When Shi Zun learned about Shi Hu's death, he had already arrived in Hanoi and was about to enter the customs.
Suddenly hearing the bad news, Shi Zun held back his troops and stopped in Hanoi with 30,000 forbidden troops. At the same time, he attacked General Fu Hong of Chariot and Cavalry, General Yao Yizhong of the Western Expedition, General Shi Min of the Expeditionary Army, General Liu Ning of Anxi and others. Write a letter and invite them to come and discuss state affairs with you.
At this time, all the remaining rebellions in Guanzhong were put down, and all the armies were ordered by Shi Hu to reorganize their troops and march out from the east of Tongguan.
After learning that Shi Hu had died and that Zhang Jack was in power, and Shi followed his call, all the generals went to Hanoi to obey his orders.
Shi Zun met with the generals in Licheng, Hanoi (now Wenxian County, Henan).
As early as when they came, everyone had already calculated that in this world, decision-making is the most important thing. Now Shi Shi's mother and son only trust Zhang Jack. If they bow their heads and obey his orders, they will definitely be driven by Zhang Jack.
It would be better to support Shi Zun to succeed him, fight back to Yecheng, and share the wealth.
Therefore, as soon as everyone met, Fu Hong, Yao Yizhong, and Shi Min, future enemies, couldn't wait to say:
"His Highness is the eldest king of the country, and he has both political integrity and talent. The late emperor had intended to use His Highness to inherit the throne.
"However, the late emperor was old and dim, and was deceived by Zhang Jack and others, so he passed the country on as a young ruler.
"There is an old saying that if a hen is in charge of the morning, his family will be defeated, let alone the country.
“Now the heroine is in power, treacherous ministers are wielding power, and Sikong Li Nong is in a stalemate with Guangzong, and the capital’s defense is empty.
"If Your Highness can expose Zhang Jie's crime, beat drums and march in the name of Qing Jun, the guards from all over the country will open the city gates to welcome Your Highness. In this way, you can achieve an unparalleled feat!"
Shi Zun was secretly happy. He called the generals here because he wanted to work with them on great things. Now that everyone was persuading him to march eastward, how could Shi Zun refuse? He immediately sent his trusted aides to Chang'an to take over Guanzhong.
And he himself led Fu Hong, Yao Yizhong, Shi Min, Liu Ning and other generals to kill Yecheng.
At the beginning of the army, Shi Zun called General Shi Min to him and encouraged him:
"I have no children, but you work hard. If you succeed, I will treat you as my prince."
Shi Min's surname was Ran, and his family was a powerful one in Wei County. In his early years, Shi Le defeated the beggar army and captured Ran Liang, who was only twelve years old. He ordered Shi Hu to adopt Ran Liang as his adopted son and change his name to Shi Zhan.
And Shi Zhan is Shi Min's father. In other words, Shi Min is Shi Hu's adopted grandson.
Shi Min showed extraordinary talent since he was a child, and was deeply loved by Shi Hu, who raised him together with his other grandchildren. When he grew up, Shi Min was brave and good at fighting, and he won the championship in the three armies. Although he was born as a Han, he was also admired by the Hu people.
Shi Zun just drew a pie for Shi Min, but Shi Min took it seriously and would cause a disaster in the future.
In fact, as mentioned before, the generals under Shi Zun were not in harmony. Shi Min once spoke to Shi Hu and believed that Fu Hong had outstanding intelligence and that his sons, such as Fu Jian and Fu Xiong, were all talented people. The clan has fifty thousand troops around Yecheng, and they should be eliminated as soon as possible.
However, Shi Hu wanted to drive Fu Hong to attack the Cheng Han and Eastern Jin Dynasties, so he did not listen to Shi Min's advice and treated the Fu family favorably.
But there is no airtight wall in the world, and the relationship between Shi Min and Fu Hong was thus forged.
The reason why we are able to work together to move east now is just to make a decision and put aside our grudges temporarily.
At the same time, Zhang Jack was horrified when he learned that Shi Zun had sent his troops to Yecheng. He also heard that Liu Guo, the governor of Luozhou, and others who were guarding Luoyang had joined Shi Zun. He was even more frightened and immediately summoned back those who were besieging Li Nong. Yecheng soldiers.
