Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shaodao: "Then Zhao Kuangyin was in the Northern Han Dynasty, slandering and insulting the Queen's Sister-in-law unscrupulously. When I destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, I will arrest him and apologize to the Queen's Wife."

Fu Jinzhan heard him speak easily, and immediately smiled cooperatively, looking at Guo Shao's copper-colored face with wandering eyes: "Is it like catching Meng Chang?"

"Zhao Kuangyin is different from Meng Chang. I can't forgive him." Guo Shao was also relaxed at first, and gradually showed anger on his face as he spoke, "He used to be my mortal enemy, threatening my life, family, and everyone around me. I will get rid of him quickly! Back then in Tokyo, the situation was urgent, and victory and defeat were at the fingertips. At that time, we couldn't deploy the sky, and let this guy run away. Now it has become a great disaster.

He instigated|incited hidden dangers in the country and insulted the royal family. The last time a spy sneaked into Tokyo to try to steal a military plane for an enemy country, I suspect he was also responsible. Although this person has failed, his hatred has never been eliminated. "

The second younger sister Fu persuaded me kindly: "Husband, please calm down."

Guo Shao was silent for a moment, his anger subsided a little, and he said again: "I have asked the Privy Council to send people to infiltrate the Northern Han Dynasty to find out Zhao Kuangyin's whereabouts. If we can catch him this time, we must first let him taste the humiliation and fear, and then let him die!"

Fu Jinzhan faintly felt Guo Shao's cruel side, and he was not kind when he dealt with Zhao Kuangyin's remaining party before. However, he is usually a very generous person. I heard that there is an evaluation of "the benevolence of women" in the army.

Fu Ermei also seemed to feel that the atmosphere was not right. The three fell silent and ate slowly.

After Guo Shao finished eating, he put down his chopsticks. Then he lowered his tone and pondered: "I have thought a lot about where to go now. In fact, we have enough. My decision to use troops against the Northern Han and Khitan is not entirely out of ambition and great success..."

"What else?" Fu Jinzhan asked softly.

Fu Jinzhan is quite willing to listen to Guo Shao's thoughts, that is the emperor's mind, maybe he has no one but himself to talk about his heart... But Fu Jinzhan also really feels that the position between himself and Guo Shao has reversed. The trust and affection have not changed, but now she is no longer the active position; Guo Shao is no longer a subordinate of her and the Fu family, he has become the master.

"Safe." Guo Shao's voice brought Fu Jinzhan back to his senses.

Guo Shaodao: "Threats to our security are nothing more than two types of forces. The first is mortal enemies with hatred, such as Zhao Kuangyin, and the Northern Han (the descendants of the Later Han) who have always regarded the Great Zhou as an enemy at the national level and believed that the Zhou Dynasty robbed them of their country. The second is forces that are stronger than us, such as the Khitan. They can bully us and even threaten us to submit when they are strong. So if I stop here, I will feel uneasy."

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At the south gate of Jinyang (Taiyuan), Zhao Kuangyin turned his head and said to Li Jixun: "Guo Shao will attack the Northern Han Dynasty."

Li Jixun sped up his horse and said, "Brother Zhao, why are you so sure? Blacksmith Guo has just usurped the throne, so why not rule the country first?"

At this time, they had already reached the gate of the city, and a group of soldiers guarding the city stood at the gate. Zhao Kuangyin stopped talking, got off his horse, led the horse and a group of subordinates and walked towards the gate of the city. He walked into the doorway and couldn't help observing the city gate carefully.

The city wall is very thick. The bottom of the city wall at the gate is at least twenty steps thick (more than twenty meters thick), so Zhao Kuangyin walked in as if he had entered a tunnel! The light in the cave was a bit dim, and the bright light outside the city gate was just ahead. At this moment, it seemed that Zhao Kuangyin was about to see the sun again from the cave.

"Jinyang City is a great city!" Zhao Kuangyin praised casually.

After walking for a while, they left the city gate. After walking on the post road, there were not many people on the main road, and I didn't know them. Zhao Kuangyin then said: "The Northern Han Dynasty has always been the mortal enemy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the terrain hangs over the head of the Central Plains. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty and several generations, the new monarchs who replaced the previous dynasties have been several times the Hedong Jiedushi. Tokyo must regard Jinyang as a confidant. Besides, the danger of Jinyang lies in Xiongcheng.

Zhao Kuangyin paused and said again: "It is of course important to unify the world, but since the two big kingdoms of Shu and Southern Tang are destroyed, it is no longer difficult to unify the world; other small countries cannot threaten and restrain Da Zhou, and those small countries cannot hold back the pace of Guo Tiejiang's Northern Expedition. As for governing the country? Brother Li thinks, how should we govern?"

Li Jixun pondered for a while, he couldn't answer for a while, he was only a military commander after all, he probably seldom think about those things.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "In the current Jiezhen, the power to interfere with local officials' government affairs has been withdrawn (the edict of the Chai Rong period forbids Jiedu envoys from interfering in prefecture and county government affairs), and all the elite soldiers have been taken away. Jiezhen has no strength, and the sphere of influence is only a city of the government. If it is still weakened, only financial power remains, and a transfer envoy can be set up to further take back the power of the Jiezhen to collect money. By then, the Jiedu envoy will really become an empty shell.

