In order to supply the war in Hebei and Bingzhou, Guo Mo, Yang Qing and others were overstretched, so Pei Gai repeatedly ordered Guanzhong to supply and lose. It's just that the new dynasty was built and the Guanxi region was more than Rong, and it was inevitable that some tribes and adults had doubts in their hearts, and they were instigated by people again, setting off large and small chaos in the local area. In order to pacify Qinzhou Youyao, and Yongzhou Xun Song and Pei Cui were forced to gather Tunding and expand their troops and horses in order to protect themselves, resulting in the inability to complete the supply of materials to Luo as originally planned.

Finally, at the end of February of the first year of Jingde, the Qinzhou rebellion was pacified one after another, and some were directly dispersed - most of them were Di and Qiang that had been converted to farming, and they had to rush back to their hometowns to sow seeds. Xun Jingyou and Pei Gong's performance was rewarded, and they breathed a sigh of relief, that is, they released Tunding to go to spring ploughing, and emptied the treasury to supply more than 40,000 grains to Henan.

Xun Song took the opportunity to go to see his daughter Xun Guanniang, saying that he was going to transport grain to Luoyang, and there were five thousand guards, including six or seven hundred brave soldiers, to ensure safety - you should hurry up and follow them over.

Xun Guanniang said that An Niang is still too young, and she is afraid that she can't stand the bumpy trek of such a long road. Xun Song said: "An Niang can be raised by Qing's mother, and Qing and Baoda can go on the journey - the title of the queen and the prince, how can it be undecided for a long time?" ”

Xun Guanniang said with a smile: "The Son of Heaven is only my wife, and only the eldest son is protected, so how can the title of the queen and the prince fall elsewhere?" My father was too anxious. "She said that her husband promised me that he would not ask for a child, and even if he asked for a small one because of his different identity now, I will still be in the main room after all.

Xun Songxin said girl, your nerves are really big, can you also believe this man's words? Regardless of this point - "If the Son of Heaven marries a concubine, it is difficult to ensure that his favor will not be moved, and those who have exchanged wives and concubines in ancient times, I don't know how many hopes?" Even if Qing is the queen, Han Guangwu has abolished Guo Shengtong and used Yin Lihua to become the queen, but he has not yet been on the throne? ”

Xun Guanniang frowned and said: "The world's high gate, only Pei and Xun, how can the Son of Heaven take the other clan as the queen?" ”

Xun Song smiled bitterly: "The world's high gate, there were still Jia and Guo in the past, but now they are here?" And the Son of Heaven hates Uncle Taizhang (Xun Group), although he uses Daoming (Xun Min), but it is perfunctory for the time being, then the Xun family is the only one, and it is difficult to support it alone. Looking at the official system of the Chinese and Korean dynasties today, the kings of Pingyuan Hua and Taiyuan may be of great use, and the families of the old Chinese products, such as Zu, Wei, Bian, Xi, etc., are also mostly glorious - is there only Pei and Xun in the world? ”

Xun Guanniang felt a sense of crisis at this time, so she followed her father's words, left An Niang, and set off east with Baoda in her arms. When they arrived in Luoyang, it happened that Pei Gai got the news that Tao Kan had recovered and restored peace, and Zu Ti had broken the enemy in Santai, and many good news gathered, and the ministers all came to congratulate. Pei Gai immediately ordered the Privy Council to coordinate and continue to supply grain and straw materials to Hebei - it was almost a kick in the door, even if he smashed the pot and sold iron, he had to let Zu Ti capture Xiangguo and send Shi Le's head to me; A grand ceremony was held immediately, officially canonizing Xun as the queen and Pei Jian as the crown prince.

But then I received two bad news, one from Hanzhong and the other from Xuzhou.

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In Hanzhong, Zhou visited the Sword Pavilion and attacked the Sword Pavilion, but in fact, the main force pointed to Bazhong. Li Xiong was really deceived at first, and ordered Li Shou to lead the army to the Sword Pavilion to defend against the enemy, but Li Shou went to the gate to look at it, and saw that the Chinese army was camped for several miles, and the flags were dense, but there was not much cooking smoke lit by the two meals in the morning and evening......

Li Shou judged that most of these were suspicious soldiers, and the main force of the Hanzhong Army must have gone elsewhere. On the one hand, he sent a report to Chengdu to remind Li Xiong, and on the other hand, he gathered troops and horses, went out of the customs at night, and went to steal the camp.

