Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 529 Centennial Shandong ([-])

another year later
Spring of the seventh year of Duke Yan 320 (537)
New Year
Hedong
Thirty miles east of Puban, Gao Huan's army passed by.

Looking at the farmland ahead, Gao Huan ordered the soldiers: "Go around the road, don't trample on the young crops, and those who disobey the order will be killed!"

hiss--

The sound of the horse honking sounded, and Gao Huan's mount galloped towards the wheat field, trampling on the young crops, and it took a long time before it stopped.

"Prime Minister!" All the generals exclaimed.

Gao Huan was a little embarrassed, but still got off his horse and drew his sword, pretending to commit suicide, but kept looking at the many generals.

Among the generals, one of Er Zhurong's men was forced to surrender to Gao Huan. Seeing this, he immediately shouted: "Prime Minister, please enforce the military law!"

Huhu——

The spring breeze blew, and the scene was very embarrassing.

Um! ?

Gao Huan looked at the general who asked him to enforce the military law, he had already remembered him in his heart, and then sighed: "If you trample on young crops alone, you should be beheaded!"

The rest of the generals knelt down and persuaded: "Prime Minister! The world has not yet been unified, and the common people are still waiting for your rescue. You cannot die!"

"For the sake of the common people in the world, for the sake of the common people, please think twice, Prime Minister!"

Looking at the generals admonishing him, Gao Huan put down his long sword, shook his head and sighed, then cut off his own hair, and a hair-cutting substitute came.

In the past few years, Gao Huan has also begun to follow Cao Cao's example, arresting refugees and farming, assigning widows to soldiers to have children, and building his own small team.

Last time he sent generals to attack Tongguan with an army of [-], but Yu Wentai concentrated superior forces to defeat each of them because the troops were divided into multiple groups.

This time he personally conquered Yuwentai and led 20 troops, all attacking from Pubandu River.

In order to successfully attack Guanzhong this time, he also sent his son Gao Cheng to negotiate with Liang Guo and Yan Guo in advance.

Liang Guo had already negotiated, Gao Huan gave up the remaining dozen cities in Yuzhou, and Liang Guo stopped the Northern Expedition. Now Gao Cheng is going to Huangcheng, Guangzhou, to negotiate peace with Yan Guo.

"With an army of 20 alone, and Yuwen Tai's soldiers are only [-], the land in Guanzhong is within reach!"

Gao Huan is very confident. Until now, he still looks down on Yu Wentai, this little character who once surrendered to him.

Due to the war that lasted for more than ten years, the population in the north has decreased a lot. There were originally 3500 million people, but now there are only 1800 million people left. Among them, Gao Huanwei has a population of 1400 million and a military strength of 30, and Yuwen Wei has a population of 400 million and a military strength of 5. .

Xiao Yan Liang Guo ushered in a brief moment of glory. Due to the occupation of many counties in the Central Plains, Liang Guo has a population of 1500 million and a military strength of 30, making it the most powerful country in the Central Plains.

In addition, there is also a Taoist theocracy country [Tianjie] that has never had a sense of existence, with a population of 300 million and a military strength of 2.

The celestial masters of the past dynasties of Tianshi Dao professed their vassals to the Liang Kingdom externally, and kept reclaiming wasteland internally, using religion to conquer and assimilate the indigenous groups in the ruling area, and simply arrested some indigenous people who were really difficult to assimilate Sold to the guild of Yan State.

Tianshidao/Tianjie mainly exported labor force, medicinal materials, Artemisia annua, grain, saltpeter, and iron ore, and mainly imported glass, silk, porcelain, and cloth.

ten days later

Gao Cheng finally arrived in Huangcheng, where he saw countless laborers waiting to be transported.

A few months ago, he had an affair with a concubine of his father Gao Huan, and was reported by his father's other two concubines, which annoyed his father. Let him be a negotiator.

Entering the mansion, one could see a group of monks reciting Buddhist scriptures, and a plain-clothed woman sitting cross-legged with bare feet, as if she was comprehending Buddhism.

"The flowers on the other side are blooming, and my heart has reached the land of the original god."

