67. Tear the face

When the news of Qiu Shiliang's death reached the northwest, Yang Hao was inspecting the border in Shuofang Town, and Asmi was imprisoned in Chang'an on suspicion of rebellion.

Yang Hao's inspection, one is to inspect the defense, Qu Ze is no longer enough to worry, the remnants of the Uighurs are still not to be underestimated, after the fierce collision between the remnants of the Uighurs in the south of Hexi and the Tubo forces, they have also set up a lot of new mountains, these mountains are not very powerful, but they come and go like the wind, plagiarism, and there is no control by the supreme officials, which is very troublesome.

This also prompted Yang Hao's policy towards the Quze Ministry to change from blind suppression to limited support, helping them to gain a firm foothold, thinking that the screen, following this line of thought, Shuofang Town set up three markets at the junction with the Quze Ministry, purchased their cattle and horse skins, and delivered the goods they needed to the Quze Ministry.

After pacifying the west, Yang Hao went to Xia Sui to inspect again, the old cities of Xia and Sui were being rebuilt, a hot scene, Wen Shimao, who confronted Meng Ming, had already returned to his hometown, and Wang Fulin was replacing him.

Wang Fulin is young and enterprising, but he has a handle in Yang Hao's hands, and the big backer Qiu Shiliang is also down, Yang Hao is not worried that he will really get along with him, but he still told Meng Ming to be careful, and asked Meng Ming to station the army of grain and grass in Youzhou, instead of the front Xia and Sui, and pull out a posture of retreating immediately once the momentum is not right.

At the end of the inspection, when Meng Ming sent Yang Hao to the car, Yang Hao handed him a secret letter and advised: "These people are all nails planted by Wen Shimao in your army, when to pull them out, act when they see the opportunity, and don't report to me." ”

After finishing the southern tour, Yang Hao went to Linzhou and said to Shi Xiong: "Your Majesty intends to let you serve as the envoy of the Tiande Army, I don't know what my brother wants." ”

Shi Xiong said: "You are also the envoy of the four towns, let one to the brother, the brother should not refuse, how can the tree attract the wind, there is your big tree to shelter from the wind and rain, what do I do with that head." ”

Yang Hao said: "Even so, the will of heaven cannot be violated, you are in charge of the Tiande Army, guard the Great East Gate for me, I will go north, fight the thin wolf, hunt the fat eagle, and create an immortal achievement for my Majesty." ”

Shi Xiong said: "I heard that Your Majesty has newly recruited a Meng Cairen, whose name is Meng Yao, is it the Meng shopkeeper of Haotian Trading Company?" ”

Yang Hao said: "The name is that name, but I haven't seen it either, the next time Wu Chenglong comes, you can ask." ”

Shi Xiong said: "Okay, okay, it's the right time for you to go on the Northern Expedition at this time, and you will leave and end up quiet." ”

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Uhhitler was the brother of the Uighur Zhaoli Khan, who was killed by his subordinates at the beginning of the Yamato period, and Huttler succeeded him as the Khan of Ega Khan, and the following year, the dynasty canonized him as the Khan of Zhangxin.

"In the fourth year of the opening, the Khitan Wukui Department Galgudu besieged Dashicheng, and the prime minister Dig Luo Beh persuaded Zhangxin Khan to lead the Jiankun people to the rescue of the Are, Ah Re was defeated by the Wukui Department, and on the way back, he wanted to attack the Palas, and the Khan of Zhangxin took the Dig Luo Bes to make a mistake, and wanted to add to the crime, and the Dig Luo did not rebel, and united Shatuo Zhu Xie Chixin to attack the Khan, and the Zhangxin Khan was defeated and killed.

"When the Uighurs were plagued by famine and disease, and civil strife continued, in the spring of the fifth year, Agea broke the Uighur royal court, the Khan and the Uyghur were killed, the Uighur Khanate collapsed, the people scattered, and Ughitler was elected Usuke Khan because he stayed in the northern desert of the country."

