When Zhu Tong burped from wine and walked back to the post house, red clouds filled the night sky like fire, and Zhu Zhi was standing in the courtyard talking to the post official.
The postman greeted Zhu Tong and turned to leave. Zhu Zhi glanced at Zhu Tong, turned around and walked into the house without saying anything.
"Brother, this is worth doing!"
Zhu Tong chased into the house and saw Zhu Zhi standing in front of the window, unmoved by his words and said,
"My eldest brother has always admired Taishi Ci and practiced archery with his bow. He often told me, 'When your husband is born, he should carry a seven-foot sword to ascend to the rank of emperor.' I think that Taishi Ci died of unrealized ambition and died of illness.
Shi had no choice but to express such emotion, brother, don't you even dare to reach out and touch such an ambition now?"
"In the past, only young and ignorant people had the courage to say such ridiculous nonsense. Now every word and deed of you and me affects hundreds of people in the Zhu family. How can we continue to act as we please?" Zhu Zhi frowned.
He asked with a frown.
"Last autumn and winter in Jingxiang, another six thousand generals died on the battlefield. Did they act as they pleased without thinking before they act?" Zhu Tong asked.
"???????????????You are so arrogant." Zhu Zhi said angrily.
"Now you are afraid of implicate others," Zhu Tong said, "Well, Lu Jing and the others are here, ask them if they are afraid of being implicate?"
"It all depends on the eldest young master. The second young master makes the decision. I will never complain." Lu Jing and others knelt on the ground and said.
"Lü Jing and the others have developed good martial arts skills. They have traveled all over the country over the years and have gained a lot of experience. They should serve in the army as commanders, as governors of Yu, and as generals. Even if they die on the battlefield one day, they will be remembered forever.
Instead of being the slaves of my Zhu family in this life, and even the descendants of future generations being the slaves of my Zhu family." Zhu Tong said in a fierce voice.
Zhu Zhi turned around and saw Lu Jing kneeling on the ground, his head buried lower, but his shoulders were shaking slightly. It was obvious how much Zhu Tong's words had touched them. He thought that Lu Jing and others were about the same age as their two brothers.
In these years, in addition to experiencing two campaigns to conquer Yan in the north, the Zhu family and his sons traveled north and south, and the hardships endured were far beyond what ordinary military strategists from the princely family could achieve.
However, no matter how much the Zhu family valued them, they could never get rid of the mark of being slaves of the Zhu family.
Thinking about the people of Chushan again, although they have made great sacrifices over the years, every military achievement they have achieved has become a ladder to improve themselves - their humble background is no obstacle at all.
However, Lu Jing and others had had a lot of contact with Chu Shan before, so how could they really be willing to live in silence for the rest of their lives?
Zhu Zhi also knew very well that Zhu Tong failed to become an official, and he had always been resentful about it, unwilling to be forgotten by everyone.
Thinking of this, Zhu Zhi sighed again, looked at Lu Jing and others and asked: "If you cause death in the future, won't you blame us two brothers?"
"The younger one will follow the eldest son to the death. Second son, I will die without any regrets!" Lu Jing and others said.
"Look, I say this is worth doing, right?" Zhu Tong grinned and said, "What kind of quality that man in the palace is, we have already learned in Lanzhou. We really expect him to lead the Vietnamese generals to resist foreign aggression.
It might really cause everyone to die without a burial place."
"Don't think too much about anything else. It's useless to think too much. Tell me what you heard from Su Qiucheng just now." Of course Zhu Zhi could guess that Zhu Tong had gone out to drink and get information before, and most likely he wanted to meet Su Qiucheng in private.
, at this time, I made up my mind and decided to get the current things done first.
"Let's just go to Puyuan together to see Su Qiucheng. No one in Jiazhou City will control us anyway!" Zhu Tong said.
After Zhu Zhiliu was demoted to Lizhou, Jiazhou officials would not get close to him to avoid fighting between gods and mortals, but they would not despise him either - no one knew what subtleties the court had, so the best way was to keep a distance.
Qian Yunshu, the governor of the state, was not in the city, so Zhu Zhi was temporarily unable to go to Lizhou to take up his post, but he was still quite at ease in Jiazhou city.
"The deployment of Jingxiang in Jiazhou should be hidden from the eyes and ears of the imperial court. Isn't it inappropriate for us to come and go frequently?" Zhu Zhi said with concern.
"Su Qiucheng has never acted in the name of Jingxiang in Jiazhou. Next, the shop will be under the name of Fengyue Tower," Zhu Tong said, talking about the method he and Su Qiucheng discussed, "We are here
Jiazhou, how can you avoid the courtyard of Fengyue Tower without entering?"
"Then how can we tell the officials in Jiazhou that Fengyuelou had set up a shop in Jiazhou half a year ago?" Zhu Zhi is no longer the playboy he was back then, and he is also very thoughtful, so he asked doubtfully.
In response to this, Su Qiucheng had already thought of a way to deal with it. Zhu Tong said:
"After the fall of Bianliang, the late emperor ascended the throne in Xiangyang. At that time, all ministries and departments were short of officials. Zhou He, Gao Chunnian and others urgently transferred a large number of disciples and former officials from Sichuan, Shu, Jinghu and other places to fill Xiangyang - over the years,
As long as those who are related to the imperial court are either gathered in the capital to serve, or they are filled into the various road supervisors and hold important positions, and those who continue to serve in remote places like Jiazhou are not related to the imperial court.
