Chapter 5: The New Emperor

Is there a kind of Tianzi Ning? The ears of the strong are the ears of the strong soldiers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This sentence of the Later Jin An Chongrong is the best portrayal of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. To paraphrase the rhetoric in later history textbooks, it is that the warlords are fighting and the people are not making a living. And for careerists, this is a good time, the so-called "heroes in troubled times rise from all directions, and a gun is the king of grass", in this era without guns, it is really a soldier is the king of grass. No matter what the gate valve is, it is not as powerful as the soldiers under him.

This is also the main reason why Zhao Kun did not rush to Bianliang.

With the current strength of the Faceless One, killing a prince who has not ascended the throne is not a problem at all. Now he has no task on his side, and if there is really any fate that reverses the inertia of history or something, he has a way to carry it. Of course, it is also necessary to not get your hands on it without touching it. Just as cultivators are most taboo about contaminating non-dry cause and effect, faceless beings who are always tasked with various tasks are generally better than less, and the consequences/backlash that can usually be avoided will be avoided. It's not just a matter of ability, it's also a matter of attitude.

The question is after. His main purpose as emperor was to use the resources of an empire to repair and replenish the space of the sanctuary. Therefore, the control of this empire has become very important, and even considering the issue of efficiency, the requirements are very high. Of course, in any case, the stronger the Emperor's control over the empire, the better. But as long as it does not fall to a critical point, there will be no particularly serious problems with the stability of the emperor's throne and the degree of comfort in life. Therefore, if you simply want to get addicted to the emperor, you can go directly to Bianliang to replace Guo Rong, but if you plan to rely on the power of the empire to do something, you must be fully prepared.

For now, this preparation comes mainly from souls on the other side of the rift and upcoming supplies......

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On the first day of the fourth year of Guangshun, Guo Weiqiang, who was actually terminally ill, personally presided over the sacrificial ceremony in the southern suburbs, announced the change of Yuan Xiande, and took that year as the first year of Xiande, and granted amnesty to the world.

At the same time as the change of the Yuan, Guo Wei, who knew his fate soon, issued an order to add officials to the official rank of Kaifeng Yin and Jin King Guo Rong, who were the only princes, and announced that they would open the palace with the three divisions, add the school captain, and serve in the middle, and carry out Kaifeng Yin, meritorious envoys, and judge internal and external military affairs.

In the next few days, while he was still sober, Guo Wei recalled Zheng Renxue, the envoy of the Zhenning Army, and promoted him to the rank of privy envoy, and added Tongping Zhangshi, and promoted the privy council to Wei Renpu, the deputy envoy of the privy council.

At the same time, Guo Chong, the commander of the former guards and pro-army Ma Jun, promoted Guo Chong to the envoy of the Zhenning Army, added the same level of affairs, and fell into the army. He also sent out the guards and the pro-army infantry army to command Cao Ying to be the envoy of the Chengde Army, and he was added to the same level of affairs and fell into the army. These two cronies replaced the emperor to control the Zhenning Army and the Chengde Army. The Zhenning Army is an important feudal town in Henan, and the Chengde Army is one of the three major feudal towns in Hebei.

And these two vacant military positions were filled by the generals of the forbidden army who he considered loyal and reliable. Commanded by the left wing of the Long Jie Army, Fan Aineng, the defense envoy of Muzhou, was appointed as the commander of the guards and the pro-army Ma Jundu, and the Yangzhou Jiedu envoy, and the Taibao of the school was inspected. He Hui, the commander of the left wing of the Hujie Army, and He Hui, the defense envoy of Guozhou, were the commanders of the guards and the infantry army, and the Lizhou Jiedu envoy was added to the inspection of the Taibao.

In addition, the rest of the courtiers' feudal towns were also rewarded differently, and several important feudal towns further away also implemented the relocation of towns.

After adjusting the foreign dynasty, Guo Wei felt a little calmer. But with his illness at home, he had to summon the former secretary of the palace to command Li Chong to enter the inner house, and entrusted him with the future, and ordered him to pay homage to Guo Rong, who was sick in the palace, in front of him, and forcibly set the righteousness of the monarch and the minister for Guo Rong with the dual identity of the emperor and uncle. After Li Chongjin, Guo Wei arranged for the rest of the generals of the forbidden army to enter the palace, and set the status of monarch and minister before his death.

After this series of actions, the foreign feudal towns have been temporarily unable to disturb. Considering that the wife of the main room who was arranged for Guo Rong before was the eldest daughter of the Fu family in Hebei, after Guo Rong succeeded to the throne, he only needed to be kind to the forbidden army to be able to control this army. And with the support of the forbidden army, even if there is some small chaos in the foreign court, it will not affect his throne.

