sweeping the world

Chapter 498
The palace complex in Xiangguo covers a total area of ​​more than 20 mu, including many main halls, side halls, chapter towers, buildings in the city, and several forest gardens in the suburbs.

The palace building is extremely magnificent, inlaid with gold and silver everywhere and covered with precious wood, and there must be all kinds of flowery carvings, but it looks like a nouveau riche, lacking a kind of elegance and artistic conception.

If Liu Yan hadn't prevented Ran Min from burning down the palace, it would have burned three-tenths of Xiangguo, and even turned the outskirts of the forest into a piece of white land.

【Ran Min wants to burn the palace, it must be to enrich himself. 】Liu Yan’s thought was full of malice, but it was absolutely true: 【When Xiang Yu set fire to Afang Palace, Xichu’s army robbed a lot of it, and the fire was just to cover up the fact of looting... …]

A city in the great Xiangguo now has less than a hundred residents. The main reason is that Xiangguo was originally the main place where Hu people lived together. Shihu ran to Bingzhou and Shuozhou and took away nearly a million people, of which about [-] people were from the original city. Residents of Xiangguo city.Those who did not leave, the Hu people escaped while waiting for the Han army to come, and the Hu people who did not escape were liquidated without any accident.There were not many Han family Miao descendants living in Xiangguo City, even if there were, they were those who took refuge in the Hu people, and they either ran away with Shihu or were liquidated later.In this way, only a small part of the original residents of Xiangguo remained.

If you stand on a high place and look at the city, you can see Xiao Suo without deliberately observing. It doesn't just mean that there are not many people, but also the ruins that can be seen everywhere.

Most of the ruins in the city of Xiangguo were caused by self-immolation. When the Han army attacked, Xiangguo had not experienced any major battles. After all, Shihu decided to run away, so it is impossible to leave the army to resist to death.

By the way, Liu Yan did not move into the palace. The Han army was stationed in Linyuan in the suburbs. As the king of a country, he lived in a tent. The palace was used to house those who were robbed just like Yecheng. woman.

When the Han army conquered Yecheng and Xiangguo, they did not get much in terms of food, but they got far more gold, silver, money, silk and other items than expected. The jade seal of Chuan Guo was accidentally discovered when counting the belongings.

When Liu Yan got the Chuan Guo Yuxi for the first time, the Chuan Guo Yuxi was not protected by anything special. It was wrapped in a piece of red cloth casually, and it looked a little dirty.

There are only two guesses about what happened to Chuan Guo Yuxi. Either Shi Hu didn't care about a lump of stone at all, or Shi Hu didn't know what it was.

The Hu people are different from the Central Plains people who received traditional education. The Hu people believe in the strength in their hands. They never think that a stone with a special meaning can play a role.

People in the Central Plains are different. When the person who counted the money presented the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, Liu Yan didn’t have any special feelings except curiosity, but all the people present at that time bowed at the head. The words may be different, but the meaning is the same. That is, Liu Yan, who got the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, is indeed a real dragon, destined to reunify the world and become the only emperor.

Later, at the request of the ministers, Liu Yan wrote a letter of seal to the little emperor of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He wanted to send envoys with great fanfare and ostentatiously, but Liu Yan insisted that he did not agree that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a country. What happened was tied to the arrow and shot casually.

The ministers of the Han Dynasty suggested that Liu Yan's actions were not purely for showing off, but to express the meaning of "fate is in the Han", and they also laughed at the ruler of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty as just a blank emperor.

What I have to say is that Han Guo's work was very effective, and Chu Suanzi tried his best to block the news that Liu Yan had obtained the Jade Seal of the Kingdom, but failed.

The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty fell into chaos after knowing that Liu Yan had the Jade Seal of Chuanguo in his hands. It had already secretly communicated the song to the Han Kingdom... Uh, those who abandoned the dark and turned to the light felt very lucky, and they still insisted on the group of people in the camp of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty It is extremely frightening.

"The puppet dynasty won't last long." Ji Chang had just read the battle report of the Huaishui battle, and said: "With the loss of [-] elites, most of the generals who were worthy of the first battle have become generals. .”

Liu Yan only had one thought after reading the battle report, that is, after history has been changed, there is still a certain inertia. For example, Xie Shi still did what Xie An would do, but the Han army is not an army like the Fu family's Qin army, and the outcome of the battle is natural It is also different.

"Xie Shi should be killed." Ji Chang said in an extremely calm tone: "Not killing is not enough to clarify the canonical punishment, not enough to warn others."

