He secretly cursed these officials who did not know how to act step by step and slowly penetrated to unify the army's thinking and achieve the purpose of supervising the army, but caused the current situation: "Idiots!"
After hearing Wu Sansi's words, Di Renjie said: "The imperial court allowed Qin Xiaole, Xue Dingshan and other generals to resign easily, but it made it difficult for them to lead the army, especially the Jinwu Guards, which were on the battlefield several times. If a general without military merit is allowed to succeed him, I'm afraid
If you cannot subdue the masses, and if there is a war, who should lead the army in battle?"
After Di Renjie finished speaking, Yao Chong, Minister of War, continued.
"What Mr. Di said is true. Qin Xiaole led his army to the battlefield several times to save the empire from danger. His prestige in the army is now comparable to that of Li Jing and Qin Shiji, two military gods. If he resigns, it will definitely shake the morale of the army.
, if it is not handled well, it may even trigger a mutiny. The top priority is that I believe that the supervisors sent to the Sixteenth Guards Army should pay attention to methods and methods to slowly calm down the resistance of the army. In the process, the imperial court should appease Qin Xiaole and others.
To help the general, we must not take the simple method of granting resignation."
When Lou Shide heard this, he said with disdain.
"Master Yao's words are alarmist. I think Xu Xiaole and others are not the only generals in our dynasty who are proficient in military tactics and battle formations. As far as I know, General Li Jingxuan and Black Teeth Changzhi who are stationed on the front line of Heyuan are also generals who are good at fighting. They are the ones in the capital.
There are also many nobles whose sons can serve as generals in the army and can completely replace Xu Xiaole and others in commanding the army. I think that if your Majesty has a little trust in these generals' sons, you can use them to your advantage."
Upon hearing the suggestions and concerns of Wu Sansi, Di Renjie, Yao Chong and Lou Shide, Wu Zetian did not make a statement, but instead addressed Shangguan Wan'er, who was standing beside her, and Li Zhaode, Zhang Jianzhi, who had been deep in thought but did not speak.
"Li Zhaode, Zhang Jianzhi, Shangguan Wan'er, what are your thoughts on this matter? You should speak freely in the palace today without any reservations."
Hearing the Queen's roll call, the three ministers cheered up and thought about how to respond to the Queen's questioning...
However, in the Ziwei Palace, Li Zhaode, Zhang Jianzhi and Shangguan Wan'er heard the Queen's question. Shangguan Wan'er, a member of the palace who was known as the heroine prime minister, said first.
"As you have said, I believe that Lord Di's concerns are not unreasonable. Qin Xiaole has been a general in the army for many years and has great prestige, and his father, King Xu Tian of Qi, is famous for being unfathomable. Both Taizong and Gaozong
During the Qi Dynasty, Prince Qi's official career was up and down, and the power of the Xu family was not weakened. Instead, it acted as an iron wall that prevented the court from intervening in the military affairs of Northeast China and Qizhou. Qin Xiaole, a descendant of the Qin family, entered the court as an official. This was because Prince Qi was loyal to the court and did not want to be harmed by others.
Criticizing Qin Xiaole for his ambition to treason has caused Qin Xiaole to resign and return to his hometown. The court and the Qin family are no longer involved. How do you think this serious relationship should be dealt with? In summary, I think I will now accept Qin Xiaole and other generals in the army.
It is not a good time to resign, and I hope His Majesty will judge."
Li Zhaode and Zhang Jianzhi all agreed with Shangguan Wan'er's opinion.
Wu Zetian listened to what all the confidants said, pondered for a long time, and said with a cold face.
"Wu Sansi, Yao Chong, Lou Shide, you and others will from now on restrain the military supervisors assigned to the Sixteenth Guards to keep a low profile and be gentle with the middle and lower-level generals in the army. At the same time, convey my decree and make the imperial court
Honorable nobles, heirs of generals, and all those who practice martial arts report to the Ministry of War. Li Zhaode is the imperial envoy to inspect the troops stationed in the border towns. It is obviously to commend the meritorious soldiers, but in fact it is to select the generals who are loyal to me to serve in the court."
