Chapter 328 The Whole City Worships and Shouts "Champion Marquis"!

In the eighth year, at the end of October, after the defeat of the Liao Kingdom, Xixia also chose to retreat due to the pressure brought by Tubo.

In early November, the Liao Kingdom ceded the land of Shuozhou, Huanzhou, and Yingzhou. At this point, Yanyun's sixteen states have been restored to three.

In mid-November, after further negotiations between Zhou and Liao, the Liao State compensated tens of millions of taels of silver and tens of millions of pieces of silk, and at the same time paid an annual tribute of one million taels of silver and one million pieces of silk to Zhou.

At the end of November, Wei Yuan received an order that he should lead troops to inspect the three states of Yanyun.

At the same time, the old general Qin Lie has returned to the court. His body is about to fail, and he wants to spend the last period of his life with his family.

In mid-December, Wei Yuan only led 100,000 soldiers to Daizhou.

The rest of the army is taking action one after another.

This is the first time Wei Yuan has come here since the Daizhou War.

Accompanied by Chen Daniu, Liang Da and others, Wei Yuan came to Yanmen Pass.

At that time, the entire Daizhou, a hundred thousand soldiers, had gathered here, waiting for Wei Yuan to review.

When everyone arrived at Yanmen Camp and Wei Yuan got off the carriage, one hundred thousand soldiers knelt down on one knee and shouted one after another:

"Meet the Champion!"

"Bye."

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The sounds came and went.

As long as they are generals serving in Daizhou, there is no one who is not grateful to Wei Yuan.

It was him who made Daizhou the cradle of generals.

It was also him who gave the children of Daizhou some hope for the future.

Almost everyone in Daizhou enshrines Wei Yuan's longevity tablet in their homes.

It can be said that Wei Yuan's reputation in Daizhou is far greater than that of the emperor.

Not only the soldiers were sincerely convinced by Wei Yuan, but even the scholars in Daizhou praised Wei Yuan a lot.

At this time, outside the camp.

Wei Yuan looked at the soldiers in front of him, his mind racing with thoughts.

Several years ago, he joined the army in Daizhou. In the first year of Jiayou, he participated in a national war, known in history as the Yanmen War.

It only took him eight years to rise from a pawn to the status of a Marquis of Ten Thousand Households.

He is a well-deserved legend in the military!

"Sons of Daizhou, please get up!"

Wei Yuan just finished speaking.

The next moment, these soldiers, who can be called the tiger and wolf army, stood up uniformly, holding the weapons in their hands tightly, and all looked at Wei Yuan.

"Daizhou is mighty!"

"Daizhou is mighty!"

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Wei Yuan had a thousand words to say to these young generals in Daizhou.

But when the words came to his mouth, he only said the four words "Daizhou Mighty", but that was enough!

"Daizhou is mighty!"

All the soldiers were repeating this sentence.

Those four words echoed throughout this world for a long time.

Later, Wei Yuan visited the camp and saw some novel slogans everywhere in the Yanmen camp, such as "Be able to win battles and have excellent style", and "Don't demolish the house if you freeze to death, don't plunder to death of starvation" and so on.

This is a novel feature unique to Daizhou Barracks.

Liang Da followed Wei Yuan and said, "Since you left Daizhou, the soldiers still retain the rules you set, such as practicing drills and shouting slogans when they get up in the morning."

Hearing this, Wei Yuan nodded and said: "Yes, but remember, no matter how beautiful the slogans are, it will not help. As a frontier army, we must put combat capabilities first. Don't just shout slogans without doing anything. That is fake."

Liang Da smiled and said: "To be honest with you, Commander Wei, the current combat strength of the frontier army is not as good as the Danglu army you personally trained. Looking at the world, it is definitely a tiger and wolf army that is invincible in every battle."

Later, he introduced some things to Wei Yuan,

"Every year, the Daizhou Barracks holds a military competition, with the ten final winners being the best. The competition is not only a test of fists and kicks, but also military skills."

"From those ten people, select three to four loyal and brave generals and transfer them to the Danglu Army for training."

"Daizhou can send you no less than three generals to the court every year, and this is just the beginning."

"There is also the Lawsuit Association that you established before you left Daizhou. According to your instructions, the Lawsuit Association was not only established in the army organized as a battalion, but also went deep into every soldier."

"In short, as you said, there is no guarantee that there will be absolute fairness and justice in the military, but at the very least, there will be relativity."

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Wei Yuan said with satisfaction: "The achievements you have made in Daizhou are obvious to all. When you return to the court, I will report to Your Majesty and make you the governor of Daizhou and the regiment training envoy. From now on, you will be the real leader of Daizhou." "

In fact, with Liang Da's ability to command a regiment of 400,000 soldiers, staying in Daizhou as the top leader was completely a sign of humiliation.

