【Annexation of Dongchuan】
After receiving the imperial edict to attack Fengxiang, the generals in Xichuan invited him one after another, saying that this was a good opportunity to annex Fengxiang and Li Maozhen, an opportunity that could not be missed and would never come again.
Wang Jian, however, rejected the proposal of the Northern Expedition to Fengxiang, saying, "This is unwise. I have already gained so much that I don't need to increase the number of Qixia."
Great wisdom knows how to stop.
Wang Jian analyzed the current situation for his subordinates, explained the pros and cons, and pointed out that Li Maozhen had been separatist in Qidi for a long time and was very prestigious in the local area. He was not enough to compete with the powerful vassals in Guandong, but he was more than capable of defending the territory. Moreover, we have already taken advantage of the chaos to seize a lot of his territory. If we continue to attack Fengxiang, the gains will outweigh the losses. It is better to let him serve as our buffer zone between Shu and the Central Plains. Not only can we not attack him, but we must support him at the right time (should Help and strengthen it, and serve as my shield and ears).
Wang Jian was not only a passionate strategist and conqueror, but also a cool-headed politician and political strategist. He can give up greed, he can ignore hatred, and truly be oriented to long-term interests, adapt to the current situation, exchange friends and enemies, and seamlessly connect.
Since the "Anti-Yang Movement", Wang Jian and Li Maozhen have been fighting for the land in Shannan for a long time (Qin and Sichuan have been at odds with each other for many years). The relationship between Wang Jian in Xichuan and Li Maozhen in Fengxiang is like that between Li Keyong in Hedong and Zhu Wen in Bianzhou. Nowadays, Li Maozhen is in dire straits (weakened and unable to defend), and the imperial court issued an edict to attack him. However, Wang Jian not only did not throw stones into the well, but offered to assist Li Maozhen in a timely manner. This shows Wang Jian's outstanding political wisdom!
At the beginning of Wang Jian's army, Zhou Xiang, the great counselor, presented him with the Sichuan version of "Longzhong Dui" and planned a strategic goal for him, which was to separate Shu and dominate. All Wang Jian's subsequent actions revolved around this program.
Nowadays, Dongchuan is Wang Jian's main mission. As for grabbing the territory of Fengxiang and Shannan West Road, they are all taking advantage of the situation, and the surrender of the southern Guizhou area is a windfall that has fallen from the world.
Therefore, Wang Jian took advantage of Li Maozhen's lack of time to travel south and intervene in the affairs of the two Sichuan provinces. He stepped up military operations against Dongchuan and personally led a large army to reinforce the Dongchuan front line. Dongchuan was defeated one after another, and Fengxiang's reinforcements were also defeated and blocked outside Jianmen Pass.
At this time, an interesting scene happened again.
Zhaozong asked the number one seed player, Prime Minister Sun Xie, to take command and serve as the commander-in-chief to suppress Fengxiang. He would lead the army of Qinwang in the world and command the recapture of Chang'an and the elimination of Li Maozhen.
Li Maozhen immediately gave up and apologized, saying that he was confused for a moment and hoped that the court would give him a chance to start a new life. He would change his mind and spend a huge sum of money to repair the palace in Chang'an to atone for his sins.
And look at the so-called King Qin’s teacher:
At that time, Li Keyong and Zhu Wen were fighting against each other in Weibo. Zhu Wen, Li Keyong, Luo Hongxin, and Yan Yun were all involved and had no time to look west. Yang Xingmi in Huainan and Qian Liu in Hangzhou were also deeply involved in the Jianghuai battlefield and were " Dong Chang proclaimed himself emperor" was blocked; only King Jian of Xichuan had the ability to send troops to attack Qi Qin, but not only did he refuse to attack King Qiqin, but he still had the intention to rescue Feng Xiang in the sense that his lips would die and his teeth would be cold.
The so-called "Diligence of the King of Qin in the World" is in name only, and not a single soldier has been seen for a long time.
Han Jian also considered his own interests and did not want to see the powerful feudal lords of Guandong really come to Guanzhong, so he also obstructed it and secretly blocked the assembly of King Qin's troops.
The facts were before Zhaozong, and he couldn't even forgive Li Maozhen. Since Li Maozhen also gave the court enough face and left enough steps, of course she chose to forgive him.
So Li Maozhen's "second offense" ended in an anticlimactic manner.
