Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Crowd Stirred Up
The light of day poured through the windows and the carpet, and the room finally fell silent after a long night's noise. The two of them were lying on the bed in a large shape, the quilt was covered on their chests, drenched and panting, and there was no image at all.
Sheng Ji looked at Fang Liang with empty eyes, and muttered weakly: "I thought that this day might come, but I didn't expect to come so early...... Thinking about it now, it still feels too sudden. ”
Li Ye laughed tired and proudly, "Everything came suddenly, in fact, the boat went straight to the bridge." ”
The physique of the great monk is different, some wounds can be recovered in a blink of an eye, and the first night can be tossed all night. Li Ye, the old man, has been ploughing the land almost all night, no matter how vigorous his energy is, he can't withstand such heavy labor, and now he doesn't even bother to move his fingers.
The two girls who were eavesdropping outside the window, after more than an hour of arguments, finally felt bored and dispersed together. Now I don't know if I've come over, Li Ye still thinks that someone will serve him to wash up.
Sheng Ji lifted a snow-white arm from the quilt, leaned on Li Ye's cheek with a punch without looking at it, and pressed his smug laughter down, "Don't laugh, let me sleep for a while." Don't call me if the meal is not ready...... It has to be a meal that you cooked. I've got to make up for it today. ”
"......" Li Ye felt that he was the one who needed to make up for it.
The absurdity was not staged in the daytime, and after Li Ye rested a little, he got up and called the young priest whose eyes were full of curiosity and resentment to come in and serve and wash.
Prepare the hot water in the bathtub, this girl actually looked disgusted, the sweat towel was not easy to take, and the two fingers were twisted, and they passed casually on Li Ye's back and shoulders, which was considered wiping. After Li Ye pinched her delicate and small face seven or eight times in a strange way, she barely became honest.
The military newspaper kept coming after Li Ye had eaten. After Shangguan Chengcheng occupied Weizhou, he scattered his 100,000 soldiers and horses in units of 5,000 people, and was led by the disciples of the soldiers to attack the city and plunder the land, and he personally led the main force of the Wolf Tooth Army to Minzhou.
Half a month later, the six or seven Hexi prefectures around Minzhou and the south were all captured by 100,000 troops. After Shangguan fell into Minzhou, he just saw Li Ye in a hurry, and then led the army to the north to defend the dangerous pass.
The territory of the Moon God Sect of the Six Valleys of Tubo in Hexi Province was lost nearly half of it in less than a month, and as the military information spread all over Hexi, all the Tibetan tribes were shaken.
Although Tibet originated from the plateau, the plateau is an extremely poor place, and there are very few places to live. The environment could not afford the large-scale multiplication of the Tibetan people, and the royal city in the plateau valley was not as large as a state city in the west of the river.
Speaking of the many Tibetan tribes, in fact, the number of each tribe is very small, and most of them live not much like savages, except for the fierce, there is no merit. Those Tubo people who claimed to be nobles basically did not live as well as an ordinary small landlord in Zhongyuan Prefecture.
It was the Tubo that conquered Hexi, and the main forces migrated here. Li Ye thought to himself, as long as the Tubo people in Hexi were solved, the Liugu Department and the Wen Mo Department, the forces of the Tubo tribes on the plateau would be no different from grass mustard in front of his army of monks.
Hexi changed drastically, and the news was transmitted back to Guanzhong, which immediately set off waves in the government and the opposition.
Li Yan rarely went back to the court, and as soon as he sat on the throne during the court meeting, his buttocks were not hot, and he was so shocked by the generosity and heroism of the officials who invited the palace to fight that he got up from his seat.
Looking at their red-eyed eyes, teeth and claws, how can there be any important minister's manners, and they are almost no different from tigers and wolves. This makes people have no doubt that even a civilian official who is not good at cultivating for combat strength can pounce on the Tubo warrior and bite a mouthful of blood.
Datang has endured Tibet for a long time!
The Tang people have hated Tibet for too long!
The two sides have long been like the sea!
