The rise of the prince

Chapter 667 Where did he come from?

However, there is still controversy about whether to serve as the commander in front of the chief official's hall or the infantry commander of the bodyguards, because Di Zhi is too young, only in his 20s this year, and he has been promoted too quickly.

The radical faction headed by De Gong and Prince Kang felt that this was not a problem at all, and they even quoted scriptures, saying that when Huo Qubing went to war at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and at the age of 20, he was the official general and great general Sima Yunyun, and he could still show the king's kindness, and so on.

The Moderate faction, led by He Zhao and Lu Jie, felt that even if they want to be rewarded, Di Zhi can take his time, and first join Wu Lie and Shenwu Army Commander. After all, it is not good to go directly from the deputy commander of the new army to the commander in front of the palace.

People on both sides have their own reasons, and they talked very hard, but the emperor just watched happily. After all, this is a happy event, and it is a good thing for them to quarrel.

The rewards for Di Zhi and Yan Shen are naturally nothing, Liu Ji can't make it public, he still has the identity of a traitor after all.

The most difficult thing is about Wei Yubai's reward, because there has never been such a precedent. It has never happened in Jingguo's history that a woman is an official or general, but Wei Yubai's contribution is also great.

First, in the battle of Weizhou and Anding, Wei Yubai was the vanguard force. In the final decisive battle, she made a detour and established a great victory. The Jiedushi of the Zhangde Army (added after Han Derang's death) Yelu Dashi and many high-level generals of the Liao Kingdom.

Now the controversy is even greater. Some people say that the law of the ancestors is immutable, and women cannot be promoted to official positions.Some people said not to hurt the hearts of the soldiers, some said it would be a bad start for Jing Guo, and some said that hard work and not rewarded is the worst start.
In short, the two sides could not stop arguing and were in a stalemate. Now even the emperor really hesitated.

Li Xingzhou also found it interesting to see a group of old men arguing and blushing, so he watched them quarrel.

In fact, the north won, and he knew that there would be such a result. Others were easy to say, but Wei Yubai was a woman, and Qifang had meritorious deeds before but could not get the reward she deserved.

That's because Qifang can't compare to Wei Yubai. Wei Yubai's father is the governor of Guanbei, and the stability of the empire's borders depends entirely on him. Moreover, Wei Yubai's contribution this time is too great. The only thing is to capture Yelu Dashi, the king of the Southern Court of Liao Kingdom. , let her be well known and famous all over the world.

Li Xingzhou naturally hopes that Wei Yubai will be treated fairly. In fact, in the Han Dynasty, women were not so taboo about being involved in politics. Although the Han Dynasty had several commoner queens, women have always had great power. Although they cannot be equal to men, at least It can be said to be very weighty.

As a result, Empress Wu Zetian came out of the Tang Dynasty to destroy the Tang Dynasty, which cast a psychological shadow on people. Since then, they have tried their best to guard against the high status of women, and even Li Zhi was hacked, whether it is history books or folklore. That's right, everyone always blames evil, and educates people not to be like Li Zhi.

But in fact, the land conquered by Li Shimin developed to the extreme during Li Zhi. When Li Zhi was in power, the territory of the Tang Dynasty was the most extensive, and he was tough with the outside world. The Caspian Sea hits Siberia in the west, Baekje and Goguryeo in the east, and the actual controlled territory may reach more than 800 million square kilometers (Note 1), even its own territory has reached more than 300 million square kilometers. The real world The peak era of the Tang Dynasty in the coming dynasty.

Because Wu Zetian was the only female emperor, she was greatly mythologized by later generations, but in fact she was much worse than Li Zhi, because after Wu Zetian, the national power had begun to decline gradually, and it was impossible to maintain Li Zhi's kindness and power to the outside world, and all nations came to court.

Fortunately, there is no Wu Zetian in this time and space, so everyone is less prepared for women's power grabs, which gives Wei Yubai a chance.

On the same day, we talked all day and quarreled all day, and everyone was very happy to quarrel, because it would be a happy event to quarrel again, and then the emperor let all the ministers have dinner in the palace.

