Final Chapter. 312. The prince's protégé
The two marshals are their own masters, just like two thieves eyeing the same fat sheep, and it is natural to have a ghost in their hearts; Therefore, it is inevitable that the two armies of southern Qin will cooperate in combat and restrain each other in calculations tomorrow, and it will be difficult to give full play to their due strength.
It's just that everything is afraid of foiling, and the cooperation of the Qinnan coalition army is unfavorable, and the actual status quo in Jishui City is even less worth mentioning.
Regarding this issue, we must start with the "leadership" in the Zijin Palace in Yanjing City.
Because Shen Gui had previously slaughtered the Xilin Mansion where the Xuevalve was entrenched, it also indirectly led to a blank in the power institutions of Ludong Road, and naturally entered a period of turmoil. In just a few months, a total of four so-called "acting governors" and two "new governors" of Ludong Road died violently in the middle of the road or on the long street because of inexplicable "accidents".
If it is a weekday, the Beijing official releases the governor of the second grade all the way, which is simply a good thing for pie in the sky! If you don't have hundreds of thousands, millions of dredging silver, don't even think about it! But it wasn't until the last newly appointed governor was beaten to death on the street by several "ruffians" in Jishui City on the grounds of admitting the wrong person; This Jishui City has become a soul-seducing Yama Palace, and no one wants to touch this mold anymore......
In fact, the gate valve of Ludong Road is entrenched, and the tree has deep roots, which is a stubborn disease for thousands of years. The world is difficult and the people are not making a living, which also directly leads to the emergence of ringing horses, and it is more orderly. But Jishui City is the capital of Ludong after all, blocking the road to kill officials, beheading generals on the street, and abolishing six second-class members of the imperial court in a row, this noise is a bit too evil, right?
It stands to reason that there is no turn for such a horrific and vicious case to come and ask for such a gimmick, and it is impossible to curb this growing demonic wind without cutting off hundreds of heads! If the imperial court wants Ludong to be stable, it must transfer a regular army with tough means to carry out a thorough sweep of the green forest road on Ludong Road!
It's just that when the Huayu Continent is full of smoke, Emperor Tianyou and the two pavilion elders are still too busy to take care of themselves, and the war ahead is becoming increasingly tight, and there is no half of the army that can be transferred to Ludong to eliminate bandits; If you rashly transfer a group of "waste" thieves, you will definitely be defeated by those ringing horses who have become fine. In this way, wouldn't it expose the true strength of one's own side?
In desperation, the chaos on Ludong Road can only be put aside for the time being. And this matter, until Luoyang City surrendered, the Northern Yan Dynasty was cut off, and the enemy army was frozen and pointed directly at Ludong and Jizhou, Emperor Tianyou Zhou Yuanqing finally remembered that the "competent official" of Ludong Road has not been lacking!
However, what kind of hot pot is Lu Dong, who can still know nothing about the well-informed Jingguan? So he ordered a civil official, a civil official to return to his hometown; Point a military general, military general unloaded and returned to the field......
It is not the position of a second-class member of the imperial court, and it is not attractive enough; is not the experienced and vicious-eyed Cai Xi as a guarantee platform, but no one wants to believe it; It's these Beijing officials who are better than monkeys that know that Ludong's forces are intertwined, and they really don't dare to take risks in person.
Besides, none of the six colleagues who died in a foreign land before was an incompetent mediocre hand! Even if his civil and military abilities are stronger than those six unlucky guys, how strong can he be! If you have a life to earn money, you have to keep your life to spend; If you have a life to take office, you have to leave a life to go into the field......
As an official in Beijing, everything is the first to seek stability; Therefore, it is better to thank Bu Min for this fatal wealth.
In the end, it was the crown prince Zhou Changyong who came forward to mediate and solve problems for the monarch's father and teacher. After three pushes and four invitations, and some encouragement from Corporal Lixian, he finally pushed his classmate and friend Ji Qin and Ji Puxin, who was a childhood companion, into the big fire pit on Ludong Road, which eats people and does not spit out bones.
