Ancestor Bless: I built a thousand-year-old family

Chapter 370 Two Brothers
"Boom!"

The purple-blue thunder pierced through the dark cloud-covered sky, becoming the only bright color between the sky and the earth, and the deafening sound of thunder came.

"Crack."

The strong wind rolled up the thick branches of the trees, and the torrential rain poured down. The water volume of the rivers in Jiujiang Middle School instantly soared, and the dirt roads in the middle school were full of mud that was difficult to walk on.

Jiujiang Palace.

Looking at the rumbling and pouring rain outside the window, Liu Qi felt a little unwell and depressed. Even though he had been here for a long time, he still couldn't accept it.

Today's Jiujiang State is not a land of outstanding people in later generations, but a land of barbarians full of miasma. Although it was included in the sphere of influence of Zhu Xia as early as Chu State, and both the Qin Dynasty and the Great Han Dynasty established ruling institutions here, but To be honest, if it is simply calculated by population, this is not considered the solid and indivisible territory of Zhu Xia.

There are many mountainous areas in Jiujiang State, and a large number of indigenous people live in the mountains.

Hundreds of years ago, Chu State and Wu State fought wars here, frantically arresting people from those slightly flat areas as cannon fodder, causing the barbarians to flee to the mountains, and even now they don’t know that the outside world is already under the rule of the Han Dynasty.

Although the Han Dynasty set up prefectures and counties here, it mainly built some large cities in the plains, and the land opened up was around the cities. There were no straight roads between the large and small towns, and countless people lived between the cities. For the natives, this situation is quite similar to the city-state era of various countries hundreds of years ago, and it is completely different from the situation of going deep into the villages in the Central Plains.

This is why the Luo family has been tirelessly moving the population to the south. In fact, it is gradually filling up the empty population areas as it did in the Central Plains in the past.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk."

In the pouring rain, there was a knock on the door, and then a maid in rather cool clothes entered the bedroom, Fuli said: "Your Majesty, the Grand Tutor please see me."

Liu Qi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, what is the Tai Tuo doing here in such a heavy rain?
"Quickly ask the master to come in."

The Grand Tutor Wang of Jiujiang walked into the hall and took off the coir raincoat to keep out the rain. The rain on the coir raincoat flowed down to the ground and became wet in an instant. On Gongbintian, the crown prince took the throne under the witness of the officials, announced it to the world with the emperor's seal, and called Zhuxiazi in front of Su Wang's mausoleum, and announced it to the world with the imperial seal."

"Boom!"

It was another sound of thunder that shook the sky.

"Crack!"

The beautiful jade in Liu Qi's hand fell to the ground in an instant, and the light of lightning reflected on his face, making his pupils look bluer and darker.

He closed his eyes slightly, somewhat unwilling to believe the cruel fact that his younger brother had finally ascended to the throne.

He is a complete loser.

"Teacher, you have braved such a storm to come here, not only to tell the widow this news, but also what else, let's tell it together. Could it be worse than this news?"

Hearing Liu Qi's hoarse voice, Wang Taifu was also a little sad, but he still said: "Chang'an sent an order, and now the angel is outside, specially arranging you to come to Beijing, saying that the Empress Dowager misses you very much.

He also said that His Majesty has just ascended the throne, and after thinking about it, only you are his closest person, so I very much hope that you can come to Chang'an City to share the joy with you. "

"Too deceiving!"

The expression on Liu Qi's face was a little tense, he never imagined that Liu Che would humiliate himself like this and ask him to go to Chang'an to congratulate him on his ascension to the throne?
It's better to kill him directly!

It's no wonder that Liu Qi couldn't hold back, what's the difference between this and Huang Mao showing off your wife's real beauty in front of the sufferer?
Wang Taifu was also angry, but there was nothing he could do. The emperor even took out the empress dowager. If he didn't go, he would have a reputation of being unfilial, so he could only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

Liu Qi asked: "What time does the decree say to leave? I must prepare a big gift for His Majesty."

Hearing the gnashing of teeth in Liu Qi's words, Wang Taifu whispered: "Let's go immediately."

?

Liu Qi thought he heard it wrong, and set off immediately in this kind of weather?

Wang Taifu said in a low voice: "What the decree says is to set off immediately no matter what. The Empress Dowager and Your Majesty both miss the King and don't want to wait for a moment."

There was a sudden noise outside the hall, and the noise could be faintly heard saying: "Has the King of Jiujiang not finished his preparations yet? Don't make the Empress Dowager and His Majesty wait too long. Let's go quickly. Isn't it a great joy?"

The voice was not too loud, just enough for Liu Qi to hear, these people were all guilty and very courageous, so they dared to make such a loud noise in the Jiujiang Palace.

……

"Report!"

"Report!"

The ear-piercing voice pierced the tranquility of Chang'an City, and then came all the way to the imperial city, and the messenger went all the way to Changle Palace.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Shouhou, Quyanghou, and Gu'anhou have jointly signed a letter stating that the King of Jiujiang has set up an army of the kingdom and turned his back on the imperial court. The three princes have already led the private armies of the Hou Kingdom to recruit the people of the Hou Kingdom to block the route of the King of Jiujiang. "

A number of important court officials came to Changle Palace, and most of them didn't care much about King Jiujiang's rebellion.

