Chapter 8 Human Heart (2)

"I say you three, one is the prince of the current dynasty, and the other is the governor in charge of the Qizhou. You are not happy with the rich clothes and food. I will come here to fight against the sandbags. I will also accept you." Just as the three of them were lying next to the puddle, gasping for rest, a general in silver armor and white robe strode over and smiled and scolded.

What responded to him was a large ball of sticky old mud. He hit the helmet tassel and flowed along the edge of the silver helmet, the man's face and body were all over.

"Oh, I'm making a new brocade robe!" The Silver Armor General was furious and waved his fists to come forward and fight desperately, "Zheng Ziming, you ungrateful killer. Mr. Gao has never finished with you today!"

"Pa!" "Pa!" "Pa!" "Pa!" Several balls of old mud came in the air, beating him to the point of his head, his armor was crooked. "Crown Prince, Fatty Fu, you two, you actually colluded with the Zheng surname. Oh, stop fighting, surrender, Gao surrender. If you fight again, I will not be able to see my family in a while!"

"I'll save your life today and take it another day!" Seeing that he started begging for mercy so soon, Zheng Ziming threw down the mud ball in his hand in disappointment, pretended to be like King Chu in the shadow play, and said with his waist.

"Since you surrender, come quickly to greet me!" Crown Prince Chai Rong also smiled and pointed at General Silver Armor and gave a loud order.

Only Fu Zhaowen was "benevolent and righteous". Seeing that the other party took the initiative to admit defeat, he did not do anything for himself. He threw down his mud, put his dirty hands on his mouth, and shouted loudly: "That thief general, since he has surrendered, come quickly to the common name!"

"Bah! Good intentions are not rewarded. Fortunately, when Gao arrived in Qizhou, he didn't even stop breathing, so he rushed over to see you. If he had known this, Gao would have been away today!" General Silver Armor complained loudly while cleaning up the mud and dirty water on his body with his hands. Although he was wronged, his legs stepped towards the three of them without hesitation.

"Okay, since you surrender, it's not difficult for you to be alone. Give me a seat! Hunting it, if you are not on the front line to prevent the Northern Han and Khitan from invading the territory, why do you have time to come to Qizhou?" Chai Rong pulled a few straw woven bags and threw them over, and asked the other party to ask.

"Thank you for your seat!" Gao Huaide took the woven bag with one foot, then gently swung it, stacked it into a mat. He sat down with the flow, and muttered a series of regrets: "Where should I be guarded against by the Northern Han and the Khitan? The Yelu family killed their heads in order to compete for the throne! Without the support of the Yelu family, the Northern Han and Youzhou all became wild dogs with broken backs and had no courage to invade the situation! It's a pity that God was not good at doing anything, and actually caused our Great Zhou to have flooded for two consecutive years. Otherwise, even if we couldn't take the opportunity to restore the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and break into Taiyuan City, it would be no problem to capture Liu Chong's old man alive! Alas!"

"Oh!" Hearing this, Chai Rong didn't know how to respond, so he could only lean on the straw bag and sighed with his head raised.

"Alas!" Infected by the emotions of the two, Fu Zhaowen also sighed.

Although he was a civil servant, he was born in the Fu family after all. He was very concerned about major affairs in the world. As far as he knew, in August of the previous year, the Emperor Yelu Ruan of Liao, who insisted on sending troops to cause trouble in the Great Zhou in autumn and winter despite the dissuasion of his ministers, made the heavens angry and the people resentful. As a result, he reached the Huoshen Lake and was cut off by Yelu Cha and Yelu Vulli.

Immediately, Yelu Chaqi proclaimed himself emperor and ordered his ministers to be loyal to him. Unexpectedly, less than five days after ascending the throne, Yelu Wuzhi had led the army to fight against the rebels. Both sides fought fiercely near the Huoshendian. The rebels were defeated and Yelu Chaqi was captured. Yelu Wuzhi took advantage of the victory and pursued Yelu Chaqi himself, Yelu Vari, Yelu Benddu, Yelu Dili and other members who might participate in the rebellion, or the old generals who had always had a bad relationship with him all conspired to rebel and cut off the body. Even Yelu Liu Ge, who had been exiled to Zuzhou to guard the tomb for Yelu Abaoji, did not escape a glass of poisonous wine.

After clearing all the political enemies, Yelu Wuzhi supported Yelu Jing, son of Yelu Deguang, as emperor. Yelu Jing was very "knowing the good and bad" and was accompanied by beautiful wine and beautiful women all day long, entrusting all the government to Yelu Wuzhi. The king and his ministers got their place, but they were at peace with each other.

However, this move caused dissatisfaction among other important officials. Soon, the Taiwei Hu Guzhi jumped out and accused Yelu Wuzhi of abusing power and harming the country.

Yelu Wuzhi was furious and immediately killed Huguzhi for his crime of treason. Immediately, he discovered other potential rebels, including Yelu Louguo, Yelu Shendu, and Langjun Yelu Haili, who sent troops to arrest all of these people and killed them all.

As the saying goes, pull out the radish and bring mud. When searching the man's mansion in Yelu Lou Kingdom, Yelu Wuzhi discovered a letter from this man and Yelu Wan, the son of Yelu Lihu, and followed the clues to capture the Taiping King Yelu Essage, Lin Ya Yeluhua, and the husband Yelu Silly, who conspired to usurp the throne, so they arrested them all, either killed or imprisoned, and made the right punishment.

