Zhang Yan was still very happy after taking care of the Han family in Yutian.
The talents of the Han family are far more than just Han Kuangsi and Han Kuangmei. Historically, Han Kuangsi's father, Han Zhigu, had eleven sons, all of whom left their names in the history of the Liao Dynasty.
This is not simple. You must know that the Khitan, as a regime from outside the Great Wall, is not very concerned about the compilation of history.
After the fall of Khitan, Chen Daren of the Jin Dynasty and Prime Minister Tuo Tuo of the Yuan Dynasty compiled the history of Liao Dynasty respectively. Many historical materials were obtained from the records of envoys sent to the Liao Kingdom in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The only historical data of the Khitan people is the seventy volumes of Liao Shilu written by Yelu Yan, the shameless man who became a Privy Councilor by throwing dice and sent his wife to the palace for Yelu Hongji to play with.
As a non-historian, he records the 218 years of the Liao Dynasty in just 70 volumes, of which the emperors occupy most of the space.
And the eleven Han brothers can still find descriptions and get a glimpse of their lives. This can completely explain the abilities of the Han brothers, and of course it can also explain the reputation of the Yutian Han family in Khitan.
This is the family that Zhang Yan could find. Among the half-breeds whose father is Han and whose mother is Khitan, they are the most capable and the best able to complete his mission.
As for having Han Derang and Han Dewei accompany them to the capital of God for reading, it was naturally a carrot hanging in front of the stubborn donkey of the Han family.
If they can complete Zhang Yan's task of annihilating Liaoze, or at least ensure smooth traffic from Liaodong to West Liaoning, the next generation of the Han family will naturally be able to enter the center of the empire.
For example, it is not impossible for someone with Handerang's ability to be his son-in-law.
Anyway, I, Zhang Shengren, have eleven daughters now, and I’m afraid I may have twenty or thirty in the future, so I don’t have to worry about not having any daughters to marry.
Looking at the Han brothers leaving in a hurry, Zhang Hao sighed slightly.
To be honest, the Han brothers have made great contributions to Yuerluobian, but they are not rewarded much for their contribution. They also force others to cultivate Liaoze and use their children to draw big cakes. This is somewhat unkind.
But there is nothing we can do. The weather is gradually getting warmer. In a few decades, after this little ice age, which is not very cold, has passed. Based on the situation in Liaoze, the difficulty of reclamation will be more than a hundred times greater than now.
At least now in Liaoze, there are not as many dragonflies and mosquitoes as recorded by later generations of Jin people. The weather's suppression of these things is still very powerful.
If such an opportunity is missed and future generations come to reclaim Liaoze, it will really cost lives.
To put it more cruelly, although people's lives are being taken now, those are the lives of the Khitans, Xi people, Shiwei people, and Jurchens. I, Zhang Shengren, really don't feel sorry for me.
Showing a hint of soft-heartedness that had not been seen for a long time, Zhang Shengren immediately switched back to the emperor mode in the next second.
If you don't cheat the Han brothers, who else can you cheat? If you don't cheat them, then the Han people will have to fill the hole in Liaoze.
Don't cheat the Han brothers. Once the four to five million Khitan people who have lost their comfortable life accumulate resentment to a certain level and detonate it, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people will be killed or injured in order to calm it down. Now this will be counterproductive It's saving their lives.
right! I'm saving their lives! I, Zhang Shengren, nodded fiercely.
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The north wind whistled, and Zhang Yan wrapped himself in a robe. It can be said that this expedition to Mobei achieved a perfect result.
His five armies marched together and strangled them like a net from west to east. Not only did they solve the big problem of Shuluping, they also swept away the four tribes of Zubu, Dalimi, Yefugua and Dilie, and severely damaged Merqi. people.
All the restless guys on the grassland were beheaded, except for the missing Huluba of Meerqi, who was not found. It can be said that the troubles on the grassland in the past twenty years have been perfectly solved.
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Twenty years later, the Six Methods Sect is estimated to have established a firm foothold on the grassland.
Then use the method of the Western Expedition to arm the herdsmen in southern and northern Monand, and let them go to the Yi Bohai (Lake Balkhash) and the coast of the West Sea (Caspian Sea) to feed the Kipchaks, Kimaks, and Bashkirs. People are the masters.
Of course, the most ideal thing is to let these herders join the Zhou army's cavalry on an expedition to the grasslands of Eastern Europe.
