Chapter 908: The Beginning and End of the Shuzhong Upheaval
After Yinggan and Du Ji entered Chengdu, Cui Mi, the military envoy of the Unity Camp, came to greet him in person. Seeing only Guo Yinggan, his face became a little ugly, and he asked with a thorny smile: "Why didn't envoy Guo come when Dr. Cui summoned him?"
, do you not care about Ambassador Jiannan Jiedu, or don’t you care about my brother?"
Guo Yingqian was not a good-tempered person either. He snorted coldly and said: "My brother is ill and cannot travel far. My brother said the same thing when the lord summoned us to serve as officials. The lord didn't ask about it at first, and even sent a doctor.
Delivering medicine and showing utmost care. How could he, a mere Jiedushi envoy, have the right to question him like this?"
Seeing the two of them going head-to-head, Du Ji quickly went up to smooth things over and said, "We are our own people, so don't hurt your harmony."
The three parties entered the bamboo house in the back garden of Jiedushi's residence. Cui Ning had raised three pandas in the bamboo house and was feeding them carefully while breaking the bamboo branches.
After seeing the three people, he turned around and came to the bamboo house, sat on the tiger-skin beard bed, put his hands on his knees and said with a golden sword: "You have also seen the imperial edict issued by the imperial court. King Yong wanted to cut off the knots."
When Du was entrusted with military power, didn't he know that Tubo invaded central Sichuan several times in the past three years, and nine out of ten times it was Cui who led his troops to repulse it. Doing this now is like killing a donkey, and who will dare to sacrifice their lives for him in the future?"
He turned his inquiring gaze to the three of them. Cui Mi had already prepared a double act and took the initiative to cross his arms and said, "Doctor Yuan Yuan, what do you need us to do?"
"Sichuan is no better than other places. The mountains are high and the rivers are far away. The roads to Shu are steep and difficult to travel. As long as the sword pavilion is blocked, millions of soldiers cannot fly across. Now King Yong is frequently sending troops in the south, and all the money and food used are to exploit our people in Shu.
As a result, I would like to ask you to jointly submit a petition to His Majesty and King Yong with me, saying that all the generals in Shu are loyal and obedient to the imperial court, but the best way to achieve stability is that the Shu people should govern themselves and not be subject to external officials from the imperial court."
Good guy, this Cui Ning is really ambitious. He almost wrote the word "rebellion" on his forehead.
Cui Mi stepped forward excitedly and said: "What Doctor Cui said is absolutely true. I suggest that the Unity Battalion, Dongxi Sichuan Army and Chongqing Army be summoned to Chengdu City and re-divided into six armies. Brothers, what do you think?"
Du Ji was still thinking about Xiao Jiujiu, so he naturally did not dare to express his position first, and turned his attention to Guo Yingqian.
Guo Yingqian asked Cui Ning in return: "Doctor Cui said it beautifully. Is this move an attempt to rebel? King Yong had so much trust in you at the beginning, why did you do this rebellion?"
Cui Ning laughed loudly and said: "Who is the rebel? Li Siye rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and supported the false emperor. Now the imperial court in the south is the upright Shuo of the Tang Dynasty. We are trying to bring order out of chaos, and we hope that General Guo will not make mistakes."
Guo Yingqian looked around vigilantly. The leaves in the bamboo forest were rustling in the wind, and there must be weapons hidden in the dark. Fortunately, his brother had more foresight and did not enter Chengdu with him. Now that his brother is outside, they must not dare to act rashly.
He crossed his hands towards Cui Ning and said: "Guo disagrees with what Dr. Cui said. What you did has nothing to do with my brother and me. I remain neutral."
It is too late for Guo Yingqian to change his tone now. How could someone like Cui Ning allow those who oppose him to leave? Even if Guo Yingyi is outside, they have already made a desperate move.
"Farewell." He pretended to be calm and turned around and walked away.
"I want to leave!" Cui Mi took out the horizontal knife from his waist.
Cui Ning clasped her wrists and smiled: "There is no neutrality at all. Anyone who doesn't support me is against me. Take him down!"
Many soldiers rushed out from the bamboo forest and surrounded Guo Yingyi. Guo Yingyi turned around and glared at Cui Ning: "My brother is in Meizhou, and the East and West Sichuan armies are now under his jurisdiction. If I have any shortcomings, he will definitely raise troops to attack."
