Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

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At the end of October, Daliang was getting colder and colder, and Shi Congyun had to report to a group with his three wives to keep warm.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, they have settled Li Chongjin, successfully brought back the army abroad, arranged the rewards of the troops, and completely placed their own people to control the situation in the country. It only took a short month, which is considered a great joy.

I am happy, I am not happy yet, I have finally relaxed these two days, and it is almost the Chinese New Year, and life suddenly becomes interesting.

In the courtyard, the grass leaves are withered and yellow. There is a large study room in the north courtyard, surrounded by red braziers. Shi Congyun is half lying on the bed, and Zhou Xian is playing the piano not far away. play.

After that, I sang to him the long and short line "The yellow flowers in the battlefield are extraordinarily fragrant" that he wrote in the Yellow Flower Valley before. Zhou Xian liked it very much and said that he was very talented.

Seeing Zhou Xian's adoring eyes, Shi Congyun was very proud, that's not it, he was so overjoyed that he almost forgot that he copied it.

Shi Congyun listened lazily, but his eyes could not be separated from Zhou Xian's beautiful face and graceful body.

Zhou Xian is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. This kind of beauty is in the sense of pure sensuality. Look at it without emotion. Otherwise, beauty is in the eye of a beholder.

The icy skin and jade bones are clear without sweat, and the wind from the water palace is full of fragrance. Shi Congyun suddenly thought of this line, probably because he thought too much about Shu recently, and suddenly thought of a line describing Mrs. Huarui ,

Of course, what he thinks about is national affairs, life and death, not the lower body, Shi Congyun comforted himself.

After Zhou Xian finished playing a song, Shi Congyun couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and applauded, walked over and hugged her, "It's too cold, come and get warm on the bed."

Zhou Xian's face turned red all of a sudden, and he was shy and silent. How could Shi Congyun not understand that he needed a woman to take the initiative to get enough food and clothing by himself.

It was really cold, but after some rubbing to generate heat, Shi Congyun felt much warmer, he felt better physically and mentally, hugging the beauty and thinking about things quietly.

Zhou Xian's face was flushed, and he still hadn't recovered.

He thought about the past few days in his mind, and Li Yun was really restless. After the imperial court sealed him as Zhongshu Ling, Li Yun accepted the award.

But a few days later, another official from the Zhaoyi Army wrote a letter saying that Li Yun had made great contributions in this war. He had been guarding the border for several years and defeated the Northern Han Dynasty, requesting to be crowned king.

In the next few days, similar memorials came one after another, and some even used Shi Congyun's being named king as an example, thinking that Li Yun also had military exploits and should be named king.

Another thing is that when the troops were withdrawn last month, Li Jixun did not return to Beijing with Li Chongjin and Zhang Yongde. Instead, he took dozens of people to join Li Yun after he went south in Hebei.

In normal times, such an approach would be equivalent to betraying the imperial court, and the crime should be punished, but Shi Congyun and Li Gu decided to endure it after discussing it, because they could not anger Li Yun and other border envoys.

Li Jixun and Shi Congyun did not get along, probably because they saw that the official family was not there, and they were afraid of retaliation when they returned, so they turned to Li Yun for asylum.

Probably this incident made Li Yun more domineering and felt that the court was afraid of him, so these memorials came.

Shi Congyun and the Queen Mother immediately understood the meaning of these memorials. This was definitely ordered by Li Yun. The degree makes it possible to stand in line again.

Shi Congyun was so angry that he cursed for a long time in front of Empress Fu. After he finished cursing, he drank two bowls of herbal tea before stopping the fire for a while. This Li Yun is really a thorny bastard.

Empress Fu persuaded him with kind words and whispered to him to calm down, and not to turn against Li Yun at this time.

Although the whole country is celebrating at this time, one hundred thousand soldiers have just beaten the shit out of the Liao Kingdom, morale is boosted, Shi Congyun's prestige is at the height of the sky, the three armies are using their orders, and the orders are smooth.

