A long-distance carriage slowly drove into Zhaozhou City.

With the end of the war, the war-torn city of Zhaozhou has recovered a little bit of vitality.

At this moment, Zhaozhou City is still dilapidated and full of decay.

Less than a tenth of the shops in the once bustling wet markets have reopened, and a large number of refugees who have fled from other places have not had time to return to the north. As the temperature warms up, the ice edges under the eaves drip with melted water, and the snow on the street is crushed and trampled mixed with the dirt, which is especially dirty.

But from people's faces, there is a hint of serenity and joy. They no longer hurried with their heads shrunk, no longer full of confusion and fear, no longer frowning, even if they were in rags, if they were fellow villagers on the street, they would smile and hug each other excitedly.

Human beings are not afraid of suffering, what they are most afraid of is that there is no hope, as long as they are given a hope, they will have the courage and confidence to live.

Yang Fan sat in the car and was sincerely happy to see this scene. He was one of those who created hope for these people, and perhaps he did little in the frontal battle, and did not kill many enemies, but he used his wisdom to play a role that even an army of 100,000 could hardly match.

Seeing this scene, the feeling of frustration and humiliation when the "eagle's beak" witnessed the decisive battle between the Khitans and the Turks in the territory of Wuzhou was also alleviated a lot, and his empire was in serious internal conflict due to the struggle for the emperor's heir, and he could not use all his liliang to protect its people for the time being.

At this time, even if he uses some means and makes some concessions, as long as he can make these people who pay taxes and levy labor and support this huge empire have a way to live and hope, then even if he is asked to sacrifice the dignity of a man, he is willing. The face of the emperor and the general, compared to the belly of the people, is a fart!

Also sitting in the car were Anu and Gu Zhuting. Anu did not shy away from suspicion next to Yang Fan, leaning on his shoulder, and looking out of the window together. This is her man, her dependence, who is he next to him if he is not next to him?

Gu Zhuting sat far away, a little deliberately, but fortunately, Anu was now all focused on Yang Fan, and she didn't notice the strangeness of her master.

The sage said: "Cang is enough to know etiquette, food and clothing are enough to know honor and disgrace", this is true, in the harsh living conditions of the grassland, Gu Zhuting can not treat herself as a woman at all. If you don't sleep together, you will be frozen into a popsicle, and if you are not unkempt, you will only consume that precious snow water......

So there, everything she did was taken for granted. However, when she returned to civilization shijie, she remembered all this again. She felt shy and embarrassed, but fortunately, Yang Fan had never behaved in particular. Otherwise, she would be even more embarrassed.

Anu and Gu Zhuting are female streamers. Although the war is not completely over, they can leave at any time if they want to, Yang Fan is more troublesome, he is a soldier, but now the war situation in the north has reached the final stage, and the Great Zhou army is surrounding and suppressing those Khitans who have escaped. There is no big battle to fight at all, and whether Yang Fan can leave or not is just a sentence from a high-level general.

Whether it's Li Duozuo or Lou Shide. They are all very familiar with Yang Fan, and the relationship is not bad, so Yang Fan left.

He went deep into the tiger's den and successfully completed the mission of borrowing troops, so that the Khitan Rebellion ended before the arrival of spring, so as to avoid the chaotic war situation and destroy the spring ploughing in Hebei, otherwise the life of the people in Hebei Province in the coming year will be worse, Yang Fan can be said to have made a great contribution.

If he stayed in Hebei at this time, it would undoubtedly be more conducive to the post-war retribution, but this point is no longer too important to him, and now for him, too high a position is actually not conducive to his development, so at this moment Yang Fan is quite a little "things are done, and the merit and fame are hidden".

"The inn has arrived, let's rest for a while, and we will continue our journey tomorrow!"

When the car stopped, Yang Fan looked back and said with a smile to Anu and Gu Zhuting. Anu Yanran nodded, after experiencing the pain of life and death, now as long as her man can return safely, as long as she can snuggle him like this and smell his smell, she will be content.

Gu Zhuting was a little dodgy to Yang Fan's gaze, and when she walked out of the carriage, the slender feet of the deerskin boots paused vigorously on the ground a few times, because all the way to the car, there was no snow on her boots, she just wanted to use this small action to stomp off the chagrin in her heart, because she found that she was a little afraid of this little man now.

Yang Fan smiled and said to the shopkeeper: "Shop, two upper rooms!" ”

Around the car, there were a few people dressed as merchants who also turned over and dismounted and walked into the store, Yang Fan knew that it was the person sent by the "Succession Hall" to protect his safety, and Anu was in the "Qianjinye" during his stay, and the sect master guard came to him.

However, Yang Fan is still an official, and now there are still many scouts from the imperial court, Turks and even surrounding ethnic groups on the ground in Hebei, in order to avoid being noticed, Yang Fan can only ask them to secretly guard, and do not let them follow openly.

When the shopkeeper saw the guest coming to the door, he hurriedly received him attentively, called the man, and welcomed the guest into the door.

After being looted repeatedly, the so-called upper room here is to sprinkle and clean it, the room is spacious, and there is nothing else, Yang Fan knows that Zhaozhou City has been seriously damaged in the war, and it is impossible to have any high-end restaurants at this moment, and this dinner can only be solved in this inn, so he washed up a little, changed his clothes, and went to the guest hall.

