Chapter 594 Pressurizes Gao Shun
Seeing off the 10,000-year-old princess, Li Dao, Guo Yan and the others were finally relieved, looking at such a powerful guard, it made them feel terrified; In particular, Xu Chu's domineering eyes were more pressure than Lu Bu left them at the beginning.
The hearts of Huang Wan and the others also sank, if they can maintain the status quo of the court, and if the court does not perish in their hands, they can be regarded as having fulfilled the heart of a courtier.
Sending off her young son, Queen Fushou was sad in her heart and cried a lot, but she was powerless to change the status quo.
Liu Xie had to continue to curry favor with Guo Yan and others, and gave the wine sent to the palace by the eldest princess of Wan Nian, and gave Guo Yan and Li Dao five altars each, Huang Wan, Liu Yu and others each one altar, and he had less than five altars left.
In order to satisfy everyone's desire to read books, Liu Xie selected one book from each of the books and displayed it in the small hall on the inside of the palace gate, so that everyone in the city could come to read it, but it was not allowed to be taken out of the palace or damaged.
You Heng immediately sent a secret letter to Gao Shun, reporting on the affairs of the eldest princess in Changsha City, especially emphasizing that the eldest princess took away the young prince and changed her name to Feng He.
Born into a family with a proud personality, you are very prejudiced against Gao Shun, so you are only fulfilling his mission as an emissary.
When the eldest princess returned to Luoyang, Feng Yong also secretly reported Feng He's affairs to Gao Shun.
Gao Shun received information from all sides, and there was nothing strange about it; He didn't pay much attention to Feng He's affairs, but it just showed that Liu Xie didn't trust him.
Subsequently, Gao Shun has been thinking about the barbarians outside the Nanzhong region and Pingzhou.
In the end, it was decided that Guo Jia would deal with the barbarians in the southern and central regions, but he could not be radical and continue to adopt the strategy of gradual integration that they had implemented before.
As for the barbarians outside Pingzhou, Gao Shun was ready to let Huang Zhong gradually exterminate them from after spring, and constantly squeeze the living space of the barbarians to the north.
At present, there are still many Xianbei people in the north, but they have left the plains and hid in the deep mountains or ravines, and it is difficult to send a large army to encircle and annihilate them, so they can only send out small units to practice guerrilla tactics and gradually consume their strength.
Whether it was Xu Rong, Sun Cheng, or Huang Zhong, they all carried out Gao Shun's orders well, sealed them tightly, and banned trade.
However, this can only cure the surface, but it cannot eradicate the barbarians outside Pingzhou; He pondered for so many years, but he didn't come up with a good plan; And Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu and others have no feasible plan.
Unexpectedly, he didn't wait for him to give an order, but at this time, Cheng Li united many military advisors and generals to jointly put pressure on Gao Shun, wanting to urge Gao Shun to become emperor.
Many people have followed Gao Shun for more than 30 years, and the veterans have retired several batches, and they are also old, and many generals are facing the situation of retirement, especially Cheng Li, who is now in his 70s, which is an advanced age, if Gao Shun is not the emperor, they will not be able to get dividends and benefit future generations.
At the beginning, Gao Shun abolished all the feudal states, and they guessed that Gao Shun cleared the way for the emperor, but now it seems that they are all wrong, and Gao Shun has never made up his mind to be the emperor.
When Cheng Li learned that Fang Liang asked Liu Hua to restore the fief, he lost his temper with Fang Liang.
In his opinion, the gap between Liu Hua and the other three princesses who kept the fief was too big, and it was child's play to restore the fief for him.
After Gao Shun restored Liu Hua's fiefdom, Cheng Li was also quite dissatisfied with Gao Shun's attitude, so he began to contact several other military advisors, especially Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Guo Jia, Lu Su, and Jia Xu.
Gao Shun's current situation is different from the situation encountered by Cao Cao in history, when Cao Cao still had opponents such as Jiangdong and Shu Han externally, and a large number of loyal Han officials internally, which was extremely unstable, and the barbarians in the Quartet had not been eliminated, so he did not dare to call himself emperor at that time; The situation faced by Gao Shun is much better, there is no opponent in it, the strength of the big clan is weak, the well-known big clan has been eliminated one after another, there is no opponent, and the Quartet has been appeased.
