A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 36 History is always amazingly consistent

Han country.

After the suppression by the army, the city became extremely depressed overnight.There were many casualties among the people in the city, and the monarch Hanhou did not open a warehouse to distribute food.As a result, many people who had no food had to flee.

After the nobles and nobles donated a large amount of food and grass, the army of the Han Kingdom began to set up camp and stationed at the border to prevent the Huai Kingdom from invading. They were accompanied by many nobles and nobles, as well as their private troops.

About half of the army left in the capital is used to guard the capital. In addition, many nobles left a lot of private troops to defend the mansion. After all, they also know that many people have no food to eat. Will you take the risk?

The whole Han country became very tense.

Although the country of Han was short of food, there were always some people who hoarded food and grass. After all, the price of food was cheap back then, and most of these people were nobles.

After discovering that the Huai country did not attack immediately, these nobles also had strange thoughts.Soon, some nobles began to sell grain at high prices.

After learning that there was grain for sale, a large number of people came to buy it, but it was only when they got here that they found that the price of grain had become more expensive, and it had doubled again.

But apart from these grains, they have no choice.So in order not to starve to death, these people had to use the only money in their hands to buy food.

There is not much food, it can only be eaten for a few days, and soon the food will be exhausted, these people can only go to buy again, and there are a few more stores selling food in the city.But the price of food has not been lowered at all. Everyone seems to have negotiated, and the price of food is exactly the same.

At first, the people in the city still had some money to buy, but after a few days, the money was exhausted, and they could only exchange cocoons, cloth, bronze and other items.

But at the time of exchange, goods that used to be expensive became extremely cheap.Many people were extremely dissatisfied with this exchange, but they were powerless to resist those strong private soldiers holding weapons.

In the end, these people had to sell their various materials, land, and even houses little by little in order to survive.However, in just one month, a large number of common people lost all their possessions, and the nobles in the city were full of food.

Most of these nobles are nobles who have a close relationship with Hanhou, and at the same time secretly cooperate with Shang Rong.Of course they did not betray Hanhou.The cooperation between the two parties is just to provide them with some food.

It is naturally Wang Lin's intention to let Shang Rong secretly provide food. Originally, Shang Rong was a little strange. Why did the emperor give food to these people? Isn't this just an enemy?But during this time, what he saw with his own eyes made him understand Wang Lin's intentions.

Do you think that if you give the food to these nobles, they will give the food to Hanhou or distribute it to the people at a low price?Impossible, meat eater despicable.Never overestimate the bottom line of these nobles.In fact, until now, if all the stocks in the Han country were distributed equally, it would be enough for everyone to eat for three or four months.

When there was a food shortage in Han, the first reaction of the nobles was to take away the food.Before Gongyang Jie's suggestion, the whole country of Han only used part of it, such as telling the people that this was a conspiracy of the Huai thief, who wanted to make the people hate Huai country.

At the beginning, this kind of practice really made the people in the city hate the Huai country. If the Huai country aggressively attacked at this time, even if it conquered the Han country, it would have to pay a high price, and the people in this city would also hate the Huai country, which would be detrimental to future rule. .

But after the nobles in the city sold grain at high prices, the situation slowly changed.The common people found that it was not that there was no food in the city, but that the food was in the hands of the nobles.The nobles only used some grain to successfully plunder the wealth accumulated by the common people for decades.Many people even had to sell their sons and daughters.

The common people feel that they have been fooled by the nobles, and their hearts are full of hatred for the nobles.

Gongyang Jie stood on the pavilion and looked at the palace city in the distance. Not long ago, he went to the palace again to ask Hanhou to kill the nobles of Qi, Peng, and Yue who sold grain to vent their anger. People's grievances, confiscation of their property and food.Return the things of the people to the people and sell the grain at a low price.

Unfortunately, his suggestion was directly rejected.These nobles were either Hanhou's cronies, or were related to Hanhou by marriage, and their relationship was far closer than that of Gongyang Jie.On the contrary, his advice provoked hostility and attacks from several other noble families.

It's a bad feeling to know that the situation will be irreversible if it continues, but you are powerless.

"A group of insects, you can't conspire with them! Hanhou, even a miser, will die for it!" Thinking of this, Gongyang Xie slapped the railing in front of him hard.

"Patriarch, it's time to eat!" A retainer stepped forward and whispered.

"Understood!" Gong Yang returned to the room.

His wife and son are already waiting for him. Gongyang Xie looked at his wife and son, and then said: "Hanhou is stingy with property and refuses to help the people and distribute food. The officials are short-sighted and take the opportunity to amass money. There are powerful enemies looking around." With such internal and external troubles, destruction is not far away."

"From today onwards, thank guests behind closed doors, and don't go out, so as not to encounter unforeseen disasters!"

The wife and son responded one after another.

The army of Huai State stayed at the border all the time, just monitoring Han State's barracks every day, and had no plans to send troops. Wei Ping did not attack Han State.Han country is short of food, as long as it is used up here, Han country will soon be unable to sustain it.

In the big camp, three thousand Huai country elites are practicing formation. These three thousand big men look tall and burly, with serious faces, looking majestic and majestic. You can tell that it is the elite of the elite.

Huai State is located in the land of Huaisi, with many rivers, and chariots are not used, so the proportion of chariots in Huai State is not high, but the soldiers are extremely elite.

In addition to these 3000 elites, there were also 3000 soldiers who went out together. Although these soldiers were not as good as the [-] elites, they were also well-trained veterans.In terms of combat power alone, it would not take [-] troops to destroy the Han Kingdom, half of the troops would be more than enough.

This time the army went out to prepare for the first battle to destroy the country of Han.

Wei Ping looked at the map in front of him, he already had several plans in his mind to destroy Han Kingdom, and when the time was right, he would send troops to destroy Han Kingdom immediately.And soon the opportunity came.

Because of the blind operations of Hanhou and those nobles, the people of Han Kingdom soon couldn't bear it, and began to flee.These people helped the old and the young to escape from the country of Han and went to the country of Huai.

Wei Ping did not stop these people, but let them receive them, prepared food for them, and registered them.Seeing how the Huai people treated them, these people immediately supported the Huai country and told them what happened in the capital of the Han country.

Knowing the operation of Hanhou and those nobles, Wei Ping almost laughed out loud, God helped me, and immediately asked these Han people to tell the Han army who was confronting them what happened in the capital.

In the second year of Wang's reign, Huai lured Han with profit, buying hemp and cocoons at high prices and selling grain at low prices.In five years, there were not one out of ten grain growers in Han.The Huai River ran out of food, and the country of Han ran out of food, starving and dying everywhere.Gongyang Jie persuaded the Marquis of Han to divide the food, saying that the enemy with the same hatred, the one who wants the same will win, and the Marquis of Han refused.Gongyang Xie sighed and said: "This miser, the country of Han will surely perish." —— "Bamboo Book Chronicles·Huai Country"

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