Uncle Dushan is scheming and understands that no matter how much he tosses in the court, no matter who is in power, it is not as effective as the army in his hands. Now he has 200,000 troops, including 120,000 White Tiger Army, 60,000 Vermilion Bird Army, and 20,000 local township troops. These 200,000 troops are now the most elite troops of the Holy Han Empire and the most powerful force in the country, as long as this power is in the hands of Du Shanbo, he doesn't care whether Zhang Kuan is in power in the court, or Zhang Xiaowu, a little ghost, is in power.

But compared with Zhang Kuan, Du Shanbo admires Zhang Xiaowu more, and what he admires most about Zhang Xiaowu is not that he is alone in the star-picking platform, but in the case of the temporary defeat of the rebels, he chased and fought in time, killing the other party without the power to resist. This decisive victory was not only a military victory, but also a political victory, Zhang Xiaowu killed the enemy so that he did not even have time to breathe, so that those who were originally preparing to rebel had to support the imperial court anyway.

This ability to seize opportunities alone is not something that ordinary people possess. Du Shanbo once again recalled Zhang Xiaowu's past experience, and suddenly found that Zhang Xiaowu actually chose the most correct choice in each choice, which not only requires wisdom, courage, but also luck.

"What a lucky boy." Du Shanbo laughed.

"Father-in-law, what did you say?" Luo Xiu asked hurriedly.

Dushan Bo said: "I said, Zhang Xiaowu can rule the court with a five-grade military general, it is really luck and wisdom standing behind him." ”

Ruan Qingwen said with a smile: "No, there are still connections, and there are still people's hearts." ”

Dushan Boluo thought about it for a while, this is indeed the case, and he is even more pleased that there is such a demonic minister in the court.

The cost of 500,000 taels of silver can only relieve part of the pressure, and the White Tiger Army and the puppet Wu army still need more support in the confrontation. Nguyen Thanh Van said that the imperial court was willing to continue to increase its support in order to put down the Jiangnan rebellion as soon as possible.

"Uncle, Lord Shaobao also said that when you recover, it will be the day when the imperial court canonizes you as the prince of the county, and I also ask you to take care of your body and recover as soon as possible." Ruan Qingwen said to Du Shan Bo before leaving.

Du Shanbo smiled slightly, and said through the curtain: "The Troublesome Central Order has been remembered, but I still hope to wait until His Majesty wakes up." ”

"Your Majesty is blessed with all the heavens, and you will definitely wake up early."

Bidding farewell to the camp in the south of the Yangtze River, Ruan Qingwen rushed to Longdu non-stop, and when he arrived in Yuezhou, he met an old acquaintance in Yueyang Mansion, who had been transferred to Yizhou to serve as a snow guard in Xuelongguan.

When Ruan Qingwen saw Hu Li walking into Yueyang City with a thousand soldiers of the Xuewei Huzi Battalion, he was immediately surprised and couldn't believe it, he rode his horse and rushed up, laughing and said, "But General Hu Li? ”

Hu Liyi turned his head, saw Ruan Qingwen and his party, and saw that the guard general who protected Ruan Qingwen was Bao Yin, laughed and shouted: "Cui Qilang, Qu Ming, look who is this?" Cui Qilang and Qu Ming rushed over, and after seeing the old acquaintance, they were excited, and Bao Yin also bared his teeth and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Hu Li explained that they had received an order to escort the envoys of the Kingdom of Xiao to Longdu in person—but in reality, they had been driven away by Jiang Ai, the commander of the Snow Guards.

This small country in the southwestern border of the country has been bullied by the Nanqiang State for a long time, and even the king of Nanqiang has put forward an excessive demand for the country, they asked the king of the country to marry his fifteen-year-old daughter to the stupid son of the Khan of the Nanqiang State as his wife, after all, the marriage of the princess to the prince is right.

