After the meeting of Mengjin, Qingji did not return to Xianyang, the western capital, but led a temporary patrol team to inspect the land of the city that he had obtained.

The cities ceded to Wu by Han and Wei at this time were a full fifty-one. It is true that the territory is staggered, but it belongs to the territory of Wu after all.

After signing the document to cede the land of the city, the Wu army took over the fifty-one cities of Hedong, Yingchuan, and Shangdang.

In the past

Zheng Guo, the "Spring and Autumn Xiaoba", and the land of its cities were basically occupied by the Wu State. The year before last, the combined forces of Han, Zhao, and Wei Sanjin destroyed Zheng and divided Zhengdi.

Since the state of Zhao did not border Zheng Di, the two countries decided after some discussion

"Changing places", which led to the rapid surge of Zhao's national strength. At present, although Zhao has the fiasco of the Battle of Li, the main force is still there, and the national strength has not declined much, and it can still pose a certain threat to Wu.

Qingji originally planned to send troops to attack Zhao. It's just that occupying so much territory in the Central Plains itself requires a lot of troops to garrison, and Han and Wei may not be able to tolerate Qingji's move to destroy Zhao.

In case Han and Wei rebelled against the water, suddenly rebelled, and cut off the back route of the Wu army, what could they do? In order to avoid this from happening, Qingji believes that it is still necessary to destroy Han and Wei first, and then Zhao at the end.

At this time, Qingji's patrol team came to Yecheng.

The name "Ye" originated from the place where the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, the granddaughter of the Yellow Emperor, and the son of the female cultivator, lived in Daye. In Tang Yao, Yu Shun and Xia belonged to Jizhou, Shang belonged to the name of Jin, the Western Zhou belonged to Wei, and the Spring and Autumn belonged to Jin.

Qi Huan Gong began to build Yecheng, and after the six families were divided into Jin, Yecheng was divided into Wei and became an important town.

Yecheng is a place where soldiers must fight. To the north are Wei and Zhao, not far from Daliang and Handan; To the east is the Wei State, and the Wu State can use Yecheng as a springboard to threaten the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao, and Wei.

On the bank of the Zhangshui River, Fan Li, who was following Qingji, also seemed to be aware of this problem, so he said to Qingji: "King, the minister thinks that he can be in the county, in the county. ”

"Yecheng has now become a battleground for the soldiers of Wu, Wei, Zhao, and Wei."

"Location is important. Moreover, Chen Shicai observed that this place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the land is fertile, and there are business travelers all year round, and the taxes that can be paid to the Jin State and the Wei State every year are very large. ”

"This place, like Anyi and Daliang, is the three major capital places of the Wei State. It is said that when Wei Jun moved the capital before, he also considered that the capital would be set in Yecheng. ”

"It's just that because Yecheng is located in the eastern corner, I am afraid that it will be invaded by the enemy all the year round, so Wei Jun will give up." Is the capital of Yecheng?

It is understandable that the Wei people had this kind of thought before. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shaojin to occupy Yecheng and built Yedu, Yecheng has since become the capital of Cao Wei, Later Zhao, Ran Wei, Qianyan, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties, so this place has in history

"The hometown of the Three Kingdoms, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties".

"The king, the minister thinks that if the county is placed in the Central Plains, Yecheng can be ruled as the county, and the garrison is heavily garrisoned, and a general with both civil and military skills is selected to guard it."

"Moreover, the king should vigorously develop Yecheng, so that the people will be attached, and further stabilize the foundation of our Wu Kingdom in the Central Plains."

"Good." Qingji's thoughts coincide with Fan Li. After all, it is difficult to fight the world, and it is even more difficult to govern the world.

In order for Wu to gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains and not be blocked at the doorstep of the Kwantung princes again, it is necessary to consider a preemptive strike.

Qingji and his party took a chariot to patrol the fields. I saw that a lot of the cultivated land had been deserted, and there were many weeds.

