Qin Huizhi's involvement in the political struggle at the highest level of the Jin Kingdom is basically a dimensionality reduction attack, because although the top brass of the Jin Kingdom are becoming more and more degenerate and the internal conflicts are becoming more and more intense, they are not yet so depraved and intense that they want to destroy the other party.
Put to death.
Moreover, most of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom these days came from the Golden Horse and Iron Horse, and few of them put all their energy into internal political struggles. They still have a unanimous determination to engage in external affairs, and they still have external expansion and military aggression.
To compensate and soften the interior simplicity of the idea.
Therefore, Qin Hui's knowing blow really had a miraculous effect.
In June, after a series of trials and discussions, and Wanyan Talan's mediation, the top brass of the Jin Kingdom carried out a series of simple but significant impacts in the Marshal Du Mansion, the highest military decision-making body, as expected.
Personnel changes.
The leader of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Wu Qimai, voluntarily gave up the post of marshal, and replaced it with Nianhan, the most important hero of the Jin Dynasty and the de facto number one man in the army. The third prince of the Jin Kingdom, Yinli, was responsible for leading the reserve team to Yanjing.
Duo changed from the right deputy marshal to the left deputy marshal, which did not mean much; but the marshal Zuo Jianjun Wanyan Talan suddenly became the right deputy marshal, becoming more popular; finally, the fourth prince Jin Wushu also
He was promoted to Marshal Zuo Jianjun and successfully entered the highest level of the army.
The first one was actually fine, but the last appointment was quite controversial at first, because most of the generals thought that Wanyan Wushu was a bit weak. He led the troops last winter. Although he had military merits, he suffered a lot of losses in the end.
Compared with generals such as Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Gushen, Wanyan Yinshuke, and Wanyan Balisu of the West Route Army, even within the East Route Army, they are far inferior to General Ali and others.
In a word, with this person's record, it seems that he is not qualified to hold the key position of Marshal Zuo Jianjun, who may actually become the commander of the First Army.
However, where is the will of the highest level, and the internal affairs of the Wanyan family are beyond the control of others.
And in late June, after the personnel adjustment of the Du Marshal's Mansion was completed, as the three brothers Nianhan and Wanyan met again in Yanjing with Wanyan Talan's help, the two sides no longer entangled, and Wanyan Talan failed.
He simply fulfilled his promise and wrote directly to Huining Mansion, asking the king to make an early decision.
However, how could the Emperor of Jin make a decision for these two families?
If you can make a decision, then you don't have to worry about whether your son can become emperor all day long?
Therefore, the benefactor Wanyan Wu Qingmai issued a formal edict. There were only three sentences in the edict:
First, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was the heart of the Song Dynasty. Because of his existence, Hebei would be turbulent and the people of the Song Dynasty in the Central Plains would be united. They could not be left alone. Wherever this person was, he had to be chased.
Secondly, we should learn lessons from dealing with the Song Dynasty this time. After the war, we should support people like Zhang Bangchang and use them to rule the Central Plains.
Third, although Shaanxi and Longyou are poor areas, they have prominent strategic positions and cannot be left alone.
In other words, no matter how they reconciled, Wanyan Wu Qimai still officially ordered the crusade against the Southern Song Dynasty as the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and he was directly targeting Zhao Jiu himself!
After receiving the imperial edict, the two sides who were confronting each other in Yanjing no longer struggled with each other, but immediately put aside their prejudices and reached an agreement - to mobilize the entire army immediately. When autumn comes, the entire army will march from north to south, first mopping up the Hebei rebels, and then
The troops were divided into many groups and crossed the river together to destroy the Song Dynasty.
Of course, as Marshal Du, he especially emphasized that the main force of the West Route Army was responsible for capturing the Fifth Shaanxi Route, and could only send some troops to fight from the direction of Xijing, Luoyang and Huazhou.
But at this time, Wanyan Wushu was already satisfied, because not to mention that the West Route Army was still willing to send some troops to assist, even if the entire West Route Army did not come, this time he would have a hundred thousand troops!
