Chapter 1798

In terms of the millions of people who died in the past ten years, King He Jian of Zhao can be called the Lord of ZTE and the Lord of Ming Dynasty, but in fact, the state of Zhao has killed and injured millions of people in more than ten years, that is, the current 89 million people, most of whom are living in extreme hardship.

Even, if Su Heng had not intervened to change the upper form of tianyuxing, he might not have built Zhao into a small sea overlord similar to Qi for more than ten years.

Over the past ten years, the state of Zhao has changed from the original dregs to the regional tyrant of the royal family with 50000 elite army and navy. Don't forget that it is the great Tang Empire. Before Su Heng changed the upper form, only 30000 elite forbidden troops were loyal to the royal family of Li Tang!

Really talk about the overall situation, Li Tang, supreme Emperor Li Gui, and his personal political ability is even far inferior to He Jian

When Li Gui ascended the throne, no matter how loose the imperial power was, no matter how powerful the gentry and capital forces developed, Li Gui was also young and received systematic education from the crown prince before he ascended the throne of the Tang emperor.

He is definitely not a puppet. Not to mention that the Tang Dynasty has established the country for thousands of years, how powerful is its popularity among the people? In the history of the eastern and Western Han Dynasties for 400 years, it can shape infinite imperial power among the people. What about the thousands of years here?

After more than 20 years of development, Li Gui has only created 30000 forbidden troops who are absolutely loyal to the royal family. Compared with He Jian, who ascended the throne at the age of 14 and is a pure puppet, no matter how compared, it seems that He Jian's political skills, personal charm and so on are far better than Li Gui.

Of course, this also has the factor that the boat is small and easy to turn around.

After he Jian succeeded to the throne, he repeatedly used the external forces of Beian Province, yunbian, Liangdong, Liangxi, yunshang, Yunxia and other provinces to control the situation in the state of Zhao. He also used the power of Zhao Yu, the Shang Emperor... All these can borrow extremely powerful external forces to boost his momentum. Compared with those external forces, the gentry and capital forces in the state of Zhao are only weak chickens.

On the other hand, Li Gui is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. There are not many powerful external forces at all. He can use them to deal with the powerful gentry and capital forces in the Tang Dynasty.

In comparison with other countries, He Jian, the 31 year old king of Zhao, regardless of his personal ability and charm, is one of the most outstanding emperors and kings.

But Su Heng is not really Li Gui who is most satisfied with Zhao at the moment.

On the contrary, it is Jiang thief defined by He Jian as one of the "three thieves".

The three thieves of Zhao have a certain sense of historical precipitation. That's the same sentence. Before Li Gui ascended the throne, the people of Zhao also experienced the powerful gentry in the three northwest provinces, and exploited and squeezed them layer by layer with the gentry of Zhao and the upstarts of capital. There is no lack of heroes who want to emulate King Jiang Renmei of Qi.

It is not uncommon in history for people to pull the people to revolt.

If you spin up, spin out and die in a year or two or three years, you don't deserve to be officially called the three thieves.

Jiang Shiwu, a river thief, has been a criminal in Zhao Guo for more than 20 years. When he came into power, Li Gui was only a few years old and still belonged to children.

Song Xian'an, the thief of Song Dynasty, rose before Li Gui ascended the throne.

Only Gao Zhen, one of the three thieves, has been rebellious for eight years. He is a proper and backward thief.

The country of Zhao is mountainous, and the central island of Nuo Da is comparable to the three sites of Shandong Province, with a total area of nearly 500000 square kilometers. Among them, there are many famous mountains and rivers. Jiang Shiwu is entrenched in the north of Zhao, Huashan, Mount Tai and many other mountains. He builds a local base, gathers the people to recuperate, and gives them great treatment.

There are 80.9 million people living in this continuous mountain, close to 10% of the population of Zhao. This city has been regarded as a separate regime and independent, and has long abandoned the rule of the Zhao royal family.

