Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 768 Eight Days Later
Gao Zhenming quickly rushed back to Dali City from Wuliang Mountain, and then he went to the palace to pay a visit to the Daxing Emperor Yang Liangao.

"Master Gao, what does the Prime Minister say?"

As soon as he saw Gao Zhenming coming, Yang Liangao couldn't wait to ask.

Gao Zhenming smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the Song army has invaded our Daxing territory. The Prime Minister hopes to see Your Majesty reach an agreement with General Yang Fu to stop the Song army from continuing to invade."

Yang Liangao understood that Gao Zhenshou was afraid that he would use the power of the Tiger to bully others and the influence of the State of Song. Gao Zhenshou needed a proof that he could really get Yang Yuan's support.

Things like this can only be seen without being spoken out.

Yang Liangao said happily: "So that's how it is. I understand. This matter concerns my country and people, so I naturally want to settle it as soon as possible."

At that moment, Yang Liangao hurriedly wrote a letter and sent it to Liangshan Prefecture by military express.

When Yang Liangao's letter arrived in Liangshan Prefecture, Yang Yuan had almost conquered all twelve counties in Liangzhou.

The city of Ale has now become a satellite city of the Green Water Lake New City under construction.

Most of the women in the city were married to the soldiers stationed there and became their families.

In this way, they can stay here with peace of mind.

The story that Yang Yuan castrated Dao Tanhu, molested his wives and concubines, and even asked him to serve him in bed was certainly not true.

Yang Yuan did not have such a bad taste, nor did he want to be impeached for such a ridiculous thing.

However, there were indeed miners who staggered around the mines, and his former wife and daughter became the wives of the soldiers guarding the mines. This kind of thing happened quite often.

Of course, some people surrendered, but there were always people who hoped for luck or did not believe that the Song army was powerful.

When faced with such tribes, Yang Yuan attacked them decisively without hesitation. Not only did he fight them, but once he started fighting, he also did not allow them to surrender.

Once the crusade begins, the opponent will either die or become a war slave.

As for the few people who fled into the mountains, Yang Yuan did not send anyone to chase them. Since you want to be a savage, there is no need to come back.

Although such a measure is cruel, it also effectively discourages those who intend to just go along with it.

Those disgusting things like prices falling and then rising, then falling again, and then falling again and rising again did not happen here.

Therefore, this not only made it possible for Yang Yuan to quickly control the entire Liangshan Prefecture, but also stabilized it immediately.

This avoids greater losses and casualties in repeated games.

Of course, Dao Feifei's active recruitment and Liangshan Dayan Yuan Shunwei's decisive surrender also played a huge role.

Afterwards, Yang Yuan summoned the leaders of the various tribes that surrendered in Lang Son in Huichuan and held a meeting similar to the blood oath meeting at Xiangshuitan.

Huichuan is the place where rivers and plains meet and where all chiefs hold meetings.

Following Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the meaning of its name was once again realized.

Yang Yuan told them about the existence of the copper and gold mine, and told them that the imperial court would take 30%, and the Seven Barbarians of Xuzhou would take 15% on the condition that they would gather their tribesmen to participate in mining and maintain law and order and supplies along the way.

The twelve counties of Liangshan Prefecture received a total of 20%.

Of course, this 20% is not distributed equally. It depends on the tribe’s contribution to the mining and smelting of the copper and gold mine.

Such a large gold mine requires garrison protection.

The military expenses of the garrison, including military pay, rewards, weapons and equipment, and food and fodder, are paid by the mine, accounting for 20%.

In the end, only 15% fell into Yang Yuan's hands.

Yang Yuan also proposed that the accounting office should be composed of a trustworthy accountant from each party involved.

No party could find any fault with Yang Yuan's arrangement.

Dao Qinhu heard the news when he was lying back in his tent with a sore back after carrying ore for a day.

After hearing this, he cried.

If he had known this, why would he be the first to stand out?

He was full of regret and hatred.

Little did he know that if the incident happened again, even if Yang Yuan announced his plan in advance, Dao Qinlu would still send troops as he did this time.