Go and conquer the Volga Bulgarian Khanate, the Khazar Khanate, Kievan Rus, and the Principality of Novgorod.
With so many tribes and khanates, there can always be room for unsettled elements from southern Mon, northern Mo, and even the Central Plains.
Especially the Khazar Khanate, which is the ancestor of European nomads. It is said that it is somewhat related to the descendants of Attila. The names Cossack and Kazakh come from the Khazars.
It must have been an interesting thing to conquer the nomadic peoples thus attributed to the Huns, to the Western Turkic race, and then drive them to attack Central Europe and Asia Minor!
After being silly for a while, Zhang Hao couldn't help but sigh as he felt the horrible weather.
Everything was good about this Mobei expedition. The only bad thing was that they were originally planning to conquer Shi Yanran, but ended up hastily because they had to seize the time to conquer the eight enemy tribes in the east.
Now we can finally seal the wolf to Xu, but the weather has turned cold and the soldiers under his command are still wearing single clothes, so they have no choice but to return.
Most of these things have been completed, but there is always one last shudder, and it is inevitable to feel quite unhappy.
"Saint, saint! What a happy event!"
Zhang Hao looked up and saw Li Fang and Yuan Cong running over with a big smile and dancing excitedly.
Zhang Hao glanced at Li Fang with confusion, "What happy event is this? It makes you, Li Mingyuan, so excited."
Li Fang even betrayed Zhang Hao, "The saint will know it when he goes back and takes a look. I can only say that the king of Liaoyang County sent someone here."
Zhang Hao immediately got on his horse. Murong Nobunaga usually would not send people to look for him on the grassland. What happened?
And from Li Fang's point of view, it's still a good thing.
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Sure enough, you could tell as soon as you got back. Before Zhang Hao arrived at his tent, he saw dozens of carriages unloading things. When he walked in, he saw that there were cotton coats one by one.
Seeing Zhang Gao come back, Li Cunhui happily took the hand of a general and came to find Zhang Gao.
"Sir, Murong Erlang has sent us some good things. Eight thousand pieces of cotton-padded clothes, as well as a large amount of rice and noodles, enough to give us a good meal after eating dried meat for several months."
At this time, the general who was held by Li Cunhui quickly knelt down on one knee to report.
"I have the commander of Lin Wei, White Horse and Silver Spear on your right, and Li Hanqiong, the Marquis of Yu on your right in the office of the Prince of Liaoyang County, come to see the saint.
I was ordered by the prince of Liaoyang to escort eight thousand sets of cotton clothes to dedicate to the saint. I also had a memorial written by the king and presented it to your majesty. "
Zhang Hao let out a long sigh and looked at the blood stains on some cotton-padded clothes that hadn't even been cleaned yet, and felt warm in his heart.
"The Nobunaga knows me! He knows that I failed to go to Langjuxu Mountain to enshrine me, and he will definitely feel unwilling to do so, so he immediately sent me the cotton clothes."
With that said, Zhang Yan showed one of the cotton-padded clothes to Li Cunhui, Li Fang, Huang Yingda and other civil servants and generals.
"Look, there are still blood stains on this cotton coat. It must have been taken off directly from the body by the Youyu Lin Guards, Anton Zhen and Liaoyang Palace Guards."
When everyone saw that it was indeed the case, they were all extremely moved. Li Fang, a man like him, even glanced at Zhang Hao one more time. He knew why the emperor sighed.
Such a good son, why isn't he his biological son?
If he were his biological son, if he was more than ten years younger, he would be the perfect successor.
With the ability of the Liaoyang County Prince, if he can serve as the foundation of the country and inherit the dynasty, then this great Zhou Dynasty will be the father and son of the lord, far surpassing all previous dynasties.
It's a pity that one is not a biological child, and the other is only seven years apart from the emperor. It is destined that he will not be able to become the prince.
"In the draft of the decree, the Jin Dynasty granted Murong Guiying, Marquis of Guazhou, the title of Duke of Jinta County, and granted him the title of Grand Lieutenant of the Inspection School. He was also given the privilege of being admitted to the imperial court, forbidden to serve in the palace, and given food to 400 households.
Murong Chengdao was posthumously given the title of Prince of Qinghai County, and the Ministry of Rites was ordered to rebuild the tomb in Guazhou and build it according to the princely etiquette system.
