When Zeng Hua saw Baramiyan, he felt that this Western Hun leader was indeed not the black of the black Africans he had seen before, but a weathered blackness, just like the blackness of the old peasants in the countryside.

However, Zeng Hua was relieved to think about it, the wind in South Russia and the Kazakh steppe is not blowing in vain, those cold winds from Siberia and the Arctic Ocean can pierce your bones, people live in the wild all year round, the wind and frost are like swords, how can they still look like a little white face?

Baramiyan and dozens of Western Xiongnu elders were first shocked by the elite of Zeng Hua's guards, then by the grand welcome ceremony held by Zeng Hua in the north of Gaochang City, and then by the rich and peaceful Gaochang City. They rode horses and followed Zeng Hua on the streets of Gaochang City, receiving the cheers of the people in the city, and at the same time being shocked by the wide streets of the city, full of shops and bustling scenes. Without any geographical concept, they thought that this was the capital of the central court in the East, because this Gaochang city looked taller, majestic and prosperous than the castles of the Alans and Ostrogoths. Fortunately, the bones of these people are still very strong, otherwise these few earthquakes would have broken up a long time ago.

Looking at these remnants of the Huns, Zeng Hua began to mumble in his heart. The Xiongnu are the remnants of the Xianxia, which is evidenced by official history books such as "Historical Records". And he has been blown by the literati of Jiangyou as a descendant of Xia Yu, so he is quite close to the remnants of the Huns? Damn, all this and that? It's a lot of money, and it's not clear. But no matter what. This superficial effort still needs to be done sufficiently.

Zeng Hua met with Baramiyan and his entourage in the former Gaochang Palace, which had been bought by him and renovated as a "resort", and first smiled at the "tribute" composed of a large number of "local specialties" such as white fox skins, white wolf skins, and white tiger skins, as well as hundreds of gold, silver, and bronze artifacts stolen from nowhere, and accepted the "sincere and respectful" bowing of Baramiyan and others (all of whom had been trained in advance), and then said a few words to Balamiyan and others through an interpreter, and asked about the current situation of the Western Huns and the situation of coming from the east, and there was an atmosphere of unity and harmony. After saying the painless words, Zeng Hua held a feast and entertained Baramiyan and others.

After gobbling up without regard for manners, Baramiyan and the others bit their tongues more than a dozen times, and bit their fingers more than a dozen times. Finally, he reluctantly stopped eating before he was swollen to death.

Two days later, Zeng Hua took Baramiyan and the envoys from Persia, Tianzhu, and Kushan to continue eastward and rush to Chang'an. Because they were all riding horses, although they couldn't catch up with the rapid march, the speed along the way was quite fast, and they entered the Yumen Pass and entered the border of Liangzhou in a few days.

The neat farmland and vast pastures on the roadside of Liangzhou, the green wheat seedlings and the white sheep flocks all fascinated Baramiyan and others, as well as the melodious pastoral songs that floated over from time to time at that time. In the sunshine and spring breeze, the happiness and joy of the herdsmen were gently narrated, so that Baramiyan and others burst into tears when they heard it, and it took a long time to come back to their senses and say to Zeng Hua: "We Huns have moved westward for hundreds of years. The happiest life in a dream is less than a tenth of that. ”

Immediately afterwards, the eastward march in the middle of the road, which could not be seen at a glance, attracted the attention of Baramiyan and others. This is the team that escorted the spoils of the western expedition, and according to the heralds who often ran on the east-west avenue, the first team in the east had already entered Qin Tianshui, but the tail of the team had only set off from Qiuzi City, and it was said that it was thousands of miles long.

