Chapter 67: The Fall

Zhou Yanzhi's errand this time came abruptly and inexplicably. In addition to him, there were also Su Zhongchang and Zhang Jun, who were also attendants.www.biquge.info

There were only four attendants around the little emperor, and this time there were three at once.

For the appointment of personnel in the court, Zhao Xian has never had any say, this time the three attendants were stuffed to each other, speaking of which, the relationship with him is not very big, it is entirely because of the repeated reports of the war in Guizhou, which led to the disagreement between the governor Shi Xuan and the Privy Council of the same signatory, and the Empress Dowager Tian watched the fire from the other side, sat and watched the political hall and the Privy Council tear apart, and finally set herself on fire.

Shi Xuan was annoyed that the Empress Dowager Tian was indecisive, and every critical moment, she didn't count what she said. Chu Zhen suspected that the Empress Dowager Tian believed in Shi Xuan in vain, did not pay attention to the military situation, and did not ask the Privy Council about military affairs, but listened to Shi Xuan's slander.

The two sides fought to the death, and finally found that Empress Dowager Tian was pretending to be stupid next to her, and she was not happy, so she turned her gun and worked together to deal with it.

With the help of Shi Xuan and Chu Zhen, the little emperor had a little sense of presence in the court for the first time.

In the previous life, Zhou Qin did not remember that he had fought with Jiaozhi. In this life, the war in Guizhou was only mentioned by Zhou Yanzhi once as a very small matter, but Zhou Qin did not know about it.

After listening to Zhou Yanzhi's words, her first reaction was to go to the shelf and turn out the map.

It is a felony to possess maps privately, but the Protectorate Mansion was given by Emperor Taizu and received a number of precise maps. Although the border of Dawei has changed a few times now, the general orientation is still good.

"Close to Guiguang...... Sticking to Yongzhou...... Didn't you just finish the previous paragraph, why did you make trouble again? Zhou Qin was worried, "At this time, the miasma is reborn, insects and ants are everywhere, and my brother didn't let you go." ”

Zhou Yanzhi didn't think it was a big deal, "The old general invited Ding Wei, the feudal people are cunning, and they came to attack when they saw an opportunity." Thinking of the war situation over there in Jiaozhi, he told his sister as a story, "Jiaozhi has fertile water and soil, and it is common for them to have rice twice a year, even three crops are not uncommon, but the feudal people are lazy, and they often sow seeds at will, and they do not dot the seeds, and they were busy fighting last year, and no one even sowed seeds, and it is said that they came here to grab grain." ”

"Last time, I heard my brother say that Yongzhou has been besieged?"

Speaking of this, Zhou Yanzhi sighed.

"Yongzhou has fallen."

Zhou Qin raised his head in shock.

Zhou Yanzhi's face was heavy, "Your Majesty got the report today, Yongzhou has fallen, Yongzhou Zhizhou Su Ling burned down the granary of Yongzhou Mansion and committed suicide. ”

In the eyes of everyone, Jiaozhi is just a disease of scabies, when he was stationed on the frontier, he could defend a city for two or three months by going to 2,000 soldiers, and until last year, he could still chase Jiaozhi and fight.

It's only been a long time now, and Yongzhou has been besieged, but it has fallen!

Yongzhou is a big state, with tens of thousands of Great Wei people, Zhizhou Su Ling was martyred, and the fate of those civilians can be imagined.

And because of the fall of Yongzhou, the news has not been clear, all the military information of Yongzhou can only be obtained from Guizhou, and it is still secretive and cannot confirm the authenticity of the information, the Privy Council was so anxious to die before, and almost greeted the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of Su Ling, the governor of Yongzhou. Later, within two days, I received more than a dozen reports from Yongzhou, and then I learned that the official road from Yongzhou to the capital was hit by heavy rain, and more than half of it was muddy, and the report took twice the usual time to send it to Beijing.

Compared with the reports on both sides of Su Ling, the governor of Yongzhou, and Liu Yi, the governor of Guizhou, what happened on the border in the past month began to become the focus of continuous quarrels in the court for several days.

The secret telegrams sent by Su Ling to the capital were arranged in chronological order, and the contents in the order were:

The first letter - Jiaozhi peeped at Yongzhou, Yongzhou asked Guizhou to send troops, and Guizhou replied that there were not enough troops in the state and could not be dispatched. The Jiaozhi Army Intelligence and Political Affairs Hall is now requested to be assigned to the Political Affairs Hall as appropriate.

The second letter - there seems to be an abnormal movement in the cochin.

The third letter - it is clear that Jiaozhi wants to invade the border, Yongzhou soldiers were transferred by Guizhou, Guizhou said that the troops were insufficient, and the original troops would not be returned, nor would they send reinforcements, and asked Yongzhou to solve it by itself. It is found that Jiaozhi's offense this time is not the same as in the past, and the political affairs hall is invited to pay attention to it.

Next is some information on the Jiaozhi platoon obtained by Su Ling, the time of the attack, and the deployment of troops.

As the time of the letter became later, the more tense the military situation in Su Ling's report became, and when the Jiaozhi army pressed the siege, the last report sent out already had the city in the city, and the tragedy of the death of the city.

In the report given by Liu Yi, there is not a single word mentioning that Yongzhou has ever launched a request for help from Guizhou, nor has he said that he has sent nearly half of Yongzhou's troops to Guizhou. The first urgent message sent by Guizhou to the capital was that Jiaozhi attacked Yongzhou City and besieged the city for two days. In order to send this report directly to the desk of the Empress Dowager Tian and not be kept by the Privy Council, Liu Yi also deliberately sent a quick replacement, not only that, but he also put gold on the report for himself, saying that there was no warning of the arrival of the Jiaozhi army, if it were not for the vigilance of the Guizhou scouts, it would be difficult to find.

Nowadays, the court is divided into two factions, and the political hall stands Liu Yi, believing that Liu Yi is not at fault, and compared with Yongzhou, it is naturally more important to the safety of Guizhou. When he found out about the war, he reported it to Jingzhong, which was normal. As for what Su Ling said in the report, it was just the words of the family, and there was no evidence to prove that he really asked Guizhou for help.

The Privy Council stood on Su Ling, believing that Liu Yiyi had delayed the fighter and neglected his duties, resulting in the siege and fall of Yongzhou.

After a round of quarrels on the issue of responsibility, the two sides began to fight for the right to be responsible for the war.

After all, Jiaozhi is a small country, and this time it has re-activated the protection of the folding, and as soon as its people arrive, I am afraid that the Jiaozhi army will be scared away, and at this time the seizure of power is equivalent to the seizure of merit.

If the two sides are not clear about their responsibilities, it is naturally impossible to assign good credit. The dispute between the court and the court has been going on for a long time, and since the quarrel cannot be won, he asked the Empress Dowager Tian to break the lawsuit. Who knew that the Empress Dowager Tian did not agree with either the Privy Council or the political affairs hall, but instead pointed to a Queen Mother.

In this way, I poked the hornet's nest, and since I couldn't eat, I simply flipped the table. Proposed by Chu Zhen, Shi issued a reconsideration, and the government unanimously passed, asking the little emperor to appoint a special person to go to the army to stand by.

Zhao Xian was stunned by this piece of cake, clicked around, and found that there were few people around him who could be used, so he had to assign Zhou Yanzhi, Su Zhongchang, and Zhang Jun.

Born in Jiangmen and never experienced a war, Zhou Yanzhi got the news, so he was naturally eager to try, but when he thought of his grandmother and young sister at home, he hesitated again.

He looked at Zhou Qin and said, "I really don't know how to tell my grandmother." ”