Chapter 463: Emperor's Heart
According to the normal thinking of most people, the current emperor Yang Jing said that he should not leave the capital in this environment.
The world is uneven, the emperor is out of Beijing, no matter how he thinks about it, it is dangerous.
But Yang Jing knew very well that he, like his father, had always hidden in the capital and pretended not to know anything, so Da Chu really couldn't be saved.
He promulgated many new policies in an attempt to make changes in the Great Chu from the imperial court to the local level.
But he also knew that if he didn't go out himself, then these new policies would not be implemented at all.
The local officials, who have been rotten to the bone, will treat the emperor's new policy as a gust of wind, and after it has been blown, it will be blown over, and not even a trace will be left.
Of course, Yang Jing also knew that he would be in danger if he left the capital, but if he didn't leave the capital to inspect the northern border, then it was not him who was in danger, but Da Chu who was in danger.
This young emperor can't wait to break all the time, or hope that he can be separated, so that he can get Da Chu back on his feet faster and faster.
He stood on the high slope, looking at Jizhou City in the distance, and felt a little sad in his heart.
This is the Jizhou of Dachu, not anyone's Jizhou.
Yuzhou Jiedu made Liu Li return with Prince Wu, and also brought all the generals of the Yuzhou Army above the fourth grade, and everyone was very panicked.
They could never have imagined that His Majesty the Emperor had arrived.
The awe of the emperor is a kind of nature, a kind of deep awe in the bones, when I don't see the emperor, I have the intention to rebel, and when I hear that the emperor has arrived, I just think about how to kneel.
So it was still far away, Liu Li knelt on the ground with a thud, kneeling and crawling forward, his knees rubbing against the ground, as if he didn't know the pain at all.
"Sinner Liu Li, meet Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live!"
He talked as he crawled, crawled not far from the emperor, and knelt there and kept prostrating.
The emperor glanced at him, and also looked at the Yuzhou generals kneeling behind him, and frowned slightly.
"Liu Li."
"The sinners are here."
The Emperor walked up to Liu Nei and looked down at the panicked courtier, and he was sure that at least at this moment, this man's fear and awe were genuine.
But the Emperor was also certain that after he left, the man's fear and awe would immediately vanish, and there would be nothing left.
"What do you think I'll do with you?"
The emperor asked.
Liu Li kowtowed and said: "The ministers deserve death, how Your Majesty deals with the ministers, the ministers have no complaints, and the ministers are willing to accept the guilt." ”
"That's good."
The emperor smiled and said: "Liu Li, the envoy of Yuzhou Jiedu, and all the officials and generals above the fourth grade under his account...... Let's cut them all. ”
was still smiling, and when he said the last four words, the emperor's tone was already as cold as ice.
Liu Li's body stiffened suddenly, and then he raised his head to look at the emperor, and he saw undoubted authority in the emperor's eyes.
"Your Majesty!"
Liu Li shouted, but before he could say the following words, a guard beside the emperor drew his knife and fell, and with a pop, he would cut off Liu Li's head.
The human head rolled down the high slope, but no matter how it rolled, his eyes did not close.
The generals kneeling behind Liu Li were all stunned, and their exclamations became one after another.
"You guys!"
Before the generals could react, the emperor said loudly: "You should also be guilty of the same crime as him, I just said that he will deal with you as he pleases, but I am distressed!" ”
The Emperor looked at the generals, and his tone turned to sadness.
"You are all the ministers of the Great Chu, you should all have become heroes, each of you should be a pillar that I can rely on, I let you lead the troops, just
I gave you the foundation of the kingdom and the weapons of the kingdom, but what you did disappointed me. ”
The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and he walked forward, and the Ouchi guards hurriedly stepped forward to protect him, but he waved his hand to stop him.
The emperor walked slowly past the kneeling group of Yuzhou army generals, talking as he walked.
