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Chapter 1809: Adding Clothes for the First Time
Next was Zhao Kuangyin's military career with Guo Rong. There was no doubt that Zhao Kuangyin's martial arts had reached an almost extreme level, and he was a calm and meticulous person. In addition, he was born into a military family, so half of his abilities were in the military.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin quickly emerged and became Guo Rong's most trusted subordinate. In the process, Zhao Kuangyin also found ways to bring his brothers in the Yishe Society over to join the army and become Zhao Kuangyin's own team.

Guo Wei had Guo Rong as his confidant, Guo Rong had Zhao Kuangyin as his confidant, Zhao Kuangyin had the Ten Brothers of Yishe as his confidants, and Guo Wei himself was the confidant of Liu Zhiyuan, the first emperor of the Later Han Dynasty. It can be said that it was one link after another. This was also the common practice during the entire Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Every officer had to win over his own confidants, otherwise the army could not be commanded at all.

But in this way, the army became the private property of generals at all levels. If the emperor at the top could protect these generals, there would naturally be peace in the world. But if he could not, there would be mutinies by ambitious people.

This is indeed the case. Guo Wei, who was Liu Zhiyuan's confidant, soon discovered that he was no longer the confidant of the current emperor Liu Chengyou. Even though he helped Liu Chengyou eliminate other rebels in the first place, the young emperor Liu Chengyou still did not trust Guo Wei, and even secretly sent his men to order the killing of Guo Wei to silence him.

Guo Wei was not a fool like Yue Fei. After seeing the imperial edict to kill him, he immediately started a rebellion and led his troops to counterattack Kaifeng. During this process, Zhao Kuangyin also made a lot of contributions.

In the end, Guo Wei succeeded in his rebellion, Liu Chengyou was defeated and killed, and Guo Wei made other descendants of the Liu family emperors, and for a time he was powerful in the court and the country. However, Guo Wei also paid a price in the process, that is, all of his family members, more than a hundred people, were killed.

As generals sent to garrison in a certain area, and given the record of various military governors vying to rebel during the Five Dynasties period, the Later Zhou Dynasty was very worried about the generals who left the capital to garrison in other places, and required these generals to leave all their families in the capital, under the pretext of taking care of them, but in fact they were just hostages.

The same was true for Guo Wei. When he went to war, he only brought his nephew Guo Rong with him. Because of his nephew's status, Liu Chengyou did not make things difficult for him. On the contrary, Guo Wei's son, who was less than a year old, was forced to stay in Kaifeng.

When Guo Wei really rebelled, the angry Liu Chengyou naturally took up his sword and killed all of Guo Wei's family members, including Guo Wei's only son. From then on, Guo Wei became a lonely man again, with no living relatives around him.

On the other hand, although Guo Wei had just deposed and enthroned the emperor and became a powerful official with omnipotent power, the Khitan did not seem to want Guo Wei to have a good life. They soon began to march their troops south, hoping to take advantage of the civil strife in the Later Han Dynasty to get a piece of the pie and carry out large-scale robbery.

Guo Wei had no choice but to lead his troops north to meet the enemy. After arriving in Chanzhou, the army took a short rest.

The place Chanzhou may sound unfamiliar, but everyone is very familiar with the four words "Chanyuan Alliance".

That’s right, Chanzhou is actually the place where the Treaty of Chanyuan was signed. It was in this place that Song Zhenzong and Kou Zhun resisted the Liao army. Although they won a great victory, they still had to pay annual tribute in the end.

Therefore, Chanzhou was indeed the front line of resistance against the Liao Kingdom. It was probably the location of Puyang today, where two large rivers met. The Khitan in the north could go downstream and attack Chanzhou directly.

Once Chanzhou was lost, Kaifeng was directly exposed to the attack of the Liao army.