One hundred thousand Jin troops were enough to overthrow the Song Dynasty and sweep across the Central Plains, so why do they need donkey carts?
"I don't think you should indulge this person so easily!"
"Ms. Xu, I also thought that we should not indulge easily, but what can we do if we don't indulge him now? Are we going to bring him to justice? How to arrest him? What if he turns against him?"
In early autumn, in the evening, there were still cicadas chirping constantly, but the weather had gradually turned cooler. In the palace in Nanyang City, the two prime ministers were arguing fiercely, while Zhao Guan's family, who was sitting behind the imperial court, was a little absent-minded.
"Mr. Yuwen." Xu Jingheng responded seriously. "I never said that he would be arrested and brought to justice, but that we should pay equal attention to kindness and power... If we cannot properly demonstrate the authority of the central government at this time and force him to give in, what will the central government do to organize the Western Army in the future?
Should we let the officials go to the military camps to subdue these people again and again?"
"Actually, it's not a bad idea." Zhao Guanjia interjected out of instinct.
"It's okay once or twice, but how can it happen again and again?" Xu Jingheng was furious when he heard this. "And there are really many people like Han Shizhong who are rogue on the surface but actually loyal and brave. Zhang Boying and Han Shizhong are trustworthy, but if we meet this person next time,
What should we do if we are really thieves? What officials say is extremely inappropriate!"
Zhao Jiu came back to his senses and nodded slowly again, because this was so right... He did it because he knew that Han Shizhong was trustworthy and Zhang Boying was most likely trustworthy. How dare he change it to someone whose name he had never heard of?
go?
Of course, no one mentioned Zhai Chong. It’s not that Zhai Chong is trustworthy or not. In fact, everyone knows that Zhai Chong is trustworthy. It’s just that some people feel that there is no need to go and that it would be disrespectful to go.
, this matter is not the same thing as what is being discussed now.
However, after Xu Jingheng overpowered the entire audience, he was speechless for a moment, because he could only overpower others, but he was unable to solve Xing Xing's current predicament.
What's the dilemma?
We have to start with the fundamental reason why Xing Zai came to Nanyang.
In other words, there are objective and realistic reasons why the Nanyang and Yangzhou battles in the previous year represented the main battle and the main peace.
For example, judging from the data before the Jingkang Rebellion, in the entire south of the Yangtze River, except for a few garrisons in Suzhou and Hangzhou during the Song Dynasty, there were basically only some scattered Xiang troops and native soldiers in other places.
One piece is about 20,000 to 30,000 people.
And according to the common view these days, there is no military tradition in the Southeast.
Well, this kind of regional discrimination is probably due to the feeling that people from the Yangtze River Delta cannot be the backbone of China, and that the Osaka Division is a shame to the Imperial Army. I don’t know why, but it is very popular anyway, and even has some taste of becoming the mainstream of public opinion... For example
Li Gang and Hu Yin, the standard southeast officials who had the right to speak in the court, liked to discredit themselves every day. They frequently wrote letters saying that only soldiers from the northwest could be considered a strong army.
So at this time, what does it mean for you to travel to Yangzhou and even cross the river with tens of thousands of troops in your army?
Starting from scratch? Building an army from scratch? Using people from the southeast to form an army? Can this kind of army conquer Hebei and welcome back the Second Saint?
As for going to Nanyang, to put it bluntly, we came here for the remaining Western Army troops at that time, the high-quality soldiers from the northwest, and the war horse trade with the Qingtang area.
With the skeleton of the Western Army, recruiting high-quality soldiers locally, and exchanging some excellent war horses with Tibetan compatriots, this is what it looks like to fight against the Jin Dynasty.
Of course, for Zhao Jiu, he did not believe in the quality gap between the northwest and southeast soldiers, and he, an engineering dog, had no habit of regional discrimination.
