Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1072

"My surname, Ning, is rooted in the Central Plains and originated from the Zhou family. The distant ancestor, Uncle Kang, was the same mother and younger brother of King Wu of Zhou. He was first granted the title of Kangdi in Jinei. King Wu destroyed Shang and established Zhou, and later was granted the title of Yin Ruins. Song. It was passed down to Duke Wu of the Tenth World, and his youngest son, Ji Yu (wei), was granted the title of Ningyi, and later he took the town as his surname. This is the origin of my surname Ning!"

On the banks of the Yu River, in the city of Yongping County, Ning Chun, the prefect of Yongping, was wearing a scarlet round collar official robe and a beam crown, impassioned.

The Ning family used to be a common surname in the Central Plains, and later went south during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty, and was resettled by Emperor Wu of Liang to the Ningyue area, which was still very backward and wild at that time, which was Qinzhou at that time.

Ning Kui was the first to bring the Ning clan to the south. Since then, the Ning clan has gone through three generations.From the earliest time when Ning Kui went to the south of the Yangtze River, he only brought some family servants to open up wasteland. Up to now, the Ning family has occupied almost the entire Beibu Gulf area.

After Chen Dynasty Liang, Sui Dynasty Chen, and then Qin Dynasty Sui.

The Ning family firmly holds the power to control the Beibu Gulf area. The key is that they have operated here for generations, not only with prestige, but also with private soldiers.

In the Sui Dynasty, after Ning Kui's death, Ning fiercely took over his father's post as governor of Anzhou. He was a very ambitious man.After succeeding the governor of Anzhou, he sent his younger brother Ning Xuan to lead troops to station in the Daliandong area of ​​Hepu, opened up new counties, and strangled the southeast coast.

In the Beibu Gulf at that time, although prefectures and counties were also established on the territory, in fact, there were mainly slang and Liao people here.

When Ning Xuan came to develop with his troops, it was still an unmanaged land, full of bureaucrats.After Ning Xuan arrived, he first negotiated with the local Xidong leaders, and then used troops against Xidong who refused to surrender, pulling and beating, and finally overwhelmed the bureaucrats, and then mobilized them to go down the mountain, open up wasteland and farm, go down the mountain to build villages, and build new villages. County Dalian County.

Later, the Chen Dynasty perished, and the Sui Dynasty took over Lingnan. After knowing the actual rule of Ning Xuan in this area, he simply appointed him as the prefect of Hepu County.

In the 18th year of Kaihuang, Ning Mengli's son, Ning Changzhen, the prefect of Ningyue County, used the same method to open up Nanbin County and Zunhua County in the north of Ningyue.

At the beginning, when Ning Kui went south, he only occupied one city. Later, when Ning Kui died, he had five counties.By the time Ning Mengli and Ning Xuan were brothers, eleven new counties had already been opened up.

After Ning Mengli's sons Ning Changzhen and Ning Xuan took over the two counties of Ningyue and Hepu, they each opened up several counties.

As a result, the entire Beibu Gulf region came under the jurisdiction of the Ning family.

The relationship between the Ning family and the bureaucrats is also very good. They pulled and beat each other, and all streams surrendered. The court even directly called the Ning family the Shuai.

This is similar to Feng, another great marshal in Lingnan. Feng also went south when he was in Liangnan. He was originally from the Northern Yan royal family.

At the beginning, Ling could not leave the city. Later, the Feng family married the Xian family, a wealthy slang family in Lingnan. It expanded rapidly and unified several states and counties.

Therefore, in the coastal area on both sides of the mountain between the east and west roads in Lingnan, the Beibu Gulf in the west is the territory of the Ning family, and the coastal area in the east is the territory of the Feng family, and Hainan Island is also subordinate to the Feng and Xian families.

