Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 269 Shu State Sends Troops

In February, there was still a slight chill in the air, and the army had already moved out.

Shi Congyun once again realized that people's potential is unlimited. Under his encouragement, Feng Jisheng led many craftsmen to rush to work day and night, and 21 cannons were made abruptly in early February.

This speed greatly exceeded Shi Congyun's expectations, and several craftsmen even fainted from exhaustion due to overtime work day and night.

Shi Congyun was very moved, and ordered to reward these craftsmen, and at the same time wanted to give them an official status.

But he suddenly discovered a big problem, the Ministry of Industry, he could not squeeze so many people in at once, the Department of Confidentiality belonged to Prince Qin's mansion, and its rank was very low, because it was not part of the imperial court, which limited everyone's rank.

To put it bluntly, even if he holds great power and his status is there, he is destined to not be able to give these craftsmen too high a reward.

He suddenly understood why there are many dramas similar to the addition of the yellow robe in history. Probably Zhao Kuangyin's addition of the yellow robe is too impressive. People only remember him. In fact, this is not his original creation at all. Many people have done similar things before him. , such as Guo Wei's yellow flag.

This is not only the wish of the group's top leader, but the people below are also looking forward to it. If you don't add a yellow robe, how can we confer titles and worship ministers?
Shi Congyun also realized that he is now the king of Qin, with great power in his hands. He can command the queen, command the Privy Council, and command the three provinces to issue edicts, but he can't transfer a large number of direct descendants to the central government at once, arrange high-ranking officials with generous salaries, or direct the imperial court. Create a new department.

Once the emperor and the courtiers, if you are not the emperor, others still occupy the pit.

Shi Congyun began to think about this matter, but he just thought about it first, and now he mainly thinks about how to fight Shu.

The road to the west is easy to walk, the road is flat, the army is singing military songs, lined up neatly along the way, and the footsteps are regular.

In the distance, the Yellow River is sparkling, and the waves on the big river are rippling. Hundreds of boats of all sizes are slowly heading west, and the loud and clear chant of the boatmen can be heard far away.

Shi Congyun was riding a horse, and his cart was swaying beside him, and there was no one in it.

Although riding a horse was bumpy, he had already gotten used to it. In the past six years, he hadn't had a year of stability, which could be regarded as a life on horseback.

Wei Renpu also rode beside him, talking to him.

Shi Congyun asked him to take his own car, but Wei Renpu refused: "Although this old man is not as good as the King of Qin, he can be considered a soldier for a lifetime, and riding a horse is fine."

After the two marriages were finalized, Wei Renpu obviously became closer to him.

"That's right, but Wei Shumi should also pay attention to his body. Many things can be left to young people to do, so let them do more exercise.

In the future, there will be good fortune to enjoy. " Shi Congyun asked.

Wei Renpu cupped his hands and nodded, "Thank you King Qin for your concern."

Shi Congyun looked at the dense banners at the end of the avenue in the distance
This concern is not fake.

According to historical records, both Li Gu and Wang Pu died long ago.

Shi Congyun was very worried. The prime ministers of Da Zhou were considered talents, but most of them died in their fifties.

Li Gu can be attributed to being sick from overwork. Every time he was in charge of the army’s logistics and led the troops to fight. In Taiyuan, he took over Fu Yanqing’s deployment for the capital of Taiyuan. The follow-up army, after taking Huainan, let Li Gu know the affairs of Shouzhou, and it was also the logistics of the prime minister's army.

Li Gu wrote to the officials several times to ask for retirement, but the officials refused to allow him. In the end, he became ill from exhaustion in the army and died after retiring.

The officials must also have helplessness. It is really hard to find a literati Zaifu like Li Gu who is both civil and military, can guarantee the logistics of the army, and can lead troops to fight.

There were prime ministers who gave advice and advice in the Great Zhou Dynasty, such as Wang Pu, Fan Zhi, Wang Pu, and Wei Renpu, but Li Gu was the only one who was able to do the actual work.

Because Chinese Confucian scholar culture is popular, scholars control cultural and public opinion, and counselors are representatives of scholars, giving people the illusion that major events in the world are settled by those important counselors with their mouths.