But only Li Gu, Empress Fu and a few high-level officials understood the difficulty of the court at this time. The last battle was too big, with 10,000+ troops and almost 40 logistics and supply personnel. The treasury had already been emptied. The private treasury is filled, and the rewards cannot be distributed.

The most important thing at this time is to recuperate and recuperate. There are two ways, one is not to fight and wait for the tax to be paid next year, the other is to rob, no matter which one is necessary to stabilize Li Yun.

Shi Congyun finally asked Empress Fu what she meant, and he believed that Fu's parents and daughters must know more about these things than he does.

Empress Fu thought about it for a while, and came up with an idea to make Li Yun the king of Wuxiang. Wuxiang is the name of a county, which Li Yun took from the Northern Han Dynasty. Jing's Taiyuan County King is one level lower, and it is even more incomparable with King Wei, King Qi, and King Qin.

At the same time, Li Yun, the king of Wuxiang, should be ordered to send troops to the north to assist Zhao Kuangyin in guarding the border.

This kind of time is the best, the so-called giving a sweet date, and then hitting a stick, since Li Yun has to accept the imperial court's reward, it is understandable for the imperial court to transfer his army.

After hearing this, Shi Congyun couldn't help boasting, "You are so smart", and then followed the advice of Empress Fu (Queen Dowager), and sent someone to add Li Yun as the king of Wuxiang, but at the same time, he said that the defense in the north was empty. , mobilized his army to go north.

Li Yun had just received a reward, and it was hard to refuse, so he could only reluctantly ask the imperial envoy to transfer [-] soldiers from his army to go north to reinforce the northern defense presided over by Zhao Kuangyin.

Empress Fu's way of handling it made him suddenly think of the story of Liu Bang in history. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu confronted each other in Xingyang. As a result, after Han Xin took Qi, he did not send troops to reinforce him. Instead, he asked him to be named a fake king of Qi.

The meaning is also very clear, if you don't seal it, you won't come to rescue. Liu Bang was so angry that he cursed, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping stopped him, and immediately made Han Xin the king of Qi, and then transferred Han Xin's army to attack Chu.

That's probably what Queen Fu said.
Anger turns to anger, upset turns to upset, after he went home and thought about it, he found that this seemingly swallowing method turned out to be the best!
It is even better than the way he thought of appeasing Li Yun before. He took the opportunity to not only appease Li Yun with a prince, but also mobilized his army. As for the title of king, it is just a false name. Cleaned him up.

Li Yun got a name, the salary was not issued by the court, anyway, he always collected it himself, and he not only appeased Li Yun to let him settle down temporarily, but also took the opportunity to transfer his soldiers to weaken his strength.

Later, Shi Congyun felt more and more that Empress Fu was a very smart woman, and besides asking a few prime ministers, he could also ask her how to deal with some things.

Shi Congyun was not afraid of granting Li Yun the false title of king, what he was afraid of was that he would make progress and attract other Jiedu envoys to follow suit.

There were many kings enshrined in the Great Zhou Dynasty, such as Wang Jing's Taiyuan County King, his Qin King, Gao Xingzhou's Qi King, and the posthumous King Qin; Fu Yanqing's Wei King, Wei King, etc.

But the key point is that Li Yun's contribution is completely inferior to these people, but he actually controls several states of the Zhaoyi Army with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, which is a headache.

In contrast, the Fu family, who has always been on guard, made him feel relieved after experiencing this turmoil.

Fu Yanqing's contribution is great, and the Fu family is intricate and influential, but unlike Li Yun, the Fu family is not so rebellious and unruly, and does not have too much ambition.

During this turmoil, the Fu family did not take any action as proof.

Otherwise, the daughter of the Fu family is the Empress Dowager Regent, and the King of Wei controls the Tianxiong Army with tens of thousands of elite soldiers. The Queen will definitely tell them the news about the capital as soon as possible.

If the Fu family had ambitions and immediately led their troops south to take control of the capital, support the daughter of the Fu family as regent, support their grandson to ascend the throne, and order the world, it would be much more straightforward than Shi Congyun's name, and much faster, because they were in Weizhou .

