Chapter 187: The Divine Decree Has Arrived

At the beginning of the civil war between the northern and northern Tatar tribes of the millennium, many male Tartar herdsmen were forcibly transferred to the battlefield to participate in the civil war, these people have not been in contact with their families for two years, they may have died in a battle, they may have disappeared somewhere, leaving only the women and children at home to live a difficult life. The women of the grassland are strong, but no matter how strong a woman is, she is still a woman after all, and she also needs the body temperature of the opposite sex.

In the process of purchasing meat for the government, some returnees will help these herdsmen who have lost their strong labor, and some delicate feelings will naturally occur when they are alone for a few days.

The Tartar women are much more daring and pungent than the Central Plains women, and they like to say directly, most of the people who return to their hometowns are veterans who have been in the army for several years, where can they stand such a direct and enthusiastic confession, so they borrowed the donkey from the slope to the Tartar herdsmen's house, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

Zhang Xiaowu was the first to learn that more than a dozen returnees had joined the herdsmen's homes and became new herdsmen, so he asked Guan Xiang to send people to each household to send 500 catties of grain as a congratulatory gift. The congratulatory gift of 500 catties of grain is enough for ten pockets, enough for a family to eat until next summer.

The civil war in the Northern Tatar Khanate resulted in the death or disappearance of more than 100,000 men, and many herder families faced the cruel test of the longest and coldest winters, and some even had to commit suicide because of hunger.

What is charcoal in the snow, this is charcoal in the snow.

The Shepherds in Saibei immediately spread the news to their neighbors, and in no time a while the surrounding herders married their daughters or widows who had lost their husbands to these returnees.

The number of returnees who have joined herdsmen's homes has rapidly increased from a dozen to several hundred, and Guan Xiang is afraid that some of them will fake their marriages and cheat on grain, so he suggested that the distribution of grain be suspended.

Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said that they didn't pretend to be for food, but really rushed to food, but people are emotional animals, so let them sleep together for half a year, and after half a year, the lonely man and girl will also fake the show. Those who returned to their hometowns were also poor people, and even when they returned to their hometowns, they had to be disliked, not only did they not bring back money but also took up their family rations. Now that they have settled in Saibei, it can be regarded as the best ending, and it is not so important to marry a yellow flower girl.

In addition to relying on the army to live, some of the returning veterans have also become the husbands of many shops in the city, and even some prostitution houses also hire healthy veterans to serve as guards......

November passed, the soldiers and civilians of Mucheng gradually stabilized, and after a month of rigorous training, the defenders of Mucheng gradually came out of the haze of defeat and regained their morale. Because the food is sufficient, the soldiers can train all day, defend the battle formation, field march, etc., and the increasing combat effectiveness is visible to the naked eye, and all the generals have gradually adapted to their new identity.

Follow the ghost generals, there are officials to do, there is meat to eat, and there are women to sleep!

After Xiao Kai's marriage, Li Yuan also married a little wife, the daughter of a small tribe chief in Western Tatarta, the local herdsmen married early, and the chief's daughter was only fourteen years old when she reached the age of marriage. The tribes of the Western Tartar Pagoda never participated in the battle for the leader of the Tartar League in the Saibei Wasteland, so they did not have any position against the Han or the Wuhuan people.

The small tribe was close to Mucheng, so Chen Guanxi, who was a scout school, passed by, and the tribal patriarch was greatly appreciated after talking to Li Yuan, so he married his daughter to him.

Zhang Xiaowu was surprised after receiving the invitation: "You are still unmarried?" ”

Li Yuan said: "I have been in the army for many years, how can I have time, and besides, I used to be in Yuwei in Yumen Pass, and the horses there were all stallions......"

Zhang Xiaowu laughed, and then ordered his subordinates to prepare some congratulatory gifts for the small tribe of Naxi Tatarta, as for the gift or food, who let Mucheng only have food.

