Chapter 416: Justified
From the beginning of the Huang Taiji incident to the solution of the two scourges of Yang Yu and Sima Yuanji with one stone, it is not difficult to see that the so-called "wisdom and bravery" is an adjective prepared for people like Yue Jianghong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Therefore, this time Yue Jianghong definitely did not simply come to meet Liu Tian.
From the perspective of feng shui, Luoyang and Chang'an are both suitable as imperial capitals, and the great powers that use them as imperial capitals are relatively strong, but since the Three Kingdoms, this has always been a location near the border, and it is okay for the Son of Heaven to guard the country, but the problem is that Sima Di has done this, so Luoyang and Beiping are not within the scope of Sima Shimin's consideration.
So, Shimin set his sights on Kaifeng.
Luoyang as the new capital is only a few months, after this civil war, although the vitality is not bad, but basically everything is back to the original. As the second most prosperous city in the Great Song Dynasty, even after the invasion of Huang Taiji, with its strong self-recovery ability, there are not many traces of the post-war period, and it is almost impossible to invest much money to build a prosperous capital there.
The plan was finalized in one day, and then executed, and the people of the world did not look down on the things here in Luoyang, and only took away the necessary things and prisoners in the palace. Of course, the essence is that he hates everything about Sima Di very much, but even if someone sees through this, he doesn't dare to say it.
In fact, the people of the world were also wary of the Yue family in their hearts, so he "gave" the vacated Luoyang to the Yue family as a new palace.
It is a bit unfair to exchange the strong for the weak, but Yue Jianghong immediately agreed, because he knew that this was only the beginning, and the people's denial of Sima Di would be more strongly manifested in the future-cutting the feudal domain.
In the more than 200 years of history of the Great Song Dynasty, only Sima Di made such a stupid thing as making a person with a different surname the king, and the centralization of power since the Qin Dynasty has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of everyone in the royal family, but Sima Di has achieved the great cause of unifying the Three Kingdoms so that no one stands up to oppose it, but that definitely does not include the current Sima Shimin.
After that, the Shimin will try to gradually reclaim the power of the various nobles, and for the Eight Kings, his ultimate goal is to inherit the honor and keep a small amount of territory - yes, Luoyang is the additional territory that the Shimin said will keep Yue Jianghong forever, and in addition to that, he can choose another city.
Of course, Yue Jianghong, who is based on "serving the country with loyalty", will not refuse, but he also understands that if he behaves too obediently, it will make the monarch suspicious, so he proposed many privileges outside the territory, and tried his best to portray himself as a war maniac, a powerful minister, and a short-sighted person who only cares about the family's eternal inheritance, with good intentions.
Of course, Shimin is not a fool, and he will not push the big nobles too much at once, but the general direction is to talk to Yue Jianghong in private.
When Liu Tian and others made a big fuss in Kaifeng, the armies of Shimin and Yue Jianghong had already set off from Luoyang for a while, and at the moment when the wartime map had been lifted, the two met unexpectedly halfway.
"What's the matter, Liu Tian refuses to take refuge in us?" Shimin asked Yue Jianghong, who had returned to the army.
Yue Jianghong truthfully reported the matter of the war.
"I didn't expect him to be a brave man. Shimin was a little surprised, but he didn't take Liu Tian's intention of delaying the army this year to heart, in his opinion, the position he was sitting in, even if the ancient Mongolian Great Khan Temujin was resurrected, he couldn't let him move half a point, after all, he was destined to create a prosperous era of the first emperor of the ages.
This kind of pride, which was close to conceit, also made him not listen to Yue Jianghong's advice to guard against Shu Han.
"Is Taishi afraid that he will not be able to defeat Liu Tian, or is he afraid that Shu Han will repeat the old things of the late Qin Dynasty?" Shimin smiled, his eyes full of confidence and concern, "I understand that Liu Tian is both wise and brave, but Taishi is also the pillar of my Great Song Dynasty, so let's ...... After I go to Kaifeng, I will give that thing to the Taishi. ”
"Could it be?" Rao is Yue Jianghong couldn't help but show a surprised expression.