The Chinese general who led the troops was Gao Le, with less than 2,000 troops. He was originally high-spirited and wanted to make new achievements, so as not to be left far behind by his old colleagues, but who wanted to visit Zhou but ordered him to use half of the battalion as suspicious soldiers, he couldn't help but be annoyed and discouraged. When I got to the bottom of the Sword Pavilion, I climbed high and looked into the distance, only to see that the mountain was dangerous, and the only way was to pass, and I said that on this terrain, even if Zhen Manzi would come, it was estimated that it would be difficult to take it!

No wonder the Metropolitan Governor ...... No, the Son of Heaven used to say that in ancient times, Dao Zhong would cut down Shu, and the soldiers were in the Sword Pavilion, if it weren't for Deng Ai smuggling through Yinping and attacking Chengdu, it is estimated that he could only go back to his home in gloom......

originally wanted to steal the Sword Pavilion so that Zhou Wan could no longer underestimate himself, but seeing this terrain, his last bit of fantasy was completely broken. Gao Le could only contain suspicious soldiers and Chen Yu was under the Sword Pavilion, but since he had lost confidence and consumed his fighting spirit, the arrangement was inevitably negligent, and Li Shou finally discovered the flaw.

- In fact, even if there is no loophole in the cooking smoke, Li Shou will be able to see that something is wrong sooner or later - looking at the camp, it seems that there are tens of thousands of horses, and there are Zhou visits to Daxu, but since you are here, it is impossible to rest the troops with Guanxia and not make the slightest attempt to tackle key problems, right?

So Li Shou attacked Huaying at night, Gao Le was defeated, got on his horse and fled first, and ran back to Nanzheng in one breath. Li Shou chased after him until he reached Chuyang County in Hanzhong County. Tao Zhan, who stayed in Nanzheng, on the one hand, sent troops to aid Chuyang, and on the other hand, he quickly went to the front line to inform Zhou to visit. Zhou Shida was shocked and angry, and was forced to retreat and save the army.

When Li Shou knew that Zhou had returned from his visit, he took the initiative to release the siege of Weiyang and retreated to the Sword Pavilion. As soon as Zhou Yu entered Nanzheng City, he immediately ordered Gao Le to arrest me and correct the Fa!

It is still Tao Zhan, Zhou Fu and others who are good at persuasion, saying that Gao Le is the old general of the Son of Heaven after all, and adults should not be tortured without authorization. So in the end, Zhou visited and arrested Gao Le, put him in the car, and sent him to Chang'an, so that the Son of Heaven could dispose of it by himself - Zhou Shida was really angry, and even said to his son and son-in-law in private: "If the Son of Heaven disposes of it unfairly, I will throw away my clothes and ribbons, and I will not be subject to the lordship of his Hua family!" ”

But after all, he was old, and he was angry with this, and he was too tired to rush back to Nanzhenglai, Gao Le had just been escorted away here, and Zhou Shida was sick there. Immediately reported, Jingzhou Wang Hui sent 20,000 troops to the west, wanting to offend Hanzhong, Zhou Wan laughed angrily and said: "Wang Shijiang brags about the idle people who are alive, and he dares to come to seek me?" I don't want Zhou Shida to be so underestimated! ”

It was ordered that Yang Hu's soldiers should be stationed in gold to wait for the Jingzhou soldiers.

Soon after Yang Hu went, when Zhou visited and was dying, he ordered the secretary to draft a recital, imploring his son-in-law Tao Zhan to temporarily lead the Hanzhong army. He also took care of Zhou Fu and Zhou Guangdao: "The Tao is really the behavior of the father, and the Son of Heaven will believe it, so he ordered him to lead the army." I have a good relationship with Tao Shixing, and if you die, you should take the Shixing as your father, and you should really regard the Tao as your own brother, and do not be suspicious or offend. The only one who can be worried about is Yang Hu, but if you and the other three are of the same heart, then Yang Hu cannot be evil. ”

A generation of famous generals Zhou visited Zhou Shida at the age of 61, the same as the original history.

