Chapter 166: Night Talk (Part II)

It has only been only a year since Gao Guang's defeat and reduction of his nationality, and Peng Chaodong was transferred to the governor of Liaodong when Gao Guang's army was defeated and his nationality was reduced. For Gao Guang, Peng Chaodong can not be clear.

Peng Chaodong had always been angry about the defeat of the Zhao Empire in the Zhao Liao War in the thirteenth year of Zhenyuan, and he secretly calculated whether it was possible to reverse the defeat if he had been in command of the war.

After several calculations, Peng Chaodong finally had to admit that if this war was commanded by him, it would definitely be lost. The Manshu people have worked hard for decades and two generations to conquer Liaodong, how can the Zhao Empire win in a hurry?

However, although the Zhao Empire will undoubtedly lose this war, if the boss makes a slightly rational decision not to take the initiative to fight, but chooses to stick to it, the Zhao Empire will definitely not be defeated so badly, and the territory lost in Liaodong will not be so much. The key to the defeat was that Gao Guang finally chose to take the initiative to fight, and almost exhausted all the northern expedition of the town army in Liaodong, and the failure of the Northern Expedition was not in the failure itself, but in the fact that the Northern Expedition consumed the new force of Dazhao in Liaodong, and this loss was difficult to make up for in a short period of time.

The Liaodong Town Army is one of the most elite and capable town armies in all the town armies of Dazhao, and the destruction of the Liaodong Town Army is a heavy blow to the empire, and the empire is greatly damaged.

Behind this defeat, there is a shadow at work, that is, the empire's cabinet chief assistant Xu Hongqian, behind this shadow is the crux and grief of the empire for a long time, it is not difficult to summarize, just two simple words: party struggle.

Party strife is a malaise that has existed in the empire since its founding, and this problem has always haunted the empire's heart, and it is a problem in the empire's heart. The monarchs of the empire have hated party strife, and have repeatedly severely punished the formation of parties for personal gain, but they have been repeatedly prohibited. Unbridled partisanship has repeatedly dragged the empire into the abyss of hell, and the victims of partisanship are innumerable. Gao Guang is just one of the victims.

It is a pity that Gao Guang is a member of the second auxiliary party, and finally he was forced to rush the northern expedition under pressure, if Gao Guang did not have the shackles of party strife, he could not avoid defeat, but he could have avoided a fiasco.

Emperor Zhao had a strong national foundation, and he could still bear one or two failures, but when the rivers were declining, he couldn't afford a fiasco like that in the thirteenth year of Zhenyuan.

"If the Governor was Gao Guang at the time, would he do better than Gao Guang?"

He Tengxiao stopped and asked Peng Chaodong.

The dim light reflected Peng Chaodong's figure, his figure was projected on the ground, looking at his figure, Peng Chaodong thought about it, and shook his head very dryly: "Can't." ”

Of course, he knew what He Tengxiao was referring to, and there was no need to say something as obscure as party contention, just understand each other.

"Sadly, Gao Guang!" He Tengxiao sighed for Gao Guang, he didn't know anything about Gao Guang before, and at that time, his image of Gao Guang was still only at the level of a grassroots hundred households, and he didn't know anything else. just thought that Gao Guang was able to sit in the position of governor of Liaodong by holding Lu Zongcheng's thigh.

In general, there are two governorships in the empire that are more important than the other governors. One is the Governor of Nanzhi (the Governor of Nanzhi often also serves as the Governor of Zhejiang), the jurisdiction of the Governor of Nanzhi is in the south of the Yangtze River, which is the wealth of the empire, the land of Jiangnan is rich, and agriculture is developed, and the tax revenue of the Jiangnan region accounts for nearly half of the total fiscal revenue of the empire every year. Keeping this huge state apparatus running.

Such a financial and tax place is very important to the empire, and the selection of governors is particularly strict, and most of the governors who serve as governors of Jiangnan are old and talented.

Another prominent governor was the Governor of Liaodong. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Great Zhao Dynasty, the trend of nomads as a threat to the Central Plains regime shifted from the northwest to the northeast. The two nomadic peoples who pose the greatest threat to the empire today are the Menggu and Manshu. Both of these nomads are on the periphery of Liaodong.

The frontier troubles of the empire are mainly in the northeast, and the Liaodong region is a military important place for the empire to prevent foreign invasions, and the good or bad handling of the border problems of the empire lies in whether the empire can manage Liaodong well, the frontier position against foreign invasions. The governor of Liaodong is also not allowed to serve unless he is very capable. The selection of the governor of Liaodong by the monarchs of successive dynasties was not as strict as the governor of Nanzhi, or even stricter than that of the governor of Nanzhi.

The empire has a very important requirement for the governor of Liaodong, that is, it requires that he must know the army and have a certain military quality and talent to be qualified to serve as the governor of Liaodong.

In the early days of the empire, Emperor Taizu Taizong took measures to deal with the border problems of the empire more appropriately, using the four local families in Liaodong to fight against foreign enemies, and implementing the cantonment system in Liaodong.

Because of the proper handling of the Liaodong issue, the situation of barbarism and chaos in China for hundreds of years since the late Tang Dynasty was ended, and the Central Plains once again entered a unified dynasty.

He Tengxiao checked Gao Guang's resume when he was the governor of Liangguang, but Gao Guang showed his ability to clean up the chaos in Liangguang again, and handled the Liangguang problem very beautifully. Now the southern frontier of the empire is basically stable, and Gao Guang has no merit and hard work. With Gao Guang's merits when he was re-appointed as the governor of Liangguang, he barely had the qualifications to serve as the governor of Liaodong.

Because of being involved in party disputes, such a tragic ending for such a subordinate, He Tengxiao also felt sorry for Gao Guang.

"Although Gao Guang is dead, there is no Zhulian Nine Clans, and Gao Guang's two sons are only never allowed to enter the court as officials, at least there is no worry about their lives. The emperor's treatment of Gao Guang can be regarded as benevolent. Peng Chaodong said that this dynasty is severely punished and punished, and it often connects nine tribes, or even ten tribes. Gao Guang committed such a big thing, and he was indeed very lucky not to be affected by the Zhulian Nine Clans in the eyes of ordinary people.

"If you don't even connect the nine clans, you can count it as benevolent." He Tengxiao smiled in a mocking tone, "According to this standard, from ancient times to the present, there are still many benevolent kings." ”

"He Yunji!" Peng Chaodong suddenly said in a loud voice, "Today's saint is a good emperor!" ”

He Tengxiao was drunk by Peng Chaodong, and he broke out in a cold sweat, and most of the original wine woke up. He Tengxiao realized that he had lost his words, Peng Chaodong was a well-known loyal minister of this dynasty, otherwise he would not have been in charge of the Qin army for thirty years, and the kings of both dynasties trusted him. Isn't it true that Song Yuren was counted down in front of Peng Chaodong, isn't that looking for death.

"Yun Ji is guilty." Cold sweat broke out on He Tengxiao's forehead, this was in Peng Chaodong's Governor's Mansion, just based on He Tengxiao's sarcastic words about Song Yuren just now, Peng Chaodong could completely arrest He Tengxiao and punish him.

"Gao Guang, who has been talking about it for so long, it's time to talk about yourself." Peng Chaodong said coldly.

He Tengxiao lowered his head and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead: "Yun Ji can do more things in the He family than he can do in the Qin army, and I hope that the Governor can understand Yun Ji." (To be continued.) )