Tokyo, Kaifeng Prefecture, Zhang Yan finally returned to the capital after more than two years of absence, and with him came Wu King Li Jing and his wife, as well as the Southern Tang clan members of the Li family and the Xu family.
Prior to this, after King Wu Yue Qian Hongchu presented his land, he had been arranged to Qizhou (Jinan) to replace An Shenqi in guarding Jiaodong Province as King of Lu.
It's just that Qian Hongchu, the guard, also needs to carry a "" number.
In Jiaodong Province, An Shenqi has been guarding it for more than three years. As he himself reported, many places are still acting according to the previous Jiedushi method. The superiors and subordinates do not regard An Shenqi as the leader of the new dynasty.
He became the governor of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Therefore, even if Qian Hongchu brought his own Wu Yue team to take office, he still could not secure the place.
At this time, Zhang Yan insidiously kept himself behind, and waited until Qian Hongchu and the local forces were in trouble, and memorials of complaints against each other flew like snowflakes to the central government and even in front of him, before sending Li Gu.
Served as the plenipotentiary ambassador to handle Jiaodong affairs.
Zhang Yan believed that Li Gu had a lot of evidence for both sides to accuse each other, and he would definitely be able to deal with the local tycoons in Jiaodong.
At least three to four thousand 'lucky' households can be sent to Murong Nobunaga. Even Huguang of Broken Leaf probably can get a small harvest of a thousand households.
As for Qian Hongchu, he should be able to understand the current situation more clearly. If he can't accept it, he will come back to keep Li Jing company. He will not be less treated as a one-word king like King Lu.
If you can accept it, then just be a Pingzhang without military power. With Qian Hongchu's ability, he can still manage a province well.
The current Zhangzhou Dynasty is very short of people! In previous dynasties, they were afraid that the place would be filled with criminal tyrants, bandits and bandits, but when it comes to Zhangzhou, they are eager to have hundreds of thousands of such people pour out of them.
Talent.
This is not ironic, but they are really talented people. There is no one more suitable than thieves and killers like them to go out to colonize and immigrate.
Therefore, since the second year of Shaoming Dynasty, Zhangzhou Dali Temple has not approved any case of death penalty, and even the Ministry of Punishment, various provinces, prefectures and counties have not reported it at all.
The most exaggerated thing is that last year and this year, all the four-level government offices in all provinces, prefectures and counties were empty, and many jailers had changed careers.
Nowadays, when cases are tried by the yamen of various prefectures and counties, if the case is not serious, they can just be slapped with a ban, but if the case is big, they will be exiled for five thousand miles, and they will be sent away by Maliao, so there is no need for a prison cell.
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In a side room of Chongwen Hall, Zhang Yan and Pei Yuan were drinking together, and they drank a jar of fine Puzhou wine together.
This thing is produced in Hezhong Prefecture. It has become famous since the Sui Dynasty and has been popular until now.
The food that went with the wine was only three meat, two vegetarian and five dishes of side dishes, but the two of them drank very happily. They had not had such a meal for a long time.
The topic of discussion is naturally inseparable from the arrival of Tubo Zanpu Chiwang Xuzan and the successful arrival of the captured Talib and others at Chang'an Mansion in Jingzhao.
Pei Yuan naturally praised it greatly, because Tubo Zampu personally came to the sacred capital to offer soil, just like Gao Baorong and Li Jing. This was simply a great success.
It cannot be overstated, it is almost equivalent to the incident in the past when Jieli Khan was captured in Chang'an.
Although Zanpu Chiwang Xuzan was just a puppet at this time, many grassland lords like Jieli had been defeated by successive dynasties. Only Zanpu on the plateau had never been conquered by the Central Plains court.
Both of them drank a lot, and Zhang Yan couldn't help but feel in a daze that he was indeed the master of destiny, because he didn't pay much attention to it at first. He just asked Lun Boren and Langjie Jiangcuo to try their best to play the song, and then wait for the court's decision.
