Ma Riyan also ignored the usual etiquette, mixed with excitement and choked up, and shouted, "General Tong! Chang'an farewell, the general upholds his ambition and perseverance, which is obvious to all in the world. When I see it today, it's even more heroic! ”

Dong Bai stepped forward and saluted, "Dong Bai has seen Mrs. Ma." Although Xia Yang is remote, Bai has already done it slightly, the carriage and horses are ready, and Ma Lao and his party are invited to the house for a banquet. ”

Ma Riyan sighed, "Oh, that's so polite." I still remember that day in the Chang'an court, the gentleman and the woman said that a woman can also guard the fence, which is really deafening. “

He looked at the people around Dong Bai and Tong Yuan again, all of them were young people, and they were terrifying.

Suddenly, he saw a plainly dressed bookish woman, and he couldn't help but feel a little sluggish, and then exclaimed, "Oops! Isn't this Cai Bojiao's daughter, Cai Zhaoji, Mrs. Cai!? ”

Cai Yan stepped forward and bowed, "Yan has seen Uncle Weng. Being able to see my father's close friends again made Yan Bei feel kind and warm. ”

Ma Riyan said, "I'm so ashamed of Bojiao's matter, at that time, I tried my best to dissuade Wang Yun and begged him to let Cai Bojiao go no matter what." But"

Cai Yan endured the pain and thanked him, "Uncle Yan for my father, Uncle Weng, my father can discuss literature and scriptures with a close friend like you, and every day is very fulfilling." Yan is determined to inherit his father's ideals and work literature and music. ”

Ma Riyan sighed, "Time flies so fast, it seems that yesterday I was still writing the Xiping Stone Scripture with Cai Bojiao, and in a blink of an eye, it was time to take a new step and not let Bojiao down." ”

He glanced at the hair of Cai Yan and Dong Bai, and they had already removed the mourning hairpin. Counting their fingers, twenty-five to twenty-seven months have passed since their mourning, and the mourning is over, and it is time to take a new step in life.

Tong Yuan thought of the past and felt that time had flown by, but he also needed to carry hope and move forward in great strides.

He said, "I heard that Mrs. Ma has gone through twists and turns all the way, please go to Xiayang to rest first." ”

Ma Riyan suddenly thought that there was also a war going on here, so he replied, "Oh, it's really hard to say." By the way, I heard that you are fighting the Huns this winter, I don't know how the situation is? ”

Tong Yuan replied, "This matter is a long story, I'll wait until Xia Yang is here to talk about it slowly." Please also ask Mrs. Ma to be careful, and you must hurry up when the boat docks. ”

"Huh? yes, I haven't gotten off the boat yet, so we'll talk later. ”

When they arrived at Xiayang Mansion, Dong Bai and Tong Yuan held a banquet, firstly to entertain Ma Riyan and Chen Duan, and secondly, to comfort a group of soldiers who had recovered and merged the state this time.

At this time, Bingzhou had just recovered a large area of land, Su Ze, Yu Xuan, Shenlong and others had already taken their places, and Tong Yuan, Zhang Lu, Zhang Ji and others returned to Xiayang to prepare for the follow-up.

Now that the news of the big victory has been suppressed for the time being, and the news is not smooth in the warm and cold season, the news is not smooth, and I am ready to announce this shocking news at the most appropriate time.

At this time, Ma Riyan was also rescued, just in time for Ma Riyan and Cai Yan to cooperate with them to write to the court.

In this way, even if the civil strife between Li Dao and Guo Yan may have been affected by the butterfly effect and did not happen, it is enough to use the existing strength and court power to cooperate with the two parties to lead the Han Emperor to the east and throw it into his palm.

Ma Riyan was deeply impressed by the achievements of Tong Yuan and others, and he couldn't help but be happy when he saw that Tong Yuan fulfilled the promise made at the Chang'an banquet and got along happily with the scholars in Hedong and other places.

With the strength of wine, he directly wrote a book to report the good news to the imperial court. Cai Yan added some other details about people's livelihood, Hu people, personnel, etc. In the end, Dong Bai sent it to Chang'an.

Everyone was cheerful, all of them drank and discussed happily, and spent the last happy banquet before the Han Dynasty.

In fact, Tong Yuan was a little optimistic about the sanity of Li Dao and others, but he obviously underestimated their ambitions.

In February of the same year, Li Wei took care of Fan Chou, won the hearts of the army, and his influence became bigger and bigger. After he made careful preparations, he invited Fan Chou and Li Meng to the banquet.

When the wine was drunk, Li Dao smashed the glass. His nephew, Hu Feng, the commander of the cavalry, suddenly burst out and stoned the drunken Fan Chou to death with a cane. He led his troops to attack and stabbed Li Meng to death.

Li Dao immediately ordered his subordinates to attack the military camp of the two, announced the evidence of their collusion with Han Sui, killed dozens of descendants, and annexed the remaining soldiers and horses.

