Chapter 96: To fight against the outside world, we must first secure the inside
Chapter 96
Chang'an.
A fast horse gallops along the official road, and the cavalry rider carries a small red flag on his back, and the horse speeds up.
Businessmen and commoners on the official road saw the red flag, and they all avoided it in time.
"Red post flag, this is a fast horse at a speed of 800 miles. Is there any urgent military situation?" Sun Wuji, the chief secretary of the official department, dressed in a loose robe and a hat, was going fishing in the Weishui River while he was resting. After seeing the stagecoach, he couldn't help but stop the carriage.
"Turn around and go back to Chang'an."
As soon as Changsun Wuji's carriage entered the city gate, he saw Cheng Chumo, the captain of the Baiqi School, who came to look for him.
"Chu silently pays homage to the elder grandson, the prince has an order to urgently summon the eldest grandson to enter the East Palace."
"I just saw the Babaili express post outside the city. What happened, but Shandong is reversed?"
The Shandong area in the Tang Dynasty refers to the east of Taihe Mountain, and Hebei refers to the north of the Yellow River. Shandong and Hebei are roughly the same. Changsun Wuji guessed that Li Yuan may have really turned his back.
"Back to grandson, the Lujiang king Li Yuan and the right-leading general Wang Junkuo rebelled in Youzhou!"
Changsun Wuji took a deep breath when he heard this, "Is it really the opposite? How is the situation now, where did the fight go?"
Baiqi Xiaowei and Qianniu Beishen Cheng Chumo flaunted, "Let me tell the grandson a good news. Although the two thieves Li Yuan and Wang Junkuo turned against each other, they have been killed and put down."
"ah?"
Changsun Wuji looked disbelieving.
"Really, the eight-hundred-mile express post was here to deliver the good news."
"Who put it down, the governor of Dingzhou Shuangshiluo or the governor of Mingzhou Cheng Mingzhen, or the governor of Yingzhou or the governor of Jizhou?"
"It's Zhenfu Si Cheng Qin Sanlang!"
Changsun Wuji was stunned.
"I also ask the grandson to go to the East Palace as soon as possible. Your Highness, Fang Du and other princes have already rushed over."
Changsun Wuji had been guessing all the way, how exactly this Qin Lang put down the conspiracy, but he couldn't figure it out after much deliberation.
Arriving at the East Palace, a group of important court officials had already gathered in the Xiande Hall.
Three senior officials, six ministers, and the twelve generals in Beijing have all arrived.
"Wuji, I have good news for you. Youzhou has been pacified." Li Shimin told his eldest grandson Wuji with joy when he saw the good news.
"Your Highness, Chen Gang has also heard about it. I heard that Qin Lang pacified it? What's going on?"
"Hahaha, Huailiang is really my lucky general. I didn't even expect him to accomplish such a big and earth-shattering event. Take a look at the good news sent by Kuaiqi."
Changsun Wuji took it, quickly browsed it, read it once, and then read it a second time.
After reading everything, Changsun Wuji was shocked.
This letter of success was written by Qin Lang himself. The writing is very ordinary, without the beauty of calligraphy. It can only be said to be at the level of ordinary beginners.
But this content is really ups and downs, with suspense and climax.
Who told Qin Lang to be a time traveler? He used to be an author of historical novels. When he wrote a report, he also wrote it as a novel. He insisted on embellishing a not-too-complicated matter, exaggerated it, and turned it into a cool one. text story.
Originally, Wei Zheng wrote a report, but Wei Zheng wrote the whole thing in a few hundred words. It was very concise, but also very dry. After reading it, Qin Lang was very dissatisfied. merit.
So he took himself as the protagonist and wrote a short story with more than 10,000 words from his perspective.
This is still limited by the space, otherwise he would have planned to write 100,000 to 20,000 words, wishing to arrange a few chapters for each of his subordinates to promote it.
After reading this report, Li Shimin was amazed at the pen-hold shooting of several cases.
After reading it, Fang Du and others felt that although there was suspicion of exaggeration, they described the incident very clearly, and there was no doubt or ambiguity.
"Unexpectedly, His Royal Highness is not mean to Wang Junkuo. Before that, he was granted the title of a thousand households, and he was awarded the post of General of the Left Army, but he even instigated Li Yuan to rebel. He is really a traitor." Changsun Wuji sighed.
Li Shimin was very happy at this time. Although Youzhou rebelled in the end, Qin Lang calmed down so quickly and cleaned up the matter so cleanly. There was no future trouble, so it was very good.
In fact, two letters of victory were sent this time, one was for the courtiers to read, and the other was for Li Shimin to report to Li Shimin alone. Then he planned to kill Li Yuan, Wang Shen, etc. in exchange for fame, conspired to be the governor of the capital of Youzhou, and even secretly colluded with the Turks. Qin Lang was going to give him a hand, but in the end he wanted to kill Qin Lang and the others, and finally killed himself.
After reading the two letters, Li Shimin became more and more satisfied with Qin Lang, and felt that his handling was very good.
At this time, instead of liquidating Wang Shen together, it was a wise move to give the thief a name of loyal minister. It was good that Yan Wang Li Yi and his old troops from Hebei were not involved.
Otherwise, Li Shimin was worried that the rebellion in Youzhou, Hebei had just ended, and there would be another rebellion in Jingzhou.
