Chapter 1286: The Allegiance of Youzhou

Tiemucheng and Zhongxing Yue were stunned.

Meng Zan was also stunned.

This Tsarist Russia, how could it be defeated just like that?

This suddenly put them, the Mongols and Youzhou, in an awkward position.

They had been full of ambition, intending to march into the entire Central Plains!

Just like this?

Just like this?

For a moment, the Youzhou army was in chaos.

Meng Zan gave an order: retreat!

It was not just the Youzhou army retreating; in an instant, this also brought disaster to the Mongol Army that had just sent out a large force to harass the Central Plains region.

Because when the Tsarist Russia Army retreated, Jinghua issued an order, and this order came from Liu Zheng.

Attack!

Anyone who had been jumping around during the conflict between Longyan and Tsarist Russia, attack them all!

Consequently, the entire Longyan military and all the Longyan trains became busy.

It was chaos.

Once Tsarist Russia was defeated, the entire situation fell into chaos. The so-called "beating a drowning dog" is exactly what this means.

The Liaodong army and the Qingzhou Army instantly changed direction and headed straight for the Mongol Royal Court. For a time, the various Mongol tribes were terrified and trembling with fear. A great battle was about to begin; this was something no one could avoid.

Afterwards, several large armies set out from their respective territories and began to besiege Youzhou. Even Huobu Quli's troops followed and rushed over.

Tiemucheng was completely dumbfounded.

The sudden change in the situation left him with no time to adjust anything else; what he faced head-on was a fierce battle.

The one-hundred-thousand-strong Liaodong army, mostly Cavalry, immediately galloped across the Mongol desert. They engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the Mongol Army.

And Youzhou was also besieged at the very first moment.

Domestic sentiment was running high, and the public also realized at this time that all those "Declarations of War to Save the King" were fake! Youzhou had clearly become a place abandoned by all; although it had always been a son of Longyan, this son was truly too disappointing. When the three-hundred-thousand-strong army began to besiege the city, the city was already in total disarray.

The new King of Zhao, whom Meng Zan had treated as a puppet, was scared to death on the spot.

Looking at the vast, endless sea of the army outside the city, Meng Zan could not help but shed tears.

"Born at the wrong time! Born at the wrong time!"

He had always been trapped in a misconception, which was that he was born at the wrong time. However, he did not know that although he, Meng Zan, had some Strategy, in reality, the current Longyan was no longer the closed-off feudal dynasty it once was. While the role of a Strategist was certainly significant, the changes of the era were rarely influenced by the schemes of one person.

No matter how high Meng Zan's intelligence was, he was at most just a screw in this era. At most, he was a relatively important screw; what he could influence was merely a tiny Youzhou. The current Longyan had already achieved full liberation of thought. Anyone could see that Chief Minister Liu was leading them toward glory. The public had more say and a bigger stage.

So, who would truly follow Meng Zan down a path of no return?

The development of events did not differ much from Liu Zheng's predictions.

On the first day of the siege, Meng Zan was killed by the garrison commander of Youzhou.

Yes.

He was called a Marshal, yet he was killed by a garrison commander; things are always this ironic.

That garrison commander opened the city gates directly to welcome the imperial army.

Such scenes in Youzhou had naturally played out countless times already. But there was no help for it; the common people in the city were innocent. The Prince of Jin took control of Youzhou city at the first opportunity, almost without shedding blood, but when the Prince of Jin arrived in the city, he discovered an awkward matter.

That was, Youzhou actually had no heir...

What the hell?

The Prince of Jin was stunned.

How was this to be handled?

A letter was sent to the Capital.

The entire assembly was in an uproar.

"So... is the King of Zhao

without an heir like this?"

"This is really..."

"What about the one who is a eunuch in the palace?"

"He has already been taken into custody!"

"Ah, this..."

Some were happy, some were regretful, some were gloating, and some were exceptionally excited.

Everyone was talking at once; there were all kinds of people.

Liu Zheng sat quietly in the head seat, smiling slightly.

The Prince of Qin and Zhu Zhen were also sitting nearby.

The people in the assembly expressed their own opinions.

Some believed that since Youzhou had no master, the imperial court should send a new prince to Youzhou. This was the approach chosen by dynasties throughout history. "Under the vast heaven, all is the King's land," and the imperial family's world should be managed by princes. Moreover, this Longyan Dynasty had already lasted for so many years, and before Liu Zheng, there was no such thing as a Pushing Favor Edict.

Therefore, this led to the Longyan Dynasty having countless princes.

Especially in Jinghua.

Some said that if you threw a brick, you could easily hit a prince; this was definitely no exaggeration.

Since Youzhou had no master, then send one!

So, many people present became excited because of this.

What kind of place was Youzhou?

Although it was in the far north with harsh conditions, it had been a place of strategic importance for the Li Dynasty throughout the ages! The customs of Youzhou and the Youzhou Tuji—this time, the remaining one hundred thousand Youzhou Tuji were still a powerful armed group that made people tremble with fear.

Whoever manages to control Youzhou, that would be extraordinary.

However, some people also raised objections.

What era is it now for Longyan?

Are we still clinging to the idea that the world belongs to the Xie Family?

Why must Youzhou have a prince? Liangzhou didn't have a prince before; it was just a Prefect in control of the whole situation.

The current prince of Liangzhou, the Xiliang King, was also just a merchant who was enfeoffed as a king.

Why wouldn't it work for Youzhou?

Consequently, the two factions fell into a heated argument.

To put it plainly.

This is a clash of concepts between the conservative faction and the reformist faction.

"Lord Liu, this..."

The Qin King glanced at Liu Zheng; he was very eager to know Liu Zheng's opinion.

After all, with the constitutional monarchy, how the interests of these Nobles would be guaranteed had become the Qin King's most pressing concern.

And Zhu Zhen also gave a cough.

Liu Zheng smiled slightly.

In fact, this was a question he had also been considering recently.

Should the interests of the Nobles be guaranteed?

At the very least, he knew that in the Britain of his past life, despite the constitutional monarchy, society still granted great privileges to the royal family and the Nobles. But that was because of the situation in Europe; the reforms in Britain at the time involved intense conflicts and contradictions, and the clashes between the Nobles, the Gentry, and the working class were very violent. Although the advanced working class wanted to obtain more fairness and guarantees, they were also governed by religion. Religion in Europe bestowed royal power, so they were very accepting of royal power. In other words, if royal power and the Nobles were suddenly gone, they would instead not know what to do.

In many matters, they would not know how to make a choice.

Logically speaking, the Longyan Dynasty, which has continued for thousands of years, should also have a great need for imperial power.

But in reality, it is not so.

Religion does not have a very large influence on Longyan.

Longyan emphasizes ancestral temples and the state. This itself is a relatively abstract concept, lacking the restrictive nature that those doctrines have on people.

When human nature is liberated by the system.

What, then, is imperial power?