Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 296 This is definitely not the blessing of the court

It was when Zhang Zhao reclaimed wasteland in Liangzhou, built water conservancy, expanded roads, and dispersed the original six ministries to various places, and appointed the leaders of each ministries as magistrates and county captains.

Luoyang, the eastern capital of the later Tang Dynasty, was in extreme panic.

On the ninth day of November, Zhang Jingda, envoy from the north of the later Tang Dynasty, was killed by Yang Guangyuan, a rebel general. An Shenxin, the commander, and An Chongrong, the envoy of the Zhenwu Army, also surrendered to Shi Jingtang one after another.

Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing and other generals had no choice but to return to Hebei.

Just three days after Yang Guangyuan surrendered to Shi Jingtang, Shi Jingtang proclaimed himself emperor in Liuyuan, Taiyuan.

However, although he defeated the army of the Later Tang Dynasty, Shi Jingtang's position at this time was not stable.

Because Yelu Deguang, the lord of Khitan, thought Shi Jingtang was a hero.

Uh!I don't know how he got this knowledge?Maybe it's the father who wants to be a hero?

Anyway, Yelu Deguang thought that Shi Jingtang was not easy to control, so he didn't want to make him emperor at first.

At the same time, something happened that caused Shi Jingtang even more headaches. After hearing the news that Shi Jingtang had seduced the Khitan invaders and made himself emperor, both Lulong Jiedu envoy of the later Tang Dynasty and Peiping Wang Zhao Dejun felt that they could do it too.

So he sent envoys to bribe Khitan with a huge amount of gold and silk, hoping that Yelu Deguang would abandon Shi Jingtang and make him emperor.

If you really want to be a godson, you still have to roll!When Yelu Deguang heard the news, under the praise of the ministers around him, he also liked Zhao Dejun quite a bit.

Because this person is not as good as Shi Jingtang in terms of ability, appearance, or prestige, if he is made emperor, he will definitely be more submissive. From now on, wouldn't the Khitan people in the Central Plains come in and out whenever they wanted?

But Shi Jingtang was terrified when he heard the news, since he had already done the matter of calling himself emperor and selling Yanyun sixteen states, his face and so on, naturally it didn't matter.

So he hurriedly ordered the secretary in charge and his confidant Sang Weihan to meet Yelu Deguang, the ruler of Khitan.

Sang Weihan was even more shameless than his master Shi Jingtang. He knelt in front of Yelu Deguang's tent from morning to night, begging bitterly, weeping bitterly, without dignity, and kept crying to Yelu Deguang about Shi Jingtang's loyalty. .

But Yelude sees that Sang Weihan is so spineless, and Shi Jingtang is probably even worse.

At the same time, because Zhao Dejun was in Lulong at this time, if things failed, he could continue to be his Lulong Jiedu envoy, while Shi Jingtang had no way out and could only follow the Khitan people to the dark side.

So in the end Yelu Deguang finally agreed to Li Shi Jingtang as emperor.

Then the Tang court, after losing 110,000 troops from the northern envoy Zhang Jingda, only [-] troops remained in Luoyang, the entire eastern capital.

To resist Khitan, troops from Henan Road, Guannei Road and Xijing Chang'an must be recruited to serve the king.

However, the conduct of warriors of the Five Dynasties is very clear to the last emperor Li Congke and the beggars and refugees in Luoyang.

At this time, I am afraid that the imperial bodyguards guarding the palace do not have much loyalty at all, so how dare they recruit the army to serve the king?

Once recruited, I am afraid that he will not die at the hands of Shi Jingtang, but will die among the rebellious soldiers.

So the last emperor, Li Congke, simply put his life on the line, drinking and drinking in the palace every day, seeing the saint like this, the whole court suddenly became dissatisfied.

On November 25th, Yelubei's mansion in Chengfufang, east of Luoyang Palace City, the eldest son of Yelu Abaoji was surrounded by the Tang Mabu's relatives in the bedroom.

With disheveled hair, Yelubei raised his head to the sky and screamed, regretful in his heart, when Long, the eminent monk in Hexi, asked him to leave temporarily to avoid the disaster of swordsmanship, Yelubei refused without hesitation.

