To be fair, after reading the history books of the state of Zhao, Su Heng had to admit that He Jian, the current king of Zhao, is a very clever and powerful guy who plays the role of a pig and eats a tiger. He ascended the throne at the age of 14. In the face of the gentry and capital upstarts who control everything in China, what can he do except be a puppet?
In order to humiliate the new king, the gentry and capital upstarts of that period arranged for him only a poor woman from the bottom of the state of Zhao. She was not ugly and generous.
On the contrary, those gentry families and newly wealthy families with capital are either married to the local powerful families in the state of Zhao or to the powerful gentry and gentry in the three provinces of Northwest China.
The gentry and rich families in yunbian, Liangxi and Liangdong provinces in the northwest of the great commercial empire drew interests from the state of Zhao and controlled all kinds of mineral veins. Most of them cooperated with the gentry and capital upstarts here.
A new king who has to be allowed to play outside the palace, why should he Jian push back?
A puppet who ascended the throne at the age of 14, even if he had been pretending to be a pig and eat a tiger for the first five years, how old was he? How can you deceive the old Foxes of Zhao when you are surrounded by spies?
This is a miracle.
The most important thing for him to perform the follow-up operation and start is to choose a wealthy businessman who is not conspicuous at first sight and has strong hidden power behind him. He has always been submissive and supportive to his father in all kinds of things.
However, nayafu Haoshang, on the surface, is only a marginal figure in the interest circle of Zhao
On the surface, he is not strong. He is a local rich man who occupies several iron and copper mines. In fact, behind this local rich man, he represents the big business empire. Besides the three provinces of yunbian, Liangxi and Liangdong in the northwest, another province, the north bank Province, is powerful.
Zhao is the island country with the most gold, silver, gemstones, iron and copper veins among the Ocean countries!
Especially copper!
In the past, copper mines were money mines, which could be directly used as copper money. In the present era, bronze guns are often the strongest because of the technical problems of firearms.
What do you represent as an island country with the most copper mines?
Those who want to annex and encroach on the interests here are not only the three provinces in the northwest of Dabang? The Tang Empire inherited the ancient pattern of Kyushu. No matter how big the territory is, it is only Kyushu.
Dashang is a provincial system. The whole Tianzhou continent has an area similar to the Dizhou continent occupied by the Tang Dynasty, but there are more than 30 provinces here.
The three northwestern provinces have always been in the state of Zhao for their own interests. It doesn't matter how they compete, but if there are powerful gentry from other provinces who want to intervene? Then work together to fight out.
Other provinces outside the alliance of the three northwest provinces are too interested in Zhao Guo. They just fail to do things again and again and stand outside salivating.
They are secretly choosing representatives, ready to wait for the opportunity.
Then the representative, somehow, the interest plate behind it was discovered by He Jian, a teenager, and gave him all kinds of super strength support and respect
In any case, He Jian is a king, an aboveboard king, a puppet king, and also has a reputation.
A local rich man who had been fooled by He Jian began to fight for power and profit step by step. He wanted to win interests for his family, especially for the powerful gentry in the north bank province who supported him.
Five years before he Jian ascended the throne, the most important thing was that the local rich man rose step by step, and it was also the process of the rise of the great powers in the north bank province outside the three provinces. It was this process that He Jian quietly developed good strength.
In his fifth year on the throne, he made his own voice for the first time.
He secretly pulled out a powerful force loyal to He Jian, that is, the 5000 strong army trained for a local rich man in the north bank Province, which was rebelled by He Jian and became a force loyal to the royal family.
When the local rich man's second father almost vomited blood and the giants of the north bank province almost became angry, He Jian directly showdown with the other gentry and the giants of yunbian, Liangxi and Liangdong provinces. Behind his second father is the north bank province.
At this point, a rich man's second father, the great power of the north bank Province, is all over.
