Chapter 413: Optimus Prime Collapses Jiangxia City Falls

These "smart" officials and gentlemen, thinking about it like this, can't help but be really worried.

After all, if they were to take off the army outside, it would be especially good for such a person who did everything except business...... Well, His Majesty the Emperor, who requires the crown prince to know how to have fun in time like him, really can't be evaluated for what he has done.

Thinking about it this way, these ministers can't help but think more and more. After the prime minister got rid of it and led the troops to the colorful Jiangnan, he may really have the idea of supporting the army and respecting himself and separating the territory as the king.

And when the ministers thought of this one after another, a strong sense of worry couldn't help but fill their hearts.

There is a saying that in the eyes of the despicable, all people are despicable.

It was these "smart" courtiers, in their worries, who gradually began to imagine themselves as free, intending to "put themselves in their shoes" for the sake of the court.

Their minds can't help but make up a picture that is extremely terrifying, but it is "justified and well-founded".

"Support the army and respect yourself, divide one side, support the new emperor, occupy the south of the Yangtze River, set up the Southern Court, and the Northern Expedition to the capital!!" Well, when these courtiers "put themselves in their shoes" for the sake of the court. The prime minister, who was originally pinned on their endless hopes, couldn't help but gradually turn into a terrible nightmare for these courtiers.

"We must recall the prime minister as soon as possible, and we must let him return to Beijing as soon as possible!" Gradually, the vast majority of officials couldn't help but have such thoughts in their hearts.

After all, if Tokhtar supported troops in Jiangnan and stood on their own, these courtiers in the capital would undoubtedly stand on the opposite side of Tokhtar, and their interests would suffer huge losses.

Thousands of people pointed out, and died without a problem. And when one trend of thought gradually becomes the mainstream, all other ideas will also be completely degenerated into heresy.

Yes, at this time, when the vast majority of the courtiers are just thinking about recalling the "dangerous" variable of detachment back to the capital, the rest of the courtiers, most of the courtiers, don't care.

Because in the eyes of these courtiers, whether it is Zhang Shicheng, who occupies Gaoyou City and blocks the transportation of the imperial court, or the black-clothed thief who is entrenched in the land of Xiangjing and invades Huguang Province when he is using troops against Gaoyou, they are just ringworm scabies of the Yuanmeng Empire.

Zhang Shicheng and the black-clothed army are compared to the Tianwan Army in their heyday. Even the Tianwan Army, which spanned the three provinces south of the Yangtze River back then, can only shrink into the narrow Huangzhou Road under the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court. Compared with the Tianwan Army in its heyday, what can the current Black-clothed Army and Zhang Shicheng count on.

Compared with these scabies, as the prime minister of the empire and holding a large army, once he makes a mess, he is undoubtedly a real confidant.

Yes, under such a trend of thought, as the right prime minister of the empire, in the eyes of some courtiers, he has gone from the hope of the empire and the minister of the empire to the henchmen of the empire.

And at this time, who cares that the reason why Totoku can't take Gaoyou City for a long time is because of the sequelae he left behind in the slaughter of the city in Xuzhou last time.

The present courtiers only knew that the detachment of the leading troops could be self-reliant at any time, and that they could threaten their own vital interests at any time.

Therefore, when the incident gradually developed to this extent, the Hama party, as the driving force behind the scenes, couldn't help jumping out of the background, with the idea of "getting rid of the division for three months, having no work, pouring the country's wealth for their own use, and the officials of the half court thought that they were self-serving." and his younger brother also first Timur, mediocre and contemptuous, defiled and cleaned Taiwan, did not repair the discipline of the government, and the greedy heart benefited" as a crime. Launched a direct attack on Totohta.

The impeachment of Yuan Saiyin, who supervised the imperial history, is really groundbreaking.

After all, from the first year of Zhizheng to move to his own uncle, at the age of only twenty-seven, he served as the right prime minister of the Yuanmeng Empire, until today. In the position of the right prime minister, he has been in charge of national politics for more than ten years.

Even though in the process, Totokh had been retiring due to illness for a while. But during that time, He Taiping, who ascended to the position of right prime minister as a Han Chinese, was just a temporary protector of his seal in the eyes of the world.

