Chapter 12 The Banner is not rolled up Section 16 On December 19, Yan Liang and Yu Poison rushed from Xinye and Yucheng respectively to the Son of Heaven Xingtai located in the sunset to meet the Son of Heaven.

At the military meeting, Fu Gan, the secretary of the Xingtai Shangshu, analyzed the situation between the north and the south, and elaborated on the important position of Xiangyang in the strategy of pacifying the world.

Jingxiang is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is the center between the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, its periphery has Tongbai Mountain, Wudang Mountain, Jingshan and other stretching mountains for the danger, there are Hanshui, Yangtze River and other rivers leading to the four directions, since ancient times

It is known as the "country of force". From the east to the west, it is the connecting hub between Jianghuai, Wuyue and Bashu.

From the north-south direction, it is the junction between Guanzhong, the Central Plains and Jiangdong and Bashu. Therefore, the ownership of Jing Xiang directly determines the success or failure of the reunification war.

Now the confrontation between the north and the south, the battle line of the two sides stretches for 4,000 miles from east to west, Xiangyang is in the middle of this front, conquering Xiangyang, the Han army immediately cut off the rebels' defense line and controlled the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, so that the Han army can threaten Bashu, and the next can threaten Jianghuai and Jiangdong, and the period of crossing the river is just around the corner.

On the contrary, if the Han army could not conquer Xiangyang, then the rebels could immediately take Xiangyang as the center, echo the two battlefields in the east and west, and fight in coordination, which would pose a serious threat to the north.

This year, when the rebels took advantage of our main army to conquer the desert, they attacked north on three routes at the same time, which is a clear proof of this.

Nanyang is three hundred miles away from Xiangyang, which is the defense front of Jingxiang, and if Nanyang is defended, Jingxiang will be safe.

And Jingxiang is the barrier to the southeast, and the safety of Jingxiang is directly related to the security of Jianghuai and Jiangdong, so Cao Cao of Jianghuai and Sun Quan and Zhou Yu of Jiangdong will react quickly.

They may send troops north again to attack the Central Plains in the next year. At the same time, in order to help Liu Biao get out of the predicament, Liu Bei of Bashu may also send troops to Longnan to threaten Chang'an.

"As early as when the capital was moved to Chang'an, the imperial court formulated a strategy to pacify the world." Fu Gan said,

"Stabilizing the northwest and the desert is the basis for pacifying the world, and then occupy Longnan to achieve the policy of controlling Shu with a close grip. Once the control of Shu was realized, the capture of Jingxiang became a top priority. As long as Jingxiang is taken and the overall defense line of the rebels is cut off, we can flank Bashu from the north and south. Bashu was recovered, Jingxiang was in hand, Jianghuai and Jiangdong completely lost their barriers and support, and the defeat was only an overnight thing. ”

"Now the northwest two frontiers and the desert have been stabilized in the three-year expedition of His Majesty, the generals and tens of thousands of soldiers, and the strategy of suppressing Shu has also been successfully realized with the efforts of Zhao Yun, Yan Liang and Sima Yi and other generals, and the capture of Jingxiang has immediately become the most critical battle to pacify the world. Jing Xiangping, the world can be determined. Then Fu Gan gave a summary of the Nanyang battle situation and carefully explained the many difficulties of the current army attacking Nanyang.

"At present, we have taken the initiative on the battlefield of Nanyang, and the situation is very favorable, but if the army cannot conquer Wancheng before March and advance the front to Xiangyang City, we will inevitably lose the initiative."

