When Guo Wei passed by Luoyang, Wang Shouen suddenly remembered his extremely noble status as a general and prime minister, so he "went out to greet him". This is extremely disrespectful behavior.
After Guo Wei heard about it, he was very angry. He thought that Wang Shouen was deliberately putting on airs and was sincerely neglecting him, so he sent someone to send a message: "Brother is very busy and is taking a bath, so it is not convenient to meet him." Then he picked up his pen and wrote a small piece of paper. In the name of the Central Prime Minister's Office (Zhongshu), he appointed his capable general, Bai Wenke, to replace Wang Shouen and stay in Luoyang.
When the small note was handed out, Bai Wenke was frightened and said in her heart that you two bosses are fighting, don't hurt innocent people, I don't dare to offend anyone! Dare not accept it.
At the same time, Wang Shouen had returned to the office building and was waiting for Guo Wei to come to see him in the living room. The subordinate suddenly ran in with a panicked expression, "Report, sir, the new left-behind commander has taken up his post!"
"ah?"
Wang Shouen was confused. Where did the new chief come from? I quickly came out to take a look and found that the property transfer was being carried out at the office location, and all the guards on duty had been replaced by Guo Wei's people.
"broken!"
Wang Shouen turned around and ran to the backyard, only to find that hundreds of members of his family had been kicked out of the left-behind governor's mansion and were wandering on the street in a panic, like refugees fleeing. Seeing Wang Shouen appear, these people howled and complained to him one after another.
"Are you still busy crying? Run away quickly. If you play for a while longer, you will lose your life!"
Wang Shouen became the leader of the refugee team, dragging his family with him from Luoyang to Bianzhou in embarrassment.
At this time, Liu Chengyou no longer dared to offend Guo Wei. He ignored Guo Wei's arrogant behavior of expelling imperial officials and appointing and dismissing frontier officials in the name of the central court without authorization. He compromised and gave in. He actually issued a formal appointment letter and appointed Comrade Bai Wenke as He stayed in Xijing and served as an official.
After Wang Shouen came to Beijing, in order to prevent further persecution by Guo Wei, he paid bribes everywhere and used a large amount of gold and silver to bribe those in power. Therefore, with the strong words of many high-ranking officials, Liu Chengyou finally pardoned him for his first righteousness, and only killed a few of Wang Shouen's subordinates and party members.
When Liu Zhiyuan proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan, Wang Shou'en surrendered Luzhou, opening the way for Liu Zhiyuan to go south. This is his most important contribution.
But what crime did Wang Shouen commit? Just because he neglected Guo Wei, he not only lost his official position, but also had to dissipate his family wealth in order to be "pardoned". "It was just a few people who were punished for their use", and it was "just"!
Guo Wei was only a privy envoy at the time, but he was able to appoint and remove prime minister-level feudal officials and mayors of municipalities directly under the Central Government with a casual piece of paper. Even Ouyang Xiu said when commenting on this matter that this was a very dangerous sign. What's the sign? Haha, you understand.
On August 27, Guo Wei finally returned to Bianzhou.
Liu Chengyou didn't dare to neglect, so he quickly "promoted his rank" and granted him royal wine, gold, silver and countless treasures. The next day, Liu Chengyou held a central meeting to discuss the issue of rewarding Guo Wei, and initially reached an agreement that he should be given a military envoy. Later, the court revealed the news to Guo Wei and asked for his opinion. If he was not satisfied, he could increase the price. Everything was negotiable.
As everyone expected, Guo Wei refused and refused the reward from the court. He also showed his integrity and said that he would fight the rebellion for the country and serve the emperor without asking for anything in return...
Is it really "anything in return"? Of course not, Guo Wei’s asking price is very high.
