Chapter 088: First Strike is Stronger

The ruins of Yueshi are in the northwest of Ganzhou City, not too far, but there are few people in normal times......

Princess Aguli took seven or eight personal guards, a woman dressed with arrows, left the Khan's palace, and first galloped in the northern city for a while, pretending to hunt, but no one was tracking, and then ran to the ruins of the Yue clan in an oblique stab.

Regarding Yang Hao's arrival, Princess Aguli was apprehensive. Although she is the main person in Ganzhou today, the main reason is because she was the princess of the night and her status is noble, "Otherwise, she will definitely not be the first leader in the military and government of Ganzhou among the three." However, although she became the lord of Ganzhou, the real political structure of Ganzhou was three sets of carriages, and Hu Lao Wen and Suerman's actual power was not less than her, that is, her control over the other two tribes was limited, just as Yang Hao's control over Ganzhou before, the significance of the name was greater than the actual significance.

At this time, Sulman and Li Jiyun's envoy secretly reached an agreement, although she has not yet expressed her position, but this contact, and the cover for Sulman, are essentially the same as rebellion. At this time, Yang Hao suddenly appeared, how could Aguli not think about it. Moreover, Yang Hao is now the lord of a country in Western Xia, but he quietly appeared in Ganzhou City, and he secretly refused to enter the city, and wanted to ask her to meet outside the city.

But the more suspicious she became, the more she didn't dare to disobey, she didn't know if Yang Hao knew anything and how much she already knew, so she could only rush to the front, but secretly she was also on guard.

Yueshi ruins, the local people also known as the old city of Ganzhou, the ancient city of Heishui, here, you can see a lot of historical relics, on the ancient road in Hexi, you can often see many historical town relics, or because of the invasion of quicksand, forcing residents to migrate overnight, or because of the war to slaughter the city, overnight become a ghost town, or because of the earth dragon turned over, the river was diverted, lost the living conditions and gradually withered. When Yang Hao was chasing Li Guangrui, he was besieged in Taogu City on the bank of the Wuding River, which was a historical ruin.

However, the ruins of the ancient city of Heishui are much larger than the ruins of Taogu, the prehistoric ruins, the ancient city of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the ruins of ancient temples, the ancient tunzhuang, and the ancient tombs are gathered here, many collapsed and collapsed buildings and ruined walls are shaky, full of porcelain Han bricks, together with the undulating sand dunes around it, come here, as if passing through the tunnel of the history, in the darkness you can vaguely hear the impact of swords, the sound of the market, the sound of the teahouse and the shouts of panic when fleeing the ancient city.

In a √long time ago, there were many swamps and lakes here, the landform was very complex, the sand dunes, cháo mooring, reeds, wetlands ......, standing on a high place, looking at this historical monument, as if seeing the ancients who drilled wood to make fire, the nomadism of the ancient country of Yueshi, the war between Han and Hungary, the tea and horse trade, the military defense station, the ancient city destroyed by sand, the prosperity of the past, the tragedy of the present are intertwined, quietly send a sunset, usher in a dawn.

Princess Aguli wore a riding robe, carried a bow, carried a pot of arrows, hung a short knife on her waist, wore a pair of high-waisted leather boots under her feet, and rode a red horse, accompanied by several cronies and guards, and helped her into the reeds.

Standing behind the half-collapsed earthen wall in the distance, Yang Hao had already seen her, and not far behind him, there were several guards dressed as merchants standing quietly. From here, you can just see the princess Aguli riding a horse, although Aguli is a skilled bow horse, accustomed to the body of the saddle and waves, but the waist branch is still as slender as a willow branch, and the buttocks are still as straight as a peach, looking from afar, she is sitting straight on the horse, even if she is ∑ sitting, it is also clear at a glance, it is really natural beauty, and the woman is full of taste.

Soon, she entered the reeds, and the horses walked among them, stirring up the reeds like snow, and when she looked, she saw only a human body and a half horse, just like a beautiful centaur walking in the clouds, with a graceful posture, looming.

