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Chapter 561 The big one is abolished and the trumpet is practiced

Xiao Xie fell before the end of the year, if it wasn't for the impulsive nature of his character, maybe he wouldn't have chosen to take the risk, maybe he could still survive for a year or so.

However, in the end Xiao Xi still chose to give it a go, using his poor private army to launch a desperate fight under the condition that the enemy was fully prepared.

The results were not unexpected.

As soon as Xiao Xi's order to mutiny was issued, two or five sons ran to report to Yang Zhong, and there was no need to repeat the rest of the matter.After the failure of the mutiny, Xiao Xi locked himself in the bedroom, poured kerosene on his body, and burned everything in the bedroom to white ground!

Before Liu Yishou's order was conveyed to Yang Zhong, Xiao Cha had already disappeared in the flames, leaving no bones left in the end.

As soon as Xiao Xie died, the gate of the palace was opened by the rebel soldiers who had lost their souls, and then the inside and outside were controlled by Yang Zhong's elite soldiers.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Jie's eldest son Xiao Yi, his second son Xiao Kui and all the concubines in the mansion were all pardoned by the court and demoted to common people.was not executed by Liu Yishou's order
Of course, Liu Yishou was far-sighted, so it was impossible to do nothing.

Xiao Yi was ordered to follow his mother's surname, and followed his mother, Princess Wang, back to her natal home, and changed her name to Wang Yi.

Xiao Kui followed his mother, the Cao family, back to her natal family and changed her name to Cao Kui.

The two were separated from the Xiao family and brought back into the family tree of the clan's matriarchal line. Liu Yishou's move can be described as "drawing from the bottom of the pot".

He never does things halfway. Liu Yishou promised Xiao Huan not to kill Xiao Xie, but it doesn't mean he won't try his best to eliminate hidden dangers.

These two children are still very young, have changed their surnames, and live with their natal family.When they grow up, will they give up their mother's surname, return to the Xiao family, and fight for the throne?

Thinking about it, the possibility is so small that it is negligible, and it is impossible to get the approval of the Xiao family.

Since the ancient feudal society paid attention to clan etiquette, it was Liu Yishou's bottom line to eliminate Xiao Xie's branch in etiquette.This is not only for Xiao Huan, but also for the Xiao clan, the big families of the Southern Dynasty and the people of the world.

Liu Yishou just wants everyone to know that he is determined to achieve certain things, even if he can deal with those difficult consequences with flexibility, he will not give up his principles and compromise without a bottom line.

After dealing with the matter of Jiankang, Liu Yishou rushed back to Shouyang non-stop to celebrate the New Year with all the ladies at home. However, the trees wanted to be quiet but the wind continued. The changes in Jiankang City were like revolving lanterns, and their influence continued to spread everywhere. Conduct it.

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On Dongting Lake, misty waves are vast.A large ship sailed in the meantime, departing from Baling County to Xiangyin in the south.The people on this ship were none other than Xiangdong Wang Xiaoyi and his subordinates Wang Sengbian and Wang Lin.

Baling County is the node where the Yangtze River enters Dongting Lake, while Xiangyin is the node from Dongting Lake to Changsha County.Now Xiao Yi returns to Changsha County from Baling County, in fact, the purpose is the same as Liu Yishou's return to Shouyang from Jiankang, it is to return to his hometown for the New Year.

Why did Xiao Yi, the King of Eastern Hunan who never liked to travel, return from Baling County?In fact, Liu Yishou is still to blame for this.

In other words, when Liu Yishou used troops in Jiangzhou, he frightened Xiao Yi who was adjacent to Jiangzhou. Regardless of the opposition of his generals, he insisted on stationing his army in Baling County in an attempt to "wait for the opportunity."

"Juncai (Wang Sengbian Biaozi), I'm so lonely because I listened to your advice and didn't send troops to Jiangling. If I sent troops at that time, the consequences would be disastrous."

On the bow of the building boat, the one-eyed dragon Xiao Yi looked at the endless Dongting Lake and said with emotion, feeling a wave of fear in his heart.

Xiao Xu died violently, Xiao Lun was murdered by his son, and his sons were slaughtered by Liu Yishou and the Jiangzhou tycoon who had taken refuge in Liu Yishou. They gave away their heads one after another, making the onlookers shake their heads.

After Xiao Xu's death, Xiao Yi was quite emotional and wanted to take this opportunity to send troops to Jiangzhou and seize part of the land in Jiangzhou east of Xiangzhou as a buffer zone.

This idea cannot be said to be bad, because Changsha County, as his old home, is at the forefront of the area controlled by the imperial court, so it is not safe no matter how you look at it.If part of Jiangzhou can be captured, then when the imperial army attacks, he can arrange it calmly without being in a hurry.

