Chapter 17: When the Dead Branches Are Missing (Part I)
The Tongquetai court meeting in mid-September was originally just a process for Gongsun Xun to unilaterally implement and reaffirm his authority within the Yan system, and he just wanted to use his power and authority to remind these people that the world has not yet been unified, and as a courtier of Yan State, as his courtier, it is not allowed to have a redundant political position.
Of course, there is also the necessary clean-up action.
However, as Jia Xu suddenly got up with several Xiangguo and asked questions, the nature of the matter changed completely. After that Q&A, the meeting essentially became a political commitment...... It is not only a mutual commitment between the Yan bureaucracy and the Yan Gong, but also a political commitment made by the Yan State bureaucracy and Yan Gong Sun Xun to the whole world.
In fact, this is Jia Xu's cleverness.
If Kong Rong and those people messed around before, hoping that their scholars in the marginal position of the Yan State system would reach a political commitment with Gongsun Xun himself, in exchange for their support for Gongsun Xun to be the emperor, then this question and answer is to use the Yan State as the main body to reach a general political commitment with the people of the world, so as to exchange for the support of the people of the world for Gongsun Xun to be the emperor.
It is clear which is superior and which is inferior, which is higher and which is lower, at a glance.
In fact, after this court meeting, Gongsun Xun personally ordered that the content of the Q&A should be distributed to the world in the form of internal documents and proclamations of officials.
This is a temptation and a declaration, but no matter how ambitious they are, they will not hide it!
After this incident, Yan Gong's heart was originally only known to passers-by, and then it was known to everyone in the palace, but now it is known to everyone in the world!
When the news spread, naturally some people were heartbroken, some were sad and indignant, some were sighing, some were flustered, some turned a deaf ear, some were overjoyed, and some were anxious...... But overall, it didn't cause much turmoil within the current rule of the Yan Kingdom.
After all, the common people below are just watching the excitement, and the hardcore opposition has long gone south, and those who stay but still oppose it either don't have the courage to say more, or they don't care anymore.
It is said that when the matter reached Yingchuan, Du Xi, who served as the county commander, went to Xun Yu with a notice to ask Xun Yu, Xun Wenruo was repairing his barn at that time, and his people read the notice on the wall of the barn, but they only said one sentence - it is better than flying out of the Yellow Dragon in Zhangshui, right?
After saying this, Xun Wenruo no longer paid attention to it, but continued to repair the barn to meet the winter storage.
The news continued to spread south, and finally reached Jianghan. Unexpectedly, after reading the notice, Liu Biao in Jingzhou was mostly depressed, and there was no fierce verbal reaction...... Of course, they have not yet come out of the shock of the fall of Shudi, and they are anxiously deploying defenses in the vicinity of Wuxian and Zigui, for fear that the army gathered in Shudi will go directly down the river and break through the Three Gorges.
If that's the case, I guess I don't even have the freedom to read the posting.
And the message continued to spread south, and before the end of the year, the first big force to react violently finally appeared...... It is not Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the military confrontation, nor is it the small court of Jiangxia that has gradually settled down recently, but the Shixie Shiweiyan who is further south and controls the six counties of Jiaozhou.
After a fierce ideological struggle, and several times with Gongsun Yue and Tian Feng, who had entered Yizhou, he exchanged letters to discuss the formal conditions for the surrender of Jiaozhou, and then finally made up his mind after receiving a private letter from Gongsun Xun himself along the Haijiang River, and began to fall to Hebei in an all-round way.
Among them, the most iconic political action is the official note he sent to the Jiangxia court before the New Year, in which it was clearly mentioned that he would leave in the spring and summer of next year to personally go to the old capital of Luoyang to meet with Yan Gong and discuss the past.
At the end of the song, it was suggested that the little emperor return north to Luoyang with him and worship the mausoleums of the Han dynasty with Yan Gong.
When the news came out, the remnants of the entire south were completely shaken, and the four southern counties of Jingzhou, which were half-wrapped by Jiaozhou and Yizhou, were immediately shaken across the board, while the four counties of Lingling County, Wuling County, Guiyang County, and Changsha County were stunned and caught off guard by everyone, and began to form a self-insurance group with Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha County, as the core, forming an almost loose alliance.
The clique did not explicitly raise slogans against Liu Biao, nor did it explicitly support Hebei, but only began to resist Liu Biao's military and warehouse orders as non-violently as possible in an official manner.
