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Chapter 101 Prologue to the Great Calamity
In the end, Zhou Bai chose to accept the Yan family into the Cangshan League after confirming that the Yan family had completely lost the ability to be independent.

Of course, this requires the Yan family to pay a lot of money. At least the alliance will send troops to the Yan family and deal with the aftermath. All of these require resource subsidies.

The Yan family handed over most of their family property in exchange for the protection of the Zhou family and the alliance, and hoped for a continuation. This was the final result.

Except for the families near Cangshan who formed an alliance to fight against the Jin soldiers in self-defense under the leadership of Zhou Bai, other places in Pingcang were left alone and suffered heavy losses.

Because there are too many small groups of gold soldiers who have crossed Cangshan Mountain, they often wander around the county town, which makes the county soldiers dare not leave the county town at will. After all, the defense of the county town is the most important thing.

Only Ji Hongzhe thought of the critical point mentioned by Zhou Bai, the bitter pass. Regardless of the county lieutenant's obstruction, he insisted on asking the county soldiers to support the pass.

As for Bei'an County, although it was not threatened by the Jinren, the heavy snow blocked the roads and the long supply line made the county soldiers unable to support them.

For this reason, the government can only acquiesce in the face of the powerful family organizing a branch of village soldiers to practice bravery.

As for Cangbei County, the court didn't mention it, and Bei'an County wouldn't overstep it.

This provided a favorable opportunity for Zhou Bai to further expand his influence. He led the township soldiers of the Cangshan League to fight from the north of the county to the south of the county, and recruited more than a dozen village people to join the alliance.

Of course, there are also levels among allies, except for the first few families who are the first-class allies of the Zhou family and belong to the all-weather strategic alliance.

The rest of the allies are still lacking in contributions and cannot ask for unconditional support from the alliance.

Families in the league must break down business barriers and communicate with each other, so that the market does not need to go through the closed county.

Zhou Bai even sold a lot of business shares, such as high-grade liquor, red clay, soap, and perfume. All major families can choose to buy shares and then sell them to different business routes.

At that time, the Cangshan Alliance completed the transformation from a military alliance to a comprehensive alliance, and Zhou Bai also gathered a large amount of funds in a short period of time.

In just one month, the capital reserve of the inner government has exceeded 5 taels, which allowed him to accelerate the planning of industrial layout, and dumped a large amount of high-grade liquor to the north of Cangshan Mountain.

The last time of Xiangxing's 46 years was not good. The sudden heavy snow and natural disaster swept across the northern border. Not only the Jin Kingdom began to plunder southward, but other border states also had conflicts and frictions with their northern neighbors.

At the same time, various natural disasters began to appear in the inland states. Guangnan Prefecture, which had not seen snow for a thousand years, ushered in a heavy snow and cold winter, and this was just the most common one.

Droughts, floods, and earthquakes have hit most of the states and counties, and Qin Tianjian's prediction of the sky has completely failed.

The response of the Daxu imperial court was slow as a snail in this situation of disasters everywhere. The central imperial court did not have any countermeasures, and some only empowered the local states and counties to deal with it cheaply.

But such a second-line border county like Bei'an is okay to say, but Cangbei County, which is on the front line of fighting, can no longer support it.

The supply of food transportation was insufficient, and the soldiers of the frontier army could not hold on even if they shrank in the city. Gradually, the frontier army who opened the city gate and surrendered appeared.

This is a very rare situation for the Daxu Frontier Army, because they come from the Celestial Dynasty and have their own pride.

They have fought countless times with these prairie barbarians and accumulated blood and hatred, but now they are defeated by hunger.

The situation in the northern border has never been so dangerous. Just because the emperor is seriously ill, the Daxu Dynasty, which lasted for more than [-] years, has a tendency to change dynasties.

Fortunately, the princes in the court are not useless. Before the end of the year, the heavy snow will stop, and the court will come up with a set of countermeasures.

The inland states and counties are easy to say, just open the treasury for disaster relief, but for border states like Dingzhou that have been invaded, they have to be careful.

The imperial court's counterattack against the Kingdom of Jin was very vicious. Emperor Xiangxing barely supported the sick, summoned Hu Yanhe, Marquis of Yinshan Mountain of the Kingdom of Jin, who lived in Shenjing, and issued an edict to appoint him as the new head of the Kingdom of Jin.

At the same time, he issued an order to the world, reprimanding the current eldest prince of the Jin Kingdom as an unworthy descendant, poisoning the former King of the Jin Kingdom, and preventing foreign ministers from entering the palace to see him.

Hu Yanhe, holding the imperial decree, entered Cangbei County under the escort of three thousand Daxu Forbidden Army, and erected the banner of the King of the Kingdom of Jin in Cangbei County.

He wanted to recruit the original old troops in Cangbei County, recruit the Jin Kingdom's southward invasion army, and recruit the courtiers and generals in the Jin Kingdom who were dissatisfied with his elder brother.

