Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 426 Final Preparations
Just when Shi Chonggui's envoy was about to arrive in Khitan, Zhang Zhao was also writing a letter to Yelu Deguang, the king of Khitan.

Of course, he didn't have to report the news of his father's death to his grandfather as a grandson like Shi Chonggui did, but he wrote letters to his elder brother in the name of his younger brother.

The matter is actually very simple. At this time, there is still a whole Hetao area between the two countries of Khitan and Zhang Zhao.

The Khitans did not have the extra ability to control Fengzhou Zhenwu Army and Tiande Army, and Zhang Zhao also did not have the ability to attack Khitan.

So the two sides are still living in peace, and even say that the relationship is still a bit good.

And Zhang Zhao wrote a letter to Yelu Deguang mainly to explain two things.

The first thing is that Yelu Deguang's mother, Queen Mother Suluping's birthday is still a few months away, but as his nephew's first birthday celebration, he still needs to communicate in advance.

Then, Zhang Zhao first wrote to envoys to take them to Khitan, and asked Yelu Deguang to determine where the envoys for birthday celebrations were going.What is the status and status of Liang Guo's birthday emissary?
Because Khitan has a lot of capitals after the Yanyun Sixteen States.

Sometimes it may be in Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, sometimes it may be in Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, sometimes it may be in Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and sometimes it may be in Youzhou in Nanjing.

Communication was inconvenient at this time, and only by confirming the place where the birthday would be held could Zhang Zhao's birthday emissary be prevented from running around and missing the birthday celebration date.

Moreover, Liangguo is not a subject of Khitan, so the etiquette to be used must be discussed in advance.

The second thing is specifically about the Gaochang Uyghurs. The connection between the Gaochang Uyghurs and the Khitan actually existed a long time ago.

When Yelu Abaoji founded the Khitan Kingdom, he had a good relationship with the Gaochang Uyghurs. In 17 years, the Gaochang Uyghurs paid tribute 24 times.

However, 16 years ago, the second year of Tongguang in the later Tang Dynasty, that is, 924 AD.

The new Khan of the Gaochang Uyghurs was unwilling to continue to treat the Khitan thousands of miles away as the suzerain state, and he also competed with the Khitans for the various tribes of the Kirgasi north of the Altai Mountains.

So Yelu Abaoji sent [-] cavalry to cross the quicksand to the north of the Gaochang Uighurs and head straight for Futu City, the Xia capital of the Gaochang Uighurs, which was the former Beiting City of the Great Tang Dynasty.

The Khitans broke through the city in the first battle, killed thousands of Gaochang Uyghurs, and put all the tribes of Xiajiasi under the Khitan's command.

Later, although the Khitans chose to reconcile with the Gaochang Uighurs because they could not occupy it for a long time, allowing the Gaochang Uighurs to redeem Futu City with a gold and silk woman, but the grievances between the two parties have already been forged.

These years, if Zhang Zhao hadn't put too much pressure on the Gaochang Uighurs, they wouldn't have paid homage to the Khitans.

But since the pilgrimage, there is a sense of incense.

Zhang Zhao and Yelu Deguang are brothers, and now he wants to annex Gaochang Uighurs (of course he can't say it publicly), so he still has to say hello to Yelu Deguang.

So this is also the reason why Zhang Zhao sent people first to let Jie Lipijia of the Gaochang Uyghur remove himself from the title of heavenly king and so on.

He was provoking, provoking Jieli Pijia of the Uighurs in Gaochang, and then using this as an excuse to send troops to attack, so that the Khitan people could not say much.

Therefore, Zhang Chao divided the letter to Yelu Deguang into three letters, one was about Jieli Pijia’s refusal to lose the title of Heavenly King, the second was about Jieli Pijia’s refusal to convert to Buddha, and the third was about Jie Lipijia Lipika refused to marry his sister to him.

When Jieli Pijia made a choice, the envoy to Khitan would present one of the letters to Yelu Deguang.

But Zhang Zhao was afraid of Khitan's interference from the beginning, and now he dared to write a letter expressly, that is, he figured out one thing.

