"Dead? Who did you say died?"
Since the defeat at Yonggu Pass, the life of the Ten Crow Kings fell into a vicious circle, and his life began to be full of ups and downs... Nine out of ten things were not going as he wished. What bothered him most was that the Ten Crow Kings were destroyed, most of the confidants he had cultivated and won over were lost, and the elite suffered heavy losses. He clearly felt that his control over other tribes was not as good as before.
The tribal forces that had previously relied on him had recently begun to pretend to obey him but secretly made small moves in an attempt to replace him. The Ten Crow King had been in power for many years and was accustomed to being the only one in power. How could he tolerate this unpleasant situation
It's not that he is completely cunning, but rather that he will do anything to achieve his goal. Otherwise, he wouldn't have married a woman who had an ambiguous relationship with his own brother in order to win over the power of Su Shiyilu's tribe, and also arranged for his original wife to "die of illness" to make way for him.
I could endure it then, and I can endure it now.
In order to catch all these disobedient things in one fell swoop, the Ten Crows King began to pretend to be depressed and frustrated, drinking every day, partying every night, and having women in his tent all the time. He didn't get up before noon, and his thunderous snoring could be heard from the king's tent to the other tent. The smell of alcohol on his body seemed to never go away. He ignored government affairs and summoned doctors every few days.
There were gradually more rumors in the outside world that "King Shiwu would not live long", and coupled with the chaos within the royal court, some people naturally believed that he was very satisfied with the result. However, he never thought that before the traitor could sit still, several of his adult sons started a quarrel.
More than one life was lost.
He shook his head, which was heavy from the alcohol, and was about to raise his hand to rub his temple, when a pair of small hands with a fragrant breeze used a moderate force to help him solve his problems. The Ten Crows King glanced at her. Remember this beauty who made love with him last night - this beauty has good eyesight and doesn't mind favoring her for two more days.
"Yes...it's the Fifth Prince."
The servants were so nervous that they dared not breathe.
"Old Five is dead?"
"How did he die?"
"When did he die?"
The Ten Crows King said three times in a row. After thinking for a while, he managed to dig out the appearance of this son from his mind. Although he was sending his son away, as a father, he did not feel any grief.
Firstly, he has many sons, and secondly, he has no feelings for his sons.
To him, children were nothing more than the product of a one-night-long pleasure, born ten months later by a woman whose face he could not even remember.
If she can grow up to be a qualified successor like the alpha wolf, then he will be willing to look at her with a higher regard and devote his energy to training her. But if she dies halfway... then it is not worth wasting his feelings.
As the king, a man with the highest status, power and reputation in the Shiwu clan, he could easily have countless women and countless children, so he naturally disdained to cherish them. The birth mother of this fifth prince was a lowly horse-breeding slave.
Because of his good looks, he was favored by Shiwu, who was suddenly interested in horse racing, and that time he had the fifth prince. Interestingly, the name of the fifth prince means "horse stable" in Shiwu language, which shows how casual he was with this son.
The servant shuddered. "It was said that he was drunk and fell into a pit while using the toilet in the middle of the night and drowned. He was only found at dawn this morning..."
The corners of King Shiwu's mouth twitched.
Unbelievable: "Drozen in a shit pit?"
The servant added: "He choked a lot..."
Because of their living habits, the Shiwu's latrines were dug on the spot and were extremely deep, with the height from the bottom of the pit to the top being as high as two or three people. When the fifth prince was dug out, he still maintained the posture of climbing upwards, with his mouth full of fermented feces and urine that had maggots.
This kind of death is actually not uncommon. Occasionally, someone who gets up in the middle of the night to use the toilet will fall in and be unable to get out...
The fifth prince is of the highest status among them.
but-
Given his background, there was no need for him to go out in the cold weather and freeze his butt like ordinary people, let alone fall in and drown.
He is also a brave warrior!
Hearing that his son died in such a cowardly and smelly way, he, who didn't care about his offspring, became even more disgusted. He waved his hand and asked his subordinates to take care of the Fifth Prince's funeral. After they left, the Ten Crows King, who had been relaxed just now, suddenly turned cold.
Drowning in the toilet is ridiculous!
