In the third year of He'an, the world was in turmoil, and civil turmoil broke out.

Because the previous emperor Shuntian Emperor was ambushed and killed on the battlefield by the Hu people when he led a large army to conquer, with the unanimous consent of all the princes and important ministers of the court, the Fu King Zhao Yan'an was elected as the new emperor, and the country was called He'an.

After Emperor An Zhao Yan'an ascended the throne, he gave his deceased cousin Emperor Shuntian the title of Emperor Death.

The mourners have the meaning of dying prematurely or dying in battle for the country.

For Emperor Shuntian, who reigned for less than a year and died on the battlefield, this nickname is appropriate.

Although the new country name is the word He'an, it is a pity that since the new emperor ascended the throne, the war in the south has never stopped.

After successfully ambushing the Southern Expeditionary Army, which resulted in the annihilation of its entire army, the Hu people began to invade and occupy the provincial capitals in the south.

Because the Hu people fought fiercely, and whenever they encountered a city that refused to surrender, once it was captured, they would massacre the city.

As a result, many counties that knew that they were unable to resist the Hu people's siege chose to take the initiative to open the city gate and surrender before the official start of the battle, just to save their lives.

Although the imperial court has continuously mobilized large armies to defend the southern provincial capitals, since most of the soldiers transferred are comfortable soldiers who have never fought or new recruits who have just enlisted in the army, it is simply a fool's dream to stop the invasion of the Hu people with such soldiers.

And the real soldiers who can fight are either to guard against the Northwest Army in the area south of the Yangtze River, or they die in the previous Wudaoting ambush battle, resulting in a shortage of experienced generals and veterans in the army.

On the other hand, on the Hu people's side, not only have they just won a big victory, but their morale is high, and the Hu people who have moved in from the southwest plateau have never stopped, and now they have reached more than 500,000 people.

Among them, more than seventy percent of those who know how to shoot archery on horseback are as high as possible, and as long as they train casually, they can become qualified soldiers.

Under the advantages of one another, the offensive of the Hu people in the south was even more overwhelming, and it was difficult to have an opponent.

Under the powerful offensive of the Hu people, a large number of prefectures and counties were taken by the Hu people one after another.

By the third year of He'an, the Hu people had occupied almost the entire southern region, and only Jiangkou Prefecture, a military important place guarding the entrance to the south of the Yangtze River, had not yet fallen into the hands of the Hu people.

Once the Jiangkou is lost, the Hu people can take the opportunity to invade Jiangnan in one fell swoop, and then spread to the entire territory of Great Wei.

Eguchi must not be lost, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable! This is the common idea of all officials and generals.

In order to defend the Jiangkou, the imperial court can be said to have done its best, not only transferred all the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized from all over the country to Jiangkou to deploy defenses, but even the Southwest Army, the main force guarding the south of the Yangtze River, also transferred some veterans to help defend the city.

Today, Jiangkou Province has become an important military town with a garrison of more than 300,000 troops.

The city wall was repeatedly heightened and reinforced, and it became an iron wall that was almost impossible to attack.

Although Jiangkou Prefecture succeeded in holding back the Hu invasion to the south of the Yangtze River, for the countless people in the southwest and south who were captured by the Hu, it had become a place of misery for the Han people, and life was worse than death.

Not only were the family property, wives and daughters robbed by the Hu people, but they also became slaves of the Hu people, allowed them to be beaten, scolded and humiliated, and lived a more miserable life than livestock.

And those people who had fled the south with their families before the invasion of the Hu people were no better, and all of them were reduced to displaced people, and there were more than 200,000 people who took refuge in the north for a long distance.

This is also the result of the imperial court ordering the blockade of Jiangkou Province in advance to prevent any displaced people from entering, otherwise the number of displaced people is far more than that, and it can reach more than one million people casually.

After all, although the southern provinces are not as rich as Jiangnan, they are also populous areas.

