Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 855 Two Extreme Faces - Southern Han Dynasty

Lingnan, Han Dynasty, Xingwangfu.

This Xingwang Mansion is no other place, it is Guangzhou.

The reason why it is called Xingwang's Mansion is that according to the custom at this time, the capital of a country is generally called a mansion. Setting up a mansion all over the world like Zhang Ting's is an act of deviant behavior.

In the history of later generations, one thing was actually overlooked, that is, the importance of the regime of the Southern Han Dynasty.

It is true that in the long history of our country, the Southern Han Dynasty is really inconspicuous, and it has been ridiculed through the ages because of the eunuch dynasty.

But for Lingnan, for Guangdong and Guangxi, the Southern Han Dynasty was a very, very important dynasty.

Because if we want to say that the Central Plains court completely brought Lingnan into the scope of rule, so that the people of Lingnan really bathed in the kingship, and if they considered themselves to be the same as the people of the Central Plains in terms of culture and heart, it was actually stabilized in the Southern Han Dynasty.

Prior to this, the Central Plains court included Lingnan into its ruling scope for the first time, and it was the first emperor who sent Ren Xiao to lead 50 people to conquer Baiyue in the south.

These 50 people are not all the army, but also include a large number of artisans and confiscated son-in-laws and Jia people.

Of course, there are also troops with only about 50 people. These [-] people are the saying that Ren Xiao asked the first emperor to immigrate from the Central Plains after he gained a firm foothold.

But in any case, Ren Xiao's conquest of Baiyue was not a simple military operation, it was more like an emigration, but no one thought that the Qin Empire would collapse so soon.

After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Ren Xiao, the commander in chief who conquered Baiyue, was greatly stimulated and soon died of depression.

But Zhao Tuo, the elder brother of Hebei Zhending, who succeeded him later, was a little less authentic.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Zhao Tuo has many crimes, but compared to Zhao Zilong and Huang Fuyu who later appeared in the Zhending area, Zhao Tuo's mind is much more serious, and his mind is not too pure.

This old man from Hebei made friends with various ethnic groups in the south of the Five Ridges, sealed off his way, and no longer thought about the country, but how he became the king of Nanyue behind closed doors.

Objectively speaking, Zhao Tuo and his descendants played a great role in the development of Lingnan.

The first emperor ruled the world, and it took only 30 to [-] years to end the split of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Zhao Tuo tried to separate Lingnan according to the previous thinking of Xia Jun and Yimin, ruled all ethnic groups in Baiyue, and became a vassal of the Central Plains Dynasty. It is understandable.

But if it weren't for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who came out of the Han Dynasty with a great talent and ambition to sweep the Quartet, it is really hard to say whether Lingnan would belong to the Central Plains Dynasty.

However, even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, under the great pressure of the Huns in the north, although he destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom, he could only rely on the local Han, Li, Liao and other tribes to rule Lingnan.

Most of Hanting's influence in Lingnan is concentrated in the Pearl River Delta area. Besides, except for a few state capitals, it is difficult to grasp.

However, the Central Plains Dynasty really began to gradually control Lingnan, and it had to wait until the early years of Nanchen.

Chen Ba, the founding emperor of Southern Chen, first started his family in Lingnan. Before going north to destroy Hou Jing, Chen Baxian had put down the Jiaozhi rebellion in Lingnan, and then defeated Yuan Jingzhong's rebellion in Guangzhou.

In these battles, Mrs. Xian, who was born in a slang (Zhuang nationality), was moved by Chen Baxian's character and ability, and chose to follow Chen Baxian to be loyal to the court, and provided a lot of help for Chen Baxian in his conquest of dissatisfied officials in Lingnan.

Chen Baxian also attached great importance to Mrs. Xian and Feng Bao's couple. Before going north to quell the Hou Jing Rebellion, he entrusted them with the important task of uniting the Liao and other clans.

Not long after Feng Bao died of illness, Mrs. Xian alone took on the great cause of stabilizing Lingnan and uniting various ministries to be loyal to the country.

Mrs. Xian went through the Chen and Sui dynasties, and she did not choose to try to let the Feng family separate Lingnan like Zhao Tuo did, but always regarded Lingnan as an indispensable place for the country.

Even Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, who was far away in Chang'an, was greatly moved, and he assured Madam Xian the power to open the shogunate of Mrs. Qiao, that is, to establish a hegemony.

This is the only overlord in Chinese history that is dominated by women.

