My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 304: A King Unprecedented in a Century, Shocking the Whole World

Qi State is south of Feiyan Pass.

Daiyuan County.

The dim sunshine falls on the foothills of the rolling mountains. The golden mountains and forests are mixed with a little green. Birds come from the south and fly across the official road below.

This is near a road heading south from Feiyan Pass. From time to time, you will see one or two teahouses for passers-by and caravans to rest and have a meal. Once people gather, except for the occasional conflict and someone causing trouble, most of them still gather together. Let's exchange business opportunities from east to west, north and south, including what's happening in various places. In this era, communication lags are basically spread through this method of communication.

Several caravans returning from the north stopped at a tea shop next to the road, greeted other caravans who were preparing to go north to the grassland, and advised them to return the same way.

"...I just came back from Feiyan Pass. The city gate has been closed. No one can pass through it for at least half a month."

The store clerk carrying the teapot came over with a white puff of breath and poured hot tea for the guests at the table. He couldn't help asking: "Half Moon? What happened over there?"

The business travelers preparing to go north to Feiyan Pass also pricked up their ears.

"The Xirong people went south again..."

In the caravan that came back from Feiyan Pass, the leading man took a sip of tea and spit out the tea leaves in his mouth, "There are so many cavalry...the soldiers and horses in the city pass do not dare to move. I heard that there are at least hundreds of thousands... …It’s all cavalry.”

hiss!
The businessmen at several tables in the teahouse stared wide-eyed, opened their mouths slightly and took a breath of cold air.

Some people don't believe it.

"Brother, what you said is a bit exaggerated. All the Xirong people on the grassland have come to Feiyan Pass? Have the Luotang tribe and the Xi Zhu tribe become a family? Who will believe it!"

"Believe it or not, it's like this over at Feiyan Pass. And let me tell you, these Xirong people... are under the banner of King Xia of the Yan Kingdom!"

King Xia of Yan State?

In the tea shop, everyone looked at each other in silence.

At this time, the man who had just returned from the north was quite satisfied with the atmosphere and wanted to continue talking. Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves outside. Several gentlemen, carrying their baggage, passed by the tea shop and galloped along the official road.

All the businessmen in the tea shop rushed to the roadside and watched the three fast horses drifting away.

"It seems that something really happened."

"Baili is urgent. I saw it when I was in Xirong at the end of the autumn last year."

The three fast horses that everyone said were speeding up, carrying the confirmed message and the letter that was shot onto the tower, through Jiudingzhou and Yangping County, all the way to the capital of Qi.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the fast horses from Feiyan Pass in the north rushed into the North City Gate under the stars and the moon. It was already late at night, and the sound of shouting reached the top of the city in the dark night.

"Hurry up for a hundred miles, open the city gate quickly——"

In the dim light of the night, the guard of the city tower shot down the rocket and saw three men below. He lowered the hanging basket and asked the other party to put the documents and tokens issued by the stations along the way into the basket.

After checking the documents and tokens, the guard asked the soldiers below to open the city gate.

On the other side, in the quiet inner palace back garden of the imperial city, there was a lot of noise in the Qingci Palace. The maids, eunuchs, and guards all stood outside the palace, with their heads lowered and not daring to speak out.

Bah!
There was a sound of broken porcelain in the bedroom. Queen Zhao Zhuangyi's eyes were wet and she stood among the debris. Although she was already over 50 years old, she had a bad temper. When she was still a princess, she killed Qi Qingbao, the king of Qi across the country. Take it easy.

"Before, His Majesty said that Dongyue did not need troops. Well, I will just take care of myself. Now that the new year has passed, Your Majesty has sent troops!"

"Queen, although the New Year is over, we still need to prepare, right? Moving troops and raising food and grass, which one is not cumbersome?"

"It's cumbersome, but Your Majesty didn't make any movement at all. You forgot who helped you secure your throne! It's my concubine's younger brother, the emperor of Wei!"

