1038 Repatriation of Chen Chang
In the second half of last year, Chen Baxian of the Southern Dynasty also completed the matter of replacing the Southern Liang and calling the emperor the country, and sent an envoy to Guanzhong to report the news as soon as possible, and asked the Western Wei Dynasty to send Chen Baxian's son and nephew back to Jiangdong.
Although the Western Wei court also established new diplomatic relations with the newborn Southern Chen, it did not repatriate Chen Baxian's sons and nephews at the first time. It's not that Li Tai wants to deliberately make things difficult for Chen Baxian, but he is just waiting for a more suitable opportunity, such as the present.
Two days later, Chen Chang and others were led from Chang'an to Shangyang Palace, and Li Tai, who was busy supervising the mobilization matters, also deliberately took time to meet them.
"Humble to see Tang Gong, may I ask what is the order of Tang Gong to summon him?"
Because Chen Chang is still being detained abroad as a proton, Chen Baxian did not directly make him the crown prince, but the Western Wei side gave him an official promotion. At the beginning of last year, after consulting his family, Li Tai married a niece and Li Zhen's sister to Chen Chang and crowned him the duke of the county. Therefore, when Chen Chang visited Li Tai, he still held the courtesy.
Li Tai waved his hand and smiled at Chen Chang and said, "Excuse me, it's not official to meet today, and you don't have to be too restrained. How are you studying in Guozijian recently? What is your home like when you start a family?"
Hearing Li Tai's homely question, Chen Chang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied respectfully, but there was still a bit of a desire to speak between his eyebrows and eyes, and it seemed that he couldn't bear some words and didn't dare to confide them.
Of course, Li Tai knew what Chen Chang was thinking, so he said: "A few days ago, Ling Zun showed his ambitions in Jiangdong, created a new national industry, and sent an envoy to the court.
"This, this...... He was a lowly student in the country's supervision, and he did not know much about foreign affairs. If, if you can be sent, you must speak to your father and tell the people of the country after you return, you must always be respectful, and never forget the care and love of Tang Gong for our country, my family and the rest of my body, and I must ......."
Such an important matter, how could Chen Chang not know that when his father was not the emperor before, he had been looking forward to returning to Jiangdong, and now the family really has a Sheji throne waiting for him to go back to inherit, so naturally he is even more like an arrow.
It's just that the Bafu has not communicated with him about this, and he has also known the strength of the Western Wei Dynasty and the strength of the Tang Duke in Chang'an in the past few years, and he is worried that the too urgent request may make the Tang Duke bored and make his return to the country more turbulent, so he has been patiently not asking for this matter, knowing that even his mother's vague statement was stopped by him.
Now that Tang Gong finally took the initiative to mention this matter, Chen Chang seized the opportunity and repeatedly expressed his humble and respectful attitude. But because it's too humble, it seems a little false.
Li Tai didn't care about Chen Chang's attitude and true thoughts, to be honest, don't talk about Chen Chang, even his father Chen Baxian is actually now difficult to cause any substantial threats and harm to the Western Wei. Maintaining a good interaction between the two sides is a more urgent need for Nan Chen.
"I didn't send it before, and I was a little selfish. My daughter was born in a northland family, not necessarily more gentle and pitiful than a woman in Wudi, because fate will be worthy of your wife, as a parent, there is always some pity, I hope to be able to stay in front of me and take care of another discipline, I hope that a couple of newcomers can have a harmonious family."
Li Tai first sighed earnestly, and then said, "But since you have a family, you must eventually stand on your own, and no matter how much your parents support you, you will only help each other. Besides, your family is no longer ordinary, and if you treat each other as normal, you will become alienated and become enemies......
"How so? Absolutely not! The kid is just a talent in the southern country, and he has never had the merit of his father, but he was favored and appreciated by the Duke of Tang, and he was given a virtuous man as a parent. This grace is the same as reconstruction, the lady is also a famous couple in the glorious hall, the boy is grateful, whether in Chang'an or back to Jiangdong, never dare to teach the Tang Gong in vain, will respect each other with the lady, so that my family is peaceful and seamless. Respect the elders and love them, and worship and accept them, how dare they harbor resentment and slander in secret!"
After Chen Chang heard this, he hurriedly lowered his head and bowed deeply.
"With such feelings, then I am relieved, and I have finally lived up to Ling Zun's entrustment to foster you here."
After hearing this, Li Tai said with a smile: "Although Guanzhong is good, Fei'er's hometown, and the family and country affairs are complicated, so they urge you to return. It would be inappropriate for me to extend my stay any longer, so I will arrange it in the near future
You return to Koto. On the occasion of parting, I will give you a few words. Although the Xiao clan of Liang Guo brought about its own destruction, after all, it has been cultivating the hearts of the people in Jiangdong for many years, and although Chen Shi is established, there are still unattached favors, and it is inevitable that he needs to be graced and powerful to gather people's hearts.
Even with Ling Zun's support, you also need to have your own personnel planning, so that you can live in the Spring Palace. I have been in power for a long time, and I know that people's hearts are unpredictable. Under the urge of power, not all personnel are undoubted. Especially if you have been away for a long time, and you have no personnel accumulation, and you suddenly return to others, it will inevitably be criticized......
