When Liu Ziguang put Gu Lunmu's head in front of Huo Lingyao, Princess Xiangxiang had mixed feelings, and the revenge of killing her father was finally avenged, but she really didn't know how to deal with the current situation when she sent the tiger at the front door and welcomed the wolf at the back door.

When the Western Xia army invaded, most of the elders and imams of the Hui Department were killed, and only Huo Lingyao and other hundreds of young people escaped.

The original plan was to take advantage of the opportunity of the Han and Western Xia to start a war, secretly show the strength of the Hui Department, and so on, and accumulate enough troops, the back board will naturally be hard, and the back board will naturally be hard, and the previous promise can be overturned, and the Han people will be driven away, it stands to reason that this method is a good policy, but after thousands of calculations, I didn't expect the invincible Western Xia army to be defeated so quickly, except for the time of marching on the road, only two battles were fought to recover Ningxia City, and the strength of the Hui Department has not yet been accumulated, this time Huo Lingyao was dumbfounded, because she now has to face the problem of whether to marry Liu Ziguang.

Looking at the entire Hui Department, there are no enough people to help Huo Lingyao make suggestions, only Meng Dan and other ambitious young people secretly don't know what they are drumming up all day long, and the Han people are already preparing with great fanfare for the ceremony of Princess Xiangxiang's enthronement and marrying the general of the Ming Dynasty.

There are frequent wars in the Hetao area, there are no aborigines who have lived for thousands of years, and the so-called Hui is just a Uighur who migrated from the Tianshan Mountains decades ago, and the tribes composed of some other Semu, Mongols, and Han Chinese, although they believe in Islam, but they are not authentic fundamentalists, and the status of men and women is equal, so Huo Lingyao can legally inherit the chieftain position of the old Hoxha.

Liu Ziguang's idea of marrying Huo Lingyao to subdue the entire Hui Department came from the old things that had been in the Song Dynasty royal family, and it was a long tradition of the Chinese nation to carry out ethnic integration with relatives, but in the past, it was the princess of the Central Plains who married Fanbang, and Liu Ziguang did the opposite, marrying the queen of Fanbang, I have to say that it is another breakthrough in international politics and ethnic policy.

Although the Hui Department is rich in water and grass, it is just a corner of the land in Liu Ziguang's eyes, what he has to do now is to gradually assimilate the Hui Department in accordance with the established policy and pro-colonialism, and quickly arrange these things, and he still has to fight the Western Xia, compared with the Hui Department, it is not a huge empire that can be subjugated with the Huairou policy, and it must be devoted to occupying and assimilating for several years or even longer.

The reconstruction of Ningxia City is proceeding in an orderly manner, and in the old house of the old Hoxha, a new meeting of Hui ministers is being held, but it is not the respected elders present, but some radicals selected by Meng Dan from the city, and this small group is now the highest decision-making organ of the entire Hui Ministry.

Today's Ningxia City has been completely under the control of the Han people, the four city gates are guarded by the Red Shirt Army, the city outside the city set up heavy artillery, the city wall and the city in each commanding height, there are wire beds for throwing grenades, crossbows, guns and live ammunition Red Shirt pickets every 20 people patrol back and forth in the city, in the name of preventing the remnants of the Western Xia Army from making trouble, in fact, in disguised control of the defense of Ningxia City.

The power in the hands of the so-called Council of Elders is nothing more than a militia composed of 2,000 herdsmen, except for the fire guns aided by a hundred Red Shirts, it is ordinary swords, guns, bows and arrows, and the training of soldiers is also very problematic, and if you want to fight by force, it is no fun at all, so the Council of Elders can only think of some other strategies.

Soon, the cobbled together elders formed a resolution to ask Liu Ziguang for money and materials in the form of a dowry, and they opened their mouths and listed a long list and handed it to Huo Lingyao for her to forward to Liu Ziguang.

Huo Lingyao was almost not stunned when he saw it, this was too outrageous, one million taels of silver, thirty heavy cannons, twenty steam ironclad chariots, one thousand firearms, and corresponding ammunition. This is a dowry, and it is clearly blackmail.

The exclusive text version of this work may not be reproduced without permission, and excerpts for more of the latest and fastest chapters can be found here.! Huo Lingyao knew that this was Meng Dan playing tricks, he didn't want to marry Liu Ziguang, but due to the situation, he couldn't openly oppose it, so he had to use this means to delay the process of the wedding, according to the tradition of the Hui people, the woman can ask the man for a dowry, and the daughter of the general family is usually a hundred or ten sheep or ten horses, and the chief's daughter is naturally more expensive, but it is only a thousand horses, ten thousand cattle and sheep, and it is far less than a million taels of silver, not to mention those advanced firearms that cannot be bought with silverIt's Montan's strategy.

In fact, Huo Lingyao was very confused, she was in a dilemma about getting married, to be honest, at the beginning, she just planned to use her beauty to lure Liu Ziguang to help her, and she didn't plan to really marry him, but things went too fast, and the Xixia people were defeated in less than a month, and Liu Ziguang is really not a bad person, although he is a young hero, although he sometimes looks like a wolf, but he should still be sincere to himself, with the help of other people's power to defeat the enemy, he will turn his face and not recognize people, it is not Huo Lingyao's style.

