[Chapter 5, Volume 5]

Section 498

In the end, after the pleading of Taiwei Liu Sihuai and the circle of Taibao Su Pingzhan, Shen Jiafang promised to send another 20,000 troops to reinforce Donghu - these 20,000 soldiers and horses will be commanded by Su Xiuwei, just to assist, and no one has the right to force the command.

The Su family and the Shen family are both in-laws and have a good relationship, and the Qingzhou Army has not found a reason to enter Beijing so far, in case the emperor changes, he has to count on the Xiliang Army to protect the people of Fufengtang, so Su Xiuwei will not deliberately let the Xiliang Army suffer damage. Su Xiuwei's background and qualifications can also withstand the strong pressure of Wei Yuanhou. Shen Zangfeng, who was on standby in Yanzhou, and the 20,000 Xiliang troops led by him stayed where they were and guarded Yanzhou.

In fact, all parties were not very satisfied with this result, out of concern about the situation in Donghu, Taishi and Taiwei of course hoped that a small part of the 60,000 Xiliang army would be left to defend Yanzhou, and all the others would go to Donghu to support; For the Shen family, these 60,000 soldiers and horses were obtained for their own safety, and as a result, they first sent 20,000 to fight Yanzhou, but the 20,000 have not returned, but they have to send 20,000 to help defend Donghu...... And they asked to transfer the last 20,000 soldiers and horses to a place closer to the imperial capital, but they were rejected by the Taishi on the grounds that "the saint is now more and more suspicious, and it is not appropriate to stimulate it anymore".

Even the Taibao was not very happy, because the request of the Qingzhou army to go north was also vetoed by the Taishi......

The reason is also not to provoke the saints.

In this case, everyone felt a little unbearable.

I don't know who started it, everyone tacitly mentioned it: "When the prince Xima Wei Xinyong went to Yanzhou with Zangfeng, he said that the prince was virtuous and filial, and now the saint is old, and it is inevitable that he will be unable to deal with state affairs, so he should let the prince come out to share his worries." ”

"This is very true, the spirit of the royal body is decreasing year by year, and it has become more and more poor recently, so it is time for the prince to worry more."

"Now that Yanzhou City is broken, will the prince return from washing the horse?"

"How many days have you been here?"

Counting the days, Wei Xinyong will come back soon, and everyone stopped - they are all people with status, even if they have the heart of supporting the prince to force the saint to abdicate and ascend the throne, but what he said is too explicit but also unreasonable. This kind of tandem and agitation is still waiting for the younger generation of the Wei family, who has clearly wanted to earn a dragon merit, to come back and then push the boat down the river.

But he didn't want to wait, and after more than ten days, he didn't see Wei Xinyong's figure, but waited for Shen Zangfeng's guilty form - he lost Wei Xinyong!

Here's the thing, Shen Zangfeng and Wei Xinyong arrived at the city of Yanzhou at the end of last year with 20,000 Xiliang troops. But he followed the advice of the accompanying strategist Shangguan 11, and only did tired attacks every day. On Chinese New Year's Eve, they pretended to be a sneak attack, and then took turns to attack the city, day and night. made the soldiers and civilians in the city exhausted, and Mo Binwei took the opportunity to replace his henchmen in a critical position...... In this way, on the sixth day of the first month, the time is ripe, and the city will be broken in one fell swoop.

Then he fought a fierce street battle with Lu Haozhi for a day and a night, and finally in the chaotic battle, Shen Zangfeng shot Lu Haozhi who fled in a hurry with an arrow, which made the rebels panic and scattered, so the dust settled.

In the middle, Shen Zangfeng took the lead, fighting day and night, not only to find Lu Hao's traces but also to order people to watch the baggage, lest the rebels burn the jade together in despair, there are too many things for him to worry about, and he inevitably neglected Wei Xinyong - when Lu Hao's ambush was punished, and the Xiliang army took the first step to occupy the Yanzhou Guard's Mansion and began to search vigorously, Shen Zangfeng received news from Su Xiuwei, saying that Wei Xinyong and Mo Binwei, who had followed Su Xiuwei after the city was broken, were gone.

