The Jianye Privy Council was built on the west side of the Government Hall according to the old rules. The two offices faced each other from east to west, but the scale was much smaller than the old office in Bianliang City.
Under the hazy sky, the branches and leaves of elms and poplars were withering, and the several government offices in the Privy Council looked extraordinarily low and lonely.
Liu Yan stood in front of the yard and looked up at the sky that was almost pressing down. He secretly felt that the snowstorm might be serious, and Jiangnan was about to enter a real cold winter season——
"It is said that all seasons in the south of the Yangtze River are like spring. Why is the winter in Jianye so cold? It is even comparable to my hometown in Weizhou!" Liu Fu'er, an old soldier, put his hands into the sleeves of his coat as he spoke and exhaled clouds of white air. He felt the coldness in Jianye. The cold winter is even harder to endure than in my hometown of Weizhou.
"You have forgotten how cold it is back home. That's when the real wind blows like a knife and drops of water turn into ice," Liu Yan said with a smile, "How cold is Jianye now?"
"Really?" Liu Fuler, with frosty white hair on the temples and a large piece of flesh cut off on the left side of his face, and a hideous scar, asked in a daze, "Maybe I have been away from Weizhou for too long. My brain is stupid to begin with, and now I am old. There are many things that I can't remember at every turn - Master, it's been ten years since we left Weizhou, right?
"We went to Hedong in the sixth year of Tianxuan. It has been ten years since we left Weizhou." Liu Yan said with emotion.
"Sir, do you think there is a chance for my bones to be buried back in Weizhou?" Liu Fu'er asked with some worry. This was also the thing he was most concerned about after he felt his energy was getting increasingly low.
"What are you talking about? I see that your body is still very strong," Liu Yan said, "We will go back!"
"I dare to say something treacherous. I think this matter is a bit uncertain. The husbands in the city are busy buying houses and marrying beautiful concubines." Liu Fu'er grinned, showing two yellow teeth with stubble, and said, "Just tell us How many people are there in this big courtyard who are bent on regaining the Central Plains?"
"Ms. Liu," a junior official rushed out from the front courtyard and saluted Liu Yan, "Prime Minister, Prime Minister Yang, Wei Langjun and others are waiting for you!"
"What's up?"
Liu Yan asked with some surprise. Seeing that the junior official didn't know why, he pointed to the waiting room where the guards and attendants were waiting, and told the old soldier Liu Fu'er to go there and rest.
"You go and have a rest. I don't know when I will be able to return home. If you want to sneak out to drink, remember to call Liu Le to replace you. Don't find anyone in the blink of an eye."
Liu Yan was transferred to the Central Government as Deputy Privy Envoy. This was a position that had only been used occasionally by military ministers since the founding of the dynasty. At the same time, he was also qualified to participate in state affairs. He was considered a member of the ruling team, and could even be said to be the pinnacle of military ministers.
However, Liu Yan was not at all proud of him.
He knew very well how he got into this position.
When discussing the system, the Privy Council Envoys and Privy Deputy Envoys should be in the same office next to each other in the Privy Council. Whenever there is any major military aircraft, Wang Boqian should discuss it with him before deciding whether to deal with it directly or submit a letter to plan for it. Or let your Majesty know.
However, in order to cut off his connection with the old troops in Huaixi, Wang Boqian not only did not allow him to participate in the Huaixi War, but also sent him to sit in another yamen hall of the Privy Council.
Regarding the affairs of various departments within the Privy Council, Liu Yan was in charge of the Inspection Department and the Guards Department.
Before the fall of Bianliang, the Inspection Department was responsible for the training and drills of the Imperial Guards in Gyeonggi Province, and the Guards Department was responsible for the palace guards. They had considerable authority and were responsible for extremely important affairs.
However, after Emperor Jianji succeeded to the throne in Xiangyang, the Imperial Guards in Gyeonggi Province came under the direct control of the Imperial Envoys Division. At this time, the Imperial Guards in Jianye City were now under the joint control of the Imperial City Division and the Imperial Envoys Division - in fact
There are currently only two empty shells left in the Inspection Department and the Guards Department of the Privy Council.
