Chapter 1199 Emergency
Just when Li Ye arrived in Quanzhou, the four major vassal states finally completed the alliance and formed an alliance army, named the Hezong Army, but the number of troops changed from the initially proposed 30,000 troops to 50,000, of which Tian Chengsi sent 20,000 troops and the other three families sent 10,000 troops each.
The main general of the Hezong Army was Tian Chengsi's cousin Tian Qianzhen, one of An Lushan's fierce generals. After Luoyang fell, he fled and disappeared. In fact, he defected to his cousin Tian Chengsi.
In the past few years, he has been helping Tian Chengsi train the army behind the scenes. Now Tian Chengsi finally pushed him to the front, and did not change his name.
Ten days after the Hezong Army was formed, Tian Qianzhen led 50,000 troops to launch a surprise attack on Xiangzhou.
Xue Song, the governor of Xiangwei, led 30,000 troops to fight hastily. Xue Song was not as strong as the Hezong Army and was defeated by the 50,000 Hezong Army. His fourth brother Xue Ji was killed in the war. Xue Song led less than 20,000 people to retreat to Weizhou.
But after Tian Qianzhen occupied Xiangzhou, he did not lead his army south to Weizhou, but continued to march north to occupy Mingzhou. At the same time, Li Baochen's army occupied Zhaozhou.
Unexpectedly, Tian Qianzhen took Xiangzhou and did not continue to attack Weizhou. This was the cunning of Tian Chengsi. He took Xiangzhou and let Weizhou go, using Weizhou as a buffer, so that his army would not threaten Huaizhou or Luoyang.
What is called a shrewd and calculating man? This is called a shrewd and calculating man. Li Zhengyi and his son thought that if they supported Tian Chengsi to attack Xiangwei Jiedushi, Tian Chengsi would bring trouble to himself and become the first target of Guanlong Army.
Who knew that if Tian Chengsi let Weizhou go, this military action would not threaten the safety of Luoyang, and its severity and urgency would be greatly reduced.
After the defeat in Weizhou, Xue Song immediately wrote a memorial and sent it to Chang'an in an expedited manner of 800 miles to ask for help from Chang'an.
Xue Song's request for help was sent to Chang'an, and then sent to the White Tiger Hall by the Xiangwei Jiedufu Jinzouyuan. The White Tiger Hall was rated as Class A, affixed with a red label, and sent directly to the Regent's Secretariat. Wei Yingwu then sent someone to forward it to the Qi Wang Palace.
This memorial fell into the hands of Princess Dugu Xinyue, who was a little worried. It was actually a request for help in the war. What should she do? She had never encountered such an urgent and important matter.
She wanted to ask her father to discuss it, but she always felt that it was not appropriate. After thinking about it, she found Yang Yuhuan.
"Yuhuan, look at this!"
She handed the emergency request for help to Yang Yuhuan, "Give me some ideas, what should I do?"
Yang Yuhuan was also a simple and honest woman, and she had never encountered such a thing, but she had a little experience. She thought about it and said, "Did your husband give you any notes before he left?"
Yang Yuhuan's words reminded Dugu Xinyue that although her husband did not give her any notes, he gave her a booklet for handling emergencies.
She hurried to the study and found this booklet. There were 15 emergency plans, including one for the emergency plan for the mutiny in Hebei.
The plan written below was to submit the memorial to the Privy Council to evaluate its urgency and ask for a reply within one day. If it was very urgent, it could be approved for execution and the Political Affairs Hall would discuss the dispatch of troops. If it was evaluated as generally urgent, it would be handled after she came back.
With her husband's countermeasures, Dugu Xinyue breathed a sigh of relief. She immediately asked the female guard to forward the memorial to the Privy Councilor Duan Xiushi, and added, 'Please evaluate the urgency of the incident and reply within one day! '
The Privy Council was actually the inevitable development of the separation of power between the emperor and the prime minister. Any court had three major powers: military power, official power, and financial power. The emperor and the prime minister also competed for these three major powers.
Military power is divided into control power and daily management power. The control power of the army has always been in the hands of the emperor, who uses military tokens or festival tokens to control and mobilize the army. The previously established Generalissimo of the Army of the World is the institution for the emperor to control the army, but it was controlled by eunuchs in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
And management affairs such as local state soldiers management, local bandit suppression, military schools, martial arts examinations, and map making are the responsibility of the Ministry of War.
The Privy Council is an advanced version of the Generalissimo of the Army of the World. It has changed from the special control stage of war to the control stage of peacetime. The Generalissimo of the Army of the World was abolished and replaced by the Privy Council.
The Privy Council does not belong to the Political Affairs Hall. It reports directly to the monarch. The chief officer of the Privy Council, the Privy Envoy, must also enter the Political Affairs Hall and become one of the members of the Political Affairs Hall.
Privy Envoy Duan Xueshi has returned to Chang'an. He received the Class A memorial forwarded by the princess and immediately handed it to his subordinates for review.
An hour later, Li Daohui, the Privy Councilor, walked into the official room and handed the evaluation report to Duan Xueshi. Duan Xueshi looked at the evaluation and found that the severity of the situation was major, the urgency was non-urgent, and the harm was medium.
The special evaluation agency of the Privy Council is the Intelligence Department. The Intelligence Department makes a comprehensive evaluation based on various intelligence, generally evaluating the importance, urgency and harm of the matter.
According to the importance of the event, it is divided into three categories: major, medium and minor.
According to the urgency, it is divided into urgent, general urgency, and non-urgent.
According to the harm, it is divided into high, medium and low.
Although the princess only asked for an urgency evaluation, since it is a formal report, all three aspects must be evaluated.
Duan Xueshi asked calmly: "Why is it a non-urgent situation?"
"Reporting to the envoy, if the vassal army attacks Luoyang, it will be an urgent event. The next level is to attack Huaizhou or cross the Yellow River, which we will classify as a general urgent event.
Now the enemy is still separated from Huaizhou by Weizhou, and there is no sign of crossing the Yellow River. Although Xue Song is rushing to ask for help at an 800-mile speed, it is not urgent in fact. According to the intelligence we have, the enemy's target is not Luoyang, they just want to use this method to test the combat effectiveness of the Hezong Army.
Of course, the attack of the vassal state on the land of the court is definitely a major event, so we define the severity of the event as major. As for the harm, there is no large-scale burning, killing, and raping, so it is a medium harm. "
Duan Xiushi nodded, "The key is Weizhou. With Weizhou as a buffer, we don't have to rush to consider sending troops. "
Duan Xueshi then sent the evaluation report and the memorial back to the Qi Palace.
With the report from the Privy Council, Princess Dugu Xinyue was completely relieved. She immediately wrote on the memorial, 'Wait until His Royal Highness the Regent comes back to discuss the issue of sending troops, and other matters will be discussed in the Political Affairs Hall.'
She forwarded the memorial and the report from the Privy Council to the Political Affairs Hall, and soon sent it to the desk of Right Prime Minister Li Dai.
Right Prime Minister Li Dai immediately sent someone to notify the assistant prime ministers to discuss matters in the Political Affairs Hall.
Soon, Right Prime Minister Li Dai, Left Prime Minister Zhang Li, and seven assistant prime ministers, Minister of Personnel Li Mi, Minister of Revenue Liu Yan, Minister of Rites Wei Jiansu, Minister of War Dugu Lie, Minister of Punishment Pei Zunqing, Minister of Works Li Xian, Privy Envoy Duan Xueshi and others gathered in the Council Hall to urgently discuss countermeasures to the Hebei mutiny.