Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 291

Li's Mansion is located on the south side street of Chengdu Imperial Palace. Because it is close to the imperial city, it is the best location. Most of the dignitaries and dignitaries in Chengdu live here.

Li Hao has been an official in Shu for 50 years. Both the former Shu and the later Shu were high-ranking officials, and he even served as a general and minister in the later Shu.

In Jiu'an in the middle of Shu, the children of the clan's nobles and high-ranking officials, feasting and feasting are popular, and there are 30 years old who don't know the five grains.Every spring, Huanhua River in Chengdu, full of songs and music, filled with pearls and emeralds, the son of the noble family, Huaxuan Caiboat, swim together on the Baihua Lake.Officials bent the law for personal gain, and incidents of corruption and bribery emerged endlessly. Even in the imperial examinations, those who bribed heavily were admitted to high-level subjects. The examiner used the amount of bribes to determine whether he was selected.

Under such an atmosphere, Li Hao, as a prime minister, is also advancing bravely, unwilling to be left behind.

His prime minister's mansion is also extremely extravagant. The white jade stone lion at the front entrance is about two feet thick with vermilion.

Li Hao usually acts extravagantly, not to mention money and treasures, there are hundreds of concubines and maids in his mansion alone, outsiders don't know how he, an old man in his 60s, can bear it.

It is precisely because of his wealth and wealth that he has accumulated countless wealth in the Shu Kingdom for 50 years. Li Hao was also the first group of people to persuade the Shu Kingdom Lord to surrender.

Because once Zhou Jun called, it was not up to Li Hao to decide how much property he could keep, so it was better to submit a form of surrender first, in order to protect himself.

But now he is afraid, the army has already arrived outside the city, Chengdu will definitely not be able to defend, whether Zhou Jun will really let them go, he keeps beating drums in his heart.

If Jianmenguan, Lizhou, Kuizhou and other dangerous places were still in hand, and there was still capital to negotiate with Zhou Guo, now they have all come to Chengdu, and it is already a favor not to kill.

Based on this, Li Hao was very afraid, afraid that his family's wealth would not be secured, and also afraid that if he accidentally angered Shi Congyun, his life would be lost.

Therefore, he not only wrote the surrender form overnight, but also selected the three most beautiful concubines and maids in his home to give to Shi Congyun.

Everyone in the world knows that Shi Congyun is lustful, it's no secret, and they have prepared a lot of gold, silver and jewelry at home to bribe Shi Congyun.

After he finished writing the surrender form, he asked his servants to prepare a sedan chair to enter the palace to meet His Majesty, but as soon as he went out, he found that the servants waiting outside had a strange look on his face. When he turned around, he found that there were a few big characters written on the Zhumen of his house, "Shixiu surrendered!" Biao Li's family".

Each character is as big as a bucket, and the writing is not neat. Someone must have written it quietly at night.

Li Hao was furious!
He was not from a famous family, so he paid great attention to his family background and other people's comments after he made his fortune. He once sent his minister Zhao Jizha to the south of the Yangtze River to buy the book made by Li Shen who was the prime minister in the Wuzong Dynasty, and then built a colorful building to put it inside. , Called all the singing girls in Chengdu, dressed in court clothes, went to welcome back to the private house to worship, the guests of the meeting hosted a banquet and had a drink, and the money was spent, and they thanked Zhao Jizha with two thousand pieces of silk.

Just to prove that his Li family is a celebrity, someone wrote a letter of surrender from the Li family at his door. People on the street couldn't help laughing when they saw it, and he was so angry that his head was full of veins.

I even asked someone to come and wipe it, so I had no choice but to enter the palace in a sedan chair and show the surrender form to the officials.

That remark was infuriating, but it made him unable to refute it, because the Tang army invaded the Shu land around 30 years ago, and Tang also wrote the surrender form after the surrender of the Shu land.
Li Hao suppressed his anger and went to the palace. His Majesty did not go to court, and the palace was in chaos. Finally, the eunuch next to His Majesty sent his surrender form to the imperial court. His Majesty stamped the seal, and then the crown prince came out with him. Ready to go to surrender table together.

His Majesty doesn't want to be a director at all, he only knows how to drink.

When the two came out and were about to leave, Li Hao saluted Prince Meng Xuanzhe and said a few polite words of comfort. Unexpectedly, he didn't look as sad as the king, but said: "Mr. Li, wait We will go out and we will bring a few beauties to curry favor with the Marshal Shangguo, if you don’t want to talk then don’t speak, but don’t contradict the people from the east.”

