Chapter 370: All the heroes (forty-eight)

Under the influence of the barbecue pile, although it was winter, the family of three was hot and hot. His father tore him a piece of crispy mutton and asked him to drink a sip of old wine. His mother cut the tenderest mutton and gave him a bowl of goat milk. Hou Zonghu rarely saw his parents be with him. At this time, he seemed very quiet, and the happiness in his heart was like the Yangtze River. Although he was young, he followed his mother to be a prisoner and fled thousands of miles. His mind was precocious than children of the same age. He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, and showed the smile that the child should have.

Hou Dayong only knew Hou Zonghu's tenacious side, but never saw his tender little heart. Although Ajige knew Hou Zonghu's temperament well, her attention was focused on Hou Dayong and ignored his subtle expression.

Many years later, when Hou Zonghu led a large army to fight with the alien army in the desolate mountains of Central Asia, when the war was the most difficult and desperate, he thought it was difficult to add color, he recalled this rare and warm scene many times. After suffering, he had experienced hardships, but with the tenacity and the strength of the Black Eagle Army, he finally planted the Black Eagle Army flag on the Mediterranean Sea. Countless blond and blue-eyed aliens trembled under his feet and kissed the ground he walked by. Hou Zonghu became the great Mediterranean emperor and shook with the Central Plains Emperor Hou Zonglin. However, Zonghu did not lead his army to set off for Daliang. The last wish he left to his son: bring the bones back to Daliang and buried them with his father and mother in the Black Eagle Army Cemetery outside Daliang City.

All the grievances have turned into ashes with time. Hou Zonglin's heir, Hou Dayong Changsun, and the emperor of the Great Zhou Empire, accepted the request of the Emperor of the Mediterranean. He buried Hou Zonglin and Hou Zonghu one left and one right next to Hou Dayong. The three emperors were like the three brightest stars in the sky, illuminating the entire world, courage, wisdom, family affection, betrayal and killing. The most beautiful and ugliest scene in the world are intertwined indiscriminately, becoming the greatest legend of this golden family. They have been talked about by people for thousands of years and are always sung on the earth.

Of course, these are all later stories.

Ajige was named Concubine De, ranking third among concubines. After arriving in the palace, Hou Dayong never stayed in the palace, but she did not complain at all. She was indeed worthy of being the title of Concubine De. Of course, complaining in this huge palace is useless.

At this time, Ajige's greatest hope and all the fun of living were on Hou Zonghu. Since Hou Dayong added the word "Zong" to Hou Hu's name, Ajige understood that Hou Dayong had admitted that Xiaohu was one of his heirs. She was also satisfied. She came from the mountains and forests and did not understand the cruelty of the struggle in the palace. She nurtured her son to become a good person who inherited all the excellent qualities of his father and the Sumo Marine tribe. This was her greatest wish.

This time, Hou Dayong finally came to the palace and the three of them sat around the fire. Just like the scene in Changbai Mountain a long time ago, for Ajige, it was an extra favor from life to her. Therefore, she did not complain that Hou Dayong had neglected him at all, but made Hou Dayong happy wholeheartedly, and the smile from the bottom of her heart could also clearly feel it.

The three of them in the family were surrounded by the fire and talked about gossip on Changbai Mountain, the Sumo-Mihe tribe. After becoming the emperor, Hou Dayong faced complex affairs every day and had a rare day to relax. Ajige was not familiar with the Central Plains, and what penetrated his soul was still the familiar mountains and rivers in the past. Therefore, her interest in talking was on the distant Changbai Mountain.

Hou Zonghu pestered his father and told him how he hunted and fought with the Khitans when he was in Changbai Mountain. Hou Zonghu and Ajige were once captured by the Khitans, so the one who Hou Zonghu hated the most was the Khitans. This was the most direct enemy he remembered. He listened with relish to the heroic story of his father capturing the Khitan officials and defeating the Khitan army. When he listened to the story, his face was flushed, he held the knife tightly, and looked extremely yearning.

After eating the roasted lamb, Hou Dayong was a little hesitant. Since becoming the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he had never stayed in the Ajige Palace. This was not a moral issue, but a purely a matter of personal sexual orientation.

