One Thousand One Hundred and Five: These 9 States and 4 Seas, I Want 0 Out of 0 (4)

"I really found that Zixiao never seemed to be worried about Beiyuan—"

Feng Zhen squinted his eyes, and rubbed the ear of the iron-eating beast with his broad palm, as if asking casually.

"In other words, Zixiao is determined to be unable to draw Beiyuan Yi's hand, is this also the result of your stargazing day and night?"

Only then did Wei Ci look up from the pile of letters, but he never put down the brush in his hand.

Feng Zhen stared at his face closely, as if unwilling to let go of any strangeness.

Wei Ci said calmly, "The Master said, the heavenly secrets must not be revealed."

Fengzhen: "..."

If Confucius was alive, wouldn't Wei Ci piss him off?

"When did you say that? The Taoists only talk about the secrets of heaven—"

Feng Zhen wished he could throw the iron-eating beast in his arms to Wei Ci's face, this man really became more and more irritating.

As everyone knows, Wei Ci can't reveal it at all, and can only vaguely describe it.

"Beiyuan is a very interesting country."

Feng Zhen looked bewildered.

interesting?

Where's the fun?

As everyone knows, Wei Ci's evaluation of Beiyuan hits the nail on the head, this country is really amazing.

Beiyuan's destruction of the country was not caused by the lord or other princes, they killed themselves.

In his previous life, Wei Ci lived in seclusion in Bianzhou, Zhongzhao, but he was in Taoyuan, and his heart was in the secular world, and he couldn't let go of the general trend of the world.

The five kingdoms in the world, Dongqing, Nansheng, and Zhongzhao, these three kingdoms are fighting in full swing, and the princes from all walks of life will sing and I will appear on the stage.

After His Majesty unified the three giants, she took care of Beiyuan and Xichang.

It took more than ten years to unify the Three Kingdoms, but it took less than a year to clean up Beiyuan and Xichang.

It's not that His Majesty is too strong, it's just that the internal situation of the two countries is too weird.

Let’s talk about Xichang first. Xichang has the weakest military strength and the smallest land area among the five countries.

The troubled times came, and the five kingdoms collapsed.

Xichang, who was at the bottom of the Five Kingdoms, has become the country with the most princes in its territory and the country with the worst war sacrifices.

According to incomplete statistics, there were no less than 300 uprisings in Xichang, and there were no fewer than 100 "princess" with names and surnames.

As for the Xichang royal family?

So poor that the emperor had to farm the fields, the queen plowed and weaved to earn pocket money, and the former concubines were sold into the fireworks and willow alley to earn money.

The most powerful princes in the territory only ruled half the state, and the smallest princes only had one village.

That's right -

A village!

With hundreds of civilian husbands in hand, he dares to call himself a vassal!

Xichang died due to the dispersal of forces and discord among the people. His majesty's iron cavalry rampaged and took the whole territory of Xichang in April.

Crunchy as paper—

These words came from Fu Wang, the coach of the conquest of Xichang.

What is the funniest thing?

After Xichang destroyed the country, Fu Wang captured the members of the royal family in Xichang, and the emperor offered his three sons to His Majesty as male favourites.

[The three sons of the guilty minister, although they are not very old, are well-educated and reasonable. The appearance and temperament can't be compared with the noble sons of the aristocratic family, but the ancestors of the sinners were once the line of the Daxia royal family, and their blood is noble. The three of them fell behind in their family fortune, and they were once famous in the imperial capital——]

Humph--

In front of all the court officials, this subjugated king behaved servilely and uttered obscenities, which made Wei Ci so angry that he couldn't swallow his food for several days.

Your Majesty's dragon body is precious, how dare such a villain think about it?

The violent General Dianyin couldn't take it anymore, he kicked the man's shoulder dislocated and fractured.

If it wasn't for Fu Wang, Li Yun and others to stop Dian Yin from killing people in court, this guy would have gone to see the King of Hades long ago.

