In the civil strife in the old year of Jie Kingdom, although Shi Hu finally won the victory, took over Xiangguo, and changed the year name to Xingguo to show that he would work hard to govern and revive the country, Jie Kingdom was still in a difficult situation. This can be seen from the current situation of the capital of Jie Kingdom.

When the first lord Shi Le was alive in his early years, the Jie Kingdom was the most powerful and was the well-deserved overlord of Hebei. As the capital of Jie Kingdom, Xiang Kingdom was also a treasure of the world. With manpower, Xiang Kingdom and its surrounding areas were also very prosperous.

It is also because of the arrangement of Shi Le, the strong and weak branches, which were used to supplement the center, that his son Shi Daya and Cheng Xia and others could last for several years almost alone with Xiangguo's own strength.

This years of seclusion in the lonely city can also be said to have consumed some of the vitality accumulated in the old year of Xiangguo. The fierce civil war has always had to be conquered externally.

First of all, there are the suburbs of Xiangguo, either the solid walls and clear fields, or the burned, killed and looted by foreign troops. Nine out of ten rooms are empty and a ruin. Looking around, the areas in the past year, the gardens and villas with superior locations and grand buildings are now only broken walls and weeds, which are no different from the wilderness areas that are rarely visited.

Even if Jie Kingdom now has measures such as reclamation and repair, it has achieved little effect. Even if a group of hikers are recruited to settle here and provide them with grain and agricultural tools, as long as the supervision is not effective, these people are likely to scatter. Even if they cannot escape, they will be very passive and lazy.

A war that happened in the old year around Xiangguo was too tragic. If you dig it up casually, you will be exposed under the turf, which makes you shudder.

Second, the atmosphere of Xiangguo, which Shi Hu entered the ruler, was very different from the period of the former lord Shi Le. Although Shi Le was born as a barbarian, there were also some benevolent governance and favorable policies that encouraged farmers and mulberry trees.

However, after Shi Hu took over Xiangguo, he had no such measures at all, especially the personal safety of the people. Even if he worked diligently and for half a year, when the harvest was about to come, he would have no idea where the murderer would jump out and kidnap all the harvest.

The farmers looked at the messy fields all over the ground and had no time to hurt themselves, so they had to face the questioning of officials who supervised the farming and mulberry. They could not hand over the full harvest, and they were ordinary torture and kill at every turn, and there was nowhere to complain!

If the capital of the country has not resumed production quickly and cannot replenish supplies nearby, it will be difficult to accommodate large-scale population aggregation. If the population cannot be gathered, it will not be able to organize a large-scale labor force to be driven. Many repairs and construction can only stay in the plan and cannot be implemented at all.

So although the civil strife has ended for several years, there are still remains inside and outside the Xiangguo city, which makes the Xiangguo city look like rotten lacquerware, extremely ugly.

Shi Hu is impatient and violent. If such a person has to take advantage of the momentum, he will naturally be very powerful and can lead the way in everything. But if the power is gone, he does not have the patience and ability to clean up the mess and has no talent to rise or fall, he simply cannot see it and leads a large army to wander around all year round, and he will have very little time to stay in Xiangguo.

Of course, Shi Hu did this because the civil strife that year had almost lost control of the border areas. Even if he wanted to stay in Xiangguo, the sides would not honestly donate money to support the king and his army. Only through the threatening and coercion method of large army marching can he obtain resources that could barely maintain his military service.

In the chaotic times, it is true that those with strong soldiers and strong horses are kings, but if they have no business structure, they will be like the current Jie Kingdom, with flocks all over the ground, and soldiers chase food, and there will be no thought of any internal and external cultivation, and the country will be forever solid.

It is a ruined place where civil strife has been in chaos for a long time. Now even the king of the country has wandered around for many years. Xiangguo's decadence is simply irreversible. Shi Sui, the prince of Jie Kingdom who is particularly responsible for staying in Xiangguo, is even more indulging in pleasure and cruelty. He completely ignores the current destruction of Xiangguo and has no effort to restore the situation.

Of course, it is not fair to say this. Shi Sui, a man who stayed in Xiangguo for many years, was not completely idle. He was fond of eating river food, so he ordered people to expand the Lishui Palace, built by Shi Le, the former master, when he was alive in the old year, digging canals to divert water, so that the southeast of Xiangguo city was flooded with water. The residents were relocated from this place because they were destroyed, which was also considered to have made certain contributions to the transformation of the city structure of Xiangguo.

In addition to the prince of the country, Shi Sui also served as the Great Chanyu in charge of foreign affairs. Every month, he would convene banquets at the Chanyutai in Jiande Palace. Those Hu chiefs were rebellious and vulgar, and even Shi Hu, who claimed to be intimate with Hu, could not stand it. He frequently went to Jiande Palace and was drunk occasionally, so he would inevitably leave some dirty things between the palaces.

Previously, Shi Hu made a special trip to the capital, so he called Shi Sui to the hall and scolded him, even facing each other, so the relationship between father and son became even worse.

Although Shi Sui was resentful, he did not dare to disobey his father who was increasingly disliked by him. So he asked someone to rebuild Taiyuan in the north of Xiangguo City, preparing to use this as a replacement.

But the manpower and materials that the prince of the regent can use is really limited. Even if he asks for money from the Hu chiefs who always come to every banquet, those Hu chiefs who have just been beaten by the king of heaven, they really dare not continue to be intimate with the prince, and they all refused, so that the new Shanyu Taiwan was not completed for a long time.

