Shi Hu's imperial mental technique, that is, the method of checks and balances, was really disgusting and extremely bad in Shi Min's opinion.

As soon as Shi Hu usurped the throne, he set up his eldest son Shi Di as the crown prince, and later Shi Di plotted against him and was killed by Shi Hu.

Shi Di died, Shi Hu set up Shi Xuan as the crown prince again, and then changed his mind, loved Shi Tao, and gave the latter great power, which could be compared to the power of the prince, and it turned out to be a tragic tragedy.

Both Shi Xuan and Shi Tao died tragically.

Now that Shi Hu is playing like this again, he does not set up a prince, nor does he show any hint of wanting to establish a prince, let alone favor any prince.

Let Shi Jian go out to conquer the Liang Kingdom and gain greater power, which caused the eyes of Shi Hu's sons.

As a result, Shi Hu was playing checks and balances again, and successively sent Shi Bin and Shi Zun to the mountains and rivers in various places to pray for well-being.

Let's talk about Yangong Shi Bin first, Shi Bin was sent out by Shi Hu last month to pray for well-being in the mountains and rivers of various places, and traveled around hunting by the way.

Shi Bin took a big car, the car was decorated with a bird feather canopy, set up the banner of the Son of Heaven, and the 180,000 soldiers of the 16th Route Army set off from Jinmingmen.

Shi Min vaguely remembered that Shi Hu climbed the mausoleum from the harem to look at it, and said with a smile: "My father and son are like this, unless the sky collapses, what else is there to worry about!" I just go and hug my son and tease my grandson, and enjoy the joy of family all day long. ”

Whenever Yan Gong Shibin stopped at a place, he would let people form a long circle, more than 100 miles on each side, and then drive away the birds and beasts, and in the evening let all the birds and beasts gather near his residence, let all the civil and military officials kneel, and then surround the birds and beasts, and the torch will illuminate the surroundings as if it were day.

Shi Bin ordered more than 100 strong cavalry to gallop and shoot into the encirclement, and Shi Bin and his concubines rode to watch until all the beasts were shot to death.

Sometimes, when a few beasts escaped from the enclosure, those who were in charge of the area were to be stripped of their horses and let him walk for a day, and those who did not have a title were punished with a hundred lashes. The soldiers were hungry and cold, more than 10,000 people died, and the material reserves of the three states and fifteen counties they passed through were all squandered.

Shi Hu also ordered Shi Zun to travel after Shi Bin, from Bingzhou to Qinzhou and Yongzhou, and the situation was exactly the same as Shi Bin.

Shi Hu is so blind and tossing, he completely wants to consume the luck of the Han people!

The atrocities of Shi Hu and his sons are simply too numerous to mention!

Wang Ping couldn't help but gritted his teeth and said, "Min'er, I'm really unbearable!" These things that everyone is angry with are all done by Shi Hu and his sons! They are not people! They're a herd of animals! No, they're not even as good as animals! In less than a few months, there were no less than 60,000 soldiers and civilians who died for Shi Zun and Shi Bin's patrol due to the construction of Hualin Garden! In the long run, how can I Han people live? ”

Wei Zheng, who was on the side, also raised his head and said, "Not bad!" Min'er, the fifth uncle has never begged anyone in his life, but this time, the fifth uncle begs you! Do it! Now there are not many troops loyal to the Shi father and son, and what the Shi father and son have done has caused the people to lose their hearts, and the people are full of complaints, this is a God-given opportunity! ”

Wang Ping said: "Min'er, what your fifth uncle said is right. Don't miss the opportunity, lose it again! As the general of Zhao State now, you have a heavy army, and a full 200,000 soldiers and horses obey your orders, as long as you stand up and ascend to the heights, you can coerce Li Nong and their subordinates to take Yecheng in one fell swoop, and the Hu army of the Shi family and his son should not be a problem! ”

"And then?" Shi Min frowned.

"And then?"

Hearing this, Wang Ping and Wei Zheng both looked at each other, they didn't think much about this, they just wanted to kill the Shi father and son now.