As a result, when the army arrived at Chanzhou, the Khitan army reported in the military report did not arrive, probably because of traffic jam or something. Anyway, the area around Chanzhou was relatively peaceful, and everyone said that they had never seen the Liao army.

However, Guo Wei still looked at the south with worry, thinking about what to do if the Khitan came and how he could resist the Liao army. Unexpectedly, a strong wind suddenly blew at night, and Guo Wei felt a little cold because of the strong wind, so he tightened his clothes.

The attendant beside him noticed the condition of their general at the first time, and hurriedly took a piece of clothing and put it on Guo Wei, and at the same time whispered in Guo Wei's ear, "Your Majesty! It's cold, put on more clothes!" "You are so thoughtful!" Guo Wei praised, and then found that the clothes seemed a bit complicated and cumbersome. He looked down and found that the clothes were actually golden yellow, and there was a five-clawed golden dragon embroidered on it.

"Oh no! This is the dragon robe!" Guo Wei was shocked and was about to question his entourage, but he did not expect that dozens of generals under Guo Wei, led by Guo Rong, came out from all corners almost at the same time. Before Guo Wei could react to what was happening, these generals knelt in front of Guo Wei, shouting "Long live Guo Wei", as if Guo Wei was already the emperor!

"You are going to make me suffer. You want me to be unkind, unjust, unfaithful and unfilial, and to have no descendants!" Guo Wei sighed and tried desperately to throw away the dragon robe tied to his body, but he couldn't untie it. In the end, he could only sit on the dragon throne that had been prepared long ago and sighed continuously, "You are going to make me suffer!"

"You really made me suffer!"

Guo Wei kept complaining to himself while sitting on the dragon throne, but the wind was too strong and he couldn't take off the dragon robe.

Guo Rong, who was the first to come out holding the dragon robe, had now obediently retreated to a corner. He glanced at Zhao Kuangyin, who had been following him and had also witnessed the whole thing, and said, "Old Zhao, what do you think of this?"

"I dare not say more!" Zhao Kuangyin said hurriedly with his head down. Zhao Kuangyin was not qualified to present the dragon robe. After all, he was just a low-level military officer. He was just a guard of the Palace Front Department and Guo Rong's bodyguard. He just watched the whole show.

"Old Zhao, you know my character, and you and I have an even closer relationship. Just tell me what you think. How can I blame you?" Guo Rong said cheerfully.

"Yes!" Zhao Kuangyin hesitated for a moment, then said, "This play is too fake!"

"Really?" Guo Rong laughed when he heard it. "I spent a lot of time thinking about this play. Is it really fake?"

"Fake!" Zhao Kuangyin said blankly.

"Then tell me, is this the right thing to do?" Guo Rong asked again.

"This is unforgivable!" Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty was originally a soldier, and you are where you are today thanks to the favor of the late emperor. Although Liu Chengyou has harmed your majesty, Liu is innocent and the queen mother has also been indebted to you. Your Majesty has not thought about repaying the late emperor's kindness, but on the contrary bullied the queen mother and her widowed mother, and seized her kingdom. This is unforgivable!"

After Zhao Kuangyin finished speaking, he knelt down in front of Guo Rong and said, "Your Highness, if you ask me to speak frankly, I will speak frankly. You can kill me or chop me up, it is all up to you!"

"Get up, get up quickly!" Guo Rong hurriedly helped Zhao Kuangyin up, hugged Zhao Kuangyin tightly and said, "I know you are a hero in the world, a good man in the green forest, you value loyalty the most, and what you said is right, father is indeed bullying the orphan and widow by doing this."

"I'm very happy that you can tell me the truth, because this proves that you, Xianghai, are a loyal and courageous hero like Guan and Zhang. I, Guo Rong, don't like any of those villains who curry favor with the powerful. Only you, Zhao Kuangyin, are the first-class, loyal and righteous man in the world. I, Guo Rong, am so lucky to have you as a friend and brother!" Guo Rong said excitedly.

(End of this chapter)