The capital of Great Xia, Diqiu, is located in Zhongjing County in the east and west of Great Xia, and the entire capital covers an area of 900 square kilometers.

It is a square city with a length and width of 30 kilometers, and it is a super city built by several generations of emperors of Bactria over a period of 170 years.

The whole capital has four gates in the south, east, west, and northwest, and the whole city is surrounded by a wall of 30 meters high, and there are 365 squares in the city, corresponding to 365 days in a year.

Diqiu has a population of 280,000 households and 1.34 million people, accounting for one-sixth of the population of the entire Zhongjing County, and is also one of the largest cities on the entire Saturn continent.

The various markets in the entire capital have the saying of the East Gui, the South Ya, the West People, and the North Merchants.

In the most noble Heian Fang in the east of the city, in the prince's palace of the eighth prince Natsuyoshi, the young eighth prince is sitting in his study, listening to the report of his subordinates.

"Sure enough, as Mr. Chen and the lord expected, several important ministers of the princes of Chen County have already expressed strong dissatisfaction with their family master's decision."

"So, they've agreed to Lone's request?"

"Yes, Lord, here is their joint letter of allegiance."

With that, the prince's subordinates respectfully presented a sealed secret letter with both hands.

A thin middle-aged man standing next to the prince took the secret letter and handed it over to the eighth prince, Xia Ji.

After reading the letter, the eighth prince handed it to the middle-aged man casually and said with a smile.

"Mr. Chen, your plan has worked, and these people have really made up their minds to take refuge in Yu Gu."

Mr. Chen, a middle-aged man who was emaciated, took the secret letter and looked at it, smiled and replied modestly.

"It's just a little trick, not enough for the prince's praise, the Shadow Pavilion has already sent a killer team according to the prince's request, as long as the opportunity is ripe, it will be done immediately, but the several counties around Chen County, I'm afraid the prince needs to write a letter to inform them personally, especially the five-county alliance, and now it should be said that the six-county alliance."

The young and handsome Prince Xia Ji had a smile on his face and patiently explained to Mr. Chen.

"Ever since the young priest of the Wen family seized Hanyang County, I have had a lot of correspondence with him, and it is clear that he has a good opinion of me. And since August last year, I have had business contacts with him, and now all the special products of Han County are sold in the counties near Jingshi by my store. ”

"If you don't feel at ease, I'll write to him right away."

Mr. Chen was also relieved when he heard that the prince and the priests of the Wen family had a good relationship.

"If you have a good relationship with that priest, that's fine. According to the news from the Shadow Pavilion, this young priest is now an Eighth-Order Extraordinary, and it is best for this powerful Extraordinaire to stand with us. And what is the attitude of the fifth prince now? ”

The smile on Prince Natsugi's face was lost, and he said a little worriedly.

"My fifth brother, he is good at everything, but he is too confident, he thinks that he is his nephew, and he will not do anything to him in the future, but he doesn't want to think about it, my Great Xia has a history of seven hundred years, and so far there are only two counties in the wilderness land in the extreme south, which is the clan of my Xia family, and the other clans that have been sealed before have a good end?"

"People are harmless to the tiger's heart, the tiger is hurtful, and the fate of one's own family is best held in one's own hands, and you can't count on others to give alms. It's good that this nephew is interested, if he doesn't know how to be interested, I can hold him up, and I can naturally hold him down. ”

Mr. Chen heard this direct suggestion.

"If you want me to say, you can ascend the throne directly, anyway, the current situation in Great Xia is on the verge of a desperate situation, he is a twelve-year-old child, who grew up in the hands of a woman, can he become the king of revitalization in the future? I've seen enough. ”

The Eighth Prince shook his head and said.

"Look at it, after all, you need people's hearts, besides, my father is not only my fifth brother and my two sons, I still have a dozen brothers after all, these brothers are not born of the same mother like me and my fifth brother, God knows what they are thinking at the moment. So take your time. ”

Mr. Chen nodded and analyzed.

"Since this is the case, we still need to continue to expand our strength, the three counties taken from the twelve princes, we have now controlled two counties, plus your territory and the princes close to you, we have the strength of eight counties, but the Taiwei who controls the four royal guards has always been lukewarm to you, I am afraid that something will go wrong with him at that time."

The Eighth Prince pointed out the reason.

"It was because he was not close to anyone that he was appointed as a lieutenant by his father, so he naturally maintained a consistent attitude."

Mr. Chen gave his own opinion.

"If it doesn't work, we'll start with the four guards, and if the commander can't work, find the deputy commander, and if it doesn't work, contact the captain below."

The Eighth Prince, Natsugi, nodded in agreement.

"Yes, I approved it, you can ask the old man directly if you need anything."

"Okay, then I'll go and arrange it, and you'd better hurry up and write the letter to the Wen family priest."

With that, Mr. Chen walked out.

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Ten days later, Wen Jiming received a handwritten letter from the Eighth Prince.

