Zhang Gao suppressed his inner anger with great perseverance. Even Li Shengtian, who went with him to Xiangji Temple, did not know what happened that morning.
After arranging everything, Zhang Zhaojie (Qiongre Duojin) was ordered to personally lead 500 elite cavalry to escort Zhang Xianyu to Hexi.
Zhang Gao then ordered Luo Yu'er to lead Changguo Town to clear the way in front, with the Longxiang Guard on the left as the forerunner, the Lin Guard on the right as the rear, and the Shenwei Guard on the right as the personal protection for the Chinese army.
Zhang Yan didn't believe it. There was a rebellious person like An Sizhong lurking in his right guard!
Having received such trust, Jiao Jixun immediately led the officers of ten generals and above from the right Shenwei Guard to kneel on one knee next to Zhang Yan's carriage.
The Confucian general, who was eleven years older than Zhang Yan, was moved to tears. Although the surrounding right-wing Shenwei generals did not say anything, Zhang Yan could feel the expressions of extreme gratitude without even using his eyes.
It is estimated that if there is another traitor in the Right Shenwei Guards, they can wipe the neck directly without Zhang Yan.
After Zhang Hao got on the carriage, Jiao Jixun turned around and looked at the dozens of generals behind him, and said in a low voice.
"This time, it was the saint who saved the face of my right god, Weiwei.
You all should understand that if the news spreads that the Youshenwei Guard has turned out to be a traitor like An Sizhong, how can we gain a foothold among the 50,000 pro-army households?
We are paid the highest reward and yet something like this happens. How should the 80,000 households in the Imperial Guard, the local guards and even the athletes who patrol the Yading, Qiji, Guns and Sticks, and Bows and Arrows in various places treat us?
From today on, at least two generals, Yuhou, must be present during the escort, and they will monitor your colleagues as if they were enemies.
If any group has a problem, a certain family will cut off its head personally, and then commit suicide to apologize to the saint.
After returning to Chang'an City, each general Yuhou personally organized an internal investigation. Everyone must report the situation of relatives and friends from the three clans: father's family, mother's family, and wife's family. Pay special attention to those who are devout Buddhists in the family and have close contacts with temples.
of.
We must not betray the saint’s trust today!”
As expected of a Confucian general, Jiao Jixun was still very resourceful after he became ruthless. He even began to organize internal self-examinations that Zhang Gao did not request.
The generals at all levels agreed without saying anything. In the past, they would definitely not have done it, but at this moment, everyone expressed their support without hesitation.
Jiao Jixun made it very clear that this time it was actually the emperor Zhang Yan who was taking care of them. Otherwise, if this matter spread widely, the result would be that the Youshen Weiwei would not be able to gain a foothold in the pro-army.
At the same time, the best-paid pro-army as a whole will not be able to face the harsh words of the Imperial Army, the Guard Army, and the patrolling Yading and Jianer from various places.
At that time, Youshen Weiwei will become the sinner of all pro-army troops, and all their futures and wealth will be lost.
In Chengyu, Zhang Xuan, who was so moved by Jiao Jixun and all the Right Divine Power Guards that he wanted to rip out their hearts and show them to him, did not take any precautions.
Although General Zhang deliberately sent Zhang Zhaozhong and Zhang Zhao away from his side, he himself wore a pure royal robe worth tens of thousands of gold and was crafted one by one with manpower.
Wire ring lock armor.
With this precious armor, unless someone uses a giant hammer like Fuyuan Crossbow or Bolangsha to assassinate him from a distance, with this armor and Zhang Gao's martial arts, he can definitely hold on until Zhang Zhaozhong and Zhang Zhao come forward.
Come.
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Murong Yanchao was squatting on the mountainside a few miles away from the main army. When several Tuyuhun rangers came to report to him that the emperor was still using his right divine power to defend the central army, he sighed secretly.
Some of the bald people behind him didn't understand anything and thought the emperor was being cowardly and didn't dare to really launch a purge.