His broad future should be in the capital.

But Daizhou cannot do without Liang Da.

Daizhou is the birthplace of providing talents for Daizhou Group, and it is also the retirement place for everyone in Daizhou Group. There is no room for failure here.

December 25th.

Wei Yuan came to Yunzhou City.

This place is less than 200 kilometers away from Yanmen Pass.

The people here knelt on both sides of the street early when they heard that a high-ranking official from the imperial court was coming to inspect.

The people who have lived in Yunzhou for generations are no longer Han people.

Because not only did they change their clothes and hair accessories, but their bloodline also merged with the Liao people.

When Wei Yuan arrived, he couldn't help feeling a little sad when he saw the people in the city kneeling on the ground.

Once upon a time, this was the land of the Han Dynasty.

However, the people here have long since become ‘outsiders’.

Wei Yuan was riding on horseback, overlooking the kneeling people, with mixed feelings in his heart, when he suddenly saw a child with Liao hair accessories staring at him blankly.

Then he dismounted.

At this moment, the child's mother quickly asked the child to kneel down. The mother and son kept kowtowing to Wei Yuan and expressed their apologies in a Liao dialect that Wei Yuan could not understand.

"Sir, the child does not understand the rules, please forgive me!"

Wei Yuan sighed, stood in front of the child, no longer asked him to kneel down, but asked seriously: "How old are you this year?"

The children obviously didn't understand Chinese and just stayed where they were.

Mother and son only understood Wei Yuan's Zhou language when someone translated it to them.

The child spoke cautiously: "Nine years old."

The translator then listened to the child's words to Wei Yuan.

nine years old

Then, Wei Yuan smiled and asked, "Do you know Tang poetry and Song lyrics?"

The child replied: "I don't know."

"Do you know Li Bai and Du Fu?"

"have no idea."

"Do you know that Nuwa created humans, Fuxi created Bagua, and her descendants shot the sun?"

"have no idea."

"you know"

Wei Yuan asked the child many questions.

But the child always answered with only three words, "I don't know."

Wei Yuan frowned deeply, and he immediately issued a reward order. Any child around ten years old in the city who could recite a Tang poem and Song lyric would be rewarded with ten taels of silver.

But throughout the morning, out of more than a hundred children, only two or three could recite a Tang poem and a Song lyric.

Even most people don’t know what ‘Han’ is.

They only knew that the soldiers in front of them, including Wei Yuan, were all 'invaders'.

Some bloody children pointed at Wei Yuan's nose and cursed, saying that one day, he would definitely regain the lost territory and drive the Zhou army out of the Liao land.

Wei Yuan felt extremely helpless.

Originally he was going to inspect the three states of Yanyun and Yunzhou, but as a result, he only stayed in Yunzhou for one day before planning to return to the court.

On the way, I met with several officials sent by the imperial court to the three states and told them:

"The land of the Three States has been lost for hundreds of years, and the people there no longer consider themselves Han Chinese."

"I have left 60,000 troops in the three states. If there is a civil uprising, we will suppress it immediately without hesitation."

"After you take office, we must establish education to spread Confucian culture among the people and let them know about the splendid culture of our Chinese dynasties."

After that, Wei Yuan no longer hesitated and rushed to the capital as quickly as possible.

On the way, he sighed to Xu Changzhi and others more than once:

"In another fifty years, even if we regain the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, I'm afraid we won't be able to conquer the hearts of the people."

Xu Changzhi nodded and said: "In just a hundred years, the children there no longer know what Tang poetry and Song lyrics are."

Shen Qingdao: "This is also deliberate by the Liao Kingdom. Except for the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the people of the Liao Kingdom in other places can read and learn Confucianism, but only the people in the Sixteen Prefectures cannot."

Xiao Yuming said: "Not only that, even if the people of the Sixteen Prefectures want to go to Beijing or leave the Sixteen Prefectures, they need to be guarded at all levels and extremely tight."

Wei Yuan said: "The Liao Kingdom is actually afraid of doing this."

Afraid?

Chen Daniu was puzzled, "Where does the fear come from?"

Wei Yuan explained: "They are afraid of our Chinese culture and worry that the people of Yanyun will resist the Liao Kingdom after learning about our Chinese culture."

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After the New Year, Zhao Xi changed his name to "Kaiwu".

In the middle of January of the first year of Kaiwu.

Wei Yuan, Shen Qing and other heroes of the country finally came to Bianjing.

Emperor Zhao Xi personally led hundreds of officials to greet him.

The moment Wei Yuan saw the emperor's figure, he quickly got off his horse, came to the emperor, knelt down on one knee,

"General, you have fulfilled your mission!"