For a moment, even Li Hao was surprised. Someone wrote "Shixiu surrendered to the Li family" at the door of his house this morning, and even he began to reflect in his heart, whether he was too shameless and traitorous to do so. It's a tough word, and I will stick to it anyway, even at the risk.

Didn't expect the crown prince to sell more thoroughly than him?
"Your Highness, don't be too sad, there's nothing you can do about it." He said repeatedly.

The prince glanced at him, as if he was not from his family: "There is nothing to be sad about. As long as the Eastern Army doesn't kill me, it will be a relief. It will be a matter of time."

"This..." Li Hao was stunned, the prince was even worse than him!
The prince talked eloquently as if educating him: "Li Gong, you are also a person who has read a lot and learned a lot, so you should know the generalities.

For thousands of years, our Shu land has not been an aggressive place. It is better to surrender early and save it while the Zhou army is not ready to kill them all.

When it's hard to return and the people of Shu hate us to death, it may not be possible to save our lives by surrendering.

In order to please Shi Congyun, a certain man left his concubine to him in Mianzhou. I will give him whatever he wants, as long as he doesn’t want my life. So, Mr. Li, you should also pay attention to what you say later, don’t provoke others, don’t say those things Sour words. "

Li Hao was stunned by the prince's lesson for a while, so he could only nod repeatedly.

When the two were preparing to leave the palace all the way, a eunuch suddenly followed up and whispered: "Li Xianggong, please wait a moment."

Li Hao and the crown prince stopped together, thinking that the emperor had some orders, but found that it was not the eunuch who was with the emperor, but the eunuch who was with the imperial concubine.

The eunuch whispered: "Mr. Li, the imperial concubine said that when Mr. Xiang comes back, please help to find a way. Seeing Shi Congyun, the empress wants to protect thousands of people in the palace."

Li Hao is an old man, so he immediately understood what was going on. If the imperial concubine agreed, he would certainly think it was a great idea!

The reputation of noble concubine Fei is well known in the entire Shu region. If she can go out and flatter Shi Congyun and please Shi Congyun, then everyone in the Shu region will be safer, and of course he is also safe. He will send hundreds of concubines It's not as good as Fei Guifei, the wife of Huarui.

Instead, he looked at the prince worriedly.

The prince nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, go and report back quickly, just say that we will find someone to tell the noble concubine about the situation when we come back."

Now even Li Hao felt that the prince was a bit too much.
"Is this wrong?" He asked tactfully.

The prince walked out quickly with him, and said: "What's wrong, the noble concubine is my father's concubine, after all, she is also my daughter in name, if it works, then Shi Congyun will also be in my name His father has a backer.

Besides, my father and concubine have thousands of concubines, and he can't even look at them on weekdays, not even one or two. "

Li Hao nodded, and suddenly felt that this prince is really a genius in the world!

Thinking things were several floors higher than he thought.

After waiting for a while, all their troops gathered, Han Baosheng and other officials from the Imperial Academy also came and gathered a team of four.

After all the people arrived, some of them took sedan chairs and some took horse-drawn carriages to the gate of the city, ready to meet Shi Congyun, hand over the surrender form, and discuss the matter of surrender.

Outside the city, Shi Congyun soon received the envoy from the Kingdom of Shu to deliver the surrender form, so he asked Xiao Huanghua to change him into clean clothes, put on a casual leather armor, and brought Wei Renpu, Dou Yi, Wang Quanbin, Shao Ji, Dang Jin, Fu Zhaoyuan, Murong Yanzhao, Pan Mei and others were waiting in the big tent.

When they arrived at the big tent, Shi Congyun sat on the top seat, and his men, Wen and Wu, stood on both sides consciously.

On one side of the civil servants, Wei Renpu took the lead, followed by Dou Yi, who sentenced Dali Temple, and many officials of the Privy Council.

As for the military generals, Shao Ji, who had the highest official position, led the way, followed by Wang Quanbin, the majestic general with a sword in his armor.

It was only after that that he asked someone to bring the envoys of the Kingdom of Shu in.

The guards at the door first let him know as the famous assassin, and then let him in.

This time four people came from Shu Kingdom, Crown Prince Meng Xuanzhe, Prime Minister Li Hao, Attendant Li Tinggui, Hanlin Bachelor Han Baosheng.

Afterwards a few people came, seeing the valiant civil and military figures lined up on both sides, and seeing Shi Congyun standing like a hill, they all knelt down one after another.

Shi Congyun's figure was not much different from that of his father, and he felt very oppressive.

He said: "Excuse me, get up and talk about business."

"Thank you King Qin!" Several people got up quickly, all dressed in plain clothes, no fancy official clothes.

The crown prince over there, Meng Xuanzhe, held the surrender form, knelt down, and put up his hands: "Your servants have eyes but no eyes, and the small country in the remote area does not know the vastness of the upper country and the mighty power of heaven, please trouble Wang Shi to come from afar to attack.

Today, on behalf of my father, on behalf of the Kingdom of Shu, I present this surrender form and the seal of the Kingdom of Shu, and ask the King of Qin to forgive us for our crimes of resisting the king’s teacher and bypassing our family, as well as the people and officials in Chengdu. "

Then the person next to him also knelt down again, and Li Hao was still holding a beautiful box, which should be the jade seal of Shu Kingdom.

Shi Congyun saw that they bowed their knees and said the words of surrender, he was very pleased with himself, raised his hand and said: "Get up, lower your watch and read to listen."

Meng Xuanzhe even opened the surrender form and began to read: "I was born in Bingmen and grew up in Shu. Fortunately, with the foundation of my predecessors, I can inherit it from a young age.

He only knows the change of the four seasons, but not the change and divination of the three spirits.Since the emperor's majesty came out of the Ming Dynasty, the sage and virtue are respected, the sound teaching is in the wild, and Qingze is in the middle of the summer.When condensing the main hall, it is a small thing to do big things.And tell the class of Yuanqiu, Guang Zhi Zhi Feng Chen's ceremony.The land of Gaishu lives in a secluded place, and the road blocks the Que court.
The minister resumed the collection of stories, and went up to Yan Cong.I secretly thought that Liu Chan had the title of Anle, and Shubao had the title of Great Wall, all because of the return of money, he was given a whole life.The remaining souls of Gu Xuan are lucky to be able to protect the family.The temples where the ancestors of the concubine envoys sleep are not a place for woodcutters to collect wood.After the old mother's court is removed, there is still a place to say hello.Seeing that the treasury is being preserved today, and the military city is being patrolled, so as not to be damaged, we will take pictures in the near future.Chen Chang would like to lead the civil and military officials to see the official and look up to the palace to return to his order. "

Meng Chang read in cadence for a long time. To be honest, even though Shi Congyun has been in this world for six years, he has been working hard to learn fonts and cultural knowledge step by step under the guidance of Zhao Shijian, Zhou Xian, Fu Jinling and other wives after fighting. This drop table can only be said to understand [-] to [-]%.

Ancient prose is not as simple as it is taken for granted by later generations.

On the one hand, writing tools are expensive, and the more concise and brief the better, on the other hand, mystification is also indispensable, so that the rich and powerful can monopolize knowledge and culture.

That's why he asked Meng Xuanzhe to read it on the spot, with Dou Yi and a group of scholars standing beside him.

Then he said solemnly: "Dou Shaoqing, you don't think anything."

Dou Yi bowed her hand, and immediately understood what he meant: "Commander, I think the surrender of the Meng family is acceptable. He admitted his mistake, saying that he sealed up the treasury and armaments, and waited for the commander to enter the city and belong to our dynasty.

Taking Empress Chen as an example, he wanted to ask my court to give him a seal of dignity and give him a salary to take care of his old mother. As the lord of the country, it is not too much to ask. "

What Dou Yi said was simple and easy to understand, and there were not so many messy things. Shi Congyun immediately understood the meaning of lowering the table, and looked at Wei Renpu again.

Wei Renpu also nodded, and Shi Congyun said, "Okay, I accept this demotion."

The people below breathed a sigh of relief. Meng Xuanzhe handed Jiang Biao his hands in front of him. Li Hao also handed over the box in his hand. Fu Zhaoyuan stepped forward to take it, put it on his desk, and opened the box meticulously. It is the jade seal of Shu Kingdom made of jade.

Shi Congyun nodded, got up and went downstairs, and said to several people: "Go back, the city gates will be opened at noon tomorrow, and a certain army will take over the four city gates. Chengdu is temporarily closed, and no one is allowed to enter or leave."