After Yang Hao finished speaking, he took a sip of tea, and his mouth was full of bitterness.

Liu Pan said: "In this way, this Wujie Khan has no oil and water, so it is better to beat him, it is better to fight that Ah Ge, I heard that he has 10,000 carts of jewels in his hands, all of which were fished from the Uighur royal court." ”

Bolai chimed in: "I heard that his tribe had lost their fighting spirit because of the overnight outbreak, and was scattered by the remnants of the Uighurs, and now they are trapped in the prison mountain, which is a good opportunity." ”

Yang Hao said: "Recently, there have been killings on the grasslands, the people have been displaced, I look at the Uighurs who have gone south, thinking of the pain of losing their country, every time they cry bitterly, if Wu Jie raises the old banner, I am afraid that he will be able to gather the hearts of the people in an instant, even if his power is not good, it is not enough for my henchmen to suffer, it will be a very troublesome thing, you should not take it lightly, take advantage of its initial stability, and suppress it with heavy troops." ”

Yang Hao wanted to use heavy troops against Wujie Khan, how could he not know the general trend, only sent a weak brigade to conquer and suppress, and was defeated by Wujie Khan several times in a row, Yang Hao had to send Cheng Ke to guard Yin Mountain, Meng Ming and Yu Yan Furnace went out of Mobei, and the big branch attacked Wujie Khan, and in the north of the Perfume River, Wujie Khan was surrounded on three sides.

Wujie Khan sent an envoy to surrender, but Meng Ming did not accept it, so he had to surrender Wujie Khan himself, and Meng Ming carried it to Fengzhou.

Yang Hao comforted him, still made him a khan, allowed him to lead his troops south to the east of Yinshan, west of Daqing Mountain, and north of Datong River, and allocated him a certain amount of rice and grain every year, so that Dazhi Er acted as his general, held his military power, and ordered Yin Yi Si and Mu Hong to be his prime ministers, and collected his internal affairs.

Ujie Khan is on top and only serves as a puppet.

After Yang Hao subdued the Uighur Khan, he then marched into the prison mountain, and the army of the Age army was in turmoil, one wanted to return to the old land to herd horses, and the other was greedy for prosperity and refused to return west, and Age himself refused to return to the west.

When Yang Hao's army arrived, Ah Re personally led the army to meet the battle, first defeated by Yu Yanlu, then defeated by Meng Ming, and then defeated by the Great Branch, the elite of the department was lost, and the tribe was divided again, and one took advantage of its weakness to abandon him and return to the old land.

Ah Ge was embattled and helpless, and his adviser Ai Malahan offered a plan: "The Khitans have surrendered to the emperor of the Tang State, awarded him the title, and he occupied the four towns in the northwest. ”

Ah Re said: "I have the heart to belong to the Tang Dynasty, but no one recommends me." ”

Wu Le, a Tang strategist, offered a plan: "The Great Khan can return the princess Taihe, and he will win the favor of the Tang king, and the peace can be negotiated." ”

Ah Re was overjoyed when he heard this, and said yes in a row, so he sent the envoy Zhu Wu and Su to lead 500 elite people to send Princess Taihe back to the court, and Zhu Wu and Su escorted Princess Taihe's mission away from the prison mountain Not long after, his whereabouts were detected by the inner temple.

The news was reported to the camp under the Yin Mountain, and all the generals persuaded Yang Hao to intercept it halfway to make a great contribution, Yang Hao said: "The princess naturally wants to take it back, but it is inconvenient for me to come forward, so I can let Wujie Khan do it for me." Everyone was puzzled, and Yang Hao refused to say more.

Under the banner of Wujie Khan, Da Zhier robbed and killed Ah Ge's mission in the middle of the road, and Zhu Wu and Su were seriously injured and captured, and took Princess Taihe hostage to Mulongchuan, three hundred miles north of Yinshan Mountain.

