0786 Desire to impress, benevolence is difficult to admire
Taiyuan was originally the place where the Tang family rose, and was promoted to the Northern Capital during the Wuzhou period. It has a transcendent status and is also the largest city in Hedongdao.
Last year, during the Turkic robbery, people from Siye Township flocked into the city to avoid disasters. After that, the Turkic siege failed to conquer the city for many days. As the army of Tianbing Dao headed north, the Turkic thieves had to retreat regretfully.
It is now April, and several months have passed since the war, but Taiyuan City and the surrounding areas have not yet been able to get out of the shadow of war.
One of the most obvious phenomena is the suburbs and towns around Taiyuan City, which should have been a scene of continuous nurseries and hard-working and harvesting mulberry trees, but now it is a scene of wild grasses and ruins in the countryside. Many people who fled into the city before were still stranded in the city and have not been properly repatriated.
After the Tianbingdao Army entered Taiyuan, it took over the military and political affairs of Taiyuan. At first, it was worried that there might still be remnants of bees and thieves in the countryside, so the villagers were not allowed to leave the city privately. In addition, the Tianbingdao Army did not have enough power to provide services, so it recruited villagers who fled into the city on the spot to serve as service, built various fortifications to prevent the Turks from making a comeback, and transported and produced various materials.
The civil affairs measures during the war are different from those of ordinary times. Although there are officials in the army, their responsibilities are very different from those of the local officials in the prefectures and counties. They should be more rude and tough in managing civil affairs. After all, they came to fight, not to promote governance and encourage farming.
If only this is the case, Taiyuan City's current political status would not be so abandoned. After all, there is still a Bingzhou Grand Governor's Office to make up for the omissions and can come forward to govern the marching shogunate without any intention.
But unfortunately, with the commander of Tianbing Dao, King Yu Li Chengqi entered the city, and the former Bingzhou Grand Governor's Office was ordered by King Yu to be directly imprisoned.
From the perspective of King Yu, Su Weidao and others were undoubtedly guilty and were incompetent in defending the territory, which led to the Turks invading the Hedong prefectures, and the court had to rush to send large troops into the prefectures to defeat the enemy. Although they barely saved Taiyuan City and did not lose it, the main reason was the arrival of the Tianjian Dao Army, which made the Turks retreated in fear.
Even if he did not question this, Su Weidao and others were not clean. Although he was in charge of the court's official positions and salary, he had always sat on the side of Xingtai and King Yong, and he often disobeyed the court's instructions.
King Yu was young and vigorous, and had new power. Without sand in his eyes, he naturally could not tolerate a double-faced faction like Su Wei Dao could still manage and continue to dig out the corners of the court. Especially after the army entered the country, the Taiyuan treasury reserves were far less abundant than imagined, which made the army not receive timely replenishment, and continued to pursue the Turkic bandits in the south of the desert.
After counting the crimes and punishing them, Su Weidao would be dead. Originally, King Yu did plan to take Su Weidao directly, but after the urgency of the army, Su Weidao's life was temporarily saved. However, he could not tolerate the crimes involved in the Bingzhou Grand Governor's Office and kept digging and pursuing them.
Because King Yu felt that relying solely on Guanzhong was far from enough to allow the Shaanxi Road Daxingtai to support such a huge army and make plans for conquering the conquests. There must be some local officials colluding behind the scenes and secretly communicating with Xingtai, which made it difficult for the court to restrict Xingtai. Although he worked hard this time, his past military achievements were absolutely not glorious!
Although this time, it was impossible to successfully attack the Turks in the middle of the country, if we could use this to clear the entire Hedong Road administration, solve the personnel collusion with Xingtai, and restore the imperial decree to Hedong Road, this would undoubtedly be a great achievement.
Therefore, driven by the psychology of King Yu, the original administrative structure of the Bingzhou Grand Governor's Office was almost wiped out. The Bingzhou civil and military officials who were actively organizing the city to defend and resist and provide relief were soon imprisoned. As long as civil affairs matters were concerned, they naturally fell into a state of suspension.
Especially after the peace talks with the Turks were leaked and Di Renjie died suddenly and went east with King Yong, King Yu felt that King Yong's infiltration into Bingzhou and even the entire Hedong Road was simply omnipresent, so that almost all his plans were secret.
Previously, the Shendu court urged King Yu to return to the country, and King Yu originally planned to temporarily give up the matter in Hedong. However, after the news of the peace talks with the Turks was leaked, the Tianbing Dao Army's popularity in Hedong fell to the bottom in an instant, and was almost protested by scholars and civilians.
Such a large-scale military dispatch would be disastrous without the cooperation and loss of local prefectures and counties. Given the indignation of the Hedong people, King Yu could only stay in this territory temporarily with the advice of the military officers, and hoped that the court would cooperate with materials to respond.
With this stop, the entire military return was stopped, and the news from the south changed three times a day, and various rumors grew, people were panicked and morale was difficult to boost.
