There is no freedom among all kinds of feelings, and the sound of the trumpet alone rises from the sunset building.
Bishan is full of endless thoughts all day long, how can the fragrant grass stop being hated?
If the eyelashes grow in front of your eyes and cannot be seen, why should you seek if the Tao is not outside the body?
Who can be like Mr. Zhang? A thousand poems make thousands of princes lighter.
——"Ascend to Chizhou Jiufeng Tower and Send to Zhang Hu" Du Mu (Tang Dynasty)
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All the courtiers were shocked, knowing that a big drama was about to take place.
Bai Fu took out a thin booklet and said: "This is a personnel list I got from the Chamber of Commerce. It records the resume of the eunuch Ai Dong.
This man was originally the Turtle Gong of Yihongyuan in Pingkangfang. It was because of his attachment to Yang Guozhong's third concubine, Yin Fenglan, that he entered the palace, became a eunuch, and was promoted to the rank of internal ejection envoy.
Countless men of the Tang Dynasty fought bravely to kill the enemy and sacrificed their lives for the country to put down Liu Zhan's rebellion.
Such illustrious military exploits should have been grandly rewarded by the imperial court. Unexpectedly, the imperial court appointed such a person as an imperial envoy to comfort the Jianghuai and Tang armies.
As the commander-in-chief of the Jianghuai Tang Army, I am deeply ashamed!
When I go to court today, I just want to find out who recommended this person to Your Majesty to comfort Jianghuai?!"
As soon as Bai Fu said this, the court was in an uproar again.
You must know that Mr. Turtle is a man in a brothel who makes tea and does miscellaneous tasks for prostitutes and clients. There are also some people with evil hands and evil hearts who are trained by the madam to serve as thugs and thugs. They are also called big teapots. Their status is extremely low.
Once you get into this business, not even your descendants will be able to hold their heads high.
If the situation is true, letting a eunuch who once served as Turtle Duke become an imperial envoy would be a great insult to the soldiers of the Tang army!
Soldiers can be killed but not humiliated, not to mention those who are insulted are the soldiers of the three armed forces who defend their homeland and country!
This time, even Prince Li Chu's face changed. His palms were soaked with sweat. If this matter is handled slightly carelessly, it will lead to disaster.
Bai Fu continued: "After receiving the order from the Ministry of War, I immediately left the Jianghuai camp and returned to Chang'an. On the way, I received a military report from the front. In order to make more money, the imperial eunuch Ai Dong and the supervising eunuch Xing Yanen joined forces to attack me.
The generals in Anxi used coercion and inducement, executed them to extract confessions, and forced the generals to repent and admit their mistakes, so as to bring shame on themselves...
I would like to ask your lords, is this the attitude of the imperial court towards meritorious soldiers?
The two generals Huyan Tieyi and Yuchi Huqi joined the army in Anxi since they were young. They followed the three generals Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing and Li Siye and fought against the barbarians more than 70 times, which shocked the Western Regions.
They did not die in the Battle of Xiaobolu, the Battle of Talas, the Battle of Xiangji Temple, the Tubo people, the cannibals, or Shi Siming in Anlu Mountain.
In his hands, he almost died in the hands of the turtle eunuch!
Back then, Flying General Li Guang would rather draw his sword and kill himself than be insulted by the swordsman. Do you, your lords, want this scene to happen again?"
Bai Fu's voice was like a loud bell, and when he reached the emotional point, the hall roared loudly, deafening and deafening.
Several important officials of the imperial court who participated in the decision-making of this matter lowered their heads and remained silent. It is a common unspoken rule of the imperial court to allow a general with extraordinary achievements to disgrace himself, and it cannot be brought to the surface. Once exposed, the society will be shaken.
situation.
The generals involved were either executed like Bai Qi and Han Xin, or like the late Qin general Zhang Han, they defected before the battle and ruined the Qin Empire.
The key is that as the quasi-consort of Princess Qingluan, Bai Fu's status is too special.
Does the imperial court dare to kill Bai Fu like it killed Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing?
Bai Fu is certainly domineering in his actions, but does he dare to be like An Lushan and Liu Zhan, who cause trouble in the palace at the slightest disagreement?
Wang Jing of the Wang family in Taiyuan thought to himself: "Bai Fu is still young, breaking through this layer of paper, leaving the court and him with no way out.
Taifu Xu passed away, and his eldest grandson Yan fled far away. Bai Fu lacked an experienced person in the court to provide guidance and help him plan the way to become an official. Although Yan Zhenqing, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, and Liu Yan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, were Bai Fu's friends, Mr. Yan was too arrogant.
Integrity, Liu Yan was only good at finance and taxation, but he was not enough to assist Bai Fu.
Are golden scales just a thing in the pond? They transform into dragons when the storm strikes.
If Bai Fu can get the support and support of the Wang family, this son may be able to truly understand the emperor's mind and become a great leader with great talents and great strategies."
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Everyone had their own secrets, and Bai Fu talked eloquently, saying: "Having said this, I hope that the imperial court can seriously review the system of supervising the army, especially letting eunuchs be the supervisors of the army.