After more than two consecutive years of great purge, most of the Liao generals were washed away. The rest were either stupid and incompetent, or had shallow combat experience. It can be said that this moment was the weakest time since the establishment of the Liao Kingdom. If God had not let the Yellow River break its mouth last year, if the Great Zhou Dynasty could unite the king and ministers and launch an army to fight north, Yan Yun would probably be at his fingertips.

However, if it is if.

The rainy weather last year and this year made both sides of the Yellow River sorrow all over the country. The Great Zhou could not even raise all the money and food to help the victims, so what should we use to support the Northern Expedition Army? What's more, the most brave generals and the most warlike soldiers in the Great Zhou are dragged along the Yellow River by the flood. Without them as a vanguard, it would be strange if the old people in the court knew that they were standing tall in the nest.

"What a pity? Taiyuan and Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures will not move the place?" Among the four people, the only one who did not sigh was Zheng Ziming. He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, suddenly smiled and said loudly. "Instead of using the power of the country to steal Taiyuan and Youzhou, I would rather spend my thoughts on water control and disaster relief like the court. Otherwise, the people in my family will starve to death. What's the use of stealing two pieces of land from other people's families back? What's more, the Liu family has occupied Taiyuan for a long time, and the Han family is also quite popular in Youzhou. Our army rashly fought. Even if we can defeat Liu Chong and Han Kuangsi, we don't have enough money and food to sprinkle them, and we can't appease the people in these two places!"

"How could it be impossible to comfort me? They should know that Han and Liu are both lackeys of the Khitans!" Although Gao Huaide admired Zheng Ziming very much, he firmly did not agree with his views.

"How can ordinary people care about who is the emperor? As long as they collect less taxes and less labor service, the government will handle matters more fairly and not be open-minded. Everyone will be satisfied. As for who will be the emperor, whether it is the Khitans or the Central Plains ruler, they will not care at all!" After looking at Gao Huaide's angry face, Zheng Ziming smiled and shook his head. It seemed that he had lived for several lifetimes, and the other party was just a foul-smelling child. "If you don't believe it, count carefully? Count the team that followed the Khitans south to fight Caogu over the years, how many soldiers were originally from the Central Plains?"

"You..." Gao Huaide was so angry that his eyes were filled with smoke, but he couldn't find a word to refute.

He was recommended by Zheng Ziming as the governor. In the past two years, he has fought many Liao bandits who crossed the border and fought Caogu. After each victory, most of the prisoners he caught were faces in the Central Plains. The remaining half were the Hus outside the Frontier, such as Khitan, Xi, Moshan, Shiwei. And those "erhus" with faces in the Central Plains, who killed the people of the Central Plains, were no less ruthless than the real Hus.

This situation shocked him and hated him for being extremely angry. However, he could not find the reason and could not find any solution.

"During the Warring States Period, the world was seven parts, Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei and Qin. Now, who still remembers whether their ancestors were from Qi or Chu?" Even though he knew that Gao Huaide would not agree with his own views, Zheng Ziming was not angry. He patted the other party's shoulder and continued to smile and add, "Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the reason why our ancestors all called themselves Han people was not that Liu Bang, the Emperor of Han, could defeat Xiang Yu. Instead, the rule of Wen and Jing made most people live a stable life. With the northern expedition of Han Wu, those who dared to invade our Han territory and kill our people would die without a burial place. If they were hungry, they would be in danger of being a Han or a Hu person, what would be the difference?"

"This..., this..." Gao Huaide instinctively felt that this was nonsense, but he could not find the loopholes. He was so angry that his face turned blue and his forehead was full of blue veins.

However, Chai Rong was already used to the unrestrained words of his third brother Zheng Ziming. He gently pushed Gao Huaide and smiled and smoothed out the situation. "Don't be serious with him. His mouth can be said to be alive. If you are serious, you will lose. But..."

He sighed softly, and he added quietly, "Zi Ming's words may not be unreasonable! All well-educated people can go to Qin and Chu. How can they blame the people for being subjects of the Liao Kingdom in order to live a better life? They are anxious and just thinking about the opportunity. But they never thought that some opportunities may not be opportunities!"

"Yes, when Emperor Yang of Sui personally conquered Goryeo, he seemed to have the opportunity to fight Liaodong. As a result, before he took Liaodong, he was in trouble Shandong first!" Fu Zhaowen read a lot and responded quickly. Seeing that Chai Rong had already vaguely agreed with Zheng Ziming's statement, he immediately began to enlist and quote.

"It would be great if Emperor Yang of Sui was really the strength of that year. The rice from the Sui Dynasty's Guancang was eaten until the early years of Zhenguan. Unlike now, the Guancang was empty. If Feng Shumi had not sacrificed his life to run around Jingchu and the Cangzhou army went out to sea to fish, the soldiers and civilians on the river bank would not even have enough food after they were exhausted!"

"Indeed, thanks to Feng Shumi and Cangzhou Navy." Fu Zhaowen thought for a while and nodded slightly.

Just as he was feeling, he suddenly saw a fast horse rushing to the horse. On the back, a messenger with a blue flag on his back shouted openly, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, General Gao, Qizhou urgently reported!"

"What's going on?" Chai Rong and others were shocked, stood up together, and asked in unison.
Chapter completed!