Although Shi Hu finally won the victory, entered the Xiangguo, and changed the name of the year to Xingguo, in order to show that he would make great efforts to govern and rejuvenate the country, but the state of Qianguo was still in decline after all, which can be seen from the current situation of Xiangguo, the capital of the country.

In the early years, when the ancestor Shi Le was alive, the state of Qian was also the most prosperous, and it was a well-deserved overlord of Hebei. As the capital of the country, Xiangguo is also a collection of treasures in the world, and people are close to it, and Xiangguo and its surroundings are also very prosperous.

It is also thanks to Shi Le's arrangement of strong trunks and weak branches and taking the border land to supplement the center that his sons Shi Daya and Cheng Yao and others can maintain it for several years almost by relying on the strength of Xiangguo alone.

And this years-long siege of the lonely city can also be said to have exhausted some of the vitality accumulated in the old years of Xiangguo. The civil war was so fierce that there was always more than foreign conquest.

First of all, it is the suburbs of Xiangguo, or the strong walls are clear, or they are burned and looted by foreign troops, which can be described as ten rooms and nine empty, and a ruin. As far as the eye can see, the old days of the garden villas with superior locations and grand buildings are now only ruined and overgrown with weeds, which is not much different from the inaccessible wilderness.

Even if there are measures such as reclamation and repair, it is really ineffective⊥ even if a group of nomadic eaters are recruited to settle here and provide them with grain and farm tools, but as long as the supervision is slightly weak, these people are very likely to disperse in a hurry. Even if they can't run, they are very passive and slacking off.

A war that took place around Xiangguo in the past was too tragic, and in the overgrown wilderness, or if you cut it casually, a lot of white bones would be exposed under the turf, which made people shudder.

Second, Shi Hu entered the Xiangguo, and the atmosphere was very different from that of the first Shile period. Although Shile was born in Hulu, there are also some benevolent and beneficial policies that persuade farmers and mulberries.

But after Shi Hu entered the Xiangguo, there was no such measure at all, especially the personal safety of the people could not be guaranteed, even if he worked diligently for half a year, when the harvest came, he did not know where to rush out of the murderer and take the harvest away.

Looking at the messy fields, the peasants had no time to hurt themselves, so they had to face the reprimands of the officials who supervised the cultivation of mulberry trees, and they could not hand over the full harvest, and it was common to torture and kill at every turn, and there was nowhere to complain!

If production could not be restored quickly in the vicinity of the national capital, and supplies could not be supplied nearby, it would be difficult to accommodate large-scale population gatherings. If the population cannot be gathered, it will not be possible to organize a large number of laborers to drive them, and many repairs and constructions can only stay in the plan, and there is no way to implement them at all.

Therefore, although the turmoil has been over for several years, there are still scars left inside and outside the city of Xiangguo, which also makes the city of Xiangguo look like rotten and mottled lacquerware, which looks extremely ugly.

Shi Hu has an impatient and humble personality, if this kind of person has to take advantage of the momentum, he is naturally very powerful, and he can be ahead of others in everything. But once the power is no longer there, but there is no patience and ability to clean up the mess, there is no talent for reviving and discarding, and it is simply out of sight, leading the army to wander all the year round, and the time to stay in Xiangguo is very small.

Of course, Shi Hu did this because of the chaos back then, which had made the control of the border land almost none, even if he wanted to stay in Xiangguo, all sides would not honestly donate money to support the king and his army. It was only through the coercion and coercion of the army parade that he could obtain barely enough to maintain his military power.

In the troubled times, it is true that the strong soldier and the strong man are kings, but if there is no business structure at all, it will be like the current state of the country, full of chicken feathers, soldiers chasing food, and no internal and external practice, social stability, I don't even think about it.

It is a place of civil strife and ruins for a long time, and now even the lord of the country is wandering all the year round, and the decadence of Xiangguo is simply irretrievable∝ not responsible for staying in Xiangguo, the prince of Xiangguo, Shi Di, is even more indulgent in pleasure and cruelty, and he is completely blind to the ruin of Xiangguo, and he has not tried to save the situation at all.

Of course, it is unfair to say this, Shi Di has stayed in Xiangguo all the year round, and he is not completely idle. His people love to eat river fresh, so they ordered people to expand the water palace built by Shi Le in the old year, dig a canal to divert water, so that the southeast of Xiangguo City is flooded by water, and the residents are moved away from this realm because they are broken and relocated, which can be regarded as a certain contribution to the transformation of the pattern of Xiangguo City.

In addition to the prince of the prison state, Shi Di also served as the chief Shan Yu in charge of foreign affairs, and would convene a banquet for the surrounding Hu chiefs in Jiande Palace every month. Those Hu chieftains are unruly, vulgar and rude, and even Shi Hu, a person who claims to be intimate with Hu, can't stand it, and frequently goes in and out of Jiande Palace, occasionally getting drunk, and it is inevitable to leave some filthy things between the palace.

Previously, Shi Hu made a special trip to the capital, so he summoned Shi Di to the palace, reprimanded him greatly, and even fisted and kicked each other, so that the relationship between father and son was even worse.

Although Shi Di was resentful, he didn't dare to be too disobedient to his father, who looked at him more and more unpleasantly, so he asked people to rebuild the Taiyuan in the north of Xiangguo City, preparing to replace it.

