After breaking Weisheng, Chao Yong left 40,000 people of Shi Wengong, Guan Sheng, Hua Rong, and Qin Ming to clear the remnants of Tianhu, and returned to Tokyo with Wu Song's 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Just one day after leaving Weisheng, he got the news and led his troops to raid and capture Taiyuan. After Daliang sent troops to Hedong, the Zhejia sent troops to capture Lanzhou, and then marched east to attack Xianzhou, looking like they wanted to seize all the state capitals in the northeast of Hedong. When Chao Yong led his troops into Hedong and Tian Hu focused his attention on the south, he suddenly led his troops south and captured Taiyuan.

Although Taiyuan Mansion is an important place in the east of the river, after Tian Hu seized it, he did not pay too much attention to it, but just regarded Taiyuan as a source of money and grain, and looted it on a large scale, which made Taiyuan people's resentment boiling. After the Zhejia army invaded Taiyuan, the soldiers and civilians in the city responded one after another, and Tian Hu's 20,000 soldiers and horses were also wiped out by the battle-hardened Zhejia army.

Obviously, the Zhejia army is working hard all the way to Chao Yong, but they don't want to consume their troops too much, otherwise after capturing Lanzhou, they should go south to attack Taiyuan, and then threaten Weisheng. Entering Xianzhou to the east, although it was also to seize the city occupied by Tian Hu, it was not without the suspicion of preserving strength and coping with errands.

Therefore, Chao Yong just wrote to the imperial court, and asked for Feng Zhe to be the deputy general soldier of Hedong, and Guan Sheng to be the general soldier of Hedong.

Guan Sheng was born in Hedong, and there were Xuanzan, Hao Siwen, and Tang Bin, Wen Zhongrong, and Cui Ye helped him, and it was enough to suppress the situation in Hedong, but after the others swept away the remnants of Tianhu, Chao Yong also had another appointment.

The prince's personal soldiers who escorted the Western Xia captives were a little faster than Chao Yong's party, but they did not go directly to Tokyo, but waited for the prince in Yangwu.

After the two teams converged, they came to Tokyo.

The scale of the victory of the crown prince was unprecedented, Chao Yong led 10,000 soldiers and horses, escorted Li Renai and Yelu Nanxian, dozens of people from the Western Xia royal family to Kyoto, and dozens of cars loaded with the rare treasures looted by the Western Xia dynasties, and the team of the class teachers was not long. But the procession was boundless.

Emperor Daliang had an order, in addition to the left and right ministers in the capital, and participated in political affairs. The rest of the officials all went out of the city for ten miles to greet them.

In fact, there is no need for the emperor to decree, which official in Tokyo does not want to curry favor with the prince who is in the limelight, although thousands of officials go out to greet him, the prince may not be able to see them. Even if they see it, they may not be able to remember them, but if they don't go, they may not be accidentally missed by others in front of the prince, or the prime minister of the prince can hold a boat in his belly and will not hold grudges, but the court is full of the prince's henchmen. These people may not let go of those who are disrespectful to the prince.

The number of officials lined up for nearly a mile alone shows that there are many officials in Tokyo. This is still the Great Liang who streamlined many officials in the Song Dynasty, but Tokyo originally had many functional departments and was in charge of national affairs, and the number of officials in the city was far from being comparable to ordinary cities.

In the past, officials would also find some squires in the city, and then find some old people in the city who were over the age of sixtieth birthday to make an appearance, but the number was not very large. If there are too many, Goshi will impeach. And the people of the city will complain.

Because the overall life expectancy is not high, the old man after the age of the sixtieth year is a treasure in all dynasties, and many emperors have invited the old man to the palace to have a longevity banquet or something. to show their culture. The world is peaceful, the people are healthy, and only in the prosperous times will there be so many old people. As long as you live to be sixty years old, the court will give you some rewards. Even if you're out of business. Don't worry about food and clothing anymore. And in many cases, they will be asked by local officials to greet their bosses on behalf of the people of the city. If you wear shabby, the magistrate will also change you into something new, but not extravagant.

But this time. But the people of the city were lined up directly into the city from ten miles away. Moreover, the Tokyo officials did not organize them, they were all ordinary people who spontaneously went out of the city to see the prince's heroic appearance one step ahead.

Although the Song Dynasty also achieved a lot of victories over the Western Xia, it was about to perish the Western Xia several times, but every time it will be a failure, although sometimes it is because of the pressure of the Liao State, but most of the time it is the Song Dynasty's own soldiers and horses that have problems, or the Song Dynasty has a problem. Therefore, the Western Xia can only plunder the people of Shaanxi again and again, although the people of the Central Plains have not been oppressed by the Western Xia soldiers and horses, but they have to pay for it. No matter how much, the New Year's coin is a shame for the people of the Central Plains.

