Lord of the Realms: Conquest of All Nations
Chapter 403

The Collapse of Rites and Music

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This piece of good news concerned the Zhou Kingdom, also known as Later Zhou. It was one of the Ten Kingdoms during the late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties period, as well as one of the Anti-Qin Alliance's previous four members.

Great Qin had just destroyed Zheng State, leaving Zhou Kingdom utterly terrified. It had no idea how the locations of the first two states had been leaked, and feared that its own location had been exposed as well. To prevent Great Qin from attacking and leaving it with no ability to resist, like the other two states, it recalled the people from its system settlement to its village settlement.

In other words, it called the players who had formed its faction back to the village settlement to defend Zhou Kingdom together. But given the nature of players... well! Zhou Kingdom's location was naturally leaked.

Zhou Kingdom was also the last dynasty of the Five Dynasties. Later Zhou's founder, Guo Wei, had destroyed Later Han and established the dynasty. After Chai Rong succeeded him, he campaigned north and south, laying the groundwork for great unification.

In truth, Zhou Kingdom itself had been the most likely state to establish a unified dynasty after the Tang Dynasty. But Chai Rong died too early, and his successor, Emperor Gong of Later Zhou, Chai Zongxun, was only seven years old. Later, Zhen Prefecture and Ding Prefecture falsely reported that the armies of Northern Han and the Liao Kingdom had joined forces and marched south to attack Later Zhou with overwhelming momentum.

Later Zhou hastily sent Zhao Kuangyin to resist them, but when Zhao Kuangyin led his army to Chenqiao Post Station, he launched the Chenqiao Mutiny and founded Northern Song—the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty had been established by entirely replacing Later Zhou. The

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