Chapter 674 Li Family
Although Feng Junhou's calm performance won the admiration of General Zhao.
But in fact, Feng Yong’s family knew about his family affairs.
On the surface, he looks as stable as an old dog, but in fact, he is a shocked one on the inside.
When I was still subject to the limitations of history and still hesitating about Li Yan's political lifespan.
Si Niang was actually able to conclude on the spot that the Han Prime Minister would definitely use the power of the Northern Expedition to win the Northern Expedition and would not be soft-hearted towards Li Yan. She even judged that Li Yan would definitely lose power.
This political vision is indeed infinitely better than mine.
After all, Li Yan was no ordinary minister. In addition to being an auxiliary minister entrusted by the late emperor, he also controlled a considerable amount of troops.
As long as someone doesn’t catch you, how can you be brought down so easily?
So when I think about it, the most that Zhuge Lao Yao can do is to weaken Li Yan's foundation step by step, and finally deliver a fatal blow.
I didn’t expect Old Demon Zhuge to be so anxious and wanted to succeed in one fell swoop.
The method is very simple and crude, that is, directly unite with the ministers of the DPRK and China to impeach Li Yan.
How many ministers in the DPRK and China will agree?
It goes without saying that Zhao Yun, Deng Zhi and Ma Dai guard Longyou.
Li Huina, the commander-in-chief of Nanzhong's surrender, was a die-hard supporter of Zhuge Lao Yao.
And Wei Yan, the original governor of Hanzhong, is now from the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The two brothers Wu Yi and Wu Ban were supposed to be members of the Dongzhou faction along with Li Yan. In addition, they were brothers of the Empress Dowager, so they had a lot of say.
If they are willing to save Li Yan, Li Yan may not be able to do anything.
But after the Northern Expedition, the two brothers of the Wu family might have been on the same front with Zhuge Lao Yao in mind.
What's more, as relatives, they are closely connected with the royal family. Li Yan's various actions have endangered the royal family. How can they help Li Yan?
With all the enemies in the court, the only one who can save Li Yan is the emperor.
It’s a pity that Adou doesn’t have much right not to speak up, so he still obeys Zhuge Lao Yao in everything.
More importantly, even if Adou could take charge personally, with the temperament of his sister-in-law, she would be more eager to get rid of Li Yan than Zhuge Lao Yao.
Although it is not sure whether Li Yan's advice to Zhuge Laoyao to enter Jiuxi was known to the palace, he wanted to divide the five counties into autonomous regions and did not obey the emperor's orders to go north to Hanzhong during the Northern Expedition.
Now he regards Jiangzhou as his own territory and ignores the imperial court's order to appoint Xiang Chong as the governor of Jiangzhou.
Adou must know these things.
Once Adou knew it, Zhang Xingcai naturally knew it.
This series of events may seem like Li Yanfei is domineering on the surface, but in fact they are all slapping the imperial court in the face and treating the emperor as if he is nothing.
Feng Yong sat there with the impeachment letter and thought for a long time before he figured out why Zhang Xingyi was so sure that Li Yan had lost power.
Every court is full of enemies, and no one is willing to lend a helping hand!
Zhuge Laoyao asked him to write to Li Feng. In addition to wanting to push himself, he also wanted to control this political struggle on Li Yan alone.
He didn't want to affect his family, so he wanted to protect Li Feng.
It is not easy to get rid of Li Yan's entire faction, but it is very politically skillful to get rid of just Li Yan without causing other people to backlash and at the same time frighten others.
Feng Yong thought of this and nodded, "The usurpers have not yet been eliminated, the country is in many difficulties, and the country's affairs must be peaceful. We can achieve victory, but we must not allow it to endanger our great cause."
"However, Li Yan was an important auxiliary minister entrusted by the late emperor. He received too much loyalty, but he did not think about repaying loyalty. He acted unreasonably, failed to deal with dangers and shames, was confused about superiors and subordinates, talked about prisons and abandoned science, led others into treachery, and was narrow-minded. Crazy, if there is no heaven and earth.”
