Chapter 125: Stabilizing Shi Le's march to Qianliang

Over the years, Chu Yun has been inquiring about what was going on back then, but it was as if someone had erased all traces. Although Lu Zhong and the others were imprisoned, they knew nothing except the superficial enemies Liu Cong, Shi Le, and Zhang Yu at that time. And now that Liu Cong and Zhang Yu are dead, even Liu Yao, who was in charge of doing it at the time, is dead, and Shi Hu, who is the other person who did it, didn't say anything, even if Chu Yun almost made him an idiot with his evil spirit, this guy didn't reveal the slightest news.

And over the years, Ran Liang has also been constantly probing, but there is also not much progress, that is, it is found out that on the eve of Shi Le's attack on the Iron Blood Army, there was once a person who visited Shi Le, this person is said to be very weird, and people can't see their appearance clearly when they stand there. This was the news from a schoolmaster who had not been killed by Shile. All the people who saw that person back then were cleaned up by Shi Le, and this person also escaped because of good luck, and now he is hiding like a mouse, if it weren't for Ran Liang who happened to be on a mission, it would really be difficult to find, and this person didn't know any other news.

What happened back then, Chu Yun really didn't figure it out, and as time passed, there were fewer and fewer insiders. Except for Lu Zhong, Wang Jie and Zhou Yan, who Chu Yun trusted abnormally, few people really knew about the rest. There are still dozens of old generals and former ministers of the Iron Blood Army in the prison of the Huns, Chu Yun has not released them in order to prevent his identity from being revealed, but their treatment is very good, once Chu Yun finds out the ins and outs of the matter, Chu Yun will reuse them, although these people are only the middle level of the civil and military officials of the Iron and Blood Army, but their loyalty is undoubted, and now they can only be sorry for them.

Unexpectedly, just when Chu Yun was becoming more and more disappointed, Zhou Yan actually gave himself such a big surprise, and Chu Yun immediately followed Zhou Yan to the palace. There are some documents in the palace that specifically record the emperor's life and words, and it is estimated that even the emperor himself does not know, and Zhou Yan found clues from these documents.

Zhou Yan held a bamboo slip and handed it to Chu Yun, the paper at this time was not popular, and the quality was very poor, so many documents were still recorded in bamboo slips, which may also be the reason why these documents were preserved, after all, compared to paper, bamboo slips are less likely to be damaged. Chu Yun took it and read it, this is a writer named Ding Bin recorded some of Liu Cong's "living notes" before his death, which recorded in detail Liu Cong's speech and behavior in his later years.

There are several places where Liu Cong mentioned the Iron Blood Army after he was drunk, and it is well known that Liu Cong likes to drink, so what he said after he was drunk may indeed be true.

Once Liu Cong once looked at his increasingly fat body and lamented that he had been deceived by others, he resented someone telling him that he would give him more lives if he destroyed the Iron Army, and he also resented his favored ministers for deceiving him, and his dignified generation of emperors did not dare to mention revenge, so he could only wait for death slowly. There is no mention of who deceived Liu Cong in this living note, and it is estimated that he did not dare to write it.

Liu Cong made this kind of remark many times, and even mentioned the names of their internal responses in the Iron and Blood Army, but these key names were erased by this book, Lang Dingbin.

According to these records, Chu Yun was able to vaguely deduce the fact that there was a huge force that united the vast majority of the forces in the north at that time to destroy the Iron Blood Army, and Liu Cong was only one of them. And the demise of the Iron Blood Army should be colluded between inside and outside, Chu Yun once suspected that there was something wrong with the Iron Blood Army, and also suspected that it was his sister-in-law Chu Yinglu and Cui Ning, the first woman to follow him, and now after hearing from Liu Cong's mouth that there was indeed a mole, he was even more sure of Chu Yun's thoughts.