Moreover, in actual operation, regarding the issue of the quality of soldiers, the Zhao family now feels that refugees from Hebei and Hedong may be more suitable. These people have a natural desire to fight, and using them as soldiers can effectively avoid affecting local production.
However, no matter what, if you want to resist the Jin Dynasty, especially if you want to push back within ten years, you cannot ignore the Western Army and Kansai.
Otherwise, Zhao Guan would not have come to Nanyang despite his many shortcomings.
So back to the present, the Jin people have retreated for two months, Chang'an has also been recovered, Kansai seems to have been pacified, and even Wan Qixi has successfully recruited Zhong Xiang... Yes, Zhong Xiang accepted the Dongting Lake Town given by the Central Committee
He was responsible for this messy official position, and he also promised to kill Li Xiaoyi, a bandit who was running around Dongting Lake on behalf of Zhao Guan's family... Wan Qiqing has made a great contribution!
But the Zhao Guan family wants to control the Western Army, have they done so?
of course not.
The reason is very simple. Two generals, one named Qu Duan and the other Wang Xie, took the lead in controlling the situation in Kansai after the chaos. The three most important prefectures in Kansai are Jingzhao Prefecture, Fengxiang Prefecture, and Yan'an Prefecture.
, Wang Xie controlled Fengxiang Mansion, while Qu Duan controlled Jingzhao Mansion and Yan'an Mansion.
And the nature of these two people is completely different.
Among them, Wang Xie was the one who went to Hanzhong before and persuaded Zhao Jiu to go to Chengdu. After that incident, Zhao Jiu had already sentenced him to death in his heart and asked him to go to Fengxiang. He also hoped that he would not harm Hanzhong and influence him.
A game of chess across the country.
But Qu Duan was different. Although Qu Duan came from a relatively humble background, his father was a member of the imperial class who died in the war. He himself was dismissed from office when he was three years old, and he was good at writing articles when he was young... There is a saying in the Western Army.
To say specifically about him, it is said that he is capable of both literary and martial arts.
In other words, this person should be a standard general of the Western Army, considered one of his own. It is precisely because of this that during the process of regaining Chang'an, this guy killed Liu Xiliang, the commander of the same level, and reported this person
He was a deserter, and the Central Committee pinched his nose and believed it; then, while two armies were fighting in Chang'an, he launched a surprise attack, wiped out and annexed both armies, and the Central Committee pinched his nose and admitted it.
Not only that, the Central Committee also appointed him as the governor of Yan'an Prefecture on the suggestion of Yu Wenxuzhong... This is basically the treatment Li Yanxian received after he regained Shaanzhou.
However, now that Chang'an was recovered, many things became clear. Only then did the Central Committee know that Liu Xiliang was not a deserter at all, but a hero who had just recovered Fengxiang and was preparing to recover Chang'an! Qu Duan killed others and annexed them at this time.
Soldiers and horses, what will happen if we go to attack Chang'an again?
As for Chang'an, the Central Committee knew from the beginning that one of the two warring forces was under the banner of the Song Dynasty, because the leader of this rebel army was appointed by Li Yanxian of Shaanzhou next door, and through Li Yanxian he couldn't wait to submit the credit for the recapture of Chang'an.
But how should I put it? It is indeed difficult to distinguish between rebels and rebels these days, so the court did not pay too much attention to Qu Duan's actions.
However, the Central Committee now knows that after Qu Duan defeated the two armies at the same time, he surrendered the leader of the rebel army, but then beheaded the leader of the rebel army who had Li Yanxian's appointment document with him...
After these two incidents broke out, the whole court was in a heated mood. Even the Zhao Guan family, who had always been kind to military generals, didn't know what to say.
Besides, Zhao Jiu certainly knows that the Western Army is a bastard, and the better it is at fighting, the more bastard it is. Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Wang De are all Western Army, and they are all bastards. Wang De came back a few days ago because of the return of the old Taiwei Yang Weizhong.