Feng Junhou unceremoniously appropriated the charges that Zhang Xingyi had imputed to Li Yan.
“The Prime Minister was on the Northern Expedition, but he was afraid to move forward. Waiting for the great victory in Longyou, he wanted to take the credit. With such behavior, how could he steal a high position and stand in the court again?”
Zhao Yun was originally worried that because of Li Feng, Feng Yong would be scrupulous about this matter, but he didn't expect that Feng Tubol would slap so many labels on Li Yan at once.
At that moment, I took a breath.
Then he desperately spit out the meat in his mouth.
One of them didn’t pay attention and got burned.
“Do you have a grudge against Li Yan?”
Zhao Yun asked curiously.
"No ah."
Feng Yong was also a little surprised why the old man would ask this.
Zhao Yun didn’t believe it.
“I heard what you said just now, why do you seem to have a lot of grudge against Li Yan?”
No, it should be Siniang... That's not right either. In all likelihood, it's Zhang Xingcai who has a lot of resentment towards Li Yan.
It’s just that there’s no way to explain this to Zhao Yun.
Then Feng Junhou said seriously, "Old General, I am determined to revive the Han Dynasty, and I have always treated those who only care about personal interests and ignore state affairs as enemies."
After hearing this, Zhao Yun looked at the righteous face of this boy and suddenly felt that if he continued this topic with this boy, he would probably lose his life.
In order to live longer, he decided to eat more meat and drink more wine.
My previous worries were in vain.
Remembering how dark this kid was, Zhao Yun had to remind him, "Liu Yan's son Liu Liang will take a post in Longyou in the future."
"You are someone who is called a prince after all. Don't be so petty. If there are some things, don't hold on to them."
When Feng Yong heard this, he immediately exclaimed, "Old general, if you don't mention this person, I don't even remember who he is. What do you mean by biting and not letting go?"
Zhao Yun sneered and was too lazy to listen to his words. He just picked up the wine jar and took a big sip of wine.
Feng Yong, on the other hand, heard Zhao Yun mention Liu Yan deliberately and suddenly thought of something in his heart. He lowered his voice and asked, "Old general, did Liu Yan also sign the impeachment form?"
"Huh?" Zhao Yun glanced at Feng Yong in surprise, "Why do you ask this?"
When Li Yi came from Hanzhong, he hinted that he should let Liu Liang go. Wasn't it because of Zhuge Lao Yao's intention?
It turns out that Liu Yan reached a deal with Zhuge Laoyao at that time.
Thinking of this, Feng Yong asked again, "Although Liu Yan does not have real power, he is still a veteran who has been with the late emperor for a long time. I'm afraid his ranking on the impeachment list is not low, right?"
Zhao Yun pondered, took another sip of wine unconsciously, then glanced at Feng Yong and said, "Liu Yan is a senator and a general of chariots and cavalry. Where do you think he ranks?"
The generals of chariots and cavalry, no matter how nominal they are, at least in name, are superior to the generals of the Four Expeditions.
If the impeachment form was handed in by Zhuge Laoyao himself and other people signed the form, then Liu Yan would be ranked first?
Liu Yan is willing to be the leader, no wonder Zhuge Yao can personally come forward and ask me to let Liu Liang go.
Feng Yong figured this out and nodded.
It seems that the great victory of the first Northern Expedition actually stimulated Zhuge Lao Yao, making him eager to unify the country so that he could launch the second Northern Expedition as soon as possible.
Seeing Feng Yong's thoughtful look, Zhao Yun frowned and said, "The prime minister will handle matters in the court, and it's not your turn to worry about it."
"Besides, you are not very old now, so why are you in a hurry? Just do your duty as a captain of the Qiang Protector."
