Chapter 3: The Age of Chaos
This Liu Yuetian is the son of the lord of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he is a prince, so he is naturally very prominent, but in fact this is not the case.
The territory of this Great Zhou is vast, and it takes a year to run from south to north.
Such a vast area nominally belonged to the world of King Zhou, but in fact it was not.
His Majesty, the founding emperor of the country, expanded the territory and established the Great Zhou, and then divided the princes to sit on one side until now it has been seven hundred years, as the so-called long time must be divided, the princes of all parties occupy their own territories after so many years of operation have long become powerful, each of them is a wolf ambition to destroy the Great Zhou and replace it, and even as early as a hundred years ago, the princes of all parties have had a war, and the weak ones were eliminated by the strong ones.
After a hundred years of conquest, only seven powerful princes survived in the end, and they became extremely powerful, namely Qin, Tang, Qing, Wei, Shu, Wu and Tubo Seven vassal states, each of which occupied a vast area of thousands of miles, and the Great Zhou Kingdom was Chang'an, located in the center, and was firmly surrounded by these seven kingdoms.
The Great Zhou Dynasty is divided into the Western Regions from north to south, and the prefecture, Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou and Tibet, and is called the capital of Kyushu, in addition to the capital of Kyushu, there is a large area of outside the Saiwai.
Great Qin is located in the northwest, occupying a vast area of nearly 10,000 miles of the Western Regions Protectorate, and now the lord of the country is even more prodigal ambition, always wanting to annex other princes, and the people of Qin are fierce, and the people are not afraid of death.
Li Yuan, the lord of the Tang Dynasty, occupied Bingzhou and Youzhou, and his subordinates were strong and strong, and there were many famous generals, and tens of millions of people responded to each call.
The Qing Dynasty was entrenched in the north, where it was a bitter cold place, it was originally the place where the Great Zhou exiled prisoners, and for hundreds of years gathered a group of murderers who were not afraid of death, as a result, these people were absorbed by the Qing Dynasty, and now the lord Nurhachi is even more powerful and always wants to step on the Central Plains.
The Great Wei occupies Jizhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou, where the land is fertile and the transportation is convenient, and today's Wei lord Cao Cao is a generation of heroes, and he has been working hard for more than ten years to now is also eyeing the tiger.
Located south of the Yangtze River, Wu occupies most of Yangzhou and Jingzhou, which is a water town, rich in grain and salt, and a warehouse of money and grain, and the lord Sun Quan has a far-sighted plan to raise an army of hundreds of thousands.
And Shu is in Bashu Yizhou, the lord Liu Bei is the distant uncle of the current Great Zhou lord, the relationship between the two sides is not bad, there is rich in land, the people live and work in peace and contentment, known as the country of abundance, with natural danger easy to defend and difficult to attack.
There is also Tibet, located in Tibet, where the altitude is thousands of meters, ordinary people can not reach, and now the lord Gesar calls himself the king of heaven, condescending like a tiger ready to attack.
As for the Great Zhou, although it is nominally the co-lord of the world, but in fact the area that can be ruled is really pitiful, except for the surrounding area of Chang'an, there is only a small part of the Yizhou area, covering an area of about 1,000 miles, especially the current lord Liu Sheng, that is, Liu Yuetian, the cheap father, is even more enjoyable every day and does not ask about the world, there are more than 50 children alone, Liu Yuetian is his thirteenth child, just 16 years old this year, and he has nearly 40 brothers and sisters behind him.
Among the more than fifty brothers and sisters, the eldest prince is now in his thirties, and the youngest princess was born last year.
Those princes outside are waiting for the opportunity to move, and the inside of the Great Zhou is not stable, Liu Sheng, the king of Zhou, is now only about fifty years old, which is considered to be in the prime of life, but the perennial wine has long made his body weak, and those princes have begun to move, and three of them have already established their own forces, namely the great prince Liu De, who is the current prince, the nominal future lord of the Great Zhou, occupies the land of Hongnong and is named the king of Hongnong.
There are also the four princes Liu Yu, who is the king of Hedong in the land of Hedong, and Liu Che, the king of Hanzhong, who occupies Hanzhong as the king of Hanzhong, who is only in his twenties and has tens of thousands of troops, and his strength is the strongest among many princes.
These three princes were crowned princes and each had a huge power, and the remaining princes would be crowned county kings as soon as they reached the age of sixteen, but this strength could not be compared with the prince.
For example, Liu Yuetian's fiefdom is Tianshui County, which occupies no more than dozens of miles in a circle, which is the westernmost point of the actual ruling area of the Great Zhou, and further northwest is the territory of Great Qin, and the southwest is the Tibetan land of the Tubo State.
The king of the county seems to be a prince, but in fact, the rights are far inferior to the prince, the princes are each in charge of one side, have absolute rights, and have their own army, but the king of the county is not good, this Tianshui County is nominally Liu Yuetian's fief, in fact, he is only a thousand households in the food town, that is to say, there are thousands of households whose taxes belong to him, and there is no right left, and what army and so on have nothing to do with him.
And this Tianshui County is not a good place, not to mention the harsh climate, except for the tenant farmers are all military households, the tenant farmers are poor, the military households have been inherited from generation to generation, and the farming and warfare are fought in peacetime, and the folk customs are extremely strong, and the words are not in line with each other, especially Liu Yuan, the guard of Tianshui County, is a ruthless person.
This Liu Yuanzu was originally the king of the Xiongnu in the north, and when King Wu of the Great Zhou swept the world seven hundred years ago, he became a subject of the Great Zhou, and was given the surname Liu, and was named the king of Tianshui, and the fief was Tianshui.
According to the regulations set by King Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, those princes are hereditary, the title of Tianshui King is nearly five hundred years, until two hundred years ago, the strength of the princes in the world has changed, and the powerful princes began to eliminate those weak princes.
Until a hundred years ago, Tianshui County belonged to a prince called Long Hong, but the strength of this prince was also very weak, and he was quickly eliminated by another prince, at this time, Liu Bao, the descendant of Tianshui King, borrowed 10,000 soldiers from the hands of another prince and took advantage of the chaos to destroy this Long Hong and occupy Tianshui again.
At that time, the princes rose together, and they could be called princes if they occupied a city, but this Liu Bao acted low-key and took the initiative to propose to Da Zhou that he should only be a county guard and not a prince, so on this day, the water king and his family returned to their hometown again.
To this day, the county guard of Tianshui County is this Liu Yuan, this person is in his forties, he studied in Chang'an when he was young, he is quite proficient in the culture of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and later served as the keeper of Tianshui County, although Tianshui County is a bitter cold place, but the people in the territory are quite stable, more than ten years ago, there were a large number of displaced people harassing Tianshui, as a result, Liu Yuan only led 3,000 soldiers and horses to kill nearly 10,000 people, and he became famous in a battle, even the surrounding Daqin and Tubo were also secretly co-opted, but this Liu Yuan did not come together with these two forces, It's been pretty stable for more than ten years.