After a night of killing, Chen Baxian finally entered Jiankangtaicheng, which was dilapidated but still symbolized the seat of the highest power of the Southern Dynasty, under the obedience of the soldiers.
However, it is far from the time to celebrate victory, and the next test will only be more severe. As Wang Sengbian said, once he dies, the government and the public will be in chaos.
Nowadays, Nanliang has long been torn apart. It is only held together by Wang Sengbian like a thin layer of gauze. Now that even such a meager layer of connection has been lost, internal divisions are inevitable. In addition,
There are also enemies from the outside who are eyeing the enemy, and they will not sit back and watch such drastic changes in Nanliang without doing anything.
In short, the following situation is still very dangerous. If Chen Baxian cannot solve it smoothly and properly one by one, then he will be the last traitor in Nanliang and be nailed to the pillar of shame forever!
Because of this, Chen Baxian also had to find a way to recruit all the forces he could. After confirming that all the immediate family members of Wang Sengbian in the city had been killed, he began to order the soldiers not to kill at will and disrupt the order of the city.
In addition to killing Wang Sengbian's family, Chen Baxian was very kind to others. In addition to restraining the soldiers from causing chaos and looting in the city, he also treated many civil and military officials with preferential treatment.
Former Qingzhou governor Cheng Lingxi garrisoned troops in Zhanggongzhou. After learning that something had happened in Stone City, he immediately led his troops to cross the river to rescue him. However, he frequently fought with Zhou Wenyu who arrived later in the west of Stone City. Because of his hasty reinforcements, the army was not ready.
The result was repeated defeats.
Just when Zhou Wenyu wanted to take advantage of the victory and attack Cheng Lingxi and kill them all by the river, Chen Baxian stopped him and immediately sent an envoy to Cheng Lingxi's army to urge him that he was only raising the army for justice.
It was not for personal grudges, but Wang Sengbian's family was the only ones he wanted to kill, and he tried to persuade Cheng Lingxi to surrender.
Not only these generals, but after Chen Baxian entered Taicheng, Xiao Yuanming, the puppet emperor of Neiyuan, also knew what happened in the city. He hurriedly sent his son Xiao Zhang to Chen Baxian's army to ask for surrender.
Although Chen Baxian had always disagreed with the establishment of Xiao Yuanming as emperor, he did not take the opportunity to kill him. Instead, he sent troops to invite Xiao Yuanming out of the inner garden and temporarily placed him in Taicheng.
The Crown Prince Xiao Fangzhi, the son of Emperor Liang Yuan, welcomed him back to the inner garden.
Chen Baxian's restrained and courteous behavior had a comforting effect on the Jiankang people who were suffering from sudden changes and were panicking. Moreover, there were many people in the imperial court who criticized Xiao Yuanming as king. You should know that Chen Baxian
After entering the court this time to bring order to the chaos, everyone began to support Chen Baxian in their hearts.
Afterwards, Chen Baxian summoned all officials in Taicheng to reveal the bodies of Wang Sengbian and his son to the public. He then issued a proclamation, denounced Wang Sengbian for manipulating the imperial court and acting rebelliously. He also repeatedly expressed to the officials and officials the purpose of this attack.
Only Wang Seng defended his father and son as brothers, and the rest of the pro-party officials were not guilty of any abuse!
After initially stabilizing the situation in the city, Chen Baxian asked Xiao Yuanming, who had moved out of the inner garden, to abdicate. Then he sent his trusted aides to escort him out of Taicheng and back to his official residence in the city under strict guard. Immediately, Chen Baxian led a hundred civil and military officials to persuade Xiao Fangzhi to move in.
, and it was determined that the enthronement ceremony would be held two days later.
After confirming his righteous status as King Qin of the court, Chen Baxian began to arrange other affairs.