Zhao Zhuangyi patted his chest and burst into tears, "Now that my concubine's family is gone and my brother is also dead, Your Majesty feels that you don't need to owe this debt. Can you not repay it?!"

As the saying goes, don't slap someone in the face but don't criticize them.

Qi Qingbao pursed his lips tightly, clasped his cuffs with his fingers, and sunk in hard. He had been the emperor for so many years, even if he was a little henpecked, but he was still the emperor after all. Sitting in the main hall, he was worshiped by his ministers and palace people every day, and now he was scolded by his wife. The pain in his face gradually changed.

However, he still stood there without moving. Once he got married, the queen followed him. Even during the period when the crown prince's position was unstable, it was the queen who made suggestions and used the help of her younger brother, Emperor Zhao Chuanting of Wei, to help pull the strings and consolidate the crown prince's position. The great treasure has just ascended the throne.

Secondly, after decades of being married, his temperament has gradually been suppressed by the other person, and henpecking has become a habit, making it difficult for him to resist.

When Zhao Zhuangyi saw that he remained silent, he became even more impatient and started chattering endlessly.

At this moment, outside the dormitory, a eunuch led a post rider over quickly, then took the letter from the other party and hurried to the outside of the palace, handed the letter to the eunuch waiting outside, and said in the other party's ear After saying this, the latter immediately knocked on the palace door.

Queen Zhao Zhuangyi tilted her head and scolded: "Your Majesty will not see anyone today!"

"Queen, what are you doing, just in case something big comes up!" Qi Qingbao said a few words of consolation at a loss, and the eunuch's voice outside was also anxious.

"Your Majesty, it was urgently sent from Feiyan Pass, eight hundred miles away."

Hearing this, Qi Qingbao hurriedly asked the eunuch to deliver the letter. He took it in his hand and unfolded it. His face changed instantly and his hands shook unconsciously.The queen on the side did not notice it, raised her hand and slapped the letter from the emperor's hand to the ground.

"I am telling you..."

Snapped!
Qi Qingbao suddenly waved his hand and slapped Zhao Zhuangyi on the face, almost tearing his eyes out: "Hey, I have tolerated you for long enough. Do you think you still have Zhao Chuanting's support? As a queen, I said you are, you are the one. ——”

After saying this, he felt a lot more comfortable, but when he picked up the letter on the ground, fear filled his heart again. He ignored the crying queen sitting on the ground and sat staggeringly at the table.

The light shone on his face, and he murmured in a daze: "Damn... 30 soldiers and horses... 20 cavalry, plus the few soldiers and horses in the Central Plains, almost all of them are warriors who have fought a hundred battles... He What should we do if we want to conquer the Qi Kingdom..."

"Send the message to Liang Guo." When he raised his face, his eyes were full of anxiety and horror.

After three years of work, the news from Feiyan Pass finally broke out at this moment and spread at an extremely fast speed.

At the end of the first month, the news had reached the Western Capital of Daliang through various channels. Tuoba Kui, who was originally planning to start a big campaign to reform the country after the beginning of the new year, sat on the throne in a daze, and was silent with the civil servants in the court and the leaders of various tribes. Listening to the news coming.

After a long while, he struggled to squeeze out a word.

"The people of Xirong...the people of Xirong surrendered to Yan?"

He became the emperor at the age of 25. Faced with the barren land, he had the confidence to manage it well. The tribes under his command were brave, but they were also the strongest soldiers in the world and could fight with the soldiers of the Xia King of Yan Kingdom.

As long as the domestic reform is successful, Daliang will surely become stronger. In this way, he can really turn the world into a chess game and compete with the heroes in the world.

However, this feeling ended abruptly at this moment.

While he was confidently moving into the country, others quietly solved the serious troubles caused by Xirong in the north.He knew how the people of Xirong were doing.

