Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 862 Saint Zhang
In Guangzhou and Jiaozhou in the Tang Dynasty, there were actually some situations that were beyond the imagination of later generations.

For example, most people don't know that in 758, when the Anshi Rebellion broke out and the Central Plains was fighting fiercely, a force of food and Persian troops captured Guangzhou.

Well, it may be an exaggeration to say that the army is a bit, it should be said that it is pirates and mobs.

And just like the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Dashi and Persians were the ones who contributed most of the pirates, but it was the Han people who recruited and raised these pirates behind the scenes.

The problem still lies with Wu Zetian.

After she established Wu Zhou, in order to cut off the kings of the Li family and loyal officials of Li Tang in various places, she started the politics of cruel officials, and encouraged the people all over the world to report each other, with the purpose of planting the kings of the Li family.

At this time, even if it is an old farmer in the countryside, as long as he claims to have a big secret to go to Beijing to report, the state and county officials must provide him with carriages, horses and food to send him to the capital.

In this political atmosphere, the Feng family, a powerful family with intricate roots in the south of the Five Ridges, naturally became the target of public criticism.

In the second year of Changshou (693), Wan Guojun, a cruel official, framed the rebels exiled to Lingnan for rebellion, and massacred Feng in Lingnan.

The famous eunuch Gao Lishi in history was castrated at this time and sent to Luoyang, the capital of the gods. He is the sixth grandson of Mrs. Xian and the great-grandson of the traitor Xu Jingzong.

Although the Feng family is indeed very domineering in Lingnan, if you want to say that he rebelled, it would be too much.

Since Mrs. Xian's son, Feng An, the Feng family has frequently married the powerful and powerful in the court, and their position in Lingnan is very stable. They only rebelled when they were full.

Wu Zetian killed more than 200 members of the Feng family this time, and she thought she had eradicated the Lingnan disaster, and she was quite complacent.

But the Feng family and Mrs. Xian's natal Xian family have occupied Lingnan for hundreds of years, so how could they kill more than 200 people and be fine.

These more than 200 people were only the direct descendants of Changfang. They were killed, but the other branches of the Feng family were hidden under the protection of the Xian family.

Lingnan is close to the sea, and the Feng family is also a big family in maritime trade, although they have no strength to fight against the imperial court for the time being.

But these Feng family members quickly gathered around Hainan Island, and quickly built this place into a huge pirate base, attracting a large number of Dashi and Persian pirates, and they were full of energy to take revenge on the imperial court.

During the Anshi Rebellion, the war in the north became tense, and the Dashi and Persian survivors who had traded and even settled in Guangzhou all the year round were also recruited by the imperial court to go north as volunteers to fight against the Anshi rebels.

The chance of revenge that the Feng family had been waiting for for 67 years finally came. The Dashi pirates they raised joined with these so-called volunteers and suddenly rebelled and counterattacked Guangzhou.

Wiley, the governor of Guangzhou, saw that he fled over the wall and the city of Guangzhou was destroyed. The soldiers of the two countries cooperated with the pirates to plunder the warehouses, burn down the houses of the people, and then disappeared by boat.

There is no detailed record in history of how much loss Guangzhou, with a population of 30, suffered, but one fact is clear, that is, since then, Guangzhou has declined rapidly, and its population, taxation, and importance in maritime trade have been far behind Jiaozhou was left behind.

Later generations said that Jiaozhou was richer than Guangzhou, which started from this time, which shows how heavy Guangzhou's losses were.

What's even worse is that these big cannibals and Persian survivors didn't run far, and most of them returned to Guangzhou in various identities.

It is also conceivable that there were tens of thousands of them. At that time, in Lingnan and even Southeast Asia, except for Guangzhou and Jiaozhou, there were not many places that could easily accommodate tens of thousands of people.

As for running back to Dashi by boat, that is pure nonsense. At this time, the navigation technology and shipbuilding technology are not up to the ability to transport tens of thousands of people from Guangzhou back to Dashi in a short time.

As a result, a very strange scene in history appeared in Guangzhou. The permanent population in the city began to be divided into ethnic groups. There were many cannibals, and there were few Han people and other Lingnan people.

At the most exaggerated time, there are less than 20 people in Guangzhou, but there are as many as 12 people from Dashi, Persian and other races. The whole Guangzhou is like a Dashi city.

Of course, these big cannibals didn't end well in the end, because soon after the flowers bloomed, the soaring general Huang Chao, who was killed by Hundred Blossoms, came.

After Huang Chao arrived in Lingnan, the Han and Li people still remembered the deep hatred of more than a hundred years ago, and even hated the cannibals who entered the city as merchants and went to sea as robbers. Huang Chao avenged them.

