Chapter 131: Together Management (17)

Hou Dayong said casually: "I heard that there are more women in Songfan and fewer men. In Tongxin City, there are more men and fewer women, which can be intermarried and complement each other." Dabu suddenly became alert and said cautiously: "How can Tubo women be worthy of the brave and powerful Black Eagle Army soldiers?" Hou Dayong laughed and said: "How about the women in the Central Plains, who are worthy of the Tubo men?" Dabu smiled and said: "In terms of beauty and gentleness, we still have to count the women in the Central Plains. In Gan and Sha eleven states, there is a common argument."

The two talked casually, and Hou Dayong suddenly said seriously: "Although there are nearly ten thousand Tubo people from the Songfan tribe, they are still very weak. The Tubo people from the Liugu tribe who live near Qinghai formed an alliance with the Lanzhou Uighurs. The Liugu tribe and the Hunmo people are enemies, so I am afraid that the Hunmo people will not be able to gain a foothold in the Songfan tribe."

Dabu thought to himself: Liugu tribes have been nomadic in Qinghai Lake for a long time, and their power has not reached Ruoergai, but Songfan. Ruoergai and Zhuoni do not have a powerful tribe. After the Liugu tribe and the Lanzhou Uighurs formed an alliance, they are fully capable of seizing this vast area. The Hunmo people have this Fengshui treasure land, and they will definitely become stronger in a while. However, the Hunmo people have weak power and are not united. Now they are actually divided into Songfan tribes and Zhuoni tribes. The root of the division is Hou Dayong's support and indulgence to Dawagong on the edge of the Wei River.

Dabu was unwilling to show weakness easily and said, "Hunmo people are hard-working, and they would rather die than surrender. The Liugu tribe dared to invade, and at least they could just mess with jade and shatter."

Hou Dayong looked at Dabu coldly with a sarcastic expression and stopped talking.

When Dabu saw Hou Dayong's face change, he saw that it was like the ghost weather in the desert. He had just passed away and turned into a sandstorm in a blink of an eye. He cursed in his heart, but he did not dare to show dissatisfaction in his expression. Hou Dayong could change his expression as he pleased. Because the strength of the Black Eagle Army was placed here, with this strength, Hou Dayong had the power and freedom to show his emotions on his face. Although Dabu was brave and powerful, he had no choice but to rely on Hou Dayong too many places, and his strength was not as strong as others, so he could only maintain a respectful attitude.

Dabu looked at Hou Dayong with some sarcastic gaze and whispered: "Dabu is so rude, please give me advice."

Hou Dayong didn't want to circle with Dabu anymore and said, "Guyuan, Longxi is now all in the hands of the Black Eagle Army. The territory of the Black Eagle Army is connected with Zhuoni, Ruoergai, and Songfan. You and Dawagong accept my appointment and are also my subordinates. From now on, the war horses of the year will be sold to Tongxin City. You cannot trade with other Jiedu governors of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Also, I need fifty Hunmo people with Tang people's blood, forty men, and ten women. After choosing, I will send them to Tongxin City. If you keep your promise, the Black Eagle Army will be your backing and you can send troops to protect the tribe members in Songfan at any time."

Dabu carefully understood the requirements made by Hou Dayong, and Hou Dayong seemed to have made three requirements. Because selling horses was a prescribed rule set in the past, there was no additional request this time. He sent fifty people with Tang Dynasty blood to Tongxin City. Although he did not know the profound meaning, it was just a trivial matter after all, so the core of Hou Dayong's proposal was only one: Hunmo's tribe must be loyal to Hou Dayong.

Dabu stood up, knelt in front of Hou Dayong according to the Tubo etiquette, and said, "The Hunmo tribe can have a foothold. Relying on the Jiedushi, Dabu vowed this pair of heaven and served the Jiedushi forever. If he violated the oath, he would be punished by heaven and earth, and he would be cut into the heart of thousands of arrows and cut into pieces, and he would never turn over."

Seeing that his purpose was achieved, Hou Dayong smiled and stepped forward to help Dabu up, saying, "The Tubo people in the Hunmo tribe and the people in the Central Plains are connected by blood. Today we have blood to form alliances. From then on, we have become brothers." After that, he shouted to the guards outside the room, "Get a big bowl over."