The tiger is old and majestic. After more than ten years of accumulation, most of the courtiers, even though they suspected that Tokhtok had a self-respecting heart for supporting the army, even hated Tokhtar for holding the court for a long time and blocking their way to promotion. But let them face Toktok and make enemies of it, but these people still don't dare.

It was after Yuan Saiyin, who supervised the imperial history, was the first to stand up for impeachment, and the vast majority of courtiers couldn't help but wait and see.

However, it is precisely because of the silence of these courtiers that they seem to be out of the party and become more and more weak.

Xuanzheng Yuan's envoy Hama, Xuanhui's envoy Wang Jianu, and other people who were bent on rebelling against Takoff, while constantly collecting charges for Detachment, even miraculously persuaded the crown prince to know Li Dala, and tied the crown prince's party to the chariot.

And when the situation has developed to this point, the outcome of this party struggle will be obvious.

No matter how powerful the right prime minister is, he is powerless to resist the joint efforts of the crown prince's party and the Hama party. Therefore, for a while, the falling stone could not help but become the most vivid and vivid word in the court in the capital.

Countless officials began to follow suit, adding the last and most solid piece of soil to the grave of the party.

Therefore, on the day of Ding Youri, in the face of the increasingly indignant ministers, Emperor Yuan Shun had no choice but to issue an edict to get rid of the teacher's money, which had been more than three months.

Later, he took the Pingzhang political affairs of the province of Henan Province as the left prime minister of the province, the Zhongshu Pingzhang political affairs Yue Kuochaer plus the captain, the Jixian University scholar Xue Xue Zhi Privy Council, together with the general army, the general leader of the army everywhere to march into the army, and in the army kings, horses, provinces, courts, Taiwan officials and large and small military officials, its extermination, Bu Yiyou Mountain, Ha Ba'er bald, Ha Ti Lai, etc., Badu'er, Yundu Chi, Bald Liwu, Xiao Ke, Xifan soldiers, each Ai Ma Duo Lianchi, Goryeo, Hui Hui people Yi Ding Zhuang and other soldiers, and listen to the commander-in-chief.

In the end, he issued an edict that the damaged places were given relief by the priest and the tax was still paid for three years. Give high years of silk. And dismissed Yongtian, Chayun, Baoquan and other divisions.

Wuxu, and with the trust of the left prime minister who had just ascended to the throne this month, he fixed the feast, and the Central Political Yuan made Sang Ge lose Li to add the right to the Chinese book.

After that, Hama, who successfully moved to Toto, was promoted to the main supervisor, the capital water supervisor, and the same hall, and knew the scriptures and feasts, so he brought the Yuan Tiger Talisman, and was able to concurrently serve as the chief farmer who had previously held the position of Toto, and promoted the world's agricultural affairs.

Of course, in this matter, Wang Jianu, the Xuanhui envoy who successfully became the crown prince and became the crown prince's party, also succeeded in replacing the position of Totok's brother Yexian and became the new leader of the Qingliu and the imperial historian of the Yuanmeng court.

This series of changes and soldiers in the capital city can be described as a storm for Tokto, who is thousands of miles away.

He killed his relatives with righteousness, got rid of his uncle with his own hands, and wanted to be the minister of Dayuan Zhongxing wholeheartedly, but he never expected that the courtiers' hostility towards him had reached such a level. Even the crown prince Aiyu Zhilidara, who he regarded as the future hope of the empire, together with the courtiers who hated him to the core, gave him a stab in the back as a teacher.

"All betrayed relatives, all betrayed relatives!" When he received the news that his henchman had brought him from the capital city non-stop, he was disheartened, and only these four words were left in his mind.

After that, he had no intention of attacking the city, so he couldn't help but slow down the offensive on Gaoyou City, so that Gaoyou City and Zhang Shicheng, who were about to be conquered, were lucky to escape this mortal situation.

And later, a few days after Zhang Shihua and them conquered Hanyang City, the envoy of Dadu finally couldn't help but bring the edict of the Great Yuan Emperor.

Of course, when the envoys of the capital city had not yet felt Gaoyou, the high-level generals who came to Gaoyou to quell the rebellion received the news early when they were dismissed and discharged.

At the same time as getting rid of his discouragement, these generals were also panicked, so that even the ordinary soldiers at the bottom had a sense of wind and rain. And this also made the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, who obviously had the absolute upper hand in the siege battle, strangely appear on a large scale desertion.