Cui Mi sneered and said: "The Dongxichuan Army only has 20,000 people, and all the food and grass he needs must be transported from Chengdu. My Unity Battalion plus Brother Du Ji's Chongqing Army can easily defeat him. Brother Du
Do you think so?"
Du Ji was originally a grassroots man, but now he was on someone else's territory. He didn't dare to say no, so he had no choice but to say submissively: "General Cui is right."
Guo Yingqian was imprisoned, and Du Ji was treated as a distinguished guest and moved into Cui Ning's mansion. Cui Ning sent four beautiful women to serve him, but in fact he was using them to spy on him.
Du Jize had no idea of having a kiss with Fangze at all. While he held a wine cup and forced himself to smile with these women, he was brainstorming in his head.
He began to evaluate the success or failure of the Cui brothers. Guo Yingyi controlled 20,000 troops outside, and he was not necessarily a match for Cui Ning, who was good at fighting. But could the Cui brothers hold on in Shu? Li Siye had invaded Shu with his troops.
It was a trick under the guidance of the Cui brothers, but the strength of their troops was already revealed when they fought Yan Wu in central Shu. Moreover, no one in history has ever successfully defended central Sichuan. It seems that the more dangerous the place, the less able it is to hold on.
live.
Du Ji is good at opportunism and has no loyalty at all. Now he is sure that following the Cui brothers will only lead to death. Even if he does nothing in the future and remains neutral, he should immediately leave Chengdu, a place of right and wrong.
On the afternoon of the second day, Cui Mi came to Du Ji and asked him plainly to order the Chongqing army to be transferred to Chengdu. Originally, Cui Ning, the Jiedu envoy, also had such authority, but in order to avoid alerting others and being noticed, he still asked Du Ji to give the order.
Relatively safe.
Du Ji was not willing to do such a thing to help the tyrants, but he was eager to get out of here, so he had to agree, write what the Cui brothers asked him to write on paper, and stamp it with a big seal himself. He wanted to
To paralyze the enemy, he also said hypocritically: I hope that after Dr. Cui succeeds, he will not forget the merits of his humble position.
This sentence was a signal of surrender to Cui Mi, and the Cui brothers believed it. They knew who Du Ji was, so they relaxed their surveillance on Du Ji.
Du Junzhao tried every possible means to escape from Chengdu. He conspired with several confidants who entered Chengdu together, and specially invited the dancers from the brothels in Chengdu to dance at the banquet, pretending to be drunk and collapsed late at night.
After being drunk, Du Ji put on a woman's skirt, smeared his face with pink flowers, held a round fan in his hand, and got on a float among the prostitutes in the early morning and drove out of Cui Mansion.
There was an ink cart waiting on the streets outside Cui Mansion. When the two cars crossed each other, it stopped and he successfully transferred into the ink cart. The driver waved his whip and hit the horse's back, and the horse's hooves and wheels ran quickly,
Du Ji ignored the shaking and bumps of the car and shouted to the driver: "Hurry up, get out of the city quickly."
At this moment, no one knew that Du Ji had escaped. The soldiers guarding the city gate let them out of the city without strict inspection. The rest of his personal guards also broke into pieces and went out of the city to join Du Ji.
He took off his women's clothes in the car, put on a dark crimson official robe, washed his face with the copper basin brought by his entourage, and then walked along the official road towards Yuzhou.
Since the Cui brothers no longer paid attention to Du Ji, the steward of the Cui Mansion did not pay attention, thinking that General Du drank too much last night and fell asleep for a long time. But by lunch time, Du Ji was still sleeping in the room.
Seeing no movement, he hurriedly went in cautiously and urged: "General Du, lunch is ready. Do you want to send someone from your humble position to bring it in?"
No one answered on the couch covered with red gauze, but someone was squirming in the quilt. The steward mistakenly thought that Du Ji was doing something shameful, so he quickly stepped back and stood outside under the eaves to wait.
After waiting for half an hour, he went in to urge him, and vaguely felt that someone was still squirming on the couch. He couldn't help but be curious and suspicious, no one should have such energy. The steward slowly approached, quietly opened the gauze curtain, and lifted up the squirming.
He was wearing a quilt, but all he saw was two beauties tied up with silk in their mouths, sobbing.
He was so frightened that he hurriedly ran outside and shouted: "Hurry! Go and tell Alang, Du is running away!"