Chapter 218: Tricky

The Shi clan can control more than half of the military power of the Zhao State, in addition to the Shi clan's ability to fight, the most significant point is that the Shi clan may be an undercover agent sent to the Zhao State by the Great Zhou.

And the Zhao royal family is not afraid to argue with the Shi family, but is afraid of the one behind the Shi family.

If it was arranged by that one-handed, then let alone Zhao Guo, even if Zhao Chuyan and Qi were tied together, it would not be enough for others to fight.

Thinking about it this way, I feel that the Zhao royal family is more aggrieved, more than a dozen descendants of the royal family have been killed, and there are countless officials, if there are not so many clans in the Zhao State who can stand up and fight against the Shi clan, I am afraid that the current Zhao State has already been the Shi clan's family.

This situation is very similar to the fact that the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei destroyed the Zhi clan and jointly divided the Jin Kingdom, but now, there is a Shi clan that is much more powerful than the Ming Zhibo back then, not only controlling the military power of the Zhao State in the name of justice, but also placing people from their own family in the court in a righteous and bright way, which really makes people feel very tricky.

"This Shi clan is even more difficult to deal with than Gongzi imagined before. ”

"Haven't you noticed that the descendants of the same surname and even the monarch of the Zhao State are basically inferior to the next generation, and they are not as good as the Jin State back then. Gong Zhuang said.

"Compared to this, we still have to follow Childe's previous instructions and wait and see what happens. Jia Xu said to Wang Meng.

"But...... Childe also said before, if there is an opportunity, don't let it go easily, at least you have to help Shan Fu make a fortune, otherwise people may not be able to trust us. Wang Meng frowned.

"Sir, Brother Geng is back. Koji said.

"Lao Geng, have you found out everything?"

"I have already found out, in addition to relying on his family status to do nonsense, this Shi Hu himself is also a guy who can fight. The man who came in said respectfully.

This is Ling Hao's biggest gain since the draw in recent months, ranking within the top five of the 28 generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty Yuntai.

Geng Yi liked military affairs since he was a child, and later persuaded his father to defect to Liu Xiu, was appointed as a partial general, and followed Liu Xiu to pacify Hebei.

In the first year of Jianwu (25), Liu Xiu was proclaimed emperor, and Geng Yi was named the general of Jianwei and the marquis. After that, Geng Yi defeated Yancen, Pingqilu, and attacked Longyou, and made great achievements for the unification of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the thirteenth year of Jianwu (37), Geng Yi resigned as a general. In the first year of Yongping (58), Geng Yi died, and he was called the Marquis.

Geng Yi took the tactics of encircling the point to send reinforcements and attacking the east and the west to the extreme, which was respected by the military circles of all dynasties and regarded as a model of what is willing, what can be done.

Geng Yi's father, Geng Jing, was a classmate of Wang Mang's younger brother Wang Ling, and later became Shuo Lian Rate (i.e., Shanggu Taishou). Geng Yi was known for his diligence and studiousness when he was a teenager. It is common for the county to hold a county examination at the end of the year, talk about martial arts training, and sincerely love it, so it learns to ride and shoot, and likes the art of war.

In the first year (23), Liu Xuan established the first regime and sent generals to occupy various places, some of whom used their power to remove the Taishou county orders of some counties. Geng was very uneasy because he was an official appointed by Wang Mang, so he ordered Geng Yi, who was twenty-one years old, to go to the court to see Liu Xuan and contribute his goods in order to consolidate his position.

Geng Yi traveled south from Shanggu to Songzi County, and it happened that Wang Lang, who claimed to be Liu Ziyu, the son of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, started an incident in Handan. Sun Cang and Wei Bao, the officials of Shanggu County who followed Geng Yi, believed it to be true, so they defected to Wang Lang. Due to the blockage of the road in Chang'an, Geng Yi heard that Liu Xiu, the first great Sima, was in Lunu, and he went north to meet Jin and was appointed as a subordinate officer.

