Chapter 221 Liu Wu and Zhou's soldiers besieged Jinyang, and Wang Shichong usurped Sui and became emperor

Because Chu Luo Khan had just succeeded to the throne and needed to return to the royal tent to eradicate dissidents and consolidate his position, he did not want to have too much entanglement with the Tang Dynasty at this time.

However, when Li Yuan learned that Shibi Khan had come to invade the faction, he sent Gao Jing, the right-hand general of the Turkic envoy, to Fengzhou with "gifts" and after hearing that Shibi had died, he ordered these "gifts" to be handed over to the local warehouse, intending not to give them to the Turks again.

After hearing the news, Chu Luo Khan felt very angry and planned to continue the invasion, and finally Zhang Changxun, the governor of Fengzhou, asked Gao Jing to bring these "gifts" out of the fortress as a gift from the imperial court to Shibi's funeral.

However, although the Turks retreated, Liu Wuzhou and Liang Shidu chose to continue to attack, Liang Shidu's attack target was still Lingzhou, while Liu Wuzhou's target was Jinyang, the land of Longxing of the Tang Dynasty.

Liang Shidu invaded Lingzhou, and was repelled by Shi Yang, the governor of Lingzhou of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Yin, who was not in charge of this matter, stepped out in person.

In the case of the annexation state, the situation is not so good.

Li Yuanji asked the chariot general Zhang Da to use troops to fight Liu Wuzhou, Zhang Da excused himself and said that the troops were too small to go, but Li Yuanji forced him to send troops, Zhang Da had no choice but to take 8,000 soldiers out of Jinyang.

When Zhang Da led the men and horses to about fifty miles away from the enemy camp, suddenly a loud noise sounded all around, and then a team of men and horses was killed, and the leader rode a snow-treading black horse, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he rushed towards Zhang Dajun like a killing god.

Zhang Da's fighting spirit was not high, and when he was suddenly attacked, everyone had no intention of fighting and fled in all directions, Zhang Da saw this, because he was very angry with Li Yuanji in his heart, so he no longer resisted, and led the troops to surrender to the enemy general.

This sudden killing of Liu Wuzhou's general, is for Li Yin has several sides of the relationship with Wei Chi Gong, the snow riding horse, or Li Yin gifted, this time Liu Wu Zhou went south, since it is rare to let the good fighting Wei Chi Gong go along.

Wei Chigong accepted Zhang Da's surrender and brought him back to Huangsnake Ridge to meet Liu Wuzhou, who attached great importance to him, because he knew that Zhang Da had been in Bingzhou for several years and had contacts with many officials, which could be a great help for the southern invasion.

On the second day of the fifth month, Zhang Da led Liu Wuzhou to attack and capture Yuci. Yuci is just east of Jinyang, less than 100 miles away from Jinyang, and it is just around the corner, so Jinyang was shocked when he learned the news.

On May 10, Liu Wuzhou besieged Jinyang, and Li Yuanji led tens of thousands of Tang troops to resist while sending fast horses to Chang'an for help.

The people of the Tang Dynasty in Jinyang are not less than Liu Wuzhou, and Jinyang City is extremely strong, if Li Yin, Li Shimin or other people are guarding Jinyang, how can they be afraid of him Liu Wuzhou?

However, at this time, Li Yuanji was obviously frightened, so he hurriedly sent someone to Chang'an for help.

After all, Liu Wuzhou only has tens of thousands of horses, and compared with Xue Ju, Li Rail, Zhu Ji and others, who have more than 100,000 people at every turn, their troops are much weaker, so in the eyes of many people in Chang'an, they are only regarded as figures like Liang Shidu, so when this news came, it did not attract much attention from the officials and people of Chang'an.

Many people even regard it as an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and Li Zhongwen, who is a civil official, immediately took the initiative to ask Li Yuan to lead troops to rescue Jinyang.

Li Yuan agreed to Li Zhongwen's request and ordered him to be the head of the march, and together with Jiang Baoyi, the general of Zuo Wuwei, he led 30,000 troops out of Tongguan and went north to rescue.

Just when the situation in the state was changing, Wang Shichong's usurpation of the throne was almost carried out.