Ji Qin, who is about to go to Ludong, is the same age as the prince; And Ji Qin's father is also the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Northern Yan Dynasty today, Ji Lin and Ji Chunyu. There are people in the court who are good officials, but you also have to see what kind of character this person in the court is! In short, in the past 20 years, this eldest prince Ji has only been named a small five-grade acquaintance in the Ministry of Rites, and he has not shown up a few times a year; Hunting all day long, drinking, looking for flowers and willows, a typical young master's style.
However, it is clear to all; The reason why Ji Qin is not allowed to be reused and indulges in wine all day long is actually due to the times. There is always only one person in charge of his Ji family, and it is the safest way to be a micro-minister. Once the crown prince succeeds to the throne, Ji Laoshangshu will inevitably ask himself to leave his post and return to his hometown for retirement; And this eldest prince Ji must also be a ruthless character who enters the cabinet to worship the prime minister and leans towards the government and the opposition.
After all, Ji Qin is a prince protégé who has been trained since he was a child!
Although the eldest son of Ji is not small, his appearance and figure are very ordinary; In addition, his father Ji Lin has always regarded himself as a peerless and clear stream, and every piece of clothing in the family has patches, and the standard of living is extremely hard. Therefore, after Prince Meng's "recommendation", Prince Ji received the holy decree and went to Ludong Road to "die"; Except for an old donkey and an old slave, there is nothing to rely on.
According to rumors in the market, on the day Ji Qin entered Jishui City, hundreds of thousands of people in the city went out of their homes and surrounded the streets and four city gates in the city; There are also 300 local villagers who practice in the group, all holding steel knives, surrounding Ji Qin and the old slaves; And the leader of the group training didn't say a word, stepped forward and chopped off the donkey's head, and then put the bloody blade against Ji Qin's neck, and scolded sharply:
"Old boy, let's tell you that the six big officials in front of me were all slaughtered by my grandfather! I have already inquired clearly, these six corrupt officials and corrupt officials, all of them eat people without spitting out bones, and they are innocent of death! Now that the Qin army is against and the Mobei people are about to fight, I don't think the Northern Yan Dynasty will be able to jump for a few days, what bullshit king law, Lao Tzu doesn't have to be afraid! It's a man standing and peeing, you just report your name and surname in front of the folks in our water city! Let us know that you are the dog official from that way! ”
Ji Qin smiled slightly, reached out and pulled the blood-stained steel knife from his neck, and reported himself to the door with his chest and neck. Ji Laoshangshu's clear stream celebrities are well known, and under Ji Qin's righteous reprimand, the three hundred townsmen who killed officials and rebelled finally woke up and decided to bow down to Governor Ji and confess his guilt. However, Ji Qin sorted out the files of their 300 people, and put them down for the time being; Instead, they were asked to devote themselves to the crime and join the Jishui City Protectorate, in order to protect their hometowns, elders, brothers and sisters, to fight to the death, and to atone for their crimes with military merits.
Frankly speaking, this story is indeed full of romanticism and strong plasticity. It's just that Ji Lin, the old Shangshu who is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, although he is widely known in the world, but how many of them are greasy, including Emperor Tianyou, everyone actually knows it.
For the villagers of Ludong Road, the river project that breaks at least once a year is enough to explain the problem. And this Sanbaekje Water Township Yong, who took advantage of the chaos to kill officials, is it really so easy to deceive?
If you dig it up from the roots, in fact, Ji Lin, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was originally Cai Xi's henchman; After the prince came of age and entered the court to learn politics, he was "down" by Cai Xi, who was also the prince's concubine. Therefore, since 20 years ago, the father and son of the Ji family, who are outside the gold and jade, have become the prototype of the princelings.
This time the world is in turmoil, Cai Xi, who has never made a wrong bet in his life, for some reason, held on to the thigh of Emperor Tianyou; And Zhou Changyong and Ji Qin, who were both Cai Xi's disciples, although they were apprehensive, they also followed the footsteps of their mentor and considered their own problems from the position that the Northern Yan Dynasty would not collapse.
There is no doubt that Cai Xi, who was born in the Confucian school, is basically on Ludong Road; The master-apprentice status between Zhou Changyong and Cai Xi was naturally recognized as an orthodox inheritance by the Confucian school; Moreover, for thousands of years, the Confucian school has always been the only one who looks to the emperor, so it has become logical to support the crown prince.
