Chapter 220 The Emperor's Edict
In early February of the seventh year of Ruikang, Zhao Xin, the emperor of Dayan, who was originally just a puppet of civil servants, actually won over Shen Kui, the commander of the Imperial Guard, and several generals who controlled the military power in Yong'an City.
Then the emperor Zhao Xin suddenly launched an attack, and eliminated a large number of powerful ministers led by the Secretary of the Secretariat Zhang Jialuo and the Right Chief of the Secretariat Jiang Wenjun, and controlled the entire Yong'an City.
Next, Emperor Zhao Xin confiscated the military power of hundreds of thousands of troops in the eight counties of the capital with almost no blood.
In mid-April of the seventh year of Ruikang, Emperor Zhao Xin issued an edict to the seven generals, asking the seven generals to send people to Yong'an City to discuss supporting the Tuz Empire.
In the past two years, two top generals in Dayan have disappeared, namely the Lin family who controls Weizhou Prefecture, Yunzhou Prefecture, and the Zhou family who controls Laizhou Prefecture.
The Lin family was annexed by the Lu family, which made the territory controlled by the Lu family reach four prefectures, including Xinzhou Prefecture, Rongzhou Prefecture, Weizhou Prefecture and Yunzhou Prefecture.
The Zhou family was annexed by the Tang family. Now the Tang family has taken control of Kunzhou Prefecture, Chizhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture.
The other five generals are the Xiao family who control Qizhou Prefecture and Xuanzhou Prefecture.
The Pan family who controls Yuzhou Prefecture.
The Xie family who controls Hengzhou Prefecture, Xiongzhou Prefecture and Xinzhou Prefecture.
The Luo family who controls Huaizhou Prefecture and Haozhou Prefecture.
and the Li family in Zhennan, which controls thirty-one prefectures and four prefectures.
After the Pan family contacted the twenty-four vassal states west of Dayan to send troops to support the Tuz Empire, they joined forces with the Tuz Empire's army and once severely damaged the Roland Empire's army.
However, the Roland Empire has great determination to annex the Tuzzi Empire this time. As the Roland Empire continues to increase troops into the territory of the Tuzzi Empire, the situation of the Tuzzi Empire has become worse and worse.
Now the Tuz Empire has lost almost three-quarters of its territory. Although the army is still more than two million, most of them are recruited just now.
In recent years, the Pan family has lost more than 600,000 people in the Tuz Empire.
The combined losses of the twenty-four vassal states in recent years exceeded 1.3 million.
However, the Pan family did not seek help from other forces in Dayan. In order to help the Tuz Empire continue to resist the army of the Roland Empire, the Pan family currently has 800,000 troops in the territory of the Tuz Empire.
The twenty-four vassal states also had about one and a half million troops in the territory of the Tuz Empire.
After receiving the imperial edict from Emperor Zhao Xin, Pan Shijie, the head of the Pan family, gathered the senior executives of the Pan family together.
Pan Shijie said in a deep voice: "If I eliminated the treacherous ministers of the imperial court today and summoned the seven generals to Beijing to discuss supporting the Tuz Empire. What do you think about this?"
Pan Shijie's eldest son Pan Borong said loudly: "Father, it's not impossible for my Pan family to send people to the capital. If the emperor really allows the other six families to send troops into the Tuz Empire, it will be more beneficial than disadvantages for my Pan family."
Pan Shijie's second son Pan Boxu followed, "Father, the situation in the Tuz Empire is becoming increasingly unfavorable to our Pan family. If the other six families can really send troops to help, it will surely alleviate the considerable pressure on our Pan family, especially if the Zhennan Army can send troops."
Several other senior executives of the Pan family later spoke out, all agreeing to send people to the capital.
Pan Shijie sighed at this time, "My Pan family uses the land of a state to fulfill the original alliance with the Tuz Empire for the court. They fought with the powerful Roland army for several years. It should also make other generals work a little. However, this time the emperor issued an edict, it would not be as simple as helping me the Pan family."
Pan Borong immediately said, "Father, even if the emperor eliminated the treacherous ministers from the court, who can listen to the imperial edict after leaving the capital? As long as my Pan family firmly controls Yuzhou Prefecture, the emperor will not do anything to my Pan family!"
Now the seven generals are firmly in control of the military and political power on their respective territories, and some generals even have plans to become kings. The Dayan court wants to subdue the seven generals again, so it can be said that the hope is very slim.
The Dayan imperial court now has a weaker strength than any other general.
Pan Shijie nodded slightly, "Who would like to go to the capital on behalf of my Pan family?"
As soon as Pan Shijie finished speaking, his second son Pan Boxu volunteered: "Father, I'll take people to the capital!"
"Okay, then go! It doesn't matter whether other families send troops to support the Tuz Empire or not. Try to persuade the Li family in Zhennan to send troops. If the Zhennan army can send troops into the Tuz Empire, it may not take long to drive the Roland army out of the Tuz Empire."
"Don't worry, my father, I will try my best to send troops to the Tuz Empire as much as possible."