gold, silver, jewelry, and valuable utensils accumulated by the royal families and nobles of various countries in the procession for hundreds of years; There are silver coins of Persian, Tianzhu, and Kushan indemnities; There are thousands of carts of Buddha, Manichae, Jing and even Christian classics and scriptures, as well as various other books accumulated over the years in Tianzhu, Persia, Sogdia, Tocharian and other countries, and even many more ancient countries such as Greece, Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and other ancient countries have been handed down and preserved as books; There are tens of thousands of Sogdian, Tocharian, Persian, Dawan, Kangju, and Tianzhu craftsmen, among which there are hundreds of blacksmiths who make Zeng Hua salivate. These "high-level blacksmiths" mastered the Uzzi forging iron, that is, the "otherworldly" famous Damascus forging knife, for which Zeng Hua also deliberately added an unequal treaty to the agreement of the Duo Dynasty, after which all the Uzzi ore in Tianzhu was underwritten by the merchants of Beifu, and was not allowed to export to any other "country and region", and easily extorted dozens of experienced Uzzi blacksmiths, and sent them to the newly established forging workshop in Zhaowu City with their families; There were tens of thousands of Buddha, Mani, and Nestorian monks and scholars, many of whom were scholars like Hovodiyan, and even Valerian had found a few companions. They were all Greeks or Egyptians, and they were all prisoners of war in the Persian state to the east of Khorasan.

Of course. Among them, there are also tens of thousands of beauties from Persia, Sogdia, Tocharia and other places. Now they are being escorted back to Chang'an by the military trading company as the best "goods", and only here can they exchange enough money.

They were carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of captured women. The rest of the land was either rationed to the people of Beifu who moved westward, or to the army stationed in the tundi.

Knowing that these were the trophies of His Excellency's Western Expedition, Baramiyan and the others immediately made a profound criticism from the bottom of their hearts about their previous small-peasant thinking of "a little wealth is peace", and they were also ashamed of their ecstasy when they attacked the Alans and Ostrogoths and obtained a little spoil.

Zeng Hua saw the greedy gaze of Baramiyan and the others, and smiled secretly in his heart, let's just carry forward your style, in the past, your ancestors always went south to prey, and the people of the Central Plains were always tired of coping with it although they were rich, and as a result, they lost both. Now we can work together, you will send out the cavalry, the Central Plains will send bows and arrows, and the big guys will go to the west together, won't this business become bigger and bigger. However, Zeng Hua could only say this in his heart, and he couldn't say it.

In the summer, Zeng Hua and his entourage finally entered Yongzhou, the heart of the hinterland of Beifu. But Balamiyan and others continued to be shocked, and even well-informed "figures" like He Fudiyan and Valerian were also shocked by the wealth and weather of Yongzhou. There are many cities, each of which is almost the size of Carthage or Zhaowu City. However, Hovodeyen and Valerian had traveled to Ctesiphon and Alexandria respectively, so there were still two world-famous cities struggling to defend their hearts.

Seeing Zeng Hua's big Ding flag, many people in Yongzhou walked to the side of the road and cheered Zeng Hua and his party with earth-shattering cheers. Seeing this scene, Valerian quietly turned sideways to Hevodiyan next to him and said, "I only see this situation in the book that records the triumphant return of Caesar in Rome. ”

Hearing this, He Fu Diyan, who has always been at odds with Valer, was very depressed, bullying us Sogdians that there is no emperor, right, now we Sogdians have joined China in the name of Zhaowu Jiu, and the general is our great king, I believe that it will not be long before you will be far behind in history.

The summer and June of the sixth year of Yonghe. Zeng Hua and his entourage finally arrived in Chang'an, and at this time, a well-trained cavalry came to greet Zeng Hua and his party, and Yongzhou Thorn Shi led hundreds of civil and military officials to go out for thirty miles to greet him.

Since seeing the majestic figure of Chang'an from afar, the last line of defense in Valerian and He Fudiyan's hearts was quickly broken, and Alexander and Ctesiphon could only be worthy of being a satellite city in front of Chang'an, which was magnificent and like a divine beast.

When they approached the fifteen-meter-high city wall, a kind of momentum that looked at the world greeted them. The walls on either side of the huge tower

Stretching into the distance, it finally disappeared into the mist, and hundreds of flat and convex bastions were added to the city wall. Each of the outer bulge bastions had a watchtower, three meters higher than the city walls, and the inside appeared to be empty. Like a bunker added to the city wall, it is generally used to place equipment and garrison soldiers.

