Chapter 223: Armistice Clause
The invitation was given to the four princes on the same day, and the county lord of Qinghui thanked him for the funeral from afar, and invited the children of the founding prince to accompany him. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info network?
There was a large banquet in Cuihua Palace, Wen Qinghan and his sister and brother acted as escorts to the ceremonial hall, receiving male and female guests respectively, Yuwenjie led the left and right guards to be responsible for deploying vigilance, Duguying was followed by two small tails, and the three of them were all wearing county lord clothes, and the daughter of King Rui had been awarded the title of Xianning county lord.
Before the opening of the banquet, the officials of the Department of Etiquette accompanied the tour of Cuihua Palace. Congratulatory gifts, not a penny, a few tables were placed on the side of the street to raise funds for the new school organized by the school.
The three princes are middle-aged, and when they saw the school department collecting money in front of the door, they all smiled and told their entourage to donate money and materials, and the congratulatory gifts could not be taken back, and they were no different from the Cuihua Palace, and I believe that the fundraising list will be reported to the county lord of Qinghui.
Gaoyuan's broken military camp is still on the way back to Beijing, the brothers of the Lingbo standard battalion have their own military positions in Sanwei, and the prince of the county and the officers of Sanwei will be talked to each other, and the daily courtesy greetings make An Yuanhou Zhuo Zhuo almost tired of being in Kyoto, and his father sent someone to ask about the progress every other day, so angry that Zhuo Zhuo shouted in his heart, why not come to Kyoto for an interview.
Asked the entourage to donate, Zhuo Zhuo picked up the paperwork, looked at a few lines and realized that it didn't seem to be playing a trick, paced to the side of the road and flipped through it carefully, and after reading it, he folded the document and put it in his arms.
"Fang Cai's money and property are recorded in the name of Xiangyun Wangfu, Ben Hou came in a hurry, donate 30,000 taels first, and then send someone to send 70,000 taels when he goes back. ”
"The Marquis of Anyuan cherishes the people, and the completion of the school will be engraved for the Hou Ye. ”
Zhuo Zhuo shook his head and said: "No need, although Benhou is a prince, he grew up in the children's camp since he was a child, and Benhou feels the pain of orphans. Yulu comes from taxes, taxes are taken from the people, the people know and learn and the country is not poor, the country is rich and the people are strong. ”
Walking into Cuihua Palace, Wen Qinghan led Excellence into the guest room after seeing the ceremony, the three princes were already waiting, and after a few words of greeting, they looked at the Chinese book in their hands, and after Excellence sat down, he took it, glanced a few times and put it on the table.
The number of military personnel should be abolished, and the government should have one battalion and one city, and the system must not be exceeded.
The government affairs of the county capital and city are all governed by civilian officials, and the military affairs and government affairs are separated. Imperial civil officials are recruited by the Ministry of Education, and the children of meritorious princes and princes must also be assessed if they want to be officials, and they will be uniformly deployed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Amending the rules of procedure of the House of Lords, conferring titles on marquis, appointing and dismissing ministers, and declaring war contracts require the approval of a majority of the decrees before they can be implemented.
There are two civilian courts, two of which are elected by each city, one for the rich and the poor, and the children of the nobility are not allowed to be listed.
The Inspectorate was reorganized, the chief and deputy envoys of the Inspectorate were elected by the House of Nobles, and after the Commoners' House passed, they were appointed by decree of the King. The Military Inspectorate Branch will discuss separately in the future.
To punish the culprit, Li Haofan occupied Hongyi City and provoked a war, and handed it over to the Criminal Department to be punished by law.
Six, the county lord of Qinghui put forward six armistice terms, and he was puzzled by the fact that the emperor's ** team had the upper hand, but most of the terms were not conducive to the royal family, but the punishment of Li Haofan would make the four county kings feel embarrassed, after all, the Li family acted as a leader in the coalition army, and who would die for the county king's mansion after killing him.
"Marquis Anyuan, you are the only one of the four of me who has a title, and you have been in the same battalion as the county lord, do you think there is anything strange about these six?"
