At the beginning of April, it is the most pleasant season of the year, green and lush, the smoke and wind blow, the people in Chang'an City can not bear to love home, have taken their wives and children to travel on the street, making Chang'an full of hustle and bustle, lively very, in the morning is the peak of the crowd, people and cars on the Vermilion Bird Street, the river is endless, especially in the vicinity of Mingde Gate is crowded with the people of Chang'an who are ready to travel, the carriages that go out a little later are parked disorderly, everyone scrambles,

Suddenly, there was a dull sound of horses' hooves outside the city, the sound of hooves was very urgent, and more than a dozen carriages that were arguing out of the city immediately quieted down, and a soldier defending the city jumped on the wheel and looked into the distance, only to see that about two hundred steps away, dozens of war horses were galloping towards this side, coming rapidly, stirring up rolling yellow dust all the way, and faintly heard someone shouting, dodge! Eight hundred miles of emergency military intelligence.

There was a sudden chaos at the gate of the city, the carriage hid on both sides, the soldiers guarding the gate hurriedly pushed some individual guests against the city wall, and in a blink of an eye, dozens of war horses roared over, and the first officer held up the pass order and said loudly: "Hebei war report, please allow the passage." ”

The soldiers defending the city did not dare to slack off, and they all gave way one after another, and one of the sergeants suddenly asked loudly: "May I ask how the battle situation in Hebei is?" ”

With a wave of his hand, the lieutenant let the soldiers pass through the city hole, and he pulled the reins and announced to everyone with some pride: "Hebei is a great victory!" The Longyou army completely annihilated and invaded Hulu, beheading more than 70,000 people, and Chief Hu has been captured alive! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a cheer suddenly erupted at the city gate, and many people did not even have the intention of playing again, but turned around and ran towards the city, and the messenger continued to gallop forward, while shouting to give way, but at the same time announcing along the road: "Hebei is victorious!" Beheaded 70,000 people. ”

The news of Hebei's victory was like a gust of spring breeze, and it spread throughout the entire Chang'an City in an instant, with cheering crowds everywhere, and the excited Chang'an people rushed home. Picking up pots and pans and beating them on the streets, people told each other, hugged each other and cried, and the news of the victory meant that the nightmare of more than 20 years ago would not be repeated. It means that the last peace of Datang has finally arrived.

The sound of cheers even spread to the imperial city and to the Daming Palace, and at the same time, several messengers had galloped into the Daming Palace. Many small and medium-sized officials had already heard the news and ran out of the chamber to inquire about the news, and the messenger announced all the way that they had galloped to the steps of Zhongshu Province. turned over and dismounted, just as several important ministers came out of a meeting in Zhongshu Province. Seeing the excited expressions of the messengers, Pei You asked, "What happened?" ”

The lieutenant immediately saluted and said: "Report to all the prime ministers, Hebei has won a great victory, and the invading enemy army has been annihilated." ”

"God bless the Tang Dynasty! God bless the people!" Pei You, Cui Yu and the others were suddenly excited, and none of them refused to disperse. Following the messenger, he re-entered the province of Zhongshu.

"Governor! Hebei Military Daily. Niu Monk and Ru shouted all the way to the inner room of Zhongshu Province, and he rushed into Zhang Huan's room with a red face, and said loudly: "Governor, we won, Hebei is a big victory." ”

Zhang Huan was sitting in the court room to review the folds, Niu Monk's gaffe made him frown slightly, but he didn't show it, he put down the pen and smiled slightly: "Our 250,000 troops against the enemy's 100,000 troops, all of them have experienced a hundred battles. If you do, you will lose the local dialect. It's really going to make people laugh. ”

In fact, the first messenger was still a step slower, but he did not know the specific process of the battle, and when he saw several soldiers standing outside the door with the messenger, he said, "Let them bring the military report." ”

The lieutenant's messenger immediately stepped forward, bowed down and submitted a volume of military reports, and his own soldiers took it and handed it to Zhang Huan, but Zhang Huan did not open it immediately, but asked the captain: "How did General Wang fight?" ”

"Back to the Dudu, General Wang has found that the enemy army has run out of food before the attack, he first feints, triggered the enemy counterattack, then retreated without fighting, when the enemy's momentum is exhausted, General Wang immediately sent 20,000 iron cavalry to impact the enemy, at this time General He Lou's army pressed from the north, the two armies flanked, the enemy army was defeated, all the Hui troops were killed, 20,000 Khitan were captured, a total of more than 70,000 people were beheaded, and finally the escapees were only a few hundred, our army suffered more than 4,000 casualties, the Khitan King Yelu Derong and the Hui main general Tuoba Qianli have been captured, has been escorted to Chang'an. ”

Zhang Huan nodded, Wang Siyu really made progress again, he opened the military newspaper and took a general look, the military newspaper was written and the sergeant's description was roughly the same, and in the military newspaper there was a secret letter from Wang Siyu, in which Zhang Huan was told that he would personally lead 100,000 Anxi troops to Huainan through Shandong on the second day after the end of the battle, and at the same time incorporate the Qinghe Army of the Cui family to take over the defense of Shandong.

