Chapter four hundred and sixty-eight eight kings standing side by side
"I agree, and you can let the Jurchen cavalry come in." Sima Jian, who was carried out, tilted his head and said, "What else can the cavalry do if they enter the city? Since Qingxuan wants this psychological comfort, we will naturally not object, but we must keep the horse outside the city."
There are high walls and courtyards in Luoyang City and many houses. When these Hu cavalry come in, as long as the imperial guards watch carefully, there is little chance of rebellion. Now the imperial guards have been trained again and have got rid of the shadow of surrender. Are you still afraid of the Hu people without war horses?
"King Qin, King Qi is really tolerant of me." Sima Ji looked moved and looked at Li Shan with a touching look. "It would be better not to let them know that the Jurchens were fighting in the field. This is a lie of kindness and good to everyone. What if I had something unexpected in the palace?"
"The last one will immediately order the city to be massacred, and let the capital go from the gentry to the people to bury His Highness with you." Li Shan clasped his fists and promised, "Your Highness can enter the palace with confidence."
"Then you don't have to be so serious. Just kill more people before you die." Sima Ji was very satisfied with Li Shan's statement. "It has nothing to do with the people. Kill the royal family first and then the court officials. No other princes agree, and no one dares to do anything to this king."
"Your Highness, the yellow gate in the palace has arrived." At this time, the servants of the Prince of Yan's mansion came in to report, "He is a very young inner official."
"I am leaving! You stay in the mansion and you are not allowed to go anywhere." Sima Ji turned to Li Shan and ordered. After dressing, he left the mansion and got on the car, and slowly left the courtiers' palace.
After about half an incense stick, Sima Ji lifted the curtain in the car and said unintentionally, "In a blink of an eye, you have been in the palace for almost ten years. Now you have reached the Central Yellow Sect. With your age, it is definitely very fast. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry to succeed Youzhou to the throne, but I have not found the former powerful force."
"Your Highness has done enough. If it weren't for your highness, we three lowly slaves, who would have abandoned our corpses in the wilderness, wouldn't there be everything we have today." The young Zhonghuangmen bowed to Sima Ji and said humbly, "It was your servant who failed your highness's expectations."
"At this stage, I cannot push you to a higher position, and you don't have to be so humble. Although Sun Lu has the favors to you for promotion, I have all made it with money, but if you are not smart enough, you can't reach your current position. If the Japanese king has greater abilities, you may not be able to be a marquis like Dong Meng." Sima Jibuxian said lightly, "Remember, watch the queen in the palace, and don't offend the princes outside the palace, treat every prince with courtesy. After I left, you stared at the two princes."
"Please give me the order!" Zhonghuangmen agreed softly, "The new queen seems to be inferior to Empress Jia at the time. She stays in her bedroom and doesn't go out without any trouble. I don't know why this is."
"I don't know that King Sima Yi of Changsha and King Sima Yue of Donghai, except for these two kings and princes, others are not worth mentioning. King Liang is too old." Sima Ji's eyes shining brightly, "Of the remaining kings and princes, there are naturally others staring at them."
Then Sima Ji kept silent. If he was safe today, he would be the time to achieve great success. Now the kings each have their own troops, and Sima Ji must prepare for the next stage of decisive battle. When the conflict breaks out for the second time, it will not be as simple as this time. It should be that the kings are opponents, maybe they are united with each other, or they may be leading an army to kill everything else.
Among them, Sima Yi, the King of Changsha and Sima Yue, the King of Donghai, were the last winner of the Eight Kings Rebellion, and the other was the lonely city with few defeats more. Even Sima Yun was placed in this environment. Sima Yi could win. Later, he fought against Yecheng and the army of Guanzhong with one against two. Sima Yi should be the strongest among the Eight Kings.
How dare Sima Ji not take these two people seriously? Sima Ji even dared to be careless even if other vassal kings with little reputation. He got involved himself. Who knows if it is different from history and a few more powerful characters emerged?
"King Yan, why did you come? The emperor and the kings are waiting inside." Before entering the main hall, an internal official came out to greet him, and he had a smile on his face, and his attitude was very appropriate and kind.
"It is my fault to let the king wait." Sima Ji smiled with a kind smile, as if everything had nothing to do with him. He had nothing to do with him, and he was different from other vassal kings. He came to snatch the rule. He was just here to scrape the ground. Today, the King of Yan had at most a taste of soup.
The king's rescuing was successful. If Sima Jie was a pure minister, he should have disbanded the recruited army, put swords and guns into Kuma and released them into the Nanshan Mountain, and then went to the Hajj to meet. However, the King of Qi did not. Not only did he not, he continued to accept the scattered soldiers who came from Jiangnan and Huainan. After entering Luoyang, the King of Qi's army surpassed the wartime.
Hundreds of thousands of times heading towards Luoyang, his motive was obviously not to guard the emperor Sima Zhong, but to compete with the King of Chengdu and others to establish authority in order to gain a share of the new regime distribution. Civil officials yearned for a rise in peace and prosperity, while military generals most hoped that more wars would occur in the country to establish military merits and promotions. The King of Qi must feed the generals and soldiers under his command, otherwise the morale of the army would be dispersed, and never expect them to work for you for free. It was not only Sima Jiong who did this himself. Sima Ying's tens of thousands of Guanzhong troops were stationed in the western suburbs of the capital; Sima Yong's Yecheng army was in the northern suburbs of King Fanyang's Xuchang army appeared in the southeast of Luoyang. Didn't it take a step back?
Just three days ago, King Sima Xin of Xinye also came to Luoyang and personally led the Jingzhou army to the southern suburbs of Luoyang. This was not just that Sima Ji had to pay more when he was divided into military pay. Sima Xin himself had decided not to come to Luoyang, but now he was going back, so there must be a prince contacting him. Sima Xin had just entered Luoyang and the first thing he saw was Sima Ji.
The reason why Sima Ji proposed to let his subordinates enter the city today was because the King of Qi Sima Ji came first. Now there is Sima Ji's army of 50,000 in the city, and there are 200,000 in the eastern suburbs.
Entering the hall, Sima Jiyi saw the positions standing on both sides. Sima Xin, Sima Yong and Sima Lu were all standing next to Sima Ji. Sima Jian was facing Sima Ji, and two younger brothers Sima Ying and Sima Yi were standing beside him, which was clearly distinguished.
"Is this position reserved for me?" Sima Ji stretched out his hand and pointed at the empty seat next to Sima Yi, walked over and said, "It seems that everyone has been discussing for a long time, and I don't know what to tell Ji."
To be honest, no one believed it. Although Sima Ji had been forcing military pay to court officials, he played a lubricant role. From the arrangements of the army in various towns around Luoyang, the blind man knew that the undercurrents were surging, and the fire might not exist. Otherwise, why did they camp in an attack formation? The military camps kept a certain distance from each other. Isn’t this a gesture of taking action at any time?
Sima Ji had just finished sitting, and Sima Ji frowned, but he didn't say anything. The position beside Sima Yi was indeed empty, and this position would be more pleasing to the eye.
"Ji was very busy these days and didn't even talk to you princes. This is Ji's fault, but you also know that the millions of troops outside the city are still waiting to pay military salaries. Although the capital is a huge city, it is vulnerable to so many large armies. Ji has no choice." Sima Ji Yi said with some advice, "That person is not with a hundred thousand troops in hand. This is a misunderstanding. The losses are all my great Jin."
Chapter completed!