Chapter 1062: The Big and Small Xu Clan, Prince Wu Luan of Nanping
Su Mingzhe followed the army into Jinguan City.

The people who were driven out to the streets by local officials and came to line the streets to welcome them all had looks of confusion and awe on their faces, without a trace of joy on their faces.

Although Su Mingzhe had already issued orders that no one should be harmed after the city was captured, the people in Shu did not know this.

After all, in order to inspire the people to resist the Han army, the Shu court will certainly spare no effort to discredit the Han army.

What does it mean that after taking over a city, you won't put down your sword for three days?

Rumors had long been spread that the Han Emperor was more greedy for beauty than the Shu Emperor and that the Shu Emperor would hold a large selection of concubines.

Most of the people in Shu had never traveled far, and had no idea what news was true and what was false.

Therefore, at the moment the Han army entered the city, these ordinary people were all worried, fearing that their families would be destroyed and their loved ones would be killed.

Su Mingzhe knows very well that actions are more important than words.

Therefore, he did not go to comfort the people in the city, but only ordered the generals in the army to restrain the soldiers and not harm the people. Then he rode into the Shu Kingdom Palace.

The Shu Emperor Wang Yan originally wanted to follow in, but was stopped outside the door.

From then on, the Shu Kingdom Palace became the Han Emperor's temporary palace.

The Shu Emperor Wang Yan is no longer qualified to enter.

After entering the Shu Kingdom Palace, Su Mingzhe arranged a series of government affairs as usual, and then asked Wang Chengxiu to lead the way to the harem.

The imperial garden of the Shu Kingdom's harem was called Xuanhua Garden.

The Emperor of Shu particularly liked peonies, so the Xuanhua Garden was also called the "Peony Garden".

When Su Mingzhe arrived at a sea of ​​flowers, he saw a group of women and children already lined up in several rows, waiting for his "inspection".

When Su Mingzhe saw that there were many boys among the women and children, he frowned:
"Wang Chengxiu, take all the men out and lock them up with Wang Yan!"

"Here!"

Wang Chengxiu quickly understood his new identity and turned around to stare at his old master viciously.

Amid the cries of parting, pairs of mothers and children were separated.

Seeing all this, Wang Chengxiu was not ashamed. Instead, he felt vaguely excited and refreshed.

A few years ago, when he first entered the palace, he was bullied by the palace maids. He finally climbed onto the dragon bed of the Shu Emperor Yan with his good looks.

As a result, when the Shu Emperor Yan heard that his wife was more beautiful, he asked him to present his wife to him.

Although Wang Chengxiu was castrated and entered the palace, he could only be considered half a man.

But, half a man is still a man.

He saw that the last bit of his dignity as a man was about to be trampled upon by Wang Yan.

Whenever the couple were bullied by Wang Yan, Wang Chengxiu would secretly swear that sooner or later, he would make Wang Yan suffer the same pain as he did.

Things in the world are unpredictable, and things are changing.

Now, Wang Yan’s retribution has come.

Wang Chengxiu watched the Han Emperor walk into the Shu Emperor's concubines, picking and choosing as if he were picking goods. The sudden pleasure of revenge made him burst into evil laughter.

I don’t know when.

Su Mingzhe selected the women who would sleep with him tonight and took them to the bedroom to rest.

Wang Chengxiu was left to arrange the remaining concubines.

"Hmm? Where's the Queen Mother?"

Wang Chengxiu looked around and suddenly discovered that the Queen Mother of Shu, who had just knelt with the concubines to welcome the Han Emperor, was missing.

"Hiss, the old queen mother is already forty-five. Although she has taken good care of herself and looks no different from a thirty-year-old young woman, she is still very graceful. But she is the queen mother of Shu after all... plus Wang Yan's concubines and princesses... Tsk tsk, the Han emperor is really having fun..."

In the bedroom.

The situation in Wang Chengxiu's imagination where the women panicked and cried did not occur.

Su Mingzhe led the women into the bedroom. The Queen Mother of Shu, Xu, who was once the most beautiful woman in Shu, walked to the man with lotus steps, looking both angry and happy. Her white and slender hands soon made Su Mingzhe feel happy.

Su Mingzhe looked at the first Lady Huarui in history, who was constantly flirting and posing, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "One move hit the vital point!"

