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After the death of the emperor, and no one knows who will continue to sit in the top spot, the Liang Dynasty was suddenly full of wind and rain.

Half a month later, Xia Houdun, Prime Minister of the Liang Dynasty, supported the ten king Li Mudeng Dabao and changed the name of the country to "Xingguo".At the same time, the whole country mourned, and the court was suspended for three days to mourn for Emperor Daxing.The folks stop music, stop banquets and drink, and delay marriages. This stop and delay lasts for half a year.

The dead emperor died, but look at the successor—the ten kings, there are still one to nine ahead, where are they going?

This is called a fight between clams and snipes, and the one who least expected wins.

Half a month ago, the grown-up kings conspired to kill the eldest brother—anyway, if there is a medicine jar left, there will be no more years to live, so why bother to occupy the latrine and not shit? After a while, he came up with an idea: the mother of the Three Kings had always been favored, and after the eldest son's mother passed away, Li Tianze helped her to become the empress.The empress rules the six palaces, and her power is extraordinary. It's too easy to find any excuse to ask the eldest son to come and say hello!

The eldest son of the emperor, who came to pay his respects, came in tremblingly. When he saw his "little mother", he knelt down tremblingly to pay his respects. Just as he knelt down, a fat and strong servant came from behind, holding a large blue and white brush jar, and looked at him. He hit the back of the head, knocked it down, a big hole was cut in the back of the head, and the blood was gurgling.The eldest son of the emperor was stunned by the pain, and tremblingly touched his head, his hands were covered with blood, without them asking for help, he passed out by himself!

and after?Later, the prince of the medicine pot was carried back by the servants in a small sedan chair. They said that the eldest son of the emperor was not careful when he walked, and he fell a lot when he went out and broke his head. Home visits for treatment.Is the benevolence exhausted?

The eldest son of the emperor is also miserable, his mother is gone, no one will protect him, marrying a concubine and having different dreams with him, always thinking of his death.The whole family is dissociated from each other, the manager thinks of trouble, and the head of the house thinks of selfishness, this time he was beaten to death by a vat, and no one cares when he brought it back!The imperial doctor sent by the queen didn't know what prescription he prescribed, he boiled a bowl of medicine and poured it down, and he died struggling that night.

Without the half-dead "stumbling block", the remaining five adult princes huddled together, fighting openly and secretly, and fighting hard.The three kings have the hardest fists. He controls the military power. There is a mother who is a queen, and an uncle who is a king. He has more foundation than those few, and his brain is also quite active. He can use conspiracy and conspiracy. This brother, who was only one step away from the throne, didn't want to turn into an armpit, so his own people stabbed him twice, kicked him off the dragon chair with a heart-warming foot, and then found a good "comb" assistant. up.

Things in the world are generally like this. What I thought I could hold in the palm of my hand is lost to someone else in a blink of an eye.

Where did the Three Kings lose?He lost because he didn't recognize people clearly, and he didn't know people clearly. He misunderstood Xiahoudun, Xiahoudun's loyalty, mistakenly thought that Xiahoudun was a person who was the same in appearance, and mistakenly thought that this person who was the same in appearance would not be a traitor. of the Great Rebellion.

You can't look at the surface of a person, you have to look at him as a continuous line. There may be countless nodes on the line, both dead knots and slip knots. Dead knots represent a sudden change in this person, from a single "good" to a sharp turn. into a single "bad"; the slipknot represents the temporary transformation of this person, from being "good" at a certain moment to slowly becoming "bad" at a certain moment.In Xia Houdun's life, there are many dead knots. If he is good to someone or something, he is as good as possible. the bad.This person was originally a small county magistrate in the frontier area of ​​the Liang Dynasty. He worked hard to get acquainted with any key person who might be beneficial to him. By chance, he got under the door of the Three Kings, several His good performance in the critical moment made him stand out, and he became the most useful person around the Three Kings.He was able to sit on the throne of the Liang Dynasty, and the three kings had put a lot of effort into it—one effort to cultivate, all the way to support, Xia Houdun Qingyun went straight up, and at the same time, his heart was also big. How could he be willing to be a obedient and obedient slave? Building a nest within a nest and cultivating the people in your nest is like a parasite on a big tree, attaching itself to the tree and eating the nutrients of the tree silently, growing slowly, getting bigger and bigger, and will eat the tree to death one day After eating and dying, he will take root on his own.There is no way to hide things like ambition. Several counselors around the three kings have already seen it, and quietly mentioned it to the three kings a few times, saying that Xia Houdun is rebellious in life and cannot be reused, especially in critical situations. Life and death , but he didn't listen, he thought that with the influence of his natal family, a Xiahou Dun was not enough to pose a big threat.Who would have thought that such a well-fed dog, who never grunts, would give him a fatal blow at such a fatal moment, killing him in one fell swoop, and then helping his 12-year-old tenth brother to the throne of the emperor ...

Brothers fight against the wall, and in the end the one who gets the cheapest is the outsider.The ten kings were only twelve years old, and they still loved to play. They didn’t want to be emperor at all. They were forced to sit in this seat by the prime minister. They were not happy at all. The group of people in the ground was buzzing and buzzing, making a noise for a long time, it was annoying to death!

After such arguing and arguing, at the end of the day, the decision was not made by the little emperor, but by Prime Minister Xiahou. He, the emperor, was just an empty air, used to block the mouths of the world.

If Prime Minister Xiahou had the talent, he would be fine if he knew how to govern the world, but he could only drill, fight, kill, and scrape. He killed all the ministers who dared to speak out, and the rest were all There are quite a few people who are used to flattering people, and they surround Prime Minister Xiahou and give them some flattery every day, which makes him feel refreshed, and feels that the Liang Dynasty cannot live without him for a day.After all, love to kill and love to fight is only a matter in the court. When it comes to love to "scratch", it will be difficult to handle.Because what he scrapes is not the ground, but the ointment of the people!

