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Chapter 1142: Huang Jian has the ultimate
Chapter 1142: Huang Jian has the ultimate
"Your words are deeply in my heart!"
The official said to Zhang Yue.
The emperor was confident in his own judgment and believed that he was not wrong. Zhang Yue was indeed a talented person who could assist the king.
Zhang Yue’s three suggestions are all ways to eliminate party disputes.
Zhang Yue said: "The purpose of changing the official system is to centralize power and put power in the hands of the master. I have never heard of any party struggle under 'centralized power'."
As far as the early and middle Qing Dynasty is concerned, there was absolutely no possibility for the civil service class to confront the imperial power, so there was no question of such party struggles.
"The revision of the new law can improve people's livelihood and benefit the people. It can also make the good intentions of the new law clear and promote your majesty's kindness."
In another time and space in history, Xing Shu once said this to Cai Que.
"Now that you have the time and power, why don't you take advantage of this situation to recruit some old people and change the most inconvenient political affairs, so as to win the hearts of the people and consolidate your position? Why are you so eager to just follow the crowd?
At that time, the government wanted to recall Sima Guang and other old party members, but Cai Que expressed his opposition.
Xing Shu persuaded Cai Que that this was the general trend. Instead of insisting on opposing it, he might as well use his current power to actively accept the old party and amend the new laws to consolidate his position.
Cai Que followed Xing Shu's advice and said, "Relieve the troubles of provincial officials and comfort the people." He corrected some negative aspects of the new law to reduce opposition and criticism.
In the late Yuanfeng period, the New Party did take the initiative to improve relations with the Old Party. Both the Emperor and Cai Que realized that the division caused by party struggles would bring troubles.
However, later Old Party officials such as Lu Tao and Su Che insisted on distinguishing between gentlemen and villains.
"The last and most important thing is to defeat the Tanguts. Military merit is the only thing in the world that can easily accumulate prestige, but it is also the easiest to lose prestige. Your Majesty, please recruit the sons of ministers to join the army or serve as garrisons in Shaanxi and Hedong!"
The official was shocked when he heard this and said, "This move may be criticized."
Zhang Yue said sternly: "Whether your majesty wins or loses in the battle against the Tanguts, these people just stand by and watch, just chatting about their daily lives. If it weren't for their own interests, how could these people understand the rise and fall of a country?"
"Besides, my eldest son is still commanding the army in Huanqing Road, how dare others say anything!"
"I believe that as long as these three points are achieved, the imperial power will be established. As long as the imperial power is established, there will be no party disputes in the world."
When the emperor heard Huang Jianyouji's words, his pride was evident in his words.
This is the achievement that every emperor pursues.
This sentence means that the emperor should personally establish the most impartial principles in the world.
The emperor said, "After listening to your words, I know that there is still a long way to go from being an emperor to becoming the emperor."
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, it is not difficult. As long as you are self-disciplined enough to convince others, magnanimous enough to win people over, and set an example to lead others, then the establishment of the imperial court will not be difficult."
It is not that there are rights but no obligations.
Centralization of power places extremely high demands on the monarch.
Through the "Emperor's Establishment", Zhang Yue put forward three requests to the emperor, namely, self-discipline, leniency and leading by example.
The official said, "I agree."
Zhang Yue thought that the emperor had done a good job on these three points, but things got worse with Huizong later on.
Especially self-discipline. As long as the emperor can do this, it doesn't matter if he is less capable, the country can be saved no matter what. Even if he is like Chongzhen, later generations feel sorry for him and think that he would be a good emperor in times of peace.
On the other hand, let’s not talk about how Huizong behaved in his daily life. But when the Jin army marched south for the first time, he actually passed the throne to his son and ran away, thus creating political dualism.
In this respect, Chongzhen is a hundred times better than you as emperor.
Chongzhen could have left but didn’t, but you couldn’t have left but left.
The emperor said, "I envy Taizu for cleaning up the country and establishing new systems, but I may not be able to accomplish the cause of revival. I hope my descendants can do it."
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, rest assured that the destiny of our Song Dynasty will be as endless as the rivers and seas, and as infinite as the heavens and the earth."
The emperor smiled and said, "I understand what you said. Whether Lanzhou wins or loses is the same, but we have to get things done."
At this moment, the official finally let go of his obsession with winning or losing in Lanzhou and looked towards somewhere farther away.
Zhang Yue looked at the official's expression and thought to himself that people always have to grow step by step.
We all have this realization: we pursue something desperately but never get it; but when we suddenly let go, it will come to us on its own initiative.
There are too many things in the world that are beyond your control, but as long as you do the things at hand well, you can get closer to your goal step by step.
……
At the turn of May and June in the third year of Yuanfeng.
The summer rain watered the dark blue Yellow River. People and horses, who had been running all day, rushed to drink water from the crystal clear Yellow River.
Liang Yimai, the prime minister of the Dangxiang State, took off his felt helmet, scooped up a large bowl of water from the bank of the Yellow River, and drank it up in one gulp.
Only after he had drunk most of the drink did he let out a long sigh of relief.
Liang Yimei glanced at the thousands of cavalrymen who were fleeing with him in a panic and stood there in sorrow.
A few days ago, Li Xian led the defeated foreign army the day before to make a comeback, and Wen Xixin also led his troops to pursue.
Liang Yimai hurriedly crossed the Yellow River from Lanzhou, but when he was halfway across, the Song army arrived and attacked the Dangxiang army that remained on the south bank. The Dangxiang army was defeated, and many of them could not wait to get on the floating bridge, so they rushed to swim across the Yellow River, and many of them drowned.
Later, Liang Yi's troops who were crossing the river were also unlucky and were ambushed by Wang Hou and Miao Su's troops of the Song army.
