. No matter who infringes on you, I will take action." The whole country will help you, if anyone attacks Japan, please Xiao Chenjun, please give your full help!"
These words were serious, and they were really beyond Xiao Chen's expectations.
Damn it, this Emperor Shenzhao, aren’t you still a fake?
Are you sure you want to do this?
"Xiao Chenjun, I will never force you to do anything you don't want to do. I sincerely form an alliance with you forever, but this is by no means an alliance under the city, and there is no intention to force you. So if you don't agree, I will I will never blame you." Emperor Shenzhao had reached the end of his words.
Xiao Chen could no longer avoid it and could only accept the move, "Your Majesty, this is a serious matter, please let me think about it."
"Xiao Chenjun!" Shaoyan Mingguang frowned, expressing strong dissatisfaction.
We, Emperor Shenzhao, have already reached this point with our words. Why don't you, kid, just agree to the truth?
Have you never thought about where you are now?
Have you never thought that many of us in Japan hate you to the core and want to kill you?
"Shaoyanjun!" Emperor Shenzhao was very happy, "Don't force Xiao Chenjun. This matter is indeed very important. I also hope Xiao Chenjun can think about it carefully. Is Xiao Chenjun still used to eating here..."
After finishing talking about the serious business and chatting for a few words, they immediately drove back to the palace.
As soon as Emperor Shenzhao left, Fatty, Ling'er, Yunxiu, Ibu, Qianye and others immediately swarmed in, asking Xiao Chen and that person what they had been chatting about for a long time. Report quickly. !
In fact, we only talked about one thing for a long time, which was that Emperor Shenzhao wanted to join me in an alliance based on blood...
"Damn it, don't say you didn't agree!" Fatty said, "If you don't agree to our buddies, can we go back?"
"Why did Emperor Shenzhao do this to you?" Ouyang Yunxiu felt that things were not that simple.
"Are we afraid of beating him?" Linger's thought was relatively simple.
"That's not enough." As a general, Ibrahimovic is still very calm and clear-minded.
"The reason why Shenzhao is willing to lower his profile is because his current situation is very embarrassing. We are his external troubles, and the shoguns are his internal worries." Xiao Chen knew it well.
The so-called shogun is somewhat similar to the princes of our Chinese Shang and Zhou dynasties, the prefects of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty. They are local officials with great administrative power and considerable troops.
When their power reached a certain level, they did not obey the court's management very much, and even the emperor had to act based on their faces...
For a long period of time, some powerful shoguns would even brazenly lead their troops to Kyoto, overpowering the emperor, and holding the emperor hostage to order the princes!
Emperor Kamitasu was actually a shogun. He spent more than ten years defeating and subduing other shogunates, and then forced the puppet emperor to abdicate and became emperor himself.
After he became emperor, there were still more than a dozen relatively large shogunates in Japan. Although these shoguns nominally submitted to him, there were also some who supported their troops and respected themselves.
Shaohiko Mingmitsu and Ishibashi Houdu were once among these shoguns. Shaohiko Mingguo took the overall situation into consideration, took the initiative to dismiss the soldiers in the shogunate, and handed over his fiefdom to show his loyalty to Emperor Kamitaru.
Emperor Shenzhao reciprocated the favor by making him a powerful naval general and marrying one of his daughters to him as a reward.
Ishibashi Feng was not so wise. Not only did he not take the initiative to hand over military power, he was also deeply dissatisfied with many of Emperor Shen Zhao's actions and secretly complained a lot.
Emperor Shen Zhao couldn't deal with him directly. It happened that Nanchen Zhongtian rebelled, so he sent him to lead the shogunate headquarters to Chiba to quell the rebellion.
When Nanchen Zhongtian was aggressively attacking Chiba, Emperor Shenzhao not only failed to send reinforcements, but also secretly ordered people to cut off Shiqiaofeng's food and grass. This led to Shiqiaofeng's defeat and death, and his daughter was kidnapped...
The emperor's methods are so despicable.
This also conveyed a very clear signal to the shoguns: those who obey me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish!
After the death of Ishibashi Feng, everyone saw the methods of Shen Zhao, and several shoguns took the initiative to hand over their military power and fiefdoms, or became officials in the court and willingly surrendered, or retired to the mountains and forests to retire and return to their hometowns.
Emperor Shenzhao was also very generous to them, granting them high positions as officials in the court, and generous rewards for retreating to the mountains and forests...
