Square inch by Kyushu

Tianyuan three years.

Thirty-six barbarians from the northern part of the Great Wall formed an alliance to invade, and a hundred thousand cavalry marched southward, breaking through thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the Central Plains.

The former land of abundance has instantly turned into a purgatory on earth; the fertile fields of thousands of miles in the past are now raging with war and mourning.

The "Daxiang Dynasty", which had flourished for hundreds of years, collapsed in an instant. The raging fire burned the palace for three days and three nights. Nearly a thousand lives were turned into scorched earth by the servants of the palace maids.

Overnight, the soft words of the palace ceased, and the majesty of the heavenly family also disappeared. Only the hellish flames, surrounded by the smell of corpses and wailing, soared above Xiang'an City, as if mocking the prosperity and prosperity of this capital city in the past .

At this time, Ji Changfeng, the Ninth Prince of Xiang Dynasty, was still practicing martial arts in Kunlun Mountain, so he escaped.By the time he learned that his family and country were destroyed and the Central Plains fell, the world had already changed hands.When he returned to the capital city again, the city was devastated and starved to death as far as he could see. There were only ruins left in the thousands of palaces, and his family members were nowhere to be found. Everything he was familiar with had changed.

Touching this scene, his eyes were tearing apart, his heart was filled with anger, his legs gave way and he fell to the ground, and then a mouthful of blood spewed out, sprinkled on the scorched earth with deep-seated hatred and humiliation, the shame of the subjugation of the country The hatred of genocide has been rooted since then, and it will last forever.

Afterwards, he concealed his name and hid in the capital city, hoping to find out the whereabouts of the clansman who escaped that day, but what he waited for for several days was all bad news.

Seeing the barbarians in the north burning, killing, looting, and fighting each other on their own land every day, but he was powerless to stop him, and his day-to-day despair finally overwhelmed him.

So he rushed to the barbarian camp with his sword in hand, ready to kill until he was exhausted, ready to kill to the point of death, and prepared to use their blood to pay homage to his people and subjects.But at the last moment of his feet, he stopped all movements.

No one may believe that his retreat at this moment is because of greed for life and fear of death, but he is indeed because of "greed for life and fear of death".

Because at the moment when he was about to die, he finally understood that his life no longer belonged to him, and his life no longer belonged to him.

Today, he is the only remaining blood of the Ji clan.Therefore, he has long since lost his qualifications to be youthful and impulsive.His every move is related to the future fate of the Daxiang Dynasty. He has never felt so deeply like now: living is more difficult than dying.

And in the years to come, he will feel this more deeply.

The blood red in his eyes was repeatedly washed by the surging tears. That night, he collapsed in the shadow of the moon and shed all the tears of his life.

That night, he sneaked into the scene of the fire, found a secret passage, and took out the Xiangguo Yuxi from it.On the top of the Nanshan Mountain outside the city, he knelt with his face up to the sky, and made an oath to the sky: if the country hates the family, he will avenge it in this life.

In the same year, because the 36 tribes in northern Saibei coveted the position of the king of the Central Plains at the same time, internal fighting continued, and the covenant broke down in less than three months, and a four-year tribal melee began. It was completely destroyed, known as the "Houthi Rebellion" in history.

Under the influence of this war, the 36 departments in northern Saibei were all dragged into energy, so the control of the south of the Yangtze River was beyond reach.As a result, the northern princes moved south quickly, and the southern princes also sprang up overnight, and the world's heroes established their countries and capitals in the south to dominate one side.But none of the princes sent troops to the north to regain the lost ground in the Central Plains.

In the following four years of long competition, the 36 factions ebbed and flowed, and after being compatible and annexed, only three major factions were left to compete: Houliang, Nanqin and Zhongshan, among which belonged to the strength of the Nanqin imperial family. The most powerful, the capital is Xiang'an, the east and west, and the north and south of the frontier.

Both Houliang and Zhongshan retreated to the north, one in the west and the other in the east. The Three Kingdoms were bounded by the Yellow River and formed a corner.

Ninth Lord Ji Changfeng has been gathering the old ministries in the dark, keeping a low profile and waiting for opportunities in the troubled times.Finally, Dongxiang was established in the land of Qilu in the east in order to seek hegemony.Become the only Central Plains force in the north.

So far, the situation in the world has been initially determined-Houliang, Nanqin, Zhongshan, and Dongxiang in the north each occupy one side, eyeing each other; the princes in the south are connected together, and the four kingdoms of Jin, Xi, Chu, and Yue are big.

Hu Xia is waiting for the opportunity in the extreme north, Tubo is coveting in the northwest, Miaojiang is spying in the southwest, and the islands in the southeast are mobilizing.

The world is full of wars, and the people are in dire straits.

Ten years later, the Dongxiang army marched westward. It lasted two years and defeated the Southern Qin Dynasty. After that, Zhongshan was first destroyed, and then Houliang was conquered.

From then on, Dongxiang unified the north, reestablished Xiangguo, moved the capital to Xiang'an, and set the founding year as "Huaixing".

After several years of ups and downs, the Daxiang Dynasty, which was tragically destroyed, once again entered the Central Plains and ushered in a revival.It is a pity that Ji Changfeng, the king of Dongxiang who established this hegemony, did not see this day. On the way back after the Xiang army defeated the South Qin triumphantly, he finally died of an arrow wound and years of hard work and physical and mental exhaustion. He died suddenly at the age of [-]. Seventh, it is embarrassing that a hero who lived half his life as a soldier died in regret.After Ji Changfeng's death, his only son Ji Yiran came to the throne, and his son inherited his father's will to restore the country.

After the restoration of the country, he wanted to posthumously designate Ji Changfeng as Emperor Xiangguangwu and himself Emperor Xiangyang.However, under the persuasion of the prime minister Gu Yanxi, he only restored the state system, practiced the state system, respected the state's rites, and granted the state title, but did not proclaim himself emperor.

Just because the world is not unified, if you proclaim yourself emperor rashly, firstly, other countries will point the finger at you, which is really unfavorable for Dongxiang, who has just unified the north and has not recovered its vitality; secondly, it will also cause other princes to proclaim emperor one after another. It caused chaos in the order of the imperial system and destroyed Dongxiang's orthodox position in the Central Plains.

Therefore, it is better to be tacit about Dongxiang's founding of the country and proclaiming the emperor than to make a big fanfare.It will be justifiable when the world is unified or the time is right.

After hearing this, Ji Yiran was quite satisfied, and everything followed what the prime minister said: Changing Dongxiang to "Xiang" announced to the world that the old state of Xiangyang had been restored, but he called himself "Xiangyang King", which made it difficult for the world's heroes to use the topic to make noise.

After the establishment of Xiangguo, it wiped out the remnants of the previous dynasty, acted as the supreme and ruled Liuhe, strengthened the world, and extended favor to the people.Waiting for the outside world and recuperating internally, the situation in the north has been basically stabilized in a year.

The north is established, and Daxiang starts to turn to the south. The whole country regards the completion of Ji Changfeng's unfinished ambition as the foundation of the national policy.

Volume [-]: The Sapphire Case