Chapter 608 The Prince of Hejian
Chapter 608 King of Hejian County
Just when Chen Kefu was thinking about how to beat the fallen dog and planned to deal with Li Yuan. A netizen in the novel "" hit the city of Weijun, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties north of him. Dou Jiande, the "Hejian Prince" was also unable to sleep or eat, and sat in the newly awarded Hejian Prince's Mansion and sighed.
Since being invited by Wei King Wei Daoer to go south from Qinghe County to Wei County and participated in the founding and crowning ceremony of Mantian King, Dou Jiande has been in a bad mood all day long and sat in the mansion and sighed all day long.
"Zhi Niang, I have been here for a long time. I shouldn't have gone south at the beginning." Dou Jiande slapped the desk with a strong palm on the well-skinned sandalwood in the study, gritting his teeth and cursing his mother.
This large rosewood desk style is simple. I heard that it was the price that flowed out of the palace in Northern Qi Dynasty. Sitting in front of this rosewood table always makes people feel at ease. But today he couldn't calm down. Even when he treated the rosewood table like a treasure every day, he slapped the thick table with one palm and even slapped the thick table apart. With a crunch, the four treasures of the study and the incense burner and goldware on the table instantly slid down and fell all over the floor.
"Father, what's wrong with you?" Liu Mingzhen, the eldest grand archer of Dou Jiande, and Gao Deshen, the second grand archer of Dou Jiande, hurriedly ran in from outside. Seeing the messy items, both of them lowered their heads and did not dare to take a breath. Since arriving in Yecheng, their adoptive father Dou Jiande's temper has become worse and worse. Not only did they lose their smiles in the past, but even the old brothers like Fan Yuan and other generals were often scolded.
Yesterday, the 12th Taibao and the 13th Taibao were on duty. They were beaten in public by the drunk Dou Jiande for a trivial matter. They still can't get up.
"Get out, get out of me, go with others, King Wei, King Zhao, King Song, and I can do whatever I want. I have no soldiers to take on the rebel king, and it's not interesting for you to follow me, get out of here!"
Dou Jiande raised his foot, kicked one by one, and kicked all his adopted sons out of the study.
Da Taibao and Er Taibao rubbed their butts outside the house while smiling bitterly at each other.
"Go and invite the princess, otherwise it would be hard for us brothers to suffer today." Liu Mingzhen, the big boss, said with a wry smile.
The second wife Gao Deshen nodded, "That's all."
The two brothers sighed secretly and rushed to the backyard with their butts. It was almost February, but the weather was so cold that it made people feel that their blood was about to freeze. It was really impossible to live this day.
However, what is more unbearable than the weather is Dou Jiande's recent changes. Dou Jiande's face can no longer be seen intimacy. He is drunk every day and beats people when he gets drunk. The old brothers in Hejian are so hard that no one dares to come to the door now that they have nothing to do.
Although everyone sees Dou Jiande's changes, no one has ever complained. All the old brothers know the reason why his temper has become so bad recently. Anyone who reacts like Dou Jiande will react like Dou Jiande when his troops are decreasing day by day. In troubled times, if there is a soldier, he will not panic. The soldiers are the courage of thieves. Without soldiers, can they still be called a hero? Can they still gain a foothold in this troubled times?
Since arriving in Yecheng, although the Emperor of the Great Yan Kingdom named Dou Jiande as a prince, and the Hongxian also named him a princess. Even the old brothers in Hejian were also named generals one by one. However, before everyone was happy, the Great Yan Kingdom established the Ministry of War and established the Twelve Guards in the Sui Dynasty. All the soldiers and horses of the court, including not only the soldiers and horses of the Emperor of Da Yan, but also the soldiers and horses of Wei, Song, Zhao, etc. Even the soldiers and horses of Dou Jiande and other rebel leaders were all incorporated into the Twelve Guards.
The new system of command of the Dayan Kingdom was similar to that of the Sui Dynasty. The Ministry of War was responsible for the dispatch of troops. The generals of the twelve guards were commanded from afar, and the lieutenants of each battalion were used as the actual commander. Even the troops and horses of one battalion must be transferred through the mobilization of this Ministry of War, as well as the tiger talisman seal of the Emperor of Dayan.
The twelve guards of Dayan, Emperor Dayan personally led the left guard and appointed his second brother Wang Xumi as the general of the Right Guard, his third brother Wang Xuzhen as the general of the Left Guard, and his fourth brother Wang Xutuo as the general of the Right Guard. The four brothers occupied the four guards and were all the most elite soldiers.
In addition, Wei King Wei Daoer, Song King Song King Jingang, Zhao King Zhen Zhaier each unified the guards, and the three of them each had a confidant and unified the guards. Among the remaining eight guards, the number of six guards was occupied.
