(In the previous chapter, Wu Shaoyang should be Wu Shaocheng, clerical errors, corrected one by one.) ）

As soon as the news came out, many Caizhou citizens who had been to the theater felt that their scalps were cold. Of course, if people have a heart, they will also find that Wu Dashuai also began to change sex around that time. The efficient Huaixi local government quickly solved the murder case, and came to the conclusion that the troupe died at the hands of horse bandits who had disappeared in Huaixi for many years. Since they are not horse bandits from Huaixi, the result is obvious, the horse bandits are from outside Huaixi.

In the eyes of Huaixi officials, the horse bandits in Huaixi have long ceased to exist, but for the towns around Huaixi, Huaixi is the largest horse bandit, and there is almost no one that has not been plundered by Huaixi. However, it is no wonder that Huaixi, Li Jifu said in the "Yongzhen National Accounting Book" that Yongzhen led two households and one soldier at the beginning, and the situation in Huaixi was as good as that, and Wu Shaocheng had to maintain a huge standing army in the four battles of Shen, Guang and Cai. Huaixi's standing army is more than 50,000, and after Li Xilie and Wu Shaocheng's years of war, the number of households is far less than 100,000, and the imperial court does not deal with it all the year round. The people's livelihood is frowning and the army is not decreasing, and God will not bypass Huaixi when he strikes disasters, so Huaixi's life is difficult day by day, and the pressure exerted by the imperial court is increasing. This is also the reason for Wu Shaocheng's great change.

Since Li Yu successively won victories over Xichuan and Zhenhai, Huaixi has become the main direction of attack of the imperial court. Within a year or two, the leaders of the various provinces around Huaixi have been replaced, Lu Zhen and Zheng Yuqing, the two prime ministers, one south and one north, echoing each other from afar, after the completion of the whole army, the combat power of the army in each town has been significantly enhanced, and as soon as Liu Changyi entered the court, Huaixi became a real place of death. Although Li Shidao still secretly supports Huaixi, after all, he is sneaky and a drop in the bucket. Huaixi's plundering of the towns was also successively attacked by the towns, although the scale was not large, and the parties were not too loud, the emperor turned a blind eye, but Huaixi's sphere of influence was still seriously encroached. Wu Shaocheng didn't know that this was the ancient application of Li Yu's "Cold War" thinking, but a strong sense of crisis still filled the heart of this generation of heroes.

How did the USSR collapse? No matter how strong a country's army is, its supply capacity cannot keep up, and it will eventually be a dead end. Isn't the Huaixi Army strong and able to fight? I make you can't even eat, make you full of internal contradictions, and see that you are still a tough fart. In the first year of Li Yu's accession to the throne, the Jianghuai flood also gave relief to Huaixi tens of thousands of Chen rice, but after that, Li Xun began to complain about Huaixi's request, so Huaixi's figure disappeared from the disaster relief plan. Huaixi sent an envoy to interrogate, and Li Xun said in a sunny manner with a teacup:

"Come, bring the report, let the prime minister see how much Huaixi has paid this year, and call back some of it, so that you don't have to run to the prime minister all the time."

Huaixi's taxes are not enough for themselves, and they still pay taxes! Huaixi, which is in a semi-independent state, pays taxes! You're not kidding! Li Xun choked on a few words so that the Huaixi envoy couldn't say a word, and the Huaixi envoy was full of grief and indignation, turned around and walked out of the evil Duzhi Yamen, determined to go back and ask Wu Dashuai to send troops to pull the flag and rebel. Fortunately, the emperor was sensible, gave Li Xun a lecture, and sent Yu Zai to appease the Huaixi envoy with kind words, saying:

"You go back first. The emperor's German voice to Huaixi then arrived. ”

When he arrived in the capital, he was afraid that the officials were small, and the Huaixi envoys were all hairy in Chang'an, where high-ranking officials were like forests. I wanted to dredge up the relationship, but all the officials of the yamen said that it was okay, and changed their original polite attitude, and they all deduced that there was something to do, and that there was something to be done, that the report should be made at the end of the year, that disaster relief should be busy, that the whole army should be busy, and that it would be busy arranging projects for the army that had been laid off, and that the Huaixi envoy had stayed in Chang'an for more than ten days, and none of the important officials had seen it, so he had to go back in a huff.

However, the emperor was very trustworthy, and Deyin came down soon, but the whole of Caizhou was angry. The emperor's tone to Huaixi was like this:

returned Huaixi's New Year's gift to the emperor at a discount, and asked Wu Shaocheng to take the money to buy rice.

Huaixi was exempted from the upper tax, and ordered that the money for staying in the state be collected according to the provincial assessment.

The Huaixi Army was reduced to 25,000 men in two armies, one of which was transferred to Fengxiang if it was willing to serve. The Huaixi military was allowed to eliminate soldiers in the territory.

To put it nicely, when you buy rice, the surrounding towns are all offended by Huaixi, and you don't want to sell rice to Huaixi. Tax-free, Huaixi's taxes were not paid in the first place. As for disarming the army, it is a good way, does Huaixi dare? can only force the people to open the land, but the taxes in Huaixi are so high, and the people have no heart to open it. If it weren't for the strict criminal law and strict control in Huaixi, many people would have been afraid that they would have abandoned their fields and fled the famine.

Huaixi understood that the most important of the emperor's three was the last one, which was to force Huaixi to reduce the army, give up the secession, and lose sincerity to the imperial court. In fact, the court is very reasonable, if you don't lose taxes to me, why do you want me to help you? The rebellious Huaixi was enraged, and the Huaixi's resentment against the imperial court increased even more. Although other powerful feudal clans such as Ziqing and Wei Bo are crying out for Huaixi, writing and scolding that ruling is not a thing, and the support for Huaixi is also very practical, such as Li Shidao secretly sent thousands of rice to Huaixi, but Huaixi still decided to do it himself, what else could Huaixi, which had repelled the siege of Sixteen Dao, not do?

The reason why Huaixi is so single is also because Li Shidao, who can best help Huaixi, has actually stopped supporting Huaixi, because the imperial court banned the sale of grain in the great drought, so the grain of Ziqing, which did not have any formalities, was divided among the towns that had been planned for a long time on the way. And the thousands of Hu that were sent were released by Han Hong when he passed through Xuanwu. The losses are too great to outweigh the losses. Moreover, the prince is on his eastern tour, and it is impossible for Han Hong to release too much water. The other towns are far away and the water is not quenching their thirst, and Huaixi has finally understood what it means to be a place of four wars, that is, everyone surrounds you in the center and kills you in all directions.

If Huaixi wants to survive, it must have food, and the place with the most food is the main direction of Huaixi. Where is the most food wealth in Datang? Huainan and Liangzhejiang. So the troupe from Shannan Dongdao died mysteriously in the direction of Shouzhou, instead of returning to Xiangzhou, Shannan Dongdao. Although the matter is unbelievable, the Huaixi locality, in line with the purpose of quickly solving the case and comforting the deceased, set the whereabouts of the horse bandits in Shouzhou. Although Shouzhou has always been prosperous, there are no horse bandits in the territory, and it is still not far away from Huaixi, but Huaixi has the determination to cross the border to fight and capture the horse bandits.