Chapter 167: Ruthless
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His Royal Highness, with a black face, sat on the main hall of Nanliang Mansion, tremblingly watching the counted numbers. ~
Three days ago, the prince abandoned his RV, artillery, and locomotives, and only took a few people to Nanliang Mansion. But what he saw was the collapse of the city wall, the building was empty, and the building was rampant. As for the building complex of the prince's harem that Li Yuanming presided over, the building had been burned away, and it brought a thick layer of dust to Nanliang Mansion.
Over the past three days, the people around the prince, even those around Yuan Zhao, have been running around, inquire and counting the public situation. The result is so angering - less than 30% of the people are left! Seventy percent of the people have moved their families to Anyang.
Luliang County, which once had eight million people, now has less than 2.2 million left! And most of the people who are left behind are the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled.
"Bang!" The prince slapped the half-old table with a ferocious expression, "It's too much!"
Suddenly, a soldier came to report: "Report... Your Highness, there are more than 100,000 people in the north, and they are preparing to migrate with their families and go north to Anyang!"
"What!" the prince was furious, "Stop it for me. Catch a few more leaders, I want to ask the reason!"
In the evening, several middle-aged people were brought. After seeing this, the prince immediately asked, "What's your name?"
One of the middle-aged men is neither humble nor arrogant: "Your Highness, the young Liu Shan."
"Then why did you leave Luliang County? You didn't leave before, but you left at this time?"
Liu Shan’s answer was powerful: “Your Highness, there were rumors that your highness is not the same, and I don’t believe it. But the day before yesterday I saw His Highness’s car, which turned out to be a mobile palace, extremely luxurious. Such a mobile palace must be expensive, which is enough to show that Your Highness’s life is indeed extremely luxurious.
So, after seeing this mobile palace, many of us who are still confident in His Highness are disappointed!"
The prince clasped the table tightly with his fingers, his joints were pale! He was put on another occasion!
Should I be angry or roaring? The prince no longer knows how to describe his mood; from beginning to end, he was exploited by Li Xian!
The huge welcoming ceremony is delaying time; the carefully prepared moving palace is actually a trap!
Over and over again, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was kneaded like a dough.
Yuan Zhao didn't speak, but suddenly felt a little moved in his heart. The once silly "virtuous brother" seemed to have become more shrewd and more proficient in calculating, taking one step and three steps.
Yuan Zhao didn't say anything, Yue Qingfeng sighed slightly and held back his anger and spoke, "Liu Shan, that's just a gift from Anyang to Your Highness."
Liu Shan smiled, "Then do we ordinary people need to give gifts to Your Highness in the future?"
This question was so good, and Yue Qingfeng was speechless for a moment. The only one who could answer this sentence was the crown prince. Yuan Zhao and Yue Qingfeng both looked at His Highness.
Where is the prince? His Highness, who had already been angry, had already dissipated his reason, began to roar, and yelled without thinking, "The matter of tribute is natural! The Kingdom of Daxia has raised you and asked you to pay some tribute. What's the big deal!"
When Yuan Zhao heard this, he sighed in his heart: Brother, you won, you are a good prince, you will be killed by you! Although this prince is not a good weapon, he always has some of the majesty of the prince; now it is completely majesty! Once this sentence is said, it will become the eternal stain of the prince!
Yue Qingfeng was stunned for a long time, and never expected the prince to be so unwise. But he finally sighed and persuaded him with all his heart: "Your Highness, it is worth paying taxes, but tribute is unnecessary."
The prince slapped the table: "Is I the prince or you? I have the final say in Luliang County! In addition, Liu Shan and other 100,000 untouchables confiscated all their assets and were punished for one year of hard labor!"
"Your Highness, you can't!" Yue Qingfeng was shocked. Yuan Zhao had to come out to persuade him at this time. If this order was really issued, the remaining 2 million people in Luliang County would scatter! Yuan Zhao is now beginning to imagine how to incorporate Luliang County into Dongyuan County.
