Chapter 252: The Emperor's Thoughts
In the sixth year of Tianbao, under the impeachment of Li Linfu, Wang Zhongsi was removed from the post of envoy of the Four Towns and was demoted to the position of Hanyang Taishou.
In fact, Li Linfu's impeachment of Wang Zhonghei on his face is nothing at all, corruption and bribery, meritorious and coquettish, the former belongs to the unspoken rules of officialdom and must be carried out, otherwise you will definitely not be able to get involved.
Li Longji knows this, didn't he say anything when he didn't see Gao Lishi's corruption? Because he used to be a gift-giver, he was naturally more considerate of his subordinate officials.
As for the second charge that Li Linfu gave to Wang Zhonghe....... That was completely Li Linfu pouring dirty water again, but Rao was like this, Li Longji still relieved Wang Zhonghe's military power and pulled him down from the position of the envoy of the Four Towns Festival.
Why did Li Longji do this? Very simple!
Wang Zhonghe's hands are too powerful, and there are too many soldiers and horses, what if he wants to rebel? If he rebels, the 260,000 soldiers and horses in the four towns will strike a blow, who can stop the Tang Dynasty?
Of course, the real reason why Li Longji cut off his arm was that Li Linfu quietly said a word to him after impeaching Wang Zhonghei.
"Your Majesty, we are not thinking about whether Wang Jiedu is guilty or not, but about what we should do if he rebels in the future? Even if he doesn't rebel, won't his subordinates bewitch him? Your Majesty, now Wang Jiedu has an army of 260,000 troops in four towns, of course, he is Your Majesty's righteous son, of course he will not rebel, and the ministers are willing to believe in his loyalty, but ...... Your Majesty, are we going to use the future of Datang to bet on a person's loyalty? Come and bet on a person's loyalty that disappears and diminishes without knowing when? ”
After listening to Li Linfu's words, Li Longji was silent, and soon, he issued a decree to exempt Wang Zhonghei from the envoy of the four towns and reduce him to the position of Hanyang Taishou.
In fact, what Li Linfu said was very simple and had only one meaning.
It doesn't matter whether Wang Zhongsi wants to rebel or not, what matters is whether he has the ability to rebel!
Yes, this is what the emperor considers, he does not consider whether a person is loyal or not, only whether he has the strength to rebel, if there is, then sorry, no matter how loyal you are, you must also hand over the military power, or die!
In front of the throne, everything is so fragile and powerless.
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In the fifth year of Tianbao, in 746 A.D., Wang Zhonghei was demoted to Hanyang Taishou, in the seventh year of Tianbao, in 748 A.D., he was transferred to Handong County Taishou, and in the eighth year of Tianbao, in 749 A.D....... And he died, and the cause of his death ...... Violent death.
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In 749 A.D., in July of this year, Wang Zhonghe, who had just returned from hunting outside the city, carried the 150-pound heavy bow in his hand, and under the escort of two guards, he stepped back to his Taishou Mansion.
Wang Zhongsi is seven feet tall, dignified, born with a pair of tiger eyes, full of righteousness, he is only forty-five years old, for some reason his temples are white, and the whole person looks a lot depressed.
With gray hair and a slightly curved back, he has no previous style of winning a hundred battles and winning famous generals, and he looks like a young official who has been mixed in officialdom for many years, but he is depressed.
If you think about it carefully, it is clear that if you are taken away from the military for no reason, no one will be in a good mood.
And Wang Zhongsi has been living in pain and suffering in recent years.
He lived a miserable life, a pain of not being trusted by those closest to him, a pain of being unreasonably suspected by those closest to him.
Wang Zhongsi never dreamed that Li Longji would doubt his loyalty!
Li Longji, his father-in-law, the person he swore to be loyal to for the rest of his life, would actually suspect him of rebellion? It would actually take away his military power just in case! handed over the Northwest powerhouse he had brought for many years to that Hu brother Shuhan!
Wang Zhonghe's heart was angry, especially after learning that most of his soldiers and horses were handed over to the commander of Ge Shuhan, Wang Zhongsi was even more angry, don't look at Ge Shuhan He picked it up with one hand, but it is precisely because of this that he also knows what kind of dog virtue Ge Shuhan is!
Look, just took over his own Hexi Army, this bastard is desperate to lead the army to attack Shibao City.
In order to prove his Ge Shuhan's strength in front of Li Longji, and in order to allow his prestige to quickly overpower his predecessor, Wang Zhonghei, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, Ge Shuhan, this bastard, actually took the lives of the soldiers to pave the way for himself!
Why didn't you fight the stone castle city in Tubo when you were the envoy of the Hexi Festival? Isn't it because the terrain of this city is too dangerous, and the loss is too great if you attack it!
He was reluctant to exchange the lives of his soldiers for his military exploits, but Ge Shuhan, a bastard, didn't have so many scruples.
Alas, it is rumored that in the battle of Shibao City, although his Hexi strong army successfully captured the city, its own casualties were not small, and I heard that thousands of veterans died in battle!
The Hexi powerhouse has suffered a great loss of vitality, and it can't be slowed down without a few years of hard work.
Bastards, just bastards!
As soon as he thought of Ge Shuhan, a bastard of Hu people, Wang Zhongsi was angry and wanted to cut people, and then he thought of the current situation in the Tang Dynasty...... Wang Zhongsi even wanted to look up to the sky and roared three times, "Unwilling!" ”
He can see it very clearly now, especially after being demoted to the Taishou of Handong County, Wang Zhongji can see it even more clearly.
