Chapter 95: Infighting
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At the beginning of the first year of Qianyou (that is, the sixth year of Li Tang's Baoda), Li Tang lost troops in Lingnan, successively invested 100,000 troops, and the whole army was wiped out in Yingzhou, only Xiongzhou assassin Shi Lu Jiang escaped, after that, Ma Yun in line with the long-term friendly consideration of Chu and Tang, released Li Tangnan's expeditionary envoy Bian Hao, the supervisor Cha Wenhui, and the liaison Comrade Feng Yanlu, and the rest of the captured generals were all left in Chu State, and divided into several groups to open up wasteland and cultivate land in various places.
After the defeat in Suzhou, this ** was another complete defeat. Li Jing, who was furious, immediately fired Feng Yansi's squid, and Feng Yansi, Cha Wenhui, and Feng Yanlu were all imprisoned. Then Li Jing adjusted the political situation again, Zhou Zong served as the Pingzhang of Tongzhongshu, and Chen Jue still served as the privy envoy, and the court was coarse.
But the infighting was still fierce. In two big defeats, the five ghosts fell four people, leaving only the privy envoy Chen Jue. Political struggles have always been cruel, without the slightest warmth and affection. After the defeat of Yingzhou, Han Xizai, Chang Mengxi, Sun Sheng, Jiang Wenjue and others all jumped out one by one, played one after another, everyone shouted and shouted to kill, and strongly demanded that Feng Yansi and others be slaughtered. Chen Jue's gang of Feng Dang's brothers, of course, came out to protect these people, but except for Chen Jue, these people did not have as much weight as the previous ones, and this time the situation reversed, Chen Jue and other remnants of the Feng Party were a little overwhelmed. At this time, Feng Yansi racked his brains and finally came up with a way to ask Chen Jue to write to Li Jing and ask Song Qiqiu to come out of the mountain.
Chen Jue immediately wrote to Li Jing in accordance with Feng Yansi's suggestion, proposing to reuse Song Qiqiu, the reason is very simple: the country is in trouble to think of good generals, and Bandang knows Chengchen. Now that our Tang Dynasty is in turmoil, we want an old man like Song Qiqiu to come out to stabilize the situation and shock the forces with ill intentions in all directions.
Time is the best diluent, so many years have passed, Li Jing's resentment towards Song Qiqiu has long since dissipated, and, as Chen Jue said, the situation is unstable now, and it really needs Song Qiqiu, the first hero of the founding of the country, to come out and stabilize his position. Moreover, Song Qiqiu has rich political experience, is good at governing the country, and has the title of "machine change", except for his private morality is not very good (such as complacent, narrow-minded, greedy for power and good face, selling fame and reputation, loving to play with petty temper, and often making emotions), this person is still good, and it can be said that Li Jing's father is "Zhuge Liang".
This reason is high-sounding, Li Jing thought about it carefully, and agreed, thinking that the first time Song Qiqiu fired the boss's squid, it was the then crown prince Li Jing who personally took the emperor's edict to Jiuhua Mountain to invite him, and now, he ordered his imperial brother to also bring his edict to Jiuhua Mountain to invite Song Qiqiu.
The edict arrived, the etiquette arrived, and the steps came, and Song Qiqiu went down the slope to get off the donkey. It was already April when Song Qiqiu arrived in Jinling, but the imperial court was still busy settling accounts after the autumn, and the activities of investigating the criminal acts of Feng Yansi and his party such as misleading the country and the people, working the people and losing money, and humiliating the teacher had just begun. Why is it so slow? The main reason is that Zhou Zong's party found the wrong direction of attack, Han Xizai and others were jealous and hateful, and they wanted to finish their work in one battle, and wanted to completely kill Feng Yansi's brothers, Cha Wenhui and others with a stick, but they didn't expect Feng Yansi to have such a high status in Li Jing's heart, Li Jing prevaricated and disagreed, saying that he wanted to listen to Song Qiqiu's opinion.
At this time, Zhou Zong was careless, he knew that although he and Song Qiqiu did not deal with each other, Feng Yansi and Song Qiqiu did not deal with each other either. Seeing Song Qiqiu's narrow-mindedness, he would definitely take the opportunity to get rid of Feng Yansi. As a result, Zhou Zong also asked his subordinates to continue to build momentum, trying to put some pressure on Li Jing.