At this time, there was a noise of footsteps outside the door, and Cui Yu and the others who had just left returned again, and Pei You entered the room with a hint of complaint: "The prison must have known about the great victory, but it hid it from us, making me worry for a few days in vain." ”

Zhang Huan hurriedly smiled and arched his hand: "These days, everyone is concerned about the affairs of Huainan, and I have not taken the war in Hebei to heart, so I did not tell you in time, this matter is my fault, I apologize to you!" ”

"The prison is too polite." Cui Yu said: "I heard that the Khitan king Yelu Derong was also captured, I don't know how the prison state is going to send him down?" ”

Zhang Huan nodded, "I want to hear your opinions on this matter, please sit down!" ”

The soldiers moved a few soft couches, everyone sat down in turn, and everyone knew that what Zhang Huan wanted to talk about was not about dealing with the Khitan king, but about how to deal with the Khitan, a northern nation.

"Everyone, as we all know, since the time of Gaozong, the Khitan has not obeyed discipline, and repeatedly plundered the children of my Han family as slaves, and when the Emperor of Heaven they even sent troops to attack the city and plunder the village, which brought serious losses to the northeastern counties, Emperor Xuanzong used the means of harmony, I remember the fourth year of Tianbao in the historical records, Xuanzong will Jingle Princess and the pro-Khitan Songmo Governor Li Huaijie, and give the brocade 10,000 horses, but in less than a year, my Tang princess was killed by the Khitans, and the Khitans raised troops again. This nation of revenge will be avenged after the rebellion in An Lushan sent out tens of thousands of troops to assist the traitors, slaughtering countless cities in my Central Plains, raping and burning, doing all kinds of evil, if the Khitan is not destroyed sooner, they will become the enemy of our Central Plains sooner or later, I was going to go back and clean up the Khitan after solving Anxi, but he sent it to the door himself, and now their 50,000 main forces have all been annihilated, it is the time to clean up this evil wolf, so I invite everyone to discuss. What to do with the Khitans. ”

After Zhang Huan finished speaking, he looked at everyone, he had actually made up his mind, that is, he wanted to take the opportunity to destroy the Khitan. What was discussed with everyone was just a specific method, and at this time, Zhang Huan saw that Lu Qi wanted to speak and stopped. smiled at him and said, "Lu Shangshu has something to say, please say it directly." ”

"I only have a little bit of foolish opinion below, and I will refer to you." Lu Qi stood up and bowed to Zhang Huan, nodded to everyone, and said, "I advocate referring to the methods for disposing of party items and people." The Khitans were relocated inward, and two or three counties were carved out in Hebei Province and Hedong Province to settle them. They were allowed to govern themselves, but they were also required to follow the laws of the Tang Dynasty and pay taxes to the Tang Dynasty

"Lu Shangshu's statement is ridiculous!" Without waiting for Lu Qi to finish speaking, Han stood up and interrupted him, he saluted Zhang Huan and said generously: "According to Lu Shangshu's method." The Khitan will still be the Khitans, and it will not change in a hundred years, moving to the mainland will give them more opportunities to plunder the wealth of the Tang Dynasty, once my Datang is weak, the Khitan people will inevitably list the territory and become a country of their own, and the party people are the same, when the party people moved to Qing, Yan, Xia, Yin and other prefectures, they were allowed to govern. I think this is a very wrong strategy. Tuoba Qianli is an excellent example, and the party aristocracy has always hidden a rebellious heart in their bones. Therefore, whether it is the Khitans, the Dangxiang people or the Xi people, the best way is to exterminate these ethnic groups, of course, the way of massacre is not in line with the style of my heavenly kingdom, I suggest that the way to deal with the Turkic people, disperse them to all parts of our Tang Dynasty and live with the Han people, within three generations, whether it is the Khitan or the party, they will disappear in the long river of history. ”

Among them, Shangshu Yuanzai of the Ministry of War has the least qualifications, he sat at the end, and has been silent, but he is Zhang Huan's henchman, and he is the person who knows Zhang Huan the most among them, he knows that Zhang Huan actually has a plan in his heart, when he solved the problem of the Western Party in Wuwei, Zhang Huan's land strategy was more vicious than Han, first killing the nobles of the Western Party members, and then using the Dangxiang people as slaves, and then using Sinicization as a condition for dissolving the slave status.

Yuan Zai knew that Zhang Huan must have wanted to repeat his old tricks, but he did not advocate too much killing, let alone the use of Khitan people as slaves, which was not conducive to the sinicization of the Khitans.

Thinking of this, Yuan Zai also stood up and said, "Jian Guo, can you allow me to add a few words." ”

"Yuan Shangshu, please speak."

