Chapter 403 Why not make an appointment with a brother
With horse hooves kicking, a general wearing gold wire armor and a bright silver Suan Ni helmet galloped out of the Khitan formation.
He held a horse in his hand and pointed angrily at the high platform where Zhang Zhao was standing because Zhang Zhao had just insulted Yelv Deguang.
"The rude Tibetan thief actually insulted me, the Great Khitan Emperor, come down and die immediately!"
The chamberlain beside Yelu Deguang looked at the mighty Khitan general by the river, then turned his head and looked at Zhang Zhao with great pride.
"This is my younger brother, Emperor Shouchang of the Great Khitan Kingdom. Have you seen such warriors in Hexi?"
Although Yelu Lihu went out into battle, the target of his clamor was not Zhang Zhao, but the hundreds of cavalrymen who returned to the rebel army on the opposite side.
Because it was impossible for Zhang Zhao to go down to fight him, only one person with his status among the hundreds of cavalry would appear in the battle.
This is important. Yelu Lihu is the younger brother of the Khitan Emperor. Zhang Zhao cannot send anyone casually, such as Man Xiong or Dunzhu, as a close guard. That would be unfair.
When Yelu Deguang's chamberlain announced who it was, he was half proud and half naming his identity.
As for Zhang Zhao, there is only one choice left for him to appear.
As soon as Yelu Lihu finished speaking, a young general wearing a blue cloth-covered iron armor and a double-layered steel helmet with gray-white helium feathers on his head rode out.
The young general is also holding a horse, which is extremely powerful. Except for Li Cunhui, the pretender of King Zhang, there is no one else.
"If you suppress your ridicule and speak freely, can you recognize the heroes of the Han family?"
At this time, Bashmi's servant next to Zhang Zhao also became arrogant.
"This is the false son of the great king, Li Cunhui, the son of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty in Longxi. Do you know that the blood of the great dynasty is noble?"
Well, the fight hasn't started yet, Yelu, Li Hu and Li Cunhui are both trying to kill the thieves, making them laugh.
One of the two chamberlains above advocated force, and the other questioned the other because he was a Hu and of low status.
There was only a little bit of anger at first, but it immediately became very high.
When Zhang Zhao heard the word Tibetan thief, it was Wuminghuo. The word Tubo seemed to be bound to him.
The evil fire in Yelv Deguang's heart was also burning brightly. There was still a difference between the Khitan people and the Xi people, but others would not tell the difference, and they would all insult him with bad ridicule.
For Yelu Deguang, this is the word he least wants to hear people mention.
While the superiors were talking, the fighting was already underway below. Yelu Lihu was the most capable of fighting among the disciples of Yelu Abaoji.
Although he has a bad temper and a cruel nature, he is extremely strong and has practiced gun, stick and equestrian skills since he was a child, so he is not easy to deal with.
Li Cunhui was no less generous. Their Shazhou Li family was a branch of the Li family in Longxi, and their ancestors had relied on martial arts to earn a living for hundreds of years.
In the past, when Zhang Yichao led the cavalry, Li Cunhui's great-grandfather Li Mingzhen and his brothers were the generals of the Guiyi Army.
However, this was not a life-and-death struggle, so the two sides only started to accelerate their horses when they were about thirty steps closer.
In an instant, the two war horses crossed each other, and Li Cunhui stabbed Yelu Lihu in the chest with his spear.
Yelu Lihu screamed in agony. Even though he was wearing heavy armor, the stabbing in the chest still hurt him. He might even have problems with his ribs.
However, when his vision went dark, Yelu Lihu swung at Li Cunhui with all his strength.
In order not to miss the opportunity to stab Yelu and Li Hu, Li Cunhui could only stoop slightly, swallow it with his shoulder, and get hit hard.
This Yelu Lihu was extremely powerful, and Li Cunhui felt a sharp pain coming from his shoulder, and he was probably injured as well.
But he knew that this was an emergency, so he endured the severe pain, raised the horse in his hand, and let out a mighty roar.
"Send the emperor's brother back for treatment quickly!"
This was not said by Yelu Deguang, but by Zhang Zhao, because only Zhang Zhao had the power to deal with Yelu Lihu who was defeated at this moment.
Yelu Deguang also looked nervously at the river beach. It was not until Yelu Lihu was supported by others that he slowly walked back that he felt relieved.
He was just feeling extremely unhappy. He had lost the fight. Zhang Zhao had just called him the stepfather of the entrance wall, so he had no choice but to let it go.
This was the custom at this time, and the Khitan people also retained the habit of respecting the strong among many ethnic groups outside the Great Wall. The winner controlled everything, and the loser had nothing to say.
The next scene was a bit embarrassing. Although Yelu Deguang showed an indifferent expression, the depressing atmosphere did not change at all.
