Tang Yuan weighed in his heart, compared with Bai Ke and Wang Tianpeng, he had no advantage, so he could only compare with the Dian brothers.

The core of the power of the Dian clan is not the general of Hexi, but his father, Dian Allegiance.

The old general is seventy-one years old this year, and he is still alive, and his contact with Tang Qi has always been very hidden.

The relationship between Dian's allegiance and Tang Qi was revealed by Bai Ke and Tang Yuan, just before they set off from Yanyun.

Bai Ke is the uncle of the Tang family, and he often stays in the Tang Mansion, and the generals of the Tang Mansion have a lot of conversations with him. Tang Qi had never told Tang Yuan about these things. If Bai Ke didn't say it, maybe Tang Yuan would still be in the dark now. Tang Yuan always thought that the core of the power of the Dian clan was the punishment of the Hexi generals.

Dian's allegiance is not Qi Dongyang's buddy, but he is half of Qi Dongyang's master, but unfortunately the old general's health has not been very good since he was fifty years old, and it is said that he has rheumatoid, bone deformation, and difficulty moving.

The age of the pawn is not young, he is forty-seven years old this year, he watched Tang Qi grow up little by little, Tang Qi was very likable when he was a child, and in his spare time, this group of generals used her to tease the boring child, and the pawn often teased Tang Qi.

The children grew up, but the relationship between them was still close, including when Tang Qi took over the temporary Fourth Recruit Division, he also transferred the general from Longyou to personally teach Chen Bao's knife technique.

That's 3,000 miles.

It's not deep feelings, who wants to run that far?

Among the Dian brothers, Dian Han and Dian Xiao followed Tang Qi to the battlefield in Hebei and died, fought in the east and west, fought in the south and the north, and made great achievements, and the relationship between them and Tang Qi was deeper, and they trusted each other more.

Tang Qi has a multi-layered relationship with the Dian brothers, compared to them......

"How do I feel like I'm the thinnest of the bunch?" Tang Yuan suddenly said to himself: "If Tang Qi wants to deal with our group of people in the future, I will definitely be the first." ”

This time, Tang Hu seemed to be very clever, he actually understood Tang Yuan's words at once, and immediately interjected: "No, definitely not." ”

"Why?"

"You are a little white face, Tang Qi is rare for you."

"Roll ——!"

——

Qi Chengben has been deprived of his military position, but he suddenly returned to the army, needless to say, he also knows that this must have been arranged by Tang Qi.

After Qi Cheng returned, he would inevitably be the commander of these three forces, replacing Zhao Chi to continue to supervise the westward advance.

He also brought a child.

"Your son?" Tang Yuan asked.

"Prince." Qi Chenghui smiled.

Of course Tang Yuan didn't believe it, he smiled, "Then let's continue to set off, it is said that His Majesty the Emperor's health is not very good." ”

"Yes."

——

Taking advantage of the fact that His Majesty's condition had not deteriorated to the point that everyone knew about it, the Youzhou Army, the Flying Tiger Army, and the Tiger Ben Army accelerated the speed of the march, and at an unexpected speed, they almost rushed to Wuwei, an important town in Hexi.

Wuwei City is not very large, but the city walls are very high.

It's hopelessly high.

The usual siege ladders, tied to three sections in a row, may not be able to reach the battlements.

In the face of such a high city wall, you can only look at the wall and sigh, if you want to win, you can only besiege this city several times, and finally fight to see who has more food.

Tang Yuan said to Chen Bao: "No wonder Tang Qi is so relieved. We have brought so much food to rebel, and we have enough time to spend with His Majesty the Emperor. When there is more food, the morale of the army will be stable. ”

Chen Bao said: "I don't want to care about their husband and wife, as long as he Tang Qi does not live up to me, I will live up to her." ”

After that, Chen Bao led his troops into the city.

From the moment Chen Bao led his troops into the city, the fact that the three armies had mutinied had been confirmed, and the news reached the capital, and there was a great chaos in the court.

At this time, Emperor Zhao Ce had already set off with 300,000 Xuanjia troops, and there were still ten days away from Wuwei City.

Empress Tang Qi sat on top of the court and announced that the crown prince had been snatched away by Tang Yuan, and at this time Wuwei City had fallen.

The ministers were in turmoil.

