Chapter 207: Luck and Misfortune

Ying Jieyan is very aware of the 'grievances' between His Royal Highness and the Jiang family. At the beginning, in order to persuade Jiang Wanzai to help him open Qiongzhou, saying that he wanted to be a bad guy with great righteousness, which aroused Jiang Wanzai's suspicions, he lay a secret beside him. Unexpectedly, His Royal Highness actually saw the clue, and he didn't know if it was because he didn't dare to turn his face with the Jiang family because he didn't seize the evidence, or if he kept his promise to take care of the Jiang family's children, His Royal Highness never took drastic actions, but pretended not to know, and never mentioned this matter to others except himself.

However, from the perspective of the proper moderation, His Royal Highness did not forget this matter, and was very wary of the Jiang family, and took the opportunity of the whole army to transfer Jiang Zongjie from the personal guard and arrange for him to sit on the cold bench in Fusi, not to mention, but also transferred him to a civilian position, and he was not allowed to directly contact the army. As for Jiang Xuan, His Royal Highness regards him as a teacher, but he is not close, and has a respectful and distant attitude. But Jiang Xuan didn't seem to realize His Highness's lukewarm attitude, and always wanted to make decisions on behalf of His Highness, although he had the intention of maintaining it, but it made His Highness even more disgusted.

What made Ying Jieyan puzzled was that His Royal Highness did not do anything to Jiang Xuan although he hated Jiang Xuan very much, and His Royal Highness did his best to protect him in the matter of Leizhou, and did not take the opportunity to get rid of this 'trouble', which was seriously contrary to his daily ******** style of acting. said that His Royal Highness showed mercy to his subordinates because he was jealous, or because he was courting Jiang Wanzai, but this explanation couldn't even convince him to be strict. If this happened before the opening of the mansion, he pondered that His Highness might show weakness in order to achieve his goal, and now that the soldiers of the Shuaifu are well fed, all the generals are convinced, and their strength is enough to compete with the Jiang clan in the twilight of the Western Mountains, and His Highness does not need to be afraid of him and there is no need to show favor to him.

In addition, the matter of Leizhou is completely Jiang Xuan's own doing, and it has nothing to do with His Royal Highness's money, and no one can blame the Jiang family, and he can get rid of the trouble of his henchmen as long as he sits and watchs. Even if His Royal Highness wants to get rid of Zeng Yuanzi, he only needs to say that he and Jiang Xuan colluded with each other to plot to split the Shuaifu and sabotage the plan to run Qiongzhou. And now that the matter of Leizhou is over, His Royal Highness not only did not take back the token, but also left the rear army at Jiang Xuan's disposal, but forgot that it might be the 'Ma Dai' buried beside him. Ying Jieyan was puzzled by this, and he couldn't figure out the pulse of His Highness at all......

"Mr. has read 10,000 volumes, and he must know that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zi is dying, and Qi Huan asks about the plan in front of the bed!" Regarding the question of strictness, Zhao Hao did not shy away from it, and said after a while.

"Of course." Ying Jie Yan said, "Guan Zhong is critically ill, Qi Huan Gong asked who can be the prime minister behind him, and successively mentioned Bao Shuya and Yi Ya and others as the choice. Guan Zhong disagreed, and recommended Xi Peng as the prime minister. ”

"Exactly, Mr. must also know why Guan Zi didn't recommend Yi Ya, Ji Diao and Wei Kaifang, right?" Zhao Yu took a sip of tea and said.

Guan Zi said: Erect, if you don't love it, you can love you. Wei Gongzi opened the party, went to the prince of his thousand times, and the minister of the king, who is also the king who wishes, will want to pass his thousand times; Erection, if you don't love it, how can you love you. Ying Jieyan said without thinking, "Guan Zi peeked through the treachery in his heart, so he persuaded the lord of the country to abandon it." However, Qi Huan forgot the warning and still used them. But when he was sick in bed and hopeless, the three of them immediately locked the palace door and starved him to death. ”

"Of course, but Qi Huan Gong, even in the eyes of outsiders, Ji Diao castrated himself into the palace to serve the king, Yi Ya killed his young son to give his master a taste, and Wei Kaifang abandoned his wife and children thousands of miles away from home to serve the master. At first glance, they are all loyal to the Lord, which is touching and should be reused. But when you think about it, it makes people feel extremely terrifying, and it is natural for people to love themselves more than others. If someone loves others more than themselves, it is false, that is, contrary to nature and unkind. How far does a person have to go to do such an unkind thing? Zhao Yu said. And Jiang Yishan is a man of temperament, he knows that Zeng Yuanzi has bad intentions, and he also knows what the consequences of sending troops without authorization will be, but he is still driven by the love of returning the Zeng family, so that it is difficult to extricate himself, how can I watch such a loving and righteous person die? ”

"Then His Highness is not afraid that Jiang Yishan is Ma Dai by his side?" Ying Jieyan heard it in his heart, and asked with a smile.