Yang Hao chose to meet her here, but he was also forced to do so. In his original plan, he only found that the Dingzhun army that had enabled him to expand rapidly gradually became his burden and resistance after he established the country and became king, and they regarded themselves as meritorious heroes, and lived in the royal family themselves, only knowing how to take, not giving, no matter what military and political strategies the imperial court promoted, the first resistance, the biggest resistance came from this group: the Tuoba clan.

And as Yang Hao did not let them get their wish, many of them began to openly express their opposition, hindering the development of this emerging country from all aspects, Yang Hao realized that if this continued, the negative role of this group of people would become bigger and bigger, and the Western Xia State was small and weak, and he could not afford to toss the civil strife like Song Liao, but it was impossible for him to compromise with these people, so he decided to pull out the seedlings to help them.

Since the rift of civil strife already exists, and it is impossible to bridge it at the expense of national interests, thereby degenerating a feudal kingdom with concentrated power into a tribal alliance regime with limited binding power in the past, it is better to let it break out in advance, and take advantage of the great power of the founding monarch at the beginning of the founding of the country to eradicate this cancer as soon as possible. Therefore, on the one hand, he divided the Tuoba clique, co-opted the enlightened and loyal forces among them, and on the other hand, he squeezed out and suppressed the backward and reactionary forces on the other hand, so as to promote its early outbreak.

He had told his henchmen such as Chongfang and Ding Chengzong in advance that he was playing with fire. But he didn't expect that this fire would burn so quickly, it was really out of his control. He didn't know that Li Zhiyi, the most respected member of the Tuoba Li family, was secretly pushing the waves to help Wei and take the chestnut from the fire. He also didn't know what Li Zhiyi's nephew was secretly planning, and the reason why the Flying Feather spy gave people the impression of being pervasive was because it had a group of extremely clever scouts who were extremely efficient in finding out information in targeted areas. But he can't do it internally and externally, and carry out all-pervasive and all-round surveillance of the Tuoba clan people scattered all over Hexi and with a huge ethnic group, if that, the Feiyu secret spy will have to expand at least ten times, and the investment of this spy department alone can drag down the economy of the Western Xia Kingdom, and such a huge organization is bound to become bloated, although the scope of intelligence collected is wide, it may not be deep, and its efficiency may not be better than now.

But he still smelled an unusual smell from the intelligence collected, in addition to the major collection of intelligence of the Song State and Longyou, his intelligence officers rì before the major collection of intelligence of the Song State and Longyou, that is, the military, economic, political, and people's livelihood in Hexi to collect intelligence, if someone wants to do something, and it is not an emergency, then he either wants to recruit troops and prepare food, or to transfer troops, and the preparation in advance will always cause some phenomena that cannot be concealed and can be noticed, and such a phenomenon is not uncommon in one or two places. However, when all the information is completely concentrated, it will cause him to feel jǐng.

He felt that someone seemed to be taking advantage of this contradiction and conflict to develop things in a direction that was difficult for him to predict, and he wanted to play with fire in order to extinguish the fire, but he didn't want it to become a fire, so in his original design, it was just to cover up the people's peace, ruin their reputation, and make the Song State relax the Ganzhou power, which was going to play a relatively big role at this time.

Therefore, he stopped the court meeting under the pretense of illness and secretly rushed to Ganzhou, wanting to have another secret conversation with Princess Aguli and revise his plan. In the information he has collected, he is not suspicious of the Guhun tribe in Ganzhou, because the contact between Sulman and Li Lingxiao and others in the Guhun tribe is only a matter of these two days, and there is no change in the Guhun tribe, and Su Erman, as the head of the clan, is us in Ganzhou! To be a leader, meet hundreds of people every day, "The other party deliberately hides his identity, and he will not find the abnormality so quickly. He didn't expect that his arrival would make Princess Aguli feel nervous and vigilant.

After thousands of years of wind and rain, the trees in Blackwater City have become ancient trees, and the roads have become old roads. There are many abandoned ancient buildings on the side of the road that are speechless in the vicissitudes of life, and the ruins and broken walls are filled with ancient tranquility, and at this time, a beautiful woman in a beard walks here, so all the ancient becomes vivid.

