Chapter 489 The Privy Council and Sanya
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On April 16, in the 19th year of Kaihuang, Yang Yong issued an edict, ordering the crown prince Yang Lin to supervise the regent, and at the same time gave the crown prince military rights that only the emperor could have, governing the military affairs inside and outside, and controlling the troops in the world.
The Daming Palace is located in the west city of Sanlian City in Taiyuan, and is located in the south of the three cities of Xicheng. It was built decades ago by Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi on the ruins of the thousand-year-old Jinyang ancient city. It was later expanded into a city, called Daming City, with a city of four feet high and four miles around. Now, this Daming City has become the core of the entire northern part of the Sui Dynasty. It is the East Palace where the regent of the state, Yang Lin, governed the government and rested. Compared with the Jinyang Palace where Emperor Yang Yong lives, the Daming Palace is actually significantly lower.
Jinyang Palace is the palace where the Gao family of Northern Qi settled the Eastern Wei puppet emperor Xiaojing Emperor Yuan Shanjian. It was located north of Daming City. Later, because it was established in the Sui Dynasty, it was renamed Xincheng. Later, after the expansion, the new city was four zhang high, and the 7 zhanghuili was much larger than the Daming Palace in the south. And to the west of Jinyang Palace, there is a new city connected, called Cangcheng, with a larger city and four zhang high, but the zhanghuili was eight zhang high.
The Daming Palace where Yi Feng lives is actually the smallest of the three cities in the west of Taiyuan, but Yi Feng doesn't care about these things. The larger Jinyang Palace will be left for Yang Yong.
After becoming the regent of the state, Yi Feng did not rush to lead his troops south immediately.
Although Gao Bing and other officials requested to go south to attack Guanzhong immediately and attack Yang Xiu. However, for Yi Feng, he was not afraid of having a good meal. Before going south, he still needed to organize the current Taiyuan court. The so-called sharpening knife does not cost any effort to chop wood. After entering Taiyuan and being regent, he merged the Taiyuan court's 300,000 to 400,000 troops, Hedong and Henan and half of Hebei. Now his command is really full of troops, with three places in Hebei, Hedong and Henan, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Such strength is definitely not a problem to attack Guanzhong. But Yi Feng did not rush to Guanzhong, and now he needs to practice his internal skills.
Yi Feng used Jinyang Palace as the imperial palace and Yang Yong's palace. Daming Palace as the Eastern Palace as the Prince's Mansion. Cangcheng was changed to the imperial city. All the government offices of the Taiyuan court were located outside. Huaihuang soldiers stationed in Xicheng. Yang Lin gave the capital of the government of all officials to the east of the Fen River, and officials no longer lived in the west city.
The Huaihuang army basically occupied Taiyuan and its surrounding important places, and served as the important garrison.
Huangfu Xian looked rosy and was in a very good mood. He had been in Taiyuan City for nearly three years. He had followed Yang Liang, a mud that could not be supported on the wall at all, and later followed the prince of the grandson. Although this highness had his own opinions on many things, at least he had seriously considered the advice he proposed. Even if he did not accept it, he could still propose a relatively better one. At least he could agree with it.
Different opinions come. Although the prince now conspired with Gao Yang and others to put the emperor Yang Yong under house arrest, Yu Li was disagreeable to him. However, after the slightest sigh in his heart, he still agreed to it. After all, Yang Yong was just another Yang Liang in his opinion. Now the kings rebelled and relied on their own. If Yang Yong was to command the national affairs, he still didn't know what the world would be in chaos. The saints in troubled times came out, perhaps the prince's decisive rise to power was the destiny of heaven.
"Your Highness, Your Majesty has ordered Your Highness to be regent and supervise the country, to control the troops and horses of the world, and to be fully responsible for the fight against rebellion. I believe that Your Highness should lead his army south as soon as possible, eliminate rebellions, and regain the capital, and return the lord to the capital to the court."
Yi Feng looked up at Huangfu Wei, then looked at the Shangshu Ling Gao Feng on the side, and asked, "Gao Xiang, what do you think?"
Gao Yang had a purple robe, jade belt, and a beam of jade scepter. He sat on the couch specially given to him by Yi Feng, and his eyes were half closed, as if he was napping. But Yi Feng knew very well that this old man was definitely not napping. His current performance was just trying to show his low-keyness to Yi Feng. Although before that, Gao Yang took the initiative to welcome him into the court, Yi Feng did not think that the old man had completely surrendered to him. Betrayal of Yang Yong was just to clarify the situation and change the ship in time. This vision and decisiveness made him admire him. But this does not mean that the old man really surrendered to him completely. He has been in charge of the government for nearly twenty years, and now in the Taiyuan court, he has served as a heavy position like Shangshuling. In the 19th year of Yang Jian's dynasty, Shangshuling had not really granted anyone. In the Taiyuan court, Gao Yang's power should not be ignored, and He Ruobi, Han Sengshou and other civil servants and generals were still closely united by him.
"When you go back to your highness, the old minister thinks that what Huangfu Gong said is very true. The court should send troops south as soon as possible to recover Guanzhong and quell the rebellion. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Hedong were originally troops of the Northern Expedition, and their families were all in Guanlong. Now Yang Xiu is in trouble with Guanzhong, and the soldiers are all trapped in the thief. The soldiers are worried and hope to return home as soon as possible." Gao Bing replied.
