Chapter 119 Rectify Wagang and send troops to Luoyang
In this way, Zhao Mingyuan's soldiers became the leader of Wagangzhai without blood. Although it seems to be a strong position, it also leaves many hidden dangers.
For example, Zhao Mingyuan didn't trust Li Mi, but he had to keep his position.
After all, it was Li Mi who took the initiative to push him to the top, which showed enough sincerity. Even in order to win people's hearts, Zhao Mingyuan had to treat Li Mi well.
However, how could Li Mi really gain Zhao Mingyuan's trust?
Who knows if this is a plan that Li Mi came up with, and what kind of calculation is there in secret.
Although it seems that Li Mi is desperate, this is indeed his best choice. If this is really his strategy, the price will be a little too great.
But the world is unpredictable, and many conspiracies and tricks are so tricky that people can't guard against it. Even if Zhao Mingyuan was already a great grandmaster, he was not invincible.
Besides, how can this kind of thing be negligent, but whenever there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, we must pay 10,000 points of vigilance.
After all, according to the original historical trajectory, Li Mi took charge of Wagangzhai after killing Zhai Rang. After that, attack Luoyang. It's a pity that the army was defeated by Wang Shichong, and he had to surrender to Li Yuan.
But soon after, Li Mi rebelled.
Li Mi wrote to Li Yuan, under the pretext of recruiting the old Wagang department to deal with Wang Shichong, and took the opportunity to lead Wang Bodang and other diehard loyalists to regain their independence.
It's a pity that most of the old Wagang troops have already come under the command of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and they don't care about Li Mi's solicitation at all.
Therefore, Li Mi's rebellion this time was unsuccessful, and he was soon defeated and killed.
In fact, at that time, many people had already seen the general trend, and it was difficult for Li Mi to succeed this time.
Even, before the incident, when Li Mi contacted the old department, Shen Luoyan had persuaded him.
It's a pity that Li Mi is unwilling to be subordinate, thinking that Li Yuan treats him poorly and rebels bent on doing his own thing. In the end, as Shen Luoyan said, he was easily suppressed by Li Shimin.
For such a person, how could Zhao Mingyuan not be vigilant?
Although he had already guessed that Li Mi's recommendation of himself to the top was very likely to harbor evil intentions, but even so, after thinking about it again, Zhao Mingyuan still decided to swallow this incense bait, after all, he gave too much.
Yes, it is really too good for Zhao Mingyuan to become a big leader.
Even according to the original plan, after breaking Luoyang, the position of the leader of Wagangzhai will sooner or later fall into the hands of Zhao Mingyuan.
But if he grasped the power in advance, Zhao Mingyuan would be able to unify the power of Wagangzhai earlier and enhance his strength.
Many times, the things that compete for the world are one step first, step by step, like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, and the advantages are becoming more and more obvious.
Therefore, being able to unify Wagangzhai in advance and enhance his own strength is of great benefit to Zhao Mingyuan's future plans, which makes Zhao Mingyuan have to accept Li Mi's "kindness".
Although he didn't know Li Mi's specific plan, Zhao Mingyuan thought about it, but he was just lying on his back and trying to develop himself with the help of Zhao Mingyuan's power, so as to wait for the opportunity to move.
Or seeing that Zhao Mingyuan has a great enmity with Buddhism, it is very likely that he will be plotted by Buddhism, and it is rare to last for a long time. Maybe Li Mi is waiting for Zhao Mingyuan to die inexplicably one day in the future, so he can occupy the magpie's nest and take the opportunity to seize Zhao Mingyuan's foundation.
Although this is just a possibility for Zhao Mingyuan to speculate, or maybe Li Mi is really sincere, but in any case, Zhao Mingyuan naturally can't give Li Mi a chance.
Moreover, Zhao Mingyuan is confident that after the unification of Wagangzhai, the forces he controls will also expand rapidly, far from being comparable to the forces that Li Mi can secretly reinforce.
At that time, even if Li Mi still has an antipathy, it will be a backhand that can be destroyed, and it will be difficult to become a general trend.
In that case, why not swallow this bait?
In fact, although Zhao Mingyuan has now become the leader of Wagangzhai, he has also nominally become the lord of everyone. But in fact, there are still small hills in Wagangzhai, and there are no major changes.
Of course, this is not without benefits to Zhao Mingyuan. After all, the words "justifiable" are the biggest benefits.
Like Zhao Mingyuan's current situation, it is as if he is sitting on the position of the leader of an alliance.
Although everyone listens to him nominally, in fact, there is no unity inside, even if Zhao Mingyuan forcibly orders, the bottom may only be yang and yin.
Zhao Mingyuan wants to fully grasp this power, but he is still far away.
Fortunately, Zhao Mingyuan's lineage is strong, and his own strength and prestige are also overwhelming, so that everyone can accept his rule and not be set aside like Zhai Rang.
But if you want Zhai Rang and Li Mi's subordinates to see themselves as Zhao Mingyuan's subordinates, there is still a long way to go to reach this step.
This is also a compromise that has to be made in order to take power peacefully, and it is also a drawback.
If Zhao Mingyuan wants to fully control Wagangzhai, the first thing he needs to do is to take charge of the military and political power.
But now, since Zhao Mingyuan has become the leader of Wagangzhai, then nominally all the people are his subordinates, so naturally he can't favor one over the other.
How can anyone remove someone as soon as he takes office and replace him with a descendant who is close to him?
Isn't this cronyism, creating internal contradictions?
Who else will be convinced of Zhao Mingyuan in the future?
Naturally, things can't do that.
Fortunately, there is a suitable good opportunity to take advantage of, and it happens to be in the plan, that is, to attack Luoyang.
