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Chapter 280 Exploring the Northern Tour to Contain Shulong

After this catastrophe, some people in Daxia who still missed the "former dynasty" completely returned to their hearts, and there are many folks who have memorial tablets for Zhou Baili's ancestral hall.

There are no bad ghosts, no irresistible disasters, the calamity of bad qi disappears quietly, and half of the great Xia's national fortune is still in place.

The promised Dingzhou was turned into death, and the national strength of Daxia was greatly damaged?
The countries in the northern border were shocked. Liangzhou, Daizhou and even Liaozhou had a large number of immigrants. They wanted to live in Xiadi.

Because the time and scale of this disaster attack are similar in the northern border countries, but the coping methods and the degree of damage are completely different.

The Ling Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom are protected by the state tripod, and their luck is strong, but they are still cut off by nearly [-]% of their luck.

Misfortune swept across the territory, minor disasters and catastrophes emerged one after another, heavy casualties and resentment abounded.

Both countries have a state foundation, and the results are not bad, relying on luck to survive.

As for Tongzhou, Liaoxi Prefecture, Daizhou, Liangzhou and other places, it was really miserable, the mountains and rivers were broken, and there were countless displaced people.

For example, in Liang State, calamity hit the capital, the central law net was broken, and the pillar of heaven was shattered by ten feet.

Then the remnants of misfortune swept across the country, and there was no law to co-ordinate the overall situation to suppress it, and there was not enough luck to expel it.

In the end, various large-scale natural disasters broke out, mountains were displaced, rivers were diverted, and snowstorms covered the whole area.

Nearly 50 people died, and evil ghosts flocked to haunt them. Liang people were extremely disappointed with the Liang court.

Even Jin Guo didn't dare to march south after dealing with the catastrophe, for fear that the mess would fall on his own family.

The once-in-a-century white-haired wind has washed away the north and south of the Yinshan Mountains, and the national fortune has declined. They don't have enough food for themselves, let alone helping the victims.

Liang Hou Zhao Qi could only ask Xia Guo for help, and at the same time wrote a letter to his wife Zhao Ci, hoping that she could blow the pillow wind and let Da Xia support some supplies to Liang Guo.

There is also Daizhou, after the Fengchang robbery, dozens of horse bandits and rebels with many soldiers and horses suddenly appeared.

Either they are real disaster victims, or they are powerful leaders, in short, they just want to live now.

A small country has no luck to protect them, so why not rob the government to protect themselves.

In the face of these bandits, Xia Jun strictly guarded the border and did not hesitate to attack with force.

Only the honest refugees, who never refused to come from the Great Xia, played the banner of helping the world and the people, and crossed the border to pick up people more than once.

If you dare to stop them, then don't blame them for sending troops to teach you some lessons.

After just a few fights, Da Xia Zhou Bai's neighbors all acquiesced in the exodus of the victims, and turned to frantically rectifying the interior, striving to restore national power as soon as possible.

Abundant grain and related logistics reserves gave Daxia the confidence to do so.

Soon, Zhou Bai's reputation as a sage king was no longer limited to Dingzhou, but spread wildly in the north.

The northerners who can't survive know that as long as they reach the country of Xia, they can survive, and the Xia guild will accept them.

There is food to eat, and a strong national destiny to resist disaster...

In mid-November, the outside is still in chaos, and the turmoil caused by bad luck in Daxia is coming to an end.

But Zhou Bai sat inside the high walls of the palace city, but he seldom had a look at the folk situation.

Most of the time, he can only observe the flow of luck through the legal system and see some changes in the overall situation.

For example, whether there are public grievances in a certain county, which leads to a great decline in luck, or whether officials in a certain place are deceiving, and government orders cannot be implemented smoothly, etc.

Hearing is believing, seeing is believing, the bigger the ruling territory, the more subjects, Zhou Bai knew the more he couldn't divorce himself from reality.