They were worried that the military power of the imperial camp would be taken away and they would cause trouble there. Only a few days after arriving, Old Lieutenant Yang took the initiative to go to the southeast to protect the Queen Mother. Now he has become the commander of the imperial camp and the rear army... But these people are bastards.
He is not on the same level as a bastard like Qu Duan!
And the most important point is that Zhao Guanjia did not see how Qu Duan showed a military level comparable to his bastard! He fought a battle with the Jin Army and indeed won, but it was his subordinate Wu Jie who led the battle independently.
of.
Do you think this is the end?
Just after Nanyang learned all this, at the suggestion of Yu Wenxuzhong, the province officially sent a document to Chang'an via Wuguan, asking Qu Duan to come and describe his duties and explain these two things.
As a result, Qu Duan turned a deaf ear and cried directly to the elders in Chang'an, saying that he was loyal to the country. However, it aroused the suspicion of the central villain. After crying, he wrote a note to Zhao Guan's family, probably asking the official's family to go to Chang'an to sit down, and then
He is entrusted with important military and national affairs. If he manages it for ten years, he will definitely be able to raise 200,000 troops to regain the Central Plains, liberate Hebei, and welcome back the Two Saints!
After writing the letter, he led his headquarters directly to Yan'an, northern Shaanxi, to take up his post, ignoring the documents from the central committee.
Now, everyone in the center was disgusted by him, and even Zhao Guan's family wanted to tear him apart... because Zhao Jiu got the exact news that before leaving, this guy cried to the Chang'an elders in a pavilion outside the city.
There is a poem written on the pillar, and there are these two lines in the poem.
So-called:
He doesn't build business in Guanzhong, but he comes to fish on the river.
There is no need to say anything about what he is talking about or who he is mocking, and Zhao Guan's family does not have the habit of not getting angry when someone points their noses and scolds them.
But the problem is that Qu Duan directly led his troops northward, but the central government had nothing to do with him.
Yu Wenxuzhong argued with Xu Jingheng for a long time. Although Xu Jingheng, a hardliner, won, he didn't know how to deal with this person for a while.
"Save him from having to inform the Yan'an Prefecture!" Xu Jingheng thought for a long time before coming up with a plan. "Add a Yaojun defense envoy..."
"No." Zhao Guan's family immediately denied. "It's already autumn, and the Jin people come at any time. Chang'an is in ruins and cannot be defended at all. Yan'an Prefecture is the first to bear the brunt, but it can hold on for a while... His Yan'an prefect can't say anything about him.
You dare not even defend Yan'an."
Xu Jingheng was extremely frustrated.
"There must be someone in charge of Guanzhong, who will go to Guanzhong?" Zhao Jiu paused for a moment and made his last effort.
Everyone looked at each other, and then each recommended candidates. However, as Yu Wenxuzhong and Lu Yihao, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, took the initiative to generously ask for help, the others also stopped recommending. After all, no one can compete with these two... However, facing these two,
Personally, the Zhao Guan family is still a little hesitant.
It must be understood that the importance of Guanzhong is undoubted, but the problem is that these two people may not be able to control the situation.
Take Lu Yihao, for example. This man is the tallest in age and qualifications, but when he was in charge of the overall situation in Hebei, he was captured by the Jin people, which seemed to prove his incompetence in other aspects of office.
For another example, Yu Wenxuzhong has the status of a prime minister and has been dealing with Kansai affairs, but he may not be able to control the situation because he is a weak person. In fact, this person has always had a firm anti-gold stance and
The courage to do things is not so much a sense of mission, but rather a sense of guilt as the envoy to gold in Jingkangzhong that day.
But if this one doesn’t work and that one isn’t suitable, who should be allowed to do it?
In the silence, as Yang Yizhong came from outside the palace regardless of etiquette, and then handed Lan Gui a letter in front of everyone, Zhao Guanjia made up his mind: "Yu Wenqing goes to Guanzhong, and Lu Qing becomes the deputy privy envoy."