Chapter 860 Slaves of the Times
In the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's success was three suggestions from Li Shanchang.
Cast high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become king!
Building high walls and storing grain is farming and developing strength. What is the best thing to say about the king? It is political. After Zhu Yuanzhang even called King of Wu, he was also in contact with the Yuan court in Dadu. Zhang Shicheng, who suppressed the Yuan Dynasty under the banner of the Yuan Dynasty, fought with Chen Youliang. He was not the only one who was the leader, so as not to be the target of public criticism without strength.
But at this critical moment, the situation is not stable, but Wang Hou first pushed Cao Zhang to be the emperor, with the purpose of doing the opposite! I beg you to hit me, I am the target of the arrow, the target of public criticism, come and cut me off!
There is no day, and there is no two kings in the country! When I just got the news of Cao Pi's death, Sima Yi immediately supported Cao Pi's eldest son, Cao Rui, the king of Hejian, as the emperor, and took the initiative in politics. Unfortunately, I don't know if it was too smooth to climb to a high position in this era. Sima Yi was also a little arrogant than in history. He did not reach negotiations with Cao Zhen, and he did not win Cao Zhen to get closer to his side at the first time.
When Wang Hou led 250,000 people out of the seclusion, he took the capital Luoyang in half a month. Even if Sima Yi fully agreed to the conditions proposed by Cao Zhen, Cao Zhen no longer wanted to stand with him. Instead, it was because Wang Hou angrily slashed the snow-winged eagle with a sword, the mountains were soaring into the sky, and the city of Chengdu was burning! Prime Minister Zhuge handed over his head! The worship of Cao Pi's body led him to Luoyang.
Even the body of the old emperor cannot be buried, and the capital is lost. Is the emperor still orthodox?
In fact, although Sima Yi cannot be said to have the advantage now, at least he has not fallen into a disadvantage. He defended the Central Plains in the middle and broke through the grassland on the left to seize Wang Hou's old industrial base in the northeast. In fact, there are still some battles in this East-West War of Hegemony. However, after Cao Zhang buried his brother and became emperor, he was granted hundreds of officials and occupied all the positions. The court in Yecheng was completely boiling.
You are the Grand Sima, the Secretariat, the Secretariat, the Secretariat, the Secretariat, the left and right servants, what is I?
All officials who had already complained about Sima Yi's loss of Sima Yi and had a little complaint broke out. It is said that the Shangshu Ling Chen Qun, the top Chinese official in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, had a dispute with Sima Yi.
And just after the Chinese New Year, a letter that Wang Hou had been waiting for for a long time finally came to Luoyang.
Sima Yi's "Edict on the King"!
After all, Sima Yi compromised with his gentry group like a teapot. In other words, he was backfired by the Kanto gentry who held him as his spokesperson, and finally had to send troops to fight Wang Hou desperately.
This manifesto is said to be written by Chen Lin, a talented man from Hebei who wrote the "Emperoration against Cao" back then. Unfortunately, he quoted the scriptures and said that Wang Hou had not read it directly. After receiving the manifesto, he immediately excitedly held the manifesto written by golden brocade from his study room and ran out of the prime minister's study room that originally belonged to Cao Cao, and shouted excitedly to the civil officials and advisers such as Jia Xu who were in the Central Office.
"The old Sima turtle finally showed its head and came out of its shell!"
"God bless Your Majesty!"
Compared with the red tape of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, which is mostly young backbone, is so rampant. There are even cheers in the civil servants' aides. Even Jia Xu slapped his thighs excitedly, and then his face turned red and he pretended to be a mature and persistent cough.
For the Western Wei Dynasty, it is indeed a decisive battle than in the huge Central Plains. The battle between cities and cities has gone through. There are too many variables. A plague, flood, snow and freezing disaster may change the results. To fight a decisive battle? Although Guanxi has begun to maintain peace and stability over the years, local wars have been fought. The trade routes to the Western Regions are armed businessmen, and the naturalized Han people of the Western Qiang have not forgotten how to fight.
In the Eastern Wei, in addition to General Cao, he also struggled with 200,000 people to fight against the Eastern Wu for nothing, but in fact he had begun to settle the peace.
Especially in terms of military system, the Western Wei, as the main body of the army, was the volunteer soldiers of landlords and farmers, while the Eastern Wei was the tenant soldiers led by the children of aristocratic families, and their fighting will was not at the same level.
In terms of military strength, both sides reached one-to-one. In addition to the more than 200,000 Luoyang Bafu soldiers and military farming troops who fled east, a large number of Central Plains gentry also armed all the tenants and slaves in their manors into troops and brought them to the battlefield, which was nearly 400,000.