"Zhou Yan, do you know the Supervision Department and the Red Mansion?" Chu Yun looked at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan was shocked, although he was not very old at the time, the reputation of the two institutions was already thunderous, especially the Supervision Department, which was a terrorist agency that could make children stop crying.

"The subordinates know. Zhou Yan immediately knelt down and said.

"Zhou Yan, you get up. We can say that we are sympathetic, your family and my family have died in this hateful conspiracy, and no one of our iron-blooded troops has ever been afraid of the front, even if we faced the forces of the entire north alone, we can withstand it. But there is a group of hateful traitors who colluded with outsiders to subvert our iron-blooded army, and I Chuyun is not convinced. I have suffered humiliation for many years, and what has sustained me is revenge. Are you willing to help me?" Chu Yun stared at Zhou Yan, who looked at Chu Yun without fear, his eyes full of determination.

"Dudu, what do you say you want me to do, I, Zhou Yan, will not be a person if I don't avenge my family. After Zhou Yan finished speaking, Chu Yun nodded.

"Okay, I'm going to let you re-establish the Supervision Department, but nominally in the name of the imperial court, I'm going to hand over the Imperial Observatory and the Imperial Governor's Mansion to you, there aren't many people I can trust, you are one of them, I hope you can find out what happened to me back then." Come. After Chu Yun finished speaking, more than thirty people dressed in black appeared in Zhou Yan's surprised gaze, so many people, Zhou Yan didn't even find out where they were hiding.

"These people are all dead soldiers cultivated by me, they belong to the secret guard, there are only about fifty people in total, all of them are loyal and have outstanding martial arts, none of them are under General Lu Zhong's martial arts, especially proficient in assassination. I hand them over to you, on the one hand, to keep yourself safe, and on the other hand, to let them carry out some urgent tasks. Your main task now is to set up the Supervision Department, and find me this writer named Ding Bin. These are the experiences of Feng Chengjia and Huang Kai in establishing the Supervision Department back then, you study hard, remember not to let anyone know about the existence of the Supervision Department, even if it is Lu Zhong and Wang Jie, everything must be done in secret, can you do it?" Chu Yun asked, Zhou Yan's eyes showed an excited look, and he immediately took the order.

These secret guards were all cultivated by Chu Yun with the murderous aura of the demon source, and their memories had long been cleared by the domineering murderous aura of the demon source, and they would only carry out their own orders, but the murderous aura of the demon source was too domineering, Chu Yun spent a lot of time, and only selected more than fifty people from more than thousands of people, as for the rest, they were either supported by the murderous aura of the demon source and died, or they became fools.

Chu Yun's methods can be described as ruthless, but Chu Yun still did it, if he is not crazy, Chu Yun is really afraid of people's hearts, and only these people who have no thoughts of their own can make Chu Yun feel at ease. Besides, these guys were all staunch royalists at the beginning, and most of them were Hulu, Chu Yun didn't have any pity for these people.

In addition to the thirty people who were given to Zhou Yan, there were only two people left around Chu Yun who were responsible for their own food and daily life, and the rest were all sent to You Ziyuan, Liu Dongyong, Yang Sheng, Yang Ye and others, if these guys betrayed themselves, then only death awaited them.

The strength of these secret guards is all in the middle of the human realm, and the strength is even higher than that of ordinary divine power derivatives, after all, they were spawned by Chu Yun, and their potential has been exhausted, and even their lives are shorter than ordinary people. This is also a new role of the Demon Source Murderous Qi discovered by Chu Yun, which is somewhat similar to using internal force to help others wash the essence and cut the essence, but one only makes people increase their potential, and the other makes people exhaust their potential and increase their strength.

Chu Yun now has no dantian, although his body is slowly recovering under the influence of the God of War, that is, his face has returned to its original appearance, but after all, the dantian is not a face, and Chu Yun really doesn't know when he will be able to recover. Therefore, he relied more and more on the Demon Source to kill him.

