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Chapter 462 Another niece?

In Qingzhou, where Pinglu Jiedushi was stationed, a frowning Yang Guangyuan stood at the top of the city and breathed a sigh of relief, because after four months of siege, Li Shouzhen finally withdrew the siege.

However, it was not him, Yang Guangyuan, who defeated Li Shouzhen. Li Shouzhen was simply driven away by hunger.

Because since last winter, Qingzhou has still suffered from floods and droughts, and neighboring Zizhou was harmed by Yang Guangyuan himself during the Shanxi-Liao War last year.

This is why Li Shouzhen's 30,000-strong army besieged the city for four months, unable to collect enough food and grass, and had to retreat.

"Send out your elite cavalry quickly and travel day and night to deliver the message of distress to the Emperor of Liao. The lives of you, my father and my son depend on this!"

Yang Guangyuan put the handwritten letter asking for help into the hands of his eldest son Yang Chengzuo and ordered him to send someone to Khitan immediately.

The content of this letter is very simple. It is to report to Yelu Deguang about the horrific natural disasters encountered by the Later Jin Dynasty, so that Yelu Deguang can take advantage of this opportunity to go south again.

On the other side, Li Shouzhen's army reached Linzi in the northwest of Qingzhou and refused to leave, because what could support their four-month siege was the hundreds of thousands of treasures that Yang Guangyuan had looted from Luoyang, Xijing.

The soldiers were wallowing in the muddy water for several months without even catching a hair. They became more and more angry. When they reached Linzi, they exploded. Everyone clamored for Li Shouzhen to reward him.

Li Shouzhen was numb at this moment. He thought that his soldiers would be unhappy, but he didn't expect the resentment to rise so quickly.

Originally, he was waiting to get to Qizhou (Jinan), and then try to get the court to allocate some money and food, or just conduct a small robbery outside Qizhou City to calm down his grievances.

But as soon as they reached Linzi, the team couldn't go any further. If they didn't think of a way quickly, there might be a riot.

While he was worried, Li Shouzhen's confidant Ya Jiang came in to report.

"It was Ma Huzi's group who took the lead in causing the trouble. Damn it, they saw Linzi's prosperity and wanted to rob Linzi and share the property!"

After Li Shouzhen heard this, he touched his chin. In fact, he really wanted to rob Linzi.

After besieging Qingzhou for four months, the soldiers below didn't catch anything, and Li Shouzhen didn't catch anything either.

"But Linzi City should have been prepared for it. Why don't you go and see if you can fight?"

Regarding the virtues of these soldiers and generals, Linzi City had already prepared for it. Therefore, from the moment they learned that Li Shouzhen had withdrawn, the governor in Linzi City only sent people to deliver 300 stones of grain and grass to the outside of the city, and then closed the four gates tightly.

“Superintendent must not do this!”

When his confidant Ya Jiang was about to go down to investigate, Li Shouzhen's secretary quickly spoke up to stop him.

"The supervisor defeated the Khitan on the Yellow River and won the emperor's trust. Now is a good time to plan to release the town. If Linzi is plundered, the imperial court will probably regard the supervisor as a violent person. Are you willing to release it?"

The words of the Secretary Zhang can be regarded as speaking to Li Shouzhen's heart.

His biggest dream now is to release a town of Jiedu. If Linzi is plundered, the court may indeed be unwilling to release him.

When the secretary in charge saw that Li Shouzhen was a little moved, he immediately continued to speak.

"Ma Huzi and others have always been violent. Today the supervisor allowed them to loot Linzi, and tomorrow they will loot Qizhou again. What should we do?

And we had to retreat this time because they were unwilling to fight bloody battles. Otherwise, how could Yang Guangyuan's two or three thousand troops be able to hold on for four months?

They are not in a good position to fight, but they still want to coerce and lure the supervisors. The supervisors must not encourage this trend!"

"These are words from the bottom of my heart!" Li Shouzhen sighed and had to admit that the words of the Secretary Zhang made sense.

However, if he disagrees with the opinions of his soldiers, they may rebel.

At that time, it was not a question of whether to release it to the outside world, but a question of whether the head could be saved.

"My subordinates have a plan. Please give it a try, supervisor!"