The parallelism of prefectures and states practiced by the Han court is slightly different from that in history.

The Shiyihou states of those Liehou were very powerful, and they were almost equivalent to the kings of the Bang and Zhou Dynasties.

But there is a price for taking these land seals, that is, to defend the land for the emperor. For example, the King of Jiujiang rebelled, for example, the Southwest barbarians rebelled before, and they had to defend it.

If you stick to it, even if you die a heroic death, the imperial court will award your heirs to inherit, and even directly change you to a richer upper-class county, but if you surrender or run away directly, you will be expelled from the country and seized the title, demoted to the common people , and even exiled to Lingnan to re-develop.

The southwestern Yi rebellion was so big before, but the princes in the southwest resisted desperately, and even two princes died directly on the battlefield because of the existence of this policy.

Although Liu Qi is the King of Jiujiang, on the surface the entire Jiujiang County is under his rule, but in fact this is not the case. There are many princes in his kingdom, and these princes are all blocked in the kingdom. The position of the throat is like a sharp sword, making the princes and kings breathless.

Of course, the strength of the princes and kings is still higher than that of the princes. After all, it is not only necessary to prevent the rebellion of the princes and kings, but also to prevent the rebellion of the princes and county guards with foreign surnames. This is two-way.

Hearing the news of the King of Jiujiang's rebellion, Liu Che was not angry. Instead, he asked with a puzzled face: "My dear friends, why did the King of Jiujiang rebel? I don't understand."

The ministers look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say, it doesn't seem strange whether the King of Jiujiang rebelled or not.

But at this time, there seemed to be something wrong with raising troops. Someone quietly glanced at the emperor above, and then said nothing. The emperor did not do anything excessive.

Seeing this, Liu Che said again: "I think there is a problem with the land in Jiujiang. In the past, when Emperor Gao was emperor, the king of Jiujiang rebelled. The country was established in Jiujiang County, but it turned out to be a conspiracy to rebel, so the country was eliminated, and the first emperor sealed the emperor's brother into Jiujiang Kingdom. Unexpectedly, the King of Jiujiang also rebelled.

Is this by chance?
I don't think so. After the chaos of the king of Jiujiang is settled, Jiujiang will be designated as a county, and there will be no kings and kingdoms in the future. "

The ministers had no objection to Liu Che's words. Counties and states run side by side, counties can change into countries, and countries can change into counties. It all depends on the intention of the court.

"Send troops to Jiujiang Kingdom and bring the King of Jiujiang back. I want to ask him why he rebelled."

Liu Che said calmly, looking at this rather young emperor, the officials had a little understanding of his temperament. This is a monarch different from Emperor Wen.

……

Jiujiang country.

"My lord, the vanguard army has retreated again. Basically all the cities occupied since the formation of the army have been lost. We may be about to fail."

Looking at the gradually eroding situation, Liu Qi didn't feel any despair. Since he raised his troops, he hadn't even been able to fight out of Jiujiang Middle School.

Because it is not only the princes of Jiujiang County who are hostile to him. After receiving the counter-insurgency order, the princes and princes of neighboring countries also started to target him.

For the princes and kings, they can show their loyalty to the court. After all, the princes and kings will continue to be replaced. After the new emperor has princes, he feels that they have no credit for them. What if they are replaced?
For the princes, the new emperor had to perform well when he succeeded to the throne. Maybe he would be promoted by the emperor, from a local guard to Chang'an, and serve as the general of the imperial army.

When he first arrived, his foundation was already unstable, and the current situation is normal, "Failure is normal, as long as the court does not make mistakes, and the emperor does not make mistakes, how can the princes and kings be the opponents of the court?
The purpose of the widow's rise is to tell the world that even though the imperial court has millions of troops, and the widow only has this county of Jiujiang, they are still proud and unshakable, and the king cannot be humiliated! "

Just after he finished speaking, he saw a crossbow arrow coming straight towards him, Liu Qi could only stop talking, and hurriedly said: "General, save me!"

"Boom!"

The crossbow arrows were heavily nailed to the big shield, and the shield trembled from the huge force, Liu Qi only breathed out two breaths slowly.

All of a sudden, on the noisy battlefield, there was a moment of strange tranquility.

"The imperial court has a decree to capture the King of Jiujiang alive. The ordinary sergeant will be promoted to be a man, and those who have titles and official positions will be promoted three times in a row!"

Liu Qiqing heard these words clearly, a sneer flashed across his face.

If he was defeated, he was just dead, how could he be captured alive?
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There is a song among the people, and King Li of Jiujiang said: "A foot of cloth can still be sewn; a bucket of millet can still be pounded. Two brothers are incompatible."

It's ridiculous. ——"Historical Records Biography of King Li of Jiujiang"

　Those who jumped and ordered didn't know that Huo Qubing was still there. . . . . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)