In the second year of Changzhi, at the beginning of the new year, the Han army attacked Yuanzhou at night, smashed the barbarian army, beheaded tens of thousands, and captured more than 30 generals, officials, princes and nobles of Ta Zhe.
In February, the Huainan Army recaptured Xiangzhou.
At the end of March, the seven-way army was in full swing and joined forces in Zhuozhou at the southern end of Gyeonggi. Soon after, led by Fu Shen, the generals of the seven armies gathered together to discuss how to divide their troops northward and recover the capital.
During this process, all the jiedu envoys also tested Fu Shen's tone, either overtly or covertly. The battle of the capital is imminent, but after the battle, what should they do, continue to separate one side, or return the military power, surrender to the imperial court, and become idle nobles? Although the Jiedu envoys all tacitly agreed that they were fighting for the imperial court, none of them wanted to work in vain, much less to be a bridge to be demolished and a donkey to be killed.
There are too many lessons learned, and they have limited trust in the imperial court. At this time, it is Fu Shen, the leader who took the lead in raising the army, and has more appeal.
In mid-April, the deployment of the army had been finalized, and the envoys from the Tarzhe clan and the Bohai Kingdom crossed the Jinling court and went directly outside the city to seek the commander of Beiyan, and again proposed peace.
The messenger promised that the three tribes would retreat from the capital and return to the outside of the customs.
On the 18th day of the fourth month, the generals of the seven armies went to the Golden Terrace on the outskirts of Beijing, where they met with the envoys of Tarzhe.
This time, there were no courtiers, no emperors, only a group of generals who slaughtered the capital with blood and bones, confronting the immortal Lai Shi with their ambitions.
Of course, the peace talks collapsed. Even if the war started, the Han army would still have the upper hand. There was absolutely no need to agree to the envoy's seemingly concessional condition, but in reality it was a step ahead. It wasn't for peace talks that Fu Shen called Renquan here. The idea that he had vaguely sprouted since he was injured in Qingsha Pass was just about to take the first step.
In the second year of Changzhi, on April 18, this day is destined to remain in history forever.
It was written by Yan Xiaohan, the envoy of the Tianfu Army, Fu Shen, the commander of the Iron Cavalry of Beiyan, Yue Changfeng, the Jiedushi of Huainan, Wang Shiqi, the Jiedushi of Xiangzhou, Cen Hongfang, the Jieddu of Jingchu, Fang Gao, the Jiedushi of Suizhou, and the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan New Army. Zhao Xicheng co-authored "Please enact a new law to increase the opening of the Yanying Palace".
This fold, also known as the "Golden Table Fold", was made by the generals of the seven armies, with a total of 12 special articles.
First, expel the barbarians, recover the capital, and restore the Zhou Dynasty.
Second, not to cede land, not to age, not to marry.
Third, after the unification of the North and the South, all the armies returned to the center, and the local military governors still maintained their right to "self-reliance and self-preservation".
Fourth, please extend the seat of the Yingdian Council, and each place will send one minister of civil and military to the temple, and the four-level garrison will send two military ministers to the temple to participate in state affairs.
Fifth, please open the North Border Trade Road and send someone to protect it.
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Twelfth, please establish a new law, promulgate and enforce the world, so that the inside and outside can abide by it, to benefit the governance, and set an example for future generations.
This excerpt caused an uproar in the Jiangnan court, which angered almost all the civil servants. For a while, there was a lot of scolding. Anything like "supporting soldiers and self-respecting" and "taking power and misusing the country" are all light, and many old officials lined up in front of the palace gate to prepare. Remonstrance with death, I am afraid that once the emperor agrees, the country will not be a country, and the world will never have peace.
However, I don't know which wicked ghost actually copied the contents of this shocking memorial. Now the folks are also in chaos. Several Jiedu envoys who nominally support the Jiangnan court also began to communicate privately. The content mentioned above moved my heart.
Compared with the courtiers who strongly opposed it, the public comments on this matter were not completely refuted. Since the defeat of the capital, there have been many people who embraced the ambition to recover the Central Plains and unify the North and South. The hardships brought reflection. When the dream of a prosperous dynasty was crushed by the iron hoofs of the barbarians, the royal family established a precarious small court in the south, but was unable to convene a large army for the northern expedition. Hope of revival. Although many people did not say it, they began to doubt the "court" and "the emperor" in their hearts.
