The news of Zhao Xun's death spread far and wide, and soon spread to the prince's mansion, but Xihuan did not have any interest:

"As soon as Zhao Xun dies, it is not Zhao Huan's successor, and it is really not the right time to die."

Xihuan just wants to wait for Zhao Xun to die after King Xian, as soon as the crown prince ascends the throne, as soon as Zhao Xun dies, Bailiyan is under house arrest, and the prince has the absolute right to appoint and dismiss.

Now that Zhao Xun died first, supporting Zhao Huan's succession is an inevitable result, and the power of the cabinet has not been loosened, which is obviously not good for Xihuan.

At this time, Ji Jinsheng said:

What the princess said is that King Xian is declining day by day, but Zhao Xun died of illness before King Xian, which is indeed not conducive to the succession of the crown prince. However, as soon as Zhao Xun died, there was no restraint between Bailiyan and Gao Xun from then on, which was beneficial to the princess. ”

"General Ji is reasonable, if Zhao Xun is here, Gao Xun will not dare to make a mistake, and now that Zhao Xun is dead, Gao Xun will have no worries, it seems that it is a blessing or a curse It is not yet known. In this way, tomorrow General Ji will go to the Zhao Mansion to offer condolences on behalf of the palace, remember not to use the name of the palace, but in the name of the prince. ”

"The princess wants to marry Gao Xun."

"Yes, Gao Xun is like father and son to Zhao Xun, and this palace treats each other with sincerity, he should know what this palace means."

"My subordinates understood."

In the afternoon of the same day, King Xian stayed by Zhao Xun's side for a whole afternoon, after dark, Zhao Xun's body was moved to the Xianwang Temple, according to the ancestral system, as long as there are conditions, the state funeral of non-royal family members, the first seven mourning halls should be carried out in the ancestral temple.

Because Zhao Xun was finally buried in the royal tomb, Bailiyan had to cut off three strands of hair from Zhao Xun's bun, one strand was handed over to Zhao Huan, and two strands were handed over to Zhao Xun's wife Ma.

On November 14, Zhao Xun's son Zhao Huan rushed back to the tomb to mourn, and at the same time returned to the tomb of more than 200 generals at all levels, all of whom were promoted by Zhao Xun before his death to come to mourn.

On November 16, King Xian summoned Zhao Huan alone to talk for one day, and on the second morning, King Xian issued an edict that Zhao Huan was appointed as the envoy of the Great Sima, and Lu Gao was promoted to the position of the Great Sima. This outcome was both expected and unexpected.

Everyone expected that Zhao Huan would inherit Zhao Xun's political legacy, but few people thought that Zhao Huan would eventually become the Great Sima Envoy. Faintly, everyone had a hunch that King Xian was making personnel adjustments for the crown prince's succession.

On November 18, the Dujun newspaper published an obituary, and King Xian Qin gave him the nickname "Zhongwu Guogong" and repaired the Zhongwu Temple in Zhao Xun's hometown to praise Zhao Xun's achievements. On November 21, Zhao Xun's coffin was transported to the Zhaofu Mourning Hall and opened to all walks of life to mourn.

On the twenty-ninth day of November, King Xian allowed Zhao Xun's coffin to pass through the palace and go out of the city from the north gate, and King Xian, the prince, Bailiyan, Gao Xun, and Zhao Huan personally helped the spirit out of the city from the north gate and transported it to the mausoleum of Miaotian Mountain for burial by carriage.

In the later stage of the mausoleum excavation, at the request of King Xian, the Xianling was excavated on the east and west wings of the royal tomb, which was used to bury Zhao Xun, Bailiyan, Lu Gao, Luhou and other meritorious ministers, for which Bailiyan blocked the Yongxing River in advance, erected a pontoon bridge outside Xuanyun City, and Zhao Xun's coffin crossed the river through the battlefield in that year, and went to the tomb of the king of Miaotian Mountain to enter the earth.

On the fifth day of the first month of December, the coffin arrived at the Xianling Mausoleum for burial, the funeral was extremely heavy, the King of Xian personally sent the spirit to fill the soil, mobilized 50,000 garrisons, and called the four words of "Zhongwu Guogong" in the mountains outside the Xianling, the cry was deafening and resounded through the sky, and the generals wept silently and competed to fill the soil for Zhao Xun.

The backfill of the sealed soil lasted for a day, and the king of Xian stayed at night in the tomb of the king, and talked about 100 miles of Yan at night:

"Zhao Qing's ancestral hall Aiqing must be built as soon as possible, and we must not slack off."

"The king can rest assured, the minister has ordered someone to go to Zhao Shuai's hometown to prepare for the construction of the ancestral hall, and will let future generations pay tribute to Zhao Shuai's martial arts, and the incense will never end."

"Aiqing can rest assured that the widow will have to worry about the widow's aftermath in the future."

King Xian did not shy away from the topic of death, but Bai Liyan was still very cautious, he did not know whether King Xian would change his mind at the last moment of handing over power, and people are often fickle when life and death are dying.

"King, Zhao Shuai has had a hidden illness for a long time, and he died suddenly due to overwork in the battle of the guard. But if you should think more about the benefits, you can live a long life, Xianguo is now prosperous, it is the time when the king has a lot to do, at this time, the king does not feel regretful. ”

"Hahaha......" King Xian suddenly laughed and said: "Life and death have their own destiny, and the ups and downs of the widow can have today's hegemony, and the widow's life is enough." The things of the future generations, the children and grandchildren of the widows have their own troubles, and the widows want to visit the counties of Lili next year, and take a good look at the widows' rivers and mountains, and the Marquis of Yongxing thinks it is appropriate. ”

"If the king wants to go on patrol, it is best to rush before the hot weather, and the minister suggests that after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the king can go out on patrol and return to Shanling before June to escape the heat. There was four months on the road, and the minister thought it should be enough. ”

"Then let's travel during the New Year, the sooner the better."

