Chapter 917 Suspicion puts the cart before the horse
Nan Ba was invited into the Prince Consort's mansion by his consort Guo Wen. He invited his servants to cook a sumptuous dinner and treated him with fine wine and preserved fruits. Although he was hungry, he still maintained his demeanor as an official and sat down respectfully.
Opposite the Prince Consort's desk.
The beautiful maid in the mansion came forward to pour wine. Guo Yan took up the wine cup and toasted to him. After the two of them covered their sleeves and drank, before the prince-in-law asked, Nanba knelt down and crossed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, prince-in-law,
Xiangyang City has been besieged by the enemy for a year, and the food in the city has long been exhausted. When I came out of the city, the people in the city had stripped off the bark and leaves of the banyan and maple trees on the roadside and ate them. If this continues, sooner or later there will be a massacre.
Xiangyang City would also be captured by Yong's army. However, Xu Shuji, the military governor of Jingxiang, had an army of 100,000 men in Jiangcheng, but he never moved. Guo Linggong and General Zhang Xun and I went to ask him to send troops, but he flatly refused and almost didn't.
Being detained, I boldly asked the consort to express his Majesty's favor and send troops to rescue Xiangyang City."
Guo Yan stood up from the case in shock and anger. He had been worried about the situation in Xiangyang City and his father's safety, but he did not expect that the situation had deteriorated to this point. As a member of Yu Chaoen's party, Xu Shuji was obviously helping
The castrated thief avenged his private revenge.
"Such a thing has happened!" Guo Yan paced back and forth for a few steps, then turned to Nan Ba and said, "Just leave this matter to me, and I will definitely report the situation in Xiangyang to His Majesty."
After Guo Yan left, Nan Ba finally calmed down and ate happily with chopsticks in his hand.
Consort Guo hurriedly went to find his daughter-in-law, Princess Shengping. The couple worked together on the matter and immediately ordered their servants to prepare a carriage to enter the palace before it got dark.
When the vehicle entered the city gate in front of the imperial road of Miyagi, the Shence Army on duty and the eunuch who served as the gate guard stood in the middle of the road and stopped them.
"Yu Gong has an order. No one is allowed to enter without the gate guard's token."
The princess, like the consort, had a bad temper. She opened the car curtain with a crash and angrily shouted at the eunuch who blocked the road: "Open your dog eyes and see who I am. When I go back to my natal family, I also need you rootless things."
Are you blocking the road here?"
The eunuch hurriedly knelt down and apologized: "Princess, please forgive me. I didn't know that the princess is here. Please forgive me."
Princess Shengping snorted and pulled the curtain on her horse, ordered the coachman to wave his whip, and headed towards the inner city of the palace.
After entering the inner city, they had to walk to Qiancheng Palace where Emperor Li Yu was. After the eunuch Yu Chaoen reported to the emperor, they were able to enter the palace. At this time, Yu Chaoen stood outside the main hall with a smile and his eyes closed, stabbing with both hands.
He seemed to have confidence in his sleeves, and even the joint prosecution of the consort and the princess could not do anything to him and his men.
Guo Yan told everything exactly, which made Li Yu extremely shocked. He said angrily to the outside: "Yu Chaoen, get out of here!"
Yu Chaoen trotted into the palace unhurriedly, knelt down and crossed his hands to the emperor and asked: "I wonder why your majesty is angry?"
The emperor threw Guo Ziyi's letter in front of him: "Take a good look at it. This is Xu Shuji who you appointed. He has an army of 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of stones and grain. He actually watched Xiangyang besieged by the enemy and ran out of ammunition and food.
Absolutely, but rescued without sending a single soldier!"
"Your Majesty," Yu Chao'en hurriedly defended Xu Shuji: "Who did you listen to what the consort said? Xiangyang City is indeed besieged by rebels, and it is true that no reinforcements approached the city gate, but it is wrong to say that Xu Shuji did not send a soldier to rescue him.
That's a partial refutation. Since Jingmen was breached, Xu Shuji sent troops to attack Jingmen three times, but unfortunately the Yong army's defense force was too strong, and all three attacks ended in disastrous defeat. The traitor Li Siye deployed more than 20 troops near Xiangyang City.
