Since his mind, which has a lot of bad water, is focused on Old Fan's stubborn stay in Taiyuan, of course he has to move his hands. On the night of his triumphant return to Taiyuan, Chen Sangliang asked Wei Zheng, who came to Taiyuan with the army, to write a memorial for himself. In addition to reporting the victory to Emperor Sui Yang, he also reported to Emperor Sui Yang in the memorial, saying that Mr. Fan's stubborn illness has not yet recovered, and he still needs time to recuperate. I plan to stay in Taiyuan.
Chen Yingliang is also a very trustworthy person. While sending the memorial to Daxing by flying three hundred miles a day, Chen Yingliang actually sent a letter to Pei Yun to help Pei Ji plead with Pei Yun , as a distant relative, begged Pei Yun to show respect to his clansmen, and the purpose was nothing else, just to sell a favor to Pei Ji, and let Pei Ji play a greater role after he took over as the stay-at-home in Taiyuan.
Both the memorial and the letter were sent out, and Chen Yingliang also relaxed a little bit. While taking care of Fan Zigai, whose condition was gradually improving, he patiently waited for Sui Yang's reply. But what Chen Sangliang didn't expect was that the memorial was sent out. On the third day, an urgent letter was delivered to him from Luoyang, the eastern capital. The letter was sent by Fang Xuanling, who was staying in the eastern capital to help him manage important affairs in the rear. Bing, knowing Fang Xuanling's prudent character, Chen Sangliang didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly opened the letter and read it carefully, and then Chen Sangliang's small face was stretched longer than a donkey.
"General, what happened? Why is your face so ugly?" Wei Zheng, the army staff officer, asked curiously.
Chen Sangliang didn't answer, but just handed the letter to Wei Zheng, and then sat behind Shuai Shuai's desk and raised Erlang's legs to figure it out. When Wei Zheng read the letter carefully, he found that Fang Xuanling first reported Dong to Chen Sangliang in the letter. The situation in the capital, it is said that the current situation in Luoyang, the eastern capital, is already a mess. The four left-behinds are holding each other back and hindering each other, messing up the political affairs, and then affecting the counter-insurgency battlefield. Indestructible, the Yiyang uprising army is getting more and more noisy, and it has already affected the four surrounding counties of Hongnong, Xiyang, Fuyang and Nanyang. Even if Pei Renji personally led the army to conquer, it is still far away to put down the rebellion in Yiyang. The strategy of the four remaining behind to assist Yang Tong has also proved to be a complete failure.
In view of this situation, Fang Xuanling analyzed that Emperor Sui Yang must be very dissatisfied with the situation in the Eastern Capital, and it is very likely that he will make adjustments to the officialdom in the Eastern Capital in the near future, and he may also return to the Eastern Capital in advance. Therefore, Fang Xuanling suggested that if Chen Sangliang The rebellion in Fenshui has been quelled, so please report to Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty as soon as possible, and request to return to the teacher to quell the rebellion. Counterinsurgency missions. There are two reasons for this suggestion. The first is of course to please Emperor Sui Yang, so that Emperor Sui Yang felt that Chen Sangliang was tirelessly loyal to state affairs and loyal to the Great Sui court. Impression, in order to prevent Emperor Sui Yang from pursuing Chen Sangliang's failed strategy of recommending the four major stay-at-home towns in the east in the future.
Wei Zheng also knew about Chen Sangliang's ill intentions for staying in Taiyuan, so after reading Fang Xuanling's letter, Wei Zheng was also a little embarrassed, but after careful consideration, Wei Zheng still said: "Brother General, although you have the hope to succeed Fan Shangshu and stay in Taiyuan at the moment, you are not very sure, so I think that instead of passively waiting for the court's decision, it is better to follow Brother Qiao Song's suggestion and take the initiative to ask to return to the teacher to suppress the rebellion, and to consolidate first. After confirming your position in the imperial court, we will make long-term plans."