Of course, since Liu Yan returned to Beijing in response to the imperial edict and served as deputy privy envoy, he was mentally prepared to put his tail between his legs. But the question is, how far has the war situation in Huaixi developed? As the former deputy commander-in-chief of Huaixi, he is still successful at this time.
He had hundreds of subordinates staying in Luzhou, but he couldn't participate in the military plane. How could this make him feel no more resentful?
Early this morning, not only did Wang Boqian take the initiative to send someone over to invite him, but Yang Maoyan, who succeeded Zhou He as the imperial envoy as a political advisor, and Wei Chujun, a member of Zhongshushe, were both in the Privy Council, making Liu Yan aware that something big might have happened.
Although he was full of resentment towards Wang Yang and his ilk, he also knew that the matter concerned Huaixi and it was not the time for him to act arrogant. He quickly walked into the Yamen Hall and saw Wang Boqian, Yang Maoyan and Wei Chujun sitting in the hall with serious expressions and clasping their hands.
, couldn't help but asked nervously: "Have there been changes in Huaixi, and Yang Xianggong and Wei Langjun made a special trip to Xifu?"
"This is the memorial submitted by Marquis Jingsheng to His Majesty. Mr. Liu, please take a look..." Wang Boqian handed a memorial to Liu Yan and said.
Liu Yan hesitantly accepted the memorial sent to Beijing by Xu Huai.
With the status of Xu Huai, when a memorial comes from Beijing and Xiangzhou, if it is a small matter, your Majesty will entrust the department to deal with it. If it is a major matter, you should summon all the ministers.
If it was more serious, a court meeting should be convened instead of Yang Maoyan. Wei Chujun took the memorial and quietly ran to the Privy Council to ask his opinion.
However, Liu Yan didn't want to go into the minutiae of it, so he just took the memorial and looked at it.
It started with a speech of praise. Liu Yan read it hastily and soon saw that the focus of the memorial was at the end:
"... In addition to the three places of Xu, Su, and Ying, the bandits have also been training naval forces in Laizhou, Qidong in recent years. The ships they built can fight big waves, and your Majesty must pay attention to them. At this time, several groups of bandits attacked from Shouchun to the south.
Peering into the river is a very daring act, but it is also somewhat suspicious. Your Majesty should warn the Privy Council and the Navy to be alert to the possibility of the pirate navy breaking in from the river mouth and attacking Shuchi by land and water to build Ye. Your Majesty, Xu Huai, pays homage..."
"Xu Hou is worried that King Ping Yanlu will gather his navy to attack from the mouth of the river and raid the walled city along the river. This is indeed a worrying point." When Liu Yan saw Wang Boqian looking for him, he just asked him to look at Xu Huai's watch to alert the defense along the river.
The blind spot that is easy to be ignored is not that there is any major event that the sky is falling. He also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "In addition to the navy deploying more beacon sentries on the rivers in Yangtze, Tai and other places - this should actually have been done a long time ago.
Yes, the Privy Council had better send a message to Huaidong to pay more attention to the movements at sea..."
Having said this, Liu Yan accidentally glanced at the date on which the memorial was signed, broke out in a cold sweat, glanced at Wang Boqian, Yang Maoyan, and Wei Chujun, and couldn't help but asked with a trembling voice:
"This letter from Marquis Xu was written eight days ago. Did it arrive in the capital just recently? Or is it that the memorial was sent to the capital a long time ago and has already been discovered at the mouth of the river?"
Liu Yan had experienced so many storms in his half-life. After seeing clearly the date written in Xu Huai's memorial, he naturally guessed what was most likely.
He was transferred to the capital and sat on the bench for four or five months. How could he still not understand clearly? If His Majesty only received a reminder from Xu Huai's letter, he might have called Yang Maoyan, and Wei Chujun and Wang Boqian came to ask him.
Opinion?
Besides, Xu Huai was in Jingzhou, and it only took three days and three nights to arrive at Jianye by speedboat with a messenger carrying the letter.
No matter how much the court disliked Xu Huai, as Xu Huai was a feudal official, no one would have the guts to withhold or delay his memorial.
The most likely possibility is that the memorial was sent to His Majesty five or six days ago. Even Wang Boqian, Yang Maoyan, and Wei Chujun were aware of the memorial, but they did not take it seriously.
