Chapter 318: The King's Power
The next day, the first court meeting of the new monarch on the throne was held in the Taiji Palace, and all the civil and military officials of Dayan were present, and the momentum was very huge. The courtiers attached great importance to this meeting, because this was the first court meeting of the new monarch to ascend the throne, and many edicts and appointments will be officially promulgated today.
Therefore, everyone did not dare to slack off.
Among these people, there are royal nobles like the second prince Ji Ping and the third prince Ji Hongchang, and they don't dare to ignore it, and they came to the square in front of the Taiji Hall early to wait for the bell to enter the court.
There is only one exception, and this person is Ji Qingchen, the king of Northern Liao. All but him were all there.
When they arrived at the Taiji Palace, the ministers began to look at each other, wanting to see how many people had come to attend the court meeting, and to their surprise, as long as all the ministers serving in the King's Landing had arrived, only the Northern Liao Wang Ji Qingchen was missing.
Just when everyone guessed when the king of power would arrive, they saw the sound of iron armor rubbing outside the Taiji Palace, everyone had been frightened by yesterday's Bingwei Taiji Palace, and now when they heard the sound of armor rubbing, their legs were a little weak, and they stared at the outer gate of the Taiji Hall with wide eyes.
At this time, Ji Qingchen's figure appeared at the door outside the Taiji Hall, and there were thirty guards of the cavalry battalion in addition to him. Today, Ji Qingchen is still wearing a black python robe, but there are more dragons on the python robe, one more than the dragon on the prince's python robe, and the prince's python robe is similar, but the color is still black.
and Ji Qingchen wore a wolf blade on his waist when he walked into the Taiji Palace.
The python robe comparable to the status of the prince, the saber goes to the palace, and the guards accompany each other to the palace, what a lot of power this is! The ministers sighed, and even Ji Qingchen's uncles Ye Qingzhi and Ye Qingchen sighed, not to mention other ministers and the children of the royal family such as Ji Ping and Ji Hongchang.
Only Bai Jin and Li Muzhi, who are now second only to Ji Qingchen in power, as well as Pei Wenju, in the main hall, did not show the envy and jealousy of the ministers for Ji Qingchen's power. Because they saw Emperor Yan's edict, they knew very well what the content of the edict was, so they naturally knew why Ji Wenwei would be so good to Ji Qingchen.
Bai Jin has already sent a letter to Shi, and he should not have participated in such a court meeting.
However, today's first court meeting of the new monarch's succession, and he is also a witness to the new monarch's succession, he must attend today. In addition, the topic of today's court meeting is about foreign wars, and how to deploy the war against the country and the Lingnan Yi people, which has a bearing on the future of Dayan.
Therefore, he must attend this meeting.
And this is also the reason why Ji Qingchen went to the palace for what kind of saber, even if Ji Wen allowed it, he himself was not so high-profile, just because it was about the honor and disgrace of Dayan and the danger of losing the country, he couldn't help but do it, and told the ministers with a gesture that Dayan would fight to the death.
"The time has come, the ministers are early-" Just when Ji Qingchen arrived in front of the Taiji Palace, he walked straight to the ministers and stood for a while, and a chamberlain walked out of the Taiji Hall and shouted to the ministers under the steps of the palace.
The ministers walked into the Taiji Hall under the leadership of Ji Qingchen, Bai Jin, Li Muzhi and Pei Wenju.
The ministers of Dayan entered the court into two columns, civil and military, led by the ministers with the highest status in the court.
Therefore, there is no obvious mutual hostility between the civil and military forces, but competition still exists.
And in today's court meeting, Bai Jin and Li Muzhi stood in front of the generals, while Ji Qingchen and Pei Wenju stood in front of Wenchen. Today's Ji Qingchen appeared in the main hall as the king of parliament.
When the ministers arrived at the Taiji Palace, they saw Ji Wen wearing a dragon robe and a dragon crown on his head and walked through the hall, and climbed the dragon chair step by step.
"The king of the council can not kneel-" Just when the ministers were about to bow to Ji Wen, they suddenly heard Ji Qingchen's voice floating in the main hall.
