Chapter 444: The Change of Power in Pyongyang
"Why hasn't Xia Guo landed directly nearby like last time?"
Gao Yangcheng stared at a huge map on the wall of his study, but he didn't pay attention to the other places, but only stared at the sea area near Pyongyang City, which was still only a regular fleet, and if it weren't for the protection of Pyongyang City, he could even send a hundred thousand troops to the south.
In this way, there is no need to kill Gao Huizhen, and the consequences of killing Gao Huizhen have gradually begun to be revealed these days, although he got the only more than 30,000 troops in Gao Huizhen's hands, it made all the generals who fought for the Goguryeo royal family feel cold, and Gao Yangcheng himself felt uneasy.
What made Gao Yangcheng even more uneasy was that the large plain near the flat and easy to attack Pyongyang City had not been attacked by the Xia State for a long time, and now even the mountainous northeastern mountain plateau was occupied by the Central Protector Army, and this plain has not been attacked until now, which is obviously out of place.
Although Gao Yangcheng didn't know why the Xia State did not directly send a naval army to land near Pyongyang City like last time, he still did not dare to slack off, once the Xia army attacked Pyongyang City and lost, Goguryeo would immediately fall apart and could no longer gather together.
Gao Yangcheng was stunned there, and Concubine Zhen made tea for him, and now with the development of the war situation, he can only feel much more at ease when he is accompanied by Concubine Zhen every day, just when Gao Yangcheng was quite worried about this, suddenly a guard came to report: "Your Majesty, the big pair of Lu Yuan Dazuo is now outside the palace to see?" β
"What?" Gao Yangcheng was still thinking about how Yuan Dazuo was resisting the Xia army on the East Road just now, why did he come to Pyongyang City at this time, and he was suddenly surprised, "Why is he here?" β
"Your Majesty misses Your Majesty, of course you're here!" Before Gao Yangcheng finished speaking, he heard the voice of a middle-aged man outside the door, and Yuan Dazuo actually broke into the palace without any notice, which was simply rude.
"Guards, guards! Come to the rescue! β
Concubine Zhen, who accompanied Gao Yangcheng, was startled at first when she saw Yuan Dazuo suddenly enter without a notification, and then thought of the key point, I am afraid that this time Yuan Dazuo's arrival is not a good thing, so she panicked and shouted to the guards to come to support.
"Stop shouting!" Gao Yangcheng protected Concubine Zhen behind him and said, "The big pair of Lu can suddenly come to the palace without any sound, either to buy our guards, or they have already done their best for me!" It's just big for Lu, why are you doing this? Am I not sincere enough with you? β
"Bang Bang"
Yuan Dazuo clapped his palms proudly and said: "Your Majesty is really smart, I always thought that Your Majesty would not have anyone loyal to Your Majesty if you are so unkind, but I didn't expect that Your Majesty's guards before would not surrender no matter what price I offered, so I had to send them on the road!" β
Speaking of this, Yuan Dazuo said a little mockingly: "As for Your Majesty's sincerity to me, I don't see much, but the death of Lord Gao Huizhen has made me understand a lot, at least Your Majesty definitely doesn't want me to be the one who continues to live!" β
Hearing Yuan Dazuo say this, Gao Yangcheng's heart tightened, and he defended: "I don't understand what Da said to Lu, Lord Gao Huizhen died of a violent illness, what does it matter to me?" Is there any misunderstanding about Lu? β
"Gao Huizhen died, it was because he was too stupid, he had to resist so hard in the face of the attack of the Xia army, and finally led to serious losses in troops before he was taken advantage of by you, he was loyal to Goguryeo all his life, but in the end he ended up with such a fate!"
Yuan Dazuo glanced at Gao Yangcheng and Concubine Zhen fiercely, and he said coldly: "If it weren't for the fact that my Yuan family has attached great importance to their own safety for many years, I'm afraid I would have ended up with Gao Huizhen today, right?" Your Majesty is so intelligent, of course you should know what I want to do! β
After Yuan Dazuo finished speaking, there was a long silence.
After a long time, Gao Yangcheng spoke: "Since the Great Pair said this to Lu, I will appoint the Great Pair of Lu to lead the generalissimo of the national soldiers and horses, so that it is always okay, right?" Gao Yangcheng had no choice but to make concessions, "It's just that my family and Concubine Zhen still hope that Da Zheng Lu can raise his noble hand!" β
Yuan Dazuo smiled faintly and said: "Please rest assured, as long as Your Majesty agrees to my request, I can agree to Your Majesty's request, but Your Majesty has to abdicate, I think the prince Gao Yuan is not bad, and he can inherit His Majesty's great treasure!" β
Gao Yangcheng didn't expect that Yuan Dazuo would have time to come to Pyongyang City in the gap between the battle with Wang Ze, and then what he didn't expect was that Yuan Dazuo dared to launch a coup d'Γ©tat to imprison him, and now he even has to abdicate to his son Gao Yuan.