"After the beginning of spring, if nothing else, Liu Bei of Bashu will send troops to Longnan, Cao Cao of Xuzhou will threaten the Central Plains, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu of Jiangdong will once again attack Yuzhou on the Huai River, and Liu Biao of Xiangyang will also mobilize the Yangtze River Water Division and the troops of the southern counties of Jingzhou to launch a counteroffensive, and we will fight on four battlefields at the same time. The imperial court's financial endowment will face a huge crisis, and the Nanyang battlefield may be deadlocked due to lack of food and grass, and finally have to withdraw its troops and return. Fu Gan pointed to Wancheng on the map, and raised his voice slightly: "The purpose of the rebels to hold Nanyang is very clear, that is, to drag our main force on the battlefield of Nanyang, and the longer it drags on, the more favorable the situation will be for them." The rebels had the conditions to hold on, first of all, they had more than 60,000 troops in the three cities of Wancheng, Nieyang and Yuyang; secondly, they had sufficient food and ordnance; Third, Xiangyang is very close to the Nanyang battlefield, and the main force of Jingzhou can go north to support at any time; Fourth, they had just defeated General Yang Feng's army, and their morale was very strong; Fifth, we attacked Nanyang again, although we used our speed to complete the encirclement, but we were not well prepared, the soldiers were tired, it was a cold winter climate, and we were unable to capture the three fortified cities in the short term, so they had enough time to readjust their deployment and try to defeat us by all means, so as to take advantage of this decisive battle and finally establish a situation of confrontation between the north and the south. ”

"So, in the next three months, we must capture the three cities and capture Nanyang." Fu Gan faced the generals and continued,

"The harsh winter is actually equal for both the offensive and the defensive, and the harsh winter is both a difficulty and an opportunity. As long as those who can turn difficulties into opportunities, they will be able to achieve more advantages. The conditions of the Battle of the West Sea were countless times worse than now, but we still won the victory, which shows that the harsh climate is not our biggest difficulty in capturing Nanyang, our biggest difficulty is the serious shortage of food, grass and ordnance. ”

"General Yang Feng's defeat in Nanyang was in September, and after the victory of the rebels, the main force went north to attack Luyang to threaten Luoyang, and the autumn harvest began immediately in all parts of Nanyang. After we attacked Nanyang again, the rebels retreated to Wancheng and held on, and the reason why they were calm was because the city treasury was full of grain, and they were not afraid of being surrounded. But they ignored a problem, we attacked quickly, they did not have time to evacuate the people of Nanyang, and the strong wall cleared the wilderness, which provided us with an excellent opportunity to raise food and grass on the spot. Fu Gan looked around at the generals in the tent and waved his arm vigorously,

"We will build the dock forts and destroy all the dock forts, so that we will have all the food, clothing, ordnance, and men. We strive to start a decisive battle after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and before March, we must capture Nanyang. The big tent suddenly burst into jubilation, Yan Liang, Wang Dang, Yu Poison, Yu Yigen, Liang Baiwu and others applauded repeatedly, while Zhong Xuan, Wang Ling, Yang Xiu, Jiang Ji and others tried their best to dissuade them.

Zhong Xuan was very excited, and repeatedly admonished the Son of Heaven. The attack on Wubao will inevitably arouse the anger and resistance of the people of Nanyang and even Jingxiang, and in the future, the two sides will no longer have room for maneuver but to fight to the death, which will seriously hinder the process of unification of the world.

Secondly, the defense capability of the dock fort is very strong, and the dock lord and suzerain will definitely resist stubbornly for the sake of the life and wealth of the clan, which will endanger the lives of the soldiers and affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

Third, due to the continuous war, some dock forts were built by fleeing warriors, homeless people, bandits, stragglers and others to save their lives, these dock forts have little wealth, and the dock forts of the gate lords and rich people are not the same thing, to be treated differently, can not be generalized.

Zhong Xuan made a suggestion for this, first send people to hold the edict of the Son of Heaven, appease the dock forts in various places, and obtain the trust and support of the rich men of Nanyang gate, and then depending on the scale and wealth of the dock forts, appropriately levy and lend money and grain on credit, as much as possible to alleviate the contradictions between the two sides, and lay the foundation for the reconstruction and stability after the capture of Nanyang, as well as for the later implementation of various measures to break the enemy in the process of attacking Xiangyang, such as appeasement, separation, and splitting.