They are still imagining that the emperor can know their strength and provide capital for future bargaining with the emperor.
After hearing these weird remarks, Murong Yanchao immediately wanted to run away.
What kind of idiots are these! The emperor didn't give in. He suppressed his anger with great magnanimity. He first wanted to stabilize the internal situation and not cause major turmoil, and then deal with them later.
And the emperors who could tolerate such things and still remain silent were often not as talkative as they seemed on the surface, but were typical examples of ruthlessness.
Murong Yanchao believed that when Emperor Shaoming freed his hands, he would definitely launch a hundred times more ferocious revenge, and none of these people would end well by then.
If this is the case, then should we cut these people up and sell them at a good price?
This question had gone through Murong Yanchao's mind countless times, and now, he was at the point of making a decision again.
After much thought, Murong Yanchao finally chose to give up.
Because of this plan, Li Ye participated. He was the younger brother of Liu Zhiyuan's wife, Murong Yanchao's sister-in-law Li Sanniang, and the uncle of Liu Zhiyuan's son Liu Chengyou.
Murong Yanchao let out a long sigh. If Li Sanniang and Liu Chengyou could survive, it was because Emperor Shao was so kind. If Li Ye was implicated, Liu Chengyou would probably die if nothing else.
Liu Chengyou is already the only child of his elder brother Liu Zhiyuan, and there is still no one who is a boy and a girl.
What should I say about Murong Yanchao? When he was young, he was a bandit who killed people and stole goods. After joining the army, he didn't abide by military laws and disciplines. If his brother Liu Zhiyuan hadn't been asking for mercy, he would have lost his head so many times.
In the second year of Tiancheng's reign (927), Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, he was fighting in Jinzhou and was accidentally ambushed. He was hacked more than ten times and almost died.
After escaping back to Taiyuan, his sister-in-law Li Sanniang took care of him like a mother for more than two months, and finally saved his life.
It can be said that his elder brother Liu Zhiyuan and his wife can almost be regarded as Murong Yanchao's parents.
When he thought that betraying these people might put his sister-in-law's life in danger, his brother Liu Zhiyuan died, and he immediately gave up this thought.
In the Five Dynasties where there were so many fierce generals, this man could be regarded as one of the few fierce generals. Although he was a rogue and greedy for money, he was very loyal and knew how to repay kindness.
When he and Huangfu Yu fought back to the Khitan army to rescue Du Zhimin, they were infected by Huangfu Yu's loyalty.
And he had already reached the position of Du Yuhou under Zhang Yan. Liu Zhiyuan only asked someone to bring a letter, and Murong Yanchao abandoned his official position and ran back to Hedong in order to repay his kindness.
He had been among Zhang Zhou's army for a while, so he couldn't see the strength and weakness, but he still took the risk and ran back to Hedong.
Therefore, Murong Yanchao really couldn't do something that might lead to the death of Liu Zhiyuan.
Moreover, even if Murong Yanchao made up his mind to report it, he didn’t know anyone!
From this, he knew that there was the Huaibei thief Li Renshu, and the rest of the names were basically fake.
The convener, Master Fazhi, was even more certain that even the name of the Buddha was fake, and it was unknown whether he was a monk or not.
The Buddhists in the Central Plains must have been deeply involved, but they all lived in seclusion behind the scenes. No one was visible, and Murong Yanchao had no way of reporting it.
It's better to go back to Hedong Shi, Lan and other states to hide for a while!
The Tuyuhun people there were being relocated continuously, and the situation was very chaotic. There were strong men from all walks of life who went to the mountains to fight against the government. Murong Yanchao was originally from Hedong, so it was easier to hide his traces.
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Zhang Hao had just returned to Chang'an, and before he moved into the Tai Chi Palace, which had been slightly restored, he heard the sound of horse hooves outside.
After a while, the chamberlain came to report that Zuoyu Linwei Lang, Gao Huaide and Zuoyu Linwei's 300 cavalry arrived.
