Chapter 344: Rites and Funerals
Although he had decided to use the former general Yuwenxin to assist the crown prince Yang Yongbei to reject the Turks, Yang Jian also spent some brains about what kind of title Yuwenxin should have awarded: with Yuwenxin's title and status, he should have been awarded the post of marching marshal, but after all, he had been snubbed by himself for nearly a year, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not be resentful in his heart, so he suddenly gave him military power, Yang Jian was really relieved. After pondering www.biquge.info several times, Yang Jian finally came up with a good idea, and sent the edict to Ren Yuwenxin to temporarily lead the general of the right leading army, assist in the military affairs of Xianyang, and send him to Xianyang to assist Yang Yong.
The right leading general is one of the twelve guard generals, and is in charge of the emperor's side of the guard close military position, not only the status is high, but also the command is extremely important, the appointment of Yu Wenxin this military position, is enough to show his sincerity in using him. At the same time, Yu Wenxin did not actually take charge of the military government, and the "assistant in charge of the Xianyang military affairs" in the edict limited his scope of authority to the side of the crown prince Yang Yong, and he was not allowed to take charge of the army alone.
The fall of many state capitals in Guanzhong also caused most of the ministers of the DPRK and China to question Yang Jian's strategic policy of simultaneously attacking the north and the south and using troops on both sides. Since the Turkic army invaded from the northwest, there were constantly civil and military ministers to lobby in the Suwei Mansion, asking him to come forward to persuade the emperor to recruit and transfer Chen's army to the north to resist the Turks, Su Wei had objections to the strategy of using troops in the north and south, but it was contrary to the opinion of a civil and military minister, he believed that the southward attack of Chen, to achieve the unification of the north and south of China is the top priority, in order to achieve this goal, the imperial court can temporarily reach a compromise with the Turks in the north, Continue to maintain the pattern of paying tribute to him, and after defeating Nan Chen, he will make plans.
With such a thought, and thinking that he was in the position of prime minister, he had the responsibility of conveying the opinions of his ministers to the emperor, and Su Wei, who had always been shrewd and capable, was confused and made a bad move at the critical moment of life and death in Guanzhong.
On the day after the crown prince and Yuwen Xintun troops in Xianyang, Su Wei immediately asked for an order to enter the palace and suggested that Yang Jian join forces with the Turks and step up the attack on Chen.
After listening to Su Wei's conclusive advice, Yang Jian couldn't believe his ears: Does this seem to be the words of Su Wei, who is the most important to him and who holds five positions?
In view of Su Wei's heavy responsibility of maintaining law and order in the capital, although Yang Jian was extremely dissatisfied with his advocacy of fornication with the Turks, he did not reject him on the spot, and only sent Su Wei away under the pretext of "Rong Zhen thinking twice", but he issued an edict early the next morning, removing Su Wei from the post of the right servant of Shangshu Province, temporarily residing in the phase in the name of the Zhimen's subordinates, and at the same time, restoring the phase of the original right servant Yu Qingze.
Just when the Chang'an Dynasty was troubled by the pressure of the Turkic army, Jiankang, the capital of Emperor Nanchen, suddenly came with a shocking good news: Emperor Xuan of Southern Chen, who had reigned for more than ten years, died of illness, and there was a fierce palace fight at the funeral site of Chen Xu, and Chen Shuling, the second son of Chen Xu, the king of Shixing of Southern Chen, was seriously injured on the spot with a hammer. At present, the Southern Chen court is facing the crisis of splitting.
God help me! Yang Jian closed the military report sent back by the former enemy of Jianghuai in the Chang'an Palace, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and sighed on his back.
However, when he proceeded to unfold the autographed note written by Gao Ying, the left servant who had delivered the military report to Chang'an at the same time, his brows tightened again.
Faced with the excellent situation of taking advantage of the civil strife in Nanchen to raise troops to attack Chen, Gao Ying actually suggested that Yang Jian take the initiative to withdraw his troops and return to Guanzhong in this recital.
There are two main reasons given by Gao Ying: first, the imperial court raised troops to attack Chen not long ago, and the division was famous, but there was no way, and it was recently heard that Yang Su was in the eastern capital Huairou Fuyuan, and recruited many children of the Jiangzuo family to abandon Chen Beiben, and now Nanchen has suffered a national funeral, and there is an ancient saying that "rites do not cut down funerals", if you step up the attack on Chen at this time, it will be a loss of morality, and it is very easy to stimulate the determination of the army and people of Nanchen to unite to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, so it is better to withdraw the army first in the name of "rites and funerals", in order to seek a long run; Second, the Turks invaded the south, Guanzhong was shaken, and 200,000 troops were mobilized to return to Guanzhong to face the enemy Turks, which could solve the urgent needs faced by the imperial court.
In recent days, Yang Jian stubbornly insisted on not transferring the army of Chen to the north, in fact, because he was unwilling to easily give up the unification of China that he had set up since he was a child, put an end to the division situation of nearly 300 years since the two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, and fulfilled the grand ambition of a generation to make the lord famous, but unexpectedly, his most trusted and relied on the left servant Gao Ying also persuaded him to withdraw from the attack on the Chen army and deal with the Turks exclusively, which could not but make Yang Jian feel both disappointed and a little helpless.
After a night of repeated thinking, Yang Jian finally adopted Gao Ying's suggestion and made timely adjustments to the strategy of using troops in the north and south: to attack Chen's army to the north and resist the Turks.
Shortly after Yang Jian issued the edict to transfer troops to the north, a sudden turmoil in the states of Guannei in the east of Chang'an made Yang Jian even more convinced of the correctness of Gao Ying's suggestion to transfer troops to the north.
Almost at the same time that the news of the death of Emperor Xuan of Southern Chen reached the middle of the Chang'an Dynasty, rebellions in the name of "Eighteen Arhats Killed Hu" occurred one after another in the prefectures of Guannei in the east of Chang'an, and overnight, in the capitals of Tonghua and Hua, there were thousands of bandits with weapons openly besieging the state government office, and even more, similar incidents also occurred in the vicinity of Luoyang, the eastern capital.
The vicious incidents of storming the prefecture offices in Kannai and the Kanto prefectures, which have always been regarded as the important places of Gyeonggi, have repeatedly occurred in the form of violent attacks on the prefecture offices, which cannot but arouse the great attention of Yang Jian.
He urgently appointed Yang Shangran, the new secretary of the Duzhi Dynasty, as the deposed ambassador of the Guannai Province, and coordinated the garrisons of the various state capitals in the Guannai to make every effort to eliminate the bandits, and at the same time, sent an order to Yang Su, the governor of the Eastern Capital, and strictly ordered him to assist Yang Jun, the newly appointed Qin king, to step up the suppression of bandits in the Kanto Prefectures. Even, in order to play a sufficient deterrent effect, Yang Jian also issued an edict to Yang Jun and Yang Su, all the rebels captured in the Kwantung Prefectures can be punished according to the original law for the time being. In other words, these bandits are not simply executed, but can be severely punished by torture such as Ling Chi, car splitting, and beheading, so as to deter their kind.
From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in this thrilling half a month, the only good news that Yang Jian received that made him happy came from the report sent back by Yang Guang of Hebei Province to recover Baidao Prefecture.
When Yang Jian took Yang Guang's retribution in his hand and watched it many times, he still couldn't enjoy it, so he immediately got up from the Wude Hall and rushed to Zhengyang Palace to see the queen Dugu Jialuo to announce the good news, wanting his beloved wife to share the joy in his heart at the moment.