Zhao Xi took a deep look at Wei Yuan, then looked at the generals who were kneeling on the ground behind him. A smile finally appeared on his fleshy cheeks.

He personally helped Wei Yuan up and said, "Master Wei, come with me."

Wei Yuan was curious.

Afterwards, Zhao Xi took Wei Yuan's wrist and walked step by step towards Bianjing City.

The emperor and his ministers were speechless for a moment, and then seemed to have said everything.

When he was about to reach the top of the city, Zhao Xi suddenly stopped walking, turned around suddenly, and stared at Wei Yuan.

"Master Wei, you and I should not hide anything. You are my teacher, my most trusted teacher, and my relative."

Wei Yuan was flattered, bowed deeply and said, "I will be frightened in the end."

Zhao Xi clasped his hands behind his back and said angrily: "All the subjects in the world should be afraid when they see me, but you, Wei Yuan, my champion and my teacher, should not be afraid. Two words!”

Wei Yuan gritted his teeth and looked up at Zhao Xi. The king and his ministers looked at each other.

After a while, Wei Yuan asked: "Your Majesty, what do you want to say?"

Zhao Xi said: "I do have something to say. I'm afraid if I don't say it, I will have a grudge against you, Master Wei. I don't want to see that day!"

Wei Yuan cupped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, please speak frankly, I will not hide anything!"

"Okay!" Zhao Xi said in surprise: "Let me ask you, if you don't attack the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, are you worried that after regaining the Sixteenth Prefecture, I will kill the donkey and kill the rabbit and cook the dog?"

Wei Yuan was shocked.

Zhao Xi asked forcefully: "I just want to ask you, yes or no!"

Wei Yuan took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "No."

Zhao Xi seemed to be relieved, and his tone softened a little, and said: "Then why didn't the guards solve the battle in the Central Plains as soon as possible? Why didn't they take advantage of the victory and pursue it?"

Wei Yuan slowly explained: "Before I left Bianjing to march, I told Your Majesty that my only ambition in life is to recover Yanyun. However, although our Zhou army is extremely large in number, it is mixed with good and bad."

"Your Majesty, I worked hard for the battle of Xiangzhou. I faced the Liao army with absolutely superior strength and surrounded it on all sides. Even when I annihilated the enemy army, I still ended the battle with almost one to one losses."

"If I fail to regain Yanyun, Your Majesty, do you know how much of our national power will be lost? How much of our national destiny will be lost?"

At this point, he sighed and said: "Your Majesty, you might as well think about how heroic Emperor Taizu was back then. With a dragon stick, he swept across the Central Plains invincibly, but Taizu still failed in the Northern Expedition and lost the elite soldiers of the founding of the country. More than half."

"Later, Emperor Taizong launched another Northern Expedition and almost lost all the founding soldiers! At this point, we, the Zhou Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, no longer have the strength to fight!"

"Whenever the fortunes of the Zhou Dynasty are great, the Northern Expedition will surely fail. Once we fail, what will it do to the country?"

"I am not saying this because I am afraid, but in accordance with Taizu's will to regain the sixteen states of Yanyun, we must still use the strategy of cannibalization as the main strategy!"

Wei Yuan's words successfully frightened the little emperor.

Although the little emperor in front of him is too precocious, after all, he is still a child and can still fool around.

However, what Wei Yuan said is not unreasonable.

Gradually encroaching on the Liao Kingdom and then regaining the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun can better stabilize the domestic situation.

Hearing Wei Yuan's explanation, Zhao Xi smiled happily, like a child.

For him, there will be a lot of time and opportunities in the future to regain the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture.

But he couldn't bear Wei Yuan's separation from him.

Because Wei Yuan had a great influence on him.

"Master Guard, come, climb to the city, follow me!"

As soon as Zhao Xi finished speaking, he slowly climbed up to the top of the city.

Wei Yuan followed closely behind.

After climbing to the top of the city and arriving at the inner city.

Wei Yuan was stunned by the scene in front of him.

All the people in the capital were standing in every street and corner of the city.

The moment they saw Wei Yuan appear, whether they were traffickers or nobles, they all shouted loudly,

"The Champion! The Champion!"

"What a magnificent champion!"

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It can bring the people of the whole city together, and it can also stabilize order and prevent chaos.

In the entire Bianjing, Zhao Xi is the only one who can do this.

Obviously, it is Zhao Xi's intention to accept the worship of the people in the city.

"Master Wei, enjoy it, enjoy it!"

"You deserve all this."

"A few years ago, you taught me what honor is. You said that defending the country without losing anything is an honor, and protecting the health of the people is also an honor."

"Today, this honor belongs to you and only you."

"I am even more grateful to you!"

Zhao Xiyan said that he slowly stood behind Wei Yuan.