As Emperor Tianyou gets older and older, the status of the prince becomes more and more stable, and the Confucian school has changed from the original supporter of the Cai Party to the pillar of the princeling party in a blink of an eye. As the saying goes, once a son of heaven and a courtier, playing a measure in advance is not a matter of position. In addition, for many years, the two parties have always been honey-blended and do not distinguish between each other; If there is no disagreement, there is no need to choose a clear position.
Ludong Road is the "back garden" of the Confucian school, and it has naturally become the territory of the prince. Although everyone will not mention this matter in person, they also know each other. In addition, after Zhou Yuanqing entered middle age, he became more and more "faint and weak", like the prince secretly befriending the local gate valve, which was "both taboo and not taboo", and he was even more lazy to investigate.
But after Shen Gui's trouble, although the Confucian school will not be uprooted, if it wants to regain its ability to control Ludong Road, it will take a few years to recuperate and re-arrange. So in other words, the "iron plate Ludong", which could not be pierced by needles and splashed with water, has already shown signs of loosening.
Such a rare opportunity, how could Emperor Tianyou and Wang Zuocheng miss it? If you don't mix a few more handfuls of sand into Ludong Road at this time, wouldn't it be in vain to waste Shen Gui's "good intentions"?
So this matter, on the surface, seems to be to select a successor official for Ludong Road, but in fact, it is Emperor Tianyou and Wang Fang, who are trying to shake the foundation of the Confucian school. At least at this point in time, moving the Confucian school is equivalent to moving the foundation of the prince; And the crown prince's assassination of three governors of Ludong recommended by Wang Fang has already broken and revealed many killers; And the assassination of the two governors appointed by His Majesty almost made the matter a complete mess. The prince, who didn't dare to continue to shoot, was afraid that Ludong Road would be left behind, so he could only bite the bullet and recommend his carefully reserved number one cadre, Ji Qin.
In ordinary times, a mere water city is not worth the effort; But as the development of the war situation became more and more urgent, Luoyang was lost, Zhongzhou was completely open, and Ludong Road was about to become the prey under the enemy's butcher's knife......
If the war spreads to Ludong Road, the consequences will be unimaginable!
The two marshals are their own masters, just like two thieves eyeing the same fat sheep, and it is natural to have a ghost in their hearts; Therefore, it is inevitable that the two armies of southern Qin will cooperate in combat and restrain each other in calculations tomorrow, and it will be difficult to give full play to their due strength.
It's just that everything is afraid of foiling, and the cooperation of the Qinnan coalition army is unfavorable, and the actual status quo in Jishui City is even less worth mentioning.
Regarding this issue, we must start with the "leadership" in the Zijin Palace in Yanjing City.
Because Shen Gui had previously slaughtered the Xilin Mansion where the Xuevalve was entrenched, it also indirectly led to a blank in the power institutions of Ludong Road, and naturally entered a period of turmoil. In just a few months, a total of four so-called "acting governors" and two "new governors" of Ludong Road died violently in the middle of the road or on the long street because of inexplicable "accidents".
If it is a weekday, the Beijing official releases the governor of the second grade all the way, which is simply a good thing for pie in the sky! If you don't have hundreds of thousands, millions of dredging silver, don't even think about it! But it wasn't until the last newly appointed governor was beaten to death on the street by several "ruffians" in Jishui City on the grounds of admitting the wrong person; This Jishui City has become a soul-seducing Yama Palace, and no one wants to touch this mold anymore......
In fact, the gate valve of Ludong Road is entrenched, and the tree has deep roots, which is a stubborn disease for thousands of years. The world is difficult and the people are not making a living, which also directly leads to the emergence of ringing horses, and it is more orderly. But Jishui City is the capital of Ludong after all, blocking the road to kill officials, beheading generals on the street, and abolishing six second-class members of the imperial court in a row, this noise is a bit too evil, right?
It stands to reason that there is no turn for such a horrific and vicious case to come and ask for such a gimmick, and it is impossible to curb this growing demonic wind without cutting off hundreds of heads! If the imperial court wants Ludong to be stable, it must transfer a regular army with tough means to carry out a thorough sweep of the green forest road on Ludong Road!