The Liang Dynasty has been fighting continuously for several years. In order to supply food and salaries for the march, the imperial court has already raised the tax. When the year is good, the people can still eat meat every ten and a half months. There are also household traffickers who sell women.The common people can bear it, endure the smell of meat for ten and a half months, endure the trafficking of children and women, and when they can't bear it, they secretly swim across the Zhou Dynasty from the Chu River, hide for a few days, and then come out to find something to do. Those who can work hard If you sell your strength, if you have no strength to sell, you still sell your children.Especially in the season when the Chu River flooded, the fields and tidal flats were washed away, and the houses were washed away. Plenty of homeless refugees with nowhere to go sneaked in and swam to those desolate little villages. Town market, where to settle down.In the Zhou Dynasty, they always turned a blind eye to this kind of refugees. Because strong labor is hard to come by, they will accept them when they come. , Plant food, and just pay the government the next year, and there will be no deliberate embarrassment.The young and strong laborers could no longer survive, so they sneaked to the Zhou Dynasty to find a living, which was not good for the Liang Dynasty. If there were fewer people, the food they received would be less, and the source of soldiers would also decrease. We can't let it go like this!But Liang Chao couldn't stop them, and the young and strong laborers still wanted to run, so they killed them, and sent soldiers to guard the front line of Chushui, and caught and killed anyone who was swimming.This method is bitter and poisonous, but it still can't stop it. Firstly, the soldiers are also human, and their hearts are full of flesh. Swimming secretly where people are guarding, no one will check them.Therefore, whenever the Chu River rose and flooded, there would be a bumper harvest in the Zhou Dynasty. The big girls and the young daughter-in-laws were sold at a low price! The boys with handles were sold at a low price!Smaller girls are also sold cheap!Buy it back to be a daughter-in-law, continue the incense, or be an apprentice, a godson, or a child bride-in-law, just give a few dollars, the buyer picks up the bargain, and the seller sells a population, and there is one less mouth to fight for food and drink. , It can be regarded as a "good deal".

That was when the dead emperor was still alive, the dead emperor was dead, the little emperor came up, and then the Prime Minister Xiahou came up, there was simply no way out.The tax was raised by three quarters at once, and the year of farming was busy, and all the grain produced was confiscated by the government. If I had nothing left, I would still live for six years!

So the common people also crossed the sea with the Eight Immortals, and each went to find a way to survive.In the early days, relatives swam to the Zhou Dynasty secretly, and people who had already established a foothold there wanted to follow them, so they secretly wrote letters to those merchants traveling from south to north, telling them about the place, and asking them to help delivered.Not to mention anything else in the letter, it just made an appointment for a sneak swim, and an appointment for a pick-up place, hoping to have a smooth family reunion.These entrusted merchants are like carrying their heads to make a living, so the asking price is naturally high, but there is one advantage, they are tight-lipped, have many methods, and have some ties to the government. Even if they are caught, they can get away with some money. Never bring down the employer.This business has prospered a few years ago, and now the momentum is getting stronger and stronger. Many well-connected people eat this bowl of rice secretly, and make a lot of money by going back and forth a few times.

The flight of population in the Liang Dynasty was a good thing for the merchants, but it was different for the court. If you can't keep people, then you will be punished severely - kill, kill, kill!The escaped Zhu family!

That is to say, whoever wants to flee, it is best to drag his family and escape all at once, otherwise, if there are some relatives left, those who stay will be stabbed!

After half a year like this, the whole Liang Dynasty was in turmoil and everyone was in danger.The courtiers and generals who couldn't see it had already connected in secret, discussing about brewing a big storm.

This is from Liang Chaonei.

In addition to the Liang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, which ruled across the Chu River from Liang, has not made any major moves.It is said that the two families are close to each other, and they have been trying to eat each other for so many years, and there are frictions on the border from time to time. At such a good time, the Zhou Dynasty shouldn't be so steadfast.

In fact, this is the case. The civil strife in the Zhou Dynasty will last for only two years. Apart from the aristocrats and the tyrants, the next step is to divide the land and persuade farmers to teach mulberry.After dividing the fields and persuading farmers and mulberry farmers, it is time to recuperate and recuperate.In order to recuperate and live with the people, the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty made a decree that a man should be a man at eighteen, receive the land at twenty, divide the man at sixty, and redeem his labor with coins if he is over fifty, that is to say, during the 30 years between twenty and fifty Perform corvee according to the law, pay taxes, and pay corvee three times a year, for ten days each time.Compared with the past, compared with the surrounding countries, this corvee and tax can be regarded as light and light.As soon as the law came out, the people worked hard to make a living, and with the good weather, the next year would be a bumper year. The granaries in all states and counties were full, and in some counties with particularly good harvests, the old granaries were full. The rice grain has to borrow a place to hold it.With a few more years of abundance like this, the Zhou Dynasty would be different—there would be food and people, and it would be much easier to talk about "looking at the world" then.Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty has made a decision, try not to provoke troubles, as long as it is not stepping on the bottom line, whatever the Liang Dynasty provokes, just ignore it.

However, with Li Tianze's temperament, he will definitely not follow the Zhou Dynasty to settle down. He has been trying to find an excuse to make a big attack justifiably. According to his way, there will be a big and tough battle between Zhou and Liang sooner or later.In the tenth year of Longyou's reign, He Jingzhen went to Weizhou to prepare for war with the Liang Dynasty.Who would have thought that things in the world are impermanent, and such a hero in a troubled world would end up in such a vague way!He was replaced by such a traitor with no talent and no morals, who made Liang Chao a mess just half a year after he came up!