First of all, the first point is to send an envoy to inform the Northern Qi Dynasty that he did not enter the court to make enemies with the Northern Qi Dynasty, but because Wang Sengbian had the intention of usurping the country, so he wanted to kill him. As for the covenant between the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Southern Liang Dynasty,
, Nanliang will still abide by it, still profess vassalage to Northern Qi, and become a vassal.
Although the interaction with Northern Qi was an important reason why Chen Baxian and Wang Sengbian turned against each other and broke up, Chen Baxian knew that stabilizing the situation in the country was the most important at the moment, and he must not continue to anger Northern Qi and cause massive trouble to his country just because of his temporary mood.
Justifiable reasons for intrusion.
As for Hefei in the Western Wei Dynasty, Chen Baxian also sent an envoy to surrender. Of course, it was not to ask for alliance and peace. After all, the two sides had a hatred of killing the emperor and destroying the country. If Chen Baxian wanted to ask for surrender from the Western Wei Dynasty as soon as he came to power, then he would inevitably have to do the same.
If you fall into a moral dilemma like Wang Sengbian's, not only will you receive little substantial help, but you will also be criticized by dissidents.
This report was made on the grounds of requesting the return of the body of Emperor Yuan. In fact, it was to briefly notify the Western Wei Dynasty of the changes in Nanliang. On the one hand, Chen Baxian was not an old member of Emperor Yuan, and he also conspired with the Jingzhou Military Government. After taking power,
When the situation stabilizes, there will be no moral burden to confront the Western Wei Dynasty to the end, and there will be room for the two sides to seek cooperation to resist Qi.
On the other hand, it is hoped that the Western Wei Dynasty will not misjudge the internal situation of Nanliang because of the complicated situation changes in Nanliang, and continue to launch attacks, aiming to tell the other side that the changes here are orderly and there is no advantage to be taken advantage of!
After the external attitude has set a general tone, it is time to target the internal affairs. Naturally, the civil and military officials in the court have to work hard to win over each other. They will use the opportunity of deposing the king to issue official titles and awards, so that everyone will recognize this new situation.
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What is more complicated than the personnel affairs in the court is the entanglement of local forces, especially the direct power of Wang Sengbian.
Now Wang Sengbian's younger brother Wang Sengzhi is the prefect of Wu County, Wang Sengmin is the prefect of Yuzhang, his son Wang Yan is the prefect of Nanqiao County, and his son-in-law Du Gong is the prefect of Wuxing. Each of them also has a large number of armed forces.
It was precisely because Wang Sengbian's direct armed forces were distributed in all directions that the defense in the capital was empty and the branches were strong and the trunk was weak, allowing Chen Ba to succeed in his attack first.
These are Wang Sengbian's cronies and die-hard loyalists. There is no possibility of appeasing them and persuading them to surrender, so they can only be killed. As for other forces, the main thing is to appease and win them over.
For example, Wang Lin, Hou Qi, etc. are currently fighting endlessly in Jiangzhou. Chen Baxian joined Wang Lin as the official official of the three divisions, the governor of Jingzhou, and the military governor of Jing, Xiang, Heng, Ying, and Jiang. As for Hou Qi,
The original position of governor of Jiangzhou is still retained, and the military affairs of Jiabashan, Luling, Nankang, Linchuan and other counties are included.
As a result, both men's official positions have increased, but in fact the core disputes and conflicts are still in Jiangzhou, and the situation has not improved.
Wang Lin's official promotion was particularly significant. He had been clamoring for a counterattack on Jiangling, and used this as an excuse to repeatedly disobey Wang Sengbian's orders. But now Chen Baxian directly appointed him as the governor of Jingzhou, and it became his duty to counterattack Jiangling.
Regarding domestic affairs, as long as Jiangling is captured, he will be the new master of Jiangling! And the military commander of Jiangzhou gave him an excuse and reason to stay in Jiangzhou and have disputes with Hou Qi, so that they continued to fight with each other and had no time to look in.
imperial court.
