Chapter 180 [The Great War Begins]
Yu Wenyong's final choice of teacher for the prince was Wei Chiyun, and he hoped that the prince would be motivated and change his buddies' perception of him. Soon, Yuwen Yong asked Yuwen Xiaobo how the prince was now, and Yuwen Xiaobo replied that the prince was afraid of Tianwei and had no fault. Yuwen Xiaobo is telling the truth, the prince is indeed afraid of his father, so he has become a good actor. Yu Wenyong thought that his hard work had paid off, so he was very happy. In fact, Wei Chiyun was very tired from this errand, and the prince didn't listen to him at all.
When Yuwen Zhi was in turmoil, Yu Chiyun saved the prince at a critical moment, without Yu Chiyun, maybe the prince would have been killed by Yuwen Zhi a long time ago. Even so, the prince also has no good impression of Yu Chiyun, and he also has a relationship with Yuwen Xiaobo, and only Zheng Yi and others are his true love. Since the prince didn't listen to himself, he stayed by the prince's side all day long, and when he saw the prince's immorality, he couldn't help but say it, and it was annoying to say it, Wei Chiyun didn't work long in the East Palace, so he found an opportunity to serve as the assassin of Tongzhou and left Chang'an.
As the saying goes, the nature of the country is easy to change and difficult to change, Wang Liang did not give up on overthrowing the prince because of the failure of cooperation with He Ruobi, he has seen the prince in his bones, such a person is not worthy of having the country of the Great Zhou Dynasty at all, he will definitely give away the great country.
One day, Yu Wenyong held a banquet in the palace, and Wang Liang took the opportunity of toasting to stroke Yu Wenyong's beard and said: Lovely good husband, but the heir is too weak. In front of the public again, Wang Liang let it go. After the banquet, Yuwen Yong left Yuwen Xiaobo behind and asked: Gong often tells me that the prince is not at fault, Wang Liang said so, Gong must have lied. Yuwen Xiaobo bowed to the ground and replied: It is not easy for others to say anything about the matter between father and son.
The minister knew that His Majesty could not cut mercy and forbearance, so he did not dare to speak. Yuwen Yong understood what Yuwen Xiaobo meant. After being silent for a long time, he took his hand and said, "I have entrusted this son to you." Encourage him. Indeed, as Yuwen Xiaobo said, although Yuwen Yong knew that Yuwen Yun was not a weapon. However, the second son, Han Wang Yuwen, praised the talent, and the other sons were young, and they were reluctant to turn against their fathers and sons, so the matter of Yi Chu was delayed.
In fact, Wang Liang is not only not optimistic about the prince, but there is another person who also makes him restless, and this person is Yang Jian, who is Suigong. Wang Liang said to Yuwen Yong many times: The crown prince is not the head of the society, and Pu Liuru is the opposite.
Why did it come to Yang Jian again, it turned out that the crown princess chosen by Yu Wenyong for the crown prince was the general Yang Jian. For Yang Jian. Not only did Wang Liang remind Yu Wenyong, but even Yu Wenxian told Yu Wenyong that he was uncomfortable when he saw Pu Liurujian, and hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would make plans as soon as possible.
made Yu Wenxian, the general of a hundred battles, feel murderous, Yang Jian's appearance is indeed extraordinary. Yuwen Yong has great respect for Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong, Yang Jian's second son Yang Hui married Yu Wenyong's sister, the two have a very good relationship, and they belong to one of Yuwen Yong's most trusted people, so Yu Wenyong had to be cautious, and he called him over again. Ask Yang Jian's fate.
Since he saw the photo for Yang Jian, he knew that Yang Jian was not an ordinary person, and since then he has made friends with his heart, so when he heard the emperor ask, he knew that the emperor began to doubt again, and he hurriedly said: Sui Gong is a person who keeps festivals. There is no particular out-of-phase.
