Chapter 165: Returning to the Dynasty in Victory
The current situation is that after the new monarch of the Jin State Wanyan Shouxu ascended the throne, he completely abandoned the policy of the former emperor Wanyan Xun, stopped all attacks on the Southern Song Dynasty, and made every effort to reconcile with the Southern Song Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this way, once the situation of King Ji was unfavorable, he would be unlucky, and after Li Quan figured out this matter, he immediately stopped the original plan to attack the Song Dynasty, and within the agreed time, did not raise troops to respond to the rebels of King Ji in Huzhou, and even ordered that the military operations that had been creating friction south of Chuzhou were all stopped.
The first preparation was that as long as King Ji succeeded in causing the split of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty began to fall into civil war, he would immediately launch a plan to invade the south, take the opportunity to capture a large number of Song lands north of the Yangtze River, and prepare to cross the river to the south, join forces with King Ji's rebels, and reap greater benefits!
The second preparation was that once King Ji was not successful, he immediately changed his attitude, confessed to the Lin'an court, and expressed his allegiance to the Lin'an court, so as not to provoke the Lin'an court to send troops to attack him.
After making such a decision, Li Quan sent a large number of meticulous works, crossed the river to the south, and observed the war in Huzhou and the development of the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty at any time.
Li Quan used to look down on the army of the Southern Song Dynasty, and felt that the Song army was greedy for pleasure, seriously lacked training, and was demoralized when he went into battle, and the generals were also a bunch of wine bags and rice bags, so there was nothing to worry about, but through this battle of the imperial court to send troops to quell the rebellion, he found that in fact, the Song army was not as incompetent as he thought, at least the combat effectiveness of the army of the Lin'an Jing Division was still quite strong, otherwise, the troops and horses led by Liu Bao he sent would not have been able to fight in Hongjie Mountain, and the whole army would be wiped out in one day.
He began to rejoice that he had come to his senses quickly, if he had sent troops south to attack the Song Dynasty according to the agreement with King Ji, he was afraid that he would have been mired in a quagmire now and could not pull his feet, what was waiting for him, he really didn't dare to think.
So when he learned the news of King Ji's defeat, he immediately changed his attitude, wrote a letter asking for guilt, and put all the blame on King Ji, saying that he was bewitched by King Ji, so he would send troops to support King Ji's ascension to the throne in a moment of confusion, and asked the court to forgive him for his actions.
After Gao Huaiyuan figured out these things, he was furious and scolded Li Quan for being cunning, so he immediately wrote a chapter and sent someone to Lin'an to explain Li Quan's various crimes to the imperial court, and sent the letters between Li Quan and the king of Ji that he had obtained in Huzhou and the leader of Li Quan's army captured to the imperial court, asking him to lead troops to destroy Li Quan for the crime of great rebellion.
But when his recital was sent to the Beijing Division, it once again caused a controversy in the court, Zhao Yun saw Gao Huaiyuan's recital, and immediately became furious, wanting to promise Gao Huaiyuan, let Gao Huaiyuan lead the troops to go out to suppress Li Quanjun, and on the other hand, Shi Miyuan's party did not agree to send troops to attack Li Quan because they continued to pursue their main and line, and on the other hand, they accepted a large amount of financial bribes from Li Quan.
Shi Miyuan's reason for the party is that now the country has not been completely stabilized because of the affairs of King Ji, and King Ji has not yet been arrested, there is a possibility of chaos at any time, and now sending troops to attack Li Quan, one will give King Ji the opportunity to re-rebel, and the other will consume a lot of military and financial resources, making the border situation that has just stabilized more complicated, once it is unfavorable to suppress Li Quan, it will make the situation in Jingdong worse, and so on.
Anyway, Shi Miyuan and his party tried their best to make up various reasons to disagree with Gao Huaiyuan to lead the army to recruit Li Quan, and on the side of the royalists, Zheng Qingzhi finally stood up and led a group of ministers to strongly support the sending of troops to attack Li Quan, which has been debated in the court for many days, and the decision to send troops has not been made.
The result was that this matter dragged on like this, and the imperial court only cared about arguing about this matter, and at the same time paid attention to the movements of various parts of the country after the Xiachuan Change, but Gao Huaiyuan was hung in Huzhou, and no new Huzhou governor was arranged.
So Gao Huaiyuan was idle, while continuing to search for King Ji and the remnants of the party who supported King Ji, while showing his strength in Huzhou City, using the troops in his hands to rebuild and repair the city wall of Huzhou City destroyed by the war, and also pay attention to the local people's livelihood affairs, rectify the local officials, and help the local people who were affected by the war, vigorously develop the local economy, and became a magistrate in Huzhou City for a while, but also greatly realized the ambition in his chest, in a short period of time, The situation in Huzhou was stabilized.
In this way, Gao Huaiyuan has been staying in Huzhou City for more than two months, and the news finally came from the imperial court, and in the end he still did not agree to his invitation to send troops to Huaidong to fight against Li Quan, and ordered him to lead his troops back to Beijing to take up his post in the capital, and take over the position of the commander of the palace in the capital.
