Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Wang Pu was speechless for a while by his old friend. This is indeed what he said when he wrote a letter to the official. The words are very bold. The destiny is the heart....

For a while, his mind was in a mess, and he was a little confused.

In the evening, Li Gu ate some mutton soup with him and drank two cups of wine before leaving.

........

The next day, Wang Pu recovered from his illness and began to go to court to deal with matters.

On the second day, while he was processing the memorial in the Chuigong Hall, he saw the Empress Dowager's younger brother coming out of the palace, and had a few words with Luqiu Zhongqing, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, in the side hall.

Wang Pu deliberately stopped what he was doing, leaned over and vaguely heard words such as "everything is ready" and "invite the commander into the palace", and his heart suddenly jumped.

Chapter 301, Process arrangement

In the camp in the north of the city, the open space outside the outer high wall is full of tents, and only the solid avenue in the middle is exposed for passing. The camp here is different from the marching camp, but a permanent camp.

Therefore, the main buildings are not temporary tents such as curtains and leather, but mostly permanent buildings.

The periphery is a masonry wall about two feet high, and there is a wooden sentry tower every other section. The barracks inside are all neatly arranged tile-roofed houses. The living yard, to the east is the kitchen, granary, stables, etc.

The whole camp is more than five miles long from north to south, and more than six miles from east to west. It is the largest permanent military camp around Daliang.

Now people from all battalions are approaching one after another, and set up tents in various important places outside the Peking University Camp.

The reason for this is that the most important thing is to facilitate control and create momentum.

There are many things that Shi Congyun cannot do alone, and it is impossible to do it by himself, such as mobilizing the whole army, which requires many generals under him and many middle and low-level generals to do it.

With so many troops supporting and mobilizing together, it is impossible to rely on one or two people. A large number of middle and high-level generals are his cronies, and a large number of low-level soldiers have fought against him. This is the foundation.

Old Zhao said that before Chen Qiao's mutiny, he was drunk and fell asleep and didn't know anything, and later generations didn't believe it; from his point of view, he could indeed sleep, but he certainly didn't know.

You can sleep because this is not something he can do alone. It is the credit of many middle and low-level, high-level soldiers and generals. The process of history has never been pushed by one person. Whether he sleeps or not has little effect.

Just like the current Shi Congyun, he lives in the courtyard of the Chinese Army in the North Camp, and has not gone out for many days. During this period, Li Gu, Wang Zhong, Luqiu Zhongqing, Fu Zhaoyuan, Shao Ji and others also came to see him every day and talked with him. Talk about internal and external arrangements.

The matter had been conveyed to the soldiers one by one by many middle and high-level generals, and almost all the soldiers knew that they came to Peking University to support the commander-in-chief Shi Congyun as emperor.

Therefore, the morale of the soldiers outside is very high, and they can always hear loud and clear military songs resounding all over the place.

And Meng Xuanzhe, who came back from Sichuan with him, temporarily lived in Daying. Every day he came together like a follower. If you don't hate Congyun, just let him go.

Luqiu Zhongqing has come several times and told him that the capital is well equipped, the soldiers are all fighting for meritorious service, and that the army of the Northern Route to attack Shu has reached the periphery and can move at any time.

But Shi Congyun still asked the anxious people to wait a little longer. He wanted to wait another two days. Now that the imperial guards were in control, usurping the throne would not be difficult. The difficult thing was to maintain the stability of the country and deter foreign enemies during this period.

He was always cautious, he was waiting for news from the north, Murong Yanzhao and Li Hanchao, if there was no news from the north, he was not at ease.

Just like Zhao Kuangyin's mutiny, the ones who made the most credit and rewarded the most were not those who followed him to Beijing, but the confidant generals who led the army in Hebei.

The so-called merit of following the dragon, there are real and false, as long as people's hearts are there, it's not that important, real military control is the essence.

With Guanbei not in his hands, Shi Congyun was not at ease. He couldn't bet that Liao and Northern Han were courageous, and there were lessons learned in history.

Seven years ago when the official Guo Rongcai came to the throne, they joined forces to go south. If the official hadn't had the guts to win the battle of Gaoping under pressure, it is very likely that the Khitan would go south to the Central Plains again.