The reason for this, in addition to Jiaozhou's decisive statement, is also traceable:
First of all, Zhang Xian had been the Taishou of Lingling and Guiyang counties a long time ago, and he had great political influence and appeal here, and could be called a natural leader between Hunan and Han;
Secondly, although Zhang Xian's position as Changsha Taishou was appointed by Liu Biao, Liu Biao was not polite to him at first, just because the previous Changsha Taishou Su Dynasty had rebelled against Liu Biao, and after disposing of Su Dai, he needed to pacify the place, so he had to appoint such a figure to pacify the Jingnan region...... There was a prejudice between Liu Biao and Zhang Xian;
In addition, Zhang Xian is good, the other three Taishou are good, the family is in the north, for example, Zhang Xian was born in Nanyang, at this time the family is completely located in the Yan State ruling area, and his younger brother Zhang Ji Zhang Zhongjing was hired by Yan Gongli to go to Ye to open a hospital;
Finally, and the most important reason, that is, born in Changsha, Sun Jian's former official started, but as early as after the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, he became the Wei General's Mansion Cang Cao Peng, and now ranks in the Huan rank of the Yan State Household Department, and immediately left for the south after the September Dynasty meeting, at this time he had already returned to Changsha, and began to be active as an important minister of the Yan State.
There is reason to believe that this person brought the political commitment of the Duke of Yan to the military and political governors of the four southern counties of Jingzhou, and even to the Sun clan of Jiangdong.
And at this time, the weight of Yan Gong's political commitment is naturally self-evident.
However, after all, the Han family is a unified Han family for 400 years, and the name of Hanchen really makes the four Taishou of the four counties of Jingnan have a psychological threshold that cannot be crossed.
At this moment, the courtiers in the Yan State system can naturally follow the internal system of the Yan Kingdom, use the Yan State shell to cover up the generous and generous expressions of loyalty, and secretly work hard for the goal of Yan covering the Han; Ordinary people who have a heart for the Han family can also ignore it like Xun Wenruo and Du Zixu, after all, they can be regarded as doing their best for the Han family, and they always have a clear conscience; And these four Taishou are really a little embarrassed......
All in all, for the sake of survival and reality, they chose to listen to Huanjie and break away from Liu Biao, but they also felt that they didn't want to fall to Hebei openly at this time, so they engaged in a strange political model of mutual protection between the four counties of Jingnan.
But even so, for the remnants of the Han family in the middle and lower reaches of Chang'an, it is tantamount to a bolt from the blue!
Although it is said that the essence of Jingzhou is in the north, but now in this situation, Jingzhou has lost Nanyang, and handed over Jiangxia to the Son of Heaven, and then the four southern counties are half out of control with Jiaozhou's statement, doesn't that mean that the pillar of the Han family, Liu Biao and Liu Jingsheng suddenly only have one county left? Not even Sun Quan?!
This is also ridiculous!
In addition to feeling ridiculous, Nanjun, Jiangxia, Yuzhang, and Wu Junxuan even felt complete despair...... Originally, the so-called Han Alliance, which only had ten county territories, ran away with four at once, and it is obvious that this day is really going to change!
However, how could these smart people not know?
This is the inevitable result after the Guandu War, but Hebei's ruthlessness in taking Yizhou within three months has seriously catalyzed this process.
All in all, it's time to make a decision!
So, before the New Year, the small court of Jiangxia issued wills one after another, mediating Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and inviting the only three remaining Han princes along the Yangtze River to put aside their prejudices and come to Jiangxia to participate in the New Year's party of the Han family!
Liu Biao and Liu Bei immediately agreed, and Sun Quan, on the grounds that he was too young, sent the No. 2 person in the regime who had just recovered his health, Huiji Taishou Zhu Zhi Zhu Junli, on the grounds that he was too young, and asked the latter to go to Jiangxia instead of him, which was also very sincere.
Speaking of which, this Spring Festival 'Great Dynasty Meeting' may be the last glimmer of hope for the Han family.
"Beijing car ride, according to the next view, after all, the Han family has been in the world for four hundred years, and there is still a glimmer of life!" In Xiling City, Jiangxia, in a wide mansion, a famous man named Cui Yan was talking earnestly to Jing Ze, the pillar stone of the Han Dynasty and the general of the chariot and cavalry who had just arrived in Xiling.
"Where's the life?" Kyozawa, who was sitting at the top, sighed with a tired face.
"To the north." Cui Yan hurriedly faced each other. "As far as I know, this time Yan rebelled at the Tongquetai Conference, in order to have no accident in this Q&A, he first convicted him with words, pointing to Kong Beihai and setting a big case of Zhulian, hundreds of scholars, children of famous families, and even Yexia students who were just fifteen or sixteen years old, were sent to the front line as an escort just because they reprimanded his new policy and discussed his employment...... Kong Beihai was sent to Yinshan to shepherd sheep! How can such a wanton and brutal person last? β
Jing Ze held his forehead and was speechless for a while.
