Emperor Kong Qi lavishly rewarded the prefect of Bu County and his subordinates. Bu County has been a famous city since ancient times. Although it is not an important city, it is a key location for people going south and north to Shao and Gao.
If the Great Zhou moved its capital south to Gaoyang and lost the entire north and the capital, this place might become the gateway to the Great Zhou, and Emperor Kong Qi would have to pay attention to it.
Although Emperor Kong Qi was extremely anxious, he did not go to Gaozhou Gaoyang immediately, because the first things he had to deal with were Gaozhou's Yulong Army and Changping Marquis.
As long as the Great Zhou and the emperor are still there, the Yulong Army would not dare to raise the banner of rebellion easily. The Marquis of Changping would also have to worry about how many people in Gaozhou and the entire Yulong Army would truly follow him if he rebelled.
Especially now that Emperor Kong Qi is on the verge of Gaozhou, the title of Emperor of the Great Zhou still has great deterrent power at this time.
However, Emperor Kong Qi would not easily enter Gaozhou, thinking that he could easily seize the military power of Marquis Changping. He was also worried that Marquis Changping would be taking chances or be forced into a desperate situation and do something desperate.
Emperor Kong Qi dispatched the imperial army from Bu County to Gaozhou in the south and, in the name of the emperor, sent the three marginal counties of Gaozhou to let Gaozhou know that the emperor had arrived. He blocked the connection between Changping Hou, the Yulong Army and Shaozhou, and prevented the Yulong Army from colluding with the Zhenwu Army in the south that was now suppressing rebellion and defending against the barbarians.
At the same time, all the guards from Bu County and Gaozhou County were gathered together, and an army of tens of thousands of warriors consisting mainly of the original imperial guards and shadow guards was formed in an instant.
Although except for these 20,000 core soldiers, most of the others are low-level warriors, and it is difficult to find a commander in the realm of immortality temporarily, so they can only use low-level unqualified people to fill the numbers, but there is still a mighty momentum.
On the other hand, he issued several edicts in succession, which did not mean to ask the Marquis of Changping, the marquis of the Yulong Army, to surrender his military power. Instead, he promoted him to the rank of Taiwei, one of the Three Dukes, and asked him to reorganize Gaoyang and welcome the emperor to Xinjing.
The entire Imperial Dragon Army and the Grand Marshal had to personally welcome the Emperor outside the city. The Marquis of Changping experienced this firsthand and wanted to rebel, but his soldiers would not follow him.
Moreover, Emperor Kong Qi personally led the army south, and he had two martial arts immortals under his command, not to mention the new director of the Imperial Observatory and the forces hidden in the dark.
Normally, he and the Marquis of Changping were stationed in Gaozhou, a remote corner of the east. The emperor was far away, and the forces of the Great Zhou were tied down by the north, so they could do nothing to him.
But now it’s different, the emperor has come in person.
Once he welcomed the emperor into Gaoyang, it would be equivalent to him giving up his military power directly. The so-called Taiwei was nothing more than a nominal position, a statue held high above.
If the emperor comes to settle old scores, even though he is one of the three highest officials in the country, he will probably not have a good ending.
When Marquis Changping was caught in a dilemma, the whole Gaozhou also knew the news that the emperor was heading south. Although the situation in the north was corrupt, the Great Zhou had been nurturing warriors and soldiers for nearly a thousand years. After knowing that the emperor was heading south, one by one, the counties that were originally inclined to or controlled by Marquis Changping, as well as the county lieutenants who were in charge of the county management and the military power, went from being wavering and harboring ulterior motives, to becoming completely loyal ministers.
Although these people had secretly disobeyed many of the court's orders before, and even sided with the Marquis of Changping, this time Emperor Kong Qi forgiven them all and many of them were rewarded.
Moreover, as the imperial army slowly moved southward, the situation of the Yulong Army and the Marquis of Changping became increasingly passive.
While he was hesitating, the imperial guards had gathered tens of thousands of troops and arrived less than a hundred miles away from Gaoyang. The entire Gaozhou was also under the control of Emperor Kong Qi.
The Yulong Army and the Marquis of Changping were now unable to rebel, and the Marquis of Changping personally wrote a letter to the emperor, claiming to be a guilty subject and requesting punishment from the emperor. When the emperor arrived at Gaoyang with thousands of shadow guards driving a magic ship, the Marquis of Changping tied himself up and led the Yulong Army's army outside the city to plead guilty.