The soldiers took a big earthen bowl and poured turbid old wine into it. Hou Dayong took his extremely sharp dagger from his arms, pierced his fingers, and blood dripped into the bowl. Hou Dayong handed the dagger to Dabu, and Dabu took the dagger and pierced his fingers in a gourd. Dabu didn't expect that the dagger was so sharp. With a random stroke, he scratched a big hole in his fingers. Blood gushed out. Dabu quickly pointed his finger at the wine bowl. Hou Dayong's blood dripped into the bowl, and Dabu's blood flowed into the bowl in a thread.

Hou Dayong first raised the wine bowl and muttered in his heart before drinking: I don’t know if there are any infectious diseases in this era, drinking blood is not hygienic. Hou Dayong was muttering in his heart, but his expression showed his righteousness: "After drinking this bowl of wine, Hou Dayong is brothers with Dabu, and he will share the difficulties and share the blessings. If there is a breach of contract, the sky will be hit by five thunders." After that, he raised his head and drank a big sip of old wine. Because he was anxious, he almost choked out and hurriedly pretended to cough, so he did not lose his ugly face in the serious "Blood Alliance" ceremony.

The Tubo people of the Hunmo tribe were emerging tribes. Decades ago, they were sworn-

Hunmo people were gathered in Gan, Liang and other prefectures. The Hunmo people usually paid the most attention to their promises. Dabu took over the wine bowl and was a little excited. When he drank this glass of wine, even if the Hunmo Tubo people in the Songfan land had relied on a big tree, they had at least temporarily safe in the near future. Dabu took over the wine bowl and said loudly in Tubo: "Hou Dayong and Dabu are brothers, and they will share the same difficulties and share the blessings. If there is a breach of contract, the sky will hit five thunders, thousands of arrows will penetrate the heart, and go to the Avici Hell." After that, he drank it all.

Hou Dayong and Dabu formed an alliance at the wine table. Qian Xiangnan sat quietly on the side like an invisible man. He looked at Dabu for a while and observed Hou Dayong for a while. Both of them were intelligent people, with a bowl of turbid wine and an alliance. Hou Dayong stabilized a brave group, and Dabu found a strong tree.

After Dabu left, Hou Dayong didn't want to speak, so he poured a bowl of old wine and chewed it slowly with a few pieces of dried meat.

After the coalition forces captured Tongxin City, the army that marched northwest had already opened. If we concentrate our efforts to capture Xihuizhou and Jingyuan, then Lanzhou would be under the military front of the coalition forces. At present, there are no strong enemies in the northwest. The Tubo Empire is divided into four parts, and the Uighur Khanate is not as strong as it was before. The rise of the Dangxiang people suffered serious setbacks due to their own arrival, which was the best time to recover the four northwest towns of the Tang Dynasty. However, the most powerful enemy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was the Great Liao Kingdom in the north, because of the Great Daquan.

The Liao Kingdom and the Great Zhou national policy was to "first south and then north". As for the development to the west, it was not on the agenda at all. Hou Dayong was just a border arthritis governor. All his actions must conform to the national policy. Chai Rong's task assigned to Hou Dayong was to stabilize the west, rather than expanding the territory and regain Tongxin City. Guyuan City was an attacking action taken by the coalition forces to resist the invasion of the Dangxiang people. And attacking Lanzhou, such a major action involving national policy, would definitely not be able to pass Chai Rong's level.

There is another deeper worry. If Hou Dayong expands too quickly in the northwest and is too swagger, he will definitely fall into a situation where a tree attracts wind. Since the late Tang Dynasty, the central government has been entrusted with its own troops. In his eyes, the Central Plains regime is just a governor of Luozhou, Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He is a general who is respectful to the Han Dynasty. He usurped the Han Dynasty and became emperor. It seems to be a coincidence, but in fact it is a natural thing after Guo Wei's strength has reached a certain level. Chai Rong saw with his own eyes the whole process of his adoptive father becoming emperor. He had a natural distrust of the generals who controlled heavy troops. Many of the important policies of Chai Rong's empress were carried out around enhancing the central strength and weakening the power of the town. The imperial guards and imperial guards were large in number and well-equipped. It was far beyond the reach of ordinary towns.

