Chapter 335 – Guns and Rolling Sands (I)

Today, Tai’an City’s Yanshen Hall ushered in one of the most crowded mini-pilgrimages since its inauguration.

Zhongshu Ling Qi Yanglong, Zhongshu Province Minister Zhao Youling, Menxia Province Left Servant Huan Wen, Left Scattered Cavalry Standing Counselor Chen Wang, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Yin Maochun, Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs and Great General of the Southern Conquest Wu Chongxuan, Wuying Hall Grand Maestro Wen Shouren, Dongyuan Pavilion Grand Maestro Yan Jiexi, King of Changshan County Zhao Yang, Duke of Yan Gao Shizhi, Marquis of Huaiyang Song Daoning, Ministry of the Ministry of Military Affairs Tang Tiexian, Ministry of Rites Minister Jin Lanting, and so on, all of these capital officials holding the handle of the dynasty are all of this room’s Familiar faces.

And transferred to the capital to lead the rank of Pingnan General of the former Qingzhou General Hong Lingshu, the current two Huai Road Festival Minister Cai Nan, Han Lin, together with the Jizhou in charge of the northern border military affairs Lu Shengxiang and Xu Gong, etc., is a relatively unfamiliar face.

The ji ji was a bright and shining civil and military presence.

That Liyang young emperor Zhao Zhuan after the retreat of the court changed into a civilian clothes, from the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, even the warp and weft, excellent craftsmanship, although not as brilliant as the imperial uniforms and uniforms, but has a few points of the unique flavor of Jiangnan.

The Central Plains in chaos, Yan Ci Wang Zhao Bing revolt, leaving the southern border jurisdiction of more than 100,000 elite like a cracker, even through the four states, invincible, almost without hindrance north of the Guangling River, in the old West Chu capital and the Liyang court north-south confrontation, the Spring Snow Building incident is to make the court originally in the Guangling Road of the meticulous collection of the official in vain, not only the nominal two civil and military leaders of the Guangling Road official fell into captivity, but more importantly, a large group of Liyang meritorious military generals, the court is the most important and the most important is that the court has a lot of people, but it’s not the only one. A large group of Liyang meritorious military generals and Western Chu Jiang room surrendered to control, which directly led to the Zhao Bing almost bloodless takeover of the Guangling Road, Wu Chongxuan Lu Shengxiang Yan Zhenchun this set of famous generals hard work down the good situation, for others to do the bride, Guangling Road back to the rotten, and even can be said that overnight, Yan Royal Edicts King Zhao Bing will be almost half of the country.

Only the young emperor in the Hall of Wu Ying morning court or, now the Hall of God small court meeting also, and not Liyang officialdom imagined that the angry and furious, not only calm and relaxed, and even try to cover up, still showing a few moments of eagerness to try to look, obviously this young literati emperor, in the end, the bones are still flowing in the Zhao family monarchs in the end of the blood of the heroic and martial arts. At this time, the Zhao family son of heaven in the hands of a rebel from the notification of the world book, the content of the treacherous, counting his new king of Liyang ascension to the throne of all sorts of misdemeanors, nepotism, reward and punishment is unfair, the use of sycophants, dumping the Zhao room, a total of ten piles of sins, the young emperor gently put down the imperial decree, raised his head and smiled and said: “It is reportedly this thing is that the first eldest grandson of the valve of the handwriting of the Song? ”

North Xu South Song, South Song that is Song Valve son of Song Yushu, literary talent, even in the Tai’an City officialdom has long been heard of.

Once personally praised Song Yushu’s Tantan Weng, glanced at the temple of God that “neutral and peaceful” plaque, and then opened his mouth and laughed: “This kid fell in the hands of the kind of piker Zhao Bing, can only write this kind of hostile article, it is a pity that a diamond in the rough, if it is in my Leiyang Linlin Academy or the newly set six If in my Liyang Hanlin Academy or the newly established six pavilions, will be able to write a chapter of the world, not only can the world to help the people in the dynasty, but also in the literary world to secure a place, never to so dust, run to do a real knife and pen official.”

