Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

"No. Don't break your word. Uh, uh." Huyanzan's eyes slowly closed, and his breath became weaker and weaker. Defang held Huyanzan's hand, suppressing his sadness, but tears still welled up in his eyes, Huyanzan's breath The hand finally lost the last bit of strength, and Defang put his hand on his chest, "Huyan. You. Why do you always. Always break your promise to the lonely king. Even this. The last promise. Can't keep it."

At this time, Bixing, Bigai, Biqiu, Bixian and the wives and concubines who rushed to the ground all knelt on the ground and cried bitterly. Defang sat on the bed and looked at Huyanzan who had lost his breath. lifetime.

After a long time, Defang walked out of the house slowly, leaned against the pillar in front of the door, looked up at the sky, the tears in her eyes had made her eyes blurred, at this moment, Bixian walked to Defang's side, "My lord."

Defang turned her head and wiped her tears, "Must show. My condolences."

Bixian nodded, and took out a booklet, "My lord. This, this is my father. I wrote it last night."

Defang took the booklet and opened it, only to see ten big characters written crookedly inside: kill Khitan, be loyal to Song, Hu Yanzan.

"This. Is this written by your father?"

"Yes. Yesterday, father. He returned to Beijing from the imperial mausoleum. Just. Let me teach him to write. Said. To submit to His Majesty." Bixian cried and said, "But now. Father. Father can't get up again. Prince!" Xian knelt down and said, "Please ask the prince to help father present the book to His Majesty, this is father's wish. It is also the last wish."

Defang closed the booklet, and was so sad that she couldn't speak at this time, she could only reach out and pat Bixian, then turned around and left the Huyan mansion, got on her horse and went straight to the palace, and presented the booklet to Zhenzong with her own hands, Zhenzong looked at this This book also had tears in its eyes, and only said one sentence, "I saw it."

In April of the third year of Song Zhenzong's Xianping, Hu Yanzan was ordered to take charge of the tomb of the Empress Dowager Yuande, who was reburied as a guard, and to return the sick to her death.

[Hu Yanzan: His father, Hu Yancong, was the commander of Ma Budu in Zizhou in the later Zhou Dynasty, and Hu Yanzan was a young cavalry soldier.Song Taizu, with his talent and courage, made up the squad leader of the East, entered the Chengzhi, and moved to the Xiaoxiong army envoy.In the conquest of Xichuan, as a forward, he scored a number of hits, and used his merits to make up for the deputy commander.At the beginning of Taiping Xingguo, Emperor Taizong personally selected the military academy and appointed Hu Yanzan as the commander of the cavalry army.Marching too far, ascending the city and falling four times, led the troops to defeat the enemy, and moved the internal staff to Yuhou, the capital of Liaozhi.In the fourth year of Yongxi's reign, he was the deputy head of the Jiama infantry.Then lead the governor of Fuzhou and Jiadu army, and later served as the governor of Baozhou and the deputy capital of Jizhou.It was also changed to the governor of Liaozhou.Not long after, he returned to be the head of the capital, the governor of Fuzhou, and the training envoy of the Kangzhou regiment.In the second year of Xianping, from Xingda's name, he inspected both inside and outside the palace. 】

In mid-April, Li Yun, the newly appointed prefect of Tanzhou, petitioned the imperial court to exempt land and house taxes in Hunan. (In August 1001, the bone tax was exempted.)

At the end of the same month, the prince Taibao Lu Duan passed away, and the imperial court gave him the posthumous title of Sikong, with the posthumous title of "Zhenghui".

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