The main trunk of the dragon energy in Liangzhou is just like the main trunk of the Liang River, both of which remain within the territory of the Liang Kingdom. Xiyuan is the origin of the dragon veins in Liangzhou and even the northern border.
Three hundred years of planning, just to gain momentum for one day.
As the king who inherited the legacy, Liangzhou was destined to be unified after Zhao Qi declared his intention to found the country.
Although there are many heroes in the central and southern parts of Liangzhou, there are very few who are favored by the Branch Dragon Vein.
If not for the changes in heaven brought about by the invasion of Qingxu and the revival of spiritual energy, according to the normal course of troubled times, Liangzhou would be the first state in the north to build a tripod.
After the dragons and snakes in the world came to the land, not to mention Zhou Bai's taboo fortune-telling technique, even in the eyes of ordinary Yang gods, the ownership of Liangzhou's dragon energy was already determined.
The main trunk of Dragon Qi is weakening and branches are flowing. How can it be hidden from Zhou Bai, who masters the laws of Dragon and Tiger and is annexing Liang Hou's destiny.
The layout of Liangzhou previously had only four dragon qi, one big, three small, and four. The big one was the Liang Kingdom, and the other three small ones were the branch of the Jin Kingdom occupying Beiqu County, as well as the two counties occupying the southern part of Liangzhou.
The position of the Kingdom of Jin was replaced by Daxia, and it continued to annex more and more main dragons. The masters of the two southern counties could only be called luck dragons and snakes, and could not even reach the status of pythons.
Now in the innocent Liangzhou, a dragon python suddenly appeared in Qingwu. What else could it be? It could only be that something was wrong with Zhao Xun.
Xu family? If the Zhao family collapses and Liangzhou is not dominated by a strong man like Zhou Bai, then Xu Zhi may indeed seize the first line of dragon energy and change his life to Qianlongge.
But judging from the current situation in Liangzhou, even if Xu Zhi becomes the governor of one of the separatist factions, he has no chance of becoming a dragon chess player.
After realizing the transfer of dragon energy within the Zhao family, Zhou Bai was of course not in a hurry. If he wanted to annex Liangzhou's dragon energy to the greatest extent, Zhao Qi had to take the initiative to surrender and turn his monarch into a minister.
In the early morning of September 26, the seventh year of Tongzhi, the Dragon Head of Xiyuan, which stood proudly on the vast plain, slowly woke up. Most ordinary civilians were still confused. The city had already begun the ceremony of changing ownership.
"Everyone, wake up, Duke Xia has entered the city!"
"The war is over. Come to the street to welcome Master Wang. Don't let the new dynasty have a bad impression of us Xiyuan people..."
Everywhere inside and outside the monasteries, there were the voices of servants and lizheng working hard. The peaceful Xiyuan City gradually became noisy, and all kinds of luck filled the sky.
No matter whether they are nobles or commoners, they can only accept the fact that the Liang Kingdom is destroyed.
Even the little Bai Ding soldiers knew that they had to perform well in order to have a good start in the new dynasty. How could the old officials of the Liang Kingdom not know this.
Last night I was informed by the Marquis of Liang that many ministers stayed up all night. Due to the successive actions of various major clans, the curfew was exempted outside the palace.
Some of them were dealing with their own despicable matters, and some were desperately communicating with Xuanyi Wei Mingzi. Of course, the most of them were thinking about how to maintain power in the new dynasty.
At the east gate of Xiyuan City, Liang Marquis Zhao Qi put on plain clothes, looking decadent and depressed. Behind him, he was covered in bruises.
The general removed his armor and abandoned his weapons. Tens of thousands of Liang's soldiers who had no fighting spirit all sat cross-legged in the barracks, waiting to be received.
At this time, the people standing at the top of the city were no longer Liang soldiers, but the Daxia Forbidden Army. They were solemn and silent, like the military aura rising from the beacon smoke, joining together to form a canopy, blocking the evil aura caused by the country's demise.
Feeling the heavy military suppression, Liang's monarchs and ministers had complicated expressions. In the final analysis, it was the gap in military force that led to their current situation.
No matter how precious their life is, when their external fortune is exhausted, the sword of a commoner with a white life can still be placed on their neck.
Woo~
With the majestic horn sound of the Liang court musicians, the ceremony officially began.
This is the heritage of a three-hundred-year-old family of princes. Different from Zhou Bai's previous experience, the surrender of Liang Marquis Zhao Qi this time was very formal and strictly followed the formal surrender ceremony procedures of princes.
Liang Guo's civil and military officials gathered together in a grand and grand scene. This was the last princely dignity Zhao Qi gave himself.
However, as he had dignity, he also had to have sincerity. Yesterday, he was angry with Zhou Baitong and wanted to go to the Xia army camp in person to ask for surrender.
The ceremony of Zhao Qi preparing for the subjugation of his country included plain chariots and white horses, his flesh was exposed and his face was bound (his hands were tied behind his back), and he held a jade and led a sheep.
