Chapter 590: The Man in the Cage
Among the mountains and ridges, Yi joined the army and left Luziguan and advanced towards Guanzhong.
After walking along the Yellow River for a while, the Shunyi Army turned into Jingyuan Town. Their original destination was Chang'an, then went south to Lantian, left Wuguan and went to Dengzhou, and went east to Shaanxi and Guo. Now they have received orders and all headed to Xianyang County on standby.
The Yin Gun Protector (Escort) and sent (Export) 10,000 people from Heliu Dangxiang just passed Suizhou and stopped temporarily. The Duyu Houshi transferred 5,000 troops from Xia, Lin, Yin, Sui, and Yanzhou to take over their mission. The Yin Gun was replenishing food and grass, intending to go south to Guanzhong through the Fufang Post Road.
Dingyuan army has been transferred to Shuozhou to guard the two armies of Tianzhu, and temporarily stayed in the north of Guanbei.
There are more than 30,000 infantry and cavalrymen, which is quite large in scale and has a huge momentum. For the people of Guanzhong, since Shao Shude came out of seclusion to attack Zhu Quanzhong, it has been a long time since so many troops gathered in Guanzhong, which will definitely make them feel uneasy. What happened? Is the dynasty changing?
The Tielin Army had 13,000 infantry and cavalry in light clothes and rushed to the near Longchi Palace.
Shao Shude summoned a group of generals and officials of Feng'an Army in Longchi Palace: military envoy Qian Shousu, deputy envoy Han Xun, capital Yuhou Shao Desheng, and You Yi envoy Wang Qianyu.
Qian Shousu has been an old man since he has been practicing military skills for many years. When he gets the opportunity, he learns command and battle formation knowledge as if he is eager to get it. He has also had several experience in wars.
Shao Shude used to doubt him, thinking that he was deep-minded and not loyal enough. But he never caught any handle, so he continued to trust him and let him control the 7,500-stop cavalry of Feng'an Army...
In this Heqing War, almost all the troops were transferred to the front line, and Feng'an army stayed in Anyi, and there was no problem. They shocked the potential opposition forces on the ground of one prefecture and four prefectures in Hezhong, ensuring that there was no fire in the rear during the war in the front.
Han Xun was a surrendered general in Lingzhou. He hanged Han Lang and surrendered. He has worked diligently for many years and has no trouble.
Shao Desheng is his own person. One of Shao Shude's two personal soldiers in his early years, he had close relationships and grew up together since childhood. Unfortunately, he did not have special talents and could not become a general in the field. In the future, he could only control the first army and do some garrison work. He won because he was loyal enough, rich and honored.
Wang Qianyu is similar to Niu Li, and is a village party of Zhuge Shuang. Before Zhuge Shuang died, he recommended the two of them to be outstanding. Wang Qianyu is about to be transferred to the Tianzhu Army as deputy envoy and actually controls this force, because the nominal military envoy Li Tangbin is still in Mianchi County now and has no contact with the troops.
"There is nothing to say. Feng'an Army immediately sets down the camp and goes to Chang'an." Shao Shude ordered directly: "Yushandu and Tianweidu are in chaos. Such thieves must use thunder means to intimidate."
"Master, in the river..." Qian Shousu hesitated.
"Li Keyong has led tens of thousands of troops, divided into two groups to Xingzhou, and Li Hanzhi also led the main force of Zezhou army to attack Xiangzhou. Three large armies have advanced forward, and Jin Jiang is not worried. There are more than 10,000 troops left in Hezhong Prefecture. Whenever there is any abnormal movement, the army stationed in Fenglingdu will be known by the state army in Pujin Pass." Shao Shude glanced at Qian Shousu, a little dissatisfied, and said, "I left the Tielin Army with 13,000 infantry and cavalry stationed in the left *** Lu County of Longchi Palace, and there are 3,000 people in the left wing of Baoyi Army. There are Chishui Army who have retreated to repair the situation. You can cross the Hebei North at any time to reinforce Jin Jiang, and there is nothing wrong."
"The last one will have no doubts, so we will lead our army to fight." Qian Shousu bowed and said.
"Go down." Shao Shude waved his hand and said.
After the Battle of Jiushibao, Wang Jian and his troops from the Baoyi Army retreated to Pinglu for rest. The Chishui Army returned to Shan County, the Guzhen Army retreated to Mianchi, and the Wuxing Army set up a village on the front line to resist the enemy.
The troops in Li Tangbin's hands have been greatly reduced. If it is not considered Tutuan's hometown servant, then there will be more than 20,000 people.
