Everything starts from Menghualu

Chapter 143 Enthroned as Emperor
Zhang He nodded after hearing this, and then said nothing more. At this time, the Zhe family was also discussing something about this war.

"Father, what do you mean by the Li family? How can this battle be fought like this?" Oretsugu preached.

"Xuan'er, how can we fight if we don't fight like this? Is it really possible to separate from the Zhang family and live and die? Then won't the Shazhou Uighur be in vain?"

"Besides, what if we defeat the Zhang family? Then we still have our family? Then we will help our family get rid of the enemy. Li Mingde will not take advantage of me in this kind of thing?"

"So this battle is naturally going to be fought like this. It can test the character of Zhang Wulang without delaying their attack on the sandbank. Why not?" said Zhe Weizhong.

After listening to his father's words, Zhe Jixuan stopped talking, because he knew that his father was right, so he didn't know what to say.

"Okay Xuan'er, you send a letter to the Shazhou Uighurs and ask them to be careful." Zhe Weizhong suddenly said

After hearing this, Zhe Jixuan quickly nodded in agreement, then turned around and left the study. Zhe Weizhong looked at his son's leaving back and shook his head helplessly.

Time passed slowly for half a month, and Zhang Heng's life was very comfortable during this half month, because the battle was over, the documents reporting the victory were sent out, and a little girl was taken in before.

Now he no longer has to guard an empty room alone every night, which is very happy no matter what, and equally happy as him are the people in the capital and the Zhang family.

Great victory in Linzhou, great victory in Linzhou, with these shouts, the whole capital was shaken, and finally the document reporting the victory was sent to the eldest lady.

Looking at the document in her hand, a smile appeared on the face of the eldest lady. After all, this can be said to be the first big victory since the new emperor ascended the throne, so she was still very happy.

So not long after, an imperial edict came out of the palace.

Zhang Heng was granted the title of Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, a member of the Imperial Guard, and was granted the title of Minister of War. This decree once again shocked the entire capital.

After all, this reward is still a bit too heavy compared to this so-called great victory, but no ministers came out to object.

Because this is the first victory for the new emperor since he ascended the throne, the meaning of this is naturally extraordinary, and can even be said to be auspicious. If you stand up to oppose at this time, wouldn't you be making yourself uncomfortable?

So this decree was set out, and because of this decree, the three brothers of the Zhang family gathered together again to discuss the matter.

"Second brother, Wu Lang did a great job this time, quite like a general." Zhang Chengshou laughed.

"I said, third brother, please stop talking. This means that Wu Lang is not here now. If he were here, wouldn't his tail float into the sky?" Zhang Chenglu said

"Second brother, don't belittle yourself. These shortcomings do not hide your faults. Wulang did a good job this time. As for what he said in the letter? That is not urgent, nor is it a matter of urgency."

"After all, the Uighurs are not that easy to fight. Not to mention how long it will take the Li family, just this time alone is enough for Wulang to train more elite soldiers." Zhang Chengfu said

"Brother, you are right to say that, but you don't know that there are some things that you should warn him about, lest something unexpected happens, which would be bad," Zhang Chenglu said.

"You, that's all. It's your son anyway. You can figure it out yourself. Speaking of which, the Zhe family has been very quiet this time, and nothing has happened." Zhang Chengfu said.

"Brother, their family doesn't dare to do anything now. After all, the positions of the three battalions are not settled yet. They don't dare to mess around at this time," Zhang Chengshou said

Zhang Chengfu didn't say anything after hearing this. After all, his third brother was right.

Time passed slowly, and half a year had passed in the blink of an eye. The biggest change in the past six months was the situation with the Li family.

In the past six months, the Li family had almost mobilized their entire family to launch a crazy attack on Shazhou and Guazhou. In the past six months, both the Uighurs and the Zhejia had sent a lot of news to Zhang Heng.

