Chapter 423: The Unquiet Chang'an
When Liu Heng led the Great Xia Iron Cavalry, Xuanhe martial arts in the Western Regions, and destroyed the city and the country, Chang'an was in turmoil on this matter. Liu Heng led the Great Xia army to conquer the Western Regions, after all, it was an unauthorized proposition, cutting first and then playing, which was not only against the king's order, but also a violation of military law. As soon as people couldn't sit still, but after a day of silence, some people boldly participated in Liu Heng.
Among these people, the people from the prince's family are the most active, and Chen Wangyue is calm and cool, which has aroused a high degree of vigilance among the people headed by the prince Liu Rui. There was a message in Chang'an before, King Chen wanted to return to fight for the position with the merit of Pingliang, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that there must be someone behind this who was fueling the troubles, but Liu Rui, who was already lacking in confidence, still attached great importance to this.
Moreover, in Liu Rui's view, Liu Heng himself has this thought. Now that Liu Heng took the initiative to "make a mistake" and sent the handle to the front, he naturally wanted to seize it and concoct it. He wanted to maintain the majesty of his father, Emperor Liu Yuan, the prestige of the imperial court, and the military discipline of Great Xia.
In the eyes of a cadre of courtiers, there is not much problem in the conquest of the Western Regions itself, and there are only thousands of troops mobilized left and right, and judging from the current situation, there is no need for the imperial court to mobilize and support, and it will cost national strength to support the war thousands of miles away.
But this merit of expanding the territory and Xuanhe Daxia's military prestige can not be taken by Liu Heng again. Liu Heng's expedition completely made him the biggest threat in the eyes of the prince's family, and he wanted to "arrange arrangements" for him.
Starting from the first official on the table, in the next few days, courtiers played one after another. Even Xi Wei, who served as the imperial doctor, also expressed his opinion, although the words were not intense, but between the words, they were full of dissatisfaction with Liu Heng's unauthorized dispatch of troops.
The big guys have expressed their attitudes, and the minions below have also followed the above table to count Liu Heng's crimes. And Xi Wei's performance made the prince's party even more happy, does this mean that the imperial historian Xi Gong, who had always been impartial and neutral before, also stood on the prince's side? And Liu Rui, who was also a little surprised, sent someone to the house to inquire, and ate the closed door.
With Xi Xuan's shrewdness, he naturally would not rashly join the battle for the storage position. He can see that in the past two years, the prince has been so flamboyant and active in recruiting party henchmen and expanding his influence, which has gone too far. In front of a powerful monarch like Liu Yuan, in the long run, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have a good result.
If there were no kings such as Chen and Zhou, they might be able to show closer, but the reality is not so. As Xi Xian said, he denounced Liu Heng in order to maintain the discipline of the imperial court.
Of course, it is not excluded that he has a little selfishness. The Imperial Historical Observatory has some power to supervise military affairs, but in recent years, it has not been able to interfere in the picketing of military affairs. Xi Xi wants to take advantage of this to try to make a breakthrough.
In the face of the "surging feelings", the officials of Chen Wang's family were a little panicked, Liu Heng was not there, and they had no backbone. As Liu Heng's most trusted mentor and friend, Cheng Gongying was left in the affairs of the prime minister of Chang'an, but he was only a long history of King Chen, and in such a situation, he found that it was difficult for him to do anything other than try his best to appease people's hearts.
In the Chang'an garrison, there were several Liu Heng's cronies who wanted to go to the palace to discuss, which scared Cheng Gongying.
Fortunately, Liu Yuan in the palace has not yet expressed his opinion on this matter. In addition, Liu Qiu, the king of Wei, endorsed Liu Heng with "the general will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected".
Cheng Gongying was also quite helpless about Liu Heng's whim to conquer the Western Regions, and always felt that the gains outweighed the losses. Make your own opinions, send troops without authorization, and take risks in person across the realm with the body of a thousand gold, and the wise do not do it.
And now, I can't send someone to retrieve it. In Chang'an, Cheng Gongying was in a hurry and could not break the situation.
When other people's attention was still on Liu Heng's expedition to the Western Regions, Liu Yuanfang put down Liu Heng's killing of Ma Chao. Also, although he is well-known on Liu Yuan's side, in Great Xia, Ma Chao is only a small role. Perhaps because of Liu Heng's origin, when Liu Heng's killing of horses first came, it caused a bit of a wave.
And the news from Hexi that Liu Heng killed Ma Chao is a good reason. Liu Yuan didn't have much to say about this. In recent months, I have sighed a few times from time to time, after all, it is Xiliang Jinma Chao.
Less than a month later, the news of Liu Heng's dispatch to the Western Regions came again. This move, on the bright side, Liu Yuan was furious, after all, his king's order was in front, and Liu Heng used soldiers and horses without permission, which was enough to kill his head.
But in fact, Liu Heng's move tickled his heart. When he was in the army before, he had the intention of taking the opportunity to expedition to the Western Regions and bring the countries of the Western Regions into the rule of Great Xia. It was only Wang Ze who dispelled this impulse in a few words.
Therefore, although Liu Yuan was a little angry at Liu Heng's westward advance, he was not too angry, and when he calmed down, he had a sense of pride in "living up to his father's will".
And Liu Rui's people, Liu Yuan knows his thoughts in his heart, and the attacks on Liu Heng in the past few days have been very loud. Even if Liu Yuan was a little unhappy in his heart, he would not say it, people were reasonable, and Liu Yuan was not good at saying things like "King Chen's actions are deeply in line with my heart" at this time.
Nowadays, the restrictions on the border army in Daxia are not as high as those on the side of the Chinese army, and the front-line generals who face the enemy country have a lot of autonomy. The important generals of all parties, such as Liu Qi, the acting king who guarded Modong, had the right to act cheaply in addition to mobilizing troops to attack. In the past few years, Liu Qi has slashed first and then played, and there have been many military operations to attack Zhao.
Liu Heng's expedition to the Western Regions is actually not a big deal. It's just deliberately amplified by people with intentions, and the people of the prince's family are staring at the point of "disobeying the king's order". Even if Liu Yuan left a "big fuss" evaluation in his heart, he still enjoyed it, and it seemed that Liu Yuan would not give up if he did not punish him.
"My father has an ambiguous attitude and has not commented on it, this time, are we making a big fuss?" In the East Palace, Liu Rui summoned his closest cronies Chong Shao and Yang Xiu and asked. The tone was hesitant.
In the past few days, there have been hundreds of impeachments before and after, and the momentum is loud enough, but Liu Yuan has not reacted. Liu Rui couldn't help muttering in his heart, Liu Yuan's attitude was too cold, was he warning himself again?
Under Liu Yuan's majesty, Liu Rui was young, but he became more and more suspicious.
As close ministers, Chong Shao and Yang Xiu could sense that Liu Rui's state was wrong, and under the oppression of several imperial brothers, Liu Rui's mentality was a little unstable. In terms of psychological endurance, Liu Rui is very insufficient.
"Too much! Let's leave it at that! Yang Xiu thought for a while, and said to Liu Rui: "Moreover, this matter has reached the point where it has reduced the impact of Chen Wang Pingliang's work to the minimum, and the purpose has been achieved!" ”