Yi Feng nodded, but did not reply directly.
After the court meeting, Yi Feng summoned senior officials from Huaihuang Army in the inner hall to discuss matters.
Liu Wenjing was the first to speak. He had already seen during the court meeting that Yi Feng did not want to go south immediately. He asked immediately, "Do you want to go south to Guanzhong immediately?"
"Well, I don't think going south is the most urgent thing now."
"Why does Your Highness think it is a priority?"
"Integrate the armies and truly control Hebei, Hedong and Henan, and be stable internally, and then you can attack foreign enemies."
"Your Highness is planning to resilient the country first!" Liu Wenjing immediately understood Yi Feng's plan. "I wonder what your Highness has in detail?"
Yi Feng smiled at Liu Wenjing and said, "I should ask you this. I will point out the direction. Everyone will discuss whether it is feasible. Then discuss specific solutions. Not just ask me everything."
Liu Wenjing chuckled, "If you want to settle your home first, then the first person to deal with is Gao Bing. Now he is the position of Shangshu Ling. In the new Taiyuan court, all officials are almost all his disciples and friends. With him, there are too many constraints. We must re-appoint and remove all officials and take control of the various departments of the court into our hands."
"When you move the high ridge now, will there be trouble? Besides, in this way, it is suspected of destroying the bridge across the river!" Wei Zheng said.
"This requires some skills. Of course, this is indeed a bit suspicious, but we are not treating guests to dinner, so how can we care about face everywhere?" Yi Feng is not the kind of person who can't hide his face. He can get to this day, nor does he rely on loyalty to give face, but on strength. "Today, Gao Yang agreed to send troops to Guanzhong. I thought about it, it is actually not wrong to send troops."
Liu Wenjing, Wei Zheng and others looked at Yi Feng, full of confusion. They just said that they didn’t plan to send troops immediately, but now they have to agree?
Yi Feng smiled, "That's what I think. I plan to add a new Privy Council to the court to be responsible for military orders and mobilize them. Then set up three yamen to command the troops."
"The Privy Council? The Three Doors?"
"What exactly is it like?" Su Xiaoci turned out to be the Minister of War of the court. He was very sensitive to Yi Feng's proposal to set up two institutions, Privy Council and Sanya outside the Ministry of War. Especially after hearing the orders of the Privy Council to mobilize the military, the three yamen commanded the troops, he felt that the crown prince could not have set up a new institution on a whim. It was as simple as this. These two new institutions must be targeted at the current Taiyuan situation. This is a keen intuition, and it is also based on the premise that Yi Feng can always use some novel tricks and achieve many great achievements.
Of course, Yi Feng wanted to build a new organization, not for fun, but to deal with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the court today, especially for the more than 200,000 Hedong Army controlled by Gao Yan and He Ruobi, and the remaining more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Hedong, Henan, Hebei and Hedong. In order to integrate military power and bring the military power of these troops into his own hands. Yi Feng did not intend to immediately replace all the generals of the Hedong army with his own people. That was unrealistic, if the action was too big, it might change, which would easily lead to misunderstandings from He Ruobi and others. Therefore, Yi Feng planned to set up another organization from top to bottom, bypass the current imperial court's headquarters and place it on it.
Historically, the Privy Council began with Emperor Taizong of Tang. It was originally just an assistant to report military information to the emperor. Later, it became a way for eunuchs to interfere in politics, and its power gradually increased. However, in the late Tang Dynasty, especially after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, during the Five Dynasties, the power of the Privy Council began to expand continuously, and finally reached the perverted level of being able to abolish the emperor. After the Song Dynasty, although the authority of the Privy Council decreased, it was still retained, and even became a top institution called the East and West Government Office together with the Political Affairs Hall. During the Song Dynasty, the power of the Three Ya and the Ministry of War was the three-part army, helping the emperor to take charge of the army.
Yi Feng also needs to control the army of the Taiyuan court, so he thought of the Privy Council without hesitation.
"The Privy Council is in charge of military orders, transfers, and appointments and removals of senior generals are all assigned to the Privy Council." Yi Feng explained that this Privy Council is equivalent to the Military Commission of later generations, and the Ministry of War immediately changed from its original important position to an idle yamen similar to the Ministry of National Defense in later generations, which only handles the administrative affairs of the army, the army's food and salary payment, logistics supply, personnel placement, recruitment of soldiers, and the selection and appointment of some military officers under the seventh rank. Without the most important power of mobilization and command, this power was handed over to the Privy Council.
"Which three yamen are there?"
"Northern Ya, South Ya and Border Ya!" Yi Feng waved his hand, Li Mi stepped forward and distributed confidential documents to these prince's confidants.
This confidential document uses the unique Huaihuang official document report form to briefly and clearly state Yi Feng's changes to military orders and politics. A new Privy Council was built outside the Ministry of War, and many important powers were divided. Generally speaking, the Privy Council was in charge of military orders and the Ministry of War was in charge of military orders. In addition to these two Privy Council, there were three yamen in charge of the army.
The three yamen commanded all the troops. They were responsible for leading the troops, but they did not have the power to transfer troops, and they did not care about logistics, food and salary, official selection and appointment, etc. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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