"And the south side." Cui Yan continued to speak earnestly. "Jingnan, Jiaozhou, and even the southern part of Yizhou, in fact, did not fall into the hands of Yan Rebellion, but saw that it was powerful, and did not dare to stop it, this is human nature...... And after all, they have the Han family in their hearts, and they will never turn against each other! β
Jing Zefu sighed again in the Taiwei chair before he spoke: "I understand what Cui Jun means, and I also believe that what Cui Jun said is reasonable...... But whether it's the south or the north, if you want to have a chance of survival, you have to win a battle first, right? β
Cui Yan was gloomy when he boarded.
"And the current situation? There are really flaws everywhere. The general of the cavalry, Jing Ze, tried his best to cheer up and said to the other party seriously. Xuzhou Guanyun's strengths, at any time can send a naval army to attack Wu County, Huiji, and even the great river to Danyang, Yuzhang, and the naval army in the sea does not take five years to become an army, but before Tancheng was defeated, General Zuo's naval army was lost, and what did the Sun and Liu families on the Jiangdong side take to resist the northern naval army? Xiangyang is also here, although the location of Xiangyang is dangerous, but now Yizhou is lost, Jingnan is neutral, and Xiangyang is equivalent to being attacked on three sides, so when Gongsun Yue leads the army of Shuzhong downstream, Cheng Demou leads the soldiers and horses of Sili to surround Xiangyang, what will Liu Zhennan resist? Can Jing Nan really remain neutral at that time? And Jiangxia's side, I won't say much about An Lu in person, there are really no soldiers and no generals......"
Cui Yan became more and more gloomy, but he didn't refute it, because he also knew that what the other party said was all the truth.
"Cui Jun." Jing Ze caught a glimpse of the other party's posture, and seemed to feel that it was a bit serious, so he reluctantly said it again. "Please don't be impatient, wait for a few days of court meeting, I will definitely ask for a beauty for Cui Jun, I want to come to Cui Jun's reputation and talent, there is no reason for the Son of Heaven not to allow it. At that time, Cui Jun will be able to fully reveal the ideas in his heart to the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven will definitely reuse Cui Jun. β
Cui Yan wanted to speak and stopped, as if he wanted to say something, but when he saw that Jing Ze was really tired, he simply took the initiative to leave.
As soon as Cui Yan left, Jing Ze put down the shelf, but he was almost paralyzed in the seat...... In other words, this year, Jing Ze is really not easy, or to put it simply, he is really difficult!
The first half of the year was okay, at most, he, the general of the chariot cavalry, was in Anlu, and as the head of the north-facing gateway of the Jiangxia small court, he took over many scholars who fled south in a large area. As a spy, he naturally did not have the greed to ask for land, nor did he have the intention of separating the local area and treating Anlu as private property, so he was extremely generous and fair. Whether it was the fugitives from the north or the local people, although this Beijing chariot rider could not be perfect, he did his best.
So Huh, the names of Corporal Lixian and the pillars of Xianchen naturally can't run.
All in all, in the first half of the year, with the large-scale support of public opinion, coupled with the joint reliance of Xiao Tianzi and the queen, his people were probably higher and higher, and they were more and more relied on, so that they gradually had the same name as Liu Bei and Liu Biao, and they were more than one domain stronger than Sun Quan's hairy child...... But how to say it? In a sense, he's used to it.
However, in the second half of the year, he was involved in a big thing!
That's right, that's the matter of the queen's childbirth.
In other words, as the queen's brother-in-law, Jing Ze, who is almost forty years old, is naturally very gentle and considerate when facing his wife, the second daughter of the Yuan family, who is actually not even fifteen years old, and this naturally attracts the attention and favor of Queen Yuan.
Of course, it is also the reason why Empress Yuan has no one else to rely on now, and her younger brother is not successful, and her brother-in-law is naturally his only choice.
Therefore, in the second half of the year, Empress Yuan, who was already becoming more and more pregnant, publicly put forward conditions to the Son of Heaven, she could be released back to the Gongqing, but in the case of her becoming more and more pregnant, someone needed to come to Sha Xian to control the situation for her...... But she couldn't believe in the Son of Heaven, so she hoped to let Jingze go to Shaxian while the west was cutting down Shu and the north was safe.
In other words, she can hand over Sha Xian and the Jiangxia territory west of Sha Xian, but she must Jing Ze to take over, and use this to ensure the safety of their mother and son in Sha Xian - this is called descending to the Han and not to the Son of Heaven, and the queen only believes in her brother-in-law!