With a population of 8.9 million and a set of its own administrative and military team, the Zhao royal family called him a river thief. In fact, it is too much to say that it is a separate regime.

Jiang Shiwu has been in the army for more than 20 years. At present, he is still at the age of 46. Of the seven sons, the eldest son is very familiar with political affairs and has the potential of an excellent politician. Two, four or five sons have a good reputation in the army, and the seventh son has an excellent talent in business.

All kinds of mineral veins produced in the base area are caravans controlled by the seventh son, traveling to and from various marine countries, and even doing business with businesses in other areas of the state of Zhao.

Jiang Shiwu was also a former soldier of the state of Zhao. He infected dozens of grass-roots soldiers around him with his personal charm. He couldn't bear the operation of generals who drank soldiers' blood, ate empty pay, and even invaded the place by incarnated soldiers and bandits. He mutinied more than 20 years ago and killed several middle and lower level officials.

He rose up all the way and really followed Jiang Renmei's example. Where he fought, he not only did nothing to the people, but also often acted like a child soldier. Whoever had difficulty to help directly. In the first three years, this could only be regarded as a gang of roving bandits, but where he passed, almost all the grass-roots people and civilians were grateful to Jiang Shiwu, and only those gentry and powerful or capitalists suffered blood losses.

Three years later, Jiang Shiwu developed a gang of dozens of people into tens of thousands of young people. When he planned to transform from an itinerant bandit into a base area, he was beaten into a dog by the gentry capital forces at that time, and fled with only dozens of personal soldiers.

But it doesn't matter. Jiang Shiwu's reputation has been established as early as three years. That is, if you change your site and report your reputation, there will be a large number of people who want to join Jiang's army.

The first time the army failed, Jiang Shiwu was not a small blow. He precipitated for the second three years. It was still the situation of wandering bandits. Only when he established the base area for the second time, he blocked the siege of various armies of the state of Zhao with more than 20000 troops and horses. Since then, Jiang Shiwu has been in the north of the state of Zhao step by step until now.

Under the rule of Jiang Shiwu, there were 8.9 million people. Of course, the treatment of the people could not be compared with that of Qi, but here, more than 90% of the people could have enough food and clothing.

Plenty of food and clothing, in fact, is enough!

It has been the lifelong pursuit of countless civilians that the vast majority of the people in the feudal era can feed and warm their families. This is a dream that many people in most areas of the big business and Tang Dynasty can't realize.

Jiang Shiwu can do it, although not as good as Qi's free orphans, free elderly care, free medical treatment and free education

However, his reputation has soared in the territory of the state of Zhao. Over the past year, some people in other areas want to sneak into the territory of Jiang Shiwu.

However, the biggest drawback of Jiang Shiwu is that the production area is insufficient. In terms of grain, Jiang Shiwu has always relied on commercial routes to Trade grain with various minerals. Only when it is transported back can he provide for 80.9 million people, 30000 mountain elite soldiers and 5000 elite navies.

Most of his territory is mountainous, and there are many kinds of mineral veins. Naturally, the soldiers are mainly mountain troops, and the 5000 navies are raised only to protect merchant ships.

He Jian, king of Qi, was unable to attack. Even if he Jian, a hundred thousand troops from the big business or the Tang Dynasty, entered Jiang Shiwu's territory, he would be defeated by Jiang Shiwu.

In Su Heng's mind, Jiang Shiwu, a river thief, far exceeds He Jian in terms of personal ability, charm and merit to the general public.

The state of Zhao prospered in what thrift, killing and injuring millions of people. Jiang Shiwu rose to dominate the north of the state of Zhao. However, he has been kind to the people and tried his best to support and protect the people for more than 20 years.

Most of the wealth earned by Jiang Shiwu is not used to sell grain, cloth and other materials to support the people, but all for the military? He can pull up more than 30000 troops? One hundred thousand can afford it.