Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Story of the Pass (2)
From the old beggar's chattering narration, everyone knew that the grandfather and grandson had spent a snowy night in a haystack outside the town last night, and after one night, hunger and cold were really unsustainable, so they went into the town to ask for some food. I didn't want to beg for food outside this big store, but my little grandson really couldn't walk, so he collapsed here. Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper had no mercy, and if he did not give a helping hand, he would just drive them away. As he spoke, the old beggar was already crying without tears, so he could only howl dryly, and said:
"Xiao Lao'er also fought with Hun Ling Gong on the border that day, but how could he think that he would be desolate when he was old, his son died, there was no land, and even this grandson was gone!"
After listening to the old beggar's cry, the shopkeeper still muttered, and when he saw everyone's accusations, he told Xiao Er to go and shorten a bowl of hot soup and two pieces of Hu Cake. Said to the onlookers:
Hu is not a cold-blooded person, but he saw this old man lying in front of the store early in the morning, feeling that the color was not good and unlucky, and he was afraid that he would rush to the business for a day. Disperse, disperse, everybody. ”
"He is here to do the business of ushering in and sending him, relying on word of mouth, to do this unrighteous thing, one to ten, ten to hundred, and the business traveler is willing to take care of his business? Where did he dare to offend the wrath of the people? ”
The middle-aged man behind him said softly, it seemed that he was talking to Master Huang, but he was talking to the little boy. Master Huang nodded slightly, expressing his approval, but the little boy still had a puzzled expression. Master Huang asked the little boy to get into the car first, and whispered to the middle-aged man:
"Let Wu Ciyou buy some food and clothing for this grandfather and grandson, and send someone to send them to Chang'an, waiting for us to come back."
The middle-aged man gave up his hand and took the order. Of course, Wu Ciyou is the imperial guard Wu Ciyou who cracked the case of Yuanjing in Foguang Temple, and the one who can move Wu Ciyou is naturally not an ordinary person. Any one of these three people can make a splash in this town. This Huang Lao Ye is the head of the Tang Empire, Li Yu, Huang Lao Ye is the title set when he first left the palace. And the little boy is Princess Youning who dresses as a man, and the middle-aged man is Li Jifu, the ruling of the Tang Dynasty.
They don't stay in Chang'an, why are they running to Tongguan? Even if the emperor can go to Jiangnan without any trouble, what kind of drama is it if the ruling does not stay in the imperial court?
Li Jifu is no longer in power.
The battle report came from the front, and while besieging Jinxiang after taking Yutai one after another, Li Yu sent Hou Weiqing to lead the 52nd Army to continue to hug the grass and beat rabbits as a partial division, and advance lightly, and the troops pointed directly at Yunzhou and Pingyin. This strange army really surprised Yunzhou, won many battles, effectively shook the rear of Ziqing, loosened the rule of Li Shidao, and everywhere they passed, a large number of people supported the old and the young, and fled to the imperial court. This partial division also shook Yunzhou, the 52nd Army was also complacent, took two more steps, burned a heavy warehouse in Ziqing, but unexpectedly delayed time, when returning from Pingyin, was pursued by the Ziqing cavalry, lost two battles in a row, suffered a big loss, and lost two partial generals, the Shi General who was dissatisfied with Han Yu's "Pinghuai West Tablet" was also among them. According to Hou Weiqing's report, among the soldiers and horses in Ziqing was Wei Botian's army.
At the same time, news came back from the camp that Deputy Marshal Zheng Yuqing slipped awkwardly on the ice while playing with his grandson, broke one of his arms, legs and feet, and was unable to preside over the military. The deputy marshal was sick, and where did the marshal who stood in the front desk go? Because the last time the marshal of Huaixi was personally appointed by the crown prince, the origin was too big, and there was no marshal in the camp this time, and the military strategy was only designated as the ruling Li Jifu in charge, who was the actual marshal. There are two deputy marshals in the camp, one is Zheng Yuqing, the actual commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and the other deputy marshal is Li Wei, the king of the governor of Yunzhou, as the younger brother of the prince, no matter how talented he is, he can only hide, and Li Wei, the deputy marshal, is only in Chang'an, and he is a false leader. Although Zheng Yuqing is sick, he can't send this master out. After thinking about it, Li Yu decided that Zheng Yuqing would dismiss the Pingzhang affair and return to the dynasty to serve as the secretary of the ministry, and temporarily raise it in Luoyang. The ruling Li Jifu dismissed the head of the household department and served as the envoy of the Xuanwu Festival and the deputy marshal of the camp. Lu Zhen, the secretary of the military department, served as the secretary of the household department and the secretary of the ruling affairs, so that the tradition of the secretary of the household department and the chapter of the government was determined. Pei Yan was transferred to the Ministry of War. Tongping Zhangshi.
Hasn't Li Yu always supported Li Jifu, how could he dismiss Li Jifu's ruling pen? Things have to start with the gate valve politics that continued from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. It should be said that Wang Lu, Zheng Er, Li Er, Cui Pei Wei and other big families have made great talents in major families due to the status of the government and the opposition formed by the inheritance of the past dynasties and the elite training model with cultural advantages, so that the talents of the major families have come out in large numbers, and the children are all over the government and the opposition, even if the mediocre children are easy to take the position. The power of these families in the government and the opposition is extremely huge, and they often do not even throw away the face of the royal family. For example, Gaozong wanted to marry the Langya Wang family, but was simply refused.
