"Why did Mr. Erlang write about your father-in-law?" Lady Cao Sanniang laughed a few times and then asked. This was the first time Zhang Zhao saw her smiling so happily.
"Because a certain year is only nineteen, and King Ling Gong is already fifty-nine. A certain year is still strong and healthy, and King Ling Gong will be in another five years..."
Zhang Zhao didn't finish his words, but the meaning was obvious. He was only twenty-four in five years, and Cao Yijin was already sixty-four in five years.
In this era, and in a place where the Guiyi Army had to fight hard to maintain its four battles, since Zhang Yichao established the Guiyi Army, except for himself, no Jiedu envoy of the Guiyi Army had lived past the age of sixty.
"Yes! Erlangjun will be younger than Nunu in five years' time, let alone your Duke!"
Mrs. Cao Sanni stood up, bent her body on the table, stretched her head in front of Zhang Zhao's eyes, had red lips and a sharp nose, her peach blossom eyes were watery, and her two soft flesh were even. Spread on the table, it looks even more vast! '
"Moreover, I can also tell you that King Linggong's health is actually not very good. This year's alliance with the Hue Khan of Ganzhou was forced to go!"
Zhang Zhao suddenly understood and nodded, "So that's it. I'll explain that it's our Dunhuang Kingdom that suppresses the Ganzhou Uighurs. How could King Ling Gong condescend to go to Ganzhou!"
At this time, the biggest enemy of the Guiyi Army was the Ganzhou Uighurs in the east. Zhang Zhao's father, Zhang Chengfeng, failed in the war with the Ganzhou Uighurs and was chased to the gates of Dunhuang. He was forced to respect the Ganzhou Uighurs Tianmu Khan. After becoming a father, he lost his support and had to abdicate.
In addition, the Ganzhou Uighurs often blocked the tribute and trade routes from the Guiyi Army to the Central Plains court, so the conflict between the two sides was deep.
After the Cao family succeeded Zhang, in order to get rid of this humiliating status, Cao Yijin proposed to Ganzhou as an envoy of the Guiyi Army.
Married to Thien Mu Khan's daughter, Princess Thien, who is the aunt of the current Hue Khan Yao Ge Luo Renyu.
This allowed the Jiedushi of the Guiyi Army to become the genuine son of Ganzhou Uighur Tianmu Khan, and got rid of the humiliating position of being forced to recognize his father.
During the more than ten years of civil strife among the Uighurs in Ganzhou after the death of Tianmu Khan, Cao Yijin quickly seized the opportunity to conquer Ganzhou, and then married his daughter with Princess Li of Tianmu to Yao Geluo. Renyu's elder brother was the previous Ganzhou Khan Yao Geluo Aduoyu.
From then on, the Jiedu envoy of the Guiyi Army turned into the father-in-law of Ganzhou Uighur Khan. It was Ganzhou Khan's turn to be the son and Cao Yijin was the father.
For more than ten years, the positions of father and son have been reversed, which is a small avenge.
Although Aduoyu was a short-lived ghost and did not serve as Cao Yijin's father-in-law for a few years, the situation in which the Guiyi army was strong and Ganzhou was weak had already formed.
Therefore, if there is a normal alliance, it should be the Hue Khan Yao Geluo Renyu of this generation of Ganzhou Uighurs who comes to Dunhuang, not Cao Yijin who goes to Ganzhou.
But after hearing the secret revealed by Cao Sanniang, everything made sense. The reason why the Ganzhou Uighurs were at a disadvantage was not that they were weaker than the Guiyi Army, but that Cao Yijin was very capable and brought the Ganzhou Uighurs to I was so scared.
But this kind of advantage, which is entirely based on the king's personal ability, is not solid.
In recent years, Ganzhou Uighurs have begun to jump up and down again. This is because Cao Yijin was not in good health and could not manage politics for a long time.
That's why Cao Yijin ignored his health and rushed to Ganzhou this time. This was to tell the Ganzhou Uighurs that I am still in good health. Don't fucking jump. Whoever jumps will be beaten.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao was not in a good mood, and he let out a long sigh, even though it was Cao Yijin who overthrew Zhang Chengfeng as emperor.
But in fact, this was not what Cao Yijin deliberately promoted, but after Zhang Chengfeng recognized the Ganzhou Uighur Khan as his father, the Jinshan Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty could no longer be maintained.
