When Han Daochang came this time, in addition to bringing Han Qian the imperial edict to participate in political affairs, he also had one more thing to discuss with Han Qian, which involved the resettlement of the Wen clan members.
The imperial court has now accepted the letter of credence submitted by Wang Jian, the Lord of Shu. After the surrender, Wen Bo led the newly formed You Shenwu Army to be the first to attack Liangzhou. That is a meritorious service, and it is a great achievement. Then the court will have to consider
If the Wen clan is completely pardoned for their crimes of rebellion, some people will naturally think of moving the Wen clan from East Lake to settle in Gyeonggi.
"They want to think about it. When Wen Muqiao and Wen Zhanyu write a letter asking to stay and settle in East Lake, can they be dragged across the river?" Han Qian curled his lips, not thinking that there was anything to worry about.
Seeing Han Qian say this, Han Daochang knew that he had conquered the Dingwen clan, or that Wen Muqiao, Wen Zhanyu and others had already expressed their intention to stay in East Lake, so there was really nothing to worry about.
Furthermore, many princes and ministers in the court also knew that after Wen Bo surrendered, he led the new You Shenwu Army to Canglang and then entered Liangzhou. It was all planned by Han Qian from beginning to end. Han Qian was just hiding behind the scenes.
Just taking credit.
Even if the Wen clan is really moved to Gyeonggi and settled now, after the You Shenwu Army completes its established combat mission in Liangzhou, who will be willing to accept the transfer of the You Shenwu Army to any place outside Huaixi and Xuzhou for garrison?
, or who dares to accept it?
Aren’t they all going to be sent to Huaixi in the end?
Han Daochang stayed in Huaixi for more than twenty days this time. On the one hand, he wanted to see the business situation of the counties in Dangyi. On the other hand, he stayed with Han Qian earlier than in Jinling and was more prepared to know the changes in the war in Liangzhou.
It should be that the Xiangbei Army marched westward on a large scale to contain Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian's intention to counterattack. As of late March, although there were large groups of Shu troops returning south through the Qinling Mountains, they mainly stayed at Baoxie Road and Chencang Road.
Within the south entrance of the Qinling Mountains, they controlled the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains based on the dangerous terrain, but there was no sign of a large-scale attack directly into the Hanzhong Basin in a short period of time.
In addition to Zhou Shu's Zuowu Guards stationed in Suizhou and Yingzhou, almost half of the troops stayed in Huangxian, Wusheng, and Pingjing, the three passes located at the gap between Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain, to maintain vigilance against Tangyi (Huaixi).
, to draw a clear line between the two sides, Li Zhigao, in addition to the Left Longque Army and the Left Shenwu Army on the west wing, also had the Left Wuxiang Army and the Right Shenwu Army under his control for the time being.
At present, Wuguan is located in a dangerous place in the whole of Xiangbei. For the time being, we do not expect to capture Shangluo and Shangluo counties in the north. It is sufficient to station three or four thousand elite troops in Wuguan, Jingzikou and other places for defense.
To the north of Dengzhou (Nanyang Basin), the Shouzhou Army and the Caizhou Army had no time to protect themselves and did not have the strength to invade the Fangcheng defense line in the north of Nanyang. Similarly, only three to five thousand elite troops were needed to garrison there.
This means that Li Zhigao and Li Changfeng can mobilize up to 50,000 elite troops to fight in Liangzhou.
Under such circumstances, neither Zhao Mengji nor Wang Xiaoxian would dare to lead his troops to counterattack Liangzhou easily.
Theoretically, Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian could attack Shu directly from the Yinping Road west of Liangzhou, but that road is more dangerous and in disrepair. It is also easy to be intercepted along the way, and there is no guarantee of food and supplies, especially on the Yinping Road.
Beikou is still under the control of the Pingxia people. At least for now, there are no signs that Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian led their troops to march westward from Fengzhou and Qizhou and take the Yinping Road.
The troops of Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian were isolated, and more than 30,000 Chu troops entered Liangzhou. The psychological catalytic effect on the monarchs and ministers of Shu as well as local states and counties was extremely complicated.
Without 30,000 Chu troops crossing into Liangzhou, even if Wang Hongyi, Zhao Weisheng and others were executed, their party members all over the Shu Kingdom might still be thinking that after they welcome Zhao Mengji and Weihou Wang Xiaoxian back, they can serve as the leader of Weihou Wang Xiaoxian.
