Chapter 681: Gold Medal Urges the Withdrawal of Troops
These generals had all attended private schools for a few years and were good at learning. They knew how powerful the Shenwei Army was and did not want the Han people to fight against each other. They were more willing to lead the troops to the west to build achievements for the Western Yuan Empire.
Seeing that his chance to become an independent king was gone, Xu Liewu took out his anger on the disobedient rebels and urged these generals to attack and attack him desperately, and the advancement speed was surprisingly fast.
Prime Minister Dong advised Hubili to continue westward, saying that once the emperor left, the subjects behind would definitely follow.
Hubili nodded, he was reluctant to lose the only disciples of his own tribe from the grassland under his rule. These people followed him all the way here and have become the absolute core of the empire.
Earlier, Hubili admired the culture of the Central Plains and had planned to establish a high-end court with culture like the Han people. Now it seems very difficult. The Han soldiers who followed him died in battle one after another. The learned scholars in the academy could not stand the life of displacement, and many fell ill along the way. There are only a few left.
In the court, the rough and bold voices of the grassland people were the loudest. Moreover, these brothers charged forward and hacked people to death. Now he had to rely on his fellow brothers who drew their bows and arrows and held machetes to fight desperately and carve out a new world for him.
Therefore, Hubili indulged in killing and looting in accordance with the character of the grassland people. He burned cities without hesitation and destroyed the holy places where pagans prayed and sacrificed. He only respected the gods of the grassland people. A huge bloody storm arose again in the Western Regions.
When Hubili saw the New Song army descending like a god from the sky, he issued three golden medals in succession urging Shi Tianze to withdraw his troops immediately with the people.
At the same time, he was unwilling to give up and pinned his hopes on the effect of a letter after his brilliant writing. He ran to the imperial study to write letters to him and to Gao Jin, muttering curses at Zhao Yulin, asking the Shenwei Army to withdraw and telling Gao Jin that he had retreated again and again and had no way out. If he continued to chase him, they would fight to the death.
After writing the letter, he was worried that it might not be delivered accurately due to the chaos of war, so he asked the censor to make three copies and give them to three groups of messengers to send out. Then Geng got on his mobile Hanerduo to transfer.
At this time, Shi Tianze, who was serving as the defender, had not yet withdrawn from the large basin of Hamarkand.
Whenever the Shenwei Army had free time, they would rectify military discipline and eliminate spies in the team. The overall quality of the army was very high, and military secrets were rarely leaked, which ensured the suddenness and high mobility of military operations. This operation allowed Shi Tianze to experience the great power of the Shenwei Army after fully preparing for the attack.
The Shenwei Army suddenly launched an operation from the two directions of Suiye City and Kashgar, with advance teams constantly carrying out flanking attacks, and the speed of advancement was twice as fast as Shi Tianze had imagined.
His retreat plan was disrupted again and again. Often, just when he retreated to a place to rest and set up the stove to cook, he found that the Shenwei Army was chasing him.
This guy simply didn't leave, and stayed in Shamalkand to fight to the death with the Shenwei Army.
Zhang Guoan, the leader of the Shenwei Army, was happy to see Shi Tianze stay and fight. Guoan followed the front army and only felt the difficulty of the march when he entered the basin. He had not encountered any decent resistance yet, and the whole army wanted to fight.
Naturally, he had to thank Shi Tianze.
When Zhao Yulin received the news that the Shenwei Army had occupied Shamalk, Gao Jin had already ordered a shift to defense.
He directed the construction of a hydropower station on Ma Lake in Huanglang County, which required digging water diversion channels, connecting water pipes, and installing generator sets to generate electricity.
Zhao Yulin lived and ate at the construction site like the craftsmen, and watched over and debugged the equipment together. When the power generation was successful and the lights on the construction site were lit, he went back and said happily that his brother was generating electricity in Mahu and the Western Expedition army had won a great victory in Malkand. The good news had all come.
He said with a smile: It is still far from being a real power station, it is just a power generation experiment.
The woman happily took out the newspaper and read to him. The major and minor newspapers in the New Song Dynasty were all reporting that the third young master lived and ate with the craftsmen and bent down to carefully repair the hydroelectric power station.
Zhao Yulin almost burst out in anger. What do you mean by refined? It was so crude. They just built a tiny power station, but it was made to be like a world sensation. He said that the victory in the Western Regions was a great achievement, and the newspapers should make a big fuss about it to encourage the soldiers to fight bravely.
Fire Phoenix said: "Let's go back, Sister Ma Ling has gone to Chengdu. There are many things to do in the court, and Lord Hua is so anxious that he asked Zhidi to send two letters to urge us."
Zhao Yulin nodded and drank tea.
In the evening, the street lights in Xinshi suddenly lit up.
It turned out that the craftsmen had pulled up the transmission lines to Xinshi while building the power station and delivered the electricity.
Zhao Feiyan happily asked Chen Xian to go out for a walk and invited him to the Beggar's Chicken on the pier to celebrate. The family walked in and saw Chen Yun inside. She pointed at the electric light and said with a smile, "It's great. It's shining like a little sun, making the night as bright as day. I am so blessed."
However, Zhao Yulin reminded them to carry out education on safe use of electricity. Ordinary people do not know that electricity can kill people. It is very dangerous without the concept of safe use of electricity, and everyone must be made aware of it.
Chen Yun frowned when she heard this and told him that she had remembered everything and would do this specifically.
