finally escaped from the pursuit of the Jin soldiers, and now Emperor Gaozong has to consider the question of where to go?

In any case, the emperor still has to have a foothold commensurate with his status.

"Renewal of Capital and Governance. Volume 103 records: The emperor summoned the officials and generals to plan for the mansion. The emperor said: "Let me stay here, or go to Zhejiang?" ”

While the monarchs and ministers were discussing and discussing, a general suddenly broke in, knelt down in front of Emperor Gaozong, and howled loudly.

When everyone looked at it, it turned out to be Liu Guangshi, the envoy of the Fengguo Army and the envoy of the capital inspection.

This Lord Liu Guangshi was sent by the imperial court to meet the Jin soldiers three days ago, but he collapsed without a fight; Now, after several rounds, I finally found an organization.

The little emperor was taken aback, and hurriedly asked the reason.

Liu Guangshi cried: "Wang Yuan is in charge of the ships on the river, and he always says on weekdays that he can ensure a smooth crossing of the river in an emergency, and he will never make a mistake." Where are all the ships now? There are tens of thousands of subordinates, as well as 2,000 cavalry, and now they have no boats to cross the river, so how can their subordinates serve His Majesty. ”

This Liu Guangshi's cheek is really thick: obviously there are still so many troops, instead of protecting the people and defending the country, he came to complain about running away without a boat.

It must be reminded that there are only 500 cavalry in Yangzhou City now.

Of course, Liu Guangshi did this for his reasons.

The first is to divert attention, so that Gaozong no longer pays attention to it and investigates his crime of self-collapse without a fight.

The second is to preserve strength, the remaining troops at present cannot pass the generals, and Liu Guangshi has no capital in his hands. Therefore, Liu Guangshi must try to get his subordinates back no matter what.

A single commander is not a commander. For this. As a second-generation soldier, Liu Guangshi knows very well in his heart.

Prime Minister Huang Qianshan didn't have any other skills, but personnel struggles were his strong point, and he saw through Liu Guangshi's tricks at once, and immediately responded: "Hundreds of boats have been collected to let the sergeants cross the river." ”

Huang Qianshan didn't want to dwell too much on this issue

Emperor Gaozong was most worried about his own safety, so he said: "Since the matter of the sergeant crossing the river has been arranged, now it is better to discuss what to do?"

Lu Yihao, the secretary of the ministry, flashed out of class, and he couldn't afford to bow down when he was demoted; Immediately afterwards, the three people including Hubu Shangshu Ye Mengde also stood up one after another. Fall on your knees under the courtroom.

Gaozong didn't know what it meant for these people to run to the court to bow down, so he asked Huang Qianshan to ask.

Lu Yihao knocked his head to the ground and begged the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, stay here for a while, as a support for the soldiers and people of Jiangbei." Otherwise, if the Jin soldiers crossed the river by the way, it would be even more embarrassing. ”

I have to say that Lu Yihao still sees the current situation quite thoroughly.

If Zhao Gou continues to flee at this time, the tragedy of Yangzhou City is likely to be repeated in Zhenjiang.

The army and the people don't know the truth of the Jin soldiers, and as soon as the emperor runs away, rumors are bound to spread. People also thought that there were countless golden soldiers killed. As a result of the unstable morale of the army and the panic of the people, everyone was in a hurry to flee for their lives. If you don't need gold soldiers to fight, you will squeeze to death and trample to death first......

Emperor Gaozong looked at Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan again, and Huang and Wang both nodded in agreement.

Emperor Gaozong had long run out of ideas, and when he saw that all the ministers said this, he had to agree to stay for the time being, and said: "Since this is the case, then let the prime minister go to the river to command, order the soldiers in Jiangbei to form a formation to resist the enemy, and let the officials and people cross the river first." ”

From this point of view, Zhao Gou still knows how to do some façade work

After the early meeting between Emperor Gaozong and his ministers, two small incidents occurred one after another.

The first trivial incident, the Jiangbei Metropolitan Inspector Huang Fuzuo was killed by Wang Yuan, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army.

When Gaozong questioned Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan replied: "Huang Fuzuo is in charge of the sea boats and ships, and he is not effective in handling affairs, resulting in a large number of soldiers and civilians stagnating on the north bank, unable to cross the river in time, and the crime should be killed." ”

In fact, Huangfu Zuo is just Wang Yuan's scapegoat.

Wang Yuan saw Liu Guangshi exposing himself, and was afraid that he would be held accountable afterwards, so he came up with a trick "Li Dai Taozhuang", put the responsibility on Huangfu Zuo, and then killed him.

Now Emperor Gaozong and other ministers have no time or mood to deal with this matter. Even if it is mentioned again in the future, Wang Yuan can claim that it was Huang Fuzuo's mistake, which led to Liu Guangshi's misunderstanding.

