Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1319
In the civil strife in Jie State last year, although Shihu finally won the victory and became the master of Xiang State, and changed the year name to Xingguo to show that he would work hard to govern and rejuvenate the country, Jie State was still in decline. You can get a glimpse of the current situation in the capital city of Xiangguo.

In the early years when the former master Shi Le was alive, the country of Jie was the most prosperous country, and it was the well-deserved overlord of Hebei.Xiangguo, as the capital of Jieguo, also gathered all the world's treasures and manpower here, and Xiangguo and its surrounding areas were also very prosperous.

It is also thanks to Shi Le's arrangement of strong trunks and weak branches, taking border lands to supplement the center, that his son Shi Daya and Cheng Ya and others were able to, almost solely relying on Xiangguo's own strength, It lasted for several years.

And the isolation of the city for several years can also be said to have exhausted some of the vitality accumulated in Xiangguo in the past.The fierceness of civil wars has always been greater than that of foreign conquests.

First of all, it is the countryside of Xiangguo, where the walls are cleared, or they are burned, killed and looted by foreign troops.Looking around, those old villas with superior locations and grand buildings now only have ruined walls and overgrown weeds, which are indistinguishable from the deserted wilderness.

Even if the Jie country now has measures such as reclamation and repairs, it really has little effect.Even if a group of wandering foodies are recruited to settle here and provide them with grain seeds and agricultural tools, as long as the supervision is not effective, these people are very likely to disperse.Even if they can't run, they are very passive and sabotage.

A battle that took place around Xiangguo last year was too tragic. In the wilderness overgrown with weeds, if you dig it casually, bones will be exposed under the turf, which makes people shudder.

Xiangguo, where the two Shihus came to rule, has a very different atmosphere from that of the former master Shile.Although Shi Le was born as a Hulu, he still has some benevolent and beneficial policies to persuade farmers and mulberry.

However, after Shihu entered Xiangguo, he did not take such measures at all, especially the personal safety of the people could not be guaranteed. , and took away all the harvest.

Farmers looked at the messy fields, and before they had time to hurt themselves, they had to face the officials who supervised the cultivation of mulberry. They couldn't hand over the harvest in full, and it was common to kill them frequently, and there was nowhere to appeal for grievances!

It is difficult to accommodate large-scale population gatherings if production cannot be resumed quickly near the capital and supplies cannot be nearby.If the population cannot be gathered, it is impossible to organize a large number of laborers to drive them, and many repairs and constructions can only stay in the plan and cannot be implemented at all.

So even though the civil strife has been over for several years, there are still scars left by the old disasters inside and outside the city of Xiangguo, which also makes the city of Xiangguo look like decayed and mottled lacquerware, which is extremely ugly.

Shi Hu has an irritable and violent personality. If this kind of person has to take advantage of the momentum, he will naturally be very powerful and can be ahead of others in everything.But if once the power is gone, but he doesn't have the patience and ability to clean up the mess, he has no talent for prosperity, he simply sees it as a net, and leads a large army to wander outside all year round, and stays in Xiangguo for very little time.

Of course, Shi Hu did this because of the civil strife back then, which made Jie Kingdom almost have no control over the border areas. Even if he wanted to stay in Xiang Kingdom, all parties would not honestly donate money to support the king And its army.Only through the coercion and coercion of the army parade, can he obtain the supplies that are barely enough to maintain his army.

In troubled times, it is true that the strong soldier is the king, but if there is no business structure, it will be like the current state of Jie, where the ground is full of chicken feathers, and the soldiers are chasing food. There is no need to think about internal and external cultivation, and the country will last forever.

It itself is a place of civil strife and war, and now even the king is wandering outside all year round, and the decadence of Xiangguo is simply irreparable.The Crown Prince of Jie Kingdom, Shi Sui, who was especially in charge of staying behind in Xiang Kingdom, was a hedonistic, brutal and cruel dude who completely ignored the current dilapidation of Xiang Kingdom, and did not make the slightest effort to restore the situation.

Of course, it is not fair to say that, Shi Sui stayed in Xiangguo all the year round, and it is not completely idle.He was addicted to fresh fish, so he ordered people to expand the Lishui Palace, which was built in the past when Shi Le was alive, and dug canals to divert water, so that the southeast of Xiangguo City was flooded with water, and the residents moved away because of their homes. This environment can also be regarded as making a certain contribution to the transformation of the city structure of Xiangguo.

In addition to the crown prince of Jianguo, Shi Sui also served as the chief chanyu in charge of foreign affairs, and every month he held a banquet at the chanyutai of Jiande palace to entertain the surrounding Hu chieftains.Those Hu chiefs were all rebellious, vulgar and rude. Even Shi Hu, a man who flaunted his intimacy with Hu, couldn't stand the prosperity of Hu Shan. What filth is left in between.

Previously, Shi Hu made a special trip back to the capital, so he called Shi Xi into the palace, and severely reprimanded him, even hitting each other with fists and kicks. This made the relationship between father and son even worse.

Although Shi Sui felt dissatisfied, he didn't dare to disobey his father who was getting more and more disliked by him, so he ordered people to rebuild a terrace garden in the north of Xiangguo city, and prepared to use it as a substitute.

However, the manpower and materials he can use as the prince of the prison are really limited. Even if he asks for money from those Hu chieftains who come to every banquet, those Hu chieftains have just been beaten by the king of heaven, and they really dare not continue to be intimate with the prince, and they all refuse. So much so that the new Shanyutai was not completed for a long time.