Once upon a time, everyone in the world looked forward to destroying Western Xia, but this wish made them wait for generation after generation. The emperors of the Song Dynasty also worked hard for it from generation to generation, but after the emperors died, the Western Xia was passed down from generation to generation. Even so, the emperor of the Song Dynasty was unwilling to fully trust the border army generals and let the border army generals perform to their heart's content. That may destroy the Western Xia, but it may also form a trend of not falling, repeating the history of the yellow robe and the usurpation of the military generals, which is also the most guarded against by the emperors of the Song Dynasty.

The Great Liang destroyed the Song Dynasty, and the Western Xia sent troops to invade the border, and everyone originally thought that the Western Xia might take the opportunity to encroach on Shaanxi, and even invade the western part of Beijing and harass the Beijing Division. Like the Tibetan in the Tang Dynasty, troops were sent to invade at every turn.

But no one expected that after Chao Yong led troops to reinforce the Western Xia, he won more with less, first broke the army of Chage, the king of the Western Xia and Jin Dynasty, and then broke the army of Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia, and captured Li Qianshun alive, and then killed him in public, and demonstrated with his head in display, showing the domineering spirit of the Great Liang.

In fact, Chao Yong led his troops to fight Brother Cha and Li Qianshun, and the strength of the two sides was almost equal, and the soldiers and horses of Brother Cha and Li Qianshun had lost nearly half of the Zhenrong Army and the Deshun Army, and the remaining soldiers and horses were only 100,000, and Chao Yong led 90,000 soldiers and horses. If Brother Cha and Li Qianshun join forces, it can be said that Chao Yong won more with less, but the two were defeated by Chao Yong each, and it can be said that it was just two battles with equal strength.

But when Brother Cha and Li Qianshun led the troops to the battle, they claimed 200,000 soldiers and horses per road, and in most people's minds, since the Western Army asked for help, it was pressed and beaten by the Western Xia soldiers and horses, and the Western Xia soldiers and horses were basically preserved, that is to say, the prince defeated 400,000 soldiers and horses.

Da Liang did not say that the prince defeated 400,000 soldiers and horses, but he did not say how many soldiers and horses he defeated, but only said that he defeated Brother Cha and Li Qianshun. One is because it is impossible to estimate the remaining soldiers and horses of Brother Cha and Li Qianshun, and the other is not necessarily that there is no intention of continuing to put the prince on the altar.

However, the imperial court did not lack the rewards of the Western army, so many people still deduced from the rewards of the imperial court that the Western Xia soldiers and horses led by Liu Zhongwu were killed and wounded, and then they knew how many Western Xia soldiers and horses the prince had defeated. But there is no doubt that Chao Yong defeated the elite of Western Xia, not the cannon fodder.

The 100,000 soldiers and horses killed and wounded by Liu Zhongwu could never be compared with the 100,000 Western Xia soldiers and horses defeated by the prince. Therefore, both those who really know and those who do not know are very admired by the crown prince's achievements in defeating the armies of Brother Cha and Li Qianshun.

When everyone thought that Chao Yong was comparable to the famous generals of previous dynasties, Chao Yong once again did something that made everyone jaw-dropping. Led a raid of 5,000 men and entered Western Xia. In one fell swoop, he broke the Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, and then destroyed Western Xia with 50,000 soldiers and horses, completing the task that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty could not complete.

From then on, the Han people no longer had to "reward" the Western Xia with New Year's coins, and the people of Shaanxi no longer had to be plundered by the Western Xia soldiers and horses.

After this battle, the backbone of the Han people stood up again.

As soon as the news of the demise of Western Xia came, the envoys of the Liao State hurried over. In the past, Liao envoys came to the Central Plains, mostly to discuss the increase of the annual coins and blackmail the Han people. However, Da Liang never promised to give the Liao State New Year's coin, not to mention that the crown prince had defeated the Liao army before.

The Liao State did not dare to extort the New Year's coins from Daliang, as the people guessed. The envoys sent by the Liao State did not want to extort the New Year's coin, but to discuss the border between the two countries, which is about a brotherly country and does not invade each other.

Of course, this fraternal country is not a fraternal country like the Liao State and the Song Dynasty in the past, the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the two countries are about brotherly countries, but the conditions attached to it are all favorable to the Liao State.