Li Maozhen left Chang'an with a droopy head. The two times he declared war and invaded the palace were to pull chestnuts from the fire for others. He did not get any benefits. Not only did he lose the city and territory, but also lost his troops and generals. He also became the most notorious thief in the world and a street rat. Political, military, economic... failed in all aspects, it was simply disastrous.
Li Keyong, Zhu Wen, Yang Xingmi, Qian Liu and other powerful feudal lords in Guandong all made huge gains at this time, but what Li Maozhen found most intolerable was the rapid growth of Wang Jian of Xichuan.
Wang Jian not only occupied part of Li Maozhen's city, but also made a gesture to unify the two rivers. If Wang Jian gets his wish, Fengxiang will never have peace again.
Li Maozhen then went to court and accused Wang Jian of annexing the Dongchuan area. Here, he acted as if he was fighting for the injustice of Dongchuan Gu Yanhui, and said nothing about Wang Jian's occupation of Shannan West Road. Especially since Wang Jian had previously accepted the imperial edict of reconciliation, he is now openly disobeying the decree. It is really abominable! In this regard, Li Maozhen expressed strong condemnation and solemn protest!
Emperor Zhaozong issued another truce edict, requiring Wang Jianli to immediately stop all military operations against Dongchuan, withdraw from Dongchuan, and send special mediator (announcer) Li Xun to mediate.
Wang Jian met with Li Xun at the Zizhou front line. Wang Jian pointed to the officers and soldiers holding big flags, "I can't restrain the voices of the masses."
Another blatant violation of the edict.
Li Maozhen looked upright, "Is there still king's law? Is there still law?"
Zhaozong believed that what Li Maozhen said was very reasonable, so he issued an edict: he demoted Wang Jian to be the governor of Nanzhou, appointed Comrade Li Maozhen as the military governor of Xichuan, and appointed Li Sizhou, the king of Qin, as the military governor of Fengxiang.
I don’t know whether Zhaozong was deliberately humorous or was sincerely disgusted with Li Maozhen.
When Wang Jian received the edict, he laughed "haha" and ignored it; when Li Maozhen received the edict, he was so angry that he was filled with smoke.
The King of Tan Li Sizhou came to "take over" Fengxiang in a decent manner, but was surrounded by Li Maozhen in Fengtian (today's Qian County, Shaanxi Province). Fortunately, Han Jian intervened, and Li Maozhen lifted the siege, allowing the King of Tan Li Sizhou to return to China. State palace.
Neither the central court nor Fengxiang Li Maozhen were able to intervene in the affairs of the two Sichuan provinces. This was an excellent opportunity for Wang Jian to complete the cause of unifying the two Sichuan provinces.
After more than fifty battles, Wang Jian and Gu Yanhui cleared external obstacles and formally surrounded Zizhou. Later, he adopted the advice of counselor Zhou Dequan and recruited bandits and bandits in Dongchuan, further widening the strength comparison between the two sides.
Gu Yanhui was trapped in the isolated city and his morale was low.
Within just one month, the Suizhou governor led 20,000 troops to surrender to Wang Jian; the Hezhou governor led 1,000 troops to surrender to Wang Jian; the Fengxiang reinforcement general Li Jipu led 2,000 troops to surrender to Wang Jian.
In Zizhou City, there is a "Mirror Hall", which is magnificent and famous far and near. Gu Yanhui often holds banquets with his generals here. Gu Yanhui's sword cut iron as well as clay, and was called "Scabies Guest". Gu Yanhui gave this sword to his most trusted adopted son Gu Yao. Whenever there was a banquet, Gu Yanhui would always let Gu Yao hold the "Scabies Guest" to serve. He left and right, and said to the generals: "You and I have sworn to live and die together. If there is any violation, please come and experience this 'great health care' first."
Nowadays, Wang Jian is in a hurry to attack the city, and the city's fall is just around the corner. Seeing that the situation is over, Gu Yanhui enjoys the last supper with all his trusted generals.
Gu Yao pressed the "Scabies Guest" with her hand and said to the generals: "Do you still remember our oath? We do not wish to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but we wish to die in the same year, the same month and the same day. Now, it is time to fulfill the promise. Come, line up and do it 'Big health care'."
So, all the confidants fulfilled their promise and went to die together (to die together).
Gu Yanhui called his adopted son Gu Chen (Wang Zongbi) to his side and said, "You are not one of my trusted subordinates, so you don't have to die with me. Let's go and run for your life." Wang Zongbi burst into tears, knelt down to worship Gu Yanhui, and then climbed out of the wall. He defected to Wang Jian's camp again.
