After scoring three times, Xiang Zhuang also felt a little unbearable, and when he was done, he hugged Widow Qin and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Xiang Zhuang was suddenly startled by a huge noise, and sat up from the couch in a hurry, and the Qin widow also sat up naked, and hurriedly put a big coat on Xiang Zhuang, this will already be autumn, the night is cold, if the king catches a cold, the queen and the harem concubines will not have to peel her skin?

Xiang Zhuang hurriedly walked out of the cabin with a big coat, and met Jin Xiang who was standing with a knife.

"Zicheng, what's going on?" A gust of night wind blew, and Xiang Zhuang instinctively tightened his jaw.

"Look, my lord." Jin Xiang pointed to the northwest and said, "There is a fire there, and there are people fighting, Jin Zhong has already rushed over with the Tiger Benzuo Battalion, presumably there will be news back soon." ”

Xiang Zhuang looked in the direction of Jin Xiang's finger, and sure enough, he saw a fire rising in the northwest direction.

After waiting for less than half an hour, a tiger warrior reported that a group of thieves of more than 1,000 people tried to attack Aocang, but they were repelled by the government soldiers guarding Aocang.

"Thousands of thieves?" Xiang Zhuang said in a speech, "The thieves in the Wei Kingdom are so rampant? ”

After pondering for a moment, Xiang Zhuang instructed Jin Xiang again: "Zicheng, immediately send Fei Fei to Xingyang, and let Gao Chu come to Aocang overnight to meet the widow, and the widow has to ask him how he governed the Wei State." ”

"Whoa!" Jin Xiang responded with a bang and took the order.

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Xingyang is only thirty miles away from Aocang, and Gao Chu will soon arrive quickly.

Due to the dilapidated Liang and Dingtao, Xiang Zhuang was sealed after the Wei State. Wei Cuo, the king of Wei, chose the capital in Xingyang City, which was relatively intact.

The two monarchs and ministers saluted, and Xiang Zhuang asked, "Shizhi, why haven't the thieves in the Wei Kingdom been cleared yet?" ”

Gao Chu smiled bitterly and said: "King, I am not afraid of you laughing when I say it, the minister led the troops to clean up several times, but instead of purging these thieves, it became more and more rampant." ”

Xiang Zhuang said: "Why is this happening? ”

Gao Chu said: "There are two main reasons. One is that the combat effectiveness of the Wei army is too low, and the other is that most of the thieves who robbed houses and houses in the territory of Wei were defeated by the Han army, and there were a lot of them! ”

After the defeat of the Han army in the Battle of Chushui. More than 200,000 people died in battle, more than 200,000 people were captured and died of the plague one after another, but the remaining 100,000 people fled to the counties of Weidi. Xiang Zhuang knew about this situation when he was the king of the mountain and robbed the house, so he sent Gao Chu, a general, to sit in the Wei State.

However, in recent years, Gao Chu has been the general of Wei, but he has still not been able to quell the bandits in Wei, which is somewhat unexpected by Xiang Zhuang.

Xiang Zhuang said: "At the beginning, most of the soldiers of the Wei army were veterans under the account of Peng Yue, the king of Liang, more than ten years ago, this was a group of tiger and wolf soldiers, why has it become a group of sheep now?" ”

Gao Chu said: "The minister estimates that there may be two reasons. One is that they are older, most of these soldiers are over forty years old, and the youngest is over thirty years old, but this is not the main reason, the main reason. Chen felt that these soldiers no longer had the slightest fighting spirit in their hearts. ”

Xiang Zhuang bowed silently, he seemed to understand a little.

If an army wants to maintain strong combat effectiveness, it must have a soul, that is, a military soul, and for the former Liang army, Peng Yue, the king of Liang, is undoubtedly their military soul. But with the withering of Peng Yue and the demise of the former Liang State, the military spirit of this army has disappeared.

The army that has lost its military soul is like a group of tigers and wolves that have lost their fangs and claws, and there is no ferocity at all, and this is most likely the main reason why these tens of thousands of Liang prisoners of war can no longer recover their combat effectiveness, in other words, these more than 40,000 Liang prisoners of war can no longer be soldiers, and they will be farmers in this life. ..., Gao Chu said again: "King, if you can transfer 20,000 soldiers from Jiangdong to come, the minister is confident that he will eliminate the bandits in three months." ”

"Let's not talk about it for now." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said, "The generals and military divisions on the left and right are also about to return from Liaodong, and the widows will sum up with them, and you will also attend at that time, and strive to work out a general strategy." After a pause, Xiang Zhuang said again, "Since Wei Cuo became the king of Wei, he hasn't made any small moves in Xingyang, right?" ”

"Just him?" Gao Chu said suddenly, "He doesn't even come out of the palace!" ”

Xiang Zhuang would be wrong about Gao Chu's meaning, and immediately said hypocritically: "Hey, you're not right at the beginning, no matter what, he is the king of Wei, once the news of you put him under house arrest in the palace spreads, the reputation will not be good." ”

"The minister did not put him under house arrest, but he himself was unwilling to go out." Gao Chu said disdainfully, "King, you can never imagine what this guy has done. Without waiting for Xiang Zhuang to ask, he continued, "This guy actually doesn't allow dozens of his concubines and palace maids to wear clothes, don't you say it's ridiculous?" ”

"Let him go." Xiang Zhuang smiled, "Hehe, let him go." ”

While the two gentlemen and ministers were gossiping, the team continued to pull out, first entering the river from Aocang, and then turning into Luoshui from the vicinity of Chenggao, and tracing Luoshui to the west for less than fifty miles, and then arrived outside the east gate of Luoyang.

