Chapter 168: The Son of Heaven is Humiliated and asks for help from Wei
King Han then ordered everyone to wake up Zhou Tianzi again, and said to him:
"This king doesn't have any other requirements for coming today, he just wants to live in the palace of the Son of Heaven for a few days, but at the same time, he also needs the Son of Heaven to ask for another letter from you!"
Zhou Tianzi originally thought that the newly succeeded King Han was going to do something more excessive, and it turned out that he was going to write an edict to ask for Qin and live in his palace for a few days, so he immediately ordered someone to bring pen and ink and write an edict against Qin on it.
The king of Qin has no way, not only the tea poisons the people, bullying the countries, but also does not respect the Zhou family, has no power to do the same thing, and gives a person an order today: the Korean army is the division of Qin, and the king of Han is the chief of Qin, leading the army of the princes to attack the Qin capital and capture the king of Qin, in order to show the world.
Zhou Tianzi was in the summer of the third year
King Han was very satisfied after reading it, and after letting the Son of Heaven press the handprint, he entered the palace of King Zhou under the guidance of Zhou Tianzi.
Zhou Tianzi naturally gave his bedroom to King Han, but King Han was not satisfied, but forced Zhou Tianzi to take him to the harem, and messed up Zhou Tianzi's harem wives and concubines in front of Zhou Tianzi, so that Zhou Tianzi was embarrassed and wanted to commit suicide immediately, but fortunately he was stopped by his subordinates, and Zhou Tianzi, who suffered such humiliation and shame, had to send someone to beg for assistance from Wei in private.
Wei State Liang.
At this time, Wei Si was discussing with Qi Xiangtian Ying in the main hall how the two countries would attack Chu, but he received the news that the king of Han was persecuting the Son of Heaven in Wangji of Zhou.
So Wei Si hurriedly left the main hall and called Chen Zhen and Su Qin to his bedroom to discuss.
I only heard Wei Si ask:
"Now that Han Wangbing is coming to Zhou Wangji, causing Zhou Tianzi to be humiliated, not only persecuting the Son of Heaven, but also messing up his harem, Zhou Tianzi has already sent two letters asking for help, is this to help or not to help?"
Chen Zhen replied:
"The minister feels that the relationship between Wei and Han does not need to help, Zhou Tianzi has been a subsidiary of the two countries since Zhao and Han divided the Zhou room into the east and west, and it has been reduced to the subordination of the two countries, and after we changed places several times in the three Jin Dynasty, the Zhou royal family is almost the only Han to follow, a few years ago, the Qin State also began to interfere in the affairs of Zhou Tianzi, and the king of Han took this opportunity to coerce the Son of Heaven, but he just wanted to use Zhou Tianzi to establish his authority, after all, he was only newly succeeded to the throne!"
Wei Si looked at Su Qin again:
"Jizi, what do you think?"
Su Qin replied:
"Mr. Chen Zhen is right, but after all, today's son is also the king, you are the king, but the king of Han has gone too far, if we Wei go to crusade against Korea for the matter of Zhou Tianzi now, it will definitely not work, the minister thinks that the king should immediately go to Zhou Wangji in person, and persuade the king of Han."
Chen Zhen said:
"Ji Zi's method is also a good strategy, anyway, now our Wei State must not have any more wars with Zhao and Han, after all, according to today's general trend, our Wei State must still have a close alliance with Han and Zhao to continue to suppress the surrounding powers."
Wei Si asked again:
"But I heard that the widow's sister and his prince are about to arrive in Daliang, and the widow is going to Zhou Wangji...... Isn't that right? ”
Chen Zhen said:
"King, Rong Chen said something that he didn't like!"
Wei Si nodded:
"Chen Qing, you say!"
Chen Zhen said:
"O king, in the present time of strife among the nations, how can there be any family affection to talk about? Your sister Queen Qin and the crown prince came to our Wei country, just to ask our Wei country reinforcements to rescue its capital Xianyang, the king, as the king of Wei State, you are the honor and disgrace of millions of people of my Great Wei, do you think carefully about whether it is our people of Great Wei or your sister and nephew who are important? ”
Wei Si replied:
"Of course, my people of Great Wei are important, the widow is the king of Great Wei, and the goal is to create one of the Great Wei to dominate the world!"
Chen Zhen said:
"Since this is the case, then let the queen of Qin and her prince come to Daliang and wait, after all, although the capital of Qin is in danger, but the state of Chu has no intention of breaking it, it seems to be waiting for the decision of South Korea, after all, South Korea is now raising troops to attack Qin, so the king, you go to Zhou Wangji just to help Zhou Tianzi, by the way, persuade the king of Han, let him not be deceived by the state of Chu, it is best to let him and the state of Qin talk about peace and retreat the Chu soldiers, this is what we Wei want to see the most!"
Wei Si's expression was very heavy:
"Yes, it's really difficult at this time, depending on the meaning of Mr., are you not going to Zhouwangji with the widow this time?"
Chen Zhen replied:
"Now that Ji Zi is not like before, the king, you should take him to hone it well, and I, Chen Zhen, am old, and the king is gone, and I Chen Zhen is not presiding over the affairs of the court on your behalf, how can you rest assured?
Wei Si smiled:
"Yes, it's still Chen Qing, you know the widow!"
After Wei Si decided to go to Zhou Wangji, when he saw Chen Zhen and Su Qin explain his going, he went to Zilian and wanted to inform her that he had to go to Zhou Wangji.