Later generations, the Zhuang people, as the largest ethnic minority in the Republic, not only did not cause any troubles, but they have always been the confidantes that the country can rely on in times of crisis, almost the same as the Han people, but Madam Xian is a good start.

It can be said that Lingnan began to be gradually controlled by the state after Mrs. Xian's high integrity.

But the degree of this kind of control, with the death of Mrs. Xian, is still not very secure.

Although the Tang Dynasty established dozens of prefectures and counties in Lingnan, most of the territories that could be fully controlled were mostly in the Pearl River Delta area.

So in the troubled times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Lingnan was very dangerous. Not only was there a problem in Annan, where Jing Haijun was located, but the entire Lingnan Road, including Guangzhou, had problems.

Moreover, the problem in Lingnan is more serious than that in Annan, because the place in Annan is hot and humid at this time, the Red River Delta has not been fully developed, there are swamps everywhere, frequent floods, and there are not many people at all.

Among them, most of the Han people who immigrated to Annan lived on the plains and made a living by farming. They mastered a large number of production materials, and their economic and political status were in a leading position.

Most of the surrounding Baiyue barbarians live in the mountains. They don't even know how to farm. They basically rely on gathering and hunting to survive. Not to mention armor, there are not many iron farm tools, and they can't compete with people living on flat land The Han resisted.

Therefore, Annan's rebellion was completely integrated into the local Han people and the local wealthy families who had been Sinicized since the beginning of the Han Dynasty.

This kind of chaos is actually easy to bring back, and their local separatism is not very stable.

But Lingnan is different. The number of Liao and Baiyue survivors here is far more than that of Han people, and they have been mixed with Han people for a long time. Whether it is farming or military equipment, they have made great progress compared with the Baiyue barbarians in Annan, making Lingnan Han people It is not possible to firmly suppress them.

At the same time, Lingnan is also the base camp of Baiyue. From Qin to Tang, there are actually split genes in it.

And at this time, the Pearl River Delta is already very prosperous, unlike Annan who cannot stand on its own at all, Lingnan relies on the rich Pearl River Delta, which can completely support the scale of a country.

Even 35 years ago, Emperor Gaozu Liu of the Southern Han Dynasty called himself Emperor Dayue before changing his country name.

This is an extremely dangerous signal.

Historically, Emperor Dayue was equivalent to a symbol of civilization that opposed the Han culture in the Central Plains, and could be regarded as the Goguryeo of the south.

In the original history, after the Song Dynasty lost Jing Haijun, the Vietnamese kings of all dynasties picked up this title.

They finally turned the word Yue into a more independent cultural symbol, and gradually developed into a cultural thorn growing in the south.

And before Liu became the emperor of Dayue, the separatism of Lingnan became more fragmented. Chaozhou, Shaozhou, Gaozhou, Guizhou (Guilin), Yongzhou (Nanning), Rongzhou, etc. have all presented pictures of the separate regimes of various ethnic groups.

It can be said that compared with the rebellion of the Jing Navy, this kind of separatist regime that is dominated by Vietnamese characters, different from geopolitical rebellion, but with a signal of cultural rebellion, is more than ten thousand times more dangerous.

Fortunately, in a very short period of time, Liu Yin and Liu brothers took Guangzhou as their base, and after more than 20 years of war, they conquered the separatist Fanhan and other local tyrants one by one, and unified Lingnan including Guangdong and Guangxi.

Although Liu briefly called the emperor of Dayue, he soon executed those who persuaded him to take the title of Yue, and changed the title of the country to Han.

Han and Liu, these two words are almost bound together, even at the end of the Tang Dynasty, they are still a clear indication of the central government and the recognition of the great unification.

Liu changed from the emperor of Dayue to the emperor of the Han Dynasty. It seems that he just changed the name of the country and meant to use the influence of the clan of the Han Dynasty.

But in fact, it fully shows that this Lingnan dynasty is a separatist regime belonging to the Han Dynasty, not the straightforward independence and rebellion of the An Nanjing Navy.

After controlling the whole of Lingnan, Emperor Gaozu Liu of the Southern Han Dynasty and his son Zhongzong Liu Sheng gradually eliminated the local tyrants of the Han Dynasty who ruled in various places, and returned power to the Southern Han court.

They sent a large number of officials to the west of Lingnan Road, which was not fully controlled in the Tang Dynasty, which is today's Guangxi.

