Going east from Caishi is Chaotiandang and Jiangning City...
The sky is blue and the water is white, and it is as wide as the sky.
Hu Wenmu Chuo stood on the bow of the boat and looked at Chaotiandang, which was still thirty or forty miles wide after the winter. Chaotiandang was originally called Yejidang. Later, it was named Chaotiandang after the great ancestor Jiangning was the capital. Chaotiandang was named Chaotian.
It also means "hajj to the emperor"...
Hu Wenmu thought that his coming to Jiangning was in line with Chaotian's wishes, so he put his hands behind his back and followed the boat towards the entrance of Longzangpu branch.
Ships entering Jiangning from the east mostly entered Jiangning City via the Jinchuan River, while ships coming from the west to Jiangning entered Jiangning City via the Longzang Puxi River. Hu Wenmu visited Jiangning in his early years, but he never came from the east in twenty years. He sighed deeply.
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On November 26th, Hu Wenmu took a boat from Fancheng to go south. The Han River was filled with ships coming north from Jianglu and other places, numbering two to three thousand, making it impossible for Hu Wenmu to sail as fast as he could even when he was sailing down.
Fu Qinghe, who prepared military affairs for the two lakes and was also in charge of Jiangxia government affairs, invited Hu Wenmu to stay in Jiangxia for a night to consult on the governance of Jinghu and the selection of generals. It was not until December 1 that Hu Wenmu sailed down from Jiangxia.
It was not until December 4 that they entered Jiangning. At the same time, the Chuanjie Express Horse from Xiangyang also arrived at Jiangning.
Near the Longzangpu branch, there were many carriages and horses parked on the left bank. Hu Xuekui, the youngest son of Hu Wenmu who was accompanying him, had sharp eyes and asked with some doubts: "Are those officials who came out of the city to greet their father?"
Luo Wenhu stood at the bow of the ship and picked up a monocular to look at the left bank of Longzangpu. He turned back and said to Hu Wenmu: "Xu is an official from the Privy Council who came out of the city to meet Mr. Hu..."
Luo Wenhu surrendered to Huaidong in Lishan, and since then he has been leading troops to participate in the Battle of Jingxiang. After the Battle of Tiesongxi, he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Department to fight with the army, and he never had time to settle down in his family.
After Hu Wenmu gave up his military power, he and his two sons went to Shicheng to meet Lin Fu alone. Hu Xuechang returned to Ezhou and served as consul general, so Hu Wenmu and his youngest son Hu Xuekui went north with the army. Lin Fu pulled a warship from the navy to serve as an official ship for Hu Wenmu.
Returning to Jiangning - when these two things came together, Lin Fu ordered Luo Wenhu to lead a group of forbidden army generals to escort Hu Wenmu to Jiangning, and casually asked Luo Wenhu to pick up his family and settle down in Jiangning when passing through Hanjin.
Hu Xuekui has not yet been crowned, and his character has not yet settled down. In the past few days, he has become familiar with Luo Wenhu and the accompanying soldiers of the forbidden camp.
The bronze telescope Luo Wenhu carried with him was obtained from the Military Intelligence Department in exchange for his military exploits in the Battle of Miaotan Ridge. He regarded it as a treasure. After traveling eastward for several days, he stood on the bow of the ship and looked at the vast mountains and rivers. The distant mountains seemed to be in front of his eyebrows.
It made him see the world with a subtle change, and he realized more deeply that in the Suizhou Army, he was too much looking at the sky from a well...
Hu Xuekui took the bronze telescope from Luo Wenhu, looked towards the left bank of Longzangpu, turned around and said to his father doubtfully: "The leader is wearing purple clothes, maybe he is Lord Lin Mengdelin, the God of Wealth in Huaidong..."
In terms of quality, the forest officials in Jiangning are headed by Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian. In addition, Lin Mengde, Liu Shidu, Lin Tingli, Qin Chengzu and others are all generals who are qualified to wear purple. Although other forest officials have limited authority,
Heavy, but the actual Pinyi is not qualified to wear purple.
Lin Xuwen, who was in the position of deputy prime minister, went all the way out of the city to meet Hu Wenmu, which was somewhat unjustifiable.
Hu Wenmu resigned as the general manager of Jinghu Camp and recruited envoys and other posts. However, he still had the title of Deputy Privy Envoy, so it was most appropriate for the Privy Council to send someone out of the city to greet him.
Hu Xuekui was younger than Luo Wenhu, but he was familiar with official affairs and was more proficient than Luo Wenhu, who was over thirty years old. Therefore, he could guess that the official coming to greet him on the shore was probably Lin Mengde.
It was strange for Luo Wenhu to think about the world. He was once a bandit leader, and Hu Wenmu was once a feudal official. If he went to Jiangning, he would most likely replace Yu Xinyuan and enter the political hall as the prime minister. However, he had the opportunity to sail to Jiangning with the same boat -
—Jiangning City is an absolutely unfamiliar place to Luo Wenhu.
For a city with a population of nearly one million, even after the Battle of Jiangning, Lin Fu had been trying his best to reduce Jiangning City's excess population to ease the food pressure. Jiangning City's population still remained above half a million.