The city of the state located in Taiyuan City is located in the tent of King Yu. At this time, a fierce quarrel was taking place in the festival hall where the A-ranking members were stationed.
In the lobby, Li Chengqi stood behind the desk, wearing plain white clothes, with a haggard face, with a very sad expression on his face, and his eyes were even red, swollen and cruel. He whipped his fists and hammered, roaring: "The country is in chaos, my father died in Henan, and I cannot give my loyalty to his ministers and sons. I am already ridiculed by the people of the world! Now I am only ordering the troops to raise mourning clothes, and you still want to stop me!"
More than a dozen civil and military officials in the lobby bowed deeply to the ground and responded silently to Li Chengqi's roar. After a while, another official knocked on the ground and said in a stern voice: "I am also sad when I hear the bad news. However, now that the army is in charge, there are indeed many inconveniences. I cannot follow the rituals of everything... Please mourn..."
"I am sad, I am sad... I am sad... I am sad because I am sad because I am waiting for my father and grandfather. I am sad because I am so sad... But you mediocre people have stopped me before, so that I cannot return to the capital as soon as possible. Otherwise, how could my father... ordinary people, Zhuangyao, have to cry and be unfortunate. Now the emperor has passed away. Are you not the royal minister? You dare to serve the decline in the future!"
Li Chengqi was already in a state of grief at this moment, unable to listen to any explanation, whipping his clothes and beating his chest.
"How dare you... However, the heavenly soldiers are already in a hurry. There are few winter clothes and no spring clothes, and they are stranded in the state. Many soldiers have already lie on the wilderness and drink dew... Although they are so sad now, they are useless with the materials that are already insufficient, and it will be even more difficult to use them..."
When the subordinates saw Li Chengqi's grief and ruined his body, they burst into tears for a moment. But when the army was outside, there were many more realistic and urgent things that needed to be considered, and they really could not indulge in vain rituals.
"I don't care, I don't care... I want to return to the capital, I want to... I don't care what his army is, what a strange world this is, and it is going to force people to lose their filial piety!"
Li Chengqi's face was full of tears, and his feet staggered to the ground, and his grief was curled up in a ball.
Finally, a gray-haired old man among the ministers could not hold back. Before entering, he raised Li Chengqi to hold him up on the seat, and then knocked on the ground and said sadly: "Who is not sad when the king and father abandoned the country? However, where are the 100,000 living people going, they all rely on your thoughts. How can you indulge in the suspicion? I am so guilty of losing my assistance, but the internal and external hidden dangers will never be steadily caused by the injury of a few people! Your Highness's family is in full swing, and even if the building is about to be overturned, it is necessary to support the Liangzhu!
In the past, King Yong of the Dao was almost the same as His Highness, and he dared to praise the Taiye, so he was serious in the country. His Highness is in danger of survival and death, and his Highness will be cut off from his heart, which will not help the disaster in the court..."
When Li Chengqi heard this, his face was sad and suddenly glared at the old man after a moment of slightest glaring at the old man. Someone next to him thought something was wrong and hurriedly went in front of him and bowed: "Pei Changshi can't bear to the indulge in his sorrow, and he is anxious and speechless, it is definitely not..."
"Stop it! Let him say... the old thief acts as a loyal and kind person. He has repeatedly blocked me from the matter since he traveled north. He has long had serious prejudices in his heart. If he hears the bad news, he is afraid that he will be secretly happy!"
Li Chengqi stood up angrily, raised his hand to knock the man off his head, his expression changed from sadness to anger, and his teeth clattered. Seeing this scene, the others were silent for a moment and did not dare to speak casually.
"I am guilty, but I... I am the saint. I will only ask the emperor to do things for me. If I make a statement, I will definitely assist Your Highness in..."
The old man was rude and his expression was a little dim. He just bowed to the ground and said sadly: "Since I have lost my faith, I dare not be disgusted with words anymore. However, the situation is now very bad. Your Highness has no power to govern and chaos in stability. If he stays outside, he may be at risk..."
"Stop it! The dog thief... Come, let the dog thief come out for me and behead the camp!"
After hearing this, the warrior outside the hall rushed into the hall and threw the old man to the ground. Then he used a stick to raise his stick and dragged it outward.
Seeing this, everyone was frightened and several people came in front of him to persuade him, even several Rongjia generals. Although Li Chengqi hated the old man very much, he felt something was wrong after seeing this. He no longer spoke harshly and killed him, but just ordered the old man to be deprived of his official position and put him in prison.
In prison, the old man was pushed into a cell with his hair disheveled. The prisoners in several other cells were also surprised when they saw this and couldn't believe their eyes.
King Yu was the eldest son of a saint. He was in power for the first time in foreign affairs. The emperor was naturally dedicated to the equip his staff and selected talents from the court to assist him. The old man was naturally not an ordinary person who was able to assist him in the chief of the history. His name was Pei Siliang, who was a veteran of several dynasties, and another identity was more prominent, that is, the clan uncle of Pei Xingjian, the famous prime minister of Emperor Gaozong.