At this time, Huang Chao was very angry because he asked the imperial court for Annan's guardian, and Guangzhou Jiedu was unable to make it. He was overjoyed when he heard the words. Cannibals, regardless of men, women, old and young, are all cut off, and their gold, silver, brocade and silk are collected.

The rest of the big cannibals scattered in the cities of south of the Five Ridges were also killed by the local people.

Although it is impossible for Huang Chaojun to count how many cannibals he killed, he believes that at least it will not be less than 20.

Most of the descendants of the big cannibals who looted Guangzhou back then, plus the Fanren who came to do business normally, were all killed without distinction.

Indeed, it was one of the few good things Huang Chao did to relieve hatred.

But after this battle, Guangzhou began to decline completely, the majesty of the imperial court was lost, and semi-separatist forces formed in various parts of Lingnan to attack each other.

It was not until Liu and Liu Sheng and his sons came to power in the Southern Han Dynasty that the situation stabilized and the population and economy began to recover.

Even now, the Nanhan palaces in Guangzhou are rich enough to decorate pearls in the fake rivers of the palaces.

But at this time, Liu Sheng in Changhua Palace was not in the mood to appreciate the Pearl False River in the palace, because he was about to collapse due to the edict ordered by Zhang Ting to send troops to help attack Jing Haijun.

This is Yang Conspiracy!
Now even Nanzhong, which was controlled in the Han Dynasty, has been recovered. According to Liu Sheng's theory, he is regarded as a vassal subject, so the world is complete, and indeed only Jinghai is left. The court has enough reasons to attack.

Of course, there are also sufficient reasons to transfer the Southern Han army to help in the war. Not to mention that he considers himself a vassal, even the Nanyue Kingdom in the Western Han Dynasty had to obey the imperial edict to some extent.

In the end, it was Pan Chongche, the eunuch and general whom Liu Sheng relied on the most, who paid him attention.

Pan Chongche asked Liu Sheng to write a letter to Zhang Tie, saying that Jing Hai Wu's family heard that the Central Plains Holy Master had come out and a new dynasty was established, and they were willing to obey the court's orders like the Southern Han Dynasty.

. . . .

What should Jing Haijun say at this time, it was quite chaotic.

When Wu Quan overthrew the Southern Han Dynasty, he became the king himself, but he died after only being the king for five years.

Before his death, all the sons were still young, so Wu Quan let his eldest son Wu Changji succeed him, and entrusted him to his brother-in-law Yang Sange, hoping that Yang Sange could help Wu Changji well.

Yang Sange's real name is no longer available, because the word "brother" in Tang Dynasty was a respectful title for close relatives and older men, not a name.

Brother Yang's move to the Central Plains is roughly equivalent to the concept of Lu Buwei's second father.

It's just that Sange Yang, the middle father, is much more ruthless than Lu Buwei. Wu Changji hadn't been king for half a year, and Sange Yang usurped the throne immediately. Wu Changji could only escape under the cover of his cronies.

Afterwards, Brother Yang officially became King Ping, and he became king for about five years, but before he had any taste, he was overthrown by Wu Quan's second son, Wu Changwen, who contacted the Ya Bing Ya Jiang below.

After Wu Changwen overthrew Sange Yang, he brought back his elder brother Wu Changji, who had been exiled in the countryside, and thus began a more bizarre period of two brothers ruling.

Originally, Wu Changwen was a concubine with low prestige. He brought back his elder brother Wu Changji who had fled to the common people. The original intention was that Wu Changji could be a bit of a puppet and obediently be a puppet.

In Wu Changwen's mind, Wu Changji has been forced by Yang Sange to hide in the folks to "eat soil". Now, although he is a puppet when he comes back, he has all the delicacies of mountains and seas, so he should be satisfied.

But Wu Changji was dissatisfied, let alone compelled. As soon as Wu Changji returned to Guluo (one of the ancient names of Hanoi), he immediately began to call himself the king, and he also named himself King Tiance.

How can this be unreasonable!This is simply to go to heaven.

Wu Changji, the eldest son, was kicked out by Brother Yang, and he didn't have much power in his hands. He was also rescued by his younger brother Wu Changwen.

For this kind of situation, Wu Changji slapped his little brain and thought hard with his inexperienced pig brain, and suddenly found that the scene at this time was very similar to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin!
My life is in danger, what should I do?

In an instant, he didn't know what Wu Changji's head was connected to. He suddenly thought, since he looks like Li Jiancheng who is about to be killed by his younger brother Li Shimin, then simply.

Why don't I call myself the Tiance King.

In this way, I am Li Shimin, not the murdered elder brother Li Jiancheng.