The young emperor nodded, “is some pity, not long ago I also promised Yan service value, must be introduced for him this tree born in Jiangnan scholarly forest Song family jade tree, I guess to drag on a delay.”

The Prince of Heaven in the mouth of the Yan service value, the house of all the public know well, of course, is that the Hanlin Hospital new noble Yan Chi set, now the Hanlin Hospital in the Shangshu Province, six newly constructed six value room, the size of the Huangmen Lang class into the value, in order to prevent is regarded as being in the land of the storage of the prime minister of the most noble officials of these away from the Yang, flowing in the Qingtian, and Yan Chi set temporarily lead the affairs of the six rooms, although no official title, but the road of advancement has been very obvious, compared to in the officialdom The first step into the six government offices of the first three, Li Jifu, Gao Tingshu, Wu from the first three people, Yan Ji Ji has been some signs of the latter. And the young son of God’s words, and revealed too many things worth chewing on, in addition to the explicit expression of the brother-in-law Yan Chi set of undisguised intimacy, the fate of the Song family of the Guangling Road seems to have been finalized at this moment, since only “drag on a drag”, then the first to rely on the remnants of the Jiang family and dependence on the rebellious feudal king of the Song family, due to the possession of the Song Yushu! This young talent who is in the heart of the emperor, after the rebellion, still able to escape, in the Liyang officialdom’s upward channel will not be blocked and cut off, I believe that after today’s small meeting, the Song family, thousands of miles away from the court will be able to hear the sound of thunderstorms in the court soon, most likely will be relieved.

The young emperor looked toward the position of the Ministry of War Minister Tang Tieshuang, mildly asked: “Tang Tieshuang, when the great pillar state from Liaodong to enter the capital, the Ministry of War can have accurate information?”

Tang Tieshuang, with a bit of trepidation, carefully replied: “I only know that the Great Pillar State replied to the Ministry of War that the two Liao border affairs are urgent, and that the commander of the Eastern Front of the Northern Mang, Wang Sui, has recently made a lot of noise and is eager to move, and seems to have the intention of a big war, the Great Pillar State must be properly arranged before departing.”

The young emperor hmmm, comforting: “Order the Ministry of War Gao Tingshu to draw up a text, inform the great pillar country do not need to rush south, the two Liao border affairs has always been our dynasty’s top priority, can not be lost due to a small loss.”

Tang Tieshuang led the order in a deep voice, but his mind became heavier and heavier. The more His Majesty the Emperor is pleasant, he, the two words of the Ministry of War with the Gu Party plastered on his head, the more his heart is in the dark.

Now Tai’an city official circles circulated a saying, called “Gu Jiantang after the Ministry of War no luck”, said Gu Jiantang after the presidency of the Ministry of War Yamen big shots, almost no one’s career is smooth sailing, the Minister Lu Baijie first leveled Guangling Road, and then in the spring snow building became a captive of the King of Yan Zhiwei, the Minister Xu Gong first be “dispatched” Liaodong, nominally for the Son of Heaven to patrol the northern pass, in fact, is undoubtedly excluded from the capital officialdom, especially outside the center of the court, Lu Shengxiang in his capacity as a minister of the southern expedition as well as leading the commander-in-chief, the result is that from beginning to end of the war very few achievements, if not the late “unauthorized deployment of troops “Only finally seen a few eyes smoke, I’m afraid to fall into the world’s laughingstock. As for Gu Jiantang and Lu Baijie two Shangshu between Chen Zhi Bao, King on the vassal West Sichuan, originally quite favored, the results in the end, somehow followed by the South Border Zhao Bing together with the revolt, after all, can not be counted as a good result.

The capital is not easy to live in, the capital when the official is not easy, honestly do not deceive me.

Tang Tiexuan intentionally or unintentionally looked at Cai Nan standing slightly in front of the position, mixed feelings, the last Wei Dong Dong Dong Gong Huang and other old General Gu to the capital, unhappy, this time Cai Nan to the capital simply did not visit Tang Tiexuan meaning to stay in the two Huai Road in the capital of the face of the curtains of the post station in the depths of the simple out.