With the existence of these secret guards, Chu Yun is not worried about others playing yin with him for the time being, after all, there are only ninety-nine eighty-one divine stones in the world, three of which are still in his hands, these divine stones are treasures wherever they are, Chu Yun does not believe that anyone will use these treasures to directly deal with himself, not to mention that he is only living behind the scenes now, in the eyes of other forces in the world, the former Zhao is still from the Liu royal family.

In a blink of an eye, it was 330 A.D., the first year of the revival of the former Zhao, the fifth year of the Xianbei Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the second year of the Xianbeilie Emperor, the twentieth year of the Wu Emperor Yuheng of the Cheng (Han), the thirteenth year of the former Qiu Chi State, the eighteenth year of the Jianxing of the former Liang (King Wen), and the third year of the Later Zhao Taihe.

Chu Yun carried out large-scale reforms under the specific implementation of You Ziyuan.

The first is the control reform, the former Zhao restored the Han Dynasty's system of three princes and nine secretaries, but also carried out a series of improvements. Chu Yun served as the prime minister, that is, the chief situ of the three dukes, and also served as the chief lieutenant, that is, the great Sima of the three dukes, not only the first person among the civil ministers, but also controlled all the armies in the country. And You Ziyuan served as the chief secretary, that is, the imperial doctor, which is equivalent to the deputy prime minister, helping Chu Yun handle all government affairs, but he has no military power.

The rest of Jiuqing, except for the court lieutenant who was concurrently served by Zhou Yan, the rest were all those talented and innocent old ministers in the former Zhao Zhong, and there were no fish when the water was clear, although Chu Yun knew that many people were Youziyuan's protégés, but Chu Yun only had military power and a few key departments, Chu Yun was not afraid of them rebelling.

In addition, Chu Yun carried out a large-scale folk reform, and Chu Yun stipulated that whether it was the Han people, the Qiang Xiongnu people, and other Hu people, they were all descendants of Yan and Huang, and all of them were called Chinese, and they were all Chinese descendants. It also stipulates that all people must change their Han clothes, speak Chinese, change their Han surname, marry through Han, set their family, and change their place of origin. Then schools were opened to honor Confucianism and scriptures, schools were established, and Han rites were restored.

Although there were some small twists and turns, under Chu Yun's toughness, all of them were implemented. For a time, the status of the Han people in Yongzhou and Qinzhou rose sharply, and if it was implemented for a long time, all the Hulu would be integrated into the Han people.

Moreover, Chu Yun also ordered the implementation of the uniform land system and the household registration system to strengthen the control of the two states, which was conducive to the collection of taxes by the imperial court and greatly enhanced the country's war potential.

Of course, the implementation of these systems is to allow Chu Yun to better enhance his war potential, after all, in troubled times, everything is mainly military. However, with the reform of Chu Yun and You Ziyuan, the status of the two people in the people is increasing day by day, and even the reputation of Chu Yun, the prime minister, surpasses that of Liu Jian as the emperor. After all, whether it is a Hu person or a Han person, they all like a relatively stable living environment.

Of course, Chu Yun will not forget the construction of the army, with the expansion of the army under Chu Yun, although the number of people is increasing, but the combat effectiveness will inevitably decline, Chu Yun is taking advantage of this time to enhance the combat power of the army.

During this period, almost all the envoys of Qianliang, Chenghan, Qiuchi, Eastern Jin and Later Zhao came to Chang'an, and Chu Yun hung up the envoys of Later Zhao and Qianliang, and met with the envoys of several other regimes. Of course, their purposes are the same, the former Zhao and the latter Zhao are the kings of the Central Plains, and they are either here to congratulate the new emperor on his accession to the throne, or to ease the relationship between the two sides.

At Chu Yun's suggestion, Liu Jian met with the envoys of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Cheng Han and Qiu Chi, they all came with good intentions, so they all talked happily with each other, and established friendship between each other, of course, everyone knows that this is just verbal friendship, and there are no friends between countries. And Liu Jian also invited three envoys to participate in the army review in a few days, and of course several people agreed, they also wanted to see the strength of Qianzhao now.

