Sky...... The Emperor?! ”

"Exactly."

Luoyi's small city of Waiguo, formerly Gongtian, has now been occupied by a large number of clans, and the rows of roofs are connected, and the defense function of the traditional city has been weakened to the extreme.

In recent years, with the birth of a large number of new things, things such as "East China Sea glass pearls" and five lakes pearls have become a trend sought after by aristocrats.

In addition to trading and selling in the market, Waiguo Xiaoshi has now become a playground for small and medium-sized nobles and brokers.

Here, there are many private resales and transactions, which are very prosperous.

Some down-and-out samurai would often sell their family's honorary titles for a very lucrative price for a needy merchant.

Small clans such as the Manchu clan, the Man clan, and the Qian clan have raised a large number of fake children, which has become a very unique atmosphere in Luojing.

There was even a merchant's son, who was beautiful since childhood, dressed up as a girl for the Samurai of Luojing.

These warriors who grew up in the era of decline and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, in addition to the ancestral bronze sword, bronze spear, and bronze armor, can also show their identity, they can't even kill a chicken.

On the contrary, those sluts who are also like ** often act as guards while being played with by others.

Merchants don't have much to remember about their own descendants, as long as they can get a title from a nobleman, and after changing their faces, they can go to a small country and mix a good identity.

With the title of Zhou Tianzi as a countryman, coupled with money, he can naturally overcome the limitations of his identity.

It's just that since last year, the titles of samurai seem to have become even more difficult to use.

The emerging local powers in the south, which did not value aristocratic blood, one after another, and at the same time more and more formal examinations, made the merchants choose to speculate at both ends.

If you can pass the Huaizhong City exam, it will naturally be very good.

If you can't, you can still continue to mix a title here with Zhou Tianzi.

But in any case, because of the rise of the emerging local powers in the south, the nounty of the old nobles naturally fell again and again, but the merchants returned to the essence of merchants and frantically pursued profits.

A large number of luxury goods are traded here, and the small city of Waiguo faces east along Luoshui, and at the intersection of Yishui, there is Jiangyin Hall.

It became the largest wholesale market within the actual rule of the Zhou Dynasty.

Not only luxury goods can be wholesaled, but even furs, livestock, white silk, burlap, fine linen, green linen, dyed silk, etc.

Ordinary fur is not valuable, but in this winter, it is very important, and it is the most needed thing in the middle and lower classes of Luojing.

The annual family income can still allow the residents of Luojing to get together two or three sheepskin jackets.

The outer hemp inner skin, or the outer hemp inner hemp, with a plush mixed reed flower and the like in the middle, is a very good jacket, and then the outside is shrouded in a set of vertical pullovers, similar to a large pullover like a drapery, which can be very warm.

Even if the crotch of the pants is not covered, they are not afraid of freezing, because the wind will not come in from below because of the rising heat.

Such a set of configurations, in exchange for slaves, that is, five to ten, depends on the bargaining power of the merchants.

It's just that this time, the merchants in Luojing were very nervous, because there was news from the south, saying that it was the Han Ziguo in the south, which seemed to be crazy.

Not only did he unscrupulously carry out the great sacrifice, but he even prayed to the heavens and honored King Wu Wei Gou Chen as the "Emperor of Heaven".

What is the Son of Heaven?!

The Son of Heaven will also be hung up and beaten!

When such a powerful news came out, no one believed it at first, but soon, the Han people in the Zhou State admitted it.

The old nobles of the Zhou State were stunned, and the merchants were also extremely panicked, if the Han Ziguo did this, it might be a war in the world, the scale was unprecedented, far exceeding the time when the Jin State attacked Chu.

In the small city of Waiguo, merchants with a wide range of channels quickly inquired for more accurate information.

Especially the Jin people, there are a lot of them in Luojing, and they have an excellent relationship with the Wu people, and the northernmost country is the most well-informed.

At this time, Qin and Jin continued to contact and probe each other, but because of the winter war, both families were building large quantities and building military fortifications quickly.

Both families also have the civil construction masters of Huaizhong City to help supervise the war, and the entire Hexi and Weishui are full of trenches, military stations, guard towers, and watchtowers.

Even though the snow was falling, the tunnel operation did not stop.

Even in the rear positions of the two armies, small metallurgical workshops were piled up, smelting copper and iron every day, and then making the tools necessary for civil construction.

"How can it be the Emperor! Could it be that the Han people want to be ...... the whole world?"

The Jin people in the small city, when the words came to their mouths, they all shut up, and they were all enemies of the world? It seems that the monarch of the Han people has always operated like this.