Chen Sangliang kept silent with a gloomy face, sighed after a while, and said: "Why is there no fate between me and this Taiyuan? Last time when His Majesty appointed Grandpa Fan as the left-behind guard, I should have taken the initiative to ask Ying to serve as Grandpa Fan." Deputy, it's a pity that I passed out at that time, and this time I finally had the opportunity to stay in Taiyuan, and even sent out the memorial to test the court's attitude, brother Qiao Song came to persuade me to go back as soon as possible?"
"General, brother Qiao Song is also for your own good." Wei Zheng pointed out: "Your Majesty, please appoint four stay-at-home assistants to assist His Highness the King of Yue. This strategy was proposed by you. Right now, the four stay-at-homes are stirring up the eastern capital Luoyang. Your Majesty It must have been Longyan's anger. If you don't make amends as soon as possible, General, I'm afraid His Majesty will be dissatisfied with you and affect your status in the court. At that time, General, you want to replace Fan Shangshu as Taiyuan's left behind. no hope."
Of course Chen Sangliang understands what Wei Zheng said, but the more this is the case, the more depressed Chen Sangliang is. It is really malicious to recommend the four left-behinds to the East Capital to Emperor Sui Yang. However, Chen Sangliang never expected that the effect would be so good. Not only did he mess up the political situation in the Eastern Capital, but also let a small rebellion like Yiyang County grow up under the eyes of Luoyang in the Eastern Capital, with tens of thousands of The imperial court of the Eastern Capital has nothing to do with this group of small bandits—compared with the rebel army that Chen Sangliang had dealt with on the Qingxu battlefield before, Xun Lingjun can only be regarded as a small role. It turned out to be better now, the four left behinds did so well that even Chen Sangliang, the recommender, had to worry about being implicated.
Depressed and depressed, Chen Sangliang had to listen to Fang Xuanling's good strategy. After thinking for a while, Chen Sangliang could only order: "Mr. Xuancheng, send the order for me to get the army ready to go. I will go back to Shidong Capital tomorrow."
"General, leave tomorrow?" Wei Zheng was taken aback, and hurriedly reminded: "It is a felony to return to the army without an imperial order. Should I ask His Majesty for instructions first?"
"Your Majesty likes courtiers who are responsible." Chen Sangliang replied casually: "When Yang Xuangan rebelled, Laizhu had just arrived in Penglai when he came to protect his son, and he had just arrived in Penglai. He had just received the news of the rebellion. , His Majesty not only did not blame him, but also praised him for putting state affairs first and rewarding him heavily. Now that I have quelled the Fen Shui rebellion, His Majesty will definitely not blame me for returning to the teacher for state affairs."
"General, please take it easy, you are not compared to Zhuguo." Wei Zheng was still a little worried, and said again: "At the very least, you have to discuss it with Fan Liushou to see what his old man means, and it is best to join him Report the situation to the imperial court, Fan Liushou is highly respected, His Majesty does not look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, even if there is any dissatisfaction, he will not blame you too much."
Feeling that Wei Zheng's suggestion was reasonable, Chen Sangliang didn't hesitate. While asking Wei Zheng to arrange the troops to prepare to return to the army, he hurried into Taiyuan City and went directly to Fan Zigai's left-behind mansion to ask for an audience, and then came to Fan Zigai's sickbed. , there were false tears on Chen Sangliang's little face, and his voice was choked with sobs, which made old stubborn Fan startled, and he sat up quickly and asked, "Ying Liang, what happened? Why are you crying? "
"Grandpa Fan, grandson has something very embarrassing." Ji Shou knelt in front of Old Fan's stubbornness, and Chen Yingliang didn't hide anything. He told Old Fan about the chaos in Dongdu directly with tears, and then recommended himself to the four big left-behinds. In the end, Chen Yingliang choked up and said: "Grandpa, my grandson dared to go back to Shidong Capital tomorrow to suppress the Yiyang rebellion, but now there is no imperial edict, and your old man is also sick in bed. My grandson really doesn't know if I need to serve you with decoction..."
