Chapter 18 Thirty Years of Blood in the Past, Now I am the Emperor of Tang (18)
In the Chongwen Palace, Li Congjing sat behind the imperial case and carefully flipped through the book "Disposition Language". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Today, "Disposition Language" is no longer a book, because the content is similar to that of Japanese dramas, and it itself has increased to several books.
Because the world has not yet been completely pacified, there is also a more detailed introduction to the various separatist forces in the "Disposition Language".
What caught Li Congjing's eye now was the content about Lingnan.
The sunlight passed through the layers of eaves of the palace city, through the windows and doors, and fell into the main hall, spreading on the floor of the hall, and in the pillars of light, fine dust danced and flew lightly.
Li Congjing put down the book in his hand, looked out the window, and pondered.
After a young age, Li Congjing picked up the jade pen and wrote a paragraph on an excerpt.
The number of words is not much, only a few words:
"Lingnan officials and generals, if there is no crime of encroaching on the people and dereliction of duty, treat them well, and there is no need to escort them to Luoyang; If there are those who can continue to be officials, they will be ordered to report to Luoyang; If Liu Yan is willing to surrender, he will give it to Luoyang. ”
The edict was written, and Jing Xinmo, who was waiting on the side, respectfully took it and sent it to the door of the main hall, and then passed it to the door of the province by a special person.
It's past noon, and it's time for dinner. For Li Congjing, he usually doesn't like to be extravagant at every meal, because he has the habit of later generations, so this meal at noon is often used in the side hall.
Concubine Ren Wanru came uninvited at this time, she was followed by several palace maids, holding a tray in her hand, and there was food and drink on the tray, "Your Majesty, it's past half of noon, it's time to eat." ”
Li Congjing put down the jade pen, stood up and smiled: "Then let's use it together." ”
The palace is a hierarchical place, although Li Congjing doesn't care about many things in his heart, but the way of etiquette, the etiquette of humility, is related to order and people's hearts, and if you don't respect it, there will be chaos, and he has never been lazy.
There is no other reason, just because Ren Wanru is about to be crowned queen.
After eating, Ren Wanru was not bad, and she was about to leave, Li Congjing kept her, and the two walked outside the hall for a while, and then let each other leave. Before leaving, Li Congjing said: "I have asked people to repair the East Palace, if there is no accident, after Lingnan is pacified, you will be crowned queen, and stay until tomorrow spring, which is the time to canonize Zheng'er as the prince." ”
Ren Wanru cried with joy, Li Congjing pulled her and didn't let her bow down, "You and I have suffered a lot over the years, your status was set from the beginning, and no one can threaten you." In addition, the early establishment of the East Palace is conducive to the early stability of the national government and people's hearts, and I am not Xuanzong, so I will not worry about the establishment of the crown prince, and I will become an idle person. ”
Xuanzong, who is known as the little Taizong, did not set up a prince during his lifetime, and when the ministers advised, they all gave him a sentence of "If you establish a prince, I will become an idler" and pushed back. During the reign of Xuanzong, although the Tang Dynasty had the image of Zhongxing, but after Xuanzong, it was Yizong who ascended the throne, and he played Xuanzong's political achievements badly, and the Tang Dynasty declined greatly, and it was no longer possible to clean it up until the Huangchao Rebellion.
Panyu.
After the Tang army completed the assembly in Panyu, the first thing to solve was the 30,000 Lingnan soldiers and horses outside Panyu City. Only by first breaking through the camp of 30,000 soldiers and horses and defeating them can the Tang army successfully attack Panyu City.
The Lingnan military camp is only about five miles away from Panyu City, and it itself is a small Panyu City.
The Lingnan Army in the camp did not plan to take the initiative to attack the Tang army, only when the Tang army attacked Panyu City, they would attack to contain the Tang army, of course, if the Tang army attacked the camp first, Panyu City would also send troops to rescue.
Guo Wei convened a meeting of generals to discuss the corresponding tactics and deploy troops.
In this way, three days after the Tang army camped outside Panyu City, it officially started the offensive against Panyu.
The morning light is faint. When the red sun illuminated the earth and the light dispelled the black curtain step by step, outside the Lingnan military camp, the iron armor of the Tang Army was already neatly arrayed. The phalanx with the command unit is connected into a large array of 5,000 people, and then connected into a sea of tens of thousands of people, in a clear and seamless order.
In front of the ironclad formation, two hundred guns were lined up in four rows, and the gunners were busy behind each gun, and the iron balls in the wooden boxes were carried out one by one.
On both wings, the Tang army's elite cavalry formation was neat, the horses were bowed, and the cavalry was slaughtered.
When the Lingnan officers and men in the barracks saw the neatly arranged artillery arrays in front of the barracks, their faces all changed drastically. Although the sun shone on the body, it made people feel a chill to the bone, and what shrouded everyone's hearts was no longer the cloud of war, but the black tide of the end.
When the command flag was waved down and the artillery flicked its arms with the first tooth-squeaking sound, the Lingnan military camp ushered in a wanton and indiscriminate bombardment.
In Panyu City, Wang Yanjun was drunk in the room of the post house.
Chen Jinfeng pushed open the door and walked in, frowning involuntarily. The room was filled with the pungent smell of alcohol, which seemed to be mixed with the smell of vomit. Wang Yanjun sat on the ground with his back to the sunlight of the window, he was obviously in the light, but his whole person was like a black thing.
Rice and wine jugs were everywhere, as if no one had cleaned them up for a day or two, Wang Yanjun hung his head, already asleep, his hair was messy, like a pile of weeds. When Chen Jinfeng approached, he smelled a clear stench, and he didn't know how many times Wang Yanjun hadn't washed.