Yang Hao also took a few guards, secretly traveled, he couldn't take too many people, as long as his whereabouts were secret enough, but he didn't have to worry about any danger, now on the ancient road in Hexi, the horse thief bandit JL is completely gone, you must know that Ai Yihai is the first good man in the Hexi horse bandits, with him under Yang Haoya, other horse thieves of all sizes have either voted for the imperial court, or have completely disappeared under the suppression of horse bandits who have become official soldiers. As for the forces that may be suspicious in the DPRK and China, Yang Hao is still very confident in the secrecy of his trip, and it is not easy for anyone who wants to track down his whereabouts with Zhu Yun, a great expert in hiding and stealth, personally planned.

However, Zhu Yun didn't follow this time, she and the dog took the initiative to invite the wisp to capture the Tuoba Han Chan brothers. Tuoba Han Chan brothers really refused to obey the edict, and honestly went to Beijing to ask for guilt, they tore up the holy decree, beheaded the envoy, and vowed to recapture the pasture grassland of the Weiwu Department for a hundred years.

In fact, this kind of behavior is a rebellion with conclusive evidence and no doubt in any dynasty in the Central Plains, but the Tuoba Han Chan brothers do not think that they are rebelling, and they really have no intention of overthrowing Yang Hao himself as emperor. They don't want to defend the Douling Ridge anymore, they want to get back the rich grasslands that have been nomadic on it for generations, that's all. Leaving Douling without permission and disobeying military orders? yes, what's wrong? I didn't defect to the enemy, I can't hold it, I don't want to defend it. Snatching the grassland and fighting with the Cangshi Ministry? yes, what's wrong with il? That grassland used to be our family, I want to come back, but I can't tear up the holy decree and kill the envoy?

yes, what's wrong? What bullshit holy decree, isn't it just a piece of paper? Speaking of which, it's still made of silk, and it's quite wasteful to tear it. Envoy? What kind of thing is the envoy, isn't it just a dog in front of the king? If he is slaughtered, he will be slaughtered, no matter how close he is, we are close to the king, to talk about it, our grandfather's grandfather and Lord Lee Guangrui's father's grandfather are cousins, and we are brothers with the king, what's the big deal?

Although the Western Xia has established a state and established a dynastic regime, in their hearts, there is no difference from the previous loose alliance of nomadic regimes, and there is no difference between Yang Hao, the king of Western Xia, and Khan and Shan Yu. Ye Li, Xi Feng and other party Xiang Qi clan and Lord Li Guangrui were so blushing and thick-necked that as soon as they put up the flag of surrender, "Isn't it immediately calming down?" That's still an outsider.

In short, this is the manifestation of barbarians who do not practice indoctrination and do not know the king's law. Many Tuoba people who followed the crowd to resist the new policy are also getting out of this mentality, so they have become a member of the hindrance of the imperial court. For these people, Yang Hao did not have decades to slowly educate, and the education of the monarchs and ministers was only effective for children who had learned and mastered this theory since childhood, and for these adult and arrogant tribal leaders, it was far less effective than bloody punishments.

Therefore, under the intention of Yang Hao and the intention of Li Zhiyi's old fox, the Tuoba Han Chan brothers became the chicken that set an example for the monkey. In short, this is a very silly and naïve pair of rammed goods!

Emerging birds, they have already done. The Weiwu tribe and the Cangshi tribe fought fiercely, and the rì of the division of the Tuoba clan had also been reached. Yang Hao didn't want them to continue to fight, it was all his people who were consumed, Yang Hao was most lacking now in people, the slaves transported from Dashi and Rome were limited after all, and the population naturally flowing from other places was also making slow progress, so ...... give birth to himself, even if Yang Hao called on all the men and women of Western Xia to devote themselves to the infinite stallion business with their limited lives, it would take more than ten years to be effective, so since the goal had been achieved, Yang Hao wanted to solve the affairs of the Weiwu tribe with the least loss.

Yang Hao originally wanted to use Li Jitan and Yang Yanhu's regular army, plus Tuoba Haodi and Ono Keer's tribal armies to surround on all sides, and force Tuoba Han Chan's brothers to surrender with strong force, but once a large army was mobilized, it was countless money and food that was burned in, so Zhu Yun and Gou'er took the initiative to ask for help, determined to quickly extinguish the rebellion of the Weiwu tribe by capturing the thief and the king.