When the world is in turmoil, it is often a time when a hundred schools of thought contend with new ideas and schools. Although there are many heresies, there are also deafening voices. It is precisely because of this shareholder style that the Kuangshan faction has emerged, especially with Mr. Xixian Zeng Guang's "the world is for the public" the most popular.
Fu Shen looked at his Wen Cun back then and felt that although this old gentleman was old, he had a wild heart, and had a good wish to eat into a fat man in one bite. At the time, the Kuangshan School theory seemed purely absurd and nonsense. Even now, it still appears to be "rushing". However, through the words, some of the old gentleman's hidden expectations are not as subtle as Fu Shen's thoughts. coincidentally.
Before the meeting on the golden stage, Yan Xiaohan had asked Fu Shen what he wanted to do. Is it Huangpao to add his body and let him be a Mingjun himself; or does he hold great power, control the government, and rely on the Son of Heaven to make the princes
Fu Shen's answer was very brief, only four words, but it was also very shocking.
"Govern the world together."
He has long since stopped believing in the wise ruler, and he has no plans to replace him. In the dark, there seems to be a certain law that binds generations of heroes and heroes, rising and falling, and their own fixed numbers. Fu Shen vaguely sensed this "the way of heaven", but he couldn't explain it. When I accidentally read "Xuemei'an Wencun" that day, I was struck by one of the words, and the hazy thoughts in my heart finally condensed and formed—
"The world is the world of the people of the world, not the personal interests of one family and one family. The rule of chaos in the world is not for the rise and fall of one family, but for the happiness of all the people."*
The generals who guard the Quartet, the military governors in various places, the shepherds and guards under the governance of Jiaohua, the courtiers who assist the people... These people should be running and screaming for the people of Li, they should be charging for the people, but they have been shackled for a long time to the dragon chair. Above, the Supreme Being of one family bowed his head.
This catastrophic shattering of mountains and rivers overturned a dynasty, and under the ashes, there are still sparks of fire.
With the right time, place and people, this moment of transformation is finally coming.
Just when the army in the north was slow to move, the courtiers in Jinling were dizzy, and no one was willing to give in and compromise. When the stalemate fell, Jiangnan Jiedushi, Lingnan Jiedushi, and Fujian Jiedushi suddenly joined forces. , Please allow Emperor Changzhi to approve the performance of the Seventh Army of the North. The Admiral of the East Sea Division followed closely behind, and also followed by a fold. Not long after, Jiannan Jiedushi sent an imperial decree, stating that he could "gather public opinion and decide according to his own discretion."
Fu Shen never expected that the Jiedushi Councils from the three regions in the south of the Yangtze River would stand up and speak for them so soon. He originally planned to put pressure on Jinling to recover the capital, but it took him a month. He didn't believe that the emperor would not agree. This time is better, the overall situation has been decided, even the Supreme Emperor has come forward to support, and it is only a matter of time before the Changzhi Emperor nods.
In this regard, Yan Xiaohan knows better than him: "Jiangnan is prosperous in business, Jianghuai is the most prosperous in the world, and Fujian and Lingnan are prosperous in shipping. Think about it, where do the Jiedu envoys come from to support their troops? Of course, the wealthy and wealthy merchants also If you want to be able to enter the hall one day, if the Jiedushi can send civil and military officials to the Yanying Palace, the giants will have a spokesperson in the center, and their own interests are at stake, they are of course willing to support."
On the fourth day of the fifth lunar month, Emperor Changzhi sent a decree to Zhuozhou, and it was approved.
At the end of June, the capital was recaptured, and the remnants of Tarzhe retreated to Miyun. The Beiyan Iron Cavalry continued to go north to clear out the remaining enemies. In September, Beiyan Sanguan returned to the hands of the Han army, and the northern defense line was rebuilt. In the same year, there was civil strife in the Bohai Sea, and the uprising army bound its original lord to surrender, willing to surrender to the Great Zhou, claiming to be a subject and paying tribute, and forever being a vassal.