Corruption among officials, lax training in the army, suffering among the people, His Majesty's immorality, and the temperance envoys who hold heavy troops in their hands....... Your Majesty, my good Majesty, my Good Father! If you have heavy troops, aren't those people holding heavy soldiers? Is your righteous son not as loyal as some Hu people?
Do you Ning Yuan believe in those Hu people and don't want to believe in your own righteous son, the righteous son who was born and died for decades for the Tang Dynasty!
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Thinking of those Jiedu envoys with heavy troops, Wang Zhongji felt disheartened for a while.
Ge Shuhan didn't mention that waste, he used the lives of the soldiers to pave the way for himself, and Feng Changqing was okay, but Gao Xianzhi, that bastard, thinking of Gao Xianzhi, Wang Zhongsi really killed his heart.
Not long ago, in the Battle of Hengros, Gao Xianzhi, a bastard, took his 20,000 Anxi Army and a coalition of some small countries in the Western Regions to attack the big cannibals, but halfway through the battle, the small countries in the Western Regions suddenly rebelled, and together with the big cannibals, Gao Xianzhi's soldiers and horses were besieged.
At that time, Gao Xianzhi brought a total of 20,000 Anxi troops, 20,000 well-equipped and well-trained Anxi troops. In his heart, as long as Gao Xianzhi can calm down, he can completely break through with his soldiers and horses, but what is the result?
Seeing that his left and right flanks were full of big cannibals and rebels in the Western Regions, there were countless big * soldiers rushing in front of him, as well as the military formations and helpless soldiers on his side who had gradually fallen into chaos.
Gao Xianzhi, a famous general, actually ordered the withdrawal of the army!
Of course, this is not the most hateful, the most hateful thing is that when Gao Xianzhi ordered the withdrawal of the army, because the Anxi army was surrounded on three sides, the soldiers were fighting hard, and they couldn't see Gao Xianzhi's military order at all. The frontal battlefield was in chaos, and even if they saw it, it would be difficult for them to make the right adjustments
This is the battlefield of ancient times, once it falls into chaos, unless one side fails, otherwise the gods will not be able to restrain it.
Seeing that the front three sides of his left and right were full of enemies, and they were about to kill them, the only way to retreat was a group of buzzing, headless flies.
Gao Xianzhi, who had already been killed by the big cannibals, thought that he would lose this battle, and if he didn't leave, he would definitely not be able to leave, and Gao Dajie made a shameful and even resentful order.
Chop! Use the Mo Knife Team to cut out a way to survive from his brother's head to escort his tall general to escape!
Gao Xianzhi's Mo Dao team turned around and raised Mo Dao on his brother's head.
Thousands of Anxi troops did not die in the hands of the big cannibals, but were beheaded by the Modao team because they blocked the way for their own commander to escape.
This is the good thing Gao Xianzhi did, when it was critical, a person who could use a Mo knife to open the way from his brother's head.
After the first battle of Henglus, there were 20,000 Anxi troops, and less than thousands of them broke through with Gao Xianzhi alive.
Afterwards, Gao Xianzhi was seized of military power and placed under house arrest in Chang'an, and the envoy of Anxi Jiedu was also replaced by Feng Changqing.
As soon as Wang Zhongsi heard the news, he wanted to go to Chang'an and cut off the head of Gao Xianzhi, a bastard, and what made Wang Zhongsi even more chilling was that in the battle of Hengros, Datang actually said that this fiasco was a draw!
What do you say, although the Anxi Army has lost most of it, but the big cannibals have also suffered heavy casualties, ahhhh
It's still the same sentence, everyone in Datang is still immersed in the dream of the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, and they don't want to wake up, no one believes that Hengluo will lose Datang in the first battle, because this is impossible, how could such a rich and powerful Datang be defeated!
What is it called? What is it called?
I'd rather let those soldiers die in vain than admit their defeat.
Datang ........ What the hell is going on?!
For countless nights, Wang Zhongsi kept asking himself, constantly asking, what happened to Datang? In just a dozen years, why did you fall so fast! Could it be that the Tang Dynasty ...... Is it really exhaustive?
Wang Zhongsi couldn't figure it out, and he didn't want to think about it, Oh yes, there is an An Lushan, needless to say, this guy only has four words for his evaluation.
Wolf ambition!
In the name of helping the war, he wants to annex his own soldiers and horses, this kind of person, if this kind of person has no second heart, Wang Zhongsi twisted his head off.
But alas, he has now lost power, and no one in the court believes in him at all, and no one believes in his words of loyalty.
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The more he thought about it, the more disheartened Wang Zhongsi became, and the whole person looked much older, and even the back that had always been straight was much more restrained.
Walking into his mansion, Wang Zhongsi was silent all the way, he didn't know what to do now, he didn't know how to save Datang now.
It seems that all he can do is wait, only wait for the day when Li Longji remembers himself...... Or when the Tang Dynasty was completely in crisis, he stood up to serve his country and his king.
But it's a pity that someone won't give him this opportunity, because he ...... really has the ability to change history, and really has the ability to strangle the Anshi Rebellion at the beginning.
If Wang Zhonghei is still alive in the future, whether An Lushan can capture Luoyang is a question.