He was moody and grabbed the beauty who was massaging his temples and threw her off the bed without mercy: "Get out!"
The beauty's face turned pale.
He didn't care about his naked body, grabbed a blanket and wrapped himself up, and retreated tremblingly. When the king was the only one left in the tent, he waved his hand and a palm wind split the nearest candlestick. He murmured to the empty space: "This time, it's Lao Wu who died..."
In fact, a son died not long ago.
The third prince.
The way he died was equally bizarre.
It is said that the third prince accidentally hunted an adult male deer, and happily drank several large pots of deer blood and ate half a deer meat that day. His blood was boiling, and his energy was so strong that he had nowhere to vent. He ordered seven beauties in the backyard to come over, wanting to have a 1V7 battle all night. Who knew that when he was excited to the climax, his whole body suddenly stiffened and convulsed, his right hand tightly grasped his left chest, and he died.
In layman's terms, it means death from a stroke.
When the doctor arrived, the body was cold.
He is also a brave warrior!
Including the twelfth prince who died during the adult training, he lost three sons in just over half a year, all of them adults.
The first person the Ten Crows King suspected was Su Shiyilu, but after the defeat at Yonggu Pass, Su Shiyilu was dissatisfied with the military arrangements for the battle, and had a conflict with him, so he handed over his military power and resigned at home. He was still worried and sent people to keep a close watch on him.
As a result, the secret guards reported back that Su Shiyilu was either drinking or going out hunting every day, and did not do anything abnormal at all.
There is no time to commit murder.
Instead, the other sons were more suspicious. Upon hearing about their brother's death, they gloated over it in private more than once.
Almost everyone has a motive to kill.
The Ten Crows King thought about it, but still felt uneasy. He raised his hand to summon the secret guards and asked them to investigate the death of the fifth prince. However, before the result came out, the seventh prince, who had a close relationship with the fifth prince, also followed in his brother's footsteps. Similarly, he died in a unique way.
He played darts with a group of noble sons.
In the past, the target was a slave. You would get different points for hitting different targets around the target. If you hit a slave, you would not get any points. If you killed a slave, you would have to pay. It was boring to always use slaves. This time, I wanted to try something exciting. I would draw lots and choose one of them as the target.
The seventh prince was drawn.
Then he was shot dead with a dart.
The man who shot him to death bit the poison hidden under his tongue on the spot and died with blood gushing out of all his orifices, leaving no evidence.
After further investigation, it was found that most of this man's relatives had died when the capital was attacked by Shen Tang. The outside world reasonably speculated that this man was dissatisfied with the wrong military action of the Ten Crows King's Court and then retaliated. After hearing this, the Ten Crows King was so angry that he cursed loudly.
Old Seven is also a brave warrior! His brain must have been kicked by a donkey. He shouldn't have agreed to be a target! Being a target is fine, but he died so unexpectedly? Did he think that he was immortal just because he was a prince
The successive deaths of his sons made the Ten Crows King unbearable even if he didn't care. Most of his energy was taken up by this matter, and the rest had to be on guard against the backlash of his ministers. How could he have the extra energy to pay attention to the lowest level, the prairie fire ignited by the slaves
By the time we really take it seriously, we are already surrounded by enemies.
at the same time-
A secret room.
It is said that Su Shiyilu, who was unemployed at home, extinguished an oil lamp with a flick of his finger. The lamp was engraved with "seven". He lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the remaining oil lamp, sneered, and spoke in a sinister tone like a ghost: "... This is just interest..."
The death of the twelfth prince was a hurdle he could not get over, and in a short period of time, even his hair and beard turned mostly white. He swore to his sister that he would make the murderers who killed the twelve of them pay the price, including the king who was indifferent and apathetic to the death of the twelve.
How much Su Shiyilu admired him before, how disappointed he was now. Since he didn't care about his offspring, and cared so much about honor, then it didn't matter if one or all died, or died in the most cowardly and humiliating way... didn't it seem so bad
He did receive intelligence about the group of slaves causing trouble, but he didn't pay attention to it. It wasn't because he was short-sighted, but throughout the history of the Ten Crows, there had been large-scale slave escapes and rebellions. But no matter how many slaves there were, they were just ordinary mortals without special abilities. Facing the suppression of an orderly armed force, it was just a waste of life.
