Chapter 304: The Road to the South (19)

"The last general, Cao Renda, deputy commander of Jinshan Camp, presented the picture album of the eleven states of Guasha." A young general with an extremely tall figure leaned over and presented a picture album.

Hou Dayong is 1.82 meters tall, and this person is half a head taller than Hou Dayong, and should be more than 1.9 meters tall. Hou Dayong took over the picture album, looked at it carefully for a while, and then flipped through the picture album.

When Hou Dayong finished reading, Cao Renda explained: "This picture album is a gift from Mr. Zhang to the court."

In recent years, the Jinshan people in Guasha area have returned to Lingzhou one after another, and the number has increased. For this reason, Hou Dayong specially asked Qian Xiangnan to organize the history of Jinshan into a book and send it to the generals to read it carefully to understand the tens of thousands of people from the Tang Dynasty who were trapped by the Hu people.

Both the Jinshan people and the Hunmo Tufan people come from Guasha states, but the two are different. The Jinshan people are authentic Han people, but they have some Hu bloodlines, while the Hunmo Tufan people are authentic Tufan people, but they carry a lot of Han bloodlines. In Hou Dayong's mind, the Jinshan people and the Richi tribe are both Han bloodlines, which is a power that can be trusted and relied on, while the Hunmo Tufan people and Dangxiang people can only use them restrictively until the great fusion is complete.

That year, Zhang Yichao presented the picture album of Guasha eleven states to the Tang Dynasty court, which meant that the return of Guasha eleven states had fallen for a hundred years. Cao Renda chose to use the same picture album as a gift, and the meaning was quite profound. "Cao Renda." Hou Dayong silently remembered Cao Renda's name in his heart, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, saying, "Cao Lang, is it a descendant of the Dunhuang King."

Zhang Yichao's grandson Zhang Chengfeng was full of smoke in the Tang Empire and had no time to look west, and in 905, he established himself as the "Son of White-clad Emperor of Jinshan Kingdom" and was called Jinshan Kingdom of Western Han Dynasty. In 911, Jinshan Kingdom was threatened by the Uighurs and was forced to set up a unit under the city and became a vassal state of Uighurs.

In 914, Zhang Chengfeng, who was forced to respect Khan as his father, died of depression. The people of the state recommended the chief minister Cao Yijin as the main force. Cao Yijin changed his style and changed Zhang, and formed a marriage relationship with his strong neighbors Uighurs and Khotan. At the same time, he followed the Central Plains and accepted the title of Jiedu of Guiyi Army granted by the Later Liang Dynasty. During the Cao rule, the Guiyi Army entered a stable period. By the time Cao Yijin's son Cao Yuande ruled, he had already been on par with the Uighur Khan in the east, and after his younger brother Yuanzhong ascended the throne, he called himself "King of Dunhuang".

Hou Dayong was familiar with the history of Jinshan Kingdom. When he heard Cao Renda's name, he immediately remembered the Cao family, the late ruler of Jinshan Kingdom. Cao Renda did not hide it and nodded, "Yuan Zhonggongzheng is the grandfather of the last general." Hou Dayong laughed twice: "It turns out that he is the hero. He is disrespectful."

The people of the Central Plains criticized Shazhou for the final surrender to the Uighurs, and the rebukes were heard constantly. Cao Renda originally came to join the Lingzhou army with a reputation, but he had no idea. The prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty actually respected his ancestors as heroes. In a state of excitement, he poured a large bowl of wine and said, "I respect the Hou Prime Minister. I respect the Hou Prime Minister."

Hou Dayong was also very bold. He picked up the wine bowl and said, "There is a slang in my hometown, which means brand quality depends on character, wine style depends on style, I have drunk this bowl of wine." After that, he drank the old wine in one go.

Cao Renda was very happy when he saw Hou Dayong. He and the commander of Jinshan Camp Wu Jiaqiang looked at each other. Wu Jiaqiang ordered, "Put the big bowls all over, we respect the Prime Minister of Hou."