Zhang Zhi laughed and welcomed him out. Guo Rong and Zhao Kuangyin came up the river from Jiangling Mansion to do hard work.
So naturally it was Gao Huaide's turn to climb the mountains of Shu and fight for his life.
After Gao Huaide stayed in Yanyun for a period of time with his father Gao Xingzhou and Murong Nobunaga, he matured a lot.
Along with Gao Huaide, there were also memorials from Murong Nobunaga, the governor-general of Andong in Anzhou, and Gao Xingzhou, the military governor of Fan Yangjun in Beiping Prefecture.
Zhang Gao first motioned to Gao Huaide to sit down and rest for a while, while he first read the memorials of Gao Xingzhou and Murong Nobunaga.
Gao Xingzhou's memorial was relatively simple, talking about the local tycoons in the Land of Clouds, how the various tribes outside the Great Wall to the north of Yinshan and Yanshan were recruited and subdued by him one by one.
This is just a work report, but at the end, Gao Xingzhou still proposed that today, the Holy Week has created a new atmosphere, and there are not many festival towns in various places. Hebei should not be special. He hopes that Zhang Yan can make Fan Yangjun of Beiping Prefecture celebrate the festival.
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After reading this memorial, Zhang Gao sighed and said to Gao Huaide: "Before I entered the Central Plains, I heard people say that Gao Xingzhou of Guizhou was loyal and sincere, dedicated to the pursuit of the country and not greedy for power.
Now we know that this is indeed the case. Your father has the style of a famous general in ancient times, comparable to the king of Zhongwu County of Fenyang in the great dynasty."
Gao Huaide was elated when he heard this, but he still knew what was appropriate. He responded happily: "The ministers are relatives of the Holy Zhou Dynasty, and of course they have to die for everyone. The servant has always respected King Zhongwu the most, and often inspired his ministers with the deeds of King Zhongwu.
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Guo Ziyi, Prince of Zhongwu County in Fenyang, was not an ordinary person. There were few people in history who could do what Guo Ziyi did. He made great achievements and escaped unscathed. In the end, his descendants retired with the country and became the top wealthy family in the empire.
Gao Xingzhou is obviously still far away from Guo Ziyi, but as Gao Huaide's son, naturally he cannot say that Gao Xingzhou is inferior to Guo Ziyi, but can only describe Guo Ziyi as Gao Xingzhou's idol in a euphemistic way.
Zhang Yan was also very satisfied. Gao Huaide was not only an invincible warrior, but also had unparalleled emotional intelligence. He was someone who could be entrusted with important tasks.
"Since the Taiwei said he wanted to abolish Jiezhen, he must have also mentioned a solution. Please tell me."
Although Gao Xingzhou wanted to help Zhang Gao take the final step of abolishing the Jiedushi envoys, the Jiedushi envoys in the world were not limited to Fan Yangjun, the Jiedushi envoy of Beiping Prefecture.
There are also three families: Fu Yanqing's Changshan Prefecture's Zhangde Army Jiedushi, An Shenqi's Beihai Prefecture (Qingzhou) Pinglu Army's Jiedushi, and Li Rong's Shangdang Prefecture Zhaoyi Army's Jiedushi.
It must be in view of this that Gao Xingzhou included the matter of going to the feudal town in his 'duty report', without specifically mentioning a solution.
Gao Huaide raised his hand and said, "As expected of everyone, according to the sacred candlelight, on the day when my father's memorial was issued, the memorials of Taiwei Fu of Changshan Prefecture and Taiwei An of Beihai Prefecture had also been issued.
This is not because I, the Gao family, are willing to go to Jiedu to envoy Hao, Fu, and An, the two eunuchs, and I am also willing to go to Jiedu to envoy Hao."
Zhang Zhou's current Jiedu envoys are really boring in front of them. There are only one or two thousand tooth soldiers in total, and the most popular warriors now are the pro-army and imperial guards. As a result, there are not many warriors willing to serve as tooth soldiers.
