Chapter 494: Gaining momentum
At this moment, all the leaders of the Yan Kingdom’s court finally came to their senses. They did not spend too much time to be surprised at how a letter came from the eldest prince of Nanwang City. The excerpts were discussed and discussed, and in the end, it was extended to:
Please Your Majesty send troops to attack Qianchu!
Because this is the Imperial Study Room,
Because this is in front of the Imperial Palace,
Because His Majesty is sitting there;
After so many years of ups and downs in the court, there is no need to mention the political sensitivity of the big guy. Previously, the almost obvious double act of the Sixth Prince and Ping Yebo may not be Their acting skills were poor, but they just wanted to provide a reason, an opportunity, or an explanation.
As for who to provide it to...who else can it be provided to?
Actually, in the national war, I always want to beat you, and then I find an excuse, because if my national strength is not as strong as yours and I feel that I can't beat you, I will have countless excuses not to beat you.
Countries have always been dominated by the weak and the strong. This is something that the big bosses present cannot be unaware of.
Your Majesty,
We are ready to send troops.
The troops were sent when Dayan was extremely financially tight and could only demolish the east wall to make up for the west wall.
For a moment,
the eyes of the adults present quickly met.
Even Wang Lian, who had previously stood up and took the initiative to "have bad intentions", did not speak again at this time, because the previous targeting of Zheng Fan did not mean that he wanted to target him, but that he knew that His Majesty did not want his ministers to We are monolithic and harmonious Qi, it is true that the Sixth Prince is very powerful now, but the Crown Prince has just taken over the responsibility of supervising the country. He must let His Majesty see that there is someone who can really speak and have weight in the court who is willing to stand on the side of the East Palace. Otherwise, we will not give His Majesty the face of "supervising the country".
But then,
when the spearhead is once again put in the hands of His Majesty,
how should you speak and how should you express your stance, you need to think more .
Because they have to look at His Majesty’s attitude.
If His Majesty scolds them both,
The big guy can then "add insult to injury" or "take advantage of it". In short, he has many means to "push" everything in front of him.
If Your Majesty laughs and scolds them,
The big guy can make a little suggestion and dissuade Your Majesty under the guise, because everyone knows that another war will be launched at this time. , which means what kind of risks Dayan will take.
If Your Majesty asks them seriously,
That big guy can only act like a fool because he doesn't dare to completely disobey His Majesty's will.
Of course,
If His Majesty...
"Bang!"
The Emperor Yan's right hand slapped the imperial case suddenly and said in a deep voice ：
"The two kingdoms of Qian and Chu are still treacherous. The two countries have reached an agreement, but they betray their trust and plan to send troops together to attack Yan in three years. I really think that I, and the princes of the Yan Dynasty, are all fooled!" ”
It is obviously a double Huang,
The most direct evidence is actually the words of Hirano Bo,
Although he has indeed met the regent of Dachu and the official family of Daqian, he has seen so many emperors in the whole world. I can’t even pick a few people.
But just one person’s words will lead to a national war?
As for the treachery,
Yes,
Dayan and Qian State Chu State both signed peace treaties one after another, but Dayan turned around and killed tens of thousands of Qingluan troops. That's it, The Chu State still agreed to continue signing the peace treaty, and then Prince Ping Ye went to Chu State to capture the princess, and the Marquis of Jingnan took the initiative to send troops to suppress Zhennanguan.
As for Qian Guo, Dayan also keeps adding money to Qian Guo during every festival, deliberately stoking Qian people's emotions.
So,
It was Dayan who treated the peace treaty document as a piece of paper.
But how to put it,
A strong country,
naturally has the qualification to be unreasonable.
The attitude of Emperor Yan,
Very clear.
The two young men below sang in harmony.
He took it seriously.
He also got angry.
The implication,
Everyone here,
Do you understand?
In the Great Yan Dynasty, the power of the monarchs was far greater than in the past;
Because throughout the ages, ministers have had too many ways to restrict their own monarchs.
The core of power is military power.
Thinking about the official family of Nagan, if they want to move the imperial army in Beijing, or if they want to move the three sides, they have to wait until the Yan people come over. Taking advantage of this east wind, they can really start to scrape the bones and cure the poison. In the past, even if he was a Officials are also afraid that rushing into action will cause backlash from below.