Xiao Yi's idea is very good, but as soon as he put it forward, he was fully opposed by Wang Sengbian, Wang Lin, Fan brothers and other generals!
There wasn't even a leading role, so Xiao Yi immediately became furious, found an excuse, and chopped off a few personal servants who made minor mistakes to vent his anger!
Afterwards, seeing Xiao Yi fidgeting, Wang Sengbian hurried over and explained to him:

Xiao Lun is not a reliable person. This time, he sent troops to capture Poyang County just to resist the imperial court's order to push him out of nowhere, which can be said to be an act of self-destruction.

The powerful chieftains of Jiangzhou are afraid of prestige but not of morality.If the court uses them to cut off the Jiangzhou vassal, those people will be happy too.If His Highness participates in it, he will take chestnuts out of the fire.Whether it is possible to attack the city is another matter, but first of all, it gave the imperial court an excuse to send troops to Xiangzhou.

Jiangzhou to the east of Xiangzhou and Jingxiang to the north of Xiangzhou are both under the control of the imperial court.If there is an attack from both sides, His Highness will definitely lose sight of the other.Such a small profit is not worth putting all your eggs in one basket.

Hearing Wang Seng's argument was well-founded, Xiao Yi had no choice but to dispel the delusions in his heart.

But he was still not reconciled, so he dispatched the army to garrison Baling County. On the surface, he said to his subordinates that he wanted to "monitor the movement of the imperial army so that they would not attack Guo by false means." One foot's secret thoughts.

Wang Sengbian, who had already persuaded him once, did not dare to persuade him again, so he had to dispatch the main force of Changsha County, his hometown, to Baling County, feeling uneasy, for fear that the imperial army would surprise Changsha County.

Fortunately, Liu Yishou had no idea to deal with Xiao Yi for the time being, nor did he have any material preparations for using troops in Xiangzhou. Wang Sengbian observed for a long time and found that there was no change in the deployment of the imperial army, so he was relieved.

Then what happened, just as he expected.

The chieftain of Jiangzhou was recruited by the imperial army.

The army of the rebellious vassals flew into the flames.

The imperial court put out the rebellion in Jiangzhou almost effortlessly.The speed of the process is very unexpected!

In Wang Sengbian's view, Xiao Lun and the others were not so much killed by Liu Yishou as they played themselves to death by playing around internally.This also proves that Wang Sengbian's understanding of Xiao's vassal king is very accurate.

Those people are not made for great things.The farther you can hide, the better!
"Your Highness, now that the emperor has abdicated, there are turmoil in Jiankang, and Liu Yishou's power has been strengthened again. It seems that the court's move to cut off the vassal king will not stop, but will speed up. Your Highness must be on guard."

Wang Sengbian said earnestly.

Xiao Yi sighed, speechless.

He reacted too quickly to the situation in Jiangzhou before, but reacted too slowly to the changes in Jiankang later!

When Xiao Huan had just abdicated, he should have announced to the world, condemned Liu Yishou as a national traitor, and forced the emperor to abdicate.

In this way, even if he can't do anything to Liu Yishou, he can still speak out and unite a group of people who oppose Liu Yishou, especially those in Jiankang City who have lost power because of Liu Yishou!
It is impossible for the imperial court to send troops thousands of miles to attack Xiangzhou because of Xiao Yi's "complaints". Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it has long been common for feudal towns outside Jiankang to condemn the central government's decrees.

Everyone first confronts each other openly, then sends troops to "discuss", and finally rushes forward to fight to the death.

No one will spend countless money and food to send troops to attack just because a word is not pleasant to the ears.

This will also make it appear that Liu Yishou is incapable of governing the country.

The generally accepted unspoken rule is that you must first criticize and stink before you can set foot on a thousand feet.If the previous step is omitted, it is a typical example of "punishment without teaching is abuse".

For a person with a head and a face, doing such a thing will be very cheap.

If Xiao Yi rants about Liu Yishou's misfortune, arbitrarily abolishes the emperor, and forces the emperor to abdicate, then Liu Yishou should "defend himself" and prove that Xiao Yi's words are nonsense, instead of directly sending troops to silence Xiao Yi.

Now that Xiao Cha has been punished, the court's explicit explanation is that the emperor was poisoned by Xiao Cha and could not act as a director, and Xiao Cha had a guilty conscience and rebelled.

It was too late for Xiao Yi to complain about Liu Yishou again, it was fine if he didn't speak up, but once he spoke up, it would be like incompetent and furious, which made people look down on him instead.

"Your Highness, there are complicated affairs in the court, so let's not talk about those disappointing things. Today's scene can be described as 'the emperor descended to Beizhu'. It's wonderful."

Liu Liang, the palace secretary next to Xiao Yi, changed the subject.Attempts to divert Xiao Yi's attention from government affairs to the scenery of Dongting Lake.

The Emperor's Son Descends to Beizhu is the first sentence in Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs* Mrs. Xiang". Although this is a famous article, it also describes the scenery of Dongting Lake, but... Qu Yuan described autumn. Damn Mrs. Xiang!

Liu Liang really had nothing to say, and he just remembered this incident when he had a brainstorm. I hope that Xiao Yi, who is also a lover of literature, can stop thinking too much about troubles. It's really hard for him.

