In the eleventh year of the Great Zhou Dynasty and Shaoming Dynasty, 957 AD, it was the winter month.
Some of the drunken deputy privy envoys, General Lin Wei on the right wing, the defense ambassador of the Batang and Hehuang provinces, the investigation and disposal ambassador of the Seven Prefectures of Batang, the general manager of the Tianzhu expedition camp, and the Duke of Wei Li Cunhui were riding in the emperor's car.
Guided by the Jinjia Luan Yiwei, who was in charge of the emperor's travel ceremonial guard, he returned to his Duke Wei's mansion.
Oh, we can no longer call Li Cunhui the Duke of Wei. At the palace banquet that just welcomed him, the adoptive father-in-law Emperor had already personally canonized him as the Prince of Xiping County.
This is the first prince in the inner vassal, which is enough to show his great contribution to Li Cunhui.
As for what this credit is?
Emperor Shaoming of the Great Zhou Dynasty specifically allowed a five-foot-long iron halberd to be erected in front of his palace. The head swaying left and right in the wind was speaking silently.
In the eighth year of Shaoming Dynasty, Li Cunhui, with the support of Guo Tiance, completed the investigation of the border areas from Tubo to Tianzhu, Leh City, Gar, Purang, Manjusri City (Kathmandu, Nepal), Rongba Tiancheng (Gangtok, Sikkim), Paro (Southwest of Thimphu, Bhutan) and other seven provinces.
These seven major mansions range from Gilgit, Pakistan in the later Pamir Plateau in the west, to the southwest of Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, in the east. The number of soldiers stationed in each mansion ranges from 1,000 to 4,000 households, for a total of 21,000 households.
The big mansion has military and horse supervisors, and the small mansion has soldiers and horses, and Yuhou. The soldiers in each mansion are given five war horses, fifteen yaks, and eighty sheep. As for the land, as long as you are willing to cultivate it, you can get as much as you want.
At the same time, apart from paying a certain amount of money to the court every year, each household of the soldiers did not have any taxes. On the contrary, they also received salaries from the court every year, and occasionally received royal rewards.
The only thing they have to do is to prepare their own weapons, obey the orders, and be ready to fight at any time.
However, the military supervisors and military governors of these seven major mansions are only responsible for military matters, while civil affairs and administration are in the hands of the local Liufa Sect's great virtues.
At the same time, among the great virtues of the Liufa Sect, the military supervisors, and the military governors of the Seven Prefectures, seven were directly Han, five had close ties with the Han region, and only two were promoted from the local area.
There are also many Tibetans from Dafeichuan, Hehuang Valley, and Songpan Prefecture who are loyal to the imperial court.
This is no small project. It is a full four thousand miles from west to east, and most of it is in areas with relatively harsh environment and climate.
Li Cunhui traveled a total of at least eight thousand miles in two years before assisting Liufa Sect in establishing the soldiers of seven prefectures.
In addition, it can also be seen from the place names that although these places belonged to the Tubo Empire when Tubo was strong, after Tubo weakened, these key points that could swoop down to the Tianzhu Ganges Plain at any time were basically all has been lost.
Therefore, Li Cunhui is not just as simple as establishing a military organization in these seven prefectures, but also needs to conquer them one by one.
For example, the city of Manjusri was Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal in later generations.
During the flourishing period of the Tubo Empire, this place was within the scope of the Tubo Empire. The name of the city comes from the fact that Manjusri Bodhisattva is said to have used his divine power to move mountains and fill lakes.
But by this time, the city had been gradually occupied by princes from India, the Khas, the ancestors of the later Gurkhas.
For this reason, Li Cunhui mobilized an army of ten thousand people twice and set off from the Mount Everest twice, which took nine months.
A total of more than 3,000 Kas people were killed, more than 60,000 people were captured, hundreds of villages were burned, and they were completely beaten into slaves. More than 20,000 Qiang and Black Yi people were transferred from the Hengduan Mountains to settle here before they were pacified.
The same goes for Rongba Tiancheng (Gangtok, Sikkim). The Rongba people were originally a branch of the Tubo people, but after the decline of Tibet, they began to evolve their own culture and refused orders from Jasa.
In order to conquer them, Li Cunhui personally went to the front line. In the approaching winter, when the Rongba people thought it was impossible for them to send troops, he braved the ice and snow and climbed over thousands of meters of snow-capped mountains and glaciers. His younger brother Li Cunzheng even lost two of his feet from the cold. After pointing the finger, it was decided that the divine soldiers would descend from the sky for a battle.
