Now that Tuyuhun and Rouran have been won over by Gao Huan, looking at the world, who can be their own ally? Not to mention, Yuwentai has really found a tribe that can contain Rouran, the Turks!

The Turks live in Jinshan, surnamed Ashina, the identity is the forging slave of the Rouran people, that is, the iron forging weapons for the Rouran people, the Turks went to the chief Tumen to govern, and gradually became stronger, and occasionally went to the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty to grab something.

Yuwentai saw the potential of the Turks, so he sent the Jiuquan Hu people Annopantuo to the Turks, which was a very strategic move.

The arrival of Anopanta made the Turks very excited, after all, for such an uncivilized tribal people, the Western Wei Dynasty is a big country, and the friendship between the great powers and me does not indicate that our country will prosper?

The establishment of diplomatic relations with the Turks proved to be an excellent investment, and the Turks, as a dark horse of the steppe, will emerge in the near future and become the nemesis of the Rouran people.

It will take time for the Turks to grow, and Yuwentai has patience and waits.

The battle between the two Wei and the mountain, the Western Wei Dynasty was defeated, the Eastern Wei Dynasty won a tragic victory, and Yuwentai became a lost dog who only cared about fleeing for his life, but the Eastern Wei governors and generals were unwilling to continue to beat the water dogs, reflecting from the side that Gao Huan won really badly.

The two were added together, in exchange for another peace between the East and the West, but the peace would not last long.

After the threat from the east was temporarily eliminated, Yuwentai turned his attention to the northwest border of the Western Wei Dynasty, in Hexi, Guazhou and Liangzhou, which were on the main trade route to the Western Regions, had always been Yuwentai's heart disease.

The two states are too far away from Chang'an.

The government is only restrained by the two states, and in principle, it only needs to recognize the central government. They don't do anything that openly opposes the government, and they usually handle their own affairs.

But. There is news that Deng Yan, the assassin of Guazhou, secretly corresponded with Tuyuhun.

Yuwentai was really annoyed. Tuyuhun hooked up with Gao Huan, plundered the border between the two countries several times, and became the biggest border trouble of the Western Wei Dynasty in addition to Rouran, Deng Yan was something, he actually dared to communicate with the enemy country behind the back of the imperial court.

In fact, Yuwentai has always been dissatisfied with Deng Yan and has always wanted to get rid of Deng Yan.

Their grievances start with their predecessor, Shi Yuanrong.

Dongyang Wang Yuanrong served as the governor of Guazhou since the Xiaochang period, and he always maintained the independence of Guazhou in a series of events in the Guanlong area, until Emperor Xiaowu moved west. As a result of wisely acknowledging the legitimate status of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei court also acquiesced in the autonomy of Guazhou, and the two sides were at peace.

Later, Yuan Rong died, the situation changed, first the Guazhou Hao family elected Yuan Rong's son Yuan Kang as the assassin history, for a place like Guazhou, the power of the local Hao clan is strong, the strong dragon south pressed the head snake, and the court sought to ensure the safety of one party. As long as the Hao family doesn't make trouble, it doesn't matter who is the assassin, so the assassin can be elected here, and after the results come out, you just need to go to Chang'an to go through the procedure.

Yuan Rong has been operating in Guazhou for many years. Their family's prestige is still there, so it is natural for Yuanyasu to ascend to the throne, and the court agrees.

But. Some people are not satisfied, this person is actually Yuan Rong's son-in-law Deng Yan. Because he also wants to be the soil emperor of Guazhou.

Within the Xiao Wall, Deng Yan killed his brother-in-law and seized the position of assassin.

Deng Yan came with Yuan Rong. There are considerable strength and supporters in Guazhou, so although some of the wealthy forces represented by Ling Huyan, the chief secretary of Guazhou, are dissatisfied with his ascendancy, they are helpless.

The imperial court was also not satisfied.

Isn't it a rebellion to rely on illegal means to kill the boss who went up through normal procedures and take up his position? But people rely on strength, and if they ask for a crime, they have to do it with real knives and guns.

