Sixteen days later, Shoucheng.

Since the return of the eldest prince Chu Qi, Shoucheng began to implement militarized control, all men were recruited, weapons were issued, women had to weave cloth, cook, feed chickens and ducks in the rear, and ordered each city to immediately pay tribute to people and grain to prepare for war.

In order to express the determination of the royal family to lead by example, Chu Qi first took the royal family and directly cut the one hundred and eight dishes per meal to four dishes and one soup, and collected all the oil and fat stored in Shaofu for the army.

I wish the king that I can only eat boiled vegetables for two meals a day, and there is no oil at all.

I wish the king this is the case, and the rest of the palace is no exception.

Even if the three surnames want to eat something good, in this case, they can only eat secretly at home, and they dare not let people find out, and the offender will be beheaded directly.

Such high-pressure policies naturally lead to numerous complaints.

Chu Qi went his own way.

General Xiang saw that in Shoucheng, thousands of protests were like beating sparks, about to explode in the oil pot, and he couldn't help but worry about Chu Qi: "Eldest prince, is this move ......?"

"The king of Liang is besieged, and the grain in the city is enough to chew for three years, if it weren't for Wang Qian's diversion of water to flood the capital of the king of Liang, the king of Liang would not have fallen in March." Chu Qi stood with his hands in his hands and said calmly, "The palace has only enough food for the whole city for two months. ”

General Xiang could only sigh.

Of course, he knew that in the homes of the people in Shoucheng, there was enough food to eat for a month at most.

There has been no war for decades, and no one takes it seriously when they run out of food.

As for the three surnames, of course, there is a habit of hoarding grain.

But it has only been 40 years since the king moved to Shoucheng, and in the first ten years, all kinds of ruins have been waiting to be rebuilt, and it has only gradually improved in the last 20 years. Strictly speaking, the three surnames did not hoard too much food, at most enough to support two or three years.

After all, in recent years, all kinds of delicacies in Zhao have spread all over the world, and the nobles have been striving for perfection and developing various dishes.

The domestic yield per mu has not gone up, but because of the improvement of technology, the waste of food is greater, which is the reason why the palace does not have much grain in stock.

Accustomed to eating white flour and fine grains, who wants to eat bran vegetables!

But if Shoucheng is besieged, the grain for two months is too little.

"The eldest prince is sure that Zhaoguo will definitely send a large army to surround it?" General Xiang was still a little suspicious, "They have just lost 500,000 people, accounting for 10% of the country's population, and they are already seriously injured." When King Zhao did this, wasn't he desperate to gamble on the fortunes of the country? ”

Shouldn't the right thing to do is to recuperate for a few years and go to war again?

"You don't know Yin Changying." Chu Qi said lightly, "Don't say that he doesn't know that 500,000 people are not in my hands, even if he knows, he will only recruit more soldiers, and he must destroy the Zhu country!"

"Even if this war is fought for two years, three years, or even five years, so that half of the counties and counties of Zhaoguo are uncultivated and the fertile fields are overgrown with weeds, he will do it."

"Compared with the destruction of the country, such a price, even if it is fierce, is extremely worth it."

If he was in the position where Yin Chang won, he would choose it this way.

Zhaoguo's two strong enemies, Zheng Guo is already an empty shell, and Zhu Guo is also in danger.

This is the result of the accumulation of six generations of monarchs of the Zhao Kingdom, and it is the best time to destroy the Six Kingdoms.

But any bold monarch will never miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Once Zheng Guo and Zhu Guo recover, I don't know when the next time they will dominate the world.

General Xiang had mixed feelings in his heart.

If only the eldest prince could come back sooner.

If it weren't Chu Wan, a coward who thought about pleasure and begged for children every day, and had no ambitions, but the eldest prince, Zhu Guo would definitely not be what it is today, right?

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Zhu Guo has three successive generations of monarchs, and the hegemony left by the ancestors has been ruined, and what is left for the eldest prince is only a mess, an empty shell that survives.

It's ridiculous that there are still people fighting for this country full of holes!

General Xiang didn't understand why the eldest prince didn't directly arrest Chunhuajun and Uncle Guo and execute them to prevent future troubles: "These two people frequently gather guests to discuss privately, I'm afraid it will be aimed at you." ”

Although Chu Qi said that he didn't want the throne, Chunhuajun and Li Yuan didn't believe it!

The current crown prince of Zhuguo is the son of Chunhuajun and the nephew of Li Yuan, if he can't let the little prince ascend to the throne and let Chu Qi's prestige rise to the sky, when Chu Qi will liquidate the little prince's life experience in the future, can they still have a good life?

Chu Qi was not surprised by this, he just looked at the sleeping phoenix bird in the suburbs, and said lightly: "They won't kill me yet, otherwise no one will be able to order all cities to resist Zhaoguo together." ”

He lives, and I wish the country hope;

He died, whether it was Ling Yin of Zhuguo or Uncle Guo, he was not even as good as a slave in Yin Changying.

No matter how profitable Chunhuajun and Li Yuan are, this account will still be calculated, even if they don't count, the doorman will help them calculate it.

Therefore, Chu Qi never worried about these two people doing something to him, because at this moment, it was not these two courtiers who wanted to kill him the most, but his biological father, Zhu Wang Chuwan.

But King Zhu didn't dare to really kill Chu Qi.

As the king of a country, Yin Changying will always leave the king with a life.

But King Zhu couldn't figure out what the attitude of Chu Huan, the concubine who was still in Zhaoguo, towards his father and brother.

Because of the blockage in Jiangling County, Shoucheng didn't receive information so quickly, and I don't know the situation on Zhaoguo's side, such as whether Chu Chu was implicated and so on.

But King Zhu still has a bit of a brain, knowing that if Chu Shuan makes a decisive gesture of cutting off his brother and being loyal to Zhaoguo, Yin Changying will definitely let the other party go.

Zhao Guo has detained the direct members of the royal family for many years, so that if one runs away, he will kill the other, and he may even be more gracious to set an example.

also left him to return to Zhuguo, and when King Zhu left, Chu Xuan was only three years old; When Chu Qi left, Chu Shu was almost in the age of standing.

Although King Zhu felt that Chu Xuan would hate his brother a little more, if his father, who had no impression, killed his brother who had been dependent on him for more than 20 years......

King Zhu couldn't guarantee that Chu Chu would not kill his father in anger, so he didn't dare to do anything to his eldest son for the time being.

After General Xiang figured out this verse, he didn't know what to say.

From the perspective of a country's generals, of course, he was glad that the eldest prince could return to China, so that they had a backbone.

But in his heart, just thinking about it, he felt that Chu Qi was completely boring to himself.

He couldn't even understand what prompted Chu Qi to leave everything behind and return to this country that was not welcomed, recognized, or even wanted to get rid of him, and chose to sacrifice for this country.

"Why?"

Before he knew it, he asked.

It was obviously a sentence with no beginning or end, but Chu Qi knew what General Xiang wanted to ask.

His expression didn't have a trace of waves, just calmly looked into the distance, smiled slightly, and showed a little helplessness: "Who gave me the surname Chu?" ”

The country is about to perish, and if the eldest son of the king is not martyred, what face will he have?

Xiang Xiang choked on something in the general's throat, and there were countless words in his heart that he wanted to say, but he didn't know what to say.

At this moment, he saw that Chu Qi's expression became solemn.

Following Chu Qi's gaze, General Xiang was also nervous.

Phoenix bird, wake up.