Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 503: The vibration of the bowstring
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Looking out of the window from the study room of Jinxiangdian in Tokyo, you can just see the dark clouds in the sky, which seem to be transformed into various images, surging in the wind.
Guo Shao retracted his gaze, put down the border emergency report in his hand, and put the brush on the inkstone. Putting down the pen, he got up and took a strong bow, and tried the strength of the bowstring with all his energy.
Zuo You and Huang Binglian, who were helping him with the memorials in the same room, looked at the same place. Guo Shao's face was green, but he didn't say a word. He just pulled the bowstring unconsciously, and the tendons on the back of his hand tensed up when he tried hard.
"Boom, boom..." Under the rhythm of the bowstring being pulled and released, it made a dull and full of hostility.
Zuo You said: "Your Majesty, the ministers thought that the Liao Kingdom was in a time of internal chaos, and it was difficult to gather the army from all over to take the initiative. This entry should be done by the Youzhou Liao Army. There are many Jiancheng towns in Hebei. What great things did the Youzhou Liao army do? Most of them just went south to looting, or waved a flag to encourage the unscrupulous people in the Dazhou."
Huang Binglian also said: "If you wait for your majesty to mobilize the army to go north, time is wasted, the Liao people have already plundered quite a lot, Bei Dun Youzhou. Since the court has no preparations for the Northern Expedition, they have nothing to do with them."
"I know." Guo Shao responded.
At this time, the Liao army was unable to pose a real threat to Guo Shao's dynasty. This was just a border harassment. But Guo Shao is still unable to be completely rational and indifferent. He still has an intuitive anger in his heart, and the blood is surging, which is hard to contain!
Maybe every state and county will report an approximate population loss figure, which is an insignificant loss figure for the entire country... But Guo Shao has experienced it from the bottom and on the battlefield, and understands the bottom of these cold figures. , How much darkness and crime is covering up! Where did those people go and how did they die?
Now Guo Shao believes that he is the son of emperor and the sovereign of the entire country, so he has a sense of responsibility for no reason. He believes that he is responsible for every subject under his rule...but the children are billions of trillions. How can one take care of it?
Maybe this is a human tragedy, too much heart and ambition, but it is not necessarily much stronger than ordinary people. So anger has been haunting Guo Shao, and he can't calm himself down.
"One day, all those who provoked Da Zhou will be returned!" Guo Shao snapped his bow on the imperial case. Xindao: There is nothing restricting me in this world, and I will do whatever it takes to defeat the enemy!
However, we still have to return to rationality right now... Just like Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was besieged and fled quickly; Xinkou Town where Guo Shao saved Shi Yan was once the place where Liu Bang fled back. If you don't act realistically, you will only make yourself weaker and easier to fall into unhelpful anger.
Guo Shao walked into the back room. There were many maps hanging there, so he looked for a map to see the directions.
His emotions have not yet subsided, a fire rushes through his body, and his mind is a little confused.
The anger is mainly not because of being beaten, but being beaten and there is no way; he has just ascended the throne, it is impossible to start a full-scale war with the Liao Kingdom...will produce a sense of powerlessness and humiliation, as if being The man slapped his face, but he couldn't slap it back because he was too tall to reach his face.
The nomadic family has long troubled the Central Plains dynasty because of this asymmetric war mode. Farming countries were forced to consume several times the resource defense. Moreover, in this era, the efficiency of transforming resources and national power into force is too low, and a lot of power cannot be used; even if the separatist regime that unified the entire world is several times richer than Liao, the Central Plains dynasty may not have been able to beat Liao... many The dynasty's strategy of using this resource for national defense was to send money to women for peace, so as to maintain peace for a period of time; it was also helpless, because wars cost more.
Guo Shao set his sights on Xiangzhou, Hebei, where there was Zhang Guanghan, the left arm of the Long Jie Army, riding 20,000 elites. If the troops are transferred from Tokyo to the north, the day lily will be cold after the border; the troops from Xiangzhou can at least force the Liao army to retreat as soon as possible... This is also a necessary response, showing an attitude, otherwise the frontier will think that the court is not. As.
But he couldn't help but glance to the left, Luzhou.
The messenger of the imperial edict has been sent out, and I don't know when the message will be returned.
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"The Liao army is just bluffing."
In the Luzhou Mansion in Hedong, Li Jun looked back on the left and right. There were only two people beside him, one was his son Li Shoujie, and the other was Zhongli, his assistant who helped him divination with tortoise shells. Li Jun is unwilling to expose his inner thoughts in front of others, even if it is some close friends, but his son is different... This assistant Zhongli, Li Jun thinks he has seen his thoughts long ago, and it is useless to cover up. Zhong Liben lived in seclusion on the Taihang Mountain, and Li Yun personally invited him back. Although this person was suspected of being fame, he was really wise.
Li Jun sneered and said: "Xiao Siwen has a good calculation, how can his little people attack the city? Come up and grab a hand, and you can instigate Laozi's internal strife."
Zhong Li calmly said: "The Liao people have studied the Central Plains official system all the year round, but they don't change their nature. At first glance, they are quite clever, but they still lack people with great wisdom. Ignore the main road and are in the fire."
Li Jun responded casually: "It makes sense to win. If you can't beat them on the battlefield, what's the use of the road?"
