Chapter 691: The Way of the World
When everyone was deeply feeling that the problem of the Marquis of Jin's Mansion was thorny, Han Daochang walked in, saluted everyone, and then walked to Han Daoming and whispered a few words.
Everyone looked sideways.
Now that the gates of the imperial city are open, although not everyone can move around casually, the communication between everyone here and outside the imperial city is no longer restricted, but they don't know that Han Daochang walked into the political hall at this time, what is there to tell Han Daoming, or that Tangyi, which is close at hand, has learned about the palace change, what special requirements do they have to tell Han Daoming urgently?
Thinking like this, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The crossing of the Gyeonggi River is Tangyi County, and sixty miles east from Tangyi City is Yangzi County, Yangzhou.
Even if the gates of the imperial city were closed after the incident, theoretically Huaidong and Tangyi should have known that there was a change in Beijing from midnight to early morning yesterday.
Not to mention that at dawn, Jingjiang and Haijingmen fell into a sea of fire, and standing across the river at the head of Tangyi City, which is more than 30 miles away, you should be able to see the raging fire, right?
At this time, Lu Qingxia and the others fled directly by boat in the direction of Yangzhou, how could the Tangyi army not be aware of it?
Of course, Tangyi was aware at this time, and even Han Qian might have rushed to Tangyi City to sit in town, but everyone didn't expect Tangyi to react in time and send troops to intercept Lu Qingxia, the assembly and transfer of soldiers and horses took time, and everyone was more worried at this time, would Han Qian make any excessive and unacceptable demands at this time?
After Han Daoming heard Han Daochang's words, he didn't seem to see everyone's reaction, but he just groaned for a while, saluted towards Qingyang and said: "The Empress Dowager of Weichen, Li Changfeng, the Marquis of Linjin, inherited his father's legacy, was unwilling to be coerced and controlled by the traitor, and died heroically in Jinghaimen, and the court should praise his ambition; And Li Xiu was also deceived by the traitor before, and he had no intention of doing evil, so he was arrested in front of the political affairs hall, and he didn't make a big mistake......"
Everyone was slightly stunned, Han Daoming's words were to protect Li Yu's remaining veins on behalf of the Han family and Tangyi, not any other requirements?
Han Duan, who was sitting in the corner of the political hall with a group of accompanying officials waiting for orders, was also a little confused at this time - if it weren't for Li Changfeng, Li Xiu, Li Mo, and others who had repeatedly colluded with Li Zhihe and Lu Qingxia in the past few years, how could the Xiangbei Army be a threat to Tangyi at this time?
However, seeing his father walk into the political hall to spread the word, Han Duan suspected that even if it was not Han Qian's intention, Feng Yu had just sent someone to find his father and asked the uncle to intercede for the Li family at this time.
Han Duan sat in the corner, but Huang Wei was on fire, and asked Han Daoming and said, "If Chang Guogong hadn't been a thief, it would have been impossible for him to kill himself for no reason, right?" ”
"Why did the Duke of Changguo kill himself, or whether he died at the hands of thieves, and then he was disguised as a self-murderer, it is unknown at this time, and it needs to be thoroughly investigated by the Marquis of Liyang, but Empress Li is the daughter of Li Pu, the Duke of Changguo, and she stood up to expose the traitor's scheme, which is the key to the two empress dowagers and the princes being able to extinguish the palace change so peacefully, and it is also the ...... that the Marquis of Jiang Yīn can see," Han Daoming said Kankan.
There are countless reasons to save some people or kill some people, but the key is to see if there is enough weight for someone willing to stand up and speak.
"Han Shangshu, is this going on?" Qingyang asked hesitantly.
"Weichen thinks that it is better to cut Li Xiu and others to the people first, and temporarily make Li Hou live in the Linjin Marquis Mansion, and then make other disposals after the palace change case is thoroughly investigated - Huaidong really wants to listen to the greedy rumors, or take the opportunity to make trouble, the Queen Mother can treat the descendants of the county palace well, and the subjects of the world will only say that the Queen Mother is virtuous and can rule the world......
"Shen Xiang, King Shou, what do you think?" Qingyang was also very puzzled in his heart, looked at Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang and asked.
Han Qian had already expected yesterday's palace change, and even made a lot of arrangements, how could he still ask the families of Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, Zhou Yuan, Chai Jian and others to escape from the city?
However, she was still very smart not to express her opinion at this time, nor did she directly follow Han Daoming's opinion, and handed over the final decision to Shen Yang.
"What Han Shangshu said is very true, please invite the two queen mothers to judge." Yang En was worried that Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang would take advantage of the Linjin Houfu Liwei, so he preemptively said.