After reading the letter from the Eighth Prince, Wen Jiming was a little inexplicable, and he immediately called someone to summon several important ministers and his friends to the study for a meeting.

After everyone arrived, Wen Jiming handed them the letter and asked after everyone had read it.

"The Eighth Prince said in the letter that there may be major changes in the nearby counties, and I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't figure out what changes the Eighth Prince was referring to in the letter. What do you see that you don't see? ”

The elder Wenli thought about it and said a possibility.

"According to our spies, there has been some unhappiness between the monarchs and ministers of Chen County recently, and they should have been rewarded, but the territories and female dependents of the meritorious ministers in the annexation of Hanyin County were not rewarded to them, but the territory was given to the sister-in-law of the lord of Chen County, and the female dependents were taken in by the lord of Chen County himself."

"In addition, I also heard that the lord of Chen County did not get close to the Eighth Prince who made great efforts to this matter, but began to distance himself, so that the Eighth Prince took revenge for his favor, and broke a beloved jasper wine glass, but this news is just a rumor and has not been confirmed."

Wen Jiming sighed.

“Whom God wishes to destroy， he first makes mad.”

It didn't feel right, and I hurriedly translated.

"If God wants to destroy it, he must first make it mad."

Aristok praised.

"What a wise saying! I find that you are becoming more and more like a wise man now! ”

Wen Jiming expressed his opinion.

"To be honest, I admire this Eighth Prince, and it can be seen from the content of our correspondence that he is a very ambitious person, and he is very intelligent, and he has the mind of a man in troubled times and a capable minister in the world. If he really becomes the emperor of Great Xia, I will definitely give him face. ”

Family Elder Wenli frowned and asked.

"The Lord thinks the Eighth Prince may usurp the throne?"

Wen Jiming shook his head.

"I don't know if he will usurp the throne, but he is following the path of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes."

"However, these are other people's affairs, we can't control it, no matter what, we still have to continue to implement the established policy of developing our county, do you have any ideas about the construction of the new city I said a few days ago?"

Wen Tong replied first.

"According to the statistics of the Fenggong Office, there are about 120,000 people who can be mobilized at present, which can basically meet the needs of building a city."

Wen Jiming turned his head and asked Lao Wenli.

"Have you found the location of the new city?"

The old man replied.

"It has been decided, and everyone thinks that the central location of this county is the best place to build a city, located in the plain, close to the Hanshui River, and the road between Chengdu City is all flat, which is convenient for building cement roads."

Wen Jiming made a decision.

"Then start building the road first, and start construction on the first of next month."

As soon as the words fell, the guards outside the door reported that there was an urgent message sent to the old man Wenli, and the old man hurriedly returned soon after he went out and reported to Wen Jiming.

"Our spy in Chenjun sent a message, the letter said that last night, the whole family of the lord of Chenjun was assassinated, and there were no chickens and dogs left in the whole house, this morning, the important ministers of the family were in a hurry, and the victorious side claimed that the other party was the murderer of the lord, took over the whole county, and announced that Chenjun would be dedicated to the court. In addition, the secret agent revealed that the victorious side was the few important ministers who had an unpleasant quarrel with the lord of Chen County a few days ago! ”

Wen Jiming praised.

"Awesome, my brother. Did you see that this means, dedicated to the imperial court, is not equivalent to dedicated to the eighth prince. No wonder you want to write to me to explain it, it seems that you still have a little scruple about me. ”

Wen Heng stood up and proposed.

"Lord, we can take advantage of the chaos and send troops to occupy Hanyin County first, they are definitely not our opponents!"

Wen Jiming waved his hand.

"There's no need, it's not necessary to be greedy, just our little place in Han County is enough for us to work hard for several years. It's useless to have so many territories, and our army is still too small, if you want to fight for supremacy, you must have at least one legion. ”

"You must know that in our territory, there are not even three million people, and the population is still too small, and there are eight million people in one county of Jingshi, which is far behind."

The elder Wenli asked.

"Then we're going to ignore it?"

Wen Jiming smiled.

"How is it possible, now is the time to stand in line, I will write to the imperial court, congratulate the imperial court on having more territory of their own, and write a reply letter to the eighth prince, explaining to him that I will be his ally in the future."

"In a month, Aristock and I are going to the land of the gods, and this Great Xia will be left for them to toss, hoping that when we come back, there will be a mess. The only thing you have to do right now is to keep this home after I'm gone! ”

All the important ministers in the family saluted and said that they were only.

November 25, 735 in the Great Xia calendar.

The Chen family, the lord of Chen County, was slaughtered by the killer overnight, and the important ministers of the family dedicated the county to the imperial court, and the vassal states of Great Xia have since been one less, leaving only fifty-six counties.

January 2, 736 in the Great Xia calendar.

Wen Jiming, Aristok, Great Swordsman Belov, Little Lola, Karina and Little Angel of Death Delia used the portal to leave Chengdu City.