A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1181: Stone King’s Grandson
"The army returns in triumph, and the battle music is played!"

In front of the gate of Suiye City, Wu Huaiyu shouted loudly.

Countless people cheered, "The army is triumphant!"

The bugler of the military band raised his ox-horn and puffed out his cheeks to blew it hard. The burly drummer also waved his arms and slammed the drumstick heavily on the cowhide drum.

Drums and horns sounded,

The triumphant song shook the heavens,

An Lushan, the general of Gongyue Town, rode a Dayuan horse, with his head held high and his chest puffed out, and the king of Shiguo, Shu Nuo, led the horse for him.

Following An Lushan was Shi Shouxin, who had helped him capture the capital of the Shi Kingdom, and Tutun Yu Qu Zhaomu was holding his horse.

Next came Li Keyong, the military commander of the Anxi army, with Axijie Queshijin holding his horse. Behind him came Pang Xiaotai, the general of the Zhonglang army, with Axijie Nishushijin holding his horse.

Next came the General of the Central Army, Xin Liaoer, whose horse was held by Duman Teqin.

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Nine Lieutenant-Generals pursued Asijie and Liangjijin, crossed Qianquan Mountain, passed through the desert Gobi, and chased them to Shiguo. The Turkic kings of Shiguo refused the Tang army's request for them to hand over the hostages, and then the Tang army attacked the royal city at night, and all the kings were captured.

The two Asijis fled to Sudu City. Although they were treated well by the city lord, they were still sold out by the city lord when the Tang army arrived.

In addition to the two Shiguo kings and two Asijiejijins, An Lushan's victorious army also included a large number of royal nobles captured after the Shiguo capital was captured.

There were also a large amount of gold, silver and other valuables seized, as well as great horses from Dayuan.

Although the Shi Kingdom was not the Dayuan Kingdom during the Han Dynasty, it was not far from the Han Dayuan and also produced Ferghana horses.

Wu Huaiyu brought several general managers from Suiye City, as well as Xingxiwang Khan, Jiwangjue Khan, the new Ten Arrows and Five Great Chutes, as well as the other tribes' Jijins and special agents to greet them.

The fat An Lushan dismounted and led the way to Wu Huaiyu.
"I have accomplished my mission and captured the two rebel leaders, Asiji. The King of Shi and Tutun protected the rebels and resisted the power of heaven. I have conquered the capital of Shi and captured these two thieves together."

Wu Huaiyu saw Que Shijin and Ni Shushijin, with whom he had dealt many times. They were even Wu Huaiyu's guests before, but now they have become prisoners.
He fled thousands of miles from Suiye to Shiguo, but was sold by the city lord Suduo before he could even catch his breath. The journey back was even more difficult, and he was forced to become a horse groom.

I walked more than a thousand miles back on foot.

His face and hands were all frostbitten.

There is no trace of the former majesty and prestige.
It can be seen that there is more regret and fear in the eyes of the two men at this time. Even the Snow Leopard and Silver Wolf that were once famous in Suiyechuan have now been completely defeated.

"You two, if you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"

"When Dulu Khan rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and established himself as emperor, what happened? With the order of the Holy Emperor, I led the heavenly soldiers to attack for 7,000 miles and captured him. Yehu Helu united the eight tribes to rebel, but they could not withstand the attack of my Tang army and had to surrender.

Bu Zhen was ambitious and dared to attack Beiting, ignoring the imperial court. As a result, his head was separated from his body and is still hanging on the top of Suiye City. "

"You two, you think you have hundreds of thousands of followers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so you dare to rebel again and again. Do you really think that you are out of reach?
Don't even think about escaping to the Stone Country. Even if you escape to Tokharistan, I will capture you back."

The two great men lowered their proud heads.

The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.

They were defeated miserably, what else is there to say?

Compared to the silence of the two Jijin,

When facing Wu Huaiyu, the King of Shi State and Tutun knelt down and begged for mercy. They still had hope that Wu Huaiyu would let them go.

It's a pity that Wu Huaiyu had already made other arrangements. He wanted to take this opportunity to control the Shi Kingdom. In this way, the Tang Dynasty would have a bridgehead against the Sogdians in Central Asia. Controlling the Shi Kingdom would be extremely important for intimidating the Nine Sogdians and actually controlling the Central Asia region.

