Chapter 1164 Gongsun Fan's Request

The feast of the king's conferment finally came to an end, and everything returned to peace. At the first court meeting after the conferment of the king, the news that King Tang had awarded thirteen marquises at once spread throughout the world within a few days. The whole world caused quite a stir. In fact, the kings of other countries also granted several marquises when they ascended the throne, but the number was far less than that of Huangfu Chaobo.

For example, King Yan Gongsun Zan only granted rewards to his two younger brothers and two subordinates. Gongsun Fan was granted the title of Marquis of Dukang Ting, with a settlement of 200 households, and Gongsun Yue was granted the title of Marquis of Fan Yuting, with two households of Liang. One hundred households, Guan Jing and his top general Tian Kai were all granted the title of Marquis within Guan Nei, with one hundred households living in the city. Not even his three sworn brothers were able to be granted the title of Marquis.

On the second day after the great dynasty, Huangfu Chaobo received the envoy of King Yan, Gongsun Fan, the captain of the state of Yan and the governor of Kangtinghou. Today's three Dukes of the Yan State are Guo Guangjing, Guowei Gongsun Fan and Yushi Zhongcheng Gongsun Ji.

When King Yan ascended the throne, Huangfu Chaobo sent Xun You as an envoy to congratulate him. The standard was not low. You must know that Xun You was Huangfu Chaobo's internal candidate for the second minister of state, and he is now also the minister. The leader of the stage can be said to be the second-ranked person among civil servants.

But unexpectedly, Gongsun Zan went even more exaggerated and sent his most capable younger brother, Gongsun Fan, the captain of the Yan Kingdom, to come. This shows that Gongsun Zan reiterated his concern for Huangfu Chaobo.

In the side hall, Huangfu Chaobo was sitting on the throne, and Gongsun Fan stood in the hall: "Foreign minister Yan Guoguo and Duke Kangtinghou Gongsun Fan pay their respects to the king of Tang!"

"Marquis Dukang Ting, please rise!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Come here, please sit down!"

Immediately, a eunuch moved a chair and sat down for Gongsun Fan. Seeing this, Gongsun Fan quickly thanked him again.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for sitting down!"

This is the second time Gongsun Fan has asked to see Huangfu Chaobo. The first time was after the king-conferring ceremony, when he met with other envoys from the princes in the main hall. The reason why I chose to receive Gongsun Fan in the side hall is because the relationship between the two families is already very good. In addition, the personal relationship between Huangfu Chaobo and Gongsun Fan is also extraordinary, so meeting in the side hall can bring them closer together. The relationship between the two families.

After Gongsun Fan sat down, Huangfu Chaobo said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for more than a year. Marquis Dukang Ting is more impressive now than before!"

"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty. Fan is still the same as before, but Your Majesty is even more energetic!" Gongsun Fan replied respectfully;

"Actually, Gu and the general have known each other since childhood. The general does not need to be so reserved. When they met under the Great Wall, Gu Shang was an idle stranger, but the general was a thousand-man captain under General White Horse. After many years, , our friendship is getting deeper and deeper, so this time I did not meet the general in the main hall, but chose to have a heart-to-heart talk with the general in the side hall. "

After listening to Huangfu Chaobo's words, Gongsun Fan breathed a sigh of relief. However, his expression was obviously relaxed a lot, but his attitude was still very respectful. He said gratefully: "Thank you, Your Majesty. However, there is a difference between superiority and inferiority. King Being magnanimous means having a broad mind, but foreign ministers must not lose their etiquette."

After hearing this, Huangfu Chaobo saw Gongsun Fan's expression and knew that he couldn't force this matter too much, so he said: "This time the general has traveled thousands of miles to come. I am very happy. It is rare for a general to come to the Central Plains. This time he happens to be in many places in the Central Plains." After staying for a while, Gu Ke will send someone to lead the general around."

Gongsun Fan said with a wry smile: "Everything in the Yan Kingdom is in chaos now, so I really don't dare to stay too long. After this visit to the king, Fan will set off to return to the Yan Kingdom in two days."

According to Gongsun Fan, today's Yan State is far less glamorous than imagined. Since Gongsun Zan's previous defeat at Jieqiao, Yan State's elites have been almost wiped out. In addition, last year's The Xianbei invasion of the south also caused great losses to the Yan State.

These are not the most important. The most important thing is that Gongsun Zan seems to have lost his original indomitable fighting spirit. Now all he thinks about all day long is drinking and having fun with his three sworn brothers.

Oh, one more thing is to go south to Jizhou for revenge. After more than a year of development, today's Yan State has indeed accumulated some strength, but compared with before the Jieqiao War, it is not the same.

What's more, this time Gongsun Zan unexpectedly took advantage of this wave of king-making efforts to obtain the title of King Yan and officially established the country. After the founding of the country, official positions and titles were all arranged. However, neither the positions of the three princes nor the four marquises awarded were related to Gongsun Zan's three sworn brothers. As a result, the three of them were very dissatisfied, but fortunately, none of them showed it obviously.

There is no way. It's not that Gongsun Zan doesn't want to reward them, but the rewards in the game are determined by personal merit points. Military generals can accumulate enough merits for killing enemies and civil servants handling internal affairs. The merits of low-level officials can be said to be easy to find a way. , but the higher the level, the more meritorious service requirements, so Gongsun Zan tried his best to make the three sworn brothers official to Zhonglang General.

Then the three of them presented Gongsun Zan with 500,000 yuan as a congratulatory gift for him to become the king. So Gongsun Zan recruited 30,000 soldiers and horses for the three of them, and gave them to each of them to command 10,000 soldiers. With these 10,000 soldiers After the horse was on the horse, the three of them stepped up their military training on the one hand, and on the other hand they kept persuading Gongsun Zan to prepare to send troops to attack Wei in order to accumulate enough merits for themselves.

Now Gongsun Zan has been moved by the words of the three of them, and is preparing to launch an attack on Wei to avenge the failure of the Battle of Jieqiao. However, in the hearts of Gongsun Yue and Guan Jing, Yan The country is now far from reaching the level of confrontation with Wei State. It has been trying to persuade Gongsun Zan not to rush to send troops to Hebei, but Gongsun Zan refused. So this time Gongsun Fan took the opportunity of going to Tang State to ask Huangfu Chao. Bo asked for help, hoping that Huangfu Chaobo could help Yan State and attack Wei State from north to south.

As for sending troops to attack Yuan, Huangfu Chaobo and a group of counselors planned to wait for the Tang Dynasty to recuperate for a few years before making any plans. Moreover, sending troops to attack Yuan was not the first priority in the Tang Dynasty's plan, but now that Gongsun Fan has proposed this Huangfu Chaobo solemnly agreed to the request. Huangfu Chaobo knew that if he could rely on Gongsun Zan's power, it would be much easier to attack Wei. Moreover, Gongsun Zan was eager for revenge, so if Gongsun Fan and others could not be persuaded, then the Tang army could only try its best to cooperate with Yan. The military took action.

Huangfu Chaobo believed that Gongsun Zan would not refuse to join forces with him to attack Wei. Therefore, after thinking for a moment, Huangfu Chaobo agreed to Gongsun Fan's request, saying that as long as Yan was ready, he would notify Tang in advance , he will definitely send troops to jointly attack Yuan Shao.