Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 400 How to Fool Yelu Deguang
Of course Zhang Zhao didn't know that he could make Shi Jingtang spit blood out of anger, if he knew, he would be very happy.

He wished that Shi Jingtang would die now, and then Yelu Deguang would go south immediately.

In this case, the strength gap between him and the Khitan people will be evened out by Yelu Deguang's showmanship.

What a beautiful thing that is!

It's a pity that Yelu Deguang is not very good at military affairs, but he is not stupid, not only not stupid, but also very shrewd.

So after giving Yelu Deguang a sap by the Hun River, what Zhang Zhao has to do now is to pretend to be a grandson, coax Yelu Deguang, let Yelu Deguang

'My Great Khitan is invincible in the world! '

'The Shatuo people can be the emperor of China, why can't the Khitan people? '

These two temperaments continue.

Otherwise, instead of entering the Central Plains, Yelude would start harassing the frontlines of Lingzhou and Xiazhou, wanting to beat Zhang Zhao down who is threatening, that would be no fun.

So Zhang Zhao, worried, summoned Wu Da'er, who was about to go on an envoy to Khitan, and personally explained.

When asking him to meet Yelu Deguang, he must be very respectful and worship Yelu Deguang as the emperor of the Central Plains.

Make money, not shabby!
At this time in history, Cao's Guiyi Army rushed to congratulate Empress Dowager Shuluping on her birthday, and even asked the Khitan people to attack Ganzhou Uighurs together.

Um!Just fucking magic, the Ganzhou Uyghurs went to lick the Central Plains Dynasty, and Zhu Quanzhong who licked them specially helped the Uyghurs form left tent crossbowmen to deal with the Guiyi army.

The Guiyi army went to lick the Khitan and asked the Khitan to help them get ahead, and the Khitan was unambiguous and went directly to the end.

Spanning more than [-] miles, the Ganzhou Uighurs were blasted back and forth several times, and the Ganzhou Uighurs, which were on the rise, were driven into the mud alive.

So, my King Zhang is also going to coax Khitan, but he is fake coaxing, coaxing until Yelu De Guang enters the Central Plains, it will be a success.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao called Huixing monk Yang He and asked him to go to Khitan together with Wu Da'er.

The Khitan people believed in Buddha, and they were much more ruthless than the Han people.

He gritted his teeth again, and selected one of the few remaining beauties of the Saman Persian royal family, and another one from the beauties of the Shahi royal family of India.

In addition, a copy of the Great Riding Sutra hand-copied by the Persian king obtained from the Nalanda Temple, as well as rock sugar, tea bricks, etc.

He collected a large gift that could be called luxurious, and asked Wu Da'er and others to send it to Yelude's light tent.

There were a lot of bits and pieces, and Zhang Zhao explained everything clearly.

Because the Khitan people must not be irritated now, and if Yelude does not enter the Central Plains, based on the current general situation in the world, maybe Zhang Zhao will become King Wen of Zhou and let his son go north to chase Khitan to rule the world.

We also can't let the Khitan people take the Guiyi Army too lightly. If Yelude thinks it's easy to bully, it's no fun if Yelude just wants to fight for Lingzhou or Xiazhou.

The two were discussing the details, when a burst of crying came from outside, Zhang Zhao quickly ran out to see a man in sackcloth and mourning kneeling down in front of him with a plop.

"Your Majesty, my father Yuan Degong left ten days ago on a crane!"

Only then did Zhang Zhao see clearly that this man in sackcloth and filial piety was Cao Yuande's second son, Cao Yanjing's younger brother, Cao Yanming's elder brother, Cao Erlang and Cao Yanping.

"Father! The child is unfilial!"

Cao Yanjing and Cao Yanming also came after hearing the news, and the three brothers hugged each other and wept in front of Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao rubbed his eyes twice, brewed for a while, and finally his eyes turned red, and a few tears burst out, and he also ran to cry with the three brothers of the Cao family.

"Cousin, I also said that I will pick you up to enjoy blessings in Liangzhou after the Liangzhou Yongshou Palace is repaired. Why did you go so suddenly!"

Yongshou Palace is the palace of the Zhang family in Qianliang, but it is very dilapidated by this time, but it is of great significance, because Zhang Gui's surname is Zhang, and Zhang Zhao's surname is also Zhang.

