A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 283 The end of Bangzhou
Wang Xu passed away and his son Wang Chong came to the throne.

Wang Chong was not actually the eldest son, but his elder brother broke his leg while riding a horse, so he succeeded him as king.With the Huai Kingdom seizing more than half of the Mandate of Heaven, the backlash against the Huai Kingdom's royal family has become weaker and weaker.

Although there are no six great talents with attributes above 85, there are several with attributes above [-], and Wang Chong is one of them.After Wang Chong came to the throne, he promoted many officials.After annexing the land of Bashu, the Huai State's territory further expanded, with a huge east-west span of four thousand miles.

Fortunately, it is connected by the Yangtze River waterway, otherwise it would be too difficult to rule such a vast territory.

As the territory expands, more and more problems arise.Although the Huai State has a system of inspection censors, there are still many officials who will test the law by themselves.

The expansion of territory made Huai State's ruling power weaker. The further away from Jinling, the weaker Huai State's ruling power became.Wang Xu discovered this problem when he first came to the throne, so he deployed a large number of manpower and spent a huge amount of money and food to force the establishment of a track and the implementation of the same track.Through the continuous construction of Chidao for decades, the dominance of Huai State has been strengthened.

The appearance of Chidao increased the speed of Huaiguo carriages by two or three times.Originally it took ten days to travel, but it only took three to four days to arrive after riding the road and changing horses.The appointment of officials is faster, and the mobilization of troops is also much faster, but the roads are expensive, and many places are not suitable for construction.

As a result, there are still many places where road traffic is slow.Officials in these places think that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so they will act recklessly. After all, it takes two to three months or even longer for officials to be appointed and dismissed once.Inconvenient travel, plenty of time to cover up.

Huai State has been using various methods to reduce the occurrence of this kind of thing.It’s just that human desires are never enough.Wang Chong then planned to station some inspection censors permanently in some places with inconvenient transportation and set up an inspection censor's office.

The inspection of the Yushi Mansion was not under local jurisdiction, but directly under the jurisdiction of the Yushitai. The Yushitai needed to deliver the news from these censors to King Huai.The Inspection Yushifu does not have any authority over local government affairs and can only supervise.

The power of inspecting the Censor's Mansion is not small, because the small power cannot deter the officials below. Even because these inspections of the Censor are to verify these officials, the relationship with the local officials is not harmonious. In order to ensure their safety, Wang Chong ordered the inspection The Censor's Mansion also has some military powers, which are responsible for protecting these patrolling Censors.

In fact, since the inspection censor system was established, more than one inspection censor has been killed in the line of duty.Every time a patrol censor is killed, a bunch of people lose their heads.Therefore, if you want to be promoted quickly in the Huai Kingdom, in addition to war, you can do the inspection censorship.As long as there are achievements, the inspection censor will be promoted quickly.

The Huai State Office has been suppressing the local wealthy families for a long time, but they cannot beat them to death with a stick.They can only be controlled within a certain range.

Wang Chong had just ascended the throne and needed to promote a group of people and dismiss a group of people to form his own team.Wang Chong can be said to be a monarch with the highest political and internal affairs attributes in recent generations. Both of these attributes exceed 85.What he is doing now is to take control of power as quickly as possible.

[Wang Chong: Patriarch (eighteenth generation grandson)
Title: Prince

Country: Huai
Internal Affairs: 86, Strategy: 88, Military Strategy: 71, Commander: 86, Force: 84, Charm: 91]

Although the men of the Huai Kingdom royal family are handsome and the women are beautiful, most of them score above 80 points, and those above [-] points are rare. Wang Chong is a rare handsome man.At the same time, he was very smart in politics. He deposed a group of local officials by inspecting the censor, and then promoted his cronies.Soon he took control of the court.

After taking control of the court, Wang Chong felt that Wang Ji of Bangzhou was a bit of an eyesore.Without King Yu's Jiuding, the Zhou royal family basically existed in name only.Two years after taking the throne, Wang Chong ordered Xu Chao to command an army of [-] to destroy the Zhou Kingdom.

Wang Chong wanted to capture Luoyi and wipe out the Zhou royal family.The Zhou people's destiny has declined, and it is the turn of the Huai Kingdom's destiny.

Wang Chong ordered Xu Chao to march. At the same time, he also ordered someone to write an edict and send it to Luoyi, asking him to depose himself as king and donate Luoyi. Then the King of Huai would grant him a city south of Jinling. He was granted the title of king and allowed to continue to worship his ancestors.

Luoyi, the palace hall.The dilapidated palace is like the national power of Bangzhou, which has been declining.Only the occasional gorgeous decorations can still reveal the former glory of this palace.

The Zhou royal family has been in decline for a long time.In the past, the state of Jin and the state of Qi came to maintain the dignity of Emperor Zhou. However, since the split of Jin and the decline of Qi, the authority of Emperor Zhou has declined rapidly.It has reached the point where it is now dispensable.Even if this generation of Emperor Zhou wanted to work hard to govern, there would be no room for development.

The bamboo slip in Emperor Zhou's hand fell to the ground with a snap, and he murmured to himself: "Ancestor of King Wu, the 500-year-old foundation of Zhou Dynasty is about to end in the hands of unfilial descendants!"

The attendants next to him also knelt on the ground, and they were also planning for their future.

"Clang." Emperor Zhou pulled out the sword from his waist, and his face no longer looked sad and panicked.

He said in a deep voice: "Back then, when the Yin Shang Dynasty lost their virtue and Feng Ming Qishan, King Wu conquered Zhou and divided the world. The Zhou Dynasty has been in power for 500 years, the royal family is orthodox, and the descendants of King Wu are descendants. How can they surrender without a fight?"

"If you want the destiny of the Zhou Dynasty, then come! Give me the order, assemble the army and prepare for war. I must personally wear armor and fight the Huai people!"

"The blood of any king begins with the sword and will end with the sword."

Ji Yun was a rare wise king among the emperors of Zhou Dynasty. Although he was born into a noble family, he understood the sufferings of the people, did not like luxury, lived a simple life, and loved the people.If he had been born 200 years earlier, Bang Zhou might have made great progress, but it was a pity that he was born at the wrong time.

When he came to the throne, only dozens of miles of land near Luoyi were left in Bangzhou, and there was no room for development.

There were not many soldiers in Luoyi, but after Bangzhou had been in business for 500 years, there were still many people who were willing to follow him.Ji Yun led three thousand soldiers to confront Xu Chao, and the army surrounded Luoyi until March.

Ji Yun took the lead, and the morale of the Luoyi defenders was high, and they were not afraid of death.However, when the manpower was limited, Ji Yun suffered several injuries and died in the formation, and the city of Luoyi was destroyed.

And at the same time that Ji Yun died, the ever-burning lamps in the Taimiao in Luoyi city and the sacrificial cauldron were also extinguished.Bangzhou's last wisp of destiny purple energy completely dissipated.

In the 11th year of King Ai's reign, Huai general Xu Chao attacked Zhou.

Chao said: "The emperor of Zhou is allowed to surrender with royal courtesy, and he can be granted the title of a city to extend the ancestral sacrifice."

King Ai said: "The blood of any king begins with the sword and will end with the sword."

In the third month, the city was broken, and King Ai died in the battle. King Huai buried him with royal ceremonials, made his son king, and gave him a hundred households in the city to offer sacrifices to the Zhou Dynasty. ——"Historical Records·Zhou Benji"

(End of this chapter)