There is a popular saying in Zhenguan that "young and promising, born in Jinshi, compiling the history of the country, marrying four women with surnames (Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng)" As a glorious thing, a prime minister in Gaozong, once lamented that the three major regrets in his life are "not allowed to enter the Shidi, repair the history of the country, and marry a woman with seven surnames", the Cui family in the four surnames is divided into Boling Cui and Qinghe Cui, and the Li family is divided into Longxi Li and Zhaojun Li, plus Langya Wang, which is the officially recognized seven surnames. In history, there were 369 prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty, and the surnames Cui, Lu, Li, and Zheng accounted for 66 people, of which 23 were Cui. There were seventeen people in the Li clan of Zhao County. Among the current prime ministers, Zheng Yuqing is the Zheng family of Xingyang, and there is also a Zheng Qi, who was held down by Li Yu, in history he got rid of the Wang Shuwen group in the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan Dynasty, and forced Li Yu's predecessor to abdicate and worship the prime minister. Pei Yan is the Pei family in Hedong, and the prince of the Pei family is a family with endless crowns. In the second generation of the Sui and Tang dynasties alone, there were no less than dozens of famous ministers who were active in the political arena. Among them, the famous politicians are Pei Xiu, Pei Kai, Pei Yun, Pei Ju, Pei He, Pei Rangzhi, Pei Zheng, Pei Lian, Pei Guan, Pei Du, Pei Shu, etc.; Military strategists include Pei Xingjian, Pei Mao, Pei Qian, Pei Shuye, Pei Di, Pei Jun, Pei Yan, Pei Kuan, Pei Guo, Pei Wenju, Pei Jingmin, Pei Ji, etc. And Li Jifu and Li Fan, as well as Li Jiang, who served as the envoy of the Xichuan Festival as Ping Zhangshi, were all born in the Li family of Zhao County. Li Jifu was born in the West Ancestral House, Li Jiang was born in the East Ancestral House, Li Fan was born in the South Ancestral House, plus the former prime minister Li Yu who was born in the Liaodong Mansion, and the current Huainan Jiedu envoy Li Huan, who was born in Jiangxia House with the prestige of the prime minister, fortunately, there are no outstanding talents in Hanzhongfang for the time being, otherwise the Li family of Zhaojun County is really one or even two prime ministers in each room of six rooms in the past few decades. Now there is a three-phase one, and there is a prepared one, thinking about it will give the emperor a headache. And Cui Qun, who was born in the Cui family, is the candidate for the next prime minister. As a traverser who has already taken the emperor as a career, Li Yu naturally consciously takes the suppression of the power of the scholars as one of the goals of his tenure.
Therefore, Li Yu really admires Li Jifu and has always supported Li Jifu, but now he has gradually understood what checks and balances are, and the limelight of the Li clan in Zhaojun is already too strong, and it is time for them to temporarily give up the position of the center. When his internal officials put in front of him the official door map that had been prepared according to his orders, Li Yu immediately decided to make a change. Li Yu now understands why there are so many unjust, false and wrongful cases in the history of the Tang Dynasty that caused a large number of prestigious ministers to suffer, and the struggle between imperial power and relative power. Everyone knows that the eldest grandson Wuji is wronged, but if the eldest grandson Wuji is not eliminated, can Li Zhi be the master of the house? Power, politics, sure enough, it's fucking black, Li Yu even suspected that the Niu Li party struggle was also deliberately made by the emperors of the late Tang Dynasty to check and balance.
However, Li Yu is very clear that in order to govern the country and level the world, these capable officials from the scholar clan must also unite and rely on them, and their interests are now consistent with Li Yu. But Li Yu now intends to slowly dissolve the power system of the Shi clan, checks and balances are a way, reducing the status of the Jinshi Branch, and expanding the number of students admitted to the Jinshi Branch is also a means. In fact, Li Jifu's overall view and dissatisfaction with Jinshike is exactly what Li Yu needs, as an official who enters the official career through the door, the patriarchal concept does not seem to be as strong as the group of people who entered Shike, and Li Yu does not intend to destroy the Great Wall, but the DPRK and China really lack a large number of officers who can suppress the front-line generals, so Li Yu plans to let Li Jifu take charge of the front-line military, and also take the opportunity to liberate Li Jifu from the political whirlpool, suppress the limelight of the Li family, and give up the ruling position to Lu Zhen, who was born in the Lu clan in Wujiang.
It sounds like Lu Zhen is also from everyone, but since the Sima clan destroyed Wu, the status of the Jiangnan Shi clan has been very low, and after the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, the status of the four major families such as Wang Xie Yuhuan and many big families who moved south have been reduced. Lu Zhen himself was born in poverty, he was very famous, and he once assisted Dezong to turn the tide of the tide, Dezong was in power during the period of good policies, and when he pacified Huaixi, he was named Wu Guogong, and he was a good minister in the world, and he was in power, Li Yu felt that he could enhance the status of the so-called Han people, and also ease the rift between the forces caused by Li Jifu in the past two years, and promote the major policies in all aspects in a slightly mild way, which is very appropriate. Sure enough, the government and the opposition are also very supportive, in the past two years, Li Jifu has offended many people, and when he heard that Li Jifu was dismissed, many people were very happy, played the crown to celebrate, and wrote many poems and ridicules, but they did not expect that Li Jifu was meritorious for a while.
The bow is fully drawn, and it is powerful to shoot it.