Liang Xingyang used An Luoyi's policy to quickly eradicate the Xianwang sect after learning from the Zhongwang sect, and helped Xia Yuanduo ascend the throne and become the emperor. Although the ceremony was all simple and only went through a formality, everyone changed their name from His Highness to Your Majesty, but there are still things that should be done.
The so-called should have, in addition to the dragon robe and jade seal, the most important thing is the cabinet.
To put it bluntly, it is the civil and military officials under the new emperor and the framework of the entire country.
A large number of the original civil and military officials of the Great Xia Dynasty died in the capital, or else they surrendered to the Lianshan Sect.
The rest fled all the way across the river and gathered together to form the Zhong Wang Faction, and just now they were stewed by the Xian Wang Faction.
There are almost no veterans left. In today's struggle in Xian City, the Zhongwang faction was wiped out, the Xianwang faction was wiped out, and the Tianxin faction was finally in power. In fact, the main force is the Golden Lantern Sect, but the leader of the Golden Lantern Cult is Liang Xingyang's disciple. Among the believers, there is a secret legend that Liang Xingyang is the incarnation of the Golden Lantern Saint Ancestor, so they are still the same sect regardless of each other.
In the main hall, there were only four people, Xia Yuanduo, Liang Xingyang, Xia Cunxu, and An Luoyi.
They will decide the future fate of the entire empire!
The four people discussed the candidates for the cabinet. As the emperor, Xia Yuanduo did not have any opinions and listened to Liang Xingyang. He was also very obedient. He called An Luoyi "Master" one after another, calling him "Master Uncle".
He also proposed to seal Liang Xingyang and An Luoyi first, but Liang Xingyang rejected it. The candidates for the cabinet are more important!
It was said that there were four people, but in fact it was Liang Xingyang who was studying with An Luoyi. An Luoyi proposed various plans, and Liang Xingyang was responsible for making the final decision.
The two took pen and paper, discussed it, and finally drew up a cabinet list.
The cabinet of the Great Xia Dynasty had one chief minister, two secondary ministers, namely the prime minister and the second minister, and then six ministers, a total of nine people.
In the list drawn up by Liang Xingyang and An Luoyi, the richest man was Sun Zexiao, the original left minister of the Ministry of War. Sun Zexiao was the Northern Minister, and the second minister was appointed as the second minister, a son of a small southern family named Liang Weilun.
Liang Xingyang was surprised when he heard the name from An Luoyi. At that time, An Luoyi took a list of the Southern Faction families and planned to go door-to-door to purge and arrest people after wiping out the King Xian Faction. As a result, There is a small family patriarch named Liang Weilun.
An Luoyi sent the Golden Lantern warriors to investigate, saying that Liang Weilun was indeed a member of the Liang clan who came out of Liangzhou back then. They were a branch of the Liang family. They followed the entire family out of Liangzhou City and headed north, but were taught by the Golden Lantern on the way. After catching up, the patriarch Liang Weigang was captured and killed. The Liang family was separated and separated. The eldest branch was the target of the Golden Lantern Sect. Most of them died. Two brothers, Liang Kuiwen and Liang Kuiwu, lived in the Bianshan area and were later captured. Liang Xingyang accepted him as his disciple.
Another group ran eastward to Xianzhou. They preserved a lot of people and property, and re-established property here. It happened that there was also a family named Liang here, which was separated from Liangzhou hundreds of years ago. The two families merged, and they also They became a family and were a small family among the dozens of families in Jiangnan. They were very inconspicuous. When everyone in Jiangnan gathered to do things, they were responsible for following the lectures and giving money to others when apportioning.
At this time, all the big families in front of them had suffered heavy losses, and the main members of the top ten families were almost killed. An Luoyi had dealt with these families in the past, and it was they who jointly obtained the Dragon Soul Jade Coin, which was obtained from the imperial court. They seized the right to mint money and controlled the financial lifeline of Jiangnan. They were the real beetles of the country, so An Luoyi was very ruthless.
The remaining small and medium-sized families were all pardoned by the emperor and were no longer killed, but many families were also ransacked.
Liang Xingyang wanted to promote his family, so he pulled Liang Weilun out as the second assistant, mainly responsible for military affairs. The second assistant was a Golden Lantern master selected from the Golden Lantern Sect, responsible for government affairs.
The remaining six ministers also include people from the northern sect, the southern sect, and people from the Golden Lantern Sect, thus forming a mixed cabinet structure.
Xia Cunxu was then named regent, giving him the governorship of all military and political powers.
As the prince of Yuping, Xia Cunxu received an excellent royal and aristocratic education since he was a child. He is familiar with all kinds of sage books, so he can quickly adapt to the role.
A few of them have taken care of all these major national affairs.
It is given and then announced to the public.
All the people on the list came to thank the emperor for his kindness, and then began to take action and work hard according to their respective responsibilities.
Those in charge of civil affairs should first stabilize the situation inside the city, while those in charge of military affairs also need to appease the troops outside the city.