The connections between the DPRK and the DPRK are very weak, and we know very little about what happened in the DPRK and the DPRK. We secretly spread the news that you were sent to Lizhou, which was deliberately done by the Zhu family in order to avoid party disputes, so we had some time to spare.
The chess piece fell to Jiazhou in advance, who here would be suspicious?"
Zhu Zhi nodded, thinking that the two brothers had just arrived in Jiazhou and had no time to think about many things. However, Su Qiucheng had already settled in Jiazhou for half a year. They should have considered Zhou Xiang and immediately ordered other generals to stay at the post house.
Here, he, Zhu Tong, and Lu Jing walked to the courtyard that Su Qiucheng mentioned.
Seeing that Zhu Tong could convince Zhu Zhi so quickly, Su Qiucheng was also full of joy and summoned several principals in Jiazhou City to meet Zhu Zhi.
Zhu Zhi's mood was still very complicated. Moreover, when Jingzhou and Xu Huai met, they had not settled on their names. He said, "My two brothers will try their best to cooperate with you. In addition, they cannot shoulder too heavy a burden."
Su Qiucheng smiled slightly, thinking that the production company would have more specific arrangements for the follow-up, so he did not dwell on these details at the moment, and introduced the current situation of the remnants of the Khitan in detail:
"Shi Hai and General Xiao Chunquan led 3,000 cavalry into Dajianlu. They have already captured the Tubo Dazha tribe. More than 80,000 tribesmen will soon move from the foothills of Shenyu Mountain to the west of Qionglai Mountain..."
At present, Su Qiucheng already has a more detailed and accurate map of the Qionglai Mountains, Muyare Gang and other places in his hands. He has laid it out on a long table and introduced to Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong the development of the situation of the remnants of the Khitans west of the Qionglai Mountains.
The Tubo tribes have been divided for nearly two hundred years. There are nearly 100,000 Tubo people living in the Muyaraggang area west of Qionglai Mountain. They are also divided into dozens of small and large forces. They are even far less united and close than the Tubo tribes in Semogan, headed by Buqu Temple.
, in the early military operations, it was simply not enough to resist the intrusion of the Khitan cavalry.
Although the remnant Khitan troops crossed the Tubo highlands and suffered great losses in humans and animals, in terms of military strength, they are still crushing compared to the scattered and divided Tubo tribes in Duogansi.
However, military victory cannot solve all problems.
Although the Tubo dynasty had long been fragmented, the previous rule of more than two hundred years had made the various tribes of Tubo highly unified in culture and customs.
The size of the Khitan tribes that migrated south was too small. The tribesmen had just moved to the plateau and were far from adapting to the harsh alpine climate. At this time, they did not have the ability to annex the Tubo tribes distributed on the vast plateau.
It's not just a snake swallowing the elephant.
The mobility of the Tubo tribe also determines that if it suffers a temporary military defeat, the entire tribe will move to temporarily avoid military fronts and will not be easily annexed by the Khitans.
These characteristics determine that it is easy for the remnants of the Khitan to win a few battles in a short period of time, but in the subsequent long-term military confrontation and fierce battles with the Tubo tribes, their strength will only be continuously weakened and difficult to be strengthened.
And once Duogansi and Tubo tribes form a close military alliance, the pressure that the remaining Khitan tribes will face will double; not to mention that Duosima Tubo has already sent envoys to contact the Hexi Military and Horse Capital General Administration of the Chihu people.
, it is possible to introduce the Red Hu cavalry into the Tubo Highlands at any time.
On the other hand, a strange tribe with a population of 80,000 to 90,000 people suddenly replaced the Tubo tribe that had been adjacent for hundreds of years and occupied the land at the western foot of Qionglai Mountain. It is difficult to imagine that the Qingqiang and Eastern Barbarian tribes who have lived in Qionglai Mountain for generations would be happy.
Inspiring clapping welcome.
It is more likely that the Qingqiang tribes will join forces to prevent the remaining Khitan tribes from invading their territory.
Could it be that the imperial court simply issued a few edicts, saying that the remnants of the Khitan came to be friends with the Qingqiang people, not to help the Qingqiang people resist the invasion of the Chihu people, so that they could eliminate the inner vigilance, fear, and resistance of the Qingqiang people?
"Before we can truly win over one or two Qingqiang tribal forces and eliminate their wariness, we should not prematurely expose our close relationship with the remnants of the Khitan. We can even use the threat and military pressure posed by the remnant Khitan's eastward movement to Qionglai Mountain in the early stage to promote
Postal post construction. In the early stage, in order to isolate the Qingqiang tribes from communicating with each other, prevent the Qingqiang tribes from uniting as much as possible, and to a certain extent separate the mountains at the southern foot of Qionglai Mountain into east and west parts, Yuhou Zhao Shan, the capital of the Military Intelligence Department, led 300 elite troops
Pretending to be bandits, we entered Hualinping between the Maitreya Mountains - Zhang Xiongshan, a member of the right army, is also in Hualinping. What we have to do is to first build a postal station from Youlong County through Jiuli Town to the foot of Maitreya Mountains...
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Whether the remnants of the Khitan troops can settle at the western foot of Qionglai Mountain is a critical step in resisting the southern invasion of the Red Husbands. Of course, it is impossible for Su Qiucheng to preside over the affairs here on behalf of Zhufengtang. In the early stage, it was Zhang Xiongshan who represented the Military Intelligence Department.
Sit here - after the Qionglai Mountain Road is opened and a certain degree of control over Lizhou is established, it will be transferred to the control of Zhufengtang.
