Although a hundred years have passed since the chaos among the kings, Zhongzhou Mu still feels frightened every time he thinks about it.
This is why Great Liang has been suppressing military generals for many years. The chaos of the kings is a lesson learned from the past.
The current situation is far from reaching the level of chaos among the kings, but it will be too late if it gets to that point.
You must know that in the original chaos among the kings, it was not only the king of the opposite sex who started the war, but also several members of the royal family.
In that war, it was the royal clan that was the most violent, and once the Dongzhou war was settled, the Dongshan Marquis would not be able to escape based on his military exploits, not to mention being crowned king, but he would be ranked as a second-rank Duke.
In addition, he is a member of the royal family. As time goes by, it is difficult to guarantee whether a new county king will appear in the future.
Compared to Zhongzhou Mu's worries, Su Ji was much calmer. He listened patiently to Zhongzhou Mu's words and then spoke calmly.
"I understand your worries, but do we have any other options now? If we want to ensure the stability of Zhongzhou, it is already very difficult for just the two of us."
"The two commanders of the Beishan Camp serve as a warning. This time my two good nephews only appointed commanders. What about next time?"
These words made Zhongzhou Mu speechless for a while, not knowing what to say.
Like him, King Yu was not from Su Zhe or Su Tai, but the difference was that he was loyal to the current emperor, while King Yu only wanted to maintain stability in Zhongzhou.
Whoever becomes the emperor has nothing to do with him, but the prerequisite is to ensure the success of the successor.
His cousin, until now, has not openly established the crown prince, but instead allowed the two princes to fight among themselves, although it was to maintain the stability of the court.
But this kind of stability is only temporary. As Su Xuanyong gets older, the two of them will always have to decide the winner.
This kind of seizure of the heir is not a peaceful one, but involves a bloody struggle. Su Xuanyong can still suppress it now, but it is still unknown whether he can suppress it in a few years.
Once the two of them fight, the entire Great Liang will be plunged into a bloody storm. These two emperor nephews are not good at all.
If you want to change the current situation, you have to introduce new candidates, and Su Qi'an is the person that King Yu values.
His thoughts were exactly the same as Su Xuanyong's. It was because of understanding Su Xuanyong's thoughts that Su Ji placed Zhongzhou's future on Su Qi'an.
Although this risk is very high, it is very likely that a new county king will be created, and there will be a risk of separatism, but Su Ji can't control so much at the moment.
What he wants is actually similar to Su Xuanyong's, both for the stability of Great Liang. As for the next generation's affairs, they can only be left to the next generation. After all, one generation has its own mission.
Seeing the silence of Zhongzhou Mu, Su Ji continued, "We can't control what will happen in the future, and we can't control it. What we can do is to do our best to maintain the stability of Zhongzhou. Only in this way can Great Liang continue to move forward. It’s possible to go down.”
"As for where my nephew will go in the future, whether he will seize power, separatist power, and start a rebellion, I believe in him. He is different from the kings a hundred years ago. Although he is a member of the royal family, From the look in his eyes, I only saw the importance of friendship, so I looked at him, and I believed I would not be wrong."
Su Ji's voice was firm, and Zhongzhou Mu beside him did not refute, but nodded slightly. Since we have come to this point, it is useless to worry more.
I hope this Dongshan Hou will live up to their expectations.
Su Qi'an's merchant ship sailed slowly on the waterway, heading towards Dongzhou.
Su Qi'an stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the swaying river ahead, holding a scroll in his hand.
This scroll is Su Ji's help to him. In addition to detailed records of the intricate relationships between the governor of Dongzhou, the state pastor, and the local leading families.
The mountains, rivers, waterways, and lakes of Dongzhou are described in detail.
For example, the waterway that Su Qi'an and the others took was the largest waterway from Zhongzhou to Dongzhou.
In addition to water transportation connecting Zhongzhou and Dongzhou, it is also an official road for the circulation and transportation of ship grain, salt, and ironware.
Along the way, it is not unusual to see merchant ships as big as Su Qian's on this waterway.
There were even merchant ships larger than Su Qian's, heading towards Dongzhou.
Various small waterway boats gradually gathered on the river. Su Qi'an looked around and saw many boats following them one after another, which looked quite lively.
Su Qi'an's first stop in Dongzhou was Danyang County. This county ranked around the middle among the eighteen counties in Dongzhou.
Because it is close to Zhongzhou and located in the rear area, it has not been disturbed by the war. The economy is developing well and there are many trade exchanges. The annual tolls collected from the trade between the two states account for a quarter of Danyang County's annual income.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Danyang County's waterways are prosperous. As the merchant ships sailed, they arrived at Danyang County Wharf in about two hours.
Su Qi'an, who was standing on the bow of the ship, looked ahead and roughly counted, there were at least thirty piers on the shore that could be docked, and they were lined up in a row, which was quite spectacular.
This is just one of them in the county. There are at least a dozen large docks like this in Danyang County, spread across seven counties in the county.
The dock where Su Qi'an and the others were docked was not Danyang County, but one of the seven counties, called Yanglai County.