There were five women in the palace: Fu Ying was born in an official family, with a noble temperament and beautiful appearance, and was deeply loved by him; Shi Gao Yueming was tall, had blue eyes, and was very good at applying makeup and other strange things; Qiu Ju had a period of time in the early years, and Hou Dayong also had a special affection for him and loved him; Xiaomei served Hou Dayong meticulously for several years, and was invincible in youth, and was Hou Dayong's favorite sexual partner.

As for Ajige, Hou Dayong is more similar to her one-night stand in later generations, and it is a one-night stand that will result in accidental consequences.

After so many years, under the harsh conditions, Ajige raised a healthy and intelligent son for him alone. He admitted Ajige's status, but he always had a little psychological barrier to the fact of the couple. In the past year, he had only had sex several times. After entering the palace, there were many beauties in the palace, and Ajige fell into the sea like a drop of water, and there was no highlight.

For Hou Dayong, staying or leaving is a realistic problem.

He formed a moral concept in his previous life. When he became an emperor who could do whatever he wanted in the palace, he had a brief confrontation in his heart. In essence, Hou Dayong was still a rich and morally good person. He finally chose to stay. Although he didn't like Ajige so much, Ajige was a de facto concubine after all, and the sunshine and rain were all kindness. Hou Dayong didn't want Ajige to stay in a cold and dark mood all his life.

He secretly cheered himself up: Close your eyes and all women are almost the same.

However, there are indeed great differences between women. For Hou Dayong, he was clear. With dedication, he stayed.

Hou Zonghu finally couldn't help it. He slept in Ajige's arms and was carried to the side room by the palace maid. Only Ajige and Hou Dayong were left sitting next to the fire, looking at each other in a corner of his clothes. Due to the firelight, his face turned red and his expression was a little sluggish. Her concentration was not as good as Hou Dayong. Soon she felt uneasy, so she stood up and brought a cup of hot tea, lowered her head and said, "Your Majesty, I ate barbecue, drink a cup of tea to relieve my greasiness."

Seeing that this was not a solution, Hou Dayong smiled self-deprecatingly and said to himself: "Sleep in his concubine's palace. Why is it so uncomfortable?" He smiled and said: "I've been busy all day and covered in sweat. Let the eunuchs burn some heat, take a shower and go to bed."

Hearing this, Ajig blushed into the setting sun. She murmured, "The water has been washed." Ajig lived in the Hou Mansion for a long time, and naturally knew that Hou Dayong had to take a bath every day. She didn't know if Hou Dayong wanted to stay, but she still quietly asked the eunuch to boil the hot water.

Seeing that things were like this, Hou Dayong said openly: "Come here and help me rub my back."

When Hou Dayong sat in the wooden barrel, Ajige stood outside and rubbed Hou Dayong's shoulder hard, but her technique was really clumsy. She used to holding bows and arrows before, and her hands were a little too strong. Hou Dayong was pinched and screamed several times. Ajige didn't know what to do, so the two had to wash in a hurry and return to their sleeping place.

The palace was equipped with all the equipments of the dragons and other equipment. The eunuch Yang had already asked a group of eunuchs to burn the dragons hot. The two entered the house and closed the door. The six beating oil lamps illuminated the bedroom and the dragon bed. Hou Dayong felt that it was as hot as spring. He took off his clothes openly, revealing his proud and strong body.

Ajige was uncomfortable all over. Finally, she took off her clothes. She walked towards the dragon bed. Just as she was about to lie down, Hou Dayong suddenly found a garden-shaped pain on her back, which was particularly bright and bright. He had also had a room with Ajige, but he never noticed the scar while dealing with it, so he said, "Don't move, I'll look at your back."

In the light, Hou Dayong, who was walking close to him, found that there were several scars on Ajige's back, but they were shallow, and did not attract his attention.

"What left behind this arrow injury?"