Officials at the doctor level wore mourning clothes, while the scholar representatives carried the coffin in a cart and led 13 of the direct descendants of the Liang Kingdom, including Zhao Qian and Zhao Yu, to Zhou Bai's Chinese army's tent.
On the way to the military camp, Zhao Qi orally recounted his merits and demerits since taking office, and then asked the ceremonial officer to record them and announce them to the waiting Liang people.
Generally speaking, there are fewer merits and more crimes, but because of Zhou Bai's acquiescence, Zhao Qi did not think out some of the faults of squeezing the people.
So before Zhou Bai accepted Liang's surrender, Liang Marquis Zhao Qi's evaluation as king had already been concluded.
In these troubled times, we cannot do anything to protect our people, and we must choose a true king to follow...
Facing the sword-wielding guards wearing majestic black armor and exuding astonishing evil aura, Zhao Qi's expression remained unchanged. He just took a deep breath and knelt down towards the camp gate.
He shouted loudly: "The sinner Zhao Qi, please see the Grand Duke."
"We, the guilty ministers of the lower country, seek to see the Grand Duke of the upper country and beg for a gift!" Immediately afterwards, the direct eldest son of the Liang Kingdom, and all the ministers and gentry also knelt down in front of the camp gate.
Zhou Bai's eyes flashed purple and he looked in the direction of Liangdu Xiyuan City.
As the kings and ministers of the Liang Kingdom knelt down, the Great Xia Dragon and Tiger Law was officially connected to the core of the Liang Kingdom's legal network. The chaos and disorder during the country's fall accelerated and stabilized, and the power of huge order began to spread in Xiyuan City.
Liang Guo's National Fortune Pillar has declined to six feet, is riddled with holes, is shaky, and looks like it will collapse at any time.
The nearly eight-foot-long red and yellow ichthyosaur is taller than the Liang Kingdom Tianzhu. It is circling and cruising, impatiently waiting for this gluttonous feast.
But the Liang Kingdom was a vassal state after all. A skinny camel was bigger than a horse. The great fortune of a country and the power of the laws recognized by millions of people were condensed to have this pillar of heaven.
The three-clawed dragon hides inside the Tianzhu. Regardless of the dissipation of its own dragon energy, it tries its best to control the Tianzhu's majestic transportation power. Even at this moment when it is about to collapse, it and the Tianzhu will not easily become the food of the fish and dragon.
It's just that the luck dragon elephant manifested by the Qianlong Universiade is trying his best, but Zhao Qi, the master of the Qianlong, gives up. So what about all this.
At the right time, a humming dragon's roar with an urging sound came into Zhou Baixin Lake.
After all, the mellow dragon energy of the northern dragon head was too attractive. From the dragon carp to the current fish dragon, the best food he had ever eaten was still in a different world.
Zhou Bai shook his head and chuckled, then stood up slowly while all the ministers of Daxia were bowing their heads and waiting respectfully. Daxia destroyed another country, and the country's majesty and power had reached its peak.
Many people may have been murmuring before, thinking that such an easy cross-state war might lead to failure and ultimately a waste of manpower and material resources.
But now the dignified Marquis Liang's begging for surrender has eliminated all the last strange thoughts within Daxia.
There is no such thing as military force. Wherever Xia Gong goes, he will definitely become Xia soil.
The camp gate is wide open.
"I accept your surrender and recognize you as the people of Gu Daxia." Zhou Bai, wearing a fish dragon robe, announced his decision to the monarchs and ministers of the Liang Kingdom and the people of the Liang Kingdom.
With a majestic and resonant voice, Zhao Qi kneeled forward and held the Daliang Imperial Seal, looking very humble.
Zhou Bai no longer put on airs, quickly accepted the seal and helped Zhao Qi up.
Since he did not resist to the end and keep the intact foundation of Xiyuan Dragon Head, Zhao Qi is still his father-in-law and the future Anlehou of Daxia.
"Sir, if you can understand destiny, Ci'er must be very happy..." Zhou Bai untied the ropes for Zhao Qi and turned into a ball of fire and threw it into the coffin.
The gentry carrying the coffin moved away one after another, and their depressed minds relaxed a little as the coffin was filled with flames.
In ancient rituals, if the victor is willing to burn the coffin, it means pardoning the death penalty of the loser.
"Xia Gong is a wise man and has great destiny. I must be a pioneer for the king, haha..." Zhao Qi became much more free and easy after letting go of everything.
He looked at the blazing fire and knew that what was being burned was his sins and his past as a loner.
The national seal that stored the king's energy was delivered, and the swaying sky pillar could no longer support its foundation. After a dragon roar, it suddenly collapsed.
But what followed was the riot of fish and dragon, and the remaining core of the Liang Kingdom's French net was swept away by it.