"This witch is really not a kind person!"

According to Wang Chengxiu's report, the reason why Emperor Wang Yan of Shu was lustful, foolish and incompetent was mostly due to the Queen Mother of Shu.

After Wang Yan ascended the throne, Lady Huarui Xu, as Wang Yan's mother, was honored as the empress dowager.

Lady Huarui's younger sister, Concubine Xu, was honored as the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager Xu and her sisters, seeing that they no longer had men to suppress them and not daring to follow the example of the evil Empress Wu Zhou who had lovers, put all their greed into making money.

According to Wang Chengxiu, most of the officials in Shu Kingdom have competed for official positions with the Xu sisters.

It would be strange if a court that sells official positions and titles was not stupid and incompetent!

Mrs. Xu didn't know yet that she had been labeled a "vampire" by men.

Seeing that she could not control the man with one hand, she quickly waved to her sister Xiao Xu to come over and share the same goal with her sisters.

Little Xu was not as bold as her sister. She came to the man shyly and timidly, preparing to play the flute and hum.

Seeing this, the other concubines, fearing that the Xu sisters would preempt them, also came over to join in the fun.

Soon, only a young girl in a pink skirt was left standing there stiffly, at a loss as to what to do.

This girl was the daughter of Emperor Yan of Shu and a palace maid when he was still the King of Zheng.

Because her mother was born at a young age, the girl did not receive any title when she was about to get married. She only had a nickname "Yun'er", which was given to her by her mother.

After listening to the obscene sounds on the bed for a while, Wang Yan'er didn't dare to go forward and join in the depravity, nor did she dare to leave. She could only lower her head and shoulders, quietly hiding in the corner of the bedroom, hoping that the man on the bed would forget her existence.

Su Mingzhe had been living a foolish life in the Shu Emperor's palace for more than half a month.

After Wang Chengxiu came to report that all Shu had surrendered, Su Mingzhe reluctantly left the harem.

The Shu Kingdom did not experience much war, its cities were prosperous, and its population was more than twice that of the Tang Kingdom.

After the Han Kingdom annexed the Shu Kingdom, the population of Su Mingzhe's people officially exceeded 10 million.

Inside the Shu Kingdom's imperial study.

The military counselor placed several memorials on the imperial desk and reported:

"Your Majesty, the King of Nanping and the King of Chu heard that our Han army had captured Shu, so they sent envoys to us, wanting to pay tribute to our Han army!"

"I'm not surprised by the King of Nanping's surrender, but I didn't expect the King of Chu to be even braver than Wang Yan!"

Su Mingzhe was not surprised that King Gao Conghai of Nanping sent people to pay tribute and pledge allegiance.

The King of Nanping, the King of Pei, the King of Xing, and the King of Bohai were all small vassal states that only occupied two or three states.

The reason why they had the opportunity to become kings and emperors was not because of their strength, but because of the strategic geographical location they occupied.

When the nearby kingdoms and vassal states had no spare energy to make progress, they simply used them as a buffer zone between themselves and other major powers.

And when a big country emerges nearby, they will be swept into the dust of history like jumping clowns.

They themselves knew their future fate, so they would submit a surrender letter and pay tribute to any major country bordering them in the hope of avoiding war.

Compared with King Nanping, Su Mingzhe cares more about Ma Chu.

Ma Chu occupied a vast territory, almost half of the country south of the Yangtze River.

Unfortunately, although the territory of Ma Chu was large, second only to the current Han and Liang, it was mostly mountainous, with only about two million people and an army of just over 100,000.

Therefore, when Ma Chu saw that the territory of the Han State was adjacent to his own, he quickly sent a letter of surrender and paid tribute.

The counselor saw that Su Mingzhe was silent for a long time. After a while, he asked:
"Your Majesty, do you accept this surrender?"

"No! I want to unify the world and inherit the glory of Han and Tang dynasties. How can I leave a bunch of small countries like yours in the Kyushu region to annoy me?"

Su Mingzhe waved his hand and was about to ask the counselor to leave, but suddenly he saw a name on the surrender form from the corner of his eye. He quickly raised his hand and called the counselor again:
"In the surrender letter of the King of Nanping, it was written that he also sent the crown prince Wuluan as a hostage? Where is Wuluan?"

(End of this chapter)