Anyway, there is no proof of death, everything is Huang Fuzuo's fault, and Wang Yuan himself will be fine

The second incident, near noon, a commander named An Yi in Jiangbei sent someone to cross the river to report to the imperial court: "This morning, hundreds of cavalry from the Jin Kingdom came to attack, and these Jin soldiers did not wear armor, and An Yi led a thousand subordinates of his headquarters, plus some other scattered sergeants, to beat the Jin soldiers back.

When Gaozong heard the news, he immediately promoted An Yi to the commander of Jiangbei and asked him to guard the Guazhou ferry.

"Renewal of Capital and Governance. Volume 13 records: There is a commander An Yi, who sent an envoy from Jiangbei Lin Shanlai to say: "This morning, hundreds of Jin cavalry attacked, all of them had no armor, and they had led thousands of people to gather all the defeated troops to shoot back. So he took righteousness as the control of Jiangbei and collected troops to protect Guazhoudu.

It can be seen from the above text that after a long journey and battle, these golden soldiers are already sleepy and tired, and they simply don't even wear such important protective gear as armor.

The most important point is that An Yi led more than 1,000 infantry and repelled these hundreds of cavalry.

It needs to be reminded that a few days ago, the cavalry of the Jin State, which was also 500, had already defeated the Fengguo Army's Jiedu envoy, the capital inspection envoy Liu Guangshi's department, and the Imperial Forest Army all commanded Wang Yuan's department, with a total of no less than 100,000 horses.

This is the strangeness of the history of the Song Dynasty, which makes future generations mad and incomprehensible

After a while, Wang Yuan came over to the emperor again and said: "Your Majesty stays here, you can only hold a place in Zhenjiang, if the Jin soldiers cross the river from Tongzhou (Nantong, Jiangsu) and occupy Gusu (Suzhou, Jiangsu) first, then what should Your Majesty do?" It's better to go to Hangzhou early, Hangzhou is blocked by multiple rivers. ”

Before Gaozong could speak, the inner servants and eunuchs around him all said that Wang Yuan was reasonable.

At noon, Gaozong called Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and other high-level officials to tell them Wang Yuan's opinion.

Huang Qianshan's answer was very interesting: "Since Lord Wang Yuan has said so, what other reasons can I find to let His Majesty stay and not leave." ”

Regarding Wang Yuan's opinion, Huang Qianshan did not object, nor did he say that he agreed.

Of course, Huang Qianshan knew that Emperor Gaozong wanted to go, and the farther away from Jin Bing was better, so he didn't dare to object; However, Emperor Gaozong only agreed in the morning to Lu Yihao and others to stay and not leave, the so-called "Jun has no jokes", if Huang Qianshan agrees, wouldn't he have to bear the risk of trapping Gaozong in injustice?

For Huang Qianshan, an old fox, ambiguity is the only option.

"Renewal of Capital and Governance. Volume 103 recorded: Since the people of Yuan are right, they said: "Temporarily stationed in Zhenjiang, you can defend one place." If Jin crosses the river from Tongzhou and takes Gusu first, what will it be? It is not as good as Qiantang to have the obstruction of the heavy river. "The servants thought so. At noon on the Japanese side, the emperor sent the envoy to summon Zaizhi and told him in Yuanyu, Qianshan said: "Yuanyan is like this, how can the minister resign to stay under His Majesty!" ”

In the above historical record, there are a few words that are easily overlooked, and these words are: "The servants of the inner world think it is".

This shows that the eunuchs around the emperor are expressing their opinions on state affairs.

From the records of various historical documents, people often think that the core of the collective leadership of the Jianyan Dynasty at this stage is Zhao Gou, Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, Wang Yuan, etc., because their corresponding positions are emperor, prime minister, privy envoy, and general manager of the Imperial Forest Army.

But that's not exactly the case.

Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, Wang Yuan and others have real power, but they all have to listen to the emperor; But the emperor was still young and needed the care of a nanny; These nannies (eunuchs) surrounded the emperor all day long, expressing their opinions on everything and meddling in everything.

God knows how many of the decisions made by the emperor before were his own ideas, and how many came from the mouths of the eunuchs.

The Song Dynasty had a tradition of eunuchs handling government affairs, especially in the era of Song Huizong, Tong Guan, Liang Sicheng, Li Xian, etc., which one was not a momentary handsome.

These eunuchs around Emperor Gaozong are also working hard to learn from their predecessors, and they must be like our Tong Guan adults, the party, government, army, and finance.

It's a pity that times are different.

Emperor Gaozong's perverse and cowardly behavior, coupled with the fingers of these eunuchs, finally led to the first coup d'état of the Jianyan Dynasty and the first downfall of Emperor Gaozong...... (To be continued......)

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