Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 450 Fragmentation
The Jiankang court rewarded Wu Mingche for his meritorious service. He was supposed to be the governor of Jiangzhou, but he was worried that he would become a big man, so he ordered Xiao Daxin, the king of Xunyang County, to leave the town.

But Xiao Gang is already 50 years old, and he is afraid that the prince will ascend the throne in the future. If there is a powerful prince, the country will fall into civil war and split again. Only then did Wu Mingche and Xiao Daxin's military and political match.

Wu Mingche asked Jiankang to claim Jiangzhou, confiscated the land occupied by the gentry tyrants, and classified hermits as tax households. Although he was behind the scenes of Gao Cheng, it was also beneficial to Jiankang's treasury.

Xiao Gang immediately agreed, but of course it was impossible for his son Xiao Daxin to be the villain in front of the gentry.

Since it was Wu Mingche's initiative, he followed suit and let him take the lead. The so-called military and political division originally became Wu Mingche's presiding over the population and land inspections, and finally monopolized Jiangzhou's military and political power. Xiao Daxin, the governor of Jiangzhou, came to Xunyang. Fame and no real power.

As for Liu Zhongli, after several years of disgrace, he finally made great contributions in the Western Expedition to Jiangzhou as a vanguard general this time, and regained Xiao Gang's trust in his ability. He served as the military governor of Gyeonggi, stationed in Zhuquehang.

Following Xiao Yi's self-immolation and death, Duan Shao also returned to Jingkou. Xiao Gang specially ordered Duan Shao to go to Jiankang for a banquet in order to reward him for pushing back Chen Baxian's military threat during the Jiangzhou war.

It's just that Duan Shao received other news and never went to Jiankang City.

It turned out that Xiao Gang saw Jiangzhou return to the territory, so he decided to cheer up, got rid of Duan Shao, the so-called commander of the Qi army stationed in Liang, drove the Qi people back to Jiangbei, and set up this Hongmen banquet.

But there are too many people who can't stand Jiangnan Tongqi, seeing that Duan Shao is not being moved, Xiao Gang finally rested his mind and refocused his attention on Jiangzhou.

No matter how many plans are made for Xiao Gang, in the end they are all forcing the king to his death.

Everything I have today is to advise the emperor and try to get rid of Northern Qi's control.

But the current encounters have made him understand that whether it is Wu Mingche from the outer town or the courtiers of Jiankang, there are countless people who know Qi secretly.

Before Wei Can left Jiankang, Xiao Gang sent people to catch up with the chariots and horses, and brought them words, hoping that he would leave him in a useful body and plan for the future.

He just went out to herd, and he behaved like this. If he really wants to let him stay in the place for a long time, it will be fine.

Jiankang fishermen can often see corpses floating downriver. Even Duan Shao secretly complained to Wu Mingche that it is indeed convenient to abandon corpses in the Yangtze River after killing people, but one must also consider the feelings of people downstream.

Apart from the imperial army, Liu Zhongli and Wu Mingche are in charge of the Jiangdong soldiers and horses. If both of them are on the same side, there will be no room for redemption in the state affairs.

Gao Cheng learned one after another that Xiao Gang wanted to take advantage of Duan Shao, and wanted to actually control Jiangzhou. The clay figurine was also very angry, let alone King Gao.

This is a dangerous signal, of course Liu Zhongli can also quibble that he heard people's words wrongly, so he attached a table for impeachment, but Wei Can believes that he is also instigated by the people behind the scenes.

Wei Ni also knew about the friendship between the two, but Wei Can's decision to leave was decided, and he couldn't control it, so he had to insist that Wei Can resigned. It was not because he hated the emperor, but because he had been an official for many years, his hair had turned white, his accent had changed, and now he was physically and mentally exhausted. , I deliberately don't ask about state affairs, but put my love on the mountains and rivers.