And they are also somewhat related, they are both descendants of King Zhao Jing Zhang Er who was the disciple of Lord Xinling and the idol of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, Zhang Gui's family is likely to be real, and Zhang Zhao's family is probably attached to them.

Because Zhang Zhao's ancestor, Zhang Xiaosong, used a miscellaneous army to shock the Western Regions, and after overthrowing more than ten countries in the Western Regions, he would be accused of corruption and sent to prison.

If there is a foundation, how can it be so miserable?

In addition, the year of Zhang Xiaosong's birth and death is not ominous, there is a high probability that he was born in a poor family and his descendants cling to him.

In fact, it is not very accurate to say that it is clinging, because another Zhang family in Shazhou is a descendant of Zhang Gui.

As for the two Zhang families, they have been united for decades, so it is not wrong for Zhang Zhao to say that he is the same ancestor as Zhang Gui.

So he restored a large number of former Liang Zhang's palaces in Liangzhou.

On the one hand, he regarded himself as a loyal minister of the country, and on the other hand, he began to win people's hearts on the grounds that the Zhang family was a royal family in Longyou, Hexi for hundreds of years.

The four hugged each other and cried for a while, then came to the house.

Cao Yuande passed away, so Cao Yanjing and Cao Yanming, who were in the army, must go back to the funeral.

But at this moment, Zhang Zhao suddenly thought of a good way to fool Yelu Deguang.

At the end of Cao Yijin's reign, Cao's Guiyi Army had contact with Khitan.

Of course, in the original history, it was not until the time of Zhang Zhao's father-in-law Cao Yuanzhong that the Guiyi Army completely lost the ability to fight against the Ganzhou Uyghurs before they embraced the Khitan people's thighs.

But now I have also come into contact with it, and there is a kind of incense and love.

This Cao Yuande is the eldest son of Cao Yijin, and the Zhang Guiyi Army has lost power for decades.

According to the general understanding, Zhang Zhao should have had an extremely serious conflict with the Cao family, but it was concealed.

It's just that they would never have dreamed that Cao Yijin was the last generation who was eager to return to his homeland and who had died in the first hill, and who had truly returned to the rebel army.

It would never have occurred to Zhang Zhao to use great endurance and patience to reconcile with the older generation of Guiyi Army who overthrew his father.

And by going away to Liangzhou, an internal bloody struggle was avoided.

Therefore, if Cao Yanjing could come to Yelu Deguang at this time, complain that the Cao family was oppressed by Zhang Zhao, and ask Khitan to support them by chasing Cao Yuande, Yelu Deguang would definitely be fooled.

As long as Yelu Deguang believes that the Guiyi Army is unstable internally and the Cao family is still strong, and he can check and balance Zhang Zhao by supporting the Cao family, his vigilance will be greatly reduced.

Zhang Zhao pulled Cao Yanjing up and looked at him with tears in his eyes.

"Dalang, now we all have Hexi, Longyou and Shuofang, but problems have also arisen, the emperor of the Central Plains cannot watch us grow bigger.

At this moment, we are waiting for the powerful Khitan in the north and east, and the imperial court in the south. If both sides send large troops, they will be unable to deal with it.

If we want to keep this foundation and let the descendants of Duke Taibao enjoy the wealth and honor of this place forever, we must first appease the Khitan people who ride [-] cavalry. "

Although Cao Yanjing didn't understand why Zhang Zhao said this to him, he still nodded in agreement.

Zhang Yichao's descendants withered away, leaving only Zhang Zhao in his direct lineage, and his grandson's lineage, that is, the Cao, Li, and Suo families.

Cao Yanjing's grandmother was Zhang Yichao's granddaughter Suoshi, who gave birth to Cao Yuande and Cao Yuanshen, so Cao Yijin's two eldest sons were actually Zhang Zhao's cousins.

This is also the reason why Zhang Zhao can only marry Cao Nineteen Niang and Cao San Niang, because their father Cao Yuanzhong was not born by the Suo family, so Zhang Zhao would not be allowed to marry a blood-related niece as his wife.

So in terms of relationship, Cao Yanjing is not only Zhang Zhao's cousin, but also Zhang Zhao's uncle.

