Chapter 125: Troubles and Good News
The east side is said to rain in the west, and the road is sunny but sunny. The so-called summer rain is across the field, the summer solstice is coming, and some hot thunderstorms will fall from time to time from the afternoon to the evening, which come and go suddenly, and the range is very small.
During the summer solstice, it is the plum rainy season in the Jianghuai area, which is rainy and rainy, with frequent heavy rain and continuous waterlogging. In such weather, the utensils are moldy, the human body is uncomfortable, mosquitoes and flies are all over the sky, and it is very easy to breed epidemics.
Emperor Jing followed the ancient rites and led his ministers out of the city to worship the gods and ancestors, which meant to clear the famine years, hunger and death. When the wheat is harvested, the breeze blows, and the fields are surging with golden wheat waves, which makes people feel refreshed.
Unlike Emperor Jing, who was at ease, the ministers of the Han Dynasty were already suspicious, and rumors were spreading. The crown prince Liu Che, who has been attending the discussion for a long time, is now absent due to illness, and the palace has been closed for more than half a month, which cannot help but make people have a lot of imagination. Whether it is the prince's fall from grace or lingering on the sickbed, it is a great event for Sheji.
A small number of ministers who have been faintly attached to the prince's family are worried, but they are afraid that Emperor Jing will be jealous of the prince's friends and dare not ask each other. The relatives headed by the Dou family were cold bystanders, and they never mentioned this matter in the court. On the contrary, it was the royalist faction led by Prime Minister Yuan An, although he had criticized the prince a lot, but now he must say that the prince is virtuous, and he has the intention of admonishing Emperor Jing, for fear that he really has the intention of abolishing the prince.
Emperor Jing couldn't cry or laugh, but he also had a little emotion, just a trivial matter, loyal and discerning. Yuan Ang and others, always thinking of the country, never mixed with personal preferences, are the pillars of the country. On the contrary, it was the behavior of the princes that was much beyond Emperor Jing's expectations. Many ministers have secretly visited Liu Fei, the king of Jiangdu, and other princes, but unexpectedly, the princes themselves did it themselves, and they beat the royal manor alive, which greatly lost face.
Beating a courtier, the crime is not light, but the old and relieved Emperor Jing turned a blind eye to the mountain of impeachment notes presented by the imperial history, but rewarded the princes heavily, and degraded the more than ten ministers who were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, demoted several levels, and returned home to reflect on and listen. After this incident, the courtiers suddenly realized that the crown prince Liu Che was still in the holy family, and there was no danger of being deposed. It's just that if the prince really lingers on the sick bed for more than half a month, it really worries many people, and also makes many people secretly happy.
Liu Wu, the king of Liang who was far away in Liang, had already received a quick horse report, and he had mixed feelings in his heart. Since he talked deeply with Liu Che during the New Year, he has a faint good impression of this smart and straightforward nephew, and he can't bear to let him die young. However, as the leader of the princes' forces, he also coveted the position of the prince, and now Emperor Jing's move to cut the domain has caused great dissatisfaction among the princes, and Liu Wu, who has the heaviest prestige and a large number of generals, bears the brunt, and has no way to retreat.
In this Han-Hungarian war, the county soldiers and border troops of the northern and Guanzhong counties were all withdrawn, and many princes and kings secretly sent people to test the king of Liang, faintly instigating him to ascend to the heights, gathering the princes to wave their troops in Guanzhong, enter the Beijing division, and usurp the throne of the Son of Heaven. The staff in the Liang Wangfu were also divided into two factions, and they were arguing endlessly.
The radical faction, led by Gongsun Wei, the lieutenant of Liang State, believed that Liang State had nearly 200,000 elite soldiers at this time, and if the princes of the Central Plains responded en masse, it would not take more than a month to gather more than 100,000 private soldiers of the princes. At that time, nearly 400,000 troops will march westward, and the defenders of Chang'an City, which is less than 100,000, will definitely not be able to resist, and a war can be decided.
However, the conservatives led by Han Anguo, the internal historian, strongly opposed the usurpation, believing that it was not in line with the general righteousness and would not be popular with the people. The Han Dynasty has been around for decades and has always been with the people's livelihood. The two generations of emperors in Wenjing have made great efforts to govern the country, and Guanzhong has become more and more prosperous, and the people have enough food and clothing. At this time, if the army is attacked, the masses will be angry, and the people in Guanzhong will definitely fight to the death and not retreat. In the words of later generations, it was to be caught in the vast sea of people's war.
Just when King Liang was hesitating, he received a report from the capital that the crown prince Liu Che was sick and closed for more than half a month, and he was afraid that he would have to worry about his life. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Chinese medicine was still in its infancy, and it was not uncommon for children to die young. Even a small cold that seems to be a small cold in later generations is likely to develop into pneumonia. Throughout the early Han Dynasty, excluding the factors of palace battles and murders, less than sixty percent of the princes who could live to the age of the crown.
King Liang couldn't help but feel a little lucky in his heart, and immediately decided not to act for the time being, and acted at the opportunity. After all, if you take the name of killing your brother and usurping the throne, even if you ascend to the throne, you may not be able to sit firmly. Now that there are many princes, and the Han Dynasty rules the world with benevolence and filial piety, the emperor who cannot obey the people will inevitably be enemies of the world.