This is a situation that Luo Wenhu could not imagine in the past.
The people standing on the shore were indeed Lin Mengde and other Privy Council officials who had come out of the city to meet Hu Wenmu. When the ship approached the shore, they boarded the ship to meet Hu Wenmu and said with a smile: "Well, Mr. Hu, I'll say goodbye to Fuliang."
Remember my little brother Meng Dehu?"
Hu Wenmu had very little impression of Lin Mengde, but after he gave up his military power and attached himself to Huaidong, he carefully reviewed his past life trajectory and looked for connections with the people in Huaidong.
In fact, when Lin Mengde was young, he went to Fuliang with the freight team to sell tea. At that time, Hu Wenmu was the Prime Minister of Fuliang County, and it was indeed possible to meet him. However, Lin Mengde was not a teahouse clerk who went to the banquet with the Lin family boss.
, how could Hu Wenmu be remembered?
Fortunately, the Lin family's status in the Yue Dynasty has always been high. In the last two generations, the Lin family had high-ranking officials such as Jiangning's Minister of Industry. Hu Wenmu remembered that he had interacted with the children of the Lin family in Fuliang, and thought that he might have met Lin.
Dream.
Hu Wenmu came to Jiangning this time because he was the candidate designated by Lin Fu to replace Yu Xinyuan as deputy prime minister.
Lin Mengde was appointed as the envoy of the Privy Council, and he was the same as the six ministers and the third rank. However, those who are familiar with the history of Huaidong's rise should know that Lin Mengde was Lin Fuyizhong's most important civil servant in Huaidong.
First of all, his status in Huaidong, known as the God of Wealth in Huaidong, is actually equal to that of Lin Xuwen, which means that his status is no worse than that of Hu Wenmu.
"If we weren't an old friend, Wen Mu wouldn't dare to treat Mr. Lin as he went out of the city to greet him!" Hu Wenmu returned the courtesy.
Although welcoming Hu Wenmu was not very formal and could not steal the spotlight from Lin Fu who was returning to Jiangning, Sun Jingxuan, Zhou Guangnan, Li Shutang, Lin Zonghai and others who came out of the city with Lin Meng were all core members of the Huaidong and Lin clans.
, to show the importance and respect for Hu Wenmu; although Lin Xuwen did not go out of the city to greet him, he asked Lin Mengde to say that he would hold a private banquet at his house tonight to get together with Hu Wenmu.
When Lin Xuwen was an official in Yanjing, he had several banquets with Hu Wenmu. The friendship was not deep, but they could be regarded as old friends. Also because Lin Xuwen was a true direct descendant of the Lin clan, Hu Wenmu had a deep impression of Lin Xuwen.
Unexpectedly, among the Lin clan, it was Lin Fu, a member of the side branch, who shone so brightly that he completely overshadowed Lin Xuwen and Lin Tingli.
Lin Mengde led everyone out of the city to welcome him. On the one hand, he made Hu Wen and Mu feel at ease. He knew that the Huaidong clan was under Lin Fu's rule, so he had no particularly serious feelings of rejection. However, he still had many sighs in his heart: If he hadn't agreed to come forward to play,
When it comes to government affairs, officials from the Huaidong group will not take him so seriously; and this time Lin Mengde informally led the left-behind officials from the Huaidong group out of the city to welcome him, so that he would never be separated from Huaidong from now on.
Open a relationship.
Maybe the time is not yet ripe, and there is no excuse for Huaixi and Sichuan to break away from Jiangning's control. However, in Hu Wenmu's view, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Lin Mengde and other Huaidong people seemed to be eagerly staring at the throne of the emperor.
Looked.
Perhaps it was not difficult for Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Lin Mengde and others to see through it, but after more than ten days of contact, Hu Wenmu really couldn't see through Lin Fu's ambition. To say that Lin Fu had no ambition to depose Yuan and establish himself as emperor, Hu Wenmu would not
I believe it, but I always feel that his ambition is not that fierce, and his ambition may not be limited.
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In the Chongzheng Hall of the Palace City, almost everything that could be smashed was intact. The porcelain was broken into pieces, the table was overturned and the chair was tilted. Emperor Yongxing fell on the mattress with a pale face, and there was still a trace of sickly redness under his eyes.
He roared angrily, but his voice was as loud as a broken bellows, as if an exhausted beast was whimpering before death: "Hu Wenmu is a loyal minister and good son of Dai Viet. He must have come to Beijing to kill traitors for me and help the emperor's family. Zhang Yan
, what do you mean, dare to deceive me and say that he is colluding with the treacherous ministers and traitors? You even lied that Cheng Yuqian, Zuo Chengmu, and Yu Xinyuan were sick and could not come to see me - I think you are the traitor, and you are the one with those treacherous ministers.
The traitors are colluding together..." He picked up a lotus foot placenta at hand and threw it at Zhang Yan who was kneeling in front of the hall.
Zhang Yan knelt down at the back of the palace, tears streaming down his lapel. His shoulder was hit by the placenta of Lotus Foot, which hurt as if it were broken. He kowtowed without making a sound of pain and said: "Zhang Yan dare not deceive the Holy One. Not a word of what he said is untrue. Cheng
The three prime ministers, left and right, were all ill and could not enter the palace. After Deputy Ambassador Hu entered the city, he went to the residence of Prime Minister Lin..."
