Chapter 311 Acting

How could Lü Bocheng be willing to watch the troops he had trained himself being transferred away by Wu Quanzhong?

But who dared to resist Wu Quanzhong's order?

Don't want to live?

Wu Quanzhong dared to transfer people away, just because he saw that the border was stable during this period and no one disturbed the border. Read М

Fengxiang borders Tubo. Once Fengxiang is broken, Chang'an will not be stable.

Since Wu Quanzhong transferred troops away on the grounds that Fengxiang is stable, he will make it unstable for him, so that he can't sleep well in Chang'an.

So, next, Lü Bocheng took his men to dress up as Tubo soldiers every day and frequently disturbed the border.

Then he took people to pretend to chase.

Cui Sheng was very cooperative and gave full power to Lü Bocheng. When Lü Bocheng led people to perform, he tried his best to cooperate and frequently wrote to the court, saying that Tubo was blocking the border and disturbing the people.

The Fengxiang army was about to be unable to resist.

Please send people to support us as soon as possible. If the horsepower is insufficient, can Fengxiang Army retreat to the capital?

Fengxiang Army retreat to the capital?

No border defense? Let foreign tribes invade?

Let people attack Chang'an?

How can that be done!

Wu Quanzhong's great cause has not yet begun, how can he let foreign tribes disturb his great cause.

Fengxiang Army wants people? Give them, and return the 20,000 troops that were originally withdrawn.

Not enough military rations? Give them!

Large quantities of military rations and weapons were frequently transported to Fengxiang.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Lu Bocheng did not relax. From time to time, he would stage a self-directed and self-acted drama of foreign tribes invading the border, which saved tens of thousands of troops in Fengxiang.

In the court, Wu Quanzhong was still powerful.

Those who were dissatisfied with Wu Quanzhong formed their own faction, called "clear stream", while those who flattered and curry favor with Wu Quanzhong were called "turbid stream" by the clear stream.

The two factions fought openly and secretly in the court, confronted each other, and looked down on each other. Today the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, and tomorrow the west wind overwhelmed the east wind.

The whole court was in a mess.

The leader of the Qingliu was Pei Shu, one of the three prime ministers, while the representative of the Zhuoliu was another prime minister Liu Can and Li Zhen, the military advisor under Wu Quanzhong.

On this day, the Qingliu and Zhuoliu quarreled because of personnel transfers.

The position of Taichang Temple Minister was vacant, and Wu Quanzhong proposed that his confidant Zhang Tingfan take the position.

But Prime Minister Pei Shu believed that Taichang Temple Minister was in charge of etiquette and diplomatic affairs, and had been held by civil officials since ancient times, and Zhang Tingfan was a military general and was not suitable.

He rejected Wu Quanzhong's proposal.

Wu Quanzhong had long been second to none, and was very angry at Pei Shu's rejection.

A group of so-called Qingliu always came to hinder him.

Wu Quanzhong wanted to clean up these Qingliu.

Liu Can, another prime minister of the Zhuoliu, had a very bad relationship with Pei Shu and found out what Wu Quanzhong was thinking.

Liu Can said to Wu Quanzhong based on the changes in the stars: "This is caused by too many people full of resentment in the world. Your Highness, Prince Liang, should kill them to stop the disaster."

Military strategist Li Zhen also suggested: "Those Qingliu people are trying to destroy our great cause, so we should kill them all!"

After Li Zhen finished speaking, he saw Wu Quanzhong smiling but not saying anything, knowing that he had hit the nail on the head.

Strike while the iron is hot, Li Zhen suggested to Wu Quanzhong: "These people always call themselves Qingliu, they should be thrown into the Yellow River to make it a turbid stream!"

Wu Quanzhong smiled and followed it.

He felt happy in his heart.

One month later, Wu Quanzhong, in the name of the emperor, ordered Pei Shu, Dugu Sun and more than 30 Qingliu people to gather at Baimayi in Huazhou.

Although the Qingliu people knew that there must be something fishy about this trip.

But they were Qingliu people, different from those traitors of Wu Quanzhong. They were loyal to the Shuo Dynasty and the emperor. If the emperor asked them to go, they would go.

They still had hope in their hearts that the emperor would not do anything extreme. They all agreed to the appointment happily.

Before Pei Shu and others arrived in Huazhou, Liu Can had already led his troops to ambush there.

Can they be allowed to go back after they come?