Wan, Xu Shuji can only go to the rescue if he finds a suitable opportunity. If he attacks recklessly, not only will he not be able to save Xiangyang, but Jiangcheng's 100,000 troops will also be consumed."
"Nonsense! Jingmen is not the only passage from Jiangcheng to Xiangyang. You know that Xiangyang City is cut off from food. Even if you don't fight the enemy fiercely, there are other ways, or you can quietly transport a small amount of food and grass into the city under the cover of night, which is also right.
The people of Jiangcheng support me, but Xu Shuji completely ignores the safety of the people and the importance of Xiangyang. How can such a person be qualified to be the envoy of Jingxiang?"
Yu Chaoen turned to look at the consort and smiled: "As your majesty's good son-in-law, the consort should not be involved in these matters in the court, lest it affect your and the princess's reputation."
Guo Yan suddenly became hoarse. He had to sacrifice something to become Princess Shengping's consort, that is, as a relative, he could not hold real power and could not discuss government affairs. This is like the emperor's elder brother and younger brother who could never be in the court.
Commander Fang Qiu, their embarrassing status does not allow them to participate in politics.
The princess acted coquettishly to her father unwillingly: "Father..."
Li Yu nodded and said with a slightly cold expression: "Princess Shengping should take good care of her husband and raise her children, and not get involved in these matters in the court."
The couple had no choice but to retreat, leaving only Li Yu and Yu Chaoen's master and servant in the hall. One of them was sitting high above the hall, and the other was at the bottom, but their psychological advantages were completely different.
different.
Li Yu said to him: "This Xu Shuji of yours has no ability. It will be difficult to defend Jingxiang with him. You can transfer him back to the court and grant him any official title."
Yu Chaoen sighed and said: "I don't know how to recognize people. I can only tell whether a person is loyal to everyone, but I can't measure his ability. Although Xu is not good at leading troops in war, he is loyal to your majesty.
. Just like me, your majesty, your honor and disgrace are my honor and disgrace. In the eyes of my slave, you are the Tang Dynasty, and you are the country. But some people don’t see it this way. In their eyes, the Tang Dynasty is nothing but glory and wealth.
A place to live, if one day the Tang Dynasty can no longer provide them with these, they will soon prostrate themselves at the feet of the new imperial power, just like Li Guangbi, just like Guo Xi..."
"enough……"
The emperor complained in his throat, but Yu Chaoen could tell that he was angry, so Mr. Yu shut his mouth in time.
"Xu Shuji must be removed, but you must also decide on the new envoy of Jingxiang. I hope you will not find another stupid fool and throw away the gate Xiangyang and the whole Jingxiang."
"I dare not make any more decisions. If I push out another mediocre person, the Gong Gong princes in the court will definitely drown me with their spit."
"You recommend someone to me, and I will personally order the appointment."
"Helan Jinming." When Yu Chaoen said this word, his heart was pounding. He didn't know whether His Majesty could accept this candidate.
"Helan Jinming? Isn't this person closely related to Xu Shuji?"
"This..." Yu Chaoen hesitated for a while.
However, the emperor stepped down from Hu's bed, put his hand on his shoulder and said: "It's Helan Jinming, please tell him to look at him a little longer, and don't lose Xiangyang."
"Here! I'll leave this slave."
Yu Chaoen turned around and walked out of the hall quickly, passing by Guo Yan and his wife. There was a hint of sarcasm in the corner of his eyes. The couple also glared at Yu Chaoen fiercely, and walked straight to the emperor's throne.
go.
Princess Shengping knelt in front of the emperor, pretending to cry and said: "Guo Lang's father and daughter's father-in-law are now in Xiangyang, whose life or death is uncertain. The city is so hungry that even the bark of the trees has been gnawed away. They can't afford to eat, so how can they have the strength to defend Xiangyang City?"
, If my father does not handle things strictly, why don’t my father-in-law and tens of thousands of soldiers in Xiangyang lose their lives at the hands of our own people?"
The emperor stretched out his hand to help the princess up, and said comfortingly: "Don't I know that Guo Ziyi is my in-laws and the last humerus of the Tang Dynasty? Just go back with peace of mind, Xu Shuji has been replaced by me, and there must be a general in five days.