Chapter Who is the real murderer
He Weixian witnessed the way Zhen Jin learned that Yuxi Timuer was defeated in Jiangdong and his entire army was wiped out. In addition to being shocked, he also had an unconcealed panic. He was panicked and did not know why, and he had the idea of giving up Dadu and avoiding going to the capital, and even made Qiexue army ready to set off at any time. Fortunately, after calming down, he chose to face it.
After discussing with Li Qian and others, these people refused to give up the plan to continue and tried to keep the guards' personal army intact with combat effectiveness to save the defeat. They began to mobilize all military forces to prepare for counterattack, allowing all the troops along the Huaihe River to gather immediately, delay the attack of the Southern Army, and buy time for the guards' personal army to go south. At the same time, a large number of people who are still cultivating in the fields as reserve forces were recruited.
He Weixian was still vivid in the panic scene at that time. Obviously, the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties were not ready to deal with the failure. The guards who set out first did not even have enough horses, and the food and grass they carried were only enough for more than ten days. The troops were even more chaotic. The hundreds of households scattered everywhere took more time to assemble. Some of them arrived, but they did not even get all the weapons and armor. How embarrassed they were to meet.
But at this time, the Southern Army conquered Yangzhou and began to march north along the canal. At the same time, all troops along the river crossed the river and invaded the north of the Yangtze River. The war broke out in full swing overnight. The Mongolian Yuan army, which was not prepared for a comprehensive war, was defeated, lost its city and lost its territory, fell from Huaidong and Huaixi, and the Southern Army quickly advanced the front line to the Huaihe River.
However, at this time, He Weixian had been ordered to supervise the army to leave Dadu and follow the guards' personal army to the south. He did not see the real Jin after the war broke out in full swing, but he could imagine that he was at a loss and must have begun to regret making the decision to invade the south. Their mission changed repeatedly halfway, from counterattacking the Southern Army on the Eastern Front and expelling them from Jiangbei to ensuring that the Huai River is not lost. When he arrived at the front line, the Southern Army's vanguard had already crossed the Huai River and broke into the Hanoi region.
As the personal guards gradually gathered on the front line, the court's attitude became optimistic again, and he wanted to concentrate on building the Southern Army on the Eastern Front, and then detoured to encircle other troops of the Southern Army in Jiangbei. He Weixian Ji was also optimistic about the battle situation at that time, thinking that the rapid assault of the Southern Army when he passed by was now exhausted and unable to carry out a northern invasion. They would soon defeat the Southern Army and end the war.
But no one expected that the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty was acting with them, and everything was a plan. After some operation, the real gold paid a heavy price for his confidence. More than 100,000 guards disappeared and were all told on both sides of the Huai River. He Weixian himself became a prisoner. Fortunately, under the teachings of the Southern Dynasty emperor, he repented and decided to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, surrender to the Southern Dynasty, becoming a nail that the Southern Dynasty entered the Mongolian Yuan.
At this time, the Mongol Yuan had no troops to send in the Central Plains. In desperation, Zhen Jin had to transfer Boyan to lead the royal army south to serve the king, and at the same time he had to lower his posture to beg for peace from the Southern Dynasty. After agreeing to the peace agreement, the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty quietly went west and seized Xiangfan. At this point, the Southern Dynasty controlled all the important paths of the northward advance and completed the strategic layout.
He Weixian didn't know how the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty worked. Anyway, he was already a hero when he returned to Dadu. Not only did he stay with Zhen Jin, but he also became his confidant. But Zhen Jin had long lost his original spirit at this time, but he was like a walking corpse, numbing himself by drinking all day long, and his body was getting worse day by day. Obviously, this defeat had defeated his fragile nerves and immersed in the pain of failure.
Fortunately, Boyan had returned to Dadu at this time and was in charge of military and political affairs. While discussing peace with the Southern Dynasty, he also began to clean up the mess, reorganize military affairs, arrange defense affairs, and adjust policies to increase the income of the court. Some of the active warriors at the beginning resigned in disgrace, while some of them had been on the bench, but they were still crossing the blame for each other and accusing them of being responsible for failure.
However, in He Weixian's view, this defeat in the war was actually a big impact on everyone's psychology, because most people didn't know that they would lose so badly, losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and losing thousands of miles of territory, which was a great humiliation. However, Confucians like Li Qian were in politics and had no knowledge, but the biggest problem was that they were not down-to-earth. As a bureaucrat who did not know the military of the frontier, let alone the situation of the Southern Dynasties, their knowledge was not enough to support him to make rational judgments on war and issues.
So after the defeat, Li Qian and others still strive to "raise compensation rather than cede the land." Unfortunately, if you lose the war, the decision-making power will be no longer in your hands, so you still pull Boyan out and block the front. When they had to give up the territory actually occupied by the Southern Dynasties and give up Xichuan, they were angry again, believing that giving up Xichuan was cede land, which was an unbearable shame for them.