In fact, fart, if you think carefully about the structure of the court, you will understand that this kind of thinking is ridiculously wrong. The three provinces Zhongshu, Menxia, ​​and Shangshu; Zhongshu and Menxia are all institutions for discussion, and Shangshu is the executive agency.

Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Zhongshu Ling and his servants have been used to add officials personally, but Shangshuling, the head of the Shangshu Province, has never been given to others.

Even Guo Ziyi, who saved the Tang Dynasty, wanted to add a ministerial order, but the court refused to grant it. The reason was that Li Shimin had served as a ministerial order for a short period of time, so he could not be added a ministerial order in the future.

It doesn't make sense if you think about it carefully. Then there are emperors who served as Zhongshu Ling before he succeeded to the throne. How can the Zhongshu Ling be returned to others.

In the final analysis, Shang Shuling has too much power, and the executive unit is always the center of power. Execution, or to put it bluntly, doing things is the key to success.

On the contrary, it doesn’t matter to the deliberative unit, you can talk about it as you like, if you don’t implement it, if you don’t implement it, everything will be empty, so Mingjun is not afraid of officials’ arguments, you can argue as you like, what can be achieved by talking about it, there is a huge gap between discussion and implementation .

There is a world of difference between talking about something and doing it.

There are a large number of officials who can talk about it in Dazhou, and the officials have summoned many scholars of this kind, and they are all enshrined in Jixian Hall. There are quite a few scholars in that group. In the second and third years of Xiande, the officials also liked to call them to discuss things. I lost interest after that.

These people speak very well, and they can usually follow the official's side, but he is useless.

There was only one Li Gu who could really think about problems and do things at the same time. The officials couldn't help but hold on to him, and finally died of overwork.

To put it bluntly, I’m afraid to just talk and not do anything. There are quite a few literati in the imperial court who have great words, but most of them just dare to stand by and point out others, really let him do it, let him take responsibility, bear the consequences, he dare not
Shi Congyun has right and wrong along the way, but there must be achievements. First of all, because he thought at the beginning that he would fuck his mother, the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge, and he will do it first.

He is not very smart, but as long as he does it, even if it is wrong, he can slowly correct it, which is better than doing nothing.

What's more, people like Li Gu are not only capable of doing things, but also doing things well. The officials must be reluctant to let him retire, and Shi Congyun is also reluctant.

This time, because of Shi Congyun's presence, Li Gu didn't have to worry about many things, so he was still in good health.

People who can talk are everywhere, and there are really not many who can do things, so I often deliberately let him stay in the capital, so as not to come out to be troubled, it is not good for his health.

At the same time, he also deliberately forced some literati he was optimistic about to come out to do things and take responsibility. For example, the young Wang Pu, Shi Congyun let him join the army and take responsibility.

There is no need to take responsibility for talking about it, so most people like it. It’s good that I don’t take risks with my salary, just like those counselors in Jixian Palace;

But once the leader decides to implement it, the one who implements it will bear the responsibility and consequences.

Both are needed, but the pillars must be the leaders responsible for decision-making and capable ministers responsible for execution. What Shi Congyun wants is capable ministers, and Da Zhou also lacks this. If Li Gu is no longer here one day, who will help him take care of it? Shang Shusheng?Who will help him manage the Duzhi Division, the Household Department Division, and the Salt and Iron Division?

He is thinking about all these things. Only when the military and government go together can the country be stable.

After several days of marching, they arrived in Guanzhong in early February, because the army marched along the Yellow River in this section, and water transportation can greatly relieve the logistical pressure.

Guanzhong is still dilapidated, and when Shi Shi Congyun passed through Luoyang, he deliberately took the road once.

The result was disappointing. The outskirts of Luoyang were dilapidated, and the surrounding area was sparsely populated. Chatting with the local old people, I learned that many young people went east to make a living.

Shi Congyun was very emotional. The once prosperous Guanzhong, the two ancient capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, were dilapidated and declined after the military turmoil in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

After that, the army continued eastward, and soon reached Guanzhong.