In the Battle of Tongguan, it was the eunuch who oversaw the army and envoy Bian Lingcheng who failed to demand bribes. He held a grudge against General Gao Xianzhi, misled the Supreme Emperor, destroyed the Great Wall, killed Gao Xianzhi in front of the battle, and granted Changqing the title of two world-famous generals, which led to the rebels breaking through Tongguan and killing
Entering Chang'an made the capital a hell on earth.
Liu Zhan raised his troops, and the former Jianghuai generals defected one after another and joined Liu Zhan's rebel army. Why?
It was because Xing Yanen, the supervisor of the army, treated the generals in Anxi just like he did to the Anxi generals. He tortured and extorted confessions, made false accusations, and manipulated people in the army on the grounds of deducting military pay and other charges! This caused the former Jianghuai generals to be at odds with the Tang Dynasty, and they had deep grudges. Once they rebelled,
The army was incited and incited, and they immediately defected before the battle."
Hearing this, Lai Qi, the governor of the Ten Prefectures of Shannan East Road, felt inspired and nodded frequently.
Lai Yi was reporting on his duties in Chang'an at this time. He was a man of iron and was known as "Lai Cheating Iron".
After hearing Bai Fu's impassioned speech, Lai Yi came out and said to the courtiers: "What General Bai said is true. In the past two years, the court's treatment of our generals is really chilling. We cannot let Jiedu envoys go out.
If you take out traitors like An Lushan, we will treat our generals as savage beasts and strictly guard them.
Brothers abandon their families and careers, and go through life and death on the battlefield. It's okay not to be rewarded. It's really chilling to stab someone in the back with a knife and a pen.
Han Feizi said: "The prime minister must be from the state headquarters, and the fierce generals must be from the army."
The generals before the Tang Dynasty were all promoted from the bottom. They had deep emotions and a strong sense of belonging to the army they had grown up with.
People like Feng Changqing and Li Siye, who worked from the bottom of the army to become the military governor of Anxi, would not be believed if you said that he had no feelings for the Anxi army.
These generals should be fished out and taken away, but he is the master of the army and has more or less accountability to the soldiers under his command.
Even a general like Li Guangbi with strict military discipline and a mountain of military orders would not put too much pressure on the generals below him. After all, they were all brothers who grew up together in the rain of guns and arrows.
No matter how rigorous the training is, or even being whipped and scolded, at the end of the year some money will be taken out of the military salary so that everyone can have a good year.
During the holidays, we have a dinner party, slaughter pigs and sheep, play guessing games, make small bets and so on, have fun and buy people's hearts.
Only in this way can the superiors and subordinates have the same desire. No matter whether the general is a leader-type or a strategist-type, when it comes to a life-and-death battle, the soldiers will be willing to follow the general, wear strong armor and be strong, risk their lives, and would rather die than retreat!
Since the An Lushan rebellion, in order to prevent Jiedushi from causing chaos, the imperial court changed its past practice and randomly rotated the chief generals of several major frontier armies. From a certain perspective, this was a bit of an overkill.
Over the years, almost all the military commanders around me were sent by the imperial court, and I have never heard of anyone working from below.
The generals are sent from above and will be rotated out after three to five years, so naturally they have no affection for this army.
As a result, these generals did not care about the life or death of their soldiers, nor whether they could win the battle.
They only need to manage the army in accordance with the requirements of the court, train the army, be accountable to the court, and try not to lose the battle.
Because they don't care about the soldiers, don't understand the fine traditions of this army, and don't understand the thoughts of each general, they don't trust the soldiers below. They use all the generals under their command as thieves and thieves.
When it comes to the art of war, I mess around every day.
If the army makes a mistake and suffers a defeat, all the blame will be placed on the subordinates, ranging from the rod to the leader. Anyway, there are people protecting you in the court, so what can the lower-level officers and soldiers do to you?!
As for whether the army under their command is an iron-blooded division, what the morale of the officers and soldiers is, and whether they can defeat the enemy, they don't care at all. Their mission in the army is to train here, serve as a springboard, and increase their military resume.
Then go to other places and become bigger officials.
If the general is like this, and there is a military supervisor who does not understand military affairs, but can also appoint generals, and give instructions on strategies and tactics, this time the army, even if it was a tiger and wolf army, will be tied up and abandon its martial arts. If it encounters a powerful enemy, it will inevitably collapse at the first touch.
, repeated battles and defeats.”
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Bai Fu made it impossible for Prince Li Chu to come to power. At this time, an older and more senior military leader came to help, turning the court meeting to blame Bai Fu into a meeting to denounce the imperial court's blind command of the army.
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Prince Li Chu went from embarrassment to shame, and then from shame to anger.
Li Chu's face was ashen and he wished he could push these two tiger generals out immediately and kill them at the Meridian Gate!
Just when Prince Li Chu was thinking about how to end today's court meeting in a dignified way, he heard the imperial guards outside the palace gate relaying orders one after another: "Eight hundred miles haste, Mangshan is defeated, Li Guangbi's army is completely annihilated!