Five days later, under the attention of the five envoys and hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an, Zhao held a grand military parade, Chu Yun ordered all the cavalry of the Duke of Chu and the four of the eight armies of the prime minister, a total of 130,000 people participated, and hundreds of thousands of neat troops appeared in a mighty manner, shocking every audience.

Where was there such a huge army in ancient times, so every envoy was shocked by the strength of Zhao State.

Sending away a few frightened envoys, the former Zhao Emperor Liu Jian finally met with the envoys of Former Liang and Later Zhao, but this Liu Jian was pretended by Chu Yun himself.

The former Liang envoy, who was already frightened by Chu Yun's ingenious military parade, after seeing the emperor Chu Yun pretending to be, the envoy directly poured beans from the bamboo tube and told all the tasks. In fact, there is nothing to say, but Zhang Jun felt that he couldn't do Qianzhao, so he ran over to ask for peace.

But how to deal with Qianliang is not so simple, Qianliang is different from Hou Zhao, the latter is the sworn enemy of Qianzhao, the two sides can never reconcile, only one person can fall, but Qianliang can be wooed. Everyone knows that Qianliang is by no means a good bird, even if he surrenders, he will fight back at any time, so it is difficult to grasp this degree. Besides, he betrayed Qianzhao, if he didn't make up for it, and he seemed too cowardly, this degree should also be grasped. However, Chu Yun will never let Qian Liang feel better, if you want to make peace, you can fight if you want to, where will I put my face? Therefore, Chu Yun had already made a plan, on the one hand, he wanted to fight with Qian Liang, and on the other hand, he wanted to give Qian Liang a fat beating, so that he would not dare to trouble himself at all.

The envoy sent by Qianliang was Geng Wan, whose identity was just a planner from Dunhuang, and Zhang Jun was also afraid that Chu Yun would slaughter the envoy without saying a word, so they sent such a petty official, that is, to probe the truth of Qianzhao. Chu Yun's big military parade also startled Geng Wan, he didn't expect that Qianzhao would have such a big difficulty and such strength, so before coming to meet Qianzhao Xindi, he kept saying how to live up to his mission. But as soon as he saw Liu Jian, he realized that everything he had prepared was blind.

Geng Wan has never seen a king with such a strong overlord, and the majesty emanating from Liu Jian made Geng Wan tremble and couldn't speak at all. In fact, although Chu Yun has the aura of a king, it is not enough to scare people stupid, he uses the demon source murderous aura.

Liu Jian, who was dressed as Chu Yun, didn't talk nonsense with him, and after condemning him, he ordered Geng Wan to take his edict back, Geng Wan only remembered that he nodded and agreed, and he didn't even read the content of the edict. When he was in addition to the palace, he remembered, he hurriedly opened the edict, and the more he looked at it, the more terrifying it became.

However, it is impossible for him to see Liu Jian again, he was escorted back to Longxi County by a group of soldiers, and directly returned to the Liangzhou Army of Jincheng County.

Not to mention that Geng visited Gusu City with apprehension, even the envoy of Hou Zhao was frightened by Liu Jian, the emperor dressed as Chu Yun, this messenger was called Shi Cong, like Shi Sheng and Ran Liang, they were Shi Le's adopted sons, Shi Le sent him to be the envoy, one is to see if Shi Hu can be rescued, and the other is to find out the former Zhao Xushi, after all, although Shi Le believes Ran Liang's words, but he still has to verify it.

The moment Shi Cong saw Liu Jian, he felt chills all over his body, Shi Cong is a divine power derivative, his strength has almost reached the limit of a divine power derivative, that is, the seventh layer of the human realm, but in the face of Liu Jian, he can't even raise a little resistance. Only then did he remember the reason why Ran Liang had told him many times before leaving.