The next step is to reinforce.
As a result, he didn't even think about how to reinforce him. Zampu from Luoxue City had already set off for the Central Plains. For anyone, this would be a quite magical scene.
But after the flattery, we had to face the reality. Even Zhang Hao, who was so shameless, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He laughed a little.
"It was a great time to have a drink today, but it's a pity that soon you and I will have to part ways again. I'm going back to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, and Yuying, you're going to Jinling Mansion."
If you want to say that Pei Yuan doesn't feel uncomfortable at all, that's still false.
It can be said that his contribution is not as small as that of the deceased Zhang Xichong, but one after another, most of them cannot be put on the table for people to speculate, because there is a lot of Zhang Xian's dark history among them.
What made Pei Yuan even more aggrieved was that this time the emperor transferred him to Jiangnan Province, and he was still doing dirty work just like when he was seized by the military and political power.
But at the same time, Pei Yuan was very clear-headed. He knew clearly that meeting an emperor like Zhang Gao was the luckiest thing for a courtier like him who had the attributes of a cruel official.
Because throughout the dynasties, many people like him were thrown away by the emperor after use, or even used as scapegoats.
"I have read the household registration albums of Jiangnan and Jiangxi provinces, and I am also familiar with the temperaments of Sun Sheng, Han Xizai, Song Qiqiu and others.
I think that the sage should give me a standard. Within the scope of the original Southern Tang Kingdom and Wuyue Kingdom, I should at least reach a certain standard, so that I can look good to others."
Zhang Hao nodded in agreement. Pei Yuan's question was not a bargain, but a statement of the fact that it was impossible to completely eliminate the local tyrants.
Human beings, well, it should be said that as long as there are social attributes, there will always be a level of ability between each other, which will widen the gap between each other and create classes.
Being powerful is actually a manifestation of class.
Even farmers who start from the same starting point will be distinguished from each other based on their farming skills, emotional intelligence, mental agility, physical health, and even luck.
Of course, there are still some people who use unconventional means to become powerful.
But generally speaking, at least in this era, it is impossible to completely eliminate creatures like Hao Qiang, and if it is really eliminated, it will be a disaster.
Without order in the countryside, and without the powerful people who can talk the talk, the government's administrative capabilities will be greatly challenged. Targets such as labor, conscription, and taxation will not be met, and it may even cause a major setback in rural productivity.
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Pei Yuan knew this very well, so he asked for a limit, a standard for how far the powerful should be hit.
Zhang Gao pondered for a moment, "I want a population of 7 million in the old land of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and a population of 4.5 million in the old land of Wuyue. As for the acres of land, even one less acre will not do!"
Pei Yuan nodded slowly. Based on Zhang Yan's data, Pei Yuan roughly calculated that there were about 400,000 to 500,000 people left in Yinhu in the old Southern Tang Dynasty, and Wu Yue had about 300,000 people left.
As for the acres of land, they must all be fed together, but the sage only said this, which meant that he could give the local powerful a little sweetness on the fertility issue, such as registering some upper fields as lower fields.
Of course, Zhang Yan would not ask Pei Yuan how to do this kind of thing, nor would he worry about whether he would accept a bribe.
These are all unnecessary things. What Zhang Yan wants is to do things well without causing large-scale turmoil.
Pei Yuan would not tell Zhang Yan's statement at this moment, and no matter what, the emperor would not be able to come out and approve these things.
And this is also a clue. In the future, if the tyrants from the old areas of Southern Tang and Wuyue offend the imperial court, then the matter of them going to the fields and paying taxes will be an obvious and huge pain in the foot. The emperor wants to deal with them in whatever way they want.
It just depends on your mood.
Politics is full of compromise and reconciliation, mostly tacit understanding.
Seeing that the topic was over, Zhang Yan immediately asked about things in the river and told Pei Yuan his thoughts.
