From time to time, gunfire would be heard from behind, and Zhao Xi knew that this was the guard battalion chasing and killing those who tried to escape.
This is an order. Anyone who escapes must be shot!
Zhao Xi actually really wanted to kill all these people. But he couldn't. He surrendered. This was not in a foreign country, but in a country, or on Jingxi Road.
When the urgent delivery arrived at the court, I was stunned for a moment when I heard that the escort battalion was involved in countering the rebellion. Then I thought... His Highness the Crown Prince was on South Beijing Road. Wang Su knew that His Highness was reasonable in this kind of thing. Maybe
I am persuading His Highness to return to Beijing...
But why did His Highness let the rebels carry the dead body?
"Fu Xiang, can two thousand soldiers from the guard camp really capture a city guarded by tens of thousands of soldiers?"
Song Chi said tens of thousands, not tens of thousands. He couldn't believe it anymore. Even if the number of soldiers guarding the city was reduced, he still didn't believe it.
If Wen Yanbo were here, he wouldn't ask this question.
What kind of situation does the guard camp exist? Fu Bi knows it very well. From the beginning of the selection of soldiers, they are the elites of the entire Imperial Forbidden Army. They also have His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's military training methods, coupled with unique military equipment...
Maybe after twenty years of silence, the military can be mobilized? But the officials are so temperamental... Sigh! Maybe a small strategic plan will make the officials change their minds.
Fu Bi ignored Song Chu's questions and just pointed at the urgent report... meaning he could read it himself.
His mind was on other things.
Maybe Di Hanchen's suggestion is right, maybe it's time to let the guard battalion train the Imperial Guards.
But the guard camp is just like the Imperial City Department, so how can it be touched by the courtiers?
There are some rules in the dynasty that everyone knows. For example, the Imperial City Division and the Guard Camp are all royal troops.
Let's take a look when the prince returns to court.
Why did the Crown Prince let the rebels carry the dead body?
There is no prison in Bianliang that can hold tens of thousands of people, so they can only find a place outside the city to guard the rebels and wait for the court to make a decision.
"Your Highness, why did you order the rebels to carry the dead body?"
A five-hundred-mile journey to escort the rebels was reasonable, but carrying fifty or sixty corpses... Even though it was winter, it was unsightly!
There was no morning meeting either, but the princes were waiting in Chui Gong Hall early.
When I asked this question, even my own father didn't look good... This behavior was indeed too much.
The dead are the most important. One death will lead to a hundred deaths. Anyway, making a fuss about the dead is not in line with traditional values.
Even the military commanders who looked down upon him, His Highness the Crown Prince's behavior made the civil servants particularly uncomfortable.
There are many memorials of accusations, and now the princes are holding piles of them, waiting to read them all to His Highness the Prince, so that he can also see the difference between this behavior and the sages.
There were quite a few yesterday, but the officials kept them in check, so today they have doubled.
It is the duty of ministers to correct the emperor's gains and losses.
"My dear sirs, Shangguan's rebellion had personal reasons, and it was also for the purpose of benefiting the soldiers."
"Putting aside the position, for the entire rebel army, it is a whole. At the beginning of Zhang Yan's rebellion, the soldiers obeyed, obeyed and even responded actively, which led to the outcome of the Xinyang Army's rebellion."
"But now, because he was afraid of being annihilated by the imperial court, he resolutely defected when he was besieged. Is this behavior not betrayal? How is it different from Zhang Yan's rebellion against the imperial court?"
"From this point of view, if we stand in front of the formation, we may not abandon the coach and run away, but it is more likely to tie up the coach and sacrifice it to the opponent!"
Zhao Xi changed the concept a bit, but essentially it was the same behavior.
What's more, he needs to find an excuse for this behavior.
"The reason why I ordered the rebels to carry the dead body was not to insult the deceased. On the contrary, it was out of the greatest respect for him. It is considered an honor for eight people to carry the body."
"I just want to allow these soldiers and generals to stay a little longer and do more exchanges and communication in this last, final time. I hope they can put aside their past grudges and not hold grudges."
"From now on, yin and yang are separated. Whatever grudges you have should be left in the next life. That's how it will be in this life."
What? Where are you? What Zhao Xi said...even he felt panicked.
"Dad, gentlemen, the most important thing about Xi's actions is to give these rebels a chance to torture their consciences!"
"Soldiers, since they have chosen this profession, must have the minimum ethics: loyalty and obedience! Loyalty to your majesty, loyalty to the country, loyalty to the people, and even loyalty to the superior officer! This is the backbone of a country's military.
And the core!”
"The obedience Xi said is by no means blind obedience! Loyalty comes first, Your Majesty comes first, the country comes first, and obedience to superior officials is based on loyalty and obedience to the righteousness of the family and the country."
"What did these people do? What were they loyal to? What did they obey? Interests! They rebelled for the sake of profit, and negotiated terms with the court for the sake of profit. Similarly, for the sake of profit, they put aside their years of comradeship and tied the knot without hesitation.
My own superior! Is this still a soldier?"
"Xi has no intention of killing and surrendering. The country teaches the world with virtue and is not allowed to kill and surrender. But can they just let it go? What kind of punishment should they receive? Exiled to Salman Island? Or imprisoned in prison? Impossible. Nearly tens of thousands of people,
The imperial court will eventually have to support them, which consumes money and food."
"Xi did this just to give them another kind of punishment. Let them carry Shangguan like that for more than ten days without sleep, let them look at their Shangguan without stopping, and look at those unblinking eyes.
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"I hope that the dead can see through everyone's heart and touch their hearts so that they can understand some truth!"
From the beginning, Zhao Xi asked the rebels to carry Shangguan, just to disgust these bastards and to give some comfort to these idiots who died.
Those who rebelled and died were discarded in the wilderness or in mass graves.
Let their subordinates carry it and enjoy the glory after death.
It's purely a prank.
It was only later that he actually saw the regrets of the soldiers carrying Shangguan...the expressions of tangle and annoyance were fully revealed.
So, Zhao Xi sorted things out for them and sorted out their moods along the way. Very good, really good.
The key is to give yourself an explanation to the courtiers, which is a pretty good wording.
Scholar-officials still have very high requirements for the spiritual world, at least on the surface.
Indeed, I had heard His Royal Highness the Prince's speech earlier, and it was all passed down orally. When different people retell it, the words remain the same, but the momentum and style they express are very different.
This time, I finally got to see His Highness the Prince’s ability to preach.
The cadence of the tone, the expression and the gestures are matched with each other. He is passionate when he should be passionate, and he is low when he should be low. Everyone listening can be immersed in it and feel the same as His Royal Highness.
Sima Guang was a daily observer, so he was present in such a performance situation.
It had already been planned, and it was just a scene of the princes teaching His Highness the Crown Prince, and this is the result!
His Highness's literary talent is really inconsistent with his reputation. The key point is that Sima Guang actually feels that these simple words are more in line with what His Highness the Crown Prince said.