Therefore, in such a situation, as a diehard confidant of Toto, Xi Bosui and others couldn't help but take the initiative to persuade Totoku: "When the first prime minister came out, he personally served Emperor Yuyin, thinking that "in the future, I will have a secret decree again." Now the prime minister is in the army, and he will obey the emperor's secret decree, and he will be enterprising, and he will not listen to the edict. After a long time, the villain's slander is naturally understood. And "the generals are in the army, and the king's orders are not subject to it", for this reason. ”

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected." Such straightforward words are obviously to persuade Totoku to simply support the army and self-respect, and divide the south of the Yangtze River.

But in order to realize his political ambitions, how could he be willing to support the army and stand on his own at this time and destroy half of his life's hard work with his own hands.

After hearing the words of Xi Bosui and others, the disheartened Totoku just shook his head, "No." If I don't obey, I will resist the emperor. ”

In this way, he obediently accepted the edict that would kill him.

And because of this, after losing the backbone of Totok, he didn't wait for the political affairs of Pingzhang in Henan Province, Yue Kuochaer, and Xue Xue, the affairs of the Privy Council, to come to replace Tokhtar in charge.

These officers and soldiers who were afraid that they would be settled by Hama and their autumn settling, they couldn't help but scatter under Gaoyou City.

Hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Gaoyou, but the most likely one ended up like a tiger. It has to be said that it is a great irony.

After such an incident, many generals who participated in the siege of Gaoyou could not help but be completely disappointed in the Yuanmeng court.

As a result, many of the counterinsurgency troops who left from outside Gaoyou City did not wait for their respective stations to return to their stations, so they broke their jars and started a capitalless business of robbing houses and houses, and became outright rebels.

It was this vigorous counterinsurgency battle that not only failed to stabilize the social order, but also made the situation in the Jianghuai region even more erosive.

And it was under such circumstances that Zhang Shicheng, who was lucky enough to pick up a life, took the opportunity to break south to Hangzhou.

The raging flames of war in the Huai River valley have once again led to the rich Jiangnan that has just stabilized for a long time.

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In the fourteenth year, Chinese New Year's Eve.

It is said that this day was supposed to be a day of family reunion, but outside Jiangxia City, the battle became more and more intense.

At this time, Hanyang City, which was across the river from Jiangxia City, had already fallen into the control of the black-clothed army ten days ago.

Under such circumstances, for the black-clothed army who took Jiangxia and hoped to end this war as soon as possible, their attack on Jiangxia City could not help but become more and more intense.

On such days, the temperature is already below freezing. The defenders of Jiangxia City also poured a basin of cold water on the city wall under the order of Ping Zhang, making it difficult to climb the city wall with thick ice.

However, the black-clothed army was still under the cover of artillery, constantly launching ant attacks on Wuchang City.

The warm blood flowed out of the body, and before it could seep into the ground, it formed red ice crystals due to the low temperature. The bodies of soldiers on both sides could only be piled on the side, too cold or undermanned to bury.

Even when the situation became more and more extreme, the corpses of these cold and stiff comrades could be turned into building materials for the Jiangxia defenders.

They piled the bodies of their comrades on the gap in the wall that had been blasted out by the black-clad military artillery, poured some water, and a wall of corpses appeared.

The low temperature, blood, corpses, and the endless fighting army have completely turned Jiangxia, a thousand-year-old city, into a hell on earth.

Therefore, under such circumstances, before the news of Tokhtar being dismissed and hundreds of thousands of troops scattered outside Gaoyou City in a hurry, some Yuanmeng generals on the side of Jiangxia City could no longer bear the pressure of imminent death every day, and gave birth to other ideas.

And among them, especially the Han generals are even greater.

They were often used as cannon fodder by the Yuanmeng people in the war, and they had long been disappointed in this war.

Yueyang was broken and Wuchang was besieged, making the reinforcements in the province far away, and as for Gaoyou's side, it was needless to say.

Therefore, after Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, on the first day of the first month of the fifteenth year of the Zhizheng, Shen Ke, deputy of the Han army in Wuchang City, in order to survive, could not help but lead thousands of soldiers and horses to set off a rebellion, and opened the city gate in the dark night, so that the meeting outside the city had already entered Jiangxia City.

And this big war between the black-clothed army and the fourteenth year of Zhizheng in September is finally coming to an end.

(To be continued.............................. )