"When Xiaohu was one year old, his camp was surrounded by Khitans. When he was desperate to break through, he was shot by a Khitan dog. If he was a little bit worse, he would probably have no life." Ajige recalled the tragic scene at that time, and still felt scared, and said intimidated: "If I die, I don't know what Xiaohu will do? He wouldn't see his father, let alone become a prince, and he would follow him to hunt in the mountains."

Hou Dayong gently touched Ajige's scar with his fingers and said, "What caught these wounds?"

"That year we went up the mountain to look for hunting, and suddenly we encountered a big bear. I was slapped from behind by it. Although it didn't hit it to the point, I was wearing a very thick leather robe and left some wounds on my back."

With Ajige's narration, Hou Dayong seemed to have returned to the difficult years of Changbai Mountain. He spent more than half a year in the mountains and was very familiar with life in the mountains. He thought to himself: "In another world, it is precisely this difficult life that made the Sumo-Muhe tribe continue to strengthen itself in pain and finally broke out of the cocoon. The Jin Kingdom established by its descendants beat the Song Dynasty and urinated. The Jurchens from all generations entered the Central Plains and established the unified Central Plains, which lasted for three hundred years."

Hou Dayong stroked Ajige's wound for a while, and his expression slowly softened. He said, "Ajige, go to bed." Ajige gently put on the bed, his legs closed, and his eyes were even more afraid to open. After becoming a young woman, she was no longer as brave as before. Hou Dayong sat on the bed, and his thoughts were pulled back from the distant and cold northern country. His body did not enter a state of war, so he sat on the bed and looked at Ajige.

The earth dragon is beating, making the house warm as spring.

After a while, Hou Dayong thought about the Miaoman palace maid in the palace for a while, and then he slowly got into the state. He lay on Ajige, but Ajige was still a little stiff and his legs were tightly closed.

Hou Dayong remembered another world joke for no reason. He said with a smile: "Ajige, how can you do this? You, go to the left leg to the left and the right leg to the right." Ajige did not react to what Hou Dayong meant, so he looked at Hou Dayong with his eyes open and forced him to bend down and do it himself.

Ajige was like a lurking volcano. After being ignited by Hou Dayong, it suddenly erupted violently. It was a bit difficult for a man like Hou Dayong to fight. After one night, he barely got into a draw. Hou Dayong fell asleep.

The next morning, Hou Dayong opened his eyes on time. Ajige had already woken up. She sat in front of the bed, and the black marks on her face were swept away. Her skin looked much more delicate.

Seeing Ajige's changes, Hou Dayong was still happy from the bottom of his heart. He got up, drank some hot water, and walked towards the martial arts venue. While walking, he said, "Woman, after all, it needs nourishment." He was crazy all night with Ajige. This pleasure came from psychology rather than physiology: because of his arrival, Ajige's dark life was sunshine, and a smile on her face that was commensurate with her age. Hou Dayong felt a sense of sublimity in saving the people from water and fire.

Time is like water. Whether life is simple, complex, exciting or dull, it slips away quickly. For Hou Dayong, the Spring Festival of the second year of Hanxing is a happy and peaceful Spring Festival, with all kinds of good things coming frequently.

Since Xiao Liu got married with the Han family, life has been good. Fu Ying often asked her to return to the palace. Xiao Liu served Fu Ying for many years, and the master and servant were very close. The Han family's hunchback took advantage of Xiao Liu's relationship. The official fortune was very good. Before the Spring Festival, Xiao Liu got pregnant and the news came to Youzhou. Han Tong, who was guarding Youzhou, was very happy. He wrote to Hou Dayong many times in a black wooden box to express his loyalty and put forward some suggestions. He successfully tied up a prestigious veteran with his marriage relationship. It is a great thing.

There was heavy snow in the north, and the Khitans suffered heavy losses in the land of cattle and sheep. Many tribes went south one after another. Liu Jiye, who was shot as one-eyed, was prepared for it. He fought countless Khitan tribal troops and even the palace soldiers, firmly blocking the Khitans in the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty. In this series of wars, he established his reputation among the Northern Han army, and swept away the bad luck of being defeated by the Great Zhou army several times. The reputation of "Liu Wudi" began to spread throughout the Northern Han Dynasty again.