In December, Emperor Changzhi arrived in the capital, and on Zhengdan the following year, he was congratulated by the officials at the Taiji Hall, conferred and rewarded the generals, named Sun Hui, the direct descendant of the Empress of the Zhonggong, as the crown prince, and promulgated the "Dean Law".
In the spring of the third year of Changzhi, Fu Shen Jin was appointed Duke of Jingguo, and he was given the title General of Shangzhu Kingdom. Although he was the initiator of the new system, he was not very fond of the position of power, and just after being conferred, he requested to resign as the commander of Beiyan in the name of a recurrence of his leg disease.
The Beiyan Army had been reorganized by Fu Shen as early as last September when they recovered the three passes. The whole army was divided into four, stationed in Jipingyan and four states, respectively, led by four generals from Beiyan. Fu Shen no longer led the troops, and most of the military affairs in his hands were handed over to Yu Qiaoting.
Originally, when the performance was first performed, the Beiyan Iron Cavalry was based on the whole army, but after the split, according to the new law, each of the four generals was equivalent to the Jiedushi of a state. Emperor Changzhi was so big that Fu Shen didn't stop even after he resigned, and abruptly expanded the number of Beiyan military officials who had entered the palace from two to eight.
The monarch and ministers have been tossing and turning for a long time, and finally it was finalized: each army in the four states of Beiyan will send one person into the temple. In addition, although Fu Shen does not lead the troops, he still enters the temple as the commander-in-chief of the Beiyan Army.
The Tianfu Army was placed under the ban, and Yan Xiaohan used the Tianfu Army to enter the hall.
So far, the eight states in the north, five states in the central plains, six states in the south, one state in the southwest, the East Sea Division, the Tianfu Army and the eight old ministers of the original Jinling, a total of forty-eight court officials, became the new center of the Zhou Dynasty.
The new system is taking shape and is quietly on the right track. Everything seems to be developing in the best direction expected.
— Except for the Southwest.
Duan Guihong, the king of Xiping County, took the lead in proposing "self-protection", and he did what he said, and has never had any contacts with the Central Plains since then. Back then, when everyone fought wars and internal fights, they were too busy to take care of themselves, and no one had time to care about what he wanted to do. Now that the holy car is still in the court, the new policy is first implemented, and it is about to usher in a peaceful and prosperous age, but there is still no movement in the southwest.
Emperor Changzhi also sent messengers to the southwest to negotiate, but he didn't even see Duan Guihong's face. After going back and forth, the attitude of the southwest speaks for itself. The King of Xiping County turned his face and refused to recognize anyone, and planned to fight against the court to the end.
Jin Mou lacked such a corner, and this matter fell into the eyes of Emperor Changzhi, whose vanity was fostered by the unification of the North and the South, and it became a fishbone stuck in his throat.
In the late spring and early summer, there were several heavy rains in the capital, and Fu Shen suffered from his old problems again, so he took leave to recuperate at home. Yan Xiaohan followed suit, not to mention that he also committed an old illness that he suffered in Jingchu, so he also took leave.
Of course, Fu Shen knew that his so-called "old illness" was not a serious problem, but the two of them had been running back and forth for almost two years. Now that they finally settled down, it was time to make up for the tenderness and affection they owed. With that in mind, he went with him.
One day in June, the two of them woke up from a nap, and in the coolness of the ice basin, they were chatting and sharing fruit on the Luohan couch. , someone from the palace, His Majesty Xuan Jing Guogong has an audience."
Yan Xiaohan's face suddenly fell, "What should I do if I suffer from heat stroke on a very hot day? Don't go."
"You treat everyone like you, you're a squeamish person." Fu Shen picked a grape to cover his mouth, rolled over and got out of bed to put on his shoes: "Stop humming, let's go."
Even though Yan Xiaohan shouted for joy, she couldn't hold her waist to keep him from leaving, and bit into the cold grape juice dejectedly.
Who knew that the next moment, the person who said he was going to leave suddenly leaned over and pressed down, the tip of his tongue quickly hooked on his lips, frivolous and romantic, and said with a smile, "It's so sweet."
Yan Xiaohan: "You..."
Fu Shen raised his brows and said with a mocking tone, "Master, you have already paid for the road and money, can you let me go this time?"
The author has something to say: *The first half sentence is from Wang Fuzhi, and the second half sentence is from Huang Zongxi