Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty-Seven

The Yueshi Ruins are located in the northwest of Ganzhou City, not too far away, but usually there are few people. Princess Aguli brought seven or eight personal guards, all women in uniform with arrows, left the Khan Palace, first galloped in the north of the city for a while, pretending to be hunting, no one was chasing, and then rushed towards Yuezhi ruins. For Yang Hao's arrival, Princess Aguli felt uneasy.Although Ganzhou is dominated by her today, the main reason is that she was the princess of Yeluohe Khan back then, with a noble status, otherwise she would definitely not be the top military and political leader in Ganzhou among the three.However, although she became the lord of Ganzhou, the real political structure of Ganzhou is three sets of carriages. The actual power of Hu Laowen and Suerman is no less than her. That is to say, her control over the other two tribes is limited. Just like Yang Hao's current control over Ganzhou, the meaning of name is greater than the actual meaning.

At this time, Suleman and Li Jiyun's envoy secretly reached an agreement. Although she hadn't made a statement yet, this contact and the cover for Suleman were essentially rebellious.At this time Yang Hao suddenly appeared, how could Aguli not do what he thought.What's more, Yang Hao is now the lord of Xixia, but he appeared in Ganzhou City quietly, and he was sneaky and refused to enter the city, but asked her to meet outside the city. Princess Aguli was guilty, so more suspicious. But the more suspicious she became, the more she dared not disobey her order. She didn't know if Yang Hao knew anything, and how much she already knew, so she could only bite the bullet and rush forward, but she was also on guard secretly.

The Yueshi site, also known as the old city of Ganzhou and the ancient city of Heishuiguo by the locals, you can see many historical relics here. Invasion of the hordes forced the residents to migrate overnight, or the city became a ghost city overnight due to the massacre of the war, or gradually withered due to the overturning of the earth dragon and the diversion of the river, which lost the living conditions.When Yang Hao chased Li Guangrui back then, he was besieged in Taogu City by the Wuding River, which is a historical ruin. However, the ruins of the ancient city of Heishuiguo are much larger than the ruins of Taogu. Prehistoric ruins, ancient cities of the Han and Tang Dynasties, ruins of ancient temples, ancient villages, and ancient tombs are integrated here, and many collapsed buildings and ruins are shaken. , full of tiles and Chinese bricks, together with the rolling sand dunes around, coming here seems to have passed through the tunnel of history. In the dark, you can faintly hear the sound of swords and swords, the cries of shops, the sound of teahouses and the escape from the ancient city. The sound of panic and desperate shouts.

A long, long time ago, there were many swamps and lakes here, and the landforms were very complex, such as sand dunes, lakes, reed ponds, wetlands... Standing on a high place, looking at this historic site, it seems to have seen the ancients who drilled wood for fire, the nomads of the ancient Yuezhi country , the war between the Han and the Hungarians, the tea-horse trade, the military garrison, and the destruction of the ancient city by sand, the prosperity of the past and the tragedy of the present are intertwined, quietly sending away the sunsets and ushering in the dawns. Princess Aguli wore a riding robe, a bow on her back, a pot of arrows on her back, a short knife hanging on Xiaoman's waist, a pair of high-waisted leather boots under her feet, riding a bay red horse, accompanied by several cronies and guards He galloped down into the reed marshes.

Standing behind the half-fallen earth wall in the distance, Yang Hao had already seen her, and not far behind him, there were several guards dressed as merchants standing quietly.From here, you can see Princess Aguli coming on horseback. Although Aguli is skilled at bowing horses and is used to straddling the saddle, her waist is still as slender as willow branches, and her buttocks are still as straight as peaches. Looking from a distance, she is sitting upright on the horse, the S-shaped curve is clear at a glance even when she is sitting, she is really a natural beauty, full of feminine taste.

Soon, she entered the reed field, and the horse walked in it, stirring up the reed flowers like snow. At this moment, she only saw a half-horse, like a beautiful centaur walking in the clouds, with a graceful figure, looming. Yang Hao chose to meet her here because he had no choice.In his original plan, he only found that the team of the Difficult Army, which had allowed him to expand rapidly, gradually became his burden and resistance after he established the country and became king. I don't know how to pay, no matter what military and political strategy the court implements, the first and greatest resistance comes from this group: the Tuoba Group.

