Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Several people on the ground fell in a pool of blood, and the wet blood flowed across the floor tiles. ☆→, Shi Yanchao's armor was splattered with blood, and the blood was dripping down from the knife, which looked even more terrifying. Shi Yanchao didn't seem to enjoy the killing enough. He glanced at the town soldier general who had just been helped up, and walked over with a knife in his hand.

"Anyway, you can't restrain your subordinates, you're just an idiot, what's the use of keeping it?" Shi Yanchao said and swung his long knife.

Someone nearby yelled: "He is the one who violated the military law, and he is not guilty of death..." But it was too late, Shi Yanchao stabbed the general in the abdomen with a single knife, and screams rang out.

No one dared to accuse Shi Yanchao of killing indiscriminately. All the soldiers looked at him with fear on their faces, and the people on the street were all fearful.

At this moment, someone said: "Marshal Guo is here!"

Everyone turned their heads one after another, Guo Shao got off the carriage, and strode towards this side with several guards. Not far away, Wang Pu, Dong Zunhui and others rushed over upon hearing the news, bringing a group of soldiers and horses with them.

Shi Yanchao put away the butcher's knife, stepped forward and clasped his fists to salute the army: "Greetings to Guo Du for inspection."

Such a big man who kills without blinking an eye bends down to perform salutes to other people, and the people onlookers turn their eyes to Guo Shao, curious to see what kind of person can restrain such a ferocious warrior. However, Marshal Guo was a tall and strong young man, and there was nothing special about him, because most of the forbidden soldiers of the Zhou army were such young and strong men.

Guo Shao couldn't help but glance at Shi Yanchao at this time, because he felt that Shi Yanchao's attitude in front of him was a little different today. This guy has always kept the rules of the army and obeyed the military orders, but he is arrogant and has a bad temper. Today he is giving face... What is the reason for Shi Yanchao to change his attitude in front of him?

Guo Shao ignored Shi Yanchao, stepped over the bloodstains on the ground, walked to the front of the barracks, and said loudly: "There are national laws above, and military regulations below. Those who despise military laws will end up like this!"

The people around watched all this and fell silent.

Guo Shao turned around and looked at the standing sufferer and several covered corpses on the street, and said: "Killing for life, even if it is a soldier under my command, he will be punished severely if he violates the laws of the country. If anyone in the world has weapons, he can do anything wrong, and who would not kill someone if he doesn't care about his life? In the past, the world was in chaos, and the people of the ten kingdoms were in chaos. Do you want to continue living in troubled times?"

He paused and then said loudly: "In the dynasty of great unification, the people need to live and work in peace and contentment, they need to strengthen themselves to resist foreign insults, and they want to punish the evil and promote the good. Swords and guns must be held in the hands of the benevolent! The benevolent defend the people, distinguish between good and evil, justice and law...the benevolent are invincible!"

Soon someone among the people shouted: "Good! Good! Well said..."

Behind Dong Zunhui shouted excitedly: "The benevolent is invincible!" All the imperial guards immediately shouted, and the soldiers and civilians under the city wall were in an uproar. Guo Shao left the place quickly at this moment, with the commotion still behind him.

He quickly ran into Wang Pu and the others in the past, and seeing Wang Pu's expression was different, he looked around at himself.

"Wang Shijun, let's go." Guo Shao said.

Wang Pudao: "Li Gu went to Jiangning City today, as a colleague, I went to the gate of the city to meet him."

"When is Li Xianggong coming?" Guo Shao immediately changed his plan, "I will go with Wang Shijun."

Although Li Gu was the prime minister of Zhengshitang, he went out with the army many times. In the Jinyang campaign, he was responsible for allocating food from various states and counties, and did not do much; After the war, he has been in charge of logistics. He has been doing this job in the battle against the rebellion against Erli, the battle against Shu, and the attack on Jiangnan this time. His contribution is not small, and Guo Shao has a good personal relationship with him.

The group waited for a while at the gate of the city, and sure enough, they saw Li Gu and others riding into the city on horseback. So after some courtesy and greetings, Guo Shao invited Li Gu to the camp of the Chinese Army.

Guo Shao felt that Wang Pu was not good at making friends with others, but today he specially came to pick up Li Gu, and he was a little surprised at the moment. As expected, Wang Pu didn't say a few words of greetings, and immediately mentioned his purpose: "I heard that Li Xianggong and Han Xizai, Minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, have been friends for many years?"

Li Gu was also calm, and said: "Han Xizai's family was originally an official in the Central Plains, and I have been friends with each other for many years. Later, the Han family was implicated in a rebellion, and Han Xizai could not escape. I was the one who escorted him to Zhengyang to cross the Huaihe River."