And with the decree of the Queen Regent, the army can quickly enter the city and control the situation.

But the fact that the Fu family didn't do this proves that they have no ambitions.

Just when he was thinking about these important matters, Zhou Xian came back to his senses and gently arched in his arms.

"A few days ago it made you worry." Shi Congyun caressed her smooth back and said.

Zhou Xian shook his head: "Shi Jian was afraid of scaring me at first, so he didn't tell me. Later, when he said it, the army had already returned to the capital."

Shi Congyun nodded: "This kind of thing will not happen again in the future, I have already taken control of the overall situation."

"The hero of the husband defeated the Liao army, and the world has been stable and peaceful since then." Zhou Xian said happily.

Shi Congyun smiled, didn't answer, just hugged her tighter, "Well, there will be good days to come, Jiangnan sent envoys to bring a lot of gold, silver and cloth, which relieved some of my difficulties.

I will invite him to come to the house in a few days. You can ask him about the situation at home. If you feel homesick, you can ask your relatives to visit Daliang and stay for a while. Dazhou and Jiangnan can live in peace in the past few years. "

"Thank you husband, I can't repay you for thinking of me like this." Zhou Xian said very gratefully.

Shi Congyun smirked, "As a family, you can report it or not, but if you insist on reporting it, I can't help it. Let me teach you."

As he spoke, he came close to her ear and talked, Zhou Xian patted him angrily after hearing this, and got into the bed with a blushing face.

Zhou Xian was a child who grew up in peace, and Shi Congyun couldn't explain many things clearly.

Growing up in the gentleness of the south of the Yangtze River, she doesn't understand how cruel it is to cross the Yangtze River and the Huai River. The city of Daliang looks prosperous and safe. In fact, the last time the dynasty was changed and it was looted on a large scale was only eight years ago. The Khitans robbed Daliang 13 years ago, and there were blood and tears all the way up.

In fact, not only at the end of the Tang Dynasty, but since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there have been frequent rebellions and wars.

It is said that the earth is the mother. It is true. In such troubled times, if you can live in the south of the Yangtze River, you must be lucky. Mother earth protects you. barrier.

So Zhou Xian thought that after such a big victory, the world should be at peace.

Indeed, if it is south of the Yangtze River, a war of annihilating [-] enemies can at least keep peace for decades, but for the Central Plains, Hebei, Hedong, and Qin without the protection of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, if you don’t attack, you will wait for death. Progress is equal to slow death.
"You are amazing." Shi Congyun couldn't help saying.

In winter, envoys from Wuyue, Southern Tang, Shu and other places brought a large amount of gold and silver treasures to pay tribute, and their words were modest and sincere. When Empress Fu received them, Shi Congyun sat beside them.

Six-year-old emperor Chai Zongxun is still in class and does not deal with government affairs. The teacher Shi Congyun arranges for him is his old friend Tao Gu.

With their posture, those who didn't know it thought that the emperor and empress were sitting together, but if you look carefully, it's the other way around. The empress dowager Fu is sitting in the front seat, and Shi Congyun is in the accompanying seat.

But the envoys of all countries knew who held the power in the current state of Zhou. They came here and brought so many things. They must have heard the news of the defeat of the Liao state and came here in fright.

What pleased Shi Congyun the most was the large and small gifts brought by the envoys from various countries, which totaled more than [-] yuan.

After hearing the news reported by Li Gu to him, Shi Congyun suddenly discovered a new way to make money.

Yes, Shu has money, so does Jiangnan and Wuyue.
On that day, Shi Congyun used his brains. On the one hand, he ran around the city and outside the city to make arrangements; let the Empress Dowager Fu teach him to speak some official words to appease the envoys of various countries, and to achieve proper etiquette.

On the other hand, Shi Congyun released the news that the Empress Dowager Fu was going to celebrate her birthday, and asked the envoys from various countries to bring the news back. Fu Da was very puzzled that her birthday was still early.