Although he is now in a high position, Pei Yuan rarely discusses such matters with Zhang Yan, but his basic skills are still there.
In the Chongwen Palace, the two of them carefully studied Samambas and the black-clad Abbasid dynasty that had not completely collapsed behind him, but only existed in name.
"In my opinion, the black-clad Dashi and Persia are not comparable to the grassland peoples outside the Great Wall and the Andong peoples in the pine desert. They are even more difficult enemies to deal with than Goguryeo and Tubo in the past.
This is not to say that Dashi and Persia were more powerful militarily than Goguryeo and Tubo.
In terms of military strength alone, the military strength of all the countries in the world is so strong that it poses no greater threat to the Central Plains than Tibet did in the past. Goguryeo is also small and powerful, not comparable to Dashi and Persia.
The difficulty in these two places lies in their civilization. Their clothes, customs, food, language, and political systems are all different from mine and yet they are self-contained. There is also the Tianfang Sect as a connection, which makes it really difficult to deal with it.
In the past, the Sui and Tang dynasties used the whole country to attack Goguryeo three times, just to prevent such a civilization from appearing next to our bed."
Pei Yuan nodded and then shook his head, "I think the most important thing is that it is too far away. The distance is close to 20,000 miles. If a large army goes to conquer, and sends 10,000 soldiers, the loss will be equivalent to sending 100,000 soldiers in the Central Plains.
Moreover, it takes half a year or more to get the news, half a year to prepare to send troops, and eight or nine months to arrive with the army. If something happens, there will be no time to deal with it.
Finally, there is the cultural thing that the sage said. If I have one million Han people in the river, then sooner or later the river and Persia will be civilized and belong to me.
But if we only have 100,000 or less, then we have to be careful about being indoctrinated by them."
Zhang Hao also nodded in agreement, "That's the reason. Bai Congxin is waiting in Shiguocheng. Counting the 10,000 households in the grassland, the core members are only 50,000 or 60,000.
On the opposite side, Samampos has four to five million people, and there are also Dashi's divine warriors who can support it. All this depends on Lao Bai's methods."
However, Pei Yuan had a different opinion, "Sage, I think that the Guo family's daughter cannot be given in marriage to Emir Hamid because the time span is too long.
Hamid's son Mansoor was only six years old, and this girl grew up in Zaiye and was easily accepted by the whole country. If the two of them really fell in love with each other as mother and son, it might lead to bad things.
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Zhang Hao actually also has this worry, but since Pei Yuan is taking the initiative to talk, there must be a solution, "Then according to Yuying, how to solve it?"
"Let Mrs. Guo and Se Jieyu become sisters, and then in the name of Se Jieyu's distressed nephew who has no one to take care of her, send Mrs. Guo to the Forbidden City of Kangju to take care of little Mansour on her aunt's behalf.
In this way, although the Guo family can have the name of being in power, they do not have the honorary title of Queen Samani and cannot gain the trust of everyone in the Samani Kingdom, so they can only rely on us."
Zhang Hao thought for a while, "If this is the case, how can we ensure that she will do her best?"
This is also what I, Zhang Shengren, worry about. He has always made the most sinister guesses about people's hearts. Things that have always failed to benefit the executor usually don't last long.
"With Privy Council Guo here, and with her little niece here, the hard work done in the past few years is still guaranteed.
Later, I heard that around Xiaohai, there were hundreds of kingdoms and tribes, large and small, and the sage could promise to grant a small kingdom with tens of thousands of people.
You can also give her Mansoor, the son of Hamid, whom the Guo family brought up since childhood, as an adopted son. With a future as the queen of a country, it should be enough to reward her."
This seems to be better. It is true that Guo Ting'er's status cannot be raised too high at once.
However, it is not enough to have benefits alone, you also need some moral support for spiritual support.
This person! Especially politicians, they have no conscience at all, or it is impossible to completely erase their conscience. At most, they are just better at deceiving themselves.