"The second and third sons thought that the Han people ...... What are the Han people going to do? ”

"Listening to what the Wu people said, the five lakes of Gusu have been eroded, and the country of Wu is ...... I'm afraid that I will be defeated. ”

"Before the Han people make a move, the Wu people are about to be defeated?"

"The man is not rebellious, and he is enshrined in the Son of Heaven. In addition, the Li family was promoted by King Wu Wei, who was originally a 'Baisha' savage, and did not understand Chinese etiquette. Let's ask, the second and third sons put themselves in their shoes, if they are in Gusu City at this time, how should they view the Li family? ”

"This ......"

As long as you think about it from another perspective and look at it from the perspective of the Wu people, you will find that this matter is very complicated.

To say that Li Xie is a rebel, yes, it is a rebellion.

But for the old courtiers of King Wu Wei Gou Chen, especially those low-level officers, Li Xie was rebellious, but he rebelled against Great Wu and did not betray the previous king.

As for the military leaders and families of Gusu, their ideas are even more pure, they do look down on Li Jie, but they look down on the current Wu Wang Ji Yu.

Why do hairy children point fingers at them? He also deliberately allowed Uncle Tai to win over and suppress the old courtiers? What is this trying to do? This is an attempt to rebel!

As for the veteran soldiers such as the Gu Qu clan and others, it is not so much that they are loyal to the state of Wu, but that they are loyal to Gou Chen, the king of Wu Wei.

Now, the most famous general in Wu is Li Jie, a man who hangs the seal of the twelve generals and is enshrined in the Son of Heaven.

Coupled with all kinds of legends that cannot be verified, they can't say whether "King Wei's Testament" exists or not.

Because from the art of war, it is not easy to explain the record of the first king when he was young, I always feel that it is just a random operation, and then everyone rushes to play with their lives, and the result is inexplicably won.

Once it is like this, it can still be accepted, and the next time it is like this, it has to make the people in the army doubt life.

Especially in the last battle, the operation of destroying the Yue Kingdom is incomprehensible at all.

But on the contrary, the Yue Kingdom was really destroyed.

So the more I respected, the more I didn't dare to believe that legend, is Li Xie really the wild seed of Wu Wei Wang Gou Chen?

It didn't matter before, but now it's important.

For the old courtiers, and even for the lowly low-ranking warriors of the Wu Kingdom, it was a kind of sustenance, and they would only obey the strong.

King Wu Wei is a strong man, during his lifetime, and even more so after his death.

The little doll in Gusu City, that's a fart!

"When the Wu people go north, they are the Han people."

Suddenly, one person suddenly said such a sentence, which made the surrounding Jin people stunned for a moment, but he immediately said something even more shocking, "Jin people, such as Zhongxingyun, if they go south, they are also Han people." ”

"Zhongxingyun, Wei Yu, Xu Fei...... They are all talents in Jinzhong, but now they are Jincai Hanyong. ”

"There is a rumor in the Jiangyin Hall, I don't know what the second and third sons think?"

"But Huaizhong Xiu only passed the three levels and entered the Chu land to govern?"

"Xiucai?"

"Those who succeed in the examination in Huaizhong City are praised as 'talented talents' by Mrs. Yinxiang, so they are called 'show talents'."

"Speaking of which, the most admired thing about a man is that Mrs. Yinxiang is still a wife sitting in the court."

"Hahahaha......"

Someone laughed when he heard this, "If the frustrated people in Jiangcheng are afraid that they will trade their wives long ago in order to be motivated." Compared with the two, a certain man is also admired. ”

"Although some people at the time said that the man was 'a ghost and god in lust', now it seems that he is just lustful. If you talk about character, it is superior. ”

Chatting and chatting, the topic of the Jin people gradually became crooked to whether the Wei family's female lover can play a role in Huaizhong City, and whether it will be a little less interesting compared with Princess Weiguo.

Just as the villagers of the Jin Kingdom were about to open their yellow mouths, they heard a great movement outside.

Before they could get out, someone rushed in and shouted, "Second and third sons! The Han Kingdom sent an envoy, and the envoy was in Luonan! ”

"Emissary?"

"At this point?"

"Could it be a tribute?!"

"No way! The matter of cutting Chu has now come to fruition. Empress Dowager Zhao returned to Yingdu, and as for the King of Chu, he was confined in the Zhu Palace. If it is a tribute, the king of Chu must accompany him. ”

"Reasonable......

If it was really a tribute, it was impossible for the King of Chu not to be brought with him.

If Xiong Sheng, the king of Chu, had been taken north, the news would not have been just an envoy sent by the Han State.