For the Jiedushi, these two thousand people are more like tooth soldiers than personal guards. As for the personnel and financial rights of the Jiedushi, they have long been taken away by a large number of suffixed official positions.
The current Jiedushi does not have much power at all, and it is really meaningless to be looked at with the name of a vassal town.
"My father suggested to the sage that it would be better to depose the Jiedu envoys and create the Andong Province with the twelve prefectures of Beiping Prefecture east of Yunzhou plus Chengde Prefecture and Pingzhou taken back from the Khitan, with Beiping Prefecture as the province.
Mansion, just give him the title of Commander-in-Chief."
Gao Xingzhou didn't say anything about Fu Yanqing and An Shenqi, because the two problems were easily solved, so he was relieved of his official post as Jiedushi and was appointed as the Provincial Pingzhang on the spot.
The trouble is the Gao family's Beiping Prefecture, Fan Yangjun, because this place administratively belongs to Hebei Province. If Fan Yangjun's military envoy is revoked, the status of Beiping Prefecture will drop sharply, which will not be conducive to targeting people outside the Great Wall.
All tribes.
So we simply created the Andong Province, and used the title of Governor-General of Chijie that had been used in the Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
For example, if you want to station troops in Beiping Prefecture to defend against the Khitans and engage in foreign affairs at the Fortress, then you can appoint a military commander to oversee the military affairs of the prefectures and counties in Andong Province.
The Commander-in-Chief can supervise the army in the area except for the pro-army, and can be established when there is trouble and can be abolished when there is no trouble. It is a high-power but not permanent official position.
In fact, this is not a particularly clever system, because the original Jiedushi established it this way.
However, later on, due to various reasons such as the country's gradual inability to afford local military expenditures and border defense needs, power was gradually decentralized and turned into military envoys.
Zhang Li couldn't help but grit his teeth. This history is indeed a cycle. It is estimated that after one or two hundred years, Zhang Zhou's military governor of a certain place will evolve into the current military commander.
However, at this time when it is booming, this system is definitely much better than the Jiedushi that exudes the atmosphere of decadence and separatism.
Moreover, Gao Xingzhou deliberately used the position of governor to make an argument. He must have felt aggrieved when he served as the military governor of Fan Yangjun.
Because Murong Nobunaga was in Pingzhou, east of Beiping Prefecture, and served as the governor of Andong.
Needless to say, Gao Xingzhou could probably command Fan Yang's army of two to three thousand men.
Who is Murong Nobunaga? He is the nephew of Empress Cao Yanxi, the son of Imperial Concubine Cao Yannai, and the half-adopted son and top thug of Zhang Shengren.
His mother, Cao Sanniang, Yan Nai, followed the emperor from a young age and can be regarded as a member of the Yuancong sect.
In addition, Murong Nobunaga was famous all over the world. He was also the son-in-law of Mingzong of the later dynasty and the brother-in-law of Shi Jingtang, the leader of Jin Dynasty.
With such a terrifying status, even if he is humble, can all the minions and counselors around him be humble?
Gao Xingzhou was a relative, a veteran, and a senior. On the surface, he was a handsome man, but he could only serve as a subordinate to Murong Nobunaga. He must have lived a very miserable life.
Zhang Gao thought about it for a moment, and it was true that he was a little careless. Thinking of Zhang Gao, he said to Gao Huaide.
"E Niang is pregnant. She has been vomiting violently recently and has become quite haggard. I would like you to go see her later and have a few words with her."
Gao Huaide was overjoyed. His sister Gao Eniang married into the Du family and had nothing to do for half a year. She also stayed with the emperor for a year, but there was still no movement.
The Gao family has always been worried about whether Gao Eniang is infertile. It is not easy for her daughter to become a concubine. If she is infertile, it will be too uncomfortable.
When he heard that his sister was pregnant, Gao Huaide jumped three feet high even in front of Zhang Yan.
"Congratulations to the saint, congratulations to the saint. I will go and see E Niang now."