Although the emperor issued an edict to pardon all the sins of the troops sent by King Xian outside the city, they were still worried about the new emperor, thinking that he would definitely settle the scores later, and would definitely find a way to seize their military power, and finally dispose of them all. There are also some who are the children of major families in the south of the Yangtze River. Their families have been wiped out. How can they not hate or rebel?
Just as the emperor ascended the throne in the city and quickly stabilized the situation, there was also a quarrel in the military camp outside the city.
Some people said that they should rush into the city, kill the false emperor, and support King Xian on the throne.
However, this obviously does not show, not to mention that all four gates of Xianzhou City are sealed. The city is high and deep, making it difficult to invade. There are two troops outside the city, one is an elite veteran of the northern faction, and the other is from Chen Bo'an, the governor of Liyuan who came from the west, had more people on both sides than them. They couldn't even defeat these people, let alone attack the city!
There are only two ways left. One is to surrender to the Lianshan Sect in the north, occupy a bridgehead on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and then ask the Lianshan Sect's people to quickly cross the river and take advantage of the situation to capture all the land south of the Yangtze River.
The other option is to go south to the land of Xunyuan in the southeast, find another Xia family bloodline to be the emperor, and challenge Xia Yuanduo in the ring.
These people kept quarreling with each other because of various interests. Until the person who announced the second decree came, they still had no clue.
These people put forward a condition: "Let the emperor come to the military camp! We want the emperor's personal commitment!"
When the news came back to the city, the ministers all said they could not go: "These people originally supported King Xian, and there are many children of the family. They must have evil intentions if they let the emperor go, whether it is to kidnap the emperor and surrender to the thieves, or to go south to another country." We cannot bear the establishment of a court!"
Liang Xingyang said: "Let's go. I will protect the emperor. They don't have any experts. I will definitely be able to bring the emperor back intact."
Xia Cunxu also wants to go: "I am the regent who oversees military affairs. I will also go to meet them!" Kan Shula
Liang Xingyang nodded: "You really should go, not just to see them, but also to the four towns of the Northern Army, and Chen Bo'an and the others."
An Luoyi said, "I'll go too."
Liang Xingyang hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement. An Luoyi was the leader of the Golden Lantern Cult. His going would make the military leaders even more afraid.
So Liang Xingyang, Xia Cunxu, and An Luoyi, together with more than 20 followers, protected Xia Yuanduo when he left the city.
The Confederate army was still quarreling: "Can the emperor really come to see us in the military camp?"
"I think that kid Xia Yuanduo definitely won't dare! He's still a baby. Hearing that he's coming here, why don't you be so scared that you wet your pants?"
Chen Yuanyi, the commander-in-chief of Xianzhou who had the largest number of soldiers, clenched the sword in his hand: "Stop arguing! If the emperor doesn't come, we will go south to find another prince, make him the emperor, and then fight for the world! If the emperor really comes, If he does, we will regard him as our king!"
Not long after he said this, the emperor came. Those who said the emperor did not dare to come were all dumbfounded.
The generals hurried out to greet them, and Xia Yuanduo was talking to them on the carriage. He had already prepared a manuscript, and now he began to give a speech, covering the rise of civilization in the Central Plains to the establishment of the Great Xia Dynasty, from Taizu Taizong's hard work to starting a business to the Northern invaders. , he was originally a young man with a bit of enthusiasm. At this time, he was impassioned. When he talked about maneuvers, his eyes were red, and his words were choked. He jumped out of the car, took Chen Yuanyi and others' hands and continued talking.
Chen Yuanyi and the others were also moved. With tears in their eyes, they swore allegiance to the emperor: "Even if I risk my life and my body will be broken to pieces, I will vow to kill all the Northern captives and restore them to your Majesty!"
Then, Xia Yuanduo had a meal with the generals in the military camp before leaving.
Watching the emperor's carriage slowly returning to the city, the generals watched at the gate, all saying, "This little emperor is not an easy man!"
After this meeting, the two sides have established some initial trust. At least in the short term, the little emperor will not attack these people. If the little emperor fights with the ministers in front of him,
He then deceived them into the city and killed them all. The emperor's majesty and credibility were all shattered. Whoever dared to trust the emperor in the future would laugh at the emperor's dirty tricks in secret and overtly.
The next day, Xia Yuanduo issued an imperial edict, saying that everyone had meritorious service in recruiting disciples. Regardless of civil or military, no matter which sect they belonged to, they were all promoted to first-level titles. He also issued a large number of rewards. The rewards were all copied from the houses of major families. These families They have been making trouble in the south of the Yangtze River for many years, monopolizing resources, and every family is as rich as the country. Before the death of the late emperor, not even ten thousand taels of silver could be taken out of the treasury, but any one of them here has taken out three to five million taels of silver!
The regent Xia Cunxu, who was the governor of military affairs, took the gold and silver and went out to reward the troops. He walked through all the troops one by one, and then took them into the city to formally meet the emperor.
After working hard for many days, the small court was finally stabilized, and the troops from Beilu gathered again, preparing to cross the river south again!