Feng Yong knew that Zhao Yun was doing this for his own good, and immediately responded, "I understand."
Anyway, throughout Ji Han's original history, political struggles were still very peaceful.
During the time when Adou was in power, he killed two ministers with his own hands.
One is Liu Yan and the other is Li Miao.
Li Miao tried to figure out what Adou was thinking after Zhuge Laoyao died, thinking that Adou would liquidate Zhuge Laoyao.
So he wrote a letter to slander the Han Dynasty Prime Minister whose body was still cold. Unexpectedly, Adou was furious and ordered the man to be killed.
Neither of these two people can be considered a real political struggle.
The only person who was killed because of the political struggle was the old man Wei who was fighting for power with Yang Yi after the death of Zhuge Lao Yao. He was directly killed by the Yi tribe.
The remaining losers in the political struggle were basically exiled or deposed as common people, and their lives were not in danger.
Unlike Cao Wei and Soochow, they were merciless in killing people when political struggles were involved. It was common for blood to flow into rivers. Countless people including clan members, relatives, ministers, generals, etc. were implicated and died.
There is a high probability that Li Yan will be deposed as a commoner at most and will not die as he did in the original history.
Just talking about his own duties, Feng Yong was a little embarrassed.
"Old General, there is currently a shortage of food in Longyou. Even if I go to Longxi, I'm afraid I won't be able to take many people with me."
“Silly, who asked you to take so many people there?”
Zhao Yun scolded, "Who would mobilize troops in winter unless there is no last resort?"
"Besides, Chen Shi is guarding Longxi, so you don't need to worry about the strength of the troops."
“I’m letting you go over just to see if I can make use of your reputation and how much you can appease me. The rest will be arranged next spring.”
“Of course, it would be great if we could use them to find out about the situation in Liangzhou.”
As soon as the old man said this, Feng Yong understood.
This is to let him do the preliminary work of regaining the western part of Longxi. It seems that Mr. Zhao wants to regain all of Longxi next year.
"The county government of Longxi was originally Didao. Later, Cao Cao moved the county government of Longxi to Xiangwu because the Qiang were causing chaos and Cao Cao was unable to control the situation in the west of Longxi."
"Today, the west of Longxi has long become a horse herding land for the barbarians. If the old general wants to move the county government of Longxi back to Didao, I'm afraid it will not be easy."
Feng Yong reminded.
Zhao Yun shook his head, "Even if we can't relocate Didao, we can't just leave it alone. Because you can go directly to Liangzhou from Didao, and this road will definitely be useful in the future."
This is already considered a strategic level that the Governor of Longyou and the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty have to consider. Feng Yong cannot easily intervene before he has a detailed understanding of the situation in Longxi and Liangzhou.
Zhao Yun looked at Feng Yong and said thoughtfully, "As far as I know, the Li family in Longxi has a common surname. Isn't your Mrs. Ru's surname Li?"
“The Li family in Shuzhong and the Li family in Longxi are somewhat related, right?”
When Feng Yong heard this, he thought about it again, but scratched his head a little, "It seems to be related..."
Didn't Li Dangzhi and Fan A escape to Shu through their connections with the Li family in Guanzhong? I just don’t know what the connection is between the Li family in Guanzhong and the Li family in Longxi?
Zhao Yun was very dissatisfied when he heard this, "You don't even know Mrs. Ru's family background, how did you become a prince?"
I know her surname is Li, which is a different surname than mine.
I also know that she is a woman and I am of the opposite sex.
At the same time, she also knew that she was capable.
The most important thing is that her plates and notes are both correct.
Isn’t this enough?
Is there anything else you need to know?
Feng Yong was slanderous.
“Go and call her over quickly.”
Zhao Yun ordered.
Li Mu came back soon, with a suitably puzzled expression on his face. When he came in, he first looked at Feng Yong.
Feng Junhou had no expression on his face.
Zhao Yun was eating and drinking and had no time to look at her.