The Uighur's purpose was naturally to ask for help and send troops to help them, and the Zhejia's purpose was the same, but these were all put aside by Zhang Heng.

In the end, he didn't even ask. As long as it was news from the two families, he put it aside.

This caused trouble for Zhang He and Sun Yi. They received a lot of letters, and the meaning behind the words was to ask them to send troops to help.

In the end, they had no choice but to come to Zhang Heng, but when they arrived, no one spoke first, and time passed slowly.

"I said Fourth Brother, what do you mean when you come here and I don't say a word?" Zhang Heng said.
"Fifth brother, let me tell you the truth. What do you think? So many people are urging you to send troops, why haven't you made any move? Can you tell me the truth, brother?"

"What are your plans? I can't bear it anymore, your brother. If you can't tell me that you are ugly today, I will rely on you not to leave, brother." Zhang He said directly
"I said Fourth Brother, are you not in trouble? Let me tell you the truth. I know you are under a lot of pressure, but I am also under a lot of pressure. You don't know, right? My father even wrote a letter."

"Yes, I admit that our soldiers have trained well in the past six months, but the time is still too short. Compared with the soldiers of the Li family, they are not even interesting."

"That's why I have been holding back. The purpose is to wait and let them practice again. After all, we are no match for the Li family now, whether in terms of numbers or individual battles."

"You said that if you send troops at this time, our casualties will be too great. The most important thing is that once you take action, the Li family will definitely turn around and fight with us."

"We will definitely not be our opponents by then. Although we can just withdraw by then. With the Zhe family around, they will not dare to go too far."

"But we will be doomed by then. The Zhe family will definitely come and take advantage of the situation. The good situation of our Zhang family will be gone," Zhang Heng said.
"But, we can't keep waiting like this? When the Li family solves the problem of the Uighurs, won't we still be incapable of doing so? We won't be our opponents by then." Zhang He said
"Fourth brother, you are right, but after they have completely captured what you said, what if we attack when he has captured half of it? What do you think will happen then?" Zhang Heng said
"Fifth brother, you, what is your plan? Wonderful, wonderful, why didn't I think of it? Yes, yes, your idea is really good, but what if they can't stand it?" Zhang He said
"Fourth brother, you don't have to worry about this. The Li family divided their forces to attack two places at the same time. There is a reason for this. Their main goal is Guazhou."

"As for the sandbank, it is just to prevent them from helping and to contain them, so you don't need to worry at all, the sandbank will definitely hold up." Zhang Heng said
"Well, fifth brother, what you said makes sense. Now we can only wait." Zhang He said
After this conversation, the three of them began to go about their own business. They all pretended not to see the Zhejia and the Uighurs asking for help until three months later.

This day was the beginning of a special day for Zhang Heng. Yes, today was the day when Yin Zhang was given birth. At this time, he was walking back and forth anxiously outside the room.

As time passed slowly, he became more and more anxious, and slowly began to become impatient. He was on the verge of exploding. Fortunately, the child's cry finally started.
This made Zhang Heng breathe a sigh of relief, and his expression immediately improved. As his expression improved, the other servants naturally became better as well.

Not long after, Po Wen came out and said, "Congratulations to Jinglue, congratulations to Jinglue, my aunt has given birth to a daughter."

"Oh? I have a daughter? Okay, okay, great, Huzi, the servants in the house will reward you with a month of silver, hahaha." After hearing this, Zhang Heng immediately ordered happily.

Holding his daughter in his arms, he entered the delivery room and looked at the inscription on the bed. His face was full of tenderness. When he looked at his daughter, a wonderful feeling filled his whole body.

This feeling cannot be described in words. In short, it is very strange. After comforting Yin Zhang, he left here. After all, Yin Zhang needs a good rest at this time.

This is just the beginning for Yinzhang. In the next month, his women gave birth to children one after another. Among them, Pan'er and Haohao gave birth to boys, while Sanniang, like Yinzhang, gave birth to both boys. daughter.