'How can there be such a reason... How can there be such a reason... He is only 21 years old this year, where does he have the courage! '

Tuoba Kui clenched his fists and pressed the armrests of the dragon chair. While shouting in his heart, a chill came over him.

From this moment on, there is no northern barrier between Qi and Liang. The other side can drive troops from the Yan State to the grassland in the north at any time, and then go south to Qi State, or flank the hinterland of Daliang.

This shocking news that shocked the whole world not only caused an uproar in the two countries of Qi and Liang.

Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Ma Chao, and Ma Dai from Meizhou also received the news later. It was rare for the four of them to get together and have a drink. Only Ma Chao was quite unhappy. He walked into the courtyard and the tiger-headed golden gun in his hand was swung by him. Almost broken.

On the second day of February, the news had reached all the states in the Central Plains. The whole city of Luyang, from the civil and military, the aristocratic families, to the traders and footmen, were shocked, shocked and palpitated with fear at the news.

After that, many people from almost all the wealthy families were running around to find out the authenticity of the news, and wrote more detailed information to send to homes in other states and counties.

The news that the Xirong people surrendered to the Yan Kingdom and that the grasslands were included in the territory was still spreading to the surrounding areas at a terrifying speed.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhou Cang, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and Niu Gai of Suizhou and Qingzhou were all happy when they heard the news. Zhang Liao was so excited that night, he led Gao Shun and a thousand cavalry to attack Wu Guoli. The camp on the north bank of the Huaijiang River to celebrate!

south.

Emperor Kang Chengqian of the Kingdom of Wu was sitting in the Jinluan Hall with a solemn expression, listening to the endless debates in the hall about the affairs of the Wu people in Yue. He received the news but did not study it in detail. As time went by, more information came one after another. Originally, the hall The arguments among them gradually subsided.

After thinking about it, Kang Chengqian squeezed the hand with the information and trembled slightly unconsciously. Among the 30 elite men, who the hell can beat this?
Originally, the dispute between Wu and Yue border people had hindered him from conquering Qingzhou, which made him distressed. Now that he knew that the north was unified, Kang Chengqian closed his eyes in pain. It was not that he had never seen an army of tens of millions of people, but most of them He is an elite warrior who has fought many battles. No matter how he fights from now on, his brain will start to hurt.

When he saw the civil and military quarrel between North Korea and China, he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​breaking the jar.

"I'll surrender too..."

In the Yue State to the west of Wu State, the news was blocked as soon as it crossed the Huaihe River. The entire Yue State court kept silent about the matter, but everyone knew that the unification of the north was real, like a big mountain weighing on their hearts.

Soon, the emperor of the Yue Kingdom wrote a letter of credence and sent it to Luyang in the Central Plains, hoping to establish a permanent friendship with the Yan Kingdom.

Later, he mobilized several troops and horses to defend Suizhou on the south bank of the Huaijiang River and stationed them all at the place where the Wuyue border residents had a dispute. He had a strong desire to completely resolve the matter.

The news of the surrender of Xirong and the surrender of the two large tribes spread throughout the north and south of the river. At the same time, ripples were made in the northern land like calm water. Fang Xuejun was handling the affairs of the palace and calculating the expenses of the palace when he heard Senior sister Li Wangqiu’s excited voice sounded outside.

"Win, Mr. Xue, your man has won the grassland."

After hearing this, Fang Xuejun put down his pen and ink, and finally a smile appeared on his face that had been tense for a long time.

The spring breeze squeezed through the curtains, stroking the hair hanging down on her face. She smoothed her hair, clasped her hands and looked at the closed curtains. Her voice was choked with excitement, and she whispered softly: "Thank you to the ancestors of the Su family!"

The atmosphere in the Northland gradually became different.

In the prime minister's house, an old man named Wang Lang threw the official document in his hand on the ground. The drunken Guo Jia and Li Bai around him turned their heads and looked at him. The old man with white beard and hair excitedly rolled up his sleeves.

"It's time for me to take action!"

(End of this chapter)