Chapter 13: The Struggle for the Throne
Drive! Drive! Drive!
On the official road, dozens of war horses galloped, raising a piece of yellow sand. Chinese Net =≠.. co≠m Sun Quan rode a horse with his father Sun Jian, and he didn't need how to operate and control it, he only felt wobbly and drowsy, if it wasn't for the horse being too uncomfortable, Sun Quan would have fallen asleep long ago. No way, boring.
When he came out, Sun Quan also proposed to find him a pony and let him ride it away. First, exercise your riding skills, after all, it is not possible to ride a horse in this era, not to mention the march and war in the future, you must always be able to run when you run away at a critical moment. Second, Sun Quan also wanted to take the opportunity to test what the effect of adding one horse and subtracting one horse in his equipment card was. It's a pity that Sun Jian and his entourage are in a hurry this time, and they are not touring the mountains and rivers, waiting for you Sun Quan to follow slowly, and when they arrived in the capital, the daylily was cold. Sun Quan wants to learn to ride a horse, no problem, if he is okay when he comes back from Luoyang, it will not be too late to teach him.
So, Sun Quan rode with his father Sun Jian, and rushed to Luoyang, Kyoto, with the degree of slapping the horse and raising the whip. But even so, because of the long distance, Sun Jian is estimated to be one of the last princes to arrive in Luoyang.
The generals who traveled with him were: Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Zu Mao, etc., and Huang Gai still continued to stay in the base camp. It's not that Sun Jian doesn't pay attention to Huang Gai, he really doesn't pay attention to Huang Gai, and it is impossible to hand over such an important rear to him. It's just that Huang Gai is a "rising star" after all, and his closeness to Sun Jian is far less than that of Cheng Pu, Han Dang and others, plus the three of them are the same type of generals, just like weapons, normal people must have their hands by their side.
However, although Huang Gai did not come, Sun Quan brought Zhou Tai by name. Because he was hand-picked by the "prodigy" Sun Quan, Sun Jian naturally did not refuse, but Zhou Tai was young after all, and Sun Jian could not directly give him a heavy responsibility, but since he had been favored by Sun Quan, Zhou Tai would definitely have many more opportunities in the future than ordinary people!
In this way, within a few days, Sun Jian and his entourage, who were still hurrying on the official road, received a report from the capital Luoyang. Emperor Ling's son Liu Wei ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne, known as the Young Emperor in history.
Surprisingly, after getting the news, Sun Jian, who was originally quick to whip up, decided to rest on the spot first and then go on the road.
Sun Jian, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Zumao, and these cronies got together, and Sun Quan had the honor to observe.
"Faster than I expected." Sun Jian said in a low voice.
"yes, I thought there would be a lot of twists and turns." Han Dang nodded and said.
Cheng Pu half-squinted his eyes and muttered,
"Maybe there's been a twist and turn, but we don't know yet."
Zu Mao, another general at the scene, did not say a word. Sun Quan knew that compared with generals and generals, Zu Mao's positioning tended to be more of a bodyguard and rarely participated in major decisions. But you must not underestimate Zu Mao because of this, you can be Sun Jian's bodyguard, Zu Mao's martial arts are absolutely very high, and Sun Jian's closeness or trust in Zu Mao is even higher than Han Dang Chengpu, otherwise it would be impossible to hand over his net worth and life to Zu Mao to protect!
"Oh? What twists and turns can there be? Sun Quan asked curiously, in his opinion, isn't it a matter of course for the old emperor to die and the new emperor to ascend the throne? Although Sun Quan also knew that Dong Zhuo later abolished the Young Emperor and set up King Chen Liu, it was Dong Zhuo who dared to defy the world's disapproval. Young Emperor Liu Wei, as the eldest son of Emperor Ling, and Queen He, isn't it logical to succeed to the throne?
"Second Young Master, you don't know anything about this." Han Dang explained for Sun Quan, "Although Shi Hou was born by Empress He, he has been growing up outside the palace, in contrast, Dong Hou was raised by Empress Dowager Dong and always stayed in the palace. ”
"Ahem, now Shi Hou is already the Son of Heaven, and Queen He should also be the Queen Mother He." Sun Jianjian said. Although internal communication is not a big deal, when you arrive in the capital, you must not use such a title again.
"Yes." Han Dang said he understood.
