Under the rule of the Guiyi Army, there were Zhang, Cao, Cai, In recent times, the Cao clan has been in power for a hundred years, in the face of the Uighurs' step-by-step pressing, the country is becoming increasingly embarrassed, causing dissatisfaction among several other major families, Zhang Zhongyao this time to envoy, privately planned to ask the Song Emperor Qin to give the title, but also to ask for help from the Celestial Empire, the Song State has Shuofang important land, even if it sends thousands of elite soldiers to aid Guasha, declare the national prestige, the power and the Central Plains are far from comparable to the Uighurs are afraid, the Guasha Han power can slowly develop, and gradually recover Yi, Xi, Gan, Su, Lan, Shan, He, Min, Kuo and other Longyou, the states of the Western Regions.

Along the way, I only felt that the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains were extremely amiable, whether it was the merchants in the city, or the people working in the fields were mostly Han, and the scene of Shazhou Hu Han was half, and even more Hu people than Han people, Zhang Zhongyao couldn't help but be very excited in his heart, it is really better to read 10,000 books than to travel thousands of miles, not to Middle-earth, I don't know that my Chinese population is so prosperous, I am afraid that there are dozens of times more than the Hu people in the Western Regions, there are many people in Guanzhong, and there are few Han people, this Han people, as long as the imperial court sends a large army to escort and encourage immigrants to reclaim, just by squeezing the Uighur Tubo forces out of Hexi。

He arrived in Qinzhou with enthusiasm and was arranged to stay in the pavilion where he entertained the envoys from the Western Regions, and this stay was half a year, and the Great Song Dynasty seemed to have forgotten him. The Zhang family has been a hairpin for generations, and they know very well the etiquette of the officialdom in the Middle Earth, Zhang Zhongyao was quite generous when he first came, whether it was the protocol officer who accompanied him all the way or the magistrate who was temporarily responsible for the reception, he got a lot of benefits, but after a long delay in Qinzhou, he naturally didn't dare to spend money casually, and he still had a few heavy treasures on him, which was ready to go to Bianliang to make friends with the powerful and pay tribute to the official's family, and he couldn't give it away early. The officials of the Great Song Dynasty who were responsible for accompanying and monitoring the envoys saw that he could no longer get any oil and water from him, and their attitudes gradually faded, but they had received a lot of benefits from him for no reason before, and there were no restrictions on him playing around. Because Dunhuang was originally a commercial city, the caravan had a great deal to do with the rise and fall of Dunhuang, Zhang Zhongyao had nothing to do anyway, so he lied that he went to Huashan to play, and Kangqu Dagan arranged to come to Lanzhou.

Xiao Jiu and Chase accompanied each other all the way on behalf of Wu Yingying, Xiao Jiu was born as the commander of the Hou Shu guards, and he had his own court Fengyi to treat people and things, and Cai Si was originally a Confucian scholar, and he was courteous, and the two were entrusted by Wu Yingying, and treated Zhang Zhongyao with special courtesy, and the three of them talked happily all the way.

Zhang Zhongyao is a person with a heart, and he also has the intention of serving the court to investigate the reality of Lanzhou, secretly observing all the way, and testing words, only to feel that Xiao Jiu is calm and steady, and Chase is more resourceful, these two are rare generals, and they are more loyal to Wu Yingying, and occasionally reveal their heartfelt obedience to Wu Yingying, Zhang Zhongyao's children of the family have their own set of methods of observing and recognizing people, and they are secretly frightened that Wu Yingying can be so loyal to his subordinates. Looking at the Lanzhou army again, the sergeants dare to fight, the military orders are strict, the operation is like an arm and a finger, between the upper and lower levels is neither humble nor arrogant, and the courage is the same. On the road, it happened that a battalion of rangers practiced archery in the suburbs, only to see the galloping horses, the cavalry sometimes hid in the belly of the horse, sometimes stood on the horse, sometimes the beads and arrows, sometimes looked back at the moon, changed various postures, but most of them could shoot the arrow battlements, Zhang Zhongyao had seen many Hu cavalry in the Western Regions, and many could not be compared with the Lanzhou cavalry. Is this still the cavalry of the Han Chinese? It is simply difficult to match even the elite of the tribes on the grassland. He didn't know that the Tuhun Army was originally the remnant of the nomadic children, and he had been tempered by the Central Plains for a hundred years, and he was already a first-class elite soldier in the world, so he only secretly wondered in his heart. Wu Yingying added a lot of jealousy, and said in his heart that this person is not a traitorous hero, or a hero who helps the world and the people, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time, and it is the general trend for the world to return to the Song Dynasty, and the greater his talent, the more he will be suppressed by the imperial court.