Su Xiuwei is Shen Zangfeng's uncle, and he also intends to promote his nephew, so he gave up the scenery of breaking the city and entering the city first to his nephew, and led the army to the queen...... Of course, this is also to let the Xiliang Army reap the benefits in front first, after all, the relationship between the Su family and the Shen family is better, at this time, it is decisive to suppress the Donghu army of the Liu family, and let the Xiliang army take the first step.

But what he didn't expect was that after Su Xiuwei and his party separated from Shen Zangfeng, they suddenly encountered a group of chaotic troops. The soldiers desperately protected Su Xiuwei to fight his way out of the encirclement, and after joining most of the Donghu army, they found that Wei Xinyong and Mo Binwei, who were following Su Xiuwei, were gone......

Then, Shen Zangfeng could only send troops to hunt down the remnants of Lu Haozhi on the one hand, and on the other hand, he ordered the scouts to scatter to find the traces of these two people.

But in the chaos of the army, Wei Xinyong and Mo Binwei deliberately concealed their whereabouts, but where could they find them for a while?

This news gave the people in the court a headache, without Wei Xinyong's contact, they had to pull down their faces in support of the prince's immediate accession to the throne, and the problem was that no one would think that Wei Xinyong and Mo Binwei's disappearance would be an accident. This Wei Xinyong was able to quietly bury Mo Binwei's chess piece and pit Lu Haozhi before, who knows what idea he has to fight if he can't find anyone now?

In fact, Wei Changying has a vague guess about where his sixth uncle went: Wei Xinyong is very likely to take Mo Binwei to Fengzhou!

Of course, he didn't go to visit relatives, it is estimated that he was going to attack Wei Qi directly!

Mo Binwei is already extremely talented, although he brought more than a dozen people to defect to Lu Haozhi, but these days of lurking, he must have gathered a group of available people, maybe the group of chaotic troops who scattered Su Xiuwei and them were the people prepared by Mo Binwei?

Of course, it is impossible to attack the city with these people, but Wei Xinyong doesn't need to fight Fengzhou!

Taking advantage of the chaos, he led people to sneak back to Fengzhou quietly and kill Wei Qi - originally Wei Huan also saw Bentang as a thorn in the flesh, and promised to hand over Wei Qi and his son to Wei Xinyong when he had the opportunity. Now this is a good time, Wei Qi is alive and it is useless for Wei Huan, send someone to open the city gate privately, and after allowing Wei Xinyong and his party to enter the city, cover their whereabouts for them, and go to Zhibentang, which not only fulfills the promise to Wei Xinyong, but also gives Ruiyutang a big trouble, why not Wei Huan?

Now the attention of the government and the opposition is focused on the aggressive invasion of the Rong people and the afterglow of Yanzhou. Fengzhou had a "Rong people sneaking in" as early as the time when Wei Changying came out of the cabinet...... With such a good opportunity, it is estimated that Wei Xinyong will not act, and Wei Huan will send someone to teach Wei Xinyong face-to-face.

Zhibentang is now supported by Wei Qi, Wei Qi is dead, Wei Xinyong wants to clean up Wei Qingming and others in the future, but it is much more convenient. Moreover, Wei Xinyong returned to Yanzhou immediately after killing Wei Qi, and it can be inferred that he and Mo Binwei were coerced by the chaotic army, scattered, and trapped somewhere, so they delayed their return.

Although everyone may not believe this kind of rhetoric, at least they can explain the past on the scene - who called Youyan to be messed up now?

In the current situation, it is too late for each family to protect themselves, where is the time to take care of the housework of others. As long as Wei Xinyong's rhetoric is not too ridiculous, no one will delve into it.

The more Wei Changying thought about it, the greater the possibility, but this speculation involved the conduct of his mother's family, but it was not easy to tell anyone, so he was just silent.

Although Wei Xinyong accidentally "disappeared", the government and the opposition could not bear the saint.

But in the end, the saint is the old monarch who has been sitting on the throne for decades, and it doesn't mean that he can abdicate if he abdicates.

Even if all the officials work together to force the palace...... That's going to have to pass the Guards. Otherwise, with the madness of the saint now, he simply fought for a thousand years to infamy, slaughtered all the officials, and bloodied the imperial capital.