However, according to the agreement with Cao Zhen, the 150,000 troops of the 150,000 troops of the tyrants who came back could not be sent to the front line. With the troops left behind in Luoyang, Wang Hou could actually only have 150,000 or 60,000 troops.
But even so, no one would think that the Western Wei Dynasty was at a disadvantage!
The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops was particularly slow. Before the troops moved, the food and grass came first. After receiving the manifesto and officially responded, it was not until February that the Luoyang army once again beat the thunderous snare drums.
The professional troops were still fighting for the vanguard and rushing to the forefront of the entire army was the Storm Corps, which had been honed on the plateau for three years. Following the old powerful brigade, the First and Second Corps of Liaodong, which had been expanded into an army, followed by Liaodong for many years. The third mixed brigade, which had been unable to be expanded, was a central army, and followed Wang Hou together with the Liaodong Knights.
This time, for the first time, Cao Zhang left the Liaodong army and was surrounded by the 150,000 troops of the tyrants who were the emperor. Cao Zhen also completely implemented the principle of following Zhang but not following the principle. Wang Hou came to visit Cao Zhang and even had to go through the layers of notifications from more than ten servants, so that he could rush from the front army to the emperor's central army.
The relationship with Emperor Cao Zhang seems to have not changed yet. Wang Hou rode a horse to the front of the emperor and was directly invited to the back car with dozens of halberd soldiers wearing umbrellas.
Looking at Cao Zhang, who was wearing the heavy and thick emperor's robe, sitting in the back seat with a bitter face, was sitting in the middle of the rear car, without hesitation to sit in the seats on both sides of the car. Wang Hou even turned the thick seat upwards with a familiarity, took out a bottle of fruit wine, bite the cork and took a bite, and then he shook his head at Cao Zhang with a comfortable look.
"Holding a 150,000 army, the important officials worship me. I, the one who puts my brother-in-law, have to bow down to you. How does it feel to be an emperor!"
"Forget it! You're fooled by your brother-in-law!"
Finally, he moved his already sore waist slightly and looked at the warrior with a spear under his armpit outside. Cao Zhang couldn't help but shake his head in distress.
"I would rather lead the Western Region cavalry to stare at the scorching sun, eat sand, and move towards the unknown world than let these guys surround and surround them, but in fact, I was in charge of the prisoners, and I didn't let them drink wine. Isn't it as their wishes? I just gave a lot of advice. They are the emperors, right?"
"I really can't figure out why my brother, why his head is sharpened, and he also wants to get into this position!"
Heroes rise with the trend and create heroes in the times. But from another perspective, are heroes also slaves of the times? In the sky, Sima Yi, a treacherous hero, also has to follow the trend. Cao Zhang, who is sitting in this back car and enjoys the loyalty of the 200,000 royal troops, is just the royal family that needs a son of Cao Cao to be the emperor to ensure their status!
There are two types of emperors, such as Liu Bang in the East, Cao Cao, Caesar in the West, Alexander in the West, and there are also emperors like Cao Zhang doing now, so after a moment of sighing, he suddenly knocked on the table in anger and roared angrily.
"Don't forget that you promised me that you defeated the old thief of Sima. I will return to the Western Regions to be my vassal. I will start a war with the Sifrost people soon. This emperor, whether you sit down or who will come, don't call me!"
He is really a prodigal son. Others want to be reincarnated every day. For Cao Zhang, it is a pit of fire.
However, listening to his complaints, Wang Hou took another sip of the fruit wine he had hidden secretly and shook his head proudly.
"I can be the emperor. These 200,000 royal families in the Ba Mansion will immediately start a war with Guanxi. When China is once again in troubled times, you can just go beyond the Western Regions!"
"You are a rogue!"
"I promise you that when the Central Plains are stable, you are willing to continue to be your conqueror and the Great Protector of the Western Regions, just go! That's right?"
"Before this, you have to give you your current position and prepare a successor. When you draw a bow and shoot archery on the front line, someone can send you a lot of bows and swords behind you!"
"A few little kids in my family are young! When will they grow up?"
The most ruthless imperial family, the final victory and defeat between the Eastern Wei and Western Wei has not yet been decided. Cao Zhang, the Emperor Ming of Wei, had already held his head and was worried about planning the route for the next generation of heirs. He let His Majesty complain, Wang Hou was in a happy mood to look at the army outside the window.
A long and rolling dragon headed straight to the north.
After fighting this battle, he can also relax in this last battle!
Chapter completed!