Chapter 405: Fourteen Strategies for Resurrecting Souls by Borrowing Corpses

Wang Yun traveled from Keiguan to Jinyang, and on the way, he had to pass through the county seat of Changzi, and the county was only dozens of miles away from Crouching Tiger City.

Since he was sealed, Liu Rong, who was a pig's foot, could no longer rely on pestering Zhao Zhenbang in Crouching Tiger City to continue messing around. Zhao Xing, as the second actor, also had to go to Jinyang to deal with what happened after Liu Rong was sealed. Not to mention, the result of everyone's analysis is that although the imperial court can't do anything like Zhao Xing, the big hat of General Zhenbei that he has been wearing on his head for many years is about to be taken back. After all, as a subordinate official of the King of Jin, according to the etiquette system, Zhao Xing's future official position can only be sealed by the King of Jin, and the official position of the imperial court is only assigned to the military generals who obey the orders of the imperial court.

After listening to everyone's analysis, Zhao Xing was really a little unwilling and reluctant in his heart, after all, he still had a lot of affection for the title of General Zhenbei, and the people of Bingzhou had long been accustomed to this affectionate title. When the people of Bingzhou need to swear now, they do not mean the heavens and the earth, but say this: "I swear in the name of General Zhenbei, if ...... , let General Zhenbei pile me up into a landscape!" It can be seen how deeply rooted General Zhenbei is in Bingzhou, or how powerful "Zhao Shaved His Head" is.

According to the etiquette system at that time, the counties that were divided by the imperial court to the princes and kings were called states, and their administrative rank was equal to that of the county. It's the first time that a state has been directly sealed off like this time. Whether it is a county or a state, according to the rules, the official subordinates of the kingdom can only be divided into two systems: one is similar to the civil affairs system of county officials, there are xiang (quite taishou) and changshi (quite duwei), and their subordinate officials are roughly the same as those of the county; In addition, the kingdom can also have a Fu similar to the Taifu, who is responsible for tutoring the princes and kings, and the rank is equivalent to the crown minister.

In the future, as long as the state is merged into the Jin state, everyone's official positions will be at least one level lower than those set by the imperial court. Zhao Xing, who did not have the title of General Zhenbei, was at most appointed as the lieutenant commander of Changshi and Lang, or a little more ruthless, and one more Fu. But none of these three titles can be compared with the local Zhenbei general of Xiangdang.

Don't say that Zhao Xing was unwilling, even if he shouted Jia Xu, Tian Feng, Guo Jia and others who were in charge of General Zhenbei, they would feel very unhappy, so everyone began to rack their brains to help Zhao Xing come up with ideas. After some pondering, Jia Xu really came up with a way to make people laugh bitterly.

Jia Xu's method is to simply not want any titles in the future, and be a "Taishang King"! This title was naturally invented by Jia Xu, in fact, Jia Xu's idea is to choose a suitable age from among Zhao Xing's daughters, and Xu Rong will be married to Liu Rong as the queen, then Zhao Xing will be Liu Rong's father-in-law in the future, and this signboard can be managed for a long time in the Jin Kingdom, and even in the Han Dynasty.

As soon as Jia Xu put forward this opinion, Guo Jia immediately jumped out to oppose it. Guo Jia's reason was that if Zhao Xing became the father-in-law of the King of Jin, how would he seize power from the King of Jin in the future? Wouldn't it block the way for Zhao Xing to become the emperor?

Tian Feng on the side said with a smile: "Father-in-law naturally can't take the throne from his son-in-law, but if someone else provokes his baby son-in-law, shouldn't the father-in-law roll up his sleeves and help his son-in-law get angry?"

After Guo Jia heard Tian Feng's words, his eyes lit up, and then he said: "What does Mr. Yuan Hao mean that we use the strategy of borrowing corpses to return souls?"

"Exactly! At the time of the generational change, those who have fallen behind the country will definitely borrow the corpse to return the soul. Whoever sends his troops to others and attacks and defends them in his place, uses this also. Back then, Xiang Yu supported the shepherd boy Xiong Xin as the king of Chu Huai, wasn't this the plan?" Tian Feng said with a smile.

The meaning of Tian Feng's words translated is: Whenever there is a turbulent period of change of dynasty, many forces have temporarily praised the descendants of a certain dynasty monarch who has been overthrown as the new monarch, which turned out to be a ploy to resurrect the soul by borrowing the corpse. Anyone who entrusts military power in the name of someone and actually takes charge of the power of conquest in the name of agency is also using the strategy of "borrowing the corpse to return the soul".

In that year, someone pretended to be the name of "King Zhang Chu" Chen Sheng to provoke Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew to revolt, and worshiped Xiang Liang as the Shangzhu State of Zhang Chu's regime. Later, Chen Sheng was killed by the coachman Wang Jia, and after the news came, many of Xiang Liang's subordinates encouraged Xiang Liang to establish himself as the king of Chu, but Fan Zeng, a strategist who defected to Xiang Liang, suggested that Xiang Liang support the descendants of the king of Chu before Qin destroyed Chu as kings, so as to win the hearts of the people of Chu. Xiang Liang followed Fan Zeng's advice, so he found Xiong Xin, the shepherd boy of the queen of Chu, and established himself as the king of Chu Huai. Immediately, the number of Chu Xiangjun's troops in Chu quickly expanded to 100,000.

After listening to Tian Feng's explanation, Guo Jia also felt that this plan was good, so he no longer objected. Of course, Zhao Xing also understood the meaning of everyone's words, that is, in the name of King Jin in the future, he would often find some high-sounding reasons to clean up the forces around Bingzhou that refused to submit. In this way, it can occupy the name of righteousness, not only make the court have nothing to say, but also reduce the resistance of the common people everywhere they go.

There is only one thing, Zhao Xing has not yet figured it out, even if he swept all the forces in the world under the banner of King Jin, how can this throne be transferred to his own hands in the end? There were no outsiders present at that time, so Zhao Xing said his doubts, and several strategists laughed happily after hearing it. Looking at their smiling expressions, Zhao Xing knew that he had asked a very stupid and naïve question.

Sure enough, Guo Jia said a word, which made Zhao Xing scold himself in his heart for a long time. Guo Jia said: "When the coming day is complete, you can follow the ancient method and force the Son of Heaven to give in......"

Guo Jia's statement is very similar to Cao Pi's practice of proclaiming himself emperor in history! Moreover, what Guo Jia did not finish saying is that the advantage of this is that it retains the last trace of face for the Han family. Because the King of Jin is his son-in-law of Zhao Xing, that is, the surname Liu has an in-law with Zhao Xing, even if Zhao Xing wants to stabilize the imperial power in the future, he can kill the surname Liu without raising a butcher knife. In doing so, invisibly, it also dissolves the resistance of many families surnamed Liu, and can avoid the formation of a situation of making enemies everywhere.

Zhao Xing's most hated approach in his heart is that whenever the royal power changes, the party that gains power always tries to kill everyone who can be killed in the previous dynasty, and burn everything that can be burned, and then completely annihilate many real histories, causing the rupture of civilization inheritance again and again. Don't you see, the great China, up and down for 5,000 years, is worthy of scrutiny and convincing historical records?

Since a relatively mild means can be used to realize one's political ideals and ambitions, "How can the struggle for hegemony kill more?" Zhao Xing, who had figured it out, happily took his eldest son Zhao Xing and his eldest son-in-law Liu Rong, and on the third day after Wang Yun left Changzi County, he also marched towards Jinyang City with a large number of civil and military generals.