Zhou Qinian did not dare to make an independent decision, so he sent someone 500 miles away to Yueyang in a hurry to inform Huang Hua of the matter. Four days later, Huang Hua's reply came back - there is a land post road connecting Jinling to Yueyang, and every day
There is an inn thirty miles away, so it would be more convenient to send a message - Zhou Qinian needs to pay a private visit to Zhou Yuan's house to see what the intentions of Lu Qingxia and others are.
The two brothers Zhou Yuan and Zhou Shu were both generals of the Xinchanghou Mansion at the beginning of their careers. Later, with the rise of the Longque Army, they gradually became more important. After the destruction of the Dachu Navy, it seemed that the two brothers were decisive
They turned their flags around, acted on the orders of the Queen Mother, became part of the Queen Mother's party, and retained their power. At this time, one of them was the commander of the Zuowu Guards, and the other was the minister of the Ministry of Works. They could also be said to have a high position of power in the court.
The two brothers' mansion is next to Li Zhigao's mansion in Jinling. The high-walled courtyard looks more like a solid fortress than luxurious and spacious. It's rare for anyone in Beijing to have a courtyard wall with strips.
Stone ramparts.
Zhou Yuan said he was a civil servant, but Zhou Qinian came over to pay his respects. When he entered the Zhou family's residence, he saw guards with swords everywhere, which made him frown.
Zhou Qinian still subconsciously resented a figure like Zhou Yuan who was obsessed with the palace of the underworld to show his desire for power.
Zhou Yuan had been waiting for Zhou Qinian to come to the door for the past two days, welcomed him into the elegant room, paid him some fine tea, and got straight to the point, saying: "With the current situation, the Queen Mother would not dare to lightly order Chai Jian to lead the Zuo Shenwu Army to attack.
Wuguan, but Han Qian’s ulterior motives are really hateful, Mr. Zhou must not want to see his ambition succeed, right?"
"But I wonder if Mr. Zhou has any good measures to deal with it?" Zhou Qinian picked up the tea cup, looked at the layout of the room, and asked calmly.
"In the past six months, both the government and the public have advocated the expansion of the bodyguard army, but due to the constraints of many parties, it has been difficult to achieve this. Don't you think it is a pity, Mr. Zhou?" Zhou Yuan asked.
"Although it's a pity, it doesn't seem to be something that can work just because Mr. Zhou and I discuss it privately." Zhou Qinian said.
There has been no real progress in the expansion of the bodyguard army until now. All the families are trying to compete for the command of the newly expanded bodyguard army - Cishou Palace has been strongly recommending Li Xiu to be the commander of the capital.
This is a condition that even the Huang family cannot accept.
Zhou Qinian couldn't figure out for a moment whether Zhou Yuan's intention of mentioning this matter again had any direct relationship with Han Qian's kidnapping of the Wen clan members.
"Why does Mr. Zhou think that we can't come up with a result through discussion?" Zhou Yuan asked with a smile.
Zhou Qinian's mind moved and he asked: "How to say?"
"The Marquis of Jiangyin is familiar with military literature and serves in the bodyguard army. His rigorous military management has been praised by the court officials. If he leads the new bodyguard army to go to Guanzhong, I think there will be less controversy inside and outside the court." Zhou Yuan said.
Zhou Qinian had to admit that what Zhou Yuan said was a very exciting suggestion.
Since Han Qian secretly controls the Wen clan, the main force of the Xiangbei Army does not dare to act rashly. They need to be fully alert to Han Qian's hidden agenda. However, the Queen Mother and her family seem to be determined to join forces with the Shu Army to attack Guanzhong.
Assembling an army and attacking Wuguan under the leadership of Jiangyin Hou Huangli, the elder brother of the current queen, there will naturally be much less resistance inside and outside - the expanded bodyguard army is currently almost all except Huaidong and Tangyi.
A goal pursued by all forces.
The key to this matter still depends on the attitude of the Huang family.