"No need to say more, I understand." Old Fan stubbornly waved his hand to interrupt Chen Sangliang, with a very serious expression, and said, "You go back, I can still hold on to this old bone, and the old man in Taiyuan will preside over the aftermath." It doesn't matter if there is no imperial edict. This old man is also in charge of Xihe County. You can go back to the Lingbi Pass at the southernmost end of Xihe County to wait for the order. I will expedite it by five hundred miles and report the situation to His Majesty and ask His Majesty. You are allowed to return to the teacher to suppress the rebellion."
"Grandpa Fan..." Chen Sangliang's voice was choked up, and this time he really wasn't pretending, and said, "Grandson misses you."
"It's okay, it's okay, get up." Old Fan stubbornly helped Chen Sangliang himself, pushed Chen Sangliang to sit next to him, pressed Chen Sangliang's hand, and said with a smile on his face: "I know you have both loyalty and filial piety. But loyalty and filial piety, loyalty before filial piety, grandpa and you, as ministers, naturally put loyalty first and state affairs as the most important thing. You are doing the right thing. The old man is already seventy-two, and the days to live are numbered Before I closed my eyes, I was able to dig out a loyal and filial junior like you for His Majesty and the court, to take over from the old man to assist the court, even if the old man closed his eyes, he could still smile at Jiuquan and go to see the late emperor."
Hearing Fan Zigai's heartfelt words, Chen Sangliang, who had done countless bad things, felt a little guilty for the first time. He couldn't help but bury his head in the arms of the old stubborn, and burst into tears while holding the old stubborn. He patted Chen Sangliang's back to comfort him, but at the same time couldn't help crying.
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Let’s also take a look at the situation on Emperor Sui Yang’s side. Like Fang Xuanling’s analysis, Emperor Yang of Sui was not only extremely dissatisfied with the recent situation in Luoyang, the eastern capital, but also furious. There was no other reason. In order to fight for power and profit, the four masters, Da, Xiao Guojiu and Pei Renji, made the political situation in Dongdu really extreme. They only knew how to quarrel and argue all day long, and there were countless delays in military affairs and political affairs. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty personally ordered Pei Renji to send troops to suppress the rebellion. Only a hundred miles away from the battlefield, such strange things as insufficient food and grass supply and the disappearance of messengers occurred, which delayed countless fighters and caused Yiyang's rebel army to become more and more powerful. It was rampant, and the surrounding four counties that were originally peaceful were also disturbed, and there were signs of chaos.
What made Emperor Sui Yang even more dissatisfied was that because the Yiyang bandit army deliberately fled at the junction of the counties, Pei Renji, who was in a state of desperation, actually asked for an order to restrain the soldiers and horses of the four counties in the south of the Eastern Capital, and to unite the forces of the Eastern Capital and the four counties. Suppressing bandits - this also made Emperor Sui Yang so angry that he tore Pei Renji's memorial to pieces on the spot. A group of small bandits with only a few thousand people, and the Dongdu army with tens of thousands of elite soldiers even needed the help of soldiers and horses from four counties Well, if it were replaced by the invincible old oil bandits from Qingxu Mountain East who fled into Henan County where the Eastern Capital is located, Emperor Sui Yang would not have to hand over the whole world's army to Pei Renji's command
Of course, if Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty could know that the reason why the Yiyang bandit army deliberately played hide-and-seek with Pei Renji at the junction of the counties was because someone secretly tipped off the Yiyang bandit army and let the Yiyang bandit army know that Pei Renji had only half a month to suppress him. If there is no time limit for the bandits and some plans for marching troops, then Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty would be so angry that he would smash the dragon case on the spot.
The half-month deadline given to Pei Renji passed in a blink of an eye, and when he still hadn't received the victory report, Emperor Sui Yang could only look up to the sky in the morning and sigh, "It's really a puddle of mud that can't support the wall, there is no other way. , pass on the decree, I will return to the Eastern Capital the day after tomorrow, and go there to clean up the mess myself."