In a state of confusion, Baramiyan, Valeryan, He Fudiyan and others walked into the tall arrow tower with the envoys of various countries, and after passing through the tall city gate, they entered the wide urn city, and then passed through the urn city before entering the city of Chang'an.

As soon as they walked into the city of Chang'an, Valerian, He Vantiyan and others felt that they were all uncivilized people from the wilderness area, just like Baramiyan.

The roadside was full of enthusiastic Chang'an residents. At first glance, there is almost no edge. These men and women, young and old, cheered to Zeng Hua who was embraced in the middle, if it weren't for the fact that the roadside had been guarded very tightly by the guards, it was estimated that they could rush directly to Zeng Hua's horse.

The procession marched slowly through the cheering crowd, and then walked through an arrow tower and an urn city, and entered the inner city, and when they stood on the Santai Square, they were shocked to the point of no return, according to a very fashionable phrase in the other world. They have been completely "thundered".

Wang Meng, Xie Ai, Che Yin, Mao Muzhi, Pu and others led a cadre of civil and military generals to greet Zeng Hua and his party in front of the stage of Zhongshu Province, and after the two greeted each other, they led them to the steps.

Go up the high staircase. Baramiyan and the others felt as if they were going to heaven. Walking up the long steps, Baramiyan and the others looked at the magnificent three buildings. There was an impulse in their hearts to bow down, and at that moment they felt as if they had come to Heaven, because in their minds, only Heaven had the courage to look down on the world and all nations to come.

In the Guangyi Hall of Zhongshu Province, there are nearly 800 people in the Chaoyi Lang of Zhongshu Province, Fengyi Lang of Menxia Province, and Langzhong of Shangshu Province. Palamyan, Valeryan, Hovotyan and the envoys of various countries were present at the table, but they were seated on both sides.

Seeing Zeng Hua walk in, all the officials of the local council got up, and they all hit the table in front of them with the purple wood wat in their hands, making a very rhythmic crackling sound, which is the rule of the deliberations of Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province. It is said that once when Wang Meng was reporting on political affairs in Zhongshu Province, Zeng Hua, the general who was an observer, couldn't help but grab the wat board next to him and knock it on the table to show his welcome to Wang Meng.

Today, Zeng Hua is reporting on the Yonghe West Expedition in his capacity as the chief of the march in the middle of the river, so he is also welcomed by Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province with such a practice.

Zeng Hua walked to the podium in the center, and the entire Guangyi Hall was silent.

"In the autumn of the second year of Yonghe, I was appointed by the three provinces of Beifu to serve as the chief of the march of the middle of the river road, and to preside over the affairs of the Yonghe West Expedition. In the winter and November of the second year of Yonghe, the advance army of our Yonghe Western Expeditionary Army was led by Xian Lingbo, the head of the march of the West Road in Hezhong, and broke through the Dawan Guishan City and destroyed its country; In the summer and May of the third year of Yonghe, our army broke through the Kangju tongue city. Destroy his country, destroy his city, erect a stone monument, and show Hu Ling's order in the hometown of Hu; In autumn and September, he defeated the Persian and Tocharian coalition forces at Mount Bosi, beheading more than 100,000 people; In autumn and October, it was reported that Wanjin City was renamed Zhaowu City; In the spring and March of the fourth year of Yonghe, he defeated the Kushan Kingdom and captured its king; In the summer and April of the fourth year of Yonghe. The defeat of the Tianzhu army, the beheading accumulated more than 50,000, its king sent an envoy to beg to surrender, in the summer and June, respectively, and Persia, Kushan, Tianzhu signed the Zhaowu agreement, the detailed terms are described separately, roughly calculated the population of more than 56,000, the money is equivalent to about 35 million silver yuan. At this point, the Yonghe West Expedition case is over, and our army has won a great victory! ”

Hear here. All the officials in the Guangyi Hall couldn't help but stand up and applaud desperately, and the entire hall suddenly burst into thunderous applause. It went on for half an hour.

On the second day, Zeng Hua, in his capacity as the head of state of Beifu, held a grand victory parade in Santai Square, and more than 100,000 people rushed to participate in it when they heard the news.