On that night, Hou Dayong was drunk, and the soldiers of Jinshan Camp were also drunk.

The next day, Hou Dayong led 10,000 Black Eagle Army infantry and Jinshan Camp cavalry, with the power to suppress the rebellion, and drove towards Daliang City in a mighty way.

There were more than fifty miles away from Daliang City. Hou Dayong saw a crowd of people from afar, and all the officials in the court left Daliang City for fifty miles. Welcoming the victory and return to the court, the reinforcements from the north. Prime Minister Wang Bo and Wei Renpu were all among the ranks, but there was no other auxiliary minister Wang Zhu.

When Hou Dayong appeared in front of everyone on a high-headed horse, Prime Minister Wei Renpu took the lead and fell to the ground without waiting for Hou Dayong to dismount and said, "The Hou Prime Minister has led his army to destroy the thieves, and has made great achievements. Please be worshipped by the old minister." Although Wei Renpu called Hou Dayong the Prime Minister, his etiquette was in line with the etiquette of the ministers to the emperor.

Prime Minister Wang Bo did not expect Wei Renpu to suddenly come to such a move. He was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to deal with the matter. Wang Bo and Wei Renpu are the prime ministers of the current dynasty and the ministers of the regent. Both of them were at the forefront of the team, and their every move naturally fell into the eyes of all the ministers. Wei Renpu knelt down to welcome Hou Dayong. The ministers were surprised and turned their eyes to Wang Bo, who was at a loss.

Kneeling or not kneeling is a matter of position.

Wang Bo took a step forward, and the ministers stared at him in the underground action. Wang Bo was about to take the second step, suddenly his body shook, and a mouth spurted out of his mouth, and then he lay down on the ground. One of the officials behind him shouted: "Where is the imperial doctor? Wang Xiang's old disease is infringed, go and treat it quickly."

Hou Dayong said in his heart: "What a cunning Wang Bo." He jumped off the horse quickly, first helped Wei Renpu up, and said: "Why should Prime Minister Wei do this big journey? You can kill Hou Lang."

When Hou Dayong dismounted, the ministers behind Wei Renpu had already knelt down in Hulara. Hou Dayong helped Dou Yan and other respected old ministers one by one, and then replied to the ministers: "What kind of virtue is Hou Dayong? You have been forced to go out to meet fifty miles. I am really ashamed to kill you. Please come up."

After everyone stood up, Hou Dayong came to Wang Bo and said to the imperial physician who was urgently rescued: "Why are Wang Xiang?" The gray-haired imperial physician had been in the palace for decades and had never seen any scenes before. Why did Wang Bo suddenly get sick? He knew very well, but said: "Wang Xiang has an old disease and has used pills. It will be fine if you lie for a while." Hou Dayong walked to Wang Bo, reached out and put his hand on Wang Bo's right wrist, and smiled faintly: "Wang Xiang's pulse is a bit messy, and it's a disease that has been overworked. It's okay if you have a good rest. Doctor, follow Wang Xiang's carriage and observe it at all times, so you must not make any mistakes."

The ministers followed Hou Dayong back to Daliang. The ministers' carriages and the black eagle army, which were like wolves and tigers, were actually lined up in a long queue of several miles. Along the way, smoke and dust rolled and flags flew. People along the way heard that the army was victorious and returned to the court, and rushed to welcome them along the road.

After arriving in Daliang, Wang Bo had already come to the end. Hou Dayong, Wang Bo, Wei Renpu, the three envoys Zhang Mei, the imperial envoy, Dou Yan and others all came to the school's disciple.

Everyone sat down, Hou Dayong was in a good mood, looked around with a kind look, and asked, "Where is the Master Wang?" Several officials dared not speak. Hou Dayong said to Luo Da, who had recently become a officials, "Please invite Master Wang, and we are waiting for him here."