The Chang'an government is in a dilemma, if Deng Yan is not held accountable, other states and counties will follow suit, and the consequences will be unimaginable; If you ask for the crime, Guazhou is located in a remote area, and the distance of labor outweighs the loss.

Weighing the stakes, the ministers of Chang'an made a long-term decision, first recognizing Deng Yan's status, and then looking for an opportunity to let him enter Beijing and then clean him up.

Therefore, Chang'an sent an envoy to recognize the legitimacy of Deng Yan's assassination history, since as a member of the government, he should obey the dispatch of his superiors, and soon, he sent someone to send an edict again to let Deng Yan go to Beijing to report on his work.

However, after several times of passing the decree, Deng Yan always had a reason to shirk it, no matter what you said, he just didn't leave his lair.

Deng Yan is not stupid, he knows the difficulties of the imperial court, he is powerless to crusade against himself, and he is afraid that he has set a bad example if he does not crusade. Therefore, Deng Yan knew very well that the purpose of the imperial court to let him leave Guazhou was not to find a way to arrest himself and ask him for the crime.

Caught up with the east and west to start the war again and again, the Western Wei court couldn't take care of him for a while, Yuwentai endured it, and Deng Yan lived a few years like this.

In order to continue to be the Emperor of Tu for a long time, Deng Yan began to secretly communicate with Tugu just in case.

This matter spread to Chang'an, and the local feudal officials did not go through the imperial court to fornicate with foreign countries, didn't they want to rebel? Is it tolerable or unbearable!

Yuwentai knew that Deng Yan's matter would not be able to be dealt with.

However, it is really not cost-effective to send troops, and if you are not able to take it, can't you outwit it? Yu Wentai had a plan.

So, in order to give things to the Huangmen squire Shen Hui was appointed as the ambassador of Hexi to inspect Xizhou, and his secret mission was to find a way to kill Deng Yan, before leaving, Yuwentai secretly gave a strategy: Guazhou master Ling Huyan is a person who can be fought for.

Shen Hui came to Guazhou with his fifty horsemen, and stayed at the Guazhou Government Guest House, that is, the Guazhou Post Station, Deng Yan saw that Shen Hui brought not many people, and thought it was an ordinary inspection by the government, so he didn't go to his heart.

After Shen Hui stayed, he secretly hooked up with Linghu Yan, the chief secretary of Guazhou, and Ling Huyan was a son of the Guazhou Wang clan, and at first participated in the election of Yuankang, and Deng Yan used him to appease the people with his Wang clan.

Linghuyan was very dissatisfied with Deng Yan, but because he was not strong enough, he had to obey, and now that he saw someone from the imperial court, he stood on Shen Hui's side without hesitation, and the two made a plan, and Linghuyan won the support of Zhang Mu, who opened the mansion, and they began to buy the people around Deng Yan.

Shen Hui persuaded Deng Yan to obey the will of the imperial court and return to the court, but Deng Yan still did not obey, seeing that the people were resolute. Shen Hui changed his tone and pretended to approve of Deng Yan's continued stay in Dunhuang. promised that after he returned to Chang'an, he could help him reconcile with the important members of the imperial court.

Deng Yan was very happy.

Then, Shen Hui sent someone to invite Deng Yan to the post house.

Deng Yan had completely believed in Shen Hui. So there was no doubt that Shen Hui had any motives, and came to the post house with a few retinues, thinking that no one dared to do anything to himself on his own territory.

People who are overconfident tend to make mistakes because they are always self-righteous and think that they can control a situation and be careless and kill others.

Deng Yan was wrong, and the price he paid was all he had.

At the Dunhuang Station, Shen Hui welcomed Deng Yan in with a spring breeze.

Deng Yan sat down, and the two exchanged a few words. It's not bad to be a good brother, but no one took what he said on the scene seriously.

Then Shen Hui suddenly changed his face and ordered Deng Yan to be taken down left and right.

Deng Yan understood that he had been fooled, but he was not panicked when he encountered a sudden change, and shouted loudly: Where is the left and right?