The death will not be mourned for the time being, and it will not be reported until Yang Hu repels the Jingzhou soldiers in gold and returns to Nanzheng. Yang Hu wanted to enter the city to mourn, Zhou Fu and others were afraid of chaos and did not want to accept it, but Tao Zhan said: "The country is prosperous, even if Yang Hu is the old lord of Hanzhong and is quite popular, how dare he have a different heart and compete with the Central Plains?" But if I can't wait, he will be suspicious, and in order to protect himself, he will take a risk—and let him in. ”

After Yang Hu entered the city, he asked Tao Zhan and others why they were hiding the news of Zhou Yu's death. Tao Daozhen said: "Because I am afraid of the soldiers, it will affect the morale of the army, and I can't resist the enemy with all my strength - it is definitely not because I am afraid of Yang Jun." Yang Hu wept and said: "Duke Zhou doesn't look down on me and treats me very well, how can I hurt his heirs?" "I asked myself to lead two battalions of soldiers out of the town of Xixiang, in case the Jingzhou army came back while the mourning was in mourning - and to avoid conflicts with Tao, Zhou and others.

Besides, when the news of Zhou Wan's death was reported to Luoyang, Pei Gai was also quite sad—although he had never dealt with Zhou Wan face-to-face—but asked the secretary to draw up an edict, subordinate to the privy council, and posthumously presented Zhou Shida as a marshal and a general, and allowed his son Zhou Fu to inherit the duke of Nanzheng County.

Xun Min took the opportunity to make a suggestion that he could take over the post of Liangzhou Assassin and Liang and Yidu Governor from the Chinese Dynasty, and send an army to officially incorporate the Hanzhong Army. Pei Xuan objected to this, saying: "If there is no foreign enemy, this matter can be done, since Ba Yi is still coveted by the side, and the king of Jingzhou has violated the border, then the Hanzhong army should still follow its old rules and calm down." "It is proposed to recognize the last performance of Zhou Visit, and allow Tao Zhan to take his place.

Pei Wei said: "Tao Dao can really be the assassin of Liangzhou, and he will be paid to Zhou Daohe (Zhou Fu) with Hanzhong Taishou." However, Tao Gong used to be a cloud, and he was really not a general, and even jokingly compared him with Zhao Kuo, saying that he would go out of the door. Then there are thieves in the west of the Han Dynasty and Jin Kou in the east, I am afraid that Tao Daozhen will not be able to keep the responsibility of the governor, and the court should not give the festival, and the order will take over. ”

Pei Gai asked: "How is Zhou Daohe?" Pei Wei said: "Too young, and there is no distant ......"

Tao Zhan is Tao Kan's second son, but he is nearly forty years old; Zhou Fu is the eldest son of Zhou Wan, but he is only in his early twenties. According to the wind review, Zhou Fu is resolute and fatherly, but his ability to lead the army is far less than that of his father, and he has been living in the shadow of his father, even if he has some talent, he has not been able to show it.

Pei Gai smiled when he heard Yannai and said: "I am also young, and when I first went on the Northern Expedition, I was not very famous. And Zhou Shida is a genius in the world, and it is common for his son to be inferior to his father. So he made a decision, still with Tao Zhan as the governor of Liangzhou and Liang Yidu, but not to serve as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and ordered Zhou Fu to be a major general and brigade commander, and to be appointed as the governor of the palace, Sima, and actually control the military power.

Because Pei should have understood Zhou Fu's deeds in the original history. After the death of Zhou Wan, he was once attached to Wang Dun, Wang Dun rebelled when he was in rebellion, fled after defeat, and was pardoned and returned, but was still imprisoned; Two years later, he was able to re-enter the office under the invocation of Wang Dao, but he was deceived by Guo Jing, the general of Later Zhao, and was forced to abandon Xiangyang and flee, and was dismissed.

These two ups and downs made Zhou Daohe's reputation very bad, but fortunately, after he was over forty years old, he finally got the opportunity to prove himself again - first followed Huan Wenxi's expedition to destroy the Cheng Han, and then led the suppression of the rebellion of Kui Wen, Fan Ben, Xiao Jingwen and others. He was appointed as the supervisor of Badong before Pingshu, and the history of Yizhou assassination, and then stayed in Shu for a long time until his death, known as Zhenshu for 30 years, with outstanding achievements.

Therefore, Zhou Fu is still a soldier and can do anything, although he can't compare with his father - but can you expect another weekly visit? In contrast, Tao Zhan has few records in history, so since Tao Kan said that my son's literature is acceptable, but his armament is not good, it is estimated that it is really not possible.