Unexpectedly, after Song Qiqiu arrived in Jinling, he would tactfully speak for Feng Yansi. When Li Jing summoned Song Qiqiu and the two were chatting about family life, Song Qiqiu actually recited a Feng Yansi's words: The independent small bridge is full of wind and sleeves, and the Pinglin Crescent people are returning... This is the most famous word written by Feng Yansi, and it is all in one. After he finished reading, he persuaded euphemistically: "Your Majesty, talents are rare, the big knife is lifted, and the head rolls off, and it is difficult to find such wonderful words and sentences." ”
This sentence said that Li Jingxin was on the road. Later generations know that many emperors in Chinese history like to write a poem, among them, the highest achievement, praised by the literary circles of later generations, there are probably only four (in terms of comprehensive level: Song Huizong Zhao Ji, Li Yu, Li Jing, and Meng Chang, the queen of Later Shu), if Li Jing's son Li Yu can be ranked in the top two, then Li Jing's can definitely be ranked in the top three. Li Jing is definitely not a boastful writer like Ma Xifan, he is definitely a real person, he is also very picky about his courtiers, if Feng Yansi and a few people die, it will be difficult to find such a person again.
Seeing that Li Jing was a little moved, Song Qiqiu continued: "From the poems, it can also be seen that Feng Yansi and the others may have shortcomings, but they are all talents. It's just that they all met the wrong enemy at the wrong time and fought the wrong war. ”
Li Jing also listened to this sentence. He dragged on alive and dead, unwilling to kill Feng Yansi and others, firstly, talents are rare, and secondly, Feng Yansi and several people were promoted and reused by themselves, Han Xizai and others said that Feng Yansi was so unbearable, so as the emperor, isn't he unrecognizable? Where do you put your own face? Besides, Feng Yansi usually talks about poetry and music in front of Li Jing, talking endlessly, and he thinks it is true, and occasionally applauds. These people are indeed talented, but they are just unlucky to run into a group of scoundrels. In Suzhou, Wei Cen's army was not well positioned, and the Han army rushed over. And in Lingnan, Ma Yun is completely a bastard, eating me, drinking me, taking me, and in the end he doesn't give me anything! This is not what a liar is! If you follow the rules written in black and white according to the dignified white paper, this ... The north of the Xijiang River has long been the world of our Datang!
So, Li Jing issued an edict and released Feng Yansi and others from the prison, of course, he naturally couldn't be an official anymore, and exiled Feng Yansi's brothers to Shuzhou (now Qianshan, Anhui), and Cha Wenhui to Qizhou (now Qichun, Hubei).
Feng Yansi escaped. Why was he able to escape? Because he knows much more about Song Qiqiu than Zhou Zong. Song Qiqiu is indeed not a pot-bellied person, but he is even more of a greedy person. Letting himself go is a clever plan for Song Qiqiu to kill two birds with one stone.
Why? Li Jing's edict was issued. The straight people in the Zhou Sect's faction, like Han Xizai, Jiang Wenjue and others, who were working hard in the court and wanted Feng Yansi to die, couldn't help but jump out. Han Xizai wrote to the imperial court, and tried his best to persuade Feng Yansi and others to be killed, so that the imperial court could truly reward meritorious service and punish if there was a mistake. Jiang Wenjue, who heard the news, couldn't help but go to the table, the old man grabbed his beard and eyebrows, not only attacked Feng Yansi and others, but also piggybacked Chen Jue, he clearly analyzed in the chapter, why did Suzhou lose and Shaozhou could not be attacked for a long time? The most important willingness is not Wei Cen and Cha Wenhui, where the root is in Chen Jue, that is, Chen Jue attacked Fujian, and it took a year and a half to take the land of Liangzhou with difficulty, so that Li Tang's elite soldiers, in that protracted war, were completely tired and lost, and the battle of Jianzhou completely shed Li Tang's blood.
