On June 11, Zhao Ziliang sent eight hundred miles to send a letter to Zheng San and Cen Shen in Chang'an.
The letter explained the situation in detail and asked them to stay and continue to raise food, grass and military pay for the Beiting Army. and ordnance supplies, the Beiting Army still needs Expecting them to live well, he also wrote several letters and asked Wang Can to use the channels of the intelligence network to send a letter to each of Liu Tiao, Gao Shi, Dugujun and others left behind in Beiting, explaining the general situation and letting them Take good care of your home and prevent small things from taking advantage of it.
Zhao Ziliang also wrote a letter to the two ladies who were far away in Beiting, explaining that he was now jealous of the court and could not return to Beiting.
The current situation was complicated, and he could only return to his hometown in Jiangling to wait and see what happened, and let the two ladies take him with him.
Children, don't act rashly in Beiting, he will send someone to deliver a message at any time.
After handling all matters, on the morning of June 11th, Zhao Ziliang and Mrs.
Meng were escorted out of Luoyang City by 300 personal guards and began to move south.
Zhao Ting, Chu Ge, Bai Xiaode, Li Sheng and other generals led the 40,000 Beiting Army.
The soldiers walked along the road to see each other off.
Later, in addition to the Beiting Army, officers and soldiers from other armies also came to see them off.
Even people from around Luoyang came with their families.
The crowds of farewells stood on both sides of the road, extending to three sides.
Ten miles away.
The generals, soldiers and civilians who saw him off couldn't help but burst into tears, shouting at the top of their lungs and begging Zhao Ziliang to stay.
In the minds of these people who were seeing them off, they believed that if there is anyone in the world today who has the ability to quickly put down the rebellion, it is only Zhao Ziliang.
Such a person has been suspected, framed, and demoted many times, but he still does his best without any regrets. , They performed their duties faithfully, but in the end they ended up like this.
Is there any justice in this world?
Could it be that the Tang Dynasty was really on the verge of subjugation?
It could not even tolerate such loyal ministers and good generals, but could only accommodate those treacherous villains.
This court still has What future is there?
Zhao Ziliang, wearing a crown on his head, wearing regular clothes and carrying a sword at his waist, rode at the front of the team.
Three hundred guards escorted Mrs.
Meng's carriage and some luggage, clothing and food.
The common people and soldiers on both sides of the road kept waving and shouting, begging Zhao Ziliang to stay.
Zhao Ziliang could only keep waving his hands.
At this time, an old man rushed away from the soldiers maintaining order and ran to the middle of the road, knelt down and cried: " Marshal, please stay.
The people of the Central Plains cannot live without you.
Once you leave, if the rebels come again, we will be slaughtered again."
Zhao Ziliang quickly turned over and dismounted, walked quickly over to help the old man up, and sighed: "Old man, I would like to stay, but I can't.
Now that I have no authority, I can only go back to my hometown to farm and take over my new job."
The commander will arrive soon.
With him here, the people will be safe.
Let's all go back and don't send him off any more."
After saying this, he signaled to the two soldiers on the side of the road and helped the old man to the side of the road.
Zhao Ziliang turned around and mounted his horse and continued to move forward.
People kept crying on the roadside, crying for Zhao Ziliang's pity and for his own tragic fate in the future.
Hearing these cries, Zhao Ziliang's conscience was cut by a knife, but he could do nothing.
Near noon, Zhao Ziliang was finally far away from the farewell people and soldiers.
At this time, a fast horse came running from behind.
Zhao Ziliang turned around and saw that the rider was Du Fu, so he reined in the horse and stopped. .
When Du Fu got up and ran over, Zhao Ziliang asked: "Du Zimei, when I came out of the city, I thought you would at least write a farewell poem, but you never came.
Now that you have caught up, have you achieved anything?"
Come and listen" Du Fu stopped and smiled bitterly: "Don't make fun of Prince Zhao.
I wanted to write a poem to say goodbye to the Prince.
But after much thought, I decided to go south with the Prince.
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I don't need to write a farewell poem."
Alright" Zhao Ziliang was stunned and said: "You come south with me.
Although I have the title of county king, I have no official position and no position.
I can't open a government or build a government office.
I can't give you an official position."
Du Fu didn't care and said: "The prince's family has to eat, drink and have sex, and these personal guards also need food and clothing.
The prince should need someone to take care of the accounting room and so on.
I can do that."
Zhao Ziliang looked at Du Fu and asked, "Are you kidding?"
Du Fu said: "Does the prince think I am a joker?"
Zhao Ziliang sighed: "I don't know what Mr.
Du is thinking.
Since Mr.
Du is determined to go south with me, it is an honor for me to be abandoned by him.
Okay, I will pay you one hundred guan a month."
I hired you to handle the trivial matters around me.
If you want to find another job in the future, you can leave at any time."
Du Fu laughed and said: "One hundred guan per month is higher than the salary of a prefect.
It seems that I, Du Zimei, am still worth some money, hahaha."
Soon, Du Fu's family members caught up in a carriage, and the team continued southward.
Du Fu had long seen that the great cause of counterinsurgency would not be possible without Zhao Ziliang.
