On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 522
The evening wind came slowly, and the mountain wind still carried a faint smell of blood.

Cui Che was leisurely under the starry sky, overlooking Daxing, with a panoramic view of the city.

Behind him, trebuchets were already being set up, and the peasants were divided into three shifts to transport stones to Jiuyi Heights day and night.

And what Cui Che has to do is to bombard Daxing City mercilessly starting tomorrow.

When the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city is low, they will use their fear to release the "Book of Complaint to the Fathers of Kansai" to completely destroy the fighting spirit of the defenders.

The successful capture of the Jiuyi Highland made Cui Che feel that he could sit on the Diaoyutai until the news came from Longyou.

Murong Fuyun, Khan of Tuyuhun, couldn't stand his loneliness, so he sent troops to Longyou, claiming to respond to the call of King Cui Che of Yan, to support the offensive, but in fact he burned, killed, looted and devastated the people.

Murong Fuyun is the son of Murong Kualu, and the younger brother of Murong Shifu, the former Khan of Tuyuhun.

In the 11th year of Emperor Kaihuang (591 AD), Murong Kualu died of illness. Murong Shifu inherited the Khan throne and proclaimed himself a minister to the Sui Dynasty. In the 16th year of Emperor Kaihuang (596 AD), he proposed to marry the princess of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Jian canonized the daughter of the clan as Guanghua Princess, marry into Tuyuhun.

However, only a year later, civil strife broke out in Tuyuhun, and Murong Shifu was killed. His younger brother Murong Fuyun came to power, named Busabo Khan, and followed the Xianbei inheritance system, marrying his sister-in-law Princess Guanghua as his wife .

Murong Fuyun was ambitious, he had hoped to split Guanlong with Cui Che, but he refused.

Later, he sent troops alone to invade Longyou, and was finally persuaded by Gao Jiong's allusion that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold. He stopped the army and even wanted to help Gao Jiong.

It's just that Yang Guang has a strange brain circuit, and he actually refused Tuyuhun's reinforcements for the sake of face.

Now seeing Cui Che leading the troops into the Guanzhong, the whole journey is like breaking a bamboo, and I know that the lips with dead lips and teeth are already doomed.

So he immediately dispatched troops to Longyou, on the one hand, to show his favor to Cui Che, and on the other hand, to take the opportunity to plunder and rob Longyou's people and animals.

Of course, the more important thing is to marry Cui Che's daughter for Prince Murong Shun of Tuyuhun.

After bombarding Daxing City for several days, Tuyuhun's envoys came to the camp, representing Murong Fuyun, to ask Cui Che for credit.

Cui Che didn't know that Tuyuhun was invading Longyou until now.

Since the Western Sui Dynasty and Tuyuhun shook hands to make peace, Gao Jiong and Yu Wenshu dispatched some Longyou soldiers to go eastward, which made the already stretched Longyou defense line even more leaky.

But Cui Che didn't appreciate Murong Fuyun's kindness.

He suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice:

"Earlier, your country's envoy went to Monan Grassland to pay homage to this king, and offered to send troops to help me and share Guanlong with me, but Gu Zeng flatly refused.

"Gu and the envoy of your country have spoken first, the land of Kansai, I will take it for myself, and I don't need to bother others.

"Now the two camps of the East and the West are attacking each other and fighting endlessly. It is only a civil war in the Sui Dynasty. How dare foreigners participate in it!"

Cui Che's attitude was completely beyond the envoy's expectations. He explained:
"Khan's move is also out of loyalty to the king.

"Your Majesty also has [-] Khitan soldiers under his command, and we Tuyuhun are also loyal to His Majesty, fighting for His Majesty, and containing the soldiers of Longyou.

"Khan specially asked the prince to marry the king's daughter to express his heart, and hoped that Tuyuhun would be the king's family from generation to generation."