He is not the Taiping emperor who was raised in the deep palace since he was a child, he is the emperor on horseback, the first generation who created the Great Xia with his own hands.

In late November, Duke Xia and Zhou Bai went on a tour to the north.

This is also his first official tour since he unified Dingzhou and upgraded Daxia to a Principality.

Everyone knows that Great Xia has been recuperating for a long time, and it will be the time to expand the territory again. For the courtiers who can be simple in the heart of the king, it is easy to even be promoted to two or three levels.

Usually it is difficult to make outstanding political achievements and get the attention of the central government, but now that Duke Xia is inspecting, is there a better opportunity than this?

Daxia's officialdom exploded, and officials at all levels showed their talents.

Rectify the sanitation of the streets, arrange for the people who sing meritorious deeds, and send people to watch the local thorns... everything is trying to show the style of Dazhi.

But how can Zhou Bai only look at the appearance, inspect the route, where the destination is, where to stop, what to inspect, and never disclose it to the outside world.

The county government, county government, and township office all go, but they inquire about government affairs and people's conditions, and do not listen to the officials' reports.

The evaluation of the gods, the inspection history records of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the storage of Xuanyiwei archives, private visits to local gentry and ordinary people, etc., will all become the basis for evaluating officials.

He will make a preliminary judgment directly through the overall color of the French Open. Before the establishment of the Great Xia, it was a light red law, and how much has changed in the past few years since the establishment of the Great Xia.

Zhou Bai will pay attention to the areas with strong air transport and more transfers to the central government, as well as the areas with ordinary and sluggish air transport that cannot catch up with the overall development level.

Whether it is official administration or environmental factors, find out the reasons.

Fortunately, starting from Dingzhou County, all the way to the north, the situation seen on the ground is mostly good.

Of course, there must be some officials who didn't meet Zhou Bai's requirements, otherwise he wouldn't have come to make an inspection on the eve of the war.

Under the oppression of calamity, many problems happened to be exposed.

Even though Great Xia is still in a period of rapid development, it is normal for officials to be clean and bright, but people's hearts are fickle. Some once outstanding officials have become content with the status quo, and even corrupt and greedy.

A batch will be promoted and rewarded, and a batch will be punished and lectured.

When Zhou Bai returned to his hometown, Bei'an County, several old officials were forced to resign and return to their hometowns.

The holy king is in power, and the candle shines thousands of miles.

Now everyone knows that Duke Xia can clearly see the little tricks they did below.

In Daxia's officialdom, the atmosphere of laziness created by the peaceful development was swept away.

In mid-December, Zhou Bai arrived in Cangbei County.

Although the current Cangbei is still not as good as any other county in Cangnan, compared to the dilapidated and desolate places before, the scene of thousands of miles of fertile fields and fields connected to rice fields is refreshing.

In the past three years, Cangbei County has continuously replenished immigrants and established a city.

There are former Cangbei people who have returned to their hometowns. They are the main body of nearly 20 people, and there are also immigrants from other counties in Cangnan, about 15.

Among the 15 people, most of them came here for the policy of giving away land, and some of them were from the Dingxi clan who moved in. They refused to accept the government and were ordered to split up the immigrant frontier.

The above 35 people are mostly distributed in the southern part of Cangbei County, which is the traditional farming area.

In addition, there are [-] newly recruited Neifu prairie people, who are arranged in the southern part of Cangbei County to establish pastures to graze cattle with peace of mind, and at the same time assist the army to guard the border.

A total of 45 people, plus nearly [-] soldiers, constitute the population structure of one county and four counties in Cangbei County.

Although most of the rural French Open is white, the institutional French Open is generally light red, which can be considered to be a stable structure and people's hearts are stable.

With nothing, up to now four counties have been set up to accommodate 45 people, and they can support the army from time to time to reduce logistical pressure.

What is political achievement, this is political achievement.

It can only be said that Yan Luo is not good enough to be a military governor, but a pure civil servant really caught Zhou Bai's eyes.