At the beginning of December, an imperial envoy rushed from Longdu to Mucheng to announce the holy decree, and Zhang Xiaowu immediately led all the civil and military officials in Mucheng to greet the decree. Zhang Xiaowu specially asked Ruan Qingwen if he wanted to kneel when he received the decree, and Ruan Qingwen smiled and said: "Who said that the edict should kneel?" We just need to bow down solemnly, no need to kneel. Even in the early dynasty, they would not kneel, and the upper court bowed to ask for the holy peace, and the lower court bowed to send the holy peace, and the current dynasty stipulated that the kneel only during the sacrifice. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said that MMP was deceived by the TV series again, it turned out that not all the ancients knelt down to receive the decree, and he asked again: "Then do you want to kneel when you see the emperor?" ”

"You don't need to, you only kneel when you confess your sins and bow to the law, sacrifice to the ancestors and ghosts, and pray to the gods of heaven, what do you usually kneel?" Ruan Qingwen wondered.

Zhang Xiaowu said in his heart that it was good that Ruan Qingwen was guiding on the side, otherwise he would be really embarrassed.

Although there are eunuchs in the palace, unlike in the TV series, the eunuchs of the Holy Han Empire are absolutely not allowed to leave the palace, let alone contact the holy decree, so there is no so-called eunuch decree in this dynasty.

The envoy who came to announce the decree was the editor of the imperial study, this envoy was a civil official in his thirties with a beard, and he was quite handsome, a middle-aged beautiful man, with a majestic and solemn face, and a royal style.

There is a requirement in the imperial study room, the editor must be in the top 30 of the imperial examination heavenly list, and these people will be five-rank officials once they are released, which is much higher than the starting point of the seven-rank county orders. Although they are only five-rank officials, the editors accompany the emperor every day, and they are all close associates of the emperor, and they have a bright future, and no one dares to offend them.

After the imperial envoy waited for everyone to stand, he announced: "Feng, heaven carrier, the emperor edict said: The third prince Xuanyuan Zi followed his deeds to defeat virtue and humiliation, and he lost his virtue and lost the army, until the Qinglong Legion defeated Yashan, lost countless soldiers, and abandoned 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Jincheng to disregard it, shame the royal family, so he abolished his prince and demoted him to the common people." The five princes Xuanyuan Zixiao is filial piety and sincerity, talented and intelligent, brilliant in writing, and virtuous in character, so he specially appointed the five princes as the crown princes, and admired this. ”

Everyone bowed and received the decree, Zhang Xiaowu stepped forward to receive the decree, and after returning, he was about to reward the imperial envoy, but when he saw the imperial envoy take out another volume of holy decrees, he smiled and said: "Don't be busy, there is another holy decree here." Everyone thought that it was strange today, and they actually received two holy decrees at one time, and stood respectfully again.

"Feng, the day carriers, the twenty-ninth year of Taiqian Yang Yue (October) sixteenth, my emperor dragon royal return to the sky, the three armies Dai Xiao to the twenty-eighth month of the month. On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the crown prince's enthronement ceremony changed the name of the year, and the generals and ministers needed to be loyal to the Son of Heaven, bravely resist the barbarians, and admire this. ”

The two holy decrees were issued at the same time, announcing that the turmoil in the court had ended, Zhang Dang finally reversed the tide and won the final victory, and Zhang Kuan's grandson, Xuanyuan Zixiao, the fifth prince, finally succeeded in ascending to the throne and taking charge of the country.

The news of Emperor Taiqian's death had long been known among the dignitaries in Mucheng, but the soldiers around him did not know about it, and some soldiers couldn't help but kneel on the ground and cry bitterly, especially Ruan Qingwen also knelt on the ground and cried. Zhang Xiaowu was surprised, this Lord Ruan was the first to know the news of the emperor's death, and then calculated to take away the emperor's silver, he actually cried so sincerely at this time, he was really a natural actor.

Zhang Xiaowu didn't feel anything about Emperor Taiqian, he just asked Ruan Qingwen the question of whether to kneel or not, and now he saw that most of the people were kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, and he didn't kneel and seemed very different, so he had to kneel on the ground and howl twice after receiving the holy decree.

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