Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Therefore, Li Gang resigned and said: "I am a scholar, and I really don't understand military affairs. When the capital was besieged, I had to take care of military affairs for Your Majesty. Now that I am a commander-in-chief, I am afraid that I will miss the important affairs of the country."

However, Emperor Zhao Huan forbade Li Gang to decline the appointment.

Where did Li Gang dare to lead the army to go out? After he retired from the court, he claimed that he was sick and could not go to the court, and asked to resign.

However, Emperor Zhao Huan disagreed with Li Gang's more than a dozen memorials for his resignation.

At this time, there were also Taiwanese admonishers in the court who said that Li Gang could not leave the court.Emperor Zhao Huan thought it was lobbying for the ministers, and reprimanded the Taiwan admonishers, expressing his determination to have Li Gang in command.

Someone said to Li Gang injustice: "Do you know why you sent me to be the Xuanfu envoy? This is not for border defense, but to get rid of you, so the people in the capital have nothing to say. You insist on being sick, Those who speak slander will be more presumptuous, and it is impossible to predict whether the emperor will be angry, how should the Lord respond?"

Li Gang was silent by default.

During the stalemate between Li Gang and Emperor Zhao Huan, Xu Han, another main combat faction in the DPRK and a member of the Privy Council, wrote the word "Du You" and sent it to Li Gang.

"Du You" comes from an allusion:

At the end of the Warring States Period, Bai Qi, a famous general of the Qin State, Lord Wu'an, was ordered by King Qin Zhao to go out to inspect the city.

When Bai Qi arrived at Duyou, ten miles away from the west gate of Xianyang, King Qin Zhao sent an envoy to give Lord Wu'an a dagger, and asked him to kill himself with the dagger.

Wu Anjun Bai Qi asked angrily what crime he had committed? But in the end, he had to draw his sword and commit suicide under pressure.

Xu Han used these two dictionaries to remind Li Gang that if the stalemate continued, he might be killed.

Frightened, Li Gang hurried into the palace to be ordered.

Seeing that Li Gang was ordered, Emperor Zhao Huan personally copied the "Biography of Pei Du" and gave it to Li Gang as a sign of encouragement.

Pei Du was born in the east family home of the Pei family in Hedong, and was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Zhenyuan, Emperor Dezong of Tang Dynasty.

During Tang Xianzong's reign, Pei Dulei moved to Yushi Zhongcheng.He supported Xianzong to cut down the vassal, so he and Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng were assassinated by assassins sent by the vassal.Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng was killed, and Pei Du also suffered a head injury.

Immediately, Pei Du replaced Wu Yuanheng as chancellor.Later, he went out of the town in person to supervise the generals to put down the chaos of Wu Yuanji in Huaixi.

Pei Du insisted on the right way and assisted Xianzong to realize "Yuanhe Zhongxing".He served as a general for more than 20 years, and the history said that he "has been in and out of China and foreign countries for [-] years, with the safety of the country and the importance of the times". He was compared to Guo Ziyi by the people of the time.

Emperor Zhao Huan gave Li Gang the "Biography of Pei Du", which means that Pei Du, a civil servant in the Tang Dynasty, was able to lead the army to suppress the rebellion.

When Li Gang saw it, he said: "Wu Yuanji used a small area around Caizhou to compete with the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, this cannot be compared with the strength of the Jin people, and I never expected to match Pei Du's." One in ten thousand.

However, the danger of foreign invaders can be eradicated, but it is difficult to eradicate the great harm if a villain is in power.

If the court has righteousness and the way of the gentleman is long, it will not be difficult to resist the invasion of foreign enemies. "

Then, Li Gang copied the key words of Pei Du's memorials on political enemies Yuan Zhen and Wei Hongjian and presented them to the emperor.

Li Gang's move is undoubtedly to make it clear that the treacherous officials and villains are in power in the court.This is too disrespectful to Emperor Zhao Huan.

However, Emperor Zhao Huan still held back his anger and comforted Li Gang with a polite answer.

Later, Li Gang asked for a postponement of the departure date on the grounds that there were only 2000 soldiers and horses under the Xuanfu Division and they had not yet gathered together.

Emperor Zhao Huan personally approved the words, thinking that Li Gang was delaying time and resisting the order.

Li Gang once again wrote a letter to explain the reason why he couldn't leave, and said: "Your Majesty previously thought that the minister was monopolistic, but now he says that the minister is resisting orders. I planned to send a general to break the siege, but I am afraid that someone who is authoritarian and disobedient will be the commander. Can’t you? I hope that the minister can be approved to dismiss the post of Xuanfu envoy.”

