A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 288 The power of the king is granted by the true king

Liangshan has to shoulder the blame!

The countries in Southeast Asia have small land and limited population. There is an upper limit on the amount of grain they can produce each year. In addition to keeping it for domestic consumption, it also needs to use it for various purposes such as making wine and raising livestock... so that it can really be sold. , actually not too much.

But every time the Liangshan caravan came, after selling porcelain, silk, tea and other commodities, they purchased large quantities of grain and transported it back to Liangshan.

When the royal families of various countries saw the white money, they would not worry about anything else, so they kept collecting food from the people.

Although the Southeast Asian countries are geographically advantageous and have crops harvested three times a year, they cannot bear this kind of conquest.

At the beginning, people in various countries had a lot of food stored in their homes, which was enough to cope with the situation, but soon the food was exhausted. However, the royal family continued to press, and resentment suddenly arose among the people.

In order to buy more various luxury goods from Liangshan, various countries have purchased grain from neighboring countries, transported it back to the country, and sold it to Liangshan at a high price. This has led to a gradual shortage of grain in neighboring countries.

Originally, these Southeast Asian countries were big food countries and had never worried about food problems. The price of food had always been extremely low. But now, Liangshan has made it rise three times a day, and no one can afford it.

If you just can't afford rice, it's not a big deal. There are many crops in the fields here, and you can just pick some bananas, coconuts and other things to satisfy your hunger.

But after the Liangshan people tasted the deliciousness of those tropical fruits, they refused to let them go. After finding that the food was sold out, they started to buy the fruits as well.

So while the powerful businessmen from all over the world were happily collecting money, the people at the bottom were already starved of food.

After enduring for several years, finally, those people who couldn't stand it began to revolt.

"Kill them all..."

A flood of rioters swarmed toward the royal city. They didn't even have decent weapons in their hands. They took various sticks, dung forks, shovels, etc., and rushed towards the city gate against the arrows of the defenders.

Without a battering ram, they took turns ramming themselves against each other, round after round.

Those carrying ladders, when they reached the wall, leaned the ladder against the wall and kept climbing up with their heads buried.

When those in front die, those behind will keep up, one after another without stopping.

The defenders are just dogs raised by the powerful. They can look after homes and homes, but they don't have to fight for their lives in battle!

When the first men scaled the walls, the defenders quickly collapsed.

Then the city gates opened wide, and a wave of chaos swept through the entire city.

"Your Majesty, it's not good, the mob rushed in..."

The palace was now in chaos, and the obese King Li Gande of Annan was sweating profusely and was out of his mind.

"These damn untouchables actually dare to cause trouble!"

"Where is General Ruan?"

"Why don't you quickly lead your troops to quell the chaos?"

The chamberlain next to him reminded: "General Ruan has been guarding the city. Now that the city is broken, he is probably out of luck."

"What should I do?"

"Where is Commander Li, the palace guard?"

"Close the palace door quickly and don't let the mob come in, otherwise I will kill his head!"

Someone hurried to deliver the order, but the chamberlain followed closely behind Li Qiande and reminded him in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, since you can't even defend a city as big as the Royal Capital, then this small palace will be too big!"

"Your Majesty, it's better to make plans early!"

Li Qiande was shocked and asked, "What can you do?"

"Your Majesty, why not go hunting in the west?"

The term "Xi Shou" here is a vague term, which actually means running away.

Li Qiande felt a little reluctant to let go. Once he ran away, it would be difficult to come back.

His "Li Dynasty" usurped the position of the former "Li Dynasty" and became the royal family. If he leaves now, I don't know who will own the throne of Annan.

"Let's load all the gold beads into the car for later use. As for the hunt to the west... Commander Li is brave and resolute, so he may be able to defend it!"

The chamberlain next to him hurriedly went out to prepare. After a while, he heard the sound of chaotic footsteps. The chamberlain who had gone to deliver the order ran back again and shouted loudly from a distance:

"No, Your Majesty, Commander Li and his family have already run away..."

Li Qiande felt a mouthful of blood in his chest and almost died of anger.

"I treat his Li family well, how dare he..."

"Your Majesty, don't say this anymore, run away!"

"If you don't run now, it will be too late!"

Li Qiande then ran out in a hurry, shouting in a panic:

"Now that all directions are in rebellion, even if we leave the city, where can we go?"