Chen Xian also said with a serious expression: In order to obtain this electricity, two masters in Hongmeng Valley sacrificed their lives, and one master even broke his arm. It is really dangerous if you don’t understand electricity.
Then, he laughed and said: With electricity, they will soon create many new things that people in the world can't even imagine. The most direct change is the bright headlight in front of the train, which can illuminate every tree and blade of grass on the railway clearly from a distance, and the train driver will no longer be afraid of hitting people and animals.
Everyone started to laugh.
Chen Yun said that he wanted to live well, and when the train was connected to the Western Regions, he would take the train from Xinshi to Suiye City in the Western Regions to look for the traces of the immortal poet Li Bai.
Zhao Yulin raised his glass and invited everyone to drink, congratulating our Western Expedition Army on its great victory.
On the way back, Feiyan looked at the street lights and counted the stars, and told him that she would not leave and would stay in Xinshi.
Zhao Yulin said that she is now a free person breastfeeding her child and can do whatever she wants without anyone stopping her.
At dawn the next day, Zhao Yulin boarded a special train heading north and returned to Chengdu.
The Fire Phoenix looked at the bright street lights at the station and was reluctant to leave. He said that in the future, trains would go to Chengdu and Chengdu would have electricity, so it was nothing special. Zhao Yulin was used to seeing these things in the future, so he was not surprised. However, it was the first time for the Fire Phoenix to see such a thing. He was shocked.
When the train arrived at Jiayang Town, Zhao Yulin found it strange that there were so many people waiting to take the train at the station. He asked the guard captain Jing Gang to inquire and found out that most of these people were going to Xinshi to see the electric lights.
Damn, a tiny light bulb has attracted so many people. The food and accommodation businesses in Xinshi are going to be booming.
When Zhao Yulin returned to Chengdu, it was already dark. People in and outside the city were setting off firecrackers to celebrate the Shenwei Army's recovery of a large area of territory in the Western Regions. The sound of firecrackers continued.
As soon as they arrived at the gate, the guard went up to report: Madam Ma Ling is taking everyone to Huaxi outside the west gate to have a drink and celebrate, and please invite the Third Young Master and Madam Fenghuang to come as well.
The group went straight to the west gate.
Huaxi Village was decorated with lights and colors as if it were a festival, and the Hetang Beggar Chicken Shop was bustling with people. Wu Jing stood at the door to greet them happily. After calling "Daddy", she took her mother Fenghuang's hand and walked inside, saying sweetly that she missed her mother Fenghuang very much and just didn't come to see her.
Fenghuang was so happy to have a lovely daughter that she felt a little dizzy when she walked.
Ma Linger laughed and told them to sit down quickly. Today was a day of three good news: first, congratulations on the great victory in the Western Regions, second, congratulations on the fact that our New Song has electricity, and third, congratulations on the fact that our Wu Jing is going to be a mother, and they are going to be grandmothers.
Fenghuang said happily that the third point is the most important. Come on, let's raise our glasses and drink together as a family.
Zhao Yulin saw four large tables filled with his family members and thought that he was about to become a grandfather. He was suddenly filled with emotion and went back home after drinking with a few women until he was drunk.
When I woke up, I found myself entangled with Chen Chen.
As soon as he moved, the woman woke up. She hugged him and tossed him around again, and even after using up her last bit of strength, she still wouldn't let him go, complaining that he wasn't serious about his work and that he hadn't made her pregnant after so long.
Zhao Yulin was completely speechless. After carefully waiting for the woman to fall asleep, he quietly got out of bed and went out to practice martial arts.
After breakfast, he came to the office. Hua Yue said with a smile that the king had finally returned and they were all very busy. There was a great victory ahead and the king had invented electricity. The new Song Dynasty was really full of happy events.
Zhao Yulin almost laughed out loud when he heard this.
What do you mean he created electricity? Electricity is not something he could have created alone.
He asked everyone to go to the meeting room to discuss what urgent matters needed to be done first.
The gentlemen quickly sat down at a table.
Hua Yue told him: The Ministry of Transport proposed to open the Xinsong Postal Bank. All localities have made preparations and are just waiting for the king's approval.
As soon as Hua Yue finished speaking, Cao Ying began to talk eloquently, explaining the preparations for the Postal Bank in detail, and waited for him to speak with an expectant look on his face.
He asked for their opinions. Hua Yue said that they had discussed it three times and they all thought that it would be most appropriate to open postal banks at the prefecture and state levels.
He said: "Then do it. From now on, once things like this are decided, just do it directly, no need to wait for him to come back and make a decision. When he is away, Hua Gong will temporarily take over the position of the king, Hua Gong can make the decision, don't waste time."
Everyone was excited to hear this; Zhao Yulin was really delegating power.
Afterwards, You Shi slowly made a self-criticism to him. It was revealed that You Shi's wife accepted bribes from others and used her status as a wife to facilitate the promotion of officials in her hometown and to make profits for businessmen. After the matter was exposed, his wife was so ashamed that she tried to commit suicide several times and became paralyzed on one side of her body. She asked the third young master to deal with her.
Zhao Yulin already had some knowledge about Xinshi. He looked at Hua Yue and wanted to hear his opinion.
Hua Yue told everyone: The Ministry of Justice has verified that Mr. You’s wife had committed a crime and Mr. You was indeed unaware of it, so he should be innocent. However, Mr. You was responsible for failing to restrain his wife from committing a crime.