The next morning, according to the plan, Shi Congyun first took the envoys from various countries to see Yelu Talie, the king of the South Court of Liao Dynasty who was imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

At noon, he led them to eat in the palace, but did not drink.

In the afternoon, I took them out of the city from Fengqiu Gate in the north, and went to Daying in the north of the city for sightseeing.

Shi Congyun arranged for Shao Ji to lead a well-armed elite army to a military exercise with a scale of ten thousand people, neatly lined up, the execution of orders and prohibitions, armor armed to the teeth, cold weapons, loud shouts and murderous aura, It frightened many timid envoys and officials present.

This is an elite teacher who came out of blood.

Shi Congyun was tall and full of oppression. Facing the Senran army on the Dianjiang platform, he turned his head and showed two rows of big white teeth. He smiled and said to the envoys of various countries: "Everyone, this is my Great Zhou army.

A certain led them to defeat the Northern Han Dynasty, Western Shu Dynasty, Southern Tang Dynasty, destroy Nanping and Wuping, and kill [-] troops of the Liao Kingdom. The officials were seriously ill and had to withdraw their troops. Otherwise, they were planning to take Youzhou and go straight to Shangjing, the capital of the Liao Kingdom. .

At that time, their emperor was besieged in Youzhou City by a certain person. "

He acted as a pity. In fact, at that time, the tribal armies of the Liao Kingdom had gathered to the north of Youzhou, and they would gather into another army in a month. The most likely thing for him was to occupy Youzhou, and there was no other way to go further north.

But bragging, who wouldn't.

Shi Congyun made a look of pity: "But don't be afraid, a certain army is still there, and it will be easy to fight back next time."

"Yes, yes, yes, Master Wang is mighty, and King Qin is good at fighting. This is a piece of cake."

"Little Liao country, dare to confront the big country in the Central Plains."

Envoys from various countries who were terrified kept flattering them.

Shi Congyun suddenly changed the subject: "However, the Northern Expedition is not necessary. The world has not been transformed into a king, and there are still many places where there are no surrenders. Where a certain sword is pointed, and where the army is going, it is easy to win. Now the army has no battles to fight, the soldiers have no military merits to gain, and the soldiers often call for battles."

The scene froze, and several messengers turned pale and lowered their heads.

Seeing the effect achieved, Shi Congyun continued, "However, our dynasty has its own benevolence, and it's not unreasonable. It's not unreasonable, and it won't fight with swords when it comes to naturalized land."

After finishing speaking, he said to the envoy of the Wuyue Kingdom: "The queen mother will be born next month. The king of Wuyue said that he would present 20 coins and silks to celebrate the queen mother's birthday. It seems that I am a loyal minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty. My heart is for Wang Hua. The queen mother said, The king of Wuyue must be rewarded."

The envoy of Wu Yue was stunned for a moment, but he reacted quickly and immediately knelt down: "What King Qin said is absolutely true!"

The Wuyue Kingdom has always been loyal to the Great Zhou, and the horse is always looking forward to it, so Shi Congyun said that the Wuyue King,

"Well, look, Wuyue's place is much smaller than that of other countries. This kind of performance moved me deeply, and I deeply felt the loyalty of King Wuyue; I went back and told King Wuyue, and I assured him that the sword in my hand would definitely not point to Wuyue. go."

The envoy thanked her again and again, and many of the remaining envoys tasted it, expressing their country's willingness to present birthday gifts to the Empress Dowager.

Shi Congyun raised his hand to stop their quarrel, and said to them with a serious face, "Everyone knows that in our Great Zhou Dynasty, since the death of the official family and the regent of the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is the most honorable person. She will celebrate her birthday next month. I hope that all countries will say that this tiger and wolf teacher is still idle in the capital and has nothing to do.

Go back and tell your lord, explain the truth clearly, that certain is a loyal minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Queen Mother's birthday is a big event for certain.

This is a rare opportunity to show the sincerity of each country, don't miss it, understand. "

The envoys nodded repeatedly, expressing their understanding of what he meant.

(End of this chapter)