Telling people to destroy the spring fields outside the city may seem like a meaningless sentence, but after careful analysis, the meaning is completely different.
You must know that Anling is a typical farming county. Most of the city's income comes from farmland cultivation, and the most important ones are the cultivation of grains and cotton.
Note: In real history, cotton is said to have been planted in the frontiers during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, introduced to the inland around the Song Dynasty, and promoted to the south in the Ming Dynasty. But this book is a fiction, and yes, I would like to address some book friends who accuse this book of confusing dates.
In one sentence, this book is about imagining, imagining, imagining, imagining (roughly 10,000 words).
In Wei State, cereals are planted from late March to April, while cotton is planted around early April. Therefore, calculating the time, it is almost time to sow seeds in Anling at this time.
If you send people to destroy the spring fields outside the city at this time, it will really cost Anling County's life, because once the sowing period is delayed, it means that there will be no harvest in Anling County that year.
Without any harvest, it means that neither the nobles nor the county residents in Anling City will receive any benefits.
If such a thing really happens, the nobles can survive on their family wealth, but what about the county people? You must know that although the living conditions of the common people in Wei State are much better than those in Chu State, this does not mean that they have enough money hidden in their homes.
A year's worth of copper coins and silver taels, without income, means starvation.
And generally when civilians start to starve, it's not far from riots.
Regardless of whether there is a riot or not, let’s first analyze Zhao Laiyu’s vicious plan.
First, how would the civilians in Anling County feel when they learned that Spring Field outside the city was destroyed?
The answer is fear, and soon the fear turns into anger.
And who will this anger be directed at?
To put it more bluntly, the residents of Anling County, who will they suspect?
The nobles in the city, such as the Wang family, will be excluded from the suspects at the first time, because the nobles in the city, such as the Wang family and the Zhao family, also have a large number of fields outside the city, and their losses will only be higher than ordinary people.
Commoners have large families, so they are not suspected.
Secondly, there is the power of King Su, Zhao Hongrun.
However, Zhao Hongrun is the king of Su and the prince of the Wei people. He has an excellent reputation in the past and has been hailed as a hero who saved the country by the people of Wei. Therefore, he will not be suspected.
So, who else? An Ling, who else can we doubt?
Yes!
There are also more than 50,000 refugees outside Anling City!
Don’t think that blocking more than 50,000 refugees from outside the city from entering Anling was just Wang Chen, Zhao Chengxun and other aristocratic children forcing Anling County Magistrate Yan Yong to do it. In fact, the civilians in Anling City were also unwilling to allow those refugees to flow into the city.
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The reason is very simple, because although Anling is a large county, the total population in the county is only about 30,000 to 40,000. If there is an influx of about 50,000 refugees all at once, then most of the city's resources will naturally be taken away by the refugees.
Human hearts are all selfish.
Only in a county like Zhaoling County that has experienced the invasion and massacre of the Chu State, the local people will abandon their selfish thoughts and share the same hatred of the enemy. They would rather everyone in the city only eat porridge every day than the refugees who come from outside the city.
Welcoming them into the city and giving them food.
Because those Wei people knew very well that if they were attacked by Chu, only their compatriots would fight side by side with them.
The more often a county is invaded by foreign tribes, the more united the local residents are.
Of course, it is also more exclusive.
But Anling is different. In the Battle of Chu and Wei, Zhao Hongrun led the dredging army to the Yanling battlefield in time, so that the Chu army of Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu and later Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo were all attacked in Anling. Defeated by Zhao Hongrun and Jun Shui Army.
It can be said that Anling survived the crisis without any danger.
Therefore, Anling County did not realize the importance of unity as much as Zhaoling County. Under the instigation of the nobles in the city, the Wei people in the county seemed very indifferent.
They will think: The sufferings of the Yanling people were caused by the Chu people. Why do you want to come to Anling to share the resources of Anling?
It wouldn't matter if Anling's resources were endless, but the problem is that whether it is accommodation or food, Anling's resources are limited. Since there are more people, naturally everyone will get less.
Therefore, when the nobles in the city instructed the county magistrate Yan Yong to keep the refugees from Yanling out of Anling City, most of the civilians in Anling City pretended not to have seen it.
Because of this, the attitude of refugees outside the city towards the Anling people is generally hostile.
And if the spring field outside the city is destroyed, then of course the refugees outside the city will become the object of suspicion by the Anling people.
After all, the former has an obvious motive: the refugees hate the indifference of the Anling people and hate the latter's refusal to help them for their own benefit.
There is no doubt that if the spring fields outside the city are destroyed, then the people of Anling County will most likely clash with the refugees outside the city.
In this case, how could Zhao Hongrun bother to punish the nobles in the city?
However, this is not the most vicious part of Zhao Laiyu's vicious scheme.
The most cruel thing is that Zhao Laiyu also gave Zhao Hongrun a bait: If such a conflict really happens, will you, King Su, come forward? If you do, which side will you, King Su, stand on?
Needless to say about the previous question, Zhao Hongrun naturally would not just watch the conflict between the Anling people and the refugees outside the city. After all, both sides were subjects of the Wei State. As the saying goes, the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands were full of flesh. No matter where the victims appeared, Zhao Hongrun felt uncomfortable in his heart.
