area51novel Chapter 1575 Jia Heng: The road to Shu is difficult, harder than climbing to the sky
Chapter 1575 Jia Heng: The road to Shu is difficult, harder than climbing to the sky
Chapter 1575 Jia Heng: The road to Shu is difficult, more difficult than ascending to heaven...
Time flies like water, and before I knew it, three days have passed.
Because Zhen Qing agreed to the cabinet candidates and specially promoted Zhao Yi to join the cabinet, the cabinet candidates were not submitted to the court for discussion, which to a certain extent reduced the disturbances in the Han Dynasty.
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Zhao Yi, wearing a brown silk shirt and looking old, was sitting in the flower hall. Not far away, on the incense table, there was an imperial edict with a white jade axis and yellow silk, and incense was rising from the incense burner on the table.
Zhao Yi's thin, clear face showed joy.
After thanking the Lord for his grace, he sent away the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict, and without saying anything else, went to the outer room.
Zhao Yi returned to the hall and sat down, his face still showing excitement.
After several years, Zhao Yi returned to the cabinet with mixed feelings in his heart.
At this moment, Zhao Yi's first wife Shen came out from the inner room quickly, looked at Zhao Yi intently, and asked softly, "Has the imperial edict been issued from the palace?"
Zhao Yi frowned, his eyes were a little dazed, and he said with emotion: "The emperor's grace is so great."
It was said that the emperor's grace was immense, but in fact it was the Prince of Wei who made the effort in secret.
Zhao Yi sighed softly, his face full of joy.
Shen's tone was filled with resentment, and she said in a deep voice: "I thought the master would retire in the next year or two, and I don't want to re-enter the cabinet and work hard."
Zhao Yi twisted the three strands of beard under his chin with his hands, his face solemn, and said in a loud voice: "If you can do something for the court, you will have a strong and colorful record in the history books in the future, and be respected and admired by future generations."
Shen looked a little helpless, and whispered, "Master should be enjoying his grandchildren instead of taking care of these things."
Zhao Yi nodded and said in a deep voice: "For the country and the people, even though I am in my 80s, I still have an obligation to do so."
Shen curled her lips and did not expose her old man's true thoughts.
I'm afraid I haven't done enough as an official.
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At the same time, in the Jinyifu prison—
A centurion of the Jinyiwei unfolded the imperial edict on silk and read out Lv Jiang's crimes, saying that he had slandered the emperor and instigated the students to cause trouble in front of Anshun Gate.
Cabinet minister Lu Jiang was wearing a white prisoner uniform, with dishevelled hair and a dirty face. He was kneeling in a pile of messy hay. His unshaven face showed an air of defeat, none of the demeanor of the cabinet minister he once was.
He will be exiled to Yunnan, and all his writings since his birth will be confiscated, and he will never be employed again!
Jia Heng, you little bastard, persecute loyal and good people, you will surely be punished by God!
Meanwhile, Lu Li, who was standing on the other side of the wall, also had a grayish aura on his jade-like face.
However, it is a blessing in disguise that he was only exiled to the frontier, and there may be a day when he can make a comeback in the future.
"Jia Heng is so arrogant and domineering. After the new emperor ascends the throne, he will definitely be punished. That will be the time when Jia Heng dies!" Lu Li sneered in his heart.
But then he had to face his current situation of being exiled to the Yunnan border.
At this moment, several palace guards came over quickly to investigate, put a heavy wooden yoke on Lu Li, put on iron shackles, smiled and said, "I don't know if we can reach Yunnan on this journey."
Lu Li's originally pale and bloodless face became uglier again.
Regardless of whether he will have a chance to be reinstated in the future, he is now wandering thousands of miles away, and it is not known whether he can reach Yunnan alive.
However, he is still younger. If he is Elder Lu, I am afraid...
Lu Li was thinking this with mixed feelings.
In the prison cell separated by a wall, when Lu Jiang was put in heavy shackles and shackles by the Jinyifu guards, his face was calm and his heart sank to the bottom of the valley.
At his age, can he reach Yunnan safely?
However, the Jinyifu guards ignored Lu Li's thoughts and came forward. Without saying anything, they pulled Lu Jiang's arm and shouted, "Go, go outside."
On the other side, Lu Li was also held by the arms by several Jinyi Guards and taken out of the imperial prison.
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In the outer study room of Ningguo Mansion in the capital city——
At this moment, Jia Heng was sitting on a pear wood chair behind the desk, chatting with Qu Lang and Liu Jixian from the Jinyi Mansion. At this moment, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Qu Lang intently.
"What's the Gao family's latest moves?" Jia Heng asked.
Qu Lang bowed and said, "Reporting to the Governor, Gao Zhongping has been fine recently and has been on duty in the palace as usual."
Jia Heng paused for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "Have the Junggars and Khoshuts made any moves in the past few days? Have any letters been sent by carrier pigeon?"
Qu Lang nodded, his eyes flickered, and he said, "According to the scouts' previous reports, the two divisions have been preparing for battle recently, and the army will probably attack from the north in the autumn when the horses are fat and the grass is long."
