Zhang Xianyu returned to Liangzhou again. He was very familiar with this city. After all, he spent most of his youth in Liangzhou.
But he was a little unfamiliar with Pei Yuan. In fact, Zhang Xianyu had never met Pei Yuan before.
On the other hand, Zhang Xianyu, the eldest daughter of the Pei family, is somewhat familiar with her. They studied together in the school in Yongxun Palace.
A burst of laughter like silver bells floated by. The person who came was dressed in men's clothing and had a futou on his head. He was riding a divine white horse. He looked heroic and had the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Xianyu recognized who the person was at a glance. It was Pei Yuan's eldest daughter, Mrs. Pei.
"Pang Dun'er, you've grown so tall? You're not that fat. You finally have some masculine temperament."
Zhang Xianyu closed his eyes sadly. The word "Pang Dun'er" is not from this era. It only appeared in this era thanks to his father, Shaomingzi.
Ever since Zhang Xian called Zhang Xianyu Fatty, this word has almost become synonymous with him.
Mrs. Pei looked Zhang Xianyu up and down again. It was not until Xue Guizhong, the judge of Chengtian Liangzhou Prefecture behind her, coughed dryly that she stepped back slightly embarrassed.
There is a reason why she thinks so, because Mrs. Pei knows what Zhang Xianyu is here for.
Of course, Zhang Yan could not really let Zhang Xianyu, a young boy, propose the matter of marriage by himself. He had already asked Hexi Provincial Inspector Shen Zhihai to talk to Pei Yuan.
Shen Zhihai was born in the Yangfeigu tribe of the Liugu tribe in Liangzhou, and was a descendant of a Han general from Longyou who had a genealogy.
Although the Shen family did not produce many great talents, their son Shen Nianban was only a governor.
However, the Shen family and the Zhao family, as the Han tribes in the Liugu tribe, have always been key players in Zhang Yan's unification of the Lianglan Liugu tribe. They have an outstanding reputation in Hexi and are the most important in Pei Yuan's governance of the Hexi region centered on Chengtian Liangzhou Prefecture.
A powerful assistant.
It is most appropriate for Shen Zhihai, the head of the Shen family, to propose marriage to Pei Yuan.
Pei Yuan's education for his children was very Tang Dynasty style. Coupled with the geographical location and folk customs of Chengtian Liangzhou Prefecture, Pei Yuan's character was created as a fiery woman who dared to love and hate, and was not inferior to women.
When setting out to meet Zhang Xianyu, Pei Yuan had already told Mrs. Pei about this matter, so Mrs. Pei would observe Zhang Xianyu with the same eyes as observing her future husband.
She was very satisfied with the result. Although Zhang Xianyu's mother, Ayiguli, was not very favored, that was because of physical problems, not because she was not beautiful. On the contrary, she was a very beautiful Uighur girl.
Although Zhang Xian is not handsome, he is at least average, which ensures that Zhang Xianyu cannot be too ugly.
In addition, Zhang Xianyu has gradually grown over the years, and his body has become stronger and stronger. He has lost the chubby shape he had when he was young, which will certainly satisfy Mrs. Pei.
It's just that Zhang Xianyu is still a little disappointed. Mrs. Pei is very heroic, but her appearance can only be said to be unsatisfactory.
This is inevitable. The eldest lady is Pei Yuan’s daughter in the past when he was not yet developed. At that time, Pei Yuan was very unsatisfied. Of course, he could not find any beautiful woman to marry. Naturally, the eldest lady Pei was not good at appearance.
There are so many outstanding places.
The only thing that can be called lucky is that Mrs. Pei did not follow Pei Yuan's slender and enchanting eyes, otherwise it would destroy the only commendable heroic spirit.
However, Zhang Xianyu didn't take this seriously. Not to mention Mrs. Pei's appearance, it didn't matter even if she was as ugly as her mother-in-law.
As long as she is Pei Yuan's daughter, she can have 30% of the abilities of her mother-in-law, which is enough to cover up any shortcomings in appearance.
"Your Majesty, Xue Guizhong, the judge of Chengtian Liangzhou Prefecture and the military supervisor of Liangzhou Prefecture, has met Mr. Erlang!"
New Kucha City was from the Donggui Sect, and generally did not do well in Zhangzhou.
After all, they have been hiding in Tibet for many years. Although the education of the tribe is maintained as hard as possible, the level cannot be very high. In addition, they are constantly facing survival crises, and their military force is also a bit lacking.
Therefore, although the Jiadong Gui sect, a descendant of the Anxi Army, is famous, it has not produced any famous ministers or generals, but there are many middle and lower-level civilian officials and military generals like Xue Guizhong.