And during Zhang Heng's happiest month, news came from the Li family that Guazhou finally failed to hold on and was captured by the Li family.

"At this time, Zhang Heng also knew that the time had finally arrived, so he immediately arrived at the Chinese army's tent and called Zhang He and Sun Yi over."

"Fourth brother, Lao Sun, do you all know the news? Now the time is ripe to take action. This time we will not separate our troops. We cannot make the mistake of the Li family last time and join forces together." Zhang Heng said
"Jing Lue, you are saying that we will join forces together. If this happens, will the Li family be affected?" Sun Yi said.
"Old Sun, don't worry. What I want is for the Li family to divide their troops. As long as he divides his troops, then we can naturally divide our troops too. By that time?" Zhang Heng said
"Yes, I understand. I will go and prepare now." After hearing this, Sun Yi stopped delaying. He directly cupped his fists and saluted, then turned around and went out to make arrangements.

At this time, Zhang He said, "Fifth brother, this is such a big war, should we communicate with the Zhe family? So as not to be there in time?" Zhang He said
"Fourth brother, even if we don't tell, the Zhe family will still know about it, so there is no need to tell it. If we take the initiative to tell it, it will let the Zhe family plot against us."

"So let's fight here first. As long as there are no problems at the beginning, there will naturally be no problems later. As long as the stalemate can be maintained, the Zhe family will naturally come over on its own initiative."

"When the time comes, the initiative will be in our hands." Zhang Heng said
"Fifth brother, you are so smart. Since you have a plan, I won't delay anymore. I will go back and make preparations. This time I must fight well." Zhang He said
Looking at his fourth brother's leaving figure, Zhang Heng's face calmed down. In fact, he was still a little worried about this battle, but now the situation has reached this point.

This great opportunity must not be missed, so even if he had some concerns, he had to take it.

As for the issue of sending troops without permission, it is naturally up to my father and the others in the capital to solve it.

Following Zhang Heng's actions, the news soon reached the Li family. After hearing this, Li Mingde directly called his son back.

"Father, just tell me how we are going to fight this battle. I wanted to kill this bastard Zhang Heng last time. This time I finally have another chance." Li Yuanhao said.

"Hao'er, don't be impulsive. If you start fighting with Wei now, you will suffer big losses. We have just captured Guazhou. If a war breaks out at this time, Guazhou will definitely be in chaos."

"The turmoil will inevitably resume in Ganzhou by then, so we can't fight at this time. We have to wait for half a year. You are in charge of Yinzhou now, and I will send people to the capital of Wei." Li Mingde said.

"What? Father, you said you sent people to the capital? Isn't this too much? Father, with the soldiers and horses of Wei State, it is impossible for my son to lose."

"If you ask me, it will be easier for you to wait for me to fight first, and then send people to the capital of Wei State. When the time comes, I will not dare to ask for any excessive conditions when I want to come to Wei State." Li Yuanhao said, "Well, Hao'er, you are right. It makes sense, then go ahead, there is no room for failure in this battle." Li Mingde thought that his son's words were right, so he agreed.

With the arrival of Li Yuanhao, the war officially began. At the beginning, the Wei side was suppressed. Fortunately, Sun Yi had expected it.

So the situation gradually came to a deadlock. At the same time, Zhang Heng was not idle. He sent a letter to Shazhou, asking Shazhou to cause chaos in the rear of Xixia.

Although the Shazhou Uighurs had considerable objections to Wei's previous inaction, they also knew very well that Wei wanted them to become vassals, while the Li family wanted to annex them.

So after they received the letter, they immediately started taking action. Li Mingde had already been on guard against this move, so Shazhou's sneak attack was unsuccessful.

But he was not happy, because the front line was in a stalemate, which was very detrimental to them. The most important thing was that there was a big enemy beside them.

So he immediately arranged for people to go to the capital of Wei State, but what he didn't know was that his people were captured as soon as they left Xixia territory, and the letter was never sent out.

