Chapter 718: Two Reasons
After following those prisoners of war to the Tang Realm, Sugan Chengji and his younger brother Sugan Chenggan thought that they were the people of the Tang Dynasty. The www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion have never been given any orders from Goryeo. Perhaps the king of Goryeo had forgotten about their brother long ago, they thought, or that there were many others like them who had been sent over.
Everyone was given a pension to settle down and buy a home. But soon after, their brothers were conscripted into the army again, and the Tang Dynasty was just starting out, and there were too many places to fight.
They were just ordinary soldiers under Luo Yi, the guard general of Jingzhou. From the prosperous land of Luoyang to Jingzhou, which is more than 200 miles northwest of Chang'an, as a soldier, this incident made Su Gan Chengji unhappy for a long time. If it weren't for an extremely special incident, maybe Su Gan Chengji would have gone on in obscurity.
At the end of the eighth month of the lunar calendar of the ninth year of Wude, not long after Emperor Zhenguan took the throne, Liang Shidu, the last remaining rebel of the Sui Dynasty, persuaded the Turks to invade Chang'an. He was taking advantage of the discord between the emperor's supporters and Jiancheng's supporters in the Xuanwumen Rebellion.
The Turks gathered an army of 100,000 and went straight to Chang'an through Jingzhou, where Luo Yi, the defender of Jingzhou, had a good relationship with the slain prince Li Jiancheng. If there is no Xuanwumen incident and Li Jiancheng can successfully ascend to the throne, then Luo Yi's career must have a bright future.
But everything has been different since this incident, and who would trust a friend of a political opponent?
The progress of this invasion was lightning fast, and by the time the emperor received the military information, the Turks had reached the Wei River, less than a hundred miles from Chang'an. It's almost the speed of the attack that pushes the messenger's heels.
Because Luo Yi only symbolically resisted, he let the Turks come over.
The messengers were the two brothers of Chengji, who had escaped from Jingzhou, and the invasion of the Turks was the best time for them to break away from the army.
They weren't supposed to deliver letters, but they were detained by the emperor's guards. The two brothers' panicked behavior after crossing the Wei River attracted the attention of the guards, and the emperor was taking Empress Changsun on his first outing here after his accession to the throne.
Seeing that he could no longer run away, Su Gan Chengji told the emperor's guards that they had come from the Jingzhou front to deliver the letter. Before the words were finished, smoke and dust billowed on the other side of the Wei River, and the vanguard of the Turks appeared.
The Ligan Chengji brothers were immediately incorporated into the Emperor's Guard, and in the face of the overwhelming Turkic population, the Emperor's Guard was too few. The imperial capital of Chang'an is known as the fertile field in Guanzhong, in fact, the land is narrow, not enough to buy a large number of troops, the closest army to Chang'an at the time of the incident is also in Tongguan, and the Turks are about to cross the threshold!
In addition to the Wei River, which was able to block the Turks, there were less than 10,000 troops, which was the first time that the emperor had to carry out a personal expedition after becoming the emperor. Hou Junji, then the general of the Left Guard, led his men to set up defenses on the south bank of the Wei River, and fanned their banners as suspicious soldiers, and the Turks hesitated for a short time.
This danger ended with the emperor taking only a few escorts to negotiate with the Turkic Khan on the Weihe Bridge, and finally the Turkic retreat. But from this year onwards, they were under Hou Junji.
Because of the merit of reporting the news, the two brothers actually became the two people who received the most rewards in the Jingzhou Luoyi Group in this incident, and they escaped from Jingzhou -- Su Gan Chengji and Su Gan Chenggan respectively became the captains of the Left Guard General Hou Junji, and each received ten people.
It's already good, and the guy is also an official!
They never wanted to leave the army again, and even if he accompanied Hou Junji on an expedition to Gaochang in the fourteenth year, he had no intention of escaping. At that time, he was already the captain of General Hou's guard, and he was eighteen or nineteen years old in the fifth year of Wude, and now he is over middle age.
After returning from Gaochang, Luoyang Palace needed a group of guards, as the emperor's cronies, Hou Junji recommended his own guard captain, "Zhenguan fifteen years, I arrived at Luoyang Palace."
Gao Jun: At this time, I'm afraid your Goryeo master is going to write to you, right?
Su Gan Chengji: I only lived a comfortable life in Luoyang Palace for more than a year, and when I was sixteen years old, they sent someone to find me, because they heard that His Majesty the Tang Emperor had a plan to crusade against Goryeo. They want me to try to make a big move in Chang'an, or wherever it is, so as to disrupt Chang'an's deployment. If I hadn't done it, I would have known that the status I had worked so hard for would cease to exist with just a secret letter from the Goryeo side......
Gao Jun: What did you plan to do at that time? If you can still do things for your home country after nearly 20 years in Datang, you can be regarded as a man. It's just that you're thinking about the status of your hand, and I guess if you're still an ordinary villager at this time, you probably won't take the risk of doing this, right?
Sugan Chengji: Yes...... Yes, I won't do it. They won't find me either. From the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, the emperor openly said in the court: Goryeo was part of China during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and if the Tang Dynasty attacked from both land and sea, Goryeo might be conquered again. It's no secret anymore, even we, the guards, are talking about it. This matter was already imminent in Goryeo, and Chang'an repeatedly sent Fang Langzhong to reconnoiter Goryeo's fortifications, collect intelligence, and map the border......
How many major events can be able to stumble the footsteps of Chang'an, after receiving the secret letter from Goryeo, Sugan Chengji hesitated for a long time and did not think of any major things, during which he received two secret letters threatening from Goryeo, and he was exposed if he didn't take action.
At this time, Yan Hongzhi, the uncle of Li You, the king of Qi and a minor official of the AMTD Bureau, found him, who was one of the many lower-class friends of Su Gan Chengji. Yan Hongzhi pulled him into Li You's camp to compete for the crown prince. Isn't it a big deal to compete for the crown prince?
"And Helan Chushi, the guard of the crown prince Li Chengqian, is also one of those friends of mine, and he knows that I used to be the captain of Hou Junji's bodyguard, and he is Hou Junji's son-in-law. He also came to pull me into Li Chengqian's men, and Helan Chushi said to me, 'If you come, we can borrow the power of General Hou!' ’”
"You're lying! Aren't you afraid that I will cut you? Where did Hou Junji come from! ”
Sugan Chengji: I didn't lie, I didn't lie! I didn't say that he had a daughter, can't he be a goddaughter? I know that Helan Chushi hates Hou Junji, and he has no good intentions at all. Because once Helan Chushi and I were drinking, he drank too much, saying that Hou Junji was not a human being, and he was playing with his daughter......
Fan Ying and Siqing went to see Gao Jun together, and he didn't jump up after listening to Su Gan Chengji's words. It's just that there was silence for a long time, which made Su Gan Chengji a little panicked, and he was anxious to say something more to annotate, "Actually...... I also hate Hou Junji,"
"I was about to ask you, Hou Junji promoted you to be the captain of the guard, and recommended you to go to Luoyang Palace as a guard, I thought you would never harm him...... Let's talk about it! ”