After Dou Jiande's defeat, the scattered and captured Xia soldiers returned to their hometowns one after another.

Dou Jiande's wife, Cao Shi, led a part of the people back to Zhaozhou.

Soon after, Cao received a personal letter from Dou Jiande from Luoyang prison, asking him to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

The Cao family was serious, and he took the letter to the left servant Qi Shanxing and the right servant Pei Ju to read, and discussed with them the whereabouts of the Xia Kingdom.

Both of them have high moral prestige, and they both believe that returning to Tang is already the general trend of the world and irreversible.

In the coming day, when the hundred officials met in the court, the left servant shot Qi Shanxing to announce the return to the Tang Dynasty. Dou Jiande's generals were generally dissatisfied, and they publicly recommended Dou Jiande and Cao's sons who were less than two years old, and wanted to continue to be enemies of the Tang Dynasty.

For a time, the noise in the court was endless. Martial arts, hot-blooded, they are already dead, so they are unwilling to give up.

The left servant couldn't persuade Qi Shanxing, so he had to ask Cao to bring Dou Jiande's handwritten letter. Only then did everyone stop arguing, but they still thought that Dou Jiande was just in prison and couldn't help himself.

In the coming day, the Cao family led hundreds of officials and the eight jade seals of the country to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Dou Jiande's late generals Fan Yuan, Gao Yaxian and others were unwilling to accept the official positions of the Tang Dynasty and resigned and returned to their hometowns.

Cao was named Mrs. Zirconium by Li Yuan for her return to China, and she did not want to stay in the sad place of Zhaozhou anymore, and returned to her hometown. Raise young children and return to a peaceful life.

Qi Shanxing and Pei Ju accepted official positions in the Tang Dynasty and were ordered to go to Chang'an to take up their posts. Most of the civil officials of the Xia State also accepted the official positions of the Tang Dynasty and governed the localities.

Only Zhang Xuansu, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, was very strange, he resigned his appointment, and came to Chang'an all the way.

On the day of Dou Jiande's execution, no one saw him off. Zhang Xuansu bought a jar of old wine and a roast goose, and personally saw off Dou Jiande.

The soldiers on guard did not let him approach, and the executioner ordered him to let him go. Say that people on the Huangquan Road, don't stop it, this is the convenience of adults, and it is also the normal feeling of people.

Zhang Xuansu poured wine for Dou Jiande, and said with emotion: "King Xia, I advised you to follow the story of Dou Rong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, if only you could listen to it!"

As he spoke, two lines of tears couldn't help but stay.

Dou Jiande sighed and said, "The destiny is in Tang, and I am helpless!" It's just that why do you want to come to this execution ground, you should run for your own future! ”

Zhang Xuansu suppressed his crying and whimpered: "I am a cloth cloth, and King Mengxia will not give up, and I will be promoted all the way to display my ambitions." Scholars are useless, and the only thing I can do for King Xia now is this thing. After that, I have no regrets about letting me die. ”

Although Dou Jiande stubbornly held his neck, he still left two lines of tears.

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Afterwards, Li Yuan learned of Zhang Xuansu's righteous act. He personally issued an edict to honor him as an elder and appointed him as the crown prince and young master.

After entering the East Palace, the crown prince Li Jiancheng has always respected Zhang Xuansu.

Li Yuan believed that the crown prince, as the prince, must have an elder with outstanding virtue to teach and assist. Zhang Xuansu is such an elder with outstanding virtue.