The prince of the East China Sea put down the paperwork and asked, and Zhuo Zhuo replied with a smile: "Having a title just means that there is no interest, hehe." Since the prince inquired, Excellence boldly said a few words, and please correct what is wrong. Zhuo Zhuo first bowed to the other two princes, and then opened his mouth: "Why did I put it down after just a few glances, I can't believe it, the Xiangyun County Royal Mansion doesn't dare to mention any of them." Most of the people who thought so about weakening the royal authority died in the prison of the Secret Guard. ”
"Hehe, so we only look at the paperwork and don't talk, if we don't sit in Cuihua Palace, we have to wonder if someone is plotting against us. The prince of Linfeng had an embarrassed face, and took over with a dry smile: "The Linfeng Wangfu has no objection to the first five, but only punishes Li Haofan, and wants to ask the county lord for mercy, and is willing to return Hongyi City to the royal family, and the damage should also be compensated." ”
The Donghai County Mansion also agreed, if Li Haofan was handed over, the County Mansion would be too difficult. If it is said that it is said to provoke a war, it will naturally be counted on his head on the bright side. But speaking of the culprit, there is someone else, Gao Yuan led the military camp to burn down the coastal city, and nearly 100,000 civilians were killed and injured. ”
Zhuo Zhuo shook his head and said: "Shizi, with my understanding of the county lord, His Royal Highness will never authorize Gao Yuan to slaughter the city, he dares to do that, tactically correct, he has no fault for the empire, and he will definitely be promised in advance, the way to save his life." If you don't talk about it in the future, you will be destined to come in vain. ”
"Linfeng and Xiangyun each have hundreds of thousands of elite horsemen, and if they can't talk about starting a war, the royal family is not worried about the county king betraying the empire. ”
The second son of King Zhennan seemed to be admiring the strange beasts in the mountains and forests, and asked with interest: "If it weren't for the death of the first king, the royal family would not have ceased war." Hehe, who has suffered a loss after three years of fighting, let alone another three years, if it continues like this, can you hold up the palace of Linfeng County? Don't even think about taking refuge in other races, which country has the Qinghui royal family treating the prince so well, sharing the glory and wealth for three thousand years, and taking refuge in the foreign race, don't have a county palace in 30 years. ”
The prince of Linfeng Wang still had a rebuttal, and Zhuo Zhuo spoke first: "It's okay to fight, but we have lost the opportunity, the first king died and the royal family changed, and at that time they joined forces to attack, maybe they would force the royal family to make concessions, and now Kyoto is as calm as ever, and the ministries handle official affairs as usual, and the royal family has no worries." Hugh blames me for being honest, the county lord only wrote six armistice terms on a piece of paper, and the military headquarters probably had hundreds of pages of deployment orders at the time of the war. ”
"Marquis An Yuan thinks the county lord is using a delaying tactic?"
"The plan to delay the army has worked, but the county lord has listed six points, and if it is announced to the princes, there are still a few princes who will sincerely participate in the coalition. The two sons may not be moved, I am red-eyed, participating in the civil official assessment and seeking an official title is better than being a white man for life, and everyone will be unknown after three generations. ”
The prince of the East China Sea sighed and laughed at himself: "Marquis Anyuan, the prince may not be easy to do, I have three sons and one daughter under my knees, and I am about to become a life-and-death enemy in order to compete for power, not to mention brothers." ”
The second son of the king of Zhennan County folded the paperwork and put it up, saying: "Each has its own difficulties, I will send the paperwork back, let my father and brother have a headache, the wealth of the fief has little to do with me, hehe, it is better to care more about the studies of children and grandchildren, and take the official position as soon as possible." You guys slowly deliberate, I'm going to play. ”
After the second son of the king of Zhennan finished speaking, he left, leaving the three of them looking at each other, and after a while, he got up and said goodbye: "Prince Zhennan said it well, what the hell am I doing, the two princes discussed carefully, and I also went to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Cuihua Palace." ”
The prince of Donghai was silent for a while, and raised the document with a wry smile: "This piece of paper is as light as a feather and as heavy as a thousand gold, report it back, let my father decide, in terms of selfishness, I fully agree, and the county king's mansion should also follow this, and give some power and wealth to the side branches." ”
The two put aside their official duties and chatted for a while, Wen Qinghan came in to invite the prince to sit down, and his face was not good-looking after he sat down, as expected, there were several identical documents on each table, the eyes of the prince's children, few people looked at the delicacies of the mountains and seas on the table, and ate a meal for more than half an hour, and after going out, he couldn't remember how many big dishes he had served, and the Acropolis teleportation platform ushered in a group of noble children who were scrambling.
The four county kings received the documents, convened the think tanks to talk behind closed doors, and were very satisfied with the children who entered the capital to negotiate, and each of the six armistice clauses did not dare to mention before, which limited the imperial power and weakened the authority of the county king's palace, but relatively speaking, the royal family suffered greater, and the county king could dominate one side for four years, and no one could not see the benefits of the terms, if they could be strictly enforced, the imperial civil war was afraid that it would disappear.
The king of the county retains the right to fight, this alone dispels a lot of doubts, raising soldiers to have money and food, before beware of each other, ready to meet the royal policy of cutting the domain, most of the taxes are used to expand the military war, hunger and cold thieves, the bandits in the territory are difficult to completely exterminate, if you can save money so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, the county king's desk will not be nearly a foot high every day.
