You Ci asked. She had heard Li Dingguo's name mentioned by many people in the palace recently. It was said that Wan Zai went to Hanzhong in person for the sake of Li Dingguo's return.
You Ci hasn't seen Li Laiheng's excited and enthusiastic attitude for a long time. Since the Battle of Xuzhou, especially after the death of Emperor Taizong, Shengjia has become more and more entrenched in the city and rarely reveals his intentions and feelings to the outside world.
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However, after the news came that General Li Dingguo had surrendered, the Holy Master actually made a special trip to Hanzhong to greet him. The ceremony was so extreme that it was really eye-opening.
Lin Maomao thought about it for a while. She didn't have a deep impression of Li Dingguo. Instead, she remembered another thing:
"When Shengjia was in Hanzhong, Weichen had already started to drive to Kaifeng and was halfway there. However, Weichen heard the people discussing another matter on the road. It was that after General Guo outsmarted Hanzhong, the Dashun army marched straight in.
, Sun Kewang left Li Dingguo and others to resist on the front line, and after he fled to Yunnan, our king's division captured Duduo, the king of Henan from the East, who was captured by the Western invaders during the Battle of Guanzhong last year."
Lin Maomao couldn't help but feel a little proud when she thought about Shengjia's record of winning consecutive titles:
"When the Holy Emperor went to Hanzhong, he brought Dorgon, the famous regent of Donglu."
You Ci nodded: "I know that this person is a famous regent of Donglu. He is as powerful as Hong Taihan and has great prestige in the Jurchen country. After he was captured in the battle of Xuzhou last year, he was taken to the palace and often
I have personally seen Dorgon dance for everyone."
Lin Maomao continued to preach: "The Holy Emperor sent Dorgon and Duduo to the brothers in Hanzhong, and according to Jurchen customs, they were named Aqina and Seth Hei respectively. It was spread among the people in Guanzhong.
, It is said that the Holy King captured the two Jurchen kings but did not kill them. He was a merciful and benevolent holy king rarely seen in ancient times."
You Ci thought for a while and felt that this was not consistent with what she knew about Long live as a person, but she didn't say much. She just asked Lin Maomao carefully about the meaning of the two names Aqina and Seth Hei.
However, Lin Maomao also doesn't understand the Jurchen language very well. He only knows roughly that it seems to be a bad reputation, and it is said that the meaning is not very good.
However, in Lin Maomao's view, it is definitely not in line with the character of today's emperor to give an unpleasant reputation to his defeated generals.
Therefore, Lin Maomao himself concluded that the so-called rumors of the black reputation of Aqina and Seth should be because the people in Guanzhong hated Dorgon and the Duodu kings, and were hostile to the Jurchens who issued orders to shave their heads and massacred countless people, so
That’s why I made up this kind of story.
She vowed: "Your Majesty is as lenient and kind as Taizu Taizong, how can you give the two Hu kings a bad name? That's too petty!"
You Ci smiled slightly. She was very fond of Lin Maomao's conversation and trusted her medical skills. Then she asked Lin Shanggong to check her body.
You Ci also asked a special question: "Your Majesty once said that I am still young and not suitable for childbearing. What does Shang Gong think after seeing it?"
Lin Maomao said nonchalantly: "Your Majesty is right. Your Majesty is not old enough to give birth to an heir for me too soon."
But You Ci was worried: "Taizu and Taizong have no heirs, and Your Majesty only has one son. The Dashun clan has only a meager population, which is definitely not a good thing. I should work harder in the future."
Lin Maomao was a little speechless: "This is down to Your Majesty's hard work and cannot be blamed on the Empress."
That is to say, not long after the founding of Dashun, although Niu Jinxing had already formulated it in the "Yongchang Yi Notes", it was actually just a copy of the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty, and the palace prohibitions were not strict. Otherwise, people like Lin Maomao who talked nonsense would be
Even after Jiawan of the previous dynasty, who was very open-minded, he could not live long.
Youci was amused by Lin Maomao again. She liked this female official very much and ordered her maid to fetch several hairpin jewelry given by the emperor in the past, and carefully selected one of them to give to Lin Maomao.
But Lin Shanggong did not dare to accept it. She said: "Wei Chen is a female official in the inner court, and she is different from ordinary palace maids. The Holy Emperor often said that in the future, we must clearly distinguish the differences between the harem, the inner court, and the outer court, so it is only for me to check the body of the empress."