Emperor Kong Qi had hated the Marquis of Changping for a long time. Seeing him kneeling in front of him with his arms tied up and bare, he felt extremely happy.
Emperor Kong Qi even wanted to order the execution of this traitor with ulterior motives on the spot, but in order to appease the morale of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Dragon Guard, he pardoned Marquis Changping on the spot and even conferred on him the title of Taiwei, one of the three highest officials in the country, which had been promised to him before.
Under the protection of a mighty army and with hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Dragon Guard kneeling on the ground and cheering, Emperor Kong Qi, leading thousands of shadow guards, finally entered Gaoyang City. This also meant that at this moment, Gaoyang officially became the new capital of the Great Zhou.
There is still a huge difference between the capital of the ancient Gao Kingdom and Yangjing, but as an important and famous city in the east, its population density is not much inferior to that of the capital.
Standing in front of the former imperial palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty, now the new imperial palace, Emperor Kong Qi had an extremely complicated expression.
"Kang Jinlong, will it decline after reaching its peak?"
At this time, Wenchang Star Li Qian, who was a minister who served as the emperor when Kong Qi was still the crown prince, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, things are in the hands of man, and destiny is unpredictable. It is useless to think too much."
"But no matter what choice Your Majesty makes, I will follow Your Majesty."
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Emperor Kong Qi and his mighty magic ship, which looked like a palace in the sky, had just left Bu County. Only a few thousand guards and less than 20,000 soldiers newly brought from various counties and prefectures were left to garrison in the entire Bu County to prevent any further incidents from happening in the north.
At this time, the seemingly inconspicuous Shangxian Academy welcomed a strange person. A terrifying shadow came along the earth from the darkness thousands of miles away, and then covered the entire Bu County.
Even the several immortal realm warriors and cultivators in Bu County, as well as the county governor of Bu County, did not notice it. The black color seemed to block all perception.
However, the academy master, who was leading a dozen teachers in the academy to sort out the books that were as numerous as mountains and seas in the library that was more than ten stories high, immediately felt something. While his body was still inside the library, a light and shadow like a god stepped out of the academy and blocked the dark shadow that seemed to have spread across the entire street in the distance.
"I don't know who you are, but you have come all the way to my academy, and what do you want?"
The shadow kept shrinking back from the distance, and finally condensed into a stunningly beautiful woman in front of the academy, who looked like a demon from the heavenly realm of desire. She was wearing a tight black robe with gray star patterns on it. "You must be Gong Yangli, the teacher of Shangxian Academy! My name is Luohou."
"It turns out to be Miss Luohou." Master Gongyangli followed the etiquette of the academy. Although he learned the identity of the person in front of him, he was not too surprised. It seemed that this was not the terrifying demon star that sent the Seven Killing Stars back to their positions and forcibly devoured the beings in the Tribulation Crossing Period, but an ordinary little girl.
The demon star Luo Hou gave a charming smile and said, "I heard from the old bald donkey that the most powerful forces in the world of Dongzhou are Taishou Mountain, Lingshu Mountain, Tianshi Sect, and the Ancient Temple. The remaining one is this academy."
"Also, the academy is open recently, so I wanted to take a look. Then I heard that there is a jade scroll of teachings in the academy. It is said that Vairocana Tathagata once read the jade scroll of teachings, and then he perfected his own Buddhist teachings, and the Buddhism we have today was established."
"Hey! Old man, can you let me see the preaching jade slips?"
Facing the evil star Rāhu, who terrified the whole world, and who made such an impolite and even arrogant request, the teacher of Shangxian Academy actually wanted to laugh after hearing what she said.
Master Gongyang Li, who was nearly 200 years old and well-versed in the classics of sages, certainly would not bother with this girl who was at most in her early twenties, even if she was the reincarnation of the world-famous star Rahu.
Gong Yangli stood in front of the academy. At this time, the old man smiled and said, "The preaching jade slips are hidden in the Sage Palace behind the academy. If Miss Luohou wants to see it, go ahead!"
"???"
The evil star Luohou, who came to cause trouble, was also prepared to fight with the Master Gongyang Li, who was rumored to be holding the jade slips of preaching and was almost able to fight against immortals and gods. Unexpectedly, he agreed to it.
It was as if the famous jade slips that carried the academy's thousands of years of literary fortune and the symbol of saints were just an ordinary book in the library that anyone could read.