Chapter 423: Emperor Qi Yang
"The king, Weichen is courageous, and I beg you to take charge of the artifact of the country and succeed to the throne for the sake of the livelihood of the people of Daqi and the livelihood of thousands of Li people. Otherwise, the people's will is not enough to be stable, and the soldiers are not willing to fight to the death, if they want to break the enemy and win, it can only be delusional! ”
As he spoke, Tang Yong knelt on the ground with a "poof", looked at Gao Yanzong solemnly and said: "King, in this world, only you can take on this great responsibility, and I hope you don't shirk!" ”
"Lord Tang, what are you doing, hurry up!" Gao Yanzong woke up, quickly got up, took three steps and two steps to Tang Yong, and said in a hurry while stretching out his hand to support him.
"King, if you can't adopt the opinion of the lower official, the lower official will not be able to kneel for a long time!" Tang Yong's legs seemed to have taken root, no matter how Gao Yanzong pulled, he still knelt down, his eyes stared at the latter tightly, and his eyes were full of solemnity and sincerity.
"Tang Yong, you are so bold, you have repeatedly spoken wildly, do you want to rebel?" Seeing that Tang Yong not only had no intention of getting up, but his voice became louder and louder, and his tone was very resolute, Gao Yanzong was shocked in his heart, his face suddenly gloomy, and he reprimanded angrily.
"You hurry up, for the sake of all these years you have worked hard for me, and for the sake of doing your best, this king will treat you as a momentary dizziness, and don't care about what you just said!" Gao Yanzong looked down at Tang Yong with a serious face, his tone was very deep, but his angry eyes flashed with a strange light from time to time.
"King, where is the broken country?" A touch of bitterness flashed on Tang Yong's face, and he looked at Gao Yanzong with emotion and grief: "Over the years, Your Majesty has been mediocre and unreasonable, absurd, favoring traitors and close ministers, framing loyal and good, and oppressing the people, resulting in chaos and resentment. Now that the Zhou ** army is pressing, he is afraid of the battle and flees, what virtue does such a cowardly and incompetent person have to take charge of the Great Qi Dynasty, and how can he inherit the supreme glory of the guardian Shenwu Emperor? ”
"Now although there are 80,000 soldiers and 300,000 people in Jinyang City, the morale is low and the people's hearts are floating, but the Zhou people have 100,000 soldiers, and there are more Zhou lord Yuwen Yong to drive the expedition in person, and the fighting spirit is extremely high, and in the long run, our army will be defeated!"
"Even if you are lucky enough to win, according to today's temperament, how many more times can this dilapidated and precarious Great Qi Empire block the attacks of the Zhou people? The king is very much the enemy bloodline of Emperor Shenwu, does he have to watch the ancestors spend countless efforts and work hard to give away the country like this? ”
"King, the country is in trouble, and the husband is responsible! As a member of the royal family, it is incumbent upon you to restore the dynasty and revitalize the empire! ”
Because of excitement, Tang Yong's voice was a little trembling and distorted, his eyes were slightly red, and the light of hope that burst out of his eyes made his heart shake.
Gao Yanzong stood in a daze, his face was cloudy, and his expression was constantly changing. It seems that he was deeply shocked by Tang Yong's sad and sincere words, like a morning bell and a dusk drum, and fell into contemplation.
It is true that no one who was born in the royal family would not be moved by the throne of the Ninety-Five Supreme. It's just that Gao Yanzong just thought about it secretly in the past, until Gao Si, the king of Nan'an, rebelled, and the rumors of "peace in the world" spread among the people, and when Gao Wei rose to kill him, he had a sense of crisis, and Gao Yanzong had a rebellion. And when that mysterious force appeared, Gao Yanzong's ambition hidden in his heart grew like mushrooms after the rain.
Gao Yanzong wants to seek power and usurp the throne, what he does is more to be able to live and enjoy the supreme power and glory, if it is said to protect the inheritance of his ancestors, there may be a little reason, but it is by no means the most important.
Tang Yong proposed to let Gao Yanzong's yellow robe be added to the throne and become a treasure, which naturally fell into the latter's arms, which made him overjoyed. It's just that Gao Yanzong has always dared not reveal the meaning in his heart, and the time is really not ripe enough.
Now, with the Zhou army attacking the border, Gao Wei has made mistakes every time, has been defeated repeatedly, and has fled again and again, causing the Qi army to waver, the people to panic, and his prestige has plummeted. At this difficult juncture, Gao Wei left, and it was the time when he, Gao Yanzong, stood up and turned the tide. As long as he can repel Yu Wenyong, then his prestige among the people will naturally be unmatched, and it is logical to replace him with Gao Wei.
Just when Gao Yanzong was holding back the excitement in his heart, forced himself to calm down, and was about to refuse reservedly, there was a sudden sound of messy and hurried footsteps outside the house. Gao Yanzong and Tang Yong looked at the door at the same time, and saw more than a dozen people suddenly breaking in outside the house, all of them dressed in military uniforms, and the evil aura on their bodies made the air in the room freeze almost instantly.
"General, Gao Wei abandoned me and waited, how can we kill the enemy for him again? If the general does not become the Son of Heaven, the last general would rather go out of the city and surrender the Zhou army tonight than serve an incompetent and stupid monarch like Gao Wei! ”
Helan Leopard was born in the army and has always been loyal, but tonight he treats him as a pig and dog, and kills him at will, and Gao Wei's cowardly style of fleeing without a fight has dashed the last glimmer of hope in the former's heart. Even when he spoke at this time, he no longer cared about it at all, and his eyes looked directly at Gao Yanzong, without the slightest fear of dodging.
