Chapter 198 Xi Junmai
"Your Highness! This is the man!" Cheng Wuting pointed.
Li Chengqian looked in the direction Cheng Wuting pointed, and a
middle-aged man with a tall figure, regular features, sharp corners, and a beard appeared in Li Chengqian's sight. He was wearing armor, riding a tall horse, and holding a strong bow.
He was only two or three years older than him, Li Chengqian, at most. The moment he turned around, his eyes were bright!
"Wang Quan!" Li Chengqian called out.
Wang Quan immediately stepped forward and bowed, saying, "What do you want, my lord?"
"Go and find out the name of this Guoyi Duwei! By the way, call him here and let me see him." Li Chengqian pointed at the middle-aged man.
"Yes!" Wang Quan accepted the order and did not dare to delay for a moment. He immediately went to find Song Junming. The person the prince wanted to investigate was the eunuch he brought with him.
"General Song!" Wang Quan came to his side and saluted Song Junming.
"Hey! Eunuch Wang!" Song Junming, who was watching the archery competition, heard someone calling him and turned around quickly. He saw the eunuch Wang Quan beside the prince. Song Junming stood up to return the salute.
"I don't know if Eunuch Wang is here, but what does the prince want?"
"When you were watching the archery competition just now, you took a fancy to someone. This person is an amazing archer." Wang Quan said, and then he looked at the crowd who were competing in archery competition, found the person Li Chengqian wanted, and continued.
"I wonder if General Song recognizes this person? General Song, do you know his name? Your Highness wants to see this person!"
Song Junming was stunned!
Following the direction pointed by Wang Quan, the figure of the middle-aged man caught Song Junming's eyes. He looked him up and down. His riding and shooting skills were not bad! He
was also considered the best among these captains, but he was not particularly outstanding. How did he catch the eye of the crown prince?
Perhaps there were other reasons that he didn't know about.
Song Junming believed that it was the latter.
To be honest, he didn't quite know who this person was.
According to regulations, the general commander of the army appointed by the court did not recruit soldiers from the government troops in the area under his jurisdiction.
This was also to prevent the formation of some kind of connection between the generals and the guards, which would eventually become a threat to the court.
Although Song Junming didn't know who this captain was, it didn't matter. Every soldier who was recruited would be registered.
He could ask someone to check the name list, and then he would know who that person is. The name list records the name, hometown, height and other information of the soldiers, so that it is easy to check.
"Please wait a moment, Wang Neiguan. I will send someone to check the roster and find out who this person is." Song Junming said, and then asked someone to check the information.
Soon, Song Junming's men handed the person's information to Song Junming.
Song Junming quickly read the information, then pointed at the middle-aged man and said to the guard beside him: "Go and call him over to me."
"Yes!" The guard took the order and went to call someone to see Song Junming.
"Wang Neiguan, I will go with you to see His Highness!" Song Junming said.
"Okay!" Wang Quan said.
"The governor has brought the people!" The guard saluted.
"I have seen the governor. I wonder what the governor wants me to do?" The middle-aged man saluted Song Junming.
"His Royal Highness wants to see you. Please follow me and Wang Neiguan to see the prince." Song Junming said and walked towards Li Chengqian with Wang Quan. The middle-aged man followed closely behind them.
"My dear!" Wang Quan returned to Li Chengqian and bowed.
"I have seen your Highness!" Song Junming and the middle-aged man saluted Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian nodded, looked at the middle-aged man standing behind Song Junming, and asked, "What is your name? What is your position?"
"Your Highness! I am the Zuo Guoyi Duwei of Zhechong Mansion. My surname is Xi and my name is Junmai!" The middle-aged man saluted and said.
Li Chengqian was stunned after hearing this!
He never thought that the person standing in front of him was actually Xi Junmai.
This was the man who led 120 elite cavalrymen to quell the internal turmoil of Tuyuhun. Because of this achievement, he left the name Xi Junmai in history.
This happened in the 15th year of Zhenguan. Tuyuhun's Prime Minister Xuan Wang took sole control of Tuyuhun's national affairs and conspired to attack Princess Honghua, who was married to the Tuyuhun King by the Tang Dynasty, and kidnapped Tuyuhun King Nuohebi to flee to Tubo.
This Xuan Wang was a pro-Tubo faction within Tuyuhun, and had always had a bad relationship with the pro-Tang faction. Later, Tubo was able to quickly destroy Tuyuhun, and Xuan Wang's pro-Tubo faction played a big role.
Somehow, the news of the Prime Minister Xuan Wang's conspiracy leaked out and was known by King Nuohebo, so the king led the light cavalry to Shanshan City.
His minister Weixin Wang led troops to welcome him and sent people to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the Tang Dynasty did not pay much attention to Tuyuhun and just assigned someone to lead troops to solve the problem!
For the Tang Dynasty, Tuyuhun was just a small country, and the Tang court did not take it too seriously.
So this task fell to Xi Junmai's Zhechong Mansion, so Xi Junmai attacked King Xuan for Nuohebo.
It seems that this Tuyuhun civil strife is just an insignificant civil strife. Xi Junmai quickly dealt with Tuyuhun Prime Minister Xuan Wang and killed his three brothers!
This temporarily silenced the pro-Tubo faction in Tuyuhun.
The Tuyuhun people were greatly frightened, so Emperor Li II sent the Minister of Revenue Tang Jian to appease them.
The matter came to an end, because the court did not pay much attention to Tuyuhun, and the internal strife in Tuyuhun was quickly quelled.
The Tang Dynasty did not pay much attention to the hero who quelled the civil strife this time - Xi Junmai, but just recorded it casually in the history books.
"Are you Xi Junmai?" Li Chengqian asked.
"It's me!" Xi Junmai said, he was confused, and the prince sounded as if he knew him.
But he and the prince had never met before, so how did the prince know him?
"I heard that you led 120 cavalrymen to quell the internal turmoil in Tuyuhun in the 15th year of Zhenguan. You were really brave." Li Chengqian said.
No matter what the situation was at that time, it was very good that Xi Junmai could deal with the internal turmoil in Tuyuhun with 120 men under his command.
Not everyone is capable of solving the internal problems of others with more than 100 people.
"Your Highness! At that time, the King of Tuyuhun, Nuohebo, came to the Tang Dynasty to ask for help. I followed the order from above and led 120 brothers to Tuyuhun to attack the rebel Tuyuhun Prime Minister Xuan Wang."
Xi Junmai told everything that happened.
The civil strife in Tuyuhun was nothing more than the three brothers of Xuan Wang, and these three brothers were directly killed by Xi Junmai who was like a god descended from the sky!
The civil strife collapsed without attack and was soon quelled, which also scared the Tuyuhun people half to death. His Majesty Li II had to send people to comfort the Tuyuhun people.
This matter was just turned over!
Xi Junmai was also promoted to the Zuo Guoyi Duwei of Zhechong Mansion, and his official career came to an end.
If he doesn't have any outstanding performance in this life, he will have to stay in Zhechong Prefecture and serve as a brave and resolute commander for the rest of his life.