He Wulang was ordered to lead the Baowei army and sneaked into the Sanggan River area in the heavy snow. One part of the Baowei army came from Lingzhou and the other part came from Jinshan Camp. He had always been good at fighting in the severe cold. He Wulang let go of several Khitan teams. When a group of tens of thousands of Khitans failed to fight against Liu Jiye, he was attacked by He Wulang's troops and injured most of them. He Wulang's army was 2,000 cavalrymen in He Wulang's army, and they urgently refused to let go of the remaining enemies and annihilated thousands of Khitans. They followed the Khitan soldiers and suddenly broke into the Khitan camp and killed the leader of the Khitan tribe Yelu Da on the spot. Yelu Da was the cousin of the Liao master Yelu Shulu and the leader of the Khitan clan. After being beheaded, the Khitan dynasty shocked.

While the Khitans were defeated, they did not know what kind of people were raided, so they concentrated their anger on the Northern Han. The Khitan sent people to attack the Northern Han several times, but under Liu Jiyetian's tenacious resistance, they were unable to enter the Northern Han territory. When they were fighting against the Northern Han, they encountered attacks on the Sanggan River many times, and suffered heavy losses. In the end, they had to stop attacking the Northern Han territory and instead attacked Youzhou, guarding the main force of Han Tong. Han Tong was a general of the Great Zhou imperial guards. He was a virtuous man and did not fight with the Khitan army head-on. He took advantage of the dangers of Yanshan, defended all the passes to block the entire Khitan army north of Yanshan.

At this time, the Liao master Yelu Shulu realized the importance of the Eighteen Prefectures of Youyun more deeply. Although the Khitan had invincible iron cavalry, he could not pass Yanshan, so he could only look at the mountains and sigh. Just when Hou Dayong was happily celebrating the Spring Festival, many Khitan soldiers and civilians died of starvation, and they could not get supplements from the Southern Dynasties. People were terrified and suffered serious losses.

During the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese left the Central Plains one after another. After Hou Dayong became emperor, Japan sent envoys to Daliang many times. Hou Dayong did not expect to deal with the Japanese in this world and refused to meet them. However, the Japanese in this era still regarded Daliang as the superior country of the Celestial Empire and were obedient to Hou Dayong's bad attitude. The first person sent Zhou Shi to commit suicide because he could not complete the task, and the second person sent Zhou Shi followed the path of the previous one. The third person sent Zhou Shi finally paid homage to Hou Dayong. After returning to the country, he served as a senior Japanese official.

This winter, Hou Dayong also met another old friend, the envoy of Ashan. The left prime minister of the Uighur Khanate at that time had become the Uighur Khan. He sent a lot of gifts, intending to use the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty to attack the Geza forces in Lanzhou from east to west. Geza was once a beloved general in Lanzhou who was not as good as Tu Shaodu's son-in-law. However, after Tu Shaodu's death, Geza became the new master of Lanzhou. In order to gain the powerful Tu Shaogu tribe, he married Zhuoma, the daughter of the leader of the Tubo Liugu tribe.

Tu Shaodu's daughter Asidi encountered a tragic incident. After she escaped from Lanzhou City, she went through hardships and arrived at the Uighur Khanate and later became an Ashan woman. This time she went to Dazhou to serve in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Queen Asi followed the delegation to Daliang City. She was full of hatred for Gesa, and her lover had completely betrayed her in the past, and she stabbed her deeply in her heart. She took the initiative to go to Daliang and borrowed troops to fight Gesa.

Hou Dayong warmly treated Asi and his party, but the war in the south just started, and he did not want to launch a large war in the west, but just agreed to let the troops of Wang Tengxiang of Lingzhou send troops from Jingyuan City to harass the Lanzhou Uighurs to relieve the pressure on Ashan.

Within the Great Zhou Dynasty, Hou Dayong's throne had been stabilized. The rebellions of Li Chongjin, Li Yun and Li were quickly wiped out, which made the governors realize the transcendent strength of the Black Eagle Army. Under the threat of powerful force, they could only accept the fact that Hou Dayong ascended the throne. Then, Zhang Yongde, Zhang Mei, Wang Bu, Xiang Xun, Li Sirang, and other veterans had all been promoted to high positions and were raised in the capital by Hou Dayong. Although they were rich, they had no real power and no longer had any threat to the new dynasty.

