Chapter 70: The Scapegoat (Ask for Recommendation and Collection)
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In March 297 AD, the imperial court took the chariot general Meng Guan as the general of Pingxi and led an army of 50,000 to the west. After more than a dozen battles in a winter, the rebel army Yu Zhongting was finally defeated in the spring of the following year, and Qi Wannian was captured alive, and the war in Kansai ended a full year earlier than in the original history.
In this Guanzhong rebellion, the crown prince Sima Shu performed well, not only personally led the army to defeat the main force of the rebels, but also rescued the old general of Zhou who was besieged by himself.
Moreover, then the prince led the army to recover the two counties of Beidi and Fengyi, and what made the prince even more famous was that the prince went deep into the north for thousands of miles, and killed the Lu Shuihu, Ma Lanqiang and other tribes in the troubled pass, and then recovered the Shangjun lost in the late Han Dynasty.
Originally, everyone was thinking about seeing what reward the court planned to give to the prince, but who knew that the news of the prince's assassination suddenly came from Feng Yi. All of a sudden, the world was shaken, and there were many discussions, and the common people and scholars were all guessing who was the mastermind behind it.
At this time, King Liang, who was in Guanzhong, didn't care about this, he was trying to figure out how to snatch the credit of Meng Guan,
Princess Liang knew her husband's temper very well, she knew that King Liang was unhappy when she saw the other party's appearance, and looked at Princess Liang, who was frowning together, and asked, "What's wrong with you, king?" Could it be that the tooth hurts again? ”
King Liang sighed, "Alas! Love concubine, the widow not only has a toothache, but also a headache! ”
At this time, Sun Xiu hurriedly entered from outside, and was overjoyed to see this person, Princess Liang, she had seen Sun Xiu's ability with her own eyes, so Princess Liang looked anxious, and shouted at Sun Xiu: "Mr. Sun, you are here, your prince is having troubles and needs your help to solve them." ”
Sun Xiu smiled unhurriedly: "Princess, relax, the minister knows the prince's thoughts, and everything is left to you!" ”
Turning his head, Sun Xiu looked at King Liang, who was a little sluggish, and felt a little contemptuous in his heart, "Wang Yechen has good news for you!" Meng Guan and Xie won a complete victory in Zhongting and captured the puppet emperor Qi Wannian! ”
Sima Wei replied with a happy face: "Huh? Is this true? ”
Sun Xiu deliberately didn't look at King Liang's face and still sighed: "It's true, this time I can look forward to the day when the prince will come out!" ”
Sima Wei smiled bitterly: "The day of the widow's emergence? Obviously, it was he Meng Guan who made meritorious contributions, so what does he have to do with the widow? ”
Sun Xiu laughed: "The prince is not right, right? The killing of the enemy before the battle was all the credit of Lu Bo and Xie Xie, what does it have to do with him Meng Guan? ”
Sima Wei still replied listlessly: "This is different, don't forget, Meng Guan is the commander of the three armies, and Lu Bo and the others are just pawns, and if they win the battle, of course the credit should be the boss." ”
Sun Xiu pretended to suddenly realize and said: "Isn't this right, the king, you are the governor of Qin Yong's two states!" Without you here to strategize, can the surnamed Meng win the battle? ”
Sima Wei continued in disbelief: "Sir, don't make this kind of joke, okay?" As soon as he Meng Guan came, he showed the queen's edict not to let the widow interfere in his affairs, didn't you also advise the widow to mix with him less? Now that he has really taken the credit alone, the widow has to watch from the sidelines, how can he get a little bargain from him? ”
Sun Xiu laughed: "The king is bad! It is precisely because of his unique achievements surnamed Meng that it just shows that this place in Kansai is inseparable from him. The king had to hurry up and play a note, only saying that the thief Kou Chuping needed General Meng to stay in Yongzhou to prevent the remnants of the rebels from rising again. At the same time, I ask the queen to allow you to personally escort the thief leader Qi Wannian back to Luoyang to offer his majesty the prisoner, so that although the credit of the thief is Meng Guan's, and the glory of triumph will not belong to you, the king? Has Your Highness figured it out? ”
Hearing this, Sima Wei suddenly realized, and laughed wildly.
