Guo Bing's funeral was solemnly held on the eighth day of the lunar month. As the father of Guo Kun, the nominal supreme leader of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the nominal supreme leader of Luoyan Valley, his death is naturally extraordinary. But in fact, Guo Bing has not openly participated in the decision-making of anything since he entered Funiu Mountain, and he rarely appears in the public eye.

People's impression of him is that this old prince often frowns and is full of thoughts and does not smile. It seems that everyone owes him money. It gives people the feeling of being dissatisfied with the status quo and complaining. The soldiers and civilians of Luoyan Valley are also hindered by the fact that he is Lin Jue's father-in-law and Guo Kun's father, and he is an authentic Great Zhou royal family, so they also maintain limited respect for him.

Guo Bing is dead. As he himself said, he could be regarded as achieving nothing in his life. I wanted to fight for the throne, but I didn't have the guts. Originally, he could vigorously lay out in Hangzhou, and the financial resources and manpower of Liangzhejiang Road can be said to be everything, and the geographical location is also excellent. There are countless soldiers that can be raised on the island of eastern Zhejiang, and no one knows about it. If you change the people with a little means, you will be able to quell the bandits or recruit them to build an armed force of their own. Advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended, and his brother Guo Chong is divided into courts. But he didn't have the courage after all, and some things were extremely excited in his heart, but if he really wanted to do it, he didn't dare.

The only real attempt he made was to use Concubine Rong's birth of a child to make a game. However, this game is too long and too uncertain, and he himself may not have hope for the outcome of this game. If you want to seize the throne through the curve, and achieve your goal by forbearance and dormancy, I am afraid that in the end it will be self-deception. Almost no one has succeeded in taking the throne by these tricks. To compete for the throne, it takes strength, courage and unscrupulous means. At this point, he is not even as decisive as Guo Xu. Guo Xu at least dared to make a desperate gamble when he was desperate, and he fought like that. And Guo Bing didn't even dare to do so from beginning to end.

Guo Bing's vision is unclear, which is reflected in his cognition of Lin Jue. From the beginning until the end of his life, he was always prejudiced against Lin Jue. Although he acknowledges Lin Jue's ability, it is this kind of prejudice that is difficult to eradicate, which has to be said to be another major weakness in his character. Even Guo Xu knew how to win over Lin Jue, but Guo Bing didn't know the importance of people like Lin Jue, which shows Guo Bing's shallowness in knowledge. He raised so many curtain guests, which seemed to be Corporal Lixian's move, but it was probably just a sense of superiority in his heart, and he wanted to win the reputation of Corporal Lixian. From the bottom of his heart, he had no real respect or courtesy for these people at all. So, in the end, the guests around him were scattered, and none of them really helped him. If Lin Jue hadn't married Guo Caiwei, I'm afraid he would have stayed away from him.

Shallow knowledge, not broad-minded, famous, ambitious and talented, high and timid. These are the many flaws in Guo Bing's character. The so-called character determines fate, Guo Bing can't serve and correct the flaws in his character, so he is destined to achieve nothing.

In any case, the entire Funiu Mountain gave Guo Bing great courtesy. The three armies were vegetarian, 10,000 people were clothed in linen, and the funeral was extremely grand. Guo Bing's coffin was temporarily buried on the slope of the sunny side of the West Mountain. The mausoleum was not heavily constructed, because his last wish was to be buried in the mausoleum of the Guo royal family in the capital, which was only a temporary burial place.

The little princess and the princess cried to death and fainted many times. For them, Guo Bing used to be the sky above their heads. Although this piece of sky has long been unable to shelter them from the wind and rain, the person who once protected them has passed away, and the feeling that the sky is no longer there still makes them feel like they are gone

Pain and sorrow.

Guo Kun did not reveal what Guo Bing said before his death to anyone, and throughout the funeral, he did not say a word, looking sad. Even though many of his father's ideas and practices made Guo Kun dissatisfied, Guo Kun's temperament and ideas have already become more mature and thoughtful, and he is no longer so impulsive and ignorant as he was at the beginning. But Guo Kun knows that if there is another person in this world who will think about himself wholeheartedly, then this person is his father. And now that this person is dead, Guo Kun's heart is naturally hollow, and he feels a little panicked and helpless. For a long time, I am afraid that this feeling will not go away.

Of course, for the soldiers and civilians of Luoyan Valley, they will not feel depressed because of Guo Bing's death. Guo Bing was just an insignificant prince to them. As long as the Luoyan Army is there, as long as Lin Jue is there, the deaths of other people are actually not that important. They will quickly forget Guo Bing as a person, and they don't need to remember this person.

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The New Year is approaching, and the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty and even all parts of the Liao Kingdom have spent a year of panic and chaos, and they can finally breathe a sigh of relief in the New Year. For the people of Dazhou, this year has been really difficult. The various money taxes of the imperial court became more onerous, and many tax items were added, and the people were miserable. Many families were originally well-off, but after a year, they have become extremely poor. Many people were displaced and their wheat fields were sold to survive the crisis.

The humiliating peace agreement signed between the imperial court and the Liao people also mentally struck a blow to the superiority of the originally positive and even somewhat proud people of the Great Zhou. Once upon a time, when it came to neighboring countries, everyone talked about them as barbarians. When it comes to the Great Zhou, they are all proud of the Central Plains. But now that the Central Plains has been defeated by the barbarians, they call themselves nephews to the barbarians, and they have to pay so much tribute and so much silver every year. Pride instantly becomes inferiority.

