Chapter 595 Supporting the army and respecting itself

As the saying goes, the rebellion of the rivers and mountains will cause disaster in the Xiao Wall, as if to confirm this sentence, the summer of the empire in 557 years was both hot and lively, and with the new emperor ascending the throne, it was a stone that stirred up a thousand waves, and Kyushu trembled.

Qingzhou Heze Mansion, adjacent to Zhongzhou, is the battlefield where the Qingzhou Army and Li Tang's rebels strangled, from Cangshan in the north to Heze Lake, from the land to the rivers and lakes, there are dozens of battlefields large and small.

Qingzhou Three Legions, North Taishan, Zhonghuaishui, South Cangyun, pick up the combat power, but the combat power of the Cangyun Legion is slightly higher, especially in the Cangyun Legion, the Cangshan Division composed of a large number of Cangshan soldiers, it can be said that the three armies of Yongguan, Leng Zhuo passed through Cangshan County, but through the local nobleman Xu Jia's young master Xu Wei recruited 3,000 people, and later recruited twice, but only recruited less than 2,000, and the remaining few soldiers were recruited by the Cangyun Legion.

In the Heze battlefield of Qingzhou, the commander of the seal is Prince Situ Hao, the commander of the Qing Prince, the symbolic meaning of the commander is greater than the practical significance, and the following two corps commanders and deputy marshals are the main battlefield commanders, but Situ Hao commanded the Fourth Forbidden Army Corps also has a considerable amount of time, from last year's three-way army to attack Beihu, the Fourth Forbidden Army Corps nominally obeyed Situ Hao's orders.

In a year's time, with Situ Hao's means, although he didn't dare to say that all the top and bottom of the Fourth Forbidden Army Corps obeyed Situ Hao, but several major division commanders were co-opted by him, but the commander of the Fourth Forbidden Army had an ambiguous attitude and turned a blind eye to Situ Hao's actions, but let Situ Hao take advantage of the battle damage several times, use a large number of his own people, and promote low-level generals.

And this force is almost the most reliable force in Situ Hao's hands.

In Dezhou City, a big city in the east of Heze Mansion, where the handsome tent is located, Situ Hao smashed the house on the spot since he got the message from the Emperor Jing Flying Eagle, but then, Situ Hao woke up from his anger and urgently summoned his henchmen.

The prince can open a mansion to build a government, Situ Hao opened the mansion for only two years, but Situ Hao's mother is Zheng Guifei, and his maiden family is the Tang family in Yangzhou City, although the Tang family is far less than the Tang family in the previous dynasty, but it has been developed in Yangzhou for hundreds of years, as one of the three major families in Yangzhou, the financial strength of the Tang family is not weak, not to mention, Wang Xie and the two families are also very optimistic about Situ Hao, with this guarantee, Situ Hao is naturally rising.

Yangzhou has been famous since ancient times, perhaps among Kyushu, Yangzhou's soldiers and horses rank first in terms of combat power, but when it comes to the style of writing, it is not even comparable to Yunzhou, where the imperial capital is located, so there are a group of available advisers under Situ Hao's account.

It can be said that among the five princes, Situ Hao has the most civil officials, and Situ Hao relies on the most of them.

Xie Anbang, Xie Dingguo, Tang Yiming, Wang Chengxun, Shuangxie is in his early thirties, but he became famous as a teenager, and he has been up and down in officialdom for several years.

Tang Yiming is older, different from the fame of Shuangxie teenagers, Tang Yiming achieved nothing before the age of thirty, loves casinos, does not gamble for a day, and finally his wife loses by him, and commits suicide in front of him, Tang Yiming has since then, ten years of closed doors, ten years later, but he responded to that sentence, ten years of not singing, a Ming is already, as soon as he goes out, he will make Yangzhou shake the officialdom earthquake, like the sword to go sideways, full of gambling, ruthless vision.

The last king, but from the Wang family, is the youngest, twenty-five or six, comparable to Situ Hao, but he is the head of Yangzhou College five years ago, although he is young, but the most resourceful, known as the green fox.

The four of them sat down one after another, Situ Hao directly handed over the letter to the four people to circulate, and after the four of them quickly glanced at it, Situ Hao got up directly, hugged his fists, and said: "The ninth brother is so deeply hidden, he actually dared to launch a battle to seize the dragon, but he didn't think about it, but he still let him succeed, now that the ninth brother has ascended the throne, it is impossible to change, how should I do it, and I hope that a few great talents will teach me"

Shuangxie Tang Wang and the four of them were holding the teacup, silent, for a long time, Tang Yiming took the lead in putting down the teacup in his hand, and said in a gloomy voice: "There are only two ways to choose, one is to be tied up, and the other is to support the army and respect yourself, which way you want to go, but you want the prince to choose, but we can't be the master."

This is the same as not saying it, he also knows that there are only two ways to go, he wants to ask how to go, but it seems that these four people seem to be waiting for his choice.