But Meng Dan is also difficult to do in this regard, after all, he is a good friend who grew up with childhood sweethearts, Meng Dan has a clear understanding of his feelings, the sun and the moon can be seen, when the Western Xia people invaded, if he hadn't protected himself to kill a bloody road, I'm afraid that Princess Xiangxiang was already a ghost under the knife at this time, Meng Dan still fought bravely to kill the enemy with more than ten arrows in his body, and the appearance of killing the enemy has always been engraved in Huo Lingyao's heart, but this kind of feeling is only brother and sister, and there is no feeling of a call between the two.

What should I do, Huo Lingyao was undecided, and finally she decided to stay out of the matter and let Liu Ziguang and Meng Dan each fight with their own skills.

To everyone's surprise, after seeing the list of bride price issued by the Hui Minister's Council, Liu Ziguang waved a large pen on the spot and signed his name, and used his seal letter from the general of Zhengxi to order his subordinates to raise the bride price according to the gift list, and in addition to the things listed on the gift list, he took out one million taels of silver to help the Hui Department build the railway from Ningxia City to Guanzhong, so that Meng Dan and others were dumbfounded, and with such harsh conditions, people not only agreed, but also paid twice as much silver.

The Han people not only promised to be happy, the dowry was also absolutely refreshing, and those heavy artillery and ironclad chariots were directly handed over to the Hui people to manage, and the silver tickets of one million taels were also immediately sent to Huo Lingyao's mansion, but the firearms and ammunition still needed to be transferred from the country, which made the Hui people even more surprised, this is the killer weapon of the Han people, so easily handed over to the Hui Ministry, aren't they afraid that the Hui will turn their faces and not recognize people?

The Han people are so generous, there is only one condition, that is, to get married as soon as possible, and after some discussion, the Council of Elders finally agreed to this request, Ningxia built a Tutai Hetao outside the city, the chiefs of various tribes in the region came here to watch the ceremony, Xiangxiang Princess Huo Lingyao officially accepted the canonization of the Ming Emperor and became the Khan of the Hui Department.

So far, the goal of the founding of the Hui tribe has been completed, and the Red Shirts have also helped them establish the latest contemporary firearms army, supporting millions of silver, which is already benevolent and righteous, compared with the previous Western Xia people's rampant conquest and wanton oppression, it is more honest and benevolent of the Han people. In the past few days, Liu Ziguang has also frequently appeared to visit the lonely old man and the five guarantee households, showing his pro-people side, and the people of Ningxia City have seen that their khan's future husband has been born with a talent, and he is kind, and the little mustard in his heart has now been resolved.

The only thing that was not happy was that Montan and his followers, a group of young men, had been staring together all day with blood-red eyes, holding mysterious meetings, not knowing what big things were planned.

The date of the wedding is imminent, and the red silk cloth urgently dispatched from Guanzhong is hung all over the city of Ningxia, for this wedding, the two sides dispatched tens of thousands of personnel, more than 100,000 taels of silver, countless cattle and sheep wine, and the meaning of holding a century wedding.

All the herdsmen in the entire Hetao area were invited, and they could come to Ningxia City to drink a glass of joyful wine, and for a time Ningxia was crowded with people outside the city, and the herdsmen riding horses and carrying bows and arrows were beaming, and drank bowls of mare's milk wine in the colorful shed specially set up outside the city to receive guests, and at night, they did not enter the city, directly set up tents, and stayed next to the camp of the Red Shirts.

When the guests from all over the world arrived, the wedding officially entered the countdown stage, and everything was carried out according to the customs of the Hui Department. Huo Lingyao accepted the invitation to visit relatives' homes every day, and was very busy, and the day before the wedding, the man sent someone to send the clothes and decorations to wear for the wedding, and on the day of the wedding, the man prepared a float to go to the woman's house to greet the relatives and invite the imam to hold a recitation of "Kabini" The religious ceremony and the bridegroom paid the bride money to the bride by the elders of both sides in public, because the elders of both sides are gone, so this task is handed over to the respected old man in the city to carry out, Liu Ziguang's bride price is two million taels of silver tickets and one thousand taels of gold ingots, and there is a box of jewelry and jade, this kind of generous bride price is no matter how picky people can not say anything, after reading the imam of Kabini, the walnuts and red dates brought by the two families were scattered to the guests and friends who came to congratulate the wedding to show that the wedding was completed.

In view of Liu Ziguang's form of wealth, the wedding banquet was held in the woman's house, and the old Hoxha's mansion was newly decorated, and beef and mutton, butter tea, mare's milk wine, oil incense, and steamed dumplings were continuously served to the table, and the guests were happy to eat.

The various camps of the Red Shirts also welcomed warm guests, they brought roast mutton and spirits to invite the Han brothers to carnival together, the handsome marshal married his daughter-in-law, the soldiers of the Red Shirts were naturally happy, and the camp door was opened with the Hui soldiers, and the firearms and knives were put aside.

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