Before the fall of Bianliang, Zhou He was involved in political affairs, minister of war, bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, and envoy to the northwest of Beijing. His status among the officials was second only to Wang Qiyong and a few others; Gao Chunnian served as
Shaanxi's Five-Road Transport Envoys have a higher status than all other road envoys; Wu Wenche, Gu Fan, and Chen Tai, as the original Beijing-Northwest Road Transport Envoys, the original Beijing-Southwest Road Economic Strategy Comfort Envoys and Transfer Envoys, also have a very high status among the officials.
high status...
After the fall of Bianliang, Wang Boqian and Yan Shiyong were suspected of fleeing the battle. Wang Qiyong and others rebelled and surrendered to the enemy. They also supported Li Ji as the pseudo-emperor. Those ministers who still had integrity also joined forces with Emperor Tianxuan and the clan's descendants this time.
After being escorted north by the Red Husbands, wouldn't Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan, Chen Tai, Wu Wenche and others become the only leaders the soldiers could count on?
Therefore, it did not surprise Xu Huai that after King Jing ascended the throne, Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan, Chen Tai, and Wu Wenche had absolute advantages over the newly formed court.
However, the composition of the central court requires, in addition to high-ranking officials in charge of various positions, a large amount of literature and history to handle its affairs.
The current laws mainly consist of various imperial edicts and edicts promulgated by the imperial court. They are extremely complicated and complicated, and lack a strict system and organization. Generally speaking, the officials in charge of the ministries and departments under Zhongshu's sect are highly mobile.
After serving for three to five years, one has to rotate and pass the imperial examination to become an official. The main subjects he studied are the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism. It is difficult to clarify such complicated and complex legal relationships. How many people can truly independently handle the matters they handle in an orderly manner?
The appointment of central officials is relatively fixed, even from father to son, and family traditions incorporate Confucianism, law, and many transactional skills. They are the key to the orderly operation of the central ministries.
It can even be said that the central authority has considerable power, which is manipulated by a group of veteran officials who are talented in writing.
At the local level, the principle is the same.
On the one hand, clans with big surnames hope that their children can pass the imperial examination and become officials, on the other hand, they try their best to control local official positions. This is also the reason.
Taiyuan soldiers and civilians went south. In addition to the 20,000 soldiers and horses originally belonging to the Hedong Road Military and Horse Deployment Department and the Taiyuan Military and Horse Supervisory Department, they were incorporated into the Xuanwu Army on the left and right as the core combat force to defend Xiangyang. In addition to Xu Wei and Qian Ze
There are officials of Rui and other ranks, as well as a group of clerical officials who were formerly affiliated with the Hedong Road Supervision Department and Taiyuan Prefecture and are proficient in official documents and other affairs.
The Marshal's Mansion and the newly established central ministries and departments of the imperial court lacked manpower, so these civil servants should be put to use.
Zhou He, Gao Chunnian and others used the excuse that Taiyuan officials were weak and needed to recuperate, so they abandoned them all. Instead, they transferred manpower from the Jingnan South Road Supervisory Department and Xiangyang, and selected people from among the Xiangyang gentry to fill the marshal's office and central government offices.
There was a shortage of officials in the ministries and departments. They obviously knew the secrets of the operation of central authority and deliberately excluded Taiyuan officials from the court, using such high-sounding excuses.
There is also the problem of the Nanyang Prefecture Army.
Although Nanyang Prefecture was classified as the garrison area of Zuo Xiaosheng's army Liu Yan at this time, the garrison area and the camp defense area are not the same concept.
Shenzhou was newly established and the Chushan camp was established. As the commander-in-chief of the military and horse capital of the camp, Xu Huai was the highest military and political officer. Not to mention that he also knew Shenzhou and was in charge of the military and horse capital supervisory department of the state. It can be said that he was the leader of Shenzhou local and regional
The power of the heroic army is gathered into one body.
However, Liu Yan led his troops to be stationed in Nanyang, but he had no right to interfere in local affairs.
The Nanyang Prefecture Army is a local military force affiliated to the Nanyang Prefecture Military and Horse Supervisory Department. Ning Ci, as the prefect of Nanyang and also the commander of the Military and Horse Supervisor Department, has the command of the Nanyang Prefecture Army.
