Yang Liang was defeated in September and returned to Taiyuan in October. After a few days’ rest, he was ready to go back to the capital Daxing to visit his father and mother. Yang Liang was retired because he had a title of bing general manager besides marching marshal, but he also had reason to delay some trips in bing again. Others can’t do this, even if they know that the emperor is defeated, they can go back to Beijing and report the situation to the gunpoint. The military envoys ran to the capital one by one, and gradually spread out what happened in Liaodong one by one in front of the monarch and his subjects, which also made the court’s depressive atmosphere even stronger.
On October 20th, before Hanwang returned to Beijing, Emperor Wen of Sui reached the first round of important punishment decision after the failure of conquering Korea-putting Wang Shiji, the assistant commander of the land army when conquering Korea, in prison for questioning.
Before Wang Shiji went to war, his official position was Liangzhou manager, and he had been there for many years. Although there was no administrative division of thirteen prefectures in the Sui Dynasty along the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, Wang Shiji, the manager of the Han-made prefectures, was still set up. Before that, it was already a government official on the governor’s side.
In fact, Yang Liang, Wang Shiji and Wei Chong, the commanders of the army in the 300,000-strong Korean army, were the commanders of Bingzhou, Liangzhou and Youzhou respectively, which was equivalent to the commanders and governors of Shanxi, Gansu and Hebei military regions in later generations. If you want to be attached to the official position of later dynasties, it is roughly the same as that of the Tang Dynasty and the Qing Governor
It was when Sui Jun withdrew his troops that Wang Yuan, the king of Korea, at least gave himself up as a token of apology. Although Sui Jun suffered heavy losses and actually failed, he could not admit his failure in name, but this problem brought a trouble. Emperor Wen of Sui wanted to punish Wang Shiji but could not find another excuse to punish him for defeat.
Fortunately, if the emperor wants to find someone to quarrel with, he wants to add insult to injury. Naturally, someone gave me a pillow. At that time, Wang Shijie had a trusted general, Huang Fuxiao, who committed some crimes such as getting cold feet in the Korean war. After the war, he was afraid of court liquidation and tried to let Wang Shijie harbor him. Wang Shijie himself did not dare to harbor him. Then Huang Fuxiao was caught by the court. After being caught, Huang Fuxiao fell into the hands of Liu Shu’s foreign officials. After repeated torture, Liu Shu got the words Emperor Wen of Sui wanted.
According to Huangfuxiaoxiao’s suggestion, Wang Shijia was not active in the battle of Korea, so he lost his fighter plane on purpose. The reason was that Wang Shijia conspired to protect his strength until the strength of Bing and Youzhou troops was greatly damaged, and his own Liangzhou army dispatch troops rebelled.
Emperor Wen of Sui, who got the accusation of treason, wanted to put Wang Shiji in prison on the spot, but everyone in the court knew that the emperor killed Wang Shiji, but it was not because of this-the emperor needed to send troops to the main manager of the Third Road in northern Xinjiang after the defeat in the Korean campaign to choose one of the most timid guys in wartime to kill the monkey.
Emperor Wen of Sui insisted on slaying Wang Shiji, of course, in order to make the expedition to Korea fail. It’s good to have an explanation to appease the hearts of various ministries that suffered heavy losses. However, once the wheel of history is rolled up, it’s obviously not that Yang Jian wants to stop. All the forces in the DPRK have hitchhiked and exhibited a series of climbing and biting attacks. I think this period of confrontation has a little more personal vendetta.
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The time line was dialed back to five days before Wang Shiji was beheaded, and it was also two days after Liu Shu forced Wang Shiji’s rebellion evidence through Huangfu Xiaoxiao.
In the prison, a middle-aged man with a full face and blood stains sat there without any anger. He was Wang Shijie. Yesterday, he already knew the exact news of his fate. The rest of his life was just a few days of snapping his fingers.
"Crunch" An iron shaft prison door actually came to a mouth and let a ray of light that made the prisoners’ pupils uncomfortable shoot in. Wang Shiji was too lazy to look at it. He closed his eyes for a long time and let this light pass quickly. He didn’t open his eyes until he heard a door again.
The sight in front of him startled him, because in a few seconds when he closed his eyes, a man dressed as an official came to the door of his cell with a wooden box across the iron fence.
It’s not the execution day yet. This can never be a decapitated meal. Wang Shiji heard that two days later, the emperor Emperor Wen of Sui would personally interrogate him and go through the motions to make him confess and repent in public. How can he be beheaded now?
