"Your Majesty!" At this moment, a civil official suddenly reined in his horse and spoke with a serious expression. It was Zheng Zhichang, the central government official. "I think that Xiao Heda has his own army and is waiting for a price to sell it. He regards his subordinates and fellow tribesmen as his private property and uses them to commit crimes. This kind of behavior must not be allowed to continue. He should be executed to set things right!"
Xiao Heda was dumbfounded... He didn't know how he had offended this unknown Song minister. But soon, the Xiazhou commander realized that he had not offended this person, but the Zhao Song official himself, because when the Zhao Song official heard the advice, he nodded without even thinking.
What caught Xiao Heda off guard next was that as the official nodded slightly, several strong armored soldiers dismounted and rushed over. Dozens of armored cavalrymen circled around and surrounded him, actually taking him down directly, even with a gag and ropes prepared.
At this time, Xiao Heda completely abandoned his lucky mentality and felt cold in his heart.
God have mercy on him. Xiao Heda knew the authority of an emperor and that he was just an ant in front of him, but after dealing with Li Ganshun for a long time, he still developed some bad habits, so that he just remembered now that the Emperor of Zhao Song in front of him was an emperor on horseback who could kill military governors like Liu Guangshi and de facto governors like Du Chong with his own hands, and could even shoot at Wanyan Loushi face to face!
If we have a disagreement at this moment and really want to kill him, I'm afraid I'll just kill him right away.
But as soon as he came up, his mouth was blocked and his hands and feet were tied. He couldn't even regret and beg for mercy... The yellow earth beneath him was obviously the burial place of him, Xiao Heda.
"Your Majesty!" Just as Xiao Heda was gagged and dragged to the periphery, a commoner who had been kneeling on the ground suddenly raised his head and spoke to Emperor Zhao in Chinese, almost stuttering. "You, you shouldn't have killed General Xiao!"
Several leaders of the Hengshan Dangxiang tribe who were dressed in gorgeous clothes but knelt down and dared not look up, the civil and military ministers who were accompanying the emperor, the officers and soldiers, and Emperor Zhao himself were all stunned for a moment, and the soldiers who were holding Xiao Heda also stopped suddenly at Yang Yizhong's signal... The fork in the road outside Jintang City seemed to have fallen into a kind of fragmented silence.
Only the fluttering sound of the dragon flag reminded everyone that time was still passing.
"Why can't I kill Xiao Heda?" Zhao Jiu suddenly laughed. "Why can't I kill a military leader who disobeys me and wants to take my people away? Just because you are his attendant, he is your boss or benefactor?"
"Your Majesty!" The man's face was red and sweat was pouring down. He kowtowed several times before he managed to speak. "Although I am an attendant of General Xiao, I am also the head of Youzhou Feilongyuan and a subject of Your Majesty... I am speaking as a subject of Your Majesty... I want to say that Your Majesty's killing of this man is illegal! It is unreasonable!"
Zhao Jiu laughed even more, and most of the civil and military officials around him laughed along.
Amidst the laughter, this person, that is, Ah Hua, began to speak fluently: "Your Majesty, under such circumstances, the seven states of Hengshan are destined to be your prefectures, and the people, officials, tribes, and soldiers of the seven states are all destined to be your subjects... However, the seven states have been separated for a hundred years, and their sudden return will inevitably cause unrest among the people. In order to win back the people's hearts, Your Majesty must not only talk about laws and morality, but also be lenient... Xiao Heda has chosen to be a foreign minister, but he is still greedy. This is of course his fault, but he has been in Xiazhou for twenty years after all, and the people are attached to him. Killing him at this time may cause some stupid people to misunderstand and have inappropriate thoughts. Please make a wise decision, Your Majesty."
Zhao Jiu nodded with a smile and looked at Hu Yin who hadn't smiled yet.
Besides, this drama was arranged and discussed quickly with Hu Yin, Lu Benzhong, Yang Yizhong and others after Zhao Jiu received the report from Wu Jie on the road... After all, let's not talk about the military matters of this trip for now. Just to say that how to deal with the various tribes in the newly recovered land has been recorded and discussed in advance... As for the Dangxiang people, of course they must be absorbed, won over, digested and used, but as for the Khitans in the Hengshan area, there is only one use for them at this time, that is to quickly control them and use them as a trump card that has a considerable clamping effect on Yelu Dashi.
It is self-evident what tens of thousands of Khitans meant to Yelu Dashi's Western Liao regime at that time.
In order to control these tribes, of course their leaders must be separated from them, but they can only be separated from them, as it is not easy to break the alliance.
In fact, even if the Tangut man didn't say it just now, according to the plan, Hu Yin would have stood up to stop him, and then suggested saving Xiao Heda's life and sending him to Yelu Dashi in time to remind the latter not to be indecisive.
But no one expected that a Dangxiang man, who was either a loyal and righteous person or had long seen through the policy direction of the Zhao Song court, would suddenly appear and disrupt the situation... Of course, although it was called disruption, the effect was actually better.
At least we can appease the Dangxiang people at the same time, which saves us a lot of trouble.
Back to the present, after exchanging glances with Emperor Zhao, Hu Yin, who had been robbed of a big role, finally reined in his horse and asked the Dangxiang man in a serious tone in front of the imperial carriage: "What's your name?"
"Ahua."
"No last name?"
"My ancestors were from the Xifeng clan..."
"What is the job of the head of Feilongyuan?"
"The person in charge of raising military horses in the state."
"What's your origin?"
"I am from the Dangxiang tribe in Hengshan, under the jurisdiction of Longzhou."
"Have you ever been to school?"
"I studied for two or three years."
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