Chapter 140: Choices After Defeat

But even more surprising things continued to happen, after Tian Qianzhen finished speaking, Yan Zhuang immediately followed and said: "Your Highness, the ministers agree with General Tian's words very much, now Your Majesty's actions have directly caused Da Yan to be centrifuged up and down, the ministers are cold, and the soldiers are panicked, and there is no way to resist the attack of the Tang Army, if His Royal Highness does not stand up and act on behalf of His Majesty, then Da Yan will soon perish. Your Highness, for the sake of the future of Dayan and the future of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Luoyang City, you should stand up bravely and perform the responsibility of Emperor Dayan on behalf of Your Majesty. ”

Yan Zhuang said, facing An Qingxu, he knelt down respectfully. Then Gao Shang also knelt down and begged loudly together: "Your Highness, you perform the responsibility of Emperor Dayan on behalf of Your Majesty, which is expected by everyone, and please do not shirk Your Highness, and the ministers implore you to stand up immediately and act as Emperor Dayan, and the ministers will jointly ask Your Majesty to pass the throne to Your Highness." ”

As soon as these heavyweights said this, the others didn't understand what was going on, and they all knelt down and begged to ask An Qingxu to replace An Lushan and do the responsibility of the "Great Yan" emperor.

An Qingxu was taken aback by this meeting, and hurriedly stepped forward to support Yan Zhuang and noble, after helping the two up, he stepped forward and motioned to Tian Qianzhen, who was kneeling on one knee, to stand up, and after inviting all the ministers who knelt on the ground to ask for their lives, An Qingxu replied: "Ladies and gentlemen, what you mean is Lone, but his father and his prestige are still there, and now he is still unwilling to hand over the affairs of the court to others, nor does he want me, the prince, to act as the supervisor of state affairs, if you want Your Majesty to transfer power to Lone, it is difficult to ...... It's huge! My father doesn't want to pass on to Gu yet, and I don't want to ...... Gu either."

An Qingxu actually already has his own ideas, and he is also preparing for this, but such a plan cannot be said by him, and his ministers must put it forward first, and after he repeatedly prevaricates, he finally reluctantly agreed, so that he would not be morally blamed, so he expressed his difficulties in a hurry, and hoped that these ministers in front of him would come up with a way.

Because of the fiasco of Kip Stone Fort, he only led thousands of remnants to flee back to Luoyang, and was almost cut off by An Lushan, Tian Qianzhen, who had to pick up a small life after An Qingxu's repeated pleas, heard An Qingxu say this, and said desperately: "Your Highness, if Your Majesty is unwilling to hand over the power to you, you can follow the example of your ancestors and persecute it with soldiers......

Tian Qianzhen's words were like a thunderclap, which made An Qingxu tremble and surprised the others.

Tian Qianzhen did not hesitate, and continued to add: "Your Highness, the last general knows that Your Majesty is definitely unwilling to hand over the power to Your Highness, if someone asks like this, not only will the person who asks be severely punished, but even beheaded, and His Highness's safety will also be threatened." Therefore, the last general felt that he must threaten His Majesty with military advice and get His Majesty to agree to pass on to the crown prince. Your Highness, in times of crisis, you can't have the kindness of a woman!"

There were too many people at the scene, and Tian Qianzhen said it so clearly, it would definitely make many people shocked. But this is exactly what An Qingxu needs, and he thinks the same, he hopes that someone will say such a thing, and he will pretend to be reluctant again, and be forced to accept it after resigning, then no one will accuse him. In order to create an atmosphere, he also quickly refused, and severely rebuked Tian Qianzhen: "How can General Tian say this? The father established Dayan, and the merit is in the future, but now it is just because of his ill health and the situation is not very clear, which leads to a change in the surname, and it will be fine when he is in battle. If you treat your father in this way, you will be unkind, unjust, disloyal, and unfilial!"

Hearing An Qingxu say this, Tian Qianzhen did not flinch, sneered, and then said: "Your Highness, if you continue to allow Your Majesty to do such nonsense, bury Dayan, and do not take any measures, this is an act of unkindness, injustice, disloyalty, and unfilial piety. If Your Highness doesn't take measures and allows Dayan to be annihilated, then you will be a sinner in history!"

Tian Qianzhen's words were upright, which made An Qingxu stunned, and also made Yan Zhuang, Gao Shang and others solemn.

Yan Zhuang also immediately took Tian Qianzhen's words and echoed: "Your Highness, what General Tian said is that extraordinary people must do extraordinary things, and if Your Highness is indecisive, then he may really let Dayan be annihilated and become a sinner in history." The old minister also felt that only when His Royal Highness took over the power of the court and commanded the world, and our Great Yan monarchs and ministers united as one, could we confront the Tang Army, otherwise Great Yan would be a plate of scattered sand......"

"Yan Shilang, don't talk about it yet!" An Qingxu interrupted Yan Zhuang's words excitedly, and after pacing back and forth for a few steps, he also made up his mind, and waved his hand to make the other people stunned: "You guys should retreat first." Lone also warns you that if anyone dares to leak out today's matter, they will be severely punished!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Many of them retreated in fear.

An Qingxu left Gao Shang, Tian Qianzhen, Yin Ziqi and several others alone to continue to discuss more confidential matters.

