Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

A dozen boxes were moved to Guo's house the next day, and Guo Shao opened the room for inspection. {First issue} One of the boxes was filled with copper coins, not ordinary coins, all of which were freshly cast and in good condition, and then wrapped in red silk. The other opened was a silver-cast box with delicate patterns; when it was opened again, it was a golden box. The innermost is a large and dazzling box of gold and gemstone jewelry, with a large bead the size of a quail egg in the middle. He couldn't help but pick it up to observe, wondering whether this thing was a Ye Mingzhu or not, how valuable it was.

Guo Shao took the beads and looked at it for a while, and said in his heart: Marrying a wife really costs a lot, and I am almost bankrupt now.

Zhao Kuangyin died at the end of last year and needed to marry another wife; the loss should be quite large, and the money spent on the Ming media’s marrying his wife was obviously in vain.

No amount of money is enough. It’s not easy for Guo Shao to save some money. He did not hesitate to kidnap|take captives and extort|extort while fighting in Shu. After fighting Shouzhou, he robbed the Nantang government and the big households in the city. In addition, he took a long time as a senior general and local official. Official salary. All this money was gone all at once... I also asked Mrs. Chen for a big bargain, otherwise the bride price would have to be discounted by half; Mrs. Chen would also pay for it. This money is available to senior military officers and bureaucrats like Guo Shao. pressure.

Of course, because of her background, Fu Ermei is not only worth the money. It is not that person who can marry her with so many dowry gifts... As Guo Shaozeng said, it is worth changing Huainan Sixteen Prefectures. The problem is only Huainan Sixteen. The state is not his.

Comparing the two compartments, Yulian and Yang are easy to get. They are basically the same for nothing, and Jingniang is similar. No wonder women are generally reluctant to be concubines. Everyone wants to show a little bit of their own value and nobility. It might not be pleasant to be taken home without any movement.

Guo Shao couldn't take care of a lot. Marrying a second sister Fu was enough for him to toss, and he had to take care of this for a while.

At the same time, the "Shen Chen Li" firm will soon have a caravan going to Youzhou to in and out of goods. Guo Shao felt that he only sent a soldier in the past, and he might not have the knowledge to find out any valuable information, so he fooled Zhou Duan and asked him to go to Youzhou as the spy leader; it was done and he promised that he would sit in Xuzhou. Jiedu loyalty made the shogunate's second highest Mucheng (zuoyou hanging long history).

Zhou Duan is an offshoot of the Zhou family in the Southern Tang State. He is not well-known and has no merit. He can only rely on his own mouth to say whether he has the ability to become an official. If the official position is so easy to obtain, everyone will become an official.

Although there are no good soldiers in Xuzhou Jie Town, it is a big city at any rate. Jie Du makes the rules not to interfere with the government affairs of local prefectures and counties, but it can be the emperor in a city; Guo Shao and Zuo You are often not in Xuzhou, Zhou Duanruo is As Mucheng, power can directly surpass all officials in Xuzhou, and he has no reason to refuse.

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Zhao Kuangyin started to marry Hebei Wang Shizhong before Guo Shao, but now he can't get a wife. The funeral of the Zhao family is almost over. He once wrote to Ding You, but he was not unexpectedly rejected and retained as appropriate. The emperor didn't want a person he regarded as a powerful general to be useless because his father died.

Now the generals are relatively free, Zhao Kuangyin and Guo Shao have not had any contact, and they met in the hall on the first day of April.

At the meeting, the generals did not speak, and the emperor and the civil servants were all devoted to ensuring agricultural production in various places. Li Gu played detailed measures to prevent and control the Yellow River, and urged the abolition of farming and the implementation of new taxation and service laws, and quarreled with several other officials in the hall. Wang Pu wrote to continue to plan and expand Tokyo City and improve the water transportation system. Wang Pu presents a map of water conservancy irrigation in Hebei...Some people also suggest various ways to prevent locusts.

The emperor finally focused his energy on governing the country, and the civil servants all rushed to offer advice, hoping to show their achievements and values.

Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin, Guo Shao and others did not say a word, regardless of who was right and who was wrong.

After finally leaving the court, the senior generals walked out of the palace boringly. Zhao Kuangyin and Zhang Yongde did not conceal their friendship along the way. One of them was the commander in front of the palace, the other was the inspector at the front of the palace, and the two most powerful men in the Zhou Dynasty.

The two of them went out from Donghuamen, then rode to the official office in front of the temple, and went to the rest room to drink tea together.

Zhao Kuangyin is one year older than Zhang Yongde, but he respects Zhang Yongde in words, and he often calls him "gong": "After the Gaoping war, if it weren't for the public to take credit for me, Zhao would not have what it is today. Dare to forget."

Zhang Yongde shook his head and said: "It is the official family who has the kindness of brother Zhao. I only found talents for the official family."

Because there were no outsiders, Zhao Kuangyin personally poured tea for Zhang Yongde. He opened his mouth and seemed to have something to say, but Shengsheng swallowed it from his mouth into his stomach, and then said: "The official ruling and governing local affairs is also for the Northern Expedition. There are sufficient supplies to avoid worries. Wang Pu didn't say that as long as there are good harvests in summer and autumn this year, the Northern Expedition can begin next year! It seems that the weather will be smooth and there will be no major disaster this year, and we should wait a few months before we go into battle."