Those who can come up with alternatives after rejecting a plan are good subordinates. The boss immediately had a way to deal with it.

"Speak quickly!" Upon hearing this, Li Shouzhen quickly waved his hand to ask the secretary to speak quickly.

"Yang Guang is far away from our army, so he must be lax. It is better to supervise the army to continue marching slowly, and secretly select the elites, take a double route, and suddenly arrive at the foot of Qingzhou City. Qingzhou can be destroyed, and the treasures can also be rewarded.

Here you go, sergeants."

"Okay!" Li Shouzhen clapped her hands and laughed, then her face turned cold.

"Then let Ma Huzi and others be the vanguard. If the battle fails, don't blame me for not recognizing anyone with the sharp blade in my hand!"

....

The sky was slightly bright, and Yang Guangyuan, who was tossing and turning and unable to sleep, finally narrowed his eyes. Death and destruction were right in front of his eyes, which would really make him unable to sleep.

The crisis has not been resolved now, because Yang Guangyuan does not know whether the Khitans can go south in time?

And there is another big problem. In the battle by the Yellow River, the Pinglu army lost almost all its capable soldiers.

Originally, Yang Guangyuan wanted to collude with the Khitans to go south and let Yelu Deguang canonize him as the Emperor of the Central Plains. But now that he has no strength, I am afraid that he can continue to guard Qingzhou, which will be a great face.

In fact, if you can continue to guard one side, that's not bad. At least you can keep your wealth and family.

But Yang Guangyuan knew that this was overthinking. Can the Khitans tolerate him? Can the new emperor appointed by Yelu Deguang tolerate him?

Just when he was about to fall asleep with a lot of worries, suddenly, his second son Yang Chengxin rushed in from the door.

Yang Guangyuan was already feeling uneasy. He was immediately covered in cold sweat, and the carp rolled over with an erection. His head still seemed to be shining with fear.

"My lord, please leave quickly, Li Shouzhen is back to kill you again."

The expressions of Yang Chengxin and Yang Guangyuan were similar, both were full of fear.

The rangers who had been sent out to watch were still following Li Shouzhen's army, so Li Shouzhen sent his elite soldiers back.

The Pinglu Army soldiers who had been besieged for four months were already exhausted, thinking that Li Shouzhen had all retreated to Linzi, so there was no one on duty at all.

As a result, Li Shouzhen's dead soldiers immediately reached the top of the city. After the gates were opened, the soldiers of Pinglu Army knew that the enemy had arrived.

The shouts of killing became smaller and smaller. After being rushed into the city, the soldiers of Pinglu Army quickly dispersed.

Yang Guangyuan could only dress up as civilians with his wife and two sons, and tried to run out from the south gate where there were not many enemies.

But unfortunately, they were recognized quickly.

Because Yang Guangyuan was tall and had dysentery, his wife was lame.

Even if it was a man with diarrhea and a lame woman on the street who were running for their lives in a hurry, it was still too obvious.

Li Shouzhen laughed crazily and ran over. The anger of Yang Guangyuan and his son's search in Luoyang, Xijing, and Fan Yanguang's property had also been swallowed up. Although they spent some money to win over the Pinglu Army, there were at least hundreds of thousands of money left.

As long as the father and son are caught and tortured, these treasures will surely be recovered.

"Li Shouzhen, you thief slave! Why bother pushing people too far?"

Yang Guangyuan's eyes were splitting with anger. I wonder if he had ever thought about the fact that he was deeply favored by Li Congke in the past, but in the end he attacked and killed Zhang Jingda, who was sent by Li Congke to conquer Shi Jingtang, and became an accomplice of Shi Jingtang's treason.

Did the people who were massacred by his troops in Luoyang, Zizhou and other places feel that he was pushing too hard?

However, at this moment, Yang Guangyuan was still very single. Amidst Li Shouzhen's proud words of "catching people alive", he held up a thick stack of banknotes.

Suddenly, a look of horror appeared on Li Shouzhen's face.

Yang Guangyuan gritted his teeth and said, "If you want my wealth, you are dreaming! I will give it to Hexi Zhang Zhao, but I won't give it to you either!"