Moreover, as Yang Hao did not let them get what they wanted, many of them began to publicly express their opposition, hindering the development of this emerging country from various aspects, and Yang Hao realized that this group of people would play a negative role. It will grow bigger and bigger, Xixia country is small and weak, but it can't withstand the civil strife like Song and Liao, but he can't compromise with these people, so he decided to backfire. Since the cracks in the civil strife already exist, and it is impossible to bridge them at the expense of national interests, thereby degrading a feudal kingdom with centralized power to a tribal alliance-style regime with limited binding force, it is better to let it break out early and use the early days of the founding of the country to The founding king possesses great power, and when he has a good grasp of the overall power, he can eradicate this cancer as soon as possible.Therefore, on the one hand, he divided the Tuoba Group and attracted the enlightened and loyal forces, while on the other hand, he squeezed out and suppressed the backward and reactionary forces, so as to promote their early outbreak.

He had told Zhong Fang, Ding Chengzong and other confidants in advance that he was playing with fire.But he didn't expect that the fire would burn so fast, it was really going beyond his control.He didn't know that Li Zhiyi, the most respected member of the Tuoba Li family, was secretly fueling the flames, taking advantage of the fire.He also didn't know what Li Zhiyi's nephew was secretly planning. The reason why the Flying Feather Secret Spy gave people the impression that it was all-pervasive was because it had a group of highly skilled scouts who were extremely efficient in inquiring about targeted areas. .But he can't conduct a pervasive and all-round surveillance of the Tuoba clan, which is dotted all over Hexi and has a huge ethnic group, both internally and externally. Investment can drag down the economy of Xixia Kingdom, and such a large organization is bound to become bloated. Although the intelligence collected is wider, it may not be in-depth, and its efficiency may not be better than it is now.

However, he still smelled something unusual from the collected intelligence. His intelligence personnel are currently collecting information on the military, economics, politics, and people's livelihood of Hexi in addition to the major intelligence collection on the Song Dynasty and Longyou. If someone wants to take some action, and it is not an emergency, then he either has to recruit troops to stockpile food, or to dispatch troops. The preparations in advance will always cause some phenomena that cannot be concealed and can be noticed by others. It is not uncommon for the phenomenon of one place and two places, but when all the information is completely concentrated, it will arouse his vigilance.

He felt that someone seemed to be taking advantage of this conflict to develop things in a direction that even he could not predict. He wanted to play with fire to put out the fire, but he didn't want it to become a prairie fire, so in his original design, only The Ganzhou forces, which are only playing the role of deceiving others, destroying their reputation, and making the Song Dynasty relax their vigilance, will play a relatively large role at this time. Therefore, he stopped the court meeting under the pretense of being sick, and rushed to Ganzhou secretly, hoping to have another secret meeting with Princess Aguli to revise his plan.From the information he had collected, he did not have any doubts about the Juguhun tribe in Ganzhou, because the contact between Su Erman of the Guhun tribe and Li Lingxiao and others was only a matter of these two days, and the Guguhun tribe was still in contact. There was no change, but Su Erman, as the head of the clan and an important leader in Ganzhou, met and contacted hundreds of people every day. No matter how deliberately the other party concealed his identity, he would not be able to discover the abnormality so quickly.He also did not expect that his own arrival would make Princess Aguli feel uneasy and on guard.