"Well said, well said, Aiqing said well......" Xiao Tianzi pointed to the king who was gearing up and reproached,

"You know killing, killing, you see how thoughtful Zhong Aiqing is. If you kill someone, you must have a high-sounding reason, and you can't be as vicious as bandits. Do you think you're still the thief boss of Taihang Mountain? You are now the right general of the Han Dynasty, and your army is also the benevolent and righteous division of the Han Dynasty, how can you burn, kill, and plunder? ”

"Yes, yes...... The minister knows his mistakes, he knows his mistakes, and he knows his mistakes...... Wang Dang's old face turned dark, glared at Zhong Xuan fiercely, and bowed down to accept the guilt.

"You bring my holy decree, bring five thousand elites, and the Hu cavalry battalion of General Saifeng, go and return quickly." Xiao Tianzi secretly gave Wang Dang a look behind his back Zhong Xuan,

"Before the Chinese New Year, settle this matter, otherwise you will go back to Chang'an." Beware of the king's understanding.

"Your Majesty, there are too many Nanyang Dock Forts, if you want to solve them all, it will take at least a month, can you give another 10,000 horses to the ministers or send another army?"

"Oh......" Xiao Tianzi scratched his head and turned his gaze to Yan Liang. Zhong Xuan didn't wait for him to speak, and knelt down first,

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to lead an army ......"

"Oops......" Xiao Tianzi exclaimed, jumped up from the seat, rushed up in three or two steps to help Zhong Xuan,

"No, no, Aiqing is old and can't go. It's the harsh winter season now, and it's too hard to lead the army day and night, so let Yan Aiqing go. Yan Aiqing is the first fierce general of the Han Dynasty, and it is within his duty to charge into battle. If you go, I'll be charged with disrespect. Zhong Xuan was bitter and sighed in frustration.

Wang Dang was originally a Yellow Turban handsome, and his subordinates were also Yellow Turban warriors, and he had an innate hatred for Wubao.

At that time, the Yellow Turban Army attacked the dock fort, burned, killed and plundered, and finally left only a piece of scorched earth, and the methods were very cruel.

Let Wang Dang go to the dock fort, and the result is self-evident. Yan Liang is murderous and famous all over the world, he went to appease Wubao, which Wubao dared to surrender?

If you don't surrender, you will fight, and if you finish fighting, you will kill, and the fate of Nanyang Wubao can be imagined. Things turned out exactly as Zhong Xuan expected.

Wang Dang rode with 10,000 steps to attack the southeast direction of Wancheng, attacked every fort, killed every person, and for a time the smoke and dust were billowing and the corpses were all over the field.

Yan Liang led the Changshui Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion to attack in the southwest direction of Wancheng, and he was even bloodier, not only attacking Wubao, but also ordinary villages.

Within a radius of hundreds of miles from the first line of Xinye and Qicheng to the first line of Xiangyang and Dengxian, all the houses were burned, all the money, grain and property were robbed, and more than 100,000 people in Nanyang were all broken, and they quickly crossed the Han River and fled to Xiangyang with a sad cry all the way.

This sudden killing caused Nanyang to fall into extreme panic, and almost all the people began to flee south.

Liu Biao didn't have time to clear the wilderness, and the Han army helped him do it, but in a short period of time, hundreds of thousands of people fled into Xiangyang, which made the situation in Xiangyang suddenly tense.

The purpose of the Han army is very clear, that is, to turn the place from Xinye to Xiangyang more than 150 miles into a no-man's land, so that the iron cavalry of the Han army can exert its power and gallop between Xinye and Xiangyang.

As long as the Han army has 10,000 iron cavalry, it can suppress the reinforcements of Jingzhou on the line of the Han River, and then the Han army can gather all the infantry armies to launch a fierce attack on the three cities of Wancheng, Nieyang and Yuyang.

However, there is no doubt that this bloody massacre and plunder was very unfavorable for the Han army to attack Jingxiang, but at this moment Zhong Xuan, Wang Ling, Yang Xiu and others had no intention of dissuading the Son of Heaven, because there was an astonishing news from Jinyang, the general wrote to the Son of Heaven, begging the Son of Heaven to agree to marry the eldest princess on the seventh day of the first month.

