Chapter 410: The Battle for the Throne Divides Victory and Defeat
The meeting between Pi Xian Shang and Duan Wang was very successful.
What Xiong Wei and others are worried about is nothing more than the authenticity of Duanwang's identity, and if Duanwang's identity is true, by the way, they will show the Xiong family's merits in front of Duanwang.
Now that King Duan is standing alive in front of Pi Xian Shang, the rest of the matter is simple.
Pi Xian Shang soon said that he himself stayed at Duanwang's place to show his sincerity, and then wrote a letter for Duanwang's people to send back to Xiong Wei, asking Xiong Wei to arrange for Duanwang's return to Beijing immediately.
Duanwang was very satisfied with Pi Xian Shang's actions, and also made a promise to Xiong Wei in return.
If Xiong Wei can send him back to Beijing safely, he will succeed in the future, Bao Xiong Wei will be promoted to a third-grade general, and his son and Pi Xian Shang will also be rewarded.
Pi Xian Shang wrote King Duan's promise into a letter, and King Duan sent someone to send the letter to Suihou's Mansion.
Xiong Wei was overjoyed after receiving the letter, and immediately began to arrange for the cover of Duanwang's return to Beijing.
At that time, Sha Qianying saw that the tens of thousands of cavalry sent out had found nothing, and sent people to Gyeonggi to inquire about the news, but he did not find any trace of King Duan, so he was a little thoughtful.
Duanwang is still in Gyeongnam!
Realizing this, Sha Qianying was completely crazy, he scattered all the descendants in his hands, and searched for them in Gyeongnam, without the slightest scruples.
It doesn't matter if Sha Qianying is crazy, but it completely disrupts Xiong Wei's plan to help Duanwang return to Beijing, originally he wanted to use the power of the Xiong family to quietly send Duanwang away from the dark channel.
As a result, Sha Qianying made such a fuss, and the entire Gyeongnam was full of sand people.
It's enough to go quietly, if you want to let Duanwang get out of Qingnan, I'm afraid it will have to be hard.
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Xiong Wei was heartbroken, and he didn't care whether he would tear his face with Sha Qianying, he quietly ordered his henchmen to deliberately find fault and cause trouble in the Qingnan armies, and instigated the relationship between the armies and the troops under Sha Qianying's command.
The Qingnan army has been under the strong pressure of Sha Qianying over the years, and there are not a few people who secretly resent, plus in the past few days, Sha Qianying has searched for Duanwang in Qingnan, and has offended many people openly and secretly.
Now that Xiong Wei provoked it like this, the pool of water in Qingnan was completely muddyed all of a sudden.
Two days after Xiong Wei started, in a county town under the jurisdiction of Pinghu Prefecture, Sha Qianying's troops clashed with the local garrison.
Sha Qianying's troops suffered a lot of losses because they did not occupy the home advantage, and after going back to report the news, Sha Qianying's generals led the troops to settle the matter, and the two sides fought fiercely.
The Saudis won, but they lost a lot of people's hearts.
In the following days, the search and arrest tasks of Sha Qianying's troops were repeatedly frustrated, and in addition to being loyal to Sha Qianying's territory, most of the other prefecture and county forces did not cooperate, and even secretly obstructed them.
Sha Qianying was furious, and his attitude became more and more tough, Xiong Wei saw that the opportunity added fuel to the fire, and the situation in Gyeongnam gradually began to riot.
At this time, the officials of the Duanwang Party, who realized that something was wrong, also sent people to Gyeongnam to investigate.
When the people learned that King Duan was detained by Sha Qianying, he escaped, and now that he was gone, he almost went crazy, and while he hurriedly sent someone back to the capital to deliver the letter, he contacted the forces of King Duan nearby to put pressure on Sha Qianying, intending to rescue King Duan.
Under the internal and external troubles, even Sha Qianying was overwhelmed to deal with it, and was forced to temporarily gather his troops and horses, and launched a scapegoat, claiming that he was deceived by others.
Sha Qianying didn't talk about how to defend himself, taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Xiong Wei spent a lot of money and finally sent Duanwang out of Qingnan.
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In the seventeenth year of Liyang, at the end of July
King Duan finally returned to Beijing, and at this time, Emperor Liyang was too sick to get out of bed.
