Shi Di's death did not cause too many waves, at least it did not match his identity as the prince of a country.

On the one hand, the people who are qualified to pay attention to this are now in danger and have no time to take care of themselves.

On the other hand, for many people, this is a natural and natural thing, and it feels strange that the Lord has not taken action against the prince before.

Of course, it can't be said that Shi Di's death has no significance to the development of the situation in the country, many people have already foreseen that Shi Di will be deposed, but Shi Hu's delay in making a move before can't help but make them suspicious, wondering if their judgment is wrong, so they are more cautious and don't dare to make any big moves.

However, now that Shi Di is finally dead, it also means that the development of the situation has finally entered the normal rhythm that they foresaw, so many of the plans that they had previously withheld should finally be carried out.

As the prince of a country and has been in charge of the country for many years, his death did not cause too many waves in the country, which is enough to show the failure of Shi Di, the prince. In other words, whether he is present or absent does not have a great impact on the situation in the country. And Shi Hu's recent doubling of tyranny doesn't seem to have affected his control over the entire kingdom.

As for the elders of Xiangcheng Gongshi Shigui and other elders of the Qiang Kingdom who accompanied the prince to the funeral, they themselves are a group of people who have lost power, and the impact of their lives and deaths is even more incalculable.

A few days later, Shi Huyi, the lord of Xiang, and his army finally arrived in Xiangguo, but did not enter the city, but stationed in the camp that the prince Shi Yi had supervised before his death.

After that, the lord Shi Hu issued an edict, and the queen of heaven and queen Zheng had no way to teach her son, so she abolished her position as queen, and moved out of the middle palace and entered the mansion of her young son Boling Gongshi Zun. In addition, it was not directly announced which concubine succeeded him as the queen.

The reason why he did this was that Shi Hu gradually regained his assertiveness after experiencing the initial confusion.

At present, he has indeed not figured out which son to choose as the crown prince, and the two brothers Shi Xuan and Shi Tao from Concubine Du were the heirs he reserved as the crown prince's candidates, but Shi Xuan was ambushed for a big crime, and Shi Tao died directly in Henan. In a hurry, he really hadn't thought about a successor yet.

On the other hand, after his mood gradually stabilized, Shi Hu also signaled that blind murder and intimidation could not completely stabilize the situation. The various games about the future storage position can also win the hearts of the people to a certain extent, so that many powerful courtiers will work it, and they will not have the energy to do more reverie.

Moreover, now Shi Hu has to take who he succeeds more seriously. On the one hand, Shi Di was in the position of the eldest son, and on the other hand, Shi Hu was still in the prime of life at that time, and pushing Shi Di out early could not only eliminate certain hidden dangers, but also share a certain amount of pressure for him. As for whether he must pass on the family business and Guozuo to Shi Di, in fact, Shi Hu did not think so far-reaching.

But now his energy and physical strength are not as good as before, and the future prince candidate really needs to consider the issue of succession, so whether it is personal talent or the amount of support he can get, he needs to consider it holistically. And after a few heroes under his knees withered, none of them could be far superior to the rest in all aspects.

While getting rid of the crown prince, he easily killed Xiangcheng Gongshi Shigui and others, Shi Hu was actually clearing the obstacles for the successor in the future. Even if he doesn't read history, he also sees that the Jin clan is in power, and the Han and Zhao clans are tyrannical to the country, including himself, who is devouring relatives and superiors, and naturally has to cut off these hidden dangers of the same clan and clan one by one.

However, now that the crown prince has just died, the lord has just returned to the country, and it is a time when state affairs are in trouble, even if the powerful factions of all parties have the idea of seizing the heir, they dare not start fighting immediately. Because in this regard, it is still relatively calm.

On the evening of the second day after Shi Hu settled in the camp, another incident happened.

Liu Fang, the son of the late minister Liu Kui and now Huangmenlang, led a part of the Beitou courtiers or the descendants of their families to bow down and worship, begging for the welfare of the people of the north and the south, asking the lord to suspend the pace of the southern expedition, and willing to use his own family and his own reputation for the old feelings between the north and the south to ask the south to stop the war and seek a place for the people of the north and the south to live in peace.

Few people know when this matter was brewed and what twists and turns were behind it. But once it happened, the courtiers of the kingdom who were still confused about the Lord's intentions finally understood what the Lord's true intentions were.

Previously, they were all in a huge panic and did not dare to make the slightest move.

That Liu Fang, his father Liu Kui may not be weak in Jiangdong in the old years, and he was also quite courteous to the ancestors after Beitou, but he died long before the lord Shi Hu entered the Xiangguo. In the current high-pressure atmosphere of silence among the ministers, if you say that you have not been instructed by anything, it is simply tired of jumping out to advocate peace at this time!