The left and right are still there, but they have long been bought by Linghu Yan, and no one is willing to work for Deng Yan at the critical moment, and they have become bystanders.

At this time, Deng Yan was completely dumbfounded and desperate. I had to obediently comply.

Linghuyan had already summoned officials and representatives of the wealthy clans in Guazhou to gather in the Assassin's Mansion, and Shen Hui conveyed the imperial court's edict to everyone: Deng Yan disobeyed, removed from his post and investigated, and the others were not prosecuted.

Shen Hui added. The imperial army will arrive soon, please be calm and don't be impatient, and keep your duty. If someone wants to make trouble, huh. Shen Hui is by no means polite.

Listening to Shen Hui's words, plus Ling Huyan and Zhang Mu are already on Shen Hui's side. No one in Deng Yan's henchmen dared to move.

Shen Hui escorted Deng Yan back to Chang'an to ask for the guilt, Yuwentai promoted Shen Hui to the capital official Shangshu, and sent Shi Chengqing to be the assassin of Guazhou, and Ling Huyan was the governor.

Shen Hui's errand was done beautifully, Yuwentai didn't expect things to be so smooth, Deng Yan's subjugation is equivalent to killing chickens and monkeys, see who dares to go against the court at every turn?

The problem of Guazhou is solved, can the story of Guazhou be replicated in Liangzhou?

Things in Liangzhou are complicated.

Liangzhou has always been in a state of bondage, Yuwentai once wanted Lei Shao to govern Liangzhou, but was rejected by Li Shuren, then the assassin of Liangzhou, Li Shuren later because of hooking up with Gao Huan for Yuwentai to design and get rid of it, in order to stabilize the shape of Liangzhou, he had to use the governor Yuwen Zhonghe as the assassin history.

Yuwen Zhonghe became another Li Shuren, who slowly turned Liangzhou into an independent kingdom.

Liangzhou is located between Qinzhou and Guazhou, Guazhou has really been owned by the imperial court, Yuwentai decided to do something to Yuwen Zhonghe, he transferred Yizhou Assassin Shi Ning to Liangzhou Assassin History, let Yuwen Zhonghe return to Chang'an.

How could Yuwen Zhonghe not understand Yuwentai's intentions, of course he was a hundred unwilling to leave the nest that he had worked hard to run for many years.

In February of the twelfth year of the Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty (i.e., 546 AD), Yuwen Zhonghe rebelled and refused to allow Shi Ning to enter Liangzhou.

Yuwen Zhonghe rebelled in Yuwentai's expectations, Yuwentai had long known that Yuwen Zhonghe was unwilling to hand over power lightly, and it was a matter of time before Liangzhou was conquered by force, and Dugu Xin, the governor of Longyou, had already prepared to send troops, and what was originally lacking was an excuse to send troops.

At this time, the Western Wei Dynasty was no longer the Western Wei Dynasty when Li Shuren refused to replace the dynasty, and the governor of Longyou, the assassin of Qinzhou, Dugu Xin, already had considerable military strength.

However, what Yuwentai didn't expect was that Guazhou rebelled again.

Yuwen Zhonghe's behavior encouraged the unstable elements in Hexi, and Guazhou, which had just calmed down, made waves again, and Zhang Bao, a native of Dunhuang, responded to the assassination of Guazhou, Shi Chengqing, and Lu Xing, a native of Jinchang County, killed Taishou Guo to support Zhang Bao.

Dugu Xin, Yitong Sansi Yifeng, and Shi Ning were ordered to clean up Yuwen Zhonghe.

Shi Ning since the return of He Basheng from Liang, first served as the acting assassin of Jingzhou, and together with Li Xian, the acting assassin of Yuanzhou, he broke the rebellion of Mo Zhehou, and was promoted to the assassin of Dongyi Prefecture because of his merits.