Gao Huaiyuan received this holy decree, and agreed respectfully on the surface, but in private, he scolded Shi Miyuan and his party for misleading the country, and conniving at Li Quan so much is undoubtedly raising tigers, and sooner or later the Southern Song Dynasty may pay a heavy price because of Shi Miyuan's party's actions.
But scolding and scolding, Gao Huaiyuan also has to go back to Beijing now, because this time with the holy decree there is also a letter from Shi Miyuan, Shi Miyuan praised Gao Huaiyuan's performance in the letter, and also mentioned their tacit understanding in the letter, asking him not to insist on sending troops to attack Li Quan this time, or to focus on state affairs, and specifically mentioned that this time he Gao Huaiyuan was promoted to the position of commander of the former division of the All-knowing Palace, which he tried his best to promote, and it was clear that he told Gao Huaiyuan, Your promotion depends on my eyes, you better be honest and continue to follow me to do things, otherwise, he Shi Miyuan can call you up, and naturally he can call you down.
Gao Huaiyuan naturally understood the subtext in Shi Miyuan's heart, and after sighing, the generals and generals gathered together, arranged for the transfer of local defense, and handed over Huzhou City to the newly appointed Zhizhou, and at the same time ordered the new Zhizhou to continue to strictly investigate the whereabouts of King Ji in Huzhou.
After arranging these things, Gao Huaiyuan led the troops on the road back to Lin'an, and returned to Lin'an City after two days without saying a word.
Under the leadership of Zhao Yun, many Chinese military officials in Lin'an City personally welcomed Gao Huaiyuan's class teacher back to the dynasty at the north gate, and for a time there was a lot of noise outside the north gate.
Gao Huaiyuan had long known that Zhao Yun would personally lead hundreds of officials to greet him, so when there were still a few miles away from the north gate of Lin'an City, the whole army dismounted and walked, and saw Zhao Yun and hundreds of civil and military officials waiting for them outside the north gate of Lin'an under the protection of officers and soldiers, so Gao Huaiyuan immediately took the generals in the army to move forward quickly, came to Zhao Yun, and knelt down to say goodbye.
After Zhao Yun saw Gao Huaiyuan at this time, he was in a very good mood, and walked a few steps under the escort of hundreds of officials, picked up Gao Huaiyuan, who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile: "Gao Aiqing has finally lived up to expectations, turning the tide and the critical moment, I am very relieved!" Gao Aiqing and all the generals have worked hard, I have specially prepared fine wine, and I am here to welcome you Aiqing! Someone will give you wine! ”
So a group of chamberlains immediately held the wine bowl and wine sent to Gao Huaiyuan and others, Gao Huaiyuan was also very moved at this time, in the history of the Song Dynasty has always been heavy on literature and light on martial arts, and this time they returned from the rebellion, it is very rare to receive such courtesy, so all the generals immediately thanked Zhao Yunlian, took the wine bowl and drank it all.
Zhao Yun is now staying in the palace all day long, rarely have the opportunity to come out, after taking this opportunity to come out today, the mood is naturally very good, and then look at the majesty of the soldiers and horses led by Gao Huaiyuan, the pride in the chest can't help but burst, so he simply improvised a poem for the soldiers who went out this time, and it attracted countless people to fart.
This kind of welcoming ceremony has rarely been seen before in the Southern Song Dynasty, although Zhao Yun is happy in his heart, but it does not mean that everyone is happy, at least many civil officials are very disapproving, feeling that it is too much to give face to these military generals, and actually let these rich and wealthy people come out to greet this group of rough people, all many civil officials stood in the team with a look of disdain, and did not intend to go up to congratulate these generals, only Gao Huaiyuan They didn't dare to take a shelf, after Gao Huaiyuan drank wine, Only then did he come up and talk to Gao Huaiyuan in a fake way.
And this kind of behavior of the civil officials made some generals a little unhappy, and the heart of Lao Tzu was desperate in front, even the emperor was so polite to us, but you sour rotten people put a stinky face to show whom! So these generals didn't look at those civil officials with their eyes, which diluted the celebratory atmosphere a lot.
After some mutual compliments, Zhao Yun personally took Gao Huaiyuan's wrist and said to him: "Gao Aiqing quickly return to the palace with me, and tell me about your counterinsurgency war this time, tonight I will hold a banquet in the palace to entertain the generals, and I will personally accompany you to have a good drink at that time!" ”
Gao Huaiyuan didn't find Shi Miyuan in the crowd, only saw Xue Ji, Hu Yu and others, knowing that this old guy must have deliberately not come, this is a gesture to see for himself, he is no worse than the emperor, for him Gao Huaiyuan, it is not his turn Shi Miyuan to come to greet him personally! Your surname is Gao's subordinate of my Shi Miyuan, and you should thank me when you come back.
Gao Huaiyuan sneered in his heart, and said in his heart, old man, you wait! If you don't die, you won't be surnamed Gao! Let's make you happy and happy!