Seeing Emperor Yongxing hysterically smashing everything he could get, Zhang Yan felt helpless and desperate.
Hu Wenmu came to Beijing today, and Lin Mengde and others went out of the city to meet the attack. The emperor summoned Cheng Yuqian, Zuo Chengmu, and Yu Xinyuan to the palace to discuss matters. However, Cheng Yuqian, Zuo Chengmu, and Yu Xinyuan all said they were sick and could not come, so they sent Zhang Yan to invite him.
Zhang Yan went from house to house to invite him. Except for Zuo Chengmu who opened the door to let him in because of his old friendship, Cheng Mansion, Yu Mansion, and Zhang Yan didn't even get a cup of tea, let alone see the faces of Cheng Yuqian and Yu Xinyuan.
In the past, the imperial power had not completely declined, but Cheng Yuqian, Yu Xinyuan and others also gathered into the imperial party because their own interests were in opposition to Huaidong; and the old backbones of the imperial party had to figure out their own way out at this time.
, how sad and desperate Zhang Yan felt?
After kneeling on the cold brick floor for a long time, Zhang Yan was also dizzy. He was about to collapse from exhaustion. "Dong dong dong", the sound of crutches being raised sounded in his ears. Zhang Yan looked sideways, but it was the Queen Mother's satisfaction.
He had silver hair on his temples and asked Miao Shuo to help him with a stick.
"The majestic Emperor of Dayue is so useless, I really disappoint the Ai family!" Ms. Liang's eyes were cloudy and she could hardly see what was in front of her, but looking at her expression, she seemed to be staring straight at Ru with a pair of sharp eyes.
Emperor Yongxing, who had lost his dog, sternly scolded, "Chongguo Gong led his troops to annihilate more than 300,000 rebels and rebels, and recovered Jingxiang. He helped the country and stabilized the mountains and rivers. He was given the gift of Nine Tins and was rewarded by the king."
, it is the prefectures and towns; however, since Duke Chongguo surrendered, Cao Ziang, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe, Lin Xuwen, Lin Mengde, Ao Canghai, Zhou Tong, Zhao Qingshan, Ning Zechen, and Zhao Hu all had great military exploits and great achievements.
Political achievements will also be rewarded to the nobility of the city - for their hard work, aren't they just trying to get a wife, a son, a prince, a prince? If you reward them all in the name of the emperor, can they still take it for themselves? "
These words seemed to make Ms. Liang exhaust her last efforts. She coughed violently, almost coughing out her heart and lungs, and her back bent like a candle in the wind. It was hard to imagine what she had just said.
momentum.
Emperor Yongxing seemed to be shocked by Liang's momentum and was stunned.
Zhang Yan was also stunned. He did not expect that the Queen Mother would take such a dangerous plan——
At that time, the nobility of the city was the most noble. Due to the merits of Lin Fu, it was only the land of five counties in the city.
The people of Huaidong supported Lin Fu as emperor. In the final analysis, wasn't it just for the wealth of a marquis of ten thousand households and the title of wife and son?
At this time, the people in Huaidong were widely rewarded with towns and lands, which was to weaken the internal motivation of Huaidong to abolish Yuan Yue and establish a new dynasty; and the Huaidong line of generals were widely rewarded with towns and lands, which would also be able to effectively maintain it for a long time.
Their power and status then weakened their urgency to support the establishment of a new dynasty, achieving the purpose of preventing Lin Fu from establishing himself and preserving the Yuan clan's imperial lineage...
But the above is all wishful thinking.
At the moment, for Huaidong and Lin Fu, it is a bit hasty to directly abolish the imperial family, and the time is not yet mature.
After all, the greatest honor and righteousness in this world is not the difference between Han and Yi, but the continuation of the imperial tradition.
Once Lin Fu abolished the Yuan clan, he would lose the righteousness of serving the emperor and commanding the world; Yuan Yue no longer existed, and Cao Yiqu would naturally obtain the title of independent ruler of Shu; and Huai, who had previously been loyal to Yuan Yue and accepted Yuan Yue's policy,
Dong Yuan, the general manager of the Westward Camp and the envoy to Henan, after the imperial house was abolished by Huaidong and Yuan Yue ceased to exist, he could bear the psychological burden and attached himself to Yanhu in the north in the name of Kuangfu Yuan's imperial house and became the enemy of Huaidong.
But everything is a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils.
The Empress Dowager wanted to carry out this plan, and if Lin Fu felt that delaying it would be more harmful, she would probably risk Cao Yiqu's independence and Dong Yuan's Beitou, directly abolish the Yuan family, establish a new dynasty, and enfeoff the Huaidong generals, instead of calling them
Huaidong generals went to accept Yuan Yue's enfeoffment...
Of course, if the dangerous plan fails and Huaidong is asked to make arrangements step by step, one day, Lin Fu will also be asked to sit on His Highness' dragon chair.
Should you sit back and wait for death, or should everything happen to you?