In other words, the three provinces of yunbian, Liangxi and Liangdong, no matter how competitive they are internally, are united externally. Their unity is the strength of the three provinces, combining more than 70% of the gentry and capital strength of the state of Zhao to fight the last loss.
It took less than a year to kill a local rich man. Stealing chickens in the north bank province could not erode the rice, and all of them went away.
In their mind, what the hell is He Jian holding five thousand troops? As long as you get rid of the slag in North Shore Province, you're afraid to play, but this guy who has just turned 19?
The truth is, they really can't play!
After the end of the north shore province and the local rich, He Jian not only developed the army into 7000, but also once again brought in representatives of the gentry from the two provinces of yunshang and Yunxia from the big merchants.
Yunbian, yunshang and Yunxia provinces are divided by the famous mountains of Dashang, and Liangxi and Liangdong are the boundary between Liang and water.
Are the gentry of the two provinces above and below the cloud stupid? They are not stupid. He Jian has great boldness of spirit. They directly marry the strongest families in the representative families of the two provinces. All the married are awarded as imperial concubines, and they directly issue a posthumous edict. If he dies, the son of the married women of these families will be the king.
At that time, it doesn't matter how you divide it. It's all yours. He has had enough puppet days. He would rather give the state of Zhao to the top and bottom of the clouds than take advantage of the gentry in the three northwest provinces who treat him as a puppet.
He was even willing to leave the state of Zhao and go to the two provinces where his father-in-law lived. He was willing to let the literati sent by Lao Zhang people share all the official positions of the state of Zhao.
At this point, even if there is a precedent of losses in the north bank Province, the powerful and powerful leaders of the gentry in the two provinces can't sit still.
If you don't answer such a good script, you will lose blood!
They took it, sent family elites to be officials and sent daughters to marry. After marriage, they took He Jian to the big business.
Then the three provinces of yunbian, Liangxi and Liangdong were completely blown up. In those years, in Zhao's country, almost the scalp blood flow fighting with those two provinces.
When they were about to fight, they found that He Jian was gone. He didn't know when he ran away from the control of the gentry and Haozu. He appeared in the dynasty song in order to cut the royal family. Under the attached conditions, he was only willing to be a rich man and asked the state of Zhao to become a new province for big business.
The leaders of the five provinces were all ignorant and forced. At that time, the Shang emperor Zhao Yu was happy and almost laughed. The Shang emperor began to tear up with the gentry of the five provinces.
Tearing and tearing is the great anger of the Shang emperor, who severely punished the original gentry and haos in the five provinces. Finally, he had to pinch his nose and seal He Jian a title and let him take office in the south of Dashang.
Zhao Yu's old and spicy, how can he not know that He Jian wants to attach it inside? Is he the Shang emperor also used as a knife? But the interests of the territory of the state of Zhao were too great. Zhao Yu couldn't resist the temptation at that time. As a result, he cleaned up the five provincial giants and lost blood. However, the five provincial giants contacted more gentry and nobles, which would have instinctively weakened the imperial power. Zhao Yu finally failed to do the internal attachment.
When things failed, he didn't have a good face for He Jian. He couldn't stand him. He ran again on the way to take office. When he went back, he pulled out 10000 troops loyal to himself in the state of Zhao. In the face of the powerful and powerful provincial gentry in the period of extreme weakness and blood loss, as well as the local gentry and capital upstarts in the state of Zhao... Blood awakened the slaughter.
The Shang emperor was angry again and sent troops into the state of Zhao to teach He Jian a lesson. He Jian could not stand it. The state of Zhao was mountainous. He Jian lived in exile for several years and still survived.
After these years, the gentry in the three provinces of big business yunbian, Liangxi and Liangdong have almost recovered. The main reason is that the old generation and the previous generation have disappeared? New giants will emerge soon.
But the state of Zhao has also been tossed. Before this series of events, the state of Zhao actually had a population of tens of millions. It was more than ten years after he Jian succeeded to the throne that it declined to 89 million, with millions of deaths and injuries.
Forced countless people.