After talking about these arrangements, Wu Zetian continued.
"Next year, in the imperial examination, the martial arts section will be added to select young people from all over the world who are interested in serving in the army. After being educated, they will become generals at all levels in the army."
What Wu Zetian said today is that she is determined to do her best to rectify the army so that there are people in the army who can use it and no longer be hijacked by others.
…
Qin Xiaole returned to the army from the palace, summoned Liu Lang, Shan Sijing, Xue Yinglong and other confidant generals for a secret discussion, and asked them to pull the 30,000 Jinwu Guard elite cavalry out of the barracks for training from now on. This move was for the army to be stationed there.
Lord Supervisor of the Army, created a regular operation of sending the army out of the camp for training, so that one day without knowing it, the cavalry could leave the city safely, completely out of the control of the court, and become Xu Xiaole's private army
.
After planning the army, Qin Xiaole returned to the palace. In the hall, he told several ladies about his resignation at the court meeting, told his worries and possible troubles, and persuaded Princess Taiping to take care of her children.
Leave Luoyang first and return to Licheng, Qizhou.
In order to ensure the safety of mother and son and ensure the safety of things, Qin Xiaole ordered his bodyguard to send a report to Licheng, Qizhou, asking his father and brother to send troops to respond.
Princess Taiping had witnessed what her mother had done over the years, and she was deeply aware of her husband's worries. In order to make her husband worry-free, she left Wang Feng'er and Fan Lihua in the mansion to help her husband deal with what was about to happen, and left a letter to her mother asking her to
The husband forwarded the letter and told him to return as soon as possible, and then quietly left the capital with his children, surrounded by dozens of personal guards.
Not long after Princess Taiping left the capital, Qin Xiaole mentioned in a letter to Princess Taiping that Taiping would return to her hometown to worship her ancestors. Wu Zetian was very angry and realized that this was Qin Xiaole's plan to make the princess leave the capital first, so as not to be caught in the process.
It is difficult to deal with the conflict between the queen mother and her husband.
She knew that after her daughter passed away, it would be difficult to see her again in this life, and she couldn't help feeling a little sad.
Although she didn't see any clues from her daughter's letter, with her shrewdness, she already realized that Qin Xiaole would probably leave the capital soon.
With this in mind, Wu Zetian ordered Wu Sansi to strengthen monitoring of the movements of the Jinwu Guard army, and sent an order to have Li Jingxuan, the governor of Heyuan, return to Beijing to take over the post of General Jinwu Guard.
At this time, Xu Tian, who was meditating on the Taoist scriptures at the "Qingfeng Temple" in Licheng, Qizhou, had recently shown signs of breaking through the seven levels of the "Pangu Heart Sutra". He had already faintly felt the oppression from "heaven". I'm afraid that
As a result, he was worried that he would be separated from his family when he broke through. He thought of breaking through to the Kunlun Mountains to prevent his family from experiencing the unpredictable outcome of his breakthrough.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! With this premonition, Qin Wenyuan made the plan to summon his sons back home to meet before leaving.
On this day, Qin Wenyuan finished his practice, left "Qingfeng Temple" and returned to his home. He spent the whole day enjoying family happiness with his family, and did not talk about his practice. His abnormal behavior made Yue'er, Xiangcheng, Murphy, and Minmin...
Yun Xia and the other wives were really uneasy, because these ladies practiced with him and had a deep understanding of Taoism. This situation showed that the husband's Taoism had reached a certain critical point, and they had a premonition that he would leave soon.
In the mansion, I am afraid that leaving here will mean separation.
The ladies all had a premonition that they were about to part with their husbands. Although they were reluctant to part with them, they did not say anything. They were also practitioners and had long regarded life and death as indifferent. They thought that if they had not followed their husbands to practice Taoism, they might have
I became a cup of loess in the world early, but I am still alive today because of God's blessing. After several dynasties and generations, there is nothing I can't see through.