"Are you … can you come in?" Wang Shiji also asked but listened to the man dressed as an official, but he stuffed something for the two jailers to make it convenient for them. Perhaps everyone at the scene knew that Wang Shiji’s rebellion case was to add to the crime, and the custody was not as strict as that of the real rebel prisoner. The temptation of huge bribes left, so that the delivery man could talk to the prisoner privately and it was also a farewell to his relatives.
"Brother, don’t you recognize my younger brother? My younger brother is Wang Shichong, a foreign minister of the Ministry of War-well, my younger brother’s stepfather is your uncle!"
The official wearing a blue robe put his face close to the grating wooden door of the cell so that Wang Shiji could see the face with the characteristics of the conference semifinals. Wang Shiji stared and thought for a while and finally remembered that his capital did have such a distant relative-this Wang Shichong was a conference semifinals in the western regions, and the word "branch", "full line" and the Wangs did not have the slightest; However, this sub-branch was full of biological father who died early, and his mother later remarried to the Wang family in Bacheng. This sub-branch was full of shame and eagerly changed its name and surname to "Wang Shichong" and became the same generation as Wang Shijie. Wang Shichong’s stepfather was a uncle of Wang Shijie, and Wang Shijie and his relatives in Wang Shichong were far away. What’s more, Wang Shichong was still a bloodless person, so it was even more impossible to follow.
Wang Shiji and Wang Shichong have seen a few faces in their lives, which can be said to be that they don’t talk to each other all the year round. If it weren’t for Wang Shichong’s fresh face with conference semifinals characteristics, it was so impressive that Wang Shiji couldn’t recognize it at the moment.
I didn’t expect myself to make a mistake, that is, none of my first relatives came to visit, but this distant relative was so generous that Wang Shiji, who was dying, was quite impressed by the cold world.
"Good brother, see people for a long time! Brother Yu is also a dead man. I didn’t expect it to be your last trip without avoiding suspicion! Don’t say anything, it’s all in the wine! " Wang Shiji talked to himself and took out a pot of sanle pulp from the lunch box sent by Wang Shichong, which bored them. Liangzhou people and conference semifinals had the best spirits, and the Han people in Daxing city drank hard wine. Now they are dying. How can they not have a good time?
Wang Shichong nobly drank a cup and said, "Brother and younger brother inquired for you. Although the imperial court decided that you were a reverse case in name, everyone knows that it was caused by the defeat of Korea, so now the imperial court has not yet noticed your small disposal plan. If no one is involved, I am afraid that there is still much to be done."
Wang Shiji’s withered heart "thumped" and resumed a little struggle. * * This is what he is most worried about before he dies. If the court kills him on charges of "fear of war and defeat", it will naturally not implicate his family. But the problem is that it is difficult for the imperial court to ride a tiger now, which is a charge of "rebellion". As a result, it is true that Wang Shijian will die, but the crime of rebellion is to be destroyed according to the law!
"Good brother, but have you got any news?"
Wang Shichong around a look at a few jailers also didn’t come over at the end of the corridor. It can be seen that the price he paid for a few gold leaves was quite high. When he put his face to the fence and lowered his voice, he said, "Too one-party people are not authentic. The pursuit is to make Liu Shu’s brother a capital crime, but how many charges are there to kill you?" Why did Liu Shu turn his mouth to rebellion? Isn’t this a disregard for human life? "
"LiuShu thief! I, Wang Shiji, will not spare you if I can turn a spectre! " Wang Shiji’s teeth were bleeding from his lips. If he was not afraid of disturbing people, he would almost shout out.
At the sight of the temperature, Wang Shichong almost waited for Wang Shiji to continue to say, "It’s that Jin Wangdian is very kind and Bai Gaoli’s brother is guilty of one crime at the end of the incident, that is, Jin Wangdian can’t bear to be slaughtered by koo people. This makes the confidant secretly run away and let the court temporarily forget to deal with sister-in-law and nephew until the limelight has passed, and then slowly gain people. Thanks to the pursuit, it’s not going to kill your family. It’s only when the birthright is here that there is hope. Of course, this thing is quite difficult to do in Jin Wangdian, and
Wang Shiji’s eyes are discerning at this point. He has nothing to say. He just gave Wang Shichong a blood drink and swore an oath. "I don’t know if I can do something about it." Please also show me! "
"Good talk, good talk," Wang Shichong said, taking out a stack of gold leaves and some deeds. "If things become the King of Jin, it will not only ensure that your wife is ill, but also make them have endless money."