After waiting for about an hour, he saw Luo Dadi, the person in charge. He supported the staggering steps and came to Hou Dayong. The king's hair was scattered, and his blue shirt was covered with oil. He had red eyes. When he looked at Hou Dayong, he laughed in a drunken way: "You must have fun in life. Don't let the golden cup face the moon empty. I still have good wine, please drink with Hou."

Wang Da was well-known in the world, otherwise he would have been a prestigious person in the Chai Rong era. Hou Dayong looked at Wang Daqing calmly and said, "Drawing a knife to cut off the water and water flows even more, and drinking to drown his sorrows even more. Why did Wang Daqing drown his sorrows? Now in the prosperous Zhou Dynasty, where does the sorrow come from?"

Several important officials next to him rushed out of the crowd step by step. How could they not understand what Hou Dayong said? They all sweated coldly for Wang Zi.

Wang, however, ignored Hou Dayong's secret edge and sat on the smoothly polished blue bricks. He pillowed on the ground with his hands and recited himself: "Master Cen, Danqiu Sheng, you are about to drink, don't stop, sing a song with you, please listen to me, a bunch of flowers, a thousand gold fur, and call me to exchange for fine wine, and share the eternal sorrow with you."

After being so unrestrained, Wang Zhi turned against the character of the Wei and Jin dynasties. He was told to go out, and people in the world would also call him famous scholars.

Hou Dayong is a pragmatic person who is not ruthless when he should take action, but he is not a murderous devil. Those who are killed, such as Zhao Jin, Fan Zhi, Zhao Kuangyin, and Zan Jurun, are all blocking stones on the way forward. If you don’t kill, you will not be able to pacify the world.

As for those who can be killed or not, such as the imprisoned Empress Dowager Fu, Chai Zongxun, and Wang Zhu, who was loyal to Chai Rong who was pretending to be crazy in front of him, Hou Dayong was willing to go out with the Internet. After all, the image of a tyrant is not conducive to the country and stabilizing the internal situation is something Hou Dayong urgently needs to do.

Hou Dayong sat silently for a while and said sincerely: "Old Wang Ge is a real famous scholar, a famous scholar, and is extremely admired by people. Wang Zhu is also an old minister of the late emperor and has made great contributions to our dynasty. He should be named the founding Duke. If you have any objections, please ask Your Majesty."

The ministers were speechless, Hou Dayong waved his hand and said, "Luoda, carry Wang Ge Lao into the backyard and let him rest."

Luo Da responded, and took several minor officials, regardless of Wang Da's objection, and carried Wang Da to the backyard with all his might.

"This time, the reinforcements from the north were besieged by more than 100,000 people from the Northern Han Army and the Iron Du Guard, and the losses were extremely terrible. Fortunately, the Black Eagle Army rushed to provide assistance in time, which was able to completely wipe out Li Yun's rebels and the Northern Han Army." Hou Dayong once again told the battle situation in Cizhou.

The details of the Battle of Cizhou have been specially spread throughout Daliang from the military camp, and all the officials have heard it. At this time, Hou Dayong said it, which confirmed the authenticity of the rumors. All the officials were all stern, and the thief was so powerful that if they were not quelled in time, there would be endless troubles. The combat effectiveness of the Erlin Black Eagle Army was so strong that it would be like slaughtering a pig or a cow.

"In the Battle of Cizhou, the imperial guards lost 30,000 troops. Now that Daliang City has empty troops, the Black Eagle Army will garrison Daliang. Please ask the elders to discuss this matter."

Wang Bo said in his heart: "The Black Eagle Army has entered the city, and now we are here to discuss this matter, it's just a show." This time he reacted very quickly and smiled slightly: "With the Black Eagle Army stationed in Daliang City, Daliang City is a wall of iron, and he is no longer afraid of the Northern Han soldiers going south."
Chapter completed!