Chapter 41 Chengdu Coup

After listening to Zhao Tong's story, Liu Hou couldn't cry or laugh. I deeply feel defeated by these two strange guys. The person who extorted a confession is wonderful, using some childish and unreliable methods to extract a confession, and the person who is forced to confess is also strange enough, he is a strange person who loves money like life but is not afraid of death or pain.

However, what Zhao Tong said next made Liu Hou unable to laugh. After holding the superb jade in his hand, he told everything he knew about the situation in Chengdu, and Zhao Tong relayed the confession of the Qincha:

It turned out that Liu Bei said that he was sick and had not appeared in public for a long time. The government of the first qiē dynasty was controlled by the Taifu Xu Jing and the uncle Wu Yi.

These two controlled the military and political power of Shu, and also promoted and appointed a group of relatives, for example, Xu Jing's son Xu You was appointed as Shangshu. The Shangshu at this time was different from the Shangshu of the Qing Dynasty, and the gold content was much higher.

In the Qing Dynasty, the chief officials of the six ministries were called Shangshu, such as the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, etc., which was equal to the ministers of one or several ministries in later generations. However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, government affairs were attributed to Shangshu, and Shangshuling became the head of the government responsible for the monarch and the general order, which was similar to the prime minister. With such an appointment, where is Zhuge Liang, the real prime minister?

Also, Wu Yi's cousin Wu Ban was appointed as a hussar general, a fake festival, and a marquis of Mianzhu. This hussar general is not an ordinary miscellaneous general, but an official position that is very bullish. For example, the first hussar general was Huo Quai, and his status at that time was a golden seal and purple ribbon, the same as the three dukes, which can be described as awesome to the extreme.

Of course, the hussar generals of the Three Kingdoms period were far from having that status, but at least they were a great honorary title. At that time, the people who had this honorary title were: Liu Chan, Ma Chao, Cao Hong, Sima Yi, etc. Wu Ban is such a hairy boy, why is he compared with the above?

Many officials who refused to join them were dismissed or persecuted, especially those who were pro-Liu Chan, and were basically purged from the court. Xu Jing and Wu Yi promoted and appointed cronies in this way, and at the same time suppressed and eliminated dissidents, and took the government into their hands.

Qin Cha also confessed to a very important thing, that is, Xu Jing and Wu Yi were planning to abolish Liu Hou's crown prince and change his title to King Yue, and the fief was Lingnan. At the same time, Liu Hou's half-brother Liu Li of Liang was renamed the crown prince.

Since it has been a few months since Qincha left Chengdu, it is estimated that this incident has happened now, but the news has not yet reached here.

Because this Qincha is Xu Jing's confidant, he can know such secrets, which is why he is so arrogant in Lingnan, because he knows that this prince is about to lose power.

The situation of the abolished prince has always been very miserable, so he has no fear, arrogant and domineering, who knows, but he was made out of temper by Fei Yi, and when he finally saw Liu Hou, he was directly arrested and tortured to extract a confession before he had time to announce the decree, which can be described as extremely unlucky.

Liu Hou was shocked when he heard the news, something really happened in Chengdu, and it was still a big deal. Judging from the situation narrated by Qin Cha, Liu Bei is more auspicious and less lucky, and even if he does not die, it is estimated that he is not lightly ill, and Xu Jing and Wu Yi took the opportunity to control the government, and it can even be said that they launched a coup d'état.

If this Qincha is not lying, then the intention of these people is obvious, they want to replace Liu Chan, who was originally set by Liu Bei early on, and replace him with a little kid Liu Li as the emperor. What is such an act of changing the emperor as not a coup d'état?

Think about it, they are indeed very motivated, Liu Li is the son of Wu Yi's sister Wu Guifei, in order for her son to inherit the throne, it is not surprising that the imperial concubine and her uncle and brother did this kind of thing, this is confirmed by countless bloody palace fights in later generations.

As for Xu Jing, it is not difficult to understand that Liu Bei was too strong before, Zhuge Liang was too favored, and he was too neglected, so he would definitely be disappointed and resentful.

Liu Bei usually consults Zhuge Liang about everything, Zhuge Liang has mastered almost all aspects of the government and has made a lot of achievements, Liu Bei's attention to Zhuge Liang Cheng dù, close to Cheng dù even beyond the ordinary relationship between monarchs and ministers.

As a Taifu, Xu Jing has no achievements, except for being named Taifu because of his meritorious service, he is basically treated as a cold bench. He is unwilling, wants to hold more power, and wants to get more benefits.

But he is not as talented as Zhuge Liang, even if he really asks him to do some big things, he may not be able to do better than Zhuge Liang, without that diamond diamond, he can't do that porcelain job.

And what made him even more desperate was that Liu Bei's legal heir, the crown prince Liu Chan, also didn't like him much. The prince was naturally surrounded by a group of close people, all of whom were young people who had received the new knowledge of the academy, and who were disdainful of old-fashioned bureaucrats like him.

He can imagine that if Liu Chan ascends the throne as emperor in the future, his status will definitely be worse than now.

If you are poor, you think about change, Xu Jing has always thought of ways to change the status quo, but unfortunately there is nothing to do. Until Wu Guifei's people found him, one wanted his son to reach the top of the Ninety-Five, and the other wanted to really be a great minister and enjoy the scenery above ten thousand people under one person, they were like a street girl meeting a big pervert, each took what they needed, hit it off, and soon colluded together.

For Xu Jing, there is another advantage to supporting Liu Li, that is, Liu Li is young, he is only 8 years old now, and he is not yet able to pro-government, so he needs to have an auxiliary minister at this time. He thought to himself that this auxiliary minister belonged to him, and when the little emperor grew up, he would have at least 10 years to control the government, and then he would retire again, so he would have no regrets in this life.

