Section 8 Pressure
readx;? The days in the imperial capital are always the most memorable time for Wu Feng, even after many years of ascending the throne as the emperor, revisiting the old land, Wu Feng and the people involved are still very nostalgic. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info After refusing Situ Yushuang's meeting, Wufeng took the trouble to entangle Sophia, and after the reception, Shi's Shuangshu also visited together from time to time, plus the three daughters of the Li family, Wufeng can be said to be intoxicated with flowers, or indulged in the Longmen Grottoes, or climbed high and looked far away from the Luoshen Tower, or the butterfly shadow Shuangfei in the peony garden, or explored the secluded Range Rover in the White Horse Temple, and was happy. Seeing that the master was wandering in the flowers, he could not get too close to disturb the master's good deeds, and he could not be too far away to avoid being attacked by assassins and had no time to react. In view of the fact that Wu Feng had already been assassinated several times, before each trip, Wu Feng's hundreds of guards always had to arrive at the scene half an hour in advance to investigate, and even the Great Xiangguo Temple and the Aoba faction had to send capable people to disguise themselves and blend in with the crowd to assist, in case something happened to their big backer.
Angel's becoming Wufeng's wife has become a semi-open secret in the imperial capital, and even Situ Yutang expressed his silence, especially Wufeng Angel's two joint participation in important social activities in the imperial capital confirmed this, but on the surface, neither Wufeng nor Angel personally proved this situation, so that the political media and entertainment media reported the news one after another, and others were able to force the two to come forward to confirm or deny it in person through media pressure, but they failed to achieve their goals.
This news even brought the status of the Huey family to rise, and the five major families of the empire also began to diverge, the Huey family, which was originally the lowest-ranked, became popular because of the line of Wufeng, and the Qin family because of its friendship with Situ Yuan, the king of Chu, was faintly replacing the first Miao family in the empire, and His Majesty the Emperor's most loyal supporters, the Tang family, the imperial capital Wang, squeezed out the Ye family, which was originally attached to Situ Jun, out of the five major families, and the Miao family, which maintained close ties with Situ Tai, because of its deep roots, although its influence declined under the influence of Situ Tai, its family power was intertwined in various departments and places of the empire and had not yet been shaken, can still be ranked in the top three of the five major families of the empire.
Although Wu Feng was very happy with this kind of life of playing dragons and phoenixes, the change in the situation forced him to leave the imperial capital and go to his new territory, Guanxi County. Wu Feng's departure made many people sad, given that he and Situ Lang Situ Yuan were in a honeymoon relationship, Wu Feng didn't want to show the appearance of dragging his family and fleeing, so Angel still stayed in the imperial capital, but the three daughters of the Li family went to Kansai with Wu Feng at the invitation of Wu Feng. Although Sophia accepted Wufeng's invitation, she only said that she would go to Kansai at the right time, and did not agree to go with Wufeng, which made Wufeng very disappointed. He has a lot of affection for this girl who looks like an angel but reveals a graceful and luxurious atmosphere in her bones, but it's a pity that the time spent together in the imperial capital is too short, and the relationship between the two seems to only stay at the point of sympathy.
Although Situ Lang issued a request for the Northwest Army to launch an offensive in Qinghe as soon as possible to reduce the pressure on the defensive circle of the imperial capital, Wufeng made a big deal with the word "as soon as possible", as soon as possible is as fast as possible, but as far as possible the three words are meaningful, the Kaman people readjusted the deployment in Qinghe, and the more than 200,000 troops gave up confronting the imperial army in the southeast corner, but retreated to Fucheng, obviously to consolidate the rule of Qinghe Mansion with peace of mind, and at the same time, two 10,000-strong infantry and a 10,000-strong cavalry were deployed in the west of Qinghe to strengthen the defense of the west and prevent the Northwest Army from sneaking attack。 In view of this situation, Wu Feng wrote that the current Kaman defense line is stable, and the Northwest Army cannot break through, so it can only wait for the opportunity, although Situ Lang is very dissatisfied with this, but Ye has nothing to do, but the actual situation is like this, if Li Wufeng wants to fight this kind of war of attrition with no chance of winning, Li Wufeng will definitely not agree.
The eastern front is once again peaceful, but it does not mean that the Northwest Army has died down, the war against Anyuan is still actively preparing, all kinds of scouts are active in Anyuan, and the rebels sent by the intelligence department are also frequently in contact with the unstable elements of the Anyuan Taiping Army, there are several precedents for the Taiping Army to get reasonable treatment after the surrender, and the persuasion work of the rebels is more powerful than anything else, but Anyuan Mansion is the temporary capital of the Taiping Holy Kingdom, and the Taiping Sect forces here can be said to be the most stubborn, although it has been perceived that the main force of the Taiping Sect in Heshuo is unlikely to break through the Kansai to give support to Anyuan, which is hundreds of miles away, but these guys still refuse to be captured, Fortunately, Wufeng does not require that Yasuhara be taken immediately, just wait until the second half of the year, and it will naturally come to pass.