After coming to the outside of Zi Lian's dormitory, Wei Si found that Zi Lian was actually dancing with a long sword outside, and he didn't notice his arrival, so he took advantage of Zi Lian's inattention and walked behind and hugged his waist.
Zi Lian naturally knew that it was Wei Si, so he deliberately said:
"Hmph, come and see people without notifying me!"
Wei Si smiled and replied in his ear:
"What is our relationship? Do you still need to be informed? ”
Zi Lian threw the sword aside, turned around and glared at Wei Si:
"Okay, you're the master here, don't you need to tell me?"
Wei Si took the opportunity to hug Zi Lian and kiss him, and Zi Lian immediately broke away a little shyly:
"Husband...... Husband, how can you do this? ”
Wei Si looked at Zi Lian's face flushed, very cute:
"Lian'er, what's wrong with me?"
Zi Lian replied:
"Husband, this is not the room, the palace is watching from the side, how bad is this!"
Wei Si laughed:
"Haha, it turns out that Lian'er is shy? Since it can't be done here, then the widow will carry you back inside? ”
After speaking, he picked up Zilian and went to his bedroom.
The two of them entered the dormitory, and after some warmth, Wei Si told Zi Lian that he was going to Zhou Wangji to meet King Han.
Zi Lian hurriedly asked:
"Then husband, will you take Xiaojun this time?"
Wei Si replied:
"Lian'er, this time to go to Zhou Wangji is very dangerous, how can the widow take you on an adventure?"
Zi Lian was not happy:
"Wang, you promised Xiaojun that you would take me wherever you go in the future, but every time you persuade me with danger, this time I won't follow it!"
Wei Si then persuaded:
"But you are the queen, you manage the entire palace of the widow, you always like to go out and run, who can take care of the widow king?"
Zi Lian pursed her mouth:
"There are concubines and concubines, they are all in good order, I basically don't care about things in the palace, they are all handed over to them to take care of, and there is no princess from Korea now!"
Wei Si asked:
"Zilian, what do you think of Yun'er?"
Zi Lian said with a smile:
"Yun'er is very innocent and kind, and versatile, if Xiaojun is not for sword practice, I would like to learn dance music from him!"
Wei Si then said:
"I went to visit Yun'er a few days ago, when she and Concubine Xu were playing dance music together, but when the widow wanted to pamper her at night, he saw that the hidden places on Yun'er's body were actually embroidered with tattoos, which made the widow very disgusted at the time, so he left!"
Zilian smiled all over her face:
"It's normal for women to love beauty, isn't it just to make you men like it more, husband, don't you like this?"
Wei Si shook his head:
"But these things are tattooed on the body of this dignified Korean princess, which is really incomprehensible!"
Zi Lian said:
"Husband, why didn't you ask her at that time?"
魏嗣 says:
She was so ashamed that she covered her face with her hands, and the widow was angry when she saw this, how could she still have the heart to ask?"
Zi Lian then said:
"Okay, it's not dusk yet, let's hurry up and get dressed and go see Yun'er, so that Xiaojun and I can solve this doubt for you, husband!"
Wei Si nodded:
"Good!"
So the two of them got dressed and walked to Yun'er's residence.
Princess Han Yun'er was teaching her palace maid to embroider things at this time, and when she saw Wei Si and Zilian coming, she hurriedly came over and knelt down and saluted.
Zi Lian stepped forward and helped Yun'er:
"Sister, don't be so polite, the king and sister miss you a little, so come and see your sister!"
Wei Si saw that the two women were talking, and it was not easy to participate, so he also quietly left and went back to deal with his own political affairs.
After flipping through the account books, Wei Si found that the harvest in Hedong in the past few years was not better than before, and the harvest of Yitaoyi actually accounted for 30% of the total income of the entire Wei State for two consecutive years, and he couldn't help but sigh:
"This pottery land is really rich, really rich, but what is wrong with this Hedong? This Hedong can also be regarded as a rich land in the Wei State, and there have been no wars and famines in recent years, and the cultivated land accounts for nearly 30% of the Wei State, how can the annual harvest be less than 10% of the income of the entire Wei State? ”
Thinking of this, Wei Si asked Zhang Xiao to invite Xizi, who managed the treasury, and asked him:
"Mr. Xizi, the reason why Hedong taxes could not be paid before was because of locust plagues and droughts, but now why are Hedong taxes still so small in the past two years?"
After speaking, he threw the account book in front of Xizi.
After Xizi picked up the account book and glanced at it, his expression was very solemn:
"Great King, once when we did not move the capital of Great Wei, the country almost all relied on Hedong taxes, at that time Hedong was very rich, but since the relocation of the capital to Daliang, a large number of people in Hedong moved east, the late reign of the first king, Hedong was repeatedly invaded by Qin soldiers, and the first two years ...... The first two years ......! ”
Wei Si's sentence:
"Don't mention the past, the widow's ears are calloused, the widow wants to ask you what's going on in Hedong now?"
Xizi replied:
"These two years...... In the past two years, Lord Wei Buli of Hedong County has worked hard to restore the cultivation of the local people, but now the land is not as good as before, and the number of local people is really scarce, so the harvest has been sharply reduced! ”
Wei Si asked:
"Sir, do you mean that there is a shortage of people in Hedong?"
Xizi replied:
"That's the way it goes!"
Wei Si hesitated for a moment and asked:
"If the widow moves the capital back to Anyi now, can Hedong regain its former prosperity?"