Seeing this, Gongsun Yi and others were full of decadence, and they had a lot of taste of inadequacy and conspiracy. Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu back then, didn't listen to Fan Zeng's words and let go of Gaozu Liu Bang, and finally ended up committing suicide. Now King Liang's military strength and prestige are less than Xiang Yu Eleven, and he is hesitant but not indecisive, which is really sad. Han Anguo, on the other hand, was overjoyed, and secretly ordered someone to enter Beijing quickly and report the inside story to the Empress Dowager Dou in detail. He was the domestic history of Liang strongly assigned by the Queen Mother, and naturally knew the intentions of the Queen Mother, so he tried his best to dissuade King Liang from usurping.
Empress Dowager Dou, who lived in seclusion for a long time, received Han Anguo's secret recital, and naturally breathed a sigh of relief. As she grew older, the last thing she wanted was to see the tragedy of her brothers killing each other. Now the youngest son King Liang has temporarily put aside the idea of usurpation, if the eldest son Emperor Jing wants to kill his younger brother again in the future, the Empress Dowager Dou will speak to dissuade her, and she will also have confidence. Once King Liang really rebelled and gave Emperor Jing the truth, according to Empress Dowager Dou's understanding of him, this insidious and ruthless eldest son would definitely be killed.
Even the Empress Dowager Dou was deeply suspicious that even the news of the serious illness of the crown prince Liu Che was deliberately released by the eldest son, just to cause King Liang to rebel, otherwise why couldn't he even visit his baby grandson? And she didn't believe that Emperor Jing, who had always been cautious, would transfer all the officers and soldiers in Guanzhong without leaving any behind.
I don't know if it's smart but mistaken by cleverness, in short, in the continuous secret calculations of the top smart people in the big han, time passes slowly. Until the middle of June in Emperor Jingdi, a belated good news shook the government and the opposition, and the name of General Li Guang resounded throughout the Han Dynasty!
Great victory in the north! Tianshui guarded Li Guang too much, led 30,000 fine willow elite horsemen, completely annihilated the Hun Lou Fu King and the Aries King of the Huns more than 10,000 Hun iron cavalry, captured the Lou Fu King, and recovered the vast territory in the central and northern parts of Heshuo!
And Taiwei Dou Ying guarded the pass of the Great Wall and killed thousands of enemies, but was hidden by Emperor Jing. Even the good news that the Hu cavalry general Gongsun Xiao led 8,000 Hu cavalry to kill the Aries King and more than 1,000 Hun cavalry was deliberately downplayed, after all, Hu cavalry is not pure Han family blood and blood, and it is not appropriate to hype up military exploits. Fortunately, Gongsun Xiao was also quite knowledgeable, and did not capture the Aries King alive, but killed him, and at the same time besieged the King of Loufu but did not attack, and let Li Guang and the fine willow soldiers who arrived later capture him alive, and did not rob the merit. After this incident, the thoughtful Gongsun Xiao was deeply appreciated by Emperor Jing and Liu Che, and his future was very good.
Of course, the reward will not be stingy, since the royal industrial group wealth is rolling in, as the largest shareholder of the Shaofu, the natural treasury is full, and the wealthy Emperor Jing did not open the treasury as worried about Tainongling, but with a wave of his hand, Chen Yu, the secretary of the Shaofu, allocated tens of thousands of gold, and was escorted to Heshuo by more than 1,000 forbidden troops to reward the soldiers.
In the early Han Dynasty, gold was strictly priced, and one gold was a pound of gold, which was equivalent to 10,000 copper coins. In other words, Emperor Jing promulgated hundreds of millions of heavy rewards this time, close to one percent of the annual revenue of the treasury in the early Han Dynasty. Taking a reference, it is to reward all the assets of PetroChina to a local group army that has not yet reached the full strength of 40,000, which shows the excitement and joy in Emperor Jing's heart.
Li Guang and Gongsun Yu, who were far away in Heshuo, did not stop waiting for the reward, but escorted the prisoners and booty to the nearest Shuofang City, instructed the local guards to send people to Beijing to offer prisoners, and then waved their troops south to outflank the Xiqiang tribes that were storming the border of Beidi County.
In fact, as early as half a month ago, more than 10,000 elite cavalry led by the Anbei general Shi Ti had already circled the back of the Qiang people and blocked their passage to the Western Great Wall Pass. Now, with the nearly 40,000 cavalry of Li Guang and Gongsun Xiao, the Han cavalry has reached more than 50,000, and they are all elite divisions, which can completely overwhelm the rabble of less than 50,000 Qiang people. Defeating the Qiang people in light naturally could not satisfy the murderous Han generals, and the real victory was to annihilate them all.
Since the Qiang cavalry unexpectedly appeared outside the western Saiwai, it is an indisputable fact that the guards stationed at the pass of the Great Wall in the west have collaborated with the enemy. After Qin Yong, the cavalry general, led more than 100,000 foot soldiers to resist the pass of the Northwest Great Wall and took over the defense, Taiwei Dou Ying immediately divided 30,000 border troops, risked great risks, personally commanded, and went south along the Great Wall to block the Western Great Wall. Emperor Jing received a message from Harrier Eagle and did not comment, let alone the slightest praise. Dou Ying's collaborator under the command of the enemy, although he can't escape the crime of negligence, at this time, making up for the sheep is just a move to save himself, naturally he has to take the lead, and after death, he can't give up his life for the country.
(I didn't have time to update it in the early morning, and it was shattered, so it's hard to say anything.) Simply don't make up for sleep.,Hurry up and make up for the two chapters that you owe.,It's too busy with work these two days.,It's going to be a code word when you're free.,But the update time won't be too stable.,It can only be guaranteed to be constantly updated.,As for the two more, three or four more,Look at the state,In short, make it up.。 )
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