It's just that when the Huayu Continent is full of smoke, Emperor Tianyou and the two pavilion elders are still too busy to take care of themselves, and the war ahead is becoming increasingly tight, and there is no half of the army that can be transferred to Ludong to eliminate bandits; If you rashly transfer a group of "waste" thieves, you will definitely be defeated by those ringing horses who have become fine. In this way, wouldn't it expose the true strength of one's own side?
In desperation, the chaos on Ludong Road can only be put aside for the time being. And this matter, until Luoyang City surrendered, the Northern Yan Dynasty was cut off, and the enemy army was frozen and pointed directly at Ludong and Jizhou, Emperor Tianyou Zhou Yuanqing finally remembered that the "competent official" of Ludong Road has not been lacking!
However, what kind of hot pot is Lu Dong, who can still know nothing about the well-informed Jingguan? So he ordered a civil official, a civil official to return to his hometown; Point a military general, military general unloaded and returned to the field......
It is not the position of a second-class member of the imperial court, and it is not attractive enough; is not the experienced and vicious-eyed Cai Xi as a guarantee platform, but no one wants to believe it; It's these Beijing officials who are better than monkeys that know that Ludong's forces are intertwined, and they really don't dare to take risks in person.
Besides, none of the six colleagues who died in a foreign land before was an incompetent mediocre hand! Even if his civil and military abilities are stronger than those six unlucky guys, how strong can he be! If you have a life to earn money, you have to keep your life to spend; If you have a life to take office, you have to leave a life to go into the field......
As an official in Beijing, everything is the first to seek stability; Therefore, it is better to thank Bu Min for this fatal wealth.
In the end, it was the crown prince Zhou Changyong who came forward to mediate and solve problems for the monarch's father and teacher. After three pushes and four invitations, and some encouragement from Corporal Lixian, he finally pushed his classmate and friend Ji Qin and Ji Puxin, who was a childhood companion, into the big fire pit on Ludong Road, which eats people and does not spit out bones.
Ji Qin, who is about to go to Ludong, is the same age as the prince; And Ji Qin's father is also the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Northern Yan Dynasty today, Ji Lin and Ji Chunyu. There are people in the court who are good officials, but you also have to see what kind of character this person in the court is! In short, in the past 20 years, this eldest prince Ji has only been named a small five-grade acquaintance in the Ministry of Rites, and he has not shown up a few times a year; Hunting all day long, drinking, looking for flowers and willows, a typical young master's style.
However, it is clear to all; The reason why Ji Qin is not allowed to be reused and indulges in wine all day long is actually due to the times. There is always only one person in charge of his Ji family, and it is the safest way to be a micro-minister. Once the crown prince succeeds to the throne, Ji Laoshangshu will inevitably ask himself to leave his post and return to his hometown for retirement; And this eldest prince Ji must also be a ruthless character who enters the cabinet to worship the prime minister and leans towards the government and the opposition.
After all, Ji Qin is a prince protégé who has been trained since he was a child!
Although the eldest son of Ji is not small, his appearance and figure are very ordinary; In addition, his father Ji Lin has always regarded himself as a peerless and clear stream, and every piece of clothing in the family has patches, and the standard of living is extremely hard. Therefore, after Prince Meng's "recommendation", Prince Ji received the holy decree and went to Ludong Road to "die"; Except for an old donkey and an old slave, there is nothing to rely on.
According to rumors in the market, on the day Ji Qin entered Jishui City, hundreds of thousands of people in the city went out of their homes and surrounded the streets and four city gates in the city; There are also 300 local villagers who practice in the group, all holding steel knives, surrounding Ji Qin and the old slaves; And the leader of the group training didn't say a word, stepped forward and chopped off the donkey's head, and then put the bloody blade against Ji Qin's neck, and scolded sharply:
"Old boy, let's tell you that the six big officials in front of me were all slaughtered by my grandfather! I have already inquired clearly, these six corrupt officials and corrupt officials, all of them eat people without spitting out bones, and they are innocent of death! Now that the Qin army is against and the Mobei people are about to fight, I don't think the Northern Yan Dynasty will be able to jump for a few days, what bullshit king law, Lao Tzu doesn't have to be afraid! It's a man standing and peeing, you just report your name and surname in front of the folks in our water city! Let us know that you are the dog official from that way! ”
Ji Qin smiled slightly, reached out and pulled the blood-stained steel knife from his neck, and reported himself to the door with his chest and neck. Ji Laoshangshu's clear stream celebrities are well known, and under Ji Qin's righteous reprimand, the three hundred townsmen who killed officials and rebelled finally woke up and decided to bow down to Governor Ji and confess his guilt. However, Ji Qin sorted out the files of their 300 people, and put them down for the time being; Instead, they were asked to devote themselves to the crime and join the Jishui City Protectorate, in order to protect their hometowns, elders, brothers and sisters, to fight to the death, and to atone for their crimes with military merits.