There were more than 400,000 rebels from Xingyang to Yingchuan, and there were hundreds of thousands of rebels in Xiangzhou and surrounding areas.
Shi Siming, Cai Xide and others still have more than 200,000 troops in their hands.
This adds up to a total rebel force of 700,000 to 800,000.
The rebels are still so powerful, and although the Tang army is fighting Slightly superior, but the number of troops is less than half of the rebels, and without someone like Zhao Ziliang who has high prestige in the army to lead the army, the Tang troops everywhere cannot form a cohesion, and other people have been replaced to take charge of the great cause of countering the rebellion. , I'm afraid that even the generals below can't be mobilized.
The army is full of arrogant and powerful generals.
Without certain abilities and skills, these people will not obey orders at all.
Du Fu had already thought very clearly.
There were wars everywhere these days.
Instead of wandering around with his family and being in danger at all times, it was better to stay safe with Zhao Ziliang.
In the future, when the counter-rebellion situation became worse and worse, the court would have to do it sooner or later.
The one who re-enabled Zhao Ziliang was still following Zhao Ziliang to display his talents.
The two were riding at the front.
Zhao Ziliang was quite dissatisfied with Li Bai for not seeing him off.
He said to Du Fu: "This Li Bai is too impersonal.
I recommended him as the magistrate of Luoyang County.
Now I resign."
If I don’t do it, he didn’t come to see me off.
He is not a son of man, he really is not a son of man.”
Du Fu knew Li Bai's situation and explained: "Brother Li has been busy with the resettlement of refugees these years and has no time to spare.
It is normal for him to be delayed by the things at hand and unable to come to see the prince off.
Besides, Brother Li has been eager to be an official for the people and display his talents for so many years.
Now that he has this opportunity, how can he not cherish it?
It is said that he only sleeps two or three hours a day now."
"Oh, so I blamed him wrongly."
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In the afternoon, Zhao Ziliang and his party were making fire near a small town.
Dozens of cavalry appeared from the end of a road to the east.
Zhao Ziliang's guards immediately got on their horses and took out their weapons to form a military formation to guard.
When those people came closer on horseback, Zhao Ziliang saw that the person at the front was actually Li Siye, so he waved to the guards to let them relax.
Li Siye reined in his horse and stopped, walked quickly to Zhao Ziliang and bowed down: "Commander, the end is too late."
Zhao Ziliang pulled Li Siye up and walked to the temporary tent to sit down.
Just as the soldiers had already cooked the food, Zhao Ziliang invited Li Siye to eat with him and asked someone to bring a pot of wine to drink with Li Siye.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Aren't you leading troops to attack Xinzheng?
How come you have time to see me?"
Li Siye took a breath and sighed: "The day before yesterday, General Mo was leading troops to attack Xinzheng.
Chu Ge and others sent people to send news that the court had seized the military power of the commander-in-chief.
The commander-in-chief had resigned from his official post and was preparing to return home.
The officers and soldiers heard this After this news, morale plummeted immediately.
Most of the generals dropped their weapons and prepared to leave the team and return home.
There was no way to continue this battle.
The final general had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops to Mi County and tried his best to restrain the soldiers to avoid the disbandment of the entire army."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Li Siye: "The army can't be in chaos.
The army can't be in chaos at any time.
You go back and tell the soldiers, just say what I said.
If the soldiers don't work because I'm gone, who will protect the people?"
As for you, since you have withdrawn to Mi County, please rest for a while.
Wang Chengye, who will replace me, will take office soon.
Let’s see how he deploys next.”
Zhao Ziliang chatted with Li Siye for a while and then sent him away.
After eating, the team continued south.
On June 14, Zhao Ziliang and his party arrived in Ruzhou.
After receiving the news, Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others went out of the city to greet them and prepared a small drink to entertain them.
During the banquet, Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others had a rather pessimistic attitude towards the great cause of countering the rebellion after Zhao Ziliang left, and everyone was in a low mood.
Zhao Ziliang could only comfort them and ask them to obey the new marshal's instructions, actively participate in the battle, and strive to put down the rebellion as soon as possible and restore peace to the people of the world.
After that, Zhao Ziliang and his party declined all the officials to greet them on the way to Jiangling, and tried to go around the city as much as possible, unless they needed to supply supplies before entering the city.
June 15th, Chang'an, Daming Palace, Hanyuan Palace.
In the middle of the meeting, a Hongling messenger ran quickly through the many palaces and ran into the Hanyuan Hall holding a memorial.
He reported to Xuanzong on the throne: "Your Majesty, Zhao Ziliang, the king of Jiangling County, sent someone to deliver it.
"Memorial" Xuanzong and the ministers were all stunned, weren't they coming to Chang'an soon?
Why did they send someone to deliver the memorial at this time?
Xuanzong composed himself, waved his hand to Gao Lishi and said, "Nian Nian, let's see what Zhao Ziliang says."
"Nuo" Gao Lishi walked down the steps, took the memorial from Hong Ling's messenger, opened it, and was stunned.
Xuanzong saw Gao Lishi's expression and asked, "What's going on?
What did Zhao Ziliang say?"
Gao Lishi came back to his senses and said: "Your Majesty, Zhao Ziliang has resigned from all official positions and has now returned to his hometown with his wife and concubines."
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