Chapter 368 Response

The autumn cicadas are still chirping.

After hearing the question from the eldest prince Wanyan Woben, Qin Hui shuddered, but did not respond directly. Instead, he first scanned the people present.

Let’s say, this is the Shangshu Terrace in Yanjing. It has been a political habit for the young king to hold meetings here with their legs crossed for several years. Although the king is now seventeen years old and has been an adult for more than a year, his political influence is gradually increasing, but it is still not enough in front of the three princes.

In addition, the Great Jin Dynasty had an old system of tribal democracy, so no one had any doubts about this meeting model that represented the highest political power of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Isn't there a secret chamber in the Zhao Song in the south? So even if Emperor Zhao doesn't come back for a year, it won't delay anything.

It is said that it was learned from the Great Jin Dynasty.

Today, apart from the king Wanyan Hela who was not here as usual, the prime minister of the Jin prince's capital province... that is, the third prince Wanyan Erliduo... also went to Zhending Prefecture with some key officials to remotely control the situation. Therefore, only a few people were attending this meeting here at this time:

The Grand Tutor and the King of Liao were in charge of important military and state affairs, that is, the eldest prince Wanyan Oben;

The Prince of Wei led the Privy Council, that is, the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu;

Wanyan Xiyin, the deputy prime minister of the capital, the actual promoter of the Han-style reform, and the actual political and general affairs manager of the Jin Dynasty;

Hanlin Academician and Internal Controller, actually represents the 17-year-old king, Han Fang, who is also the leader of the Han people in Yanyun;

Hong Ya, who was transferred from Qi State and was the deputy to Wanyan Xiyin, was the deputy minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the deputy to the Ministry of Finance.

The Privy Council Chief Secretary and Minister of Rites, Wulinda Zanmo;

The Left Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the New Army of Yanjing, Wanhu Wulinda Taiyu;

In addition, there are four more, namely Wanyan Talan, Wanyan Wuye, Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyan Pujianu, who are typical new faces plus old faces.

Among these four, the "scholar" Wanyan Wuye, who is less than forty years old, is a new face, but his promotion is expected, because he was the Jurchen teacher of the king, the king's confidant, and a close relative of the royal family (Talan's younger brother) and a pioneer of sinicization. The outside world believes that he is the successor of Wanyan Xiyin... Now that the king has come of age, of course there must be a place for the new Minister of Works.

However, the three old guys Wanyan Pujianu, Wanyan Talan and Wanyan Yinshuke returned to the core power, not only because the small ruler wanted to use these people's abilities to fight against his three uncles, but the entire ruling group had to do so due to the overall situation - there was no other reason, at the beginning of this year, just after the New Year, a late spring cold snap directly killed the former ruler Wuqimai, who was paralyzed on the kang, and went to see Taizu Wanyan Aguda.

Wuqimai was different from his son. He was the second king after the founding of the country. He was the pillar of the country as early as the time of Aguda, stabilizing the rear for Aguda. Later, during his reign, he also completed the early invasion of the Song Dynasty, causing the Jingkang Change, which was regarded as the capture of the two rivers for the Jin Kingdom as its heartland. At the same time, he also completed the partial centralization of national power during his tenure, and pacified and integrated various tribal forces outside the border.

Although the political situation was out of control in his later years, it was not his fault. On his way from Yanjing to return to his political base, he was paralyzed by the wind. Who could he blame?

There really is nothing that can be done about this. Lou Shi made it very clear when he came to the Secretariat that time. That group of 'old people' from the founding period, from Aguda onwards, had generally suffered enough in their childhood, and fought hard on the battlefield in their youth and middle age. They could die at any time, and there was really nothing they could do.

It is an objective fact that the famous kings and generals of the founding of the country have been dying off.

In short, Wuqimai's political achievements were there, and he had no moral faults. Even when Wanyan Wushu staged a coup, the three brothers did not dare to deny him, but instead blamed the political situation on Nianhan. Later, when they wanted to eliminate Wuqimai's direct forces, they also had to conduct fishing enforcement, and they did not dare to touch Wuqimai.

Therefore, Wuqimai's death immediately triggered serious political turmoil.

Specifically, the old Jin forces outside the Great Wall, who were already extremely dissatisfied with the relocation of the capital and the reuse of Han people, immediately lost their patience and took advantage of this incident to launch a non-violent non-cooperation movement outside the Great Wall... Some were even violent non-cooperation movements... They vaguely said that the old king died because his son was killed by a traitor, and he was filled with sorrow and anger.

In this situation, Yanjing had to face pressure from the south, and the country was making great efforts to build up ten new armies of Yanjing, which were designed to be half of the ethnic groups outside the Great Wall and half of the Han people of Yanyun. It was even more impossible to turn against the ethnic groups outside the Great Wall at this time.

In the end, just like Emperor Zhao had to appease the opposition party in the southeast, the Great Jin also chose to appease the ethnic groups outside the Great Wall... Everyone has their own national conditions here... The first thing is to recognize Wuqimai's political achievements, and give him the temple name Emperor Taizong of the Great Jin, and the specific posthumous title is Emperor Tiyuan Yingyun Shide Zhaogongzhe Huirensheng Wenlie.

It is worth mentioning that this posthumous title was thought of by Qin Huizhi himself.

Secondly, he secretly gave up the ban on the smuggling of Goryeo luxury goods and at the same time generously rewarded the leaders of ethnic groups outside the Great Wall.

In the end, there was no other choice but to re-employ these old-school figures who might not necessarily represent the interests of the ethnic groups outside the Great Wall but could gain recognition from the ethnic groups outside the Great Wall.

Of course, although Wanyan Yinshu was nominally the commander-in-chief of the New Army of Yanjing, in fact the New Army of Yanjing was divided into two parts, led by Wanyan Talan and Wulindatai respectively. It was amazing that he could command his thousands of old subordinates.

Wanyan Pujianu was the deputy prime minister of the capital province, but in reality he was just a figurehead. With Wanyan Xiyin there, how could it be possible for this old man to interfere in government affairs?

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