It was not until what Xu Huai reminded them in the memorial that they turned out to be bloody and cruel facts that they were in such chaos that they thought of their own existence.
"We don't care when Xu Hou's memorial arrived. The current problem is that the Huaidong Zhizhi Envoy had just sent a message from Jinghai County to Jianye in the early morning. Yesterday afternoon, soldiers and civilians in Jinghai County saw ships on the riverside.
More than a hundred soldiers loaded with soldiers sailed into the river mouth..." Yang Maoyan said with a somewhat panicked expression.
"..." Liu Yan felt a chill running down his spine at this moment.
Jinghai County belongs to Huaidong Road, Taizhou. To the east of Jinghai County is Haimen County. The southeast corner of Haimen County is the real mouth of the Yangtze River.
The letter came from Jinghai County, indicating that the Lubing Navy entered the Yangtze River from the southeast of Haimen County in broad daylight, and it took at least half a day before anyone noticed it.
Jinghai County is in the north of the Yangtze River, and Jianye is in the south of the Yangtze River. The two rivers are connected for about 400 miles, and the river in the lower reaches is vast. After winter, the water flow becomes slow, and the fleet sails upstream without too much effort.
.
"What kind of wind was it last night?" Liu Yan suddenly stood up and asked abruptly.
Yang Maoyan and Wang Boyan were both stunned, but Wei Chujun knew the meaning of Liu Yan's question and said, "I never cared."
Liu Yan grabbed the memorial with one hand, walked out of the Yamen Hall and looked up to see the lone old locust tree in the southeast corner of the yard. He saw a few yellow leaves left on the branches, which were shaken by the cold wind. The next moment, there were two yellow leaves.
It fell towards Liu Yan's face.
Damn it!
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the wind turns out to be southeasterly!
"Mr. Yang, did the navy say when the enemy ships will arrive in Jianye?" Wei Chujun asked Yang Maoyan.
Yang Maoyan became a political governor, replacing Zhou He and also leading the Imperial Envoy. The Gyeonggi Suwei Imperial Army and Jianye Navy were under the direct jurisdiction of the Imperial Envoy Department. Moreover, after Zhang Xin, Ling Jian and others were demobilized, the Gyeonggi Suwei Imperial Army and Jianye Navy were demobilized.
There was no actual capital control or control, but the capitals commanded envoys, and Du Yuhou controlled the army. This was the first time in Jianye to restore the Dayue tradition of using culture to control military affairs and using culture to govern military affairs. At this time, Yang Maoyan was
He was the actual commander-in-chief of the Jianye Navy.
"The navy has sent sentry ships down the river, but there is no judgment as to when the enemy ships will reach Jianye." Yang Maoyan also didn't know that the Lubing Navy might reach Jianye, so he told Liu Yan, "Your Majesty is waiting in the palace.
The Privy Council came up with a response plan. However, the urgency of the matter no longer allows me to wait in the Privy Council to discuss it slowly, and we also asked Prime Minister Liu to go into the palace with us to see His Majesty."
Wang Boqian coughed lightly and said: "Prime Minister Liu has been in battle for a long time and has just returned to the court from the army. In order for Prime Minister Liu to familiarize himself with the affairs of the capital as soon as possible, he did not dare to bother Prime Minister Liu about the war in Huaixi - there is no need to bother your majesty with such a small matter.
, but if there is any affairs in Huaixi from now on, I still have to ask Prime Minister Liu to do his hard work!"
Hearing Wang Boqian's words, Liu Yan subconsciously touched his waist, but he didn't want to touch anything, and his heart felt cold:
The meaning of Wang Boqian's words was simply that although His Majesty was suspicious of him, he did not ask him to completely stop participating in the war in Huaixi. Many things were actually caused by Wang Boqian and others behind his back.
Wang Boqian wanted him to get over this issue now, and try his best to help them overcome the current difficulties at this time, so that they would have a slight chance to participate in military aircraft in the future.
Liu Yan's heart was beating with anger. At this juncture, he could only suppress the anger in his heart and nodded: "Liu knows how to work together to help each other, and there is no need for orders from the prime minister!"
