A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 296: All the princes go south
The war machine of the Huai Kingdom began to activate again, and the entire Huai Kingdom moved rapidly under Wang Luo's will.Veteran general Xu Chao commanded an army of 40 to attack Wei.

This time, after the Huai Kingdom's blade turned northward again, the northern countries did not work together as one. They even continued to scheming and fighting among themselves. Even when the country was about to perish, these people did not give up fighting among themselves.

The decadent aristocratic class will not voluntarily give up their rights. They will do anything to gain power. They even do not care about the survival of the country, but only care about their own wealth and power.In their eyes, there is no such thing as the overall situation.Even at the moment of destruction, they will not give up their internal fighting.

The Wei State was on the main route of the Huai State's northward advance. Daliang City was on the bank of the river and almost undefeable. Xu Chao's march naturally targeted the Wei State as his first target. Xu Chao led his troops into two groups. The road goes all the way north from Nanyang, and the other way goes north from Shangqiu.Surrounded Wei from three sides.

Since the Wei State lost the land of Xihe and the old capital of Hedong, its national power has gradually declined.In addition, several generations of Wei kings did not work hard to govern, and talented people in the country left one after another, and the whole country of Wei fell into a struggle for power and profit.

After the Huai army arrived, these people still fell into internal fighting.Because Daliang is close to a large river, canals began to be used for irrigation during the period of King Hui of Wei, so there are many ditches here.These ditches were also part of Wei's defenses.

However, under the attack of Huai State, the whole Wei State did not work together to resist Huai State.King Qin's army from Wei was also easily defeated by Huai.The army of [-] was defeated and scattered.Without reinforcements, Wei's capitulation faction immediately gained the upper hand.

While King Wei was still sleeping, these surrendering nobles directly opened the city gates and dedicated themselves to the city.When the Huai army entered the palace of the King of Wei, the King of Wei was caught by the Huai soldiers without even putting on his clothes.

40 Huai troops surrounded Daliang, and even the entire population of Daliang City was not as large as the Huai troops.

Xu Chao led people into the city and came to the palace of the King of Wei. The nobles of the Wei State came to seek refuge one after another and flattered each other: "General, the King of Wei has acted rebelliously in the State of Wei. He is licentious and immoral. Everyone in the State of Wei hates him. He is so cruel." An unkind person is not worthy of being a king at all. Everyone in the Wei Kingdom is looking forward to the arrival of King Huai's army."

"It is said all over the world that King Luo of Huai is of noble character and a benevolent monarch. The people of Huai love him. The people of Wei, both soldiers and civilians, are looking forward to King Huai coming to rescue us."

"The people of Wei have already poured out their pots of wine to welcome the general."

The shamelessness of the Wei nobles can be said to have refreshed the lower limit of Xu Chao's cognition.Each of these nobles enjoyed the rewards of King Wei, and they were nobles for generations, but in the end, they betrayed King Wei without any hesitation at the critical moment.

In order to survive, these Wei aristocrats can be said to have opened their eyes and told lies. The common people of Wei have suffered from the king of Wei for a long time and ate pots of pulp to welcome the king's master. Just listen to these lies.As for saying that King Luo of Huai is the master of benevolence and virtue, the nobles of the Huai Kingdom who were executed not long ago have a strong say.

Xu Chao did not say anything, and directly accepted the statement of the Wei nobles, and then sent the Wei nobles and the King of Wei to Jinling City.Then the palace of the King of Wei was closed, and the treasury of the Wei State was also controlled. Then an edict was issued to the entire Wei State in the name of the King of Wei, asking these places to surrender to the Huai State. At the same time, maps of various places, land and household registration lists, etc. were presented.

Annexing a country is not just about destroying the capital.It is also necessary to control other places, know how much farmland there is in these places, how many households there are, and be able to collect taxes and allocate labor. This is the initial completion of control.At the same time, the nobles who surrendered were kept first, and the nobles who did not surrender were all deprived of their status, all their property was confiscated, and all the retainers and all members of the nobles were sent to Jinling.

If these nobles resist, they will be killed directly.The Huai Kingdom didn't care about these old nobles at all. Most of these old nobles were corrupted, just like parasites lying on the Wei Kingdom to suck blood.

After dealing with these nobles at the same time, the Huai State can also harvest a large amount of land and wealth. The Huai State will send officials to distribute the land to the landless people of the Huai State.The Huai State does not trust the officials and nobles of the Wei State, so who knows whether they will secretly cause trouble.

In order to better control the Wei State, the Huai King Luo Zhao ordered that the same taxes as the Huai State be implemented in the Wei State.After reducing taxes and allocating land to the people of Wei State, Wei State quickly settled down, and after the arrival of Huai State officials, Wei State officials were quickly replaced.

The entire Wei State was annexed and digested by the Huai State at an alarming speed.Lord Xinling, who fled to Wei, was still asking Zhao, Qin and Yan to send troops to rescue Wei.But two months have passed and there has been no progress.

After hearing the news of the fall of the Wei State, he vomited blood on the spot and said sadly: "Today, if the countries do not save Wei, and the Huai Kingdom returns, what will happen to the countries? Today's Wei is the future of the countries!" After saying this, Lord Xinling He died of anger.

The Wei state was easily destroyed, which frightened the remaining Xia states.Although it was a shock when the Zhou Dynasty was destroyed in the past, the Zhou Dynasty only had one city left and its power was weak.The reason why South Korea collapsed that year was also because South Korea had never been strong.

It has always been at the bottom of the list of nations, with a population of just over a million, and only 20 soldiers for all the people.In a real fight, any country can destroy South Korea. It is only because other countries have restrained South Korea that it can survive.

Now that the Wei State was easily destroyed by the Huai State, all the Xia kingdoms realized that the crisis was just around the corner.You must know that Wei was the strongest among the countries at the beginning. It had been competing with Qin, Qi, and Zhao for hundreds of years, but now it was so easy to destroy the country.

The Huai State deprived the Wei nobles of their property and detained these people, causing a large number of Wei nobles to flee.Although the Huai State sent people to hunt them down, there were always fish that slipped through the net and escaped.

A large number of carriages escorted countless treasures plundered from the Wei State and Wei nobles to the Huai State.The prison carriage of King Wei is also here.

Thousands of nobles and countless treasures were sent to the Huai State, and the princes and princesses of the Wei State were also sent. In comparison, the princesses of the Wei State were treated much better. The escorting generals did not dare to neglect them, in case they were Has King Huai taken a fancy to it?
Following them were many nobles of the Wei State who surrendered. These nobles believed that they had made great achievements and at the same time understood writing and laws. They could be appointed by King Huai and become officials again.They were able to surrender so easily, open the city gates, and sell the King of Wei. In addition to knowing that the Huai army was strong and Wei had no chance of winning, the other reason was that they knew that they could continue to serve as officials. It was nothing more than a new king.

When the time came, they would be loyal to King Huai and still do the same thing.With such longing, these nobles came to Jinling City.

(End of this chapter)