Zhong Li disapproved: "How is the ancient Huns stronger than the Khitans? Where are the Huns today?"
Li Jun said: "Mr. Zhong thought too far, something that has nothing to do with us."
Li Shoujie listened to the side with a bewildered expression for a while, and then he said: "Tokyo envoy is already waiting in the lobby. Will my father see him?"
"You go in first and put things away." Li Yun said, "Mr. Zhong and I go to see the messenger... Keep the festival, who is the messenger called?"
Li Shoujie said: "Lu Duoxun. When Da Zhou and Nan Tang were fighting in the south of the Yangtze River, this person took the initiative to ask Ying to enter the enemy camp and persuade him to surrender."
Li Jun sneered and said: "Send such a person, the people in Tokyo really regard Laozi here as a dragon's den."
Li Shoujie pays goodbye, enters the inner room first, and hides the spiritual seat of the Taizu and the ancestor.
Old man Zhongli and Li Yun went to the lobby, and they saw a young civil official pacing in the hall. There were many civil and military officials from Luzhou nearby. Li Jun stepped forward and said: "Lu Lang has been waiting for a long time. I just learned that the court has sent officials down, so he hurried out to meet."
Lu Duoxun first bowed his hand in return, then walked straight to the north and stood still, coughing and raising his head solemnly said: "Zhaoyi Army Jiedu sent Li Jun to accept the decree, seeing the imperial decree like the Emperor of Zhou."
Li Yun was stunned. Since he was approaching the Emperor of the Great Zhou, he had to kneel on the ground, and bowed to the civil official who was much younger than him... and shouted: "My emperor has no boundaries. !"
Lu Doson did not read the content, but just stepped forward and handed over a scroll of imperial decree with both hands. When Li Jun took things, he noticed that Ludoxon's face relaxed a lot, as if he was greatly relieved.
Li Jun also understood in his heart that he just kneeled under the eyes of the public and called "My Emperor". He has clearly stated that he recognizes the new king of Tokyo, and he must accept the edicts and decree of the new court...After all, he cannot In front of his subordinates, he acted like a double-faced, rebellious villain.
Lu Duoxun said: "Your Majesty’s grace, I named Gong Li as an envoy to the Tianping Army to rule Yunzhou. Can Li Gong have something to bring back to the court?"
Li Jun said: "The minister thanks your majesty for the grace."
Lu Doxun nodded, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to help: "Gong Li, please get up soon."
...Li Jun invited Lu Doxun to host a banquet on the same day. Ludoxun made an excuse to go back to the ceremony hall to change clothes, and immediately found his entourage, wrote a memorial and put it in a bamboo tube and waxed it, and took his official seal to put a seal on the melted red wax. He exhorted: "Change horses on the post road, and people will report to Tokyo immediately!"
Ludoson's messenger left Luzhou non-stop, spent the same night on the Yellow River, and arrived in Tokyo early in the morning.
The gate of the city hadn't been opened yet. After showing his seal, he entered Tokyo City in a hanging basket because it was an urgent report. But the emergency report was still shelved outside Xuande Gate, and it would not be sent to the Privy Council center in the imperial city until the next morning.
At this time, the institution that received various memorials and memorials was still the Privy Council... The Privy Council in the Tang Dynasty was dedicated to this work. Later, the power became greater and greater. After the end of the Tang Dynasty, in order to facilitate the emperor's direct control of the army, the Privy Council evolved into a yamen involving the core military and political power.
As soon as the genius was brightened, the Xuande Gate finally opened. The Privy Council branch outside Xuande Gate immediately sent the emergency memorial received last night to the imperial city.
So when Guo Shao first arrived at Jinxiangdian in the early dynasty, he got Ludoxen’s emergency report from the eunuch... The whole process was very short, benefiting from the military centralized system since this period (Five Dynasties) , The power of the center is very concentrated, with few intermediate procedures. Of course, this system is not conducive to balance. The Privy Council’s power was too large, and the Taizu Guo Wei was almost held hostage by the privy envoy.
Guo Shao stepped onto the throne after reading the memorial. The officials below all bowed and bowed, Guo Shao said "flat body", turned his head and said to the people in the Hanlin Academy next to him: "Decree."
When the ministers listened, they divided them into two sides, and did not rush to speak.
Guo Shao said publicly: "Ming Fu Zhaoxu (the eldest son of Fu Yanqing) was deployed for the former battalion capital of Hebei, and Zhang Guanghan (the commander of the left arm of the Long Jie army) recruited envoys for the former battalion, leading the Xiangzhou soldiers and horses to go north, coordinating Yi, The soldiers and horses of Xiong, Ba, Ding, and Mo Zhuzhen will expel the Khitan army and strengthen the defense of the north."
Guo Shao heaved a sigh of relief. Not long after the Liao army entered the bandit, the court quickly mobilized the army northward. It was already a very positive response. It was an attitude for the towns and people in Hebei and barely maintained the authority of the court. .
While he relaxes, there is some tolerance on his face.
Sunlight came in through doors and windows everywhere, and Guo Shao's yellow robe was shining with gold, and the expression on his face was very different from when he was a military commander. The impulse and the aura were deeply pressed into his body, but his twenty-four-year-old face was a little more mature. The location seems to be able to change many aspects of a person very quickly.