He didn't want to think about it, he was already seventy years old, how long could he live, and even if he lived, would he still have the energy to control the government for ten years? Either way, though, they now seem to be one step away from success.

After listening to Zhao Tong's relay, Liu Hou is most worried about Liu Bei now. Although he doesn't have much affection for this cheap father, he is his father in this life after all, and he has always been very good to himself, at least he has strongly supported many things, such as the establishment of the Ministry of Industry, the formation of a strict and super-composed prince's army, and two leading troops to war, etc., he unconditionally supports.

Liu Hou remembered that Liu Bei was hung up two or three years after he ascended the throne as emperor, and now it is the third year of Zhangwu (223 AD), according to history, Liu Bei died at about this time.

Although he reversed history, avoided Guan Gong being killed, and asked Zuo Ci to teach Liu Bei some health care knowledge about cardiovascular diseases, but the inertia of history is so powerful, who knows if Liu Bei will survive?

The more Liu Hou thought about it, the more anxious he became, and finally, he made up his mind that he could no longer stay in Changsha, and he wanted to send troops north to Jingzhou to kill Sun Quan's army besieging Jingzhou, and strive to join Guan Gong and Zhuge Liang as soon as possible, and then work with them to figure out the affairs of Chengdu as soon as possible.

Soon, Liu Hou waved his army north, and he was ready to fight to the death with Sun Quan's 200,000 troops. Who knows, just a few days after the army set off, it received a report from spies: Sun Quan's army, which had besieged Jingzhou for more than half a year, had retreated.

Liu Hou was both surprised and expected, Sun Quan spent so much effort to besiege Jingzhou for more than half a year, and seeing that he was about to succeed, it would undoubtedly take a lot of determination to give up at this time. Sun Quan is also a decisive hero, and there is no shortage of resourceful people around him, so he can naturally see the current shape clearly.

The prince of Xishu waved his army to the north, Guan Gong was eyeing the city of Jingzhou, one south and one north were not good, if they did not withdraw the army, they would face the situation of the prince of Xishu and Guan Gong of Jingzhou being attacked from both sides. Even if you don't count Guan Gong in Jingzhou City, this prince of Xishu alone is not easy for them to deal with.

After all, with Lu Xun's ability, he led an army of 200,000 troops, relying on Jiancheng and was still defeated by him. Now that the army led by Sun Quan is outside the city, it is even more impossible to win the field battle with the prince's army.

In this case, why don't they hurry up and escape before the Shu army is encircled? Therefore, Sun Quan only convened his ministers to discuss for a morning, and then made a decision to abandon the attack on Jingzhou and withdraw the whole army to the territory of Eastern Wu.

At the same time, they also made several strategic decisions, one is to step up contact with Cao Wei and establish a stronger alliance with them, and the two sides will work closely together to fight against Western Shu in the future;

Second, the border between the two countries where heavy troops are stationed to prevent the Shu army from crossing the border at any time; Third, to further strengthen the building of the navy, it is necessary to gain absolute superiority in the field of the navy. As long as the navy is undefeated, Soochow will be invincible.

Why do they attach so much importance to the navy, and think that if the navy is undefeated, Soochow will not be defeated? The reason is that there is a cloud dream Zecun zài.

At that time, the geographical environment of this area was very different from that of later generations, mainly because there were clouds and dreams. Later generations didn't know about Yun Mengze, because Yun Mengze had long since disappeared, but during the Three Kingdoms period, Yun Mengze's scope was still very huge.

Yunmeng Daze is the general name of the group of lakes on the Jianghan Plain in ancient Hubei Province. It is bounded by the Yangtze River in the south. In the pre-Qin period, the circumference of this group of lakes was about 450 kilometers. Later, due to the continuous sedimentation brought by the Yangtze River and the Han River, the Hanjiang River Delta continued to expand, and the range of Yunmengze gradually decreased.

During the Western Han Dynasty, due to the siltation of cement and sand in the Yangtze River and the Han River, the two inland deltas of the Jingjiang River and the Hanjiang River were united. Huarong County was newly established in the former Zhanghuatai area on the north side of the Xiashui Natural Dike in the Jingjiang Delta (the old city is in the southwest of present-day Qianjiang County); At the top of the Han River Delta, Jingling County was established (the ancient city is in the northwest of present-day Qianjiang).

The Yunmengze area on both sides of the Yangshui River was gradually silted up and divided into lakes such as Lubai, Dongchi, Chuanguan, and Nuguan, and the main body of Yunmengze had moved south to the vicinity of Huarong.

Later, with the further development of the Jianghan Delta, it continued to move to the south and east, the south was blocked by the natural embankment on the north bank of the river, and the east was slightly unobstructed, and by the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it had moved to the southeast of Huarong.

With the accumulation of sediment transport from Jianghan Province, the swamp area is becoming more and more shallow and swampy. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao Chibi was defeated to Wulin, and he was able to "lead the army back from Huarong Road", but the road was muddy and difficult to walk.

Yunmengze was almost half of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties period, so although the Three Kingdoms period also shrank a lot, there was still more than half of the area, even if this half of the area was still a boundless Hubo group and swamp group.

Such a geographical environment is the world of the water army, as long as there is a strong water army, in this area can come and go. In wartime, they can not only directly participate in the battle with naval forces, but also quickly transport troops, weapons and equipment, and grain and grass between various cities along the coast across Yunmengze, which is of great strategic significance.

If defeated, they can still hide on the island in Yunmengze, and it will be difficult to find them. If you are negligent, they can come out and raid the coast, causing you heavy losses. Of course, at this stage, they are already bandits.