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And from the beginning of their fortune, the veterans who followed the Lord of Shu, Wang Jian, to found the Kingdom of Shu, may still have some thoughts in their hearts.
He came up with the idea of rescuing the Lord of Shu, Wang Jian, from being imprisoned in the Shu Palace.
In any case, without more than 30,000 Chu troops marching across Liangzhou, Zhao Mengji, Weihou Wang Xiao and 70,000 elite soldiers returned to Shu, it would be extremely difficult to say who would win.
Even if they are not involved with the crown prince Wang Hongyi and have no interest in the fate of the Shu Lord Wang Jian, the Sichuan-Shu neutral family clan forces will choose to wait and see the situation as much as possible, and will never rush into the arms of the new Lord Wang Yong to have fun.
This was also the reason why Han Qian initially concluded that Wang Yong's plan had little chance of success.
In the end, people's hearts must be controlled by strength.
Now more than 30,000 Chu troops have entered Liangzhou, and Cao Qian is reorganizing the defense in Lizhou (Jianmen Pass) south of Liangzhou. At the same time, Wang Yong sent his direct descendants to take over the defense of Jiangyou Pass at the south entrance of Yinping Road. The return of Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian
It has become so far away that the officials of the Shu Kingdom and the aristocratic clans in Shu cannot delay and not express their stance.
They must consider now and continue to delay Xianyun. Once the new owner stabilizes the situation, they will liquidate and purge the party members who are regarded as the crown prince Wang Hongyi.
For neutral forces, making a choice is the easiest.
Whoever has the most power will lean on him, and whoever has the best chance of success will lean on him.
Seeing that Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian had no possibility of returning in the short term, three to five or ten people came to Jing Qiongwen and Qi every day to express their loyalty to the new owner.
After Wang Yong launched the mutiny, he controlled the capital of Shu with 30,000 soldiers and horses, which far from meant that his position was secure.
He issued a large number of personnel and military transfer orders every day, adjusted and mobilized official appointments in central Shu, southern Sichuan, northern Sichuan, eastern Sichuan, western Sichuan and other places, and also recruited young men from prefectures and counties to supplement the imperial army.
In the first month, very few responded.
Even if there is a response, it will be excuses and excuses.
Even though there were some officials who had good relations with Wang Yong before and who had high hopes from Wang Yong, this time he wanted to push them to local posts, but there were still some people who were worried that they would be subject to bloody purges after the incident failed, so they found excuses to refuse.
,procrastination.
At that moment, Wang Yong truly realized that he had thought too optimistically about some issues beforehand.
However, this situation quickly changed in late February, when the kings and ministers of Shu saw more and more Chu troops entering Liangzhou, but Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian had no reaction.
The decrees issued by Wang Yong are increasingly receiving timely and positive responses.
The officials he appointed went to their posts in high spirits one by one, and there was no longer any prevarication at the local level or delaying the handover. The recruited men, money and food were all on their way to the capital of Shu one after another. This all shows that Shu
The situation in the country is really changing in his favor.
Of course, there is another very key reason for this, that is, there are a group of far-sighted generals in Shu who are worried that the situation in Shu will continue to be turbulent. In the end, not only will Zhao Mengji be unable to welcome Zhao Mengji back, Wang Xiaoxian will quell the mutiny of Changxiang Marquis.
It is very likely that the fishermen of the Chu army with ulterior motives will benefit and eventually seize the land of Shu.
Whichever is the lesser of two evils.
Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian were alone outside and could not return to Shu. At this time, they continued to remain silent, and even secretly contributed to the situation, making the situation in Shu continue to be turbulent. In the end, it was very likely that the Chu army would take advantage of it, so they elected the new leader Wang Yong to stabilize the situation again.
Come down and eliminate the possible ambitions of the Chu army. This is a multiple-choice question that is not difficult for pragmatists in Shu to make a decision.
These generals are basically veterans who follow the lord of Shu, Wang Jian. They have been basically squeezed out of the core of the Shu court by Wang Jian in the past ten years, but there is no doubt that their influence in Shu is extremely far-reaching and huge.
Although these people may be more loyal to Shu Lord Wang Jian, they are also pragmatic. Jing Qiongwen and Cao Gan finally persuaded Wang Yong to use these veterans or their descendants to replace the party members of the prince Wang Hongyi.
To make up for the vacancies of generals in the army, court and local states and counties, so as to control the situation more quickly in their hands.