Although Chen Chang looked like he was listening carefully, he was more or less disapproving in his heart, and felt that Tang Gong's teachings must also be a little impure. He was his father's only son, and it was a natural choice to inherit the family and the country, so what could the rest of the country think? What do you dare to say?
Li Tai naturally knew that Chen Chang was young and vigorous, and most of them would take his experience as a deaf ear, so he didn't stop talking, but still prepared a team of personnel for Chen Chang.
The Battle of Jiangling captured a large number of Southern Dynasty scholars, some of whom had already entered the Western Wei Dynasty to hold various official positions, while others still had not yet become officials. There are also some people who are not used to living a life in Guanzhong and want to return to their homeland in Jiangdong.
So Li Tai asked his subordinates to select and prepare a list of 100 people, and let these people return to Jiangdong with Chen Chang, which can be regarded as Chen Chang, the East Palace team of the Prince of Southern Chen, and when he inherits the throne in the future, he can also have a group of loyal and obedient people to help him govern the country.
Such as Yin Buxian, Yan Zhitui, as well as Zhou Hongzheng's nephew Zhou Qu, Cai Dabao's younger brother Cai Daye and so on. Some of these people are homesick, and some are already quite influenced by the law of the Western Wei Dynasty and are close to the Western Wei Dynasty, if they can return to the Chen Dynasty to take up official positions, they can also strengthen the influence of the Western Wei Dynasty on the Chen Dynasty.
However, just these scholars are still a bit insufficient, you must know that Chen Baxian does not have much time to pave the way for his son, Chen Chang wants to suppress those proud soldiers who follow his father to start a business, he must also have his own henchmen with heavy soldiers.
Therefore, after summoning Chen Chang, Li Tai summoned Wu Mingche to Shangyang Palace.
In the past few days, the mobilization order has been officially issued in the country, and Wu Mingche is also gearing up to do a big job, and after receiving the summons, he hurriedly came to Shangyang Palace, and after visiting the hall, he hurriedly said: "Does the Lord want to arrange for the last general to serve as a military officer? Do you want to lead your troops to reinforce western Henan, or do you want to go to fight elsewhere?"
"It's something to pay you, but it's not the military of the moment."
Looking at Wu Mingche's enthusiasm, Li Tai couldn't bear to let him be disappointed, but there was really no better choice for him in this matter, so he could only say: "A few days ago, Emperor Chen sent an envoy to ask for the return of his son, but he didn't allow it at that time, but now he needs to unite with Chen Guo to fight the thieves, so he will release his son and nephew to his country. I hope you can follow Chen Changtong back to Jiangdong......
"This, this...... The last general was originally a traitor of the Chen family, and if he returns now, it will be real, real...... Even though Chan was courteous and benevolent and did not condemn him, he was really embarrassed......
When Wu Mingche heard this, his eyes widened and he said with a look of embarrassment.
Li Tai also knew that it was a bit embarrassing for Wu Mingche to accept this arrangement, so he patiently explained: "Chen Chang has been away from his country for a long time, and it must be difficult to control the arrogant generals in Jiangdong, and he must have a confidant general in charge of the army to help. You may not be able to share a dynasty with the old people in Jiangdong, and I will suggest that Emperor Chen appoint you to Qin County in Jiangbei and borrow troops to help you enter and capture Guangling......
This time, since Li Tai wanted to deal a heavy blow to Northern Qi, he naturally tried his best to mobilize the forces that could be mobilized. Although Huainan was not the traditional core control area of the Northern Qi Dynasty, it also retained a lot of personnel there. This time to send Chen Chang back to China, he will also take advantage of this to ask Chen Ba to send troops to Huainan first, not only to recover the lost territory, but also to attract the military force of Northern Qi in Huainan.
However, while asking Nan Chen to help in the war, in fact, he didn't want Chen Ba to take this opportunity to reconstruct his Jianghuai defense line, so sending Wu Mingche back to Huainan to guard Qin County and a series of important towns in Jiangbei recovered by Nan Chen could be regarded as a handful of sand.
Of course, it is inevitable that Chen Baxian will not be able to completely follow Li Tai's arrangement, but such an arrangement itself is more beneficial to him.
Before Chen Baxian hoped that his son would marry the Li family in Longxi, he wanted to attract an external force for his son
The meaning of help is in it, presumably he also knows that Chen Chang may face a more difficult situation after returning to China. If there is a Jiangbei military group that supports Chen Chang, this will not only help balance the political situation in the south of Chen, but also allow Chen Chang to smoothly inherit the throne and avoid becoming a puppet.
"It's just, it's just that the last general sees the vastness of the world and wants to follow the Lord to seek peace for the four razors, and Gou An Jianghuai is really not what he wants......
Wu Mingche heard that he didn't need to cross the river to enter the court, and Qin County was originally his hometown, so he was no longer as resistant as he was at the beginning, but there was always something wrong in his heart. After Beitou, he was used to seeing big battles, and he had a bit of the feeling that the sea was difficult to turn into water, and he was always a little unwilling to let him retreat to the original point at this time.
"The premise of fighting for the four empires and rebuilding the prosperous era is also the need for the unification of the north and the south and the integrity of the family and country. It is precisely because you already have such ambition and vision that you are not willing to continue to hold on to your inadequacy, that I will pay you this matter."
Li Tai looked at Wu Mingche, who was reluctant, and said solemnly. Although the sea of stars is magnificent and beautiful, it still needs to be based on the present and move forward step by step!
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