Su Weidao was sleeping in the inner cell, but she was shocked when she heard that Pei Siliang was actually imprisoned. However, they were far apart from each other's cells, and there were guards in the cell staring at them, so she didn't dare to do anything rashly for a while.
When the prison guard retreated, Su Weidao wrote a few words in the lamp oil and grey and sent them to the old man's cell. However, Pei Siliang did not accept the letter, but sat upright in the cell with his eyes closed and facing the wall.
The old man's attitude naturally made Su Weitan feel even more anxious. He lay on the fence and shouted loudly: "Is it because of the reason why Ah Weng was convicted? Is it because of this? If this is true, the taste is really heartbreaking. King Yu is so cruel that he is so heartbreaking!"
Hearing Su Wei's shouting, the old man snorted coldly and responded: "Su's detriment to the secrets and collusion with foreign vassals is a conclusive crime. He did not kill before, because the crime was not clear. I am afraid that your highness would have any damage to the punishment and rewards, and he would have no personal affairs!"
"The people in the prefectures have their own records. I have a harmonious relationship with Your Highness Yong, but I have no chaotic actions to do business. Your Highness Yong is skilled in doing things and is quick to plan for a long time. If I use this to be charming and seek favor, it will be difficult to gain a glimpse of the eyes. As for the interrelationship between the people and the wild, it can only be said that it does not exceed the political rules. King Yu observes the situation and loses the amount of the encompassing situation. If this continues, it is not a blessing for the country."
Hearing the old man say this, Su Wei smiled bitterly and then replied.
Pei Siliang was silent for a long time when he heard this. After a while, he said again: "The saint died in Henan, and King Yong has entered the court..."
"This, is it... impossible!"
Pei Siliang was vague and said the two things together, which naturally makes people misunderstand. Especially before, the conflict between the court and Xingtai became more and more acute. However, after a little surprised, Su Weidao said flatly: "Your Highness Yong is cautious in his plan. Although he is strong and brave, he will never take the blame for the world. If King Yong is so fierce, would the family of saints in the old age be born in the sky?"
"So you waited for the Yongwang Party to feel that the saints were not worthy of defending the country? The old one was just recommended by King Yong Huairen?"
Pei Siliang snorted coldly after hearing this, but after a while, he sighed again: "The saint is a benevolent master... But the world is in chaos for a long time, if only benevolence is, it is indeed difficult to cure. The Tang family wants to revive, but they should not rely solely on benevolence. King Yong understands this, but the saint understands it a little too late..."
"So Ahon became a sinful person because he failed to give advice?"
Su Weidao is also a smart person. After hearing this, he pondered for a moment and guessed the truth of the matter. Then he said nervously: "So what is King Yu going to do? I am not unhappy with my kindness, but the saints... It can be seen that the chaos in the capital is profound and dangerous. King Yong has his own talent to govern the chaos and rectify the situation. It is definitely not that King Yu can gather strength to fight against each other. If King Yu is still tenacious and disrespectful, Hedong will surely suffer from life!"
"King Yu, King Yu... was unable to inherit the legacy, but the saint's envoy was indeed entrusted to me. I hope King Yu can return to the country safely... Although Su is in prison, I know that you still have people in the city. Before the army enters the city, those brave men guarding the city and rural areas..."
Pei Siliang said this and couldn't help but sigh: "When it comes to the weapons, King Yu is indeed inferior to King Yong, but he can also be a stubborn position. He hopes to make contributions to the country, but the time is not good and he is in a hurry to act... The army was unable to return, and there were already chaos in the army. If King Yu stayed outside again, there would inevitably be unexpected danger. The saint has suffered misfortune. If King Yu is driven by evil feelings, his family and country will be even more sad. Since you have touched me to live in you before, can you..."
"Ah Weng's words mean..."
After hearing this, Su Weidao's face was shocked again. After a pause, a big hole appeared in the cell and went straight down. Su Weidao leaned over and jumped in, and then crawled out of the remote area of the prison.
When it comes to power, he certainly cannot compare to King Yu who controls tens of thousands of troops, but he has a profound management in Taiyuan, so King Yu can't compare with him.
In the ordinary season, Su Weidao certainly could not be completely free of rules. However, when the Turkic siege, thousands of villages bravely entered the city to guard it, including many of the Yong King's troops. Although this group of people were no longer responsible for defending the city after the army entered the city, they were also regarded as civilians to repair the city, and dug tunnels not long ago to contact Su Weidao.
Seeing Su Wei openly crawling out of the cell with dust, Pei Siliang laughed furiously, and then couldn't help but sigh: "There is a crime for our kings who are in a city that is so deteriorating.
Su Weitan was not in the mood to show off at this moment, but just walked in and asked in a low voice: "Aweng said that he was in chaos in the army, how many people and things are there?"
Chapter completed!