This, on the contrary, aroused Shi Sui's rebellious psychology even more. He regarded this platform as a sign of fighting spirit with his father, and gritted his teeth to build it.With the honor of the prince, he personally supervised the construction, and even used all the servants and servants in the prince's mansion, and even stole his mother's empress Zheng's private dowry while visiting the palace, so the project was maintained in a smooth manner. Complete shutdown.

When the urgent report came from outside the city, Shi Sui was still supervising the construction site in the north of the city. He personally flogged and killed two construction supervising officials because of the slow progress of the project. It has appeared not far from Xiangguo.

After hearing the words, he sneered, raised his foot and kicked the messenger, and angrily said: "Where did the lowly slave get such rumors? The Lord is currently reining in the army and going south. Even if there is intrusion, can you enter the heart of the capital? Who spread such rumors to confuse the public?"

Even if Shi Sui was rejected by the Lord, but with his status, no matter how important the matter was, it would be difficult for outside envoys to meet him.Because they came with the messenger, and there were several important officials of the Jie Kingdom who also stayed in the capital, seeing that Shi Sui didn't allow the messenger to elaborate at all, they became very angry. The letter was not circulated in the countryside, but was reported by the Minister of Pingyuan..."

His name is Wang Lang, and he is the leading general of the Jie Kingdom. He is trusted by the Heavenly King Shihu, and he is also the most powerful military general in the city of Xiang Kingdom besides Prince Shi Sui.

Shi Sui was always defiant, he was quite against his father's advice, so he didn't take Wang Lang seriously.But after hearing Wang Lang's words, his face first showed a look of disgust and hatred, and then there was a touch of panic that he could not bear.He looked past Wang Lang and landed on the person behind him, frowned and said, "Is what this man said true?"

Being directly ignored by Shi Sui, and he didn't know whether the "this dog" in his mouth was the messenger lying on the ground or himself, Wang Lang also had a hidden anger in his heart, but he also knew that Shi Sui was too tyrannical and arrogant, and it would be unlucky if there was a direct conflict The only thing you can do is yourself.

Shi Sui pointed out that the person was named Li Yan, who was appointed as the bastard son of the crown prince, and was an important servant of the prince's mansion, so he was naturally Shi Sui's confidant.He took a step forward and replied: "What the leader said is what the messenger said. However, the counties and counties did not make any urgent announcements about the thief's whereabouts, but Pingyuan's official statement. In addition, Pingyuan's official said that the thief is fierce and can't be stopped, because it is a positive rate." The army returned to aid the country..."

When Shi Sui heard this, the hairs on the back of his neck immediately stood up, not because of the so-called enemy traces, but because of what his confidant said that Shi Xuan was leading his troops back to the country, which made his heartstrings suddenly tense.

In the past few years, Shi Sui seemed domineering and arrogant, and even obeyed the Lord's teachings, but it didn't mean that he was completely fearless.He dared to challenge the majesty of his father. It was because father and son had been colliding constantly over the years, and gradually let him figure out where the bottom line lies. Before there is a brother who can succeed him grow up and stay in the house, he will still be the prince. It's safe, otherwise the Lord will not be able to spare energy to patrol the border areas of the town.

So in Shi Xi's heart, there was actually a tight thread all the time, not whether the master's attitude towards him was good or bad, but how his brothers and sisters were in each other's condition.Among them, brothers Shi Xuan and Shi Tao, who came out of Du's lowly maidservant, brought him the most pressure.

Shi Xuan was second only to him in age, and after he was established as the crown prince and stayed in Xiangguo all the year round, his influence in the army has been declining all the way. rich.

Although the two brothers Shi Xuan and Shi Tao fought in the same room afterwards, Shi Xi was very happy to see him, but the arrangement of the Lord made Shi Xi feel even more inexplicable.Shi Tao's little boy was actually awarded a high-ranking official as a Taiwei by the Lord, and all the small and powerful Long Xiang and other troops in the city of Xiangguo were all under Shi Tao's rule!
This is also one of the reasons why Shi Sui knew that the Lord didn't like it, but he still wanted to make a big Shanyutai in order to maintain contacts with those Hu chief followers.He had to guard against Shi Xuan, who was far away and had a large army in his hands, and also guarded against Shi Tao, who was forcibly inserted and tempered by the Lord in Xiangguo.Probably in the Lord's mind, the one who can replace him in the future will choose one of these two sons.

To make friends with those barbarians, Shi Sui was planning to look for an opportunity to launch a sudden attack, and first kill Shi Tao, the threat standing beside him.Afterwards, Shi Tao and the Longxiang army were all transferred away, which made Shi Xi heave a sigh of relief. Right now, he really doesn't have the confidence to attack and kill Shi Tao under the guard of the elite soldiers of the Taiwei Mansion.Knowing that Shi Xuan and Shi Tao's grievances are hard to get rid of, they are also happy to wait and see their brothers continue to dog-eat-dog in southern Hebei.

But he hasn't seen the scene where the brothers turned against each other, but he suddenly heard that Shi Xuan is leading the army back to the country. Naturally, he doesn't believe the bullshit talk of the enemy's invasion of the country. His first reaction is that Shi Xuan, the bastard, must be returning to the country Deal with him!

So Shi Sui no longer cared about supervising the construction of Shan Yutai, and ordered a general on the spot to strip off his armor and put his upper body on, and then hurried back to Xiangguo City surrounded by his entourage to discuss how to respond.

(End of this chapter)