Chapter 367: Placing a Master
In Kunning Palace, Mrs. Li was gloomy and couldn't say a word for a long time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info she is the daughter of Emperor Li Siyuan of the former Emperor Mingzong, and the Yongning Palace Lord of the Later Tang Dynasty (Note 1), with a special identity, but extremely sensitive, although she is respected as the queen mother, she is actually cautious everywhere and does not dare to ask about the government.
"What Sang Aiqing said, the mourning family understands. After a long time, Empress Dowager Li finally opened her mouth, "It's just that although the mourning family is the queen mother, it is a women's family after all, and the mourning family doesn't understand the national affairs in the court." The emperor is only occasionally infected with a small illness, and there will always be a time to recover, and there will naturally be arrangements at that time. ”
Sang Weihan's eyes darkened, this Empress Dowager Li is not a person who can make up ideas after all.
However, if this woman cannot be convinced, sooner or later the Jin Kingdom will die at the hands of Shi Chonggui, the emperor who does not know the heavens and the earth.
What's more, he Sang Weihan has fallen out with Shi Chonggui, not long ago, the position of privy envoy of the Privy Council was taken down by Feng Yu, after Feng Yu took office as the privy envoy, he immediately used various means to expel all Sang Weihan's cronies in the Privy Council, so he sat big and became the new prime minister, and his strength was enough to compete with Sang Weihan, who controlled Shangshu Province.
Everyone knows that Li Yantao and Feng Yu are villains, traitorous ministers who can only be in a high position by currying favor with Shi Chonggui, and there is no doubt that the mastermind behind this matter is actually Emperor Shi Chonggui.
According to the news from the palace, after Sang Weihan and Shi Chonggui had a conflict that day because of Li Fengyun's incident, the emperor immediately summoned Li Yantao and Feng Yu, and it seemed that the emperor meant to directly remove Sang Weihan and take it down. Fortunately, Liu Yun and Li Song, who arrived later, persuaded Shi Chonggui to finally let go of this thought.
It seems that the emperor didn't really let go of his mind about dealing with Sang Weihan, but just changed his way, from winning it in one fell swoop to slowly drawing it. The removal of Sang Weihan's position as privy envoy is obviously only the first step, and then he is afraid that he will only seek to seize Shangshu Province, and then eliminate Sang Weihan's cronies in the six departments of Zhongshu Province.
At that time, whether Sang Weihan has a chance to return to his hometown depends on Shi Chonggui's mood.
Even if Shi Chonggui didn't have the heart to continue to deal with him for the time being, how could the Khitan, who had licked his wounds, let go of the Jin Kingdom? Now that the Jin country was full of worries, the border gates had different intentions, but they were driven away by Shi Chonggui, who was short-sighted. He didn't want to think about it, without Li Fengyun's Fengyunwei, is it still Fengyunwei?
Although Sang Weihan tried his best to dissuade him, it was to no avail, and Liu Chuanxun, the new commander of Fengyun and Wei, desperately suppressed Li Fengyun's old department, forcing dozens of generals such as Dian Kui, Zhang Jun, and Zhang Song to hang up their crowns and leave, and the 50,000 taels of gold that Li Fengyun had obtained from the Khitan did not know where to go, and the food and salary in the camp were empty, and they could only support it for ten days. The soldiers in the battalion were even more complaining, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.
Under such circumstances, if Yelu Deguang conquered the Central Plains again, who else would be able to resist the Khitan Iron Cavalry? Who else would be willing to desperately defend the Great Jin Dynasty?
Sang Weihan remembered the experience of the former emperor Shi Jingjiao when he sent an envoy to the Khitan, which was his pride and a humiliation that he could not wash away in his life.
At that time, Shi Jingjiao followed his suggestion to cede the sixteen states of Yanyun, and after the matter was completed, he became a vassal in the north, and sought the support of Yelu Deguang at the price of claiming to be the emperor.
Who would have thought that there were more shameless people in this world than him, Lu Longjiedu made Zhao Dejun bribe the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang on more favorable terms, and it is rumored that Yelu Deguang has been inclined to Zhao Dejun.
In this case, Sang Weihan sent an envoy to the Khitan. But Jerod did not want to see him, so he knelt before his tent and cried out for seven hours from morning till night.
At last, Jerod was impressed by his sincerity and agreed to see him, when his voice was almost hoarse and his legs could barely stand up. Jerod saw his weakness and smiled and sat him down to reply.
