But how could they possibly defeat Zhang and Zhou's troops? The battle lasted only half an hour. Zhang Cheng shot and killed Tang Shizhu, more than a thousand Hunan soldiers were killed, and more than 300 soldiers were killed. The rest were all captured.

Later, Li Cunhui captured Ma Xi'e's concubine, male favorite and dozens of others in the ruins of Jiulong Palace.

On November 16, after the Langzhou garrison received Zhang's crusade, as expected, the soldiers captured and killed Ma Guangzan, Ma Xi'e's son, and dozens of Ma Xi'e's family members.

In accordance with Zhang Zhao's edict, Zhang Zhaojun executed more than 20 generals, including Ma Guangzan, who had committed crimes outside Langzhou City, and Langzhou was pacified.

On November 17, as soon as Zhang Zhi entered Tanzhou, the old Taoist Ma Xizhen brought Ma Guangquan, the eldest son of Ma Xizhan, the governor of Guizhou Jingjiang Army, and thirteen of his wives to visit him as promised.

On November 18th, Zhang Zhaojun sent Guo Rong, Zhao Kuangyin and other generals to attack separately on the north and south banks of the Yuanjiang River. They once again defeated the direction. Tian and other Langzhou Xidong barbarians had more than 20,000 soldiers, and captured dozens of large and small barbarians.

The corpse floated for dozens of miles and he retreated hastily to Wuling Mountain.

Peng Shisong also took Zhang Xian's edict and returned to Xi, Chen and other states to persuade his father Peng Shichou to go to Tanzhou to meet Zhang Xian.

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In Tanzhou City, Zhang Yan was walking on a piece of rubble. The only person following him was a strong man with a looming green bird tattoo on his neck, who was Guo Wei.

"Is the Taiwei still in good health?" Zhang Yan asked lightly. Guo Wei had the unofficial duty of inspecting the Taiwei, so Zhang Yan called him Taiwei.

Although Guo Wei didn't know why Zhang Yan asked him this, he still bowed his hands and replied politely: "Although I am nearly fifty years old, I can't fight ten pounds of rice and meat like Lian Po did in the past, but I can still serve as the sage's minion for ten years.

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Zhang Hao laughed and didn't mention it. According to history, Guo Wei died in 954, which was still seven years ago. Moreover, the reason why Guo Wei died within a few years of being emperor was because he was killed by Liu Chengyou.

No matter who is in his fifties and suddenly dozens of members of his family are killed, he cannot stand it.

Not to mention that after the establishment of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Guo Wei worked day and night to deal with government affairs in order to suppress the pain. It was normal for his body to be unable to bear it.

Today, Guo Wei does not have those worries. It is estimated that if he lives for more than ten years, the problem will not be big. The affairs of Hunan can be left to him with confidence.

So Zhang Gao pointed to the ruins of Tiance Mansion, which was once glorious but is now a piece of rubble, and said to Guo Wei.

"Lieutenant, look at this. In the past, Ma Wumu followed Emperor Taizong Wen's example and opened the Tiance Mansion, and recruited scholars from Hunan as the eighteen bachelors of the Tiance Mansion. He quickly stabilized the land of Hunan, which had been in dire straits since the Leiman Disaster.

I have looked around the world and found that the only people who could develop culture and education in the past hundred years were Li Ming of the Southern Tang Dynasty and King Wu Mu of Chu. However, Li Ming could not use virtuous ministers to promote culture and education, and he fell short of Ma Yin.

Zhu Wen of the former Liang Dynasty and Li Yazi of the later dynasty were not really the masters of the world.

Because they only know how to destroy and don’t know how to build. If Ma Yin could be in the position of Zhu and Li, the world would have been stable a long time ago."

Guo Wei was noncommittal, because what Zhang Yan said was a bit absolute, and Guo Wei felt in his heart that it was actually okay for Zhu Wen to engage in construction.

Of course, it was impossible for him to refute Zhang Yan's words now, so he nodded and asked: "Does the saint want me to establish culture and religion in Hunan and bring peace to the world?"

There was a smile on Zhang Yan's face, "The Taiwei really knows me. Now the world is gradually changing from chaos to rule, and you are guarding Hunan for me. If you can follow the strategy of King Wu Mu of Chu and reuse the local scribes, you will be able to quickly bring order to the place."

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Guo Wei shook his head repeatedly, "I am a martial artist and have never studied. If I am not talented in promoting civilized governance, I fear that I will betray the entrustment of the saints."

Zhang Hao laughed loudly. He looked at Guo Wei with deep meaning. Are you kidding? Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, who governed the country more comprehensively than Guo Rong in history, could not promote culture and education and could not govern Hunan well. How could it be possible?

"For example, Gao Xingzhou, An Shenqi, He Fujin, etc. really can't, but you, Guo Wei, can definitely do it!"

Guo Wei's face changed twice, and finally he mustered up the courage to look at Zhang Yan: "I am a surrendered minister from Hedong, and I have only been surrendered for a few months. Hunan is a newly separatist land. The saint suddenly gives me full power, so I am not afraid that I will do something wrong.

Are you interested?"

These words were actually words that Guo Wei had hidden in his heart for a long time. He even felt that Zhang Gao had deliberately put him in Hunan just to make him have thoughts that he shouldn't have and then have an excuse to kill him.

Zhang Yan did not look at Guo Wei, but looked at the rubble in front of him and said, "Don't think too much, Lieutenant Commander. I use you because I know you are capable of guarding Hunan for me.

Of course, if you dare to have second thoughts, I don’t even need to personally mention the tiger and wolf masters, I only need to send one or two swordsmen and pens, and you will have no choice but to be captured."

With that said, Zhang Hao finally looked at Guo Wei, "Don't trust people when you employ them, and don't trust people when you are suspicious! I dared to use you, but I never thought that you would have second thoughts, let alone that I was not afraid that you would have second thoughts."

Guo Wei finally prostrated himself on the ground among the rubble and said loudly: "Thanks to the saint's trust, I dare not not do my best!"
Chapter completed!