All in all, Li Gang, the minister of the main combat faction who is best at forcing the lieutenants to die on the battlefield, but when it is his turn to go into battle, he pushes back and forth and refuses to go to the battlefield.

Emperor Zhao Huan summoned Li Gang again and said to him, "You can return to the court after you have inspected the border defense for me." This is to comfort Li Gang and let him take office with confidence.

However, Li Gang said: "This trip, I have no reason to return to the court.

In the past, Fan Zhongyan went to appease the northwest frontier as a political adviser, passed through Zhengzhou, and met Lu Yijian.

Lu Yijian said, "How can Shenzhi Zhengshi come back again?" 'It turned out to be the case.

Now the minister is not tolerated by the court because of his stupidity and straightforwardness. If the minister travels, he will fight the enemy to the death on the battlefield. This is the minister's wish.

In case the imperial court could not persevere in the war of resistance and wanted to cede land and negotiate peace, Li Gang only wanted to retire to the mountains and forests for the rest of his life.

Your Majesty, please be aware of the loneliness and loyalty of the ministers, with the righteousness of the whole monarch and ministers. "

Li Gang's words moved Emperor Zhao Huan, how could he not know that Li Gang was that kind of upright minister?

However, it is precisely because Li Gang is a so-called upright minister that he will never tolerate Zhao Huan cutting off the land and abandoning the people in order to preserve his throne.

And it is precisely because Li Gang does not tolerate cutting the land and abandoning the people, and presents himself as a tough main fighter, he has won the hearts of the people.

From the letter written by the Tai students, it can be seen that the people in Tokyo support Li Gang more than they support the emperor Zhao Huan.

If people like Li Gang are not sent away, Emperor Zhao Huan will not be at ease.

However, if Li Gang is publicly dismissed, it will not only take off the veil of the new emperor Zhao Huanren's virtue and wisdom, but also arouse strong protests from the scholars and people again.

Therefore, the best way is to send Li Gang to fight against Jin.The citizens of Bianliang City in Tokyo would not cause trouble and rebellion because Li Gang went to beat the Jin people, right?

On June [-], Zuo Sijian Chen Gongfu, who dared to speak out, was accused by Geng Nanzhong of being Li Gang's henchmen.

Chen Gongfu knew that he could not escape this catastrophe, so he publicly admitted that he supported Li Gang, and offered his resignation.

Chen Gongfu also pointed out the thoughts of the emperor Zhao Huan, Geng Nanzhong and others: "Scholar Li Gang didn't know the army, so he sent him to reinforce Taiyuan. This was deliberately framed by the minister, and Li Gang will surely lose if he goes."

Emperor Zhao Huan and Geng Nanzhong became furious, and Chen Gongfu was immediately driven out of the capital to supervise Hezhou wine affairs.

Chapter 928 The Horrible Relief Battle

When Emperor Zhao Huan and his ministers organized a division, Yao Gu's army rescued Taiyuan City, and tried to use the wax pill secret letter to instigate Yelu Yujian, who was in Datong Prefecture in Xijing, Ximenqing also hurried to Huining City, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin.

Ximenqing hurried north after receiving the urgent report from Wanyan Wulu.Because his brother-in-law, Wanyan Wulu's brother Wanyan Zongjun was seriously ill.

Among the sons of Wanyan Aguda, the eldest son Wanyan Zongjun not only has the best relationship with Wanyan Wulu, but also has the most firm support for Ximen Qing.

When Ximenqing learned that Yan Zongjun was seriously ill, he immediately took his "miracle doctor" An Daoquan with him, and rushed to the capital of the Kingdom of Jin without stopping.

However, manpower is not always victorious.Ximen Qing was still a step late.When he arrived at Huining City, Wanyan Zongjun had died of illness, and the gods could not save him.

As the eldest son of Wanyan Aguda, Wanyan Zongjun controls the [-] elite Hezhameng'an elite of the imperial guards in the capital, a force to be reckoned with.

After he died of illness, Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai took the opportunity to replace Wanyan Zongjun with his son Wanyan Zongpan, and took the imperial army into his own hands.

The unexpected death of the noble Wanyan Zongjun was a great loss for the Aguda family.As a member of the Aguda family, Ximen Qing also has a keen feeling for this.

Ximenqing, who returned to Huining City, also heard that Wanyan Sagai, who had retired and ignored political affairs, had also died of illness.

In the capital, there was one less political tycoon who suppressed Emperor Wanyan Wu's begging.

Ximen Qing only stayed in Huining City for a few days, and felt that Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai was much more active than before.