The ministers in the main hall were stunned, they couldn't digest this amazing will at all, and they didn't bow down to worship the Son of Heaven, what kind of glory was this!
But this power is not given to them, so they have to bow to Ji Wen respectfully before they can get up.
"Today is the first day of my ascension to the throne and the title of emperor!" After the ministers finished kneeling, Ji Wen, who took a deep breath, said, "Therefore, I am not very familiar with government affairs, and I still need the full help of the government hall and the ministers of the Privy Council. β
"But now everyone knows the crisis that Dayan is facing, let's discuss this issue at today's court meeting!" Ji Wen said, moved his gaze to Liu Pingyuan and said, "Liu Shangshu, you introduce the situation!" β
The first to let Liu Pingyuan speak, this is a message that Ji Wen is conveying to his ministers, and Liu Pingyuan is still the person he trusts the most.
"According to the news from the front, the Xishu army was stopped at Jianmen Pass, but it did not pose any threat to my Dayan, and the key enemies are still the Liguo and Lingnan Yi tribes." Liu Pingyuan said carefully, "Leaving the country and pouring 400,000 iron cavalry south, the leading general is Mu Feng, the eldest disciple of the military god Li Qingyi, and there are also Tiefutu heavy cavalry by his side, and now the troops are besieging Ningzhou City, and the situation in Ningzhou is precarious." The Lingnan Yi people poured 300,000 troops, led by the Lingnan Yi general Sang Xiong, who has captured the city of Yizhou, occupied the entire territory of Yizhou, and is now marching to Jinzhou, because our troops in the south are weak, there is no targeted deployment, Yizhou is broken, we have no defense against the Lingnan Yi army, so now the Lingnan Yi people pose the greatest threat to us. β
After Liu Pingyuan finished analyzing, he bowed to Ji Wen and returned to his position.
"Tell me about our troops!" Ji Wen said that he was calm and relaxed, and he dealt with it calmly, and he really had the bearing of a king of a country.
"Ningzhou originally had an army of 200,000, plus the 300,000 Northern Liao iron cavalry sent to Ningzhou by the King of Northern Liao, the total strength reached 500,000, compared with the number of troops leaving the country, we are not worse than them!" Li Muzhi said, "However, the actual situation is that in addition to the 300,000 Northern Liao Iron Cavalry and the 100,000 Ningzhou Iron Cavalry, the remaining 100,000 troops have low combat effectiveness and are not enough to pose a threat to the Liguo Iron Cavalry." Therefore, we are basically equal to the number of troops leaving the country. β
"It's just that with Mu Feng's commanding ability, Liu Donglou and Bai Xiangcheng are still a little worse than him, this is our disadvantage!" Li Muzhi said bluntly.
Indeed, with Mu Feng's strength, no one objected to him saying this.
"As for in Xishu, there are already 100,000 troops to defend, plus the 100,000 Northern Liao iron cavalry sent by Li Changzheng sent by the King of Northern Liao, the total strength has reached 200,000 people, and it is not enough to attack Xishu, but it is not enough to defend Xishu." Li Muzhi said.
After another pause, he continued, "Yizhou in the south, after Yizhou was broken, more than 100,000 troops have been annihilated, and the defenses of Luzhou and Jinzhou are also very weak, only the state army, their combat effectiveness is low, and it is not enough to stop the Lingnan Yi people from going north. β
"As for King's Landing, we now have forty-six troops in the army, leaving 100,000 troops to defend King's Landing, and there are 360,000 troops available for mobilization." After Li Muzhi finished speaking, he bowed to Ji Wen and returned to his position.
"Ningzhou General Liu Donglou is unfavorable to the enemy and removes him from the post of Ningzhou General, but now is the time for Dayan to employ people, let him make meritorious contributions!" Ji Wen said lightly, but it was a shocking thunderbolt in the ears of the ministers! A dignified general of Ningzhou, if he says that he will be exempted, he is still at the most critical juncture in Dayan, this new monarch is really courageous!