Since the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty border air defense was weak, and Tubo rushed down from the plateau like a vicious dog, seizing part of the Western Regions and the entire Hexi. The hands of the Tubo people were stained with the blood of the Tang border army and the people, especially the old incident of the capture of Chang'an, which left a monstrous mark of shame on the hearts of the proud Tang people.
Now King An has recovered the seven states of Hexi in the blink of an eye with only a few monks and 100,000 soldiers and horses, which is unprecedented in the spirit of the Tang people.
Together with King An, counterattack Hexi! Counterattack Tubo!
Shame on the snow, it's now!
This is the voice of every hot-blooded Tang Dynasty person at the moment.
The fierce tide formed by this fierce emotion soon swept from Guanzhong to the Central Plains, Hebei, Jianghuai, Jiangnan, Chudi, and even all the counties of Datang Prefecture.
After the excitement of the crowd, it is the heart of the four seas, and the hearts of the Tang people are once again brought together. Loyal to the imperial court to serve the country, after experiencing the disappointment of the Huangchao Rebellion and the chaos of the competition for hegemony, it has once again become the heartfelt pursuit of people with lofty ideals, and the first choice for hot-blooded children to realize the value of life.
Under these circumstances, Li Ye's popularity quickly climbed a big step.
The most direct effect was that the garrisons and generals he sent to the Central Plains, Huainan and the territories of various small princes were greatly supported, and the transfer of power and military and political affairs went exceptionally smoothly.
Although Li Ye was far away in Minzhou, he also felt this trend that manpower could not resist.
The power of the people's luck converged on him like a wave, and the speed, intensity, and scope were so fast that he could hardly believe it.
Especially today, when Li Ye's personal luck is gradually integrated with the fortune of the imperial dynasty, the impact on him when the power of the people's luck gathers makes him feel even more shocked from the heart.
According to this situation, Li Ye felt that the Golden Immortal Realm was already close at hand.
"I thought that in order to make most of the people return to their hearts, it was necessary to completely subdue Hexi, but I didn't expect that this was just a good start, and it caused such a strong reaction from people all over the world. It seems that I was wrong before, underestimating the Tang people's yearning and expectation for the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but as long as they see a little hope, they will burst out with unimaginable power......"
Li Ye thought so.
He re-acquainted himself with the brave Tang people, and also realized what the glory of the Tang Dynasty was.
That is a kind of temperament that even if I can't eat enough myself, as long as the alien race dares to set foot in our land, I will not hesitate to twist the knife and give up my own one-third of an acre to rush forward desperately.
It's not very rational, it's just heroic.
The people who live in this land have not yet become sheep in this era, far from it.
They were just tired of the civil strife in the feudal towns, so no matter how Li Ye was successful in the country before, he could never quickly gain the loyalty of most of the people. They are just too eager to shame and Yang Wei from the outside, so Li Ye has only recovered some states and counties a little now, and he has received such a strong gift.
Li Ye felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
There are good feelings, and there are bad ones.
The luck of the people in the Tang Dynasty gathered explosively and quickly, but the luck of the Han people in Hexi was less than he expected.
Much less.
Li Ye soon felt that the luck of the Han people in Hexi was not completely unmoved, but it was as if a layer of clouds had been covered over their heads, making them seem to be stuck in a quagmire.
The luck of the Han people in Hexi is related to the victory or defeat of the battle between him and the Son of the Moon God Sect, which is not trivial, and Li Ye does not dare to be careless.
As soon as his mind moved, Li Ye's consciousness suddenly spread far away, turning into hundreds of eyes to observe the situation of the Han people everywhere.
This is also the ability he has just obtained, and it is a new means for the emperor to observe the common people in the world after recovering the seven states of Hexi and the emperor's cultivation to a higher level.
......
Lanzhou, in the north of Minzhou, has always been an important place in Hexi, and Jincheng County is its state seat.
The Zhangjia family in Jincheng County is a rare Han family here, and the genealogy can be traced back to the end of the Han Dynasty. For hundreds of years, the Zhang family has experienced several declines in Jincheng County, and now it can still stand, relying not only on the cultivation of good exercises, but also on the four words "cultivating and reading heirlooms".