When selecting generals to command the Nanyang Mansion, Ning Ci paid great attention to screening for connections with Chushan.
"Cheng Lunying joined the military as a soldier and was specifically responsible for the military affairs of the Nanyang Prefecture Army. Although he was very cautious in recommending Zhong He and other generals to be consistent with Ning Ci and others, there were some Tong among the original Tangzhou Xiang Army.
Although Ning Ci may not be aware of the low-level military officials who came from Baishan, he should know the details..." Zheng Tu said.
When King Jing went south to Xiangyang, Xu Huai took the most credit. Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Qian Shangduan, Qiao Jien and others were all very polite when they saw Xu Huai, but they avoided getting involved with Chushan.
When Zhufengtang was running the business in Xiangyang, and when Zheng Tu entered the Marshal's Mansion on behalf of Chu Shan, no one stood up to hinder it, but invisible rejection and rejection were everywhere.
However, the move of Jin Longquan to serve at Jin Zhuangcheng's side in Xiangyang was a very clever move, otherwise it would be difficult to understand the various subtleties hidden under the water.
In Zheng Tu's opinion, Cheng Lunying's response to some matters is still worth fighting for.
Xu Huai just nodded to show that he knew about it. Perhaps experiencing the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion personally made Cheng Lunying become pragmatic, but Cheng Lunying was also at both ends of the spectrum. As a scholar, at least he would not stand against Ning Ci and others at this time.
Go, get too close to Chushan.
Xu Huai had no intention of acting rashly, so he asked Zheng Tu to be patient and learn as much as possible in Xiangyang, and to master these basic situations...
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The next day, Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Hu Kai and others gathered more generals at the Marshal's Mansion. As usual, Xu Huai accompanied everyone to the back house where King Jing lived to persuade him to enter.
King Jing still refused to accept it.
On the third day, Zhou He led his generals to kneel down and petition in the streets of the houzhai. From morning to noon, Xu Wei, Wen Hengyue and several old and frail officials fainted at the gate of the houzhai.
Wang Cai asked someone to open the door of the back house and take Xu Wei, Wen Hengyue and others into the back house for treatment.
King Jing Zhao Tuan was busy with military and political affairs all day long. After hearing the bad news about Bianliang, he lived on rice porridge for several days and had not seen him for more than two months. When Xu Huai saw King Jing at this time, his eyes were sunken and his cheekbones were high.
Very thin.
The back house was Gu Fan's residence in Xiangyang as the envoy of the South-Jingjing Road Economic Strategy. The courtyard also had winding paths and was quite magnificent, but it was not a palace after all. There was no hall that could accommodate dozens of people to sit down and discuss matters together.
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Zhou He led the generals into the back house, knelt down in the study courtyard where King Jing usually handled military affairs, and begged King Jing Zhao Tuan for permission to ascend the throne and inherit the throne before he got up.
"My father and all my brothers and sisters were taken captive by the barbarians and sent to a bitter and cold place where I don't know if they will live or die. I am worried about the suffering and think about the military. All I have to do is follow the general discussion!" King Jing Zhao Tuan stood in front of the corridor and finally nodded in agreement to ascend the throne.
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Only then did Zhou He stand up with everyone.
Other generals and officials returned to Qianya one after another. Xu Huai, Zhou He, Hu Kai, Zhao Yi, Gao Chunnian, Liu Xian, Gu Fan, Chen Tai, Wu Wenche, Zhu Hang, Wang Fan and others first went to visit and drink ginseng soup.
After Xu Wei, Wen Hengyue and others regained consciousness, they arranged for them to return to the mansion to recuperate, and then they went to the study and living room to discuss the matter of enthroning.
King Zhao Tuan of Jing Dynasty requested that everything be kept simple when he came to the throne, and no money or food should be wasted on red tape. All matters were left to the officials led by Zhou He. He had no time to care about these matters at this time.
When King Jing came, he left Hu Kai, Xu Huai, Liu Xian and Zheng Huaizhong's sons Zheng Cong and Zhao Fan alone to talk, mainly asking about the military deployment in Heluo and other places.
