Forced to Ascend the Throne after Transmigrating

The envoys from Beiting decided to observe the situation for a while, but it was undeniable that the behaviour of the Great Zhou had caused them a lot of trouble.

From then on, no matter where the Beiting envoys went, they were followed by the Black-Armored Guards. Not only the Black-Armored Guards, but even the people of the Great Zhou were not as obedient as before.

What the envoys could not accept the most was that people in their own team had a conflict with the people in Shangjing, and eventually they were swarmed by the people of the Great Zhou who could no longer tolerate it. When the two sides were fighting, they did not gain any advantage.

The envoys would habitually make trouble with the Ministry of Rites.

“I will tell your emperor. I will let your emperor punish you!”

The Minister of Rites was kind and courteous at first, but his expression changed immediately when he heard that the other party was going to report the incident to the Emperor.

“Excuse me for being blunt, but it was the people in your team who provoked us first. Our people were just forced to defend themselves. According to the laws of the Great Zhou, anyone who causes trouble in the streets will be punished with twenty strokes of the cane. Come on, fight!”

The Minister of Rites was acting out of kindness, but if this were to get to the emperor, it would be more than just a beating.

But it’s easy to tell that Beiting will definitely not be grateful to him. Not only will they not be grateful, they will also look at him as if he were the enemy who killed their father.

“We are the most distinguished guests of the Great Zhou. How dare you treat us like this? Just wait, we will not let you go!”

But no matter what, the envoys from Beiting never really left Shangjing.

The Minister of Rites, who was originally very nervous, couldn’t help but feel a little dazed when he heard the news.

It turns out that the people of Beiting are not as scary as they imagined…

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“Asshole! Such an asshole!”

After returning to the posthouse, the envoy from Beiting was naturally furious, and his face was gloomy.

The Great Zhou has changed, it has really changed, and a lot. From top to bottom, everything is different from before.

It only took a few days for the Beiting envoys to go from being full of confidence and high spirits at the beginning to being frowned upon now.

After the plague, the Great Zhou seemed to have become even more difficult to deal with, which was completely different from the expected servility and fawning. ɽΆＮǒ𝔟ËŜ

This made everyone hesitate all of a sudden. The people below even raised their heads and looked at Hu Yanzheng, tentatively saying: “Your Highness, in this situation, what about our previous plan…”

Before coming, they had already discussed it with Chen Guo.

Hu Yanzheng’s expression changed several times, and he finally spoke: “The plan remains unchanged, we will do what needs to be done.”

Hu Yanzheng believed that the weakness of the Great Zhou was not fake, and they could not be deceived by this appearance.

The more powerful Da Zhou appears to be, the more broken it is inside. It needs to put up such a tough image to confuse the enemy. In the final analysis, it is just holding on.

On the other hand, Ye Shuo didn’t care what Beiting thought. He just knew that he couldn’t pin his hopes on others. Even if he managed to escape this time, there would still be next time. What’s more, isn’t this far from over?

The two countries are together, and it is obvious that they have discussed it beforehand and are in cahoots with each other.

The rice in the experimental fields outside Beijing had been harvested, and the rice seeds had been distributed to various places. Many people had died from this plague, so naturally the demand for food had been greatly reduced. Without people, there would be no need to eat, right?

When this kind of thing happened in the past, it was Ye Shuo’s compatriots who died, but now, it was his own people who died.

This is why Ye Shuo does not want to be emperor, because even he himself does not know whether he has the ability to take responsibility for hundreds of millions of ordinary people. After becoming emperor, every decision he makes will affect countless lives.

The life and death of so many people just depends on his thoughts.

Ye Shuo did not feel the pleasure of control. All he could feel was a heavy responsibility and deep pressure.

For now, I still have to find a way to pass this level…

Just as both sides were thinking about their own things, the time for the envoys to meet the emperor finally arrived.

This time, as expected, when they arrived at the palace gate, Hu Yanzheng and his group’s scimitars were once again seized. If he remembered correctly, it had been like this since Emperor Jingwen, and it had not been changed back for so many years. But it didn’t matter, they would make history repeat itself sooner or later.

Beiting and Chen State came with ill intentions, and Ye Shuo was too lazy to treat them with good food. Wild boars cannot eat fine bran, and it would be a waste to treat them with state banquet dishes. It would be better to save the money to fill the national treasury.

Same place, same scene, the only difference is that Ye Shuo has grown up.

He sat in the highest seat, wearing a black dragon robe, looking down at a group of envoys entering.

Beiting and Chen State never tried to hide their closeness from beginning to end, or perhaps they were just performing this show for Da Zhou to see, so that Da Zhou would know that the two sides had joined forces.

I remember that Beiting once fought a war with the State of Chen. However, there is no stability between countries. There are no eternal allies, only eternal interests.

Huyan Zheng glanced at the old and frail Duke Zheng, then glanced at Prince Ding who had lost his right leg, and suddenly he made up his mind.

Since the Duke of Zhen and Prince Ding, the Great Zhou has not produced any talented generals. This time, they are determined to eat every bone of the Great Zhou!

Hu Yanzheng was not there when Emperor Jingwen came to power, so he had never seen what Ye Shuo looked like as a child. To him, the young emperor above him was extremely unfamiliar.