At the beginning, the Son of Heaven gave marriage, but it was only a marriage contract, and there was no specific time for marrying the general.

Now that the general's condition has just improved, he immediately put forward a request to marry the eldest princess, and also set a date, which gives people a very sudden, very hasty feeling, and at the same time gives people a feeling that the mountain rain is about to come, and it is difficult to suffocate.

The general's illness is cured, and he wants to marry the eldest princess, what will happen next? Xiao Tianzi was very angry in front of the ministers.

"My aunt told me that when the wedding ceremony was held, I must participate. I only have one aunt, how can I not participate when she gets married? Now that the date of the big gift is only ten days away, and I can't leave Nanyang, what should I do? What to do? He looked at the ministers, rolled his eyes, and immediately changed to a flattering smile.

"Can I go to Jinyang?" The ministers invariably gave him a roll of the eye. At this time, he left the battlefield and went to Jinyang to participate in the general's wedding ceremony, and he could figure it out.

"I travel day and night, and it will only take more than 20 days to go back and forth, and I will not delay any major events." The little Tianzi drooped his head, cried and mourned, and pleaded pitifully,

"All of you Aiqing are the pillars of the country, the world is virtuous, Nanyang is not a trivial matter, is it still easy to capture?" The ministers had their own thoughts, and none of them ignored him.

Xiao Tianzi looked left and right, his mouth pouted, and he cried, crying very sadly,

"I'm going to Jinyang...... I must go...... I miss my aunt...... "Jia Xu didn't see it well, turned around and ran away."

Fu Gan hugged his head,

"The minister had a headache, and he said goodbye first......" also ran away. Jade arched his hand and was about to speak, but Xiao Tianzi grabbed the sleeve of his robe and cried even more miserably,

"Aiqing, you can go with me...... "Jade didn't know what to do, and looked at Wang Ling, Yang Xiu and the others for help.

Yang Xiu didn't say a word, and ran away from the big tent. Wang Ling and Jiang Ji smiled sympathetically at the jade stone and left.

Zhong Xuan hesitated for a long time, and persuaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, if you want to participate in the eldest princess's ceremony, you can issue an order to the general, ask him to postpone his marriage, and ...... after the Nanyang War is over."

"Wow......" Little Tianzi cried,

"My aunt's hair is gray for me, how can I be unkind and unfilial, and make her sad......" Zhong Miao was ashamed and left.

The tent was empty, and the ministers were gone.

"Okay, okay......" Jade gently patted the little Tianzi in his arms,

"Everyone is gone, don't cry......" Xiao Tianzi secretly glanced at the big tent from under the ribs of the jade, and immediately stopped crying, hehe laughed,

"Aiqing, my aunt is so powerful, she can guess this kind of thing." Jade sighed, and her tone was sad,

"Today, apart from Your Majesty, who else is willing to marry the eldest princess to the general?"

"Yes......" Xiao Tianzi patted Jade's chest,

"And Aiqing, you."

"Minister......" Jade Shi wanted to speak and stopped, his lips moved twice, but he still didn't say it after all. How could he be willing to let the general marry the eldest princess?

It's one thing to have a marriage contract, it's another thing to marry home as a wife. After the general and the eldest princess get married, who can predict whether it will be a blessing or a curse?

Brother, I hope you can still strategize and be invincible as in the past, and don't bury the big man because of a thought.

Xiao Tianzi wiped away his tears and stood up with a smile,

"Before my aunt went to Jinyang, she told me that the ministers would prevent her from getting married, so she specially told me a way to deal with it. However, this method made me too embarrassed, and the son of heaven, who was a big man, actually cried in front of the public. Hey......" Xiao Tianzi sighed helplessly,

"But I'm really sad and want to cry. My aunt only has one relative, and when she got married, I wasn't even by her side......" Suddenly he remembered something, and sat down opposite the jade,

"Aiqing, is my aunt worried that I won't be able to cry, so she deliberately didn't let me participate in her ceremony, which made me heartbroken......"

"Does Your Majesty really want to go to Jinyang?" Jade took Xiao Tianzi's hand and asked lovingly.