And the most important thing is that King Jing took advantage of the period when Emperor Liyang was seriously ill and King Duan was trapped in Gyeongnam, and frequently contacted the military forces of Gyeonggi, and attracted many soldiers and horses from the Jingying and Gyeonggi town guards, and even some of the forbidden troops had an ambiguous relationship with him.
And in addition to the army, many ministers of the court and China have also taken refuge in King Jing, and their power has expanded several times compared with a few months ago.
As soon as King Duan returned to the capital, King Jing got a letter, and before King Duan went to the palace to visit Emperor Liyang, a large number of Beijing troops appeared near King Duan's mansion.
Shangguanye, the right minister who was ordered to act for the government, put King Duan and his personal guards under house arrest in Duanwang's mansion on the grounds that King Duan ignored the holy decree and returned to Beijing without permission.
Wen Heng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, questioned it, but was refuted by King Jing in public and dismissed him from the position of secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
Woo the military!
Trap the prince!
Oust Shangshu!
King Jing's behavior is not bold.
But there was no way back.
Now, if you can succeed to the throne smoothly, if you can't succeed to the throne, if you can't, you will simply mutiny to seize the palace, kill the king and kill your brother.
At first, King Duan was confused by King Jing's various transgressions, but when he came back to his senses, he immediately realized that the situation was tense now, and he should act unusually.
So, Duanwang began his own counterattack............
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Although Duanwang's Mansion was banned by the Beijing army, Duanwang was able to contact the outside world in this remote place of Gyeongnam, let alone the base camp of Beijing.
On the night of being imprisoned by King Jing, Duanwang found a way to contact the outside, and then issued two instructions.
First, he quickly sent someone to Xiaoguan to get in touch with Yan Kui, and asked him to prepare soldiers and horses immediately, wait for dispatch at any time, and send troops to the capital to rescue King Qin.
The second is to let the Duanwang Party forces in the capital try every means to connect with the palace and stab King Jing's actions in front of Emperor Liyang.
Now King Jing's power in the capital is too great, and King Duan is now passive, and it is impossible to fight with him, so asking Emperor Liyang to come out is the best way.
After all, this Northern Jin Dynasty is still the world of Emperor Liyang.
Even if King Jing's strength has increased greatly, most of them have just been won over recently, and their loyalty is limited, duckweed in the water, and the castle in the air is general.
If Emperor Liyang comes out and clearly expresses his disgust with King Jing, then the King Jing Party, which is now in a good situation, will immediately fall into a desperate situation.
However, King Jing is not a stupid person, what King Duan can think of, he will not be unclear, so the palace has been blocked by his people early, and King Duan wants to send someone to speak in front of Emperor Liyang, but he can't even enter the palace gate.
Just as Duanwang's plan was thwarted, the two men stepped forward.
That is the general Di Yi and the left minister Bao Huaiwei.
The two were dissatisfied with King Jing's collusion with Shangguan Ye to do mischief and disrupt the dynasty, so they even joined forces to break into the palace to meet Emperor Liyang.
King Jing's minions can stop others, but they can't stop the two leaders of the Northern Jin Dynasty's civil and military generals, and when King Jing learned the news of the two breaking into the palace, Emperor Liyang already knew what he had done during this time.
The Son of Heaven was furious and issued several holy decrees.
1. Abolish the right minister's right to act as the official and the government.
The second general, Di Yi, took over the military power of the forbidden army and the Nine Gates Admiral's Mansion.
Three urgently summoned King Duan into the palace to see the driver.
When King Jing saw the opportunity, he knew that the general trend had gone, and he wanted to fight, but he was strongly suppressed by Emperor Liyang, who had returned to his senses, and was forced out of Beijing to go to Tibet.
In the seventeenth year of Liyang, the eighth day of the eighth month of August
Emperor Liyang held on to his sick body, convened a meeting of his ministers, and announced that Duan Wang would supervise the country.
At this point, the battle for the succession of the Northern Jin Dynasty for several years has finally been divided, but although the reserve position has been divided, this battle for the throne has not come to an end.
After King Jing was driven out of the capital, he did not go to his fiefdom, but transferred to Qingnan, got mixed up with Sha Qianying, recruited troops, attracted troops from all over the country, and waited for the situation in the capital to change.