Chapter 184: Becoming a Vassal

On the Fangshan martial arts field, the emperor listened to the battle reports of various camps in the Chinese military tent, and was very satisfied with Gao Xu's performance: "Gao Xu really fought well, he fought with me twice in the Northern Expedition, and he was familiar with Mahamu's way of using troops. ”

Now in the emperor's account are the generals who were defeated by Gao Xu, and they are convinced of the defeat at the hands of the King of Han.

Before the emperor could finish speaking, hurried footsteps sounded, but when he saw Xue Lu, the Marquis of Yangwu, and Zhang Fu, the British Gong, coming in, the generals immediately smiled and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Han is heroic!

However, the two of them did not look very good, and they approached the emperor and whispered a few words in their ears.

"What?" Hearing Zhang Fu's words, the emperor's face became solemn: "What's the matter?"

Seeing that the emperor had this look, the generals secretly speculated in their hearts, could it be that the king of Han did not give face to the emperor this time, and led the army to rush to the camp of the Chinese army?

The emperor paused for a moment and asked in a deep voice, "He is not in the army, where is he now?"

It turned out that Zhang Fu and Xue Lu surrounded the army of the King of Han, but they did not see the King of Han, and the army obediently let him disarm.

No one knew what the King of Han was going to do when he suddenly brought more than 8,000 troops to the capital at this time, but everyone felt extraordinary, they didn't dare to speak, they could only look at the emperor secretly, but they saw that the emperor's face was white for a while and black for a while, and he was angry: "Xue Lu, you take your soldiers, go down the mountain to see, and see if the King of Han has gone to the capital!"

Xue Lu took the order and left, but within half an hour, suddenly a soldier and horse from the imperial city pointed out that Xu Yedonkey rushed to Fangshan, saying that the king of Han had entered the imperial city and surrounded the palace despite the obstacles!

Although the emperor is not in the palace, he is leading an army of 200,000 outside the city, even if the king of Han has the ambition of plotting to usurp the throne, his 8,000 men surrounding the palace are just an empty palace, what can he do?

Most of the generals are the emperor's former ministers in Yandi, they know the king of Han, and they know him better in the battle of Jingyan, even if the king of Han is ambitious, but he will never be a brave and unscrupulous martial artist, let alone do such a taboo thing when the emperor is at the peak of the spring and autumn period, so some people have the courage to say a few words for the king of Han: "Maybe the king of Han does have something urgent......

The British Duke Zhang Fu was thoughtful, and also nodded: "The King of Han left Jingwei in Fangshan, and only took eight thousand Tiance Wei away. ”

But such words seemed to be of no use to the emperor, and the emperor, who was in power and could not tolerate anyone touching the imperial power, showed a cold look: "What can make him not even have time to send someone to give me a message?"

Soon the king of Han arrived in the capital, and the news of the conflict with the palace gate guards was real, the Chinese army camp at night was brightly lit, and the emperor did not laugh angrily after hearing the news of the palace gate closing: "The crown princess Zhang has always been vigilant. ”

This is not ironic, Zhang Fu knew the emperor's thoughts, and the crown princess's move was not taboo, but quite in line with the emperor's wishes.

"It's not," Wu'an Marquis Zheng Heng said: "When the minister remembered that when Jing was martyred, the crown princess guarded Beijing, and she was also very thorough. ”

But at that time, it was the army that resisted Jianwen, but now it is dealing with the King of Han-

After such a thing as a military performance, there is naturally no possibility of continuing. At the time of the third watch, Xue Lu came with the news that the Tiance Guard had been successfully placed in Zhuque Lane, and the emperor drove back to Nanjing, and the first thing he did was to summon the King of Han.

But no matter how patiently or angrily the emperor asked the king of Han why he wanted to return to Beijing privately, the king of Han always did not say a word. All the rhetoric in Liu Mu was trespassed by the King of Han without an edict, which almost led to a violent conflict. The emperor looked at this son, who was very similar to himself, and asked coldly: "Since you don't speak, you have lost the opportunity to argue." Tian Cewei was given to you by me, I allowed you to be a subordinate officer at the beginning, but now I see that the people you selected have not fulfilled their responsibilities of persuasion, but have helped you do a big thing that is out of control, am I too lenient with you?"