After a series of considerations, Yuan Zhao roughly understood the arrangements of His Majesty the Emperor, which was to compensate the Yuan family and check and balance the Li family. His Majesty the Emperor sent the prince to Luliang County, and the prince had a good relationship with the Yuan family. As long as the Daxia Kingdom was in chaos or collapse, the Luliang County was naturally the Yuan family. But the Yuan family still had another condition to accept Luliang County - protect the prince, which was the condition offered by His Majesty.
"The Emperor is arranging the funeral!" Yuan Zhao also saw the emperor's intentions, and suddenly felt like he was sad and sad in his heart. So what if the emperor was, he would still die.
But after such considerations, Yuan Zhao stood up to persuade the prince, "Your Highness, you are angry here, just to make Li Xian more proud. You should calm down and re-govern Luliang County.
At that time, Anyang had only a population of more than 200,000, and Li Xian was able to start his own business with this. Now that his Highness has more than 2 million people, why worry about not rising!
Does Your Highness think he is not as good as Li Xian?”
Yuan Zhao's words were much better than Yue Qingfeng's simple persuasion, and the Crown Prince listened to it!
"Li Xian! Li Xian! Li Xian!" The prince kept muttering, grabbed a piece of wood chips on the table with his fingers, and finally calmed down his anger, "Yuan Zhao, what should you do now?"
"Your Highness, although Li Xian migrated a large number of people away, he also left his Highness a more stable and easy-to-control foundation. The population of more than 200 people has land of eight million. Why not give the remaining people the excess land to the rest so that they can feel the care of the prince.
In terms of taxation, just keep it in its original state.
In addition, Your Highness needs to publicly state that apart from taxes, he will never ask for one more grain of food for the people!”
The prince was the prince after all. After his anger, he gradually calmed down and his reason began to return; he formally appointed Yuan Zhao as Wen Cheng of Luliang County, responsible for civil affairs, and appointed his uncle to form an army - military power must still be in his own hands, and he can be confused about anything, but this cannot be confused about it.
In addition, the prince began to invite his matriarchal relatives to start moving into Luliang County. Whether it was doing business or participating in politics, it was better than not alone.
On the other hand, Yuan Zhao also began to install people from the Yuan family; the Yuan family also actively communicated with the prince, and the circulation began between Dongyuan County and Luliang County.
After the war and emptiness, Luliang County seemed to be slowly recovering from its vitality.
Li Xian knew the situation in Luliang County very clearly; when Luliang County began to recover, Li Xian was discussing with his advisers.
However, it was not only discussed about Luliang County, but also about Zhao Guoshan and Zhao Youdan. Compared with the empty Luliang County, Li Xian paid more attention to Zhao Guoshan and his son.
Li Yuanming has the most say in how to evaluate and even deal with the two. "Young master, Zhao Guoshan and Zhao Youdan were both pseudo kings who were separatist, and they would definitely not be willing to live under others. The best way is to... forever eliminate future troubles!"
Li Xian was creepy when he heard this suggestion, "Did Li Yuanming, Zhao Guoshan and his son be sorry for you?"
"No!"
"Since that's the case, why do you ignore the friendship of the past and endure the troubles forever?"
Li Yuanming looked solemn, "Young master, the creed of a strategist, eat the king's fortune, and be loyal to the king's affairs. The three-minded and half-hearted are not the style of strategist doing things, and no one will like a strategist who is half-hearted.
A literati governs the country, and small mistakes are not harmful.
Most of the strategists are related to military and policies. If you are not careful, you will lose everything. If you take a step, you will never get rid of it. Therefore, we can only do things wholeheartedly.
And I have been kind to Zhao Guoshan. At least at the last moment, I still did not abandon him, and even lived and died for him. I have a clear conscience.
Now that I work for the young master, I still need to have a clear conscience.
In fact, we have our own ideals. For this ideal, we are not afraid of swords and fire. Even if thousands of people point to them and have a lot of bad reputation for them for thousands of years, we will do whatever we want."
Li Xian turned to look at Xu Ren next to him, and found that Xu Ren had no expression, and even had a little approval.
Li Xian took a deep breath and suddenly realized that the strategist was also a group of madmen! A group of madmen with ideals, minds, pursuits and principles!
"I respect the spirit of a strategist, and I am rude. So what do you think will be dealt with by Zhao Guoshan and his son? You can't kill him for no reason."
Chapter completed!