Zhang Zhao didn't care. He once again signaled the chamberlain beside him to invite Yelu Deguang for a drink. This time, the chamberlain beside Yelu Deguang did not stop him.
The Hexi chamberlain bent down and poured a bowl of fine wine for Yelu Deguang from the wine bottle he brought.
"The Lord of Hexi invites His Majesty the Khitan Emperor for a drink!"
Yelu Deguang picked up the bowl and looked at the chamberlain beside him. The Khitan chamberlain also came over and filled a bowl of wine for Zhang Zhao with the wine flask he had brought.
"His Majesty the Great Khitan Emperor, please drink from this bowl to the fullest, King Zhang of Hexi!"
Li Cunhui's move won Zhang Zhao the title of "king" from Yelu Deguang face to face.
The two drank a bowl of wine together, and Zhang Zhao handed a bowl of blue, purple, and red raisins in front of him to the Khitan servant next to him.
"The bitter cold in Hexi has nothing to produce, only a few grapes can be produced. These raisins are made after three times of drying and three harvests. Your Majesty, please taste them!"
The Khitan eunuch came over with raisins, and Zhang Zhao's Bashmi eunuch also came over with a sliced pear.
I wonder what method these Khitans used to preserve Sydney until now?
"Some white pears produced in western Liaoning are of good taste. Please taste them."
Yelu Deguang picked up a raisin, and Zhang Zhao also picked up a piece of snow pear, both pretending to be nonchalant.
The two old fried dough sticks looked at each other and put raisins and pears into their mouths almost at the same time.
If there is even a little bit of wrongness, I am afraid that I will spit it out immediately, and then summon people to kill the opponent.
This kind of meeting is a kind of torture for everyone.
So Zhang Zhao decided to enhance the relationship between the two parties, of course, to annoy Shi Jingtang and see if it was possible to anger the emperor to death as soon as possible.
"This place was originally the place where Emperor Wu, Taizu of the former Tang Dynasty, started his career. Your Majesty's father, the Ascension Emperor, once swore an oath with Emperor Wu here, and they became brothers. It is a good story."
The former Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty refers to the Jin King Li Keyong who was posthumously named emperor. The strange title of the Ascended Emperor is Yelu Abaoji.
The two men had joined hands as brothers and vowed to revive the Tang Dynasty and fight against Zhu Liang together. However, Yelu Abaoji failed in the end and betrayed his trust. Li Keyong hated him deeply.
Of course, Yelu Deguang would not let anyone accuse his father of being treacherous. Instead, he brought out the fact that Yelu Abaoji and Li Keyong were brothers, so as to win the hearts of the heroes of the North and prove that they were Khitans.
Not barbarians.
When Yelu Deguang heard what Zhang Zhao said, he looked at Zhang Zhao with great interest.
"In the past, my father ascended to heaven and unified all the Khitan tribes. Emperor Wu was a hero in the world. The two of them were brothers, so it was naturally a good talk."
The meaning behind Yelu Deguang's words is obvious. Yelu Abaoji and Li Keyong are both temporary heroes, so naturally they can become brothers and swear an oath.
What is your identity, Zhang Zhao? Can you be a brother to me, the Great Khitan Emperor of Shengwen Shenwu?
Zhang Zhao smiled slightly, "Hexi is barren and it is indeed difficult to produce heroes. However, the further west you go, the more the country becomes rich and the soldiers are weak. I am thinking about it.
Is it to use the elite troops from Hexi to march westward to unify all the countries, including the military states of Anxi, Beiting, Hezhong, and Persia in the Tang Dynasty in the past, and become the great king of the Guanxi countries?
Or should we raise our troops to the east, punish the unruly ministers, and secure the common people to wait for the heroic lord of the Central Plains?"
He is fooling me!
He must be fooling me!
He wanted me to believe that he would throw his forces westward.
Yelu Deguang was screaming in his heart, but even though he knew all this clearly, Yelu Deguang had to admit it.
With the strength of the Guiyi Army, if Zhang Zhao is willing to go west, it will indeed be a good thing for the Khitan.
Ouch! Still unable to seduce him, Zhang Zhao calmed down and continued to use his trick of deception.
"To the west of Shazhou, there is a country called the Great Uighur Khanate. We, the Han'er rebels, are called the Gaochang Uighurs. Their ancestors were rebel generals under the command of a certain great-grandfather, Duke Taibao.
He turned his back on his master and stood on his own, stealing the land of the great dynasty, and someone was planning to attack him.
Further to the west, there is a country called the Black Khanate, whose leader Saktu was killed by someone from Shule City. It has always wanted to make a comeback, which is also a big threat."
Through their understanding in the past few days, Yelu Deguang also learned some information about the situation west of Anxi from Cao Yanjing, and he knew that Zhang Zhao was not lying.
Yelu Deguang made some calculations and concluded that with the strength of the Hexi Guiyi Army, it would take five or eight years to defeat or even recover the Gaochang Uighurs and the Black Khanate.
