Ge Congzhou commanded the Yangwu Army to capture Yanmen County, the capital of Daizhou, and then headed north to Yunzhou. It was the northern gateway to Jin. As the name suggests, it was the Daibei area north of Daizhou. In the later years, Datong in the northern part of Shanxi Province was the main throat that controlled the Jin, Hebei, and the frontier.

When the war reports of conquering the rest of the prefectures of the Later Tang Dynasty spread to Jinyang, Taiyuan. Li Tianqu was naturally very happy that An Shenqi, Sun Hanshao and others were willing to return to the Wei Dynasty.

Among them, such as An Shentong, An Shenhui, Sun Hanshao and other generals, Li Tianqu originally thought that the possibility of their surrender was relatively greater, and these figures who were famous in historical records were at least competent for their responsibilities in training, teaching, and managing military affairs.

As for An Shenqi, according to his historical deeds, he was even more famous in fighting against the Khitan during the Later Jin period of the Five Dynasties. Even Chai Rong, the Later Zhou Dynasty, had to come to greet him personally, and was respectfully called the "eigner of the country".

Li Tianqu lamented that time urged people to grow old. Wang Yanzhang, Ge Congzhou, and Fu Cunshen, who had followed his conquerors in the world, would inevitably enter their twilight years. After them, Xia Luqi, Gao Xingzhou and other young sects, who were about thirty years old, can already play a pillar in the army. Now they are also young An Shenqi and Fu Yanqing, who are still in their teens and twenty years younger... When the talents begin to emerge, they will always need to discover the military power of a unified empire in the future.

After all, the Later Tang Dynasty was already in turmoil and on the verge of overthrowing and destruction. The Wei Dynasty army captured Jinyang and the court was completely controlled. The Emperor Li Cunxu was also dead. Then, taking advantage of the situation to control the entire Hedong area, the war was smooth. Not only did all regions report victory, but the provinces followed one after another, which was completely reasonable...

In the past few days, Emperor Li Tianqu of Wei lived in the former palace of the Inner Tang Dynasty to take charge of various affairs. In his spare time, he also cut the noodles, dragon beard noodles, croaked noodles, croaked pork, stewed pork, egg mash trough, enema... and tasted all the delicacies that had already spread during the Tang Dynasty. Suddenly, Jie Qing was full of joy and came to report:

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, the governor of Linzhou Zhe Congyuan, sent his aides to come to the court. The two prefectures are willing to rely on our dynasty. There is also the governor of Shuofang Army Han Zhu, who sent an envoy to ask for a ancestral hall for his father to be a fief, and to commemorate His Majesty's destruction of Jin and annex Hedong. It seems that he is willing to serve our dynasty wholeheartedly."

Li Tianqu did not show too much joy. He was also famous for his envoys sent from afar to await the audience, and first presented the memorial, so he took it and opened it to read it. After understanding the meaning of the words in the memorial, Li Tianqu smiled indifferently and said in a leisurely voice:

"Sure enough, although Zhe Congyuan is willing to serve me as the leader, what he wants to point out is attachment, not surrender..."

The Zhe family actually controlled the prefectures, Linzhou and other places. Although the current head of the family was the governor of the prefecture and had not yet been appointed as the governor of the Yong'an Army, which was enthroned by Liu Zhiyuan during the Later Han Dynasty, the power in the local area is actually no different from the lord of the vassal states.

Therefore, for the Later Tang Dynasty, Zhe Congyuan used to listen to the tune but not the Xuan, and retained independence and autonomy. Although he is now willing to be a minister of the Wei Dynasty, the condition he proposed was to follow the rules of the Later Tang Dynasty as usual, and the general meaning was:

I am chasing and paying tribute, and as a barrier to the north to help the Wei Dynasty resist foreign tribes, you can say anything even if you say anything... But at least in my territory, I have to decide. Do you think this is OK?

Li Tianqu thought about it, but suddenly recalled that he had heard a lot of storytellings such as "The Legend of Yue Fei", "The General of the Yang Family", "The Margin" when he was a child. He was influenced by the eyes and even when he grew up, he always kept a collection of comic strips at home... And since Zhe Congyuan is the grandfather of the Yang Family General She Taijun, who has this feeling, it would be okay to give appropriate care.