But at this time, Bai Chongguang suddenly shouted in court: "Arrest the families of the rebellious ministers and thieves, and behead them in the city!" ”

Tang Qi snorted coldly: "Bai Yushi, you are such a big official. Now that His Majesty is leading the troops to the battle, there is still this palace sitting in the court, but you despise this palace? ”

"Hahaha!" Bai Chongguang suddenly raised his head and laughed: "Tang Qi, I don't think you must know that at this time, there are already 100,000 of my henchmen in the Xuanjia Army!" Half of them went with the emperor, and the other half was in Luoyang City! ”

Tang Qi said: "Bai Yushi is known as the Zhuge of the world, and it really deserves its name. Your words are simply going to scare the palace to death. So what are you waiting for, let your soldiers come and capture me. ”

Listening to Tang Qi's tone, he was completely fearless.

Bai Chongguang felt that it was not good, and hurriedly looked left and right, but found that the ministers were glaring angrily.

Tang Qi lifted the curtain and saw that the queen was wearing armor, holding a long sword, and several swordsmen behind her, with a murderous face.

Bai Chongguang hurriedly looked behind Tang Qi, and suddenly smiled: "Cao Feihu, what are you waiting for, kill her quickly!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Cao Feihu suddenly pulled out his knife, his hand rose and fell, and in an exclamation, a human head fell to the ground.

Blood gushed and heads rolled.

It's just that this human head turned out to be the head of the one who gave the order.

Bai Chongguang thought that he had mastered Cao Feihu, but he never thought that Tang Qi would take the lead earlier, Bai Chongguang only controlled Cao Feihu's fake relatives. Tang Qi sighed in his heart: "Bai Chongguang is just a little anxious, if he is given some more time, he will definitely not be able to clean up." ”

Tang Qi didn't pay attention to Bai Chongguang's corpse, but pointed to the headless corpse in front of the ministers, and accused Bai Chongguang of his crimes in the court, and avenged the ministers who died in vain.

Tang Qi also made a list of lists, known as the first batch of Zhaoxue lists, including Tang Su, Tang Xiao, Lin Chongyang, Zhang Zhikui, Wan Lin, Huang Ying, Zhang Pan, Ni Tianding, Han Dang, Fan Chou, Ximen Qingtian, Hong Mingshan, Meng Zhaoyang and a large number of family members of war generals and courtiers, and released them directly from prison, frontier slave land, and even the execution ground, and issued pensions and returned family property.

After releasing Wu Yuyin from the prison, Tang Qi appointed him as the supervisor of Zhaoxue and conducted the second investigation of Zhaoxue.

First control the soldiers who are sure, Tang Qi personally leads, and the rest of the soldiers are divided and inspected. Tang Qi ordered Hu Orchid to be the governor of the Gyeonggi garrison picket to master one-third of the talismans, and appointed Zhang Xiaoyang, the son of Zhang Yunlong, as the governor of the left army, to garrison outside the city to hold one-third of the talismans, and the remaining one-third of the talismans to be in the hands of Tang Chu'an, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and ordered the three of them to investigate Bai Chongguang's remaining party, Tang Qi said: "I'd rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one." ”

During the 10-day investigation, more than 5,000 people were arrested, and they were killed.

After the purge, there was no mutiny, and the queen was very satisfied.

Leaving 100,000 troops for Hu Lanhua, Zhang Xiaoyang, and Wu Yiyin to garrison Luoyang, the queen personally led an army of 300,000 to Hexi, and brought two children. Wu Jiu Literature

Soon after, the news came from the front, after the emperor led the army to Wuwei, he felt unwell, and did not rush to attack the city, and soon the emperor died, the Xuanjia army mutinied, and then the Xuanjia general Cao Poyu suppressed it, and pulled out the leader, which was Cen Shen who was confused by Bai Chongguang, and Cao Poyu cut off Cen Shen's head and hung it on the gate. It is said that before his death, the emperor had predicted the rebellion of Cen and informed Cao Poyu, so it was not very difficult for Cao Poyu to suppress the mutiny, and it did not cause too serious consequences.

At this time, the queen secretly arrived in Dazhai with the prince's soldiers, and Tang Qi ordered Cao Poyu to bring the emperor's coffin to see him.

Cao Poyu actually closed the door and asked the envoy to reply that if he didn't take Wuwei and recapture the prince, he wouldn't see the queen.