Yu Wenyong once again believed in Laihe, and did not doubt it, and Yang Jian's expression has always been reassuring. Never overly demanding, and doesn't seem to care about the position of power. No one can say for sure, and Yang Jian's daughter Yang Lihua is his daughter-in-law. It is also important to have a good relationship with the in-laws. But after Yang Jian heard these news, he became more low-key, Taoguang was obscure, and became a court hermit.
Since Sima Rui crossed the river to establish the Jiangnan Imperial Court, although the masters of the court have been exchanged like a marquee, every aspiring emperor of the Southern Dynasty has taken the expulsion of the Hu people and the recovery of his homeland as the highest ideal, even Emperor Wu of Liang, who has converted to Buddhism and practiced all his life, is no exception, and no emperor can resist the temptation of unifying the world and becoming an emperor through the ages.
Among the four kingdoms of the Southern Dynasties, although Chen was the weakest, the emperors of Chen were all ambitious people from Chen Baxian to Chen Qian to Chen Ji, and they were all emperors with ideals and achievements, so it was their dream to unify the north and the south.
Chen Baxian and Chen Qian were powerless, at that time, the Qi State was still strong enough, so strong that the two of them could protect themselves, thank God.
Chen Ji was lucky, after he came to power, the national strength of Qi became weaker and weaker, and the former enemy Zhou State continued to extend an olive branch, Chen Ji seized this golden opportunity to send Wu Mingche to march into the Northern Qi Dynasty, he won, Huainan re-classified into the territory of Jiangnan.
However, Chen Guolao's ministers opposed the reckless use of force, so Wu Mingche's Northern Expedition stopped at the south bank of the Huai River, and Chen Wei was quite unwilling to do so. The international situation changed rapidly, and it didn't take long for Zhou Qi to go to war again, and Chen Ji moved his mind to fish in troubled waters again, planning to wait for the strength of the two countries to be almost consumed, and then we will be profitable fishermen. However, what Chen never expected was that the Northern Qi court was so vulnerable, and a great country was wiped out by Yuwen Yong's three times and five divided by two.
After the unification of the north, the Great Zhou Dynasty had a vast territory and strong soldiers and horses, which posed a huge threat to the south of the Yangtze River. Chen Ji secretly regretted that the Northern Qi Dynasty was just a paper tiger, and let Yuwen Yong pick up a big bargain out of thin air, knowing that this was the case, Wu Mingche should continue the Northern Expedition and go straight to Yecheng. The matter has come to this point, and only by taking advantage of the new annexation of the Great Zhou in Henan and the instability of the people, an early battle may be able to capture the Xuyan region.
As a result, Chen Ji ordered Sikong and Wu Mingche, the assassin of Southern Yanzhou, to supervise the army to march north. Wu Mingche had previously broken the Qi army, and his prestige was unmatched in the Chen State, but this time the enemy was changed, would the god of victory favor him again? Chen Guoshui division from the Huai River into Qingshui, the target is directly to Xuzhou, Chen army to Luliang, Liang Shiyan, the governor of Xuzhou in the Great Zhou Dynasty, led the army to fight, even the battle was defeated, had to retreat to Pengcheng.
Although Liang Shiyan became famous in Jinzhou in the first battle, he played land warfare at that time, and now he is facing a water army, and Chen Ren has an advantage in fighting water battles. Wu Mingche was in the cofferdam upstream of Qingshui, the river was diverted to flood Pengcheng, and the warships of Chen Guo's naval division drove all the way to the bottom of Pengcheng City, and the boats surrounded Pengcheng in a circle along the city.
The nearby general Yuwenxin led thousands of cavalry to the rescue, but also Yuwenxin lightly enemy, in his opinion, the southerners are good at water warfare, cavalry field warfare is the best of Xianbei, so that Yuwenxin did not expect that his own formation was not in a column, Chen suddenly killed a team of cavalry in the camp, led by Chen Guoxiao will Xiao Maha, Xiao Mahe took the lead in the front.