In a study room in the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office in Guizhou City, Li Bin held the imperial edict of Emperor Zhao Xin in his hand and asked the ten military advisors under his command: "What do you think of the decree of the imperial court?"
At this time, in the study, in addition to Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, four new faces appeared.
During the Zhennan Army's attack on Zheng State, the Zheng State's army's resistance was very fierce, and some captured Zheng State generals would rather die than surrender.
As for these Zheng generals who were unwilling to surrender and caused great losses to the Zhennan Army, Li Bin actually did not want them to continue living in the world, so as not to cause any more trouble to the Zhennan Army in the future.
However, most of the Zheng generals who would rather die than surrender had good cultivation, including many masters and warriors. Therefore, Li Bin directly sent all the Zheng generals who were unwilling to surrender to Guizhou City, and then Li Bin executed them one by one.
This also made Li Bin summon four Chinese historical figures, and all the civil officials were summoned.
Guo Jia, whose courtesy name was Fengxiao, was a famous strategist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Guo Jia was originally a subordinate of Yuan Shao, but later turned to Cao Cao and made great contributions to Cao Cao's unification of northern China. He served as a military advisor to offer wine and was named Marquis of Ting in Yangyang. He died of illness when Cao Cao conquered Wuwan at the age of 38.
Historical books call Guo Jia "talented and strategic, and a strange scholar in the world."
Cao Cao praised Guo Jia for his extraordinary experience and his "Qizhao".
Jia Xu, whose courtesy name was Wenhe, was a famous strategist from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the early Three Kingdoms, and a hero of the founding country of Cao Wei.
Jia Xu was originally a general of Dong Zhuo. After Dong Zhuo's death, he offered advice to Li Jue and Guo Si counterattack Chang'an. After Li Jue and others failed, he became Zhang Xiu's adviser.
Zhang Xiu used his strategy to defeat Cao Cao twice. Before the Battle of Guandu, he persuaded Zhang Xiu to surrender to Cao Cao.
During the Battle of Guandu, Jia Xu strongly advocated a decisive battle with Yuan Shao.
Before the Battle of Chibi, Jia Xu believed that the people should be appeased but not to mobilize the troops to fight against Jiangdong. Cao Cao refused to listen, and was seriously defeated.
When Cao Cao and the Guanzhong Allied Forces were in stalemate in Weinan, Jia Xu made a plan to distract Ma Chao and Han Sui, which made Cao Cao pacify Guanzhong in one fell swoop.
In determining Cao Cao's heir, Jia Xu took Yuan Shao and Liu Biao as an example and implied that Cao Cao could not abolish the eldest son and establish the young son, thus secretly helping Cao Pi to become the crown prince.
In the first year of Huangchu, Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, appointed Jia Xu as the Grand Marshal, and was granted the title of Marquis of Weishouxiang.
Cao Pi once asked Jia Xu whether to destroy Shu or Wu first. Jia Xu suggested that the country should be governed first and then use force. Cao Pi refused to listen, and he returned without success in conquering Wu.
Chen Gong, whose courtesy name was Gongtai, was the chief adviser under Lu Bu's tent at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Chen Gong was straightforward and resourceful. When he was young, he made friends with well-known people in the country.
Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, died in battle during the attack on the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou. Chen Gong and others advocated that Cao Cao take over as the governor of Yanzhou and was regarded as a confidant by Cao Cao. However, Chen Gong then turned against Cao Cao because Cao Cao killed famous scholars in the late Han Dynasty, such as Bian Rang, and lobbled Zhang Miao to betray Cao Cao and welcome Lu Bu into Yanzhou, assisted Lu Bu in attacking Cao Cao and successively obtained Yanzhou and Xuzhou.
In Xiapi City, Lu Bu did not listen to Chen Gong's plan to complement each other, resulting in failure.
After Lu Bu was defeated, he was captured by Cao Cao along with Lu Bu and others, and decided to die.
Xun Yu, whose courtesy name was Wenruo, was a counselor under Cao Cao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Xun Yu was called the "talent of the king and the assistant" in his early years. He was first appointed as a filial and honest official and appointed as the palace guard. Later, he abandoned his official position and returned home. He led his clan to take refuge in Jizhou and was treated as a guest of honor by Yuan Shao.
Later, he defected to Cao Cao, served as the Minister of State, and was appointed as the Minister of State, and was granted the title of Marquis of Wansuiting. In terms of strategy, he formulated a blueprint and military route for Cao Cao to unify the north. He has repeatedly revised Cao Cao's strategic policies and won him praise, including "deep roots and solidifying the foundation to control the world" and "welcoming the emperor."
Because he served as the Minister of State, he held the center for more than ten years and handled military and state affairs, he was respectfully called "Zun Lingjun".
Later, he was afraid of Cao Cao's call him Duke Wei, and he was transferred from the center, and died of depression and illness in Shouchun.
The Zhennan Army is now increasingly large in territory, and there are very few civil servants. Li Bin is even more happy to be able to summon four men, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Chen Gong and Xun Yu.
Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Chen Gong and Xun Yu were immediately appointed as military advisors of Zhennan Army by Li Bin.
