Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 629: Clear High
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The Red Oriole asked someone to send Yang Ye away, looking at the window for a long time, and sighed faintly.
Suddenly a voice said: "What is the relationship between the lady and Yang Ye?"
The expression on Oriole's face changed, and he smiled: "Friend."
The person who walked into the door was the handsome young man named Yu Liang who came to Tokyo to participate in the imperial examination. He was obviously very upset, and the look on his face was humiliating and angry.
Red Oriole smiled and swept his gaze across his face, thinking of the three words "I don't understand" in his heart, but because of this, this scholar is much more interesting than those spendthrifts.
Sure enough, Yu Liang held back his anger and said, "Is it more than that?"
Red Oriole didn't quarrel with him, but leaned over gently, saying, "If I didn't know those high-ranking officials, how could I find a way for you? Don't get angry, no matter how many people I know, my heart is not yours. "
Yu Liang's anger still remained, but there was nothing he could do.
Hongying gave him a white look and said: "No matter how high you are, let's not ask Han Xizai."
Yu Liang sighed "Oh" and said angrily: "I hate officialdom! But only this path can be successful!"
Red Oriole persuades: "That pair of "Han Xizai Night Banquet" became hot so quickly, Mrs. Shen didn't take much effort. What do you think Mrs. Shen is for? Just want to sell it? 'S famous paintings are much more expensive than this one. But the biggest difference between those famous paintings and this night banquet: the people in the famous paintings are dead, and the people in the night banquet are still alive.
A scholar-official may be able to regard money as dung, but who doesn't want to be famous all over Shilin, where people will be respected? This face is big. The kindness of Han Gong to Mrs. Shen knew in his heart.
Now we are asking him to do a little favor and send the poems you usually write to Li Gu, who is the prime minister of the court. Can he refuse? "
Yu Liang heard this with mixed emotions and said: "No matter what, the lady is kind to her."
"It's okay if you know, no conscience!" Oriole threw a pink fist and punched him in the chest. Yu Liang grabbed it with one hand: "Look at me and treat you well!"
Outside the door, night gradually fell.
The warm wind blows the night and the night is drunk, and the lights of Tokyo are dazzling at night. The sound of silk and bamboo orchestra echoes in the long streets and alleys, and the spring is charming.
...Tokyo's border beams are becoming more and more prosperous, and there are signs of prosperity. But the court did not give up the national policy of war.
Wei Renpu, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, presented a strategy and sent meticulous work into the Liao Kingdom to go to Beijing and Youzhou to find out the internal affairs of Liao. When the country rebelled, he took the opportunity to raid Youzhou.
Guo Shao didn't respond, and he didn't agree with him, so he summoned ministers such as Wang Pu and Li Gu to ask for advice. (Guo Shao, the minister’s official position, has the final say, but if one item is forcibly implemented without the support of the ministers, it will be troublesome to implement specifically, and the power of the prime minister therefore has a delicate balance.)
Wang Pu, also a minister of the Privy Council, also disagrees with this policy. I think Wei Renpu's strategy is no different from the plan of the Northern Expedition at the beginning of this year. The Northern Expedition at the beginning of the year was a sudden northern expedition, and Wei Renpu's strategy was to wait for a favorable opportunity... But the essence is still a surprise attack and a quick fight.
The previous method has proved to be a failure, and it needs to be done again. Wang Pu and the prime ministers are not in favor. Although the army did not suffer severe damage before the Northern Expedition, it consumed huge military expenditure and civilian power, and it did not get any benefits.
When Guo Shao heard this, he stopped mentioning Wei Renpu's strategy.
A few days later, Guo Shao was processing the memorials in Jinxiangdian, and Zuo You and the others were also busy sorting them out not far away. At this moment Zuo You stood up, walked to the front of the imperial case with a memorial, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, this memorial is somewhat unusual."
Guo Shao put down the brush, reached out and took it, took a closer look at the content without punctuation in it, and muttered: "Return to the army?"
Zuo You hurriedly said: "The Guiyi army is in the Hexi Corridor, where the Shazhou is governed, and that is the Dunhuang side. During the Tang Xuanzong uprising, it left Tubo and entered the Central Plains. However, the situation there is complicated and traffic jams. There has been no exchange for many years. It’s a rare thing for the Guiyi army to appear suddenly."
Guo Shao immediately became interested when he heard the familiar place names such as Hexi and Dunhuang, and hurriedly asked the **** to find the map.
Unfortunately, only the place names such as Shazhou (Dunhuang) are marked on the largest map, and there is nothing there. Guo Shao stared at the blank paper in a daze, unable to see anything.
Zuo You said: "During the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains got Hexi from the Huns and built the city by army. For hundreds of years in the Han and Tang dynasties, the imperial court used Hexi as the foundation, went out of the Western Regions and opened up commercial roads. North Korea. It’s only a pity that after the Anshi Rebellion, the Central Plains wars and there is no time to look west."
Guo Shao's fingers stroked the blank space, and a familiar and dazed feeling came to his heart. Most of the Western Regions should be modern Xinjiang; and Dunhuang belongs to Gansu, which are well-known and well-known places. Nearly a thousand years ago, "China" opened up territories to these places, but now in my hands, it is completely blank, and I can't even find a map for a while.
Guo Shao, who has experienced extreme self-confidence swelling, is very emotional at this time. The country today is not as big as imagined.
