First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 273 The appointment of the three armies, a commission

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As soon as this remark came out, the important officials of the Zhengshitang could not help but be surprised because they were so good at nourishing their spirits. After all, Gao Chong was only in his twenties, and the idea of ​​asking him to command the army was really a bit bold.

Chen Shuda ignored it, and continued: "Gao Youzhi's ability to command the troops is obvious to all, as long as King Zhao Jun is still in charge of the army in name."

Li Yuan was silent when he heard the words.

Chen Shuda replaced Gao Junya as Shizhong a few months ago, and Gao Junya was changed to Zhongshu Ling.

Today's three giants in the three provinces are Shangshu Youpu She Peiji, Shizhong Chen Shuda and Zhongshuling Gao Junya. As for Liu Wenjing, the grass on the grave is already three feet high.

As early as the second year of Wude, Liu Wenjing's concubine joined forces with Liu Wenjing's elder brother Liu Wen to falsely accuse Liu Wenjing of rebellion. In fact, Liu Wenjing did not rebel, but was extremely dissatisfied with Pei Ji and Gao Junya. The family raises wizards and performs witchcraft.

Although Li Shimin, Li Gang and other manpower are there to protect him, Pei Ji said: "Liu Wenjing is indeed talented, but he is suspicious and insidious by nature. Forgive Liu Wenjing, sooner or later disaster will happen."

It is because Liu Wenjing had a deep friendship with Li Yuan when he was in Taiyuan, but when it comes to the great cause of reunification, Li Yuan will not show any sympathy, and immediately ordered Liu Wenjing to be executed.

After Liu Wenjing's death, Chen Shuda, a descendant of Nan Chen, came to power smoothly and officially became the prime minister of the dynasty.

Whether it was Liu Wenjing's downfall or Chen Shuda's rise to power, Gao Junya kept silent and watched from the sidelines, but there was no doubt that the biggest beneficiary in the end was Gao Junya.

First, Liu Wenjing is extremely hostile to Gao Junya.

Second, Chen Shuda was Gao Junya's old friend. To be precise, Gao Junya had the grace to save the Southern Chen royal family.

In this way, Chen Shuda naturally became Gao Junya's ally.

And although Pei Ji is still highly valued by Li Yuan, the official worship minister You Pushe is the first prime minister of the dynasty, but due to the defeat of the Hedong army, his prestige has dropped greatly, and now his influence in the court is not as good as before.

Gao Junya still abides by the doctrine of the mean and does not fight or grab. In fact, she has accumulated extremely deep political capital invisibly. After all, she has been in the position of Zaifu for four full years, and she is as immobile as a mountain, which can be seen.

The one with the most momentum now is undoubtedly the newly promoted Chancellor Chen Shuda, who is so powerful in the court, he is so majestic.

Even though Chen Shuda was talking about his own son, Gao Junya still had a flat face, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Li Yuan looked at Gao Junya, "What does Junya think?"

"But it's up to His Majesty to decide," Gao Junya nodded and said, "However, Gao Chong is young after all, so in order not to get angry, King Zhaojun needs to discipline him more."

Li Yuan shook his head and smiled when he heard the words: "The king of Zhaojun is only in his thirties, and he is not a few years older than Youzhi. Although Youzhi is young, he has more experience than King Zhaojun."

Then Li Yuan ignored the crowd, pondered for a while, and wrote down eight words, "The responsibility of the three armies is to be charged with a commission."Immediately ordered to send to Xiazhou to give Li Xiaogong.

Kuizhou, Renfu County.

Jiang Baoyi frowned, a little worried, looking at the leisurely Gao Chong, Jiang Baoyi was still uneasy, "Are you really going to take them with you? This is putting yourself in danger."

It turned out that Gao Chong decided to recruit 3000 barbarian soldiers from Zhuzhou to join the army to conquer Xiaoxian, led by the barbarian general Du Biao. Jiang Baoyi was very worried about this. There are five thousand barbarians, and it will take several days to go to Xiazhou together.

