Chapter 117 The Situation in the Southern Wilderness
It is said that there are 100,000 mountains in the Southern Wilderness, and the main peak of the Black Dragon Mountain Range lies between the Southern Wilderness and the Central Plains like a sleeping dragon. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
And the Black Dragon King City of Zhao State is in the middle of the Southern Wilderness; Thousands of miles to the west of Zhao is the Golden Dragon King City of Jin State; Thousands of miles to the east of Zhao is the Yanlong King City of Yan State.
One of the three major forces, Zhao Guo, was in power for the Qian, and the Hu and Han people lived together, and the Hu people were the majority; One of the three major forces, the Yan State was in power for the Xianbei people; And one of the three major forces, the Jin State, was in power for the Han Chinese.
The three major forces have a total of three royal cities, nine capital cities, twenty-seven town cities, eighty-one acropolises, two hundred and forty-three small cities, and countless villages and towns constitute the living area of human beings in the Southern Wilderness.
Five years ago, when Zhao was fighting with Jin for a city, Zhao's army was defeated, and all armies abandoned their armor and fled, but only one army led by Shi Min was not traumatized, so Shi Min's prestige was revealed.
Four years ago, Shi Hu, the lord of Zhao State, was ashamed of a snow, and appointed the five roads to attack the small city occupied by the Jin forces, and the army went all the way down to the fifteen cities, Shi Min was one of the leaders of the five roads, because of his courage and good fighting, and his courage was outstanding, and he was hereby named a guerrilla general by Shi Hu.
However, after the victory, Shi Huzhi was complacent, tyranny, the people were not happy, he was brutal but not heroic, he was like a poisonous snake, there were only three things in his mind, one was lust, the second was killing, and the third was pleasure.
Shi Min also looked resentful when he said this.
"The general is right, in recent years, Shi Hu has not only been relentless, but also severely punished and harsh, and even more brutal and unkind to us Han people, and the deeds in recent years can be described as bad deeds, and his crimes are even more innumerable!" Shi Yezhan also said with a submissive expression at this time.
Three years ago, Shi Hu built more than 40 temples and palaces in the Black Dragon King City, and more than 400,000 people participated in the work. He also wanted to build an official road from the Black Dragon King City to the capital, and then build a straight road from the capital to the town, and ordered the four towns and their subordinate related acropolis and small cities to rectify the armaments of the Western Expedition to the Jin Kingdom, and the remaining five towns and cities were prepared for the eastward expedition to the Yan Kingdom.
The army of each city numbered more than 500,000 armor soldiers and 170,000 boatmen, and one-third of them drowned and were devoured by tigers and wolves. Coupled with the competition of the palace nobles for personal gain, the people lost their family business and were distressed.
Later, Shi Hu issued an edict that "every five soldiers who were recruited should go out of a car, two oxen, fifteen hundreds, and ten silk horses, and those who were unprepared should be beheaded." "The people even pawned their children to supply military supplies, but they still couldn't get them together, and they hanged themselves on the ancient trees on the roadside.
"Are the Han people in our Zhao State already so miserable?" Xiao Yi had been trapped at the bottom of the cliff in the deep mountains, and suddenly felt that the outside world seemed to be full of deep malice, and this step out of the Black Dragon Mountain Range could be described as a step of heaven and one step of hell.
"Big brother, it's like this, because Zhao Wang Shihu issued an edict, the people can't hand over their things, so they can only flee to the Jin Kingdom, and if they can't escape, they will commit suicide. Ay! When will the bitter life of our Han people be the head, who will save us, who will save us, and drive out the Karma? And it was precisely because of the signs of King Zhao that our village had little labor left in the village, and finally ended up being wiped out of the village. The little girl Chunmei was in grief at this time, her heart was extremely painful, and her heart was twitching.
Xiao Yi was also extremely angry when he heard this, but he didn't expect the truth to be so cruel!
"And that's not all......" Shi Ye interjected again.
Two years ago, King Shihu of Zhao wanted to build a bridge on the Heishui River, and wanted to directly attack the Golden Dragon King City of the Jin Kingdom, so he recruited a large number of people, and even arrested a large number of laborers and sent them to mine stone and wood. He wanted to mine the stone as a bridge pier, but after the stone was dropped, it was washed away by the surging river.
Moreover, there are often a large number of wild beasts in the places where the laborers live, and I have heard that there are not a few who are eaten alive by the wild beasts, not to mention that during the labor, more people die.
"Shi Hu is simply not human!" Shi Yezhan angrily called him by his name, and even gritted his teeth and said: "Caught millions of people, that big scumbag, he only knows his own pleasures all day long, and he doesn't care about the suffering of the people at all, it's really a bad life for the people!" But he is still enjoying himself so much, if I have the chance, I would like to kill him with my own hands, chop his body into pieces, and feed it to the wolves! ”
"Humph!" Shi Min snorted lightly, signaled Shi Yezhan to calm down, and even more comforted: "I heard that the labor force that time was all Han Chinese, he wanted to mine large stones and throw them into the river, and then make them into bridge piers, so that he could easily cross the Heishui River and achieve the goal of capturing the Golden Dragon King City in one fell swoop!" That's why the Han people fled, and in the end more than 5 million laborers were wasted, but the bridge was not built. King Shihu of Zhao was furious, killed the craftsmen, and had to stop the construction. ”
"To this day, people flee every day, so why flee? But if there is the slightest possibility of surviving, who wants to leave their homeland and go away? If it weren't for the fact that we had a general in Heishui Village to take care of us, I am afraid that we would be forced to leave our hometown and be displaced! After Shi Yezhan finished speaking, he continued to denounce the crimes of Zhao Wang Shihu.
In the past two years, the common people have been forced into forced labor, and the taxes have been heavy, and the situation is precarious.
Shi Hu liked to hunt, and in his later years, he was too heavy to ride a horse, so he built a thousand hunting cars and hunted regularly. Within a thousand miles of the Black Dragon King City, they were all designated as hunting grounds for officials to take custody of, and any of the birds and beasts in it dared to harm them were convicted and sentenced to death.
The people had beautiful women or good cattle and horses, and if the officials could not get their hands on them, they framed them for harming the beasts, and more than 100 were put to death.
He also requisitioned 260,000 people from each city to build palaces, and requisitioned 20,000 cattle and cattle from the people to be distributed to the supervisors of the capital. In addition, the female officials in the palace were added, divided into 24 classes, 12 classes in the east palace, and more than 30,000 female voters were recruited on a large scale, and they were divided into three classes and placed in various places. The crown prince and the princes privately ordered the selection of nearly 10,000 beauties.
The cities were very selective of beautiful women, and often forcibly seized the wives of the common people, killed their husbands, and added more than 3,000 people who committed suicide. After these beauties were sent to the Black Dragon King City, Shi Hu selected and divided the ranks in front of the palace, because the envoys were capable, and there were twelve people who were feuded.
For this reason, the people of the three capital cities were killed and injured due to loss and rebellion. The local guards could not appease them, and more than 50 people were imprisoned and killed. When Dr. Jin Ziguanglu served Shi Hu, Shi Hu was furious and let the brave Long Teng Zhonglang destroy him to death.
Zhao Wang Shihu's various evil deeds can be described as shocking, too numerous to mention, Zhao is already boiling with public resentment, and it is difficult to return!