At the end of May, with the truce agreement signed between Rong Di and Da Zhou, the marriage was announced to the world.

After more than a year of difficult negotiations and games, the peace talks between Da Zhou and Rong Di finally came to an end. And the marriage between Princess Rongdi Hu Lu Yinghuan and King Rongkang of the Great Zhou Dynasty has naturally become a symbol of peace between the two countries.

Well, that's right, both countries.

After the beginning of spring, the Khan of the Eagle tribe recovered two small tribes and expanded his power a little, so he couldn't wait to officially establish the country, and chose the incomprehensible name "Rong". Hu Lu is the surname of the king of the Rong Kingdom, so the princess of Rong Di Hu Lu Yinghuan is now the princess of the Rong Kingdom Hu Lu Yinghuan.

It's just that in addition to the officially signed national credentials, no one is used to the title of "Rongguo", not only the Great Zhou people are also used to calling the vast grassland north of the north of the north as Rongdi, and even the "Rongguo" people themselves are not used to this wonderful new title, they are still like the Great Zhou people, calling their hometown Rongdi grassland, and calling themselves Rongdi people.

Therefore, the Rong State, at least within the scope of the Great Zhou, has become a wonderful existence that only appears in official documents, but in any case, this is a new ally of the Great Zhou, not a vassal, but the kind of tribute.

Because the Rongguo refused to bow his head and call himself a minister, of course, the tribute had a nice name in the official documents, called construction funds.

This so-called construction fund was paid to the northern border in name, and the terms were clearly written, and Rong Di contributed money to fund the expansion of the northern border to prepare for the opening and closing of trade in the future. However, in fact, both the Great Zhou people and the Rongdi people know that peace is temporary, and the two countries will have to fight sooner or later, and the so-called switch on trade is a joke.

The Rong State spent money to buy a temporary peace and free up energy to unify the grasslands, while the Great Zhou took the opportunity to recharge and prepare for future wars.

On the surface, it is the Rongdi people who have suffered a loss, and they need to pay money to Da Zhou every year in exchange for peace. In reality, however, King Qirong was quite satisfied with the final peace terms.

The reason is very simple, one is that in fact, all the Rongdi people, including the king of Qirong, are very confident, and they believe that the Great Khan will be able to unify the steppe in a very short time. After reunification, there will naturally be no need for the armistice agreement, and Rong Di's iron hooves will definitely set foot in the Great Zhou. Therefore, they spend money to buy peace, but in fact they can't buy it for a few years.

Second, Da Zhou wants to take advantage of peace to recuperate, which is impossible! The armistice was signed, but the fighting in the north did not end. Those small tribes who refuse to submit want to attack the borders of the Great Zhou Dynasty have nothing to do with their affairs.

As for the thoughts of the Rong Di people, Da Zhou is naturally well aware. Where can this be hidden? An Guogong, who was guarding the northern border, had long discovered that this year, the northern border pass was even more unstable than in previous years, and there was an endless stream of Rongdi cavalry crossing the border, and after the peace talks were successful, the pressure on the northern border pass increased sharply.

This is because the Rong army is consciously driving the small tribes who refuse to submit to the Great Zhou border and constantly squeezing their living space. Once they crossed the border, the Rong State would be able to force the Great Zhou defenders to cooperate with them, forming a two-sided attack on these unyielding rebels.

This is a real conspiracy, An Guogong knows it, but he has to follow the wishes of the Khan of Rongguo to help the Rongguo army on the battlefield. He is a general guarding the northern border, and no matter what, he cannot let the Rongdi people cross the border. First Literature

Therefore, although the armistice agreement between the Great Zhou and the Rong Kingdom had been signed, everyone understood that peace in the north was still far away.

An Guogong sent a letter to the capital every few days, and the emperor was naturally very clear about the situation in the north. His disposition was also very decisive, and after signing the letter of state with the Rong State, the emperor issued an edict on the second day, requiring that all the gold and silver materials paid by the Rong State every year be handed over to the northern economic and strategic embassy for dispatch, and used as military funds in the north, without having to be handed over to the national treasury.

The emperor did not discuss with several loyal ministers in advance before the decree, so the holy decree was in an uproar, and the face of He Wenmao, the head of the household department, was almost blue, and the faces of Xie Xiang, Li Xiang, Gu Daxue and Lord Wang were not too ugly, but they were not much better.

Only Sun Shangshu of the Ministry of War and Mu Chengxin, the general of Youzhou, looked very happy, every year there was an extra amount of money, and the pressure on the Ministry of War and the northern border was reduced, Mu Chengxin immediately thought about it, and before returning to the north, he would strive for another edict to apply for additional troops.

If you have dates or not, you can play a pole first, and if you have more money, you can naturally raise some more soldiers.

However, no one expected that Mu Chengxin was in a hurry, and this trick was not in time in the end.

Mu Chengxin stayed in Beijing for more than a year in order to negotiate peace with the Rong Di people, and now the pressure on the north is quite heavy, he has actually been thinking about rushing back as soon as possible, so as to relieve the pressure on some brothers and nephews.

Therefore, Mu Chengxin originally planned to sign the national letter at the end of May, stay in Beijing for half a month, and return to the north in mid-June. Because June 13 is a big day, his only little niece Mu Hongshang is about to take a wedding, this is a big day, so Master Mu San wants to stay in Beijing and participate in his niece's ceremony.

However, no one expected that Mu Chengfang's illness worsened at this time.

Mu Chengfang has been on the sickbed for nearly three months, and the care of the old doctor sent by the imperial doctor and the Anguo Mansion has improved greatly, and An Guogong, who has been guarding his younger brother in Yanzhou for three months, is relieved.

However, at this time, the scout battalion patrolling outside the pass found that there were Rongdi cavalry gathering near Youzhou, and the number was very large, and these cavalry actually carried the siege carts and ladders, which seemed to be about to attack the city. An Guogong was not worried about Mu Tieyi and Mu Chiyi, who were guarding Youzhou alone, and saw that the second brother's health was gradually improving, so he set off to Youzhou to organize the deployment and prepare to meet the enemy.

However, I didn't expect that this time it was actually two small tribes who refused to return to the Rong Kingdom who united to cross the border and invade the border of the Great Zhou, and they also ambushed a lot of soldiers and horses near Yanmen Pass.

There are many foreign spies in every border town, including Yanmen Pass. Intelligence warfare has always been an inseparable and important part of warfare. As soon as An Guogong left Yanmen Pass, the Rong Di spies in Yanzhou tried their best to spread the news, and the Rong Di people who were ambushed near Yanmen Pass calculated the time to start attacking Yanmen Pass.

And at about the same time, the Rongdi people gathered near Youzhou also began to attack Youzhou City, but they were feints, and the battle was huge, but they did not do their best, their purpose was only to contain the defenders of Youzhou, and more importantly, to contain An Guogong, not to let him go back to Yanmen Pass.