"You want to go too, right?" Xiao Tianzi said,

"You and the general are like brothers, you must really want to go to Jinyang to see him. However, the general's illness must have been cured, otherwise he would not be in such a hurry to marry his aunt. Jade knew that Xiao Tianzi was comforting herself, her heart was sour, and tears moistened her eyes in an instant.

Brother, our efforts over the years have not been in vain, Xiao Tianzi has really grown up and is sensible. Even if the big man doesn't have you and me, the little emperor can still govern it well.

In December, Chang'an. The Son of Heaven and the Minister of Xingtai were inclined to revise the official system, and this news once made Chang'an very excited, and Prime Minister Li Wei also restrained his edge and concentrated on it

"Shangji", closely cooperating with the governments of the DPRK and China, trying to raise money and food for the Nanyang battlefield, there was a rare one in the court

"Stable". But with the news that the general is about to marry the eldest princess from Jinyang, this kind

The illusion of "stability" was immediately shattered. Prime Minister Li Wei quickly rushed to Shangshutai to meet with the hussar generals Zhao Yun, Taifu Liu He, and Shangshu Ling Tian Chou, and asked for leave to leave Beijing.

He received an invitation from the general and the eldest princess to go north to Jinyang to participate in the general's wedding ceremony. The prime minister's departure from Beijing is a major event for the country, and it will not work without the approval of the Son of Heaven.

But now the situation is special, a son of heaven is far away in the Nanyang battlefield, and it takes time for the messenger to go back and forth, and the general is going to marry the eldest princess on the seventh day of the first month, and it will definitely be too late in time.

Second, Li Wei was jointly invited by the general and the eldest princess, and the general intended to ask Li Wei to serve as the man's greeting envoy, and the court did not dare to delay Li Wei's northward journey no matter what.

Therefore, Zhao Yun, Liu He, and Tian Chou discussed it a little and decided to let Li Wei leave Beijing first, and at the same time write to the Son of Heaven and ask the Son of Heaven to approve it.

Li Wei left Beijing, Chang'an was also lively, in the coming New Year's firecrackers, Chang'an's gate valve families, bureaucrats, businessmen and tycoons took various opportunities to get together to discuss how to deal with Jinyang

"Tempest". On December 24, Cui Jun, the ceremonial doctor, and Cui Lin, the left supervisor of the court lieutenant, suddenly came to visit Cui Yan, the imperial servant.

Cui Jun is the son of Cui Lie and a native of Anping in Anping, Jizhou. The Cui family in Anping has a history of 300 years, starting from the time of Emperor Xiaozhao, and the most famous figures are Cui Chu, Cui Jin, Cui Yu and Cui Lie.

(Anping is only a few dozen miles away from Boling, so it is also called Boling Anping Cui's family, Boling's Cui family and Qinghe Cui's family are the first surnames of the famous gate valve in history.)

If you count from the decline of the gate valve in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Cui family has been in history for more than 800 years. Cui Yan and Cui Lin are cousins, from Dongwu City in Qinghe Kingdom, Jizhou.

The Qinghe Cui family and the Boling Cui family are the same ancestor, but the Boling Cui family has always prided itself on being a righteous descendant, and the Qinghe Cui family also admits this, and generally says that they are from Boling.

The three of them are one generation, Cui Yan is old, dignified, amazingly talented, famous all over the world, and now he is a master of new scriptures, and he is also a highly respected figure in the court.

Compared with Cui Jun and Cui Lin, it is far worse. So at the beginning, Cui Lie vigorously cultivated Cui Yan, supported the Qinghe Cui family, and left his son and the Boling Cui family aside.

Cui Yan welcomed the two into the study, and before he could say a few words, Cui Jun directly explained his intentions.

"Brother Ji Jue, there have been a lot of rumors about you in Chang'an recently, should you avoid it, don't push yourself to the cusp, so as not to harm the clan." Cui Jun said this with a smile, but the meaning in his words was very harsh.

