In the face of his father's edict and the threat of his wife and children being killed, what about King Kang? After he received Zhao Ji's edict, would he choose to obediently return to the Northern Dynasty and become a prince with peace of mind?

No, after Zhao Gou saw Zhao Ji's edict, not only was he unwilling to surrender according to his father's wishes, but on the contrary, he was even more determined to fight Liu Xing to the death.

Zhao Gou is not Zhao Ji, in fact, he still has some backbone in his bones, and that backbone was fully demonstrated when he went to Jinying.

It's just that people are changing with the times and the environment. Liu Xing's sudden rise and the Jin Army's successive heavy blows made Zhao Gou, who was once strong-blooded, look extremely cowardly in many cases.

But in fact, that kind of blood, that kind of backbone was only temporarily smoothed out.

Now after hearing that Liu Xing asked his father for the "Golden Plate System", Zhao Gou was desperate, and he knew that as long as Liu Xing was there, as long as the Golden Plate was there. No matter how good he is, even if he is given the opportunity to reverse in the current war, he is destined to no longer be able to restore the royal family to its former majesty, and it is destined to be unable to reign over the world again, and can only be the puppet of the prime minister and the courtiers.

If you don't be a puppet, you can't lose your imperial power. The strength and fighting spirit that makes people burst out of despair dominate Zhao Go's thoughts and actions.

But what could he do without surrendering? In Changguo County, there were only 120,000 remnants of the forbidden army and more than 30,000 remnants of the sailor division left around him. Millions of troops have been wiped out by the Xinwang army, does Zhao Gou think that with only the remaining 150,000 people in his hands, he can reverse the trend and defeat the Xinwang army?

No, Zhao Gou knew very well that if his remaining soldiers and horses fought head-on, as long as he encountered the main force of the Xinwang Army under the command of Zong Ying and Han Shizhong with firearms in their hands and artillery and airships behind, it would only be a few rounds. will be beaten to the ground and defeated.

So what to do? I don't want to lose the imperial power and become a puppet prince under King Xin. But he was in a desperate situation. King Kang, Zhao Gou, what can he do?

Just when Zhao Gou was in trouble. A fleet of ships from the Eastern Sea sailed into the harbor of Changguo. That fleet was composed of a group of RIMOTO merchants, but the real leader of the sea caravan was Fujiwara Noriko, a young female master of the Fujiwara family.

This Fujiwara Noriko went to Changguo Port and immediately paid homage to Zhao Gou, the "Emperor of the Kingdom". After the two met, Fujiwara Noriko saw Zhao Gou's sad look and immediately asked him why he was so sad.

Zhao Gou didn't tell her the truth at that time, but just said that he was worried about state affairs and had nothing to do with other countries. But what? Noriko Fujiwara is a perennial official businessman who travels between the archipelago and China in the eastern sea, and is an authentic "upper country". Zhao Gou didn't say anything to her. After she left the palace, she bribed a lot of money and asked the truth from Wang Boyan that night.

After knowing this truth, Fujiwara Noriko, who was good at writing Chinese characters, wrote a thousand-character admonition essay with enthusiasm, and forwarded it to King Kang Zhao Gou through Wang Boyan early the next morning.

What is written in Fujiwara's book of advice? She offered two detailed strategies for King Kang, and made a variety of analyses that could lead to the situation.

In the first policy, Fujiwara suggested that King Kang take the sailors south, first to the Penghu Inspection Division, and then to Daliuqiu Island to establish a new foundation. After arriving at Liuqiu, "destroy the barbarians who are not subordinate with the king's division, and seize their land to build a foundation." Recruit the local people to be good at fighting and barbarians into the army, and strengthen the army and government to prepare for the opportunity".

Liuqiu has the sea as a natural barrier, and although the Northern Dynasty is now building the so-called Royal Navy on a large scale, it is impossible to really cross the sea to attack Daliuqiu in three and five years. Whether it is three years or five years, as long as the Northern Dynasty is unable to cross the sea to fight the Great Stream, King Kang can recuperate on the island and reorganize the strong army to breathe.