In this way, Guo Wei, who was seriously ill, exerted his residual heat as if he had returned to the light, and after a series of arrangements, Guo Rong's road to the throne was no longer barrier-free.

So, five days after Guo Wei's death, Chai Rong successfully ascended the throne in front of the coffin.

It's just that although Guo Wei said that although Guo Wei said that a generation of heroes arranged the internal affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty properly, he had no way to control the enemy's movements.

And the new emperor succeeded to the throne, amnesty to the world, and then rewarded the ministers and forbidden army not long after, the Northern Han lord Liu Chong, who built the capital of Taiyuan, heard the news, very happy, he thought that Zhou had a funeral, the new son of heaven, unable to fight, it was a good time to raise troops to destroy Zhou. He sent an envoy to communicate with the Khitan, proclaimed himself "Emperor Nephew", and begged the Khitan to send troops to attack Hou Zhou.

In February of the first year of Xiande, Yang Gon, the Khitan general, led more than 10,000 cavalry and 50,000 or 60,000 infantry, known as 100,000, and arrived in Jinyang. The coalition forces took advantage of the victory to surround them, except for leaving a small number of troops to besiege Luzhou, and a large army drove south to Zezhou, in an attempt to destroy Hou Zhou in one fell swoop.

As a result, Zhao Kun, who had just assumed the throne of the emperor, had to face the first problem, the joint attack of the Northern Han and the Liao State on his empire.

I have to say that the other party's timing is really good. Although Guo Wei's arrangement was proper and did not leave a chance for the well-intentioned people within the Zhou Dynasty, for the new emperor, it was a joke to say at this time that he could make the army work together, and the soldiers would work hard regardless of their lives. Chai Rong lacked battle experience, but he was kind to the forbidden army but did not have enough prestige, only the authority of the emperor. And this authority was not reliable in the five generations.

For Zhao Kun, he is not Chai Rong himself, and his military and political knowledge of this era is far from that of the prince.

In the past two months, before ascending the throne, in addition to being busy, he had to maintain Chai Rong's habits as much as possible to prevent others from seeing problems. Although he was able to relax a lot after ascending the throne - it was not uncommon for his habits and personalities to change when he was a prince and when he was an emperor - he also had a lot to deal with. Therefore, although it is not the first time he has become an emperor, he is still in a period of adaptation. However, he doesn't plan to play vertical arch and decentralize power.

――――――――――――

Is there a kind of Tianzi Ning? The ears of the strong are the ears of the strong soldiers.

This sentence of the Later Jin An Chongrong is the best portrayal of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. To paraphrase the rhetoric in later history textbooks, it is that the warlords are fighting and the people are not making a living. And for careerists, this is a good time, the so-called "heroes in troubled times rise from all directions, and a gun is the king of grass", in this era without guns, it is really a soldier is the king of grass. No matter what the gate valve is, it is not as powerful as the soldiers under him.

This is also the main reason why Zhao Kun did not rush to Bianliang.

With the current strength of the Faceless One, killing a prince who has not ascended the throne is not a problem at all. Now he has no task on his side, and if there is really any fate that reverses the inertia of history or something, he has a way to carry it. Of course, it is also necessary to not get your hands on it without touching it. Just as cultivators are most taboo about contaminating non-dry cause and effect, faceless beings who are always tasked with various tasks are generally better than less, and the consequences/backlash that can usually be avoided will be avoided. It's not just a matter of ability, it's also a matter of attitude.

The question is after. His main purpose as emperor was to use the resources of an empire to repair and replenish the space of the sanctuary. Therefore, the control of this empire has become very important, and even considering the issue of efficiency, the requirements are very high. Of course, in any case, the stronger the Emperor's control over the empire, the better. But as long as it does not fall to a critical point, there will be no particularly serious problems with the stability of the emperor's throne and the degree of comfort in life. Therefore, if you simply want to get addicted to the emperor, you can go directly to Bianliang to replace Guo Rong, but if you plan to rely on the power of the empire to do something, you must be fully prepared.

For now, this preparation comes mainly from souls on the other side of the rift and upcoming supplies......

――――――――――――

On the first day of the fourth year of Guangshun, Guo Weiqiang, who was actually terminally ill, personally presided over the sacrificial ceremony in the southern suburbs, announced the change of Yuan Xiande, and took that year as the first year of Xiande, and granted amnesty to the world.

At the same time as the change of the Yuan, Guo Wei, who knew his fate soon, issued an order to add officials to the official rank of Kaifeng Yin and Jin King Guo Rong, who were the only princes, and announced that they would open the palace with the three divisions, add the school captain, and serve in the middle, and carry out Kaifeng Yin, meritorious envoys, and judge internal and external military affairs.