What is this called? This is called occupying the high ground first.

Seeing his brother doing this, Wu Changwen became numb. After thinking hard, he also thought of a clever plan.

You take out the word Tiance to stack armor for yourself, I want to see who is better at stacking armor.

So after hard thinking and meditation, Wu Changwen had an idea and called himself the king of the Southern Jin Dynasty.

hey-hey!Don't you call yourself the king of Tiance, I simply call you the king of Southern Jin, this Li Tang raised his troops from Jinyang, no matter how big the Tiance Mansion is, how can it be as big as Jinyang?

And the Yajiang below saw the two brothers starting to fight in the ring, and was immediately overjoyed. They supported Wu Changji for a while, and supported Wu Changwen for a while, and soon defrauded Wu Quan and Brother Yang of the family property accumulated Most of it.

And those who were cheated were not only the money, but also the name of guarding various places. These generals and the local big clans soon formed ten relatively large forces in the black and white, and Annan people called them ten envoys.

These ten envoys, together with Wu Changji and Wu Changwen brothers, started a great chaos in Annan.

The fight lasted until the end of last year. It is estimated that God couldn't bear it. Wu Changji, who had no chance, suddenly died of a serious illness. Wu Changwen took the opportunity to annex his power, and then it stopped a little.

In fact, this is not the final version. The final version was 11 years later in 965. Wu Changwen led more than a thousand soldiers out of the city to wipe out the bandits. As a result, the majestic king was ambushed and killed by hundreds of bandits at the entrance of a village.

As a result, the power of the Wu family completely declined, and Wu Changwen's generals, Du Jingshuo and Yang Jili, broke away from the Wu family and became independent, and they also claimed to be envoys.

The final version, known in history as the Great Chaos of the Twelve Envoys of Annan, was finally formed.

But at this time, not long after Wu Changji's sudden death, Wu Changwen unified the Wu family's forces, and it was just the time when he was full of ambition and wanted to eliminate the already strong ten envoys.

But he didn't know that the Central Plains had already changed drastically, so he still followed the old habit and sent his younger brother Wu Changjun to Xingwang's mansion to ask Liu Sheng to see him.

Therefore, when Liu Sheng said that Annan was willing to submit to the imperial court, he was not completely lying. If Wu Changwen knew that the Central Plains was unified, he would definitely choose to submit to the imperial court.

And to a certain extent, if Liu Sheng's deceitful strategy is successful, it can indeed stop Zhang Tie's mouth.

But... Liu Sheng obviously underestimated my determination of Shengren Zhang to recover the Southern Han Dynasty and Jing Haijun. Of course, he even underestimated the shamelessness of Shengren Zhang.

After receiving the informant in advance, Zhang Yu directly issued a death order to Jinyi's personal guards, asking them to intercept and kill the envoys sent by Liu Sheng at all costs, and not allow them to reach Luoyang, the capital of God.

All of a sudden, Jinyi's personal guard's spy network in the Southern Han Dynasty began to launch with all its strength.

Often the envoys of the Southern Han Dynasty reporting to the imperial court were intercepted and killed by bandits and bandits bought by Jinyi's personal guards before leaving the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty.

The group of envoys who ran the farthest were caught and killed more than ten miles away from Guilin Mansion.

Liu Sheng and Pan Chongche are really numb. They have only now seen how ruthless and resolute I am, Saint Zhang. On the surface, he is kind and amiable, but behind his back, he is really ruthless.

But do you think I, Zhang Shengren, have this trick?Are you kidding me, this is His Majesty the new emperor of the Holy Trinity.

So while intercepting the envoys of the Southern Han Dynasty, Zhang Tie issued an edict to the Duke of Zhang Guoliu to follow, ordering him to send elite sailors to the Jinghai Navy to investigate the situation.

Liu Congxiao sent his nephew, the Forbidden Army Navy, Dinghai Town Duyu Liu Shaoquan, and personally led three hundred naval troops to set off from Zhangzhou.

Liu Shaoquan took people posing as sea merchants to land in the Jing Navy, and then suddenly attacked Haimen Town, Wu'an Prefecture, Annan, which is the later Vietnam Haiphong.

More than [-] town generals and officers and soldiers here were taken away directly, and then brought back to Zhangzhou for strict interrogation, and the truth was obtained.

Zhang Tie is so excited!
OK!You, Liu Sheng, claim to be a loyal vassal, but you are a vassal without telling the court to suppress the navy rebellion. This is arrogance.

Accepting the gift from the traitor Jing Haijun is cover-up and collusion.

Deliberately describing Jing Haijun's submission to Han as submission to the imperial court is deceiving the emperor.

