Chapter 790 Xu Fengnian entered Beijing for the second time, and the great masters gathered in Tai’an
When Yuchi Changgong turned his horse to command the army to disperse the formation, the famous celebrity in the capital, Gao Tingshu, who was now in the limelight, clenched his fists while watching the government and patrolling the border of the Ministry of War, clenched his fists and stabbed his nails into his palms.
The old eunuch lowered his eyebrows and said with a clear voice: “King of Beiliang, I have to return to Beijing first, so I can’t accompany the prince.”
There was no response in the carriage.
The old eunuch took the lead in returning with two officials from the Ministry of War and Rites.
The imperial edict is still there.
Since Liyang unified the world, only two imperial edicts were rejected from the first year of Yonghui to the second year of Xiangfu.
Moreover, the rebellious people who refused to accept the imperial edict twice were the same person, the King of Beiliang who was too lazy to lift the curtain of the car.
The Ministry of Rites officials carefully glanced at the eunuch of the Silijian, but could not see any changes on the old man’s face.
Gao Tingshu turned his head and looked at the eight hundred cavalry passing through the center of the Western Infantry Formation, and sneered, “What a big air!”
The officials of the Ministry of Rites clearly did not see how the eunuch Bingbi’s lips opened, but he could hear a slight smile that oozed out of his throat, which made him creepy.
Gao Tingshu’s mouth raised again. He was deliberately or unintentionally slowing down the pace before, and the eunuch Bingbi did not raise any objections. Gao Tingshu knew that a good show was about to begin, because this is Tai’an City, not Beiliang.
The walls of Tai’an City came into view bit by bit by bit, appearing taller and more majestic.
Xu Fengnian finally lifted a corner of the curtain and looked up. He wore the robes of the vassal kings sewn by the Beiliang Jinlu Weaving Bureau, and smiled at the groom driving, “I came here last time and thought the city wall was very high. Looking at it now, it seems that it is not as good as those of the capitals at our gourd mouth.”
Xu Yanbing, who acted as the groom, pulled the corners of his mouth and said nothing.
In the second year of Xiangfu, in late autumn, the King of Northern Liang entered the capital.
It is said that there is no airtight wall in this world. Although the walls of Tai’an are high, the wind is also strong, and there are countless reports of the gods. Therefore, the rumors can always spread to every corner at an astonishing speed. Not long after the King of Xinliang was staying at the Mawei Inn, the conflict between the Northern Liang cavalry and the Western Army in the capital was circulating. In this way, the usual things that the court originally led by the Minister of Rites to welcome the vassal kings into the city also made people chew some unusual meanings. While praising Your Majesty’s magnanimity, most ordinary people spared no effort to scold the young vassal king for being arrogant and unreasonable, believing that the court should leave this northwest barbarian outside the city, and only when he wakes up and knows that he will apologize to Your Majesty to apologize to him will allow him to enter the city.
Compared with the people in the city who do not know the depth of the water, the civil and military officials in Tai’an City, especially those who are qualified to participate in the morning court, are equivalent to entering the Liyang officialdom.That group of officials should have been the most confident group of people who were domineering against the military and political affairs of the Northern Liang Dynasty. This time, they all silenced for the first time, and there was a rare “grand occasion” in which a dog barked like a hundred dogs barked. For example, after the censors and the six-department officials who had low official positions but were of high status, they all had the idea of impeaching the young vassal king after private communication with each other. The reason is simple. As the carriage drove into Tai’an City, in addition to the confrontation between the Beiliang Light Cavalry and the two generals Zhao Gui and Yuchi Changgong, the thrilling news of Beiliang’s defeat of Beimang also came into the capital. Impeachment of a warrior who is the best in the new dynasty’s border merits at this sensitive time is useless if you find a thousand reasons.