When Gao Shun allowed the eldest princess to go south to Changsha with great fanfare, Cheng Li and others were even more angry.
Jia Xu is now close to 70 years old, although he did not take the initiative, but he still supports Gao Shun as emperor in his heart, with his current status, if Gao Shun is emperor, he can get the greatest benefits.
Fu Zhu and Tian Feng also have similar ideas; Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia had a proposal to support Gao Shun as emperor a long time ago, but Gao Shun did not adopt it.
For Lu Su, he supported Gao Shun as emperor, he was not a loyal Han; In history, he was the first to support Sun Quan as emperor.
Guo Tu felt that if Gao Shun did not become emperor as soon as possible, the Guo family would be busy in vain; The talent gap is a major dilemma faced by the Guo family.
Only Chen Gong, who was far away in the Western Regions, was very angry at Gao Shun's persecution of the family, but he could not do anything about it, not to mention that he could not affect the situation in the Central Plains, that is, all the officials in the Western Regions were loyal to Gao Shun, he could command, but it was impossible to lead them against Gao Shun.
Therefore, after several people reached a consensus, they actively contacted the military attaches in various places to consult their opinions.
In fact, the military attachΓ© has long been impatient, and the military advisors condescended to ask each other, how could they not support it? Besides, Gao Shun now only stipulates the retirement age of Zhonglang General and Taishou and below the level of officials, and does not involve higher-level officials, if Gao Shun is the emperor, there will inevitably be many high-level positions, then they will be progressive, no need to retire early.
The military Chinese quickly agreed that they must help from behind, so they jointly applied force to Gao Shun.
Gao Shun didn't expect such a sudden thing to happen, so he immediately recruited Li Qiang, Ma Gui, and Sun Cheng to negotiate.
Cao Shan replaced Gao Wei as the pastor of Guangzhou, and Gao Wei set Buqigang as his permanent base.
Even Huang Zhong agreed with him as emperor, but he didn't expect such an honest person to also have utilitarian thoughts.
Gao Shun asked, "What do you think about this?" β
Li Qiang said dissatisfiedly: "Lord, the whole world has been defeated, is it difficult to be the emperor?" β
Ma Gui said: "The lord should follow the trend!" β
Gao Shun asked, "Then how to place the imperial court and the emperor?" β
Ma Guidao: "Lord, this is not simple, just canonize him as the Duke of Changsha." β
Li Qiang smiled: "Haha, it's so good, even palaces, temples and other buildings are ready-made." β
Sun Chengdao: "My lord, judging from the fact that the princess brought back the prince for ten thousand years, the emperor has realized that the lord is going to be the emperor, he has made the worst plan, and he is prepared to die. β
Ma Gui supported: "Yes, this does expose the fear of the current emperor, and we can use this to blackmail him to give up his status, on the condition that he be canonized as the Duke of Changsha." β
Several people discussed for a while, and gradually sorted out a reasonable idea.
Gao Shun estimated that it was because Cheng Li, Jia Xu and others were old, including those generals, who wanted to reap the fruits of victory, and if he continued to delay, it would definitely cause more unnecessary trouble, and it seemed that he was still too weak and indecisive.
So he ordered: "Order, Cheng Li, Lu Su, Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Liu Ye and Guo Jia and other six people will come to Yecheng to discuss quickly." β
Jia Xu and Xi Zhi learned that Gao Shun had recalled the six major military divisions stationed abroad, and they knew that Gao Shun had the intention of becoming emperor, so that it would save a lot of trouble, and there was no need to unite administrative officials from all over the country to put pressure on Gao Shun.
As a result, Jia Xu and Xi Zhicai began to plan many matters for Gao Shun to become emperor in advance, hoping that after the military advisers returned, they would discuss them together at the meeting.
Jia Xu also took the initiative to work.