Approaching the city of Lanzhou, there are gradually more acres of fields and farmers with crops between the mountains and rivers, Zhang Zhongyao knows that this is the northern part of Hedong Province The states have been war-torn for a long time, and only close to the city can there be crops with a large army to protect the farmers. He was a little surprised that some of the dense pastures on the hillsides and dry land were quite neat, so he said, "Captain Xiao, these grasses seem to have been planted by manpower. ”

Xiao Jiu and Chase were walking with him, and when they heard this, they replied: "It is precisely that these fields are not suitable for growing grains, so they can grow pastures and raise livestock. Zhang Zhongyao "oh" sighed, nodded slightly, the Central Plains is a few horses, with the abundance of the Central Plains people, the breadth of the acres, if it is the law of grass planting, within a few decades, it can breed millions of war horses, if it is the local Central Plains, it is just a waste of money to keep so many horses, but if there is a heart to pass through the Western Regions and even Mobei, a large number of war horses are necessary. As the so-called seeing the subtleties, Zhang Zhongyao thought in his heart, seeing that the ambition in the chest of this Lanzhou Wu hero was not like a feudal town on the side of An, but like a male lord who had the heart to lift the universe. He had been in the Western Regions for a long time, and what he was thinking about every day was wrestling with the Uighurs, Tubo and other Hu people, and he thought of the method of protecting horses in the former Han Dynasty when he saw the people of Lanzhou planting grass, but he did not know that Lanzhou's move was only to increase the proportion of meat on the table.

The closer he got to the city, the more frightened he became, and in today's world, like Si Haojie, he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse for the country, and he was silent between his words. Xiao Jiu and Chase only thought about how to answer each other when he brought back to see Wu Yingying, and did not disturb him, but only led the sergeant to escort the envoy of the Guiyi Army slowly, until he came to the Lanzhou regimental training embassy.

Wu Yingying had been waiting in the house for a long time, and when he saw Zhang Zhongyao, he smiled and said: "The arrival of the guests has made Lanzhou shine up and down." Lanzhou Wu Hero dares not to meet him?"

Zhang Zhongyao saw that he was wearing a general's robe, and General Xiao Cai looked respectful, he had already guessed that it was Wu Yingying in person, but he didn't expect him to be so young, he looked less than thirty years old, but he had a calm and coercive momentum in his gestures, so he calmed down and said respectfully: "Zhang Zhongyao of the Shazhou Guiyi Army, see General Wu." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wu Yingying's face changed slightly, and he stretched out his hand to beckon Zhang Zhongyao to sit down with Xiao Jiu and Chase. Zhang Zhongyao sat on the right side of Wu Yingying, while Xiao Jiu and Chase sat on both sides to accompany each other. After the three of them sat down, Wu Yingying leaned over and asked Zhong Yao: "Dare to ask Your Excellency, but is it the descendant of Zhang Yichao, the envoy of the Guiyi Army?"

"It's the ancestors. Hearing that Wu Yingying suddenly mentioned the name of his ancestors, Zhang Zhongyao had to be honest, secretly annoyed that Wu Yingying didn't know how to be polite, who knew that Wu Yingying actually got up and gave him a respectful salute. He is the lord of a feudal town, and this kind of pretentiousness made Zhang Zhongyao very embarrassed, and said embarrassedly: "General Wu, what are you doing here?"

Wu Yingying said: "Let the ancestor Zhang Gong, with a scholar, gather righteousness in white, expel the Tartars, recover my hometown in Hexi, and make the Chinese people in eleven states not subject to foreign cattle and horses. When he was young, he watched the book, whenever he read it, he should be a hit, and he was a true hero of two hundred years. Hate can't be born at the right time, and follow with a sword. Today's gift is to pay tribute to the descendants of Duke Zhang. After speaking, he said to Xiao Jiu and Chase Generals: "After Mr. Zhang is a loyal martyr, you two will come to see each other again." ”

Cai Si is a scholar from a scholar's background, since he knows that Zhang Yichao led the Han people in Hexi to raise righteousness, recovered Hexi from the hands of Tubo, and presented the historical facts of the eleven states in the fifth year of the former Tang Dynasty, since the late Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains has been declining in the Tang Dynasty for nearly two hundred years, Zhang Yichao is one of the few heroes among the Han people to resist foreign insults, Chase is naturally very admired, listening to Wu Yingying ask Zhang Zhongyao is Zhang Yichao's descendants, he originally had the intention of making friends, and when he heard the words, he got up more happily and gave a deep salute to Zhang Zhongyao, just like a portrait of Zhang Yichao.