The Red Mansions

Chapter 572 Emperor Chongping: I think it is possible to combine both

Kunning Palace

After several people digested the news, Emperor Chongping turned to look at Li Chanyue and said, "Chanyue, it's getting late, you should go back to rest earlier."

Li Chanyue glanced at Noble Concubine Duan Rong, and said: "Then Auntie, I'll go back first."

Empress Song nodded, and said with a kind smile, "Go."

After Li Chanyue left, Emperor Chongping looked at Concubine Duan Rong, and said softly: "I know what's on your mind."

Concubine Duanrong paused for a moment, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, my concubine..."

Emperor Chongping stretched out his hand to signal Concubine Duanrong not to continue, and said in a deep voice, "I have been thinking about the matter of Xianning. I was not sure before, so I didn't tell you and Sister Ni. I might as well give it to you today. It just so happened that there were some rumors going on outside, and I can understand the worries of you as a mother, but no matter what outsiders say, you should know it in your heart."

As he said that, he looked at Dai Quan who was on the side, and said in a deep voice, "Lead the people outside to check the lights."

"Slave obeys the order." Dai Quan was stunned for a moment, bowed and bowed, screened the maids and eunuchs, and slowly exited the hall.

After all the court ladies and eunuchs left, Emperor Chongping said: "Xianning is not young anymore, she is like her aunt, she is quite independent, and I don't want to force her in marriage. I think Xianning seems to be interested in Ziyu, and I also agree Intentionally match the two of them."

At this moment, there were no outsiders, and Emperor Chongping no longer concealed the real marriage arrangements for his own daughter.

"Your Majesty, but Jia Ziyu is already married, and his wife is a girl from the Qin family, the minister of the Ministry of Industry." Concubine Duanrong said with her eyes fixed.

From the understanding of Mrs. Jia Heng, it is obvious that this noble concubine has always taken her own daughter's matter to heart.

Emperor Chongping said: "I think that it is feasible to use the law of both."

"Concurrent?" Empress Song repeated the two words, vaguely feeling that it was unusual.

Emperor Chongping met the suspicious gazes of Empress Song and Concubine Duan Rong, and explained: "This is a folk practice. One person enshrines incense from two prefectures, and it goes hand in hand. Now Rong Mansion is exiled because Jia She and his son were convicted, and Rong Guogong has no incense. I can't bear people offering sacrifices, thinking that if one day Jia Ziyu makes meritorious service and bestows a marriage in Xianning, and by the way, let Jia Ziyu also serve as the Rongguo Mansion and offer incense, it would be the best of both worlds."

When Empress Song heard the words, her wonderful eyes shone brightly, she thought about the meaning, and asked, "Your Majesty, the two wives are the main wives, and one person inherits two heirs. Will it mess up the inheritance of the lineage?"

Mentioning the last four words, Empress Song's heart trembled. There were some things she couldn't ask, but there was nothing wrong with using this to imply the emperor.

Concubine Duanrong said softly: "Yes, Your Majesty, did this arouse the opposition of the officials of the former court? After all, it violates the common etiquette. If it causes an uproar, it is not beautiful."

Emperor Chongping said: "I didn't expect it before. This is the last time Yao Yu, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, made a statement about this method, thinking that it can eliminate the disputes over etiquette in later generations. Yao Yu has always been obstinate in observing etiquette. If it is feasible, then it will be feasible. I Chang Yousi, if the heir is not filial, the adoptive heir inherits the Yanzong Temple, so there is no need to focus on ennobling his own father to the ancestral temple to enjoy incense and worship."

There is no need to deny that the king of heirs has no heirs, because there are many histories.

Puyi in the Song Dynasty, and the great etiquette disputes in the Ming Dynasty often had this reason, but there was no such dispute in Guangxu and Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty. To a certain extent, the folk customs also played a role in etiquette. ".

Now that a strategy to resolve the self-contradiction of etiquette and law has been given, it would be dishonorable for the emperor to call his own Bensheng Huangkao the Huangkao.

Of course, in this world, it is said that Jiajing was expelled from the country because he did not follow the system of rites of entry from the minor sect to the major sect.

Concubine Duan Rong thought for a moment, then sighed quietly and said: "Since Your Majesty has such long-term considerations, the ministers and concubines will naturally act according to the holy order."

If Xianning could be given a title, she would have nothing to say.

Emperor Chongping smiled lightly, and said: "I have to look at the two of them again. If they are in love, I don't care about the beauty of adults. If Xianning doesn't have any thoughts on her own, then that's fine."

Concubine Duan Rong pursed her cherry lips, feeling amused in her heart.

I thought, would she have nothing to worry about?Now she only thinks that she has found Mr. Right, and she is not happy.