Zhang Xianyu could chat and laugh with Mrs. Pei, but he did not dare to trust Xue Guizhong. He quickly took two steps and caught Xue Guizhong who was about to give a gift to the ground.
"Third uncle, you can't do this. If I accept this gift from you, the saint will break my nephew's legs."
One sentence made Xue Guizhong smile. He also held Zhang Xianyu's arm and said with a smile.
"Erlangjun has really grown up! Please follow me into the city. The Duke is waiting for you in the city."
The arrival of Zhang Xianyu made everyone in Liangzhou Mansion stir.
Because everyone knew that the saint was going to Dunhuang to carry the coffin of King Cao Yijin and return home, they all thought that Zhang Xianyu was here to stand in front of him.
Therefore, there are all kinds of banquets, flattery, showing one's own strength, and even sending girls to your door.
Pei Yuan just pretended not to see it, and did not stop him. It was not until Zhang Xianyu directly asked the little black bear Zhang Liechao to block the car outside the door, and everyone disappeared, and all the gifts were rejected, that Pei Yuan decided to have a formal talk with Zhang Xianyu.
Because this proves that Zhang Xianyu is a capable prince. Otherwise, if Zhang Xianyu’s status is neither above nor below, and he has no clear idea of his own position, it will be easy for him to have problems.
Daughter Mrs. Pei is very happy. After her mother passed away four years ago, her father Pei Yuan remarried his first wife.
Her stepmother was born in the Yin family of Shazhou, and she and Cai Guogong Yin Zhengqi (Yin Yaozi) were cousins who had not been born in the fifth service.
At the same time, Shao Tianzi's grandmother was her stepmother Yin's direct aunt.
Due to her status here, although her stepmother had no conflict with her, she still looked down upon her, a daughter of a country woman.
Mrs. Pei's heroic appearance is actually to cover up her inner uneasiness.
But recently, her stepmother's attitude towards her has suddenly changed 180 degrees. Needless to say, it is only because she is about to become the daughter-in-law of a saint.
So before Zhang Xianyu arrived, Mrs. Pei was already hanging around Pei Yuan. For the first time, she also put on a skirt, spent money, and put on blush.
Pei Yuan looked at his slim daughter and laughed dumbly for a moment.
"You're a bad girl! I've only seen her a few times, and I've lost my soul!"
Mrs. Pei was a little shy, and then her face returned to normal. Then she looked at Pei Yuan and asked, "Aren't you happy for your daughter? Why are you so frowning?"
Pei Yuan was silent for a moment. It can be said that he and Zhang Shengren have the same mind, because they are both the same kind of people. He, Pei Yuan, can be said to be an important minister of Yuan Cong and the first Central Plains scribe to seek refuge with Zhang Yan.
Zhang Gao made great contributions during his march into the Central Plains, but he had been in the border towns for many years and lacked face-to-face communication with the emperor.
In addition, although he is from the Yuan Cong sect, he is not from the Yuan Cong sect and is not from the Donggui sect. He does not seem to be included in the Lianglan Liugu sect. At the same time, the civil servants and generals in the Central Plains do not regard Pei Yuan as a Central Plains person, but regard him as a Central Plains person.
He is a meritorious official from Liangzhou.
This resulted in Pei Yuan becoming a solitary minister despite his high position and great lack of communication channels with Zhang Yan.
Distance can produce beauty, but it can also produce alienation.
However, Pei Yuan's garrison work in Liangzhou did not allow him to think about things and worry about many things. Only by taking a tough stance could he suppress the Conglong heroes and the emperor's relatives all over Hexi, so as to complete the construction that Zhang Yan had given him.
The mission of Dahexi.
Over the years, many people have come to Zhang Gao to complain about Pei Yuanzhuang, openly or secretly. Although they were suppressed by Zhang Gao, God knows how long the emperor's unlimited trust in him can be maintained.
Pei Yuan also knew what Zhang Yan wanted him to do, and he also knew how dangerous this matter was.
If the saint cannot withstand the pressure from Buddhism and all parties, Pei Yuan may risk the lives of his whole family.
The degree of danger can be said to be slightly less severe than that of Chao Cuo in history who reduced vassal status for Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.
At this moment, Pei Yuan even had the idea of resigning and returning home to avoid disaster, but he was really unwilling to do so and felt that he had failed to trust the emperor.
It can be said that at this point, he was still hesitant.
Zhang Xianyu arrived soon. He and Mrs. Pei, two young men, looked at each other with sweet smiles on their faces.