In the next few months, Qin Wenyuan began to gather his sons who were leading troops from various places to return to "Xuanyuan".
In Luoyang Capital, since Princess Taiping left with her children, Qin Xiaole, although still holding the post of commander of the Jinwu Guard, rarely went to the army to deal with military affairs, and most of the affairs in the Yiying Army were handed over to the supervisory army.
Li Jingxuan returned to the capital, and was first given the title of General Zuo Xiaowei. The court allowed Xue Dingshan, Luo Zhang, Qin Meng, and Zhe Deru to resign and return to their hometowns, leaving the power of Yulinwei and Qianniuwei in the hands of officials appointed by Wu Zetian.
.
During this period, Duke Cheng Yaojin of the State of Lu was dissatisfied with Wu Zetian's autocratic power and was demoted as the governor of Qizhou for his improper speech. This old boy had seen too many rises and falls of the empire in his life, so he took it lightly and used his old age as an excuse to go to the imperial court.
He petitioned the imperial court to become an official, and was allowed by the imperial court to return to the "Gong Lu's" mansion in Chang'an City to take care of his old age. He died peacefully in the mansion soon after, at the age of 109.
When Cheng Yaojin passed away, the imperial court granted him the title of General of Hussars and Governor of Yizhou, with the posthumous title of "Xiang" and allowed him to be buried in Zhaoling.
After attending Cheng Yaojin's funeral and returning to the capital city of Luoyang, Qin Xiaole asked to resign from the military. At the court meeting, Wu Zetian accepted his resignation and made Li Jingxuan take over the post of General Jinwuwei.
Before Qin Xiaole resigned, the last military order issued to the Jinwu Guards was to have Liu Lang, Shan Sijing, and Xue Yinglong lead 30,000 elite cavalry to lead troops out of the city for training in accordance with the training plan.
Since the cavalry under General Jinwuwei have always followed this training plan, the supervisors in the military camp did not feel anything unusual.
A few days after the army left the city, Qin Xiaole received a telegram from his father to recall his children, and ordered his own soldiers to notify the 30,000 troops hidden in the dense forests outside Luoyang City to disperse and rendezvous outside the "Yizhou" city. Then he took his wife Wang Feng'er, Fan Lihua and others
The attendants and servants left the capital quietly.
At the end of February (June 692) of the first year of Wu Zhou's "Ruyi", Li Jingxuan, the newly appointed Jinwu Guard general, urgently reported to the court that 30,000 elite Jinwu Guard cavalry had gone out for training and had not returned over time, and wanted to order the scouts to lead the leader to search for him.
After looking for traces, they found that the scout camp was already an empty camp.
When Wu Zetian heard about this military situation, she immediately knew that the soldier's failure to return was definitely related to Xu Xiaole.
He ordered the eunuch to quickly go to "Zhongguo Gong"'s house to summon Xu Xiaole into the palace. The eunuch went there according to the order, but soon reported that "Zhongguo Gong"'s house was empty.
Wu Zetian was furious when she heard that Qin Xiaole had quietly left the capital and that there was no trace of the 30,000 Jinwu Guards cavalry.
"It is decreed that the journey from Luoyang to Qizhou must pass through the city government. If Qin Xiaole is found, he will be arrested on the spot. Lou Shide will lead his army to follow him along the way and must capture Xu Xiaole and return to Beijing."
Lou Shide led the order and ordered thousands of cavalry to go out to the east and gallop towards "Yizhou". This guy wanted to intercept and capture Xu Xiaole here, but it coincided with the place where Xu Xiaole and Jinwu's cavalry met.
Qin Xiaole, Wang Feng'er, Fan Lihua, the couple and their adopted sister Diao Yue'e were all dressed in robes, leading hundreds of soldiers to protect the accompanying servants, and marched along the official road to "Yizhou", where they planned to join the 30,000-strong army.