Attacking Luoyang was originally the established strategy of Wagangzhai.
Although Zhao Mingyuan has now become the leader of Wagangzhai, the former agreement of "the king who entered Luoyang first" is naturally invalid.
However, the benefits of laying down Luoyang are well known to everyone in Wagangzhai.
What's more, Wagangzhai has made a lot of preparations for this during this period of time, and it has been mobilized for a long time, and it has already had to be issued.
As a result, Zhao Mingyuan prepared to use the opportunity of attacking Luoyang to complete his plan to regain military power and establish his authority.
Since it is an attack on Luoyang, all the generals naturally have to obey the orders of the new leader Zhao Mingyuan.
Since Zhao Mingyuan has become a big leader, he naturally will not favor one over the other and blindly reuse his lineage. It's about taking the overall picture and making reasonable plans.
As long as everyone is treated equally, fairly and justly, and after the war, they are also fairly rewarded for meritorious deeds, so that the morale of the military can be reined in naturally.
After all, they received Zhao Mingyuan's orders, and after the war, they were rewarded by Zhao Mingyuan, so they would naturally regard themselves as Zhao Mingyuan's people.
In the army, the straight is the first, and there is no need for such complicated strategies.
As for the policy and people's livelihood, Zhao Mingyuan was not polite, and directly returned to the central government, unified management, and collective deployment of various logistics materials.
Because Zhao Mingyuan did not rein in his military power, the changes in this area did not arouse any discussion.
After all, Zhao Mingyuan didn't take all of this into his own hands, but found three people and handed them over to manage.
It is naturally not easy for someone to be trusted by Zhao Mingyuan, these three people are Xu Xingzhi, Shen Luoyan and Wei Zheng.
Speaking of which, two of these three people are Li Mi's subordinates, and only the virtual line is Zhao Mingyuan's descendant, which seems to be fair. It seems that Zhao Mingyuan ignores his past suspicions and treats everyone in Wagangzhai equally.
But people who know the inside story naturally don't see it that way.
Needless to say, he is Zhao Mingyuan's descendant, so he naturally looks forward to him.
As for Shen Luoyan, it has long been rumored that she has some ambiguous relationship with Zhao Mingyuan, so much so that she lost Li Mi's trust. Now it seems that the rumors are not groundless.
As for Wei Zheng, hearing that he was also in this important position, many people secretly hated in their hearts, this fortunate man was the one who robbed him of his dragon merit, shameless!
Yes, ordinary people think that Zhao Mingyuan's appreciation of Wei Zheng is a reward and reward for him to support him first.
Of course, in fact, it is naturally because Wei Zheng is really talented, and with the celebrity filter, Zhao Mingyuan reuses him.
Speaking of Wei Zheng in history, he first served under Li Mi's account, and later joined Li Tang with the defeat of Li Mi's army and became the advisor of the crown prince Li Jiancheng.
It's a pity that Li Jiancheng hesitated about Wei Zheng's suggestion to attack Li Shimin first, and was finally attacked by Li Shimin first, and died in Xuanwumen.
So, after the Xuanwumen Change, Wei Zheng became Li Shimin's courtier.
Thinking of Wei Zheng's resume, Zhao Mingyuan somehow suddenly remembered Zhang Fei's scolding of Lu Bu's three-surnamed domestic slave.
In this way, Wei Zheng also has the resume of three ministers, but in the end, he became famous for his outspoken words, which is really unpredictable!
Of course, in troubled times, it is the monarch who chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the king. There is no blame for this.
In fact, although the ancient times talked about loyalty, it was not so exaggerated.
Just like now, this company has a bad future, poor salary, uncomfortable working environment, and even the company goes bankrupt and is swallowed up, so it is normal to jump to a new company, and no one will say anything.
So many people have changed jobs, but only Lu Bu is known as the third family slave, perhaps because he jumped to the opposite company every time and killed his big boss.
This is a bit of a hurtful character, no wonder it has to die well.
Seeing that Wei Zheng was reused like this, naturally some people followed suit. Soon someone wrote a book, letting Zhao Mingyuan ascend the throne and be the emperor, at least he had to be the king first.
What are you kidding, it's too early to be the king at this time, it will make the world laugh and lose their big teeth, not to mention, and it will attract envy.
Not long after the fall of Sui Yang, many forces were still under the banner of Sui Yang, such as Li Yuan and Wang Shichong, who were still the sons of the Sui Yang clan.
Although everyone knows what the situation is, this fig leaf is now unattachable.
Isn't this public claim to be king a live target to recruit enemies?
Zhao Mingyuan naturally wouldn't agree, so he said: "Don't mention this matter again, and I'll talk about it when Luoyang is defeated." ”
Although many people want this support, Zhao Mingyuan is also reasonable. Laying down Luoyang and taking charge of the Central Plains, this can be regarded as the real foundation of hegemony, and when the time comes, he must be the first to support His Majesty.
However, even so, everyone also proposed to make Zhao Mingyuan have a resounding name.
After all, even Li Mi has the title of "Pushan Gong", and Zhao Mingyuan is still called a general and a son, which feels a little bit worse. Even if it is a big dragon head, it is also Zhai Rang's previous name, which is not too suitable.
In the end, everyone discussed a title, called "Ming Shuai".
Ming Shuai, Zhao Mingyuan couldn't help but think of Kou Zhong's title as the young marshal, and it felt a little similar.
But it's okay, so be it, it's a temporary title anyway, and it probably won't take long.
It's just that the title of Ming Shuai seems to be repeated with someone, but Zhao Mingyuan can't remember it for a while.
However, since I have called this name, see who dares to call this in front of me.
Smart people will change it themselves.
If he is not smart, someone will make him smart.
(End of chapter)