However, they were still quite sober. Giving up Xichuan was the choice made by the Khan to return to Nanyang and protect Kaifeng to preserve the last trace of face. They could not blame Boyan all. But they could not persuade him to prevent the Khan from ceding Xichuan, and they felt resentful. However, Dahan was in a critical condition and could no longer manage the government. However, the Khan was still sure that they were running for their respective masters. The Holy Benefit of Boyan was high and powerful, and they were the target they fought for and won over, and the conflict was temporarily covered up.
He Weixian believed that Boyan had not expressed his position in the establishment of the crown prince for a long time. In fact, the reason was that the real gold was waiting for the Khan to express his feelings. However, after the real gold absorbed the Fushou ointment, he felt better and made him feel more determined to continue working for another five hundred years. Once the crown prince was established, it may cause the prince to covet the Khan throne and develop the desire to seize the throne.
It was Zhenjin's selfishness that made Boyan fall into a dilemma and could only fight between the two factions, but this was a life-and-death struggle. His "fence" made both factions feel dissatisfied, and he suspected of secretly interacting with his opponents, and regarded him as a potential enemy. The two factions in the fight knew Boyan's ability and prestige, and his fall to either side would become a weight to overwhelm the other.
With the same thoughts, the two factions naturally did not want Boyan to use it, and ousting him or even killing him was the safest way. Therefore, when Boyan made a mistake in handling the "Langzhong Incident", it triggered a joint attack between the two parties, and took the blame to him. However, the real gold did not guarantee it, but took advantage of the situation to remove the position of the Right Chief of the Secretariat and replaced it with his political enemy Sang Ge. Although he retained his position as Privy Councilor, he was demoted from the capital.
He Weixian could not imagine what Boyan felt after being abandoned by Dahan, but when he left Beijing, he must have felt desolate and disappointed with Dahan. He also became further alert to the coldness of the real gold, and his situation was just as the saying goes, accompanying the king is like a tiger. Although he is favored now, he may turn against him one day and end up in a difficult situation.
He Weixian was also extremely pessimistic about the situation after Boyan's death. In fact, he could still suppress the rebellious kings of the northwest, shock the host kings, integrate the chaos in the court, and deal with the attacks of the Southern Dynasty. However, no one in the court could do it after his death. As for the king playing with fire in front of him, he was not optimistic at all.
Zhen Jin demoted Boyan, intending to reintegrate all the forces of the court to restore his authority by all the sects. But He Weixian thought that this person was a miserable person, and he did not have the courage and means of the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty.
I think the situation the little emperor faced after returning to Jiangnan was not much better than this one. He intended to fight the Northern Expedition to be opposed by the government and the opposition, and there were very few supporters. But he was able to make full use of the current situation and gradually evolved a local conflict into a war, making everyone realize that the Mongolian Yuan was still the biggest enemy of the Southern Dynasty and did not give up his ambition to retake Jiangnan.
In this way, the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty used the Battle of Jiangdong, which made those opponents and passive participants become supporters of the war, and won most of the supporters in the court and the public, thus completing the Northern Expedition he planned. The huge victory allowed him to win unprecedented prestige. Looking at the envoy of the Southern Dynasty who was arrogant and envoy of the Yuan Dynasty, he directly criticized the arrogance of the Khan in the court of the Yuan Dynasty, he knew that the victory of the Northern Expedition not only allowed the Southern Dynasty to capture a large area of land, but also restored the confidence and pride that the great country should have. These were also supported by the emperor of the Southern Dynasty.
Looking at the Meng Yuan sweat in front of him who was lying on the couch, smoking cigarettes greedily, his eyes were already blurred, and he was vaguely speaking his dreamlike words, and he fell into an illusion that could not extricate himself. He Weixian felt bored and couldn't help but think of what real gold has now?
The repeated defeats of the war and the weak economy have put the Mongol Yuan in a precarious situation. The government and the country were filled with lingering feelings of failure. They were full of doubts about the Khan's ability to govern the country and could not see the future. The morale in the army was also low, the generals were afraid to fight, the soldiers were dispersed, and they were avoiding the Southern Army like tigers. How could they defeat the Southern Army with high morale?
Besides, his weak body, relying on this sip of smoke, was already terminally ill, and he might die one day. He had no energy or energy to manage the complicated government affairs and be competent for the responsibility of managing this huge country. Zhen Jin also fantasized about dealing with Boyan to restore his Khan's prestige and integrate all forces in the court, so that his holy orders can be understood and the ministers will be convinced.
He Weixian couldn't understand where the true gold's confidence came from, so he thought that the ambition of true gold was just an illusion and reverie caused by the excessive pumping of Fushou cream. Thinking about it, he could feel his incompetence, and the "knowledgeable people" in the court probably had a clear mind, thinking about helping Xinhan to take over the throne and replacing this inaction king.
Chapter completed!