120 Yuan Shaoxiong (II)
"Brother, why are you frowning these days?"
"Hey, don't mention it, I'm unlucky!" Hearing Yuan Shu's question, Yuan Shao's mood became even more depressed.
The reason why Yuan Shao married the little princess was for the throne of the Ugo Kingdom. Now that the king has a favorite heir to the throne, and this person is not him, of course he has become like this.
This also can't be blamed on Yuan Shao, no matter who sees the cooked duck flying, he will be unwilling.
"Brother, now our family has saved the two of us, if there is anything, you just say it, and our brothers will bear it together."
Although Yuan Shao didn't think that Yuan Shu had any way, but he said so, Yuan Shao told him the matter.
Hearing this, Yuan Shu smiled and said, "Brother, I thought what was the matter, just this little thing, it would make you embarrassed." Rest assured, this throne is definitely yours! ”
"Oh, so you have a solution?" Yuan Shao was quite shocked.
The two grew up since childhood, what kind of person Yuan Shu is, Yuan Shao knows very well, he never thought that Yuan Shu could solve this problem. Otherwise, he would have let Yuan Shu have an idea. But listening to Yuan Shu's tone, he could solve this problem, if he didn't doubt it, it would be strange.
"Hey, what's so hard about this, just find an opportunity to kill that king. Now the person he likes is still young, and once he dies, the only one who can succeed him is you, the son-in-law. ”
"Alas, brother, it's easy for you to say, but the king of a small country is also a king, how can it be so easy to be killed."
"Brother, this matter is really not difficult in my opinion." As he spoke, Yuan Shu mysteriously took out a vial from his arms and said to Yuan Shao: "Brother, this thing can easily kill the king." ”
"What is this, poison?" Saying that, Yuan Shao shook his head and said to Yuan Shu: "Poisoning is not good, the king has people to test the poison when he eats, this will not work." ”
"Brother, this is not an ordinary poison, this thing is specially prepared for you."
"Oh, what the hell is going on?"
"Brother, this is really providential."
As he spoke, Yuan Shu explained. He is now in the country of Ugo, and he has almost nothing to do. At his age, where can he stay, so he wanders around all day.
A few days ago, he was wandering around, and when he didn't pay attention, he was hit by a person. Originally, when he saw that this person was a Han man, he thought about it, after all, it was not very easy to meet a Han person in a foreign country. But seeing this person's panicked appearance, he was a little curious.
Yuan Shu was curious, so he tricked him. I didn't expect this guy to be a thief, and he actually said that he was going to run away after killing someone.
That's it in the Ugo country, Yuan Shu didn't hear about anyone being killed at all, and when he asked, he got this bottle of medicine. It turns out that the state of Ugo has a habit of eating raw snakes and evil beasts. This medicine is usually not poisonous, but as long as it is taken with snake gall bladder, it is a deadly poison, and he uses this characteristic to kill people. Although no one saw through it, he was just worried, so he wanted to go back to Dahan, but he didn't expect to meet Yuan Shu in a hurry.
Yuan Shu has been thinking about how to help Yuan Shao get the throne as soon as possible, and now as soon as he heard that there was such a good thing, he immediately grabbed it. And in order to be afraid that the man would lie, he also used the man to do a test to prove that the medicine was completely effective.
After hearing what happened, Yuan Shao was immediately happy, and couldn't wait to go back and try the effect.
The king of the kingdom of Ugo was very fond of eating venomous snakes raw, especially snake gall bladder. This snake gall is almost what he must eat every day. In this case, it was not difficult for Yuan Shao to kill him by medicine. I didn't even use it the next day, and Yuan Shao succeeded on the same day.
As soon as the king dies, the princess in the country has the final say. But the princess, who was coaxed by Yuan Shao, didn't know what her surname was, and the affairs of this country were equivalent to Yuan Shao's final say in disguise.
Although Yuan Shao wanted to be king, there was no tradition of a son-in-law succeeding to the throne in the Ugo Kingdom. Some people support the little princess as the king, and some people support the young vulture as the king, but no one supports him.
Yuan Shao also knew that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so he wasn't in a hurry. After all, according to his analysis, it is definitely not a short time to end this controversy.
Unable to ascend to the throne directly, Yuan Shao chose a roundabout route. He first passed the princess and let Yuan Shu and the dead soldiers under him control the military power. Then slowly squeezed out, those who were in charge of the army before, after he completely mastered the power of the army, through his rhetoric, got the support of the princess. In the end, he finally got his wish to sit on the throne.
Although he sat on the throne, Yuan Shao knew that the gap between him and Liu Hong was still quite large. Not to mention anything else, population alone is an insurmountable gap.
Population represents strength, and in that era when cold weapons were the mainstay, strength represented almost everything. There are not enough troops, what will he use to deal with Liu Hong, and what will he take to take revenge.
Yuan Shao is now thinking about how to increase the population so that he can get more troops. If you want to encourage childbearing, let the people of the Ugo country give birth to themselves, and with the population of the Ugo country, you want to reach the level of the Han Dynasty. Let's not succeed or not, even if it can succeed, the time it takes will be enough to melt all the bones and scum he is waiting for. But if you don't give birth to yourself, where can you find a population?
"It seems that the only way to go out and rob it!" After thinking about it for several days, Yuan Shao finally thought of such a way.
Although the country of Ugo is called a country, it is actually a larger tribe, so they preserve many tribal traditions. As mentioned earlier, eating raw snakes and beasts is the tradition of indigenous tribes, and it is also the tradition of tribes to swallow each other. Yuan Shao's proposal to annex other small states and tribes was unanimously approved.
Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and the dead soldiers who followed them, after all, were all educated by the elite of the Han Dynasty, and it was almost not difficult to annex those small countries and tribes around them. Coupled with the fact that they acted cautiously and began to annex the weakest and smallest tribes first, it didn't take long for their actions to yield remarkable results.
A country like Ugo, which is like a tribe more than a kingdom, is very much about personal bravery. Originally, Yuan Shao sat on the throne, and many people were unconvinced. Now that Yuan Shao has annexed so many tribes, not only has the population increased, but his prestige has also slowly increased. First of all, the people recognized him, and then later, his prestige was incomparable, and he was more than one in the country, more majestic than Liu Hong in the Han Dynasty.
Yuan Shao knew that it was impossible to deal with the Han Dynasty with the population alone. Therefore, he tried every means to improve the Ugo country, so as to give the Han a fatal blow in the shortest possible time.