But the question is, how can he stop this riot?
You know, under the premise that the people of Anling generally believe that the refugees outside the city are the criminals who destroyed the spring fields outside the city, even if Zhao Hongrun stands neutral, both sides will fight 80 times. I believe in the evaluation of Zhao Hongrun by the people in Anling City. and attitude will also drop significantly.
Why?
Because the Anling people were the direct victims, they had suffered immeasurable losses. If they could not vent their anger on the refugees they considered prisoners, then it would naturally be passed on to Zhao Hongrun.
This is human nature.
The result of this will be that the county residents in Anling City will unite to denounce Zhao Hongrun.
Under such circumstances, the nobles in the city, such as the Wang family and the Zhao family, can make Zhao Hongrun unable to stay in Anling with just a little instigation behind his back. Not to mention punishing the nobles in the city, he will even be Anling. The people of Ling united and drove out Anling.
Unless Zhao Hongrun did not hesitate to shed the blood of the people and mobilized merchant naval forces to suppress it forcefully.
But Zhao Hongrun would not do that, and once he did, it would only arouse stronger resistance from the people of Anling, and eventually alarm the court. In order to resolve the crisis, Zhao Hongrun was ordered to leave the Anling area.
Therefore, once the spring field outside the city is destroyed, unless Zhao Hongrun clearly sides with the Anling people and takes revenge on the innocent refugees, he will still be driven out of Anling by the angry Anling people anyway.
And in this way, the crisis among the nobles such as the Wang family and the Zhao family in Anling City was naturally resolved.
By then, although Zhao Hongrun can still use other means to retaliate against these nobles, it will probably be difficult to defeat them.
It is undeniable that Zhao Laiyu's poisonous plan is also to kidnap public opinion, but he is actually much more clever than the stupid trick that the Wang family came up with a few days ago, many times more clever.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Zhao Hongrun had to admit that if Zhao Laiyu really used this poisonous trick, he, Zhao Hongrun, would indeed be trapped in it and unable to get out, and everything he had done before would be in vain.
"Old thing..."
Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhao Laiyu and muttered with a sullen face.
If he were in Daliang back then, I believe Zhao Hongrun would be furious after hearing this old thing, but at this moment, Zhao Laiyu can only be proud, because the old man Zhao Hongrun's tone sounds no less than a compliment to him
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"...It's yours!"
After looking at Zhao Laiyu for a long time, Zhao Hongrun's mood was really complicated.
The reason is very simple, because Zhao Laiyu did not disappoint Zhao Hongrun this time. This old man who has stood in the clan for more than 20 years is indeed worthy of Zhao Hongrun's efforts to deal with it.
However, this is probably the last confrontation between the two of them: since Zhao Laiyu told Zhao Hongrun all this poisonous plan, it means that he no longer wants to fight Zhao Hongrun anymore, and it also means that Zhao Hongrun will have no chance in the end.
This hateful old man was pushed into the mud.
At this moment, Zhao Hongrun finally understood why Zhao Laiyu could remain standing in the clan for more than twenty years. This old man he should call his third uncle was indeed capable.
It's a pity that his descendants and grandchildren did not live up to expectations.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help laughing.
Seeing Zhao Hongrun suddenly laughing for no reason after being silent for a moment, Zhao Laiyu frowned, feeling a little confused.
He asked: "Why is King Su laughing?"
I saw Zhao Hongrun staring at Zhao Laiyu for a long time, and said with emotion: "Third uncle, you are worthy of being the third uncle. In the end, I didn't have the chance to push you into the mud... Forget it, the grudges between you and me
, that’s it for now. I will deal with your Zhao family justly and will not take the opportunity to retaliate again. You can rest assured. However, in my opinion, your Zhao family may not last long.
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Is this a threat?
Zhao Laiyu frowned when he heard this, but he felt that Zhao Hongrun's tone at this time did not seem to be threatening him.
After thinking about it carefully, Zhao Laiyu immediately understood: Zhao Hongrun was probably referring to his children and grandchildren.
Zhao Laiyu fell silent.
Yes, he could use his means to impress Zhao Hongrun this time, making him relent and relax the punishment for his Zhao family, but in the final analysis, the cause of this incident was his three sons.
He is already over 60 years old, how long can he protect his children and grandchildren?
When one day he is gone, even if the King Su in front of him does not take revenge, who can guarantee that his descendants will not offend other powerful people?
In Wei State, there are many great nobles who cannot afford to offend the Zhao family.
Thinking of this, Zhao Laiyu suddenly raised his head and said to Zhao Hongrun, who was about to summon Zong Wei to send him out of the government office: "King Su, if you want to deal with the Wang family, you need to be careful of the Wang family in Zhengcheng.
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Is this... a sign of goodwill?
Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhao Laiyu with a strange expression, but he was attracted by his words.
"The Wang family from Zhengcheng...what does it mean?"
I saw Zhao Laiyu stroking his beard and saying with a smile: "The Anling Wang family is a branch of the Zhengcheng Wang family, and the Zhengcheng Wang family is the natal family of Queen Wang, that is, the uncle of the Prince of the East Palace...
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Zhao Hongrun was really stunned for a moment. (To be continued.) 8