Chapter 433: Send troops to the Northern Expedition!

When he learned of Youyan's rebellion, Guo Rong was visiting Wang Pu's house. After reading the urgent memorial sent by the Privy Council expressionlessly, he whispered to Wang Pu who was unconscious: "Brother Wen, it's going to fight again, but without you, Xiao He, I can feel at ease?!"

Wang Pu was on the way to inspect the river channel. His old injuries relapsed due to overwork and became unconscious. Although he was not famous in later history books, those who were good at fighting had no great achievements. If he had not been in charge of the rear, comforted the people, and raised food and supplies, how could Guo Rong have been able to fight with peace of mind? It can be said that the victory of the Southern Expedition largely relies on Wang Pu's efforts.

Now Wang Pu is unconscious. At this critical moment, Guo Rong suddenly lost great help! Guo Rong was very sad. He coughed suddenly, feeling a little fishy in his mouth, and quickly took out a handkerchief to block it. While the ministers were not paying attention, he stuffed the handkerchief dyed dark red into his arms.

Guo Rong sighed, turned his head and said to Wang Pu's family standing beside him, "I'm very happy to take care of Wen Bo. You can go to the Imperial Hospital for any medicinal materials! I have issued an edict to the Imperial Hospital's medical officer, and I will send an imperial physician to your house every day. I must save Wen Bo's life!"

Wang Pu's family kowtowed repeatedly, and even Wang Pu's youngest son Wang Zhi kowtowed and thanked Guo Rong. Guo Rong sighed, pulled Wang Zhi up with his own hands, and patted the dust on his knees for the first time. Guo Rong whispered: "Your father is a rare wise minister. I hope you can be as virtuous as him in the future!"

Xiao Wang nodded repeatedly, looking at his slightly tender face, Guo Rong couldn't help but sigh, Poor child!

Soon, Guo Rong returned to the palace and immediately summoned his ministers to discuss the Northern Expedition. However, it was the coldest time now. The Northern Expedition meant preparing a large amount of winter clothes. However, the Later Zhou had just ended the attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the army was not ready to go north to fight. Moreover, the soldiers were exhausted and urgently needed time to rest. Otherwise, the hasty Northern Expedition would mean suicide in the Later Zhou!

Without Wang Pu taking charge of the overall situation, Guo Rong had to worry about a lot. On the one hand, he ordered the treasury to allocate money to purchase winter clothes and other supplies, and on the other hand, he asked everyone to do the work on the map and determine the appropriate marching route. At the same time, Guo Rong also ordered the corresponding army north of Kaifeng Prefecture to conduct centralized training and prepare for the Northern Expedition.

This time the court meeting was open very late. When the palace gate was locked, Guo Rong remembered that he vomited blood. He did not want to call the imperial physician into the palace in the middle of the night, so as not to let rumors fly everywhere in Kaifeng Mansion tomorrow. Maybe it was because he was worried about Wang Pu's condition and felt sad and sad, which led to vomiting blood!

The next day, after dealing with daily political affairs, Guo Rong quietly announced that the Imperial Doctor entered the palace. After some diagnosis and treatment, the Imperial Doctor frowned and said, "Although Your Majesty was too sad, he vomited blood, but the internal cause was caused by overwork. Recently, he worked hard and could not sleep at night, and there were certain problems with his diet. The above all led to the decline of His Majesty's physical fitness, and... Moreover, His Majesty's recent work on eternity has affected his health, which only hopes that Your Majesty can rest more, take care of his dragon's body. In addition, be careful to keep warm and keep cold, and never catch a cold."

Guo Rong nodded slightly, but did not agree. He often took some aphrodisiac drugs during this period, and rose up to Hu Wei and his concubines to perform the husband-and-wife ceremony for less than a minute, wasn’t it just to leave a heir to the increasingly powerful Great Zhou Dynasty!