The two sides take the Baigou River as their national border, and after that, if there are fugitives who cross the border, they must not stop each other. The Song Dynasty was afraid of war. There is not only the fear of martial arts achievements, but also the fear of war. Under their constraints, it was impossible for the Song army to cross the line. However, the soldiers and horses of the Liao State often crossed the border to fight in the grass valley. Not quite a few times. These Liao soldiers who came to fight Caogu would fall into the ambush of the Song army, and then the Liao State could say that these Liao soldiers were thieves and fugitives who crossed the border, and according to the covenant, the Song Dynasty could not detain them. They can only be handed back and punished by the Liao State. But after going back, the Liao State naturally would not punish these Liao soldiers as real thieves, so many times the Song soldiers found out helplessly. The thieves who were handed over to the Liao State last time are here again.

The border cities of the two dynasties, everything is as usual, and no city gods are allowed to be built. It seems fair that neither side should build cities or forts on the border, just as neither side could study nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction in the future, lest it trigger a military race. But if you think about it carefully, there is no doubt that the Liao State is also the one who benefits from this article, and it is the Song Dynasty that suffers. The Liao State was strong with iron horses, while the Song Dynasty was strong with strong bows and crossbows, and cities were strong. The two countries were at war, most of the time it was invaded by the Liao State, and the Song Dynasty could only rely on the city and the strong bow and crossbow to hold on. If the city could not be built, the Song Dynasty's combat effectiveness would be reduced by half, and it would be more conducive to the invasion of the Liao State.

The Song side rewarded Liao with 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk every year, and delivered them to Xiongzhou. Needless to say, although it was nominally a year's coin from the Song Dynasty to reward the Liao State, it was a naked plunder.

The two sides set up a field at the border to carry out mutual trade. It also seems fair, but the demand for goods in the Central Plains is greater than that in the Central Plains. The war horse that the Han people wanted the most, the Liao State would never sell to the Song Dynasty.

This time, the Liao envoy entered Beijing, and the well-informed people of the capital were the first to see from the car where the Liao envoy loaded the gifts. In the past, the envoys of the Liao State would also bring some gifts to the emperor of the Song Dynasty, but they were all symbolic, and there were not many things. But this time, the chariots and horses that the Liao envoys pulled gifts were stretched for several miles, even more than the chariots and horses that the Song Dynasty gave to the Liao State for the New Year.

The Liao State is not as rich as the Song Dynasty, and it will not have as much money as the Song Dynasty, but the Liao State also has a lot of special products, which can be sold at a high price when they are brought to Tokyo.

Sure enough, the envoy of the Liao State was frightened by the achievements of the Prince of Daliang in destroying the Western Xia, and Baba ran to ask for an alliance, so that the Prince of Daliang would not lead his troops north to sweep away the Liao State. I didn't dare to think about the previous New Year's coins, and only sought an alliance on an equal footing and non-aggression against each other.

After the prince defeated the invading soldiers and horses of the Liao State, the Liao State sent an envoy to the prince to sue for peace, make an alliance, and not invade each other. Because they were still fighting the Jin Kingdom in the north, they did not dare to go to war with the Great Liang who could defeat them. But the prince ruthlessly rejected them, so that they had to divide their troops and horses to guard Nanjing Road to prevent Daliang from suddenly sending troops north to seize the sixteen states of Yanyun.

After Yelu Yanxi's personal expedition to the Central Plains failed, the Liao State was arguing about sending people to Daliang to sue for peace, but Yelu Yanxi also pinned his hopes on Western Xia to see if Western Xia could defeat Daliang. Even if Da Liang repelled the Western Xia, and Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Tong Guan were still in the Central Plains, they didn't have to worry that Da Liang would immediately send troops north to seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

However, the prince of Daliang defeated the armies of Cha Ge and Li Qianshun with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and then led his troops to destroy the Western Xia. seized the Xingling region and the Yinxia region, the core of Western Xia, and subdued many Dangxiang tribes.

The Liao State immediately couldn't sit still, the Great Liang showed a strong military strength, and there was no suspense about unifying the Central Plains, and their spies in the Central Plains also got the news, and the cities that did not belong to the Great Liang in various places were surrendered, and the people of the Central Plains were even more homesick. In addition, Daliang subdued the party departments and obtained a lot of cavalry, and already had the strength to seize the sixteen states of Yanyun. At any time, it may wave troops to the north or east to seize the Nanjing Road or the Xijing Road of the Liao State.