But everyone knows that the king of Nanqiang is cruel and lustful and incestful, because the eldest son of the king of Nanqiang was stupid because he was born, so the king of Nanqiang used the name of choosing a concubine for his son, raped several of his son's concubines, and strangled all the children born to his son's concubines because of their promiscuity with him.

Therefore, the king of the country of Po'an asked for help from the Holy Han Empire, and Jiang Ai, the old commander of Xuewei, gave him an idea, and he said to the envoy of the country of Po'an, Emperor Dade was young and had very few wives and concubines, so it was better to let the princess of Po'an Guo marry Emperor Dade as a concubine, so as to stop the humiliation of the Southern Qiang Kingdom.

When the king of the country learned of this, he immediately arranged for an envoy to take Princess Anargul to the Central Plains. It turned out that the king of the country knew that the Shenghan Empire was very powerful and the land area was very large, but he didn't know how big it was, he thought that after Jiang Ai made a suggestion to him, he immediately reported it to the emperor, and the emperor had not objected - in fact, Jiang Ai's twists and turns had just arrived in Longdu, and even at that time there was no rebellion of King Jin in Longdu.

And when the fold arrived in Longdu, it was already the time when Zhang Xiaowu was in power, Zhang Xiaowu couldn't cry or laugh after seeing this fold, and now the emperor is also a "dementia", even inferior to the stupid son of King Nanqiang. Soon after, the Central Mansion got another twist, and it turned out that the king of the country of Po'an actually sent his national teacher to take Princess Anargul to Xuelong Pass.

After the king of Nanqiang learned that Xiao Anguo did not obey his orders and married the princess to the Central Plains Dynasty, he was immediately furious and immediately sent troops to chase and kill. In order to protect the princess and the face of the Celestial Empire, Jiang Ai allowed the Anguo delegation to enter the Snow Dragon Pass.

The king of Nanqiang immediately sent troops to storm the Snow Dragon Pass, but was attacked from behind by the Huzi battalion led by Hu Li, because the ghost guards often attacked and fought, Hu Li's rich experience in sneak attacks caught the Nanqiang army off guard, and the king of Nanqiang was almost cut off by Hu Li's double sword.

Over the years, Nanqiang has been accustomed to attacking Xuelong Pass head-on, and Xuelong Pass struggled to resist, but he didn't expect to meet Hu Li, who likes to sneak attack from behind. The Nanqiang army was in chaos, Hu Li took a thousand men to chase all the way, not giving the opponent any respite and a chance to counterattack, they chased until the capital of the Nanqiang State, and saw that the city was strong and deep and could not be broken, so he led his troops back.

Along the road, Hu Li, in line with the barbaric style of never returning empty-handed, plundered all the Nanqiang livestock and grain in the place he passed, and blinded all the surrendered troops. Even if it weren't for Cui Qilang and Qu Ming to stop him, Hu Li would have taken away the girl from Nanqiang who was twelve to eighteen years old, but fortunately, the Han army was a "teacher of benevolence and righteousness" and did not do it so viciously.

Hu Li erected a stone tablet on the border of Nanqiang, on which a line of words was written in Chinese and Nanqiang script: "Those who commit the holy Han Tianwei will break their heads and pierce their eyes!" ”

Based on Hu Li's vicious style in the southwest border, the southwestern countries have given him a nickname, called the evil general Hu Li, after hearing his nickname, Hu Li immediately laughed three times, pulled everyone to drink, and said: "The general is a famous ghost general, I am an evil general, am I not the same name as the general?" So good, so good! ”

The king of Nanqiang was beaten and lost his armor and lost face, especially the loss of more than 50,000 head of livestock, and was disturbed by Hu Li's 1,000 ghost guards and Hu Zi battalion, and the national strength of Nanqiang was lost by one-tenth. In order to take revenge for the humiliation of the Holy Han, the king of Nanqiang hurriedly gathered the herdsmen from all over the country as a large army, and invited other countries in the southwest to join forces to attack the Shenghan Snow Dragon Pass.