It is absolutely not advisable to hold a swearing-in meeting and establish yourself as emperor!
After hearing what Su Yang said, Zhu Di killed this immature idea in the cradle.
In fact, this suggestion came from the mouths of generals such as Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, Chen Heng, and Gu Cheng.
The reason why they suggested this was very simple: to share the fruits of victory in the name of upright monarchs and ministers.
It's okay to say that the civil servants are gentry. There are not many civil servants under Zhu Di now. Together with Dao Yan, Jin Zhong and Zhang Bing, there are only five or six people.
But the generals are different. The Daning faction, the Peiping faction, plus the generals, there are twenty or thirty people in a row!
Now that Li Jinglong's main army has been defeated and he hastily fled south to defend Dezhou Zhending, the Yan army has won a complete victory and can take advantage of the situation to send troops to capture the entire northern Xinjiang to expand the results!
As long as the Yan army occupies the entire northern Xinjiang, it can retreat, defend or attack, and it completely takes the initiative.
In other words, anyone with a discerning eye can see that King Zhu Di of Yan has achieved great success!
Therefore, no matter whether you establish yourself as emperor or not, you still have to have the attitude that should be given, and you must have the rewards that should be given!
Otherwise, why would those generals risk their lives to follow you, Zhu Di, to rebel against Jingnan?
That's what Su Yang said, share the fruits of victory!
But Su Yang also said, now is not the time!
"My dear son-in-law, I'm afraid those generals won't agree!"
"Now the Yan Army is divided into several factions, and they are all waiting for the swearing-in meeting in three days!"
Zhu Di directly expressed his hidden worries and looked at Su Yang with hope.
Su Yang couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this.
What is this?
The team is too big to lead, right?
In the past, the Yan army only had the Peiping Yan army. Later, as the Yan army won consecutive battles and victories, some more generals were surrendered. This was the second faction.
Not long ago, the King of Yan, Zhu Di, went to Daning in person and successfully surrendered 200,000 Daning soldiers. This directly led to the emergence of a powerful faction in the Yan army, which even far exceeded the Peiping faction. It seemed to dominate the scene!
They want Zhu Di to establish himself as emperor. To put it bluntly, they want to get a legitimate position and no longer live under others for a long time and be suppressed by the Peiping faction!
After all, if you really want to talk about it, the generals of the Peiping faction like Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng are the absolute confidants of King Yan Zhu Di!
"This matter, whether it is easy to handle or not, depends on what His Highness Prince Yan thinks!"
Su Yang opened his mouth with a smile.
Upon seeing this, Zhu Di immediately asked: "Xian son-in-law, what's the plan?"
"First of all, let's make sure that one issue is that it is absolutely undesirable to establish oneself as an emperor. This is not a child's play. If you dare to establish yourself as an emperor after occupying some territory, then you are not courting death!"
"No matter who makes the suggestion, His Highness King Yan must not be tempted, let alone do such stupid things. Compared with a mere Northern Xinjiang, His Highness King Yan's appetite should be more than that small. After all, he is a true heroic man who stands upright, Zhu Di. It should take over the whole world!”
What he said made Zhu Di's blood boil and his eyebrows beaming.
"Hey, my good son-in-law has been praised too much. He has been praised too much."
It turns out that your virtuous son-in-law admires me so much!
Why didn't you tell me earlier?
Su Yang looked at Zhu Di with a blank face.
Am I not praising King Zhu Di of Yan? Why are you so happy just sitting here?
Are all the generals in ancient times so loyal? Do they care about humiliating their ministers to death and honoring their ministers with joy?
"Secondly, it is to solve the problem of factional conflicts within the Yan Army. There are currently three major factions, but in fact there are only two major factions."
"The weakest faction of surrendered generals, such as Chen Heng, Gu Cheng, Zhang Xin and others, can be included in the Peiping faction, which is the direct lineage of His Highness King Yan."
"Why?" Zhu Di stopped his smile and asked subconsciously.