Knowing that this day will come sooner or later, all the civil and military officials agreed with their own thoughts. Among them, those whose families are in Dongdu are better, while those who live in Daxing are all depressed. Everyone is a little depressed. Seeing Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty looking unhappy, Yu Shiqian, the head of the Yu clan, one of the Eight Great Families of Guanlong, took the opportunity to come out and play: "Your Majesty, the political chaos in the eastern capital is caused by the inappropriate advice of General Youwuwei Chen Yingliang. Persuading His Majesty to appoint four stay-at-home assistants to assist His Highness the King of Yue, the eastern capital is in chaos, and the four stay-at-home men are of course guilty, but Chen Yingliang's inappropriate remonstrance must also be investigated."
Yu Shiqian blew the clarion call to counterattack Chen Sangliang from the Eight Great Clans. Of course, the powerful officials of the Guanlong Clan, represented by Duke Dugu of Shu, immediately jumped out to help, accusing Chen Sangliang of being ignorant of political affairs and recklessly Advising and deceiving the Holy Majesty is the real culprit of the chaos in the eastern capital, and his crimes are far higher than the four left-behinds who have been fighting all day long. They all beg Sui Yang Emperor to punish Chen Sangliang severely, as an example to others.
Fortunately, Chen Sangliang still had a few helpers in the court. At least Pei Ju and Wei Xuan stood up and said a few words of justice for Chen Sangliang. Emperor Sui Yang, who deliberately supported Chen Sangliang as a target, also knew it well. This is the counterattack of the Guanlong Clan. Although I was still a little unhappy with Chen Sangliang's inappropriate advice, he deliberately ignored it in order to weaken the power of the Clan. Now, with him here, I don’t need to worry about the rebellion in Dongdu? By the way, Yu Aiqing, has Chen Aiqing sent a memorial to Daxing recently? He’s going to help Fan Aiqing put down the rebellion in Fenshui, how’s the progress?”
"Your Majesty, I received the memorial from Chen Xiongqu last night." Yu Shiji, the Minister of Internal History who was in charge of the memorial, came out and said with a very respectful expression: "I originally planned to report the situation of the Fenshui battle to Your Majesty just now, but seeing Your Majesty In a bad mood, this minister did not dare to submit immediately."
Hearing Yu Shiji's words, Pei Ju, Wei Xuan and other backers of Chen Sangliang's eyes slanted. They all knew that Yu Shiji was going to be slandered, and all the civil and military officials of the Guanlongmen Clan's eyes lit up, knowing that Chen Sangliang was going to be in trouble. Emperor Sui Yang was taken aback, and quickly asked, "What? Even Chen Aiqing couldn't put down the Fen River rebellion?"
"Report to Your Majesty, please don't worry about the battle in Fenshui, Your Majesty." Yu Shiji is indeed a capable person, and he can express his sorrow even if it is good news, and said: "The rebellion in Fenshui has been put down by Chen Xiongqu, respect Banduo The two thieves, Chai Baochang and Chai Baochang, have also been beheaded, but Chen Xiongqu seems unwilling to retreat and wants to stay in Taiyuan."
As he said that, Yu Shiji presented with both hands the memorial that Chen Yingliang sent with a journey of three hundred miles every day. After the eunuch in the palace passed the memorial to Emperor Sui Yang, he saw Chen Sangliang's tentative tone of wishing to stay in Taiyuan in the memorial, and he was in a good mood. Emperor Sui Yang, who was already in a bad mood, was indeed a little angry, and couldn't help saying angrily, "Fan Aiqing's illness has not recovered yet, and she still needs someone to take care of her? In his eyes, is Fan Zigai's illness more important, or mine's?" State matters?"