The human head on the big halberd at the door was the person Zhang Shengren hated the most before, the good concubine Cao Yanmian's uncle, Zhenyuan Kingdom advocated Bingzhong.
In the ninth year of the Shaoming Dynasty (AD 955), after Li Cunhui completed the construction of the Qifu army, he concentrated 7,000 troops in Juwei and Liecheng respectively, crossed Congling in two routes, and suddenly appeared to the north of Zhenyuan Kingdom.
The Zhenyuan Kingdom had been divided for a few years since the Zhang family took over. However, they were not Zhang's direct descendants. They had not undergone strict training, and they were not Han warriors who could endure hard work and have a strong will.
Secondly, they were originally hard-pressed people who had been oppressed. Once they arrived in the honeypot of Tianzhu, they could not maintain their combat effectiveness. From the leader Bingzhong to the soldiers below, they all began to deteriorate rapidly.
By the time Li Cunhui put down the battle between the three sons of Jidenimagun, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Zhenyuan Kingdom was no longer as good as that of the Tubo people on the high mountains.
This is also the main reason why Zhang Bingzhong wanted to break away from Zhang Yan's control, because originally according to regulations, Zhang Bingzhong was only the head of the country and not the king.
The former is an official position, and the latter is the throne, so 40% of Zhenyuan Kingdom's profits must be turned over to Khotan.
After Zhang Bingzhong's family became corrupt, he became extremely greedy. He felt that his share of the wealth was insufficient, so he was not willing to hand it over to Khotan.
The situation in the city was corrupted. Naturally, when Li Cunhui's army arrived, they did not organize any decent resistance at all.
There were more than 200,000 people in Zhenyuan City (Tianfang Religion Fort), and theoretically more than 40,000 soldiers. However, it was surrounded by Li Cunhui's 14,000 men and fought for less than three months before it was breached.
Well, it wasn't that it was breached, but that it was being beaten, and the people in Zhenyuan City went into chaos because their inner defenses collapsed.
In this battle, Li Cunhui entered the city and went on a killing spree, except for Zhang Bingzhong's second son who led hundreds of people to escape.
At that time, more than 6,000 men, old and young, of the Zhang Bingzhong clan who were arranged by Zhang Zhi to live in the Zhenyuan Kingdom were all killed. The Zhenyuan Kingdom advocate Bingzhong and his descendants were kidnapped back together with their women and children.
At the same time, Li Cunhui also looted Zhenyuan City. The mountains of goods, cloth, and spices in the city became the trophies of the Zhou army.
Among the people in Zhenyuan City and the surrounding areas, a full 80,000 Tianzhu men and women were kidnapped and taken to the Batang Plateau.
Subsequently, with Zhang Yan's consent, Li Cunhui asked Guo Tiance to reward half of these treasures and people in the name of the emperor and the court to soldiers at all levels in the seven border prefectures, and all soldiers and generals would get something.
Not only them, but also the obedient nobles in Jassa and other places were rewarded.
After that, Li Cunhui gathered large armies from Manjusri City (Kathmandu), Rongpa Tiancheng (Gangtok) and other places several times to plunder various parts of Tianzhu. For a time, responses gathered from top to bottom, and everyone gained a lot.
It only took Li Cunhui less than two years to restore the Tubo habit of going south to Tianzhu to harvest grass and valleys.
From then on, everyone from the traditional nobles to the slave soldiers on the Batang Plateau believed that the supreme Zhou Dynasty was more fierce and benevolent than the Tubo Empire in the past.
Well, on the Batang Plateau, if you can make people think that you are invincible and at the same time speak nicely, it means that they are sincerely surrendering to you.
Therefore, when Zhang Bingzhong's family was escorted back to the sacred capital of Luoyang, Zhang Bingzhong was sentenced to being broken into pieces, and thirteen of his descendants were sentenced to be cut in half.
Daughters and granddaughters were given to King Qian Hongchu of Lu, King Li Jing of Wu, Duke Yan Jin of Jin, Duke Pei Yuan of Zhao and other distinguished ministers.
It was only natural that Li Cunhui was granted the title of Prince of Xiping County due to his meritorious service.
You must know that just these seven prefectures on the border of Batang were not a place that the Central Plains court and even the Tubo Empire had a firm control of before.
If in later generations, anyone could conquer northern Pakistan, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan with only 10,000 cavalry allocated by the imperial court and 20,000 indigenous cavalry, he would probably become a saint instantly.
However, as soon as I, the proud and satisfied Prince Li, entered the Prince's Mansion, the smile on his face disappeared instantly.