Thousands of years of wind and rain, the trees in Heishui City have become old trees, and the roads have become old roads.Abandoned ancient buildings on the side of the road are silent in the vicissitudes of life, and there is an ancient tranquility among the ruined walls. At this time, a beautiful woman dressed in a beard came slowly, so all the old things became vivid. Yang Hao also took a small number of guards and traveled secretly. He couldn't take too many people with him. As long as his whereabouts are secret enough, he doesn't have to worry about any danger. Now on the Hexi Ancient Road, horse thieves and bandits have almost disappeared. You know Ai Yihai was originally the first hero among the horse bandits in Hexi. With him, he voted under Yang Hao's command. Other horse bandits, large and small, either joined the imperial court, or completely disappeared under the suppression of the horse bandits who became officials.As for the forces that may have ulterior motives in the court, Yang Hao is still very confident in the secrecy of his trip this time. With Zhu Yun, a master of stealth and stealth, planning it himself, it is not easy for anyone to trace his way . But Zhu Yun didn't follow this time, she and Gou'er volunteered to capture Brother Tuoba Han Chan.Tuoba and the Han Chan brothers really refused to obey the edict, and went to Beijing to plead guilty honestly. They tore up the imperial edict, beheaded the imperial envoy, and swore to take back the pastures and grasslands of the Weiwu Ministry for a century, and the green stones of Tuoba Cangmu. The bigger the tribe, the more ferocious it is, and its actions have been classified as rebellion by the Grand Master Zhong. In fact, this behavior in any dynasty in the Central Plains is a rebellion with solid evidence and no doubts, but the Tuoba Hanchan brothers don't think they are rebelling, and they really have no intention of overthrowing Yang Hao as the emperor himself.They don't want to guard Douling anymore, they want to take back the lush grassland that has been nomadic for generations, that's all. Leaving Douling without authorization and disobeying military orders? Yes what's the matter?I haven't defected to the enemy, I can't defend it, I don't want to defend it. To snatch the grassland and fight with the Cangshi tribe? Yes what's the matter?The grassland used to belong to our family, I want to come back, can't I? Tore up the imperial decree and beheaded the imperial envoy? Yes what's the matter?What kind of bullshit decree, isn't it just a piece of paper?Speaking of which, it is still made of silk, and it is quite useless to tear it.Imperial envoy?What is an imperial envoy, isn't it just a dog in front of the king?If he is slaughtered, he will be slaughtered. No matter how close he is, we are closer to the king. Speaking of it, our grandfather's grandfather and Mr. Li Guangrui's grandfather are cousins, and we are brothers with the king. What's the big deal? Although Xixia has established a state and established a dynastic regime, in their hearts, it is no different from the previous loose nomadic regime alliance. Xixia king Yang Hao is no different from Khan and Shanyu. Order, kill a few servants, the worst is to beg for surrender when the army overwhelms the border, and the chieftain of the tribe will come forward to make peace, and it will be over.Yeli, Xifeng and other Dangxiang Seventh Clans were so blushing and thick-necked with Mr. Li Guangrui at the beginning, as soon as the flag was raised and lowered, wouldn't they immediately calm down?That's still an outsider. In short, this is the performance of barbarians who are not accustomed to education and do not know the law of the king.Many Tuoba clansmen who followed the trend and booed to resist the New Deal were precisely because of this mentality, so they became a member of the imperial court.For these people, Yang Hao did not have decades to slowly educate them, and the merits of enlightenment from the monarch and his ministers are only effective for children who have learned and mastered this theory since they were young. People are far less effective than bloody punishment. So under Yang Hao's deliberate actions, and under the deliberate actions of that old fox Li Zhiyi, Brother Tuoba and Han Chan became the chicken to scare the monkeys. In short, this is a pair of silly and naive rams! Early bird, they've done it.The Weiwu tribe and the Cangshi tribe fought, and the goal of dividing the Tuoba clan has also been achieved.Yang Hao doesn't want them to continue the fight. Those who consume are all his people. What Yang Hao lacks most now is people. After all, the slaves transported from Dashi and Rome are limited, and the natural flow of people from other places The progress is also slow, give birth by yourself... Even if Yang Hao calls on all Xixia men and women to devote their limited lives to the infinite stallion business, it will take more than ten years to bear fruit, so since the goal has been achieved, Yang Hao wanted to solve the Weiwu tribe's affairs with the least loss. Yang Hao originally wanted to use the regular army