At the same time, he looked at the prince Meng Xuanzhe who was somewhat interested, "Go back and tell your father that the court agreed to make him the Duke of the state, and will also give him a salary to support his mother and family, but he must go to Daliang."

Meng Xuanzhe quickly thanked him.

Shi Congyun nodded, and said bluntly, "Go back, the prince will stay."

Several officials glanced at the prince, the prince nodded and said: "I have admired the commander-in-chief for a long time, you go back, don't forget to open the door tomorrow, my life is in the hands of the princes."

Only then did Li Hao take the person away.

Seeing them leave, Shi Congyun didn't actually say what was left in his mind.

Shi Congyun's idea is not only that the Meng family will go to Daliang, but also that all middle and high-level officials in the Shu Kingdom will go to Daliang.

But now that the army has not yet entered the city, he can't say it, for fear of stirring up changes, he will only give the order when the army enters the city, and it will be too late for the officials to repent.

This decision was discussed for a long time with Wei Renpu, Dou Yi, and Pan Mei.

This is the particularity of the Shu regime that determines them to be so.

The mountains of Shu are high and the emperor is far away, and at the same time, foreign regimes rule over them. These two factors determine that they will do this.

No matter after the end of the Han Dynasty when the Wei State destroyed Shu or after the end of the Tang Dynasty when Zhao Kuangyin destroyed Shu, they all had the same move, that is, a large number of officials from the State of Shu were transferred away.

On the one hand, it is to change central officials to better control this remote place.

On the other hand, this is also a move to win the hearts of the Shu people.

Some people may not understand why forcing officials to leave Shu is still supported by the military and civilians in Shu, which has a lot to do with the political situation of Shu.

The former Shu and the later Shu were all foreigners, and they came to power by force. These foreign officials established the country in Shu along with the military conquest. is overwhelming.

Whether it was the Shu Han at the end of the Han Dynasty, or the former Shu and the later Shu at the end of the Tang Dynasty, when they perished, the locals either acted as the leading party and the surrender party, or they did not resist at all.

Therefore, throughout the ages, many people have stood on the commanding heights of morality and attacked the locals. Whether it was the late Han Dynasty or the late Tang and early Song Dynasty, they said that the officials and people in Shu were corrupt, disloyal, and so on.

But few people have cared about the situation of the people in Shu and why they were "disloyal and unrighteous".

From Shi Congyun's point of view, it's nonsense, Shu is just so small, it can support a huge court, and more than [-]% of the middle and high-level officials are outsiders, and the entire royal family is all outsiders.

The local people have few chances to get promoted, and they are being ridden on their heads, and they can’t fight outside. The overall cake is not big, so they can only continue to exploit internally. After a long time, the rich and prosperous Shu land began to be overwhelmed. How can the local people support it? ?How to support it?

Is it true that the people of Sichuan have to peel off their own skin and feed their own bones to the mouth of the ruler to be considered "loyalty and unparalleled"?
It's as simple as Li Hao, the prime minister of the Shu Kingdom. He came from Hezhong Mansion. After entering Shu, in such a small place, he has countless wealth. There are hundreds of wives and concubines in his 60s, not to mention the extravagance in the palace. yes.

At this time, all these foreign officials are forcibly transferred away, and they are not allowed to come back. On the contrary, they can gain the support of the common people, reduce the pressure on the common people, and at the same time make Shu more under the control of the central government. It is a way to kill two birds with one stone. Shi Congyun has made up his mind .

But who to do this is a matter of knowledge, because you must be familiar with the officialdom of the entire Shu Kingdom.

After all the officials had left, Shi Congyun asked Meng Xuanzhe, who was a little curious, "What do you think of the death of Shu?"

Meng Xuanzhe was cautious, and said with a humble face: "It is our small remote country that is overreaching, please forgive me, Commander."

"I'm not asking you this. I heard people here say that you were a child prodigy since you were a child. You were smart and read a lot. You should know the general trend of the world and so on. From a long-term perspective." Shi Congyun waved his hand.

Meng Xuanzhe was about the same age as him, so it seemed like two people of the same age were communicating with each other.

He froze for a moment, and reorganized his words: "Commander, the demise of our Shu Kingdom is the general trend. I actually wanted to bow to the east and surrender to the court, but it was Wang Zhaoyuan who bewitched my father, so I think it is logical that this day will come sooner or later."

(End of this chapter)