In this case, he tried his best to distinguish between the heroes and refuted Xiao Han and more than a dozen others to have nothing to say, and finally persuaded Yelu Deguang to continue to support Shi Jingjiao.
It is precisely because of this envoy that he borrowed the Khitan iron cavalry, and Shi Jingjiao was able to break through all the way, capture the ancient capital of Luoyang in one fell swoop, force Li Congke to self-immolate in the Xuanwu Tower, and lay the foundation of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Sang Weihan is confident that he has to make this contribution, and Zhang Liang, Xiao He, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other famous ministers are probably nothing more than that.
However, Sang Weihan did not want to kneel down in front of Yelu Deguang's steps like a lost dog again, such a thing was enough once, although it was very likely that Yelu Deguang would spare his life and entrust him with the important task of appeasing the people of the Central Plains.
If he really did that, how could he see his ancestors and ancestors under the Nine Springs?
Thinking of this, Sang Weihan raised his head and said loudly: "Queen Mother, please forgive the old minister. If everything is prepared, it will be established, and if it is not prepared, it will be wasted. The pre-word rule is not to stumble, the pre-rule is not sleepy, the pre-action rule is not guilty, and the pre-road rule is not poor. [2] In the world, it is not just good intentions that will lead to good results, nor is it easy to avoid things that will lead to the respect of others.
Now the Queen Mother is unwilling to take the responsibility she should bear, if he has no foresight in the future, others will take the lead, and I am afraid that it will be too late to regret it!"
Empress Dowager Li's face changed slightly, of course she understood what Sang Weihan meant, if she didn't prepare for Shi Chonggui's death now, when Shi Chonggui collapsed, things would be in trouble, most of the first emperor's heirs died in battle in the early years, and only one Shi Chongrui survived in the world, but the first emperor had many brothers, and his heirs were many, Shi Chongrui was young, no matter what, he couldn't compete with others, once others took the first step to succeed to the throne, I am afraid he would not let her and Shi Chongrui go.
Take 10,000 steps back, even if Shi Chongrui can compete for the throne by then, and the surrounding generals all have heavy troops, who can guarantee that they will not cause trouble in the chaos and seek to seize the country of the Great Jin?
After pondering for a long time, Empress Dowager Li sighed and said: "There is a wolf in front and a tiger in the back, Sang Aiqing, how about you call the mourning family?"
Sang Weihan was overjoyed when she heard this, and Empress Dowager Li said this, indicating that her heart had been shaken. If he takes the opportunity to settle this matter, and there are successors to the Great Jin Dynasty, then why should he care about Shi Chonggui anymore? It doesn't matter how sick Shi Chonggui is, whether he is well healed or not. Even if the doctor is good, he Sang Weihan will do something from it, so that this person who doesn't even want to see the emperor return to heaven will be able to notice?
No matter how you say it, Shi Chonggui is only the godson of the first emperor, and Shi Chongrui is the real true dragon son. It has long been rumored in the capital that the first emperor originally wanted to establish Shi Chongrui as the emperor, but it was only because Jing Yanguang tampered with the holy will that Shi Chonggui became the emperor. Now it's just a matter of getting back to the right place.
The best thing is that Shi Chongrui is young, didn't the power of the court fall into his hands Sang Weihan, without Shi Chonggui's support, how could Li Yantao and Feng Yu be his opponents?
Without this kind of constraint, the time has come for him Sang Weihan to show his skills, who said that Dajin can't become the next Datang?
For all this, this Huo Guang, he did!
Sang Weihan knelt on the ground and said loudly: "The ministers invite the queen mother to set up a master for the emperor's brother Shi Chongrui!"
Note 1: Princess Yongning, the third daughter of Li Siyuan, her mother was Empress Cao, married to Shi Jingjiao, and in the second year of the Qing Dynasty (935), she was crowned the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom and canonized as the queen. It is recorded in the history books that when Shi Chonggui was seriously ill, Sang Weihan said to the Queen Mother that "he will be the master of the emperor's brother Shi Chongrui", but in fact, he was preparing to establish Shi Chongrui as the emperor after Shi Chonggui's death. The Queen Mother here should refer to Princess Yongning, so this article has the Empress Dowager Li's statement.
Note 2: From "The Book of Rites, the Mean", "Yu" through "pre". It means that if you prepare in advance, you will succeed, if you don't prepare, you will fail, you will be confused if you set the way to do things in advance, you will not regret the plan you set before you act, and you will not go to a dead end if you plan the road you want to travel before you go away.