More than 3,000 soldiers were selected from the participating armies and government soldiers to form ten phalanxes. These victorious soldiers, wearing crowns and helmets and navy blue wool military uniforms, walked with their heads held high or on horseback. Or march in a line and walk neatly in front of the Santai Square. The first phalanx was the cavalry troops, who held the military flags of all the participating troops and took the lead in walking through the square, followed by the Heroic Forward Battalion, the Heroic Sharp Battalion, the Heroic Cavalry Battalion, the Heroic Divine Crossbow Battalion, and the Heroic Tiger Spear Battalion. Heroic Longbow Battalion, Heroic Stone Artillery Battalion. One by one, they marched through the three squares. Then the two battalions were more than 600 meritorious men who received the Silver Tiger Medal or more from each unit. Divided into two phalanxes. In their hands, they held the enemy's battle flags captured on various battlefields, including those of Dawan. There are Kangju countries, Sogdian countries, Persian countries, Kushan countries, Tianzhu countries, and Tocharian countries, and these banners representing the victory of the Beifu army are held on the ground with their heads down, and when they walk in front of Zeng Hua, they are discarded in front of Zeng Hua and many councillors and officials.

At the end of the ceremony, Zeng Hua walked down the steps of Zhongshu Province, fully armored, rode on the Hot Wheels, and then led sixteen cavalry guards, rode horses and ran over to the right side of Zhongshu Province, stepped back and forth on the various battle flags thrown on the ground three times, and then stood in the middle.

Looking at the hundreds of thousands of people with excited faces, Zeng Hua pulled out his sword, raised it in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Huaxia is mighty!" ”

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of people cheered in unison: "Huaxia is mighty!" ”

On the third day, Zeng Hua conferred medals on 10 winners of the Zhaowu Jinwu Medal, more than 30 Zhaoyong Xuanwu Medals, more than 60 gold eagle medals, more than 100 silver eagle medals, and more than 300 silver and gold tiger medals. Of course, there are also Cao Yan, Ye Lixun, Lu Zhen, Xian Lingbo, Jiang Nan and other generals who are guarding the western frontier, because they can't be there in person, their sons and daughters have to receive the Zhaoyong Xuanwu Medal and the Zhaowu Jinwu Medal for their descendants. In the end, Zeng Hua was actually awarded a Zhaowu Jinwu Medal by Che Yin on behalf of the three provinces.

After a few days, after dealing with the affairs of the Persian, Kushan, and Tianzhu envoys, Zeng Hua finally met with Baramiyan and others indirectly from time to time to deal with the affairs of the Western Xiongnu.

Zeng Hua took the officials of the three provinces, and praised the spirit of Balamiyan and others who were not afraid of hardships and dangers, and had the courage to pioneer, and their hearts were close to their hometowns, and they were not far away to pay tribute, and their loyalty could be felt by heaven and earth, and then solemnly announced that in order to commend this spirit and loyal ministers, Beifu will canonize hundreds of leaders of the Western Huns, that is, tribal leaders and nobles, ask the imperial court to give them titles, and give them rich money and goods such as good fields and houses, and also select more than 1,000 people from the captured Persian and Tianzhu beauties to be assigned to them as concubines. Zeng Hua also said very sincerely: In the past, all the "good comrades" had suffered, but now that you have found the "organization", in the future, all the food and spicy food will be on the organization, and even the children and grandchildren can't help but worry, in the future, they can go to school, study, take scientific examinations, become officials, and be prosperous and rich from generation to generation!

Hearing this, Balamiyan and the elders all understood that Zeng Hua was playing with a glass of wine to release the military power (I don't know if they understand it)! Eat and eat to envelop yourself, in order to get hundreds of thousands of Western Hun tribesmen. Although they are unwilling in their hearts, but they have been prepared for this since the North Road and West Expeditionary Army "showed their might", you don't want to give people a lecture, people don't care about giving you martial arts, when the 70,000 army is swept away, the people are still people's, but they don't have these leaders and nobles

Drink mare's milk.