He would think that since Yang Yuan shared so much of the profits, it proved that Yang Yuan was guilty and that he did not have the ability to monopolize this mineral vein.

On the day of the conference, led by Dayanlan Yuan Shun, the county magistrates, ministers, supervisors, and district chiefs of the twelve counties of Liangshan Prefecture jointly wrote a letter to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

The memorial said that Liangshan Prefecture was originally Chinese territory, and the people of Liangshan have been living in dire straits since they left the Central Plains three hundred years ago.

It was the Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty who saved the people from dire straits. The soldiers and civilians of the twelve counties of Liangshan Prefecture are willing to return to the Central Plains and be incorporated into the Great Song Dynasty. We earnestly request the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty to accept them.

The memorial was hurriedly submitted to Lin'an on the same day using a golden medal.

Five days later, the nearby Liangshan tribe had selected young and strong men to become glorious gold mountain miners and rushed to Green Water Lake.

At this time, the letter from Yang Liangao, Emperor of Daxing, also arrived.

In the letter, Yang Liangao cursed the Duan family of Dali harshly and put all the blame on the Duan family who were actually unaware of the situation.

Then, the Emperor of Daxing begged General Yang Fu to stop the fighting, saying that the Duan family of Dali had been punished by heaven and that the Yang family was now in power.

Yang Lian-gao cordially invited General Yang Fu to Dali City for negotiations to discuss the conditions for a ceasefire.

Yang Yuan immediately wrote back to Yang Liangao in his capacity as the Grand Marshal in the fight against rebellion.

Yang Yuan stated in the letter that the Song Dynasty is a country with a broad mind and a love of peace. If Dali had not sent local soldiers to invade the country, disturbing our border residents and angering the Holy Emperor, the Song Dynasty would never have sent troops to attack.

Since the instigator of the rebellion, the Duan family, has already lost his country, and considering that the King of Daxing is respectful and sincere, Yang Yuan, the Grand Marshal of the Song Dynasty's Anti-Rebellion Campaign, is willing to represent the Song Dynasty and go to the Dali Royal City for a meeting to quell the incident by peaceful means.

Of course, in his reply, Yang Yuan also mentioned his deep friendship with Yang Liangao.

He did not forget why Yang Liangao invited him to Dali.

The purpose was to support the cause, so why should I be stingy in writing a bunch of free good words? After the letter was sent, Yang Yuan immediately issued two orders to the East Route Army and the West Route Army, ordering them to camp on the spot and wait for orders.

Although the two armies invaded Dali, they did not invade the Liangshan Prefecture area.

The three armies came in full force, causing disturbances in more than just Liangshan Prefecture.

Although the other two armies did not advance as fast as Yang Yuan's central army and did not have such brilliant military achievements, they still won eight out of ten battles and were very impressive.

The momentum of the three armies really shocked Dali, otherwise Prime Minister Gao Zhenshou and Tantric Master Vajrabodhi would not have been so fearful.

After issuing the two orders, Yang Yuan sent the letter from King Yang Liangao of Daxing and his own memorial to the capital by express horse.

Afterwards, Yang Yuan began to arrange the trip to Dali.

The construction of Green Water City and the mining area cannot be completed in such a short time.

However, the garrisoning of barracks, the garrisoning of soldiers, the construction of artillery batteries, etc. have been completed.

Yang Yuan is very confident in defending the mine.

He just didn't want to delay the construction here, and needed to deal with some things that had to be decided by him in advance.

Afterwards, Yang Yuan prepared to go to the imperial city of Dali Kingdom.

Yang Yuan brought three hundred musketeers, three hundred cavalrymen, and three hundred crazy soldiers selected from the second army of the first general of Tongchuan, a total of nine hundred people, to Dali with him.

When going to Dali, Yang Yuan left Li Fengniang and Taixi at Green Water Lake. He only brought Dao Feifei with him in public, while Fan Qing also accompanied him secretly.

