Chapter 816: Alone
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"Your Majesty, it's time to turn over the cards."
In the Xinuan Pavilion of Chengdu Palace in the middle of the night, Li Yi, the son of heaven, stroked his forehead with his hand, and had a headache at the mountains of food and salary requests on the imperial case, so that he didn't even know the time in the middle of the night. Li Yu hadn't pampered the women of the palace for several days, and this situation worried Tian Lingzi and other eunuchs. Once the emperor began not to go to the horse, shoot arrows and hunt, and no longer pamper women, and sleep in the wine, but all day long opposite a pile of state affairs, accompanied by some civil servants and elders, then this is by no means a good thing, at least, for them eunuchs, it will never be a good thing.
Tian Lingzi closely controlled the emperor's every move, and the emperor had a period of hard work when he got older, wanting to be a great king. It's just that later, with the Huang Chao attacking Luoyang and Chang'an, and Gao Yu, Zhou Bao, Li Jing, and Li Ke, whom he pinned his hopes on, used the domineering performance of these generals to seriously hit the heart of this young man. After retreating to Chengdu in a panic, the Son of Heaven began to sink, and he was pessimistic all day long, always thinking that Huangchao would soon enter Xichuan, so he slept in the wine every day, so as to harm himself.
Now that the emperor is wearing clothes and food, Tian Lingzi is already very unfamiliar.
Moreover, the emperor's appearance made him faintly afraid.
Tian Lingzi lit sandalwood on the side, retreated a few palace maids, and whispered to Li Yi: "Long live, you have to take care of the dragon body." You haven't flipped through the sign in a few days. It's not good to go on like this. The old ministers and others are also looking forward to having more children under His Majesty. Prosperous royal family. ”
After retreating to Chengdu. Tian Lingzi originally saw the fall of the Son of Heaven, and he couldn't help but despise this Son of Heaven more and more. Chengdu's affairs in the imperial court are almost decided by him. In particular, Xichuan's three festival envoys are all his henchmen, among which Xichuan Jiedu envoy is his own brother Chen Jingxuan. In addition, the original Shence army existed in name only, although Tian Lingzi suffered heavy losses, but after rebuilding the Shence Ten Armies and Baidu, he successfully excluded Ximen Sigong, Yang Fugong and other eunuchs from this new army.
Tonight, though. He suddenly rushed to meet the emperor, in addition to the Son of Heaven becoming diligent again, the more important thing was his newly obtained report.
"Father, does Li Jing have a recital to report?" Li Yi looked up, his eyes full of expectation.
Some time ago, when Huangchao was unstoppable and the thieves were arrogant, Li Jing, the king of Qin, the overlord of the East with heavy troops, suddenly sent a message to all towns and called on all towns in the world to send troops to attack Huangchao. Together, the king. After Li Jing's article came out, it was beyond Li Jing's expectations. It really caused the towns to respond. And soon formed three major coalition armies, with the participation of twenty or thirty feudal towns.
Immediately afterwards, Zheng Jin, the commander of the coalition forces in Guanzhong, took the lead in responding to Li Jing and led the eight towns to send troops.
These days, Li Yi has been waiting for news from Guanzhong.
On the one hand, he was a little worried, after all, it was the former prime minister Zheng Zheng who led the soldiers and horses of the eight towns in Guanzhong this time, although this Zheng Xiangguo was loyal to the country, but he was only a scholar and had never led soldiers to fight. And the towns of Guanzhong had an ambiguous attitude, and even the Fengxiang Army once surrendered to Huangchao. If it weren't for Huang Chao's greed and excessive demand, which violated the interests of various towns, and Li Jing's call to join forces with Zheng Jin, the current coalition army would not know where the road is.
But on the other hand, Li Yi is full of expectations for this battle, and the situation in the world has been so erosive. If there is no miracle, Li Tang's Jiangshan Mansion will collapse, and he will be powerless to return to the sky. He now hopes that Zheng Zheng can win this battle, and then the other towns will also beat the water dogs, so that his country may be saved.
Although he felt in his heart that there was little hope for pinning the fate of the Tang Dynasty in three hundred years on an old Wenchen, he still kept looking forward to it.
On the other hand, he put more hope on Li Jing. Since Li Jing is going to issue a document at this time to order the kings of all towns, maybe Li Jing doesn't plan to watch the fire from the other side of the strait.
No matter what, Li Yi, the son of the Tang Dynasty, is in Chengdu, and he has to look at Tian Lingzi's face. But when it comes to the current situation in the whole world, he still has to count on Li Jing.