What Guo Ting'er wants to do is to raise a six-year-old child as a nominal adoptive mother and aunt, but what she actually wants to do is to destroy the six-year-old child's fortune and give it to others.
And this is not a one-time defeat, it needs to be done slowly and slowly over a period of ten years with a dull knife.
For a normal person, this is a torture process in which the guilt continues to increase.
Not everyone can be as wicked as Sima Yi. Without some mental construction, Zhang Yan doubted whether Guo Ting'er could persevere.
Fortunately, as a person born in the 1980s, I, Zhang Shengren, had a perfect experience of how powerful America’s remote animal husbandry was during my growth, and he was ready to imitate it.
Taking advantage of this short window of a few months, Guo Ting'er can fully experience how rich and great the country her ancestors died for is.
Let her see how great her ancestors, Prince Guo Xin and Baifa Bing of Anxi, were.
Then she was sent to the Saman Persian court for a task, which was sublimated to expand the living space for the whole nation, avoid the recurrence of the painful past of Anxi's white-haired soldiers, and morally bind her personal abilities and choices with the interests of the whole nation.
Zhang Shengren's set of repeated brainwashing and hints is much stronger than America's dry narrative of freedom and democracy in later generations. I believe Guo Ting'er will be able to adapt to her new role soon.
As soon as Pei Yuan left, Zhang Hao immediately summoned Cao Sanniang's wife Yannai, as well as the two sisters Sefiye and Pantaiya.
The two sisters had to come forward to make Guo Tinger's unforgettable enjoyment materially. Cao Sanniang and Yan Nai were mainly responsible for the spiritual construction.
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In the fifth year of the Shaoming Dynasty, in the year 950 of the Convention, on the fifth day of the ninth lunar month, Zhang Gao returned to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo and his buttocks were not even hot. The snow-like memorials almost overwhelmed Zhang Gao.
They were all used to impeach Pei Yuan for dozens of major crimes including corruption, perversion of the law, cruelty and harshness, and connivance with his subordinates during his two years in power.
Some of them are fanciful and exaggerated, but some of them are true. Of course, Zhang Yan ignored them and couldn't read them all.
The people who attacked Pei Yuan below saw that the emperor did not accept this trick, and immediately changed their direction.
They had returned to Beijing from the emperor, but Pei Yuan still held the power of the internal and external military formations to speak out, and seized on the corruption and bending of the law by Pei Yuan's cronies to attack.
At this time, Zhang Zhi began to think about it and ordered the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Yushitai Department of Justice to jointly review the case.
After the evidence was conclusive, they directly sent all the dozen or so trusted officials under Pei Yuan who had done the most outrageous things to Anton and sent them to Murong Nobunaga.
Later, on the charge of being lax in his duties, Pei Yuan was relieved of his duties as Zhongshu Youpushe and Luantai Shilang, his bodyguard Ma Bu, commander of the army, and supervising the affairs of all prefectures and counties in Zhili, but he retained the fake festival Yue.
power.
As soon as the news came out, those who did not know the truth had no time to celebrate. As a result, within a few days, the emperor sent Zhao Guogong Pei Yuan to supervise Jiangnan and Jiangxi provinces during the holidays. He also served as the Pingzhang of Jiangnan Province and the defense envoy of Jiangxi Province.
Pei Yuan did not delay at all, and that night he led his small team, escorted by the fine cavalry of Hanshan City, to Jinling Mansion in Jiangnan Province that night.
This makes people who are waiting to see Pei Yuan's joke or even want to take a little revenge stunned.
After seeing that Zhang Hao did not abandon Pei Yuan as a scapegoat, they wisely chose to cease operations.
However, compared to Tubo Zan Pu Chi Wang Xu Zan coming to Luoyang, the sacred capital, Pei Yuan was sent to Jiangnan, which is simply a small matter.
These uncles and nephews, who have been entangled in interests and grievances for hundreds of years, and whose powerful empire also illuminated the annals of history, have finally become a family today. The significance cannot be overstated.
