Li Xiuyun came and left. Just when Zhang Zhao was still reminiscing about the pain in his waist, Li Xiuyun left a letter and disappeared.
Only then did Zhang Zhao realize that Li Xiuyun's arrival had a profound meaning.
According to the rules for married women from powerful families at this time, one month before the wedding, a maid carefully trained by the family would be asked to sleep with the uncle for one night to make sure that there was nothing wrong with his body.
Of course there is nothing wrong with Zhang Zhao. Whether there is anything wrong with him, Cao Yanxi's sister Cao Sanniang must know that Zhang Zhao's two sons and one daughter cannot be fake.
But the old people from the Guiyi Army in Guasha and Shazhou are still willing to do this, which can only mean one thing.
It was because they had decided to place all their bets on Zhang Zhao that even a beauty of Li Xiuyun's background and appearance was willing to give her as a dowry.
In view of this, Zhang Zhao knew that he had to return to Dunhuang once to completely absorb all the power of Cao's Guiyi Army for his own use.
Just as Zhang Zhao was preparing to return to Dunhuang, envoys from the Central Plains court arrived one after another, all urging the tribute envoys from the rebel army to go on their way.
Zhang Zhao's grandfather Song Tongyi, who is already sixty-four years old, seems extremely energetic at this moment.
Ever since he arrived in Liangzhou and met Zhang Zhao, he had been exuding an aura of great comfort from the inside out all the time, and the smile on his face never stopped.
After the Shangyuan Festival, the Central Plains Later Jin court confirmed the reward for Zhang Zhao. His request for Qinzhou to return to Longyou, hundreds of workers and thousands of people, and Murong Nobunaga's marriage were all agreed.
The Central Plains court also allowed Hexi salt to be sold in Guanzhong, which was another huge amount of revenue.
However, while selling Hexi salt, Zhang Zhao also had to agree to sell Hexi horses to the court.
It was a trivial matter. Zhang Zhao thought about it and agreed.
Hexi horses do not specifically refer to sweat-blooded horses and broken-eared horses. Zhang Zhao only has a few thousand of these two types of horses. He will definitely not be able to do it, but he can still sell some of the equally good Liangzhou horses.
And the title of Zhang Zhao’s one-character king has also been decided, that is Han!
Hearing that Shi Jingtang wanted to make him the King of Han, Zhang Zhao was stunned for a long time and almost laughed out of anger.
He almost wanted to give twenty-four likes to Shi Jingtang or Sang Weihan for their intelligence.
According to the practice of selecting king titles for kings at this time, there are three one-character king titles that can be given to Zhang Zhao.
That is to say, Zhang Zhao's Hexi Longyou Jiedu ambassador was stationed in Liangzhou, and Zhang Zhao was granted the title of King of Liang.
If you choose based on Zhang Zhao's place of origin, you have two options.
Zhang Zhao's ancestral home was Nanyang. During the Warring States Period, most of the territory belonged to the Chu State and a small part belonged to South Korea, so there were two options: the King of Han and the King of Chu.
It would be very interesting to compare the meanings represented by the three king titles: King of Liang, King of Chu and King of Han.
Let’s talk about King Liang first. This king’s title is not an ancient kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, so it has always had a strong independent attribute.
Whether it is Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which disrupted the imperial court, or the Qianliang, Houliang, Northern Liang, and Southern Liang during the Sixteen Kingdoms and Southern and Northern Dynasties periods.
These Liang kings all have a common attribute, that is, they are basically lonely princes.
If Shi Jingtang gave the title of King of Liang to Zhang Zhao, wouldn't it be a disguised admission that Zhang Zhao, the King of Liang who sits in Longyou, Hexi, is still the king of vassals.
Then the return of the eighteen states to the country would become an empty talk, so Shi Jingtang directly rejected the title of King of Liang for the sake of face.
Let’s talk about the king of Chu. Chu was a great pre-Qin country. It was one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period and the seven heroes of the Warring States Period who aspired to the emperor of Zhou.
Qin, Chu, Qi, and Jin have always been the best words among the kings, especially the allusion of seeking the throne, which made Shi Jingtang feel very unhappy.