Of course Gao Huaide also understood that Zhang Yan was seeing off guests, so he happily was led by the chamberlain to Gao E Niang's yard.
Gao E Niang was originally chosen to accompany the driver because she was not pregnant. Now she suddenly found out that she was pregnant. She was happy but also a little disappointed. In addition, the road was bumpy and she was very uncomfortable. When she saw her brother coming, she was also happy.
Quite a few.
After Gao Huaide left, Zhang Yan began to think. When Murong Nobunaga was around, Zhang Yan didn't think that even a veteran general like Gao Xingzhou could not withstand his power. Zhang Yan was not satisfied with the reputation and reputation of the elder.
capabilities and have a clearer understanding.
It is estimated that if I had been assassinated at Xiangji Temple yesterday, my dear son would have been the undisputed successor. I am afraid that Queen Cao Yanxi would be willing to kiss her nephew Murong Nobunaga to take control of the overall situation.
At present, once Gao Xingzhou's memorial to depose the governor is approved, Gao Xingzhou will definitely not want to stay in Beiping Mansion. Murong Nobunaga will take over the entire Andong Province, which is a certainty.
Although Zhang Yan did not doubt Murong Nobunaga's loyalty and affection for him, and presumably Murong Nobunaga would not have inappropriate thoughts, the necessary restraint was still indispensable.
Murong Nobunaga must be assigned a suitable deputy.
So who is suitable? Zhang Hao thought for a while, and Zhe Congyuan's name suddenly appeared in his mind.
Although Zhe Congyuan was born in a remote place in Fuzhou, thanks to his good reputation in later generations, it was a great blessing for Zhang Zhi to meet with the Zhe family.
Zhe Congyuan himself rose from being the governor of a prefecture to becoming the governor of Ningxia. His eldest son, Zhe Deke, became the governor of Shuofang.
The second son, Zhe Deyuan, was even more extraordinary. Not only was he the adopted son of Zhang Shengren, he also married Zhang Shengren's cousin, making him a member of the Zhang family clan in Shazhou.
He is currently serving as the deputy defense envoy of Hedong, governor of Datong Prefecture (Yunzhou), and military supervisor of Datong Prefecture.
It can be said that the Zhe family is a noble family. Among the entire Hedong-Daibei line of warriors, no one is more favored than the Zhe family. Zhang Gao almost handed over half of the northwest defense to the Zhe family.
Therefore, the Zhe family is extremely loyal to Zhang Yan and can be used with confidence.
After deliberation for a long time, Zhang Zhang decided to form the Andong Province from the twelve prefectures of Pingping in the north plus Pingzhou and other places in western Liaoning.
Let Murong Nobunaga be appointed as the Pingzhang and Defense Envoy of Andong Province, and at the same time, he was ordered to supervise the military affairs of Andong Province.
In other words, with the title of Commander-in-Chief, the Imperial Army entering Andong Province will also be under the jurisdiction of Murong Nobunaga.
At the same time, Tiao Zhe Congyuan was the governor of Beiping Prefecture and the military supervisor of Beiping Prefecture. However, Zhe Congyuan was originally a provincial official, and now that he became the governor, he was obviously downgraded.
So Zhang Gao planned to give him a supervisor to oversee the Khitan affairs in the north of the mountain, and he would be in charge of all the Hu affairs in the north of Yanshan.
In Ningxia Province, Wu Luan took over the post of Pingzhang. As for Gao Xingzhou, Zhang Yan planned to transfer him to Shuofangxing Province to serve as Pingzhang.
The original Pingzhang of Shuofang Province was Zhe Deke. After Zhang Shi planned to conquer the Shu Kingdom, he temporarily divided the Shu Kingdom into two areas, Xichuan and Dongchuan. Zhe Deke went to Dongchuan to serve as Pingzhang, and by the way presided over the control of the later generations of Chongqing and Gui.
The work of recruiting indigenous people in both places.
This not only breaks the localization of the Zhe family that has always been entrenched in the northwest, but also provides an additional leader to stabilize the Shu region.