In the end, His Majesty also fined Dian Yin half a month's salary with a smile, and then rewarded a box of gold, silver and jewelry.

Originally, I wanted the bereaved family of the Xichang royal family to be wealthy ordinary people, but after this happened, everything was cleaned up.

Beiyuan's national strength is stronger than Xichang's, but the time for His Majesty to recover Beiyuan is shorter than Xichang's.

This has to mention that Beiyuan, which is famous for "death", is really a "wonderful flower" among the five kingdoms of the world.

Before the collapse of the Five Kingdoms, the royal family of Beiyuan had already declined, and several major noble families basically ruled in turn, constantly fighting each other for power.

After the collapse, the struggle for power changed more frequently.

between one year,

There were no less than 20 coup d'etats alone, and the shortest one lasted only half a day.

The Yi clan had the last laugh, annihilated the royal family, and became emperor in a dragon robe.

Almost every direct descendant of the Yi family has been crowned a prince, and the salary is the highest.

However, this situation did not last long, and Beiyuan soon became chaotic.

As Fengzhen mentioned before, Beiyuan is located in the north, and only a few months of the year are warm, and the other days are very cold.

The harsh environment makes it difficult for crops to survive.

The land produces little food. In order to stabilize the national conditions, Beiyuan's agricultural tax is naturally the lowest among the five countries, and the government only collects 20% of it!

In this era, the agricultural tax is already very low, but the people are still hovering at the food and clothing line.

Turning back to the Yi family, the emperor ascended the throne and granted dozens of princes and dukes, and the salary expenditure was extremely terrifying.

The treasury couldn't support it, so the phenomenon of salary arrears began to appear, and the princes and dukes made trouble!

In order to appease everyone, they had to increase the agricultural tax and set up redundant tax collection items, so as to increase the revenue of the treasury and distribute the king's salary.

When the tax was the heaviest, the government even collected 90% of the agricultural tax, and the remaining 10% of the grain tax was exploited layer by layer.

In the territory of Beiyuan, countless people died of freezing and starvation.

Hearing that His Majesty's iron hooves were about to enter the country, the people from all over the place started their actions spontaneously, opening and closing the gates, opening the city gates, and the soldiers defending the frontier fortresses ran away without a trace. If Xichang is as brittle as paper, then Beiyuan is probably air?

Counting the time, the Yi family is now fighting for power with several other gentry clans.

The change of regime is like the change of the sun and the moon, and the coup d'etat is as frequent as a joke.

The Yi family coveted the Cangzhou racecourse, but if they kicked the iron plate, they would not really send heavy troops to suppress the situation.

Wei Ci knew this, but he didn't dare to gamble.

After all, Beiyuan's national strength is still strong now, and it has not been made as fragile as air by the Yi family.

Wei Ci was not at all surprised when he heard that Beiyuan Yi's envoy was summoned back after arriving at Yumen Pass.

Wei Ci's calmness aroused Feng Zhen's attention, so he had the temptation just now.

As everyone knows, Wei Ci is an old cucumber with green paint.

How can an old driver who has been driving with a license for decades be tricked by him?

"My lord revealed in private that she plans to do something to Xu Pei next. Zixiao, don't you think this is too aggressive?"

"Where did you get in?"

Feng Zhen said while stroking the cat, "Xu Pei has some kindness for the lord, if he doesn't handle it well, he might be criticized."

If Jiang Pengji really accepted Xu Fei's request for help and used this reason to confront Xu Fei's two armies, she would definitely be criticized, right?

In the Huangshui League, Xu Pei had supported Jiang Pengji, and this bond was much deeper than Xu Fei's.

There was a smile in Wei Ci's eyes, "If Xu Pei can't hold back first, then we can't blame the lord for not remembering the old love."

Feng Zhen's expression froze.

How did he forget?

What is your protagonist best at?

Make trouble!

Even if the teacher came from Wuming, she still has the ability to make "nameless" become "famous".