Qingyang saw that Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang had no objections, and glanced at Huang E again, seeing that Huang E was smarter at this time and did not express her position, she said: "According to what Han Shangshu said, for the time being, Li Xiu and the others will be reduced to the people, so that they can protect Li Hou and live in the Linjin Marquis' Mansion." And before the palace mutiny case is thoroughly investigated, the guards and pro-army will be strictly guarded, and no more thieves will be allowed to take advantage of it! This matter also troubles Han Shangshu to go on a trip himself......"
"Wechen obeys." Han Daoming said.
Li Xiunai is one of the key figures in yesterday's palace incident, and at this time, he and other forty or fifty military attachés of the county palace, as well as such an important person as Li Yao after the abolition, are temporarily put back to the Linjin Marquis Mansion, and a minister is indeed required to be in charge.
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The seal of the Empress Dowager of Changxin Palace and Mingcheng Palace has no way to be engraved immediately, but the emperor's seal is ready-made, and the edict is drafted, and the emperor's seal and the provincial seal of Shangshu are used, and Han Daoming took a team of guards to bring Li Xiu and other cadres out of Taiwan Prison.
At this time, the situation in the imperial city was generally stable, and Du Chongtao, Guo Liang, and Zhang Han sorted out the middle and lower-level military attaches of the left and right Wu Yi Army overnight.
Only a small part of Zuo Wuxiang's army directly participated in the palace rebellion and escaped from Jinghaimen, and even Zhong Yanhu did not control his three thousand elites to participate in the mutiny, and more people followed blindly in a panic.
Except for those who defected from Jinghaimen, the other soldiers of Zuo Wuxiang's army, including Li Xiu's subordinates, were all moved to a barracks in Xichengguo at this time to assemble.
These soldiers can't even enter the main city at present, waiting for Huang Xi to come over and directly lead them to move to Chizhou.
In addition to Huanghua, Chen Fan and others, the Huang family and the Jiangdong clan are not without important figures in Jinling City, such as Huang Hua's brother Huang Huixiang is the head of the household.
However, when the Huang Huixiang Palace Incident occurred, others were not on duty in the outer court; After the palace change, even though he and Chen Jingzhou and others were considered high-ranking officials of the academy, they did not enter the list of ministers participating in politics, nor did they temporarily enter the imperial city to participate in decision-making.
Huang Huixiang was still summoned to Shangshu Province along with Chen Jingzhou and other courtiers after the palace change basically subsided, but at this time the overall situation was decided.
Fortunately, the empress dowager of the two palaces of Mingcheng Palace and Changxin Palace were respected, and the result of Huang Shu leading Zuo Wuxiang's army to move to Chizhou was not unacceptable to them.
Han Daochang continued to stay in Shangshu Province, staring at the movements in the imperial city.
Han Duan spent a day and a night in the imperial city, and he didn't make any effort, but the whole person was very excited, and there was nothing to do at this time, so he waited and followed his uncle Han Daoming's side, and a battalion commander under Zhang Han led a team of guards to escort Li Xiu and Li Yao and others to the Linjin Marquis Mansion, and at the same time brought Li Changfeng's body.
The Marquis of Linjin Mansion and the Changguo Mansion are not far away, and the streets and alleys look like they, so Li Pu killed himself in a deserted house,
The old servant rushed to the Linjin Marquis Mansion to report the news, and Li Pu's body was taken away by the Hou Mansion soldiers before the soldiers patrolling the city.
Han Daoming directly showed the edict and ordered all the soldiers and generals who were surrounded by the Linjin Marquis Mansion to withdraw, and changed the battalion designated by the Governor's Mansion to lead the team of generals behind him, responsible for guarding the front and rear doors of the Linjin Marquis Mansion, and temporarily put Li Xiu and the men, women, and children of the Linjin Marquis Mansion under house arrest.
Han Daoming was under the gate of the Marquis of Linjin's mansion, looking up at the flat forehead above the gate of Zhu Sè.
This is also the house that Li Yu was given by Emperor Tianyou in Jinling that year, but Li Yurong Ma was a horse all his life, and he retired to Hongzhou after handing over the military power, and he did not live in this house, but it was Emperor Yanyou who gave this house after Li Changfeng entered Beijing, as if it was fate.