Because just counting the distance, we know that this is a distance of four to five thousand miles from east to west.
Thinking of this, Yelu Deguang really couldn't calm down. He was already thirty-eight years old. According to the life span of a person at this time, which was ten to fifteen years of good life, there was not much time left for him.
"Why did King Han say this to a certain person? Could it be that he wanted the Khitan to support some troops?" Yelu Deguang began to test Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao sighed and said, "My family has lived in Hexi for a long time. Five generations of our ancestors have fought against Tibet and led their people back to the country.
It's a pity that the great dynasty is no longer around. Although he has returned to his country now, the Central Plains is in decline, so he can only unify all ethnic groups and resume production.
The original intention is to wait for heaven's timing, but the Lord of Jin is not the Lord of men! How can anyone shamelessly bend the knee to become the supreme person in the world?
I don’t know when? There will be a lord of the world like Emperor Taizong Wen!"
The expression on Yelu Deguang's face was very exciting. On the one hand, he thought Zhang Zhao's words were credible, and on the other hand, he was the object of the Jin Dynasty's genuflection.
On the other hand, he agreed with Zhang Zhao's words. How could a person like Shi Jingtang be the supreme person in the world?
Intellectually, Yelu Deguang knew that Zhang Zhao was probably deceiving him, but in his mind, he kept recalling the deductions he had made countless times.
In today's Central Plains, there are countless people who want to embrace his thigh, and of course there are also many who oppose it, but Yelv Deguang doesn't care. How can there be no objection to someone who achieves great things?
He, Yelu Deguang, was the great Khitan emperor. He already had the land of Yan and Yun. He gathered to unite Hu and Han in five years. Then he re-employed Han officials, used Han local systems, learned Han local language, learned Han local culture, and used Khitan
The nobles are Longxi Wuxun or Daibei Wuxun Group.
From then on, just like Li Yuan, the great ancestor of the former Tang Dynasty, or Li Yazi of Zhuangmiao in the later Tang Dynasty, he unified the world from north to south.
The Lord of Jin lost his virtue and was far better than Yang Sui and Zhu Liang in the past. It does not necessarily mean that Yelu Deguang cannot succeed.
Seeing Yelu Deguang's uncertain face, Zhang Zhao struck while the iron was hot and stuck to it.
"As soon as I saw Your Majesty, I knew that Your Majesty is the Lord of Heaven. If I live in the west and east with Your Majesty, if we can have a close relationship, maybe it will be fulfilled by the Buddha.
If we can treat each other as brothers and keep each other's side, it will be a great event and we can leave a blessing for future generations."
Yelu Deguang was also a little moved, so he calmed down Zhang Zhao for the time being and waited until he entered the Central Plains to think of a solution.
Moreover, he is now facing the same difficulties as Zhang Zhao. The Khitan army has been besieging Yunzhou for almost nine months. They are exhausted and unable to fight another war. They have to spend more energy to solve Yunzhou. If it drags on for a long time, they will become the laughing stock of the world. .
"The King of Han is after all a minister of the Lord of Jin, and I am the father of the Lord of Jin. Isn't that inappropriate?" Yelu Deguang pretended to consider Shi Jingtang.
"There is nothing wrong with that!" Zhang Zhao replied categorically: "I have a son, Xin Chang'er, who married Princess Yongle, the fifteenth daughter of the Ming Temple, and I am a biological sister to Empress Li.
In the past, Emperor Ascension and Emperor Wu were considered brothers, and your Majesty and I happen to be brothers too!"
Hmm! Logically it makes sense, Li Keyong and Yelu Abaoji are brothers, then Yelu Deguang and Li Keyong’s adopted son Mingzong Li Siyuan are brothers.
Zhang Zhao's son married Li Siyuan's daughter. He and Li Siyuan were related to each other, and Shi Jingtang was Li Siyuan's son-in-law.
After this calculation, Zhang Zhao is really the same generation as Yelu Deguang, so Shi Jingtang should call me, King Zhang, his uncle.
Yelv Deguang's heart moved. Shi Jingtang recognized him as his father. It was precisely because of this logic that it was not too outrageous. What was outrageous was the cession of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun.
However, if Zhang Zhao, a young man in his twenties, were to become brothers with him, he would immediately become Shi Jingtang's uncle.
This was originally a traitor to the country and made the world laugh. Now that the subordinates have become uncles in this way, will they make Shi Jingtang angry?
He, Yelu Deguang, was Shi Jingtang's uncle. In fact, he was somewhat constrained in many aspects, which actually restricted Yelu Deguang from attacking the Central Plains in a large scale.
If Shi Jingtang could be angered to death, would Shi Chonggui, Jing Yanguang and others still be willing to serve him?
If you don't want to, do you have an excuse to go south?