Chapter 172 Return
After Li Bin returned to Yong'an City, as he had guessed, the Dayan court quickly agreed to the request for alliance between the Tuz Empire and was willing to send reinforcements to support the Tuz Empire and resist the invasion of the Roland Empire when the Roland Empire invaded the Tuz Empire.
In fact, although the Roland Empire is far apart from the Great Yan Empire, the Great Yan Empire knew the existence of the Roland Empire a long time ago. Compared with the Tuz Empire and the Roland Empire, the Great Yan court was still willing to choose the former neighbor.
Once the Tuz Empire is really annexed by the Roland Empire, the twenty-four vassal states in the west of the Great Yan Empire, and even the Great Yan Empire itself, may face the threat of the invasion of the Roland Empire.
Asilse, the leader of the Tuz Empire's mission, is a member of the Tuz Empire's royal family and the cousin of the current emperor of the Tuz Empire.
Asilsai was very dissatisfied when he learned that the sixteen Holy Sword disciples who came to the Great Yan Empire this time actually chose to be loyal to Li Bin, the Zhennan Hou of the Great Yan Empire. He was very dissatisfied. You should know that these sixteen Holy Sword disciples are all Purple-Ray Knights, and they are the top knights in the Tuz Empire's combat power.
However, Asilse's dissatisfaction did not last long. With the help of Mukhtar, the left guardian of the Holy Sword Sect, Asilse finally transferred all the only two purple-light knights and six blue-light knights in his guard to Li Bin for a price of 160,000 taels of gold.
Even after returning to the Tuz Empire, Asilse became a partner of the Holy Sword Sect and worked as a second-hand dealer with the Holy Sword Sect.
After Li Bin returned to Yong'an City, he had to continue to learn the cumbersome etiquettes at the wedding with Princess Ruian. Fortunately, Li Bin bit the bullet and studied for three days this time, and finally he was able to learn the cumbersome etiquettes as if they were decent.
It was soon the eighth day of April in the 20th year of Jianping, which was the day when Li Bin and Princess Ruian Zhao Shuyi were overjoyed.
The whole wedding lasted from morning to evening, and Li Bin and Princess Ruian Zhao Shuyi returned to the bridal chamber.
Li Bin picked up the red veil covered by Princess Ruian Zhao Shuyi, and then smiled and said, "You're so tired today!"
Zhao Shuyi said shyly: "Mr. Concubine, I...I'm not tired."
Li Bin looked at Princess Ruian Zhao Shuyi, who was so charming and beautiful, and said with some sigh: "I didn't expect that Li Bin would be lucky enough to become Princess Ruian's son-in-law. Please rest assured Princess Ruian, I, Li Bin, will never let you down in this life!"
Zhao Shuyi whispered: "Mr. Prince Consort, just call me Shuyi in the future."
"Haha, OK! I'll call you Shuyi from now on."
After Li Bin married Princess Zhao Shuyi of Ruian, he stayed in the capital for more than ten days. On April 20, the 20th year of Jianping, Li Bin and his family set off and left Yong'an City.
The number of people who left Yong'an City with Li Bin exceeded 700. In addition to the many powerful generals under Li Bin's command, the miraculous doctor Bian Que, the four great kings, the sixty-four wolf generals, the three personal guards and the Knights of Glory, there were also Li Meng's family of three, as well as 20 family soldiers under Li Meng, more than 20 servants from the Nanhou Mansion of the former capital of Jingcheng Town, and more than 30 maids who came to Princess Ruian.
Because there were family members and a large number of maids and servants in the team, Li Bin and his team brought dozens of carriages, which made the speed of traveling slower than when Li Bin returned to Beijing.
At present, there are serious bandits in various parts of Dayan territory. However, there are hundreds of armored cavalry in Li Bin and his team. No bandits dared to attack Li Bin and his team along the way, which allowed Li Bin and his team to successfully enter the Shenzhou Prefecture of the Great Wei Empire.
However, as soon as he entered the Shenzhou Prefecture of the Great Wei Empire, Li Bin suffered two assassinations in succession.
Although all the more than 100 assassins who participated in the two assassins were killed, twenty-eight personal guards and three domestic soldiers under Li Meng were killed. In addition, fourteen servants from the Nanhou Mansion of the former Jingcheng Town and two maids next to Zhao Shuyi, Ruian Princess Zhao Shuyi, were shot to death by the assassin's crossbow arrows.
Princess Ruian Zhao Shuyi frowned and asked Li Bin: "Husband, could these assassins be sent by Jin Luo Kingdom?"
Li Bin said slowly: "There are many forces who want my life. These two waves of assassins may not be from Jin Luo Kingdom. However, on my way back to Beijing, Jin Luo Kingdom did send people to intercept me in the Shenzhou Prefecture of Wei. After I return to Guizhou Prefecture, I will ask Jin Luo Kingdom to calculate the account carefully."
