July is a hot month, but Zhao Yumin, who is in the palace, is not enjoying the heat as leisurely as in the past.
The decision to deal with 200,000 nine barbarians was to become one of Daqian's national policies, but unexpectedly it caused the city of Chang'an to become turbulent.
The people from the northern and southern yamen were fighting on the streets of Chang'an City, with the officials and nobles torn off their usual disguises, and they met with swords and swords.
The honorable minister bowed his head to the left prime minister in front of the emperor and the ministers.
Is this a rebellion?
Yes and no!
Said to be!
He despised the emperor and had no tiger talisman, so he took military control of Chang'an, killed the emperor's imperial guards in the street, and made the prince who was in charge of the country unable to leave the East Palace.
Say no!
The soldiers of the government returned to their homes and their swords and guns were stored in the warehouse, thus avoiding the unrest among the soldiers of the government.
Honors and nobles were born out of generals. It stands to reason that the two should be closely related and share weal and woe.
However, because of the aggressive temper in the general's blood, the nobles who became the guards of the imperial power regarded him as a great enemy of the country.
The nobles regard themselves as the guardians of the imperial power, but they are guarding the interests of the soldiers. The soldiers are loyal to Da Gan, and the imperial power leads Da Gan.
Such an intricate relationship affects the whole body.
As for the civil servants, civil and military administrations were divided.
Regardless of whether they are nobles, generals, or soldiers, they are all common men in the eyes of literati.
However, it is precisely this kind of mutual restraint that allowed Daqian to be a country for a hundred years. There were wars all over the border, but the country was peaceful and all walks of life flourished.
In the final analysis, the only thing that is indispensable for the current stability of Daqian is the soldiers. The soldiers who come from the common people are undoubtedly representatives of the people's will.
Therefore, while the details of the policy of converting Jiuhu captives from slaves to civilians were still being refined in the three provinces, the government troops were in chaos.
It was precisely when they saw that the army in the palace was about to be in chaos that the six top princes risked the disapproval of the world and, with their bodies in their seventies, killed the prime minister-level civil servant leader Li Xin in the palace, doing so indiscriminately in front of him. In front of the emperor and the important ministers of the court, he did things that were tantamount to conspiracy, and the methods were extremely violent, which made the soldiers feel at ease.
In Chang'an City, the generals from the Shence and Shenwu armies who had taken refuge with the second prince intended to take advantage of the chaos to blackmail the prince and plot against him.
The second prince was allowed to take charge of the East Palace, and his ambition to pursue the power of the dragon was completely exposed. But as soon as his wolf ambition emerged, he was crushed on the streets of Chang'an City by the majestic cavalry on the left and right.
Everyone in Chang'an City is doing things they are willing or unwilling to do, and looking for reasons why they have to do them.
The collision of collective interests is a bloody killing.
At the end of July, the emperor returned to the palace from the palace, sat in charge of Ziwei, and took charge of the court.
When Zhao Yumin returned to the palace, the first thing he did was to issue a military order to transfer the left and right Shenwu armies and the left and right Shence armies to the three major protective palaces in Anxi, An, and Dong'annan. From then on, there were no more left and right Shenwu armies and left and right Shence armies.
The second thing was an order from Da Zongzheng to transfer the concubines of the royal family to the capital. Zhao Yumin took pity on the concubines and ordered them to join the Bei Ya Forbidden Army. They were controlled by Yu Lin on the left and right to form the Long Xiang Army.
After these two incidents ended, Chang'an fell into a brief period of eerie silence.
Su Ce finally had time to meet the Duke of Chu, Xiang Yue. The Duke of Chu's palace seemed much more elegant than the Duke of Qi, but what Xiang Yue, the Duke of Chu, said to Su Ce was more direct.
"What are the children of Duke Qi doing with you? My children will follow you too."
Six dukes participated in the execution of Li Xin: Duke Jiang Che of Qi took the lead, Duke Xiang Yue of Chu stabbed him in the back, Duke Qin Changwu of Yi pulled his left arm, Duke Zhao Yao of Wei pressed his right arm, and Duke Li Mu of Yue held his left leg. , Wei Guogong Shangguan Zheng dragged his right leg.
During this period of time, all the people coming and going in these six palaces were in a hurry, and it was not easy for Su Ce to chat. After a brief conversation, Su Ce was sent out of the mansion with gifts.
On the third day of August, an ordinary day, two big things happened in Daqian.
First, a new Military Supervision Office was established, with little change in the frontier army. However, the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya had an additional Central Supervisory Military Office, with sixteen Military Supervision Departments under its jurisdiction, responsible for military discipline in the army.
This sudden order came with the arrival of the first batch of Longxiang troops.
