After seizing copper mines such as Tonglu Mountain, they then moved up the Han River and wiped out the remaining forces of the Chu people along the way. Finally, more than two months later, they joined forces with King Xuan and Zheng Xiaoming in the state of Zeng.

After this great victory, King Xuan held a banquet here and was very proud.

Soon after, he personally led this powerful army down the Yangtze River to conquer Huaiyi.

When Huaiyi heard that the Chu people were defeated and the King of Zhou personally led the army to attack, they were very frightened and sent people to apologize. King Xuan killed the leader of Xu, the most powerful among Huaiyi, and established Xu according to his own wishes.

The new king of the country.

After capturing a large number of Xu State prisoners of war, cloth, ores, pearls, shells and other treasures, they returned to Chengzhou. In Chengzhou, they accepted the worship and contributions from the princes of the east, and then returned to Zongzhou.

At this time, King Xuan's achievements in his life had reached their peak, and it seemed that the Zhou Dynasty had returned to its heyday, when all kingdoms came to dynasty. There was no rival in the world.

However, in the days that followed, King Xuan gradually became arrogant and lewd. He began to be arrogant towards all the countries under his command, and even killed the royal ministers indiscriminately. He also interfered without authorization in deposing the king of Lu and other matters, which made the princes all over the world complain.

Of course, according to Zheng Xiaoming's point of view, the main reason was that King Xuan strengthened the power of the Emperor of Zhou and tightened his control over the countries.

These measures made princes everywhere dissatisfied.

In particular, King Xuan's continuous expansion of royal territory in Shanxi and Xirong fell out again.

All the land between Chengzhou and Zongzhou, as well as the surrounding areas, were enfeoffed. The land directly controlled by the royal family became less and less!

King Xuan is a promising monarch, so naturally he will not sit back and watch this kind of thing continue to develop.

He jumped out of the traditional territory of the Central Plains and vigorously developed the royal family's direct territories in Shanxi, expanding territory. However, this violated the interests of the Xirong countries.

Especially Jiang Rong in the west fell out with King Xuan again, and the two sides met again at war.

This time, King Xuan did not even spare the Xishen Kingdom. He sent a large army to punish the Xishen Kingdom and broke through the capital of the Xishen Kingdom.

However, the Western Shen Kingdom (not the Shen Kingdom where King Xuan's uncle Shen Bo was granted a title, but the Eastern Shen Kingdom) is a branch of Jiang Rong... As mentioned before, Jiang Rong has always been the traditional ally of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Among the countries in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Qi, Lu, Shen, Xu, etc. all came from Jiang Rong and were vassal states with the surname Jiang.

King Xuan conquered Xishen, but he did not expect that Jiang Rong actually sent troops to rescue Xishen. The two sides fought a battle in Qianmu, and the Zhou army was defeated. Almost all the troops under his command were wiped out. If it were not for the cover of his father, King Xuan would have almost died.

on the battlefield.

After the Thousand Acres War, King Xuan fell into despair and fell ill soon after. Before his death, he named Prince Ji Gongni as the new emperor.

This new emperor is the famous King You!

As the uncle of King You of Zhou and the closest aristocrat between Da Chu and the Emperor, Zheng Xiaoming, Uncle Zheng, was ordered by King Xuan to assist King You and serve as his disciple.

Situ is one of the three princes and is in charge of land and household registration in the country.

So Zheng Xiaoming left the state of Zheng and went to Zongzhou.

There are no kings, princes, princes, etc. in the world. It is a normal thing to serve as ministers in the Zhou royal family.

During his tenure as Situ, Zheng Xiaoming had many political achievements and won the favor of the people of Zhou Dynasty. The people of Zhou Dynasty composed the song "Gu Yi" to praise and praise Zheng Xiaoming.

But it is obvious that although King You respects Zheng Xiaoming, his uncle, he is not close to him. He has his own trusted ministers, and he does not feel comfortable in front of Zheng Xiaoming, an elder.

Although later generations often say that King You is fatuous, this is not the case. In fact, King You inherited King Xuan's national policy of continuing to strengthen the power of the royal family.