Then the title of King Han made Shi Jingtang very satisfied.
First of all, South Korea is also one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. You cannot say that it is not noble.
But apart from that, South Korea's performance in the Warring States Period can only be described with a series of miserable words.
Except for the destruction of the Zheng Kingdom after the three families were divided into the Jin Dynasty, and after the success of the Shen Buhui Reform during the period of King Han Zhao, Korea has been in a continuous struggle.
It is located in the land of the Four Wars. Anyone who rises will come and fight him to show his existence.
When the Wei State became stronger and seized the land west of Hexi, it brought Erguzi to South Korea.
The Qin State has become stronger. When it goes east to Hanguguan to attack the Wei State, it must also take the time to attack South Korea twice.
When Chu people go north, they will also be harassed.
Zhao Guo's Hufu cavalry and archery also wanted to beat South Korea to show their presence.
Wei Qi's struggle for hegemony led to the Battle of Maling, and South Korea had no choice but to become the victim and background.
The fight between Qin and Zhao led to the Battle of Changping, and South Korea was almost beaten with only half of its life left.
Among the Six Kingdoms, South Korea was the first to be destroyed by Qin.
It can be said that throughout the Warring States Period, South Korea was a weakling who was bullied by everyone, and was the ultimate victim of class bullying.
Everything about him reveals that this Han Han is a bastard! the taste of.
And this temperament is what Shi Jingtang wants to express.
Of course, what Zhang Zhao didn't know was that Shi Jingtang had already planned to pursue the title of King of Han, Li Sizhao.
This man is Li Keyong's adopted son, one of the legendary thirteen Taibao of King Li Jin.
In order not to confer the title of King of Liang and Chu to Zhang Zhao, Shi Jingtang deliberately changed Li Sizhao's posthumous title to King of Fenyang, just to leave Zhang Zhao with the title of King of Han.
"How dare this shameless emperor do this?"
Song Tongyi was angry. He felt that since his grandson returned to the eighteen states of Longyou in Hexi Province and had such great achievements, he should be the king of Chu instead of the king of Han.
Zhang Zhao also smiled coldly, you are playing dirty tricks, right? Originally, he wanted to not go too far, but now it seems that it is no longer possible to go too far, because the emperor is shameless.
But Zhang Zhao will not refuse the title of King of Han!
After all, he was a prince. He returned to his country with great righteousness, and acted selflessly on the surface. However, in the end, he was in conflict with the Central Plains court because of his royal title, which greatly damaged his image.
Moreover, he still has time and means to obtain the title of King of Chu or King of Liang, so he is not in a hurry to compete at this moment.
Therefore, what Zhang Zhao needs to do is to return to the eighteen states in Longyou, Hexi Province.
Zhang Zhao patted his grandfather Song Tongyi on the back, advised the old man not to be angry, and told Song Tongyi his thoughts.
Suddenly, the old man raised his head in shock, and for the first time, he had a new understanding of his grandson, whom he didn't know much about.
. . . .
In March of the fourth year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty (AD 938), Zhang Zhao's grandfather Song Tongyi served as the deputy envoy of the Guiyi Army. He also served as the Sima of the Marching Army in Longyou, Hexi Province, and served as the special envoy of the Eighteen Prefectures returning to the country.
He carried 300 tribute horses in Hexi, 600 Suwei Xiaoqi in Hexi, and 300 envoys from Tang'er, Zhuqiang, Dangxiang, Shatuo, Uighur, Longjia, Qiuci, and Dadan tribes in Longyou, Hexi.
It starts from Liangzhou, enters Lanzhou via Hongchiling, then takes Didao to Longxi, and finally enters Guanzhong from Tianshui.
Just one day after Song Tongyi passed by Qinzhou, a military rebellion broke out by Qinzhou's Xiongwu Army by coincidence.
Thousands of strong military fangs refused the imperial order and moved to Fengxiang. They occupied Shuya and expelled the military envoys sent by Qin Wang Li Congyu.