During the Yelu Abaoji period, the Khitan Kingdom was positioned as the original Huns and Turks.

What they want is a grassland power, but the political and economic center is in the Liaodong area.

But in the period of Yelu Deguang, especially after obtaining the ownership of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures from Shi Jingtang.

All Yelu Deguang's energy was devoted to the Central Plains. What the Khitan people want to do now is the Northern Dynasty of Tuoba Xianbei in the past.

In fact, this trend appeared in Yelu Abaoji's later years.

Otherwise, the Gaochang Uighurs would not have dared to jump out and compete with the Khitans for the tribes of Kirgasi, because the Khitans had shrunk their military presence in the west.

The Khitan people are different from the Huns and Turks. The former are pure grassland peoples, so they can control the entire desert.

However, the Khitan people started as a fishing and hunting nation, and the attributes of the grassland nation were insufficient, and they did not have the ability to control the entire desert, so they had to focus on one direction.

In the end, under the leadership of Yelu Deguang, they chose to go south to make a northern dynasty, and it was not bad, achieving a certain degree of success.

But just when the letter was about to be finished.Zhang Zhao thought about it, and decided to add another one.

Because last year when he and Yelu Deguang were brothers, they only agreed that Zhang Zhao would call Shuluping the Queen Mother, and Yelu Deguang called the Queen Mother Fengtian the Queen Mother.

But Zhang Chao's own biological mother, the Song family, did not receive the respectful titles of Yelu Deguang and the Khitan Kingdom.

Of course, correspondingly, the Song Clan's Born Khitan would not send envoys, so King Zhang always felt a bit at a disadvantage.

So Zhang Zhao added another one temporarily, wanting to make an agreement with Yelu Deguang that Khitan must also send envoys on Song's birthday.

In this case, the Khitan will give two congratulatory gifts, and the goods and goods offered by both parties for the birthday celebration are roughly equal.

However, Guo Tiance, who was standing beside him, didn't understand.

"Your Majesty wants to devour the Uighurs in Gaochang, and just wants the Khitan people to turn a blind eye. How can you bring up this matter at this moment? Isn't it to annoy the Khitan people?"

Zhang Zhao smiled faintly, "If someone mentions this, the Khitan people will definitely be very dissatisfied, and the focus of their debate will definitely be drawn to this aspect.

Because for the Khitan people, they are now shrinking their strength, trying to eat more land in the Central Plains.

Compared with our annexation of the Gaochang Uyghurs, which is just to eat some meat, their desire to enter the Central Plains is the real important matter, and they are even more afraid of our intervention at this time.

So I proposed to increase birthday celebrations, and they would tacitly seize this issue and make a fuss instead of discussing Gaochang Uyghurs. "

Guo Tiance nodded, compared to Zhang Zhao's certainty, he was a little restless.

"My lord, if the Khitan really entered the Central Plains, what shall we do?
Even today's Khitan is stronger than us. If the Khitan ruler wins the Central Plains, it will definitely not be something that our Great Liang Kingdom can contend with. "

People at this time did not have Zhang Zhao's ability to see through the fog of the future. They all believed that once the Khitan went south, they would probably gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains. Historically, the soldiers of the late Jin Dynasty would scramble to seek refuge, which was a clear proof.

But Zhang Zhao knew that the burden on the Khitan people was too heavy!

With a backward system, the interests of the huge Khitan ministries cannot be reconciled, and Yelu Deguang is not a heavenly hero who can reconcile the internal contradictions of Khitan and win the hearts of the Central Plains.

He is not the second generation of the peak Taizong like Li Shimin or Ming Chengzu, he is the shame of the Taizong who only slightly surpasses the second brother Zhao in terms of force.

However, Zhang Zhao couldn't tell anyone these words, so he could only pretend to nod heavily.

