This winter is very monotonous for Wei Xiang, but it is also a winter with a lot of harvest.

After the second month of winter, Wei Xiang finally succeeded in getting Lan Ru pregnant, which undoubtedly gave him more energy.

After training, the 500-man army composed of the original 300 Wei soldiers as the team has been formed and has initially achieved combat effectiveness.

Wei Xiang believed that as long as he could go out and fight a few battles, his 500-man army would inevitably become a well-known powerful soldier in Jin State.

Shi Xie also made an evaluation of this: "Everyone wore armor, each with steel weapons, as well as Wei's crossbow and fifty crossbow arrows, Wei Xiang, you are not an army, it's simply moving money!"

Even in the eyes of this noble clan, the standard equipment configuration of Wei Xiang is too exaggerated.

At the cost, all the income from Wei Xiang’s sales of ginseng in the past few months, plus all the weapons output sent from the Handan Workshop are consumed.

Originally, Xiayi's treasury was full of money, but now there is nothing left!

A prodigal son, an absolute prodigal son.

Shi Xie felt it was necessary to find some time to communicate with his sister, but he could not let this sister-in-law continue to spend money in the future.

Of course, Wei Xiang disagreed with this: "You don't understand, war is all about money!"

The cannon fired and the gold was ten thousand taels, and this sentence is the truth.

For later Americans, the military expenditures it spends more each year than the military expenditures of all other countries in the world!

If you don’t have money or equipment, you can only rely on will. Will is nothing more than thought. As a successor with a strong root, Wei Xiang knows it very clearly.

But there is another problem here. As a feudal lord, Wei Xiang could not mobilize the masses to defeat himself, right?

We have to be emperors. As the saying goes, if people do not punish themselves, heaven and earth will be destroyed. This position still needs to be discussed.

Therefore, we still have to work hard on money and equipment.

A sudden news interrupted Wei Xiang and Shi Xie’s argument over military expenditure.

"Mrs. is about to give birth!"

So, Wei Xiang and Shi Xie spent a sleepless night.

Finally, when dawn came the next day and the dawn was slightly dewy in the sky, the midwife happily came to Wei Xiang with a cradle in her arms.

"Doctor, it's a boy!"

Suddenly, everyone present burst into cheers.

Wei Xiang also smiled, carefully took the swagger and looked at the little man in the swagger who was trying hard to make a cry.

"Small wrinkles, why doesn't it look very good..."

Of course, Wei Xiang could only recite these words silently in his heart.

He handed the child casually to his uncle Shixie, who was giggling on the side. Wei Xiang walked into the room and saw Fan Mann, who looked weak but full of satisfaction.

"Thank you for your hard work." Wei Xiang took Fan Man's hand and said seriously.

In this era, every delivery is a life-and-death crisis, and this is the great significance of mother!

Van Mann showed a maternal smile: "Husband, what is our child... going to be named?"

Without thinking, Wei Xiang said an answer in his heart that had already thought of: "Wei He!"

Wei He, or Xia He, the birth of the eldest son of Xia Yi brought great joy to everyone in Xia Yi.

Considering that this era is always full of surprises, a legitimate successor is a powerful pillar that can support the entire clan, in addition to the sect leader, even if he is just a child in a scramble.

However, Wei Xiang was not able to spend too much intimate time with his first child in this world, because only less than half a month later, Xia Yi, which had just begun spring, welcomed the first external news, which made Wei Xiang unable to continue to stay by his wife and children.

"The Shangqing, Quebo, passed away in Jiangdu three days ago!"

Although I survived this winter, I still left the world when spring came.

This news forced Wei Xiang to set off for Jiangdu immediately.

Three days later, Wei Xiang, who was whipping up, rushed to Jiangdu and immediately went to the mourning hall of the Que Mansion to pay his respects.

Standing in the mourning hall, Wei Xiang was also quite moved.

As the heir after Zhao Dun's death, he lacked the ability to control the conflicts within Jin. Although the ministers were constantly tragic, the overall struggle was still mild and controllable.

To the outside world, But Que defeated Chu State in the Battle of Liu Fen, smashed the King of Chu's attempt to challenge Jin State's hegemony while Zhao Dun had just died, assisted the Duke of Jin to successfully organize the Huyi Alliance, and once again reaffirmed the hegemony of Jin State to the entire Chinese world.

Although in the later period of his reign, the four major nobles of the Central Bank, Shi, Luan and Zhao were opposed by the joint forces and their reputation plummeted, for Jin State, they were still a respectable and talented ruler.

From Wei Xiang’s personal perspective, he has lacked help to himself, and has done things right with him, and has even become his stepping stone. His mood is undoubtedly more complicated.

But no matter what, just like the death of Zhao Dun and Duke Cheng of Jin, the lack of death once again opened a new page in the history of Jin State.

In just two years, Jin State lost three people at the peak, which means that Jin State needs to reshape its political system and power structure three times, and it will inevitably mean fierce reshuffles again and again.

This is also an important reason why the internal strife in Jin State suddenly became fierce, and even caused Jin State to lose hegemony.

But the hegemony of Jin State is not the most important thing that Wei Xiang needs to pay attention to at the moment. What Wei Xiang must do is to allow himself to survive this reshuffle and become stronger!

Therefore, after leaving the mourning hall of Queque, Wei Xiang immediately went to the lower palace to visit Zhao Shuo.

Zhao Shuo looked quite good, so he took out a small jade pendant: "I heard you gave birth to a son? This is my wish."

Wei Xiang naturally accepted it respectfully: "Thank you, Zhao Meng, for giving me the jade."

Zhao Shuo asked about the development status in Xiayi with a smile. After some politeness, he finally started to get to the point: "This time, Ke Bo's sudden death was really unexpected to everyone. Who can inherit the position of Shangqing next?"

Wei Xiang answered directly without thinking: "Of course he is the uncle of Zhongxing."

Zhao Shuo frowned and after a few seconds, he said, "Can't you have any other choice? But Bo also passed by the Zhongxing Bo and directly inherited the position of Shangqing."

Que is the heir designated by Zhao Shuo's father Zhao Dun. It can be seen that Zhao Shuo also seems to want to follow his father's footsteps.
Chapter completed!