Jia Heng gave an instruction and said in a deep voice: "Send Jinyifu to closely monitor the movements in the northwest and Tibet. At the same time, inform Xining and Yushu to prepare for war."
Qu Lang handed over his hand.
Jia Heng's face was calm. He turned to look at the burly Liu Jixian and asked, "We have recently asked the Jinyifu to keep a close eye on the movements in the capital. We must not allow any more trouble to happen."
Liu Jixian cupped his hands and said yes.
Jia Heng didn't say anything else. He looked at Liu Jixian beside him, pondered for a moment, and said loudly: "What did you say recently?"
Liu Jixian raised his sword-like eyebrows, his eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice: "Reporting to the governor, the Jinyifu detectives have thoroughly investigated the secret spies of the White Lotus Demon in Shenjing City, arrested and killed more than 300 people, and have thoroughly cleaned up some recent rumors in the capital that slandered Gong Wei."
Although Jia Heng used a mixture of true and false to hide the truth in a string of absurd rumors, there were always gossipers who singled out one of them, namely the affair between the young queen mother and Prince Wei.
After all, these romantic scandals among the upper class have always been talked about and described vividly by ordinary people.
Jia Heng frowned, his eyes filled with coldness, and he said sternly: "We must not allow rumors that defame the emperor and endanger the country to spread and disturb people's hearts."
When Liu Jixian heard this, his eyes flickered and he bowed in agreement.
After Qu Lang and Liu Jixian left, Chen Xiao came over from behind a bamboo, wood, and mica brocade screen. A trace of worry appeared on his face, which was as thin as frost. He said in a deep voice, "The Northwest, Tibet, and Bashu are connected together, and the momentum is huge. What should we do?"
Jia Heng shook his head and said, "Foreign invasions will cause chaos anyway. Now there is only one more place, Sichuan. Just think of it as squeezing out an abscess. When all the chaos is over, the world will be at peace."
At that time, he used his merits to force the Chen Han family to abdicate, which was a move in accordance with the will of heaven and the times.
Chen Xiao nodded and said nothing more.
Jia Heng said, "Wait a minute, I'll go see Uncle Lin and discuss the recent special examination."
Chen Xiao responded softly, and reminded, "You helped Zhao Yi enter the cabinet the day before yesterday, and now you let your father-in-law take charge of the examination. The intention cannot be hidden from the two cabinet ministers."
Jia Heng nodded and said, "I didn't expect to hide it in the first place. Now everything is just going with the flow."
Chen Xiaoxiu raised his eyebrows, his clear eyes showing a trance, and asked in a low voice: "Are you going to force Gao Zhongping to rebel?"
Jia Heng said in a deep voice: "That's exactly what I meant!"
"Now, whether it is Gao Zhongping, Khoshut or Dzungar, the three forces are not ready yet. If we act hastily, it will be easy for me to defeat them one by one." Jia Heng thought for a while and added.
Chen Xiao nodded, her eyebrows curved and her eyes sparkling like water.
After a while, a familiar cold voice was heard from outside, saying with a hint of coldness: "What are you two talking about?"
As they were talking, Gu Ruoqing walked into the study. Her fair and delicate face, as if covered with a thin layer of frost, had a faint smile on it and her cold and bright eyes were charming and flowing.
Jia Heng nodded and said in a low voice: "I didn't say anything before."
As he spoke, he gently pulled Gu Ruoqing's delicate hand and said softly, "Ruoqing, you have lost a lot of weight in recent days."
Well, ever since he came back from Korea, he has been busy with court disputes and various other matters, and he has spent less time with Ruoqing.
No wonder Ruoqing's face occasionally showed a thoughtful look.
Jia Heng stretched out his hand and gently put it around Gu Ruoqing's shoulders. A thoughtful look appeared on his calm and resolute face.
Chen Xiao snorted softly, his eyes were warm, and he whispered, "It's still daytime, and the two of them are playing together, and they don't even feel sick of it."
Jia Heng reached out and gently pulled Chen Xiao's slender hand, and was about to pick the snow pear.
Chen Xiao frowned, slapped Jia Heng's hand away, and said in a deep voice: "I'm telling you something serious. Can the seven guards of Guanxi resist the Junggar cavalry? Will the court send more troops to help Guanxi?"
Jia Heng thought for a moment and said, "Jin Xuan, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and Pang Shili and others have more than 100,000 troops stationed in the northwest. If we just hold a defensive position, we should be safe."
Chen Xiao nodded and said, "But once the northwest and southwest are in chaos, the imperial court can't just stay on the defensive and hide away."
Jia Heng looked deeply and replied "yes".
Immediately, he stretched out a hand and touched Gu Ruoqing's collar, only to feel the fullness in his palm. He said in a deep voice: "The court will still send troops, but we have to wait and see the situation."
At this time, Gu Ruoqing's beautiful breasts were attacked, and her plump and lovely face turned red with shame. She reached out her hand to try to push Jia Heng's hand away.
At this moment, I was secretly angry in my heart.
What a guy, he touched her in front of his junior sister, how unreasonable!