Zhang Yongde sternly said: "More than this year... After the Battle of Jinyang, it has been three years now. When will the officials not be preparing for the Northern Expedition? The attacks on Qinfeng and Huainan are all to eliminate the worries of the Northern Expedition. Youzhou is dedicated to Liao from Shi Jingtang. The country has always been the pain of the Central Plains. If this place can be regained in the hands of the officials, it will be a great achievement praised by all generations. Our Forbidden Army has fought so many battles, and we are waiting for that day!

"In this way, the main point of this battle is to capture Youyun, and you only need to drive the Qidan soldiers out of Hebei." Zhao Kuangyin said.

Zhao Kuangyin felt that the emperor's mood was very urgent... Could it be because of his declining body? Both he and Zhang Yongde are people who often see the emperor. They can observe the emperor's complexion and physical condition carefully.

There was no expression on the black face, Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a long time. He wanted Zhang Yongde to say something to the emperor, but for a while he didn't know where to persuade Zhang Yongde... He opened his mouth before, just wanting to talk about Guo Shao's marriage with King Wei; but he thought of himself and Guo. It is too obvious to mention Guo Shao when Shao is in the festive season, so it's just to look at him.

There is a very obvious thing that haunts Zhao Kuangyin's mind: once the official family is gone, the longest prince Chai Zongxun is only three years old, and the queen must reign.

Zhao Kuangyin had to consider that Guo Shao was a military commander and the queen's confidant from the Royal Palace of Wei, and now he wants to marry the Fu family, and the relationship will be even further; if the queen of Fu takes control of the political power, he still has good fruit for Zhao Kuangyin?

This situation does not matter as long as Emperor Chai Rong is in power, but now that Chai Rong is weak, it puts a lot of pressure on Zhao Kuangyin. Empress Fu didn't hear anything wrong with her after a serious illness in Huainan. She was still so young and should have lived longer than the official family. And Guo Shao, who is alive and well in his twenties.

Zhao Kuangyin increasingly felt that it was not Guo Shao who threatened him the most. His grievance with him was only accelerating the conflict...The most difficult thing to deal with was Fuhou.

The queen hasn't shown her face for several months, but as long as she carefully considers her layout, it is not difficult to find that everything is very beneficial to her.

The status of the queen also holds the name of the mother of the prince Chai Zongxun; no one can threaten her in the harem. The forbidden army is generous in favor, and the prestige is very high in the hearts of the soldiers, she even surpasses Zhang Yongde in terms of prestige and support...not only that, she also promotes her confidantes, concretizes her military power, and further stabilizes her power in the forbidden army through marriage.

Guo Shao has a lot of influence in the Department of Guards. The elite troops are not as strong as the front of the palace, but it does not matter at all. From now on, his presence in Tokyo will be enough to threaten everyone and dare not resist to protect the will of the regent center. Moreover, the location is appropriate. If Guo Shao is now in Zhang Yongde's position and is the queen's private person, the emperor is unwilling to reuse it.

After the Fu clan was sealed more than a year ago, Zhao Kuangyin paid no attention to this woman at that time. But just a year later, when I looked back, I had already deployed everything after Fu.

Zhao Kuangyin had to look up at this woman. He calmly said to Zhang Yongde: "In the past, I could see the queen occasionally, but in the past few months I have never seen her and the official entering or leaving the palace."

Zhang Yongde looked up thinking, and nodded after thinking about it.

Zhao Kuangyin said again: "Fan Zhi once talked to Dou Yi about a secret, did he hear about it? When it is rumored that Taizu died, he mainly paid attention to two people. One was to let Wei Renpu act as a confidant, and the other was to sternly appoint the officials. Later. Taizu believed that only these two people would be able to hand over the powerful position to the official."

Zhang Yongde shook his head and said: "I have never heard of this. But the queen today is extraordinary, with the maternal bearing of the world."

Zhao Kuangyin secretly said: Wei Renpu's role is completely understandable. At that time, the official position was not stable when he first ascended the throne. It needed a capable and reliable person to control the military power of the Privy Council; what direct role could the queen have? Could it be that Taizu has a long-term vision and has considered that all the descendants of the Guo family have been massacred and no one will succeed him, and he is thinking about the third-generation throne? If the queen is dedicated to maintaining the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it will be much more stable to have a person like her presiding over the government after a hundred years in the official house~www.readwn.com~.

But now it seems that no matter what she thinks, it is not a good thing for Zhao Kuangyin... If the Zhao family can marry the Fu family and there is no queen confidant like Guo Shao, Zhao Kuangyin will naturally not feel the threat of the queen. It was what the queen did that made him very uneasy.

He calmly said: "The edict of the Taizu has been foreseeable, and Wei Renpu is still the privy envoy to this day."

Zhang Yongde did not shy away from saying: "I see the situation, Wang Pu may replace Wei Renpu as the privy envoy."

After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin said again: "Finalizing the queen is also what the Taizu meant earlier. If the official expedition is outside the court, the queen can also preside over the overall situation."

After hearing this, Zhang Yongde was taken aback, and felt that his tone was a bit wrong. Doesn't that mean that there are no emperors in this world, and even a queen can control the court?

Regardless of the consequences, Zhao Kuangyin implied in a stronger tone: "Please think carefully, whether the queen's prestige and strength can preside over military affairs... Now that the official and the queen are respected as guests and the dragon and the phoenix are in harmony, it is indeed a blessing in the world." rg