"This requires us to defeat the Gaochang Uighurs quickly. As long as we can annex the Gaochang Uighurs quickly, we will have enough time to select tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

If the Khitans really enter the Central Plains, we will take the territory of Guanzhong Sanjiedu and Hezhong Jiedushi, and enter the Central Plains as well! "

When Guo Tiance heard that he was entering the Central Plains, he immediately beamed and was waiting to say a few words when Guo Rong came to see him with tears streaming down his face.

For Guo Rong, the relationship with his uncle Guo Wei is not necessarily very deep.

If it was deep, Guo Wei would not be willing to let the thirteen or fourteen-year-old Guo Rong follow the merchants from the same state to sell tea on Qian Yue's territory in Southern Wu.

You must know that at this time, even an adult man who travels far away will face the danger of being disobedient and dying at any time, let alone a half-child, or 'going abroad' to Nanwu and Qianyue.

But Guo Rong's feelings for Chai must be very deep.

It is said in history that Guo Rong was born in the Chai family, a rich family in Xingzhou, and his family was a big merchant, but in fact, this is just putting money on Guo Rong's face.

Their family is just an ordinary family. Fortunately, a beautiful eldest sister was chosen into the palace and served Zhuang Zong Li Cunxu.Later, he was dismissed by Ming Emperor Li Siyuan and returned home with a large sum of money.

Later, he took a fancy to Guo Wei and gave half of his property to his parents for retirement, and half as his own dowry.

From this, the Chai family entered the family of Xiaofu, but after the death of Guo Rong's grandfather and grandmother, his father Chai Shouli was a prodigal son, and soon lost all his family property, and it is likely that his wife also ran away.

This can be seen from the history books that Chai Shouli had three wives, namely Wang, Huang and Liu, but it was not said who gave birth to Guo Rong.

This is very abnormal in terms of Guo Rong's status as a hero of the generation.

If these three gave birth to Guo Rong, they would definitely write a special book, even if Guo Rong's biological mother died early, it would be recorded.

So there is only one possibility, after Chai Shouli lost all his family property and continued wandering, the original partner ran away with others.

At that time, Guo Rong should be very young, and the names of the two elder brothers above Guo Rong were not recorded. It can be seen from the fact that only the fourth son, Chai Hua, and the fifth son, Chai Gui, have their names recorded.

It is very likely that the young Guo Rong was abandoned by his mother, and when his mother abandoned him, she also took away two valuable elder brothers who were already able to work.

So for Guo Rong, he was abandoned by his mother when he was young, and his father was a prodigal son. He had to go to his aunt when he was young, but his uncle didn't like him very much.

This kind of life, if you don't completely give up on yourself, you really have a strong heart.

In the darkness of life, only his aunt, Chai, gave him the warmth of a mother.

The Chai family adopted him as an adopted son, partly to plan for their own future, and partly to give the young Guo Rong an identity.

Being an adopted son is much better than being a nephew who depends on others, and you are still in the embarrassing situation where your aunt can't give birth and your uncle is worried that you are here to seize the family property.

Looking at the tearful Guo Rong, Zhang Zhao also looked up to the sky and sighed, finally persuaded Guo Rong to stay, but unexpectedly Chai was seriously ill, isn't it God's will?

Originally, he wondered if it was Guo Wei and Chai's idea, just to call Guo Rong back.

But looking back, it seems that the Chai family had indeed passed away long ago when Guo Wei was in power in history, and it might be true that he would pass away within a year or two.

"Since my mother is seriously ill, how can I force someone to stay? You and I are a king and a minister. I don't know if there will be a day to see you again!" Zhang Zhao said with great emotion.

"Tian Ce, you go to a famous person to get five hundred pieces of gold, silver, brocade and silk from a certain's inner treasury, and you have the right to be a entanglement on the way of Guo Commander."

When Guo Rong heard this, he was even more moved and knelt down on the ground, weeping, but he didn't say that once the matter was over, he could come to vote.

Because the world is in turmoil at this time, the east and west are separated by thousands of miles, plus he went back this time, if the Chai family really passed away, he had to keep his filial piety, and it was really uncertain whether he could return to hexi.

(End of this chapter)