Li Gu smiled and said: "When we parted, Duke Han made an appointment with me. If the Southern Tang Dynasty uses him, he will definitely take the Central Plains. Now that the Southern Tang Dynasty has perished, I'm afraid I'm ashamed to see me."

Wang Pu shook his head and said, "The feeling of friendship is still there."

"Oh?" Li Gu looked at Wang Pu.

Wang Pu turned his head on horseback and said to Guo Shao: "In recent years, the Central Plains has been fighting for years, and people from the gentry to the common people have been unable to escape; the population of the Southern Tang Kingdom is booming, and a large part of it comes from the southward migration of the Central Plains. Han Xizai is in a high position, has a lot of friends, and is quite famous. He can influence the attitudes of many gentry clans and has a great effect on public opinion. If he can win this person back to the Great Zhou Dynasty, it will be of great benefit to the stability of the Southern Tang Kingdom."

Guo Shao nodded.

Wang Pu said again: "The scholars in the south, for the sake of fame and family prestige, at least on the surface, often build roads and bridges, and accumulate good deeds. They are quite popular among the local people, and the people trust the scholars most; they make friends with each other, and they are good at writing and reasoning, and they hold hands with public opinion. If General Guo wants to appease the Southern Tang Kingdom as soon as possible, he must not be in a hurry to plunder|extort these people.

After hearing this, Guo Shao thought it was good, and immediately adopted Wang Pu's suggestion: "It would be a good thing if Han Xizai could be allowed to be an official in Da Zhou."

"There is also Chen Qiao, the assistant government of the Guangzheng Yuan. As far as I know, this person is also the leader of the literati in the Southern Tang Dynasty." Wang Pudao, "But Chen Qiao's whereabouts are unknown now. I will ask Han Xizai before I see him."

After Wang Pu finished speaking, he turned his head to Li Gu and said, "How about Li Gong and me going to visit the Han Mansion right now?"

Li Gu Fengchen has just entered the city, and he didn't even have a foothold, but he couldn't refuse, so he had to cup his hands and said: "Since it is a major national event, how dare you slack off?"

Guo Shao looked at Li Gu and said with a smile: "Wang Shijun is a man of great vigor and resoluteness, so he made a trip to Li Xianggong. Tonight at the camp of the Chinese Army, I will host a banquet to wash away the dust for you."

So Guo Shao bid farewell to the two of them. At this time, Wang Pu looked serious, pondered for a moment and said: "By the way, I asked myself to stay in Jiangning last time, but I thought that Li Gong (Li Gu) might be more suitable. When General Guo's squadron returns to the court, I will also go back with the army."

"It's not too late to discuss at that time." Guo Shao said casually.

He, Zuo You and others returned to the Xingyuan of the Chinese Army, an official government office in the Southern Tang Dynasty that was requisitioned. Zuo You entered the hall with them, and as soon as the two of them entered the hall, he said: "I think that the reason for the change of tone of the clerk Wang today may not be because of Li Gu's arrival in Jiangning, but to re-state his position, perhaps because he wants to support the important matter of the lord."

Guo Shao was also thinking about it, but he was noncommittal at the moment.

Zuo You said again: "Northern Han and Southern Tang people from the enemy country spread|spread rumors, saying that the lord wants to stand on his own feet, but the rumors from the opponent's mouth may not be all bad things."

Guo Shao immediately agreed with Zuo You's opinion: "Originally, after the deployment of the major event, it is necessary to let out some rumors, so as to distinguish who has what attitude."

What he thought of was the change in Shi Yanchao's attitude today. He speculated that it might be related to the usurping stone in the Yangtze River. Shi Yanchao seemed unwilling to stop himself from proclaiming himself emperor. There are other people who are waiting and watching, and they can also be prepared; the more people support Guo Shao on the eve of doing big things, the less risk he will have.

After Zuo You finished what he wanted to say, he saw that the sun outside had reached mid-heaven, so he left.

Guo Shao came out of the lobby from the back and was also going to eat. He couldn't help but took out the report from Tokyo from his pocket, and read it again... Although according to Zuo You and his own judgment, it would not have much impact if his intentions were exposed, but the four sentences he fished out of the Yellow River were really too ugly. Guo Shao couldn't help feeling angry again.

It must have been done by Zhao Kuangyin, and Li Yun from Hedong. The person who was least willing to see himself proclaiming himself emperor was obviously Zhao Kuangyin, but he was in the Northern Han Dynasty, and it was not easy for him to come to the Yellow River, so he might have colluded with Li Yun.

Guo Shao paced back and forth under the eaves, and after a while he came up with a way: recruit the brothers who followed Zhao Kuangyin and the soldiers, and let them come back with Zhao Kuangyin's head in their hands to make up for their mistakes.