After arriving in Guanzhong, the marching speed slowed down, because the Yellow River could not be borrowed, and water transportation was not as convenient as before. It was still usable, but it was more time-consuming and laborious.

Shi Congyun went to visit Luoyang because he had a fantasy and wanted to have the opportunity to move the capital from Kaifeng to Luoyang in the future.

Kaifeng is not suitable as a long-term national capital in any case. There is only one reason. There is no danger to defend, and the four sides are flat. The only natural danger in the north is the Yellow River, and the Yellow River will freeze in this era.
Once the Yellow River freezes, the enemy will come and leave whenever he wants.

The territory of the Song Dynasty was not as large as that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but there were too many soldiers to support, and the waste was huge. Most of them were hoarded near Kaifeng, because Kaifeng had no danger to defend, so you can't rely on people.

The "80" forbidden army has been stationed in the capital to defend Daliang all the year round, plus nearly a million border troops and local troops on the border. The military expenditure is an astronomical figure, and no matter how rich the Song Dynasty was, it could not afford it.

The territories of the Han and Tang Dynasties were huge, but the total standing troops in the capital and border areas were only 50 million.

Even if it takes so many troops to defend, how can you attack without any scruples?
Zhao Kuangyin once wanted to move the capital to Luoyang, and also wanted to move to Chang'an after Chang'an recovered. There was a power game between him and his younger brother, but the reason he gave was very reasonable.

Just seeing the defeat in Luoyang and Guanzhong, my heart was shaken again.

So much so that the march all the way was a little absent-minded, until the army was about to cross the Qinling Mountains and head south.

Wei Renpu seemed to see some of his thoughts, and said: "If the King of Qin cherishes the people in Guanzhong and Luoyang, he can send people to manage it as soon as possible. In time, after one or two generations, not to mention restoring the former style, at least it can be prosperous.

But to revitalize Luoyang in Guanzhong, the first thing is to pacify the Northern Han Dynasty and secure the party, otherwise the external worries will not be eliminated, and the common people will have no choice but to settle down. "

Shi Congyun nodded. Indeed, the Northern Han Dynasty and Dangxiang were like a knife hanging over Guanzhong and Luoyang.

This is the difficulty of doing things. After many difficulties are caused by many difficulties, it is difficult to achieve overnight.

"In the past, the big problem with the confidant was the Liao Kingdom, and now the party item is also added."

In mid-February, the army of 2 people on the North Road began to cross the mountains and mountains. Anyone who is not blind in Shu will know about this move.

On the outskirts of Chengdu, there is a newly built spacious bamboo shed, surrounded by many soldiers, many people wearing red and green, beating and beating, with red silk hanging on both ends of the eaves.

It can be seen that there are densely packed troops standing on the avenue in the distance, and the head and tail of the brigade can't be seen. Many people looked at this side impatiently, and felt that it didn't look like a wedding scene.

It's also too big.
The bamboo shed was built temporarily, and there was a banquet inside. Two boys were burning incense and playing the qin. There were many officials present. One of them was Li Hao, the prime minister of the Shu Kingdom, and the other was a member of the Privy Council appointed by the emperor. Wang Zhaoyuan, who was in command of the battalion and was in charge of the army on the North Road.

Knowing that Shi Congyun led the army to attack Shu, the court panicked, and many people were so frightened that they lost their minds.

Who is Shi Congyun?Anyone who is knowledgeable today has heard that he killed one hundred thousand Khitan troops in the north last year, and now that he is leading the army to fight for it, the troops are terrified and everyone is in danger.

Yesterday, when the court decided to dispatch troops, it knew that Zhou Guo sent [-] troops, [-] troops from the North Route, and [-] troops from the South Route, so they ordered Wang Zhaoyuan to be the commander of the southwestern camp, Zhao Chongtao to be the capital supervisor, and Han Baozheng to lead [-] troops to go there as a recruiter. In the north, they refused to fight in Lizhou, Jianzhou and other places.

In the south, troops were stationed in the Three Gorges, with Gao Yanchou and others as guards, to prevent the Zhou army from entering Shu from the Yangtze River.

