Northern Dynasties

Chapter 521
Hearing what Li Tai said, Cui Qian knew that he also had thoughts about himself, so he said with a smile: "Although I am not idle in Beijing today, it is not too busy. If you have any plans, Apan, why not?" Straightforward."

Cui Qian is now in the official residence of the court, the official minister of the capital. Of course, this position is not a idle position, but now the entire Chang'an court has been seriously evacuated, and his little authority is better than nothing.If there is a better choice, of course, I am happy to change seats.

"I don't have a firm plan, but I just have a little idea."

Li Tai continued: "When I met Henan with the prince and envoy of Taiyuan before, and discussed the current affairs, I felt that Gao's funeral and Hou Jing's rebellion were an opportunity for the general trend of the world. If we can make good use of this opportunity , even if the separation of the three kingdoms cannot be ended, the respective strengths and weaknesses will inevitably change. Anyone who is determined to make meritorious service should not sit idle."

"Although the truth is so, but now Heluo is defeated, and only you, Apan, are the only ones who have won. Those who have recently discussed things in the middle school dare not seek Heluo again! Although Taiyuan Gong is in the south of the river, there is no way to help him. Yes, once the bandits invade, the situation will be critical."

The Cui Qian brothers used to come out of Jingzhou from He Basheng, and they are both civil and military. They are quite ambitious in their hearts, and they also think a lot about the current situation. After hearing what Li Tai said, they sighed again.

"Indeed, although the Gao family's authority is not as good as He Liuhun's, it is still stronger than Kansai. If we rashly compete with it, the outcome is still unpredictable. But the current power competition is not only a competition between the east and the west, the north and the south Each has a picture."

During this period of time, Li Tai also made up for the situation in the north and the south in recent years. Dang even said: "Since Zhengguang, the country's fortunes have not been prosperous, and the wars have been chaotic for several years, and the power has been divided. On the other hand, the soldiers in the south are not diligent and people have to rest. Fang often needs to be serious about things without daring to be disrespectful. Now that he is rashly involved in chaos, disaster will surely come to the country of injustice!"

"You want to map the southern country? Isn't this idea a bit... A Pan, you didn't enter the country, or you didn't know Jiang's expression. The Lord Liang enjoyed the country at the time, and Zhongli's first battle determined his country's destiny. He went straight to Luoyang with a brigade, even in recent years. Don't underestimate the performance of the military! Liang Zhu has enjoyed the country for a long time, his governance skills are shrewd, and he is obedient and obedient. No one dares to rebel..."

Hearing that Li Tai had actually targeted Nan Liang, the faces of Cui Qian and other people who had lived in the south of the Yangtze River all changed, and Dang even tried to persuade Li Tai not to be too frivolous. He is older than us, not to mention old and cunning, at least he is shrewd and skilled, how can he take it lightly.

Li Tai couldn't help but be amused when he heard this. It is true that authority is built up over time.

The Battle of Zhongli not long after the founding of the Nanliang Dynasty was a great victory in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Central and South Korea. Although decades have passed, many people are still deeply impressed by this.

Even in history, when Hou Jing advised Xiao Yan not to negotiate peace with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he used this incident as an example. The so-called Battle of Zhongli, the horse did not return. As for Gao Cheng, a kid from the Eastern Wei Dynasty who was resurrected from a dead body, why not talk to him!
In the eyes of later generations who knew about the Hou Jing Rebellion, Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan was naturally a big joke, but at present, the old Bodhisattva Xiao is indeed a remarkable figure, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is unpredictable.

After all, during the entire Northern Wei Dynasty, these northerners did not know that the profession of emperor could actually live to more than 80!Old man, fine ghost, old spirit, what kind of an existence of incomparable wisdom is the old emperor Xiao Bodhisattva in his 80s, he is a living legend in the world!
Li Tai is not surprised that his cousins ​​hold this point of view. With the development of information in later generations, there will be no shortage of barking teams to call out the souls of imperialism. At least Nanliang is not showing cowardice now. Who can guess what is going on in Xiao Bodhisattva's crotch? Drained a few bubbles.

Regarding the sharp class conflicts in Nanliang Kingdom, although Li Tai knew such a concept, he didn't know much about the details, but he could see a huge crisis from the current regime structure.

"The Southern Dynasties seem to be still strong, but in fact they have serious internal deficiencies and many disadvantages. I would like to ask my cousins, who is the enemy that can be determined in a single battle between the Kansai and the Eastern thieves?"

Hearing Li Tai's question, Cui Qian and others shook their heads.Although they admit that the Southern Dynasty is strong, they are not arrogant. It is impossible to destroy the Kansai regime with a single war.As for the Eastern Dynasty, whose national power is stronger than that of Kansai, it is even more like a dream.

Li Tai laughed again and said: "Old people lose their morals, especially poisonous! Although the Lord Liang has enjoyed the country for a long time, his descendants are also strong, and all the soldiers are listed outside. It is inevitable that their power will be followed by indoor warfare. Is it a good idea to be bewitched by Hou Jing at an octogenarian age, and to make a grudge against the north for the country?"

When Cui Qian and the others heard this, they couldn't help showing contemplative expressions, apparently inspired by the situation described by Li Tai.