Empress Song said: "Your Majesty is worried about state affairs, and your Majesty has to take care of family affairs."

"There is no family affairs in the Tian family." Emperor Chongping said with emotion, "It's okay not to worry about it. Now that the Eastern captives are in the north, foreign troubles are flourishing day by day, and now Henan has internal troubles. If you don't create eternal peace for your heir Jiye, how can I have the face to meet the ancestors of my big man."

He vomited blood and fainted this time, so he has to plan for the future. If he really can't afford it, he needs to choose the candidate for the crown prince as soon as possible.

Liang Wang was irritable and narrow-minded, so he was not suitable for heirs.

The Chu and Wei vassals, the King of Wei is the Queen's son, and I hope that the King of Wei can become a talent and reduce the turmoil in the court. Moreover, if the King of Wei inherits the heir and inherits the grand unification in the future, the Yan family of the Five Armies Governor's Mansion can also fight with Jia Heng. Contain each other.

But in case the king of Wei is not successful, the king of Chu is needed. Then the king of Chu has a shallow foundation and will definitely use Jia Ziyu to pacify the captives. Because of Jia Ziyu and Xianning, the Song family line and the two vassals of Wei and Chu can also be preserved. Human tragedy.

As for whether Ziyu will disagree with him and insist on supporting Wei Wang, he will use other methods to check and balance.

Even if the two vassals of Chu and Wei failed, the youngest son Chen Ze could be established. Because of Xianning, Jia Heng was able to protect Chen Ze.

But at that time, the Lord Shaoguo was suspicious, and the powerful ministers were in power... I hope that day will not come.

He still needs to take care of his body. If he can kiss the Eastern captives and establish a foundation for eternal peace, the monarch and ministers will get along with the Weng and his son-in-law, and there will be a good story in history.

Thinking of that future scene, Emperor Chongping's eyes lost his focus, and his mood was agitated.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and the fight against the chaos in Henan is a test of the strength of the troops and horses of the Beijing camp.

Concubine Duan Rong saw Shi Ran on her beautiful and beautiful face, and said softly: "Since Your Majesty said this, the concubine's heart has settled down."

Empress Song said: "Sister, I said you don't have to worry about it before, Your Majesty already has a plan in mind."

I don't know, how does His Majesty arrange it?

Now that the reserve position is uncertain, what should she do in the future?If the Qi and Chu feudal lords were allowed to acquire great treasures...absolutely not!

In the palace where the noble concubine Duanrong lived, the Yikun Palace

The quiet water-like night enveloped the palace. In the palace, under the Xuan window, Princess Qinghe slowly sat down in front of a guzheng, plucking the strings in her hand. After a few "ding dong", the girl raised her fingers and raised her beautiful face. Yurong.

So in the middle of the night, playing the piano also disturbs people's cleanliness.

Get up, come to the eaves, staring at the bright moon in the sky in a daze, thinking about the reason for the irritability of the past few days.

Xu Shi saw that his mother and him were already a done deal, so it would be meaningless to stop him any longer. When he thought of his cousin and him...

I don't know when, maybe because of my mother's affairs, I paid too much attention to that person. After paying more attention, I suddenly had an illusion...

"Speaking of which, I was the one who met first, mother kisses her..." Li Chanyue said in a low voice.

It seems that saying this way can relieve the boredom in my heart.

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Time flies like water, and before you know it, another two days have passed.

Jia Heng sent more than [-] cavalry soldiers to Zhongmou County without stopping, passing through Guandu Town to a town called Guomiao six or seven miles away from Kaifeng Fucheng, which is quite close to Fengfu City.

Because the bandits' army and horses were all gone before Sishui Pass, and the bandits were determined to fortify the city to resist, therefore, in addition to sending sentry cavalry three or five miles away from the city of Kaifeng to investigate the movements of the officers and troops, they were confronting Cai Quan's scouts. Later, the thieves and bandits knew that they were invincible, so they gradually retreated back to Kaifeng Fucheng.

It was March, and the spring was bright and the sky was clear. Since the beginning of spring, there had only been two light rains, and there were already some signs of drought in the fields of wheat seedlings.

On the north side of Guo Temple is a meandering creek. Because it has not rained for a long time and it is in the dry season, the stream is very shallow and barely reaches the knees. On the east side is an endless plain, and an official road leads directly to the city of Kaifeng.

Because the thieves gathered in Kaifeng, the people here have fled to the surrounding counties and counties. Only some old people with limited mobility are in the villages and towns.

Next to an old willow tree that has aged, there is a land temple with thatched eaves and bamboo beams. Looking at the drawings of Kaifeng Fucheng, discussing the preparations for the attack and defense of Kaifeng Fucheng.

