Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 864 Ten Kingdoms End
Liu Sheng's bipolar disorder actually has a source, and this source comes from his father Liu.

Liu Bie looked as the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, but his background was actually very pitiful.

His mother, the Duan family, is just the concubine of Liu's father, Liu Qian, that is, the kind of wild woman raised outside who is not counted as a concubine.

The reason why Liu Qian didn't dare to take Duan home as a concubine was because he relied on his wife Wei's family to make his fortune.

At that time, Wei Zhou of Webster's was appointed as Lingnan Jiedushi, and Liu Qian was just a dental school. Wei Zhou was lucky enough to marry his niece to him, and Liu Qian was able to make a fortune.

The Wei family is not only Liu Qian's benefactor, they also come from the famous Jingzhao Wei family. Liu Qian, a Lingnan native, can climb up to their family, it can be said that his ancestors have exhausted their luck in eight lifetimes.

And after Wei Zhou resigned and returned to the capital, he soon became the prime minister and became even more powerful.

Therefore, in Liu Qian's family, his wife Wei Shi alone has the final say, how dare he bring Duan Shi home.

However, paper can't contain fire after all. When Liu was two or three years old, Webster finally knew of Liu's existence.

Originally, although Duan Shi was around, Wei Shi could still tolerate it, but she was just a housewife, so she couldn't turn the world around.

But the appearance of Liu made Webster couldn't stand it anymore, because after the death of Liu Tai, the second son of Webster's child, Webster could not have children, and only the eldest son Liu Yin was the only son, so Liu's appearance would greatly threaten Liu. hidden position.

So Wei Shi broke into the outer room with a sword in hand and took Duan Shi and Liu back home. She ordered someone to bring Liu to her. She wanted to kill Liu to prevent future troubles, but when she saw Liu, Wei Shi was shocked.

Because although Liu was only two or three years old at this time, he was outstanding in appearance, with his hands down to his knees, and he looked like a different person.

So Webster changed her mind. She chose to kill Liu's mother, Duan Shi, and let Liu recognize her as her mother.

Unfortunately, when he was young, his mother was killed almost in front of his eyes, and he had to admit that the enemy who killed his mother was his mother, otherwise his life would be lost.

Elder brother Liu Yin also looked down on him very much. If Liu hadn't grown up to be adept at bow and horse and had great military insights, Liu Yin probably would never have regarded him as his younger brother.

Growing up in this environment, Liu naturally suffered from bipolar disorder. When he became manic, he wanted to kill wantonly, when he became depressed, he felt that the whole world was killing him, and then became manic and started killing, and the cycle repeated.

Liu's bipolar disorder and insecurity were perfectly inherited to Liu Sheng, and Liu Sheng was a brother-killer, so the situation was even more serious than Liu Sheng's.

Therefore, although Liu Sheng is not a fatuous lord, you can hardly say that he is a normal person. In his short ten-year career in power, the manic side of bipolar disorder has been very obvious.

In ten years, his own younger brother Liu Sheng alone killed thirteen people, and the rest of the heroes who helped him kill his brother, such as Liu Sichao and Chen Daoxiang, were also killed. Human extermination.

In fact, in the history of China, it is very, very rare to punish the Jiu Clan, because the involvement is too wide, and it is easy for the servants and generals to lose the most basic sense of security.

In the age of emperors, the power of the emperor itself is very great. If there is still no restraint in killing, it will be a very terrible thing.

When an emperor brings uneasiness to everyone, there is a high probability that a spark will cause the entire dynasty to explode on the spot.

So don't talk about punishing the nine clans, that is, punishing the three clans, killing clans, etc., normal emperors use very little.

But Liu Sheng was not a normal emperor. When he killed Chen Daoxiang, Liu Sheng killed all of Chen Daoxiang's distant cousins, and executed more than [-] people in total.

This has completely surpassed the scope of the law, and Liu Sheng and Chen Daoxiang did not have a deep-rooted feud. In this way, it can only be said that Liu Sheng has completely inherited his father's mental illness.

As for the problem of bipolar disorder, the most fearful thing is to be repeatedly stimulated, and he may become ill when stimulated.

That's why Liu Sheng had made a good plan a few months ago. First, he asked to marry a daughter of the Zhang family, and try to grab as many bargaining chips as possible for himself. .

But after being scolded by Wang Jiu a few months ago, Liu Sheng immediately fell ill.

Originated from his father Liu's killing and self-destructive genes.He began to control Liu Sheng's brain, which made Liu Sheng cut off all escape routes.