On May 11th, Shi Zun led an army of 90,000 troops and entered Dangyin, Hanoi (now Tangyin, Henan Province).
He also took Shi Min as the vanguard and led the army to attack Yecheng. Upon hearing the news, Zhang Jack urgently ordered the defenders of Yecheng to come out of the city to resist.
However, Hou Zhao originally was in power of the Jie tribe, and Zhang Jackal was not a Jie native, so he could not convince the masses. The Jie soldiers were unwilling to fight to the death for him, and the bad relationship between Zhang Jackal and Li Nong also caused the tens of thousands of beggar soldiers under Li Nong to It was impossible to come to his aid.
Among the defenders of Yecheng, a theory was very popular that Shi Zun, the king of Pengcheng, came to mourn his father. How could he stop him? Everyone should go out of the city to greet him instead of assisting Zhang Jackal in defending the city.
As a result, Yecheng's defenders fled in large numbers, and Zhang Jack killed dozens of people, but still could not stop them.
When things developed to this point, even Queen Mother Liu panicked. She hurriedly summoned Zhang Jack and cried:
"Now that the late emperor has not yet been buried, Shi Zun will be ready to fight. The emperor is young, and I am a woman. I can only rely on you, the general. If I give Shi Zun an official position, can I appease him?"
Zhang Jack was so anxious that he couldn't come up with an idea and had no choice but to say yes.
Empress Dowager Liu immediately issued an edict, granting official positions one after another, worshiping Shi Zun as Prime Minister, Grand Governor, Grand Sima, supervising all military affairs at home and abroad, recording ministerial affairs, giving him a yellow Yue, adding nine tins, and allowing him to enter the court without any hesitation or praise. He went to the palace with his name and sword, and granted Shi Zun ten more counties as food towns.
Basically, except for the position of emperor, Liu gave Shi Zun everything he could give.
But since ancient times, the Qing Dynasty has always been a road of no return.
Moreover, although Empress Dowager Liu was generous, what Shi Zun wanted to do was to be the emperor.
On May 14, Shi Zun led his troops to Anyang Pavilion outside Ye City (now southwest of Linzhang County, Hebei Province). Zhang Jack was frightened and saw that the defenders in the city were dispersed, so he had to go out of the city to meet him.
"My lower official, Zhang Jack, has come to pay homage to His Highness on the order of the Queen Mother."
With a trembling voice, Zhang Jack bowed his head and worshiped.
Shi Zun on horseback didn't appreciate it at all. He snorted coldly:
"The reason why I raised troops and invaded the palace this time was to clear the emperor's side and kill the traitors. Now you, Zhang Jack, have come just in time to save me from searching for you again."
Immediately, amidst Zhang Jack's frightened begging for mercy, he was ordered to take him down.
Queen Mother Liu was even more frightened when she heard that Zhang Jack had been arrested.
The next day, May 15th, Shi Zun entered Yecheng through Fengyang Gate, beat his chest and cried in front of the stone tiger coffin to remember the spirit of his deceased father, and immediately ordered the annihilation of the Zhang Jack clan.
At the same time, Shi Zun also ordered someone to pretend to be the Empress Dowager Liu, believing that the emperor Shi Shi was too young to be worthy of the important post. The reason why he was appointed as the prince was only due to the late emperor's personal relationship. However, the country and the country were of vital importance and should be established. Changjun, you should depose Shi Shi and make Shi Zun the emperor.
Empress Dowager Liu never imagined that she had tried to correct the imperial edicts three times, but now she had been imitated by Shi Zun. But at this time, she had become a prisoner under Shi Zun's orders. Just like Shi Bin at the beginning, even if she was full of anger, she could not vent her anger.
Faced with the edict of his own instructions, Shi Zun pretended to refuse. After three concessions and the admonition of his ministers, on May 16, Shi Zun finally reluctantly ascended the throne as emperor, granted amnesty to the world, and changed the title of Shi Shi to Qiao. The king has 10,000 households in the city, and Queen Mother Liu is the concubine.
Shi Hu died of illness on April 23, and Shi Zun ascended the throne in Yecheng on May 16. There was only more than twenty days between them. Before all parties could respond, it seemed that the civil strife in Hou Zhao had subsided.
