Although it is true that everyone is not so satisfied with Zhao Hao, and although it is true that everyone despises Zhao Hao for failing to defeat the Ming Dynasty and losing face repeatedly, Zhao Hao is at least not a capitulator.
Zhao Yan still struggled hard in the end, and he was also recognized as an orthodox ruler and a serious emperor. Although his ability was not very good, his will was still strong.
Who are you Shen?
You are just a minister, You Cheng, but you actually betrayed the emperor, deposed him, and privately made peace with the Ming Dynasty, so that the Song Dynasty didn't even have a national title?
When they first learned the news, all Sichuan and Shu officials were furious, feeling that Shen should be a complete traitor.
He betrayed the Song Dynasty, betrayed the emperor, stole control of the Lin'an court and negotiated peace with the Ming Dynasty, which is unforgivable.
They want to "revitalize the king's division and conquer Lin'an" and "punish the national traitors and revive the Song Dynasty".
The slogans were shouted very loudly, and the will of the officials in Sichuan and Sichuan was also boiling. At one time, they were ready to send troops out of Sichuan to attack Lin'an.
But as the main person in charge, Wu Lin's head is always clear.
He knew that talking about crusading against national traitors at this time was just rhetoric and had no possibility of being realized. If anything was to be truly realized, internal voices must be unified first.
In the current situation, only by unifying internal voices can we achieve true self-protection, otherwise we cannot even protect ourselves.
So Wu Lin decided to invite the five pacification envoys from Lizhou East Road, Lizhou West Road, Kuizhou Road, Zizhou Road and Chengdufu Road, as well as the top leaders of each state, government and army under each road to come to Chengdu for a meeting.
First, unified orders, and then unified coordination of materials and soldiers. First, do a good job in defense, and then discuss how to deal with the current situation.
It is still unclear what Lin'an thinks about Sichuan and Shu, and it is not known whether the Ming Dynasty has any plans for Sichuan and Shu. Anyway, it is absolutely impossible to sit back and wait for death.
No one understands the urgency of the current situation better than Wu Lin.
The original pacifiers of Lizhou East Road and Lizhou West Road were Yao Zhong and Wang Yan. Now both of them died in the battle. When they were transferred, the court had no time to appoint new pacifiers, so they asked their subordinates to temporarily pacify them. position of envoy.
At present, the acting pacifier on Lizhou East Road is Yao Zhi, Yao Zhong's subordinate, the pacifier on Lizhou West Road is Wang Yan's general Lu Shimin, the pacifier on Kuizhou Road is Wu Lin's old subordinate Li Shiyan, and the pacifier on Zizhou Road is Li Shiyan, the former pacifier of Wu Lin. It was Ma Yongkang, who was a civil servant in the imperial court.
The Sichuan pacifier and Chengdu magistrate had just been transferred by the imperial court, and a new one had not yet been transferred, so there was no actual chief in Chengdu Fulu.
It's not important. It's the same as if the magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates below arrive smoothly. Things need to be done by them anyway. As long as they accept this crisis situation, they can talk about anything.
By the time they all arrived to prepare for the meeting, it was the end of October in the fifth year of Hongwu. Wu Lin had been training for more than three months. He had trained a group of new recruits to a certain level, and the armaments and defenses in Sichuan and Shu were no longer in place. So nervous.
After the local officials arrived in Chengdu, they held a meeting headed by Wu Lin in the Chengdu magistrate's office. The main content of the meeting was to recommend a person with sufficient prestige as the current military and political leader of Sichuan and Shu. This is a practical need.
Regarding this point, officials also know that this is indeed a practical need. Even if the emperor is gone, everyone really needs a unified spokesperson to integrate forces and make decisions so that everyone's safety and interests can be guaranteed.
And the officials also knew that the reason why Wu Lin invited everyone here was obviously so that everyone could recommend him and make his orders to Sichuan and Shu smooth and smooth.
In fact, as Sichuan's Xuanfu envoy, Wu Lin did have the qualifications to command Sichuan and Shu.