Seeing that Gao Xu was still motionless, the emperor said: "Tiance Wei does not distinguish between left and right guards, and it will be abolished and handed over to Guo Jing to take over!"

Yang Shiqi, who was sitting behind the screen, paused slightly, the loss of Tiancewei by the King of Han was a heavy blow, which means that the King of Han's move this time finally violated the emperor's taboo.

"I see that you are still indifferent," the emperor said angrily, "Do you think that the Tiance Guard is not your foundation, but the Black Armor Army is?"

Hearing the words "Black Armor Army", Gao Xu's head moved slightly, and the emperor said: "Tian Cewei, Black Armor Army, are you determined to learn from Tang Taizong, what to learn from him, and learn from him to kill his brother?"

Yang Shiqi gasped, he had never heard of the name of the Black Armor Army, but he knew that Tang Taizong was galloping across the country, because there was a famous army under his command called the "Xuanjia Army". For this Xuanjia army, the record in the history books is not detailed, but it is said that "the Qin King Shimin selected more than 1,000 elite horsemen, all dressed in Xuanjia, divided into left and right teams...... In every battle, the people of the world were taken as the vanguard by the Xuanjia Shuai, taking the opportunity to attack, and everything was destroyed, and the enemy was afraid of it. "The Xuanjia Army is the elite army of Tang Taizong, because everyone in this army wears black armor, and when the cavalry attacks, it is like a black cloud pressing towards the enemy formation, the momentum is compelling, and it is indestructible, so it has the name of "Xuanjia Army".

But now the king of Han himself has formed a "black armor army", which is completely modeled after the army of Tang Taizong, such an obvious intention, as the emperor said, the king of Han often compares himself with Tang Taizong, but where does he want to place the emperor?

"You are arrogant and arrogant, and you have done a lot of illegal things," the emperor said, "I see it in my eyes, but I don't want to talk about you, you go to the Zongren Mansion to receive the punishment." ”

Zongrenfu couldn't figure out the emperor's intentions, but it had imprisoned the king of Han for less than a month. However, soon there was a will, and the king of Han actually changed his fiefdom from Yunnan to Qingzhou, Shandong

After the emperor changed his title, there was a sudden trend in the court, and a number of imperial histories headed by Ma Shun in the matter played to the emperor, saying that the emperor said in the ancestral training that the prince had reached a certain age, and he must be in the fiefdom of the domain, and he was not allowed to enter Beijing unless he was edicted, and the sons of Emperor Taizu were without exception, and the emperor's sons should not stay in the capital, not to mention that Gao Xu was not fifteen years old, but thirty years old.

No one mentioned it before, but now someone has said that the emperor must give an explanation, the Han King and the Zhao Wang brothers have a feudal country and have been living in the capital, not that no one has hinted, but the reason of the Han King is that Yunnan is too remote and unwilling to be a domain, and now the emperor has finally changed a non-remote fief to him, Shandong Qingzhou was originally the fief of the King of Qi, fat and fat, and the King of Qi has been robbed of his lineage because of his evil - the King of Han no longer has any reason to stay.

Although it was difficult for the emperor to succeed, it was precisely because he started as an emperor from a vassal king that he had been low-key to weaken the power of the vassal king, and cut off the titles, subordinate officials, and subordinates of five or six vassal kings on various charges such as rebellion. guards, and the clan is not allowed to be officials, but even if the emperor wants to control the vassal king as much as possible, he can't reach a hundred times from the root, because his Taizu Emperor let the vassal king go out and seal the country, and did not order them to live in Beijing for a long time, this is an unchangeable ancestral system, even if the king of Han and the king of Zhao stayed for many years with the emperor's selfishness, they could not stay in the capital for a lifetime.

These days, more than a dozen officials wrote to echo it, urging the emperor to express his position, and the emperor finally ordered the marriage of the grandson after the emperor's death, and the king of Han went to seal the country.