Geng Yi asked to return to Shanggu to send troops to capture Handan, and Liu Xiu smiled and said: "You have great ambitions at a young age!" So he summoned him several times and gave him comfort.

Soon, Liu Xiu went north to Jicheng. Later, Liu Xiu heard that Handan had sent troops to Ji, and wanted to go south, so he convened officials and subordinates to discuss. Geng Yi said: "Yuyang is too shou Peng Pet, he is your fellow countryman, and Shanggu is too guard, is my father."

In the first two years (24), Geng Yi returned to Changping and persuaded his father Geng to join Liu Xiu. Geng Guo sent Kou Sui to Yuyang, and asked Peng Chong, the Taishou of Yuyang, to send troops to support Liu Xiu, and each of the two counties sent 2,000 cavalry and 1,000 infantry.

Therefore, Geng Yi, Kou Sui, and Jing Dan led the Shanggu soldiers and Wu Hansuo led the Yuyang soldiers to join the division south, and killed more than 400 people below Wang Lang's general, Jiuqing, and school captain along the way, and captured Zhuojun, Zhongshan, Julu, Qinghe, and Hejian 22 counties, and finally caught up with Liu Xiu in Guang'a. At this time, Liu Xiu was attacking Wang Lang, and he was very happy to see the soldiers and horses of the two counties coming, and he was named Geng Guo as a general and a marquis of Guiyi, and Geng Yi, Wu Han and others were all partial generals. After that, Geng Yi and others followed Liu Xiu to conquer Handan.

Liu Xuan saw that Liu Xiu's prestige was growing and he was suspicious of him, so he sent an envoy to make him the king of Xiao, and ordered him to quit his troops and lead his subordinates back to Chang'an, and sent Miao Zeng to be the pastor of Youzhou, Wei Shun to be the Taishou of Shanggu, and Cai Chong to be the Taishou of Yuyang, in an attempt to disintegrate Liu Xiu's power in Hebei.

At that time, Liu Xiu lived in the Wenming Hall of Handan Palace, Geng Yi went to the bed and said: "Now the government has been lost, the monarchs and ministers are promiscuous, the generals are good at prestige in Gyeonggi, and the princes and nobles are tyrannical in Kyoto.

The order of the Son of Heaven can't get out of the city gate, and the state and county guards below are replaced by migration at every turn, and the people don't know what to do, and the people dare not be at ease. Plundering property, plundering women, and rich and noble people with gold and jade, none of them survived. The common people beat their chests and feet, but they missed Wang Mang even more.

There are also rebel armies such as Tongma and Red Eyebrows, with hundreds of millions of people, and they cannot be exterminated. The defeat of the beginning is not far off. You first raised the banner of righteousness in Nanyang, breaking the army of one million, and now Pingding Hebei, possessing the land of abundance. Crusade with righteousness, issue orders, and respond in groups, and the world can be pacified as long as it is preached.

The world is the most important, and it cannot be obtained by people with foreign surnames. I heard that an envoy is coming from the west and wants you to withdraw your troops, but don't listen. Today, there are many deaths among officials and soldiers, and I am willing to go back to Youzhou and increase the number of elite soldiers to make a big plan.

Mobilize the men and horses of these two counties, there are thousands of horsemen, and Handan is easy to capture. Liu Xiu's officials and subordinates were reluctant to go north, but Liu Xiu pointed at Geng Yi and said, "This is my master of the northern road." It happened that at this time, Jicheng was in turmoil, Liu Xiu hurriedly went south, and the officials and subordinates were scattered.

Liu Xiu was very happy to hear this, and worshiped Geng Yi as a general, and ordered him and Wu Han to go north to conquer the soldiers and horses of the ten counties of Youzhou.