The chamberlain suggested: "Your Majesty, why don't you go to the Central Plains to borrow troops and then come back to put an end to the chaos?"

"Central Plains?" Li Qiande frowned after hearing this, "Then the Song Dynasty can't even take back its own territory, how can we expect them to help me restore the country?"

"The villain is not talking about the Song Dynasty, but the Liangshan Mountains!"

The waiter said what he was thinking as he ran out panting.

"Liangshan has not yet established a country. It is just a mountain bandit. It was oppressed in the Song Dynasty. Although it was rich, it had no status."

"Your Majesty, you might as well lure me with high-ranking officials and generous salaries, or even promise me a fiefdom. Maybe you can seduce Li Gui from Liangshan to agree."

"After the country is restored, at worst, the king will give him the false title of general."

"Furthermore, the cause of today's incident was Liangshan's massive purchase of grain. They must take responsibility!"

After listening to this, Li Qiande's eyes suddenly lit up and his pace became a little faster.

"That's a very good thing to say. Hurry up and get those gold and silver treasures on board, and let's set off to the Song Dynasty!"

At this time, the city was already in chaos. There were noble merchants running away from the city everywhere, and the entire street was blocked.

Li Qiande was so angry that he ordered his guards to kill them, and then he cleared a bloody path, rushed onto the ship, and sailed away.

Behind him, the huge Annan capital had turned into a sea of ​​fire, burning half of the sky red.

The angry people already hated the nobles in the city. If they saw anyone in gorgeous clothes, no matter who they were, they would kill them.

Many of them were carrying gold, silver, and other items among the civilians. The dignitaries who tried to escape from the city were recognized in the streets and were besieged and tortured.

For a time, the city was filled with mourning and fires were everywhere.

Most of the people, out of revenge, began to burn, kill and loot everywhere, with the palace bearing the brunt.

The once gorgeous and majestic palaces have now been devoured by raging flames, and all the splendid palaces have been reduced to scorched earth. In the end, only a pile of ruins remains as a symbol of the royal majesty in the past.

Even those temples that were once transcendent have now been torn off their altars, temples have been destroyed, monks have been killed, the golden statue of the Buddha has been pushed down, and the gold foil on his body has been peeled off.

When all the dust settled, a new dynasty was established here. The new king was not the leader of the rebel army, but the concubine of a local wealthy family. His name was Fan Lin, and his country name was Yuanping.

After this example, civil unrest began to break out in other surrounding countries one after another, and the decadent dynasties were overthrown and replaced with new emperors.

People in various countries are indeed short of food, but it does not mean that nobles and wealthy businessmen are short of food.

The nobles lived extravagantly, and one meal might waste more food than a family could eat in a month, so naturally they needed to store a lot of food.

But the wealthy businessman was just hoarding it and wanted to sell it at a high price. Even if he had food, he would not sell it.

In order to solve the problem of food shortage for the people, the new dynasty began to prepare for a mass killing, and included the old nobles, wealthy businessmen, and big families in the list of annihilation.

Major families are also gathering strength to prepare for riots.

The establishment of the new dynasty was only the beginning of the civil war, and it was far from the end.

On one side, the two sides have abundant troops, high walls and deep pools; on the other side, they hold great righteousness and have many men. They are equally powerful and it is difficult to distinguish between them.

What was supposed to be a war that lasted for many years changed because of an accident.

The new king of Annan, Fan Lin, was originally the bastard of a local big family. He knew that the big families were powerful and did not want to conflict with them, but he had to deal with the hungry people behind him, so after contacting and discussing with the families, he issued an order.

The content of the order is: the Han people in the country are listed as enemies. Anyone can kill the Han people and take away their property without guilt.

Under this order, the whole country became excited and began to hunt and kill Han merchants and civilians in an organized manner everywhere.

The Han people are accustomed to storing grain. No matter how high the price of grain outside is, they never sell it all, and this grain has now become the root of trouble.

After the first Han manor was breached, a large amount of stored grain was exposed, and more people joined the ranks of hunting Han people.

While reaping the benefits, domestic conflicts were temporarily transferred out, easing the pressure on the new dynasty.

Seeing that Annan's method worked well, other countries followed suit and began to direct conflicts towards the Han people, so as to divert the people's anger towards the royal family.