As soon as there was a gap in Emperor Sui Yang's side, a group of Chen Sangliang's political opponents rushed up like a swarm of flies, accusing Chen Sangliang of only caring about his elders and disregarding state affairs, he was not a qualified courtier, and should not be taken seriously. Seeing that he couldn't entrust the important task, Emperor Sui Yang's expression was somewhat ugly. Seeing that the situation was not good, Pei Ju, who was still somewhat loyal, had no choice but to bite the bullet and go out, and said: "Your Majesty, it should be Chen Xiongqu who doesn't know the situation in Dongdu..."
"Your Majesty, five hundred miles is urgent." The eunuch who hurried into the palace interrupted Pei Ju's defense, and raised the five hundred miles urgent memorial that did not need to be forwarded by Yu Shiji over his head, and played: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has just sent The five hundred miles to come hastened, this is Fan Liushou's memorial."
"Fan Aiqing's five-hundred-mile rush? What happened in Taiyuan?" Emperor Sui Yang was taken aback, because the post-post system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties stipulated that unless it was an urgent military matter, it was generally not allowed to use five hundred miles to rush. In particular, the five-hundred-mile rush came from Fan Zigai, a veteran minister who had always been prudent. Emperor Sui Yang, who was familiar with the stubborn character of the old man, was of course even more shocked.
"Our spring is coming?" Yu Shiji, Feng Deyi, Yu Shiqian and other enemies of Chen Sangliang's eyes became brighter, and Pei Ju, who was about to speak up to defend Chen Sangliang, also quickly shut his mouth, still groaning in his heart—Xian Nephew, don't make any mistakes again.
Old Fan's stubborn five-hundred-mile rush was rushed by the eunuchs to Emperor Sui Yang, and he quickly opened the seal and took out the memorial to watch carefully. After watching, the nervous expression on Emperor Sui Yang's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a heartfelt Smiling gratifiedly, Emperor Sui Yang said a rare joke, "Unexpectedly, Fan Aiqing would also use public affairs for personal gain, and such a matter would be expedited by five hundred miles, which almost didn't scare me."
"May I ask Your Majesty, what did Fan Shangshu say in the memorial?" Wei Xuan, who had a close relationship with Fan Zigai, asked curiously.
"It's nothing, please allow his grandson to return to the Eastern Capital to quell the rebellion." Emperor Sui Yang smiled, his words were very gentle, and scolded: "Old guy, I really don't care about himself. Chen Aiqing heard that Eastern Capital is in chaos. After a long time, I was worried about the safety of Dongdu, and worried about the old guy's condition. I was in a dilemma. After telling the old guy about the situation, the old guy immediately asked Chen Aiqing to go back to Lingbiguan to wait for orders, and then rushed to the hospital for another five hundred miles. I report, requesting that I promise to let Chen Aiqing go back to Shidong Capital immediately to quell the rebellion. He also said that he will not die for a while, and his still capable grandson does not need to be by his side, and it is important to do errands for me first."
This time it was the turn of Chen Sangliang's political opponents to shut up, and even Fan Zigai didn't dare to say a word about the fault of abusing the 500-mile rush. Elder Wei was stubborn and remained silent, and he cursed after a long while: " I don’t die, I deserve no one to die! And boy Chen, when the old man gets sick next time, do you dare to come in front of the old man to serve the soup and medicine, and see how I deal with him.”
Still no one dared to impeach Mr. Wei for his obstinate crime of gaffes at the court, Emperor Yang of Sui nodded his head seriously, and echoed: "Aiqing is right, you and Fan Aiqing discovered Chen Aiqing for me together, he is like I am filial to you like I am filial to Fan Aiqing, otherwise, I will be the first to say no."
After agreeing with Wei Xuan, Emperor Sui Yang was in a good mood and ordered: "Draft an imperial edict for me, and send it to Chen Aiqing in five hundred miles, allowing him to return to the East to preside over the rebellion. Tell him, it is best to return to the East. Put down the rebellion, otherwise, I will hold him accountable for improper recommendation."
"Damn, if I knew this would happen, why should I be a villain?" Yu Shiji cursed inwardly, "It's all right now, the villain is doing nothing for nothing, and he's helping Old Man Fan and Boy Chen to please the emperor even more."