The person who took action was naturally Zhejia, who had been silent since the war started.

When the situation reached a stalemate, Zhe Jixuan arrived in Bingzhou as expected. After some discussion with Zhang Heng, he left Bingzhou with a smile on his face.

Not long afterward, the Xixia envoy was arrested by the Zhe family. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Mingde hurriedly sent a few more people out, but the result was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no life left.

Only then did he realize that the Zhe family had actually taken action, which made him feel more and more uncomfortable, and it didn't take long for his feeling to become reality.

Because the Liao Kingdom indeed sent troops and went straight to Dingzhou to kill them. At this time, Li Mingde quickly arranged his troops and mobilized Guazhou's troops to defend Dingzhou.

At the same time, Zhang Heng was sitting and watching all this happen. When Li Yuanhao learned everything, he couldn't sit still.

He launched several fierce attacks in succession, but unfortunately they were all stopped by Sun Yi in the end. He knew that Wei was trying to hold him back, so he simply divided his troops and returned for reinforcements.

As soon as he left, Sun Yi would naturally not miss such a good opportunity, so he turned from defense to offense, and the stalemate quickly changed.

As time passed slowly, Sun Yi finally made progress. After a month of hard work, he finally conquered Yinzhou and was attacking Suizhou.

That's right, he didn't go straight to Xingqing Mansion. The reason was very simple. At this time, the Liao Kingdom was outside Dingzhou City, fighting with Li Yuanhao who was returning for reinforcements. Naturally, he would not go to help.

At this time, the remaining Uighurs in Ganzhou and Guazhou also launched a complete rebellion with the support of the Shazhou Uighurs. For a while, Li Mingde could only dispatch troops from Xingqing Prefecture to suppress it.

Following Li Mingde's actions, the rebellion was quickly suppressed, but bad news came shortly afterwards. Suizhou was also captured by Wei.

The army of Wei State had already arrived in Xiazhou, which made him anxious for a while, so he could only mobilize the army of Xingqing Mansion to go to Xiazhou again.

After his two deployments, Xingqing Mansion had very few troops left. At this time, another piece of bad news came. The Zhe family finally took action and sent troops directly to Lingzhou.

The house leaked and it rained continuously. After Li Yuanhao fought back the Liao Kingdom, he headed directly to Xiazhou without stopping, which made the journey to Zhejia smooth.

The Zhe family captured Lingzhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, and Guazhou along the way, and then turned around and attacked Xingqing Mansion.

After learning the news, Li Yuanhao had no choice but to abandon Xiazhou and return directly to Xingqing Mansion, intending to defend the city and resist the Zhejia's attack.

As soon as he retreated, Xiazhou naturally became Sun Yi's bag, and at this time, the Liao Kingdom also successfully captured Dingzhou.

In the end, the three families worked together to attack the Xingqing Mansion. Needless to say, the Zhe family and the Zhang family, mainly the Liao Kingdom, had to negotiate first.

So Zhang Heng came to the front from the rear to discuss with Zhe Weizhong and the third prince of Liao, Yelv Cheng.

In the end, the three people agreed that the existing territory would belong to each of them, and the rest would naturally depend on their own abilities. After Ye Lucheng got what he wanted, he left directly.

Zhang Heng stayed directly, and the two families joined forces to attack Xingqing Mansion. As for the Liao Kingdom, they directly stationed themselves in Dingzhou.

That's right, he stayed where he was and did not continue to attack. This was also the key to his ability to capture Dingzhou. This was one of the conditions he had just agreed to.

It was precisely because he agreed to stand still that Zhe Weizhong and Zhang Heng chose to give in, and Yelv Cheng was quite satisfied with the result.

After all, in the last Tan Yuan Alliance, although he seemed to have taken advantage, he lost that battle at that time, so he naturally did not dare to start another war.