Guo Wei didn't expect that the medicine he had given someone to give up, which ruined the possibility of Guo Rong having another child. Although he saved Guo Xin (Yi Geer)'s life, he had a big heart disease. As the territory of the Later Zhou Dynasty expanded, Guo Rong was eager to have a child, but Guo Rong, who was unable to do sex, could only use the medicine. For this reason, he had to take aphrodisiacs often, and his body quickly collapsed. Guo Rong, who was used to taking everything himself, never relaxed his strict requirements on himself. He was exhausted day and night and seriously overdrawn his original source!

Although the doctors in the Imperial Hospital have good medical skills, they all have a common problem, that is, they dare not use strong medicines, and prescribe warm and tonic prescriptions in everything to ensure that they will not kill people. However, although these prescriptions are gentle in nature, they are very average when used in treating diseases. At first, Guo Rong took more than ten doses of decoctions, but later found that they had no effect. Since then, they have never been willing to take medicine on time. Intermittent treatment cannot guarantee the efficacy of the medicine, and Guo Rong's condition cannot be effectively controlled.

Of course, the Imperial Hospital will have some effect when it is dispatched together. At least Guo Rong can hold on to Dunlun for more than half a minute without taking the medicine, and he can hold on for one and a half minutes after taking the medicine. What a great miracle! The persistent efforts finally gave Guo Rong a glimmer of hope. A concubine in his harem was pregnant!

This is great news. After Guo Rong ruled out the possibility of cuckolding, he was almost ecstatic. He no longer had to lower his head and dared not face the beautiful concubines. It was great!

Encouraged by this good news, Guo Rong devoted himself to the preparations for the Northern Expedition in a hundredfold spirit and accelerated the training of the troops to the north. Under the emperor's personal supervision, the soldiers' winter clothes were quickly settled, and weapons, armor, bows, arrows and crossbows were piled up with dozens of newly expanded arsenals.

However, just when the war preparations were being carried out in the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom was not idle. Although it was cold and frozen, the main force of the Liao army still frequently went south and entered major checkpoints. Guo Rong also heard about this, but when he wanted to take further action, the concubine accidentally miscarried!

Guo Rong suffered a severe mental injury. In the past, the bloody night in Kaifeng Mansion caused him to lose his wife and children. Now he finally saw a glimmer of light, but was ruthlessly destroyed by God! Even though Guo Rong was an iron man, he couldn't hold on for a moment. After going to court, he vomited blood and fell into a coma in the imperial study room!

What is a capable man? A capable man is tolerate what ordinary people cannot do! Guo Rong cried, shouted, howled, but finally calmed down and picked up the plan to go out to the battle and started to look at it. He had to find something to do, otherwise he would really be driven crazy!

On March 28, Emperor Guo Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty re-dressed in armor and then put on military uniforms. He led his army to set off from Kaifeng Prefecture and issued an edict to personally fight against the Khitan and recover Yan Yun’s lost territory!

Guo Rong ordered Wu Yanzuoquan, the envoy of the Southern Court of Xuanhui, to be the one who stayed in Tokyo, Zan Jurun, the envoy of the Northern Court of Xuanhui, to be his deputy, and Zhang Mei, the envoy of the Third Office, to deploy the envoy of the Da Neidu. He ordered Sun Xingyou, the governor of the Yiwu Army, to send troops to Dingzhou in advance to strengthen the guards on Xishan Road to prevent the harassment of the Northern Han Dynasty; ordered Han Tong, the guards' personal army, to lead 10,000 infantry soldiers, and to order Dong Zunhui to lead 5,000 navy troops as vanguards; as for the other generals of the Later Zhou, including Li Chongjin's troops far away in Huainan, they all quickly gathered in Cangzhou. The south will not have any threat in the short term, and the capital will not have to leave heavy troops on guard. Guo Rong concentrated all the family of the Later Zhou Dynasty this time and used the troops of the whole country to fight against the Liao army!
Chapter completed!