. . . .

The fall of Wuzhou was a very serious blow to the future of the Southern Han Dynasty and to Liu Sheng.

Since Wuzhou was taken from Ma Chu by the Southern Han Dynasty six years ago, it has always been the northwest gate of King Xing's Mansion, and the hoarded grain, grass and baggage are piled up like mountains.

Ji Yanyun and Zuolong Longxiang Army were also the elite of the Southern Han Dynasty. Once they fell, it was equivalent to the loss of one-third of the supplies and one-third of the military strength of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Although there is a Duanzhou (Zhaoqing) between Wuzhou and Xingwangfu (Guangzhou), which is regarded as an important water and land hub, the national power of the Southern Han Dynasty is simply unable to build another defensive fortress outside Wuzhou. There is no more hindrance.

Liu Sheng received the battle report on the second day after the fall of Wuzhou, and he had nothing to do. The officials were afraid of offending Liu Sheng and dared not speak. Almost all Liu Sheng's brothers were killed, so no one came close. persuasion.

So, Liu Sheng, who was extremely disappointed, staggered back to the palace and got himself very drunk. The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and the more he thought about it, the more depressed he felt, feeling that everyone was watching his jokes and planning to sacrifice him Give Zhou Guo in exchange for wealth.

The sky is upside down, there are too many traitors and traitors in this country!

The drunk Liu Sheng went berserk, and immediately ordered the guards to call his twelfth brother Gao Wang Liu Hongmiao to the palace, and then ordered the servants to frame Liu Hongmiao and keep drinking.

He also threatened that if Liu Hongmiao refused, Liu Sheng would throw him into a pot of boiling water for cooking. In desperation, Liu Hongmiao was forced to drink several times, which caused massive stomach bleeding.

Seeing Liu Hongmiao vomiting blood, Liu Sheng not only refused to call the doctors to treat him, but laughed out loud, feeling that it was not enough, so he ordered someone to call his favorite actor, Shang Yulou.

After Shang Yulou arrived, Liu Sheng ordered his servant to fetch a big papaya, put it on Shang Yulou's neck and ordered Shang Yulou to clamp it with his head, and then he drew his sword and slashed, chopping off Shang Yulou's neck and papaya with one blow .

Blood spurted out, the papaya fell and shattered all over the ground, Liu Sheng laughed wildly, feeling that the depression in his heart suddenly healed up a lot, turned around and drank fine wine again, and finally fell into a deep sleep.

However, his younger brother Liu Hongmiao was lying on the ground bleeding from his mouth and nose. He was left unattended from late at night until dawn, and eventually died of a massive blood loss.

The next day, Liu Sheng woke up from his drunkenness and called Shang Yulou to serve him. Knowing that he had already beheaded him last night, Liu Sheng sighed deeply and ordered someone to bury him generously.

As for his younger brother Liu Hongmiao, Liu Sheng didn't even bother to ask, and let his corpse lie in the palace.

In the end, some servants couldn't see it, so they dug a hole in the apse, wrapped it in a sackcloth, and buried Liu Hongmiao.

. . . .

In the eighth year of Shaoming, 954 A.D., in the middle of May, Zhang Zhaojun's troops of the West Road Zhou Army captured Duanzhou (Zhaoqing). Lu Guangtu, the governor of Duanzhou, committed suicide and died for his country.

Under the leadership of Fanshun, the Zhou army on the North Road also attacked Yingzhou (Yingde) from Shaozhou. The governor of Yingzhou in the Southern Han Dynasty and other officials of all sizes surrendered without a fight. Huashan (Flower County) to the north of Wangfu.

Not long after, Lin Renzhao's headquarters on the East Road, under the leadership of the Chaozhou clan, also successfully recruited the governor of Xunzhou (Huizhou) in the Southern Han Dynasty.

When Lin Renzhao set off, he had only ten thousand soldiers and horses. After arriving in Xunzhou, he had more than [-] infantry and horsemen. He immediately stationed in Chi'an Garrison (on the southwest coast of Zengcheng), waiting for Zhang Zhaojun's orders.

Lin Renzhao and Fanshun are still very close. Zhang Zhaojun stayed in Lingnan for four years in order to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty. This time he played in the battle, and he was also the head of the Lingnan Road camp.

If nothing else, he should be the one who guards Lingnan in the next 20 years.

So after the two arrived, they had a tacit understanding not to attack Prince Xing's mansion, but stood still, intending to leave the achievement of destroying the country to Zhang Zhaojun.