Then they would argue with them in the court and hinder their hands and feet?

No.

So more than 30 unarmed Qingliu officials were killed by Liu Can and others.

That's not all. They also threw all their bodies into the Yellow River. They didn't let their souls return to Chang'an, and they sank into the Yellow River forever.

The court and the public were shocked.

Even the emperor who didn't care about the affairs of the court knew it in the inner palace.

Wu Quanzhong dared to kill the prime minister? Kill the ministers who had made contributions to the court!

There were still many indignant officials at all levels who came to the palace and begged the emperor to kill Wu Quanzhong.

But could Wu Quanzhong admit it?

Although he acquiesced, he didn't do it. If you don't do it, you're not guilty.

Although he's not afraid of what others say, at this critical moment, he doesn't want to risk the world's disapproval and confront the whole world.

First, it's not good for his great cause. Second, he doesn't want to leave an ugly mark in the history books.

So Wu Quanzhong cried bitterly in front of the emperor, saying that he didn't supervise strictly, which led to the "Baimayi disaster", and he deserved death, and asked the emperor to punish him.

What can the emperor do?

Wu Quanzhong has everything under his control, and the entire court is almost all Wu Quanzhong's people.

Everyone around him was cleared out by Wu Quanzhong. Can he still go against him and let Wu Quanzhong clear him out as the emperor?

In the end, the emperor could only follow Wu Quanzhong's wishes and make Wu Quanzhong the prime minister.

And he made Xuanwu, Xuanyi, Tianping, Huguo, Tianxiong, Wushun and other 21 provinces the Wei Kingdom, and further made Wu Quanzhong the King of Wei, adding nine gifts.

The Nine Gifts are nine kinds of ceremonial objects bestowed by the emperor on princes, ministers and those with special merits. They are a symbol of the highest courtesy.

In the entire Shuo Dynasty, nearly three hundred years after the founding of the country, few people could get past Jiuxi.

But Wu Quanzhong got it very easily.

From then on, it became even more powerful.

Qingliu was executed, and everyone in the court was angry at Wu Quanzhong but dared not speak out.

The prince was very dissatisfied with the emperor's decision.

Liu Shu, the eunuch beside him, gave the prince an idea and asked him to imprison Emperor Shuo, ascend the throne as emperor himself, and then kill Wu Quanzhong to restore peace to the court.

The prince listened.

But he never thought that Wu Quanzhong would know such hidden information before the prince and others could make a big move.

Less than a month later, Wu Quanzhong led his troops to rescue Emperor Shuo, and beheaded the prince and more than 700 eunuchs including Liu Shu.

The emperor escaped from death, and he was even more grateful for Wu Quanzhong's saving grace. He took Wu Quanzhong's hand and said: "The ancestral temple and the country were rebuilt by you, and I and my relatives were reborn by you."

Therefore, he obeyed Wu Quanzhong's orders even more, and government orders were gradually handed over to Wu Quanzhong with full authority.

In the court, it makes no difference whether there is an emperor or not.

But apart from a prince, the emperor also had many sons.

Wu Quanzhongguang couldn't sleep as he thought about it.

Now Qingliu was gone, and so was the prince, but there were still some unsightly things dangling in front of his eyes.

So Wu Quanzhong was ready to take action again.

Wu Quanzhong planned carefully.

On this day, Wu Quanzhong asked the privy envoy Jiang Xuanhui to hold a banquet in Jiuquchi, and invited nine princes including King De, King Di, King Qian and King Yi to the banquet in the name of offering sacrifices to the late emperor.

The youngest of the nine princes was only nine years old and could not clearly judge the affairs of the court, so they all went to the banquet on time stupidly.

I thought it was just an ordinary banquet.

Who would have thought that once you come out, you can never go back.

The nine brothers rarely got together to have fun and drink. However, Jiang Xuanhui secretly ordered people to strangle all nine princes to death and throw their bodies into the Jiuqu Pond.

The methods are extremely cruel!

The biological mother of the nine princes almost cried to death in the inner palace.

When the emperor heard this, he was so shocked that he fell off the throne.

The reason why the prince was killed was because the prince imprisoned him and was a treasonous person, so he just killed him, and the emperor did not feel any regret at all.

But killing my nine princes?

The youngest prince is only nine years old. What crime has he committed?

Don’t you, Wu Quanzhong, think too little of me, the emperor?