Situ Hao pondered for a while, is he waiting to be killed? His ambition has never been small, and it is almost impossible for him to sit and wait for him to be killed, but he is not sure that he is now the commander of more than 400,000 soldiers and horses, but in fact, in addition to the private soldiers under his command, he can mobilize less than half of the forbidden army, counting, at most 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, if the other soldiers and horses declare allegiance to the new emperor, his future is not very bright.

What's more, he didn't even know whether the four people present were loyal to the court or more loyal to him, but at this moment, he couldn't wait for him to hesitate, Situ Hao groaned for a while, and then gritted his teeth and said: "I have been taught how to be an emperor since I was a child, for more than 20 years, I haven't been working hard all the time, and now let me give up like this, it's better to let me die, I should follow the example of Emperor Shenwu and achieve a great empire, and I hope that the four great talents can help me."

Situ Hao said and bowed his head, but the four people on the seat received this salute: "The prince is like this, we deserve to serve our lives with death, anyway, I am also dressed in white, maybe after many years, I can still be a high-ranking official of the six ministries and cabinet ministers."

"I hope the four great talents will teach me" Situ Hao is overjoyed, he knows the ability of these four people, and with the assistance of these four people, he will be able to have a few more chances of winning this great cause.

"If you want to support the army and self-respect, then there must be several prerequisites, one is a soldier, two is righteousness, three is the territory, and the fourth is the popularity of the people.

"Can you elaborate?"

"Soldiers, the first thing to mention is to support the soldiers, that is, soldiers, and ask the prince how many soldiers and horses he can attract to be loyal and willing to fight against the imperial court"

Situ Hao pondered for a while, and said: "The private army of 20,000 is my private soldier, and he is loyal to me, among the forbidden army, there are also two or three divisions that can be encircled, but the rest are difficult to distinguish, but it is the Cangyun Legion, I can win over one or two, as for the Huaishui Legion, it is no play, although it is under my control, but it is a battlefield of its own, and it does not listen to my dispatch, as for the Yangzhou soldiers and horses, there should be three or four percent."

"If there are less than 100,000 soldiers and horses, how can you be self-respecting, according to me, if there are no 300,000 soldiers and horses, His Royal Highness the Prince should give up all military power as soon as possible, and maybe he can get a rich Chang'an" Tang Yiming said unceremoniously.

Situ Hao didn't get angry when he heard this, but like an obedient student, he asked, "Please also ask Mr. Tang to teach me."

"It's easy to say, those who are loyal will stay, and those who are not convinced will be killed"

"This?" Situ Hao looked at the other three, although he also had this idea, but he was quite worried, if he didn't do it well, he would have civil strife first, not to mention that now the soldiers and horses were in a state of war, once the opportunity was caught by Li Tang's rebels, this might not necessarily become what it would be.

"Killing is the last resort, but it is also necessary to win over, His Royal Highness the Prince can discuss the military plane, transfer the commanders of the various armies, and the division commanders, and then send people to secretly go to the armies to win over the deputy generals, it is best to be able to shake the situation, make a promise, in addition, pretend to be suspicious, so that the Li Tang rebels do not dare to act rashly, as long as His Royal Highness the Prince holds the soldiers and horses, then the next step can be carried out"

"In order to seize the righteousness, you can write an article, this is easy, forcibly occupy the territory, there are soldiers, and the people's connections, but they need to be innocent, and get the support of wealthy families from all over the country, and His Royal Highness the Prince at the moment, the most important thing is to contact the Tang family in Yangzhou, the prince did, if Yangzhou is the backing, the success of the imperial industry can have more than two percent of the chances of winning"

The first premise is to seize the military power, the second is to occupy the righteous name, and then to occupy a large enough territory to raise troops, Qingzhou Zhongnan is a land rich in water and soil, and there is salt and profit, adjacent to the prosperous population of Chuyang, there is no shortage of money and food, and the only thing that is not good is that the soldiers are worse.

And in order to win the support of Yangzhou, several people also came up with an idea, that is, to let Situ Hao, who has not yet have the prince's wife, marry Nangong Yuhu, the daughter of the Nangong family.

After having a resolution, Situ Hao immediately convened in the name of his own Qingzhou rebellious envoy and the commander of the three armies, the main generals of the forbidden army, the Cangyun Legion and the Yangzhou Water Army, and at the same time, Shuang Xie also left the city in a carriage, while Tang Yiming went south to Yangzhou, leaving only Wang Chengxun to organize the Hongmen banquet.

And just when Prince Qing was making a plan to support the army and respect himself, in several other places, the remaining three princes also convened their staff and ministers to discuss how to do it, and the conclusion was undoubtedly to support the army and respect themselves, the four princes were in the temple, and in the imperial capital, it was also ten times a day, and a team of Marshal Seals of the world's soldiers and horses and the cabinet passed the official documents of the Bafang Prefecture to distribute the world's Kyushu.

A battle for military power, a struggle for local power, and a struggle for justice was staged in Kyushu.

Under the influence of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the rebellion that was in full swing began to stop, and Li Tang, who was about to be suppressed, finally ushered in a rare respite.

In the sea off Yangzhou, Dongyi's 50,000 troops have seized the offshore barrier, the Penglai Islands, and based on this, they plan the Qingyang granary.

The chaos is on the verge of breaking out.