of Li Jitan and Yang Yanlang, plus the tribal armies of Tuoba Haodi and Ono Keer to encircle him on all sides, and force Tuoba and the Han Chan brothers to surrender with strong force, but the cost of mobilizing a large army is countless money and food Therefore, Zhu Yun and Gou'er took the initiative to invite Ying, determined to quickly extinguish the Weiwu tribe's rebellion by capturing the thief and the king. Yang Hao once promised that once he came back from Bianliang, he would not let Zhu Yun leave the capital to perform dangerous missions. On the one hand, it was because Zhu Yun's bloody injury frightened Yang Hao when he came back from Longyou last time. He and Zhu Yun are both like subordinates and friends. They have discussed and asked for advice in the past, and they also have a bit of brother and sister affection. He doesn't want to bring back Zhu Yun's corpse one day. Another reason is that Zhu Yun, as a killer, has been alone and alone for so many years. Now she is not young. If I remember correctly, she is twenty-four this year, twenty-four !Who has seen such an old girl who has not yet left the cabinet?The old father who is the chief martial arts instructor in Feiyutang is so anxious that his eyes are blue, and his daughter is so old, unmarried, and has no children. Is this still plausible? Now he doesn't expect his daughter to be favored by the king, any man, as long as he is allowed to hug his grandson as soon as possible, he will be satisfied.What's more, Ma Zongqiang, the commander of the capital of Huaizhou, is very interested in his daughter, but it would be really nice for her to marry him.For this reason, he hesitated more than once to express to Yang Hao the distress in his heart as a father. Yang Hao wanted Zhu Yun to stay in the capital and stabilize, and also hoped that she could consider her lifelong affairs. But Zhu Yun is a restless person, and she won't let her do anything. If she stays in the capital all day, she feels that she is worthless. This time, she and Gou'er went to capture Brother Han Chan, which was her plan.Yang Hao was pulled by the arms of two girls, one big and one small, and begged for a while. His scalp was numb and he had no choice but to agree. However, in front of the ancient father and many trusted generals, he gave them a father and daughter as the king of Xixia. Solemn commitment: those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, and those who have done wrong will be punished.Zhu Yun took back the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom for him, and made an inexhaustible contribution. If he captures Brother Tuoba and Han Chan this time, so as not to cause gunpowder in Xixia, then the two achievements will be rewarded together, and the father and daughter of the Gu family can mention one to themselves. Requests, as long as they don't violate the king's law and don't hurt the heavens, he will agree to everything. He also asked the Mushe people to memorize this sentence in a grand and solemn way, and the ancient father understood it, this is the king who wants to marry his daughter.The happy old father didn't wait for his daughter to express his opinion, so he quickly agreed on her behalf, so Zhu Yun and Gou'er set off for Xiazhou. Yang Hao ordered Li Jitan of Xiazhou and Yang Yanlang of Lingzhou to assist him. Once the head is successfully captured, he will immediately control the entire Weiwu tribe.This time, he planned to reorganize the tribal system from the Weiwu Department.The transformation of the ruling foundation of the urban industrialists and rural farmers in the 18 states of Xixia has been settled, but the organization and rule of the nomadic tribes that mainly focus on animal husbandry has not changed much. The tribal leaders’ control over the tribe Power is still greater than the influence of the imperial court. Yang Hao wants to reorganize it. On the basis of maintaining the characteristics of nomadic tribes due to production methods and mobile grazing, the tribal leaders must maintain flexible power over the tribes. In order to deprive and weaken the direct control of the original tribal chiefs over the people of the tribe, the heads of the tribes are set as Liuguan, and the convective officials are rotated regularly, and they are appointed and dismissed according to the performance of the evaluation. in hand. Yang Hao does not intend to implement the New Deal for all the tribes. In that case, the supporters will immediately become opponents, but how to arrange the rebel tribes after the conquest is his power.The defeat of the Weiwu Department will not be the end. Those arrogant and disrespectful tribal leaders will definitely organize a bigger counterattack. At that time, the righteousness lies, and he can reorganize more tribes if he has the status. The descendants of the tribe are loyal to him now, but in the future... even if their descendants lose the awe and loyalty of their ancestors, the power directly controlled by the imperial court is already an absolute majority, and there will be no troubles. In the next plan, he wanted Princess Aguli to play a greater