Chapter 1 Can't Be Soft
When the queen asked He Weixian, Fang Chenyou felt bitter again. She said that she had visited the door several times, and her attitude was much better than that of Boyan. She treated her warmly and accepted all the gifts. However, whenever she mentioned the matter of becoming a crown prince, she was always talking about him and refused to express her attitude. This made Fang Chenyou very helpless. I don’t know if she disliked the politeness or if she wanted to step on two boats and was still waiting and watching.
Kuokuozhen couldn't help but be frustrated after hearing this. After the New Year, she persuaded Khan to go to Shangdu to escape the summer heat after spring and take care of her health. Khan had already agreed and started to prepare. She had a good idea, and the Shang was the place where the kings of the grassland were pilgrims. The old sects had strong power. They still advocated nomadic life and were always disdainful of settled in the Central Plains. Brother Sang had a good relationship with the kings of the old sect, and he could take the opportunity to persuade Khan to establish Tiemur as a culprit.
When the Khan traveled far away, Kuokuozhen could find an excuse to stay in Dadu, so he had room to exert his power and could win over and suppress the Han and French forces. She felt that the Khan had a great fortune on this trip, so she could arrogance and make Tiemur the new Khan. There was a brother Sang running around in Shangdu. At that time, the Hulitai Conference was held and the recognition of the kings of the sects was won. It was almost impossible for those Han officials to turn the tables.
But the situation is getting straight ahead. The Khan has been reluctant to leave for Shangdu. Boyan presided over the military and politics of the court, and started to rectify the king's army of the Grassland Sect that entered the hinterland of the capital of the capital, and transferred them to the front line that confronted the Southern Dynasties. At the same time, he dispatched the Grassland Tribe Army to various Mongolian Guards, and mobilized Han troops stationed in various places to enter Beijing on a large scale, reorganizing the personal guards' army.
"Empress, the current priority is to get the third prince back, otherwise who dares to bet on a proton is also the reason why those people can't decide!" Fang Chenyou said again at this time.
"Well, what I said is very true." Kuokuozhen nodded and said in confusion, "When the Southern Dynasty reached a peace agreement with our dynasty, he should have released the prince, but he made a mistake. What is the intention?"
"Empress, the Southern Dynasties later made a request to release the protons after the peace agreement was fulfilled. Now the Southern Dynasties have handed over Nanyang and have withdrawn from Guide Mansion, but our dynasty has been unable to give up Sichuan for a long time, so they will not release the third prince." Fang Chenyou sighed.
"Oh, didn't the Khan issued an order to retreat to Hanzhong and ced Sichuan and Shu to the Southern Dynasty?" Kuokuozhen frowned.
"Yes, the right chief of the Sichuan Provincial Secretary, also took his subordinates to retreat to Hanzhong, but the Wang family insisted on transferring all the population and property of Sichuan and Shu to Hanzhong and Longxi. The Southern Dynasties naturally refused to agree, and the two armies had fought for several times." Fang Chenyou said.
‘Hiss…’ Kuokuozhen took a deep breath after hearing this. It was really hard for the Wang family to deal with.
The Wang family of Gongchang was born in the Wang Gu tribe and was a prominent local family in Shaanxi during the Jin Dynasty. When Mongolia destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the Wang family beat the dogs and betrayed the Jin court and cut off their retreat and seized the Qin territory. However, his strength was far from enough to support the founding of the country. Therefore, under the important situation of changing the situation, the Wang family had only two ways to go: one was to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and the other was to send money to Mongolia.
Facing this choice, not only the Wang family, but also many other wealthy families. They wanted to surrender to the Song Dynasty in their hearts, but the Song court was really incompetent and courageous, and unwilling to accept it, so everyone had to continue to follow the foreign tribes. In helplessness, the Wang family "stabilized the stone gate and did not relax the war and garrison", and three years later gave money to Mongolia to express their surrender. Since then, the Wang family has been following the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties to conquer the south and north, jumping on horseback.
The Wang army passed through the hurdles and killed the generals, consolidated Shu and provided a good and stable rear base for the Yuan soldiers to conquer Jiangnan. Not only did the Wang family's own power rely on this, but it also directly cut off the Song Dynasty's rear route. In the battle between Kublai Khan and Alibuge, the Wang family stood in the Kublai Khan faction. Wang Liangchen led his troops to attack Alibuge's Western Route Army and killed his commander, so that Alibuge could not get a slight amount of military, horse, money and food from Shaanxi and Gansu. Kublai Khan was able to fight back calmly on the eastern front, which was not unrelated to the stability of the western front.
In this case, the Wang family was at its peak. "Everyone was punished by the military affairs of Dongchuan." He was also appointed as the Marshal of the Nandu to fight against Sichuan. From the eighth year of Ogedei, Wang Shixian entered Sichuan from Kuoduo, and fought for 42 years. In order to conquer Sichuan, the Wang army achieved very significant results and received heavy rewards from the Mongolian rulers: they were given tiger talismans and promoted the general commander of the Yidu to pacify Qin, Gong, Dingxi, Jin, Lan, Tao, Hui, Huan, Long, Qingyang, Pingliang, Deshun, Zhenrongyuan, Jie, Cheng, Min, Die, Xihe, more than 20 states, and only the public ruling was decided.