At this moment, there was a loud bang, followed by thunder, Wang Yanjun shook his body in fright, woke up, and looked around in a panic, "What happened?" Come on, come on! ”
Chen Jinfeng hurriedly went to help Wang Yanjun, and before he could say a word, tears flowed first. I'm afraid only she knows that she didn't shed tears for Wang Yanjun, but because of her own anxiety, "Your Majesty ......"
The thunder outside the city did not stop, Wang Yanjun trembled all over, his pupils widened and he looked around in a hurry, "Why didn't anyone come?" Where are my courtiers? Where are the people of my Great Min...... These rebel courtiers, if they dare not come to see them, they are not afraid of punishing their nine clans? Come! What about my forbidden army? Forbidden Army ......"
"Your Majesty......" Wang Yanjun did not bring Chen Jinfeng a sense of security, but intensified the uneasiness in her heart.
As soon as she walked to the door, Li Chunyan was stunned for a long time when she saw this scene in the house. In the end, she did not enter the house, but turned and ran away as fast as she could.
The inn was full of panicked people, and there were many people gathered in the courtyard, all of whom looked up in the direction of the sound of the cannons, their faces anxious and frightened, and they all craned their necks and kept standing on tiptoe, as if they could see something.
Li Chunyan finally found Wang Jipeng, and the two homeless people hugged their heads and cried, as if they were tightly protecting each other's bodies and grasping the harbor of refuge.
"Your Highness, you take the slave away, take the slave out of here and go to a place where there is no Tang Army......" Li Chunyan cried miserably.
Wang Jipeng said sadly: "The outside of the city is full of Tang troops, and the city gate has been closed, how can you and I escape?" The world is all in the Tang Dynasty, and there are Tang troops everywhere, where can you and I escape to with such an identity......"
The two desperate people, afraid that they have long forgotten their previous honor in Fujian, are now even more lonely than the birds in the forest.
The people of Panyu City heard the sound of cannons outside the city at first, but they did not react, they all ran out of the door and ran to the street to look around, and for a time the streets and alleys of Panyu City were full of people. When they knew that it was the Tang Army attacking the Lingnan Army, they all hurriedly ran back to the house, closed the doors and windows tightly, hid in the house and shivered, and never dared to come out again. This makes Panyu seem to have become an empty city again.
After a long time without hearing the sound of fighting at the head of the city, some bold people went out of the door, and stood in the courtyards and alleys to look out, and some of the brave ones climbed up to the roof with ladders to observe the movement of the city. However, except for the Lingnan soldiers who were like the great enemy, they were destined to see nothing.
From time to time, there were officers and men of the Lingnan Army running through the streets, and the sound of footsteps rumbled, which shocked people's hearts even more panicked.
After that, shouts of killing and fierce fighting came from outside the city, and the sound grew louder and denser. At this time, the people knew that the two armies were fighting, and many people hurriedly ran back to their houses, gathering with their families with sad faces and weeping uneasiness.
There are those ruffians and hooligans, who take the opportunity to make trouble everywhere, those who love money grab money, and those who have revenge take revenge.
Finally, the Tang army began to attack the city of Panyu.
The sound of fierce fighting clearly reached the palace.
The palace maids all gathered together to cry and cry, and Xie Yiqing was standing alone in front of the window, facing the deep courtyard. Her gaze fell on Xiao Xiaoluo's wood, with intense sadness, but surprisingly not too much panic.
The wind rolls up the curtains, and also rolls up the clothes. The rice paper on the bookcase rattled, and the ink in the inkstone had already solidified. All these things are Xie Yiqing's background, and she always seems to be out of the way, standing alone.
On this day and night, Xie Yiqing did not close his eyes, except for standing quietly in front of the window, he was writing on the bookcase.
For Xie Yiqing, whose life is as calm as water and like a pool of stagnant water, everything in front of her is nothing worth nostalgic, and if she has not been treated well by life, she does not care if she loses life itself.
Life may have many colors, but for each person, there is actually only one color of life, and that is the color she has.
The next day, when it was dark, Xie Yiqing finally received the news that in the afternoon, Liu Yan erected a flag at the head of the city, led the Lingnan civil and military officials, and lowered the Tang army and the Tang Dynasty.
For Xie Yiqing, the backwater-like life has finally had twists and turns, and there have been changes.
This was something she had secretly looked forward to countless times.
But when the change really happened, it was not as Xie Yiqing wished.
It's more painful than it is.
Many days later, Xie Yiqing, who became a prisoner, saw Liu Yan again in the Tang army camp, when she was with many concubines in the palace. Liu Yan still didn't look at her much, just like before. Even if the mountains and rivers are overturned now, and the family and country have different surnames, they can't change this.
Xie Yiqing was still in the Tang army camp and saw Wang Yanjun, who was lost and depressed, Chen Jinfeng, who had no color, and Li Chunyan, who seemed to be trembling all the time.
Many days later, Xie Yiqing and the people she had seen left Panyu in the "escort" of the Tang Army's armor, boarded the ships of the Tang Army's naval division, and headed north. Xie Yiqing couldn't stay in the same boat with Liu Yan, and all the concubines and beauties in the harem couldn't stay in the same boat with Liu Yan.
They no longer belong to Liu Yan. From the moment Panyu was occupied by the Tang army, everything in Lingnan no longer belonged to Liu Yan, and even had nothing to do with him.
In the winter of the first year of Dingding, Xie Yiqing came to Luoyang, the capital of God.
What will happen next, she knows, she doesn't know.