This further aroused Shi Sui's rebellious mentality. He regarded this platform as a symbol of fighting with his father, and gritted his teeth and must build it. He personally visited the prince to supervise the work, and even used the servants and servants under the prince's mansion. He even stole the private dowry of his mother's queen Zheng's family while visiting the palace. The project was maintained without any simplicity and did not completely stop work.

When an urgent report came from outside the city, Shi Sui was still supervising the worker at the construction site in the north of the city. He had just whipped and killed two supervising officials because of the slow progress of the project. Before his anger disappeared, he suddenly heard that the Jin army had invaded the territory and the enemy had already appeared not far from Xiangguo.

After hearing this, he sneered, kicked the messenger over, and angrily rebuked: "Where is the rumor that the slaughter slaves get? The lord is now scrambling troops to fight south, and the southern thieves are too busy to defend themselves and have the courage to go north to invade the territory? Even if there is any intrusion, can they enter the heart of the capital? Who spreads this rumor to confuse the public?"

Even if Shi Sui was disliked by the Lord, his identity was there. Even if the matter was major, it would be difficult for the outside envoy to go straight to see him. Because he followed the messenger, there were several important officials of Jie State who were also left behind in the capital. At this time, seeing that Shi Sui was not allowed to the messenger to explain in detail, he was so angry that one of them stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, please be careful not to be impatient. This letter was not circulated in the countryside, but the messenger from the plains came to report..."

His name is Wang Lang, and he serves as the general of the leading army of Jie Kingdom. He is very trusted by the Heavenly King Shi Hu. He is also the most powerful military general in Xiangguo City with the highest official position and authority besides Prince Shi Sui.

Shi Sui was arrogant and had a lot of resistance to his father's advice, so he did not take Wang Lang seriously. However, when he heard what Wang Lang said, his face first showed a look of boredom and hatred, and then there was a hint of self-bearing shock. His eyes passed over Wang Lang and fell directly on the person behind him, frowned and said, "Is this guy true?"

He was directly ignored by Shi Sui, and he didn't know whether he was the messenger crawling on the ground or himself. Wang Lang also felt a little angry in his heart, but he also knew that Shi Sui was too cruel and arrogant. If there was a direct conflict, he would be the only one who was unlucky.

Shi Sui asked the man that he was named Li Yan, who was appointed as the prince's son, and was an important subordinate of the prince's mansion, and naturally Shi Sui's confidant. He stepped forward and replied: "What the leader said is the messenger. However, the county did not report urgently, but Pingyuan Gong only stated it. Pingyuan Gong also said that the thief was fierce and could not resist, because he was leading the army back to the country's center..."

When Shi Sui heard this, his hair on the back of his neck immediately stood up. It was not because of the so-called enemy, but because of his confidant Shi Xuanzheng's troops were leading his troops back to China, which made his heart suddenly tense.

In the past few years, Shi Sui seemed domineering and arrogant, and even obeyed the lessons of the Lord, but it did not mean that he was afraid of nothing. He dared to resist the majesty of the king and the father because the father and son had been colliding all the time over the years, and gradually made him understand the bottom line of the Lord. Before no brother who could succeed him grew up and stayed in the inner world, he was still as a prince, otherwise the Lord would find it difficult to spend his energy to patrol the border.

So in Shi Sui's heart, there was actually a line that was tight, not whether the master was good or bad about him, but how his legitimate and illegitimate brothers were in their respective situations. Among them, Shi Xuan, who was born by Du's slut, brought the greatest pressure to him.

Shi Xuan was second only to him, and after he was appointed as the crown prince and stayed in Xiangguo for many years, his influence in the army declined. Instead, Shi Xuan was stationed in the southern Hebei Plain and gradually gained strength in the confrontation with the southerners.

Although Shi Xuan and Shi Tao brothers fought against each other in the same family, Shi Sui was very happy, but the arrangements of the master later made Shi Sui feel even more terrible. Shi Tao's little hairy child was actually appointed as a senior official of the Grand Marshal by the master, and all the troops of Long Xiang, who were not many and extremely powerful in Xiangguo City, were under Shi Tao's rule!

This is also one of the reasons why Shi Sui knew that the Lord did not like it, but still wanted to build the Shanyutai to maintain contact with those Hu Keyi. He had to be careful of Shi Xuan, who was in the distance and the army, and Shi Tao, who was forced to be inserted into Xiangguo by the Lord. Perhaps in the mind of the Lord, he could replace himself, so he chose one of the two sons.

After making friends with those Hu Chiefs, Shi Sui was planning to find the opportunity to attack and strangle Shi Tao, the threat standing beside him. Later, Shi Tao and Longxiang's army were transferred away, which also made Shi Sui breathe a sigh of relief. At present, he really had no confidence in attacking Shi Tao under the guard of the elite soldiers of the Taiwei Mansion. He also knew that Shi Xuan and the two brothers of Shi Tao could not be eliminated, so he was happy to watch their brothers continue to bite dogs in southern Hebei.

But he had not seen the brother's rebellion scene, but suddenly heard that Shi Xuan was leading his army to return to China. He naturally did not believe the bullshit of the enemy's invasion. His first reaction was that Shi Xuan, a bastard, must return to China to deal with him!
Chapter completed!