Chapter 205: Preparedness
Jiaozhi is now reigning Li Qiande, who is only seven years old, and at such a young age, it is naturally impossible to take charge of political affairs. www.biquge.info In fact, in the court of Jiaozhi, it was Li Qiande's biological mother, Concubine Yilan, who listened to the government, and Li Daozheng and Li Changjie as auxiliary ministers.
The concubine of Yilan is surnamed Li, and her experience can be regarded as a legend. The Li family lives on mulberry picking, and the situation is very embarrassing, although she is extremely beautiful, but if it is according to normal development, at most she will marry an ordinary rich family.
However, luck came, and nothing could stop it. The heirs of Li Shengzong, the previous emperor of Jiaozhi, were difficult, on the way back to the temple to ask for a son, passing through the village where Yilan was located, when it was, the surrounding people were crowded on the side of the road to look at the emperor, but Yilan was outstanding and independent, and did not conform to the crowd, and stood far away in the orchid grass.
Li Shengzong saw that his face was different from the moon, and he thought about the proverbs given to him by the great monk when he was seeking a son, saying that it was a good omen in front of him. He felt that Yilan was a good omen for the great monk Suoyun, so he edicted him into the palace and canonized him as the concubine, called Mrs. Yilan.
Less than a year after entering the palace, Yilan gave birth to the prince Li Qiande for the Holy Sect, and no one else in the harem came out. Soon after, Shengzong died, and Li Qiande succeeded to the throne, called Renzong, respected his mother Yang as the empress dowager of Shangyang, and named his biological mother Li as the imperial concubine.
Li Shi Yilan colluded with Li Changjie, put the Empress Dowager of Shangyang under house arrest, and after strangling her, she announced that the Empress Dowager committed suicide and burial in her last words, and since then, she has hooked up with Li Changjie in an attempt to elevate another auxiliary minister, Li Daozheng.
Yilan is good at bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, her heart is like a snake and scorpion, and she is as timid as a mouse. Renzong Kaicheng surrendered to Zhou Yan, mainly because she instigated her behind her back.
Now she knelt in front of Zhou Yan, and without waiting for the other party to ask carefully, she hurriedly put the responsibility on Li Changjie's head, and said in a panic: "The concubine really doesn't know what the traitor Li Changjie is doing behind his back, this invasion of heaven is all Li Changjie's conspiracy, and our mother and son are all deceived by traitors, not intentionally." ”
As she spoke, tears fell one by one, and her voice was full of pity and grievance.
Yi Lan is less than thirty years old this year, and in terms of appearance alone, she is completely no different from a noble woman of the same age in the Great Wei Dynasty, but she is more delicate and charming than ordinary women.
To put it mildly, her expressions, movements, and mannerisms are all slightly similar to those in the Beijing Sect Division.
At this moment, she was obviously talking back to the Great Wei generals who were crusading against Jiaozhi, but her voice was thin and sneering, and she even grabbed the time, occasionally glancing at Zhou Yan with a restless look, as if she was telling her sorrow and helplessness.
Zhou Yan glanced at her, his eyes were calm, and the momentum of commanding an army of 100,000 pressed Yilan from head to toe, and she broke out in a cold sweat.
Goosebumps appeared on her body, and she was so frightened that her heart twitched, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and she crackled everything she knew.
"The concubine did not hide it, the major events in the country were all taken by the traitor Li Changjie, and he was able to believe it last year, Guangnan only had less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Yongzhou was even more defenseless, and the officials who were also in charge of the border were forbidden to buy and sell, and gave Li the thief soldiers by hair, and also made the young people of Guangyuan Mansion bias to our side. He also said that a general in Guangnan had reported to Ding Wei, and those who took over would not be able to fight, and he knew that the Great Wei had sent troops to deploy the formation, and he was sure that he would be able to take advantage of it......"
Since his son has descended, he is a prisoner of the steps, and there is no benefit to hide it, Yilan poured dirty water on Li Changjie's head to wash herself, and pleaded with Zhou Yan at the same time, hoping that after arriving in the capital, the other party could give a few beautiful words.
It turned out that Li Chang was an outstanding soldier in Guangnan that day, and there was also a huge controversy in Jiaozhi's country, after all, the Great Wei had been the suzerain for many years, and the national strength was prosperous, and the Jiaozhi court felt that attacking the Great Wei was a thankless task.
It's just that Li Changjie insists on fighting, and he and Li Daozheng's forces seem to be, although they are in the name of Emperor Yilan's concubine and the little emperor, they are still restrained by Li Daozheng in many ways.
His original idea was to use this attack on Great Wei to enhance his prestige in Jiaozhi on the one hand and suppress Li Daozheng to the death, and on the other hand, after gaining military power, he did not plan to hand it over again.
What is surprising is that the development of events is consistent with Li Changjie's assertion.
Guangnan is completely vulnerable, Jiaozhi easily went down to many cities and counties, regardless of the distribution of troops, the ability of the main general, Li Changjie seems to know everything about it, so Jiaozhi in just one month, like a bamboo, accounted for half of Guangnan.
When the Great Wei sent new generals and commanders, Li Changjie wrote a report to the Jiaozhi court and praised it in a grand manner: "Although Zhang Qian is a tiger general, he is not afraid, and the ministers are fully sure to surrender him." ”
If it weren't for the fact that the battle of Yongzhou was too tragic and delayed the pace of Jiaozhi's march, if it wasn't for Zhang Qian's violent illness, Zhou Yan happened to return to the capital to see His Majesty, and was pushed out by the Empress Dowager Tian to replace Zhang Qian, and now Guangnan may have been in his hands.
Zhou Yan listened to the narrative of the Imperial Concubine Yilan.
Naturally, he would not completely believe the other party's one-sided words, and he did not reveal the fact that he had searched for the manuscript of the letter from Li Changjie's mansion. In fact, he even planned to destroy all the letters in Li Changjie's mansion, without him, the scope was too wide. If it is stabbed out, it is estimated that the top level of the officialdom in Quang Nam will be washed in blood, and even in the capital, there are many officials who will be involved.
He has just made a Monkey King now, and it is the time when the fire is cooking, and countless people are staring and waiting to grab the pigtails, if he comes out and offends so many officials, unless he doesn't want to die.
Fortunately, it was his cronies who copied the house that day, and only two or three people knew about the manuscript, so even if he wanted to hide it, it was easy.
After Zhou Yan saw the concubine of Emperor Yilan, he interrogated the little emperor Li Qiande for a long time, and after confirming that the little emperor really knew nothing about political affairs, he returned to the mansion where he lived temporarily.
He first ordered his soldiers to come in with a large charcoal basin, then asked people to guard the courtyard gate, sat on the ground himself, and re-read the manuscript of the letter found in Li Changjie's mansion.
Li Changjie is a very interesting person, he received information from the officials of the Great Wei, and he should have burned it on the spot after reading it, but he kept the manuscript of the letter he wrote intact, a lot, and it was also divided into categories and neatly classified into archives.
Letters to Quang Nam officials are arranged according to the size of the official position, although the name of the other party is not marked on it, and there is no title in the letter, but it is not difficult to guess the position of the recipient as long as the content of the letter is combined.