The Great Xuan Dynasty has been plagued by accidents recently.

First, a small vassal state in the northernmost part declared its secession from the Great Xuan Dynasty.

The small country called the Huang Huang Kingdom also listed the ten major crimes of the Great Xuan Dynasty.

The most representative of these are the first four.

The first is to pay tribute every year.

Regardless of the fact that the tribute required was almost emptied of most of the treasury's storage as tribute, the leading officials who went to the tribute alone must be the children of the royal family who were born from the royal family who were heavy enough in the Zongren's mansion.

The second is that the country does not hang the national flag.

The imperial flag of one's own family is not allowed to be hung on the capital of one's own family, and the nine-toed Xuanlong flag of the Great Xuan Dynasty must be hung.

The good name is that the gods of the Great Xuan Dynasty are blessed.

Third, the dangerous city must be garrisoned by the hundred battle generals of the Great Xuan Dynasty, which also has a good reputation to protect the safety of subordinate countries.

Fourth, it is also the most unpopular among the people of Huangkui Country, which is to impose heavy taxes.

Of course, it was impossible for the Great Xuan Dynasty to send tax officials to the Huangkui Kingdom, not because they didn't want to, but because they didn't have so many officials.

Regardless of the fact that the Great Xuan Dynasty is almost a vast and vast territory, the largest four vassal states alone have one-third of the territory area of the Great Xuan Dynasty, and one of them is also suffix with the word dynasty, as for other small affiliated countries like Huangkui Kingdom, there are many, and many of them are afraid that even the deceased Emperor Daxuan Shiquan who laid down the territory can't remember.

Or, there is no need to remember that for the first emperor, if you don't accept it, you will fight until you obey.

The Great Xuan Dynasty's taxation of these small vassals was referred to as a whip law, and all taxes were compiled into one, and an approximate amount was given through the annual inspection of the officials, and the objects of taxation were those in power in those small countries.

Naturally, the wool can only come out of the sheep, in fact, the Daxuan Dynasty does not collect much taxes.

At least for those ordinary people, it definitely belongs to the people who can still live.

It's just that there is exploitation between countries and between officials, and taxes are like a snowballing backlog, reaching a range that the people can't bear.

As long as the Ninety-Five Venerable who sat on the dragon chair in the Huangkui Kingdom was not blind, he knew the truth that the water of disaster moved eastward.

As for the other sins of the people of the lower sect and the people of the suzerain, they are inferior to the people of the suzerain, but not many people care.

Originally, they were equal to those princes and generals, and where could they be lower if they were low.

When the new emperor, who was over fifty years old, heard about this, he was furious on the spot and vowed to drive the royal expedition and level the Huangkui Kingdom.

No matter how many officials stop it, they can't stop it.

There was a human disaster in the front, and a natural disaster in the rear.

The hinterland of the Central Plains, known as the granary of the Great Xuan Dynasty, has had a locust plague that has been rare for ten years.

Locusts are overwhelming, and even there is a horrific cannibalism, which is white and shocking.

In addition to locust plagues, plagues are even more frequent, and even the people in the most serious areas are dying.

The people can be said to be full of complaints, but at most, they quietly scolded their mothers in their hearts.

You must know that because of the wanton investigation and killing of the world's martial arts rangers, the Imperial City Division has spread all over the vast territory of the Great Xuan Dynasty.

But anyone who dares to slander and talk about the new emperor can be cut off first and then played.

The new emperor was full of excitement to prepare for his Northern Expedition.

The Prime Minister's Mansion, because of the new emperor's decentralization, the entire Prime Minister's Mansion has become the busiest institution in the imperial capital.

People come and go, people come and go, in and out, in a hurry.

Prime Minister Zhang Jiuxuan saw the hurried figures of officials in the Prime Minister's Mansion through the window of his study on the second floor, and he felt particularly relieved inexplicably.

This is what he should have as a prime minister.

It's not the same as before.

After thinking about it, Zhang Jiuxuan lowered his head and looked at a piece of music on his bookcase.

The right hand holding the pen trembled slightly, but just like his current situation, it was not easy to come by.

The heart is horizontal, and the pen is dipped in ink, and the horizontal painting of "the people are not living" and "natural disasters and man-made disasters" on the top of the recital is gone.

Finally, after much hesitation, he clutched the whole piece and threw it into the brass charcoal basin on the side.

A trace of fire quickly burst out in the copper basin, and then the fire became bigger and bigger, drowning the entire Minggui paper made of Minghuang silk paper.

The orange fire reflected Zhang Jiuxuan's no longer youthful face, and Zhang Jiuxuan felt that his heart was as hot as the flames that were rising.

The flames quickly extinguished, leaving behind a cloud of crumpled ash.

Zhang Jiuxuan looked at the ashes in the copper basin and pondered for a long time, as if he was faintly pushing himself and himself.

What he Zhang Jiuxuan wanted to do was the expensive bright yellow silk paper, the heart-warming fireworks, not the embers after burning.

Sansi Shangshu, who had been standing on the side for a long time, was sweating profusely, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Thinking about the scorching sun of the dog days, even if the room was full of ice stoves, it was still too hot, and the Lord Ruling actually lit a fire to keep warm.

There was a rare gust of wind blowing outside the window.

Zhang Jiuxuan came back to his senses, and the touch after the sweat stains on his back dried up were really uncomfortable, just like those bad things he didn't want to face.

Retracted his eyes that were staring at the copper basin, turned his head to look at the bookcase, and only then did he find the Sansi Shangshu who had been standing for a long time.

He exhaled lightly and said, "Lord Wang came in person, but there is something important. ”

Sansi Shangshu raised his heavy feet, handed over a piece of music, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Zhang, this is the piece of music that is handed over at the bottom to be presented to the saint, you read it first." ”

Zhang Jiuxuan hesitated for a moment, flipped through with one hand, and only turned two pages, then "snapped", closed the chapter, and said slowly: "Does Lord Wang know what is most important now?"

"The Northern Expedition. ”

Zhang Jiuxuan nodded, "Yes, that's exactly the reason, Your Majesty is now full of enthusiasm and wants to compare with the first emperor, don't pour cold water on us courtiers, otherwise the life of the first emperor will not be so easy." ”

Sansi Shangshu nodded immediately, and when he stepped into this study, he had a guess of such an outcome.

The plague outbreak of the Great Xuan Dynasty was mostly in remote mountainous and poor land with inconvenient transportation.

The transportation is inconvenient and the information is difficult to progress, so the response is not as great as the locust plague in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

After all, the territory under the Great Xuan Dynasty is too big and too vast.

Guanshan City is one of the places where the plague broke out.

Before the outbreak of the plague, Guanshan City could be described as the largest city in the mountainous area within a radius of dozens of miles.

Now, if you step into Guanshan City, there are corpses all over the field, and there is a death-like silence, and no living person can see it.

A black-robed man walked on a main road in Guanshan City with the strong stench of decomposing corpses.

The man's surname is white, and the word is a death.