Without him, there were so many men and women waiting to greet Li Cunhui in the newly expanded Prince's Palace. There were so many people that the spacious small square under the platform of the Prince's Palace could hardly stand.
These are all the wives, concubines, and children of my king, Prince Li of Xiping County.
Among them, there are thirteen wives and concubines with title, and twenty-one who have no title but have given birth to children for him, a total of thirty-four, more than the number of concubines of his adoptive father, Emperor Zhang.
As for the children, ahem! There are twenty-nine sons and thirty-six daughters, a total of sixty-five.
You must know that Li Cunhui is one year younger than Murong Nobunaga. He was born in 920 AD and is only thirty-seven years old this year! Assuming that he is an adult at the age of fifteen, the suitable childbearing age is only twenty-two years.
Well, in twenty-two years, sixty-five children were born, an average of three a year. If you include Li Cunhui's time spent in the north and south fighting, this fertility is simply incredible.
The ability to find opportunities to find opportunities is really strong!
Li Cunhui's first wife, the Song family from the Song family of Zhang Zhi's maternal grandmother, sighed secretly, and then led eighty-eight of Li Cunhui's wives, concubines, and children to bow down in joy and congratulate me, Duke Li Wei of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on his promotion to the title of county prince.
Li Cunhui's eyes widened. To be honest, he just couldn't take any time off. When he was free, his need for sex would increase.
In addition, he is the emperor's third son, and together with Murong Nobunaga, he is known as the double wall of the Guiyi Army. He is good at fighting and has a handsome appearance. His biological aunt is the emperor's favorite concubine, and his great-grandmother is the biological daughter of Zhang Yichao, the founder of the Zhang family, and the emperor's direct aunt. grandmother.
With this kind of status, there are a lot of people fawning over him wherever he goes, and all kinds of beauties are presented to him as if they are free of charge. However, he has no resistance to this aspect, so it is not surprising that the current situation has resulted.
Prince Li looked at it carefully. Good guy, at least 30% of the wives and concubines in front of him were not very impressive to him. He didn't recognize any of the little babies who were obviously arranged by their mother and were holding his thighs and shouting "yeah!"
"Oh my God! I'm going to die on the Batang Plateau!" Li Cunhui muttered as he smashed the bar.
No wonder the emperor, the adoptive father, said with a narrow smile just now that his silver reward had been withdrawn in advance by his wife, Mrs. Song.
No wonder every letter from the Song family in the past few years has been complaining about the family's lack of financial resources.
If there are ninety people in the house, and the family has to maintain the status of Commander-in-Chief Zhou Wushuang, the adopted son of the emperor, and the fifth-generation grandson of the great hero Zhang Yichao, the wealth and silver will be beyond the means.
"Thank you for your hard work, Qingqing!" Li Cunhui felt guilty for no reason.
When Mrs. Song married him, she was also a famous beauty in Dunhuang City. Now, trying to manage this huge family for him, she was so tired that crow's feet appeared at the corners of her eyes.
Mrs. Song's eyes also turned red. It would be false to say that she had no complaints, but what could be done? I met such a pillow person who couldn't control his crotch.
Fortunately, her parents-in-law are very sympathetic to her and support her. Although her husband likes to flirt with women, she is still the main one. No matter where the beauty comes from, he does not dare to be arrogant.
Holding back her tears to prevent her fresh makeup from getting wet, Mrs. Song smiled and held up a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, more than three months old, in front of Li Cunhui.
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"Fuck!" After Li Cunhui was stunned for a few seconds, he suddenly became furious. Fire burst out of his eyes. He looked around with great anger and roared loudly:
"Who did this? Damn it! I'm in Batang and haven't been home for four years. How can I have an infant son?"
"Ah!" Mrs. Song was dumbfounded, "Pfft, hahahahaha!" Then she burst into laughter uncontrollably.
Everyone laughed when they saw Mrs. Song, and the other concubines were also forced to do so, especially those from the Songpan Mansion who couldn't bear it any longer and started to tremble all over.
Seeing that they dared to laugh, Li Cunhui became even more angry. He thought that because he had not been home for a long time, his wives and concubines began to despise him.
With a wave of his hand, he immediately shouted loudly and asked the people outside the door to come in with sticks and execute the family law.
At this moment, a slightly thin man with a dumbfounded expression walked up to Li Cunhui and said hesitantly: "Sir, this is not your son, this is your grandson!"
Li Cunhui:
At this time, Prince Li Da discovered that the man in front of him, with his hair removed from the corners of his mouth, sharp edges and piercing eyes, was none other than his eldest son Li Zexian.
