Han State.
After the army suppressed the city, the city became extremely depressed overnight. There were many casualties among the people in the city, and the king, Marquis Han, did not open a granary to distribute grain. As a result, many people who had no food had to flee.
After the nobles of the Han Dynasty donated a large amount of food and grass, the Han army began to set up camp and stationed at the border to guard against the invasion of the Huai Kingdom. They were accompanied by many nobles and their private armies.
There are still about half of the troops left in the capital to protect the capital. In addition, many nobles have left many private troops to defend their mansions. After all, they also know that many people have no food to eat. Who knows that these people are fighting for food? Will you take risks?
The whole country of Han became very nervous.
Although the country of Han was short of food, there were always some people hoarding food and grass. After all, food prices were cheap back then, and most of these people were nobles.
After discovering that Huai State did not attack immediately, these nobles also had strange thoughts. Soon, some nobles began to sell grain at high prices.
After learning that grain was for sale, a large number of people came to buy it, but when they arrived, they discovered that the price of grain had become more expensive and had doubled again.
But apart from these grains, they have no choice. So in order not to starve to death, these people had to spend the only money they had on buying food.
There was not much food, and they could only be eaten for a few days. Soon the food was gone, and these people had no choice but to buy more. Several more food sellers quietly appeared in the city. However, the price of food has not dropped at all. Everyone seems to have agreed that the price of food will be exactly the same.
At first, the people in the city still had some money to buy, but after a few days, the money was exhausted, and they could only exchange silkworm cocoons, cloth, bronze and other items.
But during the exchange, goods that were once valuable became extremely cheap. Many people were extremely dissatisfied with this exchange, but they were unable to resist those strong private soldiers holding weapons.
In the end, these people had to sell off their various materials, land, and even houses little by little in order to survive. However, in just one month, a large number of people lost everything, and the nobles in the city were all full of food.
Most of these nobles were close to the Marquis of Han, and they also secretly cooperated with Shang Rong. Of course they did not betray Han Hou. The cooperation between the two parties is just to provide them with some food.
It was naturally Wang Lin's intention to let Shang Rong provide food secretly. Shang Rong was a little strange at first. Why did the king give these people food? Isn't this slandering the enemy? But during this period, what he saw with his own eyes made him understand Wang Lin's intention.
Do you think if you give these nobles food, they will give it to the Marquis of Han or distribute it to the people at a low price? Impossible, carnivores are despicable. Never overestimate the bottom line of these nobles. In fact, until now, if all the stocks in Han country were taken out and distributed equally, it would be enough for everyone to feed for three or four months.
When there was a food shortage in Han, the first reaction of the nobles was to take away the food. The Han people only used part of Gong Yangjie's previous suggestions, such as telling the people that this was a conspiracy by the Huai thieves to make the people hate the Huai state.
This approach did make the people in the city hate the Huai State at the beginning. If the Huai State launched a large-scale attack at this time, even if it conquered the Han State, it would still cost a lot, and the people in the city would also hate the Huai State, which would be detrimental to future rule. .
But as the nobles in the city sold grain at high prices, the situation slowly changed. The common people discovered that it was not that there was no food in the city, but that all the food was in the hands of the nobles. The nobles only used some grain and successfully plundered all the wealth accumulated by the people for decades. Many people even had to sell their sons and daughters.
The common people felt that they had been fooled by the nobles, and their hearts were filled with hatred for the nobles.
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Gongyang Jie stood on the pavilion and looked at the palace city in the distance. Not long ago, he went to the palace again to speak to the Marquis of Han, asking the Marquis of Han to kill the nobles of Qi, Peng, and Yue who sold grain to vent his anger. Due to the complaints of the people, their property and food were confiscated. Return the things of the people to the people and sell grain at low prices.
Unfortunately, his suggestion was rejected outright. These nobles were either close associates of Han Hou, or they were related by marriage to Han Hou, and their relationship was much closer than Gongyang Jie's. His suggestion actually aroused the hostility and criticism of several other nobles.
It feels very bad to know that things will be irreversible if they continue, but yet you are unable to do so.
"Don't conspire with a group of insects! The Marquis of Han, a miser, will die for this!" Thinking of this, Gong Yangjie slapped the railing in front of him hard.
"Master, it's time to eat!" A retainer stepped forward and whispered.
"Got it!" Gongyang returned to the room.
His wife and son were already waiting for him. Gongyang Jie looked at his wife and son, and then said: "The Marquis of Han is stingy with property and refuses to help the people and distribute food. The officials are short-sighted and take the opportunity to make money. There are powerful enemies looking around. .With such internal and external troubles, destruction is not far away.”
"From today onwards, we will thank guests behind closed doors, and you should not go out to avoid any misfortune!"
My wife and son agreed one after another.
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Huai's army has been staying at the border, only monitoring Han's military camp every day, and has no plans to send troops. Weiping did not attack Han. The country of Han is short of food. As long as it is consumed here, the country of Han will soon be unable to sustain itself.
In the camp, 3,000 Huaiguo elites are practicing formations. These 3,000 men all look tall and burly, with serious faces. They look majestic. The formations of 3,000 people change smoothly, and the formations change like one person. You can tell at a glance that he is the best of the best.
The Huai Kingdom is located in the land of Huaisi, with many rivers, and chariots are not used. Therefore, the proportion of Huai Kingdom's chariots is not high, but the soldiers are extremely elite.
In addition to these 3,000 elite soldiers, there were also 30,000 soldiers who went on the expedition. Although these soldiers were not as good as the 3,000 elite soldiers, they were also well-trained veterans. In terms of combat power alone, it would not take 30,000 troops to destroy Han State. Half of the army would be more than enough.
This time the army went out to prepare for the destruction of Han State in one battle.
Wei Ping looked at the map in front of him. He already had several plans in his mind to destroy Han State. When the time was right, he would immediately send troops to destroy Han State. And soon the opportunity came.
Because of the blind operations of the Marquis of Han and those nobles, the people of Han soon couldn't stand it anymore and began to flee. These people fled from Han State with their young and old to Huai State.
Weiping did not stop these people. Instead, he invited people to receive them, prepared food for them, and registered them. Seeing how the Huai people treated them, these people immediately supported the Huai people and informed them of what happened in the capital of Han.
Wei Ping almost laughed out loud when he learned about the operations of Han Hou and those nobles. God helped me. He immediately asked these Han people to tell the Han army that was confronting them about what happened in the capital.
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In the second year of Wang's reign, Huai lured Han with profits, buying hemp and cocoons at high prices and selling grain at low prices. In the past five years, not even one out of ten grain growers in Han has survived. The Huaihe River was deprived of food, and the country of Han was deprived of food, and people died of hunger everywhere. Gongyang Xie persuaded the Marquis of Han to share the grain, saying that the one who shares the same hatred of the enemy and the same desires will win, but the Marquis of Han refused. He also said that the grain from the conquered officials should be distributed among the people of the country, so he refused. Gongyang sighed and said: If you are a miser, the country of Han will perish. ——"Bamboo Chronicle·Huai Kingdom"