Thinking of this, Hou Dayong sighed in his heart: Chai Rong was wise and smart for a lifetime, but he never expected that shortly after he passed away, the imperial guards he had worked hard to support Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe. Because the imperial guards were too strong, Zhao Kuangyin mastered the imperial guards and essentially controlled the core armed forces of the country. The towns distributed in various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty could not resist them at all. It was mid-October in the third year of Xiande, less than three years after Zhao Kuangyin became emperor. His best choice was to gather his edge, practice internal skills, and use Lingzhou and Tongxin City as the base to carefully build an armed force that could compete with the imperial guards. However, the premise of practicing internal skills was that Chai Rong let himself stay quietly in Lingzhou. If he had just opened up the situation in Lingzhou, he was transferred to other towns. The formation of strength would be greatly affected, and it would be even more difficult to compete with the imperial guards.

Hou Dayong took a sip of wine silently. He felt deeply that he felt like he was bound by others and was bound by his hands and feet.

When Hou Dayong left the Sumo and Mohe tribe, he just wanted to find a job under Chai Rong. Fortunately, he was seeking self-protection in this chaotic era. With his status improvement, especially after becoming a royal relative, Hou Dayong was mainly focused on dealing with the challenge of Zhao Kuangyin in the sixth year of Xiande. With his position and strength improving, Hou Dayong, who had become accustomed to dominating others, felt that Chai Rong's control over him was really a very painful and regrettable thing. Hou Dayong knew that it was a great opportunity to manage the northwest and recover lost land, but he had to obey the overall situation and ordered the coalition forces to stop attacking the northwest. At this time, the various ethnic groups in the northwest lived together, the situation was extremely complicated, and the fighter was fleeting. If he missed this good opportunity for all the heroes to be weak, three years later, he would not know which ethnic force would emerge on the back of the horse.

Qian Xiangnan originally thought that Hou Dayong invited Dabu to drink only for fifty Tubo people, but Hou Dayong had a bloody alliance, which at least stabilized Songfan and Ruoergai in the short term and obtained a relatively stable ally. However, Hou Dayong emphasized that Dabu must obey his own orders rather than obey the orders of the Zhou Dynasty, which is quite interesting.

Qian Xiangnan saw Hou Dayong drinking with great concern and was excited about the alliance as he deserved, so he silently accompanied Hou Dayong to drink.

After a long time, Hou Dayong said: "These fifty Tubo people have the blood of the Han family. After coming to Tongxin City, you must train them well. Gan and Sha eleven states were originally the rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty, but now they are occupied by the Hu people. Sooner or later, we will take back these lands from these Hu people. War is inevitable. Therefore, we must take advantage of these two or three years to carefully manage the vast area from Lanzhou to Shazhou. As for the four towns of Kucha, Khotan, Yanqi and Shule in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, we must also slowly start paying attention."

Qian Xiangnan's small eyes rolled around several times and said, "Don't worry, with these dozens of Hunmo people, the military intelligence camp cannot gain a foothold in Gansu and Sha 11th State, so I have to go home to hold my children."

"Songfan and Zhuoni are now a new settlement area for Hunmo. Hunmo people traveled thousands of miles away without fear of difficulties and went south. With this cohesion, we should not underestimate Hunmo people. Can you find a way to arrange for military camp people to get inside Hunmo people?"

Qian Xiangnan held the short beard on his chin with his hand, thought for a while, and then said: "This matter is a bit difficult. The military intelligence camp is in Gan and Sha. There are some caravans in them. They can find suitable candidates."

"The Sogdian caravan is very powerful in this area, especially Luo Ling, who is a versatile person. You can ask him for help in some small things." Hou Dayong thought that Luo Ling had given him a beauty, and the new land-taking concubine of the Minister of Personnel was also a peach gift from Luo Ling, and he couldn't help but smile.

Qian Xiangnan was deeply impressed by Luo Ling. When he saw Hou Dayong, he smiled and said with a smile: "Luo Ling is also a figure, but a businessman. From the Black Khanate to Daliang, no matter how high the threshold is, it is like walking on flat ground. His intelligence is really well-informed."

Qian Xiangnan's words made Hou Dayong's heart skip a beat: Luo Ling is a businessman, and the ultimate goal of a businessman is to make money, but Luo Ling is already rich enough to rival a country. He has worked so hard to deal with the nobles in various places. Is it really just to make money?

Qian Xiangnan said again: "I have two more things here, one is about Green Water."

Hou Dayong was stunned and asked, "Who is Lushui?" Then he realized, "It's the ugly woman I've seen at the Strike Field."