The new training camp outside Daliang City was also officially transformed into the Songshan Academy of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This academy was organized and built by Huo Zhixing, digging the golden water river to build a lake, forming a new camp with lakes and mountains. In this way, the new college can not only train horse and infantry, but also train basic navy tactics and cultivate talents for a series of wars going south. The original landlord army of Dazhou was the imperial guards and the imperial guards in the imperial guards of the Palace Front Office. Most of the lower-level officers went to Songshan Academy for rotation training, familiar with the various military orders and tactics of the Black Diao Army, and carried out ideological education with the theme of "loyalty, bravery and justice", and then sent to various armies to serve. By replacing senior generals and transforming middle and low-level generals, the imperial guards gradually completed the transformation to the Black Diao Army.

Whenever there is a change of dynasty, people will always be killed. Hou Dayong's new dynasty only killed a few people including Zhao Kuangyin, Fan Zhi, Zan Jurun. The social impact is extremely small and can be regarded as a smooth transition.

In response to the painful lesson that the Jiedushi in the late Tang Dynasty was a big deal, Hou Dayong had been quietly adjusting local power, taking all the branches and prefectures in the Daliang area to the court, and there were no Jiedushi in the Jinghu area. Each prefecture was directly under Daliang, and the chief officials of each prefecture directly reported to Hou Dayong. He also specially strengthened the construction of county-level regimes and did not allow the governor to hand over all the affairs of the prefectures to his relatives. The county chiefs, including county magistrates, chief clerks, and county magistrates, must be appointed by the Ministry of Personnel, and stipulated that these three officials had a three-year term, with one small exam every year and one big exam every three years, and were promoted or dismissed based on their actual results.

Hou Dayong also gradually took back judicial and financial power to the court, strengthening the central government's control over the local government. At the same time, the Xin Dynasty also encouraged the development of production. Based on the experience of Zhengzhou, Fengzhou and Lingzhou, vigorously reclaimed wasteland and increased the land area. In order to achieve the goal of releasing water and raising fish, Hou Dayong also ordered the rectification of chaotic taxes in various places, and all miscellaneous taxes such as agricultural instrument tax were abolished, and prohibited the practice of "chasing county officials and passing through the prefecture". Since the Five Dynasties, tax collection has been completed every year, and the prefecture prefecture has issued documents to the prefecture, requiring the prefecture to "Huiwen Chao", which is called "Huizhou". The county officials took the opportunity to collect the township and bribe the prefecture's officials.

The implementation of these systems loosened the farmers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and their enthusiasm for production increased greatly. Although it was a long time ago, farmers in the fields of various places had accumulated farmland and farmland, and they wanted to lay the foundation for next spring plowing.

These policies were passed down to the Northern Han, Southern Han, Southern Tang and Western Shu, making the people in these places yearn for Daliang. People continue to risk their lives and flee to Daliang with their families, just like smuggling in another world.

A series of good news that followed inspired the spirit of the officials and people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even more comforted His Majesty Hou Dayong. However, what made Hou Dayong the most happy was the smooth progress of the war in the attack on Western Shu.

The Battle of Western Shu officially began in the first year of the Han Xing year. In order to demonstrate the demeanor of the new dynasty, Hou Dayong specially sent Cao Bin, the brave general under Zhao Kuangyin, as the commander-in-chief of the northern part, set out from Fengzhou, went down the south of the Yangtze River, and marched towards Chengdu.

The war started first on the North Road. In order to offer generous gifts to the Xin Dynasty, Cao Bin led the Zhou army on the North Road to attack Shu in mid-December of December of the first year of the Han Xing Dynasty. He was able to seize all the key points outside Xingzhou. He only siege two days later, and captured Xingzhou, an important town in northern Xishu. He obtained more than 400,000 hu of military rations and captured Lan Siwan, the governor of Xingzhou in Xishu alive.
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