Prince Blackwater was killed on the spot, which shocked the entire Lianshan Sect's senior leadership. He was the most senior general to lose since the founding of the sect, and he was the uncle of Lianshan Emperor. In addition, the Red Flag Army of the Central Route Army also suffered a heavy setback. Even the main god of the Red Banner was beheaded, and the morale of the Lianshan Army was greatly reduced.
However, the Lianshan Cult has always been very tough, and the emperor asked one of his cousins to take over as the Prince of Blackwater and be the commander-in-chief of the Black Flag Army.
Reorganize the Eastern Route Army, in addition to the Qingmu Banner and the Black Water Banner, a total of 50,000 cavalry troops, and the Jinmen and Shuimen tribes of the Five Elements Sect.
They formed another 200,000 puppet troops who surrendered, plus the original ones, for a total of 350,000, as cannon fodder for the cavalry army.
In addition to these, they also issued an imperial edict to transfer the Baiyang faction over and let them follow the East Route Army to go south!
Since the Baiyang Faction surrendered to the Lianshan Faction, they have followed the West Route Army and helped the White Flag Army and the Yellow Flag Army pursue and annihilate the White Bone Sect.
The White Bone Sect was defeated outside the capital, and almost all of its main force was lost. The White Bone Evil Ji Yan Wodan led the remnants to flee back to the northwest. Lianshan Sect had long heard of the name of the White Bone Sect, and the Central Plains Dynasty used it for many years. It failed to destroy it, but instead allowed it to grow stronger and finally killed itself. Lianshan Sect was determined to eradicate it and sent heavy troops to completely kill the White Bone Sect!
The White Bone Sect fled to Qianyuan, fought and retreated along the Tianshui River, and suffered repeated defeats. Finally, they were defeated and returned to their hometown in Tianshui. They suffered another big defeat in Tianshui and fled again, this time to the south, over the mountains. , take Ziwu Road to enter Duiyuan Land.
This is the Ziwu Road where the Bone God Lord was captured alive. Later, Yan Wodan sent people to take the Ziwu Road to cut off the army's retreat and defeated the enemy. Now he escaped from the Ziwu Road again. After entering Duiyuan Land, he in turn escaped on the Ziwu Road. Ambush and kill a large number of pursuers with Bone-Splitting Sky Arrows.
The two sides fought a bloody battle at Yin Yang Pass. In the end, the Bone Sect was still defeated and retreated into Duiyuan Land, where the two sides started fighting again.
According to the Lianshan Sect monarchs, there are only a few thousand White Bone Sect members left, and the two banners are enough to destroy them, not to mention the puppet troops who continue to surrender. The number is increasing day by day. The bigger the battle, the more subordinates there are, so the Baiyang Sect He was transferred to the east and gave strict orders to the commanders: "We must conquer the southeast! Break Xianzhou City and bring the head of the newly registered emperor of Xia Dynasty back to the capital!"
The Baiyang Sect was the earliest and most complete among the major immortal sects to take refuge in the Lianshan Sect. Only the Jin and Shui sects of the Five Elements Sect surrendered. Although the Dongyang Sect was dissatisfied with the Xia emperor, they chose to close the mountain. Although the Lianshan Sect repeatedly summoned Please, Master Liluo declined politely. He only said that he was a monk, and he only asked for ancient caves in Qingshan to be repaired for thousands of years. He did not want to ask about the world of mortals anymore.
In comparison, the Baiyang Sect is very prominent and has been reused by the Lianshan Sect. The leader of the sect, Wan Jian, Bai Qiongyu, and Shang Qionghua, who has never recovered from all calamities, were both named "immortals". The emperor of the Lianshan Sect ranked the other sects Most of the property was given to the Baiyang Sect, especially the Shenlu Sect. Even the ancestral dojo was given to the Baiyang Sect.
He also singled out Taoist Qian Zhong, who worked as a bridge between the two sides, as the "Real Protector of the Country", and even his disciples Yuan Zhongyi and Liu Yongyi received huge rewards. I heard that their families were both in Quzhou and they had the "Quyang Four Swords" ” title, he also specifically stated that when he unified the world and captured Quzhou in the future, he would grant them a dojo and build a temple specifically for their brothers.
After getting the news, Liang Xingyang was also surprised. There are many disciples of the Baiyang Sect, even those in the Qi training stage.
There are more than 3,000 people in total. There are two powerful earth immortals, the leader Bai Qiongyu and Shang Qionghua. There are nearly a hundred loose immortals in the golden elixir stage. They have more immortal swords and magic weapons with better quality. Well, now that everyone is coming to the east road, there must be a tough battle to be fought!
After Yu Huazi heard about it, he cursed the Baiyang Sect. The old Taoist priest was so angry that he blushed: "If my master is here, and if our Shenlu Sect is intact, who do they think the Baiyang Sect is?"
Thinking of the Baiyang Sect, Liang Xingyang thought of Xue Lingfeng again. He didn't know if he could see him, and what it would be like when he did see him.