Li Cunhui's face suddenly turned red, and he sighed for a long time, tears finally falling out of his eyes.
In his impression, the eldest son Li Zexian was still a tiger-headed little boy.
yes! When he went to Batang, Li Zexian was only a fourteen-year-old boy. Now he is an eighteen-year-old adult and even has a son.
Li Cunhui took the grandson from the Song family and choked up twice, "I'm sorry for you!"
This apology can be said to come from the bottom of my heart. Li Cunhui got married young and consummated the marriage with the Song family at the age of fifteen. He had his eldest daughter at the age of sixteen. At the age of nineteen, the Song family gave birth to his eldest son Li Zexian.
He has been fighting outside these years, and there are not many days when he returns to Shendu.
When the eldest daughter got married, Zheng Zhiman refused to obey Wang Hua and killed the officials sent by Guo Wei. Li Cunhui was ordered to lead an army of 20,000 as the main force to pacify central Guizhou.
When the eldest son got married, he was responsible for establishing the seven border prefectures of Batang on the Batang Plateau and violently attacked the Gurkhas in Manjusri City (Kathmandu).
For a father, this is very unsatisfactory.
At this moment, the Song family had some sympathy and understanding for Li Cunhui. With the reputation of the emperor's adopted son and an invincible commander, he would be indispensable no matter where he fought in the world.
Under this kind of pressure, I am afraid that Li Cunhui can no longer hold anything in his heart except fighting. When he suddenly looked back one time, he realized that he owed a lot to the people around him and wanted to make up for it, but the lost shortcomings could never be recovered.
This is a pure soldier.
Mrs. Song affectionately picked up the handkerchief and wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corner of Li Cunhui's eyes, "How can I be worthy of it? I'm sorry. Alang fought for the country. He went to the snowy mountains in winter and went to the south of the Yangtze River in summer. He suffered all kinds of hardships and narrowly escaped death. Without you, where would we be? The stability and glory of the whole family.
When Zhenniang came out of the palace, her aunt came to see her off from the palace. Qian Shilang was handsome, elegant, knowledgeable and good at poetry and painting, so he was a good match.
When the eldest brother got married, his father summoned him to the Ziwei Palace to preside over the wedding in person according to the royal grandson ceremony. For this purpose, King Jing paid a dowry of gold and silver, and the escorting procession traveled across the capital. Lang Jun should be happy. "
Li Cunhui's eldest daughter Zhenniang married Qian Hongxin, the fourteenth brother of King Qian Hongchu of Lu, and his eldest son Li Zexian married the legitimate daughter of King Gao Baorong of Jing.
Both weddings were extremely grand, and Zhang Yan gave them very high treatment in order not to let Li Cunhui feel cold. After all, he had to fight for his country and couldn't even make it back in time for his children's wedding.
Although Li Cunhui had known that Zhang Yan had held the wedding very grandly, but hearing it from Song's mouth now gave him a different feeling.
He gratefully kowtowed in the direction of the palace, thanking his adoptive father Emperor for such thoughtful consideration.
However, after thanking his adoptive father Zhang Shengren, Li Cunhui's frown still did not relax.
You must know that at this time, not only do you need to pay gifts to marry a daughter-in-law, but you also need to give a large dowry to marry a daughter.
This money is equivalent to the starting capital for the young couple to build a new family. Therefore, every time a daughter-in-law is married and every daughter is married, the parents have to "hemorrhage".
Not to mention that someone with Li Cunhui's identity and status would not be able to do anything without him. Twenty-nine sons and thirty-six daughters, it's scary to think about it.
After the lively family dinner, Li Cunhui looked at his sixteen-year-old second son Li Zeyi, his third son Li Zeyan, and his fourth son who was also fifteen years old and other six sons over thirteen years old, and suddenly an idea came to his mind.
The children are all grown up now. The eldest son has graduated from Longtao Academy and is now working in Xuchang Prefecture as a soldier of Xuchang County. He is not very capable and has not inherited the genes of famous generals from the ancestors of the Li family.
But the second son, Li Zeyi, and the third son, Li Zeyan, are different. They grew up in an environment where they were racing all the way on Monday and watching their fathers make great achievements.
Therefore, although they are not too old, they are all as strong as bears, and their personal martial arts and marching command abilities are not low.
Especially the third son, Li Zeyan, made a sensation in last year's martial arts examination. He won the Zhili martial arts examination and defeated all the heroes in the Zhili Thirteen Prefectures with a horse. He hit ten out of ten shots on horseback and hit the red star six times. Even sharpshooters like Fan Changgong praised him greatly.