It is only natural to use everything on the battlefield, but as the deceived party, it will definitely feel annoyed. On the one hand, Ji Chang laughed at the small national credit of the Eastern Jin Dynasty for being so worthless, on the other hand, he felt that it must be curbed The enemy did something similar to Han.

Liu Yan valued Xie An very much. Xie Shi was Xie An's younger brother. He wanted to use Xie An but killed Xie Shi. What would happen to Xie An?Liu Yan felt a slight hesitation for a moment.

"Besides being their masters, Xie Shi should be a good general..." Sang Yu didn't see Liu Yan's face before he said a different opinion: "The king's ambition is not only to restore the old land, but also to conquer the outside world and open up the needs of the great man. talent."

"Maybe let Xie Shi lead the army to attack the puppet dynasty?" Lu Yi obviously saw Liu Yan's face just now, and suggested: "If Xie Shi agrees, I won't kill him, and if I don't agree, I won't kill him later."

Ji Chang looked at Liu Yan, seeing that Liu Yan didn't make any statement, he pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, please make a decision."

Liu Yan just nodded.

In fact, Liu Yan also wanted to see what Xie Shi would choose.If Xie Shi immediately turned around and attacked the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yan would feel that Xie Shi had no moral integrity at all and would be incapable of using anything he said in the future.If Xie Shi refused to attack the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yan would appreciate it, but he would probably stop looking at what Xie An would think and kill Xie Shi according to Ji Chang's opinion.It’s okay to hesitate about where you are and when to do something, but your stance must be clear.

"A group of people headed by Patriarch Huan Yun of the Huan clan have already abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, and the Yu clan is secretly preparing to raise troops. It is only a matter of time before the fall of the puppet dynasty." Sang Yu attracted everyone's attention, smiled and continued: "It's time to decide how to govern the South?"

The Huan Clan surrendered to Han through Huan Wen. If there were no accidents, after the Han Dynasty wiped out the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Wen's branch and Huan Yun's branch would merge into one family again.Huan Yun's retracement must leave a stain, and the position of head of the Huan clan will fall into Huan Wen's hands again.

No member of the Yu clan served as an official in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which means that there is no moral deficiency in the Yu clan choosing to stand on the side of the Han.They got Liu Yan's consent, and the Yu family retained their proper family business in the Han state, and then the Han state provided ships, and used the strength of a family to conquer the Linyi state on the southwestern peninsula.

There are not many aristocratic families who have jumped back with the Huan clan, and they are all families that do not see any hope for the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Jumping back is a very common stop loss behavior for the family.

"If you don't abandon the dark and turn to the bright, you will be completely wiped out. Those who don't want to register the family property and population should also pay it." Ji Chang has always been more inclined to kill the blood. Those who are involved, and those who cooperate with the registration, some precautions must be taken against, but they have to be used.”

Realistically speaking, today's era is not the era in which individuals can read and write. It is not so easy to find an official.It is impossible for a country to have no officials, and a family that monopolizes knowledge is definitely easy to get ahead. This is something that can only be improved after education has not been spread...even if education is spread, it will take several generations.It is improvement, not complete elimination.The living space of the aristocratic family is definitely not enough. It is clear from the Song Dynasty as an example, and even the Tian Dynasty also has a special group?
The Han State now has Qingzhou, Jizhou, Sizhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou and several other areas that occupy part of the territory. If you do statistics on the officials who govern the local areas, you will find that most of the officials at the county level are from aristocratic families, and the officials at the county level are mostly from aristocratic families. It comes from Hao Qiang.This is related to a very pale (no typo) fact. How much knowledge you have will have how much ability you have. Therefore, there is a real difference between the talents who govern a county and the talents who govern a county. Great talents can be used in small ways, and small talents can be used in small ways. But talent can't be used to great effect, otherwise the place will be corrupted.

A new country will definitely have a new group of vested interests. Liu Yan is the biggest vested interest. The core class such as Ji Chang, Sang Yu, Cai You, Xu Zheng, Ran Min and so on are the second echelon. Some of those who belonged to Liu Yan in the early stage but did not enter the core class became the third echelon, and so on formed a pyramid level for governing the country.

The difference between Liu Yan and the native "ancients" is that he tried his best to give more people to enjoy the benefits after the environmental change, including rescuing (liberating) a group of people from suffering and giving them the opportunity to live and live. environment.

People who don't want to make progress but only want to be safe, they just live in peace.