Because he didn't think there was anything wrong with him at all, but he was still secretly happy in his heart.

This time, the second younger brother Yelu Deguang was able to enter the Central Plains. Although the relationship between the two of them was not very good, the Central Plains is so vast.

It is impossible for Yelude to live in the Central Plains for a long time, but he has lived in the Central Plains for many years, and he has no conflict of interest, and is even more reliable than Shi Jingtang and others.

As long as Yelude only keeps a few thousand soldiers and horses, makes him a prince, and earns a few township envoys, it is not much better than returning to the poor land of Dandong, so he is not willing to go anywhere.

However, the last emperor Li Congke had already seen his careful thinking, so before he was about to end his life, he secretly ordered the guards to go to Yelubei's mansion and 'invite' him to go to the Xuanwu Tower to burn together.

Where is Yelvbei willing to submit?If he wanted to die, why did he travel across the ocean from Dongdan to Houtang?

At this time, he had no other way out, so he could only grab the arm of Li Yanshen, the commander of the Mabu army who came to arrest him, and wept loudly.

"The commander wants to kill someone? If you can hold your hands high, when Shihedong enters the Eastern Capital, someone will beg for a high-ranking official in front of him, even if he is released to the feudal town."

Li Yanshen sneered a few times, he was originally a clansman of the last emperor Li Congke, and he hated the Khitan people in his heart long ago, if Shi Jingtang hadn't attracted the Khitan people to Beijing, how could Luoyang be in such a situation?

He didn't say much at the moment, and stabbed with the long knife, directly piercing Yelvbei's chest and abdomen.

Yelubei grabbed the sharp blade with both hands, and his fingers were cut off. He looked to the west and screamed: "I regret not listening to the words of the eminent monk in Hexi, which led to this situation!"

After finishing speaking, this famous cultural person in the history of Khitan has preserved a large number of ancient books in the late Tang Dynasty, and even many unique copies that did not exist in the Central Plains. Rotten, fell to the ground and died.

On November 26, the second day after killing Yelubei, after hearing the news that the Khitan people had erected stones and worshiped Tang as emperor, and that An Shenxin, An Chongrong, Yang Guangyuan and others had surrendered.

The 52-year-old last emperor Li Congke was unwilling to fall into the hands of Shi Jingtang and the Khitan people, so he took Chuanguo Yuxi, his mother Empress Dowager Cao, his wife Empress Liu, Prince Li Chongmei and others to the Xuanwu Tower and burned himself to death.

Before Shi Jingtang entered Luoyang, the Later Tang Dynasty, which had been established for 13 years, had already perished.

At this time, Long Bian took Yelubei's young daughter Yelu Abli, and they had just left Luoyang less than a hundred miles away.

Fortunately, Longbian was protected by the status of a virtuous and eminent monk, and the officers and soldiers along the way did not dare to interrogate them, so they could quickly return to Liangzhou westward.

Long Bian left, but Pei Yuan stayed in Luoyang. When he left Liangzhou, Zhang Zhao sent twenty warriors to escort him back east.

Originally, Pei Yuan's first stop was to go back to Hedong Wenxi Pei's territory to recruit talents for Zhang Zhao.

However, after such a great change in the Central Plains, Pei Yuan was overwhelmed and made a somewhat crazy decision.

If the court of the later Tang Dynasty was still stable, it would definitely not let Guiyi Army Shi concurrently serve as the Hexi Jiedu Envoy, even if he stayed behind, he would not be able to give it.

But if he could ask Zhang Zhao to be granted the title of Hexi Jiedu envoy for Zhang Zhao at the first moment when Shi Jingtang entered the Eastern Capital. Returning, I will definitely be overjoyed to agree.

So Pei Yuan simply decided to take the risk of staying in the east and not leaving, and was going to submit a letter to ask for the title as soon as Shi Jingtang entered the city, and quickly won the official position of Hexi Jiedu for Zhang Zhao.

Looking at Pei Yuan's fierce expression, Luo Yu'er couldn't help being stunned.

He was the commander of the [-] warriors who escorted Pei Yuandong back this time, and he was born in Regency Shandu, Zhang Zhao's personal guard.

Now he finally understood why Pei Yuan was able to gain Zhang Zhao's trust and respect in a short period of time. This guy is really desperate!

