The territory with a radius of more than 700 kilometers centered on Nandu has been reduced to less than 200 kilometers.
By this time, the total population under his rule had shrunk to less than one million.
In other words, eight girls out of every hundred people are selected as show girls.
This ratio is somewhat terrifyingly high.
You must know that among one million people, if you remove half of the males, remove the old girls who are over 20 years old, and the girls who are under 12 years old, there will only be 150,000 or 60,000 girls of the right age left.
Of these 150,000 to 60,000 marriageable girls, more than half were brought into the harem by Meng Quanxiu.
Most of the marriageable boys in the kingdom of God on earth have to be single!
The great public dissatisfaction caused by this is conceivable.
At this time, disputes within the kingdom of God on earth also became endless.
Meng Quanxiu was now wary of Zuo Wang and other old brothers, and was very reluctant to sit and drink with these old brothers like before, for fear that someone with five hundred swords and axes might accidentally rush in and cut melons and vegetables.
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Meng Quanxiu's new favorites were his own dozen nephews. He himself had no sons, so he named all these nephews who had just escaped from his hometown as one-word kings, with the same status as Zuo Wang and other old buddies.
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This made Zuo Wang and others who were originally dissatisfied with Meng Quanxiu even more dissatisfied, and those princes who originally had some hope for Meng Quanxiu became angry one by one.
Good guy, we old brothers are working hard to help you conquer this country, and you are just a king.
Whether your nephew is capable or not, whether he has military exploits or not, he just climbed ashore with his mud legs, and in an instant he is on an equal footing with us old brothers?
Who are you trying to eliminate?
As a result, the greatest hidden danger to the Kingdom of God on earth arises.
Peng Guoxin and other elite troops mobilized from various provinces by the imperial court also formed an encirclement outside, tightly besieging Nandu, cutting off its external communication, and trying not to let a grain of rice, a foot of cloth, or a bottle of soy sauce flow into Nandu.
This move undoubtedly hit the lifeblood of the Kingdom of God on earth.
You must know that the southern capital occupied by the Kingdom of God on earth is the hometown of silk.
The mainstay of the economy here is sericulture.
More than 90% of the fields are planted with mulberry trees, and every household raises silkworms.
Every year, a large amount of raw silk is shipped to all parts of the country and sent overseas to be exchanged for large amounts of silver, which is then bought into daily necessities such as rice, grain, cloth, etc. to supply private consumption.
But now, once the encirclement is formed, transportation is interrupted. Daily necessities and food from outside cannot be transported in, and raw silk and silk from inside cannot be transported out.
In the first few months, Nandu could still rely on its huge material reserves to operate.
But over time, most of the various reserves were consumed, and Meng Quanxiu had to order to reduce the supply of materials to the people.
As a result, private prices suddenly skyrocketed.
In the past, although the price of food in Nandu was much higher than that in other places, rice only cost 3 qian of silver per stone.
But now the price of rice per stone has soared to seven taels of silver, and the price has increased more than 20 times.
It is impossible for ordinary people to store much food at home, let alone much money. When prices rise, it can be said that people are in dire straits.
Several cases of citizens robbing food stores have broken out in Nandu City.
Although this was suppressed by the soldiers and horse guards in the city, there was obviously a restless mood in the city.
Of course, in order to solve the problem of traffic interruption, Meng Quanxiu, Zuo Wang and others also put aside their grievances and conflicts and got together to discuss the matter.
King Zuo and others also personally led troops and horses to go out to fight, trying to break the encirclement in one fell swoop.
But the army forming the encirclement now is no longer a decadent official army.
They are elite team members who have grown up through battles large and small.
Although they do not have good military discipline and behave like bandits, due to the existence of high rewards, they fight as bravely as tigers.
The soldiers and horses led by King Zuo and others were no longer the elite soldiers they had been when the country was first founded. Instead, they were hastily recruited recruits who went to the battlefield after a short training of two months.
The gap in military strength between the two sides caused Zuo Wang and others to suffer frequent defeats. As a result, they not only failed to break the encirclement, but instead made the encirclement smaller and smaller.
King Zuo and others who returned to the city after losing the battle had to suffer the ridicule of Meng Quanxiu's nephews.
This means that the more you do, the more you make mistakes.
Meng Quanxiu's nephews did not have to lead troops to fight, so they naturally would not make mistakes, and then they could stand on the commanding heights and ridicule the defeated people like Zuo Wang.
Even Meng Quanxiu didn't show a good face to King Zuo and others after they were defeated. What he meant was that so many troops were sent to you, and you behaved like this?
As a result, conflicts suddenly intensified.
Three days later, the Queen's carriage accidentally collided with the carriage of King Quan, one of Meng Quanxiu's nephews. King Quan's guards actually overturned the Queen's carriage after beheading the Queen's coachman.
Since the queen went to the teahouse to drink tea, he didn't have many soldiers around him, so he couldn't fight back at all.
But such a shameful humiliation, the Queen, who had experienced many battles, could not endure it.
So, that night, the queen led his 500 cavalry guards into Prince Quan's residence. Not only did he kill the leader of the guards who insulted him, but he also dragged Prince Quan out of the palace and beat him severely on the street.
It must be said that the Empress expressed her heartfelt tone.
But King Quan turned around and went into the palace with his injuries to complain to his uncle Meng Quanxiu.
After crying for a while, Meng Quanxiu was so angry that she was shaking all over.
In his opinion, the queen was completely contemptuous of his imperial authority!
King Quan is his nephew, so the Queen is slapping himself in the face by doing this.
In the early morning of the next day, when the entire Nandu was still immersed in sleep, Meng Quanxiu issued an imperial edict, denounced the queen's disloyalty and labeled him as treason.
The Imperial Guards loyal to Meng Quanxiu immediately surrounded the Queen's Mansion with imperial edicts in hand and took the Queen into a prison.
But less than five hours later, the Queen and his whole family were sent to the food market in Nandu and they were executed!
More than 500 people in the Queen's palace were beheaded, so much blood flowed all over the food market.
This scene made Zuo Wang and others feel terrified.
They may have thought that Meng Quanxiu would be detrimental to them, but they never thought that Meng Quanxiu would be so ruthless.
For a moment, the old brothers were terrified.
A prince with a gentler personality like the former king even thought of sneaking out of Nandu with his whole family and finding a place where no one was around to live and work in peace and contentment.
But like Zuo Wang and You Wang, the two characters are more careful.
They dissuaded the former king from his actions.
Not to mention whether your big family can run out without alarming Meng Quanxiu. Even if he ran out, there would be more than 300,000 troops from the Qinglong Imperial Court besieging him outside!
How do you run?
Since Meng Quanxiu is unkind, then we can only be unjust.