On the other hand, the two Liao border troops built with half of the national taxes have killed more than 100,000 enemies in the past twenty years. According to the Liyang military law, if they win the eighty-year Beimang head, a lower-level soldier can jump to the frontier commander. It is said that this time, Beiliang not only killed countless enemies, but even the head of the Beimang General Yang Yuanzan took off. If it was rewarded in terms of merit, how great military achievements would be. Since Xu Xiaomanzi was already a vassal king, then the Liyang scholars dream of being a marquis and prime minister would be meaningless. Could it be that the late emperor took off the title of Lao Liang’s king’s title of Grand Pillar Kingdom? In the blink of an eye, he would have to take it back from the hand of today
At the same time, the Beijing officials with low rank began to naturally complain about the vulnerable attacks of the Beimang barbarians: the previous army on the Eastern Front advanced to Xiaguang City, Hulukou. Why did it come? It was so useless. Tai’an City and even the general Gu Jiantang, who was the most powerful minister, complained: The 300,000 border troops in Beiliang could drive the one-million army in Beimang back to their hometown, and there were many border troops in the two Liaos. Not to mention the loud thunder and the small raindrops, you two Liaos have not even had a decent thunder for twenty years!
Xu Fengnian only brought Xu Yanbing to Xiamawei Posthouse. The eight hundred white horses were set up in the right place near the posthouse by the Ministry of War. After Xu Fengnian got off the car, he found that many officials from the postmaster were different from the last time he entered Beijing. They were all younger and more innocent. Seeing the King of Beiliang wearing a black and golden python robe, his eyes were full of fear.
Xu Fengnian looked up at the dragon-clawed locust tree outside the inn. Things changed.
Xiamawei Inn has always been a solely owned by Beiliang Road, and it is also a very few inn that can be built in the capital. Since Lao Liang Wang Xu Xiao rarely went to Beijing to meet the saint after he was granted the title of king and became a vassal, it has always been a bleak situation in recent years. Officials from the two ministries of the military and households have repeatedly advised to be sacked and removed from Mawei. In the past few years, after the two ministries of the military and households entered the Ministry of War, the re-interpretation of the matter became a conventional rule, quite like a letter of surrender. Anyone who dares not submit the memorial and memorial for this matter will be excluded by his senior colleagues. However, the late emperor and the son of the Danghon are both subtle attitudes about this, so that some old men in the officialdom joked that if they really go to the Mawei Posthouse one day, it would be boring.
Xu Fengnian was very familiar with this inn. He called the Hong-name postmaster and asked a room in the backyard. When the trembling postmaster bent and slowly left, Xu Feng was raising his body and bowed.Nian moved two rattan chairs under the eaves and sat down with Xu Yanbing. This trip, in Qingliang Mountain, was not without objection to Xu Fengnian’s rush to enter Beijing temporarily, but now Xu Fengnian’s control over the Beiliang Iron Cavalry and the entire Beiliang Road officialdom has reached its peak. In addition to Xu Beizhi’s anger when she met in Lingzhou, Song Dongming asked the spies in Fushuifang to send a secret letter. The words were implicit, and they probably did not agree with Xu Fengnian taking risks. It was probably also revealed the voices of veterans, including Yan Wenluan. Only Bai Yu sent a letter late from Wutongyuan, but he agreed with his words.
Xu Yanbing whispered: “The second princess said that Hu Yan Daguan would follow him to Beijing, and the prince should agree. The centipede insect will die without being stiff. Moreover, the Zhaoshi from Yang is far from the point of being in a state of decline. Even if there were no top masters such as Han Shengxuan, Liu Haoshi, and Qi Jiajie, the Imperial Heaven Supervisory Qi Refiner after two twists and turns, but it is still the best city in the world and should not be underestimated.”
Xu Fengnian smiled and said: “I did not ask Hu Yan Daguan to come out of the mountain, and the emperor of the Zhao family did not let Gu Jiantang enter the capital quickly, just consider it to be even.”
Xu Yanbing sighed: “If the imperial edict was a little late at that time, our Beiliang would have parted ways with the Zhao family.”
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “I can’t fight. Zhao Zhuan’s original intention was to let the Western Army in the Gyeonggi test my bottom line. If we are easy to talk, then he will have the confidence to speak out. If I am not wrong, the eunuch who went to issue the imperial eunuchs will definitely be instructed by the emperor. We must show up at the emperor. So no matter what, we will not start a war in the Gyeonggi. If we really want to fight, a total of 7,000 elite troops will beat the eight hundred cavalry. Where can the emperor and the court be put, even if the Western Army wins by chance, the mess will not end well.”
When he heard Xu Fengnian speak the word “elite”, Xu Yanbing smiled knowingly: “The troops stationed in the Northern Liang Dynasty, not Liangzhou and Youzhou, maybe Lingzhou is stronger than them.”