Yuan Zai bowed his hand to several other people, and then said slowly: "I am also in favor of Han Shangshu's method, gradually eliminate the Khitan people in a mixed way, and sinicize them, this time Hebei won more than 20,000 people, I suggest that the first evil person should be executed, and the rest of the ordinary soldiers should be allowed to reunite with their families, and the Khitan people and Xi people who moved south should be given land like our Han people, regardless of whether they are high or low, so that they can truly convince people with benevolence and righteousness, and they can also return to their hearts, and they can not add more killing, otherwise when will they get revenge." ”

"What Yuan Shangshu and Han Shangshu said is extremely true, please think twice." Both Bae Woo and Choi Woo expressed their support for Won Jae and Han, respectively.

Zhang Huan originally planned to transfer the prisoners of war to the mine as slaves, and the rest of the Khitan children were rewarded to meritorious soldiers, but he had to consider the opinions of several important ministers, and after pondering for a while, he finally nodded and said, "Okay! This matter was handled according to the opinions of Han Shangshu and Yuan Shangshu, the enemy chieftain Tuoba Qianli and Yelu Derong were the first to show the public, and the Khitan and Xi people moved inward, Pei Xiangguo took the lead in coming up with a plan, and the rest of the ministries cooperated. ”

He turned back to Yuan Zai and said: "I will appoint your Khitan envoy to deal with the internal relocation of the Khitan and Xi people with full authority, and at the same time I will order He Lou Wuji to cooperate with your measures, but there is one thing you have to remember, you can't blindly talk about benevolence and righteousness, you must combine leniency and severity, and both soft and hard is the best policy, and if someone resists and refuses to move south, I will kill them all!" ”

Everyone stood up and bowed to receive the order, Zhang Huan glanced at them again, and said with a faint smile: "I have ordered Wang Siyu's army to go south, I will personally solve the affairs of the Chu family, and I may leave Beijing temporarily for more than a month. ”

Hearing that Zhang Huan was leaving Chang'an, everyone was taken aback, and Cui Yu hurriedly persuaded: "Now that the war in Hebei has ended, it is the time for all opportunities to be dealt with, and there are a large number of backlogs that need to be sorted out one by one, so it is better for me to go to Huainan and persuade Chu Xingshui to focus on the overall situation, and the prison country will stay in Beijing to preside over the overall situation." ”

Zhang Huan shook his head and said: "First, the Chu family is my maternal uncle, and the crisis of the Chu family cannot be solved unless I go, and secondly, Huainan is the most important source of wealth for the imperial court, and the stakes are very high, so I must personally solve this matter." ”

Cui Yu wanted to persuade him, but Yuan Zai touched him lightly behind him, Cui Yu realized something, and immediately changed his words: "Since the prison country must go in person, I will follow the arrangement of the prison country, and I hope that the prison country will go early and return early." ”

Zhang Huan glanced at Yuan Zai and said with a slight smile: "I'll leave early tomorrow morning." ”

The time soon came to noon, the lunch break time was an hour, some local officials went home to have lunch and rest, but most of the officials met three or five to have a good colleague to eat in the nearby square, Zhang Huan went to the place at noon is naturally Jing Niang Di Restaurant, but the last time the hungry people made trouble, the farm house has been burned down, Jing Niang rebuilt a new restaurant on the original foundation, the scale is better than before, and at the same time more land was opened up behind the restaurant, for the officials to farm for pleasure in their leisure time.

Zhang Huan's carriage slowly stopped in front of the gate of the Quannongju, Jing Niang was already waiting in front of the door, she wore a sky blue dress, with an intoxicating smile on her face, this mature woman is more charming than ever, her figure is plump and moving, her skin is delicate like clotted fat, the most attractive thing is her dark blue eyes, seeing Zhang Huan's arrival, her blue pupils flashed a jewel-like brilliance.

She is Zhang Huan's lover, many people know, this is an open secret, but no one will put this matter on their lips, of course, her special relationship with Zhang Huan makes her restaurant full every day, and the small piece of farmland she developed has long been sold out, and some people can't buy it at a high price, and no one will sell the opportunity in their hands.

Now in addition to opening a hotel, Jing Niang also opened two large shops in the East Market at the same time, mainly dealing in goods from the Western Regions, Persian carpets, silver and gold coins of the Great Food, Egyptian cotton cloth, Tianzhu gems, Anxi wine, etc., she used Zhang Huan to give her the waist card in the Western Regions unimpeded, and the Tang Dynasty silk, porcelain, tea and other things were trafficked to Shule, broken leaves and other places, and then transported to the West by the merchants there, bringing rolling wealth, shrewd business acumen made her the richest woman in Chang'an.

But today, although she smiled charmingly, but her eyes looked a little uneasy, as soon as she saw Zhang Huan coming, she stepped forward and whispered: "There is a person who is willing to dedicate 10,000 hectares of Guanzhong Ueda to you, just want to see you." ”

Zhang Huan was stunned, 10,000 hectares of Guanzhong Shangtian, who would have such a big stroke, "Who wants to see me, don't you know?" ”

Jing Niang nodded, she whispered a name in Zhang Huan's ear, Zhang Huan immediately looked up at the third floor, only to see Li Ping's pale and frightened face flashing in front of the window on the third floor. To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, there are more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading! )