Shi father and son did too much this time, Shi Min's subordinates, most of them were Han Chinese, and many of the teams that followed Shi Zun and Shi Bin on patrol were Shi Min's subordinates, but these people were either killed or injured as soon as they came back, as their generals, Wang Ping and Wei Zheng were naturally angry.

In addition, the laborers and people requisitioned by Shi Hu are all Han people, and the Han people are young and strong! If they continue like this, I don't know how many people they will die, and Shi Hu will be willing!

"I'll tell you that." Shi Min sighed faintly and said, "Third Uncle, Fifth Uncle, according to your approach. If I raise troops now, I can go down to Yecheng in a fight, capture and kill Shi's father and son, and destroy the Hu army in the city, but what next? Our Han army will become a lone army. ”

"200,000 soldiers and horses, not too much, no less. Even if Li Nong and other beggar army members are added, our Han army has hundreds of thousands of people, but if they raise troops to kill Shihu, they will be attacked by the princes of the Quartet under the banner of counterinsurgency. ”

"When the time comes, there are only two roads in front of us, one is to fight alone, if we can withstand the attack of the princes of the Quartet, we will be able to survive in the Jedi, the center will bloom, and there will be a place to stand in the Central Plains, if we can't withstand the attack of the princes of the Quartet, it will be a dead end. The other way is to ask the Jin family in the south to accept after raising troops to kill Shi's father and son. ”

I'd rather be the head of the chicken than the tail of the ox!

Wang Ping immediately said: "Why does Min Er have so many scruples? It's a big deal to fight a fish and die in the net! After killing Shi Hu's father and son, we will support you as the emperor, and we will no longer be angry with this bird, wouldn't it be happy? ”

"How can things be as simple as you think?"

Shi Min shook his head with a little crying and laughing.

This is the difference between a superior and a pure martial artist!

Shi Min's third uncle Wang Ping is a typical martial artist with developed limbs and a simple mind, what kind of things he can always simplify, such a person, can not take care of the overall situation, lack of vision, can be a general who listens to the command, but must not be in charge of an army alone, so as not to miss a major event.

"But ......"

"Wang Ping! Sit down! Seeing Wang Ping so reckless, Dong Kuang hurriedly scolded, and Wang Ping reined in and sat down by himself.

Shi Min set his eyes on Cui Hao and Qin Mu again, and asked, "Yuan Liang, Qin Mu, what do you think?" ”

"My lord, my subordinates think that they might as well wait and see what happens." Responding to change with the same is a good saying, but it is useless.

Cui Hao himself is Xiao He and Xun Yu who are generally in charge of logistics, can make careful calculations, coordinate the overall situation, and make suggestions, which is not what he is good at. Therefore, Shi Min's gaze fell on Qin Mu's body, and Qin Mu's question obviously showed that the latter was already in the chest.

Qin Mu replied: "My lord, I don't know what you think is the relationship between Shi Hu sending Shi Bin and Shi Zun to the mountains and rivers of various places to pray for well-being, and the counties and countries successively sending Canglin and Bailu?" ”

When Shi Min heard this, he thought for a while and said, "Xiangrui? ”

"Yes, yes."

"To make this kind of auspiciousness, Shi Hu wants to go further."

"That's how it should be."

As we all know, the emperor is more noble than the king in honorific titles. For example, the Zhao State, its founding king Shi Le was called the emperor, and the puppet Shi Hong who succeeded to the throne was called the emperor, but after Shi Hu usurped the throne, he was demoted by one level and renamed "Great Zhao Heavenly King", why is this?

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, there was a rather peculiar historical phenomenon on the emperor's honorific title, that is, the monarchs in the Sixteen Kingdoms (most of them were Hu people, but there were also Han monarchs) mostly took "Heavenly King" as their title.

Why was the title "Heavenly King" used during this period, and what kind of imperial tradition did this title represent?

Let's talk about Shi Le first, Shi Le called himself King Zhao at the request of Shi Hu and his generals. After Shi Le killed Liu Yao, Shi Hu and others were invited to the title of emperor with the emperor's seal. Shi Le was called King Zhao Tianwang and did the emperor's business under his insistence. In September of the same year, he was officially enthroned under the invitation of the ministers to "take the name and position is not right, and it is appropriate to be honored". The era name was changed to Jianping.