"Could it be that the big pair of Lu wants to control the power of a country and usurp power?" After Gao Yangcheng heard Yuan Dazuo's words, he said bitterly, "Da Xiang Lu must know that Xia Jun is aggressive now, wouldn't it be good for Lu to do this, and the relatives will be bitter and enemies happy?" β520
Yuan Dazuo glanced back at Gao Yangcheng and chuckled: "Your Majesty not only has to abdicate, but also has to die, I know that Your Majesty has been extremely smart since childhood, if Your Majesty is still in this world, wouldn't I be killed by Your Majesty at any time?" Therefore, His Majesty thinks that the son of the world is good and can inherit His Majesty's treasure, but I will do my best to handle His Majesty's funeral! β
Saying that, Yuan Dazuo glanced at Concubine Zhen who was hiding behind Gao Yangcheng and said: "Since Concubine Zhen is Your Majesty's favorite woman, I won't let people touch it, and I will let her accompany you when Your Majesty is mourned, but it's a pity that such a smart beauty!" β
Saying that, Yuan Dazuo laughed and walked out, the door slammed shut, and the order of Yuan Dazuo to arrange for someone to guard the door and strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving could be heard outside the door. It seems that the palace is indeed controlled by Yuan Dazuo.
Gao Yangcheng even heard Etozhi Megumi's voice in the end, he never thought that the general he trusted the most betrayed him at the most critical moment, if it weren't for Etozhi Megumi as an internal response, how could Yuan Dazuo be able to control the entire palace so quickly and silently?
Concubine Zhen looked at the confined door, and immediately couldn't hold back the fear in her heart and cried loudly, she began to loudly scold Yuan Dazuo's wolf ambition, and even louder scolded Yi Zhihui's wolf heart and dog lungs, betraying Gao Yangcheng's trust, and even scolding Xia Guo's attack for giving Yuan Dazuo a chance.
And Gao Yangcheng didn't bother to take care of Concubine Zhen, anyway, it was a death, he was just addicted to it before he died, looking at the door, he was even more helpless, he wanted to save himself, he knew that there was a secret passage in the palace that could escape, but now that he couldn't even get out of the study, how could he escape.
How could Yuan Dazuo not be afraid that Gao Yangcheng would have other means of escape? Therefore, he was strictly guarded every day, not only checking when delivering food and food, but also visiting soldiers every half an hour, for fear that there would be some secret passages in the study to escape.
Under such close supervision, it was impossible for Gao Yangcheng to escape even if he had the intention, and time passed day by day, and finally a few days later, an astonishing news came out of Pyongyang City.
Gao Yangcheng is dead! Died fifteen years earlier than in history!
In later history books, the most wise and courageous, but also the most unlucky king in the history of Goguryeo, Goyang-sung, suddenly fell ill and died, so the Goguryeo ministers in Pyongyang supported Goyang's eldest son, who was only six years old, to ascend the throne and become the new king of Goguryeo.
In history, Gao Yuan is also an ambitious guy, he presided over a series of major battles with the Sui Dynasty after he ascended the throne, it can be said that this is also a restless lord, but now he is only six years old, and he can only honestly be his puppet in the hands of Yuan Dazuo.
After Gao Yuan ascended the throne, under the operation of Yuan Dazuo, who had already secretly controlled the inside and outside of Pyongyang City, Gao Yuan had to summon Yuan Dazuo to lead the army into Pyongyang City under the pretext that he was young and ignorant, and Yuan Dazuo, who was an elder and a generous and loving man, could be used as a teacher.
In this way, Yuan Dazuo left 30,000 troops to resist the offensive of the Zhonghu army, but he led another 30,000 people into Pyongyang City, and as soon as he entered the city and took control of the power, he successively killed the ministers who were loyal to the royal family, such as Okduji and Gawain.
Later, he deposed the military power of Yi Huizhi, who participated in the mutiny, so that Yuan Dazuo not only had the original 60,000 troops under his command, but also controlled the 100,000 troops inside and outside Pyongyang, which was almost as easy as Dong Zhuo's entry into Luoyang.
Later, Yuan Dazuo was named the military and political power of Goguryeo by Gao Yuan as the commander of 'Mo Zhili', and he was actually the highest power in Goguryeo.
After taking control of the power of Pyongyang City, Yuan Dazuo began to win over Zhu Wei, who controlled more than 100,000 troops in southern Goguryeo, after all, Goguryeo is still facing attacks from all sides of the Xia army, and Yuan Dazuo must first withstand the offensive of Xia if he wants to integrate national strength.
Zhu Wei also began to have some suspicions in his heart because of Gao Yangcheng's previous order to kill Gao Huizhen, and he was afraid that one day he would become such a person, and in the face of Yuan Dazuo's wooing, it can be said that his heart was extremely contradictory.
After hearing the news of Gao Yangcheng's sudden death, on the one hand, he was relieved, and on the other hand, he was even more uneasy about the inside story of Gao Yangcheng's death and Yuan Dazuo's sudden rise to power, so he also began to try his best to shrink his forces in an attempt to protect himself.
It's just that in this way, Zhu Wei is even less concerned about resisting the offensive of the Xia army, and Zhu Wei began to rein in the people of southern Goguryeo in order to have sufficient material reserves, and if Yuan Dazuo is unwilling to provide enough supplies, Zhu Wei must be prepared for this.
However, after all, Yuan Dazuo had already controlled the righteous name in Goguryeo, so most of the land south of Aprusu was finally controlled by him, so after a month of operation, Yuan Dazuo actually controlled an army of 300,000 people.
In this way, even if Zhu Wei was dissatisfied in his heart, he would never dare to make any changes, and Yuan Dazuo relied on Zhu Wei's army to block the attack of the Xia army on the southern road, so he also treated Zhu Wei very favorably, and even more so for his family members who stayed in Pyongyang.