But in the traditional sense, as a general, Wu Lin's command qualifications are only valid in the Northern Sichuan Military Region. In the Northern Sichuan Mountain Military Region, military generals mainly serve as civilians. The powers and status of border generals and inland generals are indeed different.
However, after entering the Yinfu area of the Chengdu Plain, the Sichuan pacifiers who were mainly civil servants were more effective.
But in this special situation, there is no Sichuan pacifier, no emperor, and the imperial court has become a lackey. No one wants to admit that the lackey court and Shen Gai, who has little prestige but has become a traitor, no one is willing to obey Shen Gai's orders.
Although Shen Gai had not sent any orders to Sichuan and Shu, everyone did not want to hear his vulgar words.
Therefore, Wu Lin's call seemed to be so in line with people's hearts that even some civil servants who had always had some opinions about Wu Lin and military generals had to accept some of their emotions and come to attend this meeting.
Wu Lin did not say anything at the meeting, but as his mouthpiece, Yao Zhi, the acting pacifier of Lizhou East Road, said a lot, and then to sum up, he recommended Wu Lin, the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy, to give orders to Sichuan and Shu with a formal position. General leadership of military and political power.
Although everyone here may be dissatisfied with this, in critical moments, only Wu Lin can lead them out of the predicament, so please temporarily put aside your dissatisfaction, follow Wu Lin's orders, and concentrate all your efforts to protect Sichuan and Shu.
Yao Zhi was right. At least one-third of the people present were dissatisfied with this situation. They were Jinshi and civil servants, but now they had to listen to the orders of General Wu Lin, and they felt very unhappy.
But the situation is what it is. Although they are unhappy, they have to admit that only Wu Lin can handle the current situation. They may be able to exclude Wu Lin, but they cannot cope with the situation. Only by relying on Wu Lin's military ability can they survive the crisis. .
Ma Yongkang, the only literati to comfort him in the face of this situation, became the backbone of Sichuan's civil servants.
Naturally, the generals had nothing to say and just supported Wu Lin. Many civil servants still planned to see Ma Yongkang's attitude before considering their own position.
As a Jinshi and a high-ranking official of the imperial court, Ma Yongkang always had a high regard for himself, and he also had a traditional sense of superiority towards military commanders without pretentiousness.
But in this situation, he knew very well that he was more unhappy with Shen Gai than Wu Lin.
What is Shen supposed to be?
Although the two of them were not scholars in the same subject, their ranking in the imperial examination was not as good as his. They only relied on mixed qualifications to get to the top. In the end, they did not want to serve the country. They actually launched a coup to replace the emperor and did what only a national traitor would do. How did this make him Can you swallow this?
He felt that Shen should be more annoying, but in comparison, Wu Lin seemed straightforward and cute.
But having said that, as a Jinshi, it is quite awkward for him to obey the orders of a military general. However, if civil and military disputes continue in this situation, it is obviously not a good thing, so Ma Yongkang thought over and over again and came up with a solution to the problem.
"Xianggong Wu was originally the envoy of Xuanfu in Sichuan, and his orders to the soldiers and people of Sichuan and Shu were just and right. No one can say otherwise. In this critical moment, Xianggong Wu stepped forward and there was no problem."
When Ma Yongkang said this, Wu Lin was very happy and thought that Ma Yongkang was going to accept this situation.
As a result, Ma Yongkang changed the subject and revealed his true purpose.
"Xiangong Wu is justified in taking charge of Sichuan and Sichuan affairs, but there is another problem at the moment. Although the Lin'an court is controlled by Shen Gai, he can basically be called a lackey of the Ming Dynasty. Although Zhao Dun is his majesty's son, he has always been We are not allowed to be independent. Any orders from Zhao Dun at the moment are the wishes of the Ming Dynasty, and we must not obey them.
But nominally, we are still ministers of the Lin'an court, and we have not set up another banner to change our tune. Facing the orders of the Lin'an court, if we resist forcefully, we will inevitably end up with an unpleasant reputation as someone with evil intentions. Don't you have anything to say about this? Concerned? "