Su Yang spread his hands, "Although these surrendered generals were forced to surrender in order to survive, after they came to the Yan Army, they had to do all the things they should do. And since they chose to surrender to the Yan Army, they will never do it again. Rebellion, because all fools know that Zhu Yunwen will never tolerate them!"
Zhu Di was startled when he heard this, and then he reacted.
Yes, he ignored this!
To be honest, Zhu Di was a little wary of surrendered generals like Chen Heng and Gu Cheng.
Because he was afraid that these surrendered generals would turn back at the critical moment and bring heavy losses to the Yan army!
But it turned out that Zhu Di was very loyal to him, or it could be said that these surrendered generals had no other way out.
Why did Chen Heng surrender to the Yan army?
It was not because Zhu Yunwen suspected that he had colluded with the Yan army, so he directly transferred his commander from the Peking capital to the Daning capital and became Bu Wan's deputy general.
Chen Heng was so angry that he chose to submit to the Yan army and secretly helped the Yan army capture Songting Pass!
"Father-in-law, you have to understand one thing, that is, there are really very few generals who are truly loyal to Zhu Yunwen, especially frontier soldiers!"
Su Yang took a sip of tea and said calmly: "Zhu Yunwen is destined to fail because he didn't understand who he was going to deal with!"
"Is it just a few royal palaces? Is it just a few Taizu's parents and children? Is it just the three guards of the palace with a mere 20,000 to 30,000 people?"
"No, or not quite!"
"The people Zhu Yunwen wanted to destroy with just one edict were the soldiers of the three armies who followed Taizu Emperor Gao to rule the world, and followed the King of Zhongshan to chase the North and fight bloody battles with the Tatars!"
"The people who really pose a threat to Zhu Yunwen are the eight fortress kings on the Great Wall defense line. And these eight fortress kings all have heavy troops. Most of them are fierce warriors who fought in the world in the past. As a result, the world has only been stable for a few years. As soon as the new emperor came to the throne, he wanted to cut down the feudal vassal and let a bunch of talented and rotten scholars ride on their heads. If it were you, would you agree?"
"When these soldiers were charging into battle in the grasslands, in the desert, in the ice and snow, regardless of their own safety, when they were killing enemies for the Ming Dynasty and opening up territories for the Ming Dynasty, what were the new emperor and those scholars and corrupt scholars doing? What were they doing? In the wind and snow, they are drinking and composing poems, they are singing and dancing to make peace!"
"Now that the war is over and the new emperor has ascended the throne, let a scholar and corrupt scholar, with the new emperor's will, go to the border to issue orders to a group of soldiers, yell at a group of soldiers, beat and insult a group of soldiers, and treat the three armies with contempt. Soldiers are like bugs, how could you endure it if it were you?"
Zhu Di clenched his fists tightly when he heard this.
If it were him, he would definitely kill those talented and rotten scholars!
"Actually, in the final analysis, this is still a matter of civil and military struggle."
"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, military affairs have been emphasized over literature. It was not until the end of Hongwu that Taizu purged the court and the noble military ministers suffered a disaster. This gave the civil servants and gentry the opportunity to rise. In addition, Zhu Yunwen was a scholar emperor, so he directly The scholarly court that is now the imperial capital of Jinling was formed!"
"Xiucai are rotten scholars, they are full of scholars and businessmen, and they give advice on the country, but all of them can only talk about military affairs on paper. Do they understand the hardships of frontline soldiers fighting on the battlefield? Do they understand the hardships of frontline soldiers guarding the border?"
"They don't understand anything, but they hold great power and can kill and seize these soldiers. If it were you, would you agree?"
"If that's the case, then why don't you give it a try and support His Highness the King of Yan, who is brave and good at fighting, to replace him with an emperor who treats his soldiers well?"
After hearing this, Zhu Di finally understood.
It turned out that it wasn't that Zhu Di had high enough prestige, but because the soldiers needed him!
The soldiers need him, Zhu Di, to fight with them to resist the injustice of the Jianwen court!