Tian Lingzi said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Li Jing sent a thousand-mile urgent report, which is good news and good news!" Guanzhong victory, Fengxiang Army Jiedu made Zheng Zhen lead the Guanzhong Eight Towns Coalition Army, in Qizhou Longwei Pi and the puppet Qi Taiwei Shang Rang decisive battle, 100,000 Guanzhong coalition army against 50,000 puppet Qi rebels, Zheng Jin adopted Li Jingte sent to the Guanzhong coalition army staff group strategy, as a bait, lure Shang Rang to lead the troops to attack the enemy, and then ambush the troops to besiege Shang Rang. The battle lasted for a whole day, Shang Rang was defeated, Zheng Zheng led the Guanzhong coalition army to behead 30,000 rebels, captured more than 10,000 people, Shang Rang only led more than 10,000 cavalry to flee back to Guanzhong. ”
This news can be said to be the best news since the imperial court abandoned Luoyang.
As a result, even Tian Lingzi has always been at odds with Zheng Jin and Li Jing, but in this matter, he did not dare to hide it, but told the truth.
However, at the end, he still added another sentence, "Your Majesty, Zheng Zheng achieved such a great victory this time, but he contacted and discussed it with Li Jing, the king of Qin, in advance, and they did not report the battle plan to His Majesty and the imperial court before the war. Moreover, after the war, Zheng Jin did not immediately send someone to Chengdu to report the victory, but first sent someone to report the victory to Li Jing in Youzhou, and then Li Jing sent the news of this victory to Chengdu. The Battle of Longwei was already news half a month ago, and His Majesty, as the lord of the world, was almost the most knowledgeable about the news. ”
These few words really made Li Yu's face change slightly, and Li Yu, who was in a good mood just after hearing the good news, was in a shadow in his heart.
Before the war, the problem between Zheng Zheng and Li Jing was not reported to the imperial court in the slightest, but it can be said that the generals can act cheaply outside, for the sake of secrecy and so on. But after the war, the news of this victory was not the first to tell him, but was sent to Li Jing in Youzhou, Hebei.
There's a bit of intriguing about this. Especially some of the news he got before, originally Feng Xiangjun had taken refuge in Huang Chao, but later heard that Li Jing sent someone to find Zheng Jin, and after some planning, Feng Xiangjun was anyway. But Zheng Jin has been in close contact with Li Jing in Hebei since then.
Li Jing can now be said to be half of the sky in the east of Weizhen, and the imperial court has nothing to do with this Uncle Li. If even Zheng Jin fell to Li Jing, then he is the son of heaven. But he is really a loner.
He immediately remembered again. This time, the three major coalition forces. It seems that it was summoned by Li Jing's message, and besides, Li Jing also has the titles of Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, Fake Jieyue, King of Qin, and Shang Shuling. He has every right to open a government and appoint himself as a subordinate.
Although Li Jing has never shown any rebellion, Li Yi, who has experienced so many things, no longer really believes in Li Jing in his heart.
Biting dogs don't bark. Li Ke used this Shatuo to fight against the bones, although he reversed Datang twice, but this guy acted straightforwardly, and one intestine went to the end, after all, it was easy to grasp. But Li Jing is different, Li Jing is very tolerant and never shows his hole cards. Even though Li Jing's strength is much stronger than Li Keyong, Huang Chao and other anti-thieves, he has always been under the banner of respecting Tang.
If you are not moved by small profits, you will inevitably want to be big!
It's just that now, who else can he, the son of heaven, trust?
He's seen through it now. Although he is the lord of the world, he is actually a real loner. Even his father, Tian Lingzi, who grew him up. He is nothing more than a completely untrustworthy person.
"I'm a little sleepy."
"Your Majesty hasn't flipped the cards yet!" Tian Lingzi beckoned, and immediately a little eunuch came up with a box in his hand, which contained a sandalwood booklet like a thick book, and on each page was hung the portraits of the concubines in the palace on all sides. Although Li Yi came out of Chang'an in a hurry and didn't take all the palace maids in Chang'an, he brought all the concubines. In addition, after arriving in Chengdu, Tian Lingzi helped Zhang Luo a lot, so the palace was also full of beauties when he was just twenty years old.
Li Yi took a long breath, stopped, and turned his head to look at the wooden book, but sure enough, he saw that the sign on the front page was Chen Meiren. Chen Meiren is Tian Lingzi's niece, the daughter of Tian Lingzi and Chen Jingxuan's dead eldest brother. Although she has a bit of beauty, she has been poor since she was a child, so she is just a small jasper, and Li Yi doesn't like her. However, she is the niece of Tian Lingzi and Chen Jingxuan, and now he spends five of his ten days in the night in her palace.