And this national policy is inherited from the era of King Li!

King You continued to develop royal private lands in Shanxi, and the relationship with his traditional ally Jiang Rong further deteriorated.

To be honest, fights and peace between the royal family and Jiang Rong have become normal this week.

Even though King Xuan was defeated by Jiang Rong in Qianmu, the relationship between the two parties was not completely broken.

The prince of King You is still a descendant of Jiang Rong, but the Queen Shen who was born as a princess of Shen Kingdom.

But King You's move was to completely fall out with Jiang Rong. He even deposed Empress Shen and established Bao Si, who was born in Bao Kingdom, as the queen. He deposed Ji Yijiu, the prince who was born in Empress Shen, and established Bao Si's office.

The newborn Ji Bo was appointed as the new crown prince.

This kind of behavior is undoubtedly a complete fall-out with Jiang Rong. It is also a complete fall-out with Naxi Shenguo.

King You sent troops to attack Xishen, but was defeated by the coalition forces of Xishen and Jiang Rong at the foot of Lishan Mountain. He replicated the defeat of his father King Xuan!

In history, Zheng Boyou and King You sent troops together and settled at the foot of Mount Li.

But in this time and space, Zheng Boming was of course not stupid enough to send troops with King You, but stayed in Zong Zhou.

King You and his ministers died in battle under Mount Li one after another. Zheng Xiaoming took the opportunity to control the situation in Zongzhou. While negotiating with the Xirong Shen Kingdom, he deployed defenses and defeated the attack of the Xirong army.

The two parties finally reached an agreement to establish the crown prince Ji Yijiu, born after Shen, as the new emperor. In the future, the royal family would no longer expand private territory to Shanxi.

In exchange for this, Shen Guo and Xirong retreated, and all the power of the Zhou royal family fell into Zheng Xiaoming's control.

However, at this time, the princes of various countries in the east, such as Dongdongshen, Guo, Jin, etc., took the opportunity to cause trouble and wanted to take Ji Bofu, born to Baosi, to Luoyang and establish him as the new king.

However, Zheng Xiaoming foiled the plot and imprisoned Ji Bofu. He also sent troops to prosecute Bao Guo, who surrendered.

At this time, after twenty or thirty years of development, especially after the defeat of the Chu State, the Zheng State had developed greatly, annexing all the lands of the former Chu State, and during the years when Situ was in power, he used his great power to

In control, the threat controlled the concubines of Hanyang.

Today's Zheng State is no longer weaker than Chu State in the past.

This time, they took advantage of the time when they were questioning Bao Guo and took control of Bao Guo. They allowed Zheng Guo's power to reach the upper reaches along the Yangtze and Han Rivers. Zheng Guo's territory began to border Zong Zhou.

A few years later, Zheng Xiaoming led a large army in the name of King Zhou, marched into central Sichuan, attacked and destroyed Shu, and occupied Shu.

A few years later, King Ji Yijiu of Zhou Dynasty died of illness and had no children. Zheng Xiaoming proclaimed himself emperor. He established a small clan and inherited the larger clan, which caused an uproar among the vassal states in the east.

Especially those countries where the princes surnamed Ji and the royal family have huge power, such as Jin State, Guo State, Dongshen State, etc., are clamoring to organize a coalition to conquer Zheng Xiaoming, etc.

However, Zheng Xiaoming gained the support of Xishen Kingdom and Jiang Rong. The reason was simple. They would rather see Zheng Xiaoming succeed to the throne than Ji Bofu, the son of Bao Si, inherit the throne of Emperor Zhou.

In addition, Zheng Xiaoming successfully won over Western countries, such as Qin, Bi, Cheng, etc., which stabilized the situation in Kansai.

Moreover, the allied forces of Xirong and Xishen defeated the Jin army that came with troops and claimed to be King Qin.

Zheng Xiaoming's own army defeated the armies of the eastern princes and punished a large number of countries that raised their troops to rebel. They deposed their kings, established new kings, and reduced their fiefdoms, etc.
Chapter completed!