There were only two guards left in the twelve guards. Dou Jiande, the prince of Hejian, was granted the title of General of the Left Wu Guard, and one of the other leaders of the rebel army was selected to serve as General of the Right Wu Guard. Dou Jiande was satisfied with the title of General of the First Guard.
But after the king Xuba's decree came down, he couldn't help but look ashen and almost killed people. Because the latest decree showed that all the troops of Yan State were disrupted and reorganized. Dou Jiande and his old brothers in Hejian were at the lowest level from the fourth-rank Huya Lang. However, according to the latest system regulations, if the fifth-rank or above does not command troops, they will be transferred to the various guards in Yecheng. Only when the troops are sent will they receive an appointment, and they can only command troops after the Ministry of War obtains the tiger talisman seal.
As a result, Dou Jiande suddenly discovered that although he was the prince and one of the generals of the twelve guards, he had no more soldiers and soldiers. The nominal Zuowu Guards are now all under his command, Wang Xuba, Wei Daoer, Song Jingang and others' confidant subordinates are in charge. Not only are he mixed sand, but he also disrupted and reorganized. Now, except for the 5,000-man cavalry guards of the county prince's mansion, all his troops are gone. How could he not be angry about such a thing? But at this time, he was on the territory of King Xuba and others in Yecheng, even if he was dissatisfied, he could only helpless.
Not only that, Chen Pojun, Hebei has been mobilizing troops frequently recently, and his intention is very obvious, that is, he has already targeted the Dayan Kingdom among the southern counties of Hebei. If Chen Kefu does not move, he will definitely be like thunderous anger. He has seen Chen Pojun's methods many times. He was able to defeat Guo Xun and Xue Shixiong by chance, but when facing Chen Pojun, he was always scared and vulnerable.
He had a deep sense of crisis. He went to see Wang Xuba several times, but since Wang Xuba successfully integrated the troops of various units and seized their troops, his whole body changed suddenly. Although Wang Xuba had taken away his troops in the past, Dou Jiande still felt that he had the true nature of a hero. However, since becoming the emperor and seizing the power of troops, Wang Xuba gradually became arrogant and extravagant.
He and his three younger brothers commanded the four guards, all of which were listed as internal guards, guarding Yecheng and inside and outside the palace. The Wang brothers were all named kings. The Wang clan, regardless of age, were all named Dukes. Although Yecheng was the capital of the Six Dynasties, when the Northern Zhou destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, it had already razed Yecheng, the capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and many years of war left only ruins in Yecheng. However, after Wang Xuba became the emperor, he was not busy preparing for the army and preparing for war, but began to build palaces.
Wang Xuba was at the original Northern Qi Palace address and forced the 800,000 people to capture him day and night to build a new Yecheng day and night. The new city was large in scale, and the new Yecheng was rectangular, 7 miles long from east to west and 5 miles wide from north to south. There were two city walls, Guocheng and the palace city. Guocheng had 7 city gates, 3 city to the south, 1 city to the east and west, and 2 city to the north. And while the city was built, it was also on the northwest corner, imitating Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms, and used the city wall to build three copper sparrows, golden tigers, and ice wells, which were usually used for sightseeing and reviewing military and horse exercises outside the city, and used wartime fortresses.
The capital of Yan State, which was built by 800,000 people, was grand and had a high and thick wall. It is said that it could compete with Chang'an City. Wang Xuba also stored the grain seized from various places in the inner city palace city, with a total of tens of millions of stones. Wang Xuba once claimed at the court meeting that with this strong city and stored grain, Yecheng could be defended for twenty years without falling.
Wang Xuba also selected teenage beauties from the people to fill the palace. There were countless gold, jade, silk, and pearls. All the clan families of Wang Xuba also joined the palace to live. More than 800,000 people worked day and night to build Yecheng. Under Wang Xuba's urging, a huge capital city had begun to take shape, leaving only some meticulous parts that had not been completed. The high-intensity rush to work made 800,000 people who built Yecheng were exhausted and starved to death three months later. In order to save food, Wang Xuba cooked meat minced meat for the people of Jiancheng every day, lying that it was the meat of wild beasts.
After the palace in the capital was established, Wang Xuba was even less directorial. He played with the beauties selected to enter the palace every day in the garden, and enjoyed the wine pool and forest. Even those rebel leaders who had been acquainted with him, who dared to complain behind his back on the ground, immediately asked his brother to lead the imperial guards to capture them from the mansion and drag them to death from the street. Gao Juzhen, the leader of the rebel army in Qinghe, was dissatisfied with Wang Xuba's evil deeds, and connected several rebel leaders who had lost their troops and horses, wanted to use their own personal guards to draw Wang Xuba, and was found out. It happened that the king Xuba held a banquet in the palace and had fun with all officials. Wang Xuba immediately ordered him to sit in front of his seat, either cutting his hands and feet, cutting his eyes, cutting his ears, or cooking them in a big pot. The wailing sounds shocked the sky, and the officials lost their chopsticks to fight, and Wang Xuba kept eating and laughing.