In fact, it is completely enough for him along the way. Hu Zhen's troops are limited than him, with more defense and insufficient progress. In the direction of Ruzhou, Ding Hui, Ge Congzhou, and Yang Shihou's troops were attracted by Tang and Deng Sui, but I heard that some of them have been transferred back to rest recently, and the troops are even smaller, and there is not enough strength to break through the front line of Wushan.
In addition, the 3,600 cavalry of Jiebin's troops were still in Lingbao, and they were already the outer army of Shaanxi and Guo.
There are more than 3,000 troops from Wang Bian in Huazhou - recently, two thousand elite troops were transferred to supplement the war losses of the three armies of Chishui, Wuxing and Guzhen. Fengxiang, Xingyuan and other towns also sent some elite troops to supplement the Chishui army with greater war losses.
"Master General, Pei Tong has set off." After seeing a group of military generals leave, Zhao Guangfeng walked in and reported.
Pei Tong is a priest in Xige, responsible for external contacts and intelligence countermeasures, so he naturally has to set out in advance.
"What's going on in the court?"
"After the persuasion of all officials, the saint was guarded by some imperial guards, and the prince took out Qixiamen and headed towards Lantian County."
"Where can you run when you arrive in Lantian?" Shao Shude smiled and said, "Why are you going to Shangzhou?"
Zhao Guangfeng's expression remained unchanged and said, "The saint stopped at Nanshan and stayed overnight in Shacheng Town."
In fact, the Shen Ce Army's salary has been rushing for more than one day or two, but has lasted for a whole year.
Wangwu began since the two sides of Shao Shude sent troops to attack Zhiguan last year. And when he pushed forward, the war on the Heluo line made the canal transportation intermittent and very unhappy.
When the southern towns saw that the wealth and goods that were offered were always blocked, it was a bit confusing, so there were even fewer vassal states that were offered, and the number was greatly reduced.
Shao Shude was not sure whether the government would collapse in advance if he continued to fight. After Zhaozong was kidnapped to Luoyang in history, there were very few vassal states that offered sacrifices, and they were all supported by Zhu Quanzhong. Zhao Kuangning, Xiangyang, was still offering sacrifices at that time. After fled to Yangzhou and relied on Yang Xingmi, Yang was also denounced as "losing thieves" by money and goods. It can be seen what the attitude of the towns in the world at that time.
Two wars broke out in the Central Plains this year, which was simply devastating to the court's financial plan. One was the Battle of Heqing, and the Bian River-Yellow River-Wei River-Wei River-The Staff Road was interrupted; the other was the Battle of Yang Xing's Secret Attack on Qizhou, and all the five states of E, Yue, An, Huang, and Qi were involved, and the Yangtze River-Han River-Jin Shang-Guanzhong was also cut off.
As for the Shu vassal states, which originally offered a small amount, they almost stopped offering sacrifices at critical moments, which made the court's financial plan worse.
In the past six months, the main source of income of the imperial court, besides Jingzhao Prefecture, was the only one who directly and indirectly controlled by Shao Shude, who was directly and indirectly controlled by the vassal states, seemed to have also offered a lot of money, which is amazing. Perhaps he had made a fortune in Youzhou.
In fact, if the 40,000 to 50,000 troops of the Shen Ce Army were not nourished, it would be enough to just maintain the operation of the court.
There is only one of the Southern Yabei and the Imperial Army.
The officials chose to pay themselves and cut the rewards from the Shen Ce Army a lot, and the army was very resentful.
The main people who are in trouble are the more than 3,000 Xuzhen generals and school children of Shizan in Yushandu, as well as 5,000 Youzhou soldiers in Tianweidu. The one who escorted the saints to Shacheng Town was the three thousand troops of Ximen Zhao in the Pangridu. The rest of the troops were watching the walls. Some began to rob Chang'an, and some tried to maintain order, but in vain. One even scattered directly. I don't know if I wanted to be a thief or what happened.
"Sometimes I think about it, it feels puzzling." Shao Shude suddenly sighed: "It's now, and the officials in the court are still only concerned about themselves and have no sense of the overall situation. Have they really read the saint's books? Why are they so short-sighted?"
"Of course I have read the book." Zhao Guangfeng also sighed: "But hundreds of people, all kinds of people, are only considering themselves and not willing to think about others. Stop paying salaries for all officials? It's hard! All officials themselves disagree."
"Will the officials who fled to Shacheng do something else?" Shao Shude used to think that he would be discouraged by the emperor and ministers in a cage in Chang'an and would never want to make trouble again. But in the past year, Cui Zhaowei sent people several times to invite him to Beijing to "discuss major plans."
There is a big plan for hammer!