As Luoyang was the capital of the imperial court, once Shi Jingtang's rebels entered the city, it was hard to say that they would not kill and loot.

There are only about [-] of them, and there are at least tens of thousands of rebels. If there is a chaos, there is no way to protect themselves.

And as a member of Shandu, Luo Yuer also understands very well that if Zhang Zhao can get the official position of Hexi Jiedu Envoy, it will definitely be a great achievement, and it will be very beneficial to Zhang Zhao's future development, so he is very happy Almost supported Pei Yuan's opinion.

"Since Pei Sheren has made a decision, then we have to make preparations, ten brothers and I will go out immediately to stockpile supplies.

Pei Sheren took the other ten brothers to strengthen the protection of the post house and arrange patrols. If there are scoundrels who come to harass them, they can be killed! "

Pei Yuan was not nervous at all, he nodded at Luo Yu'er.

"Don't worry about Luo Dutou, we are the envoys from the west, I think Shihedong is shameless, but he can be regarded as a hero.

As long as he has a little bit of ambition and wants to secure his position as emperor, he won't do anything to us.

We only need to survive the most difficult first ten days, and we will be safe once Shihedong enters the city.

It's a pity that it is said that the Jade Seal of the Kingdom of the Holy Admiral was also brought to Xuanwu Gate, and burned together with it. If this object can be found and dedicated to Shi Jingtang, it may be possible for the military envoy to win Qinzhou Xiongwu Jiedushi, or Yizhou Zhangyi Jiedushi's territory. "

Luo Yu'er couldn't help but twitched her mouth. The 20 people's self-protection was a problem, and Pei Yuan actually wanted to find the Jade Seal for the King. These two people are worthy of being monarchs and ministers who can get together.

. . . .

When great changes took place in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and Shi Jingtang was about to sit on the dragon chair, Jia Yanchang, the envoy of the Guiyi Army, had just arrived in Weizhou.

The angel who came with Jia Lianchang was an inspector of the household department under Zhongshu.

The inspector had a bitter face, and he was not very happy. If he was enshrined as a township Jiedu in normal times, it would definitely not be possible for a small inspector like him.

But when they set off, the imperial court was already in turmoil. The Privy Council and the bigwigs under Zhongshu were either busy going out of the city to escape, or busy preparing to curry favor with the new lord.

No one wants to go to Dunhuang, Hexi at this time, which is thousands of miles away!

Therefore, the important task of canonizing Jiedu outside the town unexpectedly fell into the hands of an inspector of the household department under the Zhongshu sect like him.

They traveled all the way west, and within a few days they passed the border of Qinzhou. After leaving Qinzhou, it was no longer under the rule of the Central Plains court. Lanzhou and Weizhou, which were next to Qinzhou, belonged to the territory of Gamo in Hexi.

The Xiongwu Jiedu Envoy Yabing who escorted them along the way also returned to Qinzhou at this time, and was not escorting them along the way.

This household inspector named Fan Zhi could only follow Jia Yanchang, the envoy of the Guiyi Army, with more than [-] guards and [-] to [-] mules and horses, and marched from Qinzhou to Weizhou and Lanzhou.

Weizhou is okay. Although it is not the territory of the Later Tang Dynasty, it is close to Qinzhou.

Although Longxi, Xiangwu and other cities were occupied by the Gamo Qiang people, there were also many Han people, and they still had a certain respect for the court angels.

But as soon as they arrived in Lanzhou, there were frequent situations. There was a Weizhou between Lanzhou and the court, and they were far less in awe of the seemingly powerful Central Plains court.

According to the division of strength at this time, it should belong to a part of Liangzhou Yanmo.

But actually?Yanmo did not form a unified nation at all, it was just a concept of identity.

The Liangzhou Gamo Liugu Department, which has a leading position, can't control the Gamo in Lanzhou at all. Naturally, it is difficult for Zhang Zhao's influence to reach here.

Fortunately, this is the period of the Five Dynasties. As a scholar who started his career as a scholar and has passed the Jinshi, Fan Zhi is not weak.

To be more precise, it was after the mid-Northern Song Dynasty that Han literati gradually became weak.