The smile on Cui Yan's face gradually dissipated, and he stared at Cui Jun and asked coldly, "Don't you know that a catastrophe is coming?" Cui Jun and Cui Lin looked at each other and didn't think so.

"The matter between the eldest princess and the general has been counted for more than ten years, and they will be a family sooner or later, what's the fuss about?" Cui Jun said,

"The eldest princess is a big man, and she can be described as exhausted, exhausted, and sacrificed too much. Those of us who are courtiers should also have a little conscience and let her wish. Now she is almost thirty years old, still alone, lonely and desolate, can you stand it? Do we have to wait until the general is dead, or until she has gray hair, before we let her go? ”

"Your Majesty is a full ten years old this year, as long as you wait another three years, or another six years, the eldest princess will be able to get her wish. Since she has been waiting for more than ten years, why can't she wait another three or five years? Cui Yan said sharply,

"Don't fool yourself, don't you know what the general wants to do?"

"What does the general want to do?" Cui Jun slapped the case suddenly, glared and shouted,

"Does he still want to usurp the society? If he wants to usurp the society, he has a chance. When the 100,000 army Chen Bing Yellow River threatened Luoyang was an opportunity, and the opportunity was better after the success of King Qin, and the filial piety of the emperor died, so where to find a good opportunity? Now that the little son of heaven has grown up and his wings are getting fuller, he wants to go against the sky and usurp the society, is this possible? Xiao Tianzi was just five years old, he took him with him to conquer the world, he tried every means to let the Son of Heaven grow up, let Xiao Tianzi control the army, and let Xiao Tianzi make contributions, why did he do this? Is it just to make Xiao Tianzi full-fledged, and then compete with Xiao Tianzi in the world? Are you brainless, or is the general brainless? My father is really old and confused, how can he take a fancy to you? What do you look like a ZTE celebrity? Cui Yan was furious, and just as he wanted to refute, Cui Lin stood up.

"Don't be angry, two brothers, family, talk well, don't quarrel, the more noisy it is, the worse it will be." Cui Yan snorted coldly, forcibly held back his anger, and said slowly: "Now the situation is clear, the general is eager to marry the eldest princess when his body has not yet recovered, the purpose is to suppress Chang'an, and the purpose of suppressing Chang'an is to support Li Wei and support the reform of the imperial court. In other words, he acquiesced to Li Wei's restructuring and wanted the reformers to firmly control the government. He believes that only Li Wei's restructuring can guarantee the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. In recent years, the reason why he took Xiao Tianzi to conquer the world was that his fundamental purpose was to plant the people-oriented concept deeply in Xiao Tianzi's heart, so as to ensure the interests of the people in the world, ensure the long-term implementation of the reform policy, and ensure that the great cause of Zhongxing continued to advance in accordance with the people-oriented thinking. But in fact, Li Wei's restructuring is deviating from this line of thinking, and the new system of salt and iron government, agriculture and commerce, and land is not benefiting the 'people', on the contrary, he has seriously damaged the interests of the 'people'. ”

"To use the simplest analogy, what practical benefits have our Cui family gotten in the New Deal over the years? No, the wealth of our Cui family has not increased, on the contrary, we have less land, our shade households are gone, it is difficult for our protégés to enter the court, and even the money and grain we lent to the court on credit have been embezzled. If you look at ordinary people, are their lives improving? No, the heavy rents and forced labor made life difficult for them. ”

"On the contrary, if you look at Li Wei, look at the military meritorious class, look at the businessmen who had no status in the past, look at the rich people who had no power in the past, see if their wealth is increasing, whether the fields they occupy are increasing, and whether their power is increasing? What's even more ridiculous is that those rough scholars, shameless businessmen, and vulgar rich people dare to enter the hall and be ministers in the same hall with us. If this continues, can Dahan still be able to prosper? Will the people be able to live and work in peace? Can Hanzuo continue for generations? Cui Jun was silent.