Because except for the founding emperors and later emperors, it is difficult for the later generations of emperors to grasp the real military power. Even the generals who lead the troops outside actually have their own social network, and everyone will naturally unite together. , to counteract the "life and death" from the emperor.
As for Emperor Yan,
he can be said to have no military power,
because the two most capable armies of Yan are the ones that consume more than half of the food and salary every year. The horse is actually not in his hands.
But it happened that the two people who were really in charge of Yan's military power had no intention of rebelling, and they had always stood unswervingly behind Emperor Yan.
Military power has been decentralized, but the status of the monarch has been infinitely elevated.
This is a very incredible phenomenon, but it really happened.
You can say that this kind of power structure is extremely unstable, and even a little too taken for granted. Any normal emperor would not choose to do this, and would even instinctively kill this trend;< br>
But Naihe,
Today's Emperor Yan,
is indeed a man of his word.
After the family members were removed, a large area of power in the court was left vacant. The emperor could choose his own people to fill the court at will.
In addition, Zhao Jiulang was the head of hundreds of officials, but he was extremely obedient to the Emperor Yan. In Dayan, there were basically no factors that could restrict the monarch's power. He was a single man.
The next moment,
Zhao Jiulang stood up,
knelt down to Emperor Yan,
and said loudly:
“Your Majesty, the ambition of the wolf in Qian Chu is clearly revealed. I ask your Majesty to plan for the future of our descendants. , send righteous troops to attack Qianchu!"
Zaifu was the first to express his stance.
Immediately,
Wang Lian, Cao Que, and Xu Qiutai stood up and knelt down:
"I ask your majesty to plan for the future and attack Qianchu!"
The remaining ministers They all left their positions and knelt down to petition.
The moment before,
The court bosses who were still worried about Dayan's extremely embarrassing financial situation were now indignantly requesting His Majesty to send troops to start a national war!
Some are crying;
Some are blushing;
Some are dissatisfied, please give me a long sword and be willing to lead the way;
Some are willing to spend all their wealth to raise military expenses for Dayan.
If you do something wrong, you will at most be punished;
If you have the wrong attitude, then what is the use of you?
So,
everyone’s attitude changed quickly and thoroughly, without any delay.
Even the prince,
At this time, he also knelt down and said,
"My son asked my father to send troops to attack Ganchu!"
Uncle Zheng, who had grabbed the kneeling position in the front row early, was a little distracted at this time. Surging;
He actually had no interest in that chair. To be precise, he had no feelings about the sacredness of imperial power;
After all, in the time and space where he once lived, buying a ticket You can enter the Forbidden City and take a look around.
But this feeling of having no power at all, but suddenly gaining power because of Emperor Yan's attitude, made Uncle Zheng very fascinated and intoxicated.
In Snow Customs, he himself was actually like this.
He can announce some actions purely based on his own preferences regardless of the value of interests. The demon kings under his command will not stop him, and neither will anyone else.
But it is just a snow customs,
The person in front of me can command the entire Yan Dynasty, including the people of the Three Jin Lands, countless people, wealth, and food, to go to him The desired path of conquest.
If he wants to go against the trend,
the entire Dayan must obey his edict and go against the trend.
Uncle Zheng once heard a story when he was a child,
called "The Emperor's New Clothes".
When many people read this story, they feel that the emperor is stupid, the officials are stupid, and the people are stupid, and then sigh with emotion, only the last child retains the innocence of children.
But looking at it from another perspective,
an emperor who can make the people of the country, as long as they are adults with the ability to think, cooperate with him in acting and "turn a deer into a horse", how much control does he have over his country? How scary?
In the Imperial Study Room,
the overall situation has been decided.
Uncle Zheng even felt that even if he did not participate in this scene, it would not be difficult if Emperor Yan himself pushed it.
My own participation only made this matter smoother.
The consensus reached in the imperial study today will be spread throughout the court tomorrow during the court meeting. By then, everything in the Yan Empire will be in motion again for the upcoming national war.
But Emperor Yan was obviously a pragmatist. He was not satisfied with slogans. He urgently wanted his achievements to be implemented at a speed visible to the naked eye.
So,
he immediately raised the next topic:
"Attack Qian first, or attack Chu first."