Hearing that Longyou was attacked, Cui Che was already furious, but seeing that Tuyuhun still wanted to marry his daughter, it was even more unbearable.

He doesn't have many unmarried daughters now, the oldest ones are his pro-daughter Cui Wenjun who was nine years old at the time, and his stepdaughter Guanyin and maidservant who were the same age.

No matter who it was, Cui Che would never allow them to marry Tuyuhun and be persecuted by the Xianbei succession marriage system.

Of course, Tuyuhun didn't dare to expect Cui Che's only daughter-in-law, so he set his mind on Cui Che's stepdaughter, Guanyin, the servant girl.

However, before the envoy proposed marriage, Cui Che said with a gloomy face:

"Gu will not sacrifice his daughter to marry far away, not in the past, not now, and even less in the future!
"Go back and tell Murong Fuyun to tell him to withdraw his army and return to the country immediately, otherwise don't say it was unpredictable!"

After finishing speaking, he asked the guards to drive the envoy away, otherwise he was worried that he would not be able to suppress the anger in his heart and would kill the envoy to vent his anger.

"Your Majesty! The foreign ministers came here on orders, but Khan is determined to befriend His Majesty.

"It's just a stepdaughter. Marrying into Tuyuhun, the beauty of marriage, will be of great benefit to the King, and there will be no harm, Your Majesty"

The envoy's shouting went farther and farther until it could not be heard, but it could not shake Cui Che's mind after all.

The Gao family and Guanyin's maidservant and daughter had already been taken to the camp on Jiuyi Highland.

Guanyin's servant did not know where to hear a few words, thinking that Cui Che was going to marry him far away, and make peace with Tuyuhun, Guanyin's maid cried in tears in the room, no matter how Gao shi coaxed her, she couldn't stop her tears.

In desperation, Gao had no choice but to find Cui Che, who had just returned from the front line. He couldn't hide his anxiety, and asked directly:

"Your Majesty really wants to marry Xin'er to Tuyuhun?"

Cui Che didn't take it seriously and said:
"The envoy of Tuyuhun mentioned something in front of me before, but I have already rejected it. Where did you hear the news?"

Gao naturally believed in Cui Che, he didn't need to lie to himself, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

She was also reluctant to push her own daughter into the fire pit.

A woman who is married to a foreign race, because of the damned inheritance system, not only has to serve her husband, but also has to commit herself to her husband’s brothers and nephews after her husband’s death.

If they live long, they may even be wives to their grandchildren.

It's really against ethics.

With lingering fears in her heart, Gao told Cui Che that Guanyin's servant girl mistakenly thought that she was going to marry far away, and now she is still hiding in the house and weeping sadly.

Cui Che frowned and said:
"Go back and explain the matter clearly to Xiner. If this kind of thing happens in the future, come to me and ask first. Don't listen to those rumors lightly."

Gao Shi shook his head and smiled wryly:
"It's better for the king to go in person. Even if the concubine explained to her, she would not believe it. She would only think that the concubine was coaxing and comforting her."

Cui Che was helpless, fortunately today's bombardment battle had come to an end, and there was nothing else to arrange for the night, so Cui Che happened to be free, so he went straight to the bedroom of Guanyin's maidservant.

He didn't push the door to enter, but knocked on the door a few times and asked:

"It's me, can I come in?"

The Guanyin servant girl heard Cui Che's voice, and didn't want to see him, so she walked quickly to the door, leaned her back, and blocked the door.

"Grandpa, go back. My daughter doesn't want to see you. When the time comes, my daughter will be obedient, get in the carriage, and marry Tuyuhun."

There was a bit of crying in the voice.

Cui Che outside the door felt distressed and amused at the same time, it turned out that the little girl had already prepared the psychological construction for the marriage.

Cui Che knew that Guanyin's maidservant was behind the door, so he jokingly said:

"I didn't even agree to Tuyuhun's marriage proposal, why are you in such a hurry to get married!"

(End of this chapter)