As for Hou Qi, he has not been deprived of his position and has made further progress in his supervisory duties, which reflects the court's merciful attitude towards him. He was already in a weak position in the battle with Wang Lin and wanted to gain more support from the court.
, then naturally you have to fight for it yourself.
As long as these two parties can accept the goodwill released by the court, then Wang Senzhen, who is now in Yuzhang and caught between the two, is in a dangerous situation. There is no need for the court to send more troops. It is estimated that he will soon
Being strangled by both.
Across the river, Qin County also had Xu Sihui's troops. Although Xu Sihui had shown much ill will towards Chen Baxian earlier, in order to stabilize the internal situation, Chen Baxian ignored the old grudges and sent people to persuade Xu Sihui to surrender, and promised that as long as Xu Sihui was willing to obey his orders,
According to the imperial court, all the military forces in the north of the Yangtze River should be entrusted, including Guangling, which he had been unable to defend before, and could be handed over to Xu Sihui for garrison. This can be said to be full of sincerity.
After all, Guangling is just a bargaining chip for Chen Baxian. His previous efforts and persistence were all to increase his power. Now that he has entered the Jiankang court and replaced Wang Sengbian's original position, his most core interests are of course
To stabilize the basic base of Sanwu, if they continue to retain heavy troops in Guangling, it will undoubtedly weaken their control over Jiangnan.
Before sending troops to Jingkou, Chen Baxian had secretly sent his nephew Chen Qian back to Wuxing Township to recruit volunteers in order to lure Du Gong, the prefect of Wuxing. With Chen Qian as a key figure, the next strategy against Wuxing would naturally be much more convenient.
Chen Baxian's series of arrangements are not considered incomplete, but to achieve the desired effect, everyone involved in the current situation needs to give feedback according to the situation he envisioned. And depending on the distance, the feedback from all parties is also
Passed them back to Jiankang City one after another.
The first is Xu Sihui of Qin County. Although Chen Baxian proposed sincere surrender conditions, Xu Sihui simply closed the city and defended himself. He even detained the envoys sent by Chen Baxian and did not have any effective communication with Chen Baxian.
Next, Wei Zai who was stationed in Yixing, Wang Sengzhi of Wujun, and Du Gong of Wuxing raised their troops to rebel. Although Chen Qian, who secretly returned to Chen's Township in the Great Wall, temporarily resisted Du Gong's offensive, the situation was also the same.
Precarious.
However, Wang Sengzhi of Wu County directly led his troops to attack Chen Baxian's home base in Jingkou. Now, the remaining soldiers in Jingkou are thousands of weak people led by Chen Baxian's nephew Chen Tanlang, and their combat effectiveness is not strong.
Naturally, Chen Baxian did not want to seize Jiankang but lose Jingkou, so he immediately sent a speedboat east to notify Xu Du who was stationed in Guangling, and quickly led his troops south to garrison Jingkou to resist Wang Sengzhi.
As for Yixing, Chen Baxian sent Zhou Wenyu to lead his troops to attack, while he himself still had to stay in the imperial court for a period of time to stabilize the situation in order to avoid losing sight of one thing and causing chaos inside and outside.
Just when Chen Baxian was rushing to mobilize his troops and put out the fire, Wang Huan, the son of Wang Sengbian who was stationed in Dongguan, also learned about the death of his father in the capital. He was heartbroken for a moment and pointed to the east and roared: "Chen's dog thief.
, I swear to kill you!"
He was about to raise an army and go east to avenge his father, but the generals of the Wang family who were following him burst into tears and remonstrated: "My lord and others were all killed, which shows that the Chen bandits are tenacious. There are only a few thousand disciples in Alang's army.
Even if we go all out, I'm afraid we'll all die in one battle. Now that our family is in ruins and the country is in chaos, and Hefei is so close, it's better to go and ask Alang's old master, King Taiyuan, to borrow troops to put an end to the chaos and take revenge!"