"There are still troops from the Khoshut Mongols in Yushu, ready to advance at any time," said Chen Xiao.
Jia Heng crossed the mountains and began to wade through the water, saying: "The King of Mongolia led tens of thousands of Chahar Mongolian cavalry to guard Yushu and block the Chahar Mongolian cavalry from going north. It should be no problem."
Chen Xiao said softly: "Then the real dilemma is in Bashu."
Jia Heng nodded, his eyes deep, and said in a clear voice: "The people in Bashu are all trusted and old members of the Gao family. You will ask the Jinyifu to draw up a map of the pass situation of the troops and generals in wartime, so that the court can make suggestions and discuss the deployment of troops and generals."
Well, the road to Shu is difficult, harder than climbing to the sky.
At this moment, Gu Ruoqing's face, which was once somewhat quiet and cold, was already covered with a light blush. It was obvious that her faith in Taoism had been shaken by Jia Heng's secret instigation.
Chen Xiao couldn't stand it anymore and spat secretly.
At this moment, Jia Heng stretched out his slender hand and put it around Chen Xiao's shoulders.
Chen Xiao's clear eyes sparkled like water under his willow eyebrows. He said unhappily, "You are surrounded by women. Even if you really reach that position, you are still a tyrant."
Jia Heng's eyes flickered, and he whispered, "This is different from my own wives and concubines..."
"Hmm?" Gu Ruoqing's eyes, which were originally slightly narrowed, suddenly opened, and there was a hint of unfriendly expression on his face.
Who is the wife and who is the concubine?
Jia Heng quickly changed his words and said, "It's nothing to be in love with my own wife."
As Jia Heng spoke, he moved closer to Chen Xiao's lips and pecked the girl's mouth like a dragonfly touching the water.
Chen Xiao said angrily: "Don't kiss me."
Jia Heng was speechless for a moment.
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Tianshan, Dzungarian tribes
It was summer, the weather was hot, and the sky was blue and boundless, stretching as far as the eye could see.
And on the vast grassland, you can see the breeze blowing and the grass waves sweeping.
In a tent with a ruby felt roof and gold and white woven silk cloth—
Batur Hui Taiji of the Junggar tribe sat on a chair made entirely of gold, with several maids fanning him around him. On the lacquered wooden table were pieces of watermelon with red flesh and juicy watermelon.
On both sides of the two rows of low tables below were lined up several Junggar chieftains and prince Galdan and others.
Baturhui raised his thick eyebrows, his eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice: "You have all seen the letter from the Han vassal king. Previously, the Eastern Tartars were pacified in Liaodong by the Han court's Wei Wang. My army was recuperating and reorganizing, and did not hinder the Han army. Now that Liaodong has been pacified, given the greedy nature of the Han people, they are most likely to lead their troops to attack our Junggar and plunder pastures and land."
The Junggar Mongolian chieftains who were sitting below all had anger on their faces.
Galdan looked solemn and said in a deep voice: "Father Khan, the Han people have been fighting for the past two years and are already exhausted. If it weren't for the fact that I, the Dzungar, needed to recuperate, I would not have sat idly by and watched the Han court send troops to wipe out Liaodong. Now the Han army has almost eliminated the foreign threats, and now only we and the Khoshut are left."
Before the fall of the Jurchens, they had sent letters to Dzungar and Khoshut, but Dzungar was resting. After all, the battle of the Seven Guards in Guanxi had resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of elite soldiers.
As for Khoshut, it was too far away to deploy troops.
Baturhui's eyes were filled with coldness, and he said in a deep voice: "The Han people have a saying that goes, 'When the lips are gone, the teeth are cold.' Now it's our turn."
Galdan raised his sword-like eyebrows, his eyes were sharp, like the eyes of a wolf, and he said: "Father Khan, the Han people have a good saying, 'Strike first and win, strike later and lose'. It just so happens that the young ruler of the Han court is in power, the ruler is young and the country is in doubt, and there are also internal supporters in Bashu. This is a golden opportunity that can only be achieved once in a lifetime!"
Baturhui nodded, his expression paused slightly, and he looked at Galdan with a hint of admiration in his eyes.
With the deaths in battle of several of Baturhui's sons, such as Zhuoklitu, Dalma and Wenchun, the outline of the successor to the throne of Dzungar Khanate gradually emerged.
Galdan was originally the youngest son, and according to Mongolian tradition, the youngest son usually inherits the family business.
Baturhui nodded and said gently, "Now is the time when the Han people are weak. We are advancing from three directions. In addition, the Han people are in chaos in Shu and are unable to take care of themselves. I, the Junggar, must take back the Seven Guards of Guanxi!"
Galdan said: "If it is true as the letter says, then Wei Wang Jia Heng has done something that will anger the gods and the people. At that time, wars will break out all over the Central Plains and flags of rebellion will be raised everywhere. It is possible that our Junggar will point its sword at Xining and herd horses in Qinghai!"
Baturhui was excited when he heard this, and praised loudly: "Well said!"
If the Han people really started to cause chaos, the Dzungars would really occupy the northwest and establish a large Khanate.