The lord Meng Chang personally confessed to Wang Zhaoyuan in the court hall, "Today's teacher is also called by you, and I encourage you to make contributions for me!"

This sentence is somewhat resentful, but also encouraging.

Li Hao understood what was going on in his heart. At the beginning, he and several ministers jointly advised the lord that Shi Congyun was no match for the Khitans. After fighting over the years, none of them could survive, and some of them were wiped out. Some were beaten to the point where only half of the country was left, and they paid tribute and proclaimed themselves ministers.

It is better for the Shu Kingdom to surrender as soon as possible and become a subordinate state of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and also pay tribute to become a minister, so that the wealth of the Meng family can be preserved, and the people of the Shu region will be protected from military disasters.

In the end, Wang Zhaoyuan firmly disagreed, saying that Shi Congyun was not invincible.

He also came up with the strategy of uniting the Northern Han Dynasty and attacking the Zhou Kingdom from the north and the south. The ruler of the country has always favored him and listened to his opinions. As a result, the people who contacted the Northern Han Dynasty went to Daliang to report the rebellion. country.

Li Hao felt in his heart that Wang Zhaoyuan was an idiot. What kind of abilities did Northern Han have? How could he dare to touch Da Zhou?

The Northern Han Dynasty was able to live well because they recognized the Khitan people as their fathers, and even asked for forgiveness for writing such words in the country as "the father is hidden for the son, and I am willing to forgive him". The Khitan people sent troops to protect them, and they can survive until now. It was destroyed by the state of Zhou.

Now that the Khitan people have let Shi Congyun beat them to the ground, and let the Northern Han attack the Great Zhou, would he dare?
But Wang Zhaoyuan thought that the Northern Han Dynasty was in the north and they were in the south. Sending troops from two directions would be a two-sided attack, which is highly respected in the art of war.
He also understands Wang Zhaoyuan's thoughts. On the one hand, because he is in Shu, he often compares himself to Zhuge Liang, thinking that he is full of strategies and is looking forward to displaying them.

On the other hand, Wang Zhaoyuan has no achievements but occupies a high position. He is afraid that the current discussion will be unfavorable to him, and wants to prove his ability by fighting Zhou Jun.

Wang Zhaoyuan is the lord's favored minister, even though he is the prime minister, he dare not refute and can only follow him.

This time he brought all his colleagues to see him farewell, saying congratulations on his success in the expedition, and rejecting Zhou Bing's words, but in his heart he felt that such an idiot could stop Shi Congyun?Just dream, you can only hope that Zhou Bing may retreat on his own.

After all, the road to Shu is not easy to walk. If the stalemate persists, and the king is subdued and paid tribute, there may be a turning point.

Everyone praised Wang Zhaoyuan, the banquet was in full swing, a military officer came in to ask for instructions, the army had been waiting outside for almost an hour, the soldiers were agitated, should we go first.

Wang Zhaoyuan's expression darkened immediately: "A certain is the commander-in-chief of the three armies, and the military orders prohibit it. The military book says that it is as swift as the wind, as slow as the forest, invades and plunders like fire, immovable as a mountain, difficult to know as cloud, and moves like thunder.

Now Xiao Hou can't stand it anymore, how to fight, go out! "

The officers could only retreat in fear.

Rebuking the officers and ordering the army, no one dared to refute, and it seemed that Wang Zhaoyuan was very proud of showing his majesty in front of everyone.

Everyone also flattered their horses. When the wine was in full swing, Wang Zhaoyuan also became interested. He often compared himself to Zhuge, but he didn't have a feather fan.
Wang Zhaoyuan holds an iron ruyi in his hand, and his command is determined. He compares himself to Zhuge Liang.When he was drunk, he raised his arms and called Hao and said: "My trip is more than just defeating the enemy. I should lead these [-] to [-] evil boys with carved faces, and take the Central Plains like a palm of the hand!"

Everyone said yes.

After the banquet, [-] elite Shu soldiers on the North Road went north to Lizhou and Jianzhou to fight against the Zhou division.

(End of this chapter)