Hearing the news, Ah Re was terrified, led his troops to the west, Yu Yanlu, the Great Branch pursued relentlessly, killed the Lushan battle, Ah Re lost more than 10,000 soldiers, and then went out of the old land of the Uighurs, the tribes were afraid that he would seize the cattle and sheep, all the walls were clear, and Ah Ge had no cattle and horses to eat and would be in a desperate situation.

Amaham asked him, "Why didn't the Khan come down?" ”

Ah Re said: "The husband stands between heaven and earth, how can he be wronged and begged, and if he dies, he will die, and he will never descend." ”

Aimaham said: "If you don't surrender, there is a way to get out, I don't know if Khan Kenna will or not." ”

Ah Re laughed and said: "But if you can escape your life, what can't you give up, you say, you say." ”

Aimaham said: "Please ask the khan to throw away the goods along the way, and the pursuers will not chase them." ”

Hearing this, Ah Re pondered for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "That's it, just take this short." ”

Yu Yanlu said to the generals: "Ah Ge destroyed the Uighurs, and the gains were not more than 10,000 carts, and he was in a hurry to beat him, so he spit out some, and if he knelt down and begged for mercy, wouldn't the 10,000 carts of money belong to you and me." ”

When the army heard this, they re-energized, and pursued all the way unremittingly, all the way out of thousands of miles, to the foot of the Altai Mountains, there were only more than 3,000 people in the department of Age, and they could not fight, and they could not go, and the soldiers wanted to tie up Age.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Ah Ge slashed dozens of concubines and seven infant babies, set a fire to the tooth tent, and discarded the army with only two favorite concubines and hundreds of personal soldiers, and entered the Altai Mountains on foot.

Yang Hao ordered the remnants of Jiankun to be placed in the prison mountain, still under the banner of Ah Re, forged the letter of Ah Re, made a fake letter of state, and sent Zhu Wu and Su Fengbiao into Beijing. ”

Li Yanlong Yan Dayue, the envoy of Age was listed above the envoys of the Bohai State, and he was in a poor and far away, and he was able to pay tribute, and ordered the imperial servant Zhao Fan to comfort his country, and the prime minister of the edict was the envoy of the Honglu Temple, so that the interpreter could test the national style of the mountains and rivers.

Prime Minister Li Deyu said: "When Zhenguan, distant countries are coming, the Chinese book servant Yan Shigu invited such as Zhou Shichen to collect the affairs of the Siyi Dynasty as the "Wang Hui Chapter", and now Jiankun Datong China, it is appropriate to be the "Wang Hui Tu" to show future generations. Li Yan allowed him to play, and the edict was obtained by Honglu, and the edict was to be the origin of the Zongzheng.

The excitement in the capital seemed to be caused by the emperor's blessing to the sky, but Li Yan understood who gave this glory and what he wanted to get, so when Li Deyu mainly Yang Hao sent troops to quell the rebellion in Zelu Town, Li Yan excused him and said: "Now, the remnants of the Uighurs are still in turmoil in the grasslands, and it may be inappropriate to rashly withdraw the army and go south. ”

Li Deyu said: "Even so, we should also order our troops to take the initiative to attack, and when the troops are strong, they should defeat the remnants of the Uighurs in one fell swoop and relieve the invasion from the north." ”

Li Yan agreed.

The holy decree arrived at Xiaochang'an.

After Yang Hao received the holy decree, he sent a message to the left and right, and said with a smile: "This is really called getting an inch." ”

After having said that, he offered the holy decree, led the civil and military officials, and prayed to the holy decree again and again, reciting words in his mouth, saying: "I wish Your Majesty a long life, and I wish Wujie Khan a white plague this year, and he will die in the grassland next year." This scene was seen by the angel who delivered the decree, and he reported it to Li Yan after returning to Chang'an.

Li Yan laughed and said: "If you can curse others to death by cursing, I will order all the monks and Taoists in the world to curse together to kill those who harm the country and rebel against the king." ”

So he sent a decree to Wang Chongsheng as the envoy of Shuofang Festival, and ordered him to immediately leave for Beijing to meet him.