Since Baramiyan and the others are willing to come to Chang'an, they already have a plan in their hearts. Although the current Western Xiongnu are still brave and good at fighting, and there are still hundreds of thousands of people, they have long lost the last bit of national cohesion in hundreds of years of wandering and wandering. If it weren't for survival, it wouldn't have remained a loose union. The trend of the times, the only thing they can do now is to integrate into Huaxia like the people they left in Mobei hundreds of years ago. Moreover, the general Zeng Hua has promised to give them a rich life, how can they not be excited, in the eyes of many people in the Western Xiongnu "delegation", he is a beggar in Chang'an is a hundred times better than being a leader in the Caspian steppe.

Seeing that the elders representing the various tribes had agreed to submit to the northern mansion of Huaxia, Baramiyan stepped forward, knelt on the ground with one leg, and performed a very respectful etiquette with the Hun land etiquette Zeng Hua. Then he took out an item from his bosom and presented it to Zeng Hua, saying that it was the symbol of the Western Huns, which had been guarded by the great leader for generations.

Zeng Hua opened the sheepskin on the outside and found that inside was a three-finger camel button gold seal, and the four corners and the two camels on the top were all ground to be extremely smooth, looking hundreds of years old, but still shining gold. Zeng Hua flipped through it and found that the inscription was the five seal inscriptions of "The Huns Return to the Han Dynasty", and then looked at the vague words "Han Jianyuan" next to the golden seal...... E". See here. Zeng Hua's eyes couldn't help but be hot, history is always so impressive and dramatic, so that the Huns were driven out of Mobei by the former Han Dynasty. Began a long westward migration. In the process of moving westward, they slowly cut off contact with their hometown in Mobei, and even their previous words and customs changed, but the golden seal issued by Emperor Wu of Han to the surrendered Huns who somehow fell into the hands of the Western Huns has become the highest symbol of the Western Huns.

On the same day, Zeng Hua went to the court and asked for the title of Marquis of Han for Baramiyan, and the rest of the leaders and nobles were knighted. And pulled out a huge amount of money to buy mansion properties in Chang'an, Luoyang, Chengcheng and other places for the leaders and nobles of the Western Huns to return to Shun.

A few days later, Zeng Hua ordered Yan Feng to be the pacification envoy of the Caspian Sea, and Xue Zan to be the judge of the Caspian Sea, and resettle the attached Western Huns. The general policy of resettlement is to relocate more than 300,000 people back to Zhaozhou and Xizhou, and then move from Shuozhou to the west to the original Tuoba Xianbei, Yongzhou Shangjun, Beidi County to the former Tiefu and Helan Division, and Liangzhou to the former Hexi Xianbei more than 300,000, and to enrich the new land by doubling the Yongye pasture and taxed pasture. and dispatched tens of thousands of missionaries, officials, etc. It was sent to Zhaozhou and Xindi one after another, and caravans were encouraged to go to Zhaozhou and Xindi. There is nothing in common. Start trading.

After finishing all this, Zeng Hua wrote a chapter for Yonghe's great victory in the west. inspected some loot, and then asked the envoys of Persia, Guishan, and Tianzhu to send deputy envoys to Jiangzuo Jianye to take a turn and respond to the scene. And at this time, there was earth-shattering news from Jiangzuo, Huan Wen did Huo Guangshi, abolished the emperor and set up Zeng Hua's father-in-law - King Huiji and Prime Minister Sima

It turned out that after listening to his younger brother Huan Chong's suggestion, Huan Wen felt that this was indeed a good idea, so he and Chao further agreed on a strategy. They discussed and discussed, and felt that the current emperor was not at fault, and that if they wanted to abolish him, they had to find a decent reason.

So he said that His Majesty the Emperor was impotent and had no children, and the three "princes" he gave birth to were born to the palace people Xianglong, Ji Hao and Zhu Lubao and others, and the beauties Tian and Meng, and declared that if one of these three children was established as a monarch in the future, the royal bloodline would be changed.

After the two thought about all the details, they divided the labor and cooperated, Huan Wen rushed back to Jianye from Guangling to the palace, and the super-dispatch people spread this "rumor" among the people and scholars.