As he spoke, with Li Shouzhen's heartbroken eyes, Yang Guangyuan soaked his whole body with the tung oil he carried with him, and finally burned it in a blazing fire together with the banknotes he had carefully collected.

"You thief slave! A certain family is going to kill your whole family!"

Li Shouzhen never expected that Yang Guangyuan would be willing to exchange his belongings into stacks of paper. He was caught off guard and before he could react, the banknotes were already reduced to ashes.

"Damn it! Why do you need a banknote?"

....

300,000 yuan received in bank card!

If such a thing existed in this era, Zhang Zhao's cell phone might sound like this.

He was in Qinzhou, busy with disaster relief, but he never imagined that Yang Guangyuan's hard work for a year and a half had made people angry and resentful, and in the end it all benefited him.

Without the banknote, the holder of the banknote is also dead. Since there is no banknote and no code, no one can exchange the money.

A total of 300,000 yuan belongs to the bank system developed by Zhang Zhao.

However, the bank's problems are not small, because Zhang Zhao's bank was not established by himself, but was integrated with the existing financial systems of temples in various places.

This is not the dozens of big temples in Longyou, Hexi, but the whole temples in Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, Guanzhong, Hezhong, Hedong, Henan and Hebei are strung together to form.

On such a large scale, even with Zhang Zhao's triple status as Khan, King of Heaven, and King of Dharma, he is far from being able to say that he is the one and only.

It can be said that the current bank is in a period of barbaric growth. Zhang Zhao tried his best, but he could only hold on to the right to issue banknotes. He was powerless to do the rest. Perhaps he could slowly start reforms when he took over the Central Plains in the future.

Taking advantage of the power of Buddhism, Zhang Zhao definitely cannot be as brutal and ruthless as Shizong Guo Rong destroyed Buddhism last week in history. He can only manage a big country like cooking a small fish, cooking it slowly.

Moreover, he cannot choose to immortalize the Buddha, because this is determined by reality.

After all, it seems from now on that in the entire Central Plains, with a population of about 10 million, the means of production have been greatly destroyed.

The only three groups that can provide resources for national rejuvenation are Buddhist temples, military commanders, and local wealthy families.

Although the military generals are large in scale and appear to be quite wealthy, most of them are not engaged in production, and the materials in their hands cannot be quickly converted into sustainable wealth. They are a group that looks rich, but actually does not have much oil and water.

Moreover, they hold knives in their hands. In the foreseeable ten or twenty years, Zhang Zhao can only execute the most shameful group of people, but has to win over most of them.

The local big families cannot be moved even more. After the aristocratic family system has been destroyed, the clan system relying on the imperial examination system has not yet grown, and people are mourning everywhere, they have only rural productivity left. Not only cannot they be moved, but they must also be protected.

Then, temple estates that occupy a large amount of production resources, do not produce themselves, and do not pay taxes are the only beings that can kill and eat meat.

Therefore, Zhang Zhao decided to continue to let them have fun for a few more years, and then slowly figure out a solution after the bottom position was settled.

.....

The migration of disaster victims actually did not cost a lot of money and food as Zhang Zhao imagined.

Because this is not the kind of hiking or spring outing of later generations, this is an escape.

No need for delicious butter bread instant noodles, no Coke, and no need for all kinds of snacks.

A large number of victims could travel more than ten or twenty miles with just a piece of sorghum cake mixed with wild vegetables, which made their throats growl when eaten.

Faced with the pressure of survival, these disaster victims burst out with extremely tenacious willpower.

Zhang Zhao stood at the Great Earthquake Gate, looking at the endless stream of victims in the distance, like ants coming towards the west of the river, and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

The victims who come from far away are often in a group of dozens of people, and the distance between them is quite far. It is necessary to be on guard against others!

This road was not smooth. Although Zhang Zhao also set up points for giving out porridge and rice along the way, most of the local officials in Guanzhong accepted Zhang Zhao's money and food, but they did not actually give out porridge.

Some of the porridge cooks just put down a few handfuls of corn, and randomly added wild vegetables. The soup was so thin that people could be seen, and they were done.

Therefore, these disaster victims were unlucky. The furthest one from Huazhou to Qinzhou was nearly 800 miles away. They ate all the bark and grass roots along the way and struggled to get this far.