Han Daoming motioned for Li Xiu to loosen his ties at this time, and said: "Little Marquis Li, in addition to the Marquis of Linjin desperately protecting the innocence of the County Palace, I also thought of the old feelings of the County Palace, so I didn't do anything to the end. In the Hou Mansion, you can leave some swords and soldiers to guard against thieves, but the heavy armor and hard bows are still handed over, so that Han can give an explanation to the princes, and I have to ask Xiao Li Hou Ye to forgive me. In addition, if there is no decree from Changxin Palace, no one in the Hou Mansion is allowed to break out without permission, and for the funeral of the Marquis of Linjin and the Duke of Changguo, if you need the help of the Han family, the Marquis of Xiao Li will let the guards go to my mansion and say ......"
"Li Xiu knows." Li Xiu looked at the people who had withdrawn and were dragging away several bed crossbows together, and then looked at the corpse of his eldest brother Li Changfeng hastily wrapped in a broken mat.
Li Xiu and Li Yao entered the house, and the guards in the Hou Mansion quickly handed over a hundred heavy armor and more than a hundred strong bows and crossbows, and the sun only then rose over the treetops.
Han Daoming was guarded by more than a dozen guards, and he had to rush back to Shangshu Province.
"Zhang Ping and Jiang Shou are really ignorant of lifting, and they almost ruined our family's plan!" There were no outsiders left and right, and Han Duan couldn't help but complain to his uncle Han Daoming at this time.
"Everyone has their own choice, if they can protect Li Houhou and appear, they will be worthy of their conscience, how can they have more demands?" Han Daoming said leisurely.
Over the years of hardships and twists and turns, the stubbornness in Han Daoming's heart has been worn out too much; The thrill of last night touched him even more; Even at the beginning of the palace change, he still imagined that he could directly replace it, but at this time, thinking about it, there may not really be a better choice than now.
And no matter how carefully you think about it, if the Han family and Tangyi continue to maintain their separation, then the Han family was involved in last night's bloody palace change, and it is really difficult to say whether they can be as lucky as the Linjin Marquis Mansion.
Thinking about it like this, putting aside the interests of Tangyi, Han Daoming admired Zhang Ping and Jiang Shou's courage and determination to retreat bravely.
Han Duan couldn't understand Uncle Han Daoming's state of mind, but the uncle said so, and he didn't entangle Zhang Ping and Jiang Shou, and asked suspiciously: "Why did Feng Yi and Guo let the families of Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, Chai Jian and others escape from the city?" ”
Of course, he knew that Feng Yi and Guo Ke were in the city, but he didn't know at night that they had even sneaked into the imperial city, just beside them.
Han Duan thought that Feng Yi and Guo were determined to intercept the families of Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, Chai Jian and others, and it was impossible for these people to escape smoothly - in order to cope with the worst situation, although Tangyi's hidden armaments in Jinling were not very strong, they were enough to support the arrival of the 3rd Town Division's forward troops and horses under Jinling City.
Feng Yi just sent someone to send a message, asking them to help the county prince's mansion speak in Shangshu Province and avoid the Li family's blood splashing a hundred steps, which may be adhering to Han Qian's meaning, but Han Duan didn't understand why Feng Yi and Guo were letting go of Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, Chai Jian and others' families, weren't they worried that Li Zhihe and them would be more unscrupulous in uniting Huaidong to rebel?
"If the families of Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, Chai Jian and others are detained, will they obediently hand over their military power, put themselves in a prison car, and let people escort them to Jinling for disposal?" Han Daoming sighed, and couldn't help but say with some kindness, "Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, and Chai Jian have no way back, what good is it to kill their family?" ”
"Then Lu Qingxia goes to Huaidong, if Xiangbei and Huaidong move together, how to deal with it?" Han Duan asked.
"Han Qian should send someone to intercept Lu Qingxia and his party east ......of Aoshan Island," Han Daoming said.
"On the condition of letting them go to Xiangbei, in exchange for them not going to Huaidong to stir up trouble?" Han Duan asked.
Han Daoming nodded and said, "In this way, Tangyi can complete the preparation for sending troops to Hehuai in the shortest possible time." ”
"Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, Chai Jian and others rebelled in Xiangbei, how to solve this matter, will they attack Guanzhong, or unite with Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian to seek Shu?" Han Duan asked.
Li Zhihe seems to have 50,000 elites, but it is still undecided how much he can hold in the end. And even if they will definitely rebel in Xiangbei, grain and people's hearts are the first problems they have to solve. At that time, the imperial court will also transfer Zhang Jiao, Huang Xi and other troops to suppress it, and it will be difficult for them to pose much of a threat to Huaixi in a short period of time. Han Daoming said.
If it was a simple competition for the scale of soldiers and horses, the Tangyi army had no chance to gain a foothold before the Shouzhou army, but in the end, the Shouzhou army was beaten like a dog, and the factor of victory in the war or defeat the enemy was far from calculating or comparing the scale of soldiers and horses.
Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian seemed to have 70,000 troops in Qin Feng, but Qin Feng and other states were vast and sparsely populated, and the food they could raise was barely enough to feed 70,000 generals, which directly limited the ability of this army to move or move to fight.
The time dragged on for more than a year, and the people's hearts, morale, and physical strength of Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian's troops were extremely depleted, and grain and grass had been in short supply, and the local people in Qinfeng and other prefectures must have deep contradictions.
Before the palace mutiny, if they united with Li Zhihe, they could also obtain the necessary supplies of food and grass materials from Li Zhihe's side, restore a certain combat effectiveness, and maybe join forces to pose a great threat to Wang Yong.
At this time, the supply of Li Zhihe's department will also be cut off, and the army's heart is about to fall into chaos.
Besides, Wang Yong currently controls Shudi, and he is not without the strength to fight.
The Liang army in Yongzhou and Huazhou has now fallen into the cutting and encirclement of Wang Yuankui and Tian Weiye, and in a short period of time, Li Zhihe, Zhao Mengji, and Wang Xiaoxian want to intervene, but they can't intervene.
These situations, after Feng Yi and Guo Ke lurked in Jinling this time, they all deduced and analyzed in detail, which is also the key to protecting the overall situation of Jinling during the palace change, even if it is to support the third prince Yang Ye, it is also a result that Tangyi can accept - only in this way, before the winter, they will not worry about the big threat in the west wing.
And the follow-up development of the situation, the key is
It depends on whether the Tangyi army can achieve certain results in Chen Song and other prefectures before winter, and whether Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang can successfully seize the entire Heluo region before winter.
Otherwise, the situation in Hehuai is indeed not optimistic at all.
Han Duan did not participate in the secret discussion before, and Han Daoming patiently explained to his nephew Han Duan at this time.
Of course, he didn't particularly care how much Han Duan could listen to, after all, in front of Tangyi, which was becoming increasingly powerful and had an increasingly complete system, even the Han Mansion was already a little insignificant; And if Han Duan can't make it, the Han family still has Cheng Meng, Jianji, Wei Yan, and Zhiyong to support them.
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The rising sun shone on the turbid and mighty river, and as the distance narrowed, the few sails between the water and the sky turned into five giant ships shining under the morning sun, and the first giant ship erected five giant masts.
At present, only the East Lake Shipyard can build a five-masted giant ship, and the two five-masted giant ships that have been built so far have been incorporated into the Tangyi Navy sequence, so isn't it obvious enough where the barrage warships floating in front of you belong?
Yao Xishui's fair face twitched hideously.
At this time, I saw a small boat in the distance, which was lowered from the side of the huge ship and paddled over.
"Lu Gong envoy, Miss Yao, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you can let the old people board the ship and say goodbye......"
After a stick of incense, Feng Yi stood on top of the small boat, lowered his head and arched his hand and asked, Compared with the smaller boat, the Thousand Stone Official Ship of the Weaving Bureau is still quite large.
"Since Han Qian had already counted us, why didn't he dare to come over to meet us at this time?" Yao Xishui asked with the corner of her mouth twitching.
"Miss Yao really wants to see Han Qian, then I'm afraid I can only see Han Qian when my Tangyi Navy sinks more than a dozen of your broken ships, and then ties up Miss Yao," Feng Yi said with a smile, "Lu Gong envoy, Miss Yao, if you don't want to see the old man, then please disturb Feng Yi." ”
Lu Qingxia motioned to put down the rope ladder left and right, took Feng Yi to the boat, stared at him, and said, "Lord Feng, you are really bold; Or maybe Han Qianzhen didn't worry about you dying at our hands at all. ”
"Of course I'm worried that Lu Gong will make the dog jump off the wall in a hurry, but Lu Gong will make your words to sow discord a bit out of class - I'm a person, I can't govern the government and the army in Tangyi, if I don't want to be looked down upon, I can only persuade Lu Gong to turn back." Feng Yi smiled, he didn't care about Lu Qingxia's sowing discord, and at this time, he said to Chen De, Zhou Yuan, An Jixiang, Zhong Yanhu, Chun Shisanniang and others, "You adults haven't seen you for a long time, is there anyone who wants to be a guest at East Lake?" As the saying goes, there is no end to the bitter sea, and turning back is the shore, and you go to Xiangbei with the envoy of Lu Gong, which is also a dead end, but if you are willing to go to East Lake as a guest, Feng cannot guarantee anything else, but it can also guarantee that you will live happily and happily in this life, and your life is worry-free. ”
Chen De and An Jixiang's cheeks twitched, but in the end they still didn't say anything.
