Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 152 Xinna Side Room

Little Huan Gong coveted Zhang Tianxi's mother Liu Meiren and Zhang Xuanliang's mother Guo Jiang. What bad intentions could there be? It was just to let Zhang Tianxi and Zhang Xuanliang feel the long-lost father's love again.

As for Liu Meiren and Guo Jiang, Huan Xi does not need to worry about it. Quan Yi will act as lobbyist for Huan Xi and persuade them.

The two agreed without hesitation.

Although she won't have a title for the time being, being able to be Huan Xi's concubine is better than being rewarded by him as a general and being someone else's concubine.

Besides, given Xiao Huan Gong's appearance and figure, he had an affair with the two of them, so it's hard to tell who took advantage.

Whether it was for themselves or for their son, Liu Meiren and Guo Jiang had no reason to refuse.

That night, Liang Palace.

Liu Meiren was picked up from Yongxun Palace, and Guo Jiang was picked up from Yongshou Palace. They met unexpectedly outside Huanxi's bedroom.

Obviously, they all thought that Huan Xi only asked them to sleep with him, and they did not expect that the other party would also come, so the situation was a bit awkward.

Although there is not much age difference between the two, Liu Meiren is the elder after all, and is the mother of Guo Jiang's brother-in-law Zhang Tianxi.

Guo Jiang bowed first, but didn't know what to call him.

Liu Meiren stepped forward to help her up. In order to resolve the awkwardness between them, she suggested:

"Since you and I both have to serve Duke Huan, how about we treat each other as sisters from now on?"

Guo Jiang quickly agreed, and the two sisters shouted affectionately.

Listening to the voices of the two women outside the dormitory, Huan Xi felt itchy and had to cough dryly to remind them not to just recognize the sisters, but to get down to business first.

The person outside the door urged:

"You two, Duke Huan has been waiting for a long time. Please come in and pay your respects."

Liu Meiren and Guo Jiang heard this and pushed the door open. Huan Xi was looking at them with a smile.

"I pay my respects to Duke Huan!"

The two women's eyebrows were lowered, but they couldn't hide the aura of love between their eyebrows.

The door was closed by someone unknown, and there were only three of them left in the room. Huan Xi opened his arms, and Liu Meiren and Guo Jiang embraced each other without his calling.

Before coming, the two girls had already taken a bath, and their bodies were still scented with fragrance. Huan Xi had not been close to women for a long time, so how could he control it.

That night, the thunder from the sky and the fire from the earth combined with the strength of Liu Meiren and Guo Jiang still made their voices hoarse.

The next day is New Year's Eve.

You cannot marry a bride in the first month, because it will hinder your parents-in-law and have an impact on their life span and fortune.

Of course Huan Xi was a filial son. He didn't know if there was such a thing as taking a concubine, so he rushed to hold a happy event on New Year's Eve. Under the celebration of Liangzhou's soldiers and people, he took Zhang Yu'er as his concubine.

There were lanterns and colorful decorations inside and outside the city, and the celebration was extraordinary. However, the Ma family and the Pei family were buried with common people's rites, and they were not buried in the same cave as Zhang Jun and Zhang Chonghua.

In the main hall of Liang Palace, everyone toasted to congratulate each other. Huan Xi was also very happy. After drinking a few more glasses, he was sent to his new house.

Zhang Yu'er heard the movement outside the door, feeling nervous and looking forward to it.

Huan Xi pushed the door open, turned around and coaxed everyone away with a smile.

He came to the edge of the couch and sat side by side with Zhang Yu'er, holding her hand. Huan Xi could feel her trembling slightly.

Taking the fan away from Zhang Yu'er's hand, Huan Xi was immediately frightened and woke up from drinking. He tried to make himself more awake and not to act confused after drinking. thing.

Even if Zhang Yu'er is only thirteen years old tomorrow, how can he take advantage of her?

But Zhang Yu'er naturally didn't understand Huan Xi's thoughts. After all, in ancient times, it was not uncommon for people to get married at the age of twelve or thirteen.