"Whether the prince is with you, who should stay in the court, please make it clear to the king."

"The prince stays in the capital and supervises the country, and the others have their own arrangements, Aiqing arranges them as soon as possible, and the widows have to take a good look at the widows' country, otherwise they will not be reconciled......."

King Xian had a premonition that his fate was imminent, so he planned to go out on patrol to take one last look at his country.

On the eighth and third day of the sixth day of the twelfth month, King Xian once again inspected his royal tomb and climbed the Miaotian Mountain Planetarium to observe the celestial bodies and worship heaven and earth. Then he went to Yongxing City, Ruitian, Xuanyun, Yongxing, and Wuping to inspect, and then took the train to inspect the royal family, and returned to Chenling on December 22.

At the end of December, Lu Gao and others returned to the tomb to report on their work and paid homage to Zhao Xun's mausoleum.

On the eve of the first month, King Xian issued an edict, inviting the county guards, kings, marquis, dukes, and town army lords to go to the tomb to participate in the state banquet of the first month, the scale reached an unprecedented scale since Jiang Hai succeeded to the throne, the prince was pushed to the forefront, and the pace of King Xian's transfer of power was accelerating day by day, and Bailiyan had a premonition that a new era was coming.

On the eighth day of the first month of the first month of 652 of the Shengyuan Dynasty, nearly ten days earlier than planned, King Xian left Chenling to begin a months-long tour, and the first stop went straight to the western county of the capital to inspect.

In order to highlight the achievements of more than 20 years of reform, Bailiyan deliberately arranged for King Xian to give priority to the two counties of Dujun, Xianxi and Chunan, and then go to the four counties of Pengyuan, Wanchuan, Shangguan and Ganfu.

These seven counties are the counties with the most thorough land reform and the most prosperous market economy in Xianguo, while the other counties have either just been incorporated or the reform is still incomplete.

As the gateway of the emperor, the capital county is the core of the priority development of agriculture, industry and commerce, and after more than 20 years of promotion and development, the capital county has basically improved the education system of primary, junior high and middle schools.

Affected by the spillover effect of Yongxing industry, some of the machinery and equipment that were eliminated in the early stage of Yongxing City and a large number of light industrial machinery such as sewing machines and looms of new production have quickly entered the field of local private capital through government sales channels, driving the progress of local light industry.

In the past four or five years, a large number of small workshop processing enterprises have been developed, coupled with the high level of local education, sporadic primary processing industries with certain technology have emerged one after another.

Xianxi and Qiunan have long been the underdeveloped agricultural areas of Xianguo, and although they have abundant water resources and vast land, the lack of land fertility has always plagued the local grain production. The promotion of agricultural technology and the improvement of seeds have enabled the two counties to triple their agricultural production capacity compared to 20 years ago, increase their income by more than 10 times, and use more surplus land to grow beans, tung fruits, cotton and other cash crops.

The four counties of Pengyuan, Wanchuan, Shangguan and Ganfu were merged into the Xianguo State for 11 years, and in the last six or seven years after the first four years of hardship, under the guidance of the imperial court policy, the economy developed rapidly.

The capital injection of the two children of Luhou and Xuanting and their dependent groups, as well as the open industry franchise of Bailiyan, have greatly changed the appearance of the four counties in just a few years, and various small commodity industries have sprung up everywhere, and agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry have flourished, becoming the county with the largest number of foreign immigrants in Xian.

During this period, King Xian focused on inspecting the two counties of Wanchuan and Ganfu, and Wanchuan County was the second industrial economic and cultural center.

Since the second half of 647 began to plan, after nearly four years of development, a number of industrial processing enterprises have been established, Yongxing every year more than three percent of the latest equipment will be transported to Wanchuan installation and production, a pilot thermal power station will start in March, the use of Wanchuan's coal to provide thermal power, to the upcoming national telephone and telegraph, to provide a stable source of power supply.

King Xian's journey was slower than expected, and it was already early March when he went north from Ganfu to Qingtian, and the three counties of Qingtian, Sangbei, and Sangnam were all new counties that had just entered last year, but they were in good order and order, and they were by no means superficial articles of compulsory control and deception before the leaders' inspections.

At the beginning of the black scarf, Bailiyan had formulated a detailed takeover and economic recovery plan, which has been extremely complete after early implementation and the summary of the war.

Before taking over the three counties, the Xian army had thoroughly grasped the local intelligence and bought off the remnants of the black scarves and bandits that had been entrenched in various places, providing the most powerful support for the better completion of the takeover work.

As long as the people in power are not greedy, almost all taxes can be exempted from the occupied areas in the first two or three years, so as to reduce the taxes in the occupied areas, restore agricultural economic production, and stabilize public order and popular sentiment.

There is food and drink to ensure basic fairness and justice, and of course the common people will not rebel. Further, compared with the previous treatment under the rule of the Changsun State, the ordinary Changsun citizens under the rule of the Xian State received unprecedented personal treatment, and this alone was enough to motivate the commoners to keep to themselves.

In mid-to-late March, we entered Xianxi again, just in time for the spring ploughing of the whole country, and there was a sharp contrast between the trip to the three counties of Qingtian, Sangnan and Sangbei and the counties of Xianxi and other counties.

Xianxi is separated by only one boundary from Sangnan and Sangbei counties, but the living standards and social status of the people in the two places are very different, and the gap between infrastructure and economy is at least 50 years, or even 100 years. If the population is not counted, one Xianxi county in Xianguo is equivalent to the wealth of three counties of Changsun, and the productivity is several times that of Changsun country.