The imperial edict came out from the palace in the morning, and at noon the first group of Longxiang troops turned into the troops of the Central Supervisory Army Mansion.
Since then, Daqian has changed from four military supervisory offices in the east, west, south, and north to five military supervisory offices, with an additional central military supervisory office, which was also called the general military supervisory office in the following years.
The first thing did not have much impact. The Supervisory Army Mansion supervises the army for the emperor, and no one could find fault with it.
But the occurrence of the second major event caused the whole Daqian to become noisy.
Duke Jiang Che of Qi and Xiang Yue, Duke of Chu, died of illness in the afternoon of the same day.
The common people voluntarily hung up the hangings on the doorsteps of their homes. Thousands of people from the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya went to the two palaces to express their condolences, causing the roads near the two palaces to be tightly blocked.
The minister ordered Prime Minister Dai Wen to get angry and his heart was so angry that his philtrum was pinched red and swollen.
Zhongshu Province is leaderless. Young civil servants with swords are going to the Duke of Qi's mansion in groups. They hope to see the old Duke on his last journey in life.
But on the way, he was pushed to the ground by the generals of the Sixteenth Guards who were blocking the street and beat him up. In the end, several generals of the Sixteenth Guards came forward to stop the one-sided fight. The bad commander performed military salutes and smiled. They sent the Zhongshu Provincial Official who had been beaten until he was inhumane and sent him home.
Dou Ping, the minister's right minister, locked himself in the room, saying that he wanted to deal with the backlog of documents from various places.
Wei Xian, the former Secretary and Provincial Secretary-General, and Wei Zitong, the great poets in the land of smoke and willows today, have written many excellent poems with their pen and ink.
The "unfortunate" deaths of the two princes made some people cry in Chang'an City, and even more people laughed.
Even if Su Ce guessed it, he still respectfully asked his family member Li Chang to send a pair of elegiac couplets on his behalf.
The East Palace failed to supervise the country, and Prince Zhao Zaicheng entered the palace with a pretended mournful expression. However, Su Ce heard loud laughter in the prince's carriage on the way back.
Until mid-August, the chaos of July did not come to an end.
This year, the rotation of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya has been advanced several months. A large number of soldiers were transferred out of Chang'an and returned to their hometowns. There are many more young faces in the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya.
As for the prince's ten rates, there has been no change.
At the end of August, the coffins of the two princes were buried in front and behind Zhao Yumin's mausoleum, and the July turmoil came to an end.
The Duke of Chu was succeeded by his eldest son, Xiang Cheng, and the new Duke was named Anding Duke, and Xiang Cheng was Xiang Mao's father.
When Xiang Cheng was young, he followed Jiang Bu to guard the border in the Western Regions, so he got married a little late. As a result, Xiang Mao ranked second among his peers, and the eldest grandson of the Duke of Chu was the son of his second son, Xiang Kang.
With the death of the two Dukes, the Dukes of the Six Kingdoms of Daqian became the Dukes of the Five Kingdoms, and the title of Duke of Qi was inherited by Jiang Bu.
What we are talking about here is inheritance, not title conferment. The reason is that Jiang Bu's meritorious service has long been enough to make him a duke. However, in order to avoid having two dukes in one family, Jiang Bu has not been given a title for a long time.
As for whether this meritorious service will be discounted after a long time, the battle report from the Ministry of War is still there, but it has only been sent to the three provinces now.
There is one less Duke of Qi, Jiang Che, and one more Duke of Qi, Jiang Bu.
There is one less Gongxiang Yue of Chu State and one more Gongxiang City of Anding County.
Undoubtedly, both the nobles and the generals suffered greatly during the July turmoil, but it did not make things easier for others.
I just don’t know if the generals who went to the frontier army will learn the lesson. The status of nobles is earned on the battlefield, not by taking advantage of the dragon’s merits.
Letting generals go to the frontier army was undoubtedly an opportunity. During the Northern Campaign, half of the titles were obtained by generals. It took these generals two years to draw a clear line with the previous generals and be accepted by the established nobles.
Therefore, this time the Shenwu Shence Four Armies were reorganized to join the frontier army, this might be an opportunity for the general.
A July turmoil allowed Su Ce to fully understand the complexity of Chang'an City, but in terms of benefits, it was not easy for Su Ce to maintain his current position.
However, now Su Ce really wants to buy a mansion in Chang'an City, because in the past few days, two people came to Suzhuang and got lost. They didn't like anything they saw and harassed Suzhuang Academy all day long.
Li Chang Nanshan's idea of buying a farm was also disrupted by these two naysayers.
Su Ce, who had been occupied by a dove, had not been home for several days. When he returned and saw the two old men, Su Ce felt a tightness in his chest and a bulging sensation in his temples.