Great Song holy relics were scarce, but no one stipulated that they could not use the enemy's holy relics, let alone those that were originally theirs.
"I believe that Master, you will be able to give full play to the power of that thing. Shimin patted Yue Jianghong on the shoulder.
"Yes!"
However, until the end, the two of them tacitly did not mention one thing - such a powerful prop, the man did not use it when he was dying, and ordered his old internal official to hand over the things to the new monarch completely.
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"It's over!"
Confirming that there was indeed a long royal fleet in the Yellow River, Liu Tianyi sat on the ground and looked up to the sky and lamented.
"Do you want to attack?"
Lang Qing, who was in charge of going to investigate, ignored Liu Tian, who was dejected on the side, and asked a few other people.
"Are the people from Jinyi Wei there?" asked Lei Tianhua.
"There are traces of their activities on the shore. ”
"Ask them where Ji Gang is. ”
Lang Qing immediately executed, and it didn't take long for the news to be returned.
"In Luoyang, but they answered too quickly, I'm afraid of fraud, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard will not be with the new emperor......"
"Then let's go to Luoyang. "Lei Tianhua cut the railway.
Everyone had no choice but to start acting, although Liu Tian had an attitude of not leaving, but everyone pulled him into a new cart and dragged him away, but he didn't say anything.
Because there were prisoners, even if the main one took the waterway, there were troops patrolling on both sides of the strait to echo the land, and most of the generals tacitly let Liu Tian and others go, but there was still an army that came to trouble them.
"I am Chen Wu, the deputy general of the Yue family, are you a traitor?"
This question made Chen Duyun and Liu Tian look weird, but the rest of them immediately understood, and soon, Han Shi walked to the front and clenched his fists at them.
"Everyone, please take care, I hope we won't meet on the battlefield in the future. ”
Yue Fei could break with his father, but Han Shi couldn't do so, he was an official soldier of the Yue family, and the family was still in Kaifeng. And he will follow, just to try to rescue Zong Lin, and now that the Luoyang prisoners have been escorted to Kaifeng, he naturally has no reason to stay in the team.
"Take care!" Lei Tianhua and Chen Duyun quickly returned the salute.
"Don't worry about me. Yue Fei said, "Be careful in everything." ”
"Hmph, I'm not to the point where I'm worried about you. Han Shi smiled disdainfully and walked towards the army.
Chen Wu, who was the leader, quickly sat down and rode the salute.
"Meet the General!"
That's right, this is the army led by Han Shi, Yue Jianghong cherishes all the talents that are useful to the Great Song Dynasty, so he did not let Han Shi, the general, participate in the rebellion, but let his deputy general lead the army, so as soon as Chen Wu spoke, Han Shi understood what Yue Jianghong meant.
Unlike Yue Fei, Han Shi is still a soldier in his bones, and it is okay to assist Yue Fei in escaping, but he will not betray the Yue family.
"There are no rebels here, come with me. Han Shi mounted the mount prepared for him and commanded the army to leave.
However, after that, Liu Tian and others did not have smooth sailing, and encountered the generals leading the army to block them in Xingyang and Hujiao Pass, but compared with before, their interception was not large, more like persuading each other, even if Liu Tian did nothing, they still came to Luoyang City smoothly.
"I see, is the so-called Jinyi Guard Commander a character who doesn't put himself under the dangerous wall?" Liu Tian couldn't help but smile when he saw the closed city gate and the projection communication stone prepared outside the city gate.
Although it is not described as "hiding the head and revealing the tail", everyone understands what Liu Tian means.
"Whatever you may say, I have no intention of meeting with the traitor. "The projection of the virtual image.
"Isn't it you, traitor?"