Zhang Zhaojun is also doing his part, this is not the time to say no to politeness, the soldiers under his command who followed him in Guilin Mansion for four years and built Lingqu for four years must use the credit and glory of destroying the country to comfort them .

So Zhang Zhaojun ordered Fanshun and Lin Renzhao to choose [-] elite troops to join him, and the rest of the troops stayed in place to block the north and east sides to prevent the southern Han monarchs from fleeing. attitude.

Before the official attack, Zhang Zhaojun had one more thing to do, which was to offer sacrifices to Mrs. Xian and restore the tomb of Mrs. Xian located in the Dianbai District of Maoming in later generations.

As for why it needs to be restored, it is because Mrs. Xian's tomb has been confiscated in Feng's long house, that is, when Gao Lishi was taken captive to Luoyang, the capital of God, by Tang Ting, no!It should have been destroyed by someone sent by the Wu Zhou court.

Of course, this destruction is not the same as opening coffins and exposing corpses in the wilderness, but demolishing the tomb of Mrs. Xian's tomb, shrines, temples for sacrifices, and smashing the stone statues and stone animals in front of the tomb.

Zhang Tie sometimes wondered if Wu Zetian was out of his mind.

Not to mention whether Feng's rebellion was wronged or persecuted, even if they really rebelled, they can't be blamed on Mrs. Xian who has passed away for 200 years.

Without Mrs. Xian, how could Lingnan return to the country so quickly?Are you implicating Mrs. Xian now because you want to destroy the "since ancient times" of the Central Plains court in Lingnan?

Besides, when Empress Wu Zetian is in power, shouldn't you hold Madam Xian up high, to show that there have been people who can hold power like men, and women who don't give way to men? Since ancient times, there have been people?
As a result, Wu Zetian did it so anti-intellectually. She ordered people to destroy Mrs. Xian's tomb, which made the people in Lingnan runny and hated her deeply.

Fortunately, Madam Xian's sixth grandson, Gaoli, turned his power to the people and asked Emperor Xuanzong to order the restoration of Madam Xian's tomb in Lingnan.

However, although it was restored during the Xuanzong period, it only agreed to the restoration, neither ordered the Ministry of Industry to restore the previous tomb form, nor rehabilitated Feng.

Therefore, this can only be regarded as a kind of folk restoration, not an official recognition.

After Zhang Tie knew this situation, he immediately knew what to do to appease the people in Lingnan.

Under his arrangement, the court's Ministry of Rites quickly formulated a posthumous gift and reward for Mrs. Xian, and sent Zhang Yuan, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, to Lingnan to preside over it in person.

On May [-]th, Zhang Zhaojun led the Zhou army's capital of Yuhou and more than ten officials of the imperial court's Ministry of Rites to build a mausoleum at the foot of Mount Yao (Yuexiu Mountain). The heads of the pigs, chickens, ducks, fish and other tributes, such as melons and fruits, are sacrificed to Mrs. Xian and Feng Bao.

Maoming is four or five hundred miles away from Guangzhou. It is impossible for Zhang Zhaojun to leave the army now, so he first sacrificed at Yaoshan, and repaired it after taking the Southern Han Dynasty.

While the incense was rising, Zhang Zhaojun had a serious face. He knew Zhang Ting's purpose for doing this, and he really admired Mrs. Xian's integrity. Therefore, before the army arrived in Guangzhou, people made a big publicity that he would sacrifice to Mrs. Xian first when he arrived at Xingwang's mansion.

The purpose is to let more Lingnan people know about this matter through word of mouth, especially the Xian and Feng clans who are now entrenched in Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island.

Sure enough, when the sacrifice was about to end, Zhang Yuan, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, announced that the imperial court would bestow on Mrs. Xian the title of King of Nanhai County, with the posthumous posthumous title of Zhongzhen, and allow temples to be built in various places to offer sacrifices, titled Zhongzhen Protector of the South China Sea King. The Xian and Feng clansmen who came from Leizhou and Qiongzhou showed up weeping.

Since ancient times, there is only one person who has received the king's title as a woman.

Only Li Shimin's younger sister, Princess Pingyang, was given the posthumous title of a woman, and she was called Princess Pingyang Zhao.

From then on, only Qin Liangyu in the late Ming Dynasty, with the posthumous title of Zhongzhen.

So it is no wonder that the descendants of the Feng family and the Xian family cried out excitedly on the spot.