Moreover, Zhang Shengren's Zhang family also had a deeper entanglement with the Tubo Empire, which is of even greater significance.
On the tenth day of the ninth lunar month, Tubo Zanpu Chiwang Xu Zan and his party went down the Yellow River. They first arrived at Jinyong City outside Luoyang City and stayed temporarily without entering the city.
Because before that, Zhang Yan had to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth in the southern suburbs of Luoyang, the divine capital, and inform heaven of the extremely glorious victory achieved by me, Saint Zhang, and the great Zhou Dynasty he founded.
Immediately, Zhang Jian ordered Lu Shangshu Shi Feng Dao, headed by Feng Dao, hundreds of civil and military officials, and clan officials to go out of the city to the prisoner's prison, and publicly interrogate the captured rebel Guo Guangyi, who had offended the dynasty's barbarians Amir and Ogus Ye of Shiguo City.
The protector of the country is also Nale Talib, the nine surnames are Ogus and the fourth is Nale, etc.
The final trial concluded that Guo Guangyi, a Han Chinese from the Tang Dynasty and an official of the imperial dynasty, dared to commit rebellious behavior and was sentenced to death by death. The executioner of the Ministry of Punishment was ordered to immediately prepare to be tortured by death by death.
It was originally planned to sentence Lingchi to death, but since there were still ceremonies to be performed later, it would be a waste of time to execute Lingchi, so he chose to divide the body into five horses.
Amir was sentenced to death in Shiguocheng for killing the people of the Zhou Dynasty, attacking the generals of the Zhou Dynasty, and trying to invade the territory of the Zhou Dynasty. He was sentenced to be beheaded in half. The remaining brothers, nephews, generals and dignitaries under his command, and more than 50 people, were all beheaded.
At this time, Talib and the others who followed were so frightened that their whole bodies trembled, and the sound of crying and howling resounded outside Jinyong City. Even Zanpu Chiwang Xuzan inside Jinyong City was so frightened that his face turned pale.
However, Talib and the other four Oghuz Yinale were still very lucky. After killing Guo Guangyi and the entire Amir clan, the blood sacrifice heads were almost ready. Chi Wang Xuzan was also frightened.
, there is no need to kill anyone anymore.
And if we keep killing people, there will be too few people dancing.
Therefore, these people were all sentenced to backbone and hard labor, and the sentences were suspended, so they did not need to execute them now.
After all, for these people, there are still 70,000 to 80,000 scattered tribesmen in the river, and they are not stubborn Tianfang believers.
If they are wise and willing to believe in the Six Dharma Sect, recognize Tengger as the first level of Dharmakaya of the Supreme Heaven, and help recruit people to fill the places in Talas and Shiguo City, then the punishment on them can be avoided.
How could Talib and others dare to say a word? A few of them and hundreds of their families kowtowed like garlic outside Jinyong City, expressing their willingness to obey the arrangements of the Celestial Empire on the spot.
At this time, officials from the Ministry of Rites notified Zanpu Triwang Xuzan, his wife Zhu Meng, and Zanpu's younger brother Puti to meet him.
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Zhang Yan is in the Qianyuan Hall, wearing the imperial uniform, the civil servants are wearing purple robes, and the general is wearing a red brocade robe with his right arm exposed, wearing a shining Mingguang armor, standing with his sword.
Chiwang Xu Zan holds the large Tubo Zanpu gold seal in his hand, which is the gold seal of King Xi (cong) given to Zanpu by Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty.
In Zanpu Zhumeng's hand, he held the household registration album of Wuru Sixty-one Dongdai of the Tubo Empire.
Zanpu's younger brother, Puti Hot Roll, came forward carrying a set of gold armor with great difficulty.
What kind of etiquette should be used? When he was in Chang'an, Zanpu had already discussed it with Zhang Yuan, the Minister of Rites, and the senior officials sent to the palace.