When Pei Yuan saw this, he felt even more uncomfortable. He coughed heavily, and Mrs. Pei immediately disappeared. Zhang Xianyu quickly called him uncle and saluted Pei Yuan first.
There was no third person present in the conversation between the two. Zhang Xianyu was a little unfamiliar with Pei Yuan, and Pei Yuan was still considering whether it was worth it to make a big bet for such a prince who was not very favored and had no background, so the atmosphere was a little bit...
Awkward.
It wasn't until they talked about the future that the conversation between the two became slightly more son-in-law.
"Erlangjun is going to Talos in the future?" Pei Yuan asked in a low voice.
For him, who is just in Hexi, he does not regard Hezhong as a desperate situation like the people in the Central Plains. Although it is indeed far away, there are advantages to being far away.
Others think Zhang Xianyu's status is extremely noble, but Pei Yuan doesn't think so.
The saint is young and powerful, and now he has six sons and nine daughters. If the world is unified, who knows whether he will have fifty children like Shunzong of the great dynasty.
At that time, if Zhang Xianyu, who has no background, stays in China, it is hard to say how high his status will be.
But it's different when you go to Hezhong. Under the Xia Jun Yi people, even the king of a big country with a population of millions can do it, and his daughter also has the ability to become a queen.
Of course Zhang Xianyu didn't know that Pei Yuan had already thought so much in his heart, so he replied in a low voice.
"The king of Xia and the barbarians are your long-cherished wish. It is the right thing for someone to come from the river and then return to the river to open up territory for me, the Great Zhou Dynasty."
Pei Yuan nodded lightly, "In that case, you should marry the daughter of the Ye Guo family, or the granddaughter of your half-grandfather Li Guoshou."
Zhang Xianyu looked at Pei Yuan and raised his glass to ask him for a drink. After the two drank a glass together, he said: "Xia Jun Yimin, who is the king and who is the minister, naturally it is necessary to make it clear.
The Suiye Guo family has believed in the Daqin Law, and those who are willing to return east have already returned. Whether the remaining people can still be Yanhuang nobles depends on their performance. They can be used for support, but not for reliance.
As for my grandfather and uncles, we still don’t know what the weather will be like! I hope my nephew can save them from going astray."
When Pei Yuan told him to marry the daughter of the Guo family just now, Zhang Xianyu saw that there seemed to be a figure moving behind the screen, and his heart suddenly became clear.
Pei Yuan was also surprised that Zhang Xianyu, at his age, could have such an understanding of the situation in the river.
"But how can you gain a foothold in the river without relying on the Suiye Guo family and the Talos Li family?" Pei Yuan asked the question that interested him the most.
Zhang Xianyu faced Pei Yuan and made several seals very skillfully. While making the seals, he also chanted the Sutra of the Supreme Heaven Du E's Explanation of the Origin.
After finishing the chanting, Zhang Xianyu said with a solemn face: "Mountains and rivers in foreign lands, nothing can be relied upon, only the Six Methods Sect can be relied upon.
Someone is of the bloodline of the Supreme Heaven, so why can’t he still be a Dharma King?”
Pei Yuan also looked squarely at the young man in front of him at this time. Being in Hexi, he certainly knew the power of the Six Methods Sect, but he still shook his head.
"The Six Methods Sect is not omnipotent, and it is contrary to our Chinese Taoist tradition. If we rely entirely on the Six Methods Sect, we will not be the rulers of Xia but barbarians, but we will turn Xia into barbarians."
"The Duke of Bai County and the Uncle of Jiaocheng are sorting out order for the saints in the grassland. The spread of the Six Methods Sect on the grassland has been completed thanks to the hard work of dozens of great virtues from my Zhang family who have sacrificed their lives to spread it.
The sage wants to establish 120,000 households on the grassland. If he can get Naiman, Yili and other ten thousand households to accompany him to the west, the Six Dharma Sect will be all-powerful."
Pei Yuan had to admit that Zhang Shengren, the emperor of Shaoming, was really a weirdo. Before this, there had never been any emperors in the Central Plains dynasty whose Central Plains had not yet been unified, but the grasslands were almost integrated.
And this is quite useful, because to take down Hezhong and even Persia, it is impossible to rely on the Han people alone, and you must rely on armed herdsmen on the grasslands.
Now, with the Six Methods Sect as the link, the 120,000 households as the rules, and the good days in the river and even Persia as the bait, Zhang Shengren indeed has the ability to drive the desert north and south.
After thinking about it, Pei Yuan reminded: "If this is the case, we still need the help of a Han force to conquer the Xia monarch and the Yi people."
Zhang Xianyu stood up after hearing this and bowed his head to Pei Yuan, "Isn't it right that the power of the Han people belongs to my brother?"