After hearing about this situation, Zhang Zhao personally led the rebel army with 7,000 horse and infantry troops from Weizhou to Qinzhou.
As for why King Zhang was in Weizhou, which was only a few dozen miles away from Qinzhou, that was mainly a coincidence.
After Zhang Zhao arrived in Qinzhou, he directly arrested the Ya soldiers and Ya generals who were leading the trouble, and "sent" them to Liangzhou, and then announced an amnesty for the soldiers.
The tooth soldiers of the Xiongwu Army and the people of Qinzhou, who did not have to leave their hometown, cheered thunderously. Then Zhang Zhao sent people to send Kang Fuli, the Jiedushi envoy of the Xiongwu Army, out of the country.
Kangfu cried, and with dozens of close followers, he gritted his teeth and said he was going to Tokyo to complain. However, the dozens of people with him walked slower than Song Tongyi's thousands of people.
At the end of April, Song Tongyi's special mission from Hexi Longyou returned to the country and stopped when it reached Chang'an.
At this time, the city of Chang'an escaped the rebellion. An Shenqi, the military governor of the Jinchang Army, was considered to be the most capable governor of the Five Dynasties.
Of course, the most important thing is that after Zhang Zhao opened up Hexi, the Silk Road finally began to operate well.
Although it is not comparable to the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, it has still improved a lot since the Anshi Rebellion.
Thanks to the Silk Road, Chang'an's economic vitality has recovered step by step.
The population is tens of thousands more than when Zhang Zhao left, and most of them are merchants from various places and talents from the silk weaving industry.
Outside Chang'an City, outside Kaiyuanmen, the Li Tang clan, Li Shouling, who has been presiding over the sacrifices to the emperors of the Li and Tang dynasties over the years, Guo Zhao, the sixth grandson of Fenyang King Guo Ziyi, and a large number of old and young people from the late Tang Dynasty are gathered outside Kaiyuanmen at this moment. waiting.
When I saw the banner of Zhang Zigui's army in the distance, the whole Kaiyuan was filled with thunderous cheers and the sound of drums was loud.
Most of the residents of Chang'an and even many Jinchang army tooth soldiers followed them to Kaiyuanmen.
They also cheered, and they didn't know why they were cheering? But I just feel happy.
When the delegation approached, Li Shouling and a dozen elders of Li Tang's clan lined up in a row to offer a large bowl of rice wine to Song Tongyi.
When Li Shouling walked towards Song Tongyi holding the wine bowl, the elders began to sing in unison.
"Yin Qijing is in the sun of Nanshan. What's wrong with this? No one dares or neglects it? Gentleman, come home! Come home!"
Yin Qijing is on the side of Nanshan Mountain. Why don't you dare to rest? Gentleman, cheer up, come home, come home!
Yin Qijing is under Nanshan Mountain. What's wrong with this? Why not avoid it? Gentleman of good cheer, come home, come home!"
This is "Guofeng. Zhao Nan. Yin Qijing". It is in the tone of a wife calling her husband who is serving abroad to come home.
The general idea is: The sound of thunder and the roar of thunder echo in the Xiangyang Peak of Nanshan Mountain. Why did you leave home now? Too busy to have any free time. My gentleman is so diligent! Come back soon and gather together.
This national style is so appropriate to use here.
The soldiers of Anxi, Hexi, and Longyou were not like brave and diligent gentlemen who guarded the country's borders. They fell into Tubo and never came back. Their relatives were so eager for them to return home.
Song Tongyi burst into tears instantly. He took the rice wine from Li Shouling and drank it all in one gulp.
At this time, behind Song Tongyi, Guo Tiance and Huixing monk Yang He, who represented Anxi Tang'er, came.
The only surviving members of the Zhang family representing Tang'er in Hexi are Zhang Huaiqing, who is of the Huai generation, and Cao Renrong, Cao Yijin's cousin.
Tang'er from Longyou represents Li Jianhou, the head of the Guzang Li clan, and Shen Nianban from the Shen family in Yangfei Valley, Liugu, Liangzhou.
Together, they stepped forward to support Song Tongyi, and they also began to sing and answer with the Book of Songs.