Among the seven counties in Danyang, it is considered good to be ranked among the top three. The local county magistrate seems to be named Fang. As for his name, Su Qi'an is not sure.
The detailed scroll of Dongzhou that Su Ji gave him didn't write much. It wasn't that Su Ji and the others were incompetent, but that the area of Dongzhou was too large.
There are eighteen counties in the state alone, and each county has at least five to seven counties. Roughly speaking, there are more than one hundred county magistrates in Dongzhou.
This is just the county magistrate. If you include the two county-level deputies, the number easily exceeds 300.
And because the Dongzhou frontline had to prepare for war and was constantly fighting pirates and Japanese pirates, for better management, half of the 18 counties were divided into nine counties and placed under the jurisdiction of the frontline Dongzhou governor.
In a sense, the huge Dongzhou is basically divided into two, with the first nine counties being the war zone and the last nine counties being the peace zone.
The two sides may only interact during wartime, and when preparing for war, officials on both sides basically do not recognize everything.
In order to prevent the emergence of a dominant family and separatist rule in Dongzhou in disguise, the imperial court ordered that the county magistrates of the first nine counties and the back nine counties would be transferred in turn every three years.
This method somewhat limited the exclusive power of Dongzhou Mu and Dongzhou Governor, and also resulted in Su Ji being unable to further understand the specific situation of the county magistrates in Dongzhou.
Being able to understand the county level is Su Ji's limit. Going deeper would be too difficult.
Su Qi'an was not disappointed. When he came to Dongzhou, it was naturally impossible to rely on the intelligence information provided by the scroll.
If you want to truly understand, again, you have to visit it yourself.
Anyway, Su Qi'an was given plenty of time, and he had plenty of time to slowly understand.
Moreover, this time I came to Dongzhou, it was said that it was a decree, and all the officials in Dongzhou must cooperate. It seemed that the scenery was endless.
The actual purpose is to seize the power of Zhou Mu and Dongzhou Governor. Anyone else would be uncomfortable and unpopular.
In a sense, Su Qi'an's acceptance of fate is like a supervisor.
Su Qi'an knew better than anyone how difficult it was to supervise the army, and it was also the least popular.
If he has the strength and can convince the other party, he will also call him the state supervisor for the sake of respect. If he cannot make the governor of Zhoumu and Dongzhou surrender, Su Qian's treatment is not much different from that of the supervisor.
The most terrible thing is that this time Su Qian came to Dongzhou, there was a very difficult matter waiting for him to deal with.
Before coming, the imperial court had long known about the chaos within Dongzhou and specially ordered to severely punish him.
After the review by Zhou Mu and the Governor of Dongzhou, a large number of corrupt officials were finally caught. These officials had a good background and were basically county-level officials. The highest among them was the Deputy Governor of Dongzhou.
According to the wishes of the imperial court, no matter who is involved, they will be executed without mercy. This move has the meaning of killing chickens to scare monkeys.
Dongzhou Mu did not dare to say anything after receiving the order. Originally, he and the Dongzhou Governor would handle the matter themselves.
But he knew that the imperial court was going to send Su Qi'an, the supervisor, and the Dongzhou Mu would leave it to Su Qi'an to handle the execution.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see something like this, it's a pretext to kill someone.
But Su Qi'an wanted to refuse, but he couldn't. Looking at the progress of Dongzhou Mu's review, he was just waiting for Su Qi'an to arrive, unless Su Qi'an refused to go to Dongzhou, so this matter could not be avoided no matter how hard he tried. .z.
If it were just an ordinary official, Su Qi'an wouldn't care and would just kill him, but a deputy governor was involved.
According to scroll intelligence analysis, this deputy governor and Dongzhou Governor Wu Dingguo have a life-and-death brotherhood.
Wu Dingguo was already unhappy about having him operated on. When Su Qi'an, the airborne inspector, came, the first thing he did was to behead his life-and-death brother.
It can be said that Wu Dingguo was directly offended, and there was already a conflict between Wu Dingguo and Dongzhou Mu Zhou Zibin.
Su Qi'an left at this time, and it was hard not to think of Wu Dingguo and other frontline soldiers.
It can be said that Zhou Zibin pushed him to be the opposite of Wu Dingguo without any effort at all.
As expected of an old fox, Su Qi'an gave him such a big surprise before he came to Dongzhou.
Su Qi'an had thought about how to deal with this matter along the way. There was a high probability that he would be used as a knife in the end. There was nothing he could do about it. This was a conspiracy, and it was impossible to defeat it.
What Su Qi'an has to do now is not to break the moves, but to let Zhou Zibin, who has not yet met him, know that he cannot afford to pay the price of being a swordsman after being used as a swordsman.
After making this decision in his mind, Su Qi'an was not in a hurry to go to Houjiu County City. He had plenty of time to waste it slowly.
As the caravan disembarked together, Su Qi'an and the team directly under his protection entered Yanglai County. He wanted to see how dark this Dongzhou, which was rumored to be so dark and could eat people without spitting out their bones, really was.
