Towards the northwest, Huining Pass, a subordinate of Huizhou, at the junction of Guannei Road and Longyou Road, is located. As the snowflakes became denser, Zheng Tian, who was dressed in a cloak, was standing on a high platform of Fengsui left over from the Han Dynasty, regardless of being frozen into an innocent face by the oncoming cold wind.
"This cup is worthy of respect, Yan Zhi, who has already fought hard for the country (Cui Anqian word)... I wish the soul return to the country..."
A glass of wine that was still warm in my hand, before it was completely poured on the ground, it was already floating diagonally in the bitter wind into many fine ice particles, and then bounced and sprinkled on the frozen ground. Open. Then he couldn't help but flash in front of his eyes and in his mind the various moods he had been with in his life.
The other party is a direct descendant of the Cui family in Wucheng, Beizhou, among the five surnames and seven hopes, and the true noble son of the family. In the three years (849) of the former emperor's Dazhong (849), Jinshi and the first, started the school Shulang, served as the Wannian County Lieutenant, served as the servant of the palace, the Ministry of rites, the Chang'an Order, and moved to Shangshu Youcheng. Tang Yizong ascended to the throne and served as the Jiangxi Observatory, and moved to the school’s military department as the official secretary and the loyal military jundu.
After Jinshang (Tang Xizong) ascended the throne, he fought against the army of grass thieves who followed Wang Xianzhi and the Hornets. They moved to the inspection school to shoot right-hand shot and Xichuan Jiedushi. They have continuously strengthened and consolidated Xichuan's military power, and have also opposed peace to Nanzhao. He even offended the Prime Minister Lu Xie and was demoted to the Prince's guest and the branch office.
He was almost similar to his own family of five surnames and seven Wangs, his family background and official career track, but there was almost no intersection in the first half of his life. It wasn’t until I first entered the political affairs hall and became a third-ranked scholar of the Ministry of War that I knew for the first time that there was still such a person who had transferred to the country for many places, and he and that Zeng (Yuan Yu) were invited and claimed. Cui Shixiang of the imperial court pillar and Dingshi.
During this period, Zheng Tian went through three ups and downs of Xuan Ma Baixiang and dynasty struggles. It also went from the estrangement of only hearing the name and only dealing with official affairs, to the familiarity who used the "three noble prime minister Wang Duo" as the link and intermediary, and privately exchanged letters and quotes as the help; and joined hands to fight (foreign) Lu Xie, ( Ouchi) Tian Lingzi and Gao Pian's invisible political alliance.
After experiencing another re-emergence, from the many differences accumulated from the original urgency and political opinions, from the faint opposition and the competitive sympathy, to later being forced to idle the Dongdu branch together, they frankly re-understood and re-understood each other. Make friends; even in the difficult situation of erosion everywhere, support each other and hug each other in order to cope. . . .
After all, how difficult it is to save the sky! Zheng Tian, who stayed in Fengtian, had already failed once, but Cui Anqian in Hedong had also failed. It's just that after he has been working hard for years to resist the thieves and had to make a mutiny with his own hands, and after the frustration of abandoning his hometown, he still has a chance to come back again. After this old friend failed in Guanzhong, he could only accept the fate of losing his teacher.
After this incident, Zheng Tian gave up the last trace of luck to the current "Holy Lord". Because in the deliberate or unintentional actions of this young emperor who made people cold and chilling time and time again, the blood shed by those loyal ministers and righteous men became meaningless jokes in a sense.
Obviously sitting in the land of Jiannan Sanchuan, among the rich money, food, wealth, and warriors and horses, they can only let the rulers wantonly exploit and cause the people to change, and then there are endless battles between each side. In the end, even Tian Lingzi, who was the most affectionate and defender, rebelled, and turned into a protracted offensive and defensive battle in the heartland (Chengdu Plain) of the land of abundance.
He was also disappointed by the young brothers, young and old, who were the princely secretaries and the chief prisoners. They thought that these brothers were among the filthy eunuchs, who were rare to see anomalies and had the knowledge to understand the priorities and priorities of the country. Scholars; but after fighting down the old enemy Tian Chen brothers, he quickly moved closer to those predecessors Quan, who was dedicated to gaining power.
Even for the sake of his own power and interests, he would rather sit back and watch the battle in Gyeonggi, Guannei, where the corpse mountain and blood sea had already been killed; and fight for the victory and the right and wrong in the corner of Jiannan Sanchuan. Not to mention, the soldiers who had fought back and forth against the army of the Yellow Thieves, who had fought back and forth, actually disintegrated and separated step by step; even lost to the thief leader Shang Rang who had entered Xingyuan, and had to surrender. The other side thought it was soothing.
Therefore, in the end, Zheng Tian had to look at it on his own in frustration and disappointment. Anyway, the one who can stay on the big treasure in the end only needs to be the blood of Emperor Li Tang, so why bother about which target is healed? As for the important task of settling chaos, pacifying the world, and the secret plan of the military, after all, it will fall on them, who are really worried about the world, and will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to protect the country.