When Huan Wen returned to Jianye, the entire Yangzhou people and scholars were in an uproar, so Huan Wen confidently asked to see the Empress Dowager Chu, and explained the situation, asked to change the prime minister Sima, and also hinted: "The benevolence of the king of Huiji is all over the world, and there is a unicorn son-in-law, should be established!" ”

Seeing that Empress Dowager Chu didn't dare to respond, Huan Wen took out the edict that had been drafted long ago for Empress Dowager Chu to approve. Empress Dowager Chu was forced to have no choice but to say: "I also have this suspicion." After hesitating for a long time, he picked up the pen and wrote a vague sentence on the edict: "The surviving people unfortunately suffer from this sorrow, and the feelings are still there, and the heart is like a cut." ”

After Huan Wen got the instructions of the Queen Mother, if he got the treasure, he immediately convened hundreds of officials of the court to discuss the abolition of the legislature. But this kind of thing is rare for hundreds of years, and everyone doesn't know how to do it. So I discussed and discussed, but I had no idea, and I didn't know what to do.

Huan Wen presided over the court meeting, and listened to everyone's discussions, but he didn't know what to do, and his heart was a little shaken. But on second thought, if this thing is messed up, he will be finished. So, Huan Wen was ruthless and named Wang Biaozhi to take the idea. Wang Biaozhi knew that the matter had reached this point, and he couldn't stop it, so he ordered someone to take "The Biography of Huo Guang", and according to the process of Huo Guang's abolition of Liu He, the king of Changyi, according to the etiquette. So he issued an edict in the name of the Empress Dowager Chu, abolished the current emperor as the king of the East China Sea, and Sima inherited the unification (that is, Emperor Jianwen in history).

Huan Wen went to see the new emperor in accordance with the ceremony, and originally wanted to explain the reason for the abolition of Yitong. Sima Gang experienced a great change, and his heart was panicked, and when he saw Huan Wen, he immediately burst into tears and didn't say anything. When Huan Wen saw Sima in tears, he knew that this person was also hard in the background, and he was very scared in his heart, and he couldn't say a word, so he had to quickly end the ceremony

Huan Wen then began to purge the dissidents. Because when Yin Hao died, he sent someone to hang him, but Yin Haodi's younger brother and son did not answer, nor did they thank Huan Wen back, and since then they have formed hatred, so Huan Wen found an excuse to kill Yin Hao's younger brothers in one go. Find a reason to kill Di Qian and others who have offended him.

After Huan Wen did these things, he wrote to the court and asked to return to the army. The imperial court promoted him to prime minister, and the great Sima remained unchanged, leaving him as an assistant in the capital. He resolutely refused, and then retreated to his aunt. As soon as I returned to my aunt, I heard that Zeng Hua had returned to Chang'an, and I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Zeng Hua was a little stupid when he received the edict, it seems that the old man Huan really wanted to do something big, and he actually started Huo Guang in the Jin Dynasty, and set up his father-in-law as the new emperor, so that he had nothing to say, it was really a good calculation. It seems that both of us have a clear heart, and we both know that the other party's ultimate goal is to pull the Sima family off the horse, but I care about you, and you care about me. But you do yours, I'll do mine.

Zeng Hua hurriedly put on a table, resolutely supported the decision of the important ministers of the court headed by Huan Wen, congratulated his father-in-law on his accession to the throne, and sent 500,000 silver yuan as a congratulatory gift.

Soon it was the golden autumn, and Zeng Hua asked for leave from the three provinces on the grounds that he needed to rest on the grounds that he had been fighting hard in the west for several years. And seeing that Wang Meng was in poor health due to hard work day and night, he forcibly asked Wang Meng to "automatically take leave and rest", and Zhang Shou acted as the governor of Pingzhang, Xie Shu acted as the governor, and Xun Xian assisted Zhang Shou, and the rest remained unchanged. And when Park saw that Zeng Hua was going on vacation, he immediately took leave and asked to follow Zeng Hua to "be happy".

In autumn and August, Zeng Hua's family, Wang Meng's and Pu's families, more than 30 people, accompanied by He Fudiyan and Valerliang, took the steamer of the First River Defense Fleet, along the Weishui and the Yellow River, all the way east, ready to go on vacation.