This kind of contempt is also the natural arrogance of brave warriors when facing ordinary groups, or the ants in their eyes.
Two flowers bloom, each showing its own beauty.
The salt merchants returned with their carts laden with loot. The deep marks left by the wheels showed how much loot they had put in them.
I left with full confidence and returned with a beaming face.
Summer has completely arrived in Longwu County.
Shen Tang was also surprised when she got the account book. She knew that Shiwu made huge profits from smuggling, but she had never thought it would be so profitable. She calmly closed the account book and, as promised, gave 10% of the profit to the salt dealer and 10% to her own private vault.
The remaining 80% went into the government treasury.
There are a lot of places in Longwu County where money needs to be spent, and one also has to pay salaries to his subordinates, so one has to be thrifty in life.
Just after signing the contract and stamping it, Yu Zi came running over and shouted, "My Lord, when the silver is deposited into the treasury—"
Shen Tang calmly said: "The money flew away?"
Yu Zi pointed upwards, looking terrified.
"Yes, money, all the money flew into the sky."
"Repay the bank loan, basic operation, don't be surprised."
Xun Hanzhang is such a damn difficult man to raise!
She doesn't know how long she will have to pay it back
I don't know what the LPR is...
I just know that I am still heavily in debt!
Yu Zi: “…”
Shen Tang covered his face with his hands: "Go down, Lingde may be short of manpower, go over and take a look..."
She finally achieved the 996 work schedule and allowed her subordinates to live the life she had always dreamed of, but what a shitty life this was.
As for the Ten Crows—
The next morning, Shen Tang allocated a fresh budget from the public treasury. "Sowing discord and adding fuel to the fire, right? Let General Chu Jie handle it. Bribe more spies and traitors, and we will just fan the flames. The bigger the better."
He looked at Gu Chi again.
"Wangchao also wrote the inscription of the Ten Crows before. We don't need two masters for one thing. You also wrote the rest. Let General Chu deliver it later to help every Ten Crow slave who dreams of bringing glory to their family... No, it should be 'the descendants of the gods who will make the Ten Crows glorious again'. The more chaotic they are, the scarcer their resources will be, and the more beneficial it will be to us. I'm counting on them for my loan..."
The enemy's wealth from national disaster smells fragrant.
Longwu County is located in the border area, with no money to spend. The fighting between the various forces outside has not affected her, and the years have been peaceful for a while. Except for the endless government affairs, endless bad luck, endless 996, never enough money to spend, never enough loans to pay back, and the wallet that disappears every day...
If I ask myself honestly, these days are pretty comfortable and satisfying.
Soon she heard that the silkworm farming had a good harvest, so she participated in the silk cocoon harvesting activity as the hostess, harvested the cocoons herself, and learned how to boil and cut the cocoons, preparing to make a 6.62-pound silk quilt for herself.
_(:з」∠?)_
Originally, I wanted to arrange it for Wuhui and the others, but after a whole day of cutting silk cocoons and cleaning several large buckets of silkworm pupae, I still couldn't even get six kilograms. I had no choice but to hand the work of making silk quilts to the mulberry women working in the silkworm breeding house, who were professional.
I am only suitable for the 996 work in government offices.
She only hopes to have a soft silk quilt to cover herself with in the winter, and to have extra quilts at the end of the year as her year-end bonus.
As long as the benefits are in place, employees have no fear of working overtime!
The days passed slowly.
She also grew slowly in height.
Summer clothes were replaced with autumn clothes.
Even the baby girl that Shen Zhi gave birth to safely at the turn of spring and summer would giggle when she saw people now.
On this day, the weather was a little chilly, and the government office received a reply letter that Shen Tang had almost forgotten about -
The handwriting on the envelope was illegible.
The soldier who delivered the letter also had a weathered face and a beard.
"Why did you reply only now?"
This letter was sent out before the New Year. In order to ease Xun Zhen's longing for his eldest son, and also to ease the discord between him and Qi Shan, Shen Tang deliberately sent people to Minfeng County to look for him and deliver the letter to his eldest son.
It would be best if the other party is willing to write a letter home.
Unexpectedly, there was no movement.
Shen Tang was busy and could hardly think about it.