The head of the family, Huang Hua, is currently the Hunan Xuanwei Envoy. Zheng Hui sent troops to clear the Yongzhou rebels in Shaoheng, which cannot be separated from the strong support of the Hunan Xuanwei Envoy. If Huang Liu led his troops to attack Wuguan at this time, the Zheng family would naturally
There will be no further strong objections.
As the elder brother of the then empress, Huang Lu served as the new commander of the guards and troops after Guo Liang and Zhang Chao. At least under the current circumstances, no one would doubt that the Huang family had any dissatisfaction with the imperial court.
As far as Emperor Yanyou was concerned, it was impossible to be wary of the Huang family at this time.
Even if there are worries about the relative's ability to control the situation in the future, but that will be a matter of many years, at least for now Huang Liu is a more acceptable candidate.
Seeing Zhou Qinian deep in thought, Zhou Yuan said again: "Of course, the time to attack Guanzhong waits for no one, and it is impossible for the new guards and soldiers to be directly recruited from the various camps and military mansions for training, but they can be directly recruited from the left and right guards and soldiers.
Each of the Imperial Guards will allocate one soldier and horse to the new army - and the resulting vacancies in the left and right bodyguards and the Imperial Guards of each tribe can be supplemented by recruiting new soldiers from the garrison. Mr. Zhou, do you think this arrangement is good?"
When the Guards' Army was formed, all the generals and soldiers were selected from various ministries, and their families were relocated to the garrison near Gyeonggi Province. At the time, Huzhou soldiers were recruited into the Guards' Army as soldiers.
There are the most households.
In this way, a newly formed bodyguard army, including a large number of veterans from Huzhou, would be easy for Huang Lu to rule. And the Huang family also had no shortage of generals and assistants who could assist Huang Lu in organizing the army.
Under such conditions, Zhou Qinian also knew that it was impossible for the Huang family not to be tempted.
"That's all?" Zhou Qinian stared at Zhou Yuan and asked.
"After Li Xiunai became the king of the county, his majesty praised him for his reputation as a famous general. I think Li Xiu should be qualified to serve as the deputy commander of the capital or the military commander to assist the Marquis of Jiangyin. This will also make it convenient for us to give the Marquis of Lin Jin and those who are loyal to Chu
The county prince will give an explanation to the spirit of heaven." Zhou Yuan said.
Zhou Qinian hesitated.
To be honest, there were many people in the court who criticized Li Pu. However, Li Yu had made great contributions to Chu, surrendered his military power when he was at the peak of his power, and was willing to retire to his countryside. Most people were interested in this.
In eyes.
If Li Xiu had not led the prince's family to come out again and become too close to Li Pu and the Queen Mother, there would have been no resistance to his appointment as the commander-in-chief of the new bodyguard army.
Now people are settling for the next best thing and just asking to be the deputy capital commander, which seems a bit aggrieved.
From a practical point of view, even if the Chu army attacks Wuguan from Junzhou, compared to the Shu army attacking Guanzhong from Liangzhou, it can only be regarded as a partial army, but the use of troops has always been dangerous. The newly-organized bodyguards include Li
It cannot be considered a bad thing to have an outstanding general like Xiu join us.
Seeing that Zhou Yuan had no other conditions, Zhou Qinian sat for a while and then left.
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Zhou Yuan sent Zhou Qinian away from the mansion and walked back to a small courtyard in the northeast corner of the mansion. He saw Yao Xishui and Chun Shisanniang sitting under the moonlight, looking at the osmanthus tree next to the pavilion with its stamens falling all over the ground.
Seeing Zhou Yuan approaching, Yao Xishui asked: "Have you made everything clear to Zhou Qinian?"
"..." Zhou Yuan told the truth about the situation when he met Zhou Qinian just now.
Yao Xishui asked Zhou Yuan rather uncertainly: "Huang Hua Hui will agree to our suggestion?"
Yao Xishui was hit hard by the Chenzhou incident, and now he seems hesitant and uncertain about many things.