In addition to keeping an eye on the war in Kansai, the Jin people also have to pay close attention to the change of power in the south, and now the Han country is the strongest, and the two countries of Wu and Chu are no longer good.

The only thing that can be done was originally supposed to be the Yue Kingdom and the Song Kingdom, but the Yue Kingdom was destroyed and could not be restored for a long time.

Even if Yue Wang Zongsang is still alive, but he can't get out of Gusu City, the resistance of Yue is a plate of scattered sand.

The country of Wu is the country of Wu in bulk, and there are more and more local mountains between each other, but the country of Yue is not much better.

At this time, there are very few princes who can threaten the Han Kingdom.

"Let's go! Go out and check it out! ”

"Go together, go together."

The people of the Jin Kingdom went out to watch, but also to inquire about the news.

Soon, I saw the horse team slowly approaching.

The ranks are very long, and in addition to the horse teams, there are also mules of various colors.

On these mules, there are spear-wielding warriors on horseback.

As for the convoy, the number is a little less, but just looking at the convoy, horse team, mule team, and the number of large livestock species in the Han Ziguo is quite considerable.

Mules, in particular, are obviously much more stable than horses.

"I heard that this is a 'Lushu' breeding, there are very few beans, and it is produced by the Huaizhong City People and Livestock Breeding Center."

"I went to Huaizhong City last year, and the chief of the department, Shagua, is an expert in raising 'Lushu'."

"Huaizhong calls 'Lushu' a donkey, and the left horse is the right household."

"And what do you call it?"

"Mule."

The Jin people, who had been to Huaizhong City, traced a word in the palm of their hands with their fingers.

"What is the price?"

"It's not take-out."

"Not for sale?"

"Not for sale."

The man sighed as he spoke, "It's a good thing, but it's a pity that it's not sold." ”

As he spoke, he said again about the observation of the mule in Huaizhong City, which immediately made many Jin people come to their senses.

If there are two or three thousand horses, the big battle in Hexi, pushing through the Xianyang Palace, should not consume much energy, and there will be more mobile troops to be put into Weishui, and there will be more materials that can be transported.

Where is it now, both sides are trenches dug and flying, and earthen walls are rising one after another.

After a few months of armed conflict between the Qin and Jin dynasties, more fortifications, especially walls and trenches, were built on the border than in the past hundred years.

A few months and a hundred years have passed, and it is really a winter combat method, which is to consume each other's blood.

There was no way to consume it before, but now that he has mastered advanced tools and the special construction methods of Huaizhong City, the entire Qin and Jin Dynasty are in the confrontation area, that is, the trenches are close to each other's faces.

Both sides have purchased a large number of long-range weapons that can be used for winter combat, especially baleen bows and blended bows, which will reduce their power in cold but will not affect winter combat.

At the same time, the two sides also purchased a large number of eagle feather arrows and two gear draped armor, which flowed into their respective battlefields through different procurement channels of the Qin and Jin sides.

Although the casualties are not large, as long as there is a big battle, the casualties will skyrocket in an instant.

"How did the Han people come from Dongyu?"

"It should be Yingshui, and I also returned from Dongyuan last year."

"I'm afraid that the Han people will still find out the battle situation of the battle of Wei Zheng."

"Now, if the Han Zi respects King Wu Wei as the 'Emperor of Heaven', it will definitely spread to Xinzheng and Chaoge."

"Who is the envoy of the Han people who entered Luojing this time?"

"It's nothing more than Yun Wuji and others."

was chatting, but heard someone from outside, panting and saying, "Do the second and third sons know who is the envoy?" ”

"Who?"

"Liuba, who was an envoy to Chu last year, is now an envoy to Luojing."

"Lyuba?"

"Originally the son of the Six Kingdoms, for some reason he called himself 'Xia Liu' and walked with the number. Later, Baisha, Yinxiang, and Huaizhong 'Liu' were the arms of the Li family when they rose between the grass. In order to make the old way, since the Dazai of Wu State, he also attaches great importance to it and appreciates it very much. ”

"This person, be strong."

"Why don't you go along?"

"It's better to prepare a generous gift first, I heard that this person is greedy for money, similar to Wu Guodazaizi, and can speak well, not to be underestimated."

"That's true."

After thinking about it, all the Jin people prepared generous gifts, the carriages and horses were full, called hundreds of slaves, brought a large number of concubines, and went to greet the envoys of the Han Kingdom.

And in the envoys of the Han Kingdom, Liuba heard that the people of the Jin Kingdom came to greet him, and he was immediately overjoyed, and secretly said in his heart: Now, I am also the doctor of the Kingdom!

(End of chapter)