China The emperor Murong Jun dreamed that Shi Hu bit his arm, and when he got up, he asked him to dig his grave.
However, what no one expected was that the tomb was already empty.
Not only that, it was a mess inside, as if it had been dug through many times.
Think about it, Shi Hu has been dead for ten years, and the world has been in chaos for seven or eight years, but the most chaotic thing is Hebei. The core point of Hebei's killings everywhere is Yecheng. The whole city has been emptied, and all living people are gone. It is normal for a dead person to be dug up by anyone.
However, now the new owner Yecheng wants this dead man.
That's easy.
Yecheng Everything is lacking here, except for the traditional court-market sycophants that have gradually formed in the past, and they are the sycophants that have adapted to the Hu people monarch. This type of court and market sycophants originated from Hebei the developed economy and dense population. The sensual service industry was famous as early as the Han Dynasty. It was combined with the luxurious style of the Western Jin Dynasty. It was thoroughly tempered and took shape. It continued to participate in the court struggle of the Hebei regime under the Northern and Southern Dynasties pattern in the original history, so that it finally got a special historical name.
Let's not talk about this, just talk about it now. No one needs to say anything. Those Yecheng Three Terraces who fled to other places during the war and returned to Former Zhao at this time have made arrangements for the emperor.
The emperor had just put up a hundred gold reward when a concubine from the former Shi Hu palace whose name matched Shi Hu stood up and informed her of the location of the body.
Everyone looked over there and found a mummy with the characteristics of Hu people that had been embalmed. It was either Shi Hu or Shi Hu... Everyone was happy, even the living emperor China Murong Jun also grabbed a whip and whipped the mummy himself, and kicked him several times, which was like spitting out the bad breath.
Then people throw it into the Zhang River and let the fish and shrimps bite it.
It turned out that the antiseptic technology of the corpse was not bad. After it was thrown down, it followed the water flow and got stuck on the pillars of the newly built bridge built to repair Bronze Sparrow Terrace, attracting people all over the city to look at "Dead Dog Hu".
Seeing that the emperor had lost his temper, in early March, Grand Marshal Murong Ke decided to see the emperor again, have a good talk with the emperor, and discuss the matter of 1.5 million. If he did not change it, just this order hanging in the court was enough to make people's hearts continue to shake and lose control.
"It must be taken back."
"I won't accept it..."
"If Your Majesty does not take back the decree, I will issue a military order as Grand Marshal, so that the states and counties will not be able to requisition, and the troops will not be able to receive it. Anyone who violates the order will be dealt with according to the military law."
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"What's the point? At worst, the world will see us Great Yan as a joke, and the Han heroes will whisper to us behind our backs, saying that we Hu people don't have Mandate of Heaven, etc. Jin people Northern Expedition rebelled and responded; let the Beyond the Passes tribe be ready to rob us as a test; let Tuoba Xianbei and Zhang Ping Let's raise a toast to celebrate, prepare to establish the system and proclaim ourselves emperor, and seize Hebei; let the southern Han heroes become more confident and vow to seize Yecheng... But it is better than directly destroying the country."
"Grand Marshal, you personally promised in the Jixian palace that day that I will be in charge of the conquest of Three Jin and Guanzhong. You only make the Army Advisor plan. I have already let the fifth child off. Do you, the fourth child, say you are farting?"
"Forget it, as I said, it is better than losing the country."
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"Yisheng Where is that guy?"
"I asked him to go back."
"He has been defeated repeatedly. As Grand Marshal, can't you deal with him fairly?"
"Your Majesty can handle it at any time. I only asked him to go back as a guide. At the beginning of the month, I asked Fu Yan to go over with 20,000 soldiers to stabilize the situation. Otherwise, Yan Province's people will be unstable and he will overwrite your recruitment order and cause a big mess... But it is strange to say that Yan Province has been extremely stable in the past two years. None of the few Later Zhao left behind rebelled. On the contrary, it was Hebei who rebelled one by one."
"Isn't it a good thing not to rebel? Well, you are Grand Marshal, and Three Jin and Guanzhong are not involved in this matter. You can deal with it how you want... Yisheng is the same, how are you going to deal with him?"
"In fact, Liu Cheng fought well in this battle, and Yisheng also saved Sun Xing... But as you said, he has been defeated repeatedly, so we have to deal with it. How about letting him wait until the matter is over and come back to guard the city gate?"
"Governor of Yan Province Who will do it?"
"How about Sun Xing? He is loyal and knows the local situation. He knows how to appease Yan Province and those Military Commander, so that he can rely on Jibei and Dongping to pull up thousands of people to support the situation."
"..."
"How?"
"Very good... Did I give his family any rewards after last time?"
"You asked me?"
"Ah, that means there is no reward. After this appointment, can you reward me privately..."
"You don't want to go yourself?"
"I'm afraid he'll scold me again."
"Don't you know everything?" Murong Ke felt like fire was coming out of his head.