There is no reason to give up the Stone Kingdom that has already been obtained.

So after An Lushan and his men returned triumphantly, Wu Huaiyu still left 5,000 soldiers to garrison in Shi State, and completely took over and controlled the two big cities of Shi State, namely Tuozhe City and Sudu City.

"Put them all in jail, escort them to Chang'an tomorrow, and present them to the imperial court."

No matter how silent Que Shijin and the others were, or how Shu Nuoshe and the others begged for mercy, Wu Huaiyu ignored them.

An Lushan smiled and presented a list to Wu Huaiyu.

"This is what we seized after conquering the capital of the Stone Kingdom."

Shi Shouxin also presented a list.
"This is the property offered by Lord Sudu after he surrendered."

Wu Huaiyu took the two lists and scanned them. An Lushan's list contained a lot of things, including gold, silver, harpsichords, spices, silk, cloth, and good horses.
Gold, silver, and other items were measured in camels, with each camel weighing five hundred kilograms.

Two camels of sand, six camels of gold, ten camels of silver,

BMW 3,000 horsepower,
There were hundreds of camels of various spices, and twenty camels of pepper alone.

An Lushan looted the palace of the Shi Kingdom.
Even the king and Tutun's beautiful maids and slaves were brought with them.

The lord of Sudu City surrendered voluntarily, so Li Keyong gave him some face and did not directly plunder Sudu City.
The city lord Inedagan took the initiative to pay a large sum of gold, silver and grain as tribute to buy peace.

He offered a camel of gold, a camel of harpsichords, two camels of silver, as well as some spices, BMWs, slaves, etc.

Only gold,

The victorious Tang army brought back 3,500 kilograms of
There are eight hundred stones of pepper,
1,500 kilograms of sese gems,

Six thousand kilograms of silver.

Shiguo is indeed a great country second only to Kangguo in Hezhong, and an important country on the Silk Road. Its trade is indeed prosperous.

Much richer than Gaochang. But you have to know that it has only been more than 30 years since Shekui Khan conquered the Shi Kingdom. When the Turks conquered the Shi Kingdom, they had already looted everything. It has only been a few decades.
The Shi Kingdom accumulated so much wealth again.

And this was only the wealth of the kings and nobles in the capital, as well as the public treasury of the kingdom; ordinary people and merchants were not robbed this time.

This expedition was profitable.

Not only did they earn back the military spending, they earned many times more.

It is true that the sound of a cannon is worth a ton of gold.
War is sometimes a very expensive thing, but sometimes it can really make you rich.

This amount of gold is enough for Wu Huaiyu to build two new military towns in Suiye and Shiguo. It will not be a problem to maintain a garrison of 10,000 troops in the two towns.

"According to the agreement before the troops were dispatched, whoever captures Asijie and two Jijin first will be appointed as the governor of Suiye." Wu Huaiyu walked up to Li Keyong and raised the hand of this adopted son of the Mohe tribe. "Li Keyong, the military commander of Anxi Ya Army, is the first to capture two Jijin. I will fulfill my promise.

Li Keyong is now appointed as the commander of Suiye, commanding 5,000 soldiers to guard Suiye."

All the generals congratulated Li Keyong.

An Lushan was somewhat regretful. After crossing Qianquan, he headed straight for the capital of Shiguo. Unexpectedly, Liang Jijin went to Suduo City.

"The Shi Kingdom was established as the Dayuan Governor's Office."

"Appoint Shi Shouxin as the governor of Dayuan."

This appointment was somewhat unexpected.
After all, it seems that the person who made the greatest contribution to the invasion of Shiguo this time was An Lushan, followed by Li Keyong. But now Li Keyong is the governor of Suiye.

The governor of Dayuan was actually appointed Shi Shouxin.

Even Shi Shouxin was a little surprised.

"There is one thing you may not know yet. General Shi Shouxin is the grandson of the King of Shi State."

As soon as this word comes out,
Countless people were shocked.
Even the King Shu Nuo She of the Stone Kingdom was stunned. When did I have such a big grandson, and he is the General of the Central Army of the Tang Dynasty?
"I am the grandson of the Shi Kingdom?" Shi Shouxin was also shocked. He looked at Wu Huaiyu and then at Shu Nushe. No matter how he looked at him, he didn't look like him. Moreover, given Shu Nushe's age, he could only be his father at most.