The essence of the Tianzhu was swallowed by the fish and dragon, and the weak luck dragon was also stared at, and the purple dragon blood spilled into the sky.
The majestic dragon gate manifested, fish and dragons shuttled through it, and it benefited so much from the nourishment of the orthodox dragon energy, it was like another transformation.
After the seal burning was over, the ministers of the Xia and Liang Dynasties handed over the work to each other, checked the land and population and other yellow records, and sealed them in the treasury.
Qu Zhi, the commander of the bodyguards and soldiers, brought wine, meat and money to reward Liang Jun in various military camps on behalf of Zhou Bai.
There are not many military academies and soldiers responsible for the recruitment work, but they all come from the Chinese army camp. Many of them are even Zhou Bai's personal bodyguards, and all of them have extraordinary military strength.
With them here, even some angry and unwilling soldiers of Liang Jun could not make any trouble.
In the army, it is more effective to conquer people with force than with virtue.
At the end of the day, the sun lit up Xiyuan City, and the light red core of the Dragon and Tiger Law appeared in the sky. Only then did Zhou Bai officially enter the city.
"Welcome Master Wang to the city!"
"The Duke of Xia is mighty, Liangzhou is also the land of Xia!"
"I beg the new master to be kind to me and the Liang people..."
Both sides of the street were densely packed with people kneeling in worship. There were nobles in gorgeous clothes and ordinary people in coarse linen. They lowered their eyebrows and were extremely obedient.
Everyone understands that from now on, all the rules of the Liang Kingdom will be formulated, and power, wealth, and even food and clothing are still undecided.
"Look, Liang Hou and Xia Gong are riding in the same carriage!"
Just as Zhou Bai kept responding with a smile, more and more people noticed Zhao Qi sitting in the carriage. It seemed that the two generations of monarchs were relatively harmonious. Zhou Bai had no disrespect to Zhao Qi.
Yes, regardless of their status as princes, they also have a son-in-law relationship.
The new owner's respect for the old owner made many Liang people feel more at ease. Based on the fact that the matter was settled, it was easier to accept Zhou Bai's rule.
On the first day, Zhou Bai went to nine representative folk houses and met with hundreds of people from the lower classes. His wise words quickly spread.
The next day, a large number of capable ministers who had been screened by Xuanyiwei's files were retained in their original posts, and some corrupt and rebellious ministers who had violated the law were publicly interrogated, and the people of Xiyuan applauded them.
On the third day, a steady stream of convoys poured into Xiyuan City, including grain trucks filling warehouse rice stores, and department store trucks from major domestic merchants.
Not counting Dingzhou's specialties and valuable commodities, the prices of the most important grains, as well as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other livelihood items are all lower than the previous market price.
On the fourth day, Zhou Bai canonized Zhao Qi as the Marquis of Anle, allowing him to worship his ancestors and inherit the family as a marquis.
Under the series of political orders personally approved by Zhou Bai, the chaotic and disorganized people accelerated their integration into the new dynasty system, and the overall social situation became increasingly stable.
On the seventh day, the news came that Zhao Xun, the former prince of the Marquis of Liang, had counterattacked Qingwu and announced the re-establishment of the Liang Kingdom. The remnants of Liang Yun, which was flourishing, could no longer shake the new Dragon and Tiger Law in Xiyuan City.
Zhao Qi, the Marquis of Anle, scolded Zhao Xun in his family temple for resisting the king's master and dragging down the people for his own selfish purposes.
Then, under the witness of the elders of the Zhao family, it was announced that Zhao Xun would be removed from the clan, and Zhao Ci's position in the genealogy had already reached the line of succession.
The title of Prince of Xiyuan County is gone, but the title of Marquis of Anle is still there.
Even if a woman cannot inherit the title according to etiquette and law, if the next legitimate son of the Zhao family wants to inherit the title, he must ask Zhao Ci for his opinion.
It was Zhou Bai's intention to force Zhao Ci into the first position, but Zhao Qi just implemented it decisively.
If not for anything else, it was to cut off the old Liang's fundamental support for Zhao Xun, and to suppress the hidden dragon energy circulating in the Zhao family.
Zhou Bai used Xia to swallow Liang, and Zhao Qi was willing to serve as his minister. Eighty percent of the dragon energy had been swallowed by Xia Long, the other ten percent was in Zhao Xun's place, and the other ten percent was circulating in his blood.
Zhao Xunchu can attack and kill them and take them by force, but those who are left in the bloodline can only use some means.
If nothing unexpected happens, when the Zhao family has been a minister for a long time and the power of Zhou Bai's true dragon becomes stronger, the remaining dragon energy will unknowingly merge into the Daxia dragon vein.
And the last bit of Liangzhou dragon energy will be passed on to Zhao Ci's son.
As for this innate advantage, Zhou Bai believed that Zhao Ci deserved it. After all, without her handwritten letter, Zhao Qi might not have surrendered so easily.
(End of chapter)
