subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Now that Zhu Wen has Luoyang, he can deal with Caizhou calmly without worrying about the east. In fact, there is only one city left in Caizhou, and the surrounding forces have already been taken by Zhu Wen. The reason why he doesn't want to fight Caizhou is because he doesn't want to let The 2 people in the city are just fighting for defense.Of course, it would be the best result to be able to subdue the enemy without fighting. After all, if there is a war, there will be casualties, and the money spent is immeasurable.

Although Zhu Wen now has advanced weapons that can minimize casualties, they are all living people after all, and no one pays more attention to the importance of human life than Zhu Wen, a person from the 21st century.Therefore, as long as the pensions for those killed in Zhu Wen's army are very high, the usual military pay is 1% higher than that of other military forces. This is why Zhu Zhen and Ge Congzhou were able to recruit more than [-] people in Shandong so easily. s reason.

Zhu Wen has issued an ultimatum to Shen Cong, who occupies Caizhou. If he does not open the city within three days, he will attack the city. Seven or eight catapults have been set up outside the city gate, and iron balls filled with explosives are also ready. They were all ready to stop, just waiting for Zhu Wen's order to start attacking the city.

On the night of the last night when Zhu Wen issued an ultimatum to limit the three days, there was a cry of killing in the city. Zhu Wenwen and Wei Zhao were drinking each other in the camp outside the city. When they heard the report, they just looked at each other and smiled. There are not too many words, there are many things that cannot be expressed in words at all.

Sure enough, in the early morning of the next day, the gates of Caizhou city were opened wide, and a prison cart was driven out from the city. The person in the cart was Qin Zongquan.

A man next to the prison car was shirtless and carried a thorn on his back, which was regarded as a plea for guilt.Just listen to the humane voice: "Guo Pan, the guilty man, kowtowed to King Wuxing County."

Zhu Wen stepped forward to help him up himself and said, "So did you hold any position in Caizhou?"

Guo Pan said: "The young general was originally a Caizhou tooth general. He was deceived by lard before and did a lot of bad things with Qin Zongquan. Although Shen Cong captured Qin Zongquan, he wanted to separate Caizhou and resist the army of the county king. The last general Unable to bear the loss of life for the people in the city, this is why he attacked the Yamen of the Jiedu envoy last night and beheaded Shen Cong and Pei She. Now that Qin Zongquan is dedicated to the county king, the general dare not expect the county king's forgiveness, but only hopes that the county king can be sympathetic 20 people in the city..."

Zhu Wen nodded and said: "General Guo's move is a great achievement. Even if there are any mistakes in the past, it is enough to offset it. In the future, Caizhou's defense will depend on the general. From now on, you will be the soldier of Caizhou. Envoy, follow Wei Zhao's restraint, and Wei Zhao will temporarily act as deputy envoy of Caizhou Jiedu, and make a decision after the court's decree comes down."

Wei Zhao and Guo Pan quickly knelt down and thanked Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen asked Guo Pan to guard Caizhou first, and asked Wei Zhao to go to the capital Chang'an in person, preparing to escort Qin Zongquan to Beijing and hold a grand ceremony of presenting prisoners.

But at this time, the Chang'an court was no longer Li Xuan, because Li Xuan had died of illness in March of the first year of Wende, and Xiang Wang Li Jie came to the throne for Tang Zhaozong. After he took the throne, he changed his name to Li Ye.At that time, it was common for the emperor to change his name after he ascended the throne. Many emperors had to change their names before ascending the throne, as if this could prove that they would be the king of a country in the future, and say goodbye to their former self.

But Tang Zhaozong believed that Qin Zongquan was not qualified to offer prisoners. At that time, Pu took Huang Chao's head to offer prisoners. After all, Huang Chao once occupied most of China for several years, occupied Chang'an for many years, and killed Li Tang. There are countless clans, Qin Zongquan is obviously inferior to Huang Chao.

But Wei Zhao didn't think so. Wei Zhao said: "Your Majesty, Qin Zongquan slaughtered more than [-] states in the Central Plains, and no one dared to stop him. Xuzhou Shi Pu fought for a long time but failed. Liu Jurong, the East Road in Shannan, abandoned the city and fled. The whereabouts are unknown, and the eastern capital Luoyang was burned...Who will stop all this? More than a million people in dozens of states in the Central Plains have been transferred to death, and how many people are homeless? How can they recover without the fierce battle of Wuxing County King? Luoyang? How can we persuade Zhao Dejiao and Sun Ru to surrender? How can we capture Qin Zongquan alive and save all the people?"

Wei Zhao was eloquent and eloquent, and what he said were all facts. At this time, not only the newly enthroned Tang Zhaozong Li Ye (Li Jie) was speechless, but even a group of civil and military officials in the court did not have a single person to refute. It's not that they can't refute, but because Zhu Wen's strength lies there. Although the imperial court has some troops, they can't be compared with others. If Zhu Wen wants to attack the imperial court, there is no way to resist it.

This is the reason why these civil and military officials did not dare to refute. If an envoy from a low-ranking feudal town had spoken like this, these civil and military officials would have been in trouble long ago.

At this time, in order to curry favor with Zhu Wen, many civil servants echoed, "Master Wei is right. Qin Zongquan has done no less harm to the states in the Central Plains these years than Huang Chao. I think it is not a bad idea to hold a ceremony of presenting prisoners."

