Traveling through the daily life of raising a family in ancient times

Chapter 21

King Qi has been having fun in the palace these years, and from time to time, he will send a few treasures presented to those concubines for the sake of sycophants.

This time, I invite the diners and staff to drink and chat, and tomorrow I will bring my guards to go hunting in the mountains.It can be said that he is too happy to miss Shu.

As for opening warehouses to release grain?That's even more impossible.

As for the people of Qizhou, there is no food to grow in the fields, and the people at the top don't care about their lives, so their lives are miserable.

Those who have savings at home can still survive. Those who have no money to buy outside will basically have to wait for death or flee their hometown to find a way to survive.

But later, even the money could not buy food.

King Qi directly confiscated all the grain in Qizhou City, and the rice shop was out of grain and closed, where to buy it?

The people were in a hurry when they couldn't buy food, so they went to ask, and it happened that the government also came out to post a notice.

Out of food?It doesn't matter, come to be a soldier, and you can get [-] catties of rice a month.

What can people do?The gates leading to various places in Qizhou have been strictly guarded for some reason, and they are only allowed to enter but not to exit.If you don't serve as a soldier, you can only starve to death.

Smart people have figured it out, King Qi is going against him!
Otherwise, as a vassal king, why are you recruiting troops wantonly?You must know that according to the regulations of this dynasty, the vassal king is only allowed to raise [-] personal soldiers.

After inquiring, all parties found out that the old emperor in the capital was not in good health.

So King Qi is in a hurry.After the new emperor ascends the throne, the possibility of him ascending to the throne is very slim.

In fact, for so many years, he has been unable to figure out, what is the difference between himself and the prince?

They are all princes, and he is his father's favorite son, so why can't he be a prince and emperor?
With such a sigh of relief, he has not forgotten to do things while having fun in the fief for the past four years.

Not to mention anything else, just poisoning the prince no less than twenty times.

But he failed even once, so he had to be incompetent and furious in the palace, killing his subordinates who were ineffective to vent his anger.

Of course, it wasn't his fault that the emperor was in poor health, he wasn't that beastly yet.

King Qi only hated one person, and that was the prince—his third brother.For his father, he still admires and respects him very much.

But because of this, King Qi was even more puzzled. You said you liked me so much, but you didn't give me your most precious throne.

This made him even more distorted.

No, when I heard that my father was dying, I felt that I could no longer sit still and wait for death.

So he used the name of "Qing Jun's side" and wanted to go to Beijing to rescue the emperor who was "controlled" by the prince.

He also wrote a heartfelt call to action.

The general content is how kind his father was to him in those years, but now his father is imprisoned and killed by traitors.And as a filial son, he couldn't sit still!So he wants to go back to Beijing to save his most beloved father.

I have to say that the person who wrote this article is also a talent.

All of a sudden, people in the world who didn't know about it were moved to the ground.With a wave of both hands, he expressed his support for this king of Qi's righteous deeds.

But public opinion alone is not enough.Rebellion requires money, food, and people!
He has a lot of money, and the emperor gave him rewards from time to time over the years, and also exempted Qizhou from paying taxes to the court.

Before the drought, Qizhou was actually very rich and prosperous, so the taxes that fell into his pocket were a lot of money.

As for those granaries in Qizhou, as long as he said that he couldn't open the granaries, who would dare?

So with the money and food, what about the people?

Although he only had 3 soldiers on the surface, he also supported no less than [-] soldiers in private.

Over the years, he has developed secretly. Half a year ago, he went to suppress the bandit dens in the nearby cottages and incorporated them. Of course, his original intention of suppressing bandits was not to eliminate harm for the people.

But even with the addition of troops stationed in various places in Qizhou, he only has more than 6 people.Fighting with the imperial court's 40 troops is like hitting a stone with an egg, courting death.

How can we recruit more soldiers in a short time?King Qi was so worried in the study that even concubine Ji didn't want to sleep anymore.

At this time, a Yangzhou skinny horse named Yi Lian in the palace saw the opportunity to be in the top position, and ran outside the study and said that he would offer advice to the prince to relieve his worries.

King Qi originally wanted to ask someone to drag her down and kill her. After all, the study room is an important place, which is a taboo.

But when he heard that the other party wanted to relieve his worries.A beauty offers advice?interesting.Tell someone to let her in.

But what good plans can she have for being specially raised for fun?

I talked a lot, and some private goods were brought in, none of which were nutritious.

But there was really a sentence that King Qi listened to.

"I heard that outsiders are selling their sons and daughters because they can't afford to eat. If you feed them, they will sacrifice their lives for you, my lord."

The reason why she knew this was because a new batch of maidservants were recruited into the palace because their families couldn't afford to eat and were sold.

Have a meal?He thought about it.

Although King Qi is very beautiful, he is still unambiguous in major matters.

He touched the woman and said to go to her at night, so he asked someone to take her back to the backyard.Then he quickly summoned his staff and followers to discuss a good solution.

On the other side, Yi Lian sent off King Qi's men with a gentle smile.Entering the yard where many unknown women who had slept with King Qi lived, then smiled proudly at those who had ridiculed and bullied her.

Then he changed into a malicious smile, which made the other person tremble in fright, and he lowered his head, not daring to look at him.

In this palace where there are so many beauties, favor is the best thing.

In fact, King Qi had thought about forcibly recruiting soldiers from every household in Qizhou before, but was stopped by a retainer who was trusted by him recently.

"Forcible conquest has been a taboo for military strategists since ancient times. Disagreement among people is a hidden danger, and if you are not careful for a moment, you will be backlashed by it. You have money and food, my lord, why do such...dangerous things? Please think again, lord."

Menke was one of the bandits and gangsters he took in, and after only a few months under his door, he gained deep trust.That letter was written by this person.

King Qi is unwilling to give money, those lowly people are not qualified to let him spend money.However, food has been piled up for too long, and some time ago, it was reported that a lot of it was moldy and had to be dumped.

How about...

So King Qi decided on the final plan.

That is to close the external passages, confiscate all grains, and not allow market transactions.In this way, if the common people want to survive, they can only join him as a soldier.

So in the spring of next year, Qizhou will be gradually blocked, and grain stores such as rice shops will be closed.It took another month for the top to issue a recruiting announcement, which completely became the lifeline of the people.

He Yanxin took a sip of water before continuing.

In fact, the original owner also understood that if he went to serve as a soldier for King Qi, it would be close to death.

But looking at his wife and children who had become extremely thin because they only ate one meal a day, he still went.Going with him is Wu Dalang next door.

Originally, Wu Erlang had to go too, after all, a family with so many people couldn't just rely on the twenty catties of rice from the boss.

But Mrs. Li refused to agree, saying that if he was asked to go, she would hang herself at Wu's house.This didn't work out.

Wu Sanlang also went, but they were not assigned to a camp, nor did they meet each other.

Less than a month after the king of Qi recruited troops and bought horses, the old emperor, who knew that his youngest son had declared a rebellion, was so excited that he drove west.Before he died, he wrote a secret decree to him.

Basically, how can you rebel?I am so disappointed!I will let your third brother let you go.So immediately, stop this behavior for me immediately.Don't let your father die with regret.

King Qi cried deeply after reading the old father's letter and hearing the news of the emperor's death.

Then, speed up the rebellion process.

(End of this chapter)