"General, it is imperative to scrap the old and create the new! If you still have compassion and pity for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fought for the Great Qi River, please ascend the throne and succeed to the throne, we will fight to the death to protect Jinyang! ”
The one who spoke was a middle-aged Hu general, wearing a suit of armor that had long lost its luster, with yellow pupils, and his resolute face looked so fierce and vicious, which was intimidating. This person is Mo Duo Lou Jingxian, the king of Qichang, although the title is inherited from his father, and his own merits are far less prominent than Dugu Yongye and Gao Changgong, but the blood of the nomads in his bones still makes him very brave, and he is also a rare fierce general in today's Qi army camp.
"Weichen see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Tang Yong saw that Gao Yanzong was still a little hesitant, his eyes flashed, and he bowed his head immediately and said loudly.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
When Helan Leopard and other senior generals of the Qi Army heard this, they all knelt on the ground and said in unison solemnly and respectfully, the heroic and loud voice shook the roof, and it spread far away.
Since it was what everyone expected, Gao Yanzong's heart was finally settled, and a faint smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. However, he did not get carried away, but looked at everyone with a look of embarrassment, and said helplessly: "When the national disaster is at the head, this king is naturally duty-bound, thanks to you for not giving up, and the king is in charge of power, and this king is here to thank you first!" If we can defeat the Zhou army this time and protect Jinyang, you will all be the heroes of my Great Qi, and I will not forget your contributions! ”
"My emperor is wise, we will serve to the death!" Tang Yong and the others bowed again.
"Flat! Everyone, love Qing Ping! Gao Yanzong's eyes flashed, and then he said majestically, but there was an extremely satisfied feeling in his heart.
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On October 23rd, King Gao Yanzong of Ande and a cadre of civil ministers and military generals in Jinyang, dignitaries and dignitaries jointly deposed the old emperor Gao Wei, and issued a document to the world to denounce it, which counted Gao Wei's arrogance and luxury, weakness and incompetence, spoiling and treacherous people, framing Zhongliang and other ten major crimes, and gave him the name of Yang.
On the same day, Gao Yanzong ascended the throne and became emperor, changed the name of the year to "Dechang", and granted amnesty to the world. Tang Yong, the king of Jinchang, was appointed prime minister by Gao Yanzong, as the greatest contributor to this incident, and his ability was sufficient to be qualified for this position. The five people of Qichang King Mo Duo Lou Jingxian, Shuyang King and A Ganzi, Duan Chang, the general of the Right Guard, Kaifu Yi and the three divisions Han Guhu, and Helan Leopard were in charge of all the armed forces in Bingzhou.
Originally, Gao Yanzong was worried that Gao Xiaoheng, the king of Guangning, would compete with him, after all, the latter was more talented and had a better reputation than him. It's just that I don't know if Gao Xiaoheng was killed by Yuwen Yong a few days ago and returned defeated, lost his armor and abandoned his armor, he was already cold, and when Gao Wei escaped from the city last night, he also dressed up and fled to Yecheng together in the chaos.
Although Gao Yanzong's enthronement ceremony was very simple because of the urgency of the war, this was an exciting news for Jinyang and even the entire Northern Qi Dynasty, especially the low morale in Jinyang City suddenly rose, and the atmosphere that was suppressed because of the war also dissipated a lot. What's even more gratifying is that Gao Yanzong gave an order to recruit troops, but the young men in Jinyang City came spontaneously and enthusiastically joined the army, and the high enthusiasm made Gao Yanzong very happy.
Knowing that the crisis outside the city had not been eliminated, Gao Yanzong did not get carried away, while lowering his posture to comfort the soldiers and civilians in the city, he opened the treasury and took out most of the gold, silver, money and grain to reward the soldiers of the three armies, and at the same time copied the wealth and land of more than a dozen eunuchs and distributed them to the people in the city, and even his private property was donated a lot.
This approach is naturally very happy, won the unanimous praise of the people of Jinyang City, the scattered people's hearts quickly condensed, and the morale in the city became stronger and stronger. Yuwen Yong originally wanted to launch a full-scale attack, but after feeling the changes in the city, he couldn't help but cancel the order to attack, after all, now that the Qi people have the same hatred and hatred, their morale has risen sharply, and the price to be paid for attacking the city at this time must be huge.
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"Your Majesty, Gao Yanzong is so bold and reckless, not only establishing himself as the emperor, but also issuing a document to denounce you! Now that officials everywhere are ready to move, they no longer respect and fear you as much as before! The right prime minister, Gao Anaqiu, looked at Gao Wei worriedly and said.
They escaped from Jinyang on the front foot, and when they heard the news of Gao Yanzong's accession to the throne as emperor, everyone was stunned at first, and then they were very angry. Gao Wei was called the emperor, and they, the favored vassals of Gao Wei, were naturally hit hard, and their industry in Jinyang was lost as a result.
"These bastards, damn it! The hateful Gao Yanzong had known that I had killed him in the first place, otherwise where would such a disaster come from? You must know that Jinyang City fell into his hands, and I would rather give it to Yuwen Yong's horseman! Gao Wei clenched his fists hatefully, his face full of anger, and said through gritted teeth.
Gao Anaqiu nodded and agreed: "What Your Majesty said is very true, Gao Yanzong's crime is really unforgivable, when Your Majesty returns to the palace, he can naturally raise troops to get rid of all the rebellious ministers and thieves!" ”
"Gao Yanzong, Mu Tiva, I trust them so much, but they are betraying the Lord for glory, and I will never spare them!" Gao Wei looked at the direction of Jinyang, and his eyes were very cold.