"Well, your grandfather was Shi Nie, the old king of Shi State who rebelled against the Turks and was killed. Your father was the youngest son of the king.

During the Sui Dynasty, Shekui Khan invaded Shi State and killed your grandfather Shi Nie. Then he appointed Teqinfu as the ruler of Shi State. From then on, the Shi State's royal lineage was changed to the Turkic Ashina clan.
Your father had the good fortune to escape from the Stone Kingdom, and fled eastwards, eventually living in hiding in Shuofang."

Shi Shouxin widened his eyes in disbelief.

"My father..."

Shi Shouxin remembered that his father was just a shepherd, the kind who herded sheep for the landlords, an ordinary border villager who couldn't even read a single word.

How did he become a prince in distress?
My last name is Shi. No matter when I met you, I am worth it. My last name is Shi. I write like a galloping horse. My last name is Shi. A prince in distress turned into a king.

Wu Huaiyu patted his shoulder and said, "Your father also hid his identity to avoid being hunted by the Turks. Now it is finally time for you to restore the royal lineage of the Shi Kingdom.

I have petitioned the Saint to appoint you as the King of Shiguo and the Governor of Dayuan."

Countless eyes were focused on Shi Shouxin.

There was shock, there was envy, and of course there were also many people who simply did not believe it.

You are a Tang person, Wu Huaiyu's adopted son. Just because your surname is Shi, you become the grandson of the Shi Kingdom. Now you want to be the king of the Shi Kingdom and the governor of Dayuan.

This is too fucking outrageous.

Shu Nuo She originally thought that this General Shi Zhonglang was his grandson who was left behind, but he did not expect that he was actually the grandson of Shi Nie. It was impossible. Even if Shi Nie had a son who escaped, it was impossible that he went to the Central Plains, and then his son became Wu Huaiyu's adopted son.

It would be better to say that Shi Shouxin is Shi Nie's grandson than to say that Shi Shouxin is his grandson.

Wu Huaiyu clearly wanted to install his godson as the king under the guise of restoring the royal lineage of the Shi clan.

In fact, many people here think so.
Few people truly believed that Shi Shouxin was the grandson of Shi Nie, but everyone could see that Wu Huaiyu had captured the Turkic kings of the Ashina clan of Shi State and now wanted to install one of his own people as king.

This is exactly the same as what happened when Shekui Khan destroyed the Shi Kingdom and appointed his own sons and daughters as the kings of the Shi Kingdom.

It’s just that Wu Huaiyu deliberately made up this story about the grandson of the Stone Kingdom.

But no one present dared to disrupt or oppose it.

Asijie had more than 100,000 tents under his command, but now the two Jijins were prisoners. The Shi Kingdom was the second of the nine Sogdian kingdoms, very rich, and had strong military forces.

However, Wu Huaiyu still sent troops to directly attack the capital and capture the two kings.

"Inedagan,"

Wu Huaiyu waved to Yinedagan, the Lord of Sudu City of Shi State, who came with the army to pay a visit.
"It's great that Inedagan has surrendered the rebels. I heard that Inedagan has a very beautiful daughter. How about I act as a matchmaker today and ask the Lord of Inedagan to marry your daughter on behalf of Governor Shi?"

Inedagan looked at Wu Huaiyu, then at the young Shi Shouxin.

He knew he had no choice, so he put on a smile and said, "This is a good thing, I couldn't ask for more. My daughter is marrying above her station."

"Then today is double happiness,"

"Shi Wangsun will be returning to Shizhongtuozhe City soon. He is unfamiliar with the place and needs help. I hereby appoint you as the Chief Clerk of Dayuan Governor's Office and Prime Minister of Shiguo."

Wu Huaiyu acted as a matchmaker and arranged a marriage. The lord of Suduo City, Inedagan, not only became the father-in-law of the new king, but was also promoted to the prime minister of Shi State and the chief secretary of Dayuan Governor's Office.

"General Xin Liaoer will temporarily take over the position of Lord of Suduo City." Wu Huaiyu's next appointment made Lord Yine's smile stiffen.

(End of this chapter)