"Hehe, I just said that Jiang Yishan is a sentient and righteous person. Yu Gong and I are kings and ministers, and I am teachers and students in private affairs, no matter how far it is, he will kill himself and refuse to hurt a single hair of my hair! Zhao Hao smiled proudly.

"Alas, I really don't know if Jiang Yishan entered the mansion because of his luck or misfortune!" Ying Jieyan sighed when he heard it. The little prince really calculates people's hearts thoroughly, if he is a king, he will be able to achieve great things, but if he is a minister, he may harm the country. But one day if he wants to rebel against the usurpation of the throne, whether to kill him to maintain orthodoxy, or whether he will help the abuse, I am afraid that I can't say clearly, so this person is also talking about himself.

"Of course, it's a fortunate thing, Jiang Yishan has a place to use when he enters the palace, the family hatred and the country's hatred can be avenged, and the Jiang family's wisdom can be continued. Even when Mr. arrives in the house, isn't it also an old tree blooming new flowers, showing what he has learned in his life, and realizing the ambition of a stable country? Zhao Yu poured water for Ying Jie Yan and said with a smile.

"Your Highness, the old man, this is really thankless, and it takes a lot of energy to thank His Highness for his kindness!" Ying Jieyan said with a wry smile when he heard this, but this is indeed the case, if it weren't for his acquaintance with His Royal Highness, he would only be accompanied by books for the rest of his life, where would there be a chance for 100,000 generals and criss-crosses the world.

"Where, this king is fortunate that the world is full of people, and it is a great fortune to be able to meet Mr. and listen to the teachings of his subordinates." Zhao Yu straightened his face and said seriously.

"The old man is fortunate to see that the Great Song Dynasty has His Royal Highness. It was His Royal Highness who foresaw the matter and invited himself to this wild place without fear of hardships and dangers, so that His Majesty and the imperial court could still have a place to survive when the country was broken. Ying Jie Yan Ren Jun said, think about this student himself can't be lonely!

"This is not necessarily, but I am afraid that if we invite each other, they may not be willing to come!" Zhao Yu listened to it, but his face was gloomy.

"Wouldn't it? Would the imperial court rather drift on the sea than take refuge in Qiongzhou? Ying Jieyan was a little confused.

"Hehe, who wants to drift on the sea, they don't want to come, I'm afraid they don't dare to come!" This time, Zhao Hao smiled bitterly, he shook his head and said helplessly.

"Don't dare to come?! What are they afraid of? Could it be that he is afraid that His Highness will ......" Ying Jieyan was even more confused, and said in surprise after thinking about it.

"On the contrary, unfortunately they are afraid of you!" Zhao Yu picked up the cup and drank the residual tea in one gulp......

Of course, Zhao Hao's words are not groundless. He can bury his eyes in the court to find out the news, so it is not surprising that someone in the court has placed a few spies in the Shuaifu, but the thief is more afraid of the thief, and he has many secrets on him, so the secrecy work is in place. The people around him are carefully selected from the Quanzhou volunteers, and the combat effectiveness does not dare to say that it is the first, and the loyalty is definitely the first. And the inner mansion is almost closed, and Wang De is watching, even if there are spies who want to pass on the news to the outside world, it is very difficult, so the outside world does not know much about what Zhao Yu did.

In this way, it is easy for outsiders to attribute a series of actions of the Shuai Mansion to a few bigwigs in the mansion, but there is nothing to do with this little child, and even if they do something, they are put on his head in order to elevate the 'prisoner'-like little prince, in order to cover up what they did. And the group of people in the Shuaifu seem to be some outliers in the court:

Most of them were born as Jinshi, but they were radical in thought, took it as their responsibility to resist Mongolia and restore the country, and most of them served in local positions, and after entering the court, they often disagreed with their colleagues or chief officials and were not reused, so they were dissatisfied with the court. How can such a group of people gather in one place under the banner of recovering the country, and eliminate dissidents and install cronies on the pretext of rectifying the locality, how can some people not be distracted, as far as Zhao Yu knows, some people in the DPRK call them 'Qiong Party'.

And the punk party has never been a positive word in history. At first, it referred to the collusion between people of the same kind for their own purposes, and later extended to the establishment of various henchmen and subordinates of scholars and doctors. In the minds of generations of people, the friends party is a group formed around selfish interests, and there is no morality to speak of. In order to fulfill their selfish desires, people in the same party unscrupulously frame people who are not members of the party, pollute the atmosphere of officialdom, and disrupt the ruling order. For rulers, the phenomenon of punisters is a hoodoo, and the rise of punists leads to the decline of the country.

