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Huan Wen snorted coldly and said to himself: "That means you are not here, otherwise I would really like to slap you on the head. I really want to slap you, and I am definitely not trying to scare you."
After speaking, the old man fell into silence.
He thought of his old friend's youngest son, Zhang Bianguan.
The son of an official who was said to be the most distinguished but unworthy official in the capital was said to be a coward who didn't even dare to bully men and dominate women. He couldn't do anything at a high level or a low level. The young man had no one to rely on, so no one wanted to talk to him.
Among Biyan'er's children, only Zhang Bianguan liked him the most. He was not afraid of him and dared to make any jokes.
Huan Wen heard that after Zhang Bianguan left the Zhang Mansion, he married a girl from a small family and lived an ordinary life in the streets and alleys. His favorite thing to do was to wander around and watch the pigeons flying in the sky. The sky of Anseong flies by, day after day, year after year.
Who would have thought that once the situation changed dramatically, Zhang's family and his family were destroyed, Zhang Bianguan entered Chu alone, and became the current Western Chu Soldier Saint. He fought with the white-robed soldier Chen Zhibao on the Western Barrier, and the fight was inseparable.
I'm afraid that the man who maintains the temple now regrets not listening to the advice of Zhang Julu before his death and summoning Zhang Bianguan into Tai'an City to get rid of him.
"Bi Yan'er, I really admire you now. You even expected your son." As he said that, he opened a pot of wine at a constant temperature and poured it down.
Tan Tanweng remembered the time when he and that guy were young, studying sages' books together as classmates. He slowly raised the wine bottle and chuckled: "Don't let Taoism and Confucianism be wrong. Reading will not let others down."
The man seemed to answer, "I am a farmer in the morning, and I ascend to the Emperor's Hall in the evening."
Tantanweng continued to recite, "Every noble person in the dynasty is a scholar."
Finally, the two of them chanted together: "The emperor values heroes!"
Tantan Weng laughed loudly and did not dare to look over there again, for fear that he would never see that figure again in the next moment.
The old man drank the last sip of strong wine in the pot, placed the jug on the window rail, and staggered out of the study.
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The news that Lu Baijie returned to Beijing to report on his duties gave the nobles in Tai'an court a little peace of mind.
The leader of the Southern Party in Jiangnan Province, patting his chest in the court hall, personally assured that the Qingcheng Mountain defense line had been made indestructible under his one-year management.
Even if Beiliangyu Daoluan mobilized all the 200,000 troops from Shuzhong, they would never be able to cross the Qingcheng Mountain defense line they had built and break into Jing'an Road.
Xu Cong, who was demoted to Jizhou General, also sent back good news that the Jizhou defense line had been built.
This line of defense is directly connected to the two Liaos. If attacked by Liang bandits, even if they are defeated, they can still defend the city and receive support from Liyang's most elite border troops at any time.
Jizhou and the two Liaos are horns with each other. Unless Xu Fengnian has a way to cross the 300,000 border troops of the two Liaos, it will never be possible to break through the Jizhou defense line.
After receiving these two good news, Zhao Zhuan ignored Qi Yanglong's objection and ordered Gu Jiantang to personally lead 200,000 elite troops to rush south to help and destroy Western Chu as soon as possible.
In order to grab time with Beiliang and end the war with Western Chu as soon as possible, Zhao Zhuan did not hesitate to give an order to Gu Dazhu. If the troops on the two Liao border did not have enough food and grass, they could eat in the Huaihe River, just to urge Gu Jiantang to lead south as soon as possible.
After this order, the ministers in the Tai'an court understood His Majesty's determination and kept silent.
The ministers who came from Jiangnan Road were even more silent. They knew that if it hadn't been for the previous series of wars that had caused heavy losses to Jiangnan Road, this edict would have been implemented in Jiangnan Road.
As for whether the people's livelihood in the prosperous Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers will suffer due to the arrival of the Liaodong border troops, this is not within the scope of their consideration.
As long as Xi Chu can be destroyed, Li Yang can still afford this price.
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Xiangfu four years, early spring.
After the last heavy snowfall in Tai'an City, Liyang, the snow has not yet melted, but the worst news has come from the north that no one in Tai'an City wants to mention.
Beimang is destroyed!
The iron-blooded emperor who had been in charge of Beimang for more than twenty years and was the first woman in history to wear a dragon robe and sit on a dragon, could not survive that winter after all.
According to her last wish, Yelu Hongcai, a veteran minister of Gu Ming in the three dynasties of Beimang, was given death.
This move caused a major earthquake in Beimang Beiting that was no less than a defeat on the front line.
Under the bloody suppression of the Taiping Order, the temples in Beimang were almost cleaned, and the entire Beimang was crumbling.
Under this circumstance, Yue Pengju led the younger generation of generals in Beiliang and defeated Beimang's last elite army, the Royal Account Army, led by the King of Beimang Nanyuan.
Successfully joined forces with Xu Fengnian, King of Northern Liang, under the imperial city of Beimang.
Under this circumstance, Taiping ordered the auxiliary minister personally selected by the Empress of Beimang to go out of the city with a seal to request surrender on behalf of the young Emperor of Beimang.
Before her death, the empress of Beimang ordered that if the imperial army led by Dong Zhuo were defeated, it meant that Beimang's strength was exhausted, and Taiping would order the auxiliary minister to leave the city and surrender.
This was also the last thing the Taiping Order could do for Beimang and for her.
With the surrender of Beimang Imperial Court, all five states of Beimang and Beiting returned to Beiliang.
Except for some who were still stubbornly resisting the grassland tribes and those whose interests were harmed, Northern Liang accomplished a feat that no previous dynasty had ever done and brought the grasslands under its rule.
Xu Fengnian designated the three prefectures including Baoping Prefecture, Xihe Prefecture, and Yuchan Prefecture, where the Beimang Imperial Court was located, as the Anbei Protectorate. Wu Jie, the former deputy governor of the Anxi Protectorate who had made great achievements this time, was appointed as the Great Protectorate.
Yue Peng was promoted to the governor of Youyun Dao.
Li Yanchao and Cao Wei took over as the Chief Protector and Deputy Protector of the Anxi Protectorate respectively.
As the war in Beimang ended, Xu Fengnian led the civil servants and generals of Beiliang to pay homage to Emperor Qin's mausoleum.
After the memorial ceremony, Xu Fengnian opened the treasure house hidden in Emperor Qin's tomb. The treasures inside shocked the Beiliang soldiers who were used to seeing grand scenes.
Excluding those precious classics and gold and silver treasures from the pre-Qin period, the military supplies stored in the warehouse alone are enough to support Northern Liang for three more Liangmang battles.
Those materials that have been preserved for hundreds of years are still shining brightly after the baptism of time.
In the treasury, there are also the remains of Emperor Qin who ruled the world.
It is said that if there is a Central Plains dynasty that one day makes an expedition here, it can use all the treasures in the treasury for its own use.
The civil and military ministers in Beiliang, while sighing at Emperor Qin's great ambition, all looked at Xu Fengnian in surprise.
Most people present knew that this young Northern Liang King was the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei.
Emperor Qin was the first reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei since records began.
Does this mean that Emperor Qin has lived to this day in another form?
The details inside are no longer worth delving into.
With the treasures of Emperor Qin's mausoleum in Northern Liang, they can quickly recover after the battle in Liangmang.
There is not much time left for Li Yang.
The ministers in Liyang also knew this very well.
After Beimang is destroyed, Beiliang will definitely move south.
As soon as one year, as slowly as two years, a war will definitely break out between Liyang and Beiliang.