Chapter 40 God’s Knife
"Now, my brother is also going to talk to the younger brother about the dead again, and he will be outspoken and say something taboo. This whole thing is still that the confidant of Jin Wang and General Yuwen found the younger brother to do it."
In Wang Shijie’s excited eyes, Wang Shichong adjusted a mood, secretly stuffed a roll of small paper to Wang Shijie for a while, then drew it back and burned it in his sleeve, even though he was not afraid of burning clothes. Wang Shijie looked at the cold sweat that was getting more and more nervous.
It is full of palace events, such as the daily stop of Emperor Yang Jian of Sui Dynasty, and some other details. It can be said that this information is the most important thing if a man has soldiers to start a palace mutiny.
But Wang Shiji couldn’t understand this time. Wang Shichong let him know what these were. Fortunately, Wang Shichong soon solved his doubts
"Brother, it is impossible for you to know these things before, whether it is Liangzhou manager or deputy marshal marching, right? What would you think if you accidentally let it slip when you personally tried your brother the day after tomorrow and found out that your brother also knew some news about the palace court? "
"What? If that’s the case … I’m afraid I’ll think there’s a conspiracy in this …’ rebellion case’? "
"Yes, and the eldest brother went to Korea on an expedition. Among his colleagues, there were enough high-ranking people, namely Hanwang, Wei Chong, the manager of Youzhou, and Wei Chong, the commander-in-chief of the navy, Marshal Zhou Luo Hou, and Gao Jiong. Zhou Luo Hou, like the eldest brother, were all local shepherds. It was impossible to know that these palace news left Hanwang and Gao Jiong Hanwang, who were the favorite children of the queen, could not betray their parents … It was necessary for them to notice this matter before they tortured their brothers in class, but they just recognized that these news was leaked from Gao Jiong."
At this moment, Wang Shiji finally has a keen eye. Gao Jiong is a teacher, and Gao Jiong and Taitai are still children’s in-laws. TaiYong Yang’s daughter is married to Gao Jiong’s young high table. Gao Jiong is the most hardcore in the division of the spheres of influence of the kings in the DPRK. It is obviously necessary to plot great things for the Golden Palace to help itself deal with Gao Jiong.
But Wang Shiji had no choice. He was a mortal. If he could let his wife live well for half a generation, why not let him frame Gao Jiong? Even though most people are koo, you can blame my brother-in-law Liu Shu for this! Who asked Liu Shu to handle the case "quickly and economically" and make things so rough that he had to make Wang Shiji a "rebellion"? Although Liu Shu doesn’t necessarily intend to kill his wife Wang Shijia, it is also because Liu Shu seems that Wang Shijia’s wife is just some ants that are not worth spending energy on.
In that case, I’ll show you how the worm eats itself!
"Good brother rest assured that brother did it! Please also ask Xiandi to reply to Lord Yuwen’s promise today! However, Gao Jiong’s high position is a bit suspicious and afraid that he can’t move his roots. "
"Yuwen’s adult didn’t intend to hurt Gao Jiong’s roots through this matter-even if Gao Jiong and his brother talked about some palace hangings, it’s just that Gao Jiong didn’t act secretly and leaked court secrets. How much crime would it be if Gao Jiong was really pulled directly? When the time comes, I’m afraid that my brother’s false name rebellion will be made real. Are you still like saving my brother’s wife and children? We are also responsible for our brothers, wives and children, aren’t we? "
"So the foolish brother can safely go."
Put the last piece of baggage in my heart, Wang Shijie drained the leftover wine in one gulp, and Wang Shichong also cleaned up some things. When he left the house, he was supposed to give a few pieces of silver collars to thank the guards for letting him send a decapitated meal to his brother. Seeing that Wang Shichong and Wang Shijie do have relatives, the guards ignored other possibilities without any doubt about this matter. It’s true that when the conference semifinals in the western regions of Wang Shichong were generous, they paid a lot of money to visit their brothers.
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As a result, three days before Wang Shiji was questioned, when Emperor Wen of Sui routinely tried Wang Shiji, some Wang Shiji shouldn’t have known that his words were accidentally leaked out, and then Wang Shiji was personally isolated and interrogated by Yang Jianma.
After several beatings, Wang Shiji confessed these things that he shouldn’t have known. When he visited Marshal Shi Gao Jiong before the Korean campaign, he inquired from Gao Jiong about Emperor Wen of Sui. After he got the news, there was no more trouble. He continued to behead Wang Shiji according to the original plan. Gao Jiong leaked the news. Although he was pressed, he didn’t get punished, but Emperor Wen of Sui’s letter to Gao Jiong has been torn apart.