The Taoist priest Huan Fa heir of the Eastern Capital dedicated the book "Confucius's Closed Room" to Wang Shichong, saying that Wang Shichong, who was the prime minister, should replace Sui as the son of heaven. Wang Shichong was overjoyed and appointed Huan Fahei as the counselor.

Wang Shichong netted all kinds of birds, wrote the cloth and tied it to the bird's neck, claiming to be ordered by the sky to let it go. Some people were offered these birds, and they were also knighted.

Duan Da ordered in the name of the emperor to give Wang Shichong special courtesy, and Wang Shichong made three concessions. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty persuaded him to be emperor and set up a seat in the capital hall.

Su Wei was old and frail at this time, and when he arrived in Luoyang after the Jiangdu Rebellion, Wang Shichong still let him speak.

Su Wei was difficult to support at this time, Wang Shichong wanted to use him to show off to the ministers and the people because Su Wei was an important minister of the Sui Dynasty. On the day of receiving the special gift, he helped Su Wei to the front of the hundred officials, and then sat down facing south to receive the visit.

Wang Shichong ordered Chang Shi Weijie, Yang Xu and others and Dr. Taichang Kong Yingda to formulate the etiquette of the Chan Dynasty, and sent Duan Da, Yun Dingxing and more than a dozen people into the palace to tell the emperor and the lord: "The will of God is not eternal and unchanging, and now King Zheng is highly virtuous, and I hope that His Majesty will follow the practice of Tang Yao and Yu Shun." ”

The emperor who was sitting on the couch couldn't help but put his knees together, propped up the low table and said angrily: "The world, it is the world of Gaozu, if Sui Yun is not dead, this kind of talk should not be mentioned, if the will of God has changed, there is no need for any Zen concession!" You are either the old ministers of your ancestors, or you are in the high position of the third duke, since you say such things, what else can I expect! ”

The emperor's expression was grim, and all the ministers in the court were in a cold sweat, so they didn't dare to mention it again, and the emperor was in the court, crying at the queen mother, he knew that he could only drag on for a while, and in the end he still couldn't escape Wang Shichong's grasp.

Soon after, Wang Shichong sent someone to the emperor and said: "Now that the sea is not yet stable, it is necessary to appoint an older person as the monarch, and when the world is at peace, you will definitely publicly restore Your Majesty's throne, and you will never violate your original oath." ”

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Wang Shichong saw that he was almost ready, and regardless of whether the emperor agreed or not, he claimed to have been ordered by the emperor to be in Zheng, and then sent his brother Wang Shiyun to put the emperor under house arrest in Hanliang Palace.

Wang Shichong sent generals to lead troops to clean up the palace city, and sent warlocks to use peach soup and reed fire to hold a ceremony in the palace to remove evil and pray for blessings.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, Wang Shichong entered the palace with a full set of emperor's cars, that is, the emperor's throne, and named the country Zheng, and then granted amnesty to the world and changed the year name to enlightenment.

Subsequently, Wang Shichong appointed his son Wang Xuanying as the crown prince, Wang Xuanshu as the king of Han, and the rest of the brothers and nineteen members of the same clan were crowned kings. The emperor is the prince of Luguo.

He also appointed Su Wei as the Taishi, Duan Da as the Situ, Yun Dingxing as the Taiwei, Zhang Wei as the Sikong, Yang Xu as the Nayan, Wei Jie as the internal history order, Wang Long as the left servant, Wei Ji as the right servant, Wang Shiyun as the king of Qi as the Shangshu order, and the rest of the original Sui Dynasty officials were also awarded official positions.

At this point, the rule of the Sui Dynasty was finally completely erased from this land.

Wang Shichong's process of ascending the throne is worse than Li Yuan's, Li Yuan's entire process of Zen concession, all kinds of etiquette are fully done, which makes people unable to find fault, but Wang Shichong seems to be much rougher.

As it turns out, this is a very scandalous approach.

Later, Wang Shichong appointed Lu Deming, the assistant teacher of Guozijian, as the teacher of the King of Han, and ordered Wang Xuan, the king of Han, to come to his home to worship the teacher.

Lu Deming felt that it was a shame, he took the laxative croton powder, and said that he was sick in bed, Wang Xuanren entered the room and knelt in front of the bed, Lu Deming vented diarrhea in front of Wang Xuan, and did not say a word to him from beginning to end.