Immediately and without any hesitation, he knelt down with his golden seal and shouted: "My nephew Tubo praises Pu Zhi Wang Xu Zan and pays homage to my uncle and the emperor!"
My uncle from Zhongyuan and my nephew from Tubo have been a family since ancient times.
During the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and Bodhisattva fought successive wars, which at first damaged blood relations and at the worst caused the people to be displaced. It was not worth thinking about for my nephew.
Therefore, I am now willing to dedicate the five to sixty-one Dongdai lands of Tubo so that the four seas can be unified and there will be no more disputes between uncles and nephews."
This can also be regarded as a high-sounding reason that the Zhang Zhou Dynasty painstakingly found for Zanpu Triwang Xuzan. It fully shows that Zanpu Triwang Xuzan did not grovel and sacrifice his land for wealth, but for the sake of no longer having disputes between Han and Tibet.
The welfare of all people and the peace of the world.
This is the great love in the world, it pulls my ass, it is very great!
Zhang Gao personally made his majesty, walked to Chiwang Xu Zan, helped him up, and sighed with red eyes: "I am very relieved that you have such a big heart. I hope that my uncle and nephew can bridge the gap between the Tang and Tibetan tribes and bring peace to the world."
The world is in chaos."
As Zhang Gao received the great Tubo Zanpu gold seal, the Tang Dynasty king's gold seal, the Tubo Wuru Sixty-one Dongdai household registration album, Songtsen Gampo's golden armor and other important treasures of the Tubo kingdom.
Then he took Chiwang Xuzan's hand to the front of the Zhangzhou Ancestral Temple. Zhang Yan entered the Ancestral Temple wearing Gong robes, used the heads of Guo Guangyi and Amir as blood food, and reported to the ancestors of the Zhang family.
The descendants have made great achievements, put down the rebellion, won the Talos War, and even unified Tang and Tibet!
After that, the palace orchestra played the Shule music among the ten palace musics. In this music, there is a fixed dance called Yuanfu. Just by listening to the name, you will know what it is for.
As soon as the music sounded, the civil and military personnel dispersed to the left and right, and a large group of people wearing silver, ocher and other colors of uniforms came up.
From front to back are Wu King Li Jing, Lu King Qian Hongchu, Jing King Gao Baorong, Changsha County King Ma Xiguang, Longgang Hou Mengchang, Guiyuan Hou Yelu Yaliguo, Youshenwuwei General Liu Chengyou, Xinzheng Gate Captain Shi Chonggui
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Well, we are almost able to form a football team.
However, they are not the protagonists today. The protagonists are Talib, the chief of the Creek tribe, and the other four Ogusi Naler.
At this time, the sound of the drums became enthusiastic, and under the gaze of a group of fierce civil servants and generals, the five people, dressed in barbarian costumes, performed a barbarian dance in the field.
"Hahahaha!" That somewhat funny gesture made even Zhang Hao couldn't help laughing.
However, this funny Hu Xuan dance did not last long, because the dancers were almost scared to death, thinking that they would be beheaded after the dance, so their movements were extremely stiff.
After laughing for a while, the familiar music of King Qin breaking the formation sounded.
Li Jing, Qian Hongchu, Gao Baorong, etc. were the first to enter the venue and jump up, followed by all the civil and military ministers who also entered the venue and jumped up.
My Taimiao disco in Dazhou is so bold and unrestrained, full of boss-level dancing of demons.
Triwang Xuzan was also eager to try. Zhang Gao was not prepared to let him jump at first, but the two brothers Triwang Xuzan and Puti Hot Roll insisted on showing off.
Moreover, they also knew how to dance the King of Qin's Breaking Formation. During the Changqing Alliance Meeting in the past, the dance troupe of the Tang Dynasty performed in Luoche.
The atmosphere in front of me was so harmonious that I, Zhang Shengren, also laughed three times, and there was a dance between the king and his subjects.