That's right, Liang Zhu Xiao Yan is now an octogenarian. Such an advanced age is a very rare situation in this troubled world. Even if he is the emperor and enjoys all the offerings in the world, it is hard to say when he will die.

The change of imperial power in the Southern Dynasties was often accompanied by various political upheavals, even more so than in the Northern Dynasties, and the frequency of regime change was also more frequent than that of the Northern Dynasties.Now Xiao Yan has made the Southern Dynasty free from such troubles for decades by himself, but it does not mean that this phenomenon has been completely eliminated. On the contrary, it has nourished and strengthened a batch of poisons, which may become more violent when they erupt again.

If Xiao Yan is a responsible emperor, the most important thing for him now is to seize the time to solve some internal hidden dangers and ensure the stability of the process of passing the throne, instead of being lured by Hou Jing and rashly setting up external policies because of his greed. enemy.

Although Li Tai has the ability to foretell and predict, it is absolutely difficult to convince people of the present by relying on things that have not yet happened. However, he can point out a basic context of things. Liang's situation has actually reached a very dangerous moment.

Therefore, history sometimes looks confusing and confusing, with various clues, but in specific situations, it is actually luck and destiny.

Among the latter three kingdoms, why was the Western Wei and Northern Zhou, which had the weakest innate foundation and the weakest power, able to complete the final counterattack?

No matter from what point of view to explain this problem, one point cannot be ignored, that is, Yu Wentai died later than his opponent, and his own political power was more stable, and he took advantage of several waves of opponent's death and civil strife.

Even if Hou Jing can't beat Jiang, the possibility of Xiao Yan and his sons' virtues not getting along with each other is very small.A nest of poisonous Gu met an old loving father who took good care of them and indulged them in every possible way. As a result, the people in the south of the Yangtze River suffered disaster.

"So, Ah Pan, your next step is to go south to Jingzhou?"

Although Li Tai has not said it clearly, since the next step is to take Nanliang as a strategic goal, then Jingzhou, which borders Nanliang in the Western Dynasty and has the closest communication, is naturally a choice, so Cui Qian asked again, and at the same time There was also an excited smile on his face.

Li Tai nodded after hearing the words: "I do intend to go out of the town of Jingzhou, but I am afraid that my prestige and ability are not enough to calm the human forces in the other town, so I want to invite my cousin to go with me and plan this town together. I don't know what my cousin will do. ?”

"Yes, of course! Ah Pan, have you invited Daxing Tai?"

After Cui Qian heard this, he nodded again and again. He used to come from He Basheng to town Jingzhou, and he himself served as He Basheng's Xingtai Zuo Cheng. , so Jingzhou also placed a lot of meritorious ideas.

It's a pity that He Basheng was defeated and defected to Nanliang, and they also followed. Since then, they have missed Jingzhou.It would be a great comfort to him if he could return to Jingzhou again because of Li Tai this time, and realize those grand ambitions of his youth. As for whether he was inferior to his cousin because of his fame, he didn't care at all.

"Although I am interested in Jingzhou, I still don't know much about the situation there. If I want to ask Daxingtai to rule over there, I must have a deep understanding of people and things, so I ask my cousins ​​to give me some advice."

Li Tai said with a smile again, his current knowledge of Jingzhou is only on paper, and he will inevitably make mistakes and omissions when he talks about the details. Of course, he has to consult Cui Qian and other people who have actually been there before, so that he can have a bottom-up idea.In addition to a few cousins, he also wrote to his father-in-law Duguxin, expressing his desire to go to Jingzhou, hoping that Duguxin can help him.

Hearing Li Tai's request, Cui Qian thought about it and then said: "In recent years, the situation in various places has changed a lot, and the situation that is too far away is not beneficial to the present, so let's talk about it from the time when the old grand master left Jingzhou... ..."

Today’s Jingzhou in the Western Wei Dynasty is located on the west side of the Nanyang Basin and south of Funiu Mountain. The prefectural government, Rangcheng, is the later Dengzhou, Henan.

Today's Xiangyang is still under the rule of Nanliang, and because it was once the land of Longxing, the former town of Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, it is also the big town of Nanliang now east of the Han River, and it is governed by its Yongzhou state.

Although Jingzhou's strategic position is important, it was not an important military town in the late Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties.Although the two sides have fought fiercely around this place, in most cases they regard this place as a fence for the core area of ​​their rule, and do not send heavy troops to manage it seriously.

The most fierce competition between the two sides around this place was in the early years of Datong. He Basheng was first driven to Nanliang, and Duguxin took Jingzhou back and then he was also driven to Nanliang. The spoils from the periphery were moved between the two Weis.

It was not until the fifth year of Datong that Hou Jing tried unsuccessfully to regain Jingzhou, and then he gave up the fight for this place. From then on, Jingzhou belonged to the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Western Wei Dynasty took Changsun Jian as the governor of Jingzhou. In the 12th year of Datong, Changsun Jian was recalled and Wang Sizheng left the town.

After that, Wang Sizheng abandoned the town and left, and the Bafu sent Luozhou local tyrant Quan Zhongzun to sit in the town.It's a pity that Jingzhou in the Western Wei Dynasty and Jingzhou in Nanliang did not border each other, otherwise, you can suspect that this appointment is mocking Xiao Yi, King of Xiangdong in Nanliang, so that the two leaders can have a pair of eyes.

(End of this chapter)