The left and right twelve horsemen followed. Rushing into the Zhou army's formation like a whirlwind, Xiao Maha waved his lance. Several Zhou knights were killed, and the Zhou army was in chaos. Yu Wenxin rode left and right and hurriedly escorted him to retreat. Liang Shiyan was completely out of options, so he had to send someone to Chang'an for help. In February 578, the Great Zhou general Wang Liang led the army to rescue Xuzhou, accompanied by the general Daxi Changru and the general Yang Su of Shangkaifu.
Wang Rail's current name is Karasuma Rail, and Karasuma is his Xianbei surname. Before leaving, Yu Wenyong secretly summoned Wang Liang. "Shamen, do you know why I let you go to Xuzhou?" Shamen is the small character of the king's track.
& Marurail Xie Majesty Xià trusted. "I have a question, I don't know which one do you think is more important, Xuzhou or Wu Mingche?" "Wu Mingche took Huainan by himself and was regarded as the god of war by the Southern Army. If this thief is killed on this trip, the southern army will break its courage, and in this regard, Xuzhou is naturally more important than Wu. ”
& I didn't missee the wrong person, and I will win a great victory on this trip. The words of the two of them set the tone for this military operation. Wang Liang divided the army into several teams, with Da Xi Changru leading the light cavalry first, and the rest of the armies followed with baggage.
Guan Xuzhou is already in danger. Da Xi Changru did not go straight to Pengcheng, he led the light cavalry to march lightly, and soon arrived at the entrance of Qingshui, according to the arrangement of Wang Rail. The Zhou army built a camp fence on each side of Qingshui to block the entrance of Qingshui. Da Xi Changru collected the cart from the nearby state and county, and ordered someone to disassemble the cart. The wheels were tied together with iron cables and sunk to the bottom of the river.
It turned out that Yu Wenyong and Wang Liangding's strategy was to close the door and beat the dog. They believed that although Liang Shiyan was unfavorable in battle, he still had some ability to defend the city. Therefore, this time, Wang Rail sent troops, not only to rescue Xuzhou, but more importantly, to defeat Wu Mingche, so Wang Rail didn't care whether Liang Shiyan could hold Xuzhou or not, and cut off Wu Mingche's back road first.
When the news reached Pengcheng, the Chen army was in a panic, and the general Xiao Maha Jian yì Wu Mingche took advantage of the unfinished return army attack in Wang Rail New Town, opened the waterway, and calmed the army's heart. Wu Mingche's beard was cocked, and his face sank and said: Fighting on the battlefield is within the general's business, and long-term planning is the old man's business.
The implication is that Xiao Maha's hand is stretched out too long, just take care of his own affairs, seeing that the handsome man turned his face, Xiao Maha lost his color. Chen Jun, no one dared to speak anymore. Actually, Wu Mingche's plan is to attack the city with all his might, and if Pengcheng City is broken, your Karasuma Rail's efforts will become a blind man lighting a lamp in vain. However, it backfired. Knowing that reinforcements were coming, the Zhou army was greatly boosted and defended the city, and after ten years, Pengcheng still did not move.
And the army of Wang Rail has been assembled, the city of Daxi Changru has been completed, and the waterway of the Chen army has been completely blocked. Chen Jing, the general of the Chen army, led 7,000 sailors to the north to rescue, but was blocked from entering the Huaikou of Qingshui, and Daxi Changru attacked by land and water, breaking Chen Jing, and Chen Jing retreated to Huainan.
The rear was already worry-free, and Wang Liang personally led the army to begin to move towards Pengcheng. The siege of the city could not be attacked, the enemy reinforcements came to attack, Chen Jun fell into a situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back, and the dilemma of advancing and retreating made Wu Mingche completely lose his mind, and he gathered the soldiers to study how to retreat.
