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More than 120 years ago, Qi State was attacked by Chu and Zhao and lost in succession. King Chen Lun of Qi refused to flee and committed suicide in Linzi City. Nearly a thousand people died. The last group of voluntarily buried the dead set a fire according to the will of the King of Qi to burn the body to avoid being humiliated after death. At the same time, the palace and treasures were burned.

Chen Lun wanted to bring the Qi Kingdom, which he left to him, to heaven.

A small number of descendants and servants of the Chen family had other ideas. They felt that although the sky was good, a branch of Chen family should be left on the ground. So hundreds of people protected a descendant of the Chen family to escape from Linzi City and traveled eastward. They could not get rid of the enemy behind them. In the end, they had to take a boat into the sea and leave some people on the shore, keeping a fake descendant of the Chen family to fight with the pursuers, all of whom died on the beach.

The fugitive found a deserted island in the vast sea. The original intention was to live here temporarily. As a result, he lived there for more than a hundred years. The island was named "Royal Scholar". The remnants of Qi were resting here and made contacts with small overseas countries, sea pirates and withdrawn hermits. No matter how much changes the outside world has changed, the dream of restoring the country has never disappeared in the hearts of the islanders.

Fuyu is a small country located in Liaodong and has close contacts with Yishi Island. His king even married a "princess" on the island, but it was useless. Yishi Island was hungry and wanted to borrow troops to restore the country, but Fuyu King just wanted to make trouble. When they now have no strength, they had to let it go.

During the reign of Emperor Wu, Yishi Island was almost desperate. I never expected that as soon as Emperor Wu died, Da Chu would fall into chaos, and it would become more and more chaotic.

The opportunity to restore the country has finally come.

Yishi Island summoned many pirates and used their ships to transport thousands of Fuyu soldiers from Liaodong to the Donghai Kingdom, driving tens of thousands of temporary patchwork refugees and ship workers to form a large army that Yishi Island dreamed of.

In fact, Yishi Island often acts as pirates to survive, but the islanders never admit that they are pirates. In their opinion, robbery is just a stopgap. Unlike those desperate people who only make money, they have a greater goal.

This goal is to be achieved.

Pengcheng is close to the East China Sea Kingdom and is a key place to prevent the rebels from advancing westward. The northern Chu army led by the emperor himself was stationed here.

General Cui Hong proved that he was not an incompetent person. In just over a dozen days, the number of soldiers he transferred from various places reached 20,000. At the same time, Chai Yue's troops in the middle route expanded to 30,000, and Fang Daye in the south route increased to 10,000, surrounding the rebels between mountains and seas.

The rebels occupied most of the entire East China Sea and Qi Kingdom, and their spirits disappeared, and they turned to attack and defended the city, preparing to fight against the three Chu troops.

After more than a hundred years of waiting, the remnants of Qi from Yishi Island have some arrogance. They did not immediately raise their own banner, but instead respected Shangguan family of the East China Kingdom as the emperor, claiming to restore the orthodox emperor of the Wu Dynasty and then slowly spread the news about the Chen family of Qi.

This is the news that Chai Yue can collect, and he knows nothing about the relationship between Chen Qi and the Meng brother and sister.

Han Ruzi knew it, so she was shocked. At that time, she sent someone back to the capital and sent a letter to Yang Feng to find out the truth, and asked him to find out the truth that the Meng brother and sister were introduced to the Empress Dowager as guards, promising to help them capture a small foreign country. As a result, the brother and sister rushed east at the same time, and Yishi Island was in advance. The target of the capture was not a small country, but the old land of Qi.

Before Yang Feng's reply arrived, Han Ruzi did not wait and discussed plans to quell the rebellion with the generals in Pengcheng.

Cui Hong had already formulated a plan on the march, "General Fang from Nanlu had fought two battles with the rebels, and they all won. According to his observation, the rebels were close to a mob, and many people were forced to join and collapsed in one blow. They could only defend the city and did not dare to go out of the city to fight."

"Fuyu Kingdom is a small country. According to the Liaodong generals, although Fuyu's soldiers are fierce, they lack military armor and often fight naked. They are most afraid of long-range shooting of bows and crossbows. Now they are all in Linzi City, so it is not worth fearing."

"The trouble is that those pirates are not formed in one army, they are divided into dozens of squads, avoiding the Chu army, and specifically raiding the food and towns in the rear. The Chu army launched a concentrated attack, and it was difficult to find the whereabouts of pirates, scattered garrisons, and there were threats of rebels. This is probably the strategy of the rebels."

"According to my plan, it is better to capture the big and open the small: the middle road is straight to Linzi, the north road is broken into the East China Sea Kingdom, occupy the coast, seal the retreat of the barbarians of Fuyu Kingdom, and force the rebels to flee south. General Fang took the opportunity to intercept the pirates. As for the general situation, we will try to wipe out again."

Cui Hong's plan is complete and his chances of winning are very high. Han Ruzi couldn't give any more opinions and just asked: "Is the Chu army enough?"

"If you want to win, the three Chu troops will be enough. If you want to catch them all in one go, the two armies on the middle and southern routes will still be less. Fortunately, reinforcements from all over the country are already on the road. Within ten days, the middle route can reach 40,000 people, the south route can reach 25,000, and the north route can also increase by several thousand, which can become a sure victory."

"Does the Huns have any movement?"

“No news yet.”

"The Northern Frontier Defense Forces cannot be mobilized."

"Yes, Your Majesty, there are not many defenders in the northern border. I have not used any troops in the northern border this time."

Han Ruzi felt a little relieved. The war started ten days later, at most ten days, the rebels could be destroyed, and the Great Chu could eliminate a major internal trouble.