Xie Yingying said at this time: "Husband, we have to be more careful next time. After all, it is easy to avoid open guns, but it is difficult to prevent hidden arrows. Moreover, we are still in the territory of Wei."
Li Bin nodded and said, "We will arrive at Tushun Port as soon as possible. We have asked the Zhennan Navy to send warships to wait for us at Tushun Port. It will be safe when we arrive at the sea."
After being assassinated by two groups, Li Bin and his team never encountered any twists and turns on the road ahead. They arrived at Tushun Port on June 10. At this time, dozens of warships from Zhennan Navy had been waiting at the dock of Tushun Port for many days.
On the warship of the South Navy, Li Bin and his team took more than 20 days of sailing and finally arrived at the dock of the Manshui River more than 40 miles east of Guizhou City on July 2.
Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, and many generals from Zhennan Grand Governor's Office all came to the dock to welcome Li Bin and his group.
When they returned to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office in Guizhou City, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping immediately reported to Li Bin the attack on the Dongman tribes for the past six months.
After the Zhennan Army annihilated the 300,000 troops of the five major tribes of Hua Dongman and Heishuiman, and captured these five major tribes, the Zhennan Grand Commander's Office issued an ultimatum to the major tribes of Qingfan Man, Hongshan Man, Hua Dongman, and Heishuiman, requiring the four major barbarians and other large tribes to submit to the Zhennan Grand Commander's Office in name.
Then many large tribes of the four major barbarians agreed to nominally surrender to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office. After all, these large tribes had nominally surrendered to the Jinluo Kingdom, but now they have just changed their names.
But some large tribes of the four major barbarians, with the secret support of the Jinluo Kingdom, not only refused to surrender to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office, but also connected together, gathering millions of troops to try to compete with the Zhennan Army.
However, it is not just the Jin Luo Congress who is making trouble behind the scenes. Under the operation of Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, millions of barbarian troops gathered together had an internal strife before they could fight against the Zhennan Army.
In the end, the Zhennan Army took advantage of the internal strife of the barbarian army to wipe out millions of barbarian troops in one fell swoop, and more than 700,000 were captured by the prisoners alone.
Next, the Zhennan Army divided into multiple groups and took a short time to capture the twenty-two large tribes that the four major barbarians participated in the connection.
Up to now, the number of barbarian tribes conquered by the Zhennan Army has exceeded 270, and the remaining nearly 300 large and small Eastern Barbarian tribes have all expressed their willingness to surrender to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office.
It can be said that the Great Yan Dongman Governor's Office is already worthy of its name, while the Dongzhou Prefecture of Jinluo Kingdom has become history.
Zhuge Liang said to Li Bin: "Master, according to the plan of the four of us, the entire Dongman Governor's Office will be divided into forty counties and two hundred and seventy counties. However, the entire Dongman Governor's Office has about half of the territory in the east. It is not under the control of the Zhennan Army. The Zhennan Governor's Office can directly manage the population of the Dongman tribes of the Zhennan Governor's Office, and there are about 14 million people, and there are about 18 million people. They belong to the barbarian tribes that nominally surrendered to our Zhennan Governor's Office."
Zhang Liang continued: "We are going to use semi-coercive means to first incorporate the army of 255 small tribes and completely control these 255 small tribes that are nominally surrendered to our Zhennan Grand Governor's Office. Of course, we will give some financial compensation to the rulers of the 255 small tribes."
As soon as Zhang Liang finished speaking, Li Bin frowned and said, "It is necessary to incorporate the army of those 255 small tribes, but will it cause a collective rebound of these 255 small tribes? In addition, will the remaining large tribes have the idea of the rabbit dead and the fox being sad, and they will also cause trouble together?"
Pang Tong smiled and said, "Lord, don't worry, lord, we have hired a total of 1.7 million barbarian troops at high prices in the name of the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office to those 255 small tribes and the 38 large tribes of the four major barbarians at a high price. When this one.7 million barbarian army arrives in the western area of the Eastern Barbarian Protectorate controlled by our Zhennan Army, the Zhennan Army will only acquire the army of those 255 small tribes."
Chen Ping followed and said, "After solving the two hundred and fifty-five small tribes, we will find a way to annex the last thirty-eight large tribes of the four major barbarians one by one."
Li Bin nodded slightly and said, "Henging the army of those barbarian tribes is a great move. Then continue to follow the plan formulated by the four of you, and strive to let our Zhennan Army control the entire Eastern Mansion Protectorate as soon as possible."