The Zhennan County Prince's Mansion was the first to express its position, agreeing with the six articles proposed by the county lord of Qinghui, but requesting that Li Haofan be pardoned for his capital crime, and instead deprived of his qualification to inherit the title, and he would not be an official or a general for life. Xiangyun County Mansion and Donghai County Mansion waited silently, Linfeng County King was in a dilemma, on the military strength is not much weaker than the other three county kings, in terms of wealth, it is far behind, the bitter cold land in the north is sparsely populated, in the past, every year the household department allocated silver to make up for military expenses, and after three years of fighting, the silver treasury of the county king's mansion was almost exhausted.
The king of Linfeng County can see clearly, the royal fight for three years has exhausted the kings of each county, which is to show the bottom line and strength, if you really want to break the oath and break the alliance to fight to the death, the four county kings and the founding prince are united, even if the royal family can't win, but it will definitely not lose.
The five counties directly under the royal family are all in the empire6, and when the foreign enemy invades on a large scale, the four county kings will take the brunt of the surrender, and they will not be at ease now, and the empire will be defeated if it does not reinforce the army. The royal family was ruthless in cutting the domain, fortunately the old king died, otherwise the war was afraid that it had burned into the territory of the East China Sea, the Eastern Corps recovered the lost land of Qili County, gathered 300,000 elite troops, not in the East China Sea County King than the prestige, there are three countries to restrict the other three county kings, first completely conquer the East China Sea County, free up your hands and then eliminate them one by one, the big deal is to let the Snow Country temporarily occupy Linfeng County, and destroy the Queen of Xiangyun Zhennan King only Natu surrendered.
The lord of Qinghui stopped fighting in time, and the county kings were able to breathe, she took the opportunity to clear the Kyoto court, the crown prince ascended the throne, the British king died tragically, a Rui king could not disturb the situation in Kyoto, and the four county kings lost their fighters and regretted it.
The army at the front ceased fighting, and no more soldiers shed blood and died every day, but the war continued, but in a different form. The military force is not afraid of the four county kings, and it is more advantageous to spend silver, and the old king has saved up the family funds for decades, and the county lord of Qinghui is probably trying to drag the four county kings to death, not to reinforce the army and not to make up the military salary, and to sit and watch the county king fight with the powerful country on the border, and take advantage of the gap to destroy the king of the East China Sea with heavy troops.
The palace of Linfeng County finally replied, Li Haofan committed suicide in fear of crime, the three sons of the Li family all died, and the old family owner was overly sad, and asked to hand over the marquis to the side branch to inherit and immediately return Hongyi City.
"Fear of crime and suicide? Hehe, the king of Linfeng County has found a good step, it doesn't matter if he really dies or cheats death, he inherits the title, over time, even if he lives, it will be difficult to take it back, if the king of Linfeng County dares to support him in his plot to seize the title, it just provides me with an excuse to send troops. Cuihua Palace, Dugu Ying calmly faced the four princes, without concealing his hostility, and the prince of Linfeng County was busy washing away suspicions: "Your Highness, the Li family secretly interfered in Hongyi City, and the county prince's mansion really didn't know, otherwise they would have sent troops to stop it, and they would never dare to intentionally cause a war, please ask Your Highness to send the imperial history to investigate in detail." ”
"Shizi, the past is right or wrong, I will not pursue it. Now that the Northern Corps has taken over Hongyi City and Li Haofan is also dead, Article 6 naturally does not need to be mentioned. The royal appoint Linghu Qing as the chief envoy, the county prince's mansion and the founding prince's mansion sent envoys, and discussed the details in the noble house, we are not very convenient to show up, hehe, noisy and noisy, don't hurt each other. ”
Dugu Ying turned to the prince of the East China Sea, and said with a solemn face: "The broken military camp burned down the coastal city, causing countless casualties among the civilian people, and the military department has requested permission to dissolve the broken military camp." The prince knew that the captain of the broken military academy was seriously injured and his cultivation was completely lost, and he was at a loss whether he could recover the martial saint, so he could only resign himself to fate, and asked the king of the county to have mercy on his tragic situation and not to pursue the responsibility anymore. ”
"Your Royal Highness, speaking of which, the military captain is still related to me, Yue'er has already asked for his father's consent, and the Donghai County Mansion will not be embarrassed, for fear that something will go wrong on the road, I will escort him to Qili County to break up. Your Highness, the coastal city was destroyed in the war, and the annals of history Moti said that the military camp was broken. ”
"Thank you to the prince, rebuild the coastal city, and the royal and county king's mansions will each contribute half of the silver taels. ”