The Emperor Yan wanted the next court meeting to be completely reduced to a formality in this matter, and he did not want to throw the nonsense there again.
The general direction has been reversed. Now, no matter whether you like it or not, everyone can only make choices in this direction.
Wang Lian immediately said:
"Your Majesty, I think we should attack Qian first, because the country of Qian will be rich."
The prosperity of Qian Country is well known to everyone, because most of Qian Country's territory was inherited from Daxia back then. Its geographical location is unique, and it has been developed for a long time.
Fighting the country can make it easier to support war with war.
Cao Que also said: "Your Majesty, I thought we should attack Qian first. The Qian country has a vast territory and a large population, and its officials have shown their ambitions to build a strong army. In time, the Qian country will definitely become a trouble for our great Yan. Qiqian people are facing me from three sides. Langjun, attacking Qian first can solve the situation in the south of Yan."
Although Dayan has annexed the three Jin lands, the Yan people will still regard their own land as a place they truly cherish. No matter what, let’s save our hometown first.
In addition, Daqian Country can facilitate the transportation of manpower and material resources and reduce logistical pressure.
And if they attack Chu and hold Nanguan to death, it will be equivalent to the military mobilization and logistical support of Dayan, which will also leave Dayan itself and span the entire Jin region.
We are individuals,
We all know that this is the most appropriate time to attack Qian Country.
To tell the truth,
If Uncle Zheng were not the commander-in-chief of Xue Customs, and if the Marquis of Jingnan was not in Jin, Uncle Zheng would have thought that it would be most appropriate to attack the Qian Kingdom first. After several years of training and expansion of the new army, Zheng Fan did not believe that Ganren's combat power could achieve a qualitative leap in a short period of time.
Moreover, if you attack Qianguo and gain all the way, even if you lose money, you will never lose too much, and you can make up for it in a clear and visible way.
But no matter what,
if you attack first, you will have nothing to do.
The Marquis of Jingnan may dispatch troops to attack Qian State, but he can only defend his home.
After winning the battle, I can only watch from a distance and drool;
If they lose, Dayan's situation will collapse directly. Not to mention the instability of the Three Jins, when the Chu people launch their northern expedition, his Xueguan will immediately become an enclave surrounded by the Chu army.
Moreover, the Chu people are not barbarians. The strongest of the Chu people is the infantry. If the Chu people are really to surround them, their means of attacking the city will never be comparable to that of the barbarians.
In the worst case scenario,
Uncle Zheng is likely to be forced out of seclusion and go to the snowy fields, leading the Demon King and the rest of his men to become a veritable "Barbarian Uncle" in the snowy fields.
Fighting is just like a gamble. No matter whether you win or lose, you have to lose your fucking chips and get used to it. Then you won’t feel aggrieved even if you lose, right?
Anyway, I have played and experienced it myself, and I can recognize the final result.
But what's the point of watching others roll the dice from a distance and passively bearing the consequences?
But,
before Uncle Zheng could say anything,
even Ji Chengjue didn’t say anything,
The prince,
said first:
"Father, I think that if we want to have a national war, we, the Yan Dynasty, must be divided into priorities."
This is nonsense.
Dayan is currently in financial difficulty. Even if it overdrafts and squeezes national power, it can only barely cope with one battlefield.
But what the prince said next shocked most of the people in the imperial study room.
“Therefore, my ministers thought that we should attack Chu first and defend in Qian. There are three reasons:
First, Qian is cowardly in nature. We, Yan, attack Chu first, while Qian people may wait and watch the fire from the other side; A hundred years ago, during the bloody battle between Dayan and the barbarians, the Gan people still chose the Northern Expedition, which shows that the Gan people are very short-sighted;
Two, From the capital to Yinlang County and then to Ganren County on three sides to Chu County, there is a flat river. Ganren soldiers and horses dare to go north. We, the Yan Dynasty, can still take advantage with the strength of the cavalry; and even if the situation is really critical, the King of Zhenbei It is also possible to send troops back from Beifeng County in time.
Third, Jingnan Marquis is in Jin and is familiar with Chu."
Finally,
the prince hesitated for a moment,
and said:
“There is a fourth item.”
The Emperor Yan tapped lightly with his fingertips Hitting the imperial case, he said: "Say."