Frankly speaking, this story is indeed full of romanticism and strong plasticity. It's just that Ji Lin, the old Shangshu who is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, although he is widely known in the world, but how many of them are greasy, including Emperor Tianyou, everyone actually knows it.
For the villagers of Ludong Road, the river project that breaks at least once a year is enough to explain the problem. And this Sanbaekje Water Township Yong, who took advantage of the chaos to kill officials, is it really so easy to deceive?
If you dig it up from the roots, in fact, Ji Lin, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was originally Cai Xi's henchman; After the prince came of age and entered the court to learn politics, he was "down" by Cai Xi, who was also the prince's concubine. Therefore, since 20 years ago, the father and son of the Ji family, who are outside the gold and jade, have become the prototype of the princelings.
This time the world is in turmoil, Cai Xi, who has never made a wrong bet in his life, for some reason, held on to the thigh of Emperor Tianyou; And Zhou Changyong and Ji Qin, who were both Cai Xi's disciples, although they were apprehensive, they also followed the footsteps of their mentor and considered their own problems from the position that the Northern Yan Dynasty would not collapse.
There is no doubt that Cai Xi, who was born in the Confucian school, is basically on Ludong Road; The master-apprentice status between Zhou Changyong and Cai Xi was naturally recognized as an orthodox inheritance by the Confucian school; Moreover, for thousands of years, the Confucian school has always been the only one who looks to the emperor, so it has become logical to support the crown prince.
As Emperor Tianyou gets older and older, the status of the prince becomes more and more stable, and the Confucian school has changed from the original supporter of the Cai Party to the pillar of the princeling party in a blink of an eye. As the saying goes, once a son of heaven and a courtier, playing a measure in advance is not a matter of position. In addition, for many years, the two parties have always been honey-blended and do not distinguish between each other; If there is no disagreement, there is no need to choose a clear position.
Ludong Road is the "back garden" of the Confucian school, and it has naturally become the territory of the prince. Although everyone will not mention this matter in person, they also know each other. In addition, after Zhou Yuanqing entered middle age, he became more and more "faint and weak", like the prince secretly befriending the local gate valve, which was "both taboo and not taboo", and he was even more lazy to investigate.
But after Shen Gui's trouble, although the Confucian school will not be uprooted, if it wants to regain its ability to control Ludong Road, it will take a few years to recuperate and re-arrange. So in other words, the "iron plate Ludong", which could not be pierced by needles and splashed with water, has already shown signs of loosening.
Such a rare opportunity, how could Emperor Tianyou and Wang Zuocheng miss it? If you don't mix a few more handfuls of sand into Ludong Road at this time, wouldn't it be in vain to waste Shen Gui's "good intentions"?
So this matter, on the surface, seems to be to select a successor official for Ludong Road, but in fact, it is Emperor Tianyou and Wang Fang, who are trying to shake the foundation of the Confucian school. At least at this point in time, moving the Confucian school is equivalent to moving the foundation of the prince; And the crown prince's assassination of three governors of Ludong recommended by Wang Fang has already broken and revealed many killers; And the assassination of the two governors appointed by His Majesty almost made the matter a complete mess. The prince, who didn't dare to continue to shoot, was afraid that Ludong Road would be left behind, so he could only bite the bullet and recommend his carefully reserved number one cadre, Ji Qin.
In ordinary times, a mere water city is not worth the effort; But as the development of the war situation became more and more urgent, Luoyang was lost, Zhongzhou was completely open, and Ludong Road was about to become the prey under the enemy's butcher's knife......
If the war spreads to Ludong Road, the consequences will be unimaginable!