In March, the Kansai has already revealed a hint of spring, when the warm breeze with the help of the dissolving spring sun gently blows the land of Kansai, Wu Feng has been in Han for nearly ten days, in addition to inspecting the grain storage from the six prefectures, Wu Feng is more to inspect and visit the prefectures, and at the same time receive the newly incorporated four prefectures and local nobles, gentry and businessmen, scholars and celebrities, listen to their views on the current situation in Kansai and the future situation in Kansai. Wu Feng's amiable and generous image has won unanimous praise from people from all walks of life in Kansai County, although some conservative Confucians have some complaints about accompanying Wu Feng to inspect a few foreign women instead of imperial princesses, but this kind of private issue not only did not have much negative impact on Wu Feng's prestige, but became a beautiful talk among those who claimed to be celebrities, and the three daughters of the Li family, who were known for their picks in the imperial capital, won the praise of the Kansai scholars who had always been wild and popular, and also won a lot of popularity for Wu Feng.
While inspecting Kansai, Wu Feng was thinking about the next step of military affairs, and on the other hand, he was also thinking about the reform of Kansai's political structure and how to effectively integrate the northwest and Kansai and half of Kitahara County in the future, so as to lay the foundation for the establishment of his own complete base area.
The landlords and nobles of Guanxi County are relatively strong, and the situation in the northwest that Wufeng initially took over is very different, the northwest is the entire upper class has been completely destroyed by the Luope people for more than ten years before it was taken over by Wufeng, it can be said that it is a blank, which is extremely beneficial to the establishment of Wufeng in the northwest to establish absolute prestige, the facts have also proved this, from a certain point of view, Wufeng also thanks to the Luope people's invasion of the northwest, at least their crazy sweep of the northwest landlords and nobles in the northwest cleansed, leaving Wufeng a blank piece of paper to scribble at will。 The situation in Kansai is the same, although it was swept away by the Taiping army, but the Taiping army seized power for too short a time, and did not establish a solid rule in Kansai at all, nor did it shake the foundation of the landlords and nobles, and the short-term entry of the Lin Lang family was only a general, so if he wanted to gain a firm foothold in Kansai, Wufeng had to face these landed nobles first.
Fortunately, Wufeng's great military exploits on the northwest border and his strength over the Kaman people and the Taiping sect made all strata in Kansai admire him, and the rapid changes in the northwest in recent years, the economic take-off, especially the influx of a large number of northwest goods into Kansai, also made all strata in Kansai have great expectations for Wufeng, and they all hope that this hero who is almost a god in the people of the empire can bring earth-shaking changes to their lives like the northwest.
The nobles hoped that Wufeng could show them a clear way, not only to maintain peace and stability in the region, but also to make their lives more and more prosperous, and after seeing the earth-shattering waves set off by the Taiping sect's entanglement of the desperate lower-class peasants, they all realized that maybe it was not a clear way to continue like this, and maybe one day they would be subverted in this turbulent waves one after another, but they could not change all this, so they longed for Li Wufeng to lead them out of this dead end and bring them prosperity and security.
The businessmen were the most enthusiastic about Li Wufeng's entry, and the industrial and commercial exhibition in the northwest has become a model for the entire empire, and the six provinces in the northwest and the two provinces of North Luzon, which have entered the vitality and potential list of the imperial economic exhibition for several consecutive years, have made the businessmen's eyes purple, and the road traffic network and the active commodity economy in the northwest have made the businessmen envious and worried about the environment they are inThe Northwest implemented the policy of compulsory low land rent and low taxation, which once made them resentful of why they were not born in the Northwest, and this day finally came, the masters of the Northwest will also become the masters of their own land, and they look forward to their own bright tomorrow; 。
This huge pressure of expectation from all sides made Wu Feng feel this unshirkable responsibility, whether he was in the presence of the nobles and gentry, or wandering in the eyes of the common people, or facing the eyes of merchants and peasant representatives. In the Han Mansion, which had been subjected to the rotation of the Taiping Sect and Lin Lang, this pressure made Wu Feng feel suppressed even breathing. Every slogan full of fiery welcome, every newspaper that exaggerated and praised Wu Feng, every pair of eager and expectant eyes, and every flower, wine and beautiful woman who greeted him everywhere made Wu Feng feel the weight of the burden on his shoulders.