Three more months later, the Li family and his son could not hold on after all. Xingqing Mansion was captured, Li Yuanhao died in the rebel army, and Li Mingde was killed by Zhang Heng directly after surrendering.

Since then, the Xixia Li family has officially become history, and the victory report at this time was also sent to the capital. When this victory document was sent to the capital, it immediately caused an uproar.

After all, this is the Li family of Xixia. It's not like they haven't fought in the past few years, but in the end they always lose more than they win. Unexpectedly, I didn't expect that this time they would be wiped out directly.

This also made the eldest lady very happy, but at the same time, she was in trouble. What should she do with this reward?After much deliberation, Zhang Heng was finally given the title of Marquis of Pingxi.

Since then, the Zhang family has officially become a family of four nobles, and its momentum has reached its peak. The Zhe family is naturally not bad, because their family already has a title.

So this time, the reward was awarded directly. Zhe, the second son of the Zhe family, became a Marquis of Fujian.

Ten years have passed in a flash. During these ten years, everything has been peaceful. The territory after the war was also handled well by each of them.

At this time, a big event suddenly broke out in the capital of Wei State. Xiao Qinyan joined forces with Lei Jing to rebel, but failed in the end. Xiao Qinyan was directly demoted to Leizhou.

After Xiao Qinyan was demoted, Gu Qianfan was not implicated. Instead, because Lei Jing left, he took the position of commander of the Imperial City Division.

Ten years later, bad news came again on Shaanxi Road. It turned out that the head of the Zhe family, Zhe Weizhong, had passed away.In the same year, the eldest lady passed away.

At this time, Zhang Heng was already middle-aged, and the Zhang family encountered another crisis. Yes, the three brothers of the Zhang family were dying.

Zhang Heng had a premonition that when he went to attend the funeral, he would be left in the capital. He would have his own home but nothing.

After all, I have been away from home all these years and cannot be in charge of the Beijing camp. And because of the eldest lady's methods in the past few years, the Beijing camp is no longer in the hands of the Zhang family, but has been scattered.

So he knew what he had to do, so he didn't care about anything else. He wrote a secret letter and asked Huzi to return to the capital.

Hu Zi came back half a month later. Zhang Heng opened the letter and read it. He immediately felt prepared, so he directly ordered Sun Yi to seize Xingqing Mansion.

Then Zhang He was asked to drive all the Zhe family members out of the original Xixia state capitals. At the same time, the Zhang family and the Gao family also secretly sent their descendants out of the capital.

After these descendants arrived in Hedong, Zhang Heng no longer tolerated it and directly announced the founding of the country. The country was named "Shang" and changed to Yuan Xinghe. This move directly shocked the government and the public, and even the Liao Kingdom was shocked.

In anger, Emperor Qianxing threw all the Zhang family into prison. Only then did they discover that the third generation of the Zhang family was not in the capital.

This result made Emperor Qianxing even more furious, and he immediately ordered the execution of the Zhang family members in the capital. At this time, Zhang Heng directly attacked Shaanxi Road.

Because of Zhe Weizhong's death, there was no preparation on the Shaanxi Road at this time. Zhang Heng's army was unstoppable for a while, and the Wei court rushed over to seek peace.

In exchange for the compensation of Sui coins and the release of Zhang Gao's family, Zhang Heng's surrender was obtained.

Zhang Chenglu rejected Zhang Heng's idea of ​​giving up the throne, and Zhang Heng could only make his father the supreme emperor, and his uncle and third uncle as hereditary princes.

In the third year of Xinghe, three brothers of the Zhang family passed away one after another, and the whole country mourned. It was also in this year that Zhang Heng officially canonized the crown prince, and also officially canonized Zhao Pan'er as a noble concubine, and the other concubines were all concubines.

In the tenth year of Xinghe's reign, the queen died of illness without any medicine.
In the spring of the 13th year of Xinghe, Zhao Pan'er was canonized as queen, and her mother honored the world.

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