The throne of Guo Tiejiang is to pick the fruit of the late emperor! Since Taizu and the first emperor, they have been restricting and weakening the local military governors, and implementing the strategy of strengthening the stem and weak branches; in the current Central Plains, the local festival towns cannot threaten Tokyo at all. After Guo Tiejiang usurped the throne, the localities had no strength, and there was no need to move them in a hurry. "

Li Jixun said: "So, brother Zhao already knew that Li Yun couldn't achieve great things?"

"Of course it won't work, but he is so obedient this time as an arrogant person, obediently deploying defenses, I was not sure at the time." Zhao Kuangyin said.

Knowing that it can't be done, why do you want to instigate | Li Yun, everyone will stop mentioning it... because Zhao Kuangyin and others are very dissatisfied with Guo Shao and resentful!

Zhao Kuangyin sighed: "It's also because of Guo Shao's continuous destruction of the two countries, and the power of force. I guess Li Jun is also a little afraid of this man who is too capable of fighting. Therefore, from the perspective of Guo Shao's regime, the current stable position depends not on weakening the local area, but on further increasing its power; these are the reasons why I judge that Guo Shao will continue to attack the Northern Han Dynasty."

He thought for a while, then pondered: "Guo Shao's threat is not the local festival town, but the imperial generals!"

Li Jixun nodded in agreement after listening.

Zhao Kuangyin said coldly: "Guo Shao is usurping the throne of the late emperor's son as the general of the Forbidden Army. The Forbidden Army is dominant, but the generals are still powerful. If there is a threat to the throne, only the General of the Forbidden Army is the only one. Guo Shao is probably not focusing on the place now, but the generals around him."

Li Jixun said: "At present, there is no rumor that the Zhou court wants to weaken the general of the forbidden army."

Zhao Kuangyin said: "I guess that guy (Guo Shao) has gotten carried away with his complacency, and maybe he wants to accept Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures."

"Tsk tsk." Li Jixun said, "Ambition is really big."

Zhao Kuangyin snorted, "I'm just guessing, but what I'm most likely to see is that Guo Shao will think of ways to weaken the generals of the imperial army. As the emperor, can he rest assured of those who might replace him? He also has to think about how he usurped the throne."

After discussing for a long time, the people rode their horses to a pass, and saw some soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty looking at a few dusty people. One of the round-bellied men saw Zhao Kuangyin and hurriedly shouted: "My lord! My lord!"

"Li Dutou is back." Zhao Kuangyin responded.

Li Dutou said: "I have a seal on me, but the people in the Northern Han Dynasty heard that my accent was wrong, so they insisted that I was a spy. I was sent here, and I was waiting for the lord to rescue me."

Zhao Kuangyin stepped forward to negotiate with the general of the Northern Han Dynasty, and showed his seal to report his name. The military general of the Northern Han Dynasty sized him up and immediately believed him, because after all, Zhao Kuangyin had been the No. 2 general of the Great Zhou Imperial Army, and his reputation was still quite good. The Northern Han Army knew that he had come to Jinyang, and his dark appearance was easy to recognize.

Zhao Kuangyin left with Li Dutou and the others. He observed for a while, and the first three people in Li Du were his own soldiers, and there was a middle-aged man who was a stranger, so he asked, "Is this man a craftsman proficient in armor making?"

After hearing this, Li Dutou's face darkened, he sighed "ah", and narrated the process of the trip. How to encounter an accident in Tokyo, how to be chased and intercepted; how to almost fail to cross the Yellow River, so urgently had to find a broken boat to cross...

"The night was very windy and the waves were strong, and the child was in my hands. I was almost thrown into the river, and I accidentally dropped the child into the water. The boy was in a hurry, broke free and lay on the side of the boat trying to catch someone, but he was also thrown into the river by the waves... The Yellow River was muddy and fast, and it drowned people in a blink of an eye! We only have a broken boat, how can we save them? By the time we reach the other bank, the person who fell into the water will have drowned long ago, and there is nothing we can do. I didn't dare to look back, so I had to rush back."

The look in Zhao Kuangyin's eyes was very ugly after hearing this, but his face couldn't change because it was too dark. He kicked the stirrup, and immediately said: "Now we have another debt to settle!"

Li Dutou hurriedly said: "Damn the lowly position, it ruined the important affairs of the lord... But at that time, there was really a last resort."

"I'm telling you to sneak into Tokyo and look for opportunities slowly. You're good, go there for less than a month! You warriors are too impatient. Forget it..." Zhao Kuangyin said, "It's not a big deal. Anyway, our enmity with Guo Tiejiang has long been established, and there is no more than this, and this is not much. Remember, Guo Tiejiang will never give us a way out! Think about the brothers who stayed in Tokyo that year, what happened to them?"

Everyone has a look of sadness on their faces.

Zhao Kuangyin pointed to the man in the middle and asked, "What did you bring this man back for?"

Li Dutou's expression was almost crying: "He works as a handyman in the workshop..."

Zhao Kuangyin looked at Li Dutou seriously: "Are you serious about bringing such a person back from thousands of miles away?"

Shi Shoudao next to him said, "Cut that guy down on the spot!"

The craftsman surnamed Lu was anxious and said, "I have seen armor-making things, and I know what they look like!"

Zhao Kuangyin gave him a wink, and a general next to him stepped forward to ask questions, but he didn't know anything, and that guy didn't even know how to read!

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