However, it is obvious that the encirclement network against Gao Jiong has not yet ended, and some of the attacks are not even from the arrangement of the Jin Wang Yang Guang faction, but others spontaneously.
The first thing that excites the Jin Wang faction is that Hanwang Yang Liang’s performance after returning to Beijing may be that Yang Liang made up for his loss of the expedition to Korea, which reduced the impression of his father and mother. Although Yu Yang Liang knew that he would not be punished for defeat, he was still in a hurry to find a scapegoat for defeat, and then he chose Gao Jiong-who let Gao Jiong be his deputy and marshal? And if the marshal’s long history is Yang Liang’s first arm, then sacrificing it may make Yang Liang hesitate, but Gao Jiong is the eldest brother, so-called dead friends and undead being original is taken for granted.
After meeting Yang Jian, Yang Liang cried face to face when preparing for Gao Jiong’s army. He also blamed Gao Jiong for the difficulties in logistics supply and the lack of commissary medicine after the army crossed the Liaohe River, saying that his poor scheduling and operation led to Yang Liang’s vicious words, "My son’s state is fortunate not to be harmed by Gao Jiong."
After Yang Liang cried, he was distressed that Ma Lian, the queen of children’s dugu, had a trick to make up for the knife, and Emperor Wen of Sui blew a pillow wind. "When I heard that Gao Jiong had planned to go to war, I didn’t want to think about staying in Beijing to assist Yong Er. It was the position that forced Gao Jiong to assist Liang Er. At that time, the male and female servants knew that he was so unwilling that he would surely fail."
After listening to Queen Dugu’s mending the knife, Emperor Wen of Sui became more and more angry, but Queen Dugu didn’t stop. Things went on to talk about some other crimes of Gao Jiong’s bullying.
It turned out that Gao Jiong’s wife had died of an old illness seven years ago. At that time, Queen Dugu advised Emperor Wen of Sui to give a second marriage to the minister after he was over 50 years old. At that time, Gao Jiong refused to say that "the minister was old and had to eat fast and read Buddha every day, and there was no need to marry another woman." So Emperor Wen of Sui tried to give Gao Jiong a marriage.
Now it’s been seven years since this whole thing happened, but it’s just the tenth year of the Emperor that a concubine in Gao Jiong just got pregnant and gave birth to this whole thing. When Emperor Wen of Sui heard it, she was quite happy that Gao Jiong didn’t think about it elsewhere, but the Queen Dugu sighed deeply and didn’t like it.
Emperor Wen of Sui felt strange and asked the Queen Dugu not to like the Queen Dugu’s reply, "Don’t you remember that Gao Jiong said that he was too old to be a womanizer when he wanted to marry Gao Jiong seven years ago? Now he loves his concubine but gives birth again. It is said that Gao Jiong was cheating in those days! He’s willing to bully you if he has a concubine, so I can be trusted! "
At this moment, Emperor Wen of Sui’s letter to Gao Jiong was finally torn and collapsed by increasingly high criticism.
At the end of the year, Emperor Wen of Sui announced that Gao Jiong couldn’t handle the government due to illness, so he temporarily removed his former official position and went home for illness. However, the Duke of Qi continued to retain Emperor Wen of Sui’s attempt to give Gao Jiong a chance to turn over a new leaf through this cold treatment-after all, it was also a hundred-footed worm who died and remained inflexible for 20 years. It was still quite difficult for Emperor Wen of Sui to make up his mind to hold an important position, so Emperor Wen of Sui was obviously more willing to deal with it in this way.
It’s a pity that once a person in a high position falls, the follow-up chain reaction will not stop until he is completely beaten and never turned over. Others will not enjoy the fruits of victory with peace of mind. After losing his official position, more courtiers will hate Gao Jiong and want to take the opportunity to step on one foot. However, there are * * He Ruobi, Liu Shu and others in the DPRK who dare to speak frankly about Gao Jiong’s defense. Unfortunately, it can also make the situation no longer deteriorate.
Even Liu Shu’s body was suspected by Emperor Wen of Sui. At the beginning of the 19th year of Emperor Huang, Emperor Wen of Sui secretly removed Liu Shu’s position as the head of the external Hou Guan, but left Liu Shu’s position as assistant minister of Huangmen and changed it to be a layman of the Ministry of War. It seems that Liu Shu’s position as a Xu has risen to a higher level, but very few people such as Liu Shu know that the most important secret front handle has been completely cut away.