"Picking weeds and picking weeds, the weeds stop. When you say return, you say return, but they don't stop when you are old. It's because of the 玁狁 that the house is too much. It's because of the 玁灁. It's because of the 玁灁.
Picking weeds, picking weeds, the weeds are soft and soft. When I say return, I say return, and my heart also stops worrying. Worry is intense, hunger and thirst are present. Our garrison has not yet been decided, and the extravagant envoys have returned.
Picking weeds and picking weeds, the weeds have just stopped. It is said to be returned, it is said to be returned, and the year is also the end of Yang. The king's affairs are extensive, and there is no need to leave the office. Worried and guilty, I can’t do it!
.....
I have left the past, and the willows are still there. Now that I'm thinking about it, it's raining and snowing. The journey is slow, full of thirst and hunger. My heart is sad, but I don’t know how sad I am! "
Picking handfuls of weeds, the new shoots have grown. Talking about going home, talking about going home, the year is over again.
Having a home means not having a home, just to fight with the hawks. There is no time to sit down and fight with the eagle.
Picking handfuls of weeds, the weeds are tender and beginning to sprout. Talking about going home, I feel sad and worried.
My heart is burning with sadness, and I am so hungry and thirsty. It is difficult to decide on the defensive line deployment. Who can I trust to take the letter home?
.....
He rode four big stallions, the horses were tall and big. The general's majesty relies on the chariot, and the soldiers rely on it for cover.
The four horses are neatly arranged, and the fish skin quiver is withered and the bow is hanging. There will never be a day when we are not on guard, and when the military situation is urgent, we will not disarm!
Recalling that when we first set out for the war, the willow trees were still blowing in the wind. Now on the way back, heavy snow is flying all over the sky.
The roads were muddy and difficult to walk on, and we were thirsty and hungry. Full of sadness and sadness. Who can understand my sorrow?
There is absolutely nothing better suited to the mood of Anxi, Hexi, and Longyou than "Xiaoya. Picking Wei".
Why can't they go home? Isn't it just that you can't escape from an enemy like this?
Day after day, year after year, persevere in a desperate situation with no hope in sight.
It started from the first year of Emperor Yongtai of the Tang Dynasty, when Yang Zhilie, the governor of Hexi Province, died in battle in 765 AD.
After Zhou Ding, Yan Chao, Li Yuanzhong, Yang Xigu, Erzhu, and finally Guo Xin, the king of Wuwei County, there was an isolated city thousands of miles away, filled with white-haired soldiers.
I have left the past, and the willows are still there. Now that I'm thinking about it, it's raining and snowing.
Song Tongyi and others sang this sentence three times in a row, which made everyone burst into tears.
Suddenly, in the clear sky, a few wisps of dry and cold breeze blew, but within the time of a cup of tea, thin snowflakes drifted down.
Countless Chang'an people, led by Li Shouling and others, carried Song Tongyi and others along the dilapidated Suzaku Avenue to the Danfeng Gate of Daming Palace on foot.
There, with the money Zhang Zhao gave out when he left, Li Shouling and others built a family temple to worship the emperors of the Tang Dynasty outside Danfeng Gate.
If anyone could look down from the sky at this moment, almost everyone in Chang'an City would be alarmed. Countless heads of people were moving towards the Daming Palace from all directions in a dark mass.
Outside the Daming Palace, elegant music was played to commemorate the ancestors. In front of the memorial tablets of the twenty-one emperors and gods of Li and Tang Dynasties, under the witness of countless pairs of eyes, portraits in military uniforms were invited into this temple, which was a family temple. Accompany the sacrifice.
they are:
Yang Gongzhilie, the military governor of Hexi Province in the Tang Dynasty and deputy marshal of Hexi Province.
Yang Gongxiu Ming, the envoy of Hexi Jiedushi and Yinbeiting Jiedushi in the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty opened the Yitong Third Division, the Minister of the Ministry of Inspection and Industry, the Yushi doctor, the Hexi Jiedu observer, the Shazhou governor, Cai Guogong and Zhou Gongding.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Yitong was in charge of the Third Division, Shazhou Duzhi was the military envoy, and Shazhou was the governor of the Yan Gong Dynasty.