Xiao Tianzi also has no way.
Although he is wise, he cannot be completely clear about men and women, or about pregnancy...... In fact, this little Tianzi did not suspect who the child in Empress Yuan's womb was. But the problem is that suspicion is suspicion, and he can't completely deny that the child may be his own, even though he has had a skin-to-skin relationship with the other party. And if it is really his Liu Xie's seed, then as a dead father, grandmother, aunt, aunt and brother, he really needs such a child.
This need is a dual need from the dual perspective of the Son of Heaven and the sole seedling of this sect.
So, the Son of Heaven also recognized Jing Ze to deal with this matter, and the style of the sword that day, coupled with Yang Biao's entrustment, made him completely trust Jing Cheqi.
So, in July, Jing Youxi, who had just arrived in Shaxian, saw the child!
That's right!
The child was born in July! It's not August!
Jing Ze woke up almost instantly, this is Lu Bu's posthumous son, and it has nothing to do with the Son of Heaven!
However, Jing Ze encountered not only this shocking fact, but also met Empress Yuan, who had just given birth, that is, his eldest sister-in-law, holding his nephew, and the mother and son knelt down to him without even cutting the umbilical cord...... And Kyozawa relented in the end.
Because he knows that as long as he picks it out, it may be a huge blow to the Han family, but Queen Yuan's mother and son, no matter how innocent, will die, even if he doesn't do it in the end, they will definitely die!
In short, if you can't do it, you can't do it.
So, Jing Ze concealed everything and waited until August to announce the news of the queen's birth, which basically dispelled the suspicion of the Son of Heaven and confirmed that the child was the existence of the orthodox inheritance of the Han family.
But once this thing is done, the pressure on Jing Ze is not so simple.
First of all, doing so means that he Jingze betrayed the object of allegiance on the surface, that is, Xiao Tianzi and the Han family! And the nature of this betrayal is extremely bad...... Otherwise, could there be a worse way to betray?
This is even more ridiculous than killing a king! And Xiao Tianzi still trusts him so much!
Secondly, he also seriously betrayed his de facto allegiance, that is, Yan Gong and Yan Guo...... After all, Jing Ze knows very well that when Yan Gong arrives at this point, what he needs most is not a military thing, and the birth and revelation of a fake emperor's eldest son may not be worse for Yan Gong than Yizhou.
But it was such a big and effective fact that attacked the authority of the Han family, but he changed it with his own hands.
The terrible place is here, this is the fact, not a means made up by a Yan State spy to confuse the public! Just push the boat down the river and announce that it would go out, but he covered it up with a spy.
Moreover, with the fall of Yizhou in March, and with the Q&A announcement of Tongquetai, he really felt that Yan Gong, who had the grace of knowing him, was the real master of destiny! But he still lost the other party! And so that the possibility of war continues.
In other words, a soft-heartedness, a life that is likely to die at any time in this era, made Kyozawa, who was originally quite calm, completely lose his position and betrayed almost everyone at the same time!
At this moment, Jing Ze doesn't know what he is.
And just when Jing Ze was in a routine struggle because he came to meet the Son of Heaven, suddenly, a guard hurriedly came to report.
"Cui Yan is gone?" Jing Ze hurriedly put away all his thoughts and asked with a strong spirit. "Didn't I say that I would seek an official for him? How to get away? β
"Returning to the general, Mr. Cui left a message to tell him, he said that he is not the kind of person who asks for land...... Ever since he was driven from the north, he has traveled from place to place just to prove that he is a useful man. The articulate squire hastened to explain. He also said that he had seen that the general was exhausted, and knew that the general was one of the few loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty. In this case, please make it difficult for the general to continue to maintain the imperial court; For the sake of easy things, he tried to find Erliu and Zhu Zhi to see if he could persuade these people to unite and be loyal to the Han! β
Jiang Xia at the end of the year was not so cold that it was unacceptable, however, Jing Ze, who was stunned for a while, looked up to the sky and sighed, and after reprimanding the attendants, he actually had a trace of empathy for Cui Yan...... It's ridiculous to say, as a spy of Yan Gong, he actually feels like Cui Yan, who is being abandoned by the new world brought by Yan Gong!
ββββI am the dividing line of the abandonedββββ
Yan Gong asked questions and answers in Tongquetai, and then awarded the world...... To Jiangxia, Yan and the general of the cavalry Jing Ze discussed it, and they couldn't say anything for a long time, but they wept at each other. Farewell, Yan shook his hand and said: 'The general is difficult for him, and the servant is easy for him, so be cautious!' Ze knew what he meant, but he couldn't say anything. βBook of the Later Han Dynasty. Solo Ranks