Chapter 80: The Emperor's Hole Cards
Hearing a series of operations before Li Yu's abdication from Zhang Zhiyi's mouth, and then contacting the information that Guo Rong had learned before, Guo Rong straightened out the causes and consequences, and also roughly understood the current situation in Chang'an.
More importantly, judging from the content narrated and described by Zhang Yiyi, Li Yu's scheming and skill are indeed powerful, but to realize the intensive decrees and edicts before the abdication, it is definitely not something that a puppet emperor can do.
Guo Rong came to an uncertain judgment that Emperor Li Yu was still in control of the situation in Chang'an at that time.
Through the incident of the eldest princess, Guo Rong faintly felt that Li Yu had only become the emperor in name, and the Li Yu who ascended the throne was more like a prince of the prison country.
But it is clear that he still holds the actual power of the imperial court, but he is still forced to abdicate, so the only thing that can make Li Yu jealous is the Shence army near Gyeonggi!
The Shence Army itself was based on the border army, and after a large-scale replenishment in the Zhenyuan period, the strength at this time was close to 150,000, and it was well-equipped, with the dual functions of the forbidden army and the field army, and occupied the strategic places of Gyeonggi and Guanzhong, becoming the strongest army in the world.
Dezong's favor of eunuchs is true, the Shence Army is indeed controlled by eunuchs, but Dezong is not a fool, so the Shence Army is not controlled by a eunuch, but is scattered in the hands of more than 20 people, including generals, commanders, lieutenants of the army, and middle guards.
After Li Yu ascended the throne, the reforms carried out by Wang Shuwen and Wang Ling in charge of the government seriously threatened the survival of the eunuchs and the feudal towns, and as a result, Li Yu was forced to abdicate under the joint counterattack of the internal and external forces.
Normally, Li Yu's abdication should be over as long as the new emperor Li Chun does not scold the eunuchs to death.
But before the abdication, Li Chen's last wave of operations was too amazing, his wrists were too hard, his shots were too accurate, and he even pulled and beaten, taking retreat as advance, and completely disintegrated the Forced Palace Group at once.
After the new emperor Li Chun ascended the throne, he did not directly threaten the eunuchs, but used the advice given by Li Yu to stabilize the government and use the eldest princess of Yan to accumulate popularity and prestige.
For ordinary eunuchs, all this is nothing, but as the initiator and tandem of forcing the palace, Ju Wenzhen must be in a panic all day, and if you think about it with your thighs, you can know that once Li Chun's throne is secured, the first person to clean up must be him who has a history of jumping against him!
"Your Majesty, the leader of the eunuchs, Ju Wenzhen, should already have the idea of rebellion, and it is likely to rebel in the near future!"
"Are you sure?"
On the surface, it seems that his expression remains the same, but in his heart Guo Rong smiled, Emperor Tai, you should really ask Yan Qing about this sentence, what is the crow's mouth that has opened the light.
"Minister, dare to assert that Ju Wenzhen Dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and will use the Shence Army under his control to launch a rebellion in the near future, Your Majesty, it's still too late to prepare!"
Looking at Guo Rong, who had blazing eyes and a resolute face, Li Yan's face slowly returned to normal.
"Ju Wenzhen! If someone wants to do something to me, I'm afraid it's him, do you think we have a chance of winning if Ju Wenzhen starts a rebellion now? ”
"Yes!"
For Guo Rong, this is a problem that does not need to be considered, if the rebels succeed, the hope of rescuing the Anxi army will be completely shattered, and the veterans of Anxi will all be buried for Li Yu.
Even if there is really no chance of winning, there must be a chance of winning, not to mention, Guo Rong believes that an emperor who still holds power will definitely not sit still.
Hole cards are a must, at the very least, Guo Rong believes that Li Yu can use more than two hundred cavalry outside the city!
Ju Wenzhen is guilty of too much nonsense and indecisiveness These villain bosses are common problems, if you get the hole card of the emperor again, as long as the gap is not too large, there is still a chance, at least it is worth fighting!
Listening to Guo Rong's categorical answer, the corners of Li Yan's mouth once again put a smile on his lips.
"For the Anxi Army?"
"Back to Your Majesty, there is the Anxi Army, but the Anxi Army is not all, you need to be cautious and decisive for the generals, and you still need to go all out to fight the rabbit!"
"The minister doesn't know why Ju Wenzhen is so indecisive, maybe he didn't get the support of other eunuchs, maybe he was constrained, maybe he was waiting for the opportunity, but he stopped after rashly killing the captain of the sixth military academy of the Northern Ya, which is definitely a taboo in the army!"
"What's more, Ju Wenzhen's actions today have reminded us that if Ju Wenzhen has started attacking Xingqing Palace now, the minister has no choice but to die in battle, but now the enemy has not carried out, which gives us infinite possibilities!"
"Yes, you have an idea, tell me about your infinite possibilities!"
"First of all, we must strengthen the defense of Xingqing Palace, Daming Palace, and Taiji Palace, and accumulate strength as much as possible before Ju Wenzhen really makes a move, and when Ju Wenzhen really rebels, he will fight back steadily, and find an opportunity to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle to capture the thief and capture the king!"
Defending and counterattacking steadily can only be said to be decent, but this decent idea brought Li Yu a big surprise.
The more unfavorable the situation, the more it is not easy to maintain this Zhongzheng peace, I don't know if it is the reason for loving the house and Wu, Li Yu faintly saw the calmness of Guo Ziyi in the past from Guo Rong's suggestion.
It turned out that the idea that was not too sure was also determined, and he had decided to trust Guo Rong, so trust it to the end, since Guo Rong wanted power, then give it to him.
In the eyes of Guo Rong and several people, the Supreme Emperor Li Yu, who had made up his mind, slowly spoke.
"The first emperor trusted the eunuchs, but I didn't trust the eunuchs, the Shence army was all in the hands of the eunuchs, and the sixteen guards of the southern ya, the six armies of the northern ya, and the ten rates of the east palace were all in vain, and I couldn't eat and sleep."
"In order to curb the dominance of the Shence Army, after succeeding to the throne, I secretly transferred troops and horses from the feudal towns loyal to the imperial court in Jiannan Province, Longyou Province, and Shannan Province, and formed a new army in the name of enriching the Sixth Army of the Northern Ya and the left and right Jin Wuwei!"
Li Yu really has hole cards, Guo Rong's hanging heart is put down, it's good to have hole cards, it's good to have hole cards.
"It's okay in the early stage, including Wei Gao, several Jiedu envoys and observation envoys are quite supportive, but later after I rejected Wei Gao's idea of completely occupying the three rivers in Jiannan, Wei Gao directly merged with the eunuchs to force the palace, and the formation of the new army did not go on."
After a little explanation to Guo Rong, Li Yu turned his gaze to the two generals of the forbidden army.
"Zhang Qiyi, Wu Yongnan, how many people are in the new army that the two of you can control now, and tell Guo Rong what the situation is."
"Captain Guo, there are about 2,000 people in the new army formed in the name of Jin Wuwei under my command, most of them are stationed in the palace city, responsible for defending the imperial city, and a small number are responsible for Xingqing Palace and other important places.
"Captain Guo, the new army of the Longwu Left Army under my command is about 3,000 people, stationed in the Forbidden Garden, responsible for guarding the four gates of Guanghua, Jingyao, Fanglin, and Xuanwu in the north of Chang'an City."
"Do you know how many Shence troops near Gyeonggi can be controlled by Ju Wenzhen and his henchmen?"