Good guy, you have been accused of deceiving the emperor, colluding with traitors, and usurping, and you have all been charged. Any one of them is enough to send troops to crusade.

. . . .

In the eighth year of Shaoming, 954 of the Convention, in February, a group of more than [-] angels came to Xingwang's mansion under the leadership of Shi'anbo Wang Jiu, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites.

At this time, Liu Sheng didn't know that the court had obtained the definite evidence as early as last year, and he just went out of Wangcheng to meet Wang Jiu with some trepidation.

Wang Jiu, he has experienced this kind of scene too much, pulling Gaochang Uighur Khan's robe to prevent him from leaving, grabbing Li Jing's sleeve, pointing at his nose and yelling, those are all famous works of my Uncle Wang.

He knew very well what he was here for, so when he saw Liu Sheng who was wearing a silver-white over-the-shoulder python robe, he didn't show any mercy.

Without even waiting for Liu Sheng to finish saluting, Wang Jiu pulled out the Jinghai Haimen town general and other people who were caught by Liu Congxiao, and threw them in front of Liu Sheng.

Then, in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Southern Han Dynasty, he pointed at the panicked Liu Sheng and cursed.

One after another, the curses were cadenced, from Liu Sheng's hypocrisy to his deception, to his indiscriminate killing of brothers, making Liu Sheng, the lord of the Southern Han Dynasty, stand in front of hundreds of people. , Face disgraced.

Liu Sheng was able to listen quietly at first, but when he heard Wang Jiu scolding more and more ugly, his face gradually turned red, and in the end he trembled like gold paper.

At this time, Liu Sheng favored and trusted eunuchs and palace people, and he had long since become more and more reluctant to listen to advice, desperate to save face, let alone being scolded in person.

I believe that if Wang Jiu scolds for a few more minutes, he might be able to achieve an unprecedented achievement of scolding a king to death.

Fortunately, seeing Liu Sheng being pointed at his nose and scolded, his most trusted eunuch Lin Yanyu, palace servant Lu Qiongxian and others rushed over to scold Wang Jiu.

This time, it was Wang Jiu's turn to be stunned on the spot.

He has scolded so many people, and he has never seen a king who is not in charge of civil and military affairs, but eunuchs and palace servants rushed over to scold him as a shrew.

Shangshu Zuo Cheng Zhong Yunzhang, and the servant Pan Chongche secretly said something bad was going on.

Idiots like Lin Yanyu and Lu Qiongxian who had never been out of the palace in their entire lives, who knew how powerful the Central Plains court was, had no bottom line when they scolded, and soon added several serious crimes to Liu Sheng.

What's more, when they come out and scold him like this, it's easy for Liu Sheng, who is already a little out of order, to break his can.

Sure enough, before Zhong Yunzhang came out to 'put out the fire', Liu Sheng howled sharply, stared at his red eyes, pointed at Wang Jiu and other court angels and roared loudly: "Take them down, take them down! I want to... "

Pan Chongche hurriedly flew over and hugged Liu Sheng's thigh, crying loudly: "The master humiliated the minister to death, they bullied people too much, please ask the king to order this slave to put this rebellious person into a prison for strict interrogation!"

With Pan Chongche's howl, all the civil servants and military generals of the Southern Han Dynasty realized that even if the Southern Han Dynasty was gone, many of them could always save their lives as long as they knew the current affairs.

But if Liu Sheng killed the imperial court angel, or Shao Mingzi's former favored minister, Wang Jiu, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites under his madness, then there would be a big problem, and they might all be buried with him in the future.

Therefore, the court of the Southern Han Dynasty showed incomparable unity and unity. They all loudly echoed Pan Chongche and scolded Wang Jiu, and pushed Lu Qiongxian and other Liu Sheng's cronies to the back.

It seems loyal and courageous, but in fact he wants to save Wang Jiu's life.

This Liu Sheng was already a bit insane, but now seeing the ministers like this, he was anxious and angry. Just as he was about to say something, he felt an explosion-like pain on his forehead. Before he could say anything, his eyes darkened and he passed out.

The officials of the Southern Han Dynasty were overjoyed, some of them escorted Liu Sheng back to the palace, and some hurriedly summoned guards to take Wang Jiu and others away and put them in prison.

However, regardless of the fate of Wang Jiu and others, there is no shortage of excuses for crusade now.

It happened that the brothers Zhang Yue (Murong Nobunaga) and Zhang Kai (Zhang Xiancun), the most important foreign vassal states, had basically stabilized.

Zhang Tie immediately dispatched troops and generals, preparing to take the Southern Han Dynasty and complete the great cause of unification.

(End of this chapter)