Shi Ning moved to Liangzhou this time, but he didn't expect it to provoke Yuwen Zhonghe's rebellion, he thought that the Western Wei Dynasty had been established for many years, and his prestige had been revealed, and the officials and people of Liangzhou were only coerced by Yuwen Zhonghe to rebel, and they were not really rebelling, so most people could fight for it.

So, Shi Ning sneaked into Liangzhou, secretly met with some officials in Liangzhou, and analyzed the blessings and misfortunes of following Yuwenzhong and the rebellion.

When Dugu Xin's army arrived in Liangzhou, it was already night, and he immediately led the strong men to attack from the southwest of the city, regardless of the fatigue of the saddle horse, and ordered the other generals to attack the northeast with the ladder of the siege city. The city was attacked on both sides, and the defenders were terrified. It was dawn and the battle was over. Yu Wenzhong and obediently became prisoners.

Dugu Xin escorted 6,000 households in the city to Chang'an for resettlement, completely eliminating the Hao clan forces in Liangzhou City.

Shi Ningshun entered Liangzhou, and from then on, Liangzhou was transferred from a state of bondage to the actual control of the imperial court.

At the same time as the Liangzhou rebellion was quelled, the Guazhou rebellion was also put down by Linghuyan.

Zhang Bao originally planned to kill Ling Huyan when he got into trouble, but considering the strength of the Ling Hu family, he didn't dare to do it, so although he was afraid of him in his heart, he respected Ling Huyan very much on the surface. Linghu Yan also pretended to be close to Zhang Bao, but he was thinking about how to bring him down.

The two of them have their own thoughts.

Linghu Yan secretly ordered his own people to offer advice in front of Zhang Bao: melons and Liangjie became lips and teeth, and now the Eastern Army is forcing Liangzhou. If Liangzhou falls, it will inevitably endanger the homeland, and it is advisable to send troops to rescue, and if the two states join forces, the eastern army can make a profit.

Zhang Bao agrees very much, but who will lead the troops?

The person who came recommended Ling Huyan again, and Ling Huyan's ability is indeed a suitable candidate, but can Ling Huyan be reassured?

Linghu Yan's father and brother stayed in the city, are you still afraid that he will rebel?

That's right.

Zhang Bao's brain is really in the water. He had already regarded Ling Huyan as his own, so Ling Huyan led the army out of the city to Liangzhou, and when he passed through Yumen County, he stopped and summoned heroes from near and far. denounced Zhang Bao's crime of killing innocents, and everyone was moved and worked together to form an alliance against the thief.

Linghu Yan raised troops to kill Guazhou. Passing by Jinchang, he first broke Lü Xing, and then attacked Dunhuang.

The people of the state have always admired Ling Huyan. Therefore, as soon as Ling Huyan's attack horn was blown, the people in the city turned back. Zhang Bao fled in the wilderness and took refuge in Tuyuhun.

The leading figures in Guazhou City held a meeting to discuss the promotion of Ling Hu Yan to be the assassin of the history, Ling Hu Yan is not so stupid, he rebelled with Zhang Bao, although he is an undercover agent, but the facts are there, it is just a crime and meritorious service, if you want to assassinate the history with the imperial court again, can the imperial court rest assured, is this not the way to take trouble.

It happened that Zhang Daoyi, the envoy of the Western Wei Dynasty to Persia, passed through Dunhuang, and everyone used it to temporarily act as the governor and county affairs.

Zhang Daoyi reported the matter of Guazhou to the imperial court, and soon the imperial court issued an edict to transfer Shen Hui to the history of the assassination, and Linghu Yan was the Shouchang county guard, and the Xiangwu county man was sealed, and he immediately set off to the capital to receive the order.

Yuwentai said to Ling Huyan: Qing is the righteous head of Guazhou, and his contribution is very great, and his official position is not enough to be paid.

Linghu Yanyi was excited: The national disaster has not been eliminated, and I hope that the Shuai clan will follow the prime minister.

Since then, Linghu Yan led more than 2,000 people of the clan to follow Yuwentai, and later Yuwentai gave him the surname Yuwen, and gave him the name of the whole, and Yuwencheng has always been a hussar general.

