Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 151 The Domineering Song Dynasty
Soon, Zhao Kuangyin's attitude spread throughout Kaifeng. At least the subjects of Kaifeng could be said to be happy for a while.

Zhao Kuangyin even announced by the way that he would continue to expand the army.

When the Song Dynasty was first founded, the number of imperial troops stationed in Beijing was 13. After the release of military power, it expanded a bit, and now it is close to 20. At this time, the Song Dynasty is rich anyway, and one-third of the annual trading houses are used as military expenses. There is simply no way to spend it all.

The provocation by Tubo this time indeed exposed the Song Dynasty's embarrassment of insufficient military strength to a certain extent.

Zhao Kuangyin had almost absorbed all the elite soldiers from the Jiedushi of each town for so many years. It is true that he could not attract many more this time, so it was inevitable to decentralize the power of recruiting soldiers.

Then there was another reform. At first it was said that the power to recruit soldiers would be completely placed in the Privy Council, but later it was changed, and all the power was in the hands of the eunuchs.

Of course, the eunuchs in the Song Dynasty were only responsible for recruiting troops but not commanding them. In essence, they did not have much power. At most, they could only make a little fortune by taking advantage of their positions. At this point, the military power of the Song Dynasty had completely separated recruitment, unification, and deployment. .

The direct connection between soldiers and generals at all levels has been further expanded, and there is no longer a direct relationship between them. On the contrary, the relationship between soldiers and merchants has been further strengthened, because it is obvious that this recruitment, The military households in Huainan will be the top priority and focused on inspection.

Half a month later, the envoys of the Song Dynasty entered Liangzhou on horseback with only a few cavalry escorts. Then they walked through the six tribes of Tubo and directly summoned the "Prefect of Xiliang" in an extremely tyrannical manner. Those who commit crimes will pay for their lives for Song soldiers. If not, we will meet on the battlefield.

I don’t even know how to fold and straighten the kudzu branches for others.

After receiving the Song envoy for a long time, the first question he asked was: "What do you really mean by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty? When he said this... couldn't he have drank too much?"

After waiting for more than half a month, I really never expected that what I was waiting for would be such a result.

Did the Emperor of the Song Dynasty make a decision with his eyes closed without even a basic understanding of Liangzhou?

Or is it really inflated?
Then Zhitong Gezhi said nervously, using half-familiar Mandarin: "My lord, I would never dare to be disrespectful to the Song Dynasty, but here in Liangzhou... there is a state of affairs here, and the people have not heard of the imperial court for a long time. Ling, I, a mere magistrate, really do not have the prestige to carry out the decrees of the officials. I wonder if I can ask an angel to accompany me to the various ministries and promulgate the decrees of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to them?"

Unexpectedly, the Song Shi said proudly: "This is exactly what I meant. Before leaving, His Highness King Qin of the Song Dynasty specially told me to spread the power of the Song Dynasty throughout Liangzhou. If you barbarians want to rebel, you might as well help you." When the troops and horses are gathered under your thief leader, it will save our Song soldiers the trouble of fighting, so you can lead the way."

Zhitong Gezhi: "…………"

There is no doubt that Song State, at least His Highness King Qin, the legendary God of Wealth descended to earth, knew about Liangzhou.

Knowing something, and being able to do such a domineering thing, I can only say...this girl is sick.

I was so angry that I wanted to laugh even if I broke the branches of Gezi.

I had long heard that His Highness was more domineering than Chai Rong. When I saw him today, it turned out to be true. In comparison, Chai Rong looked much more like a normal person than His Highness.

Speaking of which, the relationship between the Liugu Tubo and the Central Plains Dynasty is very complicated. In fact, the Zhetong clan was very respectful to the Houliang Dynasty in the early years of Zhu Wen's period. They paid tribute, sent envoys, and even sent troops to help Zhu Wen fight wars. .

But later I discovered that Zhu Wen died too quickly. Within a few years, it was replaced by the Shatuo people. The hatred between the Tubo and Shatuo people was as deep as the sea, and they discovered that this change Tongshi was like a revolving door, going back and forth, they just wanted to hug his thigh, but they all found that it was a bit difficult to hug him.

The Fourteenth Emperors of the Five Dynasties, this frequency made Zhitong's eyes open.

The awe that I still had for the Central Plains Dynasty was naturally gone.

By the time of the later Zhou Dynasty, the Zhetong clan had no respect for the Central Plains. He was too lazy to pretend to be superficial and just wanted to enclose the territory and become the king. However, he met the overbearing Chai Rong again. In his opinion, Emperor Sejong is simply insane.

This guy actually sent a Han official to be the prefect of Liangzhou to deprive him of his military power.

Do you really think I am your servant?

It was originally a matter of me giving you face and you giving me face, but now you are going even further and want all the face?Then don't blame me for not giving you any face.