Yang Hao once promised that once he came back from Bianliang, he would never let Zhu Yun leave the capital to perform a dangerous mission, on the one hand, because the last time he came back from Longyou, Zhu Yun's bloody injury scared Yang Hao, he and Zhu Yun were both like subordinates and friends, and they used to learn and ask for advice, and with a little bit of senior brother and sister affection, he didn't want to pick up a corpse of Zhu Yun one day.

Another reason is that Zhu Yun, as a killer, has been alone and alone for so many years, and now she is not small, if I remember correctly, she is twenty-four this year, twenty-four! Who has ever seen such a big old girl who hasn't come out of the cabinet yet? The old father who is being the chief martial arts instructor in Feiyu Hall is so anxious that his eyes are blue, his daughter is so old, she has not married or given birth to children, is this still like words?

He doesn't expect his daughter to be favored by the king now, any man, as long as he is allowed to hold his grandson as soon as possible, he will be content. What's more, Huaizhou Commander Ma Zongqiang is very interesting to his daughter, but it is really good for his daughter to marry him. For this reason, he expressed to Yang Hao more than once the bitterness in his heart as a father, Yang Hao wanted Zhuyun to stay in the capital and settle down, and also hoped that she could consider her life's events.

But Zhu Yun is an idle person, she doesn't let her do anything, she stays in the capital, she feels that she has no value, this time she and the dog went to capture Han Chan's brothers, which is the plan she came up with. Yang Hao was begged by the arms of two big and one small, and his scalp was numb, but in front of his ancient father and many cronies and generals, he gave their father and daughter a solemn promise as the king of Western Xia: meritorious service should be rewarded, and punishment should be punished. Zhu Yun for him to get back the jade seal of the country, set up an immortal achievement, this time if he captures the Tuoba Han Chan brothers, so as not to cause the smoke of the Western Xia, then the two merits are rewarded, the father and daughter of the ancient family can make a request to themselves, as long as it does not violate the king's law and does not hurt the heavens and harms, he has nothing to disallow.

This sentence, he also asked the Musher to write down solemnly, the ancient father's heart leader meeting, this is the king to marry his daughter. The elated old father didn't wait for his daughter to express his fasting, so he hurriedly agreed to come down on her behalf, so Zhuyun and the dog set off for Xiazhou.

Yang Hao assisted Li Jitan in Xiazhou and Yang Yanhu in Lingzhou, and once the capture was successful, he immediately controlled the entire Weiwu tribe. This time, he plans to start from the Weiwu Department and reorganize the tribal system. The transformation of the ruling foundation of urban industrialists and merchants and rural farmers in the 18 states of Western Xia has been settled, but the organization and ruling order of the nomadic tribes dominated by animal husbandry have not changed mostly, and the control of the tribe leader is still greater than the influence of the imperial court. By depriving and weakening the direct control of the original tribal chiefs over the tribal people, the heads of each consular department are set up as liuguan, and the liuguan officers are rotated regularly, and they are promoted and appointed according to the evaluation results, so that these tribes can be controlled to the greatest extent.

Yang Hao did not intend to implement a new policy for all tribes as a whole, in that case, the supporters would immediately become opponents, but how to arrange after the conquest of the rebel tribes, that is, his power. The defeat of the Weiwu tribe will not be an end, those arrogant and irreverent tribal leaders will definitely organize a greater counterattack, when the righteousness is located, and he will be able to reorganize more tribes, and the remaining tribes are loyal to him now, and the future will ...... Even if their descendants lose the awe and loyalty of their ancestors, the power directly controlled by the imperial court is already the absolute majority, and they will not be able to stir up any trouble.

In the next plan, he wanted Princess Aguli to play a greater role, and on the surface, because of his coveting of Princess Aguli, Princess Aguli left Xingzhou angrily after being humiliated, and she couldn't be summoned to meet, so after arranging all this, Yang Hao secretly rushed to Ganzhou. Now, his heart is actually very heavy, he sees some future crises, and wants to eliminate them as soon as possible in his own hands, but the development of events is obviously more serious than he expected.