Li Deyu persuaded in a panic: "Your Majesty, this is to kill Wang Chongsheng." ”

Li Yan said with a fierce look in his eyes: "If he dares to kill Wang Chongsheng, I will dare to kill him." ”

On the same day, the secret envoy came to the Tiande Army by order, met Shi Xiong, and issued a holy decree: "My Tang Taihe princess fell into the hands of Wujie, and His Majesty has ordered the marshal to immediately send troops to rescue the princess and return to China." ”

Shi Xiong received the holy decree and said, "The stakes are very high, let me discuss." ”

The angel said: "The king is a festival town, and there is a holy will, who do you want to consult."

Shi Xiong was silent when he heard this.

The angel said: "The king is a good minister of the country, if he makes this contribution, how can His Majesty not be impressed, and who is loyal and who is traitorous under the ministers, Your Majesty can see at a glance,"

Shi Xiong had no choice but to order troops to attack, the angel followed him all the way, and when he arrived outside the camp, Shi Xiong said to the general guarding the door: "I am ordered by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to welcome the princess back to China. ”

The angel blamed Shi Xiong for being too weak, and Shi Xiong said: "Barbarians are brutes, they are in a hurry, kill the princess, who can bear it from you and me, the angel is here to save the princess or to harm the princess." ”

The angel was speechless.

Seeing Huang Yan coming, knowing that he was Yang Hao's cronies, he hurriedly asked how to deal with it, Xiao Si said: "He came by order, if he resists, he will trap the marshal in a disloyal and unrighteous place, and hand over the princess to him, you quickly go to Xiao Chang'an to report the truth to the marshal." ”

Ma Feng said: "I lost the princess, wouldn't I go to Xiaochang'an to find death, I want to go back to Big Rock City." ”

Xiao Si said: "You are so confused, it is a capital crime for you to lose the princess, how dare your father shield you, if you are tied up to go to Xiao Chang'an to ask for sin, the public is turbulent, it is not good to do anything, you go to see the handsome, tell the truth, the handsome will naturally exonerate you." ”

Ma Feng was suspicious and took Wujie Khan all the way to Xiaochang'an.

Xiao Si came to see Princess Taihe, and the princess asked, "It's noisy outside, who is calling?" ”

Xiao Si said: "Thousands of joys, it is the Tiande Army Festival that makes Shi Xiong Marshal and the angel come to welcome the princess back to China." ”

Princess Taihe was surprised and delighted, and said with tears in her eyes: "Amitabha, I didn't expect that I would be able to return to my homeland in my lifetime. ”

Busy asking the attendants to find out the old clothes, but in a hurry, they couldn't find it, Xiao Si said with tears: "The princess has contributed her whole body to the peace of the Tang Dynasty, and now that she has returned to the country, she should wear Hu Yi and Hu Fu, so that the subjects of the world know the contribution of His Royal Highness to the Tang Dynasty." ”

The princess stopped, wiped her tears, and asked Xiao Si to go to contact, and freshen up in the room, Xiao Si went out of the camp to see Shi Xiong, conveyed the princess's intentions, and saw that the angel and Shi Xiong were inseparable, and had a plan in his heart, Shi Xiong entered the tent to meet the princess, collected the camp tent, and set off to the south.

Ma Feng came to Xiao Chang'an to report to Yang Hao, Yang Hao was shocked, and asked the result carefully, only knowing that it was Shi Xiong who led the troops to attack, and the rest didn't know, Yang Hao said angrily: "Let you take care of the princess, you are embarrassed, and you still have the face to see me, drag it out and behead it." Ma Feng said with a neck on his neck: "He came by order, do you want me to resist the order and disobey it, if I resist the order, will I not be trapped in disloyalty and injustice." ”

Yang Hao smiled: "You are still reasonable, even so, if you lose people and don't punish you, it will be difficult to convince everyone." ”

Still imprisoned Ma Feng.