"I have always heard that the army and horses in Jin are unstable, but the land of Jin is vast and needs Jin camps to be replenished. If we attack Chu, we will consume the young people of Jin."
A major instability factor in Jin is that Jin Basically, wherever they are stationed, there will be a Yan army nearby to keep a lookout.
These people can be used as cannon fodder to attack Chu.
To attack Chu, we must send troops from Jin. These troops and horses from Jin can also be mobilized easily. If we attack Qian, we must send Yan troops from Jin to the battlefield of Qian. When the time comes, the three There are fewer Yan troops in the land of Jin. Who will guard the Jin soldiers and horses?
They are all unstable factors anyway, so it is better to be cannon fodder.
This is true, but the strange thing is that it was the prince who said it.
Emperor Yan's eyes condensed and he said:
"As a prince, you should cultivate virtue."
Wang Lian immediately knelt down and said: "I am also in charge of Zhan Shi in the East Palace. , I am guilty of failing to teach the prince well, and please punish me.”
The prince’s suggestion is actually correct.
The mistake is that he is the prince, and it would be inappropriate and unseemly to say such words personally.
Just like the killing of prisoners under Yupan City,
Huang Yanhuang, the leader of the Chu people, did not even look at it, because he knew what Tian Wujing was doing over there;
Finally , it only took advantage of the opportunity to cut off Tian Wujing’s prince.
He himself is still clean, but his bad reputation is all carried by Marquis Jingnan.
This is not a double standard or hypocrisy, but as an emperor, he has the role of uniting the people of the country, so he must be pure.
Let the people think that he is dependable, kind, and our parent.
The prince also lowered his head,
said:
"Father, forgive me, my son, Meng Lang."
This was just a small episode, because the prince's advice was very good. The only flaw was just the way he said it, but the flaws were not concealed.
Uncle Zheng subconsciously went to see Ji Laoliu,
Obviously,
Ji Laoliu was robbed by the prince.
Since Ji Laoliu has decided to follow Zheng Fan’s suggestion to serve his father and make him happy, next, he must support attacking Chu first, otherwise he and he will be wearing the same pants in name only. Isn’t it true that Uncle Hirano, the number one general under Shang Liu Ye’s party, is completely useless?
But the prince said what he wanted to say first.
The most annoying thing is that
the prince actually abandoned his original "kindheartedness" and robbed his own personality!
For a while,
even Ji Laoliu was a little confused about his second brother’s routine,
Sometimes he is decadent, and sometimes he is radical.
Is it possible that the position of supervising the country has rekindled his fighting spirit?
"Chengjue, say it."
After being called by name, Ji Chengjue could only speak, and he could not repeat the prince's previous words or other people's opinions. In politics, it was Big taboo;
"My father and my sons believe that we should attack Chu. If we want to have a big war, the farther the battlefield is from our homeland of Yan, the better."
The land of Jin, especially the eastern half of the original Kingdom, has long been empty because of the barbarians and Chu people. It is a ruined place, so let's continue to fight.
There is another argument for defending the enemy outside the country's borders, that is, the battlefield should be as far away from one's traditional territory as possible. The land of Sanjin is a newly attached land, and the original land of Dayan, It is the place where our ancestors have worked hard for eight hundred years. It is the Ji family and the foundation of the Yan people.
Ji Chengjue said again:
“And the last time our army attacked Qian, although it reached the foot of Shangjing City, the territory behind it was actually not captured. The three sides of Qian were strong. As long as we hold on, our Yan soldiers and horses can only advance and retreat and cannot fall into the quagmire.
And if Zhennang Pass is captured, the initiative in Chu's situation will change. The initiative of whether to continue to expand the scale of the war lies in it. In my hands, Dayan.
I thought that if we were to attack Chu, we must first conquer Zhennan Pass. And even if we wanted to attack Qian, we must first conquer Zhennan Pass to block the Chu people's way to the north! "
Emperor Yan set his sights on Zheng Fan;
"Whichever one attacks first will have advantages and disadvantages. No matter how many times you analyze it, there will be no perfect strategy. Mr. Hirano, tell me, tell me something they haven't said, let me hear it. "
"I ask your Majesty to attack Chu first! ”
Emperor Yan smiled,
Very calmly:
“Continue.”
Zheng Fan took a deep breath,
said loudly
“Because I am there!” (End of this chapter)