Seeing them appear, Zhang Zhaojun immediately strikes while the iron is hot, announcing that the imperial court will immediately rehabilitate Feng Junheng, the governor of Guangzhou during the Wu Zhou period, Gao Lishi's father, and return some of Feng's land confiscated in the Tang Dynasty after the recovery of Lingnan.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Xinchao's achievement of this level has gone far beyond the scope of giving grace. As the largest local snake in Lingnan, the heads of Feng and Xian both bowed to the ground and knelt three times and kowtowed nine times to the north to express their gratitude.

Zhang Zhaojun took the opportunity to announce again in public that after the army entered Xingwang's mansion, they would not indiscriminately kill a single person or plunder the people's property, and anyone with grievances could come to appeal.

As a result, the people were determined and fell to the ground one after another, and the chiefs of the various clans expressed their willingness to contribute money and food to help Master Wang.

Sure enough, a few days later, people from more than ten prefectures and counties near Xingwang's Mansion, led by the local nobles, took the initiative to help the Zhou army deliver grain, grass and supplies.

Zhang Zhaojun bought pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, shrimp eggs and other products from them at a price that was double the market price.

Tens of thousands of troops were also paid to local women for starching and washing clothes, and the human and animal excrement accumulated by the army was given to the local people for free.

This level of Liu Sheng's governance is limited to not harming or harming the people. Taxation and corvee are not light at all, and the administration of the upper and lower officials is relatively rough.

Now, for the first time, the people in Lingnan felt the delicate administration and handling of affairs of the officials of the Central Plains court, and they couldn't help being greatly shocked and extremely happy.

They cheered and ran to tell each other, claiming that Zhou Junguo was the king's teacher.

It can be said that once these three moves were made, the hearts of the people were determined, and the support Zhou Jun received outside the Xingwangfu City was even higher than that of the Southern Han Army.

But at this time, King Xing's mansion didn't know what was happening outside the city. The officials and people in the city were panicked, and even the Imperial Guards of the Southern Han Dynasty who guarded the city were quite frightened. Defeat Zhou Jun.

Liu Sheng was overjoyed and handed over all the more than [-] forbidden troops in the city to the two men, and then recruited [-] warriors who dared to fight in the city, and ordered them to go out of the city to fight the Zhou army.

On May 22, Wu Xun took [-] giant elephants as the vanguard, and each elephant carried more than ten soldiers. They were covered in colorful brocade and silk, and their trunks and tusks were painted white, which looked extremely terrifying.

It is as high as a mountain wall, and when it charges, it shakes and shakes like a monster. The soldiers on the elephant's back hold strong bows and crossbows and shoot down the Zhou army.

Most of the soldiers and war horses of the Zhou army had never seen this thing before, and they retreated after being killed for a while.

Zhang Zhaojun was furious and ordered the soldiers to push the three bronze cannons to the front of the formation.

These small cannons were improved again by the Tiangong Institute after the First World War in Shouzhou.

According to Zhang Ting's meaning and the actual combat effect, in the current Zhang Zhou army, the navy mainly uses giant artillery, and pays attention to destroying the enemy's ships with a single shot in naval battles.

The army mainly focuses on small and medium-sized guns that can be drawn by horses and tiger squatting guns with short and thick barrels. During the Southern Expedition, Zhang Tie approved three guns for Zhang Zhaojun, but Zhang Zhaojun didn't think much of them.

He felt that the loading of the artillery was cumbersome, and its power could only be said to be passable. It could be equivalent to two Fuyuan crossbows. Apart from the scary explosion sound, the advantages seemed not too obvious.

And one of the biggest problems is that the frame carrying the artillery is easily damaged, and the wheels and cross axles are often replaced during long-distance running, which is very troublesome, so the whole army is not willing to use them.

But at this moment, the opposite giant elephant was rushing towards him. Zhang Zhaojun thought for a while, and it seemed that only this fire-breathing and thunder-throwing thing could scare the opposite giant elephant.

Wu Xunzheng, the commander of the Giant Elephants of the Southern Han Dynasty, blushed with excitement. He only waited for the giant elephants to completely disperse the Zhou army's formation, and the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty behind them could form an formation and fight hard.

But he was not happy for a long time, when he heard a thunderous roar from the opposite army formation, and even orange flames spewed out.

Wu Xun froze for a moment, and immediately knew something was wrong.

Because elephants are actually very timid and sensitive. I managed to train them so that they are not afraid of the roar of soldiers on the battlefield, but they certainly cannot withstand this kind of movement.