role. On the surface, because of his covetousness for Princess Aguli, Princess Aguli left Xingzhou angrily after being humiliated, and he could not call her back. To meet each other, so after making all the arrangements, Yang Hao secretly rushed to Ganzhou.Now, his heart is actually very heavy. He has seen some future crises and wants to eliminate them as soon as possible in his own hands, but the development of the situation is obviously more serious than he expected. Even if the enemy hidden in the dark is ten times weaker than the enemy in the open, the harm may be ten times stronger than it, and it is even okay to overthrow it in one fell swoop, but the matter has reached this point and there is no turning back. , and Aguli played a negligible role in his plan. Is she capable enough to let her take on this important task?Does she have that kind of loyalty?These are all questions. "Aguli has met the king. Why did the king suddenly come to Ganzhou?" When Yang Hao was full of thoughts, Aguli and his party had come close. Aguli got off her horse, stopped the footsteps of the guards, walked up to Yang Hao, and bowed gracefully. "Ah, Wangfei please get up." Yang Hao withdrew his mind and hurried forward to help. Hearing his call, Aguli couldn't help showing a bit of embarrassment on his face. Yang Hao also noticed that the address was a bit ambiguous, so he couldn't help but smiled embarrassingly, and covered up his embarrassment with a deep expression: "This is Ganzhou, my king I have to come, now... some things seem to be beyond my grasp." If he looked at Aguli meaningfully, he said: "At first, I just wanted Wang...Master Aguli to help me and make a play for the world to see. Now it seems that the adults may have more things to do. That's it." Aguli was stared at by him, her heart skipped a beat, and she tried to calm down and said: "What does your majesty mean by this?" Yang Hao smiled coldly, and said: "I intended to create trouble and lure the snake out of the hole, but who knows, not only the snake but also the python were lured out, and someone wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to make trouble out of it." Aguli's face changed slightly: "Is there such a thing?" Of course, Yang Hao would not tell her that he was completely ignorant of the opponent who was hiding in the dark. He just realized that someone was taking advantage of the civil strife in the Tuoba family based on the limited information in his hand. Even if he was absolutely sure that Aguli would Be loyal to yourself, unless you are involved in the identity of the core secrets, you should also give her the greatest confidence, instead of letting her follow her suspicious. What's more, Yang Hao is not so sure that under any circumstances, this female leader of the Huihe people in Ganzhou will be loyal to her.This princess left a deep impression on Yang Hao in the previous battles. This woman is as fierce as a wolf and as cunning as a fox. The little hoofs under her beautiful long legs kicked all over her face. Therefore, Yang Hao looked like he was holding the pearl of wisdom, and sneered again: "This person has a high position and authority, but he doesn't know how to love himself, and he is trying to overthrow the court. Hmph, this king's 'flying feathers follow the wind' is famous all over the world. He is a vegetarian, but he doesn't know that this king already knows his every move, and if he wants to take him in, it's just a matter of effort, and it's ridiculous that he thinks that he has hidden it deep enough, and the big plan can be taught." Those who can take advantage of the current situation to turn the clouds upside down and make profits out of the chaos are naturally high-ranking figures in the Xixia Dynasty. Yang Hao wanted to tell Aguli his plan after blowing his hair out, but Aguli had a ghost in his heart, so he took the seat Next, just assuming that this was what Yang Hao told her, she secretly frightened, with her hands behind her back, she gestured quietly to her personal female guards, and at the same time, her palms gently slid to her waist, which was as thin as a willow branch. Suddenly, he straightened his belt as if inadvertently, but moved the dagger to the position where he could pull it out as quickly as possible, with a charming smile that turned all sentient beings on his face, and asked softly: "Then how does the king plan to deal with her?" Woolen cloth?" Yang Hao smiled and said: "This king originally wanted to send two assassins to kill him quietly, but after much deliberation, I still think it would be better to lead him to expose his full strength and annihilate him once and for all. So, my lord Going to Ganzhou, I came to see you, Lord Aguli, hehehe..." Before Yang Hao could say the next sentence, "This king wants to conspire with you in this matter, except for this evil", Princess Aguli's two black, bright and charming eyebrows furrowed, and a sharp machete appeared out of thin air in her palm. In a flash, it was already on Yang Hao's neck, his almond eyes opened fiercely, and he sneered, "You want to kill me? My old lady will do you first!"