Zhou Bai spent the entire December, including the New Year in the seventh year of Tongzhi, in Cangbei.

Yan Luo, Jiao Tu, Huo Feiguang and other civil and military personnel in the town, as well as the Cangbei Army and the people of Cangbei, all need to talk to him, the monarch who has been in the center for a long time.

On January [-]th of the seventh year of Tongzhi, Zhou Bai led Wanqi and the Taoist regiment to destroy the general's headquarters, went north to the Cang Prairie, and slaughtered the three tribes supported by the Kingdom of Jin.

All the ministries were terrified, and took the tokens issued by Zhou Baizeng, and went to Daxia to pay tribute, and once again showed their loyalty.

On January [-]th, Daxia enshrined True Monarch Minghui and led a group of [-] Taoist priests across the border to attack and kill the Fulong Shaman of the Jin Kingdom against the pressure of luck.

On January 15, the Taoist group beheaded more than [-] black-robed shamans, [-] silver-rimmed shamans, and two Phnom Penh shamans returned smoothly.

Killing these shamans is not a random killing. One counts as one, and they are all blacklisted people who have wandered around the Jinxia border all year round and caused sabotage.

The meaning is obvious, two words, Liwei.

I, Zhou Bai, are in Cangbei, do you dare to fight?

If you dare not come, please stay in the grassland honestly and stop trying to go south.

Anyone who dares to stretch out any tentacles will strike back with thunder.

In the end, Zhou Bai stayed until the end of January, and Hu Yanhe swallowed his breath as if he hadn't noticed the provocation.

The last big defeat, the vitality has not yet recovered, and the black veins are not providing much support at the moment, so the Jin Kingdom is actually very weak now, and it is impossible for Hu Yanhe to mobilize the army to march south at this time.

As far as the local strength displayed in the Great Xia this time alone, it frightened the senior leaders of the Kingdom of Jin, and the gap seemed to be getting wider and wider.

This tentative provocation was successful. Daxia's neighbor in the north did not have the strength to go south for the time being.

……

Zhou Bo set off to return south with peace of mind, but on the way, he kept giving orders.

The couriers holding the gold medal and carrying the order of dragon and tiger arrows rushed to various places one after another.

To launch a cross-state war, it is definitely not enough to dispatch the forbidden army, and the garrison and militia must keep up.

The left-behind cabinet and the top officials of the Six Ministries must be a little puzzled, because this does not conform to the procedures for troop deployment, and it means disrespecting them.

Under normal circumstances, in order to maintain the Daxia system and to ensure the smooth flow of luck, Zhou Bai would not act like this beyond his courtiers.

Can't wait for the cabinet to discuss and even hand over the order to the Ministry of War?
Zhou Bai really couldn't wait, he had to fight this battle, the progress of the unification of Western Shu was a bit too fast.

Just a year after Baidi's fall, only half of the eighteen dragons in Western Shu were left.

Among them, the three Shulong candidates that Zhou Bai had judged had now obtained a prefecture each, and their fortunes were flourishing, showing signs that the dragons would fight in the field.

More critically, in February of the seventh year of Tongzhi, Du Yu, Duke of West Shu, aggressively attacked Jianzhou and achieved successive victories. Now he has swallowed another Jiannan dragon python.

Ever since Zhou Bai observed the weather in Western Shu, he has been paying close attention to Du Yu's movements.

Because Du Yu is one of the three dragons of Western Shu, and has the potential to dominate Western Shu. He rose on the foot of Jiang Yuanlong in Bazhou, and he is quite majestic.

Qinzhou is located outside the Xishu Basin, and Jianzhou is the first state in the north to enter Shu, and then to the south is Bazhou.

Jianzhou and Bazhou are not rich, and they can only be compared with the newly established Dingzhou. The real Tianfu Plain is behind Dongyizhou and West Yizhou.