It was mentioned that the earlier cofferdam would be opened, and the troops would be withdrawn while the water was in force, and the horse team would retreat with the water division. Pei Zilie, the general of the Ma Army, said: If the ship breaks the cofferdam, the ship will inevitably tilt, so it is better to let the cavalry break through first. Wu Mingche's back pain worsened at this time, and his heart was irritable, Xiao Maha couldn't bear to be martyred, and begged: There is no way out now, and it is not shameful to break through.
I hope that the Gong will lead the infantry in the carriage, and the Maha Ling Iron Cavalry will be the vanguard, and I will definitely let the Gong return to the capital. Wu Mingche said: My brother's plan is a good strategy, but there are too many infantry, and I, as the governor, must be in the rear, and the younger brother's cavalry had better move quickly, not slowly.
It was put on hold, so he set out with his cavalry overnight. Wu Mingche did not go, he led the army to dig the Qingshui cofferdam, thinking that the big water division and the big ship could rush through the obstacles set by the king rail to enter the Huai River, once entering the Huai River, the Jiangnan Navy Division would enter the fish and return to the sea, and the Suo Lu Iron Cavalry had no choice but to do so.
However, after the water reached Qingkou, the river widened, the water slowed down, and the boats were hindered by the wheels to advance. The stranded battleship was like the flesh of a sword, the Chen army was defeated, Wu Mingche and 30,000 soldiers were captured, and the Zhou army captured countless weapons and baggage, only Xiao Maha's cavalry was able to escape.
When Wu Mingche arrived in Chang'an, Yuwen Yong did not embarrass him, and named him the Duke of Huaide and became a general, but Wu Mingche was ashamed and embarrassed after this defeat, and soon died of depression. The news of the annihilation of Wu Mingche's entire army spread, and Emperor Chen hurriedly sent the general Zhongda and Kaifu Chun Yuliang as the governor of the capital, the general of the land and water forces, and the general of Zhenxi, Sun Jin, to supervise Jing and Ying. Pingbei general Fan Yi supervised the Qingkou to Jingshan Yuanhuai army, and Ning Yuan general served as the commander of Shouyang, Xincai, and Huozhou armies. In case the Zhou army took advantage of the victory to attack.
However, Yu Wenyong had no intention of dominating Jiangnan. Because the alarm on the northern frontier forced him to shift his strategic focus from the south to the north,
In 578 AD, that is, the first year of the Great Zhou Xuanzheng, due to the death of the emperor of the Zhou State on the way to conquer the Turks, the power of the Great Zhou was transferred to the hands of the crown prince Yu Wenyun. Soon sat down in the country.
At the beginning, Yuwen Yong in order to cultivate a successor, put a lot of effort into his son, in addition to strict discipline with sticks, and choose a famous teacher to teach his son, the late Northern Wei Dynasty celebrity Hu Sichun son Hu Si Zheng read a lot of books, proficient in three rites, and good at music, was favored by Yu Wenyong to become the prince's teacher, Yuwen Yun did not forget the teacher. After becoming the emperor, he was promoted to the rank of general and uncle. Therefore, Yuwen Zhen's education was very high, and in a sense, he was greatly influenced by Confucianism.
The ideal of Confucianism is to cultivate one's self and rule the country and level the world, and Yu Wenyun also has the ideal of becoming a famous emperor in history. The basic national policy of the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty was the six-article edict, and he wanted to surpass his father and ancestors, and soon made a nine-article edict. Regardless of the quality, at least in quantity surpassed his father's ancestor.
Article 1: Committing a statutory offense. All shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the law. The second is that it is permissible to enter into a marriage with a person whose mother has gone out of the five suits. Article 3. When punishment is imposed with a cane, it must be in accordance with the provisions of the law.
Article 4: If there is a thief in the county and cannot be caught, it must be reported. Article 5: Filial sons and sons who are filial to their sons and grandsons shall be commended, and those who are qualified for official positions shall be immediately recommended.
Article 6: Where a person has held a position but has a low reputation, or has been immersed in the civil sector and has civil and military talents, the local government shall visit and report to the authorities. Seventh, in the pseudo-Qi rank of seven officials or above, has been ordered to be hired; If you are willing to become an official, you can participate in the preliminary selection and be demoted two levels to an official position.