Isn’t it just a little bit of killing eunuchs? Who doesn’t know?
Shao Shude didn't understand. You are all in this situation, why do you still fight? Is it really a low IQ?
Later, I gradually felt relieved. History told him that sometimes people’s IQ is terrible!
Nanming is like a bird, and isn't he still fighting in the internal strife? Who cares about the overall situation? He doesn't he still think about it? Even if there is only one county's territory in the end, they probably have to compete for a high or low.
In history, the monarch and ministers of Chang'an went to Luoyang, and the prime minister Liu Can still kill the dissidents, causing the disaster of the White Horse Post.
These bad guys are beyond help!
"Master, this matter is okay." Zhao Guangfeng actually considered this matter. After all, he was a civil servant and knew the virtues of these people very well. He only heard him say: "No matter whether the prime minister or the middle official, it will not be detrimental to the saints at this time, otherwise he will die without a place to bury him. It will cause some small chaos. Once my army arrives, it will be easy to clean up the mess."
"That's right." Shao Shude nodded and said, "This is what happened. In a few days, I will go to Beijing and wipe out all the monsters and monsters."
"Master--" Zhao Guangfeng hesitated for a moment and asked: "Does the Master need a prefect status as a prefect?"
"What is the identity?" Shao Shude asked.
He is now the governor and a foreign official. Although the King of Xia has a rank, he is a title.
Zhao Guangfeng thought for a while and gave the answer: "The subordinate thought about it, and now there is only the position of Taishi still vacant."
Shao Shude was speechless.
Among his many titles, one is "The Taifu of the Prosecutor", but this is the Prosecutor, not "righteous life", and can be understood as "agent" and "temporary".
In fact, among the additional titles of the vassal commanders of various towns and vassals across the country, there are too many additional titles such as the Taifu of the Procuratorate, the Sikong of the Procuratorate, and the Situ of the Procuratorate. But Zhao Guangfeng said that the Taishi of Zhengming was not the official, which is a bit interesting.
"It's better not to say no..." Shao Shude hesitated: "Nothing good."
Some people have called him "live Dong Zhuo" and become the Grand Tutor again, wouldn't it confirm the black material that others have put on my head?
"Master--" Zhao Guangfeng insisted: "The Grand Tutor, Taifu, Taibao, Taibao, are called the Third Division. Although they have no command, they have the responsibility of instructors."
"Who is the coach?" Shao Shude became enlightened as soon as he spoke.
"Train the saint!" Zhao Guangfeng said, "Isn't it legitimate to the emperor's teachings? If the general does not want to do so, he can also ask the position of Shangshu Ling. Shangshu Ling is in charge of the general commander of all officials and is in charge of the rituals. In the dynasty's martial virtues, Emperor Taizong was the King of Qin at first, and he once took charge of his position, so he was not allowed to be placed again."
Shao Shude remembered that this was the official position that Li Maozhen had sought in history? The court was unwilling to give it to him, so he bullied the saints very much. It can be said that the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty belonged to Li Maozhen and Wang Xingyu, the two of them were the most arrogant, and they stepped on the face of the court over and over again.
The emperor was also a fool. Li Keyong led his army into Guanzhong and defeated Li Maozhen. He wanted to kill him, but Zhaozong refused. In other words, Li Keyong still had some feelings for the court and left coldly. Afterwards, he said that if he was not killed at this time, Li Maozhen would have to bully the court later - it was a pity that he got it right.
Thinking of this, Shao Shude woke up and said firmly: "No! I will not ask for any court position when I enter the capital this time. I have to be named a king, which has already caused many people to be jealous. Today, there are only three kings in different surnames! Li Keyong, how can he not think? The Grand Master is fine, Shangshu Ling is simply asking for trouble, and what the wise do not do."
After saying that, he glanced at Zhao Guangfeng. This man has good business skills. As the Sima of the royal family, the department in charge is operating well. But he is too utilitarian and always wants to flatter.
The key is that you can't even take a picture. Look at the flattery that Chen Changshi has taken...
Shao Shude waved to ask Zhao Guangfeng to retreat, and then circled around the house.
In recent times, my mentality has been a little fluctuating, so I have to keep it steady. Cao Mengde is prone to fluctuating, and I, Shao Meng, should take it as a warning.
Have you ignored your brother's feelings? He now has the potential to mess with him.
He seemed to be a little loyal to the court. He entered the capital this time and cut off the mess quickly. After finishing the major things he needed to do, he would go back to Anyi.
Maybe, can you also give your righteous brother a title and comfort him?
I admit that it took too much time to brush Ukrainian news today...
Chapter completed!