In short, according to the etiquette system, the Kingdom of Jin is a vassal state of Daxu, and now that Huyanhe is canonized by the Son of Heaven, he is the orthodox of the Kingdom of Jin.

Now the Kingdom of Jin is not stable. There is an old ruler, a supervisor, and a new ruler. Who should the Jin people listen to?

Then Hu Yanhe didn't wait for the Jin army to enter the Cangbei crusade, and turned his head and took the old troops deep into the grassland. He wanted to buy time for Daxu to organize the border and lure away the Jin army who went south to plunder.

Some people may laugh and say that Yanhe was used as a knife by the Daxu court, but they don't know how long he waited for the opportunity to be a knife.

It is precisely because of the various methods of the imperial court, as well as the opening of warehouses for disaster relief, that after the 46th year of Xiangxing, the world has returned to a bit of peace.

After all, Emperor Xiangxing, who sat on the dragon chair for 46 years, is not dead yet. After all, there are no real rebels in Daxu Tianxia, ​​and everything seems to be under control.

However, a weirder natural disaster swept the whole world.

On January [-]th, Zhou Bai was explaining to Yu Yueyun about the family affairs, because he was going to leave home for the exam again, this time he was going to Shenjing, so he needed to prepare plenty of time for the journey.

Bamboo shadows are fading, lights are flickering, in the quiet study room, some people are reading at night in front of the moonlight, and some people are wearing red sleeves to add fragrance.

Holding the Daoist scriptures in his hands, Zhou Bai seemed to casually ask Yiren, who was studying ink next to him, "Why, those casual cultivators still don't want to be my clan's enshrined?"

"Hey, we still don't have enough channels to collect spirit stones and spirit objects, and we can't come up with the resource conditions that make them excited. However, Brother Bo, I have already selected a few seedlings for cultivating Dao seeds." Yu Yueyun glanced at them. Glancing at the Daoist scriptures in Zhou Bai's hands, the corners of his mouth curled up.

Obviously, I have already surpassed me in Taoism, but I still study so hard, and I am not afraid of entering the Tao ahead of time.

Zhou Bai nodded slightly and said: "Well, the direct line needs to be cultivated, and there are also thugs from the outside line, but it doesn't matter. When I get named on the gold list, they will naturally come to the door."

Not to mention Jinshi, he is a direct descendant of the imperial court and has a lot of resources.

Jinshi has the hope of longevity. On the road in the future, it is worth serving to support them casually.

"The basic magic circle needs too many spirit stones. Why don't you reduce the area covered by the magic circle? I think it's enough to protect the area around the ancestral hall." Yu Yueyun thought about it and gave his own suggestion.

During this period of time, she has been secretly expanding the family protection formation according to Zhou Bai's request, and almost all the spirit stones collected from various industries have been filled in.

"No, there must be a magic circle. It is related to the foundation of the family. Don't worry, there will be no shortage of spirit stones." Zhou Bai glanced in the direction of Cangshan and said very firmly.

He recently read the imperial palace newspaper and felt that there was something wrong with the frequent natural disasters in various places, and this infinite calamity almost permeated the whole world.

Yu Yueyun also wanted to refute that building a magic circle was a waste of manpower and material resources. The key is what kind of crisis is needed to use this kind of magic circle. Could it be that several Taoist priests came to the door?
"But when those spirit stones are released, those Dao species in the clan can..."

Suddenly, both of them felt the spiritual energy between heaven and earth violently violently at the same time. The cool night wind instantly blew out the candles in the room, and there were many commotions outside.

Zhou Bai and Yu Yueyun hurried out of the house, the sky full of stars became dull, the stars were dim, as if the world had fallen into a dead silence.

Just before they figured out what was going on, the moon, which had been hiding in the clouds for a long time, poked its head out, and the boundless blood-red moonlight covered the earth.

This is definitely not a normal moon!

"The bloody moon is a harbinger of catastrophe." Zhou Bai's heart was pounding and he whispered silently.

"Yueyun, activate the magic circle immediately, block the moonlight, and let everyone stay at home and not go out!"

The eager and serious tone made Yu Yueyun have no time to ask, so she turned her head and went straight to the ancestral hall, where the formation was located.

At the same time, the clear and majestic voice resounded all the way with mana.

"The patriarch has an order. Everyone closes the doors and windows, is not allowed to go out, and is not allowed to look directly at the moon. Those who violate the order will be severely punished!"

Zhou Bai used his soul power to protect his whole body. He squinted his eyes and looked up at the blood moon. There seemed to be some truth hidden there.

The first collision of the two worlds, with the help of the lunar star to transmit the chaotic power of the other world.

swoosh~
Before Zhou Bai could think about it, another wave of anomalies appeared in the sky. Meteors with dark red blood streaked across the sky, as if they were bringing ominousness to the world.

Sure enough, the cards were not played according to memory, the beginning of the world catastrophe, but there were not so many outsiders coming.

(End of this chapter)