Before that, it was normal for literati to come and go. Most scholars can bend bows and shoot arrows from a distance, and draw swords to chop people up close. This basic operation is still there, at least not lacking in courage.

Even the poets such as Du Fu and Bai Juyi in our impression are far from professional soldiers, but they are by no means frail scholars.

However, Fan Zhi, who grew up in the Zhengzhou area of ​​the Central Plains, saw this rough and sturdy folk style of Hexi for the first time.

They carried the banner of the imperial court and the banner of the Jiedushi of Qinzhou, but they would still be spied on from time to time with malicious intentions, and even directly came up to plunder.

Fortunately, Fan Zhi discovered that the twenty or so knights led by the envoy of the Guiyi Army were very brave.

They all have good horses and strong bows. Even if there are dozens or even hundreds of barbarian cavalry coming to loot, they still dare to take the initiative to attack and open their bows left and right.

After traveling westward for more than [-] li, the surrounding Hu Qi were continuously driven back by them. Seeing this situation, Fan Zhi was relieved, and he even had leisure, so he praised Jia Yanchang beside him.

"A certain person in the Eastern Capital also heard about Zhang Taibao, the hero of the Guiyi Army, Wushuang. Today, seeing how brave Erlang is under the command of the noble envoy, you will know that his words are true!"

Jia Yanchang was very satisfied with Fan Zhi, the angel who came to be canonized by the Central Plains court. Although his official position was not high, his airs were correspondingly low, and he was very happy to get along with him all the way.

So Jia Yanchang wanted to remind Fan Zhi, so that he would not be confused about the situation when he arrived in Hexi, so Jia Yanchang pointed to the knights guarding the left and right and said with a smile.

"The angels praised me, but the ones guarding me right now are not the knights of the rebel army."

Fan Zhi was puzzled, "Isn't your envoy the envoy of the Guiyi Army? How come these brave knights are not the knights of the Guiyi Army?"

Jia Yanchang pondered for a moment, "Does the angel know why this time a certain person came to the court, why he only asked Guasha and the two prefectures to observe and deal with the envoys who were detained for Cao Yuanzhong's sake?"

Fan Zhi shook his head, this matter is really strange, all the time when the surrounding feudal vassals asked for seals, they wished to invite the bigger the better, how could anyone lower the seals to themselves.

The so-called Guasha two prefectures to observe and deal with the abducted envoys are several grades worse than those of the Guiyi army envoys.

Moreover, since Zhang Yichao, it has abandoned the flag of righteousness of the Guiyi Army, which has been hard-earned to belong to the six counties of Hexi, which is really puzzling.

But he also felt that Jia Zhengshi, who had returned to the rebel army, might be trying to remind him of something.

Fan Zhi didn't dare to be careless. Although he was an angel of the court, he was not a high-ranking official. Besides, the court of the Tang Dynasty was precarious. After he returned, he didn't know if the court was still there.

Even if the imperial court is still there, a mere inspector of the household department traveled thousands of miles to the west of Hexi and had problems, such as being intercepted and killed by Yan Mo, the imperial court wanted to control it, but it couldn't. Just cover your face and you're done

So Fan Zhi hurriedly cupped his hands, lowering his status, "In this case, I would like to ask Jia Abiya to help you out."

Jia Yanchang pretended to think hard for a while, and then sighed to Fan Geng: "If the angel is not a loyal person, so-and-so should not talk to outsiders, but since he is so-and-so, then so-and-so will take the risk to say it.

The person who is currently in power in the Guiyi Army is not Cao Yuanzhong, but the son-in-law of Cao Yuanzhong. Zhang Yichao, Zhang Yichao, Zhang Yichao, Zhang Taibao's great-grandson, and Zhang Erlang, the great heroes who belonged to Hexi in the past, are the envoys of the Guiyi Army invited this time. .

Moreover, Zhang Jun is not in Dunhuang, Shazhou, but is waiting for us in Liangzhou not far from here. "

Fan Zhi was taken aback.If what Jia Yanchang said is true, it means that the Guiyi Army has taken control of Liangzhou again. Did they unify Hexi again?

This is definitely not the blessing of the imperial court!
This was Fan Zhi's first thought, and he felt a lot of heaviness about this trip to the west.

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