As for how Xiao Gang would accept this resignation, he said to Wei Can's son Wei Ni with emotion:

Wei Can looked back at Jiankang City again, wrote a letter of resignation on the spot, and sent it to Miyagi by his son Wei Ni, while he himself returned home in embarrassment with the sewage thrown by others.

What made him even more desperate was that Liu Zhongli was also among the ministers impeached.

After seeing it, Wei Can's heart felt ashamed. It turned out that Beiqi's manipulation of Jiangdong was deeper than he thought.

"Wei Gong is the only one sent by Sheji. It's just a moment of frustration, so how can you abandon me?"

Wei Can and Wei Xiaokuan are both from Jingzhao Webster, and they can be regarded as the same family, but the blood relationship is far away.

"Your Majesty, Wu Mingche didn't respect the order, and he refused to follow the attack under the guise of an investigation. I think he may have an objection in his heart."

But Wu Mingche actually has [-] elite soldiers under his command. How can servants and tribes of the wealthy clan be able to resist, but resisting with force and giving others a handle, Wu Mingche no longer has any scruples, and killed the Jiangzhou gentry in silence.

Gao Cheng frowned and Wei Xiaokuan snorted coldly.

However, the court envoy was driven back to Jiankang by Wu Mingche, and Wu Mingche immediately reported to Luoyang.

Xiao Gang also knew Wei Can's grievances, and finally agreed to resign, but let Wei Ni take the lead. Wei Canruo was tired of mountains and rivers, and the door of the court was always open to him.

Jiangzhou was already in chaos, and Wu Mingche's methods were too ruthless. The so-called investigation of the gentry's household registration and land was completely aimed at ransacking their homes, and it also forced the Jiangzhou gentry to resist with force.

"Xiao Gang must understand who owns Jiangnan."

This is not a letter to solicit Wei Can. On the contrary, Wei Xiaokuan bluntly stated in the letter that he poured dirty water on him, and said that Xiao Liang was about to die, and Lord Qi would not treat Xiao Gang's family badly. To regenerate right and wrong, make Xiao Gang and Gao Cheng's son-in-law at odds, and not only kill Xiao Gang's family in the future, but also his nephew and nephew of Wei Can's family will be implicated.

Xiao Gang and Wei Can have been ministers for many years, and they knew him well, so how could they believe those rumors?

Xiao Gang immediately ordered to transfer Wu Mingche back to Jiangdong and replace him with Wei Can.

Wei Can's words won the approval of Xiao Gang. After Wu Mingche took the power of Jiangzhou alone, he listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement, and acted more boldly. butcher knife.

The so-called public talk makes money, Wei Can is difficult to prove his innocence, Xiao Gang had no choice but to drive him away from Jiankang.

Soon, rumors spread everywhere in Jiankang City, all of which were slanderous words against Wei Can, and the slanderous words were unbearable, and all the officials came forward to impeach him, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

There is no future.

As soon as the envoy of Emperor Xiaoliang left, another person came from Jingkou to deliver a letter for Wei Xiaokuan.

Wu Mingche then changed the water burial to cremation, but he killed too much, and countless people went to Jiankang to appeal for grievances. Xiao Gang repeatedly ordered Wu Mingche to control the scale and intensity of the investigation, but Wu Mingche always turned a deaf ear to it.

Wei Can watched the envoy leave, and turned his eyes to the surging river, with a wry smile on his face.

This time Wei Can was attacked by courtiers, and Xiao Gang understood that the group of ministers under him had already been surnamed Gao, and when he contacted them before to encourage him to cheer up, he felt even more disgusting.

Xiao Gang didn't believe Liu Zhongli's claim that Wei Can was impeached because he was deceived.

Both of them came from their own personal backgrounds, and they know each other well, so how could they believe in those framing words.

And Liu Zhongli took his family members to the Zhuquehang camp after submitting the form, and behaved just like Xiao Zhengde did back then, even if Xiao Gang sent his father Liu Jin to summon him, he never left the camp.

(End of this chapter)