Now, the country is already in good condition, and some small rebellions will not become a climate at all. The unruly people on the grassland have long been called under the banner of the Six Methods Sect.
With Saburo's ability, it would be a pity to stay in the country and pass the qualifications step by step in the Qinjun or Hanshandu.
Thinking of this, Li Cunhui looked at his sons and asked, "Does my son dare to leave this gentle village and build a great career outside?"
Li Cunhui still underestimated his sons. They were no longer the eleven or twelve-year-old boys when Li Cunhui left.
The third son Li Zeyan's eyes lit up and he replied loudly: "How dare you not? Children have long imagined going to the extreme territory like Ye Ye, destroying powerful enemies, and capturing and killing the leader of the enemy country to sacrifice to the saint."
The second son, Li Zeyi, was smarter. He looked at Li Cunhui and asked abruptly: "Do you want our brothers to go to Tianzhu to rule the barbarians?"
Good guy, Li Cunhui was completely shocked. He didn't even say anything. The children had guessed everything and stuffed all the rhetoric he had thought up into their stomachs.
King Li Dajun was speechless for a long time, and could only nod his head and said: "Yes, my father has conquered Tianzhu several times, and he knows that there is a lot of wealth there. There are at least 150 people on the banks of the Xindu River and the Ganga River alone. Thousands of households, tens of millions of people.
The people are weak and weak, and the armed forces of the various countries are also poor. With the strength of our Zhou warriors, hundreds of people can occupy a large area and rule tens of thousands of households with ease.
Although it is hot there, when it is hot, you can go to the Batang Plateau to escape the heat. If the indigenous people resist on a large scale, there is no need for the court to mobilize troops. Just let the soldiers from the seven border prefectures go south to quell the rebellion. "
Li Zeyan's eyes brightened even more, "Ye Ye is the observation and disposal envoy of the Seven Prefectures on the border. The soldiers of the Seven Prefectures were established by Ye Ye by himself. I'll wait there, wouldn't it be better to borrow help!
Brother, the opportunity has come. You and I, my brothers, should go with Ye Ye. After arriving in Tianzhu, each of us can become a Marquis of Ten Thousand Households! "
Li Zeyi was also made proud by his brother's words, but after being excited for a while, he became a little discouraged.
"The foreign vassal has not granted titles to anyone with a foreign surname yet. We can't let Yeye go to Tianzhu to become the king. Besides, our family has no money. Where can we recruit people if we don't have money?"
Li Cunhui chuckled, "What are you afraid of? We don't have money, but your great-aunt does! You can't be the king of a foreign vassal, but your cousin Li can do it!"
Li Cunhui's aunt Li Wenxiu is also one of the emperor's favorite concubines. Brother Li is Zhang Xianli, the ninth son of the emperor born to Li Wenxiu. He is twelve years old this year. In a few years, it will be time to leave the feudal clan.
"Yes!" Li Zeyi laughed and said: "With the support of my aunt, we can work together to support Uncle Jiu and let him go to Tianzhu to become the king of the vassal state, and we will be his princes.
We brothers worked together to create a big country with 100,000 households, and asked Uncle Jiu to govern 50,000 households. We five brothers assisted him and each managed 10,000 households. "
The father and son talked more and more enthusiastically. They wished they could fly to Tianzhu and become the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households.
Li Cunhui was also very happy. If he could really have a family of 50,000 households in Tianzhu, if these brothers put in more effort, the betrothal gifts and dowries of his younger brothers and sisters would also be provided.
At this moment, Li Cunzheng, Li Cunhui's younger brother, limped over and ran over quickly, "Brother, the saint and the fourth aunt have already arrived incognito for a private visit to your door."
Li Cunhui was overjoyed and laughed three times excitedly, "It seems that the saint is what we think. Sooner or later, Tianzhu will have your share."
But immediately, Li Cunhui looked at his sons and said in a deep voice: "No one is allowed to tell anyone about the fact that I admitted the wrong person just now!"
Li Cunhui knew that, because his adoptive father Zhang Zhang liked to laugh at him, after knowing this, he still couldn't laugh at him for decades!
The sons nodded hurriedly, but unfortunately before they went out, they heard someone laughing outside:
"Hahahaha, Cun Hui'er, I heard that you regard your grandson as your son, and you still get angry and curse at others? Hahahahaha!"
Li Cunhui held her forehead and groaned, almost falling to the ground.
"Who is this? Such a big mouth!"
(End of chapter)
