A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 298 Six Kings (1)

It only took Huaiguo four months to destroy Wei, and the army suffered very little losses.Next, the Huai army guarded the Wei state and began to digest the results of this victory.

The officials of the Wei State have all become obedient children, and they dare not go beyond the limits at all.

The Huai State sent a large number of officials to quickly take over the Wei State, and then announced tax exemptions. Starting from this year, the tax collection will be [-]%, and all the nobles, officials and officials must pay taxes. The Huai State did not recognize these nobles of the Wei State. duty free.These nobles and ministers would even be taxed more because of their vast land.

As for those nobles and ministers who dare not pay taxes, evade taxes, and evade taxes, Huai State will not tolerate them.

Of course, Wang Luo didn't plan to let anyone take action now, but just let the officials collect the money.If these nobles pay taxes, then let them go. If they don't pay taxes, they will not take action. Instead, they will record these people and wait until the autumn to settle the accounts.

These officials sent by the Huai Kingdom will implement the Huai Law. According to the Huai Law, these nobles basically need to pay [-]% to [-]% of the tax. You must know that these nobles originally paid less or no taxes, and now they are suddenly told to pay [-]%. Basically all the nobles would be dissatisfied with the [-]% tax.

There were often fewer nobles willing to pay taxes, but after discovering that Huai State did not punish them, more nobles followed him in the future.These people will be counted by Wang Luo. After the Huai Kingdom is unified, the accounts of these nobles will be settled.

He has given these nobles so many opportunities. When King Luo of Huai takes action, no one can say that King Luo of Huai will be executed without instruction.

As for whether these nobles will be aware of Huai Wang Luo's plan, someone will definitely find out.There are many smart people among these nobles who have been enjoying themselves for hundreds of years, but there are even more stupid people.After staying in their comfort zone for too long, these people have become downright stupid.Even if they knew, those nobles would not change.

After a large number of officials were stationed in various parts of Wei State, these people quickly took control of the power in various places.After the autumn harvest, the Huai State began to collect taxes. The tax system of the Huai State was more beneficial to the common people, so people everywhere quickly accepted the rule of the Huai State.

At a time when the concepts of country and nation were not so clear, as long as the people were given some preferential treatment, they would soon accept the rule.

Half a year after the destruction of Wei State, the Huai State army underwent simple repairs and then began to send out large armies to attack Zhao State.While the army was attacking Zhao State, Huai State also began to station a large number of troops in Hanzhong, Nanyang, and Hedong.

In order to conquer the five kingdoms, Huai State mobilized more than one million troops. If the Qin army dared to send troops to rescue Zhao State, Huai State would take advantage of the situation to attack Qin in three directions.Relying on the current strength of Huai State, it is completely possible to attack Zhao State and Qin State at the same time. It is only to reduce losses that it will attack Zhao State first.

When Huai State annexes Zhao State, Qin State will be completely separated from Yan State and Qi State. By then, these three countries will be meat on the chopping block and will no longer have the power to resist.

The army of Huai State attacked Zhao State. Handan of Zhao State was very close to Wei State. It had been surrounded by Wei soldiers several times before. Now it was replaced by the stronger Huai State, and Zhao State could not resist it at all.

Therefore, after Huai State annexed Wei State, Zhao State had to move its capital to Jinyang.As the earliest capital of Zhao State, Jinyang City is easier to defend and harder to attack.

Huai State's 40-strong army attacked Zhao State, and Zhao State fell into panic.King Zhao sent envoys to Qin and Yan for help.Qin originally wanted to send troops, but the Wei army was watching from the side, and Qin did not dare to support. In the end, only Yan sent an army to rescue Zhao.Because of the defeat in the Battle of Changping, Zhao suffered heavy losses and has not recovered to this day.The entire Zhao State tried its best but could only manage an army of 30.Among them are at least [-] old and weak, who are no match for Huai State.

After the Battle of Changping, Lian Po was forced to flee to the State of Qi due to a rift, so King Zhao ordered Zhao Kuo to lead the army to fight. However, Zhao Kuo had only been leading the army for two years, and the Zhao army was not as good as the Huai army. How could he be the Huai State? opponent.

Xu Chao put on an upright fighting posture, using his force to overwhelm others and not giving Zhao Kuo any chance at all.Zhao Kuo, who used to look down on the Kanyu map, had no good way to deal with this kind of play.

Those so-called clever strategies were of no use under the crushing force of the Huaiguo army.

Zhao Kuo built a defensive line with Handan as the center and held large and small cities to defend it.The Huai State army left part of the army to confront the Zhao army in Handan City. The remaining armies attacked from all directions and cut off all the passages between these cities. In the end, these cities all became isolated islands one after another.

Next, the Huai State's catapults, columbines and other siege equipment were prepared. Soon, under the massive attack of the Huai Army, the cities around Handan were captured one after another. Then the army gathered together and surrounded Handan in the middle. .

Although Zhao Kuo worked on various strategies all night long, Huai State did not give him a chance to grow and display his skills. In addition, Zhao Kuo's soldiers no longer trusted Zhao Kuo due to the consecutive defeats.Handan City is high and deep, heavily fortified, and defended by an army of 20 people, making it difficult to break through.

So Xu Chao directly left his army to surround Handan, and then mobilized half of the army to continue the attack north.

The State of Zhao handed over most of its troops to Zhao Kuo. There were not many troops elsewhere, only 20 reinforcements from the State of Yan.However, after the Yan State fought with the Huai State, they were severely defeated by the Huai State in the first battle and did not dare to fight again. In addition, because the King of Yan wanted to preserve his strength, he withdrew his troops directly.

This caused the Huai State army to enter an uninhabited territory, and Zhao State could not resist it at all.So the Zhao nobles changed their strategy and chose to fortify the wall and clear the country. They could not stand out and wanted to rely on the city wall to resist the Huai army.

For a time, Xu Chao, who had been victorious, was actually slowed down by Zhao Guo's tactics.

Zhao wanted to continue to delay time until winter. They felt that most of the Huai soldiers were from the south and could not tolerate the cold. When it snowed in winter, the Huai army could not stand the bitter cold in the north and had to retreat. By then Zhao The country will be safe.

Xu Chao also knew the weakness of Huai State and was naturally unwilling to delay, so he began to use the tactics commonly used by Huai State to bribe traitors.The Huai Kingdom's caravans travel all over the world, so Zhao Kingdom naturally has many Huai Kingdom's secret guards.Therefore, under the bribery of these secret guards, many people became Huai Kingdom's internal agents.

This trick has been tried and tested many times. Huai State spent some gold, silver, jewelry and some official positions, and got huge returns at a small price.Many people in Zhao State even wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to sell their goods at a good price when they saw that Zhao State was about to perish.

The final result was that the Huai State made a bloody profit, the internal forces made a small profit, and the other countries suffered a bloody loss. A large number of Zhao State's cities were either opened by traitors and dedicated to the city, or they directly opened the city and surrendered.The money official position opened the way, and Huai State quickly opened the way to attack Jinyang.

(End of this chapter)