Tang Qi sent someone to tell Cao Poyu again: "You are loyal to the old master, and the mourning family does not blame you, but the mourning family can take Wuwei without blood and recapture the prince, I hope you can see the situation clearly when the time comes." ”

Cao Poyu didn't believe it.

But not long after, he watched the banners of the execution, Bai Ke, Tang Yuan, and Wang Tianpeng float in front of him, and came to Tang Qi's formation in an orderly manner, and he had already become Tang Qi's troops.

The crown prince Zhao Ling sat on the general's platform and summoned the Xuanjia general Cao Poyu to see him.

At this time, Cao Poyu suddenly realized, took the emperor's coffin, and met the crown prince and the queen, oh no, it should be the emperor and the queen mother.

——

In November of the 11th year of Zhide, heavy snow fell, and the coffin of Emperor Zhide was transported back to the capital Luoyang.

Renjun died, and the people wore linen and filial piety for the Emperor Zhide.

Emperor Zhide ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, ruled for eleven years (imaginary years), basically laid the general trend of unification, died at the age of twenty-three, and was finally buried in Renwu Mausoleum.

These eleven years have been full of struggles.

When he was a teenager, he struggled with Prime Minister Meng Danqing, Da Sima Tang Zhen, and Imperial Historian Ximen Zhensen, but he couldn't fight by himself, and struggled hard with the support of Empress Dowager Cao.

During his administration, there were constant internal and external troubles.

Just succeeded to the throne, and at the same time inherited the war situation left by the first emperor, fighting Nanjia, and Youlu, westward into Sangla, resisting Donghu, marching into the Western Regions, expeditioning to Buzhou Mountain, sweeping the northwest of the desert, completely expelling the remnants of the Turks, conquering the Mengshi gate lord in Jingzhou, defending Luoyang, two consecutive Liang-Han wars, overthrowing the power of Empress Dowager Cao, the third Hanzhong war, marching into Xichuan, the outbreak of the Liang-Jin war, pacifying Dali, the Liang-Liao Hebei War, and forcing the Southern Jin Dynasty to surrender.

Before Zhao Celin left Luoyang, he once said to Tang Qi: After I die, I must treat the Empress Dowager Cao well, and half of my credit is given by the queen mother.

It's a pity that Zhao Ce's last words did not come true.

Hearing that Emperor De had died, Empress Dowager Cao was extremely depressed and died of hunger strike at the age of forty-four.

The loyal servant hanged himself.

The Empress Dowager of Tang buried the Empress Dowager Cao Fadi with the gift of the Mother of the Nation, and was buried with the first emperor (Zhao Ce's father) in the filial piety mausoleum, and was named the Empress Dowager of the Zhuguo Kingdom, and fished Cao Bao out of prison to guard the soul of the Empress Dowager. And the loyal servant ploughed Wantang and buried it next to the filial piety mausoleum, erected a loyal servant kneeling monument for the old mink temple, facing the direction of the Empress Dowager Cao.

The following year, the new emperor ascended the throne in January, and the year name was unified, and the Empress Dowager of Tang listened to the government.

"Before the first emperor left, he left an edict, conferencing Zhao Guangxun as the prince of Mu and entering the court as the superintendent, and he was the first minister to support the orphan and the minister to take care of his life. Zhao Guangxun, do you have any objections to the edict of the first emperor? ”

Zhao Guangxun trembled with fright, immediately knelt down, and said in a trembling voice: "Minister! Don't dare to object! But...... How can a minister be virtuous, and how dare he take on such a big responsibility. also asked the Queen Mother to be gracious and take back the order on behalf of the first emperor. ”

"This is a testament, how to take it back? Could it be that you want the mourning family to go underground and tell the first emperor that it can't be done? ”

"The ministers never dared to think about it!"

Cho Kwang-hoon stuttered in fright.

Originally, he was going to go to court today, and he planned to resign with Tang Yuan and them, but he was still thinking in his heart, as long as he gave up the power in his hands, the Queen Mother would not trouble me anymore, hehe.

turned out to be the opposite, at this time Zhao Guangxun couldn't laugh at all, trembling like chaff, kneeling on the ground.

Tang Qi saw Zhao Guangxun playing Laipi, she ignored it, continued to hold the edict in her hand, and said: "Punishment, Bai Ke, Tang Yuan." ”

"In!" The trio agreed.