Although he defeated Khitan for a while, Khitan is a big country after all. They were defeated by Fu Yanqing and others in the Battle of Yangcheng decades ago, losing tens of thousands of people. After a few years, they regrouped and gathered an army of [-] to continue going south.

Once the size of the country is large, supplemented by the imperial system of the Central Plains, the war potential and endurance will be quickly discovered. This is the political legacy left by the Liao Kingdom to the later Jin Kingdom, Mongolia and other ministries under his rule.

There is a big difference between a big country and a small country.

The simplest explanation is like the two superpowers in the past. They looked majestic, but in fact they had been picking on small countries. If they were a little bigger, they would have nothing to do. Even technology and economy could not make up for it, let alone ancient times.

In the ancient wars of destroying countries, except for those small countries that were separated from one side, as long as they were large in size, they were almost always fought for more than ten years, decades, or hundreds of years.

More often than not, after fighting for decades or hundreds of years, both sides still cannot eliminate each other, and the final winner is mostly their own internal conflicts.

So in such an era, being able to integrate many forces is already very remarkable.

Like the Liao Kingdom, which has been integrated and stabilized, the first real empire on the grassland (before that, it was only considered a tribal alliance, and the state was loose), it is difficult to completely eliminate it, and it is bound to be a long seesaw. Yun has always been wary of them.

Without news of Murong Yanzhao and Li Hanchao, he didn't want to do anything.

After all, Zhao Kuangyin was not one of his own. The reason why he was kept in Guanbei was because he was Zhang Yongde's direct descendant, and he had the consideration of weakening Zhang Yongde so that he could seize power.

The situation is different now, the beam must be changed, and the north must be stabilized, so he sent Murong Yanzhao and Li Hanchao.

Murong Yanzhao was one of Zhao Kuangyin's so-called "Ten Brothers of the Yishe" in history, but Shi Congyun did not doubt him, because he only discovered after he came to this world that such generals group together to protect themselves in troubled times or leave a way out There are too many phenomena.

Such as Lao Di and Xiang Gong, Gao Huaide and so on.

Zhao Kuangyin's Ten Brothers in Yishe is also one of the methods of forming a group. It was only later that Zhao Kuangyin became famous because of his success. The actual connection was far from that close at the beginning.

Moreover, among these people, Murong Yanzhao was far above Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning because of his age and qualifications. Later, Zhao Kuangyin didn't make it all the way to success, and in fact became even more alienated.

Han Lingkun is probably the only one who really has brotherhood with Zhao Kuangyin, because they are young and have been left idle by him.

Murong Yanzhao used to be a brave general of the Long Jie Army, he fought under his father Shi Yanchao's men for meritorious service and was promoted, and later he fought under his men, he must be close to their historians, even like Shao Ji and Wang Zhong, they can be regarded as soldiers of the historians.

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In June, the weather was very hot. Shi Congyun rode a horse to the river to soak in water. Fu Zhaoyuan, Luqiu Zhongqing and others came out of the city to meet him again. It will hurt people's hearts, and the palace is also prepared, there may be changes in the long run.

After thinking about it, Shi Congyun also felt that it made sense, so he told them to wait another day before raising an incident.

Immediately recruit Luqiu Zhongqing, Wang Zhong, Shao Ji, Wei Renpu, Fu Zhaoyuan, Meng Xuanzhe, Wang Quanbin, Shen Zhiyi, Liu Qingchuan and other civil and military confidants who are still around, and explain to them some precautions. Hurting people, burning, killing, looting, etc.

At the same time, he also gave them a low-pitched explanation: "On the day of the incident, it was not easy for a certain person to come forward, and I have troubled you with many things, but the late emperor has kindness to me, and the people have kindness to my historian, and no one in the palace or the capital should be harmed."

Everyone bowed their hands and agreed.

Shi Congyun checked the process with them, and several people had clearly divided the work and told him the overall plan.

Everyone agreed on the morning of the [-]th day, because that day was a great dynasty, and all the officials were there.

Wang Quanbin, Shen Zhiyi, and Liu Qingchuan led the generals to assemble the army, and were responsible for mobilizing the soldiers to revolt, wearing yellow robes, and then restraining the army so that the army would not enter the city.