Zhang Zhao then personally arrived at the junction of Qinzhou and Fengxiang Prefecture, cooked thick corn porridge and baked some flour cakes under the Great Earthquake Pass, trying his best to save the lives of the original victims.

In Qinyuan County where Dazhenguan is located, Xue Shouli, who serves as the magistrate of Qinyuan County and the envoy of Dazhenguan Town, is not as emotional as Zhang Zhao, because the Xue family was similar to this in the past.

Therefore, I was not shocked at all by the tragic situation in front of me, only a little sympathetic.

At this time, he was holding a booklet in his hand, recording and speaking to Zhang Zhao.

"Heavenly King, this is the statistical result from the victims. From Huazhou to here, the King of Heaven has produced a total of 45,000 dan of grain. It is estimated that there will be 137 porridge facilities along the way.

However, there were only forty-one places actually established. Among them, only three places had porridge and rice instead of clear soup and water, and people maintained order.

Nine places can barely eat some rice, and the remaining 29 places can basically only drink water."

The military commanders and civil servants in Guanzhong may not know that the fool in their hearts, Zhang Tianwang, sent grain and rice to them in this year of great disaster, without even thinking about how much disaster relief responsibility they could bear.

In fact, Zhang Zhao was using these 55,000 shi of grain to conduct a survey of all the soldiers, generals, and officials in Guanzhong.

In years of great disaster, food is the most precious thing. Because of its preciousness, it can not only detect people's hearts, but also reveal the abilities of local officials.

For example, in the three things that were done well, not only did the officials have a conscience, they also had to be capable, otherwise they would not be able to convince the greedy people below to actually use food for disaster relief.

For example, Zhao Ying, the governor of the Huazhou Zhenguo Army, could still do well as a Hanlin scholar, but he definitely couldn't be a chief officer because he couldn't subdue the people below him, and none of them had enough means to be a chief officer.

"Write down the names of the officials who are good at giving porridge in these three places, and even record the officials in the yellow book. When Guanzhong is taken over, they should be put to good use.

Those who can barely do it in the nine places are also registered. In these troubled times, those who can still do this are all talents.

The remaining twenty-nine places are recorded in a red book, which may be reused after the assessment.

The rest of the people have collected grain from me in Daliang but still haven’t done anything. Envoys in brocade robes have secretly inspected them, and anyone who does bad deeds will be counted as one and severely punished according to the laws of the country!"

Our country, Daliang, now has a national law. When Fan Zhi came to Hexi, he established a simplified version.

When he arrived in Liangzhou this time, Fan Zhi took his officials to visit most of the prefectures and counties in the Liang Kingdom, and then based on the laws of the Tang Dynasty, he formulated the "Laws of Punishment and Names of the Great Liang".

Whoever Zhang Tianwang wants to deal with is now acting in accordance with the law.

After giving a few more instructions, a woman wearing coarse cloth and an undecorated hairpin came over from a distance with small steps.

The girl was sixteen or seventeen years old. Although she was dressed very simply, it could be seen that she had been carefully tidied up.

She has a slim waist, a small cherry mouth, and a straight nose. Her appearance is a little less feminine, but more like the heroic figure of a northern beauty, giving her a unique flavor.

Before the person arrived, the sound had already arrived, and her lips, which contained a hint of peach pollen, were slightly opened.

"Uncle, are you thirsty? There is some wine here, Nunu, which is brewed according to the method uncle said. It is sour and sweet, and it is very thirst-quenching."

With that said, the girl took the wine jug from the maid behind her, poured a full bowl for Zhang Zhao, and handed it over to Zhang Zhao.

Before Zhang Zhao reached out to take it, Zhang Liecheng next to him saw it and immediately stepped out of the way.

"Why are you leaving, big brother? I also brought you a bowl."

This big brother is not a sweet and cloying title in later generations, but a normal title.

Because Zhang Liecheng is the eldest among Zhang Zhao's five adopted sons.

And this young girl from the North, Yelu Abli, often regarded herself as her niece, so naturally she called Zhang Liecheng a big brother.

However, Zhang Liecheng knew clearly that this little girl was just pretending to be gentle, and she had a very fierce temper.