The key is that as Pei Xu said, Hanzhong is now under attack on both sides, and Yang Hu may be ready to move, if the imperial court is in a hurry to change people, or even wants to take the opportunity to incorporate the Zhou family's army, it is easy to cause unnecessary internal contradictions. Therefore, Pei Gai only planned to stuff a Hanzhong Taishou past, purely civilian, assistant general affairs, and the responsibilities of assassin history and governor were temporarily handed over to Tao Zhan, but let Zhou Fu take the main military responsibility.

In addition, a battalion of troops was dispatched from Chang'an to the west and stationed in Taibai Mountain, so that Hanzhong could be reinforced at any time through the Baoxie Valley.

Immediately, Pei should reconvene the old generals to discuss how to deal with Gao Le. To his surprise, although all the generals were not worthy of Gao Le, except for Zhen Sui who bluntly said, "That kind of birdman, what is the use of keeping him, he should be beheaded", everyone else begged to spare Gao Le's life.

For example, Lu Yan said: "The army was defeated and fled, so that the Duke of Zhou could not determine Shu, and it was indeed a correct military law." However, when he heard that General Gao could not lead 2,000 suspicious soldiers, he was negligent for a while, and was defeated by a surprise attack by the thieves, which is understandable. I also hope that Your Majesty will raise his noble hand and remember his past merits...... Even if it is hard work, it is better to forgive him for his capital sin. ”

Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and if you don't suffer a defeat, you will definitely kill a general; As for Gao Le, he did not violate the law of death in the army, and it was okay to kill him or not. The reason why Pei Gai consulted with the generals was that he was afraid that he would suddenly cut Gao Le, or make his old comrades resentful, and he might not be able to declare the strictness of military law.

So he issued an edict to strip Gao Le of his post, knighthood, and even expelled him from the army, dismissed him as a commoner, and drove him back to his hometown...... Well, he has already moved to Guanzhong, so let him return to his hometown to farm. After all, for many years, there is a little savings, but you can be rich and old for the rest of your life.

Under the edict of the privy council, Wang Gong heard the news and took the initiative to visit Guo Mo and reminded: "Gao Le can't stay!" ”

Then he explained: "Your Majesty cares about the old feelings and can't bear to punish them; And the generals are afraid that the birds will be hidden, and the high music of today may be an example for them of the other day, so that they all ask for their lives. However, although Gao Le was incompetent, after all, he was a pavilion marquis, a fourth-grade position, and led the martial arts camp in the past, and there were many old ones in the army; If there is resentment after the resignation, and there are more unscrupulous people who coerce them to cause chaos, it will not be a blessing for the country......"

Wang Gong's meaning, military generals are different from civil servants, and if you achieve such a high position, either you will stay in the system, or you will retire in old age, or-please die, otherwise it will be too dangerous to ignore it.

Guo Mo also thought that what Wang Gong said was reasonable, but asked him: "In that case, why don't you play the Son of Heaven?" Wang Gong smiled and said: "Those who are ministers should be slandered by the lord." The Son of Heaven is worried about the generals, how can he kill them? And if you make an edict in private, it is not what a king should do. Therefore, I reminded the cardinal deputy that he could send someone to proclaim the decree and sarcastically judge himself, so that he could not hurt the sage of the Son of Heaven and cut off the roots of rebellion. ”

So Guo Mo sent someone to Chang'an to deliver a message, hinting to the messenger, asking him to persuade Gao Le to commit suicide. The envoy understood, and immediately galloped to Chang'an, Shi Gao was happy to be in prison, read the edict, and said: "You should be guilty of death, and the Son of Heaven cares about the old feelings and can't bear to be punished." However, in the past, even if the deputy governors were all important generals of the country, only you were idle in Hanzhong, which was deliberately preserved by the Son of Heaven. But you forced the expedition from the Duke of Zhou, and Yu Jiange abandoned the army and fled, aren't you ashamed? What kind of face do you still have to live in the world?

"Wouldn't it be better if you make your own judgment, and the Son of Heaven will have mercy on your wife when he hears it, and will give great mercy to your wife, and your name can still be preserved? If you were once a general, why should you be afraid of death, so that you will bear the shame for the rest of your life? ”

Repeatedly reminded, persuaded, and instigated, but Gao Le just refused to die, and planned to pack his luggage and go home to farm - it was enough to save his life, why should I have a face? The envoy was worried that it would be difficult to explain to Deputy Guo Shu when he returned, so he simply turned his heart sideways, so that the servants took Gao Le hostage into the back room, and reported it soon after, saying that the sinner had committed suicide by hanging himself from a beam under shame......

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