Since then, three-quarters of Chang'an City has been controlled by Li Dao. Guo Yan, Yang Ding and the others were deeply afraid, but they were even more sure that Li Dao wanted to get rid of them all one by one.

Li Wei rewarded Guo Yan and stabilized this "horse thief" a little, saying that they got rid of Fan Chou and Li Meng because they had colluded with Han Sui before, and now they planned to rob Tongguan, so they corrected the law on the spot. The matter is over and has nothing to do with anyone else.

Guo Yan "stupidly" believed that he often went to Li Wei's house to drink happily, as if he had forgotten that Fan and Li had died at a banquet not long ago.

At this stage, Dong Bai's letter arrived in Chang'an, and the entire imperial court was shocked by the achievements of recovering and annexing the state.

The document reads:

The ministers heard that the Xiongnu had no way and did not respect the constitution, while the Han Sheng enjoyed the emperor's grace, and the Han Dynasty took advantage of the situation to make chaos. The Huns were cruel by nature, did not produce, killed officials and slaughtered the heads of Qian, herded the seedlings and served the young and strong, humiliated women and plowed cattle, and the iron horses caused ten rooms and nine emptiness, wailing all over the land. Although Bai is a woman, she does not forget her ancestors and vows to abide by the fence. According to the holy decree of our emperor, we will harmonize with Yang Hou to recover the homeland of the Northland.

The Xiongnu and the king of Xian led 100,000 cavalry to invade me, and the king of Lu invaded 50,000 of my three auxiliaries. Bearing in mind the favor of the Son of Heaven, I went against the wind and fought more than a dozen battles between the two places to annihilate the thieves, recovered more than 1,000 miles of land in Xihe and Shangjun, rescued the old and weak and countless livestock, and the rest of the alien races were attached.

Today, the world is announced, and the Xian envoy knows that the Holy Dynasty has the ambition to revitalize the northern Xinjiang, and the momentum of Zhongxing is about to erupt.

This book immediately spread all over the world, and Dong Bai and Tong Yuan recovered most of the state, causing a lot of discussion around the world.

In the court, supporters said that this achievement could be said to be the highest achievement for the Xiongnu since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Those who opposed it said that attacking their own people who had already taken refuge in the imperial court would not only be futile, but should be punished.

The latter view was shouted loudly, but it was surprisingly unanimously opposed by Li Dao, Li Ru, and most officials.

Li Dao's side had just gotten rid of Fan Chou and Li Meng, and he was unwilling to continue to make enemies, so supporting Dong Bai and Tong Yuan was a personal favor.

And Na Ma Riyan's literary brilliance and prestige are enough to make many neutral officials agree, at least not openly oppose.

It can be said that the test of this merger and state victory is just right, just to find out the attitudes of all parties, which is conducive to the next step of layout and operation.

Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty also admired Dong Bai, Tong Yuan and the soldiers who fought bloodily. He was not stingy with official positions and rewards, and intended to let them draw up their own needs, and approve them as long as they were suitable for him.

Of course, regarding the promotion of his position, Tong Yuan did not plan to be too arrogant, after all, he still had to go east for Emperor Han Xian, and Liu Xie took the initiative to invest in his territory to pave the way. Therefore, the image should be relatively positive and not too strong.

In the end, on the basis of the original false festival and temperance division, Dong Bai added the false position of the Taishi and expanded the fief. This can be regarded as allowing her to officially inherit the official position of her grandfather, Dong Zhuo.

Tong Yuan was promoted from General Pingbei to General Zhenbei, and was promoted to Pastor of Bingzhou.

And Xu Rong, who had been excluded before, was finally justifiably awarded the position and was awarded the post of General Duliao.

General Duliao seems to be a miscellaneous general, but in fact he was a permanent general in the Eastern Han Dynasty, originally placed in the Hetao area, specializing in the management of the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan and other generals.

Later, this position was also similar to the history of the state assassination, and was gradually compressed by the Southern Xiongnu and other rulers, and was repeatedly defeated.

Geng Zhi, the previous general of Duliao, was killed by Yu Fuluo and others in the second year of Chuping, that is, four years ago. Since then, this position has been vacant, and now it happens to be held by Xu Rong, who is stationed in the Xihe and Taiyuan areas.

The rest of the scribes, such as Wei Qi, Zhang Ji, Su Ze and other scribes, as well as Zhang Lu, Yu Poison and other generals in the army, were all appointed by Dong Bai and Tong Yuan, and then reported to the imperial court.

Soon after, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Zhou Cang, Li Tong and others were awarded the positions of lieutenants and military commanders, and arranged for them to guard one side and protect the territory and the people.

In this way, the Sili area gradually stabilized, and the diaspora gradually returned to their homeland, and by the end of the year, more than 100,000 people gathered in Luoyang and the surrounding counties.