"King Xin is unruly, and Han Qian has revealed such great ambitions. If I were Huang Hua, I would do everything possible to regain control of the military to prevent the situation from changing in the future," Zhou Yuan said, "Even if Huang Hua disagrees
, the Jiangdong family clan’s fear of Han Qian is getting deeper and deeper, will they agree to Huang Hua giving up such an opportunity to regain control of the guards? "
Huang Hua is a sophisticated and tactful person, but he is always the representative of the Jiangdong family clan, and he must take into account the interests of the Jiangdong family clan clan.
Although the Jiangdong family clans did not have a violent conflict with Han Qian in the later stages of the Jinling Incident, and the Chishan Army did not actually invade the territory of Jiangdong, it does not mean that the Jiangdong family clans were not wary of Han Qian who was implementing the New Deal in Tangyi and Xuzhou.
At present, all parties have direct control of elite soldiers and horses. At such a time of war and chaos, Da Chu is also extremely unstable. Zhou Yuan and others are worried that when the Liang army is torn apart and unable to contain Da Chu, Han Qian may take the lead in launching an attack.
During the civil war, he did not think that the clan clan of the Jiangdong family could sleep peacefully at this time.
Huang Lu commanded the newly formed bodyguard army, and the newly formed bodyguard army was mainly responsible for coordinating the Shu army to attack Guanzhong. Zhou Yuan also thought that this was the one with the least resistance.
Even Shen Yang, Yang En and others are unlikely to object strongly again.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yuan sighed again and said: "The real headache now is Tangyi!"
Hearing what Zhou Yuan said, Yao Xishui's pretty and beautiful face suddenly became gloomy like a dark cloud. Of course, at this moment, she felt more powerless in her heart.
They had so many plans and were so thorough, but they were always controlled by Tangyi. Every time, Tangyi took advantage of them, so that they had to compromise with other forces and make deals to prevent the situation from completely turning against them.
, who else would feel comfortable?
"By the way, Xu Jing sent a message yesterday, saying that Wang Zang went to Luoshan three days ago to discuss the sharing of defense between the two armies on the northern front. He went to Luoshan City to observe the enemy's movements. Wang Zang said that he would send a letter to persuade Han Qian to surrender.
The letter was shot into the city. At first, Xu Jing and the others saw that it was Han Qian's handwritten letter urging surrender, and they didn't pay much attention to it. However, when Wang Qian opened his bow and shot, it seemed that there were other letters attached. At that time, it was too late to stop it. In desperation, a dispute broke out.
, in the end it was inconvenient to detain the person and released Wang Zang back to Huangchuan." Zhou Yuan thought of another thing and said to Yao Xishui and Chun Shisanniang.
Hearing this, Yao Xishui couldn't help but the corners of his eyes twitched several times.
Although she knew in her heart that really detaining Wang Zang would undoubtedly give Han Qian an excuse to send more troops to the Huangchuan line to directly intervene in the Luoshan battle, but she thought that Han Qian actually ordered someone to openly attack Luoshan in front of the generals of the Xiangbei Army.
When the secret letter, which was most likely written by Wen Muqiao, was delivered into the city, he was furious for a while.
"Wen Bo doesn't really believe that Han Qian will let him and the Wen family go free, right?" Chun Shisanniang asked doubtfully, "Even if he accepts the surrender, he shouldn't be more inclined to the Tangyi Army! And he wants to
The Wen clan is fine. Even if they don’t ask for more from us, they should remain neutral. In my opinion, Han Qian’s bluff should be ignored, and the Zuo Shenwu Army should attack Wuguan as originally planned..."
"The key is not to know what means Han Qian used to convince Wen Muqiao and the Wen clan to cooperate with them in escaping Xuzhou. The situation is delicate in all aspects now, so it is better to be careful in everything. There is no harm in using Huang Lu to lead the new army." Zhou
Yuan said.
Over the years, they have never taken any advantage in their plots against Xuzhou and Tangyi. How could Zhou Yuan still have such confidence as Chun Shisanniang, completely ignoring Tangyi's motives and schemes and doing things on her own?