"I am sad, not only because of your dereliction of duty and responsibility, but also because of my negligence, if I had dealt with Liu Li earlier, and came earlier, you would not have followed Liu Li step by step on the wrong path."
"This is Liu Li's big crime, and it is also my fault, I just thought, you are all soldiers, you all have to obey military orders, how can I deal with you?"
The Emperor stopped and stood in the middle of the kneeling group.
After he breathed a sigh of relief, his tone changed to a soft tone and continued: "So I don't kill you, I still want to use you, I will solemnly tell you now, now you go back to the barracks, lead my Yuzhou army, and capture my Jizhou City, not only will I not dispose of you again, but I will also be rewarded heavily." ”
The Emperor asked, "Now which of you has the highest military rank?" ”
Yu Weiyin, the general of Zhengsanpin under Liu Li's account, hesitated for a moment, and said while kowtowing: "It's the guilty minister Yu Weiyin." ”
The emperor walked up to him, stretched out his hand to help Yu Weiyin up, and said: "I know that it is you, and I also know you, twenty-one years of Tianshou, that is, fourteen years ago, you were a personal soldier under Prince Wu's account. ”
Yu Weiyin's face changed, and he lowered his head and said, "Yes...... At that time, the criminal minister was the prince's personal army. ”
The emperor said: "Twenty-six years of Tianshou, Prince Wu promoted you to the general of the fifth grade, twenty-eight years of longevity, because of military merits, Prince Wu promoted you to the general from the fourth grade, thirty years of longevity, Liu Li was transferred to Yuzhou Jiedu envoy, Prince Wu assigned you to Liu Li at that time, and the emperor promoted you to the fourth grade. ”
The emperor looked into Yu Weiyin's eyes and said, "Just before, I asked Prince Wu, is Yu Weiyin credible?" Is it available? Prince Wu replied to me, "You can be trusted." ”
The emperor looked at Prince Wu Yang Jiju, who was standing on the side, and asked, "Now I will ask Uncle Wang in front of him, is Yu Weiyin available?" Is it credible? ”
Prince Wu leaned over and said, "Avoidance, Your Majesty asks again, and the minister's answer is the same, Yu Weiyin is credible." ”
The emperor turned his head to look at Yu Weiyin and said loudly: "Then you come to answer me, Yu Weiyin, are you credible?" Are you available! ”
Yu Weiyin fell to his knees with a thud, and replied tremblingly: "The minister is willing to go to the soup for His Majesty, and the minister is willing to die for His Majesty!" ”
"That's good!"
The emperor helped Yu Weiyin up again, looked at the middle-aged general in front of him who was excited and grateful, and said word by word: "I handed over the Yuzhou army to you, conquer Jizhou City, exterminate the rebels, I reward you and your soldiers heavily, I also want you to take this victorious army back to Yuzhou, for me to manage Yuzhou well, I treat you well, you treat the country well." ”
The emperor's hand was placed on Yu Weiyin's shoulder: "Yuzhou Jiedu envoy, Lord Yu, I handed over this battle to you, and I also handed over Yuzhou to you." ”
"The minister will never give up!"
Yu Weiyin knelt down again and kowtowed.
The emperor said loudly: "You all listen carefully, no matter what wrong things you have done with Liu Li before, after today's battle, I will not blame the past, you are still my confidants, you are still the pillars of Great Chu!" ”
He stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Jizhou City: "Go, enforce the law of the country for me, and kill the thieves!" ”
"Hooray!"
The generals of the Yuzhou Army who were kneeling there kept kowtowing.
The emperor said loudly: "Come on, get me a hundred refining knives, these generals, I will give each of you a sword, take the knife I gave you, and kill the thieves for me." ”
An hour later, outside the city of Jizhou.
General Yu Weiyin jumped off his horse, and he looked down at the one in his hand
Take the Hundred Refining Knife and take a deep breath.
Then he picked up an infantry shield in his left hand and clenched his horizontal knife in his right hand.
"Come in with me! Swear to repay the emperor's kindness! ”
"Kill!"