As soon as Li Bin finished speaking, Guo Jia spoke: "Lord, the emperor eliminated the civil officials in power in the court, and now he asked the Qi family to send people to discuss supporting the Tuz Empire. He just wanted to use this matter to re-establish the emperor's majesty, and of course he also wanted to test the Qi family."
After pausing, Guo Jia continued, "Since the emperor has taken power, then of course, he must take back the military and political power in the hands of the seven families."
Li Bin pondered for a moment and said, "I don't mind sending troops to support the Tuz Empire, but if the court wants to interfere in our territory of the Zhennan Army, I will never agree."
Li Bin's words made Zhuge Liang, Zhang Liang and others in the study unable to help but smile on their faces.
Although Li Bin has not yet made an independent emperor, his ambition has been revealed. Anyway, Li Bin will never hand over the huge fortune captured by the Zhennan Army to the Dayan court.
Xun Yu said at this time: "Lord, our Zhennan Army is still the Zhennan Army of Dayan, so this time the emperor issued an edict that our Zhennan Grand Governor's Office should send people to avoid the depreciation. Moreover, the lord has long intended to send troops to the Tuz Empire."
After the establishment of the Western Barbarian Protectorate, the Tuz Empire sent several waves of people to Guizhou City, hoping that the Zhennan Army could send troops to aid the Tuz Empire and resist the invasion of the Roland Empire.
Now the Zhennan Army only needs to pass through a desert north of the Western Barbarian Protectorate and walk northward to enter the Tuz Empire.
If you enter the desert and go all the way west, you can directly reach the territory of the Roland Empire.
Therefore, if the Zhennan Army wants to send troops to aid the Tuz Empire, it no longer needs to pass through the Huaizhou Prefecture controlled by the Luo family, the Xuanzhou Prefecture controlled by the Xiao family, and the Yuzhou Prefecture controlled by the Pan family, and the relatively more feasible route.
Of course, the desert north of the Western Barbarian Protectorate is not small in size. If the Zhennan Army set out from the border of the Western Barbarian Protectorate, it would need to cross more than 2,000 miles of desert to reach the southern part of the Tuz Empire. Now, the southern part of the Tuz Empire has basically been captured by the Roland army.
Although Li Bin has not yet agreed to the envoy of the Tuz Empire to send troops to aid the Tuz Empire, Li Bin has secretly begun to dispatch troops.
Li Bin hated the Roland Empire very much. When Li Bin encountered a storm on the sea, the warship he was riding was blown to the coast of the Roland Empire.
Li Bin and his men fought bloody battles all the way before they escaped from the Roland Empire.
Xie Bao and Xie Gui, the two guards who accompanied Xie Yingying to the Li family, also died in the Roland Empire.
After completely destroying Zheng State, Li Bin had the intention of sending troops to the Tuz Empire. In addition, Li Bin was preparing to send troops to aid the Tuz Empire because the Roland Empire itself was a country with extremely strong military strength. Once the Roland Empire was allowed to successfully annex the Tuz Empire, the strength of the Roland Empire would be further improved.
At that time, not only the twenty-four vassal states west of the Great Yan might be invaded by the Roland Empire, but perhaps even the northwest part of the Great Yan would not let go of the Roland Empire.
However, the Zhennan Army wanted to send troops to the Tuz Empire, but Li Bin could not give him the order. According to the information collected by Yunshe, the Roland army has now reached nearly four million troops in the territory of the Tuz Empire, and the Roland army is still in the occupied area and has formed more than four million servants.
It is not easy for Zhennan Army to cross the desert of more than 2,000 miles. If you walk, you will have to walk in the desert for almost a month.
At present, the Zhennan Army has secretly begun to hoard food and grass in the northern part of the Western Barbarian Protectorate. The Western Barbarian Protectorate, the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, the Meizhou Guardate, and the Bizhou Guardate were also ordered to be transferred to the northern part of the Western Barbarian Protectorate.
Li Bin nodded and said, "Actually, the Tuz Empire, the Roland Empire is very close to the areas controlled by our Zhennan Army. After all, the Western Barbarian Protectorate is only separated from these two empires by a desert. Although the area of this desert is not small, it is definitely not an insurmountable gap. Therefore, it is impossible for our Zhennan Army to watch the Tuz Empire be annexed by the Roland Empire. It is a matter of time before the Tuz Empire is sent to send troops to the Tuz Empire!"
After pausing, Li Bin continued, "Since the emperor issued an edict this time, in name, it was for discussion to support the Tuz Empire, so that our Zhennan Grand Governor's Office would send someone to participate. This marquis is going to let Wenhe take a trip."
Wenhe is Jia Xu's face. When Jia Xu heard Li Bin's preparation to let him go to Yong'an City, he hurriedly said, "Yes, lord."
"Wenhe, this time, this time, I will send a town's Zhennan wolf cavalry to escort you to Yong'an City. When you arrive in the capital, try to persuade the other generals to send troops together and share some pressure on our Zhennan Army. If the Luo family, Xiao family and Pan family can agree, it would be better for our Zhennan Army to transit from the area they control."
Chapter completed!