The cooked land has become the raw land, why is it here? Qingji was a little puzzled. Yecheng was indeed a heavy capital of the Wei State before, but the proportion of commercial tax was extremely high, and the land rent tax was dwarfed.

Some of the farmers even sat in the shade of the trees chatting and gossiping. When Qingji came, the farmers knelt down and paid homage to Qingji.

"See the King! Long live the king! "They used to be Wei people. However, Yecheng has become the territory of Wu State, and they can only change the name of Qingji and make a big salute.

In every family, basically men died on the battlefield, especially at the hands of Wu Jun. This made the old farmers feel very complicated when facing the celebration.

Hatred? Some. However, they didn't dare to expose it, and they didn't dare to be disrespectful to Qingji. It was their honor to see the true face of King Wu.

"The second and third sons don't have to be polite, sit." Qingji sat on the wooden pier on the side very approachably, and he didn't even need the guard next to him to come forward and wipe it.

This made the old farmers present can't help but have a good impression of Qingji.

"Second and third sons, the widow first came to Yecheng, but I don't know that the business and travel industry here is so developed, why can't farming?"

"Could it be that Wei Jun was tyrannical before, making the Ye people suffer from labor and military service, and there were no young and middle-aged laborers in the countryside?"

......The farmers present couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing how to answer Qingji's question.

It is conceivable that there are too many young men in the Wei State who have died on the battlefield. However, Wei Junxuan did not do anything that was unsympathetic to the people's power and expropriated violently.

However, the countryside of Yecheng is indeed sparsely populated, and the fields are barren and depressed, and they are deserted.

Qingji has inspected many Han Wei's hometowns, but he has not found such a situation. At this time, a middle-aged man with dark and yellow skin and a sturdy figure gritted his teeth, plucked up the courage to speak: "King, I can't hide it, there are few people in this field, and there is indeed a reason. ”

"Because in the past ten years, many farmers have fled one after another, so that the fields are deserted and uncultivated."

"What could be the reason?"

"I, the people of Ye County, are suffering from marrying a wife to the river god, so we are poor." The middle-aged man sighed and said: "The three elders and Ting Peng of Ye County have to collect taxes from us and other Li Shu, especially the peasant households, every year, and collect millions of copper coins. ”

"They only used two or three hundred thousand of them to marry Hebo, and shared the rest of the money with Zhu Wu and took it home."

"When it was time to marry Hebo, the witch went on an inspection, and when she saw a beautiful woman from a small family, she said, 'This woman is suitable to be Hebo's daughter-in-law,' and she gave a dowry to marry."

"Bathe her and wash her hair, make her new silk clothes, let her live alone and fast, and make her a house by the river for fasting, and hang up a red and red silk tent for her, and I will prepare her wine and meat later."

"In this way, for more than ten days, the second and third sons decorated and decorated the bed pillow like a daughter, let the woman sit on it, and then make it float into the river."

"At first, it floated on the water, but after floating for dozens of miles, it sank."

"Those who have beautiful women are worried that Da Wu Zhu will marry them for Hebo, so most of them run away with their daughters."

"Because of this, the countryside has become more and more empty and poor, and this has been the case for a long time."

"There is a saying in the countryside that 'if you don't marry a bride for Hebo, the flood will flood and drown all the common people.'"

"......" Isn't this a feudal superstition? Qingji was speechless. However, this kind of behavior of harming Li Shu's interests and carelessly managing people's lives is hated by Qingji.

"Fan Li."

"The minister is here!"

"You go to the city and let the three elders, Wu Zhu, and the old folks of Ye County take care of the matter of marrying the river god, because of the interest of the widow, you want to take a look. Make sure they do it without delay. Qingji said meaningfully: "Tomorrow, the widow will see the river god marrying a bride." ”

"No!" Fan Li thought for a while, and then agreed.

The generals and guards such as Wu Ming, Wu Liang, and Sun Di around the "Great King ......" hadn't figured out what was going on, didn't understand the deep meaning of Qingji, and wanted to step forward to dissuade them, but Qingji waved his hand and interrupted them.