The young emperor turned his head to look at the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites Sima Park Hua, xiangfu three years in the Ministry of Rites in the Shangshu Province to raise the rank to the same level with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War, to be higher than the Ministry of Criminal Households and the Ministry of Industry three departments, Sima Park Hua naturally enjoys the Lu Daolin, Yuan Guo two former Shangshu a lot of good, the present day emperor is seen by the Central Plains as a civilized emperor is not for nothing, although it may not be contempt of the military ministers, but the importance of the civil servants is obvious, the relocation of Hanlin College and the Ministry of Rites Yamen elevated are clear evidence. The young emperor looked at the Ministry of Rites, said in a serious tone: “next year will be held in the spring of the examination, the Ministry of Rites is responsible for, the president and vice president of the candidate can be determined? This time the scale of the spring exam expanded a lot, the number of unprecedented number of scholars, Sima Shangshu also need to give a detailed charter as soon as possible, in addition to I will personally look over, the Ministry of Rites may wish to hand over the charter to Tantan Weng, Yin Shangshu, these presided over the spring exam many times of the predecessors.”

Probably the Li Yang successive Minister of the Ministry of Rites in the most no clear hope of the old man fearfully said: “Your Majesty, the three-yearly Chunxin exams, the matter of the continuity of our dynasty’s cultural lineage, although the micro-subject in the Ministry of Rites for many years, but never presided over the Chunxin exams experience, and micro-subjects in terms of experience, I believe that far more than the Tantan Weng and Yin Shangshu familiar with the operation of the Chunxin exams, in terms of academic knowledge, even more than the Lord of the Central Committee of the Order of the University of Wen, if the ability, also compared to Chen Tan Tan Weng, Yin Shangshu familiar with the operation of the Chunxin exams. In terms of ability, I’m also not as good as Chen Shaobao Yan, who is a young man in the prime of his life. Your Majesty, I don’t know how to choose the president and vice president of the Ministry of Ceremonies with my colleagues, not my Liyang talent, but just like the doorway of the hut hanging a large pearl curtain, a wide range of dazzling, really dazzling, I don’t know how to choose ah, so I dare to affirm that Your Majesty personally decided to choose the candidate for the spring exam!”

Tantan Weng listening to the heartfelt words of the Minister of Rites behind him, couldn’t help but turn his head and look away, stretching out a thumb.

This horse’s ass, but all of a sudden touted a number of people.

Sima Park Hua faced Tan Tan Weng’s gesture with a slightly naive smile and sincere, impeccable eyes.

The young emperor gathered his cuffs, smiled slightly and said: ”The matter of the candidate for the Chun Exam, I do not draw a snake, still ruled by your Ministry of Rites, really a headache, Sima Shangshu went back to communicate more with the Chinese Minister Tantan Weng. However, in my opinion, the examiner needs to be respected outside of the examiner, specifically responsible for the room reading the candidates, it is possible to break the mold once, may not pay attention to seniority, the Ministry of Rites, Hanlin Academy, the State Children’s Supervisory, can be selected a few young people to serve.”

Sima Park Hua, who was full of heartfelt conviction, hurriedly bowed and said, “Your Majesty is wise!”

The young emperor turned his eyes, it was hard to find and this small court slightly out of place Hong Lingshu, after all, is just from the local officials into the capital, Hong Lingshu himself is one of the leaders of the Green Party, the Green Party in the Yonghui years have many ups and downs, especially in the upper pillar Lu Fei Edward chose to marry with the Xu family of Northern Liang, the Lu family to move to the northwest, resulting in the entire Qingzhou department of the Beijing government officials from the peril of themselves, not long ago! The good thing is that not long ago, the “old minister” Wen Taiyi was promoted to the Jing’an Road, which is a little bit of stability, but Hong Lingshu first entered the capital, in the crouching tigers and hidden dragons of the capital officialdom more than soil and water, it is difficult to avoid the face of depression. The young emperor’s voice is getting softer and softer, slowly said: “General Hong’s house in Tai’an City has been repaired?”

Hong Lingshu, who originally thought he was only playing the role of reading with the Prince, was flattered and said, “Your Majesty, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household officials together to help arrange the residence is excellent, without the need for me to make slight changes, accompanied by the family members of the capital are full of praise. Imperial grace is immense, I am grateful!”