Hundreds of thousands of tribal soldiers had no will to fight, like frightened birds, and all of them were defeated at the first charge of the Song army.
After the Dangxiang army was defeated, Liang Yimei led several thousand trusted cavalry to flee here. After fleeing along the Yellow River for two days, the troops were thirsty and tired.
Liang Yimai drank some water and calmed himself down. Liang Yibu, who was standing beside him, gave him some dry food.
Liang Yi chewed his dry food and thought that the attack on Lanzhou had cost at least 100,000 soldiers, although more than half of them were forced to come and were from affiliated tribes.
However, a lot of elite troops and tribes belonging to the Dangxiang were also lost.
A lot of vitality has been lost, and it may take two or three years to recover, and then we won’t be able to launch a large-scale attack on Song again.
However, Liang Yimai didn't care much about the loss. Nomadic people didn't advocate loyalty. They believed in the jungle law of "only the strong are respected" and "obeying the force of force". As long as you are strong enough, they will obey you.
If the power of other tribes is weakened, perhaps it will be more advantageous for the Dangxiang tribe to rule?
Liang Yimai said to Liang Yibu: "I was defeated by Zhang Yu at the Battle of Taoshui, but now I am still the prime minister of Dabai Gao State!"
"The difficulty of building a nation is just as great, so we have to keep fighting generation after generation."
As he spoke of this, several soldiers on the loess slope not far away hurriedly ran down, and even rolled down the slope. After a moment, a line of soldiers appeared on the slope, with a huge flag with the word "Song" written on it.
A general rode out in front of the flag, looked at the scattered Tangut soldiers sitting at the foot of the mountain and shouted, "Western bandits, Jingyuan General Pengsun has been waiting here for a long time!"
"Ah Lang, follow me!"
Liang Yimai immediately jumped on his horse and turned to leave. Liang Yibu was stunned for a moment, then he heard Liang Yimai shouting and immediately jumped on his horse to chase him.
Liang Yibu and several of his trusted riders caught up with Liang Yimai. Most of the Dangxiang soldiers did not react in time, and even Peng Sun on the hillside was stunned.
Liang Yi, who was lying in ambush on his horse, looked back at the Song army charging down the loess slope. At the foot of the slope, the once arrogant Dangxiang soldiers either stood there waiting to be killed or kowtowing and crawling on the ground begging for their lives.
Only three or five men attempted to fight, but they were chopped down to the ground as soon as they met.
Liang Yi turned his head away, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and the only sound was the whistling wind in his ears.
Liang Yimei ignored him and just galloped with his son for more than ten miles. He only stopped when the horse was exhausted.
Several of them were so exhausted that they hid in a ravine on Liangmao.
Several people were breathing heavily.
"This is our territory. The Song army can't search for too long. They can lie in wait overnight and the reinforcements will arrive the next day."
Liang Yimei said to his son.
His followers said, "We are now in our own territory, so we won't suffer many casualties. This is much better than when the Song army crossed the vast sea to attack Lingzhou."
Liang Yimai felt relieved after hearing this.
After capturing the Song army camp, the soldiers chopped off all the heads of the Song army and built a Jingguan to show off their military achievements.
"Dad, take a break. I'll keep an eye on it."
Liang Yi nodded in agreement.
Listening to the sound of cavalry galloping past on the beam, Liang Yimai, feeling panicked, took a nap holding his felt helmet and even had a dream.
Liang Yi was dreaming when he felt a chill on the tip of his nose and then heard water splashing on his head.
He looked around and saw an indescribable expression on their faces.
Where did the water on the tip of his nose come from? Liang Yimai reached out and wiped it, and there was actually a fishy smell.
He looked up and was immediately filled with anger. A lone Song soldier was actually standing on the beam and peeing into the ditch!
But she peed on his head.
Liang Yimai didn't dare to move and had to endure the humiliation and wait for the other party to finish peeing.
After waiting for a long time for the Song soldier to fasten his belt again, he accidentally dropped the scabbard he was carrying on the edge of the ravine.
The Song soldier cursed and could only bend down and reach out to pick it up.
Liang Yimai saw that the others were moving, but it was too late to stop them. The Song soldier who was trying to get the scabbard was dragged into the ravine by a hand.
The henchman's sharp blade stabbed into the opponent's neck. But the opponent shouted loudly before falling into the ravine.
At that moment, more than a dozen Song soldiers came from all directions with weapons in hand: "Is there anyone under the beam?"
"Ajiu, are you alive?"
Liang Yimei smiled bitterly upon hearing this and grasped the hilt of the knife.
"Daddy!" Liang Yibu hurriedly held down Liang Yimai's hand.
Liang Yi looked at the other party and said, "Be quiet! Run!"
After saying this, Liang Yimai kicked Liang Yibu down, struggled to climb up Liangmao, and was about to speak loudly when he was shot down by the Song army on Liang.
"There really is someone!"
Liang Yimai struggled to get up and said, "Liang Yimai is here, you take my head and exchange it for a duke!"
When Liang Yibu heard the shouts of the Song army on Liangmao, he wanted to get up, but several of his trusted men held him down and covered his mouth, and then he left the ravine.
As for the Song army, when they heard Liang Yi's name and saw that he was wearing bright armor, they were undoubtedly overjoyed to confirm that he was a Dangxiang general.
At this time, no one cared about others and everyone wanted to compete for credit.
Several Song soldiers heard the noise and came over. Seeing that the other side had won the first prize, they were jealous and exchanged glances. One of them suddenly stood up and stabbed Liang Yi's back covered with iron armor with a blade.
Liang Yimai screamed in pain, straightened his body and fell backwards. When he looked up at the sky, he had an unexpected expression on his face.