Chapter 100: The Yin Wind Cuts Four Sides
On the third day of the first month of the first month of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, the overall situation has been decided. The complacent crown prince Li You, accompanied by smiling Liang Shouqian, Wang Shoucheng and others, ascended to the long-awaited throne as he wished.
Next, naturally, it was to share the fruits of victory with his comrades. After all, it is always a little embarrassing to have such a large piece of cheese in front of Li You alone, not to mention that Li You has neither such a good tooth nor such a good appetite.
The biggest beneficiary seems to be Li You, the whole thing, from beginning to end, he doesn't seem to be involved, but he just takes a tacit, conniving and shielding attitude towards the subordinates and minions of the king and master, even though they want to kill their own father, their own father! In this way, Li You, who succeeded because of people, sat on the throne that he had coveted for a long time and became the ruler of the world, although the time was only five years.
The second winner is Li You's mother, a woman who has never been a queen in her life, but because of conspiracy to kill her husband, she was promoted to the queen mother, and she is the only queen mother! Moreover, her life is very long, in the near future, she will also be the empress dowager, and she is the empress dowager of the three dynasties, ruling the world for nearly forty years. From this point of view, the biggest beneficiary is not Li You, but his mother, Empress Dowager Guo.
Unexpectedly, the third winner was not Liang Shouqian, who contributed the most, but his subordinate, Ma Shoucheng. In terms of qualifications, fame, status, and merit, Ma Shoucheng cannot be compared with his superior Liang Shouqian, but Ma Shoucheng also has his own advantages, which Liang Shouqian does not have, he is younger than Liang Shouqian, and he can recognize a godmother by the way. The godmother he recognized was none other than Li You's mother, Empress Dowager Guo. In this way, Li Chun, the Daxing Emperor who was killed by him, is his godfather, and today's son Li You is his godbrother, the emperor of the Tang Empire, and a dead eunuch became a father and son and brother, do you say it is unusual?
Ma Shoucheng, who became the godson of the Queen Mother, jumped up and down, trying his best to slap his godmother, he found that his godbrother Li You was really not the material of the emperor, and he decided to pat his godmother's fart, no, it's a dragon fart, it's not right, it should be a phoenix fart. He racked his brains to write a recital, instigating his godmother to learn Wu Zetian and become an emperor. Fortunately, Empress Dowager Guo is not an impulsive person, she knows very well that this time is different from the past, if she has to be the second in Wu Zetian, then there is only one ending, that is, death, there is not even a scumbag to die.
Empress Dowager Guo, who refused to be the emperor, gained popularity, very popular, and the mother and son's double reed performance was very successful, so Ma Shoucheng also got a lot, for example, the seat left by Tutu Chengxuan. In this way, Ma Shoucheng surpassed his old superiors in one fell swoop and became the top eunuch of Chang'an.
The fourth winner was another subordinate of Liang Shouqian, Cui Tanjun. Speaking of this Cui Tanjun, Liang Shouqian couldn't get off the stage, because he took away Liang Shouqian's position. Ma Shoucheng relied on the nepotism of the Queen Mother to become the lieutenant of the left army of the Shence Army, and Cui Tanjun was one step behind, so he had to stare greedily at the throne of the lieutenant of the right army. However, there is now someone in this position, it is his old superior, Liang Shouqian, and the difficulty can be imagined. But Cui Tanjun knew that there were tigers in the mountains and preferred to go to the tiger mountains, so he didn't know what path he took, so he snatched this position by force, which really didn't give face to his old superiors.
The fifth winner is not one, but two, the former prince reads the books of Xue Fang and Ding Gong. They used to be participants in the conspiracy, and they were Li You's cronies, or scholars, and the position that Li You arranged for them was the prime minister. I don't know if it was because of shame or because of the fear that one day the crime would be exposed, the two people unanimously rejected the appointment. However, they are still in high positions and are Li You's most trusted ministers.
The sixth winner is the person who did it himself, that is, Chen Hongzhi, the inner servant we mentioned earlier.
The seventh winner is not one person, nor two people, but a group of people. They did not participate in the conspiracy, but passively became the beneficiaries of the conspiracy, because they were all important ministers of the court who had been degraded by Li Chun. The names of each of them were thunderous and familiar at that time: Pei Du, Cui Qun, Han Yu, Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, ....... After Li You ascended the throne, these ministers who had been degraded were successively recalled to Chang'an by Li You and entrusted with important tasks.
The eighth winner is still a group of people, a group of people who are even more numerous. They did not participate in the conspiracy either, but became spectators of the conspiracy. In order to reward these silent lambs, Li You will naturally give them a sweet date, move their position forward by a little bit, at least, and keep their current official positions, so that they can continue to get the bucket of gold that belongs to them on the golden mountain of the Tang Empire.
The emperor and the queen mother eat meat, civil and military officials gnaw bones, of course, pork ribs, and the rest of the broth, of course, there will be people who drink it. Of course, there will be more of these people who drink broth, and they have a unified name called soldiers, soldiers stationed in Chang'an. In fact, Li You's first holy decree after ascending the throne was to reward the garrison of Chang'an. However, there is also a difference in drinking soup, some people can only drink a small bowl, and others can drink a large bowl. The six armies of the North Gate were paid thirty taels, and the Shence army was twenty taels more than them, fifty taels per person. This amount is not too small an honorarium, and in the case of the right army, it is naturally a bounty; For the Left Army, though, it seemed more of a consolation. However, whether it was the left army or the right army, it didn't matter whether it was a bounty or a comfort for their escort lieutenants.
Since there are winners, there will naturally be losers, and there are many winners and many losers. The biggest losers are, of course, Li Chun, Li Kuan, and Tutu Chengxuan, the three unlucky ones, followed by the two scapegoats of Liu Mi and the Great Compassion Monk, and the poor women in the harem, one of whom is named Du Qiu. In addition, the most depressed loser is naturally Liang Shouqian, although he didn't lose too much, only a little, just a little. Before the Yuanhe Palace Change, Liang Shouqian was the lieutenant of the Right Army of the Shence Army, second only to Tutu Chengxuan, and was the second eunuch in the capital. As the initiator, planner and leader of the palace change, Liang Shouqian should be the one who has contributed the most and made the greatest contributions, but unfortunately, after the palace change, although his second hat was taken off, it was not the hat of the boss he was looking forward to day and night, but he was reduced to the third, because he had a subordinate, a subordinate who had bowed down and was respectful, surpassed his predecessor in one fell swoop and became the eldest among the eunuchs, this person is called Ma Shoucheng; He also has a subordinate, a subordinate who used to be the only one who looked at the horse, replaced him in one fell swoop and became the second eunuch in Chang'an, this person is called Cui Tanjun. It seems that Liang Shouqian's ranking has only slipped by one place, and the privy envoy is also a pretty good fat difference, but the biggest difference between the second and the third is that the second can wrestle with the boss, and the third can only be reduced to a spectator. Since then, Chang'an has entered a period of Ma Cui's struggle for hegemony, Liang Shouqian can only choose to stand aside, do you say he is depressed or not? However, Liang Shouqian, who was depressed to the point of going home, soon stopped being depressed, because he died, depressed to death!
The most ridiculous loser is Huangfu Rong, the former prime minister Huangfu Rong. This shameless villain, who squeezed out Pei Du and Cui Qun with all his efforts, finally climbed to the high position of prime minister, and before his ass was hot, he was blasted out of Chang'an by Li You. This should be the only thing that is very happy in the spring of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, and it is also the only thing that Li You is a little smarter than his father.