Chapter 9: Withering

Is it because this force is too strong?

Yes. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the soldiers who followed Lao Ding'an Gong to the east and west, all of whom had a deep friendship with him, and they all became the mainstay of the generals.

What the saint is worried about is not anything else, but if the descendants of Lao Ding'an Gong can have the same appeal to such a force like Lao Ding'an, will he be unfavorable to Nanming?

Moreover, the evidence of the rebellion back then, of course, the emperor had the strength to fabricate it, but it made people wonder, why did the dignified emperor frame a courtier? If you don't like him, you can just make a charge for him, but he gives so much evidence, it's so true that no one can refute it, why did the emperor put so much effort into it?

She can think of it, and the emperor can naturally think of it, so it is not difficult to guess that the emperor has doubts about whether Ding'an Gong is plotting rebellion, and he is worried, if even the old lady really wants to usurp the throne, how can his subordinates talk about innocence? If you rashly grant amnesty, you may lift a stone and hit yourself in the foot, ruining the splendid country.

She took a deep breath and tried to remember how Lian Jingqian had done in her previous life. Since he restored his title, it seems that he has never heard that the Lian family has been in close contact with anyone's family, and he has been a lonely minister, although he has annoyed many ministers, but he has also won the trust of the emperor, and even later crusaded against Sun Sinan, and sent Lian Jingqian as the main general.

Her heart was relieved, what was she worried about, without her help in her previous life, didn't even Jingqian recover the title smoothly? Where is his mind that can be reached by a little woman who has been raised in the inner house all his life.

However, she remembered that before she died, Lian Jingqian told her that her mother had helped him, could it be that her mother contributed to Lao Ding'an's fair rehabilitation?

She shook her head, her eyes suddenly cold.

Sun Sinan, she remembered this person again. It was this person who deceived her mother's trust but hurt her deeply, ruined her family, and indirectly caused the tragedy of her early death. If there was no such incident, she would not have found Xu Xian's hideous face under the veil, and she didn't know if it was a good thing for her in her previous life to think that she was happily living in deception.

She rubbed her eyes and laughed at herself, she really had an obsession, so stupid that she couldn't believe it.

Banyue hurriedly said: "County Lord, what's wrong with your eyes?" ”

"It's okay, I accidentally lost my eyes." She wiped away a tear that she couldn't hold back, and walked quickly towards the Cloud Pavilion.

The evil fate of the previous life, let it pass, in this life, she no longer prays for a person who wishes to have a heart, but only hopes that the person she wants to protect will be safe and smooth. She settled down and said secretly: Sun Sinan, I will definitely grab your fox tail, and I will never give you a chance to make trouble again!

Upper room.

Min Yuan rubbed his eyebrows and sighed. She didn't tell the truth to Yuanyuan, it's not that the imperial brother doesn't value military generals, but that there is no one available in the court today.

When the emperor was there, the military generals had a noble status and were divided into three factions: one was the many military generals headed by the Duke of Ding'an, and the old lady Zhou, who had a lonely personality at that time, and the father of her imperial sister-in-law, was a faction of his own, and the other faction was some inconspicuous military generals, who later took refuge in Yu Guifei.

Old lady Zhou is good at arranging troops, although the number of times she went into battle to kill the enemy is not much, the only few times are the defeat of the enemy, for the Nanming to capture several cities, and is a lonely minister, in the heart of the emperor has a very high status.

The relationship between her royal brother and sister-in-law was set when she was young, that is, the queen mother was still quite respected by her father, and Yu Guifei had not yet entered the palace, and the imperial brother was the future prince recognized by the dynasty, and only such a woman could be worthy of him.

But then things changed, Yu Guifei entered the palace, her father was fascinated by her, and repeatedly protected her rudeness in front of the queen mother, the queen mother was virtuous, and the mother's family was also strong and stable at that time, and she didn't care too much about this domineering favorite concubine.

Who knew that within a few months, Concubine Yu Guifei was pregnant and gave birth to a prince named Prince Rong. Since then, she has begun to meddle in political affairs, recruiting troops for the little prince, weakening the strength of the Gao family, and humiliating the queen mother in every way.

Fortunately, at that time, her father still had a trace of reason, and her sister-in-law who had not passed through the door was also a fierce child, and told her father that if this marriage did not work, she would seek death.

The old lady Zhou has been a lonely minister all his life, and he only cares about this pair of children, so he asked for grace in front of the emperor with tears, and the emperor has always looked at the old lady Zhou, and thought that Miss Zhou is several years older than Prince Rong, so it is impossible to do it, so he promised not to regret it.

As soon as the Zhou family was married, he got married. Concubine Yu Guifei couldn't destroy it, so she simply asked her father to send the imperial brother to the frontier to garrison, on the one hand, she wanted to take advantage of the imperial brother's absence to recruit troops and horses for Prince Rong and consolidate her position in the emperor's heart, and on the other hand, she also had the idea of wanting the imperial brother to die in such a desolate place.

She originally thought that as the eldest son of the emperor, her father would not agree, but although the ministers were opposed, her father still insisted on complying with Concubine Yu's request.

On the day of departure, the father changed the title for the imperial brother, from the former Rui character to the word An, she was young at the time, and she wanted to follow the imperial brother and sister-in-law to the frontier to suffer and be wronged, suddenly heard this title, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, feeling that the father and the emperor hoped that the imperial brother would return safely, and he had their brother and sister in his heart. But he didn't think about it, it was clearly his father who was warning the imperial brother to divide the land and stop competing with Prince Rong for the crown prince......

In the first few years before going to the frontier, the imperial brother and Mrs. Zhou had close contacts and learned a lot of ways to use soldiers to govern the army.

It's just that Mrs. Zhou died three years before the coup d'état in Jingning. The tree fell and scattered, coupled with the intentional promotion of Concubine Yu, the Zhou family soon became much worse than before, and Zhou Yan, who succeeded the head of the Zhou family, could not get the military power, and he had a good skill but nowhere to show it, so he did not play a great role in the matter of the emperor's brother seizing the heir.

After the death of the Zhou family, Zhou Yan also understood the thoughts of the imperial brother, maybe in order to keep the three princes, or maybe there was resentment in his heart, so he dismissed the official and was idle at home, and the generals of the Zhou family were not available.

In the Jingning coup, most of the generals who followed Lao Ding'an were affected, and a small number of people of insight who were able to get out were also cold because of the inaction of the imperial brother due to some concerns over the years, and refused to enter the court as officials.

Among the new generals, there is a lack of guidance from their predecessors, all of them are above the top but have no great ability, the generals have withered to this point, but the royal brother has no way, for the sake of royal face, he can only flow rumors of heavy literature and light martial arts.

In fact, the imperial brother hopes more than anyone else to have useful generals appear, firstly, he can compete with the dominant civilian power of Song Jingran's family, and secondly, the frontier has not been peaceful recently, and there are always some barbarians trying to snatch food from the border city every autumn. It's okay to make a small fight, but if one day it is really because of this, or if the enemy learns of the current situation of the withering of the Southern Ming generals, causing a war, and there is no one available in the DPRK and China, wouldn't it be dangerous?