If Du Biao had a different intention and attacked in the middle of the night, it would be a disaster.

Gao Chong shook his head, "Ran Zhao is not stupid, the sage is merciful, and although he cannot be grateful for his reinstatement, it is expected that he will no longer have the heart to rebel, not to mention that Ran Zhao is extremely prestigious among the barbarians. With Ran Zhaoze's order, even if Du Biao was against him, no one would listen to him."

Recalling Ran Zhaoze, Jiang Baoyi couldn't help but nodded slowly. Sometimes this person doesn't look like a barbarian in the mountains, but more like a Confucian general among the Han people. Although Du Biao is a barbarian general, he is not as good as Ran Zhaoze. Orders also have no right to mobilize barbarians.

Barbarians are often more reliable than Han people in this regard. Many Han soldiers only know generals, not monarchs, but in the hearts of barbarians, the leader is supreme.

Hu Dayong, magistrate of Yun'an County, died without integrity. Li Yuan admired his integrity and promoted him to be the Sima of Kuizhou. Hussar General Chen Qian was promoted to the founding county uncle of Yun'an County because of his meritorious service. Li Xiaogong sent an order to hand over all the defense of Kuizhou to Chen Qian.

After Gao Chong returned to Renfu City to rest for a day, he led [-] government soldiers and [-] barbarian soldiers, and two generals Jiang Song and Du Biao, and rushed out of the east gate to Xiazhou.

Xiazhou, formerly known as Yiling, also known as Xiling and Yidu, was established as Yiling County in the third year of Sui Daye, governing four counties of Yiling, Yidao, Changyang and Yuan'an. Yiling County was Xia Prefecture, and Xu Shao, the former governor of Yiling County, was the first governor of Xia Prefecture, and his government was located in Yiling County.

Originally, they could go down the river by boat, but the barbarians lived in the mountains for a long time and were not good at taking boats. It happened to be late autumn, and the river was so high that it was very fast-moving.

It's not Gao Chong's fault, but Gao Chong doesn't trust the current shipbuilding technology. From Renfu City to Yiling City, if you go down the river, you have to pass through a huge canyon drop, and the river is so turbulent. For safety reasons, Gao Chong chose to go by land.

From Renfu City to Yiling City, they crossed mountains and ridges along the way. Fortunately, walking on mountain roads is the specialty of barbarians. After a few days, Gao Chong, who was in a state of distress, finally led them to the outside of Yiling City.

Li Xiaogong and Xu Shao gave Gao Chong a lot of face, a current county king and a county prince who was over sixty years old went out of the city to greet him, Gao Chong dismounted from his horse all the way, and walked quickly to the front.

"Gao Chong has met the king", Gao Chong saluted, then looked at Xu Shao, who had white beard and hair, bowed and said: "Junior Gao Chong, I have met Xu Gong", it is a traditional virtue to respect the old and love the young.

Li Xiaogong laughed loudly and said: "You don't need to be too polite, you have played a great role in Yun'an, I just hate to miss this great victory."

Xu Shao Nianxu praised: "It really has the style of the ancestor Zhao Xuangong."

Gao Chong frowned, and asked pleasantly, "Mr. Xu met my uncle?"

"If we say we know each other, it means that this old man puts gold on his face." Xu Shao shook his head and smiled, "In the seventh year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the former Sui Dynasty, when Xiaoyan raised troops in the Southern Liang Dynasty, Duke Zhaoxuan was ordered to appease Jiang Han. At that time, this old man was only sixteen or seventeen years old. , lived in Anlu, and had a relationship with Duke Zhaoxuan once."

Gao Chong was stunned, immediately gave in, let Xu Shao go first, and Li Xiaogong did the same, let's not mention Xu Shaonian's sixtieth age, just because he is Li Yuan's childhood friend, he dare not be rude.

After the suppression of Xiao Liang this time, if Xu Shao is still in good health, it is very possible that he will even enter the pilgrimage.

(End of this chapter)