After a while, Anu and Gu Zhuting also finished freshening up, changed their clothes, and came to his table. Yang Fan nodded to them and told them to order a few dishes on the menu in front of the counter, and he still listened attentively to the discussion of the people at the table next to him.

On the table next to him, a middle-aged merchant said to a few people earnestly: "I advise you, it's best to wait until it's stable before going back, and don't go north now." ”

Those men were dressed quite well, it seemed that they were wealthy families from the north, who had fled to the south during the war, and now that the war was over, they were on their way back to the north, and they happened to meet a fellow villager from the north.

One of the wealthy gentlemen asked anxiously, "Why can't you go back now?" Still waiting for stability, are the Khitans still rampant? ”

The middle-aged merchant waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "The Khitan people are no longer in the climate, but ...... Hanoi King Wu Yizong has arrived in Youzhou, have you heard? ”

A middle-aged man snorted fiercely and said, "That pig riding general, I'm phew!" When the Khitans were arrogant. He heard the slightest wind and fled, faster than his mother's rabbit. The Khitans lost the battle, and he couldn't wait to run north, for fear that he would not have time to grab the credit! ”

Another person said with some confusion: "What happened to him when he arrived in Youzhou?" He is from our court, not a Khitan. ”

The middle-aged merchant sighed and said, "He is not a Khitan, but he is even more ruthless than a Khitan!" Khitan General He Axiao, have you heard of it? Among the Khitans, this person is the most murderous, and now the northern fathers and elders put Wu Yizong and He Axiao alongside each other, called Liang He, and said, "Only these two He." Kill the most! ’”

Several gentry looked at each other and said with a deep voice: "The Khitans have harmed us a lot, even if he kills us harder, what's the harm?" ”

The middle-aged merchant spat fiercely and said, "Who do you think he killed?" How could there be so many Khitans who told him to kill? Those who should have fled fled, and those who deserved to die. Otherwise, the other generals have already been lowered, and Wu Yizong hurried to hurry. It's a pity that he had been hiding too far before. By the time he arrived, there were no Khitans to arrest him. If there is no head, how can you repay the merit? ”

The middle-aged merchant glared coldly at a few obsessed fellows, and said fiercely: "Then refer to good as a thief!" When Wu Yizong arrived in Youzhou, he immediately slaughtered the people of several cities occupied by the Khitan for a long time, saying that they were bandits and bandits. One kill is a family, regardless of men, women, old and young. ”

The middle-aged merchant became angrier and angrier the more he spoke, and said: "Zhuzhou has been plundered by the Khitans, and I thought that the Khitans were defeated now. You can live a stable life, who knows...... Who knows that the prince of this court is more ruthless than the Khitans, most of the Khitans are taking money, at least they don't want human lives, but this Wuyizong ......"

Speaking of this, the middle-aged merchant slammed the table with a look of indignation. Several rich northern gentry looked at each other, and they were all speechless. Yang Fan, who was listening on the side, couldn't help but clench his fists secretly, the rebels were eliminated, but the one who did the most evil was actually the rebel, and it was actually His Royal Highness the Prince of the Wuzhou Dynasty!

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Wu Yizong because he was far away from the battlefield, so it was too late to arrive in Youzhou, when he arrived, except for a small number of Khitan rebels fled back to Yingzhou or fled into the mountains and forests, most of them either defected to the Turks, or surrendered to the imperial court, Wu Yizong did not catch a few thieves, so he had to take those people who were glad to get out of the hands of thieves, and the children of three or five years old were also killed by him, and they were worth the heads.

As soon as Wu Yizong attacked the people, he immediately shocked the states, and the people of all parties fled when they heard the news, and the generals such as Li Duozuo, Lou Shide, and Sha Zha Zhongyi were shocked when they heard the news, and they went to Youzhou to dissuade them in person, and even Wu Youyi, who had been cowering in Danzhou City and refused to fight, couldn't stand it.

He is afraid of war, but he is not as brainless as Wu Yizong, the performance of the Wu family on the battlefield in Hebei has become the laughing stock of the world, and if he does such a perverse thing, is he afraid that he will not be pointed at? Besides, the people of the north are fierce, and if they rebel against these people, it will be another disaster.

So Wu Youyi immediately went to see Wu Yizong, and reprimanded him sternly as a cousin, all the generals objected, even his cousin was furious, Wu Yizong also felt that this move had caused public anger, and he didn't dare to kill innocents indiscriminately, but he nodded the head in his hand, which was far from enough to show his military exploits.

So, after Wu Yizong wrote a letter suggesting that the imperial court would "punish all the people" of Hebei who were thieves, and send them to the Beijing division quickly, he did a big stupid thing: he targeted the Xi people.

Although the Xi people stabbed the Khitans at the critical juncture and made their position clear to the Great Zhou, it had cooperated with the Khitans after all, Wu Yizong led the army to move north, approaching the territory of the Xi people, and put on a fierce marching army. (To be continued......)

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I took a day of train to Beijing to open the Youth Association, there are too many things, I am busy, I am busy and idle, code out a chapter and a half, this chapter is passed on, and then stay up late to continue to code words, if it goes well, I will change the second chapter tomorrow morning, or I will serve it to all friends during the lunch break tomorrow!