The Cao family and the Zhang family are deeply bound and have deep common interests, which is also the direct reason why Cao Yanjing is willing to come out to do things for Zhang Zhao.

"So, I wanted to dare to ask Dalang to strengthen my Guiyi army, so I reluctantly gave up and went back to Dunhuang for the funeral.

Because I need you to meet Yelu Deguang outside Yunzhou City, to deceive the Khitan King.

After you go, you can first ask the Khitan Kingdom for the title of cousin Yuande, and then hint at the whole Khitan, saying that I, Zhang Zhao, oppressed the Cao family. The Cao family only has Shazhou and Suzhou, and they are powerless to resist. Support the Cao family. "

China has always attached great importance to filial piety, and even more so to the aftermath of the deceased. Preventing loved ones from going home for funerals, not to mention in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, was an extremely unacceptable thing in the later republics, so Zhang Zhao had to explain it clearly to Cao Yanjing.

Cao Yanjing stared at Zhang Zhao in a daze for a while, he couldn't go back to the funeral in time, he could still grit his teeth and bear it, he thought of other aspects, so he said to Zhang Zhao bitterly.

"Your Majesty, Yelu Deguang is a generation of British lords, if you want everyone in Khitan to believe that the Cao family and the Zhang family are not in harmony, you must at least be half-truth and half-false.

A certain risked his life to tell the king that not everyone in the Cao family was willing to lose power, and those old people who had forced the emperor in white to abdicate were not all worried about the king's fall.

What if someone complied with the king's decree, and something happened in Dunhuang in the future, and it didn't end well?
We are all relatives with broken bones and tendons! "

Zhang Zhao knew who Cao Yanjing was talking about, his second uncle, Zhang Zhao's second cousin, Cao Yijin's second son, Cao Yuanshen, the third generation of Cao's Guiyi army Jiedu envoy in history.

If anyone in Dunhuang was most dissatisfied with Zhang Zhao, it must be Cao Yuanshen.

Cao Yuande was even better, his poor health caused him to accept his fate.

But Cao Yuan's heart is higher than the sky, and his fate is thinner than paper. He is also greedy for property and power, and has always been brooding.

After Zhang Zhao seized power, Cao Yuande and Cao Yuanshen's lineage would definitely be suppressed.

Cao Yuanshen didn't have many sons like Cao Yuande, so he could come out to do things to make up for the loss, especially Cao Yanming was Zhang Zhaoqi's confidant humerus.

Cao Yuanshen has only one son, who is not in good health and is honest. His beloved daughter was married to Yin Yaozi, whom Zhang Zhao despised.

So he uttered resentful words in Dunhuang all the year round, if Zhang Zhao hadn't been magnanimous, he would have died [-] times long ago.

Zhang Zhao asked Cao Yanjing to go to Khitan to ask Cao Yuande for title. Cao Yuanshen, who couldn't see the situation clearly and was already dissatisfied, might take the opportunity to make a big incident.

Zhang Zhao glanced at Cao Yanjing appreciatively, and admired him even more.

If Cao Yanjing doesn't care about his second uncle Cao Yuanshen, he will follow Zhang Zhao's order.

First of all, he can make great achievements in fooling the Khitan people, and then he can report Cao Yuanshen by exterminating relatives righteously. Isn't that a great salary for high officials?

But now he is willing to take the risk to tell Zhang Zhao these things, which shows that he is still a kind and righteous talent who can see the overall situation clearly.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao took Cao Yanjing's hand and said, "Don't worry, Da Lang, there are no outsiders here, I can assure you!
No matter who it is, as long as it doesn't cause indiscriminate killing of innocent people and attracting Khitan soldiers into the city, I will only ask the chief culprit, and don't care about others.

Even if it is the chief culprit, it is enough to move to Liangzhou Yongshou Palace and confine him. "

Zhang Zhao still left a patch, he would not kill someone like Cao Yuanshen, at most he would ban him.

But if those old people in Dunhuang City did something outrageous, he might as well take the opportunity to clean up one or two, lest they always stay in Dunhuang, create a mess, and teach the children badly.

"That's it! I will prepare immediately, and go to Khitan together with Wu Da'er and others!"

Hearing that Zhang Zhao promised that he would not do anything to his second uncle Cao Yuanshen, Cao Yanjing immediately gritted his teeth and agreed.

(End of this chapter)