Geng Yi went to Shanggu and killed Wei Shun and Cai Chong, and Wu Han also killed Miao Zeng. Soon, Geng Yi led the Youzhou soldiers to the south, followed Liu Xiu to fight in Hebei, and broke the peasant armies of Tongma, Gaohu, Qingli, Chimei, Youlai, Wuman, and Dagun. After Liu Xiu returned to Ji, Geng Yi and Wu Han, Jing Dan, Gai Yan, Zhu You, Pi Tong, Geng Chun, Liu Zhi, Cen Peng, Xi Zun, Wang Ba, Chen Jun, Jian Rong, and Ma Wu continued to pursue the remnants of the peasant army, and successively inflicted heavy losses on the enemy army in Ludong and Pinggu, beheading more than 13,000 ranks, and finally pursued all the way to Wuzhong County (today's Jinji County), Tuyin County (now Fengrun County, Hebei), and Junmi (now Zunhua City, Hebei) in Youbeiping County, and wiped out the remnants of the peasant army cleanly.

In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Fan Ye listed Geng Yi as a separate biography and commented:

Forty-six counties of Yifan Suoping, three hundred slaughtered cities, and there was no setback.

Comment: The Huaiyin court discusses the king, and the trial is complete, and the temple of the ancestors is victorious. Geng Yi made decisions in Hebei, planned Nanyang, and also saw the success of Guangwu.

However, it is all in order, and there is no resize. Wouldn't the husband have the degree of time, which was not enough to be compatible? The third generation was a general, and the Taoists were jealous, and Geng's tired leaves died with fame. How can it be used to kill and stop killing?

Praise said: Good martial arts, can draw soldiers. Go to collect the swallows and come to the Han camp. Please relax Zhao Palace, drink Qi City.

In the third year of Tang Jianzhong (782), Yan Zhenqing, the ceremonial envoy, suggested to Tang Dezong that he posthumously confer 64 ancient famous generals and set up temples for them to enjoy, including "General Jianwei Hao Hou Geng Yi".

In the fifth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1123), the Song dynasty set up temples for ancient famous generals in accordance with the practice of the Tang Dynasty, and Geng Yi was also included among the seventy-two famous generals.

In the "Biography of Seventeen History and Hundred Generals" written during the Northern Song Dynasty, Geng Yi is also among them.

It can be seen from this that "where there is a will, there is a way", how highly regarded this general is.

"Come on, come on, please sit down, come and tell us, are there any other powerful characters in this Shi clan besides the sect leader Shi Le and Shi Hu?" Wang Meng and a few others immediately got up to greet them.

"Thank you, gentlemen, but Geng is a rough man, so he still won't sit with the gentlemen. After Geng Yi said a few polite words, he immediately began to report the information he had collected before.

It turns out that in addition to Shi Le and Shi Hu, most of the male children of the Shi clan basically have the cultivation realm of more than five layers of ground locks, and women also have the cultivation of four layers of ground locks, which can already be regarded as quite a "luxurious" big clan.

Compared with ordinary small wealthy clans and small clans, the Shi clan's ability to have such strength and cultivation for both men and women is enough to make the Zhao royal family tremble.

The poor descendants of the Zhao royal family are all a bunch of unsuccessful guys, just like Miao Yu, the son of the Marquis of Yongcheng before, and the three layers of the ground lock can't find a few, no wonder the Shi clan can be so rampant.

If it weren't for the great grandmaster of Zhao Guoda, who was afraid of the Handan Academy, I was afraid that the Shi clan would have already eliminated all the other clans that prevented the Shi family from becoming dominant.

Facts have proved that the Great Grandmaster is the safest guarantee between the Seven Kingdoms.

Each of the seven countries has a great grandmaster sitting in the national capital, and acts as the manager of the school palace in the national capital, and the seven countries naturally speak hard, and the other effects can only watch the seven countries tear each other apart at the same time, divide their own land, rob the resources of their own land, and plunder their own pitiful wealth and women, and don't even dare to let go of a fart.

If it weren't for the fact that these small countries are more "well-behaved and sensible", and they are "very refreshing" when they ask for land and people, I am afraid that they would have already been stabbed by the Seven Kingdoms with knives and "bloomed everywhere".