It turned out that before the young emperor Liu Bian, Emperor Ling had sons, but they all died young, so after Queen He gave birth to Liu Bian, she did not dare to leave the child in the palace, but handed it over to Shi Zimiao, a monk of a royal Taoist temple outside the palace to raise, and Liu Bian did not dare to use his name directly, so he was called "Shi Hou".
Don't look at the support of Shi Hou and his brother General He Jin, Dong Hou, who grew up in the palace since childhood, also has the support of Empress Dowager Dong and the Ten Standing Attendants, and the love of Emperor Ling himself. Coupled with the suddenness of Emperor Ling's death, the palace was completely controlled by the ten permanent servants, do you say it is easier to let Shi Hou outside the palace come back to ascend the throne? Or is it easier to make Dong Hou, who was already in the palace, ascend the throne?
So things are far from being as simple as Sun Quan thinks, maybe now Shi Hou Liu Wei and Dong Hou Liu Xie are still young, and they don't have too many complicated ideas, but which of the forces standing behind them is easy to match? Since ancient times, in the family of emperors, in the struggle for the throne, when has there been no bloodshed?
At the beginning, Sun Quan took it for granted that Sun Jian rushed to the capital to participate in the dispute between the general He Jin and the Ten Standing Servants, but in fact, Sun Jian was going to see who would be the emperor in the end! Bringing Sun Quan is most likely out of consideration for standing in line! It's just that I didn't expect that things would come to an end so quickly, which was really unexpected by Sun Jian and others, so I had to stop first, take a break, change my strategy, and then march to Beijing. This time, you may have to slow down and don't have to rush so much, after all, during sensitive periods, the capital may change again!
"I see."
Sun Quan finally figured out the relationship behind this, and there may only be a few simple sentences in the historical records, but the real history, how can it be simply summarized?
"This means that now it is the Great General He Jin's side that has the advantage, and they may even be caught off guard by the Ten Standing Servants at the beginning?" Sun Quan said.
"Presumably so, maybe the entire Ten Standing Servants have been wiped out now." Han Dang said.
"Then it depends on whether the general He Jin is ruthless enough!" Cheng Pudao.
Sun Quan shook his head,
"The Ten Standing Servants were destroyed, and it is impossible to hide such a big thing. If there is, General He Jin is bound to make a big publicity. Therefore, the ten permanent servants should still be there, and they should not be underestimated just because it was the young emperor who ascended the throne. ”
Sun Quan knew that in the end, General He Jin was killed by the Ten Standing Attendants, of course, the Ten Standing Servants did not end well, and were eliminated by Yuan Shao and others, but in the end, Dong Zhuo was cheapened.
"Makes sense." Cheng Pu nodded to Han Dang, to Sun Quan, they never dared to treat him as a child.
"Quan'er, when I arrive in the capital, if General He Jin and the Ten Standing Servants win me over at the same time, which side do you think I should stand on?" Sun Jian asked suddenly.
Sun Quan's eyes rolled, without much hesitation,
"Naturally, it is on the side of General He Jin."
"What do you think?" Sun Jian turned to Cheng Pu and Han Dang, and the reason why he asked Sun Quan first was because he didn't want other people's opinions to sway Sun Quan's original thoughts.
"I think what the second young master said is reasonable. Standing on the side of General He Jin is standing on the side of the current saint, no matter how you think about it, there is nothing wrong with it. Han Dang said.
Cheng Pu was a little cautious,
"Since the Ten Standing Servants are still there, it means that they also had people who supported the current Saint, General He Jin is a relative after all, and the Saint's thoughts are easily swayed by the Ten Permanent Attendants, supporting General He Jin, is it really supporting the current Saint?"
Cheng Pu's worries are not unreasonable, many bold and want to be young emperors, the first thing they started after ascending the throne was to find a way to reduce the rights of those auxiliary ministers. Don't look at the young emperor was born to the Empress Dowager He, but he grew up outside, how much affection can he have for the Empress Dowager He and He Jin?
Besides, He Jin is now in a high position and has countless capable people, even if he has feelings, which emperor will not worry about his rebellion? Coupled with the fact that the eunuchs and chamberlains such as the Ten Standing Servants spoke ill of He Jin in their ears all day long, it was natural for the Young Emperor to have the idea of dealing with He Jin.