Sima Wei praised again and again: "Okay! Yes! Now the widow knows why King Zhao trusts you so much, you are really a priceless treasure! Okay, just do as you say! …… Hey, what if the queen doesn't agree? ”
Sun Xiu said indifferently: "She doesn't agree, can't we find a way to get her to agree?" ”
Sima Wei was overjoyed: "Oh? What is the best plan for the gentleman? ”
Sun Xiu shook her head and said: "The queen trusts Duke Lu's mother and son the most, and she especially pampers Duke Lu. What Duke Fan Lu said, the queen did not obey her words, and what Duke Fan Lu wanted to do, the queen would obey her. The minister heard that Lu Ping gave birth to the best horses, and there happened to be dozens of good horses in the king's stables. ”
Sima Wei nodded and said, "This is called the right medicine, right?" ”
Sun Xiu complimented: "Yes, King Shengming." ”
Sima Wei got rid of his heart disease, and suddenly regained his spirits: "Okay, the widow has already given this medicine to Lu Gong, so I will take another dose today and give him a complete cure!" ”
Princess Liang also exclaimed happily: "Great! Now I can finally go back to the capital! ”
Sima Wei patted Concubine Ai's hand lovingly: "Concubine Ai, you should pack up earlier." ”
Just as King Liang was about to return to Beijing, he didn't know that he had long been abandoned by Empress Jia and the family, and he would become a scapegoat as the mastermind of the assassination of the prince, and the important position he stole would be replaced by the prince. This was also the result of a compromise between the family and the crown prince, and the family agreed to hand over such an important guanzhong to the prince.
It is not because Guanzhong at this time has long ceased to be the grand occasion of the Western Han Dynasty, when Guanzhong was the political and economic center of the whole country, and since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political and economic status of Guanzhong has deteriorated, and it has become a place for Hu and Han to live together in the Western Jin Dynasty. Coupled with the continuous rebellion of the Hu people in Guanzhong, the family thought that it was too appropriate to throw such a burden from Guanzhong to the crown prince.
As for King Liang, he just became a scapegoat at the right time. In order to calm the current turbulent public opinion, the family had to temporarily unite with the crown prince to jointly put pressure on Empress Jia, and then put all the blame on King Liang, so that the anger of the common people had a target to vent, and the pressure on the family was greatly reduced.
The only one who has a loss is Empress Jia, but in the face of the pressure of the family and the prince uniting, Empress Jia also had to retreat. In the evening, in the palace, Jia Nanfeng accompanied Sima Zhen to dinner, and there was music on both sides.
Sima Zhen's face was full of oil, and his mouth kept muttering: "It's delicious, it's delicious." ”
An attendant stood aside and served Sima Zhen: "Long live Lord, you are slow." As he spoke, he wiped his mouth and hands with Sima Zhen.
Jia Nanfeng glanced at the emperor and ordered: "This thing tastes good, take it to the emperor and taste it." ”
Dong Meng immediately complied: "Long live Lord, this is given to you by the queen's mother." ”
Sima Zhen ate it stupidly, and ate something else. Jia Nanfeng looked at her stupid husband and sighed.
Dong Meng turned around and asked, "What does Niangniang want to eat?" ”
Jia Nanfeng put down his chopsticks and said, "The palace is full." Dong Meng, thanks to your thoughtful thinking about the prince's affairs this time, otherwise, it would be really difficult to handle. I'll give you this wine. Dong Meng was overjoyed, took the wine glass and drank it all.
"Thank you, mother."
Jia Nanfeng was silent for a moment and said: "You said, the prince has really grown up, and he actually knows how to take advantage of the situation." This time, he took advantage of the favorable situation inside and outside the DPRK to win Guanzhong in one fell swoop, and we couldn't tell if we had any bitterness. It's just that in this way, the palace is even more worried, if it can't eradicate Sima Shu, it will ...... in the future."