Concubine Dao is originally from Dali, and is a cousin of the current Daxing Emperor Yang Liangao. With such an identity, she is more suitable to participate in such talks.

The reason why I didn't bring Feng Niang and Tae Hee was not because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to take care of them if they were in danger.

Yang Yuan knew very well that once he set out on the journey, all the powerful people in Dali would be more worried about his safety than himself.

No one dared to touch such a high-ranking official of the Song Dynasty, otherwise it would lead to a situation of life and death with the Song Dynasty.

When Emperor Yang Liangao of Daxing received Yang Yuan's reply, he immediately asked the eunuch to read it out in front of him in the court. The panic-stricken officials of Jiushuang immediately calmed down.

Soon, Yang Yuan's reply letter appeared on the desk of Prime Minister Gao Zhenshou.

Seeing Yang Yuan's unstinting praise for Yang Liangao and the description of their deep friendship in the letter, Gao Zhenshou sighed softly and said to Gao Zhenming:
"Tell the emperor that I accept his title and agree to make my daughter Shuyao the empress. Tell him to proceed with the process."

Gao Zhenming retreated in response.

Gao Zhenshou's words were soon delivered to Yang Liangao's desk, and Yang Liangao felt completely relieved.

"Okay, please return to the capital as soon as possible to take charge of government affairs. As for my wedding..."

Yang Liangao suddenly remembered something and felt a pang in his heart. He turned to ask Gao Zhengda a question.

"General Gao, how many days will it take for General Yang Fu to arrive in Dali?"

Yang Lian suppressed his excitement and asked the commander of the imperial guards, Gao Zhengda.

The Dali Kingdom’s army was divided into three categories: the imperial guards, the garrison troops, and the tribal troops.

The imperial guards consisted of only a few thousand men stationed near the Dali Imperial City.

The Xiang Army was the garrison officers appointed by the Dali Emperor to guard some large cities and ports. They were officers and soldiers dispatched to maintain urban order and arrest bandits.

The rest are tribal soldiers of the tribal leaders.

Therefore, Gao Zhengda, the commander of the imperial guards, is actually equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the imperial guards across Dali.

Because the situation was settled, Gao Zhengda was more respectful to Yang Liangao at this time, and he bowed and replied: "Your Majesty, according to the speed of the Song Dynasty delegation, it will take another seven to eight days to reach Dali."

"Seven to eight days, good, good..."

Yang Liangao smiled and said, "Then, my wedding day will be on the eighth day!"

Yang Liangao has great ambitions to conquer the world, and love affairs cannot restrain him.

However, this does not mean that he is a person without emotions.

He knew that Dao Feifei had admired her cousin since childhood and was deeply in love with him.

In his original plan, after conquering the world, he would take Concubine Dao into the palace to be an imperial concubine.

For the sake of the great cause, although he took the initiative to bring Dao Feifei into Yang Yuan's arms, he actually felt jealous and uncomfortable in his heart.

Now he was going to marry a queen, who would be even more charming and elegant than Concubine Dao, and of a more honorable status.

Therefore, Yang Liangao set the wedding date when Yang Yuan arrived in Dali City.

Yang Yuan never compared himself with him, he was just feeling angry.

It seemed that by doing so, it would seem that his "giving up" Dao Feifei was not a big deal.

He can then express the anger in his heart.

"The eighth day?"

Gao Zhenming and Gao Zhengda looked at each other, and Gao Zhenming nodded.

Fortunately, Dali is a small country, and the etiquette of marrying a queen is not as complicated as that in the Central Plains.

Although eight days is a bit rushed, it is still possible if we work hard.

Moreover, the Gao family also hoped to bind the Gao family and the emperor more closely before Yang Fushuai negotiated with the Daxing Kingdom.

Since Yang Fushuai and Yang Liangao have such a close relationship, the sooner the Gao family binds themselves to Yang Liangao, the greater benefits they will gain.

Gao Zhenming said: "Okay, no problem. I will take care of this matter, and I will make sure that the ceremony of marrying your majesty into the empress is grand and glorious!"

(End of this chapter)