Yu Weiyin was the first to rush to the gate of Jizhou City, and behind him, the soldiers of the Yuzhou Army rushed forward with a roar.
This battle is the most tragic battle from the beginning of this battle to the present.
Every time the soldiers of the Yuzhou Army take a step forward, countless people will fall, the soldiers of the Yuzhou Army, the soldiers of the Yanshan Battalion, and the soldiers of the Jizhou Army.
When the Yuzhou army began to storm on, Zeng Ling and Yu Chaozong both knew that this was their last battle.
Therefore, the Jizhou Army and the people of the Yanshan Battalion resisted the Yuzhou Army side by side, and it seemed to have become a logical thing, there was nothing to be laughed at, only pathetic.
Outside the city of Jizhou.
The emperor sat on his war horse and stretched out his hand to look into the city gate, where countless soldiers of the Yuzhou army were still rushing into the city gate, like a flood poured into a hole.
The Emperor's gaze could only look over the people's heads, trying to see what was really in the city.
But I couldn't see it at all, I could only see the crowds.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty."
Youzhou General Luo Geng leaned over and said, "Your Majesty is mighty and mighty, and you have successfully recovered Jizhou." ”
The emperor put down his clairvoyance, he glanced sideways at Luo Geng, and after a moment of silence, he said, "General Luo, do you think it is a matter of congratulations for me to regain my city from the thieves?" ”
Luo Geng's heart tightened.
At this moment, his heart turned a thousand times, constantly thinking about what the emperor was going to do and what this sentence meant.
"Yanshan thieves, in just a few years, they have already had more than 100,000 troops, dare to besiege the Great Chu Prefecture and govern the big city, and dare to call themselves the king."
The emperor said, "I really don't know what I have to rejoice about defeating such a thief. ”
He looked at Luo Geng and asked, "I have also heard that now on Yan Mountain, there are still a large number of Yan Mountain thieves guarding the cottage, causing disaster in all directions, even if the thief leader Yu Chaozong is captured today, the threat of Yan Mountain thieves is still there." ”
Luo Geng immediately understood that the emperor was asking him to continue attacking the Yanshan camp.
So Luo Geng leaned over and said: "The minister is willing to lead the troops, and after this battle, he will wave his army to the north to clear the remnants of the Yanshan thieves." ”
The emperor's face softened, and he smiled: "The general is willing to share my worries, is willing to eliminate harm for the people, and is willing to contribute to the country, and I am very relieved." ”
He asked Luo Geng: "Is there a strategy to break the enemy?" ”
Luo Geng Alliance said: "The minister captured a lot of Yanshan thieves yesterday, among the captives, there is a person who claims to be the eight masters of the Yanshan thieves, named Zheng Gongru, willing to surrender, and is also willing to guide the army to attack the Yanshan camp cottage, this person said that he knows the terrain of the Yanshan camp cottage best, how to conquer it, he is sure. ”
The emperor laughed and said: "A thief is a thief, a group of green forests and grass cowards who gather together, full of loyalty and righteousness, and it is not that they are greedy for life and afraid of death and betray their own people. ”
The emperor said: "Since there are people who are willing to lead the way, then it depends on how the general breaks the enemy, if the Yanshan thieves are eliminated, the northern frontier is stable, and the northern frontier will be handed over to you, and I will be stable in my heart." ”
He paused and said with a smile: "If the Yan Mountain Bandit is leveled, I will give the Great General an unprecedented reward." ”
Luo Geng's heart moved, and he was secretly a little annoyed.
Before Prince Wu said that after this battle, His Majesty would give him an unprecedented reward, so what else could it be? It must be crowned as a king with a different surname.
But now, the emperor said that he would wait until after the Yan thieves were pacified.
At this moment, there was a sudden burst of cheers from the city.
"The thief leader Zeng Ling was killed!"
The sound was higher and higher.
The emperor, who was sitting on horseback, laughed and was in high spirits.