In early February, Chen Jingzhou was ordered to go up the river as an envoy to the Kingdom of Shu. In addition to Han Qian's special letter written to Chen Jingzhou, hoping that Chen Jingzhou would discuss some matters secretly with Wang Yong, the new ruler of the Shu Kingdom, on behalf of Tangyi, Wang Che also went with him.
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They arrived in Chengdu, the capital of Shu, in early March and stayed in the capital for a month, discussing the borrowing of troops, the transfer of Xia and Liang states, and the annual tribute. Han Qian also expressed to Wang Yong through Chen Jingzhou that he hoped to use Wang Jian as much as possible.
The veteran generals and officials who led the conquest of Sichuan and Shu in the past tried to stabilize the situation in Sichuan and Shu as soon as possible. They even suggested that Wang Yongmo purge Wang Hongyi's party members and hoped that he could treat Zhao Mengji, Wang Xiaoxian and the families of the main generals in his hands well.
At the same time, Han Qianhui called Wen Bo and Tan Yuliang to hand over some of the Huangtou Army generals Li Jiaxiao and more than 4,000 prisoners they had seized in Liangzhou City to Cao Gan.
At this time, Wang Yong was still able to follow his advice, and he readily agreed to cede Yantianbu in the southernmost part of Yuzhou and merge it into Wuchuan County in exchange for the annual tribute.
Wang Yong had just taken control of the capital of Shu, and the finances of the kingdom were in chaos. However, he needed to spend a large amount of money to comfort people, settle the affairs of the capital of Shu and local prefectures and counties, and he also needed to immediately expand the new imperial army under his personal control.
Apart from the goodwill shown by Han Qian, with so many soldiers and horses of the Chu army stationed beside the couch to block the counterattacks of Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian, Wang Yong would never say that he would break his previous promise now.
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The Yantian Port at the southernmost tip of Yuzhou was ceded. Although the area along the Qianjiang River is more than 120 miles deep, and the peaks extending to the two wings are even deeper and wider, this area is full of deep mountains, old forests, and precipitous peaks.
There are tens of thousands of acres of flat fields, and the thousands of newly recruited households are also unruly and extremely difficult to manage. At present, the most important thing is the well salt resource.
Yantian Port, also known as Yanzhai or Liaoyanzhai, has been regarded as a place rich in well salt resources in the Banan area since ancient times.
However, the problem is that well salt resources are more abundant in other parts of Shu, and Yantian Port is not lacking.
Since both Chu and Shu adopted extremely strict and even brutal sales and corresponding punishment systems for salt, even if Yantian Port was included in Wuchuan County, Wang Yong also knew that Tangyi had a better method of mining well salt and obtained the salt field.
After the port is established, well salt production will be increased on a large scale, but there is no need to worry about infringing on Shu's own salt interests - after all, the well salt production under Xuzhou's jurisdiction has increased significantly, and transporting it to central Guizhou or Huaixi has nothing to do with Shu.
Relationship.
Therefore, regardless of the interests of the Shu Kingdom, or because Han Qian had helped him so much this time, he must give him a corresponding reward. At this time, Yantian Port was ceded, and Xuzhou or Tangyi would bear the 200,000 yuan on behalf of the Shu Kingdom.
Min's annual tribute is a very cost-effective deal no matter how you look at it.
In addition, even though Han Qian, Li Zhigao, and Chai Jian made a secret agreement to exchange Guangzhou for Liangzhou that would not be made public, Wang Yong was not blind.
Although Wen Bo's headquarters and Tan Yuliang's headquarters are still in Liangzhou, the military deployment in Liangzhou has been completely dominated by Li Zhigao, Li Changfeng and their group. This is an indisputable fact.
Regardless of whether Han Qian gave in under tremendous pressure, or he had never thought about seeking Liangzhou from the beginning, the fact before Wang Yong was that the people Shu must guard against in the future were Li Zhigao, Chai Jian, and others who were trying to conquer Shu.
ambition.
The sweet relationship between Shu and Tangyi will continue to be maintained, and they even hope that Tangyi can suppress Li Zhigao, Chai Jian and others' ambitions for Shu within Da Chu.
This is obviously in line with Tangyi's interests within Dachu.
Even though Xuzhou in Tangyi borders Yuzhou on the southern line through the Qianjiang River, Xuzhou is small and sparsely populated and the surrounding situation is relatively complicated, but Wang Yong will not be too worried.
