Zhao Guo, Yecheng.

Since Shi Hu occupied Yecheng, he called himself the Great Zhao Heavenly King, and the place he controlled almost confirmed the name of a country, and the subordinates and bureaucrats around Shi Hu were all called "Zhao State" in order to do what he liked.

It's just that this doesn't make Shi Hu feel much better, and in the palace that has not yet been fully completed, five people have died in the past two days, including three palace maids, one eunuch, and one is a minister.

With these lessons from the past, those who come to report the situation now will inevitably be frightened one by one, for fear that if one is not careful, the butcher knife will fall on their heads.

"Your Majesty, there are three towns rebelling today, but they are mainly in Sizhou."

But no matter how frightened he was, there were still some things to do, and on this day, the official went in to report, but when he spoke, he was very careful, paying attention to Shi Hu's expression all the time, and when he saw the other party's brows furrowed, he immediately lowered his head and didn't dare to continue.

"Someone is making trouble again, and it's really not a time for people to have a little peace of mind." Shi Hu glanced at the man and narrowed his eyes, "Go on, how are these rebels now?" ”

When the man heard this, he continued: "The soldiers and horses have already been suppressed, and those people are all rabble and chaotic people, and there are many homeless people taking the lead, and they themselves are not even equipped with weapons, so they are naturally not the opponents of the king's soldiers and horses. ”

"However, this is the seventh in a few days." Shi Hu narrowed his eyes and thought about it, and the others were immediately silent and didn't dare to say more.

After a while, Shi Hu seemed to have finally figured out something, he patted his palm lightly, and said: "Give me an order, just say that the people who rebel this time must not leave a living mouth, kill all of them, and build a Jingguan, so that others can know that it is powerful." ”

Hearing this, some of the officials below couldn't help but be stunned, and then looked at each other, all of them showing hesitation.

Noticing their expressions, Shi Hu narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile, "What?" Could it be that my orders are not clear enough, or are they ......" he deliberately lengthened his voice, "you are related to those rebels, and you are not willing to kill them?" ”

"Don't dare!"

The officials were immediately frightened and fell to their knees, trying to explain their loyalty.

Shi Hu laughed, very satisfied, and then waved his hand and asked everyone to retreat.

Seeing Shi Hu's smile, the officials breathed a sigh of relief, and then said in their mouths, leaving quickly one by one.

It's just that as soon as they left, the smile on Shi Hu's face retracted, then narrowed his eyes and sneered: "These people, I really don't know what they think, they must still be the same set of wanton killings, there are rumors that hurt the heavens and peace, but I don't know at all, if not, how can I deter the people of the Han family?" ”

Thinking like this, he frowned.

Next to him, there was a little eunuch who looked very clever and white-faced, came over, smiled flatteringly, and said: "Among the officials below, many of them are still from the Han family, and they don't do things for the king, which is really annoying!" ”

Shi Hu glanced at him and reprimanded, "What do you know? Babble here! ”

The little eunuch quickly knelt on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, and trembling with fright.

Shi Hu ignored this person, but then stood up, found a guard over, and asked, "What did Nie Daoren say recently?" ”

The guard shook his head and replied, "This person is still the same as before, and he is not willing to serve the king. ”

"It's a tough one, so I'll go see him again, and listen to him this time, and what else can he say.

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Nie Daoren was practicing calligraphy.

Compared with a few years ago, he has completely become a middle-aged appearance, but he is in good spirits, and after writing a few words, he put down the brush and looked at it carefully.

Now his people are under house arrest, except for the dumb servants who come to deliver food every day, and some of the guards who watch over him.

However, the guards didn't dare to speak to him rashly, because there were lessons from the past - there were people who had a good conversation with this Nie Daoren before, and even learned some Buddhist scriptures from Nie Daoren, but the head was cut off by Shi Hu on the second day and sent to Nie Daoren.

At that time, Nie Daoren's expression was as usual, and he didn't see much of anything unusual, but from that day on, he stopped talking to the guards who were guarding, and those guards were even more frightened and didn't dare to talk to Nie Daoren anymore.

As a result, no one spoke here for several days, and it seemed extremely deserted.

However, as Shi Hu arrived, there was an immediate sound, and when the guards saw Shi Hu coming, they all knelt on the ground and proclaimed themselves kings.

Shi Hu didn't look at them, he went straight to the courtyard, pushed open the door, and saw Nie Daoren who was admiring what he had written, and laughed.

"Nie Daoren, you are so interested, and you are still in the mood to write here, don't you care about the general trend of the world?"

"Nie should be a dead man, so why bother to care?" Nie Daoren put down the pair of words and said lightly, "You Shi Hu originally used the banner of Qingjun's side, saying that he was going to take my Nie Daoren's life, why did you want to recruit me in the end?" ”

"Don't be complacent!" Shi Hu laughed and said indifferently, "You think I value your talents?" Wrong, if you really have the ability, my uncle would have suppressed me a long time ago, how could there be these later incidents? ”

There was no mercy in saying this, but Nie Daoren just smiled and said, "If the king really uses my scheme, you won't have a chance at all, it's a pity." He sighed, and then said, "The reason why you keep me is nothing more than to value my influence in the Buddhist family." ”

"Since you know it in your heart, then I don't need to say anything more," Shi Hu laughed, "But this time, I came here to say one thing, you also know that a certain family has now promulgated a system of shaving hair and making it easy to wear, so in your opinion, how long will it take for this move to be successful?" ”

"You can't just come here to show off with me," Nie Daoren didn't seem to care at all, and said coldly, "I think your idea is that the current Sizhou in the south is promulgated, and it is necessary to let the central land of China be Hu first, if I expect it to be true, now after the decree is promulgated, when many people have already resisted, and this move is actually exactly what you want, and it is used to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys!" ”

"Kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys! That's a good word! Shi Hu became proud, "The people below thought that I would be unhappy about this, but they didn't know that I just wanted to force them to rebel, and then kill them all!" Kill not only the rebels, but also their relatives! ”

His voice was faint.

"There are too many of you Han people, if you don't kill a few more, where can we still get our Han people to sit in the world!"