Guo Wei said: "Since I received the task of counterinsurgency, I fought for more than a year and barely conquered a city. How can I have the face to ask for a reward? The emperor does not blame me for my incompetence. He is already very tolerant and considerate. Besides, pacification Could it be that I alone put down the rebellion? I led a large army to station outside, and the maintenance of public security in the capital, the supply of grain and grass, transshipment and other tasks were not the joint efforts of everyone? How dare I take the credit alone? "
High-sounding and irrefutable.
Therefore, the imperial court renegotiated and drew up a list of personnel, and almost all local military governors were on the list.
However, Guo Wei was still dissatisfied. All he said was this: I will mention a few people and you will arrange them.
Court: Okay, I wish I had said this earlier, it took so much effort.
Guo Wei then submitted a list of 73 people, all of whom were his direct subordinates.
Finally, under Guo Wei's blackmail, the Later Han court finally drew up a shocking list of rewards, including almost everyone:
Three prime ministers: Dou Zhengu, Su Fengji, and Su Yugui
Two Privy Council envoys: Yang Bin and Guo Wei
There were two envoys to Xuanhui: Wang Jun and Wu Qianyu
Three envoys and one: Wang Zhang
One person in charge of the bodyguard: Shi Hongzhao
In the center are these nine people, who respectively control administrative power, military power, financial power, control the civil service group, internal and external affairs of the palace, and the imperial army group. The amount of their reward is exactly the same as that of Guo Wei.
In addition, there are countless local vassal towns that have received awards, such as Weizhou Gao Xingzhou, Xiangzhou An Shenqi, Yanzhou Fu Yanqing, Lingzhou Feng Hui, Xiazhou Li Yiyin, etc.;
Relatives of the emperor also wanted to be present, such as Xuzhou Liu Xin, Yunzhou Murong Yanchao, Qingzhou Liu Zhu, Hedong Liu Chong, Xuzhou Liu Yun, Shaanzhou Li Hongxin, Chanzhou Li Hongyi...
Even including Qian Hongchu of Wuyue, Ma Xiguang of Nanchu, and Gao Baorong of Jingnan. In short, there will be rewards all over the country.
At that time, some people pointed out that this was Guo Wei borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha, spending the court's money, and earning his own favors. And in this way, it is similar to "Zigong redeems people", which is a kind of moral kidnapping. From now on, if anyone who has done meritorious service does not receive nationwide rewards like this, the court will be scolded as a coward and a sycophant. If a nationwide reward is implemented, the national treasury will soon be empty, which will be a disaster!
Especially for the list of 73 people proposed by Guo Wei, they would not be grateful for the court's kindness, but grateful for Guo Wei's kindness. Eat Sun and drink Sun without thanking Sun.
The country was generally rewarded with great awards, and central and local officials at all levels were promoted to positions and titles, and the whole country rejoiced. Just as everyone was immersed in joy, urgent military information came from Hebei: the Khitan invaded! The Khitan cavalry has penetrated deep into the Beizhou and Weizhou areas.
As early as when Yelu Ruan led his army back north and passed through Dingzhou, he promoted Yelu Langwu, deputy envoy of the Yiwu Army in Dingzhou, to be the military envoy of Datong, and transferred Sun Fangjian, the military envoy of Datong, to Yunzhou as the military envoy of Datong.
Sun Fangjian, the former Langshan hero with cult as the soul of his team, repeatedly jumped between the Central Plains and the Khitan, and finally surrendered to the Khitan and was appointed as the Jiedu Envoy of the Dingzhou Yiwu Army.
Yelu Ruan was very suspicious of the Han people and only trusted the Khitan people. However, as the Khitan returned to the north, the strategic positions of Zhenzhou and Dingzhou became more important. Therefore, the Han people could not demote the generals and had to be replaced by the Khitan people.
Although Sun Fangjian was transferred from Dingzhou to Yunzhou, according to the usual practice, he needed to go to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing of Khitan to meet the saint to express his gratitude. Sun Fangjian was very afraid of this and worried that he would never return, so he used various reasons to evade his trip to the north, and eventually led 3,000 troops back to the Langshan Revolutionary Base.