Soon, Xiao Si's relatives went to Xiao Chang'an and secretly reported to Yang Hao that Shi Xiong had to raid Wujie Khan and rob Princess Taihe because he was forced by angels.

When Yang Hao heard this, he was silent, sat for a long time, and said to everyone: "I'm going to Chang'an." ”

The generals tried to persuade him, Yang Hao said: "I have made up my mind, you don't need to persuade again." ”

After Zheng Huatai was retained, Meng Ming deputy, Zheng Huatai asked: "Ma Feng is not guilty, whether he is liberated." Yang Hao said: "I'll do it when I come back." ”

It stands to reason that it will be a big event for the generalissimo of the Northwest Fifth Army to enter Beijing with heavy troops in hand, but he didn't want Yang Hao to enter Beijing silently, and most of the courtiers and servants didn't know about it, until Li Yan held a barbecue party for Yang Hao by the Taiye Pool, and invited officials above the fifth rank of the court to bring his wife into the palace, which was revealed to the world.

The barbecue party was proposed by Yang Hao, and he planned it all, and the mutton used was also brought by him from the northwest, and the whole sheep was put on the fire to barbecue, sizzling oil, Yang Hao did not use the eunuch to cut the meat, but let six maidservants wearing Khitan clothes cut the meat.

Li Yan is very popular with this seemingly barbaric night banquet, taking a big sip of wine, a big mouthful of meat, and eating freely.

Yang Hao observed that among the concubines around her, there were two people who were the most favored, Wang Fu'er and Meng Yao, both of whom had seen each other, Wang Fu'er herself could be treated as acquaintances, although they had only met each other a few times, and they were not really familiar, Meng Yao was also very familiar, but they had to be treated as strangers.

The atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty is like this, when feasting, the etiquette of the monarchs and ministers is also very casual, Yang Hao is naturally the main protagonist tonight except for Li Yan, there is an endless stream of people who come to toast, seeing that her husband's wine is too drunk, Li Xin, who is accompanying her, quit, and simply snatches his cup and hides it.

This move attracted everyone's attention, and no one could have imagined that the dignified county duchess would make such a childish move on such an occasion, but on the other hand, it was the Lu Ruren who was down-and-out and generous, and had the temperament of a genuine lady.

Li Xin is the Khitan Xinxin Gullu, and this time Yang Hao brought her and Lu Rui with him when he entered Beijing.

After Li Yan asked for her identity, he gave her the surname Li, changed her name to Li Xin, and officially canonized her as the Duchess of Xining County.

Li Xin was still unhappy, and said on the spot: "I am a Khitan Kedan, and I have a husband alone, and I am a wife, but I want to share my husband with other women, and I can't accept it if His Majesty the Emperor takes back his fame." ”

As soon as he spoke, Li Yan, who was happy, slapped his legs and laughed, making hundreds of officials look sideways, and making Li Deyu, who has always been serious, cry and laugh.

Li Yan easily stopped laughing and said to her: "You see that in my palace, there are more than a thousand beauties, but there are only two or three people I like, why, these three people are gentle, the most pleasing to me, your husband is an eagle flying high on the grassland, few women think about him, you don't want to share your husband with others, you should capture his heart, let him love you alone, instead of sassing the barbarians to prevent him from contacting other women, I heard that I gave you a whip, you can whip all the concubines, you are his genuine wife today, I will give you another treasure, not only to whip his backyard, but if he loses you, he will also be beaten. ”

Li Xin was overjoyed when he heard this: "What Your Majesty wants to give me, take it and see it." ”

But seeing Li Haogu holding a wooden stick, Li Xin said unhappily: "What kind of Laoshzi is this, why is there a pimple on one end." ”

Li Haogu said: "This is Your Majesty's beloved polo battle, Princess, you are blessed, with this thing in hand, no one dares to compete with you." Only then did Li Xin understand the benefits of this thing, and bowed to Li Yan with great gratitude, stood up, and waved his staff to give Yang Hao a threatening glance.

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