Immediately, I heard Ji Wen say, "Bai Xiangcheng is loyal and brave, and he has made meritorious contributions to Dayan in resisting strong enemies at the critical moment, and he has been named the general of Zhenbei, and he has full authority to lead the Ningzhou army to deal with the iron cavalry leaving the country." β
"No!" As soon as Ji Wen's voice fell, Li Muzhi and Liu Pingyuan on the side immediately received their orders.
"Li Changzheng entered Xizhou, made great contributions to Dayan to block the strong enemy Xishu, and named him the general of Zhenxi, stationed in Xizhou to deal with the Xishu army!" Ji Wen continued.
"No!" Liu Pingyuan immediately received the order, he knew the reason why Ji Wen did this, only Li Muzhi did not say anything, because it was his grandson who was rewarded, and he had to keep a low profile at this time.
"As for the situation in the south, what does the ninth brother think?" Ji Wen moved his gaze to Ji Qingchen.
"Now that King's Landing has an army of 360,000, we can divide our troops into two ways to support Jinzhou and Ningzhou respectively." Ji Qingchen said, "As for how to divide the two armies, who should lead the army, we have to think carefully!" β
"I don't know what Liu Shangshu and the third brother mean?" Ji Qingchen asked, he already knew that Li Muzhi had handed over the file of the army recovered from King's Landing City to the two of them, so he would ask the opinions of the two.
"There are 500,000 troops in Ningzhou, even if Ningzhou is occupied by the country, our military deployment in the northern states is also very secret, and we can support the northern capital at any time, so we only need to dispatch 100,000 iron cavalry." Liu Pingyuan didn't speak, and gave Ji Hongchang the opportunity to speak, "As for Jinzhou in the south, the Lingnan Yi clan is famous for their strong foot soldiers, and they poured out 300,000 troops to attack Dayan, wanting to hold Jinzhou, and then defeat them, only 260,000 troops may not be enough!" β
What the third prince Ji Hongchang said is the truth, the Lingnan Yi clan foot soldiers are strong, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers does not belong to the Yulin Cavalry, to deal with such a strong army, it is probably not enough to rely on the remaining more than 200,000 troops of Dayan!
"What do you think of the Marquis of Jin?" Ji Wen asked, he also knew Da Yan's current situation, so he would ask everyone for their opinions.
"It is enough to leave 100,000 troops in King's Landing, with Lao Chen, Li Muzhi and Liu Pingyuan in charge, even the thirty troops of the Lingnan Yi clan are not afraid of coming to the city." Bai Jin said very heroically, "As for how the 260,000 army will deal with the Lingnan Yi clan, it is time to see the ability of the King of Northern Liao!" β
After Bai Jin said this, everyone moved their eyes to Ji Qingchen. Because everyone has already reached the meaning of Bai Jin's sentence in their hearts, it is estimated that this time they will have to go out in person to deal with the Lingnan Yi clan and the Northern Liao King.
But when it makes everyone strange, with Ji Qingchen's ability and familiarity with Mu Feng, he should have gone north to Ningzhou, but why should he go to Lingnan?
"Ninth brother, what do you mean?" Ji Wen asked.
"Brother Huihuang, what the younger brother means is to let the third brother lead 100,000 iron cavalry north to Ningzhou, supervise the army of Ningzhou to fight against the iron cavalry of the country, and the younger brother of the minister to lead the 260,000 army south to Jinzhou to deal with the Lingnan Yi tribe." Ji Qingchen said that this was a countermeasure he had already thought of.
"Thisβ" Ji Wen hesitated.
Because his throne was given by Ji Qingchen, without Ji Qingchen, he would not be able to ascend to the throne of Dayan, but he just ascended the throne yesterday, and he has not had time to eradicate dissidents, and now there are many people who oppose his accession to the throne and become emperor.
Besides, he only transferred Ji Hongchang alone and put Ji Ping in King's Landing City, he didn't worry about Ji Ping, without Ji Qingchen's suppression, he was afraid that Ji Ping would make some moves.