Under this background, Liangshan's great business of buying grain can of course be interrupted.

If it weren't for the naval guns on Liangshan's ships, I'm afraid these ships would have been seized by various countries. Relying on tyrannical force, Liangshan maritime merchants rushed out of the dock, bombed their port with random cannons, and then returned to Liangshan leisurely carrying the original cargo.

After hearing this information, Li Gui was so angry that he cursed:

"Straight bitch!"

"This group of Annan monkeys will cause chaos to Grandpa at the critical moment!"

Originally, this overseas grain was just a supplement to Liangshan. Even if it was not available, it would not have much impact. After all, Shandong was originally a major grain producer.

But now there is drought everywhere in Liangshan, so food supplements from overseas are indispensable.

It's not a big problem if countries are in turmoil. The big deal is just killing all the people who hate the Han people.

A group of hairless monkeys, who can't even speak Chinese, will die if they die, and Li Gui won't care.

Killing is easy, but if there is no one to farm after, it will be troublesome.

Is it possible that they immigrated there?

The climate in Southeast Asian countries is suitable for plant growth, and they are the best food-producing areas. However, the Annamite monkeys are lazy and lazy, and they are unwilling to cultivate hard, which wastes that good land.

If we can immigrate there and colonize it, we will definitely be able to produce a lot of grain.

But the problem is that there is no one in Liangshan now. If you want to immigrate there, you must unify the Central Plains. By then the population will exceed 100 million, and 80% will be poor. You can immigrate in any way you want.

But in fact, if Liangshan unified the Central Plains, all the gentry must be cleared out first. By then, the country's land will be enough to distribute, and there will be no need for immigration at all.

This becomes an endless loop.

If we want food from Southeast Asian countries, we must solve the problem of Chinese exclusion in each country.

There was only one solution that Li Gui could think of, and that was to kill all the local natives who were anti-Chinese.

And when all the people were killed, in order for someone to farm the land, immigrants needed to come over, but the immigrants had to unite the Central Plains to have enough manpower.

But Xiaoliangshan only needs food from Southeast Asian countries, and the "Liang Kingdom" that dominates the world does not.

There is no need for food from various countries, and naturally there is no need to carry out massacres to make room for the Han people.

"Brother Zhu Wu, do you have any way to make the locals work obediently without killing them all?"

"This one……"

Zhu Wu also had a headache after hearing this. He thought for a long time before hesitatingly said:

"If the royal families of various countries are afraid of us, and the officers and soldiers of each country can suppress these chaos, then it must be okay."

"The former is not difficult to achieve with my brother's magical power, but the latter...if the officers and soldiers of various countries were really strong enough, even the capital would not have fallen."

"Is it possible... that we can station troops locally?"

"That's right!" Li Gui slapped his thigh, "We can garrison troops!"

"Let the local royal family repay the military expenses with food!"

"Anyway, we are going to start the Age of Discovery sooner or later, let's use the Annan countries to train our troops first!"

"Divine right of kings!"

"In the future, when the emperors of various countries ascend the throne, they must be crowned by my true king. Otherwise, it will be illegal!"

Everyone was dumbfounded by these words and exclaimed:

"Brother, this has never been done since ancient times!"

Li Gui laughed loudly and said:

"You see a lot of strange things, but you know that in the far west, there is an evil god who controls hundreds of countries. The king must be crowned by the Pope of the Cross Church, otherwise the other countries will attack him."

"In terms of the number of countries it controls and the vast territory it rules, the Evil God Cult is the largest church in the world!"

"We will definitely have a battle with that evil sect in the future, brothers, please don't be careless!"

Everyone was immediately shuddered when they heard this, and at the same time they felt heroic. They wanted to meet this largest church for a while and see what a powerful organization it was and what heroes it had.

Li Gui gave the order, and everyone began to get busy, preparing to mobilize the navy, modify the ships, and install large and small artillery on them.

They were busy here, and the ship of Annan King Li Qiande also arrived in Mizhou.

Originally, his ship left Annan Port first, but compared to the familiarity of the Liangshan maritime merchants, his captain's level was much inferior.

In order to prevent a series of dangers such as being swept away by the current, touching the reef, losing its direction, etc., Li Qiande's boat moved very slowly.

After arriving in the Song Dynasty, we still had to find a way to Liangshan along the coastline, so we arrived now.