Dong Meng pondered for a moment and said: "Niangniang, now that the death of King Liang is a foregone conclusion, I am afraid that the prince will have no other thoughts in a short period of time, except for the single-minded operation of Guanzhong, what else can he do?" However, Niangniang, if the prince runs Guanzhong like a new city, then the prince will become a success! ”
After listening to Dong Meng's words, Empress Jia was even more worried that the Guanzhong Rebellion not only did not get rid of the prince, but also allowed him to develop and grow. In addition, she has not given birth to a son in the past five years, and it is almost a foregone conclusion that Sima Shu will ascend the throne in the future.
Jia Nanfeng sighed: "Alas! After all, he was not born in this palace, and he will definitely not have the same heart as this palace in the future. ”
The next day, Jia Nanfeng specially summoned Jia Mi to the palace for negotiations.
Jia Mi walked into the palace with a spring breeze on her face, "What is the matter with my aunt looking for my nephew?" My nephew was about to go out for a drink with a few friends. ”
Jia Nanfeng reprimanded unhappily: "Mi'er only knows how to have fun, and the heads of our Jia family are going to be lost, you don't know yet!" ”
Jia Mi was shocked: "...... Does anyone want to rebel? ”
Empress Jia glared at her nephew: "What kind of rebellion?!" The palace is just worried about the prince, and now the prince is becoming more and more popular, if he ascends the throne as the emperor in the future! Are you okay? ”
Jia Mi suddenly realized: "Why does my nephew think it's a big deal, aunt, don't worry, my nephew has already taken a countermeasure." Now that the prince is antipathetic, he is no longer incorrigible, if we don't get rid of him, we will suffer his big loss sooner or later. ”
Saying that, Jia Mi stepped forward and said matter-of-factly: "My nephew heard that since the prince reached an agreement with the family, the prince has begun to secretly form a private party in Guanzhong, and has frequent private contacts with the ministers of the DPRK and China, in case they preemptively attack and force the emperor to give way, at that time, according to the story of my aunt deposing the Junyang Shuren, it will be easy to kill my nephew and put my aunt in Kim Yong City and lock him up......."
Jia Nanfeng got up, grabbed his nephew's arm, and said with an angry face: "It's not that cheap!" Want to play Hongu? He's still hairy! Hongu will abolish him now! ”
Empress Jia snorted angrily and walked a few steps, then stopped, "Mi'er, what do you say we should do?" ”
Jia Mi thought for a while and said: "My nephew thinks that if you want to abolish the prince, it is actually very simple, you only need to transfer him back to the capital first, and then give him a charge to do it, the key is that after the abolition of the prince, who should we appoint as the prince, if my aunt has a child, it would be good." ”
Jia Nanfeng frowned and said, "What is Mi'er's good plan?" ”
Jia Miyin smiled and said: "Auntie, you forgot that you also set a family for the prince back then, we can transfer the prince back to the capital on the grounds that the prince held a big wedding, as long as the prince arrives at our one-third of an acre, is it flat or round or let us handle it?" As for the issue of heirs, we might as well steal the beams and change the pillars! ”
Jia Nanfeng's eyes lit up: "Mi'er means to find a pregnant person, and then the palace also pretends to be pregnant, and after the child is born, she will secretly carry it to the palace!" This is a wonderful plan, but the stakes are very high, and since the decision has been made, it is better to invite your mother to come and discuss it together, because there are many people, so it is better to think it through. ”
"Auntie, be careful, don't leak the news!"
Jia Nanfeng said angrily: "You don't say that this palace has also thought of it." Come. Invite Mrs. Han to come over, and say that the palace has something important to discuss with her. In this way, Mi'er, you go to pick up your mother in person, and it's best not to let people see it. ”
Jia Mi nodded and said, "Nephew understands." ”