The embarrassing scene made Li Mu a little overwhelmed.
Zhao Yun kicked Feng Yong.
“Ahem, Mu Niang...uh, Mu Niang, I asked you to come here because I wanted to ask you a few questions.”
The old man’s kick was very strong, and Feng Yong felt that the place where he was kicked must have turned green.
“Whenever the prince asks something, I will tell you everything I know.”
Li Mu said respectfully.
“Well, I would like to know if there is any connection between your Li family and the Li family over there in Longxi?”
Hearing this, Li Mu glanced at Feng Yong in surprise. She couldn't figure out why Feng Yong would ask this question.
“Returning to the throne, the Li family in Shu is indeed connected with the Li family in Longxi.”
Is there really any connection?
Feng Yong glanced at Zhao Yun, wouldn't you have already investigated it?
Li Mu continued to explain, "Li Gongtaichong, the founder of the Li family in Longxi, was the first county governor of Longxi County."
"The fourth grandson of Li Zugong, Li Zhongxiang, was a general of the Han Dynasty. He fought against the rebel Qiang and died in Didao. He was buried in Dongchuan of Didao, and the Li family settled there."
“Li Shanggong, the grandson of Zhongxiang Gong, was the father of Li Guanggong, the flying general of the Han Dynasty. He later moved to Guanghan County in Shu and became the founder of the Li family in Shu.”
“The current eldest house of the Li family in Guanghan County is the direct descendant of the Li family in Shu.”
Feng Yong couldn't help but be secretly surprised after hearing this. The connections between this family were really complicated.
According to this, Li Mu is Li Guang's granddaughter for several generations, or Li Guang's brother's granddaughter for several generations?
Thinking of this, Feng Yong couldn't help but glance at Li Mu a few more times.
Li Mu felt someone's gaze, and his face felt slightly hot, a little shy.
This monarch asked about the origin of his life experience, maybe he wanted to...
Feng Yong was muttering in his heart when Zhao Yun kicked him again.
“Oh... By the way, Mu Niang, can your Li family in Shuzhong still have a relationship with the Li family in Longxi?”
Li Mu was moved when he heard this.
She nodded, "Of course there is still a connection. As far as I know, every year when it's time to worship ancestors, Dafang will send people to Longxi to worship Li Chonggong."
“Moreover, the Twelve Masters of Dafang once took the Li family from Longxi to find a concubine and wanted to buy woolen cloth. However, the supply of woolen cloth was too tight at that time, so I did not agree.”
Zhao Yun heard this and squinted at Feng Yong. This guy is very capable! When Li Mu entered the Feng family, he actually didn't even recognize his own family.
"Over Didao, I remember there were Qiang and Hu rebellions all year round? The Li family in Longxi was not affected?"
Feng Yong asked doubtfully.
Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, the Li family in Longxi has been a distinguished family for generations and has a good reputation in Longxi. Even the Qiang and Hu people would not dare to do anything to the Li family easily."
“Furthermore, the Li family in Longxi had already moved part of their clan to live in Guanzhong decades ago, just in case.”
Think about the Cui family in the north. They supported the Cao family during the Cao Wei Dynasty, supported the Sima family during the Western Jin Dynasty, and served as officials for the Hu people in the later Zhao and later Yan periods during the Lu Shen period in the Central Plains.
Even in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Cui Hao, a monster-like figure, gave advice to the Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei people and helped the Northern Wei Dynasty unify the north.
All kinds of practices have no bottom line and no moral integrity.
This is the survival rule of aristocratic families.
Compared with the Lu Shenshi in the Central Plains in later generations, the Qiang-Hu rebellion at this time was just a small fight. If the Li family in Longxi could not cope with this situation, how could there be the glorious moment of Li Tangshi?
PS: There is something wrong with my cervical spine, so the updates are not stable during this period. I’m really sorry!
(End of this chapter)