"Doctor Ruan, please go and meet Liangshan Tongbin and tell him that I am coming here, so that Liangshan can prepare well so as not to lose his etiquette."

Even if the tiger dies, Li Qiande has fallen into such a miserable situation. He still wants to show off and ask someone to come over to help him on the boat. Although he didn't say it, he obviously wanted Li Gui to pick him up in person. .

People these days value status, so the servants around him didn't think there was any problem.

Although he has lost his country, he was once the king of a country, right?

Even after the destruction of a country, the king of the subjugated country can appoint a "Hunde Gong", "Chonghun Hou", "Disobedient Hou" and the like in the new dynasty, and let a bandit leader come out to take over what's going on. ?

After receiving the order, Doctor Ruan swaggered to the port set up by Liangshan Army, showed his identity, and said, "His Majesty King Annan is here to visit."

The local defenders didn't know that Annan had been finished long ago. When they heard that the lord of the country was visiting, they didn't dare to neglect. They hurriedly wrote down the situation and sent a pigeon to the village. At the same time, they politely invited the group of people to get off the boat and send them to the village. Resting in a local luxurious mansion.

Soon Liangshan received the news and showed it to Li Gui. Li Gui was immediately overjoyed.

"I was originally thinking about who to support as the new king of Annan, but he came at the right time!"

"Tell the brothers on the front line that this old guy is useless, just kill him."

"But of the princes who came with us, the minors can stay, and the adults will be killed as well."

"Those ministers who came with me, all the high-ranking officials of fifth rank and above have been killed. The lower-ranking ones must have a family that is not powerful enough, so they can be kept as assistants to the new monarch."

"All the ships and property they brought were confiscated, and the women were distributed to meritorious soldiers as wives."

"When our army is dispatched, we will take those people with us and let them see how we regained Annan. This will prevent them from having bad intentions in the future."

"If the little prince is obedient, he will be King Annan for the rest of his life. If he is not obedient, he will be killed and replaced."

As soon as this order was issued, the people in Mizhou naturally knew what to do.

That night, Li Qiande temporarily stayed in Mizhou.

Li Qiande sat behind the table, with concubines on both sides serving him while he ate.

Doctor Ruan bowed and stood in front of the desk, and respectfully reported, "Your Majesty, Liangshan sent someone here to make statistics on the identity, age and official rank of us people."

"Oh, maybe you are considering the scale of the welcoming ceremony and the corresponding treatment!" Li Qiande, who was enjoying the local delicacies, replied absently.

"Then I filled it out truthfully?"

"Can!"

Doctor Ruan then resigned and left. There was already a team of people waiting here in the hospital, with tables, chairs, pens and ink all prepared.

He sat on the chair, opened the book on the table, and filled in the information of all the hundreds of people one by one with a standard thin gold hand.

The man stood behind Dr. Ruan. After he finished filling in the form, he took the booklet and asked the senior officials one by one about their appearance, and Dr. Ruan pointed them out to him one by one.

After the names and looks of all the people were matched, the man waved back, and two big men immediately rushed up, picked up the two young princes, turned around and left the yard quickly.

Doctor Ruan suddenly became very anxious and hurried up to stop him.

"stop!"

"Where are you taking the prince?"

As soon as he took a step, he heard screams all around him, and then his back hurt and his stomach felt cold. He lowered his head and looked again, only to see a bloody knife coming out from the front.

"you……"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the tip of the knife retracted again, leaving only a bloody hole.

He felt that all the strength in his body was leaking out from that hole, his knees weakened, and he fell to the ground.

Lying on the ground, he watched helplessly as a row of soldiers armed with swords and guns rushed into the crowd, pulled out the high-ranking officials and pushed them to the ground. Even his master, who was dining in the main room, was no exception. .

Li Qiande was shocked and angry, and shouted loudly:

"I am King Annan, how dare you be so rude?"

"When I see that Li Gui later, I will definitely ask him to punish you for the crime of disrespect!"

"Why don't you let me go quickly?"

But those soldiers didn't even pay attention, and cut off his head with one knife.

The head flew up into the sky, drew an arc in the air, and then landed heavily on the ground. It rolled around until it stopped in front of Dr. Ruan.

The monarch and his ministers looked at each other with eyes closed, and there was still doubt and confusion in their eyes.

(End of this chapter)