Thunder made a sound like thunder, and anger spread through the area like lightning leaping across the web. He has never been a calm person, but what he saw and heard along the way did not make him explode...... Of course, it's also possible that a huge amount of anger has accumulated along the way.
"I'm doing things for Your Majesty, how can I be a traitor. ”
Even through the virtual image, you can see that Ji Gang is quibbling with an expression without any waves.
"So you sold the brocade guard?!"
The supervision and intelligence agencies that are above the regular departments, both in terms of starting point and the meaning of their existence, mean that they are inherently heinous.
What really affects the direction of Jinyiwei is people after all.
Jin Yiwei was directly under the emperor and was supposed to serve the emperor faithfully and monitor the world with an objective attitude, but this time Jin Yiwei fell headlong to the side of the usurper, and in turn deceived the emperor...... Can this organization still be trusted?
Of course not.
But the question is, why did Ji Gang do such a big rebellion, which may lead to the collapse of Jinyiwei?
The answer is very simple, he just uses Jinyiwei as a springboard, and doesn't care whether Jinyiwei's department will be abolished, let alone where the people inside go, all he seeks is to get power and status like Yue Jianghong.
No one likes to be a rat in the gutter, but for some beliefs, most people are willing to walk through the gutter, even if they will touch a gray head or even disappear into the world.
But the people who have mastered all this want to sell the fruits of these poor people's hard work as "commodities" to seek their own position, which is called how Lei Tianhua can endure it.
After thinking about it, Ji Gang had better decide to tell the "truth":
"There is no need for the Jinyiwei organization to exist in the first place, and this is not my idea alone. ”
One of the things that Lei Tianhua was worried about really happened, if there was a problem with the leadership of an organization, it could be solved by replacing it, but now the problem is among the people at the highest level, who have completely abandoned the purpose of the organization's existence for their own power.
"You're not going to get away with it!"
Fortunately, there is still a chance to remedy, and Lei Tianhua plans to contact others to unite against Ji Gang.
"It's a shame, I thought you had a change of heart. ”
Although he said this, in fact, Ji Gang himself didn't believe it, so he came to meet Lei Tianhua in a projection posture.
It is true that Lei Tianhua's plan is very troublesome, and he is forced by Yue Jianghong's "Aicai" suggestion, he can't do anything about it for the time being, but it's just "trouble".
"Don't think that you alone can represent other people's ideas, there are more people in the organization who want to get out than you think, and besides, it's still that sentence, I am the one who works for His Majesty!"
With these words, the Communication Stone turned off the projection, then self-destructed, quickly turning into ashes and dissipating into the world.
"Of course I know about this kind of thing, but it's not a reason for you to abuse your power!" Lei Tianhua roared into the air.
The fact that Ji Gang was able to say this shows that the people of the world also have the intention of abolishing Jinyiwei, but will Ji Gang really arrange a way out for every member of Jinyiwei? If this is the case, there will be no practice of "leaders leaving first" when the catastrophe is approaching.
"I'm also in favor of abolishing this kind of organization that casually peeps into other people's baths. Liu Tian interjected.
Although it was an inappropriate joke, in fact Liu Tian did it, but the difference was that most of the spies he liberated at the beginning were forced, while most of the lower-level spies in Jinyiwei took the initiative to join.
"I don't think Jinyiwei will necessarily be revoked. Chen Duyun walked over.
"Nice idea. Liu Tian praised, "If it were me, I would definitely choose to get out by myself, and then draw a big cake and continue to hold Jinyiwei in my hand, after all, this is a strength that cannot be underestimated." ”
This was what Lei Tianhua was most worried about, but Liu Tian patted him on the shoulder.
"Okay, don't think so much, it's not right, even if you want to change the status quo, you can't do anything, it's better to go back with me. ”
"Where are you going?" asked Lei Tianhua.
"Xiangyue, of course. ”
Only Chen Duyun understood for the first time that the most important part of these words was "justifiable".