He just regretted that the Meng brothers and sisters were enemies of the Great Chu so quickly, especially Meng E. She had an agreement with the emperor, but she betrayed her silently, and returned the extremely important seal, which was unpredictable.

After seeing military generals, Han Ruzi summoned the accompanying civil officials and asked them to come up with an idea, and after quelling the rebellion, they could stabilize the Qi State for a long time.

In just three years, Qi State had two rebellions, and it was necessary to prevent them.

The ministers came up with many ideas: one is to divide Qi into several counties, two is to divide the descendants of the royal family who were respectful as kings, three is to appoint officials by the court, four is to reduce the power of the princes, five is to impose heavier taxes, six is ​​to migrate the powerful families, seven is to ban the sea to eliminate theft, eight is to station heavy troops for a few years, nine is to abolish the title of Qi, and ten is to severely punish the rioters and thieves to serve as a warning to others.

The ten strategies of Qi came out like this, which was quite repetitive, but in the descriptions of the ministers, these were completely different ten strategies. Even if they were only half implemented, they could ensure that Qi land would not be in chaos for decades.

Han Ruzi accepted these ten strategies and praised the ministers, but she was still not satisfied.

At dusk, Han Ruzi climbed the city and looked east, and saw only mountains and hills, no cities or people.

"That's your East China Kingdom." Han Ruzi pointed to the mountains and said.

"All the king's land is under the sky." King Donghai replied humbly, looking at the mountains. The sunset fell, and the mountains to the east were only blurred. "The scenery is pretty good."

Cui Teng also followed the emperor and said excitedly: "Your Majesty and the King of East China were both born in the East China Kingdom? This is the place of dragons. Does Your Majesty still remember anything?"

Han Ruzi shook his head, he had no impression of the East China Kingdom.

The King of Donghai didn't even remember it. He turned around and looked around. There were eunuchs and guards around him, and there were no ministers. So he whispered: "Your Majesty, Qi State cannot be kept, it must be divided. I want to say that the Kingdom of Donghai State cannot be kept."

"The East China Kingdom is already very small... Don't you care that your fiefdom is smaller?" Han Ruzi was a little surprised.

"I would rather not have a fiefdom and turn Donghai Kingdom into a county. I would like to stay with His Majesty, or live in Donghai County and spend my whole life as a civilian."

Han Ruzi smiled and shook her head. King Donghai said pitifully, but in fact he wanted to go back to the capital with the emperor.

As night fell, there was nothing to see. Han Ruzi didn't want to go back yet, so he ordered someone to find Qiao Wanfu.

Qiao Wanfu was no longer Ao Cangling, but was promoted to the sanqi attendant and able to follow the emperor, but in fact he had no power at all.

But this is an opportunity. As long as the emperor is attracted to it, it is possible to reach the sky in one step.

Qiao Wanfu was short and didn't dare to speak. He knelt behind the emperor for a while before being revealed. Cui Teng smiled and said, "What a little minister."

Han Ruzi asked Qiao Wanfu to get up and asked, "The ship of Qilu is coming west and returning to the sky. Is there really nothing to exchange in the capital?"

Qiao Wanfu met the emperor several times and knew that His Majesty did not like false words, so he said concisely: "Yes."

Han Ruzi, King of Donghai, and Cui Teng all looked at the "little minister". Qiao Wanfu realized that he needed an explanation and hurriedly said: "The capital is the source of the official. Qilu has things, and the capital has officials, so it can be exchanged."

Han Ruzi frowned slightly, Cui Teng didn't understand at all. Donghai King smiled and said, "This is really a bold idea. Two rebellions in Qi, should we even grant Qi people more officials?"

Qiao Wanfu knelt down again, "I'm talking nonsense, begging for forgiveness."

Han Ruzi raised his hand and signaled Qiao Wanfu to stand apart. After thinking for a while, he said, "The people of Qi and Lu are rich and eager to study. I remember that there are many people from Qi in the Jinshi period."

"There are many Jinshi people in Qi, but they are difficult to get high-ranking officials. They often try every means to return to their hometowns to live leisurely. The reason why Qi people attach importance to the imperial examination is mostly to exempt the taxes of the family rather than to become officials. It is said that the taxes of the land in Qilu are heavy, but in fact, the taxes of the people are heavy."

The minister's idea was too regular, and Qiao Wanfu's idea was too bold, and Han Ruzi could not make a decision for the moment.

There was a faint sound of piano coming from the other end of the city wall.

Han Ruzi put down his worries and listened with his ears. Cui Teng was more interested in the person playing the piano, but he didn't dare to walk over, "I really admire the father and daughter. They can play music everywhere, and can win His Majesty's favor no matter where they are."

Donghai Wang nodded softly, not interested in Qin and Ren.

The piano music lasted for only a short while and suddenly ended. Han Ruzi was caught off guard and felt angry. He was about to order the Zhang father and daughter to continue playing the piano. A guard on the outside shouted: "Who? Be careful, there is an assassin!"

Although assassination was not common, the emperor's guards and guards were still prepared. The four guards rushed to the emperor immediately and squeezed away the King of East Sea and others. Then there were a large number of guards, surrounded the emperor three layers inside and three layers outside, but this time they did not exclude anyone.

The other guards and guards were scattered, looking for the whereabouts of the assassin.

Han Ruzi did not rush to go down the city, but stood there and said to the panicked person: "It's just too late, so how can I be assassinated at this time? I'm afraid it's a false alarm."

The riots on the periphery soon ended, and the guard leader Wang He hurried over and said, "The person caught him, he was not an assassin, he claimed to be His Majesty's guard, his surname was Meng." (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!