Although only about 200,000 displaced people have poured into Jiangnan, it is an extremely heavy burden for the entire Jiangnan region, and almost none of the locals welcome these displaced people.

That's right, Jiangnan is indeed the main grain production and commercial center of the Great Wei, and the combined tax revenue of the provinces accounts for almost half of the total tax revenue of the Great Wei. Not to mention its grain production, it is the most important thing.

Therefore, the imperial court will deploy heavy troops in the south of the Yangtze River to strictly protect it, just to prevent the Northwest Army from coveting this treasure land.

But no matter how good the treasure is, it can't withstand the repeated blood sucking.

In order to cope with the attrition of the Southern Expeditionary Army, the imperial court had almost emptied its family funds.

Later, the Southern Expedition army was completely wiped out, and the imperial court could not even pay the pensions of soldiers killed in battle, which shows how poor the treasury is.

Originally, after the new emperor ascended the throne, all localities were able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, only one month after the new emperor ascended the throne, he promulgated a new policy of raising taxes, and added a "Pinghu tax" on the basis of the original taxes.

The official document clearly states that the imperial court needed a large number of conscripts and weapons to deal with the invasion of the Hu people, so this "Pinghu tax" was a temporary tax used in wartime. When the Hu people are pacified, this tax will be abolished.

That's a nice thing to say, but is it so easy to calm down the calamity of the Hu people? If it was really that simple, the army of the Southern Expedition would not have been defeated so badly.

This "Pinghu tax" is said to be a temporary tax, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is already a new fixed tax.

What's more, this "Pinghu tax" is too heavy, and it is even two percent higher than the Tian Fu, which is also outrageous.

Although the people have been complaining about this new tax for a long time, the officials in the local government offices do not care so much.

If the tax revenue does not come up, the black gauze hat on their heads will not be kept.

As a result, officers and men were dispatched one after another to collect taxes from door to door, and if anyone dared not to pay them, they would be immediately put into prison and dealt with.

The family will release the family when they have all the money. If they didn't get it together for a day, they would put people in prison and starve for a day, and they wouldn't give a grain of rice except water.

This method is so ruthless that each family can only try their best to make up for this tax.

Wealthier areas like the provinces south of the Yangtze River are better, and most of the local people can barely get the money. But for people in some poor areas, this money is too much.

Many families really have to empty their family funds and even smash pots and sell iron to get this money.

What's more, some families who really can't borrow money have to resort to loan sharks to tide over the difficulties. In the end, because of the loan sharks who could not repay the rolling interest, they were forced to sell their houses and fields, and even sold their wives and daughters to repay their debts, and the tragic situation occurred from time to time, which was shocking.

As soon as this flat tax came out, it led to dissatisfaction among the people in various places and the people were struggling to make a living.

The so-called official forced the people to rebel, and in the face of such heavy taxes, there were finally people who rebelled because they could not pay the taxes, and there were many responders.

Especially in the poorer and remote areas, there is continuous civil unrest.

In order to quell the local civil unrest, the imperial court could only send troops to suppress it from time to time.

This was another big burden for the Great Wei army, which was already short of soldiers and poor in quality.

However, after all, the scale of these local civil unrests was small enough to threaten the foundations of the Great Wei, so their impact was limited.

Now the princes and ministers in the court have a bigger headache than how to settle the more than 200,000 displaced people who fled from the south, which is the most difficult problem.

In view of the previous successful experience, An Guogong and others did not think of directly transporting the displaced people to the northeast and throwing them to the Northwest Army for disposal like last time.

It's a pity that this time the Northwest Army has learned well, not only set up a naval division of tens of thousands of people to patrol and guard the Wujiang River, but also built a city wall and fort on the shore to block the entire Wujiang River and prevent the ships of the Great Wei from passing, so that the Wei army could not repeat the old trick to send the displaced people over.

Since there was no way to force the Northwest Army, the resettlement of these 200,000 displaced people could only be solved by the monarchs of the imperial court themselves.

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