Sure enough, the charging elephant heard the thunderous roar from the opposite side, and the terrifying flames erupted, and the charging speed was not so fast.

Just at this time, as if by divine help, a stone bullet fired from a bronze cannon just hit the head elephant in the herd.

No matter how mighty the elephant is, it is still a body of flesh and blood. The head elephant was hit on the forehead by a stone bullet weighing more than ten kilograms, and suddenly it was struck by lightning. on the ground.

The tragic death of the head elephant caused a collective panic among the other elephants. Zhang Zhaojun immediately asked the sharpshooter in the army to shoot with a magic arm bow.

Not only could the elephant not be able to hold the cannonballs, but it was actually also unable to bear the approaching shots of the god-armed bow.

Just now Zhou Jun was beaten back again and again, in fact, he was thrown out of formation in fright, unable to concentrate his firepower on these elephants.

Now that the coach has personally arrived at the front of the formation, and the artillery is powerful again, the soldiers gradually recovered from their panic.

Thinking of the panic just now, these bravest fighters from Zhang Zhou's court couldn't help but have a fever.

The commander of the Right Jinwu Guard, Wang Quanbin, went into battle naked. He held a red flag symbolizing a decisive impact in one hand, and a single wooden crossbow in the other. Heng Dao screamed fiercely.

The soldiers and generals were encouraged by him, their roars shook the sky and the earth, and they all fought bravely to be the first.

Faced with this situation, the war elephants of the Southern Han Dynasty couldn't bear it anymore. Elephants are very smart. They can even perceive the morale and strength of the two sides.

In the sky full of divine arm bows and bows, it feels that they must not be able to beat them on the opposite side, and they are the first to fail.

More than a dozen elephants turned around and ran away, disorganizing the army formation of the Southern Han army rushing behind them. Zhou Jun took the opportunity to cover up and kill, and the [-] Southern Han army suddenly fell into unprecedented chaos.

About an hour into the battle, Wu Xun, the commander of the giant elephant, was killed, and thousands of soldiers were lost. The whole army retreated to Xingwang's mansion.

Liu Sheng heard the roar of the tsunami outside the inner city, and there were people fleeing in panic, even soldiers and officials everywhere, and they all shouted that the army was defeated, making the city even more chaotic.

During the crisis, Wan Jingxin, the commander of Juzhou, Xie Guan, the general who controlled the crane, and Pan Chongche, the internal servant, rushed to protect Liu Sheng and ran to the south port of the outer city.

Wan Jingxin said to Liu Sheng: "The country is in Nangang. There are still hundreds of warships and more than [-] sailors. You can go south on a huge boat, or go to Qiong, Ya, Dan and other states, or settle in Champa."

It's a pity that as soon as the words fell, the direction of Nangang was full of flames, and the sound of killing and shouting suddenly sounded.

Not long after, Wan Jingxin's trusted officers and soldiers came to report. It turned out that Wan Jingxin had just left, and a large number of sailors and soldiers did not want to go to Champo and other wild places, so they directly clamored on board. Unable to suppress, internal strife broke out between the two sides.

Now some of the navy generals have sailed to seek refuge with the Zhou people, and some have plundered gold and silver and gone to sea to steal them.

Knowing that there was no escape route, Liu Sheng refused to die in the market, and immediately returned to Daming Palace.

Pan Chongche and Wan Jingxin glanced at each other, abandoned Liu Sheng and disappeared into the crowd.

General Xie Guan, who controls the crane, escorted Liu Sheng back to Daming Palace. At this time, the Zhou army had entered the city in large numbers, and there was even more chaos everywhere.

In desperation, Liu Sheng held his sword in the Daming Palace and killed the beauties Li and Chen, the servants Lin Yanyu, Guo Chongtao, and the palace maid Lu Qiongxian.

At that time, his eldest son Liu Jixing, who was later the last ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Yu, was already 12 years old. Before his eyes, his father was killing people with a sword like a madman.

His younger brothers Liu Xuanxing, Liu Qingxing, and Liu Baoxing were killed along with him. Only Liu Chongxing, the youngest, escaped in his infancy.

After killing all his family members, Liu Sheng laughed wildly and ordered Xie Guan to kill him.

Xie Guan believed that the emperor would not be injured by swords, so he took three feet of white silk and strangled him to death, and then committed suicide with his sword.

The Southern Han Dynasty perished.

(End of this chapter)