Then, the Liangzhou Tubo lost all face and completely cut off all contact with Hou Zhou, and Chai Rong really couldn't spare a hand to take care of him.

Zhe Tonggezhi was considered sensible and did not dare to call himself a Zanpu, a big man, or even a relatively sensitive title like Jieduzhi, so he took the title of Xiliang Magistrate in front of him, and after a few years of hard work, Zhou was gone, and Zhetong Gezhi didn't even bother to pay attention to the revolving Central Plains Dynasty.

Therefore, they did not take the initiative to send envoys. As for the Song Dynasty, in fact, if such a thing hadn't happened this time, they really couldn't spare the time to deal with them. Everyone should still be able to live in peace and harmony without disturbing each other. More than ten years.

As a result, this was the first time Da Song came into contact with him.

Even more domineering than Chai Rongdu.

who do you think You Are?Has the glory of the Tang Dynasty been restored?Who do you think I am?How many Han people are left in Liangzhou?
Then let's fight. There's nothing more to say. In fact, this is a great good thing for him to get through Ge Zhi.He had almost regarded the brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangmei as a pair of idiots.

Liangzhou does have its own state. In fact, the Six Tribes of Tubo, also known as the Six Valley Tubo, as the name suggests, are six Tubo tribes distributed in different valley areas.

But their leaders were not six.

But there are almost more than 100.

The Champayo who led the troops to attack the Qinzhou defenders was naturally one of the more than 100 people. The Song Dynasty had never heard of such a leading figure in Liangzhou.

And the Zhetong family is just the one with the most power and the greatest reputation among the more than 100 Tubo tycoons in Liangzhou. Zhetong was originally an official position in the Tubo regime, and later generations simply used these two characters as their surname. , although his influence on Liangzhou Tubo is indeed there, it is really just that.

So Zhao Song issued a letter of challenge, sent envoys to provoke, and even provoked one by one...

Why does this look so heartless?
Are you afraid that we can't unite?
To be honest, if the Song Dynasty sent a cavalry to suddenly attack his magistrate's office and catch him by surprise, with the strength of the Song army, it would indeed be possible to break through his so-called your government office and capture him to Kaifeng to dance for Zhao Kuangyin. .

In fact, the Liugu Tubo really acted as a whole regime. That was already during the Li Jiqian period. The purpose of uniting was to fight against Li Jiqian.

For any nation, a common enemy is the most effective way to unite the nation. Especially the Tubo people have unique living habits and religious beliefs, and are very exclusive. It may not be difficult to unite, but others After all, their ancestors were too rich, and if they were really twisted into one, even if it was just Tubo in Liangzhou, its power would probably be far greater than that of the Dangxiang people.

Ha ha.

In fact, the Liao people had been here a long time ago and had given him all kinds of support. They had even mentioned it openly or covertly. As long as he could take the lead in opposing the Song Dynasty, no matter it was horses, money, or weapons and armor, , Daliao was willing to support him, and it would not be a problem for him to arm at least [-] elite cavalry.

With his strength and the support of Daliao, facing Song's unreasonable provocation, hehe, by then, he will no longer be the prefect of Xiliang who wants to enclose his territory.

He wants to be the Zanpu of Tubo in Liangzhou!
No, he even wants to retake the entire Hexi Corridor, control the Silk Road, and then lead his troops back to Qinghai Lake to rebuild the supreme glory of our Great Tubo Empire!

It’s not impossible!
Seeing that the words had already reached this point, naturally, Zhitong Gezhi didn't even bother to pretend.He sneered and said: "In the past, even with the strength of the Tang Dynasty, they could not help but fall into the sand in front of me, Tubo. Even famous generals like Xue Rengui were defeated in Da Feichuan. It is ridiculous that the Song Dynasty only lasted three years and was won by bullying orphans and widows. How dare you in the world to look down upon me and think that there is no one in Tubo?"

The Song Shi did not panic, and said proudly: "If you are brave, you can kill me. As for whether our Great Song Bingfeng can compare with the prosperous Tang Dynasty, I will ask you to learn from me on the battlefield."

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the other side.

Inside the palace.

It's rare for the three brothers Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi, and Zhao Guangmei to get together. Wu Yue sent a lot of oranges and seafood as tribute this year, which are great. Considering that these things will break down in a few days, the three brothers just spent the whole afternoon in the palace. A bite of orange and a bite of crab.

Then Zhao Kuangyin slapped his thigh and said, "If you steam the crab meat in oranges, it would be easier to eat."

Then, the weirdest, most inexplicable, and most famous dish of the Song Dynasty, crab stuffed with oranges, was born.

"Brother, the food cooked by the cooks in your palace is not as delicious as mine."

"Then you do it for me."

"I won't do it for you. It's too troublesome. I'm very busy."