Dou Jiande, who returned to the Prince's Mansion from the palace, felt that in the cold first month, his back was wet. Gradually, he found that before and after Wang Xuba became emperor, he seemed to have completely changed. In the past, Wang Xuba could be called a hero, acted with great deeds and was cruel and ruthless. But now, he only saw that he was left with cruel and ruthless and ruthless. Such a person was not even as good as Yang Guang.
Outside, the Liaodong army was mobilized, and it was gradually coming. But inside, there was a king Xuba who seized their military power while also living in the world and was drunk and dreaming. He already felt like an ant on a hot pan, but the pan was getting hotter, but he couldn't get out of this predicament, and could only feel that he was slowly being scorched to death.
Death is not scary. It is already an unexpected thing to live until now in troubled times. But Dou Jiande was unwilling to die like this, so he was too unwilling to accept it.
Only Du Kang can relieve his worries.
The chaotic and troublesomeness made Dou Jiande feel worried, but he could only numb himself with drunkenness. Only when he was drunk could he not be so afraid and worried about his future.
"Oh!" The wine fell into his throat, but he drowned his sorrow.
A sound of light footsteps came into the house. Dou Hongshi stepped into the house in a red palace dress, with a complex bun on his head, a precious silk skirt on his body, and a pink silk skirt between his arms. A water-blue belt was tied around the waist of the skirt. A green palace belt was hanging on the belt, and a bright phoenix pendant was tied to the lower end to press the corner of the skirt.
"Father, why are you drinking alone again?" Dou Hong stepped forward and grabbed the wine pot from Dou Jiande's hand and put it aside. Then she turned around and asked the maid to call a basin of water and wiped her father's face in person.
Dou Jiande sat there and let his daughter wipe his face, but looked at her daughter with a little drunkenness. Looking at her daughter's strange but beautiful appearance at this moment, she also had a bit of relief. "When a wife dressed up, she is really beautiful, and she can be the title of this princess. In the past, it was my father who was sorry for you, and she let you follow her father in a bloody storm, and she has been rushing through the sea of blood for many years, delaying your great youth. Is it the King of Wei here to find you again today?"
Dou Hongxian helped his father wipe his face, and carefully wiped his hands, while wiping, "Since he arrived in Yecheng, the King of Wei has come to the mansion again and again, but his daughter can't persuade him, so she has to answer him occasionally."
Dou Jiande sighed, "It can be seen that the King of Wei really has something to do with you. I heard that the King of Wei had a wife before, but when he was in the first place, he was reported because the matter was not secret. He was rescued by His Majesty at that time, but his wife fell into the hands of the government. He heard that he had suffered all the torture before he died. The King of Wei never married him again. Later, the King of Wei led his troops to attack Shanggu and killed all the bureaucratic officials in the county. He was also considered a kind and righteous person."
"Dad, what are you saying? My daughter will never marry anyone in this life, so she will stay by my father's side for the rest of her life." Dou Hongxin said softly, but the silver armored Luo Cheng she had seen in Hejian couldn't help but smile in her mouth. He was an official and a thief, and I'm afraid that he would never be able to get together in this life. As for Wei Daoer, although being with him was relaxed and happy, he never had the same feelings for Luo Cheng. Maybe this is not fate.
"Xian Niang, my dad wants to take you away from Hebei quietly, anywhere, Liaozhou, Weizhou, or Luozhou, Liuzhou. I heard that these four places are remote overseas and have a large and sparse population. So no matter what your identity is in the past, you can go there. When you get there, you can apply for a distribution of land. As long as you are willing to farm, you will not be afraid of not having enough food and clothing. Although there is bitter and cold, overseas, there is no war, no oppression from the powerful families, and no tax oppression from the government. You, my father and daughter, take your mother and brother, and our family of four, and live in a house. Then I will hire you an honest husband to the door. This life is something we didn't dare to think about in the early years."
Seeing his father's depression, Dou Hongxing was shocked. No matter how difficult it was in the past, he had never seen his father retreat like this. But when he said such words, did something big happen?
"Father, what happened? It's better to tell my daughter to share the burden with her."
Dou Jiande smiled bitterly, "Share the burden, how to share the burden? Just today, Wang Xuba and Wei Daoer actually proposed marriage to their father one after another, and we will offend the other one. Moreover, Yan State is already in internal and external troubles. It's ridiculous that Wang Xuba is still spending all day at this time. I'm afraid that we will stay here again and will not wait for a long time, and we will face a catastrophe."
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