Since this concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, anyone who is accused of being a friend not only means the end of his political life, but also carries a moral notoriety. The rivalry between the friends of the Song Dynasty was a struggle between the new scholars and their ministers for their own interests and ambitions, which then evolved into a split and mutual attack within the new scholars. Their words are stronger than their actions, their goals are more important than their means, and their will is more important than their reason; conceited and stubborn, doing things his own way; Corresponding with the same voice and seeking the same breath, the result is to give people a handle, and it often attracts the suspicion of the owner. In turn, the ruler took the prevention of his subordinates from forming parties for personal gain as the primary task of maintaining imperial power.

In the past, in order to prevent local governments from arbitrarily exercising power, the Great Song Dynasty adopted the policy of governing military force with literature and controlling finances, and brought all local financial power under the management of the central government. For the rulers knew that it was certainly not the same thing for a soldier who brought his own rations and a soldier who served as a soldier and had to receive money from his superiors. People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. Practice has repeatedly proved that if obedience is the goal, the most effective means is to control the human stomach, so as to form a relationship between the upper and lower levels.

The image of this relationship is the relationship between the animals and the caretaker in the zoo and circus. It was an instinctive, unusually intimate, rather touching attachment in which the animal had completely lost its independent requirements, and the caretaker could dictate it. Not only for the management of various animals, but also for people. In the past, the soldiers' salaries came from the imperial court, or the emperor to be exact, so that the army had to be attached to the central government in order to exist.

Although there was a ****** after the collapse of the country, most of the country's land was lost, taxes were cut off, and its strength was no longer what it used to be, and it was difficult to maintain the system of the past, not only could it not feed the army, but it also needed to rely on local help. In this case, the stomach of the soldiers is controlled by the commander, that is, the personal dependence relationship is formed between the soldiers and the generals, and they only have the marshal mansion for them in their eyes, and there is no imperial court.

Zhao Yu also knew that the concept of a modern state had not yet been formed in ancient times, and in the eyes of the people, the country was the king, and the king was the country. This also formed the concept that once the king is killed by a foreign country and has no heirs, or the capital of the country is breached by the enemy, the king is captured, and the country is destroyed. It can be said that in order to maintain the existence of a state, there must be a legitimate king, even if it is nominally, and it does not matter which one it is.

Now in the eyes of the world, the succession of the little emperor in the court is not a normal succession, but a pretext of Lu Xiufu, Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie and others to unite the anti-Yuan forces of all parties, and the symbolic meaning is greater than the practical significance. Since everyone is not Zhengshuo, you can promote Wang Yi as the emperor, then of course I can also recommend King Wei as the emperor, which is just a drama to imitate the yellow robe of Taizu back then. Adding up the two, ****** will naturally be suspicious of the Shuaifu, worried that they will break away from the court and stand on their own.

If they were not afraid of the past strength of the imperial court, unfortunately the imperial court failed one after another, and many soldiers were lost, and the areas that had just been recovered were lost one by one, and the control over Qiongzhou was seriously weakened. If they took refuge on the island under such circumstances, they were afraid that they would be deposed by the Shuai Mansion and the emperor, and they would be annexed by King Wei, so they would never come to Qiongzhou if they had any other way......

In this regard, Zhao Hao can only cry out for being wronged, it seems that it is not a big problem for him to live this year, but his emperor brother is not easy to say. If they refuse to come to Qiongzhou for refuge, they are likely to follow the original script, and their poor brother will lose his life, and then he will be a seedling in a thousand acres. But this can't be said, otherwise the crime of cursing the emperor will not be able to escape, so he can't confide half a word if he is suffocated into internal injuries.

Ying Jieyan thought that although His Highness's worries were mostly conjecture, it was not impossible. Each time the rivalry of friends in the past dynasties has appeared in an era of major historical changes, when it is inevitable that the mud and sand will be the same, and in the irresistible changes of the environment, each person will react differently according to the weight of his political philosophy, moral beliefs and practical interests.

He was like it then, and so is he now. Attacking political opponents in the name of friends has always been a terrible weapon in the struggle of the bureaucratic political clique. And with every party dispute, the situation in the DPRK will be turbulent, and the vitality of the country will be greatly damaged, and there will still be time and opportunity to recuperate and recover from the situation. But in this critical situation, if it is unfortunately said by His Royal Highness, it will be a disaster for both the Shuai Mansion and the Imperial Court...... (To be continued.) )