The woman is Yan Lian. In the past few years, she has become more and more immersed in the world of practicing Buddhism and Taoism. While comprehending Buddhism and Taoism, she specially sent people to Tiandi City to invite a metaphysics master to explain the way of immortals to herself.

Yuanshen is a metaphysical statement, meaning the origin of all laws in the universe and the destination of the soul.

Metaphysics and Buddhism are popular in this era. From the kings to the common people, they all worship Buddha and Taoist ancestors. Whether it is Yan Lian, Xiao Yan, or Gao Huan and Yu Wentai, it cannot be avoided.

State affairs are handled by Shang Shutai and Jiuqing, and war affairs are handled by Brother Cong and Hou Jing, so Yan Lian is only responsible for the general direction of control, and the specific details are left to them. She has to focus more on cultivation .

"Your Majesty, Gao Huan's emissary is here." The maid whispered in Yan Lian's ear.

"Don't call me Junshang, call me Bodhisattva!" Yan Lian frowned.

"Yes, Bodhisattva." The maid was sweating coldly.

There is Xiao Bodhisattva in the south, Yan Bodhisattva in Liaodong, and a bunch of civil servants and military generals named Bodhisattvas in Wei State in the Central Plains. Diseases, "Jiangong" and other names, because that period was the period of expanding the territory.

It is also similar to the popularity of "so and so" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This is because metaphysics prevails.

The name of each era has its own characteristics of the era. Slowly opening her eyes, Yan Lian looked at Gao Cheng who was standing in a daze at the door, then got up, entered a room, and asked the maid to change the crown for herself.

"Emissary Wei, please wait in the main hall." The official who greeted Gao Cheng said.

After a long time, Gao Cheng who was sitting in the main hall finally waited for Yan Lian to come.

At this moment, Yan Lian was wearing a crown that could only be worn by the emperor of the Central Plains, blatantly presumptuous, and didn't care what the ruler of the Central Plains thought.He even took the Buddhist name for himself, calling himself "Bi'an Bodhisattva", and at the same time gave himself an emperor title, calling himself "Bi'an Great Emperor".

Influenced by Buddhism, she walks barefoot on weekdays, but naturally there will be maids who lay the carpet in advance, and she will only wear shoes on formal occasions.

Like Emperor Xiao Yan of the Liang Kingdom, although he chanted Buddhist scriptures every day and talked about compassion every day, he never cared about the lives of the people at the bottom.

"Foreign minister Gao Cheng, I have seen... um... Bodhisattva." Gao Cheng didn't know how to address Yan Lian, after all, Yan Lian hadn't proclaimed himself emperor yet, and the title of "Bi'an Great Emperor" was also somewhat nondescript, and he was worried that he would offend people if he called Yan Gong Yan Guo, so I can only follow Yan Lian's mind and call him a Bodhisattva.

"Spirit, I already know what you are asking for. The land to the east of Mount Tai belongs to my country of Yan, and the west of Mount Tai will not be disturbed by my country. Since then, the two countries have repaired and become good friends of Qin and Jin." Yan Lian said on a daily basis. I am used to calling other people living beings in the posture of a Bodhisattva, and I haven't been able to change my words for a while, but it is enough to express the meaning clearly.

This was Gao Cheng's plan at the beginning, so he didn't argue, nodded and agreed directly. In the end, he divided the national border with Yan State, with Mount Tai and the Yellow River as the boundary line, everything east of Mount Tai and south of the Yellow River belonged to Yan State. Not to invade, to be good friends of Qin and Jin.

Before leaving, he took a few more glances at Yan Lian, feeling a little restless in his heart. He was a lustful man and even had an affair with his father's concubine. Now that he met a beautiful female monarch from a foreign country, he was naturally moved , but he could only be moved by his heart, and did not dare to do anything wrong on the territory of Yan State.

"What's the deal with the peace talks? I, Hou Jing, alone can destroy the Gao family!" After the peace talks ended, Hou Jing bragged in front of Gao Cheng, embarrassing Gao Cheng who was about to leave.

Hou Jing looked at the embarrassed Gao Cheng and felt very comfortable in his heart. He just wanted to show off in front of the female monarch and show his bravery.

But these are useless efforts, Yan Lian didn't even bother to read them, and began to concentrate on studying Buddhism again.

(End of this chapter)