Chapter 750: The Yang Family's Weakness

Huang Baichuan first followed Liu Zhiheng, the leader of the White Turban Army, but was later successfully rebelled by the imperial court, killed his master, and surrendered to the imperial court.

After the White Turban Army was pacified, Zhao Zhi placed Huang Baichuan and the tens of thousands of remnants of the White Turban Army in his hands in Caizhou.

Although the territory of Caizhou is very large, but the land is poor and sparsely populated, it is impossible to support Huang Baichuan and the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, and most of the soldiers in Caizhou have fled for several years, and Huang Baichuan has a deeper resentment towards the imperial court.

Yue, Ejiedu made Yang Liecheng rampant, despised the imperial court, crisscrossed the locality, and to Chengping five years, but also with the Yingzhou governor Liu Xiang and the two embarrassed, intercepting the taxes in the Jiangnan region, intending to cut off the important tax source of the imperial court, Zhao Zhi could not bear this, and after five years, the country has slowly recovered from the great trauma of the White Turban Army rebellion, after discussing with the ministers, and the situation in Anbei was stable at that time, thinking twice, Zhao Zhi decided to reuse the yellow sword, and the elite force of the forbidden army, Use troops against the Jiangnan region.

The imperial court dispatched troops, the scale was huge, Yang Liecheng immediately felt a huge danger, how could he sit still, and immediately secretly united with Liu Xiang of Yingzhou, Zheng Ze of Xiangzhou, and Huang Baichuan, the envoy of Caizhou Jiedu, and the forces of the Quartet united, and agreed to repel the imperial army, and coerce the imperial court to compromise with the land of Jiangnan taxation and let it divide the place.

At that time, the rebellion led by Yang Liecheng was very powerful, and the four forces united together, supporting nearly 100,000 troops, and claimed to be 200,000 to the outside world.

Chengping 5th year, July 26.

With the general of Anguo, Huang Xu, as the governor of Pingnan, he led 50,000 troops and set out to Yingzhou.

The forces on both sides, the imperial court is small, and the rebels are more.

At the beginning of the war, the imperial army led by Huang Xun was frustrated again and again, and was once in a desperate situation, at the critical moment, the fledgling Li Xun stood up and fully supported Huang Xun, so that he mastered the military decision-making power, Huang Xun immediately made a decision, he was brave, personally led a small number of elite cavalry, and attacked Yingzhou at night, succeeding in one fell swoop, completely reversing the initiative of the war.

The alliance of Yang Liecheng and others seems to be huge and powerful, but in fact, they have their own thoughts, and as soon as the battle situation changed, Huang Baichuan immediately moved his mind, and at the beginning of the development of the war situation in the direction of continued deterioration, he made a decision and chose betrayal and submission again.

Huang Baichuan is capricious, without loyalty and principles, such a person cannot be trusted by others, but Zhao Zhi as the emperor, a mature and good at scheming emperor, the pros and cons in his heart are not good or bad, Zhao Zhi looks at the overall situation and the overall measurement, if Huang Baichuan has no use value, then he naturally has no need to continue to exist, Zhao Zhi will not hesitate to completely eliminate it immediately.

At that time, the world at that time, the problems that need to be considered are not only internal, the Jin Dynasty during that period, the external situation has begun to deteriorate, the Tubo Empire has become strong again, the attitude towards the Jin Dynasty has become more and more strong and aggressive, and the signs of its large-scale invasion of Longyou are becoming more and more obvious, once Longyou is lost, Anbei is dangerous, and Anbei is the absolute core of the Jin Dynasty to the outside world, and the gains and losses of Anbei are related to the fate of the entire Jin Dynasty and even all Han people.

The top priority of the Jin Dynasty outside Longyou and Anbei, and the top priority inside was in Jiangnan, under this premise, Zhao Zhi would compromise and tolerate to a certain extent the people or things that were beneficial to these two top priorities.

Chuzhou Jiedu made Wang Huailie sit in the local area for many years, the soldiers were strong and strong, and the strength was already somewhat out of the control of the imperial court, under the overall situation at that time, since there was no energy to take care of it, it could only be limited, Huang Baichuan is undoubtedly a good candidate, this person has the ability, and there are some soldiers and horses in his hands, the overall military strength is not too strong, but it is not weak, give him a territory that cannot develop for a long time, let him be restrained from the side into his arms, at that time, it was a very good choice and decision.

Huang Baichuan wrote in a letter to Yang Daolin that Sima Yang Shicheng of Caizhou led 800 soldiers to Luojing secretly, preparing to attack and kill Zhao Shuo, the king of Chu.

Yang Daolin clapped his hands, and the voice of the official family soon sounded outside the door.

"What does the lord command?"

"Let Yang Run come to see me immediately."

"Yes, sir."

The official family left in response.

Yang Run is a very talented person, among the many clansmen of the Yang family, one of the best, for many years, the official reputation has been excellent, when Yang Daosi was in power, he once wanted to promote Yang Run to the throne, and got Zhao Zhi's approval, but unfortunately he was only a concubine, and his status within the Yang family was not high, Yang Daosi pushed him to the top, and was strongly hated by Yang Binglin's sons, making difficulties and attacks everywhere, Yang Run faced strong pressure, and finally could only choose to give up, and took the initiative to request to be released as an official, away from the core of power, in order to avoid trouble.

After the death of Yang Daohei, the Yang family fell into infighting, and the factions were fighting, Yang Run was disheartened, but fortunately resigned from his official position, returned to Beijing, lived in a simple house, and no longer cared about the disputes outside on the grounds of recuperation.

Yang Run's residence was not far from Yang Daolin's mansion, so it didn't take long for Yang Run to come to Yang Daolin's place.

"Sixth Uncle."

Yang Run entered the room, closed the door with his backhand, and then stepped forward to bow to Yang Daolin.

Yang Daolin smiled: "Don't be polite, sit down." ”

Yang Run nodded and sat down opposite Yang Daolin.

"The sixth uncle is looking for his nephew, but what's the matter?"

Yang Run asked the reason for the matter.

"See for yourself."

Yang Daolin picked up Huang Baichuan's letter, Yang Run got up and took it, then turned around and sat down, looked at it carefully, after reading it, Yang Run frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and finally put the letter aside, looked at Yang Daolin, and said lightly: "Yang Shicheng has always been very close to Yang Youan, he dares to be so bold, I am afraid that he was instructed by Yang Youan." ”

"I think so."

Yang Daolin sighed: "Since the death of the eldest brother, the Yang family has been worse day by day. ”

Yang Daolin really sighed, thinking that the eldest brother is so talented, the sons he gave birth to, except for Yang Luwang, who passed away, is not bad, the rest are all mediocre, the fourth Yang Chengjiu and the third Yang or himself are still a little self-aware, low-key, and dare not mess around.

Yang Binglin and Yang Youan, these two people, have great ambition and desire for power, but they are ambitious and talented, arrogant, arrogant, and misbehaving, pushing the Yang family step by step to a dangerous place, if it weren't for the solid foundation laid by Yang Daohei, and the two old men Yang Daolin and Yang Daoan are still carrying in front, I am afraid that the royal family would have united with other factions to eradicate the Yang family.