Zhang Zhongli is over 60 years old, and it has been many years since he relieved himself of the burden of being the head of the family, and now in addition to reading and writing every day, he is playing with a few acres of thin fields cultivated in the backyard.
As the sun set, Zhang Zhongli, who had a lot of dirt stains on his linen, came out of the field with a hoe on his back, and stepped into the yard with the last rays of the sun.
Along the way, he gently beat his back with his thin hand from time to time.
Entering the Moon Gate, seeing the middle-aged man standing and waiting in the courtyard, there was a smile in the wrinkles in the corners of Zhang Zhongli's eyes, "You, the head of the family, have not come to see me, a useless old man, for a few days, what good things happened today?"
Zhang Xun, a middle-aged man, is the eldest son of Zhang Zhongli and the current head of the Zhang family.
In the face of Zhang Zhongli's ridicule, Zhang Xun asked solemnly after saluting seriously: "Yesterday, my father met with several old people from big families, and they talked for a long time in the secret room.
Zhang Zhongli put the hoe in the corner of the wall, patted the dirt and dust on his body with a dry rag, and then looked at Zhang Xun, "This is the reason why you can't wait to ask the old man if you don't wait for the old man to sit down and take a breath, and you don't serve tea and say hello?"
Zhang Xun's face changed slightly, he knelt on the ground without hesitation, and bowed to Zhang Zhongli, his tone was not without sadness, eagerness, and anxiety: "Father! Son knows, you have always cherished the Han dynasty in your heart, when Zhang Yichao was rising, you ignored the great power of Lanzhou Tubo, and led the clansmen to unite several major families to raise troops in response, and fought with the Tubo people for three days and three nights, and still stormed the city lord's mansion under the unfavorable situation of the war, and even a kidney was picked up by the Tubo people's long knife...... But it is because of this that the Zhang family has ...... over the years"
"Shut up!"
Zhang Zhongli suddenly shouted angrily, and his old bark-like face turned red in an instant, "What the old man did back then, he was worthy of the court, his conscience, and his ancestral teachings, and he was also a rebel who can comment on it?!"
After saying a word, his body shook, his eyes turned black, and he reached out to hold the pillar so that he didn't fall.
In the bloody war that year, he lost a kidney, and he was also covered with wounds, his foundation was greatly damaged, and there was not much left of his cultivation, and his body was even worse day by day over the years. Under the rage, where can he, who has just returned from the field, withstand it?
"Father!"
Seeing Zhang Zhongli's appearance, Zhang Xun exhaled sadly, his face was full of tears, he walked to the other party's feet, hugged the other party and cried bitterly: "Father! The son knows that you have already heard the news that the imperial court sent troops to Hexi this time, and when you meet your uncles, you also want to respond again, but it can't be done! The people of Tubo are powerful, and the Moon God Sect is in full swing, so we must not disobey them, otherwise we will suffer a catastrophe!"
Zhang Yichao was recalled to Chang'an by the imperial court, called promotion, but in fact, it was surveillance, the Guiyi army declined in a blink of an eye, the Tubo people made a comeback, our Zhang family men were slaughtered, the family property was swept away, and there were some thin fields left to barely make ends meet...... If it weren't for the fact that the major families still had some popular support, the Zhang family would have ceased to exist a long time ago, how could they survive until now?
"Father, in recent years, there have been many masters of the Moon God Sect, and the Son of God has already communicated with the Moon God, which is a sign of great success. Please listen to my son's advice, King An can't win, even if he gains something for a while, he will only be the same as Zhang Yichao, you don't have extravagant hopes anymore, otherwise the family will not recover......"
Hearing this, Zhang Zhongli couldn't bear it anymore, a mouthful of old blood spurted out, his eyes closed, and his body fell directly.
"Father, father......"
Zhang Xun, who hurriedly picked up Zhang Zhongli and walked into the house, didn't notice that at this moment, an invisible and ignorant eye in mid-air was watching this scene.