He also ordered the rich families in these places to send their children to Xingwangfu (Guangzhou) to study, so as to strengthen control.

At the same time, Liu, Liu Sheng and his sons are still vigorously promoting culture in Lingnan, and the governance at the most basic level has penetrated to the first level of the protection. There is still a township in the protection, and the chiefs are all appointed by the court.

At the same time, unlike other Five Dynasties countries where county magistrates or magistrates and above were paid by military officers, the Southern Han Dynasty was basically all civil servants.

The mildness of civil officials compared to warriors, to a large extent, appeases the emotions of the sluts and other people in various states and counties, and allows the education to be further deepened.

It is true that Liu Sheng, Emperor Gaozu of the Southern Han Dynasty, and Liu Sheng, Emperor Zhongzong, were both too cruel, especially in terms of killing, they were more or less mentally abnormal.

But they have made great contributions to maintaining the people's hearts in Lingnan and making them indistinguishable from those in the Central Plains.

It was also after decades of the Southern Han Dynasty that it took root in Lingnan, and penetrated the political system and cultural education of the Central Plains to the grassroots such as townships and security in Lingnan.

After the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Ting was able to rule Cao Sui in Lingnan, and finally made Lingnan an inseparable part of the country.

Liu, Liu Sheng and his son are extremely unbearable in public and private morality, but on this point, it is no exaggeration to say that they deserve the greatest credit.

Therefore, in the entire history of China, the Southern Han Dynasty is insignificant, but in the history of Lingnan development, the status of the Southern Han Dynasty is extremely important.

This is the first small dynasty that incorporated the grassroots governance of Lingnan into the scope of the imperial court. It inherited Mrs. Xian's initial governance of Lingnan, and laid a solid foundation for the governance of Lingnan in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.

. . . .

Xingwang Mansion, Tongming Hall of Daming Palace.

This Tongming Hall was originally called Zhaoyang Hall, but Liu Sheng changed it to Tongming Hall to avoid Zhang Ting's taboo.

Although it was already late at night, dozens of arm-thick candles were lit in the Tongming Hall, illuminating the hall that should have been pitch-black like daytime.

The current reigning emperor is Liu Sheng, the third emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty. He is the son of Emperor Gaozu Liu of the Southern Han Dynasty.

And after he ascended the throne, in order to fear that his brothers would follow suit, and to frighten people's hearts with great terror, Liu Sheng was extremely vicious and killed fifteen of his eighteen brothers.

The highest record is that he once killed eight of his fellow brothers in one day.

To be so vicious to his close relatives is the only one among the emperors throughout the ages, even more ruthless than Hu Hai.

But in addition to being vicious, Liu Sheng was quite accomplished in state affairs. When he was in office, he conquered the north and south, defeated Ma Chu, Southern Tang and other countries in succession, and expanded his territory to the peak of the Southern Han Dynasty.

At the same time, Liu Sheng also vigorously recruited scholars and actively developed maritime trade.

The main character is a split personality.

. . . .

In Tongming Hall, Liu Sheng was holding a letter in each of his left and right hands under the shining candles.

Sitting next to him were his confidant Shangshu Zuo Cheng Zhong Yunzhang, personal guard commander Wu Xun, internal servant Pan Chongche and others.

Liu Sheng first threw the letter in his right hand onto the table in front of him, and smiled contemptuously, "Duan Sicong, an idiot, is doomed, and he actually wrote a letter, inviting a certain family to send troops to seize Guilin Mansion in Zhou State.

He also boasted triumphantly, saying that Zhou's army had become a tired army if he could not attack for a long time, and he would be defeated sooner or later.

This idiot even wants to invade Sichuan. Doesn't he know that Zhou Guo can fail ten times without hurting his muscles, and his little Dali will perish if he fails once? "

Shangshu Zuocheng Zhong Yunzhang bowed slightly, then nodded his head abruptly, and said softly: "Yes! Zhou State mobilized the whole country, and its intention was to support Yan King Murong Xinchang to conquer Koryo and Japan. Those who attacked Dali, but Only ten to twenty thousand elites.

But even so, the Jianchang Mansion and Wumeng City were still captured, and the soldiers had already approached Dali's heartland. As long as they spared their hands later, Dali would definitely destroy the country. "

Pan Chongche, the internal servant, also nodded. Although this eunuch is a eunuch, he is a very capable eunuch. He has great insights and standards in military affairs. Don't compare Tong Guan with him later. Tong Guan is much taller.