The words are true, but Li Jing, who watched the recital, was furious. Chen Jue's attack on Fujian was the only merit that Li Jing could make since he ascended the throne, but now it was useless by Jiang Wenjue. Li Jing was furious, and immediately issued an edict to demote Jiang Wenjue to Jiangzhou to join the army.
Zhou Zong, a gentleman's party, has one of the biggest problems, that is, they want to have the name of a political party and have no real collusion, especially for old qualifications like Jiang Wenjue and Sun Sheng, Zhou Zong can't speak too bluntly, and second, he can't order people to do what they don't do. These things that happened in a short period of time stunned Zhou Zong and them.
Song Qiqiu was happy. The strategy of killing two birds with one stone has finally been completed. On the one hand, he saved Feng Yansi and others, giving outsiders a look of repaying grievances with virtue, but Feng Yansi was exiled and couldn't return to the court for a while; On the other hand, due to the dissatisfaction of Han Xizai and others, he took the opportunity to provoke Li Jing, deposed Han Xizai and Jiang Wenjue, and hit Zhou Zong and others hard. He, a person with the false title of "Taifu", suddenly became an important minister of the imperial court!
After Feng Yansi's case was concluded, the eyes of the Li Tang court immediately turned inward, copper coins skyrocketed, merchants moved from Huainan to Changsha and Lingnan, and Li Tang's economy was on the edge of the cliff. In fact, after Zhou Zong became the prime minister (Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi), the first thing he did was to abolish Feng Yansi's decree to arrest merchants, and then, he first banned the trade of bronze ware, and prohibited the private casting of bronze ware, so that the merchants who speculated between bronze and copper coins were stuck, and second, he ordered Ezhou (now Wuchang), Yuanzhou (now Yichun, Jiangxi), Jizhou (now Ji'an, Jiangxi), Qianzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi), Tingzhou (now Changting, Fujian), Jianzhou (now Nanping, Fujian), these states and counties at the junction of Chu State, Third, in Haizhou, Taizhou and other places, the sea ships were strictly inspected, and merchants were not allowed to carry a large number of copper coins on board without permission.
He thought that if he was stuck in these three directions, the copper coin would definitely stabilize, but the copper coin still skyrocketed, as if there was a mastermind behind the scenes, only swallowing the copper coin and not spitting it out. In this case, he did not dare to propose to mint a lot of money, there are no anti-counterfeiting measures such as watermarks in this era, the difference between genuine and fake coins lies in the handwriting, color, etc., but how can this be said clearly.
When he was struggling to support the pressure of the government and the opposition, a shocking thing came from Jiangzhou: the Zhang family, a big family in Jiangzhou, secretly hid 2o boxes of copper coins in the courtyard outside the city, totaling more than 80,000 taels of silver. Song Qiqiu and Chen Jue seized this handle, chased after them relentlessly, and pointed the finger straight to Zhou Zong, wrote to Li Jing, and exposed Zhou Zong's ugly face: this guy is deliberately making a big country difficult to make money, on the one hand, he let his cronies converge on copper coins, but on the other hand, he refused to mint big money, the purpose is not to mint big money, but to make copper prices rise to the highest point. Copper coins are becoming scarce, and the big money that could have been minted as one as five must now be minted as one as ten. With so many copper coins in Zhou Zong's hand, I am afraid that the profit will not be less than one million at that time!
Zhou Zong was wronged! But who let the Zhang family be related to him, and they also caught the whole thing, as for why there are no copper coins in the Zhou Mansion? That must have been hidden by you, Zhou Zong, in private. Zhou Zong's crime is "secretly hiding copper coins with bad intentions", as for the evidence, it is all in Zhou Zong's mouth, as long as he pries his mouth open, isn't there any evidence?
So, Song Qiqiu and others desperately poured dirty water on Zhou Zong, Chang Mengxi and others desperately defended Zhou Zong, and in September, Li Jing was annoyed and issued an edict: exile, exile to Tingzhou. At the same time, Li Jing recruited Feng Yansi and others back from the penal colony, made them a few petty officials, and then officially started to make a lot of money with Song Qiqiu as the Zhongshu Sect Ping Zhangshi and Sun Sheng as the deputy.
It will explode in a few days, it's been too busy lately. How considerate the brothers!
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