Chapter 469: Turning things around
Zhang Yongde, the master of the horse, is the son-in-law of the founding emperor Guo Wei and the true close relatives of the royal family. If it is said that Guo Rong entered the Guo family, he and the princess should be regarded as brothers and sisters.
Of course, if you talk about it according to the bloodline, the purity of the princess Guo family's bloodline is even more than that of Guo Rong, the brother who entered the service.
Of course, Zhang Yongde, the captain of this horse, is also amazing, he is a great figure in the Zhou State during the five dynasties. He is Guo Wei, the current Emperor Taizu of the Zhou State in the Central Plains, the hand-picked horse master back then, and the husband of the fourth daughter, Princess Shou'an. The princess has now become the eldest princess, because the rest of Guo Wei's children have been slaughtered by Liu Han.
At that time, because the former lord of the Northern Han Dynasty in the Central Plains had no way, he killed the descendants of Emperor Taizu Guo Wei in Beijing, and even Guo Rong's family was also killed, so that Emperor Taizu Guo Wei, who ascended the throne as the Son of Heaven, has no queen since then, and it also leads to the young age of today's heir to Guo Rong.
Liu Han's method at that time could really be said to be out of place, so now Zhou Guo hates the puppet Northern Han Liu family and has always wanted to exterminate it.
Later, although Taizu Guo Wei became the emperor and thought of many ways, he never had any descendants. This great happiness and sorrow came together, which made Emperor Taizu finally depressed.
Because Emperor Taizu Guo Wei had no choice, the imperial court was unable to leave an heir for the Guo family when he was in the inner palace of Guangzheng, so he had to look for a successor among his relatives.
The first candidates that come to mind are naturally his nephew Chai Rong and son-in-law Zhang Yongde. Because Guo Wei loves his wife Chai the most, he has always been very fond of Chai Rong, his nephew. In fact, he chose his nephew Chai Rong later, instead of his son-in-law Zhang Yongde, and since then Chai Rong has been renamed Guo Rong.
The most important variable for Guo Rong to succeed to the throne is that he is afraid that his son-in-law Zhang Yongde will not be convinced. Although Zhang Yongde has always been benevolent and filial, Taizu Guo Wei still made a decisive decision, and made Zhang Yongde a minister of care for his life in danger, and visited Guo Rong in front of his hospital bed, and since then the master-slave relationship has been determined!
But who doesn't know that Guo Rong, the current emperor of Zhou, also respects Zhang Yongde, after all, Zhang Yongde's wife, Princess An, is the daughter of Emperor Taizu Guo Wei, and his current nominal sister, and Emperor Guo Rong himself is just Taizu's nephew.
And Zhang Yongde also lived up to expectations, and never held Guo Rong back on the surface. first made miraculous contributions for the emperor to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty, and since then he has really emerged in the imperial court. Then he followed Emperor Guo Rong to the south and captured more than ten states in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and since then the two countries have been bounded by the Yangtze River, and the Tang army has been terrified of Zhang Yongde.
And Emperor Guo Rong also promoted Zhang Yongde many times, until this northern expedition, Zhang Yongde was the capital of the palace of Zhou. Putting his biggest political enemy, right under his nose, as the most powerful general in the imperial court, how can the courage of this emperor Guo Rong be understandable to ordinary people?
Especially in the battle of Gaoping in the Zhou State, it was an epoch-making battle in the Zhou Dynasty, and it was also a battle of Emperor Guo Rong in the Zhou Dynasty.
And in this battle that is crucial to the overall situation, Zhang Yongde, the commander of the horses, as a general, is not only not afraid of death; Moreover, the establishment of miraculous feats in the face of danger not only saved the emperor Guo Rong from danger in front of the battle, but also made a plan to kill the fleeing generals and fearful generals, stabilized the army's morale and examined the overall situation. It can be said that without Zhang Yongde, the surrounding future is still an unknown certainty.
Moreover, what is even more prominent is that in addition to the war, he was careful to be strict in governing the army, looking at the overall situation, sizing up the situation, and judging the time in an instant. He said something to Emperor Guo Rong, overflowing with his foresight in governing the army and the country, and on the surface, he was more valued by Emperor Guo Rong, but he was willing to be mediocre since then.
Of course, there is another thing circulating in the army now, but there are still relatively few people who know about it.
The seriousness of this matter, if it is reported, may cause turmoil in the Zhou State, and the Central Plains will fall into war.
Check to be the son of heaven!
This rumor, known as the most fierce rumor of this era, can be said to be able to decapitate many people. Now this rumor is getting more and more fierce, because Zhang Yongde, the captain of the horse, is the inspector.
And now Rao is rumors are flying all over the sky, because Princess Shou'an is still there, who dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head! However, Fu Yanqing would not think so, because as the old father of the founding of the country, he may know more about the Zhang family than Emperor Guo Rong.
Because the Zhang family suffered everywhere, that is, Zhang Yongde's relatives, many people suffered, and it has been rumored that this is a method to sow discord in the Tang Kingdom in the south.
No matter what others think, Fu Yanqing understands that this matter will not be so simple.
Because according to Fu Yanqing's understanding, Emperor Guo Rong traveled the world when he was young and visited many places, so he attached great importance to information and spies. And now more than half of the spies in the Zhou State are in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and it can be said that the monitoring of the Southern Tang Kingdom is strict from top to bottom.
It was difficult for the people of the Tang State to make waves in the Zhou State, and now the Zhou State had forced the Tang State to submit, and they understood the actions of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Rao is on the cusp of this storm, where does Tang Guo dare to make such a mistake?
What's more, Fu Yanqing's own crown is a vegetarian?
According to Fu Yanqing's understanding, these people dealt with Zhang Yongde in order to sow discord between Zhang Yongde and Emperor Guo Rong, and they took advantage of the fisherman. Zhang Yongde is not a fool, and Emperor Guo Rong will not be confused.
No matter how deep or shallow these people's intentions are, there will naturally be follow-ups, Zhang Yongde must be well aware of this, so he did not express his position first, and never participated in any state affairs.
Of course, Zhang Yongde's cleverness naturally does not rule out thinking that Emperor Guo Rong has thoughts about himself. Fu Yanqing thought of this, and Zhang Yongde couldn't have thought of it. Otherwise, with his prestige in the Zhou Kingdom, how could he not come out and walk?
According to the information that Fu Yanqing knew, in less than two or three years, Zhang Yongde's cousin Zhang Yongheng, who was in Sima Ren in Bianzhou, was assassinated on the street by one of the people of the bitter master's family because he bullied men and women because of his identity and power.
Then Zhang Yongde's brother-in-law Lu Xie commanded the army in the Yangtze River, conniving and unable to prevent the discovery of his soldiers fleeing south, which was called unfavorable by the imperial court, but was beheaded in the barracks by the soldiers who wanted to escape.
Then, in less than half a year ago, Zhang Yongde's own uncle, Zhang Jun, the former supervisor of the Luozhou Soldiers and Horses, a family of more than 150 people, was actually beheaded in his own courtyard, which was considered to be full of blood.
This happened to the captain of the court, and many people couldn't believe it!