A few years later, when the time came to the Zhenguan year of the Tang Dynasty, Linghu Dedi, the grandson of Linghu Cheng (who later changed his surname back), wrote a book called "Book of Zhou", which is the blueprint for our story.

The so-called coexistence of opportunities and challenges, Yuwentai seized the opportunity of the civil strife in the northwest, decisively dispatched troops, and firmly controlled Guazhou and Liangzhou, which became a buffer against the northwest border troubles, and greatly consolidated the rear of Chang'an.

The 12th year of the Great Unification is destined to be an unusual year.

In September, news of Gao Huan's large-scale invasion came from Yubi.

The current guards of Yubi are Jinzhou Thorn History, Nanfenzhou Affairs, and Metropolitan Governor Wei Xiaokuan.

Wei Xiaokuan's experience is very similar to Yu Jin, both of them are from high-ranking families, and they were in the limelight when they first debuted, and then slowly moved away from people's sight.

Thinking that year, the hot-blooded young man Wei Xiaokuan went to the imperial court to ask for war when Xiao Baochun occupied his hometown and made a rebellion, and moved the Empress Dowager Deling to immediately take him as the commander of the army, Sun Zhi's westward expedition, and on the way to the west, he was made the son-in-law of the Yang family by Yang Kanxiang, who was born in the Hongnong clan, and it seems that the young man has a bright future.

Unexpectedly, this marriage did not bring good luck to Wei Xiaokuan, after the rise of the Erzhu family, the Yang family was wiped out, and the person who was sent by Erzhu Tianguang to trick Yang Kan to Chang'an to die was Wei Xiaokuan's father Wei Xu.

Later, Wei Xiaokuan got acquainted with Dugu Xin in Henan, both of them were under the rule of Jingzhou, known as Lian Bi, but Dugu Xin took refuge in his old superior He Batsheng, although the road was not very smooth, but Dugu Xin has now become one of the most powerful generals under Yuwentai, the official worship of the governor of the ten states of Longyou, almost half of the Western Wei.

What about Wei Xiaokuan? It seems that he has not entered the eyes of Yu Wentai, and has never become a member of the core of the military and political affairs of the Western Wei Dynasty. In fact, to put it bluntly, Yuwentai's regime belongs to outsiders in Guanzhong, and Guanzhong Wei's is a local household, and Yuwentai relies on Daibei villagers, who are mainly Wuchuan people, and the local clan is not only the object of his wooing, but also the person he wants to guard against.

After the Jin dynasty crossed to the south, the relationship between the northern regime and the local clans has always been antagonistic and unified, and many of the people of the big clans served as government officials, but few held military power, and the relationship between them was delicate.

Wei Xiaokuan was lucky, just as Yu met Yuwentai when he was unwilling, he also met the most important noble person in his life.

This person is Wang Sizheng, who was the general of the hussars, the history of the state assassin, and the east road.

Wang Sizheng is a person who knows people.

At the beginning, Yuwentai let Wang Sizheng guard Hongnong, he looked at the jade wall located in Fenbei, Hedong with a super strategic vision, so he moved the town from Hongnong to the dangerous jade wall, and built the jade wall into a steel fortress, with the jade wall as the center, the Western Wei government proved its own survival, wedged a nail in Hebei, Gao Huan once pressed the border, but Wang Sizheng proved his ability with actions, Gao Huan was forced to retire.

From then on, Gao Huan could no longer cross the river and march west with peace of mind.

When Gao Shen rebelled against the Eastern Wei Dynasty and offered the Tiger Prison to vote, Yuwentai asked Wang Sizheng to guard the Tiger Prison to seize the layout of Henan, but unfortunately the battle of Bishan broke Yuwentai's Henan dream, in order to resist Gao Huan's chasing soldiers, Yuwentai let Wang Sizheng run Hongnong again, Wang Sizheng recommended Wei Xiaokuan to guard the jade wall, and the facts will prove that Wang Sizheng is still more accurate in seeing people. (To be continued......)