Murong Jun kept silent.
"You can't send 1.5 million." Murong Ke suppressed his anger and reminded almost through gritted teeth.
"This kind of big expedition order cannot be dismissed easily, otherwise the leaders..." Murong Jun spoke much calmer this time, and seemed to have regained his former sobriety and shrewdness.
"No one of those leaders would dare to do anything because of this. The situation is different now from Beyond the Passes. At Beyond the Passes, if the leader removed the military order, the leaders below would think he was incompetent and courageous, they would think he was weak, and they would rebel; now you are the emperor of China, holding Hebei In this blessed land, no one dares to rebel. On the contrary, the Han people here are different from Beyond the Passes. If you really send 1.5 million people, it will really fall apart, and you will have no choice but to escape back to Longcheng." Murong Ke told the other party seriously, because he knew that this was the last time he would be patient.
"I know, but what I worry about is not only my own authority, but Crown Prince... I'm afraid I don't know when I will die... You know that I have been in poor health these years, right? Since I became emperor, my health has been getting worse day by day. If nothing else, you can tell by riding a horse. After moving to Yecheng, my health was even worse. In just one winter, I started to have toothaches inexplicably while burning the stove and living in a new house. I drooled when I slept, my hands shook, and I couldn't sleep well..."
"You're still irritable... are you?" Murong Ke interrupted the other party and asked with the last trace of sincerity. "I know your difficulty, brother, so how about we collect less? Change it to 300,000?"
Murong Jun remained silent.
"Is this okay?" Murong Ke simply stood up.
"Fifty thousand, right?" Murong Jun tried his best to answer. "It can't be less than Shi Hu, right? Shi Hu The March 5th levy will be issued, and the final payment will be 500,000 or 600,000, won't the country be subjugated? Let's learn from him, I have calculated, the 35th levy is There are 500,000, and we will bring them to Yecheng for inspection this winter, then 150,000 will serve as auxiliary troops, 350,000 will be used to transport food, and then we will use our 80,000 elite Xianbei in front to send troops to destroy Zhang Ping."
The so-called "three-five-year-old levy" means that each household will produce one daughter from two men, and three men from five men. It is Shi Hu's best trick, and it was also a certain limit in the previous troubled times.
After hearing this, Murong Ke hesitated.
"No more." Murong Jun stepped forward and held the other person's hand. "Fourth, you have to give me some dignity. I can't be weaker than Shi Hu, and Great Yan can't be inferior to Later Zhao."
"Okay, then we will issue a levy every three to five years..." Murong Ke didn't know if this number was acceptable at the moment, but it was obviously within an understandable range, so he reluctantly answered. "We have to be prepared, now What we have to do is not to have to improvise how to deploy troops and horses, how to plan routes, and bribe Zhang Ping's subordinates to test the defense of Luoyang and Hedong."
"And we can't agree now... Don't worry, I can't change whatever you say... In ten days or so, find a Hebei local to come up and give advice, and I will agree." Murong Jun continued to speak.
"Don't worry about this, this kind of advice has never stopped." Murong Ke replied with a sigh. "Even if it doesn't happen, your palace ministers can do it for you..."
"Speaking of this." Murong Jun suddenly spoke. "Why don't you want the palace I will reward you with? So many palaces? You can't miss one..."
"I'm afraid that Shi Hu will bite me in my dream." Murong Ke responded in a low voice, finally breaking free from his brother's arm and turning around. "I'm also afraid of dying early."
"What if Fu Yan loses?" Murong Jun narrowed his eyes and asked.
"Liu Yulong has already withdrawn half of his troops. He is stuck in the rear and cannot fight. I asked Fu Yan because I liked his calmness and used him to suppress the situation. He will not move unless there is a good chance..."
"What if?"
"Then don't fight Zhang Ping. Give me 100,000 soldiers and 200,000 civilians first, and I will fight Pengcheng!" Murong Ke stopped at the stairs to review.
"Isn't Liu Yulong in Shouchun? Is it Shouchun?" Murong Jun was a little confused for a moment.
"That's why I have to fight Pengcheng." Murong Ke, who just wanted to go back to sleep, didn't bother to explain and went straight downstairs. "Your Majesty, if you still dream about Shi Hu, please ask a senior monk to do a ritual!"
Murong Jun watched his brother disappear from sight and nodded just now.
------I am the disappearing dividing line------
Rebel Yan Jun wants to camp Three Jin, Guanzhong. In December, Lingzhou County School actually saw Ding, leaving one Ding in each household, and Yu Xifu was sent as a soldier. He wanted to have 1.5 million infantry, and expected to gather Luoyang in the coming year. In spring, Wuyi Liu Gui Memorial, "The people are corrupt and the troops are sent illegally, which will inevitably lead to the collapse of the country." Jun Shanzhi ordered the troops to be sent out on the 3rd and 5th to gather in Ye in the winter.
-- "Han and Jin Spring and Autumn Annals".Xi Zaochi