Li Yi knew the thoughts of the Chen brothers, and now he is in Chengdu, almost completely under the control of the brothers. Now they have bigger ideas, Li Yi has just turned twenty, although there are many women, and there are a few children, but they have not yet set up a queen and a prince. The idea of the Tian Lingzi brothers is obvious, that is, to let Chen Meisheng have a son, and then they will make her the queen and the child the prince. In this way, their Chen family is in charge of the palace and the forbidden Beiya, and the Xichuan Domain is in charge of the town, and even the queen and the crown prince are their Chen family.
He didn't want to go through the sign, but he knew that he was actually under the control of the brothers. Tian Lingzi controls the new Ten Armies and Baidu, Chen Jingxuan controls Xichuan, and even the other two Sichuan are actually under the control of the two brothers.
"Don't choose, let's go to Chen Meiren in Shuyuan Hall tonight." Li Yi said in a calm voice.
With a satisfied smile on her face, Tian Lingzi turned over her niece's sign. Then with a wave of his hand, let the little eunuch lead the way, and he walked side by side with Li Yi.
Li Yi stretched out his hand to Tian Lingzi, and the old eunuch was very satisfied, and took it with a smile. Looking at his smiling face, Li Yi's heart flashed with a little disgust more and more. It turned out that he had obeyed him, but in fact, he now found that this old eunuch had nothing but the ability to eliminate dissent. Looking at Tian Lingzi, he couldn't help but think of Li Jing.
Li Jing and Tian Lingzi are also powerful ministers that he can't control, one outside and the other inside.
But thinking about it, although he had all kinds of doubts and speculations about Li Jing, to be honest, when he had a good relationship with Li Jing in the past, Li Jing at least paid him millions of dollars and grain every year. And now, although relying on the Chen brothers' looting in Xichuan, they can barely maintain the use of Chengdu, but it is precisely because Tian Lingzi was in a hurry to evacuate the two capitals that he is now almost out of Sanchuan.
"Your Majesty, Chen Meiren has been waiting for a long time."
Li Yi lowered his eyes and let out a long sigh, he no longer had the strength to be angry.
In the original battle between Li Jing and Tian Lingzi, he still favored Tian Lingzi at the most. As a result, Li Jing separated from him and no longer paid tribute to him. Although the monarch and ministers are harmonious on the surface, Li Jing's relationship with him has dropped to a freezing point. And what did he get in exchange for supporting Tian Lingzi at such a big price? In exchange, they were only taken all the way to Xichuan and gave up Liangchuan. became a son of heaven who lost the prestige of the king.
Treacherous and misguided country!
Night. looked at Chen Mei's kitsch appearance. Li Yi hated this family more and more, and after hastily coping with her once, he went to bed early.
At dawn, Li Yi pushed away Chen Meiren, who wanted to climb up to him like a snake and beg for pleasure, and left directly.
After sitting in the imperial study for a long time, Li Yi said to Yang Fugong, who came after hearing the edict: "Yang Qing, what do you think I should do?" ”
In the palace, now among the four great eunuchs. It is still Tian Lingzi who is the most powerful, he holds the forbidden army and his brother in control of Xichuan, and also controls the two towns of Xingyuan and Shannandong through his henchmen. Under him, Ximen Sigong was old, and because Zheng Zheng was deposed as prime minister, his power was greatly reduced, and he was surpassed by Zhang Tai, who introduced Li Jing as a foreign aid.
The four major eunuchs, Tian Lingzi controlled the forbidden army, and Chen Jingxuan and others mastered the support of Sanchuan, and the status of the great eunuch was unshakable.
Simon Sigong and Zhang Tai. One has the righteous son Fengxiang Festival Marshal Zheng Jin, and the other has the support of Li Jing, the king of Qin. The status is not weak, and the two gradually have a tendency to unite.
Among the four, only Yang Fugong, before Li Yi succeeded to the throne, he had controlled the Privy Council and the Shence Army, and was born in the Yang family, a powerful eunuch family in the palace. Later, he was hit down by Tian Lingzi and Ximen Sigong, speaking of which, his relationship with Tian Lingzi is extremely poor, and the relationship with Ximen Sigong is not good, for Li Yi, such a person is what he needs most now. Yang Fugong has a background and prestige, and the key is that his younger brother Yang Fuguang is now the commander of the three major coalition armies, and he also has an excellent relationship with several feudal towns in the Central Plains, such as the three towns of Zhongwu, Hezhong Town, Yanmen Town, and Datong Town, all of which have a close relationship with him. For Li Yi, who is now desperate for military support, the Yang brothers are the people he needs the most now.