Even though he may not be able to do it...... Anyway, officials like Shen Xuan don't want to risk their family's lives to try it......

So the most pressing issue now is to solve the matter of the Royal Guards. Even if you don't turn against them, at least let them stand by and watch.

The problem is that Gu Xiaode is extremely loyal to the saint......

And he has been commanding the Imperial Forest Army for more than 20 years, and his prestige in the army is extremely high. If you want to attack the Royal Forest Army, it can be said that you can't get around him at all.

Although there are many noble sons in the Royal Forest Army, they can be called away by the elders of each family. But of course, the 300,000 Royal Forest Army can't all be the juniors of the scholar clan. What's even worse is that because Gu Xiaode himself is a child of a family, his background in the clan is not very high, and he was entrusted with important responsibilities because his sister became the queen.

When Gu Xiaode was first in charge of the Imperial Forest Army, he suffered losses at the hands of his subordinates and soldiers who were born in the sons of nobles. Considering the elders behind these people, he was not good at attacking, so he simply found an excuse to show the saints, recruited soldiers from the common people, and formed another part as his own pro-army, deliberately training as the elite of the Imperial Forest Army, so as to elevate his control over the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and also use this to resist the domination of the lord.

Compared with the Imperial Forest Army that was sent to attack Yanzhou City with the Liu family's private soldiers, this part of the soldiers called "Xuanjiawei" is not the same as the last time, and the Shengshang also regarded this army from the people, without ancestral shade, so it was extremely loyal to the monarch as a treasure, and told Gu Xiaode from the day of training that Xuanjiawei should not leave the imperial capital under any circumstances - this is the core of the Gongwei royal family, and it is the confidence of the Shengshang to spend all his time and drink regardless of the people's livelihood.

This army is very concerned, and none of them are from the scholar clan, and the scholar clan is usually not allowed to get involved! Although the saint has been obsessed with beauty in the past few years, the cultivation of the previous ten years has been placed there, and the foundation is still only recognized by the emperor and not others.

With them guarding the palace, how easy is it to do that great thing?

Everyone discussed for a long time, and finally the Taishi implicitly suggested that the Qingzhou army could be ready to go: "Recently, the civil uprising near Qingzhou has been too unpleasant, the private soldiers of the Shi clan over there have been defeated, the rebel mob is becoming more and more arrogant, and Zhou Yong can't support it, and Taibao has to share a share of the worries for the imperial court!" ”

didn't let the Qingzhou army move before, it was because I was afraid that if the saint heard the news and stimulated him, this old guy was a lot old, and he went crazy to the point that his children and grandchildren didn't care about it, why should we provoke him? It can't be drawn. But now that the saint is dead, if he still honestly waits for something to happen to him before acting, what if it's too late? With this kind of king, it is better to take a risk, first assist the government to suppress the civil rebellion near Qingzhou, and slowly move closer to the imperial capital...... Maybe it's just going to get by?

With these words, the rift that broke up with Su Pingzhan last time was repaired, and the Taishi looked at Shen Xuan again...... Shen Xuan was now frightened by him, and said vigilantly: "If the Taishi has a life, Xuan dare not attach it?" It's a pity that now 40,000 soldiers and horses have left the capital, and only 20,000 soldiers are not enough to make a career, I am afraid that I will lose the hope of the Taishi. ”

Taishi, what do you think, please go ahead, I, as a junior, can go with you, play as a striker, forget it - Shen Xuan has secretly done so many things, and he has worked hard for a few years, but he doesn't want to have a reputation for killing kings when he comes...... Also, Master, don't fight my family's last 20,000 soldiers and horses! Lao Tzu got 60,000 soldiers and horses to enter the Central Plains, how could he not leave any behind!

The Taishi didn't know if he really didn't think so this time, or if he temporarily changed his mind after hearing this, but he shook his head and said: "The saint does unwise things, and we and other courtiers should be admonished." How can you do that military admonition as a last resort? The old man remembered something and wanted to ask the master. ”

Shen Xuan said cautiously: "Master Tai, please speak." ”

"Ling Ai......" Taishi narrowed his eyes and said, "The old man is talking about the fourth lady in the house, and it is rumored that she was mentioned by Gu Xiaode's second son?" ”