Wang Zhong is the patrol inspector of the capital, who controls the military power in the capital, and is responsible for leading the soldiers in the inner palace to open the city gate, protect the Shifu, let the Kaifeng government officials maintain the order of the capital, and let the army enter the city smoothly.

Fu Zhaoyuan led the squadrons (forbidden army in the imperial city) in the imperial city to open the imperial city and welcome Shi Congyun into the palace.

Shao Ji led the fifth battalion of elite soldiers and escorted Shi Congyun all the way into the imperial city, into the palace, and directly to the Chuigong Hall, accompanied by Wei Renpu, Luqiu Zhongqing, Li Gu and others.

Then he forced the current emperor to abdicate in the court hall.

The process of this matter is almost the same, everyone has secretly arranged the division of labor.

Shi Congyun was very satisfied after hearing this. The plan was more thorough. All the armies near Daliang were under his control, and the concentration of garrison troops from various places in the Beida Camp was also for the convenience of control.

That afternoon, Shi Congyun bid farewell to everyone: "I can't keep you at a time like this, so I will do as you say."

Everyone nodded excitedly, and after they left for a long time, Shi Congyun rode his horse, pretended to be alone, went out to soak in water, and returned to the camp.

But before he returned to the Chinese army, the soldiers hurried over to report that his father and Xiang Gong had been waiting for half an hour in the Chinese army when they came to look for him.

Xiang Gong is Xiang Xun, because the young emperor Guo Zongxun ascended the throne last year, in order to avoid the taboo, he changed Xiang Xun to Xiang Gong.

Shi Congyun hurriedly got off his horse and asked the soldiers to take care of his horse. His heart became tense. Father Dao must have heard the news, but what should I say about this matter, my father will not kill his relatives righteously... .

Chapter 302, Zen position

"Father..." In the lobby, Shi Congyun called out dryly. Father and Uncle Xiang sat in the upper seats. Seeing him come in, father was still sitting there, but Xiang Gong quietly got up and went Move aside.

This little move did not escape Shi Congyun's eyes, but no one said anything.

Dad is 45-[-] years old. He used to be the No. [-] general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but now he is a bit rickety. His tall body is still mighty, but he is not as strong as before.

"I know everything about you, Wang Zhong told me." Shi Yanchao said.

"His bad mouth can't control things..." Shi Congyun muttered.

"It's none of his business, someone forced him, with such a big commotion, you'll be blind and deaf like the whole capital." The old man said loudly.

Shi Congyun stepped forward, sat on the seat beside his father and explained that this was originally Xiang Gong's position, "Father, I have no way out now, at this point, if I step back, all the soldiers will not be able to retreat." Will agree, and we historians will never end well.

Besides, the merits of our historians are all here. How many powerful enemies in the world were defeated by our father and son, and how many powerful enemies were defeated by our father and son. nothing to say. "

"Hum!" The old man gave him a look, "You fought in the war, but at the beginning when Emperor Taizu (Guo Wei) promoted him, and when Taizu Huang Qi joined him, he made meritorious deeds from the dragon, no matter what, it's all kindness .”

Not enough soon, the voice also softened, "You have been assertive since you were a child, and you are more capable than XX. XX and your mother have been wandering all their lives, and they have no great skills. The greatest kindness to you is to raise you, and everything else is you. the ability."

"Father, how could it be possible? The grace of giving birth is greater than the sky. Without you and my mother, I don't know where I am."

The old man didn't talk to him, and said directly: "I don't care about your affairs, you know better than me, you must have a reason for what you want to do, and I don't have much talent except for fighting.

But Dad has one thing to ask you. "

"Father, if you have something to say, you can ask for anything." Shi Congyun said repeatedly.

The old man is very serious: "Guo Zongxun in the palace is the grandson of Taizu's lineage, not blood relatives, but Guo family members, don't kill him, leave blood for the late emperor, you can arrange him however you want."

Shi Congyun nodded and knelt in front of his father: "Father, I swear in front of you that I will never kill him and let the Guo family's blood continue."

The old man let out a long breath, nodded and said: "That's the only thing about seeing you when I go out of the city, other things have nothing to do with me, so I'm leaving."