But according to Hu Yanzheng, the new emperor… is really not that good. There is no one left in the Great Zhou, so they pushed him to be the emperor.

In this situation, how could the other side stop the joint attack of Beiting and Chen?

I don’t know if it’s just Beiting’s character or what, Hu Yanzheng was exactly the same as Hu Yanjue back then. After a hasty grassland salute, he was ready to take his seat.

Ye Shuo couldn’t help but frown slightly.  

Prime Minister He did not hesitate, he immediately stood up and shouted: “How dare you! Now that you are in front of our emperor, why don’t you kneel down and salute?”

This old man must be crazy. When did the envoys from Beiting ever kneel down and kowtow to the Great Zhou?

Hu Yanzheng was about to laugh, but when he turned around, he saw that all the civil and military officials in the court were staring at him hungrily, as if they were going to eat him alive in the next moment.

Huyan Zheng felt that not only the old man was crazy, but the entire Great Zhou was crazy.

“How can the Emperor of Great Zhou dare to receive my respect?”

Ye Shuo frowned even more tightly, and called out, “Li Yuheng.”

If the emperor changes again, his position as the commander-in-chief will certainly be lost. Li Yuheng has already made up his mind to follow him to the end. The moment he finished speaking, Li Yuheng and a group of imperial guards drew their swords without hesitation.

“……?”

Hu Yanzheng was confused for a moment. He had said so much, why did he show his weapons?

Ye Shuo picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip: “Since your country has no sincerity, there is no need to discuss the rest.”

“Someone, show the guests away!”

This, this, this… this won’t do! If the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty refuses to listen to them, then all the discussions in Beiting for so long will be in vain.

Hu Yanzheng thought he was bluffing until the guards came down to chase them away. Then an idea came to Hu Yanzheng’s mind: he was serious.

“Emperor Zhou, you humiliate us like this. Aren’t you afraid that the iron hoofs of Beiting will crush your Great Zhou?”

Ye Shuo didn’t care about that. He spoke as if he spoke nicely, they would also be polite.

Since you are not polite, why not take advantage first?

He Xiang wanted to say something but hesitated, but he didn’t dare to say anything.

The emperor is a man who only responds to soft words and does not respond to hard words. The more you tell him not to do something, the more he will do it. Things will only get worse.

Forget it, if you endure for a while, everything will be fine. If you take a step back, the sky will be clear.

Why bother with a fool? It will only make you lose face.

Just when Hu Yanzheng was about to be kicked out of the hall, he finally gave in, gritted his teeth, and saluted Ye Shuo.

“Huyan Zheng, I pay my respects to His Majesty the Emperor of Zhou.” Wait, he will cry later.

As if he didn’t notice the other party’s hatred, Ye Shuo sat there upright and accepted it calmly.

“It’s okay.”

“Come here, please take a seat.”

Hu Yanzheng was about to get angry when he heard the last sentence. For a moment, he didn’t know whether to leave or stay. But he had already knelt. If he started to make trouble again, wouldn’t it be in vain?

Hu Yanzheng finally sat down.

The envoy of the State of Chen standing by was very nervous. Just when he thought he would do the same, he saw the young man above him didn’t even look at him and just walked past him.

Although the envoy of the State of Chen did not kneel, he felt more humiliated than if he had kneeled at this moment.

“By the way, what exactly are you two doing here?”

Hu Yanzheng and the envoys from the State of Chen were just about to start eating when they heard these words, and He Xiang and others also became nervous.

Please, please, don’t talk nonsense!

Putting down the chopsticks, he resisted the hunger in his stomach. After all, they were envoys from Beiting. Even Hu Yanzheng couldn’t just say we want your land, your city, and want to enslave your people.

But what Hu Yanzheng said was even more vicious than the above.

“Emperor Zhou ascended the throne, and we should have visited to congratulate him, but the plague was rampant before, and the road was blocked, so we have been delayed until now.”

“Since it is a happy event, it is better to double the happiness… As far as we know, the seventh princess of Emperor Jingwen is the daughter of the Empress Dowager and the younger sister of the emperor. She is now in her prime and is a perfect match for our Beiting Wolf King. If this is accomplished, we Beiting are willing to form an in-law relationship with the Great Zhou.”

You know, the Wolf King of Beiting is almost seventy years old now, even older than Emperor Jingwen. How can he be a match for a princess who is in her prime?

The moment the words fell, Jianjian, who was sitting below, almost crushed the cup in his hand.

Ye Shuo’s eyes darkened, and then he smiled and looked at Chen Guo who was silent beside him: “What about you? Do you have the same idea?”

The envoy of the State of Chen looked at Huyan Zheng, and noticing the affirmative look in Huyan Zheng’s eyes, the envoy of the State of Chen could not help but bow to Ye Shuo.

“To be honest, the one that my Chen State has set its sights on is Princess Zhaocheng.”

Both were the most beloved daughters of two generations of emperors. When Emperor Jingwen and Emperor Taicheng passed away, they issued clear decrees that the two princesses would never be married off. Beiting and Chen State could not have been unaware of this, but they still made such a decision even though they knew it. Their intentions were extremely vicious.

The little Princess Zhaocheng, who was sitting next to Yao Zhi, turned pale.

Noticing that the emperor’s expression was no longer ugly, He Xiang and others below felt dizzy.

It’s over…