Xiang Zhuang stood on the bow of the ship and looked at it from afar, only to see that the dust inside and outside Luoyang City was flying, and a team of craftsmen and servants were walking through like a shuttle, and the whole busy large construction site, dozens of harem concubines who were also standing on the bow and looking at Luoyang suddenly let out a sigh, obviously, the first impression of the new capital Luoyang was very bad for them.

Xiang Zhuang didn't care at all, the conditions in Luoyang were a little harder, but they were conducive to the great cause of reunification!

What's more, Luoyang's hardships are only temporary, in the history of China, Luoyang is the famous ancient capital of the Ten Dynasties, its potential is absolutely incomparable to Ziling, at most ten years, Luoyang will develop into a prosperous city that is not inferior to Ziling, and its population size is likely to exceed 500,000!

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Dou Yifang shook Liu Heng from his sleep and said softly: "King, it's time for you to go to court." ”

Liu Heng turned his head to look out the window, and saw that it was still dark, so he said reluctantly: "It's still early, concubine, you let the widow squint for a while, you can exhaust the widow last night." ”

Dou Yifang's beautiful face flushed slightly, and he insisted: "King, today is the beginning of the month, and the prime minister has already returned from Hexi. ”

"It's going to be bad." Liu Henghuo turned over and sat up, patted his forehead and said, "How can the widow forget this stubble, if it is too late to turn around, the father should definitely reprimand the widow again, hurry, quickly take the widow's big coat." ”

Dou Yifang got up and took the big coat to put on for Liu Heng, and served Liu Heng to freshen up hastily and bring the crown well, Liu Heng hurriedly left the palace and went straight to the main hall of Weiyang Palace.

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The bell rang loudly, Bai Mo and Chen Ping were the first, and the civil and military officials followed behind, picking up the white marble steps and going up, and then entered the main hall of Weiyang Palace, Bai Mo and Chen Ping looked solemn, and they were talking about something while walking.

Bai Mo said worriedly: "Taishi, I heard that Xiang Zhuang has arrived in Aocang, and it is a foregone conclusion that the Chu State will move its capital to Luoyang. ”

For Xiang Zhuang's motive for moving the capital to Luoyang, Bai Mo can be said to be insightful, it is obvious that Xiang Zhuang is too far away from the Central Plains, after moving the capital to Luoyang, the distance between the Chu court and Han, Han, Zhao, Qi and other countries has been greatly shortened, so that once there is something around, Chu can respond quickly.

Xiang Zhuang's relocation of the capital to Luoyang has another wonderful use that cannot be ignored.

With the relocation of the capital of Chu to Luoyang, in order to protect the safety of the imperial court, the defense of Sanchuan County and Wei will be greatly strengthened, and it will not be so easy for the Han army, the Han army, the Zhao army and even the Qi army to invade the Chu State, then the most prosperous Jiangdong counties in the Chu State will become the rear of the Chu State in the real sense. ..., in addition, moving the capital to Luoyang can also greatly drive the development of three kinds of counties and Wei land, once the development of Sanchuan County and Wei land, the national strength of Chu will usher in another leap, since the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty, Sanchuan County, Wei land is the Central Plains in the real sense, and the degree of fertility of its land is by no means comparable to Guanzhong.

Therefore, moving the capital to Luoyang is a wonderful move with one hand and three birds with one stone!

Chen Ping also saw the stakes, and muttered: "Yes, I really didn't expect that Xiang Zhuang would easily do such a big thing as moving the capital, amazing, amazing." ”

Bai Mo sighed: "From now on, I'm afraid that my Great Han Kingdom will only be tired of defense." ”

Chen Ping bowed his head silently, and then said: "The prime minister is going to Hexi, what does the king of the Yue clan say?" ”

Bai Mo shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The attitude of the Yue Clan King is much more ambiguous than before. ”

Half a year ago, the Xiongnu were hit in a row, especially as the core of the Xiongnu, the plough tribe lost almost all the cattle, sheep, women and children, in order to compete for the only remaining women and children and cattle and sheep, the plough tribe and hundreds of small Xiongnu tribes broke out a large-scale scuffle, no matter what the final result of this scuffle, the Huns are absolutely finished.

The defeat of the Xiongnu was imminent, and the king of the Yue clan had a different mind about the Mobei grassland.

King Yue is also an ambitious tribal leader, if the Yue Clan can occupy the desert of Guangmao, then within thirty years, the Yue people will become another powerful "Xiongnu".

However, the ambition of the king of the Yue clan obviously touched the sensitive nerves of the monarchs and ministers of the Han State, and Bai Mo did not want to go to great lengths to defeat the Xiongnu, but he collapsed out of the Yue clan, so when the Yue clan had just invaded Hutu Ze and Hun Evil Ze, and slightly revealed the ambition of trying to encroach on the entire Hexi grassland, Bai Mo decisively came forward to warn.

However, the results of this mission do not seem to be satisfactory.

Chen Ping frowned and said unhappily: "The threat of the Huns has just been lifted, and the king of the Yue clan plans to cross the river and demolish the bridge?" Did he really think his wings had hardened? ”

Bai Mo nodded, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that we have to give a stern warning to the Yue's people, take advantage of this salt and iron franchise, you might as well knock and knock them, I want to see if there is no salt, how many days can the Yue's people survive?" (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )