Chapter 93: If you don't break the Jinluo oath, you won't pay it back
To be honest, after meeting Xie Yingying, Xie Yingying appeared in Li Bin's mind from time to time. Later, Li Bin found out that Xie Yingying was a woman from the Xie family in Beijing and was recognized as one of the three beauties in Beijing. The other two are Princess Ruian Zhao Shuyi and Princess Yue Cao Xiujiao.
Princess Cao Xiujiao is the eldest daughter of Cao Wentao, the head of the Cao family in the capital. It is precisely because King Yue Zhao Jing married the eldest daughter of the Cao family that the Cao family chose to support King Yue.
King Zhao Jing of Yue was the only prince who married the daughter of the Thirteen Generals in almost two hundred years.
The royal family of the Great Yan Empire chose a crown prince. Although they basically followed the tradition of the eldest son as the crown prince, there were other cases where the legitimate son became the crown prince and ascended the throne and became emperor.
In order to prevent the power of the foreign relatives from being too strong, the royal family generally did not choose the prince's legitimate daughter of the Thirteen Generals as their concubines. Cao Xiujiao was appointed by his son Zhao Zheqin today.
When Li Bin heard that his father had actually made a marriage for him, his heart thumped, "Dad, is it really Xie Yingying, who is known as one of the three beauties in the capital?"
Li Zhao said with a proud look: "Then there is still a falsehood. Today, Xie Yingying's second uncle, Xie Kuiyu, the General General of Xuanwei of Zuo Zongwei, has already made a marriage contract with me in person. In the past two days, our family will send the betrothal gifts. Even if this marriage has been completely settled! And after Xie Kuiyu said, Xie Yingying has seen you and agreed to this marriage! Hahaha, Binzi, are you still satisfied with this marriage that Dad has found for you?"
Li Bin rubbed his hands and smirked, "Of course I am satisfied, of course I am satisfied, so I am so satisfied!"
Seeing Li Bin's appearance, Li Zhao and Li Lie couldn't help laughing again. They were more satisfied with the marriage. Moreover, given Xie Yingying's current family situation, Li Bin is not a high-level player. The two families should be considered a match.
In order to avoid the long nights and dreams, Li Zhao gave the betrothal gift the next day. Now Li Bin has no shortage of money, so the betrothal gift he gave to the Xie family this time is worth almost 30,000 taels of silver.
The news of Li Bin and Xie Yingying getting engaged quickly spread throughout the capital. This news was even more exciting than Ma Yuyan's initiative to ask Li Bin to withdraw from the marriage. After all, Xie Yingying is one of the three beauties in the capital, and Li Bin has been recognized by the people of the capital as an ugly fat man.
The engagement between Xie Yingying and Li Bin is definitely the most realistic reflection of the saying that flowers are placed on cow dung.
Once, Li Bin was about to go out of the city to the military camp of the Xiaoqi Camp, but on the way, he was stopped by several scholars dressed up by scholars. These scholars were admired by Xie Yingying, so they used flowers to insult Li Bin.
Yan Liang, Dian Wei, Meng Tie, Li Ba and others who were following Li Bin, heard that several scholars dared to humiliate their lords and wanted to kill these scholars on the spot, but Li Bin stopped them.
Li Bin also said to several scholars with a smile: "If there is no nourishment of cow dung, how can flowers bloom all the time? For Miss Xie, I, Li Bin, are willing to be cow dung."
After saying that, Li Bin laughed and urged the horse to leave, without paying attention to the unreasonable scholars.
Although he was married, Li Bin never met Xie Yingying again afterwards. According to the customs of the Great Yan Empire, if there were no special circumstances, the men and women after marriage could not meet again until the day of their marriage.
However, Li Bin communicated several letters with Xie Yingying, and Li Bin often sent people to send some gifts to Xie Yingying.
When Li Bin learned that Xie Yingying was willing to eat the spicy hot pot in his store, he directly sent dozens of portions of the spicy hot pot bottom, and also delivered the copper hot pot and the prepared dipping sauce together.
When he learned that Xie Yingying had also practiced martial arts since she was a child and was skilled in archery and horses, Li Bin sent Xie Yingying a maroon Anpuma again.
In addition, even Xie Yingying's mother Sun, her younger brother Xie Yanyu and Li Bin gave away any gifts.
According to the agreement between the two families, we are preparing to hold a wedding for Li Bin and Xie Yingying in May next year after Li Bin and the crown.
However, in September of the 16th year of Jianping, a 800-mile mail sent by the border of Laizhou Prefecture broke the peace of the capital, and even Li Bin's marriage could not be held as scheduled.
On the morning court on September 9, 16th year of Jianping, the atmosphere in the hall seemed very tense.
In today's morning court, civil officials and military officers above the fourth rank in the capital participated. Li Bin, a general from the fourth rank in Xuanwei, was also asked to participate in today's court meeting.
Zhao Zhe, the emperor of Dayan, said in a cold tone: "I believe many of you all have known it. Just seven days ago, the Jin Luo Kingdom brazenly sent troops to Fujie Kingdom, trying to annex a vassal state of my Dayan. Now the Fujie Kingdom is asking for help from my Dayan. I wonder what your beloved officials think?"
As soon as the emperor Zhao Zhe finished speaking, the Secretary-General Zhang Jialuo took a step forward and bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Fuzhang is one of the longest vassal states in my Great Yan. Now Fuzhang has become my Great Yan vassal state for 618 years. If my Dayan does not save Fuzhang, how can I explain to other vassal states? How can I explain to the people of the world? How can I explain to my ancestors and ancestors of Dayan? I beg your Majesty to send troops to Jinluo to rescue Fuzhang!"
Fujun State is in the southeast of the Jinluo State and has no territory to connect with the Dayan Empire. However, Fujun State is a sea-side country and has a lot of maritime trade with the Dayan Empire.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Great Yan Empire, the military front was strong and the country could not defeat it. This also caused the surrounding countries to submit to the Great Yan Empire. The Fujun Kingdom was that the military front, which was intimidated by the Great Yan Empire a few years after the establishment of the Great Yan Empire, had to become a vassal state of the Great Yan Empire.
The land area of Fujun Kingdom is not small, almost one-fifth of that of the Great Yan Empire, and the population is also large, at least more than 20 million.
In addition, the industry and commerce of Fujun were very developed and the people were rich. The total annual tax revenue of Fujun was even higher than that of the Great Yan Empire.
However, the Fujun Kingdom, like the Dawei Empire south of the Dayan Empire, both value culture and over military affairs, and use culture to control martial arts. The military personnel had a very low status in the Fujun Kingdom, which made the Fujun army, although they had excellent weapons and equipment, their combat effectiveness was very weak.
After the Jinluo Kingdom sent troops to Fuzhi Kingdom, the Fuzhi Kingdom's army was defeated and could not resist the tiger and wolf army of Jinluo Kingdom, and had to ask for help from his sect leader.
If the Great Yan Empire did not take any rescue efforts, it might not take long for the entire territory of Fujun Kingdom to be captured by the Jinluo Kingdom's army, and a country that was founded longer than the Great Yan Empire would no longer exist.
The left chief of the Secretariat Shi Naijie immediately stepped out and said loudly: "I will discuss it!"
The right chief of the Secretariat Jiang Wenjun then went out and shouted: "I will discuss it!"
Immediately afterwards, many civil officials in the hall came out and shouted the three words "Since the comments"!
Xie Zhitong, Minister of War, took the post at this time and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the Jinluo Kingdom was originally a vassal state of our Great Yan. Since the Xiahou clan usurped the throne more than 80 years ago, the Jinluo Kingdom has broken away from the clan relationship with our Great Yan and has also successively annexed other vassal states of our Great Yan. It has become a major concern for our Great Yan. The three attacks on Jinluo have caused the Jinluo Kingdom to owe us one after another blood debt after another. I ask Your Majesty to send troops to attack Jinluo four times!"
After Xie Zhitong, the military officers in the hall also took off one after another, and the three words "I'm asking for advice" sounded one after another in the hall. Even Li Bin was excited and shouted: "I'm asking for advice!"
After the civil and military officials made their statements, the Crown Prince Zhao Chang also said word by word: "Father, now our 59 guards of the Great Yan Imperial Guards have been reorganized. It can be said that it is the time when the troops are strong and the horses are strong. My son is willing to lead the troops personally to attack Jin Luo, a country that is unofficial, and expand the territory for our Great Yan!"
King Zhao Yu of Jin, King Zhao Jian of Qin, King Zhao Zhi of Song, and King Zhao Jing of Yue of Yue all followed one by one, all expressing their willingness to lead troops to attack the Jin Luo Kingdom.
Looking at the passionate ministers in the hall, the ice on the face of Emperor Zhao Zhe finally melted. He stood up from the dragon throne with some excitement, and even shouted with a little trembling voice: "The Emperor Taizong raised his army with a cold, ending the turmoil in the Central Plains for more than 300 years and establishing our Great Yan Empire, which has been 623 years since then."
Before the establishment of the Great Yan Empire, more than a dozen countries attacked each other for more than 300 years in the current territory of the Great Yan Empire. Zhao Yong, the Emperor Taizong of the Great Yan Empire, was originally just a bandit leader. By chance, he was surrendered by many heroes. In the end, Zhao Yong spent more than 20 years to destroy more than a dozen countries and unify the Central Plains.
Emperor Zhao Zhe continued to shout: "For the past 623 years, the army of Dayan has been so strong that it is almost impossible to defeat the country. The saying of Dayan's soldiers is piled up with the bones of countless enemies, and it is also rendered with the blood of countless soldiers of Dayan! However, the Jin Luo Kingdom dared to repeatedly annex my Dayan vassal state and offend my Dayan's power. Now I raised a butcher's knife to Fujun Country. It is unbearable!"
Because of excitement, the shouts of Emperor Zhao Zhe changed a little, and even became a little hoarse, but Emperor Zhao Zhe didn't care at this time. He continued to shout: "This country of unjust ministers, my Dayan will attack him! In the name of Emperor Dayan, I announced that I would send troops to attack Jinluo Kingdom, and I would not return until I defeat Jinluo!"
"I will not return until I defeat Jin Luo!"
"I will not return until I defeat Jin Luo!"
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Just after the emperor Zhao Zhe shouted the words "I will not return until I defeated Jin Luo", the ministers in the hall shouted excitedly.
With the slogan "I will never return until I defeat Jin Luo", Li Bin felt that he was excited and his blood was boiling. He wished he could lead his troops now and enter Jin Luo's capital, Jin Luo City.
Almost all the military officers in the hall were like Li Bin, pulling their necks one by one, shouting loudly, "I will not return until I defeat Jin Luo."
These military officers were basically from Thirteen Generals, and the children of Thirteen Generals suffered heavy casualties in the three wars to attack Jinluo Kingdom. Now there are still many corpses of the children of Thirteen Generals who are still in the territory of Jinluo Kingdom. The children of Thirteen Generals have never forgotten the blood hatred between the family and the Jinluo Kingdom.
Chapter completed!