"Emperor's son" refers to "Mrs. Xiang", because it is either referred to as "the son of the Emperor of Heaven" or "the daughter of Emperor Yao", so it is called "Emperor's son".

Xiao Yi is the son of Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, and he is at the water's edge right now, so Liu Liang's words are quite appropriate.

However, when Xiao Yi heard this, his face immediately darkened, and his mood quickly changed from melancholy to anger.

"You're happy, aren't you?"

Xiao Yi turned his head, the only remaining eye was staring at Liu Liang, with a cold light shining!

Liu Liang was stunned, not knowing what happened!

Just when he was dazed, Xiao Yi grabbed his clothes, pulled them hard, and pushed them overboard!
With a splash, Liu Liang fell into the water in response, watching Wang Sengbian and others on the boat tremble with fear!

"Don't send people to rescue, whoever does, I will let him stay in Dongting Lake forever!"

Xiao Yi looked around and said.

As if he felt that others could not understand him, Xiao Yi shouted angrily:
"The next sentence of Mrs. Xiang's article is about my eyes, my eyes, my eyes, and my eyes. My king is not mean to Liu. He dares to mock me for being blind. Do you think he should die? Such an untimely poem is intentional. Tell me, I think Liu Liang should be hacked to pieces!"

Wang Sengbian, Wang Lin and others were speechless for a moment.

They are all generals who lead troops to fight, there are not so many convoluted things, Mrs. Xiang and so on, they can't remember the sentences at all.

Even if Wang Seng argues that they remember whether the "眇眇" in the poem is a distant view or one eye is missing, they can't tell at all, everything is Xiao Yi talking to himself.

The two agreed a few words, and then, taking advantage of Xiao Yi's inattention, Wang Sengbian quietly ordered someone to send a soldier with good water skills to rescue Liu Liang from the water.

Afterwards, Xiao Yi learned about this matter, and he didn't care about Wang Sengbian's troubles anymore.But after returning to Xiangzhou, he immediately dismissed Liu Liang and drove him out of the Xiangdong Palace, which is a later story.

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If it is said that since Liu Yishou's last Northern Expedition, the South has been quite lively, but the North, especially the Eastern Wei Dynasty, has fallen into an eerie silence.

Taking Gao Cheng's unexpected death as the dividing line, Gao Huan's previous high-profile reform measures came to an abrupt end, and he focused his energy on stabilizing the inside of the regime.

The matter of marrying the Li family of Zhaojun was put on the shelf, and Gao Huan enfeoffed the land of Henan to the old brothers who followed him. In this case, if Liu Yishou went to the Northern Expedition again, he would directly infringe on the vital interests of those people.

At that time, the choice of these people will be very clear, and there will be no more hesitation.

The series of reform measures proposed by Gao Yang before, except for the unification of weights and measures, new copper coins, and the construction of water conservancy facilities around Yecheng, other "deep-water area reforms" were all "remained in China."

The unification of weights and measures does not touch the core interests of vested interests. The new construction of copper coins is to solve the inherent "deflation" of the feudal era. Making money is equal to making money, and building water conservancy is also for the benefit of everyone.

These three items are policies that can be guaranteed to be carried forward to the end. As for the others, such as "revision of new laws" and "inspection of land and land", they were not even mentioned in the court.

Different from the tranquility in government affairs, the affairs in Bafu are "vigorous", with one wave of unrest and one wave of another.

Soon after Gao Cheng's death, Gao Huan took concubines wantonly.Widow Li, from Longxi Li, the daughter of Li Chong, a famous official of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the concubine of Yuanhui, the king of Chengyang.I don't know where Gao Huan found her, and he took her into Bafu without saying a word.

These days, taking concubines and widows is not considered "robbing women from the people", but a "virtue", which will not be condemned by public opinion, but a good talk.

Not only among the people, but Gao Huan even issued a "widow forced marriage order" through the imperial court, so that the custom of marrying widows among the people became more prevalent.

In addition, Gao Huan also took in the outstanding beauties, Mrs. Mu and Mrs. Wang, who played and sang every night and worked hard.

As for the beauties who were lucky enough to pass and did not enter the mansion, there were even more beauties.

All in all, apart from dealing with the necessary government affairs, Gao Huan has recently focused on women. Not only did the domineering mansion have three more concubines, but he also had a golden house outside.

It's hard to say whether Gao Huan wanted to practice more "trumpet" because Gao Cheng, the "big one", had died, and Gao Yang, the small one, didn't feel very outstanding.

In addition, Zheng Dache and Han Gui's younger sister, Han Shi, also gave birth to a son, named Gao Run and Gao Huan respectively.

The atmosphere in Bafu became strange.Gao Cheng's death had a great impact on Gao Huan, even outsiders could see it.However, Gao Yang, who benefited the most from Gao Cheng's death, has a hard time.

He felt the suspicion from Gao Huan and the great pressure of having to hastily become the prince.

In the past, he hid behind Gao Cheng, and no one paid attention to his every move.But now no matter what he does, he will be inquired and pondered by countless people.That feeling made him uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)