Yizhou, both east and west, is surrounded by thousands of miles of fertile fields, densely populated, and developed in commerce and trade. It is located in the center of Western Sichuan, and it can be said that it is not inferior to the Central Region and Jiangnan.

Qianlong, who started his career in Western Shu in history, no matter where he is, must be thinking of taking things first.

At least part of the territory of Tianfu Plain must be won, otherwise it will be difficult to gather resources and fortune.

Now the other two Shu dragons have done the same, and are desperately fighting for the control of Liangyi.

Only Du Yu resisted eating the fat on the side, but went north to capture the barren Jianzhou.

We must know that after the fall of the Baidi, the luck of Western Shu increased greatly, and many sects were born. In fact, the states and countries survived the calamity, which is far less difficult than other places.

Among them, the performance of the Ba Kingdom is even worse, the country's fortunes are as good as the sun, and it has not wavered at all to overcome the calamity.

It stands to reason that it is an excellent time to go south for two benefits at this time, but he insisted on resisting all opinions and mobilizing the whole country's military force to go north to Jianzhou.

The other dragons in Western Shu didn't understand, but they welcomed it very much. The subjects of Ba Kingdom and even the Fulong Sect didn't understand either, but their persuasion was ineffective.

The only thing that can make sense is that they want to avoid the other two powerful enemies and prevent the three dragons from fighting in advance.

If the other two Shulong candidates compete to the death, there may still be a chance for the fisherman to benefit.

However, this reason is actually untenable. The theory of the three dragons of Western Shu is not original to Zhou Bai. With the fall of the White Emperor, the affiliation of the Dragon Qi in Shu is too obvious, and any true emperor can get a glimpse of the secret.

No one is a fool, and they will really ignore Du Yu's eyes.

What is there in Jianzhou? There are millions of people who do not meet the standard of luck in the ancient state, there are countless mountains and hills, and there are miasma and poisonous insects that mortals fear...

In short, it is definitely not wrong to describe it as barren, and it is a pity to discard it if it is tasteless.

But from Zhou Bai's point of view, he understands Du Yu's approach, and believes that this person is one of his biggest opponents in the future.

Why does Jianzhou often appear in history books, and every time the world changes, there is a strong stroke.

Without it, it is only because Jianzhou still has Jiange Road.

The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. Most of the difficulties refer to the difficulty of walking in Jiange.

Suolong Ridge is just a mountain, and it is not difficult for the army to climb over it, but Jiange Road is a mountain road linking countless mountains.

It is too crowded for a person to walk alone, but how difficult it is for an army carrying food, fodder and equipment to walk.

Du Yu's capture of Jianzhou is a great ambition and a far-sighted vision.

And Zhou Bai was even more worried that this was a chain reaction triggered by the breaking of the Dragon Lock Bureau.

If Du Yu attacks Qinzhou again after taking full control of Jiange Dao, then the road to Sichuan will be unimpeded.

Zhou Bai's westward journey to become king was interrupted, and he couldn't contain a big enemy in advance.

If the dragon of Shu does not leave Shu, it will die, and if it leaves Shu, it will sweep the world.

……

On February [-]th, the seventh year of Tongzhi, Daxia issued a call for gold, listing [-] major unrighteous crimes, calling on the northern border countries to launch a crusade and return the northern border to peace.

Huyan was so angry that he vomited blood, and you wanted to fight for help, but you always portrayed yourself as a teacher of justice.

The entire Kingdom of Jin became united because of Xia Kingdom's upcoming offensive, and soldiers and horses of all surnames gathered in Yinshan Mountain, ready to defend Xia people from going north at any time.

It's just that according to the information, you have only [-] riders in Xia Kingdom.

These arrogant Xia people really want to use infantry to conquer their kingdom on horseback? !
Hu Yanhe is acutely aware that perhaps this is an unprecedented opportunity, no matter how many elite infantry you have, they are useless in the Yinshan grassland.

(End of this chapter)