The young emperor laughed, “In this matter, Squire Tang has put a great deal of thought into it, if General Hong wants to thank him, thank him.”

Hong Lingshu immediately cupped his fists at his side to thank Tang Tieshuang, who merely returned the favor with a cupped fist and no polite words.

Hong Lingshu heart has some deep thinking, he was promoted to the capital to become one of the Ping word head of the military generals, to hold the real power, not no one red, because the Liyang military ministers, especially in the capital of the officialdom of the step, extremely limited, on the two paths, one in the Ministry of War to climb, retreat, one is from the capital of the land of the lieutenant of the lieutenant to do, step by step for the camp, the former is relatively simple and fast, but before and after the minister is a big bottleneck, the latter is about the practicality, the latter is a big bottleneck, and the first is the first time, the second is the first time to do, and the second time to do, and the second time to do. The latter seeks down-to-earth, slow, but as long as one of the three word generals of the town of Zhengping, the future will be very stable, as long as you can stay up, wait until the front of the big brother to the abdication of the age, you can follow the trend of step by step up, on the contrary, nowadays the Ministry of the Ministry of the Army ministers also need to go to the local as a deputy minister of the position, and finally by their own merits to compete for the Ministry of the Ministry of the Army that chair, the two have their own advantages and disadvantages, but like him Hong Lingshu This is directly from a state general promoted to the head of the flat word general, belongs to the less reasonable but sensible promotion, sensible is the court needs in thousands of Chinese scholars to go to the north of the Liang situation, reuse the Chinese hinterland of the Qing party to appease the people, out of the capital of the Wen Taiyi is so, into the capital of the Hong Lingshu is also so. Although Hong Ling Shu is an authentic outsider, the prospects of the Ministry of War left minister Tang Tieshuang is actually not optimistic, on the one hand, the emergence of Wu Chongxuan, the second Tang Tieshuang faction color is too strong, Hong Ling Shu’s identity of the Green Party some times can become the temple balance of the official help, but Tang Tieshuang’s identity of the Gu Party direct generals, means that the Great Pillar Gu Jiantang one day, Tang Tieshuang in the imperial court is almost one day! Unable to ascend to the top. The court can tolerate a general who is in charge of the military and government of the two Liao, and a Tang general who holds the Liaodong iron cavalry under the same roof, but it is absolutely impossible to allow a Tang shangshu to echo with the Gu general inside and outside.

Hong Lingshu would not be thankful because Tang Tieshuang had put thought into his mansion but kept it secret, but His Majesty the Emperor’s seemingly lighthearted and blatant revelation would not allow Hong Lingshu not to give it some thought.

The young emperor picked up the imperial edict again, his face became grave, and he sneered: “Zhao Bing is a clan of the Zhao family, but he is going to be the son of a rebel, I can tolerate the Guangling Road rebellion, I can tolerate those civil and military officials who have defected to the remnants of the Jiang Clan of the Western Chu, and I can’t tolerate the people of the Guangling Road who are being held hostage by the war, but I can’t tolerate this pair of Zhao Bing and Zhao Zhuo, only this pair of Zhao Bing and Zhao Zhuo!”

This Liyang Monarch paused for a moment, “Wu Chongxuan!”

The stout and ageless Wu Chongxuan said in a deep voice, “I am here!”

The young emperor said expressionlessly, “Minister Wu will speak about the situation in Guangling Road for all of you.”

Wu Chongxuan said without haste: “Now the rebel Zhao Bing totaled 110,000 troops stationed in the north of the river in the Guangling Road, in the next half a year, there will be at least 40,000 barbarians in the south of the Yangtze River into the north of the Guangling River, the rebel Chen Zhi Bao in addition to the current 20,000 Shu army, the next half a year, there are about 30,000 foot soldiers in the Shu rushed to the Guangling Road. Together with the former Zhennan General Song Kasa, the former Jizhou General Yuan Tingshan’s two troops, and the newly absorbed remnants of the Western Chu rebel army, the number of rebels will reach two hundred and sixty thousand by the end of the spring exams in the fourth year of Xiangfu. And the court currently has only about 120,000 troops stationed at Guangling Road.”