It's another thing to receive the reward from the empress."
You Ci sighed: "I am confused and reward the officials of the inner court. This is the power of the emperor. How can I overstep it? Shang Gong is right. Long live the original female official system, which is not similar to the Han, Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties. What will happen to the system in the future?
How it will develop is still unclear.
However, women can serve as officials and enter the palace. This is something that has not happened in any dynasty in the past. I believe that in the eyes of future generations, this will definitely be a piece of good governance by the Holy Emperor."
Lin Maomao curled her lips. She traveled from Jinling to Chang'an, and then from Chang'an back to Kaifeng. On the way, she met many officials and gentry, and she knew that these people were actually very indifferent to the female official system created by Li Laiheng.
Many people think that the so-called selection of female officials is just a name change to enrich the harem.
Because Li Laiheng repeatedly requested that the selection of female officials should not be based on appearance.
In addition, Luo Yanqing, the current imperial concubine of the Dashun Dynasty, also has a "peculiar" appearance.
Therefore, some remnants of the previous dynasty often say strange things, saying that the current emperor is the same as Zhu Jianshen, the Chenghua Emperor of the previous dynasty.
There were other scholars from the Qing Dynasty who mainly criticized the emperor's use of female officials as internal eunuchs, which would inevitably lead to a situation like the rooster, which would bring disaster to all generations in the future.
In order to gain fame, these people were very bold and wrote many letters to admonish, and the words they used became more and more fierce each time.
It's just that the emperor is different from those emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. He is the emperor who founded and unified the country. In the early days of the country, the military situation was tense and military generals were highly valued, so there was no need to care about the opposition of some Qingliu officials.
Whatever policies His Majesty wants to implement, if he directly uses the substantial prestige of the founding emperor to promote them, ordinary officials will not be able to object at all.
Later, You Ci went on to ask about the situation of the Ping-Shu war. It turned out that after Emperor Taizong died of illness, although the emperor was depressed because of this, the military deployment of the three armies to attack Ximing did not relax at all.
The offensive against Sun Kewang's small court began in February this year. Dashun sent troops from Chang'an to capture Hanzhong, Miao Lichen and Lin Chengcheng sent troops to capture Chongqing from Hubei, and Ma Bao and Ma Jinzhong launched troops from Guangxi.
In Kunming, three routes were launched simultaneously, with a total of 130,000 land and water troops and horses used.
Sun Kewang deployed the main force in Hanzhong and prepared the border. He believed that the Dashun army would definitely attack Hanzhong and Baoning as its main attack direction when entering Shu. He also believed that the Three Gorges was naturally dangerous and the Shun army would not be able to pass through it. He completely ignored the route that Zhang Xianzhong took when he entered Shu.
Isn’t it the Three Gorges natural danger route?
Miao Lichen and Lin Chengcheng made two troops, climbing over mountains and forests, and crossing rivers to clear the way. After going through dangers and obstacles, they crossed the Sichuan-Chu Tianxuan at an astonishing speed and penetrated deep into Bazhong.
This surprised Sun Kewang. At that time, the main troops of the Ximing Dynasty were either fighting fiercely with Guojun Town on the Hanzhong front, or suppressing the chieftains in Yunnan. Sun Kewang had limited troops, so he had to temporarily recruit new soldiers in Tianjing Prefecture (Chengdu) to reinforce Chongqing.
, but was defeated by Miao Lichen at the gate of Chongqing.
In the battle of Chongqing, the Ximing army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, which could only be regarded as a minor defeat. However, this defeat made Sun Kewang believe that the Dashun army was strong. Once Sichuan's natural barriers were breached, the Ximing army would not be able to compete with them at all.
of counterbalance.
Therefore, Sun Kewang did not notify Li Dingguo and others who were fighting fiercely with Guo Junzhen in Hanzhong. He coerced the Tianjing court, took away the savings from the public and private treasury, and then moved southward in large quantities, preparing to take advantage of Yunnan's remote location and complex geography.
, and strive to negotiate with the Dashun Army to obtain the status of a world vassal like Muying in the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, all Li Dingguo generals on the battlefield in Hanzhong surrendered without a fight under Guo Junzhen's persuasion. The Dashun Army was able to easily occupy most areas in Sichuan, with only the Jianchang area still in Sun Kewang's hands.
I heard that after the emperor arrived in Hanzhong, he consecrated Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, who had returned to Chengdu, as Dukes of Xining and Nan'an, and they were treated very grandly.