‘Hey!’ Someone exclaimed softly, and then Mrs. Pei came out directly from behind the screen, looking at Pei Yuan with hope in her eyes.
Brother? You might as well call your father-in-law.
Pei Yuan stood up. He had been plotting against others all his life, but this time he was finally plotted against by a boy.
He had only been here for three or four days before his daughter's soul was taken away. Of course, a little thought also made Pei Yuan feel troubled.
What he regretted most in his life was that he had not been able to go to Shazhou and followed Zhang Xian all the way west to show off his power in a foreign land. Now Zhang Xianyu indirectly gave him an opportunity to make up for his regret.
"Talus is too young, so a certain family immediately wrote a memorial to ask for the land of Dawan for Erlang."
Dawan is Tashkent, adjacent to Ningyuan (Fergana Basin) controlled by Khotan. It is both dependent and rich, and can establish a great country.
Zhang Xianyu was overjoyed and immediately bent down to bow down. Pei Yuan did not stop him, but accepted Zhang Xianyu's bow. From this moment on, their status as son-in-law was settled.
After praying, Zhang Xianyu took out a letter from his arms and said, "This is a letter from the saint to my brother."
Pei Yuan quickly took it with both hands and raised it to his head, and then opened it. After only a few words, he froze, looked at Zhang Xianyu and said: "How can a dog be worthy of Princess Chang Le?"
Originally Zhang Qinan, the eldest daughter of Zhang Yan and Cao Yanxi, Princess Chang Le, was to be given to Li Shengtian's legitimate grandson, but now neither family mentioned it anymore.
Because although Zhang Yan calls Cao Yuanxin "Jin Niang", in fact, the two are cousins who are related by blood. On the contrary, Zhang Yan and Li Shengtian are not related by blood.
If we consider it not from the perspective of Zhang Yan's legitimate mother, the Empress Dowager Ciyou, but from Cao Yuanxin, Li Shengtian's eldest son Li Congde is not Zhang Yan's cousin at all, but Zhang Yan's cousin, or a cousin who is related by blood.
Then Li Shengtian's grandson is Zhang Gao's great-nephew.
Marrying a daughter to a grand-nephew was not a big problem in Hexi and Anxi, even though there were several relationships between them. However, it was very inappropriate when Zhang Yan became the supreme king of the world and raised the banner of Confucianism.
Zhang Gao proposed a solution, which was to marry a prince from Khotan who was not Cao Yuanxin's daughter, but Cao Yuanxin rejected it outright.
She would rather not marry into the royal family than marry the eldest daughter of the emperor among the six Khotan princes who were not her daughter.
Both Zhang Xianyu and Pei Yuan knew about this. In recent years, the marriage of Princess Chang Le has attracted the attention of the whole world.
Li Jing, the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, wrote more than ten times in a row, gave nearly 100,000 yuan in gifts, and looked for people who could speak to him. He wanted to marry his eldest son Li Hongji to Princess Chang Le, the eldest daughter of Zhang Yan.
Zhang Xianyu did not speak because he knew that he could not speak at this moment.
Sure enough, Pei Yuan continued to read, and Zhang Shengren recalled every detail of the two of them, and frankly said that he was sorry for Pei Yuan for leaving him in the wilderness for so long.
But the world was not yet settled, so he could only suffer from his close confidant, and finally promised that Pei Yuan would be at the forefront of the painting of the heroes' portraits the next day.
"The saint's kindness is as great as the sky. It will be difficult for Pei Yuying to repay him in this life. He only wishes to follow the saint forever in all his life!"
Pei Yuan cried loudly, knelt three times and kowtowed nine times in the direction of Chang'an, and fell to the ground.
The tool to destroy the Buddha is finally online.
....
At almost the same time, a bloody incident in Meng Shu's palace had just ended.
Meng Chang pretended to find the minister of Zhongshu and make peace with his disciples. Suizhou Wuxin Army's Jiedu envoy Zhang Ye used the excuse of asking about military affairs and summoned Zhang Ye and his son Zhang Jizhao to Chengdu to issue an imperial edict.
Zhang Ye and his son, not knowing whether it was a lie or not, accidentally returned to Chengdu. As soon as they entered the palace, they were hacked to death by Meng Chang's palace warriors.
Meng Chang then ordered veteran general Shi Kai to lead the imperial army Zuo Kuang Shengdu to rush to Suizhou and kill all the members of Zhang Ye and his son.
Before the war between Zhou and Shu began, Meng Chang killed thousands of people with ruthless means, showing a decisiveness that was completely different from that of more than ten years later.