Emperor Tianxuan, the clan's descendants and more than 3,000 princes and ministers were escorted northward by the Red Husbands in the first batch, and naturally the second and third batches would be escorted northward. In the end, only the puppet supporters would remain in Bianliang City.
Emperor Li Ji's rebellious ministers surrendered and took control of Bianliang and the cities outside the capital.
This incident not only means that the Red Husbands have completed the plunder of Bianliang City, but also means that after the early adjustments, the Red Husbands' use of troops in Hehuai, Shaanxi, Jingdong and other places will enter the next stage.
At present, most of the cities in Hedong and Hebei have been trapped. The second prince of Chihu and King Wululie of Zhennan moved the prince's palace from Datong to Taiyuan. The third prince, King Tuge of Pingyan, moved the prince's palace to Weizhou. It can be seen that Chi
Even if the Hu people used surrender ministers Li Ji and others to establish the puppet Chu regime in Bianliang, their two armies did not shrink back, hoping that the puppet Chu regime would replace them and rule the Central Plains.
From the adjustment of the troops and horses of the Chihu people, it can also be seen that the main attack direction of the subsequent Zhennan army of the Chihu people will be Shaanxi and Heluo; the Pingyan army of the Chihu people will move from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to Jingdong (Jingdong East Road) in the south.
, Beijing East and West Road) and the lower reaches of the Huaihe River swept across the area; he established Li Ji as the puppet emperor of Chu, transferred Yue Hailou's troops into Bianliang, and collected the Bianliang surrender army. It should be the Zhennan Army and Pingyan Army that cooperated with the Chihu people.
Go south and capture Xu, Ru, Chen, Cai, Chen, Ying, Song and other places.
In the next stage, Xu Huai was not worried about the defense lines of Caizhou, Shenzhou and Guangzhou stationed by the Xiaosheng Army, Tianxiong Army and Xuanwei Army on his left and right.
Gu Jiqian, Gao Junyang's troops in Shaanxi and King Lu's troops in Jingdong (Jingdong East Road, Jingdong East Road) found it difficult to withstand the attack of the two main forces of the Chihu people. Now the main thing is to see how well these two groups of soldiers and horses can.
How long will it take to delay the Red Husband?
Strategically, Xu Huai advocated that Xiangyang should allow Gu Jiqian and Gao Junyang's troops to preserve their strength and withdraw southward when the situation became critical. He should even be prepared to abandon most of Shaanxi, build a defense line in the Qinling Mountains, and take advantage of the dangerous terrain of the Qinling Mountains.
, forming a stalemate with the Chihu people to buy time for the subsequent counterattack.
The ice-free period of the Huaihe River is much shorter than that of the Yellow River. The King of Lu's group has withdrawn its main force southward to Xuzhou, Shouzhou, and Chuzhou, and there will be no change in a short period of time.
Xu Huai was really worried about Heluo, which was guarded by Zheng Huaizhong.
Luoyang occupies the center of the world, and guarding Luoyang will be able to destroy the forces of the Red Husband cavalry and surrendered soldiers and horses, and attract a considerable number of the main Red Husband troops to the middle reaches of the Yellow River, making it difficult for them to go south.
If Luoyang is lost and Gao Junyang and Gu Jiqian are on the dangerous side of the Qinling Mountains, blocking the Red Husband's southward approach to the Sichuan Gorge, the Red Husband will then assemble an army of tens and hundreds of thousands to attack the Xiaosheng Army, Tianxiong Army and the left and right.
The Huaishang defense line stationed by the Xuanwei Army came to attack.
Of course, King Jing officially ascended the throne in Xiangyang at this time and Xu Huai suspected that it would also attract the attention of the Chihu people. The next main attack direction of his Zhennan Army was likely to be Heluo rather than Shaanxi.
For the Chihu people, as long as they capture Heluo, they can cut off the direct connection between Xiangyang and Shaanxi (the detour from Hanzhong is much longer), and they can even continue to leave Shaanxi alone and immediately use troops on Huaishang to prevent
As time goes on, Xiangyang’s foundation becomes more solid...