In addition, she is a jade girl certified by Zhang Zhao, and the monks in China also dote on her, and she is the most naughty.

Moreover, this little girl also has a wish, that is, she has always wanted to marry her 'uncle' Zhang Tianwang, and she often asks Zhang Liecheng to give her advice.

But Zhang Liecheng dared not care about this matter, so he couldn't hide anymore. He drank the wine Yelu Abli handed him in three gulps, turned around and ran away.

Zhang Zhao was also a little embarrassed, because Yelu Abli was originally a secret move made by him.

But at that time, he overestimated the strength of the Khitan people, and then he did not expect that his development would be so smooth, and he would become brothers with Yelu Deguang, making Yelu Abli his niece.

What the hell, Zhang Zhao was a little confused, why did the five or six people in the harem, except Guo Waner and a few others, basically have ethical issues with him when he traveled through time?

It’s either an aunt or a niece, it’s so weird! Really!

If there's any benefit to this, if you keep this unrelated niece, you'll just keep it. What's the point?

But now, there seems to be no benefit to taking in Yelu Abli, and he has to look down on Yelu Deguang for nothing, so Zhang Zhao doesn't want to do it anymore.

But if he didn't do it, Yelu Abli wouldn't do it. Zhang Zhao thought the Khitan girl in front of him was a little kitten.

But in fact, what he saw in front of him was a thorny rose with a strong desire for power.

Perhaps stimulated by his father Yelu Bei's loss of power, Yelu Abli took power very seriously.

And she is not alone. Those who followed her to Liang include her cousin Yeluhe and Dongdan's loyal minister Mu Shunyi.

After Yelu Bei was killed, Yelu Bei's son Yelu Ruan and others were placed under house arrest by Yelu Deguang's instructions Shi Jingtang. The rest of the Dongdan soldiers and generals fled to Liang. Now there are more than 200 of them.

Although Zhang Zhao incorporated them into Hanhai Town and gave them a place to station, he didn't trust them and never took them with him to the battlefield.

These Dongdan national soldiers are similar to the Central Plains warriors. They are all rough men who can only slash people with knives. They cannot go to the battlefield. They have no rewards and military pay, so they naturally live a miserable life.

Now everyone is hoping that Yelu Abli can be included in Zhang Zhao's harem, so that he can gain trust, become Zhang Zhao's confidant, and make contributions.

Therefore, recently in Liangzhou, there was a rare scene where a 16-year-old niece chased her 31-year-old uncle. The key point is that the real queen Cao Jiuniang Yanxi was not annoyed at all.

Because in her opinion, since Yelu Abli was abducted to Liangzhou when he was only nine years old, he would inevitably sleep in Zhang Zhao's bed.

How can the jade girl of the reincarnating Holy King not serve the Holy King and marry someone else?

Yelu Abuli secretly rejoiced. She followed him from Liangzhou to Dazhenguan. Wasn't it just to find a chance to be alone with Zhang Zhao, and then "take action"!

Zhang Tianwang is very busy on weekdays, and it is not easy to meet him.

Therefore, Yelu Abli stood next to Zhang Zhao unceremoniously, blinking his big eyes, as if he was ready to taste it.

"Is uncle staying at Dazhen Pass today? Nunu saw that uncle has been working hard, so he made a few side dishes and invited uncle to taste some later."

Zhang Zhao was about to answer when suddenly, smoke and dust appeared in the distance, and several envoys with red triangular flags on their backs came from a distance. Seeing this, Zhang Zhao took the opportunity to walk towards the pass.

Seeing that the cooked duck flew away again, Yelu Abli behind him almost burst into tears. Such a good opportunity, but he left again without saying a few words.

"Augu, I don't think it's that troublesome. Why don't you go directly to the King's tent tonight to ask for an audience? Once summoned, you will take off your clothes and get under the bed. I won't believe it. The King can resist!"

The maid behind him was also from Dongdan Kingdom, and her tactics for dealing with men were a little rough, but Yelu Abli listened.

She gritted her teeth with tears in her eyes, and decided not to pretend to be a little sheep, and just go straight to it!

------Digression-----

I was on an urgent business trip, so I just took the time to code it. I will update it tomorrow, which will probably take place at night.


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