As long as there is time to recuperate. Fujiwara thinks that with these capable generals under King Kang. Three and a half years later, even if the Northern Dynasty's naval division was completed and went south to attack Daliuqiu, at that time, with its geographical advantages, people and King Kang, he still had the strength to block the attack of the Northern Dynasty. Sit firmly on the dragon chair on the big island......

In the second strategy, Fujiwara suggested that King Kang issue an edict to canonize Cheng Changyu, who had fled to Qiongzhou Island, a higher official position, and canonize him with a higher title.

After Cheng Changyu was rewarded with the reward of not being to blame for losing his land and being added to the rank of knight, he would inevitably die again to serve King Kang. At that time, the two islands of Liuqiu and Qiongzhou were based on hanging on the sea. Expand the sea and commerce, and strengthen the treasury with commerce and trade.

At the same time, he waited for the opportunity to send people into the territory of the Northern Dynasties, seized the guns and artillery, and transported them back to Qiongzhou and Daliuqiu. Fujiwara believed that since those craftsmen of the Northern Dynasty could make firecrackers and cannons, the skilled craftsmen in King Kang's forbidden army could naturally imitate them.

If you want to defeat its army, you must first strengthen your own weapons. Fujiwara Noriko, a woman, was the first to put forward such an idea that King Kang really saw hope before the ministers of the Southern Dynasty.

Why is the letter Wang Jun so powerful? Isn't it because Liu Xing has been using firecrackers and artillery as absolute main battle weapons since Wutai Mountain, and it is with firecrackers and artillery that Xinwangjun's army can drive away the Jurchens, destroy the Western Xia, and swing the Central Plains until the siege of Lin'an?

In the way of the other, give back to the other, want to attack his army, first strengthen his own weapons. After reading Noriko Fujiwara's admonition, King Kang jumped from the bed to the ground in excitement and summoned the beautiful woman from a distant feudal country for the second time.

The first time they met, King Kang was depressed and had nothing to do, so he didn't take a closer look at Fujiwara Noriko. After receiving her advice, he saw his hope of regaining the country one day, and King Kang took a closer look at the Fujiwara Noriko when he met him for the second time.

As a result, King Kang, who was extremely lustful, saw that Fujiwara Noriko looked like a beauty, beautiful and talented. Such a strange woman, how could Zhao Gou give up such a pervert.

And what about that Noriko Fujiwara? The reason why she has been taking people back and forth between the Central Plains and Rimoto by sea is not just to do business, she has been waiting for an opportunity to establish a relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty under the orders of Emperor Shirakawa, so that Emperor Shirakawa can find external reinforcements that are more deterrent to Emperor Toba and others in his country.

One took a fancy to the woman's beauty and talent, and the other took a fancy to the identity of the so-called orthodox emperor. So, that night, Fujiwara Noriko was hugged to bed by Zhao Gou.

But what? What neither Zhao Gou nor Fujiwara Noriko expected was that after King Kang was shocked to hear the news of Zong Ying's raid on Hangzhou with his troops when he was in bed some time ago, he was so frightened that he rolled from the concubine's bed to the ground, and he was so frightened that he couldn't be happy.

On that night, although Fujiwara Noriko was caressed by King Kang, she couldn't really enjoy that joy, which made Fujiwara Noriko and King Kang even more resentful of Liu Xing in their hearts.

If Liu Xing hadn't sent troops south, how could King Kang have fallen into that unspeakable problem. As soon as Fujiwara Noriko left King Yasu's palace the next day, she immediately sent a letter to Emperor Shirakawa and asked Emperor Shirakawa to give him an order to ask King Yasu's army to help King Yasu build a new foundation.

At the same time, she sent a secret letter to her sister, Fujiwara Akiko, asking her sister to find a cure for Kangwang's disease in Riben. (To be continued.) )