Zhang Yuer said puzzledly:

"General what's going on?"

Huan Xi pretended to sigh:

"Just remembering something."

Zhang Yuer asked:

"I wonder if I can talk to you?"

Huan Xi nodded and said:

“There is nothing you can’t do.

"I heard that if a woman is too young when she becomes pregnant, she will have difficulty in giving birth."

With that said, Huan Xi proposed to let her live in his house for the time being, and then he could be happy with her when he was older.

It's not that Huan Xi is pedantic, he also has his own moral bottom line. When facing a girl of this age, he must not have any lustful thoughts.

The reason why he accepted Zhang Yu'er as his concubine was just for political considerations and to appease the people of Liangzhou.

Although Zhang Yu'er didn't understand Huan Xi's persistence, she couldn't help but feel happy when she thought that the other party was caring about her.

Huan Xi stood up and left, and Zhang Yuer became sad again:

"Is the general really going to leave on the big day?"

Huan Xi comforted and said:

"The beautiful lady is in front of me. If I stay, how can I remain calm in my arms?"

After all the words were said, how could Zhang Yu'er open her mouth to persuade her to stay.

Before Huan Xi left, Zhang Yuer summoned up the courage to hug Huan Xi from behind and whispered:

"I will always be waiting for the general. I just ask the general not to leave me behind."

Huan Xi turned around, stroked her hair, and said: "Whether I am in Liangzhou or returning to Chang'an, I will visit you from time to time. If I didn't care about you, why would I have to wait for such a long time."

When Zhang Yu'er heard this, she felt warm in her heart, thinking that she had found a lover worth entrusting her life to.

After the beloved left, he called his concubine Guo Jiang and her concubine Meiren Liu late at night and had fun with them.

The tenth year of Yonghe (AD 354), New Year's Day.

The Western Jin Dynasty perished in the fourth year of Jianxing, that is, 316 AD, but Qianliang has always used the Jianxing era name of the Western Jin Dynasty. This year should be the nd year of Jianxing.

However, because Huanxi occupied Guzang, the Yonghe reign of the Eastern Jin Dynasty would naturally replace the Jianxing reign of the Western Jin Dynasty in Liangzhou.

At the beginning of the new year, Huan Xi took a group of generals and local scholars to worship in front of the tombs of Zhang Gui, Zhang Shi, Zhang Mao, Zhang Jun, Zhang Chonghua and others.

This move was highly praised by the local people.

In the new year, good news came one after another, because Huan Xi passed Zhang Zuo's head to all the cities in Wuwei County.

As Huan Xi had expected, the cities of Cangsong, Yici, Pupai, and Luanniao, which were monitored by Huan Xi's divided troops, all offered their cities to surrender after learning that Guzang had fallen and Zhang Zuo was dead.

From the eight counties of Liangzhou, Huan Xi brought the two counties of Wuwei and Jincheng under his command.

However, there are Xiping County in the south and six counties in the west such as Zhangye, Xijun, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, and Xihai that are not controlled by Huan Xi.

Among them, Xiping County governs the four counties of Xidu, Linqiang, Changning, and Anyi. It borders Xianbei and Tuyuhun to the west. It is located in the fertile triangle of the Yellow River and Huangshui River basins, which is the Hehuang Valley that was fiercely contested by the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo Kingdom.

This area has large areas of pasture and is suitable for agricultural production. It became an important agricultural area in Qinghai Province in later generations.

The person who guards Xiping County today is also a member of the Zhang clan. It is Zhang Guan, another lover of Zhang Chonghua's mother, Ma family, in history.

To the west of Wuwei County is Xijun, which governs the five counties of Rile, Xiandan, Xianti, Wansui and Lanchi.

To the west of Xijun is Zhangye County, which governs Yongping, Linze and Wulan counties.

To the west of Zhangye County is Jiuquan County, which has jurisdiction over nine counties including Huishui, Anmi, Liuma, Leju, Biaoshi, Yanshou, Yumen and Shatou.