"Then what a fart!"

Zhao Guangyi said with some resentment: "The third brother can even cook so well. It's really uncomfortable for me, the second child, to be sandwiched between you."

This made Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangmei laugh.

After a while, Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but ask: "Calculating the time, it's time for our envoy to arrive in Liangzhou? Is this battle inevitable? Brother, third brother, maybe I am really a bit stupid, You want to fight this war. Although I don’t agree with it, I may understand it, but why do you have to make it like this? Isn’t it good to leave them scattered? "

Zhao Kuangyin chuckled and said, "Third brother, what are you talking about?"

Zhao Guangmei smiled and said: "Second brother, you are actually a smart person, but you are good at skills but inevitably short of vision. To put it bluntly, you don't see things far enough and you lack some strategic vision."

Zhao Guangyi followed the good advice and said: "Then you will teach the second brother?"

"To put it simply, if they get together, our Song Dynasty will be easier to fight. We just need to defeat them in one battle and beat them so that they don't dare to think any more. This is also to save worry."

Zhao Guangyi smiled bitterly: "You are so confident."

Of course Zhao Guangmei was confident. In fact, everyone in the Song Dynasty, from the emperor to the ministers, thought that the difficulty of destroying Shu was too high. After all, the road to Shu was difficult. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Wei and Shu Han were equalized. It must have been decades, so that everyone was too well prepared and too nervous for the conquest of Shu, so they chose to tolerate it temporarily in the face of Tubo's provocation.

But how long did it take the Song army to destroy Shu in history?
66 days.

In fact, if you walk from Kaifeng to Chengdu, it probably won’t be much faster than this.

The combat power in the early Song Dynasty was so terrifying that the time spent on conquest was almost the same as the time spent traveling.

What else does he have to worry about?

Zhao Kuangyin continued: "In fact, we will definitely regain the old land of Liangzhou sooner or later. Since our Song Dynasty inherited the prosperous Tang Dynasty, how can we miss the moonlit night of Liangzhou?"

"However, as we all know, the Tubo people have always been extremely cruel in the areas they ruled. They treated the Han people like pigs and dogs. Their evil deeds are simply too numerous to describe."

Zhao Guangmei coughed when he heard this and said: "Brother, the Tibetan nation is a bit special. It's better not to say anything that is not conducive to unity."

"........."

"Let me explain. Nowadays, Liangzhou is no longer Han. Most of them are Tubo people. However, in fact, among these Tubo people, especially those at the bottom, they are still Han people. This is because Tubo's social management is too strict and cruel. , so I had to believe in religion and pretend to be a Tubo. Also, almost every powerful Tubo family owned slaves, and the vast majority of these slaves were Han Chinese."

"If our Song Dynasty wants to visit Liangzhou in the future, if we still keep these Tubo people in this land and respect their customs, habits, and religion, the Han people here will definitely sink in their hearts. After one or two generations, This has really been their land since ancient times, so our Song Dynasty specially sent envoys to provoke them in this battle, in order to make them form a Tibetan coalition. Not only will we frighten them, but we will also wake up those who were slaves in Liangzhou. The Han people of the maidservant have to act more domineering in order to let them know that the people who supported them in the Song Dynasty and inherited the martial arts style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty are back. In this way, this place can be taken back in the future."

"Oh~, I see, it actually has such profound meaning."

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said: "Third brother, is this all you want?"

Seeing this, Zhao Guangmei smiled and said, "It seems that brother, you sent an envoy to provoke me, and you really thought too much."

Zhao Guangyi: "Is there another level?"

Zhao Kuangyin said with a smile: "How about you and I learn from Kong Ming and Zhou Yu and each write a word on our hands to see if you and I are really in tune with each other?"

"Come."

Then, the two people actually ordered the eunuch to get pen and ink, and each wrote on the palm of their hand. When they spread it out, Zhao Kuangyin wrote on the palm of his hand: resolve difficulties and return to righteousness.

Zhao Guangmei wrote on the palm of her hand: Lingzhou, Shazhou.

Immediately, the two looked at each other and laughed together.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "I had known that my third brother's ability to make money was unparalleled in the world, but you have never been in the military, so I don't know what your military strategy is. Now it seems that at least this vision is enough to sit in the rear and lead an army of ten thousand horses from afar. I, the Song Dynasty , no more worries.”

Zhao Guangyi was still confused.

"What are you two talking about? You make me look stupid."

Hearing this, the two of them were about to explain to him when they saw a eunuch walking towards him and said respectfully: "Guan family, King Qi, King Qin, we have happy news. Li Yixing, the governor of the Dingnan Army, has come to Kaifeng in person to pay tribute. .”

When Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he smiled even more cheerfully: "Look, doesn't this deep meaning come to you on its own?"

(End of this chapter)