Even if the enemy hidden in the shadows is ten times weaker than the enemy in the light, its harm may be ten times stronger than it, and even subverting it in one fell swoop is not possible, but there is no turning back at this point, he can only go on hard, and Aguli has a negligible role in his plan, let her take on this heavy responsibility, is her ability enough? Was she that faithful? These are all questions. "Aguli has seen the king. Why did the king suddenly come to Ganzhou? ”

When Yang Hao was thinking a lot, Aguli and his party had come to the front, Aguli turned over and dismounted, stopped the feet of the guard, and walked to Yang Hao, Yingying bowed. "Ah, princess, please." Yang Hao retracted his mind and hurriedly went to the chief to help.

Aguli listened to his call, and his face couldn't help showing a little embarrassment, Yang Hao also noticed that the title was a little ambiguous, and couldn't help but smile, and covered up his embarrassment with a deep expression: "This is coming to Ganzhou, this king has to come, now ...... Some things seem to be beyond my grasp.

He glanced at Agul meaningfully, and said, "Originally, I just wanted the king to ...... Lord Aguli helped the king to make a play for the world to see, and now it seems that the adults have to do more than that. ”

Aguli was stared at by him, and her heart couldn't help jumping, and she forced herself to say calmly: "What does the king mean by this?" ”

Yang Hao smiled coldly and said: "I originally intended to create an incident and lead the snake out of the hole, who knows, not only the snake was introduced, but also the python was introduced, and some people also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to make trouble from it." Aguli's face changed: "There is such a thing?" ”

Of course, Yang Hao would not tell her that he was still completely ignorant of the opponent who was hiding in the shadows, but with the limited information in his hand, he sensed that someone was taking advantage of the internal strife of the Tuoba clan, even if he was absolutely sure that Aguli would be loyal to him, unless he was involved in the identity of the core secret, he should give her the greatest confidence, instead of letting her follow him suspiciously.

What's more, Yang Hao is not so sure, in any case, this female leader of the Hui people in Ganzhou will be loyal to him. In the past battle, this princess left a deep impression on Yang Hao, this woman is fierce as a wolf, cunning as a fox, unscrupulous in order to achieve her goals, just like a wild horse, if she doesn't control it well, she will be kicked in the face by her little hooves under her beautiful long legs.

Therefore, Yang Hao looked like he was holding a pearl of wisdom, and smiled coldly: "This person is high and powerful, but he doesn't know self-love, and he is trying to subvert the court, hum, this king's flying feathers follow the wind, famous all over the world, how can he be a vegetarian, but he doesn't know that this king already knows his every move, if you want to take him back, it's just a gesture, it's ridiculous that he thinks he is hidden deep enough, and the plan can be granted." ”

The person who can take advantage of the current situation and take advantage of the chaos is naturally a high-ranking figure in the Western Xia Dynasty at the moment, Yang Hao finished blowing the cowhide, and wanted to tell Aguli about his plan, but Aguli had a ghost in his heart, and sat down, just as Yang Hao said to her, "Secretly frightened, her hand was behind her back, and she quietly gestured to her personal female guards, and at the same time, her palm gently slid to the waist of a willow branch, as if inadvertently straightening the belt, But he moved the short knife to a position where he could pull it out as quickly as possible, and with a charming smile on his face that turned all beings upside down, he asked softly, "Then how does the king plan to deal with her?" ”

Yang Hao smiled and said: "This king originally wanted to send two assassins to kill him quietly, but after thinking about it, I still think that it is good to lead him to expose all his strength and annihilate him in one fell swoop." Therefore, this king went to Ganzhou in person, and I didn't see you, Lord Agul, hehehe......"

Yang Hao's next sentence "This king wants to conspire with you in this matter, in addition to this jiān sin" The words have not yet been spoken, Princess Aguli's two black and charming eyebrows are twisted, and a snowy little scimitar in her palm flashed out of thin air, and it was already on Yang Hao's cheeks, her apricot eyes widened fiercely, and she sneered: "Want to kill me?" The old lady did you first! ”