But the manpower and materials that he can use as the prince of the prison country are really limited, even if he asks for money from those Hu chiefs who must come to every banquet, those Hu chiefs have just been beaten by the king of heaven, and they really don't dare to continue to be intimate with this prince, so they have shirked one after another, so that the new Shan Yutai has not been completed for a long time.

This only stimulated Shi Di's rebellious psychology even more, and regarded this platform as a sign of fighting with his father, and he gritted his teeth and must build it. With the respect of the prince, he personally supervised the work, and even put into use all the subordinate servants of the prince's mansion, and even took advantage of the palace to visit the queen Zheng's private gift, so that the project was maintained without a complete stop.

When there was an urgent report from outside the city, Shi Di was still supervising the construction site in the north of the city, and had just personally whipped two superintendent officials because of the slow progress of the project.

When he heard this, he sneered, raised his foot and kicked the messenger, and angrily rebuked, "Where did the cheap slave get this rumor? The Lord is currently marching south, and the southern thieves are too busy to defend themselves, and they still have the courage to go north to invade the border? Even if there is an incursion, can you enter the heart of the country? Who spread this rumor to confuse the public? ”

Even if Shi Di is rejected by the lord again, his identity is there, and no matter how big the matter is, it will be difficult for the outside envoy to go straight to see him. Because he came with the messenger, there were several important ministers of the state who also stayed in the capital, and at this time, seeing that Shi Di did not allow the messenger to talk in detail, one of them stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, please be calm and do not be impatient, this letter is not circulated in the countryside, but the minister of the plains came to report."

His name is Wang Lang, who served as the leading general of the Qianguo State, and was quite trusted by the Heavenly King Shi Hu, and was also the military general with the highest official authority in the current Xiangguo City except for the crown prince Shi Di.

Shi Di has always had no one in his eyes, and he is quite resistant to his father's instructions, so he does not take Wang Lang and his people in his eyes. But when he heard what Wang Lang said, his face first showed a look of disgust and hatred, and then there was a palpitation of self-patience. He looked past Wang Lang and fell directly on the person behind him, and frowned: "What this fang said is true?" ”

was directly ignored by Shi Di, and the so-called "this fang" in his mouth did not know whether it was the messenger who was prostrate on the ground or himself, Wang Lang also had a hidden cup in his heart, but he also knew that Shi Di was too arrogant, and if there was a direct conflict, it would only be himself who was unlucky.

was asked by Shi Di that the person's name was Li Yan, the official was the prince's concubine, and he was an important attendant of the prince's mansion, and naturally he was also Shi Di's confidant. He stepped forward and replied, "What the leader says, is what the messenger says. But what is the trace of the thief, the county did not rush to play, only the plain public office. In addition, the plain said that the thieves were fierce and could not be stopped, because they were leading the army back to the country."

When Shi Di heard this, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up, not because of the so-called enemy traces, but because of what his henchmen said Shi Xuanzheng led his troops to return to the country, which made his heartstrings tense suddenly.

Over the years, Shi Di has seemed to be arrogant, and even disobeyed the Lord's teachings, but it does not mean that he is completely fearless. He dared to resist the majesty of his father, because over the years, the father and son and son-in-law have been colliding constantly, and gradually let him figure out where the bottom line of the lord is.

So in Shi Di's heart, in fact, there has always been a tight line, not whether the lord's attitude towards him is good or bad, but what is the condition of his brothers-in-law. Among them, especially Shi Xuan and Shi Tao, the two brothers from the Du family's cheap maids, brought him the most pressure.

Shi Xuan is second only to him in age, and as he was appointed as the crown prince and stayed in Xiangguo all the year round, his influence in the army has been declining, but Shi Xuan is sitting in the southern Hebei Plain, and his wings are growing in the process of confrontation with the southerners.

Although Shi Xuan and Shi Tao brothers fought in the same room later, Shi Di was very happy, but the arrangement of the lord made Shi Di's heart palpitate even more. Shi Tao's little hairy boy was actually awarded a high-ranking official by the lord as a captain, and the already small number of powerful Long Xiang and other armies in Xiangguo City were all under the rule of Shi Tao!

This is also one of the reasons why Shi Di knew that the lord did not like it, but he still wanted to make a big deal in Taiwan to maintain contacts with those Hu chieftains. He had to guard against Shi Xuan, who was far away and had a large army, and Shi Tao, who was forced into Xiangguo and tempered by the lord. Probably in the Lord's mind, those who can replace themselves in the future will choose one of these two sons.

Befriending those Hu chieftains, Shi Di planned to find an opportunity to make a sudden attack, and first strangle Shi Tao, a threat standing beside him. After Shi Tao and Long Xiang's army were transferred, Shi Tai was also relieved, and now he really didn't have the confidence to attack and kill Shi Tao under the elite guards of the Taiwei Mansion. Even because he knew that the brothers Shi Xuan and Shi Tao had grudges, they were also happy to watch their brothers continue to eat dogs in southern Hebei.

But he hadn't seen the brother's anti-purpose drama yet, but he suddenly heard that Shi Xuan was leading the army back to the country, and he naturally didn't believe the bullshit talk that the so-called enemy army had invaded the territory, and his first reaction was that Shi Xuan, a bastard, must return to the country to deal with him!

Therefore, Shi Di no longer bothered to supervise the construction of Shan Yutai, and ordered a military general to strip off his armor on the spot, and then hurriedly returned to Xiangguo City surrounded by a group of attachés to discuss what to do.