Feng Yi was so naked that Lu Qingxia didn't care, and just asked, "Let's turn back, can we really pass through the Yuxi estuary safely?" ”
"Lu Gong envoy should have thought that everything fell into our plan, Lu Gong made you want to use our careful arrangements, Li Zhihe, Zhou Shu, Zhou Yuan, Chai Jian and others can escape from Jinling City safely, do you still think our sincerity is not enough?"
Feng Yi laughed,
"Of course, most of the generals in Tangyi still advocate that you be sunk and fed to fish and shrimp, but Han Qian is eager to send troops to Hehuai to fight the Mugwus, so he can only postpone and pick a day to have a grudge against you, and a grudge to count as a grudge; Moreover, Han Qian had no intention of harming his wife and children—presumably the envoy of the Lu Palace would not be happy to see the Mughal fisherman profit at this time, right? By the way, there is another person, Lu Gong asked me to take it away, otherwise Zhao Wuji's kid insists on killing you, Han Qian may not be able to persuade him......"
"Zhao Wuji?" Lu Qingxia closed his eyes and thought for a while, before he reopened his eyes and said to Yao Xishui, "Bring Feiying up and hand it over to Lord Feng to take away......
Yao Xishui's eyelids jumped twice, and in the end, he still lost his soul and motioned for people to bring Ye Feiying up from the bilge.
Ye Feiying was not tortured at all, or Yao Xishui was in a hurry to escape for her life, and before she had time to torture her, she just dislocated her arms and tied them up.
Lu Qingxia asked Ye Feiying's dislocated arms to be connected, Yao Xishui was still unwilling, and asked with a hideous face: "How could it be you?" Don't you know that your brother died tragically back then, even if it wasn't Han Qian's hand, it was also Han Qian's instigation of Yang Yuanpu! I have treated you like a sister all these years, teaching you everything by hand, but I don't want to keep a poisonous snake by my side, and I don't know how many bites you have secretly bitten over the years......"
"Miss Yao is angry, in fact, we have not succeeded in plotting against Feiying from beginning to end, and if Feiying hadn't saved Empress Li's life at the last moment, Miss Yao really thinks that the chaotic guards and pro-army can really support the Huaidong soldiers and horses or the Xiangbei army to cross the river under the attack of the 30,000 elite Tangyi army?" Feng Yi smiled and said, "Here, you might as well tell Lu Gong Envoy and Miss Yao that Tangyi's bottom line is there." If Miss Yao and Lu Gong make your plan succeed, they will only temporarily succeed in supporting the second prince to ascend the throne and succeed to the throne, but Tangyi will not compromise with you this time. The 30,000 elites will cross the Yangtze River in two days to attack Gyeonggi, kill you rebels without leaving a single piece of armor, and then hand over Jinling to Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang for disposal, and then send troops to the Northern Expedition! Lu Gong's envoy wouldn't think that at this time, he would really be qualified to trade with Tangyi if he took a second prince who didn't know the truth or falsehood of his background, right? Of course, when it comes to this, Lu Gong Envoy may not really be able to understand it. ”
was taught such a lesson by Feng Yi, Lu Qingxia jumped cheekily and did not say anything; Yao Xishui stared at Ye Feiying with a fierce gaze, she ignored Feng Yi's nonsense, but she couldn't let go of it, but Ye Feiying caused them to fall short!
It was precisely Ye Feiying who was in charge of the assassination of Changyang Courtyard, and they didn't expect that there would be a problem in that link, so that when Li Yao appeared in Shangshu Province, the situation was reversed in an instant, and they had no other way than to kidnap the Queen Mother, Chen De, Li Changfeng and others and flee to Jingjiang and Jinghaimen in a hurry.
How can she not hate?
"Before Miss sent someone to find me, Zhao Wuji first went out of the city to catch up with me and my grandfather, stuffed me and my grandfather with two pieces of cake, saying that the world is like a tiger, and human life is like an ant, and I want to go to Taowu with my grandfather to set up the military mansion or avoid being displaced, don't be entangled in my brother's murder anymore, but I didn't expect that Miss would come to find me and my grandfather later,"
Ye Feiying held her wrist that was strangled and swollen, and said as if crying,
"Over the years, I have never betrayed Miss and Mrs., and I have always hated my brother for dying too unjustly, and hated God for treating me and my grandfather too unfairly. At the beginning, in Maoshan and Guangde, Zhao Wuji secretly talked to me, and I didn't pay attention to him, but I couldn't help but still think, Da Chu is really going to be torn apart by Madame and Miss, how many ant-man lives do you have to devour in this wolf-like world......"