He subconsciously measured the distance with his palm, and finally turned his eyes to the "Beijing" area in the northeast. Compared to the loss of control in the west, Youzhou is the most threatening loss.
Guo Shao put the memorial separately and said: "We must actively respond to the memorial of the Guiyi Army."
This matter has received unprecedented attention. Both the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council have consulted many previous files and probably figured out the situation in Hexi over the years.
After the mid-Tang Dynasty, the Han people in the Hexi Corridor escaped the control of Tubo. They were very powerful and owned eleven states. The above table regarded the Tang Dynasty as Zhengshuo and Zhang's family as the Jiedu Envoy of the Guiyi Army.
After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Guiyi Army suffered civil strife and its strength declined and became a vassal of the Ganzhou Uighurs. The Cao family of the Shazhou tribe regained the return to the rebel army, and has occupied Sha and Gua states until now.
Recently, the person from the Central Plains Dynasty is a member of the Cao family, named Cao Yuanzhong.
There is too little content in the memorial, and the Central Plains has no time to look around these years, and has little knowledge of the specific situation in the far west. Most of the ministers' discussions were speculation.
The ministers believed that the reason why Cao Yuanzhong sent people to contact Tokyo was because of the continuous expansion of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the acceleration of the unification of the world, and the reputation has begun to spread to distant places; Cao Yuanzhong was in a difficult situation in the complex Hexi region and wanted to borrow the Central Plains dynasty. Established an orthodox reputation locally.
For a time, officials rushed to praise the emperor, and their fame spread all over the world, and they were recognized by all quarters.
Guo Shao sits on the dragon chair and has to admit that one thing is easy to be swollen by his courtiers. But he still knows the facts in his heart: even the capital of later generations, Beijing, has not been taken back.
The emperor and his ministers hit it off and responded generously to the Guiyi Army, giving Cao Yuanzhong the official titles: Hexi Jiedu Ambassador, Western Region Protector...
No one objected, because Zhou’s forces could not reach Hexi at all, and essentially could not control it. The locals took the initiative to come to Fengzhengshuo without money and soldiers. Of course, they were very generous.
The attitude of the imperial court, Cao Yuanzhong can not only manage Hexi in name, but also just use the identity of the Central Plains dynasty to communicate with the Western Regions.
Guo Shao decided to send an envoy and the envoy of the Guiyi Army to Hexi, bring the edict of the court, and go to find out the situation.
At this moment, Lu Duoxun, an official of the Imperial Academy, asked for help.
During the battle of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Lu Duoxun risked his death to Jiangning to persuade him to surrender, but the credit did not contribute much to the Southern Tang War. In addition, his qualifications were too shallow, and he was still not reused after returning to the court.
He asked Ying again this time, and Guo Shao agreed to his request. He also asked the Privy Council to order Wang Jing of Qinzhou to receive the imperial envoy and send troops to **** him.
……Tokyo Hakka Envoy has close contacts with Wu Yue State, hoping that Wu Yue State can accept the land and return; Han Xizai, who is highly respected in Jiangnan Shilin, is also trying to persuade the Qian family. But progress was not great. Wu Yueguo was respectful and paid tribute every year, but still maintained a large amount of military force in the country. Da Zhou could not find a reason to mobilize troops against Wu Yue State. On the one hand, he also felt that Wu Yue State was not very good at fighting. The southern Tang State had not destroyed it after several decades of war.
Last year, Da Zhou also sent messengers to bring edicts to the Southern Han Dynasty to make contact. Unexpectedly, the Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty responded to the court and claimed to be "Zhen" and regarded himself as the "Emperor of the Han Dynasty." This Guo Shao Junchen was very angry.
At the beginning of this year, people were sent to talk again, asking the Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty to give up the title of emperor and proclaim him to the Zhou Dynasty... The ministers thought this was a reasonable request. Today, the Great Zhou Dynasty sits in the Central Plains and annexes Shu, the Southern Tang Dynasty, and a separatist regime. It is already the largest country; while the Southern Han Dynasty is a corner of the country, it is natural and wise to be a minister to the Central Plains.
Unexpectedly, just a few days after Lu Duoxun left Tokyo, he suddenly received a report from Jiangnan: The Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty did not agree with the envoy of the Great Zhou, and he killed him in anger!
The officials were in an uproar upon hearing the news.
People can’t understand why the Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty did that. Wang Pu said directly: "The Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty is a faint emperor!"
The officials all discussed and immediately launched a war against the Southern Han Dynasty. The generals also asked to bring a soldier and horse to destroy the Southern Han Kingdom... The generals were very active. They saw that the Southern Han Kingdom was relatively weak and the interior was very dark. This was an obvious opportunity for military merit.
But Guo Shao didn't comment immediately. Although he was as angry as the courtiers, he couldn't disrupt the battle. Observing the ministers such as Wang Pu and Li Gu, he did not rush to scream.
Guo Shao couldn't help but ponder, the specific considerations... the transfer of troops is too far, and there are no soldiers in Jiangnan now. After the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the elite soldiers were taken away and the military power was divided. The main reason was to guard against Wu Yueguo and internal rebellion. The offensive force is insufficient.
Secondly, it takes time to launch a war of annihilation thousands of miles away. The general strategy before the Great Zhou was "North and South", establishing prestige through the Northern Expedition, and then taking advantage of the opportunity to regain the remote areas in the south; now to launch a war in the south again is to change the strategic direction, and you cannot do it lightly.
Guo Shao now needs an adjusted overall strategy.