Therefore, during the days and nights between Longzhou and Liangzhou in Hexi, he spent a lot of time and effort to collect, sort out, and rectify the intricate relations and origins of the various forces in the northwest. He used subtle means and strategies to pry and mobilize them little by little. Finally, after gathering the sand into a tower and forming a snowball, he did not hesitate to select the most powerful returnees from all sides in Helong. Suoxun, the little-known son-in-law of the Zhang family but masters the key points.
Because, compared with the Zhang family, the Li family, who are intricately rooted in Hexi, the surnames of the world. Only people with superficial foundations such as Suo Xun who kill the master and rebel against chaos will increasingly rely on and count on the support and assistance brought by the court's righteousness and reputation in order to grasp the subsequent situation and power; therefore; As the saying goes, it is based on the reason that the merits are not as good as the past. He also had to work harder to play the most determined role in the imperial conquest.
And among the denser snowflakes in the distance, there are countless flags, totems, and big flags of various shapes; they are full of sadness and majestic aura like some kind of soul-raising flags; they are clearly frozen by the cold. It was tough, but it made a crisp hunting sound in the roaring gale.
That is from Shazhou (Dunhuang), Guazhou (Anxi), Yizhou (Hami), Xizhou (Turpan), Hezhou (Linxia), Ganzhou (Zhangye), Suzhou (Jiuquan), Lanzhou, Shanzhou ( Qinghai Ledu), Kuozhou (Qinghai Hualong), Minzhou (Minxian, Gansu) and other 11 prefectures, the children of Fanhan in military towns everywhere.
There were also Mabuyi servants of the Tubo, Tuyuhun, Longjia, Yutian, Uighur, Subi, Shanshan, Dadan, and other vassals of the Guiyi Army; the Ganzhou Uyghur and Xizhou Uyghur tribesmen from the surrounding forces; Between Xihai (Hehuang) and Hexi in the last Tubo period, the civil war between the ministers of power and the maidservants and the maidservants formed an alliance of soldiers and horses of the small and large (slaves) tribes.
Therefore, it is only necessary to connect the various forces that have always had hatred and suspicion, and to drive these Huma and Faner, who value profit and neglect righteousness, and fear power and ethics, between strategizing and continuity. And pushing to the present step has consumed Zheng Tian's great energy and energy, and even emptied the family that was once saved by the rebel army.
Therefore, no matter how Chengdu responds and responds, Zheng Tian is already on the string here and has to send it. Either he took these men and horses to destroy the thieves and recover the Central Plains as expected, and finally realized their promises and rewards for their division; or let him, the Tang dynasty, the Ma Ge corpse in the final battle of loyalty to the king.
At least, the desire and desire to go to the warm and rich place in the middle of the pass is enough to support these wind-swept men and horses in the northwestern frontier, ignoring the slight cold of this early winter and the dangers of the mere Guanshan for the time being. As for the value of Jiannan Sanchuan itself, in his eyes, there is only a little use left to provide the money and food and labor for the follow-up supply.
—I am the dividing line —
In Chang'an City within the Guan, and in the Zichen Hall of the Daming Palace in the north, it is also a scene of brightly lit and loud voices. The outer space was intermittently fluttering snowflakes, and it was covered with the shoulders and arms of the guards and servants under the porch and the door, while the inside of the hall was fumigated by the stove between the clapboards and the curtains, and it was unusually warm.
Huang Chao, who came out to look after the matter again with his proper body conditioning, is presided over a routine winter solstice sun shooting ceremony and a banquet after the dynasty. It's just that Empress Cao, who was supposed to be with him on his right, left early on the grounds of unconsciousness, and was temporarily replaced by another big belly concubine Wei Chi. A little bit of speculation that is not humane is also provoked to some extent.
But in any case, this is also the time when the only remaining civil and military officials in the new dynasty of the Great Qi Dynasty will be able to be the most neatly present. Not only was Zhao Zhang, the servant in charge of Tuntian in Xianyang City, but also the Minister of War Shangshu Huang E and other important officials on the front line of Chencang-Dasanguan to return; even Li Changyan of Fengxiang, Wang Chongrong of Hezhong, Zhuge Shuang of Heyang, Wang Jingchong of Chengde, etc. The leaders of several Waifan towns also sent envoys to greet them and ask respectfully; everything is like returning to the heyday when they first entered Chang'an on the spot.
And this kind of vain atmosphere above the clamor, along with the Taiping army envoy Gao Yu who arrived from Wuguan Road in the south, and the gift of more than a hundred cars brought; and reached a new **. Even Huang Chao, who has always followed the doctor’s advice and did not drink any drops of wine, inevitably drank a few sips of low-grade brewed three-leaf pulp, and recalled Zhao Zhang and others with a flushed face. All the past things that fought side by side in those days.
Speaking of some embarrassment, some people even shed tears on the spot with emotion; or it's only when the face is flushed with booze drink after drink. Just when the big banquet in the Zichen Hall of the Daming Palace was full of drinks, and the monarchs were enjoying themselves, another messenger from Caizhou was blocked outside the palace gate. However, the news he was able to deliver in the end was somewhat broken. This lively and harmonious atmosphere. (End of this chapter)