For filial piety, Shangzhou and Shangjun recommend one person every year, and Xiazhou and Xiajun recommend one person every three years. Article 9: Those who are over 70 years old shall be appointed according to the system, and all those who are widowed, poor, and unable to take care of themselves shall be given relief by the government.
As soon as these nine edicts were released, they immediately won a round of applause. In addition to Wenzhi, the young son of heaven also wanted to make achievements in martial arts, after assessing the rebellion of Lu Chang, Yu Wenyun personally put on a military uniform, and gathered the generals in the army to carry out closed study and training in the place where his father used to talk about martial arts, and then Teng Wang Yuwen, the governor of Shangzhu State and Heyang, led the people to attack Chen as the marching marshal, for this reason, he also ordered the release of criminals in the Beijing prison to let them join the army to kill the enemy and make up for their achievements.
In the first month of the new year, Yu Wenyun made a heavy decision, ordering all the civil and military ministers to take off their Hu clothes and wear wide Hanfu to participate in the court meeting.
Some Confucian-born ministers couldn't help but feel excited in their hearts, looking at the emperor who was high above, and their tears seemed to see the birth of the Ming Lord, although the princes and nobles from the Hu clan were unwilling, but everyone had seen the steady and ruthless action of the new emperor, and no one dared to openly oppose it. Through the court meeting, Yu Wenyun announced the implementation of a national amnesty, changed the yuan, and the second year of the proclamation became the first year of Dacheng.
Yu Wenyun reformed the official system and set up four auxiliary officials, with Otsuka Zaiyue Wang Yuwensheng as the big front suspicion, Xiangzhou Governor Shu Gongwei Chi Hui as the big right Bi, Shen Gong Li Mu as the big left auxiliary, and Sima Suigong Yang Jian as the big rear inheritor, although the four auxiliary governments were set up, when the emperor alone had the final say, without his decision, nothing could be done. As the saying goes, there are three fires for a new official to take office, and the later official is always willing to find out a few things about his predecessor to make a fuss, and do the opposite.
Yu Wenyong's punishment was too heavy during his reign, so Yu Wenyun abolished the punishment book issued by Yu Wenyong, and issued amnesty orders many times, the result of this is that more and more people break the law, since the cost of breaking the law is small, the probability of breaking the law becomes larger. Yu Wenyun quickly realized the problem, and he made many mistakes and hated the noise of the ministers in his ears, and wanted to kill chickens and monkeys to regain his majesty.
Re-issue of the criminal law, this revised criminal law is even harsher than Yuwen Yong's version, in order to effectively control the hundred officials, he specially set up an agency, let his cronies spy on and collect information from the ministers, the ministers were a little negligent, and they were stabbed before they knew what was going on.
Yu Wenyun accidentally got the brocade guard made by Zhu Yuanzhang in the later generations. Zheng Yi is a smart person, his greatest wisdom is insight into the world, as the saying goes, insight into the world is learning, so Zheng Yi is not simple, he saw the emperor's master's hobby, so he tried his best to cater to the master and make the master happy.
One of the most criticized by the ministers is that when the anniversary of Yuwenyong's funeral has not passed, a lot of scattered music of the original Qi country was collected, and a number of music parties were held in front of the Chang'an Palace.
Yu Wenyong reigned in the harem of more than a dozen people, how to satisfy Yu Wenyun's suppressed heart for more than ten years, so the world's beauty pageant filled the harem, in order to make the beauty feel at ease, add the name of the harem. He also drinks and has fun, and does not work for a few days. The ministers asked for things, and all the eunuchs played it.
Cheng Leyun of Jingzhao County originally advised the emperor not to be amnesty at every turn, but now the emperor has overdone it and has carried out severe punishments, and Leyun can't help it, and he has a heart, and he listed eight major sins for Yu Wenyun in a book. (To be continued......)