The Zhe family did not have the ambition to be the king and emperor. Their demand was to be the leader of their own territory and try not to be governed by the central court. Li Tianqu also thought that if the Later Tang Dynasty was destroyed, then the biggest enemy in the north would be the Khitan...

According to the achievements recorded in history, Zhe Congyuan went through the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou dynasties, according to his achievements, he acted as a barrier to the Central Plains to resist the Khitan, guard the border, and even took the initiative to attack north during the Second Jin Dynasty during the Second Jin Dynasty, and captured more than ten cities of Khitan in a row.

Therefore, Zhe Congyuan's highlight moment was to fight with the Khitan... Li Tianqu thought that there was no need to rush to enforce the prefectures, Lin and other prefectures were eager to incorporate under the direct rule of the Wei Dynasty, and forcibly stripped of the Zhe family of power in the local area. Zhe Congruan also had the ability to resist the border outposts of foreign barbarians and guard the key areas of the southern guard Guanzhong and Beiping Hetao. Therefore, using force to forcibly conquered the Zhe family and forced them to give up their territory and completely submit to the court. This was not only unnecessary, but also more unworthy of the loss.

As long as the blacksmith is strong and the Wei Dynasty can maintain a strong situation for a long time, the Zhe family will surely gradually move closer to the central court... Li Tianqu thought that although you are still warlords now, they will still become the generals of the Zhe family who served in the Song Dynasty for generations?

As for the jurisdiction of Han Zhu, the governor of Shuofang Army, which includes the jurisdiction of the entire Ningxia area in the later years, and even the northern part of Hetao, Inner Mongolia, and northern Shaanxi, and some areas of Gansu... Li Tianqu thought that there should be no need to force the vassal states he ruled by force. When the Wei Dynasty and the Later Tang Dynasty sent envoys to win over, Han Zhu's father Han Xun was still alive, and he made it his position that he would not offend either side and would never be against the other side. He would not be against the other side, so he asked me to just protect the territory and protect the people and resist the foreign tribes... But now that the Wei Dynasty has captured the capital of the Later Tang Dynasty, the Shuofang Army naturally does not allow him to stay out of the matter anymore, but must simply submit to the Emperor of Wei.

However, compared with his father Han Xun, who had managed the vassal states and was loved by the people, and set up ancestral halls to be sacrificed every year... Han Zhu and his brother Han Cheng had a prestige among the vassal states. According to historical records, there was a turmoil within the Shuofang Army. Han Cheng, the younger brother of Han Cheng, sent an envoy to request the court to send someone to serve as the governor, which was equivalent to handing over the territory of the Han family's hereditary family. Later, Emperor Mingzong of Tang sent Kang Fu, Zhang Xichong and other capable ministers successively took over the military and political power of the Shuofang Army.

So whether you can wait and see if you make some tricks in the future... Han Zhu and Han Cheng's brothers are not able to suppress civil strife, so in order to protect themselves, they would rather accept the appointment and resettlement of the court. He would also hand over the vassal states. Of course, there is no need to use force to conquer, threat and force. At that time, you will accept the enthronement and give up the territory, and you will have to thank me. Isn't this the best of both worlds?

After thinking about it, Li Tianqu ordered happily and prepared to meet the envoys of both sides one after another. He also thought that he would issue an edict to declare it, and recognized that Zhe Congyuan, who controlled the prefectures of the State, and Han Zhu, who controlled the vassal states of the Shuofang Army, maintained his autonomy in the local area.

The territory under those two warlords will not only be a frontier gateway to guard against the Khitan trends, but will also be a bridgehead for the Wei Dynasty to expand to the north... But at least for now, Li Tianquxin said that he would not show any intention to occupy their territory.

After Jie Qing took the order to retreat, Li Tianqu was alone in the room and pondered for a moment, suddenly murmured:

"Although Li Cunxu died, Hedong was almost under the control of our dynasty, and Zhe Congyuan and Han Zhu also relied on and surrendered one after another. People would say that Jin State had been destroyed, but I can't believe that the Later Tang Dynasty had really died... After all, Li Ke's parent-child friendship was almost gone, and the rest of it was not the same. But Li Siyuan must also revive the country..."
Chapter completed!