, passing "Yizhou" and entering the boundary of "Qizhou".
On the way, Diao Yue'e said goodbye to her sworn brother and sister-in-law because she was concerned about her old father at home, and agreed to return to Xiliang with dozens of followers after a reunion someday.
However, it was said that Liu Lang and other generals led 30,000 Jinwu cavalry to bypass the state capital and marched day and night. Qin Xiaole arrived outside the city of "Yizhou" and waited for two days before finally rejoining the army. Talking about the situation along the way, he was lucky to reach these three points smoothly.
The purpose of Wan Dajun's departure from the imperial court.
At this time, Lou Shide led thousands of cavalry to enter the "Yizhou" city ahead of Qin Xiaole. Following the Queen's order, they successfully took over the "Yizhou" city defense, mobilized the troops stationed in the city to strengthen the city defense, and strictly checked the people passing by the city gate.
Business trip, pedestrian.
After Qin Xiaole joined the army, with Fan Lihua as the commander-in-chief of the front army and Xue Yinglong as his deputy, he led 5,000 cavalry to attack the city of "Yizhou". Wang Feng'er, as the commander-in-chief of the rear army, led 5,000 troops to protect dozens of carriages and a number of families.
Servant, Xu Xiaole led his own central army, with Liu Lang and Shan Sijing as his assistants, and formed the main force to advance. Before entering "Yizhou", he first asked Chief Jia to lead soldiers from the scout battalion to sneak into the city to inquire about the military situation.
Fan Lihua's forward army arrived at the city of "Yizhou". A scout under Jiatou'er reported that there were thousands of cavalry sent by the imperial court to capture the marshal in the city. With Lou Shide as the main general, tens of thousands of "Yizhou" defenders were mobilized to prepare for the attack.
"Yizhou" city encircled and suppressed 30,000 Jinwu Guards cavalry.
After receiving this report, Fan Lihua led her army under the city and did not dare to make a sudden advance of the five thousand troops. She waited for most of her husband to arrive and reported the situation.
Lou Shide received a report in "Yizhou" city that Qin Xiaole and his army had arrived outside "Yizhou" city. He quickly ordered the four gates of "Yizhou" city to be closed tightly, and there were many bows and arrows and artillery on the city tower for defense.
The man watched from the city tower and saw that the troops outside the city were all dressed in Jinwu Guards cavalry uniforms. He said angrily to the officials and generals on the left and right.
"Qin Xiaole has long been rebellious. He turned the people of the imperial court into his private army under the pretense of being trained by the Jinwu Guards. In the current situation, we must prevent Qin Xiaole from crossing Yizhou and arrest and punish him. Thirty thousand
All the rebel generals were convicted and executed."
After saying this, Lou Shide continued to send an order from the tower.
"The Governor of Yizhou listens to the order and asks you to hold on to the city and send troops to Weizhou, Yingzhou, and Youzhou to ask for reinforcements. When Lou goes to meet Xu Xiaole outside the city, we will see how capable he is."
Mr. Li, the then governor of "Yizhou", was not optimistic about Lou Shide's desire to fight Qin Xiaole. Based on what he saw and heard while stationed in "Yizhou" adjacent to the jurisdiction of "Qizhou", he was well aware of the difficulty of the Qin family's army.
If they send personnel to "Youzhou" and other cities along the line to ask for help, the changes in troops and horses will cause Xu's army to take corresponding countermeasures. If they are not careful, several peaceful cities along the line from "Yizhou" to "Youzhou" will fall into war. This responsibility is not
He can afford it.
No matter what! Lou Shide holds the Queen's will and he should carry it out. However, this situation is not what he wants to see.
Thinking of this, Mr. Li became more cautious. After receiving the order, in addition to having his subordinates strengthen the city defense, he also delayed sending people to "Youzhou" and other cities to ask for help before making any plans until the situation in "Yizhou"
Of the policy.
I must praise Mr. Li for being cautious, otherwise, the situation will deteriorate further.