The big city of Kaifeng has triple walls inside and outside, Luocheng, inner city and closed city, only used as the palace city where the emperor visited the Central Plains and stayed. There should be no shortage of defensive facilities such as urns, city towers, enemy towers, horse faces, battle sheds, and female heads at the square gates.

On the whole, if the bandit Kou Yijian City resists stubbornly, the blocking force against the official army is still not small.

"Our army did not carry siege equipment. Although we have temporarily built rams and ladders, but only these, the casualties are still not small." Jia Heng pointed to the map and said to the generals on the side: "If you wait to step If the pawns catch up and surround the city defenses, they will be able to achieve complete annihilation, but the pawns have just arrived at the front line of Luoyang, and it will take four or five days before they arrive here. The commander is worried that the longer the delay, the more time it will take for the bandits to consolidate Long, the casualties will be greater at that time, try attacking and defending first, if all goes well, maybe you don’t need pawns.”

The infantry carried their baggage in mule and horse carts, and their marching speed was extremely slow. For this, there was no other way but to repair the roads and improve the carriages.

"If our army's [-] soldiers are used to attack the city, it's not impossible." The guerrilla general Cai Quan said in a low voice.

Qu Guang nodded and said: "The thieves are trapped in the isolated city, and there are no reinforcements outside, so they probably won't have the ambition to fight to the death."

All the generals nodded their heads in agreement.

It was also because the battle at Sishuiguan gave everyone confidence.

Jia Heng said in a deep voice: "Don't be careless. Attacking the city is the bottom line, and attacking the heart is the top priority. Even if you go down in a battle, you must minimize casualties. When you arrive at the Kaifeng city, shoot the court notice into the city. For this civil disturbance, the chief culprit will be severely punished." Regardless of the threat, if you can capture and kill Gao Yue and other related bandit leaders, you will be rewarded with silver ranging from 2000 taels to [-] taels."

As he spoke, he looked at Princess Xianning and Xia Houying at the side, and said, "Commander Xia Hou, order people to go down and write down the reward."

This is a plan to divide the thieves.

Princess Xianning responded, and then went to deal with the matter with Xia Houying.

Jia Heng said: "Now bury the pot and make food, eat ahead of time, and arrive at the foot of Kaifeng City at noon. The outer city of Kaifeng City has a circumference of [-] miles. Their defensive strength must be insufficient. We will not surround the four gates in the north, but only attack the east, west and south sides. The three city gates of Xinzheng, Wansheng, and Guzi in the west are bound to be the key defenses of bandits, and the other two sides in the southeast will use [-] soldiers and horses to test and attack, first to test out their defenses."

When he came to Henan, he brought a total of 2 cavalry soldiers, [-] were led by Xie and Xiao to Runing, [-] stayed in Luoyang, [-] guarded Sishui Pass, [-] went to Yanjin, and [-] went to Ju County. There are exactly [-] people in hand, which is actually not bad, because the battles between the peasant army and the official army in the history are all bad at the beginning.

Moreover, the large city of Kaifeng needs a defensive force of [-], not to mention the insufficient defensive force of the bandits, and they have not won the support of the people.

In fact, in ancient times, most wars were fought in vain.

The reason why the history books talk about the allusions of fighting against the grass and trees and crossing the sea is because it is rare. Most wars have no tactics at all, just boring long-distance marches. The release of Tangqi and how to maintain the marching ranks is a long story, while the two armies face each other, and the infantry fights against the enemy in formation. The final victory or defeat depends on the personal bravery and excellent armament of the soldiers on both sides.

After the discussion of the generals was over, Jia Heng called Liu Jixian and said in a deep voice: "Qu Lang is in the city, if he wants to meet us, he needs to contact us in advance. It's risky to communicate with pigeons, so we need to wait for him to take the initiative." Contact me and wait."

Even if there is an internal response, it needs to be contacted, otherwise the officers and soldiers will not respond in time, and the internal response will be killed instantly, which is not to say that the internal response and the external cooperation.

Liu Jixian nodded, and said again: "My lord, Lu Qi, the admiral of Shandong, just replied, saying that five thousand troops were sent out of Caozhou to Kaifeng to guard against bandits."

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, and said: "Shandong is inseparable from the imperial army's suppression, and Lu Qi's ability to mobilize [-] soldiers and horses to support it is already the limit."

There are several bandits in Chen Han, one is Huguang and Western Henan, and the other is Shandong, where there is also the White Lotus Sect, there may be big news breaking out at any time.

Kaifeng Fucheng, governor's office
Gao Yue is sitting in the backyard at the moment, discussing matters with a group of confidant brothers.

"Is there anyone in the city who is willing to help defend the city?" Gao Yue asked Lai Haiyuan beside him.