After Shi Le's death, Shi Hu deposed Le Zihong from power. The ministers persuaded him to call him the honorific title, and he said: "I have heard that those who are in harmony with the world are called emperors, and those who are gods and gods are called emperors, and the emperor's name is not daring, and he can be called the king of Zhao Tian, with the hope of deputy heaven."

Shi Hu claimed that he did not dare to usurp the emperor's honor, and at first claimed to be the king of Zhao Tian, and after usurping the throne, he called himself the king of Great Zhao.

And in the original history, it was not until 349 that Shi Hu went to the title of Heavenly King and changed his title to Emperor.

Later, Fu Jian, the founder of the former Qin Dynasty, initially served the Eastern Jin Dynasty on the one hand, and accepted the title of Shi Yi (Shi Hu's youngest son) on the other hand. Then he openly betrayed the Eastern Jin Dynasty, proclaimed himself the King of Heaven, Da Shan Yu, and the name of the emperor.

The first month of the following year. Under the invitation of Fu Xiong and others, "it is appropriate to follow the Han and Jin dynasties, and the beauty of the emperor, not to be too humble and rushing, and to be the same as the beginning of Zhao", he was called the emperor. In 357, Fu Jian succeeded to the throne of the emperor, proclaimed himself the Great Qin Heavenly King, and changed his name to Yongxing.

Since then, Hou Qin, Hou Liang, Hou Yan, Beiyan, and Xia have all had the honorific title of "Heavenly King", and most of them are the honorific titles of the emperor who have gone to the emperor and changed their names to the Heavenly King.

A total of 13 monarchs in the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms have been called "Heavenly Kings".

Most of the titles of celestial kings in this period are related to Buddhism. Buddhism developed rapidly in the north during the era of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and among the Sixteen Kingdoms, the first to advocate Buddhism were Shi Le and Shi Hu of the Later Zhao Dynasty. In order to seek a theoretical basis for political rule, Later Zhao chose to support Buddhism.

Ideological poverty and weakness always plagued Hu rulers such as Shile, who could not create a new ideological system to counter Confucianism. So they sought a new spiritual pillar, and finally discovered Buddhism and transformed it into a tool of thought that could be used.

Shile was the first emperor to attach importance to Buddhism during the Sixteenth Reign, and he closely integrated Buddhism with politics. The Heavenly King he called was closely related to Buddhism. Later, the spread of Buddhism in the Zhao regime had a great relationship with the Buddha Tucheng of Qiuzi in Central Asia.

The Former Qin was the most prosperous period of Buddhism in the north after the Later Zhao, and the ruler Fu Jian firmly believed in Buddhism. At that time, the representative figure of the spread of Buddhism was Dao'an, a disciple of Buddha Tucheng. Fu Jian of the Former Qin and Lü Guang of the Later Liang said that the Heavenly King was related to Buddhism.

In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Hu people in the north went south one after another and established many regimes in the Central Plains. Among them, the former Qin regime also ruled the north.

The broad masses of the Han people, influenced by the idea that the Han regime was orthodox, strongly resisted the Hu regime.

In order to eliminate ethnic barriers and dilute the political concept of the orthodox dynasty of the Jin people, the rulers of the Sixteen Kingdoms tried their best to coordinate with the Han people politically and culturally, set up the banner of the orthodox dynasty, and strive to make their rule appear orthodox.

This practice is reflected in the use of country names and era names, and the use of emperors' honorific titles can also reflect the purpose of the ruler.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the special phenomenon of many monarchs not being called emperors but "heavenly kings" appeared in the title of emperor, and the purpose of adopting this title was to deify their own rule by means of "Buddha is the god of Rong", and the deeper purpose was to put on a legal cloak for their own regime and paint it with an orthodox color, so as to absorb more Hu and Han people.

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Chapter 0160: The Venerable Number of the Heavenly King