Qin Lang also reported some of his suggestions for stabilizing Hebei in that sealed memorial, such as not pursuing the old department of Hebei Luoyi and giving appropriate appeasement, and taking the opportunity to promote some people's posts, or be transferred to Beijing or transferred out of Hebei. other jobs.
As for the former Dou Liu and other old ministries, those with prestige and ability were selected and given official positions, and these Hebei people were appointed to ease the resistance of Hebei people to the imperial court, and Hebei people were used to assist the imperial court in governing Hebei.
He focused on recommending Su Lie and appreciated his achievements in this operation.
It is better if Li Yuan is dead, and it is better if Wang Junkuo is dead. This will save a lot of future troubles, especially this Wang Junkuo, who has always been feared by Li Shimin. Similarly, they were all attached with soldiers and horses. For a long time, although he was attached to the crown prince, he actually had a very powerful force.
Now that he is dead, for Li Shimin, whose foundation is still unstable, there is one less hidden danger.
As for saying that Wang Shen, the rebel, should be given the title of loyal minister after his death, Li Shimin doesn't care, since everyone is dead anyway.
"After An Yuanshou attacked the East Palace, he searched the inside and outside of the palace, and got many secret letters between Li Yuan and Jiancheng, which were presented to Yugu, most of which involved the separation of orphaned brothers. For the sake of security, Gu didn't intend to pursue it, but Unexpectedly, Li Yuan dared to seek rebellion!"
Li Shimin was very angry when he said this.
"I sent Cui Dunli, the governor of the town, to Youzhou to summon Li Yuan to Beijing, and I also wanted to leave a way for him."
Changsun Wuji said loudly, "Your Highness, I would like to issue an edict to declare Li Yuan's treasonous crime, cut down his prince, kill his heirs, and lose his family!"
At the moment, the ministers are discussing affairs in the Xiande Hall. The affairs here are different from those in the court hall. There are no rules and etiquette, and everyone can bluntly say that they are innocent. This kind of discussion is called a court meeting, and it is usually attended by the emperor's confidants.
In fact, this kind of court discussion is actually a kind of emperor's encroachment on the prime minister's power. According to the imperial court system, the imperial court's deliberation system has strict regulations. To decide on government affairs or military affairs, the emperor usually convenes a public discussion with hundreds of officials in the Taiji Hall. This is the court meeting.
Generally, the government affairs of the imperial court will be discussed by the three senior officials in the political affairs hall before they are presented to the emperor, and then they will be implemented by edict. Only the three senior officials and prime ministers are qualified to participate in the political affairs hall meeting, so it is called a hall meeting.
During Yang Guang’s time, he often traveled abroad and often left princes, nobles and prime ministers in the capital. There was no court meeting for more than ten years, and it was meaningless if the emperor was not in the capital. The servants of the three provinces assisted the emperor in disposing of it, forming an unprecedented supervisory meeting.
After Li Yuan ascended the throne, the system was restored, but when encountering important events, Li Yuan would often call the clan princes, three high-ranking officials, the left and right generals, and the imperial doctor to discuss important military and political affairs in the Hall of Liangyi. The conference was expanded into an imperial court conference presided over by the emperor.
However, in the Wude Dynasty, the officials who participated in the court discussion were not lower than the third rank.
After Li Shimin was canonized as the crown prince, many military and political affairs were personally carried out. The court meeting became a regular meeting, and even participating officials could participate as long as they got Li Shimin's crown prince order.
This new method of court discussion allowed all of Li Shimin's confidants to attend the meeting.
Everyone was originally from the Tiance Mansion, so they didn't have much scruples when speaking. As the emperor's eldest brother-in-law, Changsun Wuji even directly proposed to kill Li Yuan's heirs, leaving him without a family.
This is the most severe form of action.
Li Shimin was hesitant to be more lenient to a clan like Li Yuan since he came to power not long ago. Now that Li Yuan is dead, he will not pursue his family.
Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "The case of Li Yuan and Wang Junkuo is quite shocking. It has been built and arranged for many years, and party members have spread all over the government and the public. If this matter cannot be handled properly, there will be endless troubles."
Hou Junji will speak immediately.
"After the chaos, His Highness followed the advice of Qin Lang, Wei Zheng, and others, and immediately issued an amnesty order, pardoning all the followers of the deposed prince, and let the past be ignored. Imprisoning imperial envoys for treason and rebellion, so when it is time to be ruthless, you still have to be ruthless. Blindly benevolent is not enough. Now Li Yuan and Wang Junkuo have also been killed, so let's simply kill their clan and deter them Those evil-minded people!"
"Your Highness, there is nothing to hesitate about this matter. Kill as soon as possible. There are still a lot of criticisms from the government and the public about His Highness's entry into the East Palace. If you can't quickly establish your authority and stabilize the overall situation of the court, I am afraid that more people will rise up and make trouble. What's more, Qin Qiong said before that he should beware of the Turks taking the opportunity to go south, and to fight against the outside world must first secure the inside, if you can't even secure the inside, what are you talking about against the outside?" Zhang Liang, another confidant, also remonstrated.
Li Shimin tapped a few cases with his fingers, and listened to the suggestions of these confidants, frowning and thinking.
Fang Xuanling also spoke at this time, "According to Qin Lang's report, in the case of Li Yuan's rebellion, he also tried to collude with Dou Jiande's old department to cause chaos. Since Jiande was killed, Shandong has never had a single day of peace. It is worrisome that a single letter can summon tens of thousands of Shandong people. Some of Qin Lang's suggestions, I think are very reasonable and can be considered."
(end of this chapter)