Later, Gu Yanhui personally killed his wife, children, and children, wiped out his entire family, and finally drew his sword and committed suicide.
At this point, Wang Jian officially annexed Dongchuan and completed the unification of the two Sichuan, laying a solid foundation for the future separatist rule of Shu.
After Wang Zongbi escaped and returned, all the generals on Wang Jian's left and right denounced him as an ungrateful and capricious villain and asked Wang Jian to kill him. However, Wang Jian ignored the past grudges and treated him as before. Once again, his broad mind is reflected.
When Gu Yanhui committed suicide, there were still 70,000 soldiers in the city. However, Gu Yanhui did not choose to die, but saved the lives of these 70,000 soldiers with his own death. Now that the defeat has been decided, it can be regarded as an immortal merit to be able to minimize the casualties of the enemy and our soldiers and civilians.
In this regard, Gu Yanhui is also a good man, a caring and righteous man.
After Wang Jian entered Zizhou, he naturally followed the usual routine, telling his adopted son Wang Zongdi to stay in Dongchuan, appeasing the people, sealing up the treasury, rewarding merits, reorganizing and surrendering prisoners... In addition to these regular steps , he also made a special action:
Wang Jian took out a small notebook full of names. This small notebook has been with him for nearly ten years. Now, it is a death list. Anyone named on the list will be killed without mercy!
Ten years ago, Wei Zhaodu took command to conquer Chen Jingxuan in Xichuan. Wang Jian, Gu Yanhui and others were all controlled and controlled by Wei Zhaodu. At that time, Wang Jian and Gu Yanhui had a brief working experience. But this experience will always be painful in Wang Jian's heart.
First of all, Wang Jian is a rising star. In the middle of the court, he had just been squeezed and suppressed by the "Yang faction" forces, and he was sent to work as a small governor in a remote village. He started out as a poor boy; while the brothers Gu Yanlang and Gu Yanhui of Dongchuan were in Jiedu, Dongchuan, and their families were well off. .
So Gu Yanhui looked down on Wang Jian at all.
Secondly, Wang Jian's main force is composed of eight thousand desperadoes and Xidong barbarian youths, with a strong exotic customs. After Wang Jian entered Sichuan, when he bid farewell to his godfather Tian Lingzi under the walls of Chengdu, he also shaved his will with his close followers, so Wang Jian From top to bottom, all the troops are dressed in the costumes of barbarians (their hair is tattooed and their faces look like ghosts).
"Black words" are also popular among Wang Jianjun, such as the life-threatening dragon - sword, Xiao Quxun - knife, Pan Shangshu - bow, Shengniu'er - drum, Xiangba - gong...
When frightening Wei Zhaodu, he also used terrifying methods of cutting up and eating living people in public. Wang Jiansuo's troops are an outlier among the coalition forces. They are incompatible with the civilization of the Central Plains and look like a barbarian savage tribe.
Gu Yanhui, on the other hand, was "detailed and Confucian in style", a well-known scholar with a graceful demeanor and a wealth of poetry and books.
When the two of them led their entourage to attend the military meeting hosted by Wei Zhaodu, Gu Yanhui, wearing a crown and a feather fan, was elegant and graceful, pointing out the country and inspiring words, just like the resurrection of Kong Ming; Wang Jiankun was tattooed and dressed in strange clothes, just like Meng Huo's immortality. .
Gu Yanhui looked at Wang Jian with disdain, his disdain was palpable, and his entourage also pointed at Wang Jian, laughed, and even ignored basic etiquette and ridiculed Wang Jian in his face.
At that time, Gu Yanhui made no secret of his contempt for Wang Jian and was so rude that sometimes even Wei Zhaodu couldn't stand it. He often privately advised Gu Yanhui to take the overall situation into consideration and unite his comrades. But Gu Yanhui remained unmoved at all, still maintaining a condescending attitude.
Wang Jian was not strong enough to maintain his dignity at the time, so he chose to endure it, but secretly took note of all those who laughed at him.
A gentleman's revenge is never too late.
Today, ten years later, Wang Jian entered Dongchuan as a conqueror. He took out this little book that he had kept for ten years, and said, "Anyone who records laughter will be killed."
Under Wang Jian's mask of kindness and kindness, there is also a narrow side.