They were happy. Li Xingzhou's matter was not settled. After returning home, Shiyu told him that he had made an agreement with Qifang to transfer the new army from Houshan to the front to garrison.

But with such a big fanfare and eye-catching, they are just guessing, but there is no real evidence to prove that Yang Hongzhao wants to rebel.

Li Xingzhou thought about it, and decided that the Houshan factory was too large and the place was too small to affect the drills of the new army. He simply posted a notice for everyone in the mansion to see. Since he couldn't hide it, he made a big fanfare.

Then he told Qifang, don't be secretive, and don't hide, get up early every day, practice on the spacious street in front of the palace, let everyone know about it, the more generous the better.

On the next day, only one day away from the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qifang led the new army to station outside the main gate of the palace with great fanfare, which naturally aroused everyone's curiosity, not only the people in the palace, but also the workers who came to do the work, and even the neighbors came to watch.

The onlookers just watched, and Qifang followed Li Xingzhou's instructions, without being stage-frightened or awkward, and continued to practice openly, making it seem that they were stationed in the front yard for the convenience of the practice.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Xingzhou still has that uneasy feeling in his heart
"General, I just came back from outside the city." In the Yang Mansion, Yang Hongzhao was holding an iron basin and was watering the overgrown flower beds at home when the faithful old servant came back.

He said he was going outside the city, but he didn't say anything specific, but both of them understood.

"how is the situation?"

"Okay, everything is ready." The old man said, "Tomorrow will be people who dare to die."

Yang Hongzhao nodded, and then asked: "You also listened to what I said yesterday. Do you think King Jin will doubt me? I always feel that there is something in the words."

The old man shook his head after hearing this: "I don't know, but the matter has come to this point, general, we can't retreat, if we retreat the prince will kill us."

Yang Hongzhao nodded, expressing agreement: "How many people does the prince have?"

"At first he said that there were more than 200 people, and later he said that there were still dead soldiers, and there could be 500 people."

"Where are there so many people?" Yang Hongzhao frowned.

"I don't know, there must be no room for so many people in the palace."

Yang Hongzhao frowned: "No, originally I wanted to go to the palace, anyway, if I die, the prince will be dragged in too, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be where I am today.

How many people can there be in one East Palace? When the time comes, go in and kill them together, but now why does he suddenly show up with so many people? "

The old man shook his head, and then whispered: "General, if we can't get rid of the crown prince, then the crown prince will definitely go after King Jin, King Jin"

Yang Hongzhao himself was speechless, everyone saw the care and courtesy that King Jin showed him.

Moreover, he and many veterans initially wanted to fight for revenge. The crown prince, officials, and emperors were all their targets!

No one is going to leave the palace alive, there is another layer, that is, they all think that even if the emperor is dead, the young hero, the mighty King Jin, who is compassionate to the soldiers, will be a good emperor
Once the crown prince died, the officials gave the head, and the emperor passed away, they had their revenge, and they could die in peace. The one who cleaned up the situation was naturally King Jin, but now that the crown prince suddenly had so many people, Yang Hongzhao was a little confused.

What if the crown prince took advantage of the chaos and led these people directly to the Prince Jin's mansion?Then what should be done, and the crown prince is likely to act like this, not to mention the hatred for the king of Jin, even if the king of Jin dies, the crown prince can still sit firmly in the country, he will do this.
Yang Hongzhao dropped the water basin, clutching his forehead tightly, not knowing what to do for a moment.

　(Note 1, if the distance of the Tang Dynasty is too far, soldiers from the border dependent countries are often recruited for wars. This is also the main reason why the Tang Dynasty can make expeditions. Only elite soldiers are brought from the mainland as the main force, and the rest of the soldiers are recruited from the border dependent countries. For example, in Su Lie’s decisive battle to destroy Xiliao, according to historical records, he only led more than 1000 elite cavalry from the Tang Dynasty, and the remaining 1 infantry were Uighur soldiers, but he still defeated 10,000+ Western Turkic troops in one battle. Finally, the Turkic Khan Helu was captured.)
　　
　
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