Although this time the two major feudal kings rose up in rebellion, had already made Tai’an City feel uneasy, but when Wu Chongxuan bluntly and unambiguously stated the strength of the two sides, it still made Wen Shouren such a centralized important officials feel fear, not to mention the Yan Zhi Wang Zhao Bing’s ability to command the army, the older generation of officials all know in their hearts, that is, it was once a meritorious martial artist able to fight side by side with a certain crippled man-tu, and there is also one thing unspoken that is that beside the Yan Zhi Wang Zhao Bing Now stood a Chen Zhi Bao, a white-robed soldier saint who held the entirety of Western Shu’s army in his hands! Changshan County King Zhao Yang, Duke of Yan Gao Shizhi, Marquis of Huaiyang Song Daoning, these three also experienced the Spring and Autumn War, all of them are not worried. Zhao Yang is even the top ten generals of Liyang in the Spring and Autumn War, the more so, the more the old man understands that the situation in Guangling is critical nowadays.

Qi Yanglong suddenly spoke softly: “General Gu led a fine army to the south to quell the chaos is the general trend, but it does not necessarily have to be put into the battlefield immediately. The court is practicing at this time. At present, the heart of the army is not in the court but in the rebels, but the good thing is that the hearts of the people in my court, not in Zhao Bing Chen Zhi Bao two. When Xu Snap is in a better situation, still did not row the river, both unwilling and unable, now is only twenty years later, not two hundred years later, ambitious Zhao Chen two feudal lords, but it is only twenty years ago that the end of the disk has been determined by the remnants of the chess continued, as long as ……”

Speaking here, the Lord of the Central Book Order suddenly fell silent.

Tantan Weng interface: “As long as the Northern Liang iron riders do not rebel, continue to hold back the pace of the Northern Mang south invasion, so that Gu Jiantang can spare the body to go down south to quell the rebellion, Zhao Chen two vassal king after a drumming, will be a flash in the pan.”

This “as long as”, for some reason let the Raising God Palace many noble and public officials feel a burst of odd meaning.

“If” Northern Liang is unwilling to fight to the end with Northern Mang, simply abandon the northwest, retreat a thousand miles to the south, and then conspire with King Zhao Bing of Yanzhi in the Central Plains? How should the court deal with itself?

To know that Wen Taiyi and Ma Zhongxian this pair of section ministers and strategic envoys in the arrival of the Jing’an Road, the grain into the Liang matter, as expected, bumps and bruises, slow progress.

Who would have expected twenty years of peace and prosperity, turning the world upside down overnight?

Original.

The length of the kingdom of Liyang, unknowingly, once again tied to a person surnamed Xu’s body.

This truth, so that the vast majority of people in the Temple of God feel immensely humiliated.

For example, the twelve university professors of the head of the Wen Shouren, the royal relatives Yan Jiexi, the Ministry of Rites Minister Jin Lanting and so on.

There is a vulgar saying in the countryside of Liyang: without Zhang Butcher, it is impossible to eat pork?

Nowadays, it seems surprisingly possible.

Without the butcher surnamed Xu to help kill, the official hat may not be worn steadily.

Wen Shouren, a university scholar at Wuying Hall, looked pale.

Yan Jiexi, who had looked down on that Shizi Highness for many years, had a gloomy face.

Jin Lanting was even more pale.

Cai Nan quietly bowed his head, his complexion obscure.

Han Lin, the Secretary General, whose relationship with Cai Nan had skyrocketed after the battle to stop the Great Snow Dragon Riders, had complicated eyes.

Just at this time, the young emperor smiled and said, “The Xu family has been guarding the northwestern gate of the country for two generations for Liyang, and in the second year of Xiangfu, there was a great achievement of the Northern Liang border army, the court should reward, such as Liu Yunu Wang Lingbao and other Northern Liang generals have died in battle, I am going to prepare a decree to posthumously honor all the Northern Liang generals, including these two, I also intend to award the title of Great Pillar State to the King of Northern Liang, Xu Fengyen. ”

Zhao family tianzi narrowed his eyes and looked at the yellow and purple public officials, the hall was full of stunned.