The vast majority of people believe that this result was caused by the incompetence of the former privy envoy Yang Jun, who led an army of 300,000 to attack Liao and returned defeated, resulting in the loss of the elite of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the humiliation of the imperial court to negotiate peace with the Liao. Therefore, regarding the killing of Yang Jun, the people of Da Zhou actually breathed a sigh of relief. After the imperial court announced Yang Jun's guilty plea and killed him, some people in various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty set off firecrackers to celebrate. Under the deliberate guidance of the imperial court, Yang Jun has become the culprit of the disaster to the country and the people, and has been firmly nailed to the pillar of shame. It is precisely because of this that the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the people of Dazhou has some catharsis. Although he was dissatisfied with the court, he did not feel that this was the emperor's fault, and although the people's grievances were great, they did not really break out. Many people actually have expectations for the imperial court, and they feel that after Yang Jun, the culprit of the country and the people, is eliminated, everything will be fine, and the emperor and the imperial court will definitely turn the situation around and make major changes.

It was in this complex and dreary and difficult atmosphere that Da Zhou ushered in the New Year of Zhongxing's third year. No matter how difficult and painful this year is, when the new year comes, it is still necessary to look forward to the coming year. After all, with the advent of a new year and a new spring, there may be a new atmosphere and a new turnaround. Maybe the past year is the lowest point, after this lowest point, the future is bright and bright, and it is a sunny day.

Maybe......

Maybe......

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The land of the north, in the middle of the house.

There were two consecutive heavy snowfalls around the New Year, and the entire Linhuang Mansion was already covered with thick snow. Snow piles up on the streets, making the roads difficult to navigate, and the streets are littered with mud and snow, crowded with cars and horses, and there is a mess everywhere

It's very dirty.

Since a large number of soldiers and horses and the new emperor Yeluchun ascended the throne here, there were more than 100,000 people in Linhuang Mansion at once. A large number of tribal soldiers and horses entered the city, and every day there was a lot of chaos and chaos.

Shangjing Linhuang Mansion is the first capital built on their own land by the Khitan people of the Great Liao before they went south, and the scale is really not small. Linhuang Mansion is divided into two cities in the north and south, the north city is hexagonal, the city is ten miles around, the city is three zhang high, densely packed with enemy towers and arrow towers are numerous. This is the Imperial City. It is inhabited by Khitan people. To the south is the Han City of Zhou 17 Li, as the name suggests, it is where the Han people lived, the city wall is two feet high, and there are not many defensive measures. It can be seen from this that the Khitan people implemented the law of partition between the Khitan and the Han people at the beginning of the establishment of the Liao State. The status of the Khitans was one level higher than that of the Han Chinese.

However, for more than 100 years, the Great Liao extensively studied the Great Zhou ritual system and culture in the south, and basically assimilated with the Great Zhou. There is not much hierarchical difference between the Khitan and the Han of Liao. Especially in recent decades, the Han people have been the prime ministers of the Great Liao, which shows that in the minds of the rulers of the Liao State, the identity of the Han people is no longer a symbol of inferiority, but the wisdom of the Han people is outstanding, but they are reliable helpers in governing the country.

However, there is both tradition and poison. Especially in Linhuangfu, located in the north of Da Liao, many tribal chiefs on the grassland, and ancient nobles among the Khitan people of Liao State live here, so in this city, the discrimination of the Khitan people against the Han people is deep-rooted. So far, the only Han people who can live in the imperial city are officials, and it is impossible for ordinary Han people. But in Seoul, the Khitans walked freely, and from time to time the Khitans bullied and beat the Han people in the streets.

Linhuang Mansion attracted a new owner a year ago, that is, Yeluchun, who announced his enthronement here.

After ascending the throne, Yelu Chunben was ambitious and wanted to do something big. But he soon suffered. The first holy decree that the tribal chiefs led by Mengsa, Gehuluba, and others asked Yeluchun to issue was to restore the ancestral system and let the Khitans and Han people be legally divided into first-class and second-class people. It is necessary to limit the official ranks of Han people as officials, and Han people are not allowed to hold important positions in the imperial court. The generals in the army are all Khitans.

Yeluchun, who grew up in the south and was part of the Great Zhou culture, questioned the demand for a return to the previous hierarchy. He believes that at such a time, this is undoubtedly to create contradictions, leading to the dissatisfaction of the Han people in Liao. It's bad for the big picture.

But Mengsa Ge and they believe that the reason why Da Liao has reached today's situation is that those Han people have made ghosts. The Han people cannot be trusted, and the Great Liao must be the Great Liao of the Khitans, not the Han people controlling the government. Only when the Khitan people work together can they achieve great things. They told Yeluchun how he could have become the emperor if it weren't for the assistance of these chiefs of their tribe. So in the end, it's up to them. And it was precisely the Han prime minister and the Han generals who caused this divisive situation. Therefore, it is necessary to cut off their path to the top from the root. As for the dissatisfaction of the Han people, it is nothing, if these people dare to resist, they will suppress it by force. What is polite to them at this time?

Yeluchun repeatedly expressed concern about this policy, but Mengsago and others insisted on it, and Yeluchun finally had to compromise. He had to compromise because he had nothing to rely on in Linhuang Mansion, and all he, the emperor, could rely on was these tribal chieftains. Yeluchun actually realized that he, the emperor, might have to do it with his tail between his legs soon after he ascended the throne.

Yeluchun was hit hard and could only endure it.