"The general's marriage to the eldest princess is not to usurp the society, there is a consensus in the court, and we also bless them. But the crux of the matter is that the general chose to marry the eldest princess at this time, which is tantamount to openly supporting Li Wei and supporting the reform, so that the little emperor still dares to stand aside with us? ”

"The purpose of revising the official system is first to redistribute power and weaken the strength of the reformers, and then use the power struggle between Xingtai and Jinyang to win over Xiao Tianzi, and then step by step to correct the unreasonable places in the reform, to ensure that the Zhongxing strategy is truly in accordance with the people-oriented idea and continues to advance." Cui Jun thought for a while, shook his head, and said solemnly: "In the court today, it is the general who is really in power, and if you do this, you will definitely anger him." This time, the general invited Li Wei to Jinyang in the name of marrying the eldest princess, obviously to warn Chang'an. In my opinion, you should stop in moderation and stop going-for-tat with Li Wei again. ”

"Yes, brother, you have to think about it and be cautious." Cui Lin also persuaded,

"After the Prime Minister left Beijing, the gate valve family in Chang'an had two attitudes. One is to join forces with the ministers of the clan and do their best to support the little emperor, first let the little emperor take power, and then find a way to control the government and rebuild the law. Although this method takes a long time, it is safe and effective, such as Xu Jing, Xun You, Zhang Fan, Yuan Yao and other adults have this attitude. ”

"There are also some people who plan to join Xiaotianzi to revise the official system after the end of the Nanyang War, after Xiao Tianzi returns to Beijing, so as to intensify the contradictions between Jinyang and Chang'an, and then use the relationship between the eldest princess and Xiao Tianzi to force the general to make concessions, thereby weakening Li Wei's authority and preparing for the next step of rebuilding the law. Chen Qun, Dong Zhao, Yuan Lian, Sima Lang, Wei Qi and other ministers held this view. ”

"In short, before Xiao Tianzi has no real control over the authority, it is not appropriate for us to break with Jinyang, so as not to anger the general and cause trouble to the society." Cui Lin said earnestly,

"Brother Ji Jue, don't listen to some people's words, lest you fall for them and take advantage of them." Cui Yan sighed bitterly: "How do you know my suffering? Xu Shao, Wang Jian, Zhang Yan, Xiang Kai, Wang Zhen and others recently talked about the scriptures and Taoism in Jinyang Hanging Urn Mountain, talked a lot about aiding the Tao and integrating Taoism and Confucianism, and debated with the Confucian students in Jinyang all night. Zhang Yan said that Taoism and Confucianism should be integrated with each other, and Xiangkai proposed to replace Confucianism with Taoism, and Xu Shao was even more amazing, and even said that he wanted to abandon Confucianism and enter Taoism. Cui Jun and Cui Lin were shocked when they heard this.

"Is this true?" Cui Jun asked in a lost voice.

"After the general and the eldest princess got married, their power was too great, if they were persuaded by Zhang Yan, Xu Shao, Xiangkai and others to introduce the Taoist Huang Laozhi into the national policy, not only the great cause of Zhongxing would be affected, but even the official and academic status of the new scriptures would be challenged." Cui Yan said angrily,

"Zhang Yan, Yang Feng and many of the Yellow Turban ministers of civil and military affairs were engaged in Zhang Jiao's study of the Taiping Sutra, and they were all Taoist disciples. Over the years, they have been holding back, just waiting for an opportunity. Now they see that the new scriptures and the ancient scriptures are both defeated, and they are ready to make a comeback, and the sudden appearance of Xiangkai must have a lot to do with this matter. ”

"Zhang Yan studied the Taiping Sutra, does he dare to mention it now?" Cui Jun asked,

"He's not afraid that the eldest princess will cut off his head?"

"Zhang Yan is a Taoist disciple, he studied "Lao Tzu" and "The Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor". Cui Yan sighed,

"I've always underestimated him, but I didn't expect him to be so profound that he would make a comeback in this way at this time." Cui Jun and Cui Lin looked at each other, feeling that the situation in Chang'an was getting more and more complicated.

"I'm not going to let him get his way." Cui Yan was categorical and loud,

"Whoever dares to blaspheme the New Scriptures, I will kill him." Jump to