"Your Highness, you should send someone to strictly monitor these people today to prevent them from leaking the news!" Seeing An Qingxu waving away the people who had been summoned to discuss the matter, Gao Shang said worriedly: "Your Highness, according to the minister's wishes, you have to make up your mind just now and take action immediately, such a thing, the night chief must be dreamy!"

"Yes!, Your Highness, you can't hesitate any longer, you must act immediately!" Tian Qianzhen was also a little dissatisfied with An Qingxu letting so many people who came to discuss things leave like this.

An Qingxu also understood that his actions just now were quite stupid, and he hurriedly responded: "Don't worry, you will definitely send someone to monitor the mansion of these people just now, and you will definitely prevent them from leaking the news." Lonely is also afraid of long nights and dreams, so I want to discuss with all the good students here how to arrange it properly!"

At this time, Yin Ziqi, who had not spoken much, spoke: "Your Highness, the minister thinks that Your Majesty will not give up power and is willing to abdicate, Your Highness must take tough measures if you want to gain power!"

"General Yin is right, Your Highness, the last general also thinks so, if Your Majesty does not agree to abdicate, then there is only one way to advise the soldiers," Tian Qianzhen said in a low voice: "The last general knows that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already installed some people around His Majesty, if His Majesty does not agree, you can ......"

Although Tian Qianzhen didn't say it explicitly, everyone knew what it meant. Although the crowd was a little frightened, no one spoke out against it.

Maybe everyone thinks about this and thinks it should be so, but everyone doesn't want it to happen, let alone say it out of their mouths, after all, it's a big rebellion. Such a move may also cause "Dayan" to fall apart and become a complete disintegration. After all, in today's Luoyang City, there are still strong majority of people loyal to An Lushan, including Shi Siming, Cai Xide, Gao Xiuyan, An Shouzhong and other generals who hold military power. These generals were not very interested in An Qingxu, the "prince" of "Dayan", and An Qingxu didn't even dare to do anything to win them over, for fear of arousing their suspicions, and finally making An Lushan suspicious.

"Your Highness, the old minister also agrees with General Tian's proposal, in extraordinary times, you must do extraordinary things, and you can't have the kindness of a woman!" Yan Zhuang echoed.

Because he was beaten by An Lushan many times, this minister, who was originally a close confidant of An Lushan, had already resented An Lushan, and even had the urge to take a knife and kill An Lushan. The humiliation and physical trauma have distorted Yan Zhuang's surname, from the original respect for An Lushan as a god, to his outright hatred, it can be said that he is the strongest hope that An Qingxu will replace An Lushan as the "Great Yan" emperor.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that he has been repeatedly bewitched during this time.

Hearing what several important advisers under him said, and no one else objected, An Qingxu thought about it, and nodded slightly in acquiescence: "What you Aiqing said is reasonable, for the sake of Dayan, many times you have to put your personal life and death and honor aside, and those who become big things can't be too restrained, and you can't let your father and emperor beat Zhongai Qing to serious injuries or death, and destroy Dayan!"

Hearing An Qingxu say this, Yan Zhuang, Gao Shang, Yin Ziqi, and Tian Qianzhen all nodded their heads to express their agreement.

Seeing that these most important supporters were about to agree, An Qingxu also breathed a sigh of relief, but he immediately thought of another point, and hesitated for a moment, and asked everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, with your support, Lone feels that his wish will come true, but Lone is still worried, after all, his father's prestige is quite high, and he can be compared with Lone, and Lone is afraid...... I'm afraid of what if. Lone also wants to ask you, what if we fail? ”

An Qingxu's words shocked everyone again.

This sounds like a bad feeling, why do you think An Qingxu, the "prince", is not optimistic at all?

But everyone also knows that this is of course something to consider, and everything may have to be thought of, otherwise something will happen, but there is no way to remedy it.

It's just that no one has taken this point seriously, and all of a sudden no one has come forward to express their opinion.

An Qingxu frowned slightly, opened his mouth, and finally swallowed the doubts in his heart.

After a while, Gao Shang finally stood up and expressed his opinion: "Your Highness, the old minister thinks that we should think about the consequences of success and failure, and we must be prepared to deal with it. If it succeeds, Lao Chen feels that His Royal Highness will definitely be able to control the situation and convince the ministers that I, Dayan, will unite to fight against the threat of the Tang Army. ”

"If things fail, we can go out of the city and ask the Tang army to surrender!" Gao Gao said in a low voice, but very seriously: "I believe that as long as we surrender, the Tang army will definitely wait for us." Instead of sitting back and waiting, it is better to find a way to survive for ourselves, we were originally officials of the Tang Dynasty, if Dayan failed in the end, it would be better to take the initiative to join the Tang Dynasty if we became prisoners. ”

The noble words shocked everyone again. What he's talking about is quite unethical, but it's a good idea. If they rise up to make a living, they will be enemies with An Lushan and those who support him, and there is a saying that is not good, the enemy of the enemy is a friend. The Tang army is An Lushan's enemy, so if they turn against An Lushan, they will also become enemies, and if they fail in the end, then the Tang army, the enemy's enemy, is also a better strategy.

But this was not easy to accept, and after the noble words were spoken, there was silence in the room, and no one continued to express any opinion. (To be continued.) )