"The three of you are also ministers of Tuogu, the first emperor said, although the Great Liang Dynasty has basically completed the unification, it is not without worries, such as Shanhaiguan is still in the hands of the enemy, and it must be accepted. Since the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the land of Liaodong has been the royal land, how can it be lost in our dynasty? It is also necessary to withhold it. Before the emperor and the crown, the three of you must live well and share the emperor's worries. Don't quit lightly. Do the three of you have any objections to this? ”

"Nope!"

"Well, that's good." Tang Qi turned his head to the little emperor Zhao Ling and said: "The edict of the first emperor said that if you don't decide about internal affairs, you can't ask your mother if you don't decide on foreign affairs, do you know who Wugong is?" ”

The little emperor, who was only nine years old, said: "It's the head of the household." ”

"Wu Yin, did you hear that?"

"Minister! Heard it! After that, Wu Yiyin cried in front of the hall, howling non-stop, almost unconscious, and then was supported by the samurai and sent to the side hall to continue crying.

Tang Qi named Wu Yin as the crying prime minister, and scolded Wu Yin until he stopped crying, of course, this was just a little joke in the internal meeting, and others didn't know.

——

In the second year of the Great Unification, the Empress Dowager of Tang issued an edict: ordered Zhao Yong, Prince Shun, the envoy of the Southwest Protectorate and the Chief Army of Sanchuan, Zhao Kan, Prince Gong, and Zhao Tong, the Prince of Jing, and Zhao Tong, the Prince of Jing, to hand over the military talismans and return to Beijing.

Their talismans are actually a quarter of the talismans, and the rest of the talismans are in the hands of the local civil administration.

In this regard, the three princes were unexpectedly unanimous, did not take any action, and did not return to Beijing.

Soon after, the news came, Prince Shun Zhao Yong hanged himself at home, and said in a secret letter to the Queen Mother when he died: Ask the Queen Mother to let go of the minister's family, the reason why the minister died was because he introduced Bai Chongguang to the emperor, and Bai Chongguang killed innocents indiscriminately after gaining power, causing chaos, and finally rebelled.

The Empress Dowager Tang buried Zhao Yong in a high-profile manner, and named Zhao Yong's eldest son as Prince Shun, who has no real power, and the family is happy.

Soon after, news came that Prince Gong Zhao Kan accidentally fell off a cliff while hunting on horseback and died of serious injuries.

The Empress Dowager Tang also buried Zhao Kan in a high-profile manner, and named Zhao Kan's eldest son as Prince Gong, who has no real power and enjoys happiness in his family.

Everything seemed to be going well, but soon after the news came that Prince Jing Zhao Tong raised troops to rebel. Uniting with the remnants of the Sima family in the Southern Jin Dynasty, they killed the Jinling Taishou, but were suppressed by the Huben army guarding the riverside.

Zhao Tong knew that the general trend had gone, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into the river with his wife and son.

Tang Qi took advantage of the situation to separate the management of the four roads in the south of the Yangtze River, and asked the tiger general Wang Tianpeng to separate the 40,000 soldiers under his command and guard the four roads in the south of the Yangtze River.

Only 40,000?

Yes, Tang Qi thinks that 40,000 is already a lot. This is a separate Tiger Talisman unit. High mobility and fast reaction time. And there are 80,000 horses guarding the four roads, all of which are civil and military four-point soldiers, and the queen mother must have one of them in her hands, and no one is allowed to move without the queen mother's order.

The four lieutenant generals in the Tiger Ben Army are Wang Tianpeng, Zhen Xiuwei, Zhen Tailan, and Shi Xiaotong, and Shi Xiaohe, the former lieutenant general of the Fifth Division of the Tiger Ben, was placed under house arrest by the Queen Mother because of her poor life style, and she was not allowed to go out.

In March of the second year of Zhide, Tang Qi took back all military power, and then did not worry about it, gathering his ministers to discuss future strategies.

Tang Qi said: "The mourning family thinks that they should take advantage of this peaceful time to develop the economy with all their might, recuperate for ten years, strengthen the national strength, and accumulate money and grain in these ten years, so as to lay a solid foundation for the future eradication of barbarians." ”

The ministers nodded yes.

But at this time, the right attendant of the military department, Lang Kongxi, stood up and said, "The minister thinks it's inappropriate." ”

"Huh?" Tang Qi's eyes widened, and a murderous aura gushed out from behind the curtain, and said, "What's wrong?" ”