"My son will send you off!" Shi Congyun also heaved a sigh of relief, his father didn't mean to kill his relatives righteously, so he got up and patted the ashes to send his father back.

"No, you should be busy with other things." The old man said before going out.

When he was sending his father out, Xiang Gong next to him hesitated to speak.

The old man said, "You have something to do with uncle, let him stay by your side and help you."

Shi Congyun nodded, and immediately understood why Xiang Gong followed his father. It turned out that he followed his father's footsteps and wanted to gain credit for his contribution.

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The wind and sand hovered in the south of the Yellow River in the strong summer wind, soaring up thousands of feet, shaking the sky.

The summer wind has a sense of wildness inside and out. On the [-]th day and night, in the anxiety of howling night wind blowing across Henan, Shi Congyun finally waited for the messenger from the other side of the Yellow River to arrive in the northern part of the Guanbei. Yan Zhao and Li Hanchao are in control of the news.

Murong Yanzhao said in the letter that they encountered a small group of Khitan rangers raiding the border, so they were delayed for some time.

Shi Congyun breathed a sigh of relief, and finally fell asleep peacefully without fear of the night wind.

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was bright, the surroundings were quiet, and there were no little yellow flowers. Shi Congyun was a little unaccustomed to it. After he got up, he put on thick clothes and sat at the table waiting nervously.

No matter how well-planned such a major event is, it will still be extremely tense when it comes to an end.

Perhaps because he was too nervous, it took him a while to realize that he might have woken up early...so he fell asleep on the table in a daze.

Until he was awakened by the sound of desolate horns in the camp, he opened his eyes in a daze, and the rising sun had already shone in through the crack of the door. He woke up suddenly, and heard footsteps outside the courtyard, and the sound of horns from all directions could be faintly heard in the distance. .

Shi Congyun immediately understood that there was already something going on outside, and he became nervous when the matter came to an end.

He suppressed his curiosity not to go out, but waited quietly inside.

After so many years of hard work, Shi Congyun, although he is in his early twenties, has long been an old fox in his heart. He knows that the drama of wearing a yellow robe is not a simple act, but also an invisible political game.

Even if Shi Congyun pretended, petitioned, or was unwilling, he had to show that I didn't want to do it, and the soldiers pushed me up.

In this way, you can get rid of some moral burdens, but this is not the most important thing. There are too many uglier things in history.

The most important thing is to restrain the army!

At this point, the imperial power is not an obstacle at all, nor is morality, the army is.

The imperial power is illusory, but the army is real, so there is no need to consider the affairs of the current emperor, but how to bargain with the army.

Shi Congyun highlighted that one of them was forced by the army.

In this way, credit still needs to be rewarded, but in turn, you can also negotiate conditions with the army, because many people, whether it is middle-level and high-level generals or low-level soldiers, look forward to him taking the position, and you forced me to do it.

If he directly enters the palace, let the current officials take the throne, and do things in a practical way, it will naturally be easy to do, but the political initiative is immediately out of his hands.

Once things come to fruition, it is not the army begging him, but he has to ask the army for support in turn, otherwise the emperor will not be able to sit still!

If so, it will be a big trouble.

At that time, the army will have to give what it wants, and what the arrogant soldiers of the Five Dynasties will do best is to subdue their superiors and hold their superiors hostage.

What if I can't give it?It's very simple, just like when Taizu Huang Qi of the Zhou Dynasty joined him, he allowed the army to plunder the people of Kaifeng by itself.

This kind of political game seems casual, but the consequences are completely different, and even different from each other.

In today's era, the army is everything, and the most important thing is to deal with the army, not the tool people in the palace, the queen regent and the useless little emperor.

So even though Shi Congyun was thumping with nervousness, he still pretended not to know anything, held back his curiosity, did not look at the situation outside, and let the horns blare, the drums beating densely, and the footsteps of a large number of troops gathering. , the war horse neighing intertwined, or pretending to be asleep, I don't know.

It wasn't until Meng Xuanzhe came to invite him, saying that the generals and officials begged to see him, that he took his sword and went out with Meng Xuanzhe.

As a result, as soon as he left the gate of the Chinese Army compound, many generals and officials flocked up one after another. Wang Quanbin put a yellow robe on him from the side, and then they walked forward surrounded by him.