On the 28th of the first month of the lunar month.
There were three days to go before the designated date of the Nangong family forcing the marriage upon Countess Huanzhu arrived.
The situation was chaotic in the new capital of the Northern Song located hundreds of miles south of the basin where Lin'an City originally was. The peace the Northern Song had enjoyed for nearly two years was now broken by Nangong Chunliang, the master of the Nangong family, as he came to the new capital. The calm water began to boil. All the forces, as well as the ministers and royals, were all in a rush to visit the emerging hegemon and build good relations with him.
The Nangong family stationed their guards directly in the imperial palace.
The master, Nangong Chunliang, sat as equals at the same table wit