Qian Xiangnan nodded and said, "This Green Water is a bit strange. It was in the military field that day. He was in the military field. He was very happy and generous, unlike an ordinary Dangxiang woman. I asked someone to ask the first batch of Dangxiang women who married sergeants. No one knew that woman, and I had never heard of anyone in Dangxiang City. Among the Dangxiang people in Tongxin City, there were only three families who married Han women. One family had no daughters, two families had daughters, the family's daughter had married a sergeant of the Black Eagle Army, and the other was Shi Gao Yueming, the daughter of the Dangxiang Army counselor, Gao Jin. Shi Gao Yueming, but Shi Gao Yueming, had no trace of it. I suspected that Shi Gao Yueming was Lushui. However, according to Dangxiang women, Shi Gao Yueming was a beautiful woman. Compared with Lushui, one was in the sky and the other was underground. I had carefully observed Lushui. There was no abnormality on her face."

Hou Dayong thought of Lushui's expression and his sky blue eyes and said, "I feel strange in the military field. It is also a very difficult thing for a life to be so ugly. Lushui's parents actually did it. Lushui has a pair of very flexible eyes. Only smart women have such eyes. You said that her father is Gao Jin, a counselor of Dangxiang, where is this person?"

"This time the Dangxiang people invaded the border, and Shi Gaojin followed the Dangxiang South Route Army to act together. Now Shi Gaojin doesn't know whether he is dead or alive."

"No matter whether this green water is true or not, you don't need to pay too much attention to her. Green water is just a lonely woman. She washes clothes in the washing room every day. Besides, Tongxin City only allows women to enter but not leave, and she can't make the sky in the city."

Qian Xiangnan's two small eyes were a little joyful, and he said, "I want to invite this woman to the military intelligence camp. If Lushui is Shi Gao Yueming, she can make hundreds of women with party titles unable to distinguish after she put on makeup, and we can't see any flaws. This shows that Lushui's makeup technique is very clever, and this technique is extremely useful to the military intelligence camp."

Hou Dayong was in charge of the Black Eagle Army for three years. Because he paid great attention to the strange skills that great people could not afford, generals and schoolmen at all levels were deeply influenced by it. Therefore, Jiang Hui attached great importance to the accidental discovery of the Land Green Party in Guyuan City. Qian Xiangnan was even more interested in this makeup technique. Hou Dayong admired Qian Xiangnan's keenness and said: "This is a good idea, but after the true face of Green Water is revealed, I must meet her. I want to see this ugly mask.

What kind of face is it? However, although the green water makeup technique is clever, the idea of ​​makeup is very naive. The purpose of makeup is to make people mix in the crowd. The best disguise is that it has no characteristics. It is so ugly that it is daunting, but it also leaves a deep impression on people. This is inferior in the disguise technique. This principle also applies to military intelligence camps. It is best for the sergeant in the military intelligence camp to be the kind of people who have no obvious characteristics, so that the most clever disguise is the kind of person who has the highest clever disguise."

Qian Xiangnan thought about what Hou Dayong said carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he made the more sense. He bowed and said, "Thank you for your advice from the governor." Then he slowly said, "The soldiers from the military intelligence camp brought letters from the prefecture and told some of the prefecture and state situations."

When he heard that it was the situation in Fuzhou, Hou Dayong immediately concentrated his energy. Fuzhou was located in the north of Xiazhou and Northern Han. If the people from Fuzhou were to arrive in Liang, they had to pass through the territory of the Tuoba people in Dangxiang. The location was both important and special. Hou Dayong had long noticed that Fuzhou was a special place, but he did not have the opportunity and energy to interfere in Fuzhou affairs for the time being.

Qian Xiangnandao: "There is no major incident in the Prefectures. There is only one thing that the military camp people thought was quite interesting, so they sent it to me. This incident actually happened at the beginning of the second year of Xiande. When His Majesty was expeditioning Huainan south, he promoted the Prefectures to Jiezhen. Zhe De was appointed as the governor of Yong'an. Li Yiyin, the governor of Dingnan, could not bear to see Zhe De. He heard that Zhe De was promoted to the governor of Yong'an, and he actually ordered the road to blockade and did not allow people from the Prefectures to pass through the four prefectures. Zhe De had no choice but to send people through the desert to Lingzhou and reported the matter to Daliang for thousands of miles. Your Majesty sent the entourage official Qi Zangzhen to question Li Yiyin with an edict. Li Yiyin then forced the people of the Prefectures to pass."
Chapter completed!