Such a generous reward was almost to directly cede land and send it to the Wang family. During this period, the marquis of Shandong and Hebei had long been severed from their strength due to the Li Yan Rebellion. The seventeenth son and nephew of Shi removed military power. Even the Zhang family, who had suppressed Li Yan, was a "justice". However, the Wang family escaped the disaster in Sichuan and ushered in the glory of their family.
Therefore, it is not without reason that the Wang family was prominent in the Yuan Dynasty. They built Shu camps, occupied Shaanxi and other places, helped the Yuan Dynasty rulers stabilize the overall situation in the northwest, played an important barrier role in preventing and suppressing the rebellion of the northwest vassal kings, and were known as the "Great Wall in the West" of the Yuan Dynasty. However, in the 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Wang family was still reduced by the court.
However, the Wang family was already in a big position at this time. Under the arrangement of the patriarch Wang Shixian, the Wang family had seven sons, Wang Zhongchen, Wang Dechen, Wang Liangchen, Wang Zhichen, Wang Hanchen, Wang Zuochen, and Wang Qingchen. The Wang family had more than 50 members, and they all had titles, distributed in Longyou, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. The strong family forces were mixed and prominent in the court. The matter of reducing the vassal state ended in a slight manner, and Kublai Khan once again restored the position of Gongchang as the general commander of the Wang family.
Fang Chenyou looked at Kuokuo and thought, "Wang Weixiao, the son of Wang Zhichen of the Wang family, is currently the right chief of the Sichuan Shangshu Province and the military service of Wanhu. After the land change, the Khan appointed him as the general manager of Xingyuan Road, Gong Chang and Pingliang and other twenty-four military commanders. He was dissatisfied with this and refused to give up Xichuan. He probably wanted to use this to threaten the Khan and the court!"
"A bastard, he is a slave, but he can't compare to the life of the prince. There is really no rules!" Kuokuozhen said angrily when she heard this. But she also knew that Kublai Khan wanted to cut off his power, but she couldn't do it, so what could she do, and she suddenly felt powerless.
"My grandma, there is still something to do about this matter!" Fang Chenyou said, "In addition to the official position of Gongchang, the sons of the Wang family, many of them served in the court. Some of them were in the Qiexue army. They were determined to act alone, so our family could also threaten this."
"Oh, what you mean is to use the Wang family's children to threaten Wang Weixiao and force him to withdraw from Xichuan as soon as possible so that Tiemur can return to the court as soon as possible!" Kuokuozhen nodded and said in confusion, "If the Wang family's children in the court do their job properly and have no handle to arrest, wouldn't it be difficult to do it!"
"Empress, what is a handle? If you don't have a handle, you can punish him..." Fang Chenyou smiled and offered advice.
Kuokuozhen heard it frequently and immediately understood. To deal with those officials who are powerful and powerful, who can threaten the rule of the monarch. Such dangerous elements must be executed by any means when necessary. The monarch has power and power. When he wants to deal with certain subordinates, he will let them be upright and open and have no shortcomings, and it will be easy to take them down in one fell swoop. Either falsely, or falsely rebellion, and put them in his quilt with a bag of silver, and say he is corrupt; if he is pulled a female corpse on his bed, he will say he is raped and killed.
Therefore, the monarch deals with his ministers, like a duck kissing a chicken - we have a big mouth and a small mouth, what can we do? If we can find an excuse, we will execute it openly. If we really can't find a reason, we can also assassinate, or deliberately provoke some conflicts and kill people with a knife. Anyway, people die like a lamp that goes out, and they completely lose the opportunity to debate. At that time, if the monarch fabricates some crimes at will, the matter will be settled.
"Since Wang Weixiao's eldest son is in the Qiexue army, then you can transfer him into the palace to serve the Khan." Princess Kuokuozhen has been accustomed to the struggle between brothers and the open and secret struggles between court officials. She was just confused for a moment. Now she knows what to do after being reminded. "This time, Wang Weixiao became the chief commander of the army in Gongchang, Pingliang and other twenty-four military positions. His brothers must not be very happy. Since he is not awake, it is not necessary to change people. Be careful and see which one is obedient."
"Yes, I understand!" Fang Chenyou nodded repeatedly, "The Empress should also worry about it now, and take advantage of the opportunity of the kings of various sects to take office to arrange our family's confidants. Some things should be said to the Khan as well!"
"Oh, how do you say this?" Kuokuozhen said.
"At present, the kings of the sect who entered the harem gathered around the capital. Dahan wanted to send them to guard them everywhere to relieve some pressure from the court." Fang Chenyou said, "Although the Central Plains is relatively rich, it is also divided into good or bad. Our dynasty and the Southern Dynasties discussed opening a place for the court, and chose Nanyang and Xuzhou. At that time, the two places would be a gathering of various commodities and a land of gold every day. If we could also take charge of the affairs of the court, the good job that the kings of each sect dreamed of would be rich even if they could not intervene, and collecting tariffs would be rich."
"Empress, now we need money to win over the court officials and appease the sect kings. And the third palace will also need a large amount of money to reward the ministers when they ascend to the throne of the Khan on the day of the day. But the treasury is empty at the moment, and the money in the palace is also tight. If these two places can be presided over by the Empress's confidant, wouldn't gold and silver flow into our Kunde Hall like flowing water?"
"Well, that's right!" Kuokuozhen praised, "You are really the Zhiduoxing of this palace. If you don't have money and food, how can those sect kings be obedient? How can you support you ascend to the Khan throne? What other ideas do you have? Let me talk to you again."
Chapter completed!