As for Cao's replacement of Zhang, it can almost be said to be a bloodless coup, except for Qi Xiaohu's father Qi Jiarun who led the imperial army to resist a little, and Zhang Chengfeng's eldest son, Zhang Chengfeng, who was suffering from dysentery. Zhao's brother Zhang Xuan was frightened and his illness worsened and he died.
Even Zhang Huaiqing of the Zhang family in Nanyang, Zhang Chengfeng's cousin, Zhang Yichao's nephew, and Zhang Yichao's cousin grandnephew, Dusengtong Zhang Xishou, and Zhang Liangzhen, the envoy in charge of the inner and outer capitals in Yaqian, did not resist, of course. It was not liquidated afterwards.
In the end, the only unlucky ones in this coup were Zhang Zhao, the two-year-old remnant, and Qi Xiaohu and others.
From Zhang Zhao's point of view, he had reason to resent Cao Yijin, because his father Zhang Chengfeng died of depression two years later, and he himself was under surveillance for more than ten years and deprived of all power.
But from the perspective of the majority of the Guiyi Army, they all benefited from this coup. Without Cao Yijin’s strong support after taking power, only the Guiyi Army in Guasha and Shazhou could still suppress Ganzhou. The Uighur would have probably exploded on the spot and ceased to exist.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, has not yet reached the age of ears, so why is your health suddenly in trouble? This is really bad news! We, Tang'er, have just lived a few years of peace, are we going to have another chaos?"
Lady Cao Sanni looked at Zhang Zhao's expression carefully in front of him. After a while, she sat back down again, her expression even more excited.
"Now I feel even more that Erlangjun will definitely achieve great things. At least if I were Erlangjun, I would only be secretly happy that your majesty is going to the west, and I would never think it is bad news.
Erlangjun can have this kind of mind, can have this understanding, and not be blinded by personal grudges, and not lose his judgment because of hatred, this is what the wise kings of ancient times were like! "
"Mingjun?" Zhang Zhao grinned, "Are you making fun of me, Miss Sanniang? I have a team of less than a hundred people now, and I am so shameless when I call myself a captain. How can I start talking about Mingjun!" "
"I didn't make fun of Mr. Erlang! Because Mr. Erlang doesn't know the responsibility he should bear yet!"
Mrs. Cao Sanni still had a serious expression on her face, "Now our Dunhuang Kingdom looks prosperous and powerful, but in fact it is already in danger, because the core of the Dunhuang Kingdom is only more than 100,000 Hexi Tang'er and more than 60,000 Chinese millet. Special people.”
"So few!" Zhang Zhao was shocked!
According to Zhang Zhao's memory and the speculations of later generations, the core members of the Guiyi Army at this time should be more than 300,000!
Among them, Hexi Tang'er, the core one, must have at least 200,000 people. Otherwise, it would not be able to support 10,000 elite soldiers, and it would not be possible to guarantee the dominant position of Han culture in Guasha. He never expected that the number of Hexi Tang'er would be so high. Less than half as expected.
“The war with the Ganzhou Uighurs twenty years ago really damaged our vitality.
In the Dunhuang Tang Dynasty, every family wore mourning and every household mourned. More than a thousand of the ten thousand elites died in the battle. Later, the whole country was forced to fight, and the young men suffered even more heavy losses! "
Lady Cao Sanniang gave a bitter smile, with tears in her eyes. Zhang Zhao was not born yet at that time, but Lady Cao Sanniang was already nine years old and could remember things.
"The uncle's family on the left side of the slave's family, Suo's family, all the men were recruited. Eleven members of the family went, and only three came back.
What a good son Sozaburo is! This cousin of the slave is familiar with the meaning of the scriptures, can shoot a hard bow, understands the rhythm, and is good at playing and erecting the konghou.
When I was young, my mother always asked me with a smile, how about marrying my third cousin when I grow up? "
Speaking of this, Cao Sanniang's face suddenly changed, and even her peach blossom eyes radiated infinite evil spirit and sadness due to extreme anger and pain.
"When I saw my third cousin again, he was already a headless corpse. His head was cut off by the Yue people and has not been found to this day. The hands that were good at playing and raising the harp were also smashed by a hammer. Got it!
That year, he was only fifteen years old! I almost forgot what he looked like! "
Speaking of this, Cao Sanniang's tears were rolling down her cheeks and she couldn't stop crying.
Note: Xianxian Ju is the disparaging name given to the Ganzhou Uighurs by the Guiyi Army, which means short-legged and hairy monkeys.