The Great Protector of the Beiting of the Tang Dynasty, the Yinbeiting Jieduzhidu Yingtian Hanhai and others envoys Yang Gong attacked the ancient times.
Erzhu Gong was the envoy of Jiedu of the Fourth Town of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty.
The Great Protector of the Beiting of the Tang Dynasty, the Governor of the Beiting of the Yin Dynasty, the Prince of Ningsai County, and Li Yuanzhong.
Zuo Pushe, the Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, the Imperial Censor, the Protector of Anxi, and the Jiedushi of the Four Towns were Guo Gongxin, the Prince of Wuwei County.
There are nine portraits in military uniform. This is the story of the Tang Dynasty Guzhong who has been holding on alone since the Tubo occupation of Anxi and Hexi.
They fought against Tibet from the first year of Emperor Suzong's reign (760) until the third year of Emperor Xianzong's reign (808), a total of forty-eight years.
From the boy who resisted to becoming an old man, even they did not give in in the end, and the descendants have been persisting hard.
After that, Gui Yijun became the successor.
After the nine-faced portrait was invited into the temple, Song Tongyi stood in front of the temple with tears in his eyes. He looked at the tens of thousands of Chang'an people and said.
"When I came here, the Ambassador of Longyou Jiedu in Hexi Province and the King of Wuwei County, Zhang Dawang, gave instructions to a certain person.
The officers and soldiers of Anxi, Hexi and Longyou have not forgotten their homeland and have returned home today. This is not only due to loyal ministers like Guo Xingong, the white-haired prince, but also to the contributions of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Anxi, Hexi and Longyou.
Although that happened two hundred years ago, and we don't even know their names, we can build a statue for them so that their souls can return to Chang'an, where they miss day and night! "
As soon as Song Tongyi finished speaking, the whole city was in a sensation, and countless people rushed to tell each other. After a while, the huge stone with the statue of the god was transported by countless Chang'an people.
A huge boulder weighing several thousand kilograms was rolled from outside the city across the entire Zhuque Street to the outside of the Daming Palace with only logs placed underneath.
Some people even laid out the beams they were planning to build at home on the ground to use as logs.
Sogdian merchants in the west of the city bought hundreds of sheep and hundreds of stones of corn to provide food.
The masons in the city spontaneously gathered together with their tools and began carving under the arrangements of the chief craftsman from Hexi.
In less than three days, a majestic statue of a soldier wearing armor and holding a spear guarding the border was erected outside the Daming Palace.
In front of the statue, a monument was erected with an inscription.
'Since the champions of the Han Dynasty conquered Qilian County in Houlie County and served the country in Zhangye, the heroes of the Han family who have pioneered Hexi in the past one thousand years have returned in spirit! '
An Shenqi did nothing and just watched quietly. When the statue was completed and even his Jinchang Army tooth soldiers were shaken and traumatized, he only said silently to his left and right.
"In the world, people's hearts are against each other. The general trend has been established. This wind is coming from the west of Hexi. We must follow the wind so that we can live up to this life!"
Among the crowd, Li Congsuo's second son Li Yongji was so shocked that his face turned pale. He sat down on the ground with all his strength and waved to his attendants to hurry back to Fengxiang Mansion.
"I'd like to tell you sir, the Prince of Wuwei County has become a great man. Even the Zhuang Temple when he was in Taiyuan can't compare with it!
Your Excellency, please return the people of Qinzhou, remove the checkpoints in Qinzhou and Fengxiang, and show kindness and kindness, so that my family, Li, may be able to preserve their wealth. "
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After several revisions, I am still not satisfied with it, but this is the only literary talent that Tiger has. In recent years, the stories of the Anxi Army and the Guiyi Army have gradually become known. Finally, they are no longer just a pair of lonely murals and cold words in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.
There are thousands of words to say, and I don’t know what to say, so I can only write two thousand more words. I wish all book friends a happy Dragon Boat Festival, and thank you for your subscription support.