Yang Fugong used to be the first eunuch in the palace, and his mind was very flexible. As soon as Li Yi's words came out, he immediately tasted the meaning.
The emperor didn't ask Tian Lingzi, which means that the emperor has seen through Tian Lingzi and no longer believes in him. The emperor didn't ask Zhang Tai, which shows that the emperor actually doesn't believe in Li Jing, who is very famous today. The emperor did not ask Ximen Sigong, which means that the Son of Heaven did not even believe Zheng Jin, the representative of the local civil ministers and marshals.
The only thing that the Son of Heaven believes in him is this an opportunity!
It seems that the Son of Heaven has indeed reached the time of desperation, otherwise, he would not have asked him so eagerly.
Yang Fugong's mind turned straight, and after a moment of silence, he boldly said: "Your Majesty, the old slave feels that the brothers Tian Lingzi and Chen Jingxuan have not had the ability to govern the country and the people except for the party and the party. And Li Jing, hehe, maybe most people in the world think that he is a famous minister of Zhongxing Datang, but the old slave thinks that Li Jing is the biggest enemy of Datang. And now, Zhang Tai, Ximen Sigong and Zheng Zheng and others have begun to fall to Li Jing. None of these people can be believed by His Majesty. ”
Li Yi said weakly: "What you said is right, but what can you do?" Could it be that if I issue an edict, I can remove them from their official positions and give them knighthoods? ”
Yang Fugong listened to Li Yi's tone and knew that this son of heaven was not as simple as it seemed. At least, he has seen the essence of the matter, and now, the most important thing is not the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers, but the real military power, these are the most important things. However, he still said tentatively: "My brother Fuguang is now trusted by His Majesty to serve as the supervisor of the world's soldiers and horses, and he is willing to serve His Majesty to the death." ”
Li Yi just sighed and shook his head.
Yang Fuguang decided to add another fire.
"Qin Zongquan, Zhou Qi, Lu Yanhong of the three towns of Zhongwu, Wang Chongrong of Hezhong Town, Li Keyong of Yanmen Town, the old slave is sure that they will lead the soldiers and horses of the town under their command together to serve His Majesty."
Li Yi sat up violently, slapped his palm on the table, the pen holder, pen washer, pen holder and paperweight on the table were shocked and jumped, Yang Fuguang hurriedly buried his head down, "The old slave lost his words"
Unexpectedly, Li Yi took the case and said: "What Aiqing said is true, are you really sure that these five towns will work for me?" ”
"For the sake of Your Majesty, although the old slave will die, the 200,000 troops in the five towns will become the most loyal sword under Your Majesty!"
"Didn't Li Keyong in Yanmen Town already be killed in the battle with Li Jing? I heard that now Shatuo is divided into two, both of them are subservient to Li Jing, not long ago Li Jing also asked Li Siyuan to be the envoy of the Yanmen Festival, and Li Sizhao is the envoy of the Datong Festival. ”
Yang Fugong smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, the old slave just received a handwritten letter from Li Keyong, confirming that Li Keyong is not only not dead, but will also immediately return to the helm of Shatuo's soldiers and horses. Li Ke asked his ministers to represent him under His Majesty, he was willing to go to the soup for His Majesty, whether it was Huang Chao or Li Jing, as long as he was an enemy under His Majesty, he was willing to destroy the generals and capture the flag! ‘
Li Yi was deeply surprised, and finally heard another good news. At the moment, I couldn't help but admire: "I really underestimated Brother Aiqing before, I really knew the strength of the grass, and I saw the loyal ministers, when such a national disaster was at the head, I had such extraordinary courage and great goodness!" ”
However, remembering that Li Keyong had opposed the Tang Dynasty twice, Li Yi was still a little jealous of this Shatuo Flying Tiger.
"Although Li Ke is fierce, but this person is difficult to train, if you use him, can you ensure that this person is reliable?"
Yang Fugong assured: "Li Keyong was almost defeated and killed by Li Jing last time, even his wife was captured, and his children became Li Jing's hostages. If he wants to turn over, how can he be possible without the support of His Majesty. Moreover, although he opposed the Tang Dynasty twice, he also had a reason for everything, and he was defeated both times. The old slave believes that Li Keyong is not stupid, he hit the wall twice, and it is impossible to hit it a third time, right? ”
"I hope so!" Li Jing let out a long breath and said. (To be continued......)