Therefore, Pan Chongche tapped the two directions of true north and northeast on the case table and said: "In fact, if Jianchang Mansion and Wumeng City are lost, Dali has already perished.

In the past, Dali was able to turn defeat into victory even if it was attacked by the imperial army to Yangjumei City, because the imperial court could not firmly control the tribes in these two places.

If it can be grasped, then there is no need for an army to approach Yangjubaa city at all, as long as they continue to harass south from these two places, a little bit of gnawing can make Dali exhausted.

I thought that it wasn't Zhou General Guo Rong who was tired of the old soldiers, because Guo Rong had already mastered most of the tribes in these two places, so he could calmly choose whether to advance or retreat for repairs.

On the other hand, the Dali Kingdom needs to constantly transfer troops to Wumeng Mountain and Lushui, where supplies are difficult, in order to defend the natural danger.

The soldiers of the country have been out for more than a year. I am afraid that it is Dali who are really tired and exhausted. "

However, after speaking, everyone in the room fell into silence.

The current situation is very obvious, the Han and Dali are the only ones left in the world who have not surrendered.

The rest, even the powerful Khitan, and even the grassland tribes, as well as the Goryeo and Wa kingdoms in the east of the sea, have all been wiped out.

If Dali is gone now, the Han Kingdom will definitely not be able to survive alone. If Dali can hold on, there will always be a little hope of self-consolation.

Naturally, Liu Sheng also knew about this situation. He was just cruel, and he might have multiple personalities, but he was not a fool, on the contrary, he was very smart.

A wry smile appeared on the face of the Southern Han emperor for the first time, and he shook the left and right letters vigorously.

"This was sent back by our envoy in the Central Plains. Emperor Shaotian once again rejected a certain marriage proposal. He refused to even give it to a clan girl."

As he spoke, Liu Sheng turned his back, the desolation and despair on his face became more obvious, his tightly clenched fists rattled, and he muttered softly.

"In order to marry a daughter from the Zhang family, I even executed the queen. With such determination and such a prosperous country, aren't you even worthy of a clan daughter?"

If Zhang Ting heard this, he would yell "good guy" at the first hearing. The brain circuit of this mental patient is different from that of ordinary people.

From Liu Sheng's point of view, he personally executed the queen to express to Zhang Ting his firm determination to marry the daughter of the Zhang family, but in Zhang Ting's view, Chunchun is a pervert.

Moreover, this is not the only abnormality of Liu Sheng. The most abnormal thing about him is that the 30-year-old Liu Sheng proposed to Zhang Yu two years ago. He was only ten years old. Princess Zhang Qinan.

This almost didn't anger Cao Yanxi to death, it was directly regarded as Liu Sheng insulting and provoking her. Cao Yanxi, who had never been angry, personally ordered that the main and deputy envoys of the Southern Han Mission who came to propose marriage be killed outside Suzaku's door.

But after that, Liu Sheng still didn't give up, but this time he learned his lesson and proposed that only one daughter of Zhang's clan was needed, and Zhang Ting could be made a princess and married to Xing Wang's mansion.

He also hinted that as long as Zhang's princess comes and Liu Sheng's life is guaranteed, he is willing to contribute to the country like Qian Yue.

In this regard, Zhang Tie refused with a cold snort.

Among other things, Zhang Ting would never agree to Liu Sheng's perverted behavior of taking all his nieces into the harem, even if he married a court lady.

Besides, Zhang Zhaojiu (Ma Shacai) stayed in Guilin for four years, and his hard work is waiting for the credit for destroying the Southern Han Dynasty.

If Liu Sheng's contribution to the country is a small matter, the Southern Han Dynasty is not difficult to fight anyway, and it is a big deal not to piss off Zhang Zhao to death.

However, the matter of accepting the niece is still different from what Zhang Ke thought. Rather than saying that Liu Sheng brought all the nieces into the harem, it is better to say that he imprisoned all the nieces in the harem.

of course!The brothers were all killed, and if some nieces left behind were to marry into a powerful family somewhere, they would have to think about how to kill Liu Sheng every day.

Rather than doing this, it would be better to confine them all in the harem, give them less food and clothing, and die slowly.

In the extremely awkward silence, only the candle flame kept beating, and no one knew what Liu Sheng was thinking.

Is it a desperate attempt with Dali?Or lie in place and die equally?Or can you contribute to the safety of the country?

(End of this chapter)