In the next few days, while he was still sober, Guo Wei recalled Zheng Renxue, the envoy of the Zhenning Army, and promoted him to the rank of privy envoy, and added Tongping Zhangshi, and promoted the privy council to Wei Renpu, the deputy envoy of the privy council.

At the same time, Guo Chong, the commander of the former guards and pro-army Ma Jun, promoted Guo Chong to the envoy of the Zhenning Army, added the same level of affairs, and fell into the army. He also sent out the guards and the pro-army infantry army to command Cao Ying to be the envoy of the Chengde Army, and he was added to the same level of affairs and fell into the army. These two cronies replaced the emperor to control the Zhenning Army and the Chengde Army. The Zhenning Army is an important feudal town in Henan, and the Chengde Army is one of the three major feudal towns in Hebei.

And these two vacant military positions were filled by the generals of the forbidden army who he considered loyal and reliable. Commanded by the left wing of the Long Jie Army, Fan Aineng, the defense envoy of Muzhou, was appointed as the commander of the guards and the pro-army Ma Jundu, and the Yangzhou Jiedu envoy, and the Taibao of the school was inspected. He Hui, the commander of the left wing of the Hujie Army, and He Hui, the defense envoy of Guozhou, were the commanders of the guards and the infantry army, and the Lizhou Jiedu envoy was added to the inspection of the Taibao.

In addition, the rest of the courtiers' feudal towns were also rewarded differently, and several important feudal towns further away also implemented the relocation of towns.

After adjusting the foreign dynasty, Guo Wei felt a little calmer. But with his illness at home, he had to summon the former secretary of the palace to command Li Chong to enter the inner house, and entrusted him with the future, and ordered him to pay homage to Guo Rong, who was sick in the palace, in front of him, and forcibly set the righteousness of the monarch and the minister for Guo Rong with the dual identity of the emperor and uncle. After Li Chongjin, Guo Wei arranged for the rest of the generals of the forbidden army to enter the palace, and set the status of monarch and minister before his death.

After this series of actions, the foreign feudal towns have been temporarily unable to disturb. Considering that the wife of the main room who was arranged for Guo Rong before was the eldest daughter of the Fu family in Hebei, after Guo Rong succeeded to the throne, he only needed to be kind to the forbidden army to be able to control this army. And with the support of the forbidden army, even if there is some small chaos in the foreign court, it will not affect his throne.

In this way, Guo Wei, who was seriously ill, exerted his residual heat as if he had returned to the light, and after a series of arrangements, Guo Rong's road to the throne was no longer barrier-free.

So, five days after Guo Wei's death, Chai Rong successfully ascended the throne in front of the coffin.

It's just that although Guo Wei said that although Guo Wei said that a generation of heroes arranged the internal affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty properly, he had no way to control the enemy's movements.

And the new emperor succeeded to the throne, amnesty to the world, and then rewarded the ministers and forbidden army not long after, the Northern Han lord Liu Chong, who built the capital of Taiyuan, heard the news, very happy, he thought that Zhou had a funeral, the new son of heaven, unable to fight, it was a good time to raise troops to destroy Zhou. He sent an envoy to communicate with the Khitan, proclaimed himself "Emperor Nephew", and begged the Khitan to send troops to attack Hou Zhou.

In February of the first year of Xiande, Yang Gon, the Khitan general, led more than 10,000 cavalry and 50,000 or 60,000 infantry, known as 100,000, and arrived in Jinyang. The coalition forces took advantage of the victory to surround them, except for leaving a small number of troops to besiege Luzhou, and a large army drove south to Zezhou, in an attempt to destroy Hou Zhou in one fell swoop.

As a result, Zhao Kun, who had just assumed the throne of the emperor, had to face the first problem, the joint attack of the Northern Han and the Liao State on his empire.

I have to say that the other party's timing is really good. Although Guo Wei's arrangement was proper and did not leave a chance for the well-intentioned people within the Zhou Dynasty, for the new emperor, it was a joke to say at this time that he could make the army work together, and the soldiers would work hard regardless of their lives. Chai Rong lacked battle experience, but he was kind to the forbidden army but did not have enough prestige, only the authority of the emperor. And this authority was not reliable in the five generations.

For Zhao Kun, he is not Chai Rong himself, and his military and political knowledge of this era is far from that of the prince.

In the past two months, before ascending the throne, in addition to being busy, he had to maintain Chai Rong's habits as much as possible to prevent others from seeing problems. Although he was able to relax a lot after ascending the throne - it was not uncommon for his habits and personalities to change when he was a prince and when he was an emperor - he also had a lot to deal with. Therefore, although it is not the first time he has become an emperor, he is still in a period of adaptation. However, he doesn't plan to play vertical arch and decentralize power. (To be continued.) )