People with enterprising intentions join the army and use their own efforts, sweat, and blood to obtain a better living environment.

What Liu Yan can't change is that the group of people with a higher starting point than the common people will definitely enjoy more benefits, all because he needs someone to govern the country.

Halfway through the conversation, the guards outside the tent announced that Xun Xian opened the curtain and walked in.He held a box in both hands, which looked like a military intelligence report sent by Kuaiqi.

Liu Yan circulated it to all the ministers when he saw it. The military report was not from the south, but was sent by Ran Min who led the army into Bingzhou.

"Shihu dispatched Yin Bi as commander, commanding 13 cavalry in the central capital." Ji Chang was frowning, and he said, "There are other signs that the Fu clan of the Di clan has returned to Shihu's command."

Only Bingzhou and Shuozhou are left in Zhao State of Shijie.And Shuozhou is a very large state, and it is connected to the north where the Fu clan was active.

Zhongdu is within the jurisdiction of Bingzhou, located in the south of Jinyang, the capital of Bingzhou. If the Han army wants to enter Jinyang, it must take this place.

"The frequency of battles between the Liang Kingdom and the Di people has decreased recently. The Han garrison in Guanzhong has discovered that the Di people have shown signs of retreating to the north." Ji Chang, the left prime minister, still has the right to take charge of military affairs. What are the fronts of the Han country? The situation is no stranger: "It is really surprising that Fu Hong is under Shi Hu's command again."

Not only Ji Chang felt that way, but everyone including Liu Yan was surprised by the news. After all, last time Fu Hong violated Shi Hu and led his army to flee to Longxi without permission. He was surprised by Fu Hong's return to refuge, and also surprised by Shi Hu. He would accept it.

"The Fu family of the Di family returned to Shihu's command, and Shijie stationed heavy troops in the central capital..." Sang Yu first thought that Shihu would fight back from two directions, but after thinking about it, he felt that there was a conflict: "Shihu is If we want to re-operate the grassland, wouldn't the counterattack conflict with the previous strategy?"

The Northern Expedition Corps led by Ran Min has been fighting with the Shijie Zhao Army. The recent battle scene is not large. The two sides use cavalry to strangle.

The Northern Expedition Corps once swelled to nearly 50, and it was because of this that Liu Yan left Linzi to come to Xiangguo.Regardless of whether Liu Yan trusts Ran Min or not, it is extremely unreasonable for a minister to command too large a force. Besides, Ran Min seems to have a weak root and never stops recruiting troops. It is simply because Liu Yan's order is finally received. Ran Min accepted the reorganization without hesitation.

At the peak of the national military strength of the Han Dynasty, it reached more than 140 million. It was the original 12 field corps, which received more than 20 slave soldiers brought by Ran Min and [-] slave soldiers transformed from prisoners of war. They were divided into three groups. More than [-] new troops were recruited in batches.

Liu Yan withdrew most of the new army, and only selected elite supplementary field corps. The number of field corps in preparation was 20.After deciding to go north, Liu Yan formed a new Northern Expedition Corps. At the beginning, Ran Min only had 12 troops in his hands. After getting permission, Ran Min repeatedly recruited soldiers from various places, and the result became out of control.

"Liaodong..." Ji Chang was very sensitive. While thinking, he stood up and went to the place where the documents were kept to rummage through them. He quickly found the documents he wanted: "The last military report in Liaodong is Murong Xianbei with Murong Jun as the main general... "

After being reminded by Ji Chang, everyone not only looked for documents about Murong Yan's country, but also looked for documents from Jizhou. After reading through them together, they came to the conclusion that there was an interaction between Shi Hu's abnormal behavior and Murong Yan's country. The two Hus It is really possible that the human country is going to counterattack the Han country.

"The big man sent his army to the south, and it will reach Shijie and Murong Xianbei in time." Sang Yu was smiling, and he was smiling happily: "It's good to counterattack, it's really good."

Shihu retreated again and again, and it was difficult for the Han Dynasty to capture and eliminate its vital forces. It has been worrying that Shi Jiezhen retreated to the depths of the grassland, and there would be another century-old battle similar to the Han-Hungary battle.

Murong Yan has been using troops in Liaodong for a long time, and Han's territory in Liaodong is not under much pressure, but the pressure on the Goguryeo front appears to be great.

Liu Yan nodded and said, "That's very good." What he was thinking was that Shijie might have made a wrong judgment because of the Northern Expedition Corps' rest behavior?
(End of this chapter)