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Chapter 176: Infighting

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    "Empire Hegemony" Chapter 176

    The crown prince promoted Hu Ziyang, a general who had experience at the border, to a former general, which made Hu Ziyang very grateful.

    Hu Ziyang has been in the Imperial Guard for 20 years and has no ambitions. His original pride has disappeared, so he can only drink away his sorrow.

    However, the prince's promotion this time rekindled his hope and shrouded him in a great sense of happiness.

    "Willing to die for Your Highness!"

    Hu Ziyang put his hands on the prince's thigh, and naturally he would not let go easily, and immediately expressed his attitude.

    The prince doesn't have any foundation in the army, so he is naturally happy now that he has received such a sentence from Hu Ziyang.

    Regardless of whether he still served as the Marshal of the Garrison after this battle, at least he also inserted a nail of his own in the army.

    Moreover, the former general is in charge of five battalions of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, which is a force that cannot be ignored.

    The promotion of Hu Ziyang was just the first step for the prince to try to control the imperial guards, because instead of making a wish for the rest of the generals, it is better to promote a low-level general. With the favor of promotion, he will be more loyal.

    There are more than a hundred senior generals of the Imperial Guard, and most of them are descendants of aristocratic families.

    When the crown prince was beating the drums of the imperial guards, most of these senior generals were spending their time in their own manors or in the royal capital.

    However, the crown prince is the crown prince after all, and these senior generals did not dare to neglect when they were ordered by the crown prince to return to the barracks to obey orders immediately.

    In just one day, the senior generals of the Imperial Guard all over the place returned to the barracks one after another.

    It was the first time the crown prince took charge of the army, and he didn't dare to offend these senior generals to death all at once.

    Therefore, he just ordered the dismissal of several military posts who have not yet returned to the generals, which can be regarded as a small punishment.

    For the generals of the imperial guards who had returned, the prince's methods were not too direct and fierce, but only verbally reprimanded them.

    ? That night, the crown prince personally hosted a banquet in honor of these generals, and rewarded them with a generous meeting gift, which can be regarded as a consolation.

    "The so-called raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while. You are all the talents of my court. The bandit army fled to the capital of Gyeonggi and threatened the capital. I was ordered to lead the army to meet the enemy. I also ask all the generals to help you."

    At the dinner, the prince didn't say a word about the things they didn't come to, but lowered his posture.

    "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the bandit army is nothing more than a mob, nothing to worry about."

    "My imperial guards have hundreds of thousands of troops. As long as the bandits dare to come, they will never come back!"

    These fat-headed and big-eared generals blushed from drinking, and dismissed the Qinghe Army.

    "You generals don't know something. The bandit army has captured the Xilin Mansion, which is only a short distance away from the capital. I heard that they also have hundreds of thousands of troops. Our army has already killed several generals"

    The prince saw these generals who only cared about drinking and eating meat and knew nothing about the situation of the war, so he deliberately exaggerated, hoping to scare them away.

    Sure enough, after hearing that the Qinghe Army was so powerful, the expressions of these generals became extremely unnatural.

    These generals have never experienced battle, and they all climbed up step by step relying on family relationships.

    They thought they could take advantage of this opportunity to gain some military merits, but when they heard that the rebel army was so powerful, they began to retreat in their hearts.

    "Your Highness, I also want to fight the enemy and fight for His Highness, but my mother is sick in bed"

    Soon, some generals decided not to take the risk of their lives after thinking twice, and wanted to ask for leave.

    "Every kindness and filial piety come first, and I will not force others to make things difficult. I will grant you leave, and you go back to take care of your family first."

    The prince also showed a generous attitude, and directly approved the leave of this general in public.

    "Thank you Your Highness!"

    The general didn't expect the prince to be so eloquent, so he immediately bowed his hands and thanked him.

    Successively, more than a dozen fat-headed and big-eared generals stood up, wanting to escape this war for various reasons, and the crown prince agreed one by one.

    It's just that although the generals of the Yang family and Lu family who had penetrated deeply into the imperial guards didn't want to go into battle to kill the enemy, they didn't dare to let go of their military power easily, and they were always on the sidelines.

    The prince naturally sees all thisHere, for the Yang family and the Lu family, the imperial court has actually begun to cut off their wings.

    The left prime minister of the imperial court, Wang Huchen, was ordered to set up a new investigation department, which was nominally responsible for investigating tax evasion.

    Originally, the imperial court had a supervisory office, and their duty was to supervise the army and officials.

    However, after more than four hundred years of development, the power of the aristocratic family has penetrated into every aspect, and the Overwatch Council is naturally not immune.

    If the Overwatch Council were to be used, the aristocratic family would be alerted as soon as the imperial court took action.

    So Wang Huchen requested the establishment of an investigation department, nominally to investigate tax evasion and tax evasion, but actually to deal with aristocratic families.

    In just a few days since the establishment of the investigation department, more than a dozen wealthy businessmen have been investigated, of course in the name of tax evasion

    These wealthy businessmen are inextricably linked with the aristocratic family, and officials from many aristocratic family factions also opened the door to them.

    Now Wang Huchen is investigating these wealthy businessmen, confiscating countless gold and silver treasures and food, making up for the shortfall in the national treasury, and filling it up a lot.

    The aristocratic family was very angry at the actions of Prime Minister Zuo Wang Huchen, but they thought that Wang Huchen did this because he was short of money but anxious about food, so they didn't arouse alarm.

    After Wang Huchen seized these wealthy businessmen, he followed the vine and cut off some low-level officials who were corrupt and broke the law.

    These low-level officials are also affiliated with the factions of the Yang family and the Lu family, because they are indeed related to wealthy businessmen and have more tax evasion.

    But in fact, this is just the beginning of Wang Huchen's dealing with the Yang family and the Lu family, and he has already begun to cut off their outer wings.

    It's just that Wang Huchen, the Prime Minister of Zuo, did things step by step. While cutting off the outer wings of the Yang family and the Lu family, he also asked the old emperor to win over their high-level officials. It was a feast and a reward.

    Because the people under him were moved by Wang Huchen and hurt their face, the Yang family and Lu family impeached the left prime minister Wang Huchen to the emperor in order to save face.

    Facing the Yang family and the Lu family's complaint, the emperor also reprimanded Prime Minister Zuo Wang Huchen face to face. Seeing that the emperor still defended them, this made both the Yang family and the Lu family lose their vigilance.

    Wang Huchen, Prime Minister Zuo, began to target the powerful Yang family and Lu family step by step in the court, while the crown prince was in charge of the army.

    ?Because only when the prince completely eliminates the influence of the Yang family and the Lu family in the army, can the net be completely closed.

    Facing the generals of the Yang family and Lu family who are unwilling to delegate power, the prince naturally has his own method, which is to let them lead the army to meet the enemy. There is nothing more secretive than killing with a knife.

    The prince praised the generals of the Yang family and the Lu family at the banquet, and then asked them to lead their troops to meet the Qinghe army the next day.

    In order not to lose their military power, although these generals were extremely reluctant, they could only be ordered to go out.

    They ate empty quotas and deducted military pay on weekdays, so that the troops under their command were seriously short of personnel and their combat effectiveness was extremely weak.

    However, in the face of His Royal Highness sending them to the camp with beating gongs and drums, under the eyes of everyone, they could only drive the ducks to the shelves and bite the bullet.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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