Another person said: "Qin Zongquan was originally a feudal town, but he proclaimed himself emperor without authorization, slaughtered dozens of states, and countless people suffered from it. Now the king of Wuxing County has captured the Qin thief alive. If the prisoner offering ceremony is not held, the king of Wuxing County Announcing the merits of the world, wouldn't the hearts of the world's feudal towns be chilled?"

Li Ye is also a smart person, of course he knows the current situation, Zhu Wen occupies the four towns in the Central Plains, and his strength is obvious, how can this current court be able to provoke him?Li Ye simply said: "Since everyone said so, then it has been decided. Hold a prisoner offering ceremony, announce Zhu Wen's achievements to the world, and make Zhu Wen the king of Dongping. You can discuss the day of the prisoner offering. I have some ideas." Tired."

The little eunuch next to him shouted in a shrill voice: "Back to court——"

Zhu Wen ordered Wei Zhaohe's uncle Cong to escort Qin Zongquan to Chang'an to offer prisoners, but he still returned to Bianliang. Jingxiang had already started to build the newly occupied area, and Zhu Wen didn't bother to issue orders one after another. It is very clear that there is no doubt about the truth of employing people. Now Jingxiang's stunning performance under Zhu Wen's command is like a cabinet minister, who can handle most of the official affairs on behalf of Zhu Wen.

When Zhu Wen returned to Bianliang, the court's decree had already been issued, and Zhu Wen was promoted to be the king of Dongping, and he was given the iron certificate of Danshu.Zhu Wen's first wife, Zhang Xiaohui, was granted the title of Wei Guo's wife, and even Zhu Youyu, Zhu Wen's eldest son, was granted the title of Uncle Zhongyong.

Of course the whole family was very happy. Zhu Youyu was already seven years old at this time, and he had grown a lot taller. He often practiced swords with a wooden sword, and his internal strength was already quite high.

Zhu Youning and Zhu Youlun are also both civil and martial arts, especially Zhu Youning, who is already nine years old, has read a lot of books, and is not weak in martial arts. He often practiced with Xu Huaiyu. Even Xu Huaiyu said that this kid must be a A fierce general.

Zhang Xiaohui's son, Zhu Youzhen, is also three years old, and he looks fair and cute.Wei Feng's daughter was also carved in pink and jade. When she saw Zhu Wen, she called her daddy in a childish voice.

Zhu Wen was also very happy to see the whole family gathered together. What was the purpose of the Southern and Northern Wars all these years, wasn't it for the whole family?At this time, I finally had some free time. Of course, I wanted to spend more time with my wife and children. He hugged each of these children and kissed each other. He couldn't bear to let go. Zhang Xiaohui shook his head when he saw it. Wei Feng also smiled and said: "Don't take the children They are spoiled."

Zhu Wen didn't care, and said: "The descendants of our old Zhu family are definitely heroes, how can they be spoiled easily?"

Zhu Youning and Zhu Youyu poked their heads like chickens chopping rice, and said in unison: "When we grow up, we will also be generals like our father (third uncle), fighting south and north and fighting in front of the enemy, then we will be able to fight in battle. Prestige!"

Zhu Wen said solemnly: "You only see the majestic side of the general, but do you know how much money it costs to fight a war? How many people will die? Isn't it the tens of thousands of people who suffer? Now we are fighting It is precisely for more people to live a good life. Once people all over the world have a good life, we will not have to fight. You can go to work in various factories, but you can't easily start a war, you two must keep it in mind."

Zhu Youning and Zhu Youyu nodded in understanding, but Zhu Youlun on the side seemed not very interested in fighting, but more interested in poetry and articles. Zhu Wen didn't force him, no matter whether he studied literature or martial arts, he would use martial arts in the future Land, I have such a big territory now, I can just let them go out to be governors or something, as long as they are kind-hearted, no matter civil or military, give him a state to manage, as long as they are above-average talents can be competent , Zhu Wen thought to himself.

Meizi Shankou also brought her son Zhu Yougui to see Zhu Wen. This Zhu Yougui was about the same age as Zhu Youzhen, a little over a year older than Zhu Youzhen, and also had a tiger head and a tiger brain. It was really cute, but the three Meizi hadn't seen Zhu Wen for a long time Now I wanted to talk to Zhu Wen about something, but I saw that the whole family was there, and I was not the first wife. Logically speaking, she had no place to speak on this occasion, and the status of a concubine had no status at all.

She is also very aware of her identity. She is a barbarian woman in the eyes of others, but Zhu Wen's family has never treated her as a real person. Zhang Xiaohui and Wei Feng often call her sister and sister, which makes Meizi Yamaguchi She felt very kind and made her feel the warmth of home.

Zhu Wen treated his wives and children equally, and did not look down on Meizi Yamaguchi because of her status. Instead, he often told Zhang Xiaohui and Wei Feng to take more care of Meizi Yamaguchi.Both Zhang Xiaohui and Wei Feng are well-educated and reasonable women, especially Zhang Xiaohui, who is very virtuous, not only taking care of family affairs, but also helping to deal with Bianliang's government affairs when Zhu Wen was fighting.Sometimes Jingxiang has something to decide, and she has to make a decision.

Therefore, Zhu Wen also respected Zhang Xiaohui very much, and would discuss with her any important matters.