Zhuge Liang then said to Li Bin: "Lord, our transaction with Duan Bohao, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War of Wei was very smooth. After Tu Lin, the head commander of the Tu family army of Wei fell, most of the generals of the Tu family army were affected, especially Tu Lin's confidants, plus the seven generals of the Tu family army captured by the lord before, thirty-five generals of the Tu family army came to Guizhou City. For this reason, we paid a total of 8.4 million taels of silver to Duan Bohao, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War of Wei. In addition, in order to bring the families of these Tu family generals to Guizhou City, we also gave Duan Bohao, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War of Wei. "
When Li Bin heard this, his eyes lit up, "Are the thirty-five generals of the Tu family army willing to surrender to this marquis?"
Zhuge Liang said: "The thirty-five generals of the Tu family army are all powerful generals of the Tu family army, including nine of the thirteen King Kongs under Yuan Tu Lin, fifteen of the thirty-six Biao generals, and eleven of the twenty-four Mr. Bao. At present, these thirty-five generals of the Tu family army have basically expressed their willingness to join the Zhennan Army. As for the remaining powerful generals in the Tu family army, in addition to the three dead Biao generals, some of them have long surrendered to the civil servants of the Wei State, and some of them are missing."
Li Bin couldn't help but smile and said, "This deal is worth it. It only took more than 10 million taels of silver to exchange for almost half of the generals of the Tu family army. I will take time in the past two days to meet these generals of the Tu family army."
Nine of the thirteen King Kongs under Tu Lin's command who came to Guizhou City were Han Zhen, Xu Ying, Wang Sheng, Dong He, Fang Li, Yang Lun, Zhao Tong, Wei Xie and Huo Qian.
Fifteen of the thirty-six generals were Liu Quan, Fang Song, Deng Yong, Song Qi, Gao Lian, Huang Cheng, Qi Bo, Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong, Yang Zhongzhang, Kong Tao, Chen Jian, Shi Rui, Cui Bao and Meng Hu.
The eleven people among the twenty-four princesses are Tu Yanzhong, the second grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yan'en, the third grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanyi, the fourth grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanxin, the fifth grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanli, the sixth grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanzhi, the twelve grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanheng, the thirteenth grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanheng, the sixth grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanyong, the nineteenth grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanli and the twenty-two grand sacrificial insurance Tu Yanyun.
The thirty-five generals of the former Tu family army, except for the Sixth Taibao Tu Yanzhi, the Twelve Taibao Tu Yanen, the Thirteenth Taibao Tu Yanheng and the Nineteenth Taibao Tu Yanli, were southern barbarians, and the remaining thirty-one were from Wei.
After Li Bin met these 35 generals of the original Tu family army one by one, these 35 generals of the original Tu family army's master level became generals of the southern army in Dayan Town.
In a hall in the imperial palace of Jinluo City, the capital of Jinluo Kingdom, Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War, reported to Emperor Xiahou Zhen: "Your Majesty, Li Bin has returned to Guizhou City."
Emperor Xiahou Zhen asked in a deep voice: "Have Xiahou Ben, Dong Ci and the others not found yet?"
Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War, sighed and said, "Your Majesty, although the specific whereabouts of Xiahou Ben, Dong Ci and the others were not found, it should be a lot of danger."
Emperor Xiahou Zhen shook his head helplessly and said, "Among the more than 800 people sent to intercept Li Bin, there are thirteen master warriors alone, as well as powerful generals like Xiahou Ben and Dong Ci. Unexpectedly, not only did not kill Li Bin in the end, but more than 800 people did not even come back. Alas - Li Bin is really my nemesis of Jin Luo!"
Xiahou Cheng, the Minister of War, smiled bitterly and said, "What Your Majesty said is that Li Bin is really the nemesis of my Jin Luo. Now my Dongzhou Prefecture in Jin Luo has completely become the Dongman Protectorate of Da Yan. The gap in strength between our Jin Luo and Da Yan has become increasingly larger."
Emperor Xiahou asked unwillingly: "There is really no way to go in Dongzhou Prefecture?"
Xiahou Cheng said with a sad look: "Your Majesty, in addition to the more than 270 barbarian tribes conquered by the southern army of Yan State, nearly 300 tribes of the Eastern Barbarian tribes, including the large tribes of the four major barbarians, have surrendered to the Zhennan Army of Yan State. In addition, the Grand Governor's Office of Zhennan of Yan State also warned us that if Jin Luo continued to cause trouble in the Eastern Barbarian Protectorate of Yan State, the Southern Army of Yan State would definitely not sit idly by."
Emperor Xiahou Zhen gritted his teeth and said, "I have bullied people too much. I must return the shame that Yan State imposed on me by Jin Luo to Yan State a hundred times and a thousand times!"
Xiahou Cheng did not dare to respond. After losing Dongzhou Prefecture, the Jinluo Kingdom was left with only the Jingcheng Road, Lingzhou City, Luzhou City, Yingzhou City and Yizhou Prefecture. The total population was only about 23 million, and in fact it had lost the strength to compete with the Great Yan Empire.
Chapter completed!