However, after understanding the Lord's intentions, these people were also busy opening their mouths to echo this situation, and for a while, there was a compassionate discussion inside and outside the Shihu camp, and they did not want the people of the north and south to fall into the ravages of war again. If it weren't for the fact that there were many hateful Hu people mixed in there, it would really make people mistakenly think that they were entering a country of benevolence, righteousness and etiquette.

Shi Hu was not unwilling to fight, but he did not dare to continue fighting.

Zhang Jackal judged that Shi Hu was really timid, if it was just an external threat from the Jin Dynasty, and a vassal country like Saishang Daiguo was also ready to move, once the situation deteriorated and Saihu and Donghu Xianbei colluded to make trouble, then Shi Hu's business in the north in the past few years would be ruined!

Not to mention, his current family affairs are also a mess, and he was originally complacent about having a successor, but in just a few months, several heroic sons in the court gate either died in the enemy country or died in his own hands. Internal and external troubles, if you want to rush to war with such a powerful enemy in the south, it will only make the situation collapse faster.

But it's not that simple if you don't want to fight, even if Shi Hu can let go of his lifelong strong self-esteem, can he get the desired result?

Not to mention that there is no sincerity in peace talks in the south, Shen Weizhou in the south is far more than a hundred times better than him when it comes to treachery, and when it comes to ruthlessness, he is also not too much, it is simply his nemesis. In the few confrontations, Shi Hu not only failed to take advantage of anything, but his situation deteriorated. Peace talks are just drinking to quench thirst.

What's more, Shi Hu is the master of Huaxia, and there is no lack of panic in his heart, and he is full of vigilance against the Jin people. Once the peace talks are opened, who can know what kind of private conspiracy these courtiers in his palace will reach with the Jin State in private!

It is precisely because of this psychology that although Shi Hu obviously has the idea of boycotting the war, if anyone dares to propose a boycott and peace talks before, he will be killed by him as a murderer with his heart towards the Jin State.

But it has always been like this, and as Shi Xuan's subordinates confessed, Shi Hu knew that the collapse of the situation in southern Hebei was far beyond his previous imagination.

Not only did the army originally used to defend the Jin army's northward advance collapse, but even the other people who had gathered in southern Hebei before were also defeated and lost, and there was no hope for it.

In other words, if you still want to recover southern Hebei, there is no power available in southern Hebei, including the surrounding areas, and you must continue to levy troops from farther northern Hebei, Youzhou and other places, and the manpower and material resources required to invest will exceed the scale of the previous southern expedition!

There is also Ma Qiu in Yedi who is also constantly transmitting, saying that it is war or peace, and a decision must be made as soon as possible. Because the Jin army is not only the head of the army, but also continues to gather, even the Jin army in the counties of southern Hebei downstream has a tendency to gather in Yedi. If it drags on like this, the people and horses of Yedi will also be besieged!

God knows how much self-contradictory torture Shi Hu has experienced in his heart during this time, as the lord of the kingdom, he will never take the initiative to propose peace talks, but if His Royal Highness's courtiers propose, whether it is reasonable or not, he must wonder if the other party has already had a personal conspiracy with the south.

Using the identity of a person from Beitou, such as Liu Kui's son, to lead to the issue of peace talks is already the safest way that Shi Hu can think of. No matter what the trend of the peace talks is, he will still be able to maintain a certain amount of room for maneuver here.

So after several begging and begging by the ministers, Shi Hu finally reluctantly agreed to send an envoy to negotiate peace with the south. Liu Kui's son can bring up this issue, but as an envoy, Shi Hu is not qualified enough.

When a person is unable to occupy the actual power, the requirements for some hypocrisy become harsh, because this is already the only way for him to preserve his self-esteem.

Just like the previous Jin Kingdom, they regarded Liu and Shi as thieves and rebels, and did not communicate with them at all, let alone negotiate peace. But now the Xingtai has occupied an absolute advantage, and I don't care much about the gains and losses on my face, because there is only one ultimate goal, that is, to completely destroy the kingdom of Qian, and as for everything else, it is a means.

Therefore, although Shi Hu knew that this so-called peace negotiation was just a means for the two sides to confuse each other, he still prepared extremely solemnly.

Xiangguo can talk here, but Yedi can't wait here, so Shi Hu sent Liu Fang and several others to Yedi with letters, and notified Fangtou to return to Luoyang Xingtai, and sent envoys to cross the river first, waiting for the envoy of Xiangguo to present the letter of state.

As for the candidate in Shi Hu's mind, it is Liu Qun, who is currently leading the remnants of the army to be stationed in the Lingzhi of Liaoxi. Liu Qun is the heir of Liu Kun, a famous minister in the Chinese Dynasty, and he is a well-known figure in both the north and the south. As for the ministers he relies on at the moment, if he is sent to Henan, he really can't make a brilliant character, and he will only laugh at it.

Because it was Shi Hu who sent people to Youzhou quickly, he ordered Zhang Ju, the assassin of Youzhou, to immediately arrange for Liu Qun and other Liu Kun's old troops to come south.

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