The Jin Dynasty granted Yongle the title of Princess of England, with a settlement of 3,000 households, but the actual number was 200. "
Murong Guiying is Murong Nobunaga's grandfather. He is now living in Kaifeng Mansion, Tokyo, with a marquis' salary to support his old age.
However, due to the large number of descendants, even if Murong Nobunaga often provided aid, life was still a bit tight. Now that there are 200 more households and they can receive the salary of the county government, it should be much better.
Murong Chengdao is Murong Nobunaga's father who died young. When he passed away, Nobunaga's son could not speak and had no official position. His tomb was relatively shabby. Now Zhang Xian has given a posthumous title to the king and rebuilt the tomb, which can be regarded as a longing for Murong Xin. .
As for Yongle, although she is called a princess, she is a princess of the Later Tang Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty does not recognize her. Now that Jin has been granted the title of princess, I am afraid she will go crazy with joy if she finds out.
Moreover, her surname was Li, and according to the regulations, she could not be named a princess, so she had to formally worship her father-in-law Zhang Sheng as her adoptive father.
Forehead! Ethics comes again. In this way, Murong Nobunaga and his wife the British Princess (Princess Yongle) are brothers and sisters in name, haha!
Zhang Shengren, with a strange smile on his face, opened Murong Nobunaga's memorial, glanced at it for a few times, and then excitedly said to everyone.
"I'm still wondering why Shuluping only brought three or two thousand Shiwei, Tieli and other tribal soldiers, and none of the Jurchens were seen.
It turns out that before we conquered the eight enemy tribes in the east, the king of Liaoyang County had personally sent more than 10,000 cavalry to the north to conquer and appease the Wei and Jurchen clans.
Even the officials who Lu Ping had left east of the Daxianbei Mountains had already fallen to the ground and asked to surrender. "
Now Li Cunhui had to admire him. Murong Erlang was indeed a very thoughtful person.
This attack not only alleviated the pressure of the army in conquering Mobei, but also showed his loyalty to his adoptive father, the emperor, and he did not feel complacent because of Jin's title of county prince and the opening of his mansion.
In fact, Murong Nobunaga also said one thing. He recommended Wang Pu to Zhang Xuan, and presented Wang Pu's border strategy and suggestions for governing Andong Province.
Murong Nobunaga believed that Wang Pu was talented enough to serve as a central minister in the imperial court. It would be a huge waste to follow him in Andong Province and perhaps go to Japan in the future.
Zhang Gao closed the memorial and looked at Wang Pu's border policy. In particular, his opinions on how to rule the Andong Province where the Khitan was based, actually coincided with Zhang Gao's.
For example, we cannot let the Khitans, Xi people, etc. directly return to their hometowns to develop Liaoze and so on.
Wang Pu even went a step further and proposed the establishment of a military camp, which was a kind of construction corps. The Khitan and Xi people should be militarized first and their wildness could be eliminated before they could be treated as common people.
He was indeed a great talent. After seeing the border policy, Zhang Hao remembered who Wang Pu was. He was Guo Rong's mastermind in history and the most trusted civil servant of Zhou Shizong.
If ordinary people were to talk about this, or if they met a petty emperor like Jiajing or Kang Mazi, they would most likely think that Murong Nobunaga was someone who wanted to stuff himself into the center.
But Zhang Yan knew that Murong Nobunaga definitely did not have that idea. This guy really thinks it's a pity that Wang Pu followed him to Japan.
It seems that Wang Pu is trusted by Xin Changer!
At the end of the memorial, Murong Nobunaga also expressed the hope that Zhang Yan would allow him to activate Han Yanhui to help stabilize the place.
Han Yanhui was the founding minister of the Khitan and the right-hand man of Yelu Abaoji. Han Yanhui single-handedly established the mixed situation of Hu and Han in the Khitan. He was the most important and capable among the Han officials of the Liao Kingdom.
But for such an important minister, Zhang Yan estimated that Murong Nobunaga might not be able to move him for a while.
"Calling Han Yanhui, Han Deshu and his son to Chengde Mansion before February next year."
Zhang Yan decided that since Murong Nobunaga wanted to use Han Yanhui, it would be better to recruit him himself.
Wang Pu should also stay in Liaoyang first. There is no reason for a father to compete with his son for his ministers.