Shi Cong is not much better than Geng Wan, he doesn't even remember how he came out, he is holding an edict in his hand like Geng Wan, Shi Cong didn't even dare to look at it, so he quickly left Chang'an with someone.

When Shi Cong presented the edict to Shi Le, Shi Le read it quietly, and then quickly destroyed the edict. Then he was unusual, the ministers had persuaded him to ascend the throne many times before, but he didn't do it, this time he ordered the official emperor, the founding name was Da Zhao, and the Yuan Jianping was changed, in fact, the former Zhao and the latter Zhao were named in order to distinguish them, and the two countries were actually named Da Zhao.

Shi Leli's concubine Liu was the queen, and the prince Shi Hong was the crown prince. His son Shi Hong was appointed as the general of the hussars, the governor of the Chinese and foreign military, and the great Danyu, and was named the king of Qin, Shi Bin was the general of the left guard, and was named the king of Taiyuan, and Shi Hui was the general of the auxiliary state, and was named the king of Nanyang.

Then Shi Hu's son Shi Di was appointed as the assassin of Si Lizhou and was named the king of Qi, Shi Xuan was the general of Zuo, and Shi Ting was appointed as the king of Liang. He also sealed Shisheng as the king of Hedong, and sealed Shikan as the king of Pengcheng. Let the left chief Shi Guo Ao serve as the left servant of the book, and the right long Shi Cheng Yao as the right servant and lead the secretary of the department. Sima Kui'an on the left, Guo Yin on the right, Li Feng, the Zhonglang Zhonglang, and Pei Xian, the Zhongling of the Qianlang, were all appointed as Shangshu; The rest of the civil and military officials have different levels of worship and knighthood.

And no longer mention Shi Hu's life or death, after being proclaimed emperor, Shi Le asked Shi Hu's son Shi Di to go to Sili Prefecture immediately to take office, and threw the rest of Shi Hu's sons to Luoyang, and gave Shi Hu several armies with a total of more than 70,000 people.

This is all caused by the letter written by Chu Yun to Shi Le in the name of Liu Jian: I am sick for King Zhao. Shi Le immediately understood after reading it, in fact, Shi Le wanted to get rid of Shi Hu many times, but Shi Hu's foundation is getting deeper and deeper, and in recent years, Shi Hu's power has even been so huge that Shi Le doesn't dare to do it if he wants to, and now Chu Yun directly pointed out Shi Le's thoughts, and helped him do what he didn't dare to do, Shi Le was too late to be happy. Shi Le is fifty-six years old this year, he is bent on transmitting his position to his son, Shi Hu's nephew is an outsider compared to him, how could Shi Le not want to get rid of Shi Hu. However, as Shi Le gets older, he becomes more and more stable, and he no longer has the courage to get rid of Shi Hu directly, if one of them is not good, the country will be in turmoil. And he is old, and he doesn't want to get a notoriety that can't tolerate his nephew after death, which is why he hasn't done it.

Now he drove all Shi Hu's faction to Sili Prefecture, they are at the forefront and become the first line against the former Zhao, if they leave Shi Le's support, even if they have an army, they are nothing, after all, the current Luoyang is not ten years ago, after the war, Luoyang is sparsely populated and food is insufficient. In this way, even if Shi Le dies, he can let Shi Le's descendants indirectly control the Shi Hu family and make his descendants stable, why wouldn't he do it?

Shi Le's series of actions once again showed that he was the ruthless and strategist-strategizing Shi Shilong back then, and without Shi Hu's-stirring stick, Shi Le's rule achieved rare stability.

And after Chu Yun stabilized Shi Le with a word, he secretly came to Longxi County, carrying an army of more than 100,000, he wanted to occupy Jincheng County, the wallhead of Qianliang, and completely cut off Qianliang's tentacles, as for the previous letter, of course, it was to confuse Zhang Junjun's ministers.