Hearing the arrival of the officers and soldiers in the past two days, facing the long city walls, which could be breached by the officers and soldiers at any time, Gao Yue had not thought of a way, and mobilizing the people to go to the city to help defend was a plan.

It's a pity that the thieves are just thieves. The killing of innocent people these days has already lost people's hearts. Even if Gao Yue took out the gold and silver from the Kaifeng treasury to recruit Ding Zhuang to help defend the city, there were very few people who responded.

Lai Haiyuan shook his head and said: "As soon as I heard that we were going to fight the imperial court, I was beaten to death and refused to go to the tower, and brother, many people who came to respond to us from other counties also fled when they heard that the city was closed."

Originally, the people gathered from the counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture mostly gathered for a morsel of food, and had never actually fought against the officers and soldiers. When they heard that Gao Yue was closing the city to a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers, people panicked, two or three In one day, half of them escaped.

If Li Yanqing and He Guosheng hadn't been discovered in time and strictly investigated the fugitives, the gathered thieves would have almost scattered in all directions, but these few days still nearly half of them fled. At this moment, Kaifeng Fucheng has nearly 3 people except for more than a dozen forces. people, plus other people, there are only [-] to [-] people left.

Gao Yue shook his head and said, "They couldn't count on it. We were defeated earlier, and we were even more afraid of the court. I'm afraid that the various forces that came together for righteousness will also retreat."

It was also because of the previous defeat that shocked the gathered thieves too much. Gao Yue, who captured Kaifeng Mansion, lost three thousand in the first battle, which shows that the court is still the same court.

"The imperial court has no way, fish and meat people! I will raise righteous soldiers to resist, and I will not let them go down to fight, they are so greedy for life and afraid of death!" Li Zimin said angrily: "Go back like this, and wait for the imperial court to kill their heads one by one! "

Gao Yue frowned and said, "The imperial court may not necessarily blame these fleeing people."

Wei Bochuan said with a worried look on his face, "Brother, I see that the leaders in this city all want to run away?"

"How do you say it?" Li Zimin was startled and asked hastily.

"It's the brother under his command. He is from the same town as the brothers under Wang Da's family on Tianshui Street. Hearing about Wang Da's family, he asked about his brothers who can row boats, and they are discussing crossing the Yellow River and fleeing to the north." Said loudly.

Wang Da is the head of the family, and he is talking about Wang Sishun, the king of Shuntian.

Ma Liang scolded: "These have no guts!"

The so-called snake can't do without a head. At the beginning, the arrangement was very good. One person divided several city gates. In fact, he left a hole for escape, so that he could escape in all directions if the situation was not good. No one wants to pull everyone to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers.

Li Zimin stood up suddenly, his eyes widened with anger, and he shouted: "These sons of bitches! Brother, I'll kill them!"

"Third brother, wait a minute." Gao Yue's face was livid, and he grabbed Li Zimin's arm.

"As soon as the officers and soldiers came, people's hearts fluttered. No wonder they were at both ends." Gao Yue shook his head and said helplessly.

"Brother, we have lost three thousand brothers, and they just want to protect themselves? Don't forget, when Kaifeng was captured by our brothers, they picked up a ready-made one. Now that the imperial army is here, they only want to save themselves. Save your life!" Li Zimin said angrily.

Others Lai Haiyuan, Wei Bochuan, and Ma Liang also showed resentment on many faces after hearing this.

Gao Yue sighed and said: "This is the way of people's hearts. Originally, we thought that we would hold a meeting in Xingyang after Sishui was shut off, and we would recruit the young, strong and brave, and we would collect them immediately, but now..."

At the beginning, the reason why he was in a hurry to capture Sishui Pass was also because of this plan, which was to organize the various people who came together through the First World War.

Because at that time, everyone knew that he had achieved great power, and he was annexing these people's subordinates, reorganizing [-] to [-] elite soldiers, occupying the big city of Luoyang and fighting the court.

It's a pity that Sishuiguan was defeated, so these plans are out of the question.

Not only them, but he is now also thinking of staying behind. Perhaps as Mr. Shao said, they can only take advantage of the momentum to raise troops after they have suffered a defeat in the north. It is just a pity for the three thousand brothers who have finally accumulated.

Li Zimin said angrily: "Brother, what are we doing now?"

Even Li Zimin, who was clamoring to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers, felt something was wrong at the moment. Everyone wanted to run away, and he had no intention of resisting. What would he use to fight the officers and soldiers?

Gao Yue said in a low voice: "First fight with the imperial court, if it doesn't work, go back to Runing, then go to Jianghuai, to avenge the brothers."

This was also what Gao Yue thought before, no matter what, it would be difficult for the top and the bottom to explain if they were defeated without a fight.

Everyone looked dignified, as they agreed with Gao Yue's words.

(End of this chapter)