To the west of Jiuquan County is Dunhuang County, which governs twelve counties including Changpu, Dunhuang, Longle, Yangguan, Xiaogu, Guangzhi, Yihe, Yi'an, Shenquan, Yiwu, Xinxiang, and Qianqi.

To the north of Jiuquan County is Xihai County. Although it has a vast territory and is the largest of the eight counties in Liangzhou, it only has one county, Juyan (southeast of today's Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia), which borders Yanze.

Although Liangzhou has a vast territory, it has a sparse population. In the Western Jin Dynasty, there were only 30,800 households.

Among the eight counties, Dunhuang County has the largest population, with a population of 6,300 households in the Western Jin Dynasty.

After several generations of Zhang family's governance, the population has increased a lot, probably around 40,000 households.

Of course, there are also some Hu people in Liangzhou who have not yet been registered as households and are not included in the census.

Zhang Zuo had previously left 20,000 infantry and cavalry to guard Guzang, and assigned some soldiers to defend various cities. The 30,000 infantry and cavalry he concentrated in Wuwei County were indeed the main force of Liangzhou, and there were also some barbarians among them.

After occupying Wuwei County and annexing the main force of Liangzhou, Huan Xi was also preparing to take over the remaining six counties of Liangzhou.

Of course, it was impossible for Huan Xi to collect Dunhuang himself.

The five counties west of Wuwei County, including Zhangye, Xijun, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, and Xihai, depended on Huanxi's preparation. As long as they were willing to surrender and support his rule in Liangzhou, Huanxi could continue to retain them.

At worst, they will wait until their rule in Liangzhou is stable in the future, and then transfer them in the name of promotion.

But Huan Xi wanted to firmly control Xiping County south of Wuwei and west of Jincheng.

This is not only because of the importance of the Hehuang Valley and its proximity to Murong Tuguhun, but more importantly because of the ambition of Zhang Guan, the prefect of Xiping, who left him in Liangzhou to continue to be his neighbor to Murong Tuguhun. Huanxi did not know that after he left Finally, will the other party have any objections?

Xie Ai was entrusted with the important task of the Western Expedition by Huan Xi, but in reality he only had the three thousand cavalry he had in Jincheng County.

Although the number of troops is somewhat smaller, except for the westernmost Dunhuang County, which has thousands of soldiers because it wants to control the Western Regions, there are basically not many defenders left in the other counties.

Dunhuang County is where Xie Ai's clan is located, and he is originally from Dunhuang.

I believe that relying on Xie Ai's reputation in Liangzhou and using Zhang Zuo's head to clear the way, he will be able to regain the land of the five counties.

As for Xiping County, Huan Xi was not in a hurry to send troops to force Zhang Guan to surrender, but instead reorganized his soldiers in Guzang.

In fact, Liangzhou's main force of 30,000 cavalry did not suffer much losses, with less than a thousand casualties, mainly concentrated in the ambush battle between Huan Xi and Zhang Zuo in the north of Guzang City that day.

In fact, Huan Xi only fought this battle against Zhang Zuo. After the former Liang Jingqi was sent away by Zhang Zuo, he simply surrendered and accepted the rebellion.

According to Huan Xi's character, he naturally focused on developing production, with nearly 30,000 infantry and cavalry. Huan Xi only selected the elite among them and organized them into combat soldiers.

In the end, Huan Xi received 8,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry.

Also included as combat soldiers are Xie Ai's two thousand cavalry and one thousand infantry, for a total of fifteen thousand people.

There are too many real elites in the former Liang army, especially the cavalry. Otherwise, how could they defeat more with less?

It was really hard for Huan Xi to give up, so he could only tighten his belt.

In Huan Xi's idea, the newly acquired five thousand infantry would be deployed in the west of Liangzhou, mainly in Dunhuang County, to continue the former Liang's control of the Western Regions.

The 10,000 cavalry will be arranged in the eastern part of Liangzhou, namely Wuwei, Jincheng, and Xiping counties, so that they can respond to Huan Xi's call as quickly as possible.

　The next chapter will be before twelve o'clock in the evening, and the supplementary update will still be in the early morning.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)