The five provinces of Liaoguo have only three roads left: Nanjing, Xijing, and Shangjing. Shangjing Province still has a large part of the territory where the tribes of the grassland live, and it is not under the real rule of the Liao State, let alone the source of the Liao State's money and grain. There are countless cultivated land in the sixteen states of Yanyun, and there are also countless Han people who can farm, which is the important land of money and grain in the Liao State.

The Liao State did not dare to imagine the scene of losing Nanjing Dao and Xijing Dao, but they did not dare to send troops to threaten Daliang again, so they could only send envoys to Daliang to sue for peace, wanting to use the truth of death to persuade Daliang to let Liao continue to keep the sixteen states of Yanyun. Resistance to the Kingdom of Jin.

However, the Great Liang Emperor ruthlessly rejected the Liao's request for an alliance, even though the Liao was willing to pay annual tribute and lease the sixteen states of Yanyun.

When the officials of the Great Liang deliberately spread the purpose of the Liao envoy to the south, the people of the entire Tokyo walked much straighter. Everyone felt angry.

The Song Dynasty died, the Great Liang Dynasty prospered, and the Han people were no longer bullied. There is no emissary who can go on a rampage in Tokyo with his retinue and blackmail the Han with a scimitar at his waist. After all the foreign envoys entered Tokyo. They must all behave properly, the beams are not afraid of war, and the lives of the people are more precious than the lives of foreign officials. Foreign envoys who have wounded the people of the city, regardless of their position in their own country, will be dealt with by the law of the Great Beam. Instead of being beaten by foreign envoys on the grounds that the people had shocked their horses. No envoys dared to go to the main hall to threaten the emperor with war, but instead they begged the Emperor of Great Liang not to send troops against them.

In the minds of the people, such a thing only happened when the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty were at their peak, and Daliang had such a prestige just after the founding of the country, and there was no doubt that it would surpass the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty.

Liang's martial arts are also unprecedented, Wenzhi can be said to be incurable, Liang has exempted all forced labor and agricultural taxes, and the income of Liang is commercial tax and tax, of course, the majority is still corrupt officials and corrupt officials captured through war, harming the property of large households. It can be said that most of Daliang's cultural governance is based on martial arts, and Daliang's martial arts are undoubtedly created by the prince of Daliang.

Coupled with a series of extraordinary deeds of the crown prince, everyone believes that the prince is the god descending from heaven, and the prince went down to earth to save the people of the world and establish a strong dynasty. Of course, in their minds, the people of the world are the people of the Central Plains, and the establishment of a dynasty must also be established for the Han people. But there is nothing wrong with this, although Chao Yong did not exterminate the Dangxiang clan, but gave them a lot of tolerance, but it was also to slowly assimilate them and turn them into Han Chinese.

Therefore, after the news of the prince's class and the court officials went out to welcome the prince, the people in the city went out of the city to greet the prince, and also to see the prince descended from the gods earlier.

The people outside the city also came early and stood on both sides of the official road to greet the prince. The people on the inner and outer three floors also gave the soldiers who ensured the safety of the prince a headache, but the emperor had already decreed that there was no need to drive the people, so the people could wait for the prince on the side of the road.

Finally, the crown prince's dragon banner appeared on the official road in the distance, and then slowly approached.

The prince did not disappoint everyone, riding a black horse with a divine horse in the front, no one opened the way, and there were no personal guards on both sides, but the soldiers on both sides of the official road maintained order.

Yu Baosi, a dangerous Dao god who is nearly a foot tall, holds the prince's four-clawed golden dragon flag with one hand, following behind the horse, followed by the prince's own soldiers. Further behind was the carriage that escorted Li Renai and Yelu Nanxian.

On this day when the Han people flaunted their might, Li Renai's mother and son were quietly hiding in the carriage, licking their wounds.

Chao Yong dismounted at the place where the hundred officials greeted him, performed a simple ceremony, and then mounted his horse and came to the city.

All the officials also followed, and followed the prince to the city, preparing to participate in the celebration ceremony held by the palace for the prince.

Chao Yong rode his horse all the way, waving his hand to the people on both sides from time to time, and always maintained a warm smile on his face, and did not deliberately maintain his majesty.

But in the eyes of the people, the prince who takes the lead is a god in the world, and his every move is so immortal.

After Chao Yong passed, the people on both sides of the road also followed the prince to the city. It is not only to see more of the prince, but also to go to Xuande Tower to ask for a glass of celebration wine to eat.

This celebration ceremony, it can be said that the whole world celebrates, not only there is a royal banquet in the palace, but also the people in front of the Xuande Building have prepared drinks, as long as they line up in front of the Xuande Building, you can eat a glass of imperial wine. (To be continued......)