The Feng family's development of Hainan Island can be said to have brought Hainan Island, which had been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty for more than [-] years, back into the territory of China. In the early Han Dynasty, Hainan Island belonged to the Nanyue Kingdom. Soon after, the slang people on the island rebelled. At this time, the Han Dynasty simply abandoned the county, so it has been separated from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years.

It was not until the sixth year of Daye that the Sui Dynasty established Zhuya County and established ten counties on the basis of Feng's rule of Hainan Island. At this time, it has been 650 years since Emperor Han Yuan abandoned Hainan Island.

Of the Feng and Ning families, the Ning family continued to open up wasteland to the west, while the Feng family continued to open up to the south, expropriating the slang people in Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island.

At the same time, because of the same background, the two families formed an alliance with each other, and they also married for generations, supported each other, and conquered the bureaucrats together. The efforts of several generations had a strong effect in pioneering Lingnan.

It can be said that before that, the imperial court only occupied a few strongholds in the land of Lingnan, and the rest of the places were actually controlled by bureaucrats.

However, after Feng Ning, the Chen family, and other magnates who went south, dozens of counties were opened up in the south of the Five Ridges.

In the short period of twenty years when the Sui Dynasty ruled Lingnan, the control over Lingnan was further strengthened, but it still mainly relied on these local handsome and powerful men, who were appointed as local prefects and allowed them to select and appoint officials. Southern election privileges.

Even each of them has its own army.

During the period between Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Ming of the Sui Dynasty, although there were rebellions in Lingnan, they fought and dragged each other in the end, and finally returned to the old state. The rewards of the Lingnan commanders to the court were annual tribute, and in the Sui Dynasty they needed When using troops in Qianzhong or Goguryeo, they also sent troops to follow the conscripts.

For example, when Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo, Lingnan sent [-] soldiers, most of which were put together by the families of Ning, Feng and Chen.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the eight major forces in Lingnan separatist and attacked each other. Finally, Luo Cheng sent Li Jing to the south, breaking through the barrier between Jiaozhi Luoyi and Guilin Li Xizhi, and then persuaded Feng Ang to surrender. Finally, Ning also led his troops to join, and Lingnan was settled. .

In the next few years, it can be said that Daqin did not do much for Lingnan.

Basically, Lingnan slang commanders are the prefects of the counties, and their children are the county magistrates, etc., mainly to appease.However, in recent years, the imperial court wants to abolish the system of southern elections.

The so-called southern selection means that the officials in Lingnan are selected and appointed by the prefects in various places without going through the central government official department. This is the previous practice. It's just the territory of those scumbags.

The imperial court was just about to abolish the election in the South, but the families in Lingnan refused.

During the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, all major forces suffered a lot, but the Ning family and the Feng family did not weaken much. On the contrary, due to their geographical location and early attachment, their power increased.

For example, at this time, Ning Changzhen was the prefect of Ningyue County, Ning Changzhen's nephew Ning Daoming was the prefect of Hepu County, and his cousin Ning Chun was the prefect of Yongping County.

Ning Daoming is the son of Ning Changzhen's younger brother Ning Kuang. Ning Kuang was also a fierce general in his early years. He once led Feng's soldiers and horses to follow the Sui army to conquer Linyi, and also went north to Cangwu to fight against the rebels. Later, Feng Xuan, the prefect of Hepu County, died of illness, and he took over the post of prefect of Hepu County.

Ning Chun was still young at the time, so it was normal for her cousin to take over.

Later, the Ning family opened up several counties to the north. After Daqin took over Lingnan, because of the meritorious service of the Ning family, he simply granted Ning Chun the prefect of Yongping.

This year, Ning Kui died of illness, and the Ning family asked his son Ning Daoming to be the prefect of Hepu as usual, but the court did not agree.

Ning Daoming simply claimed to be the prefect in Hepu, but he had already surpassed it. He then made a tribute to the Hepu Dazhu, which had already challenged the bottom line of the court.

Ning Chun and Ning Chang, the prefects of Yongping, are cousins, but they are Ning Daoming's uncles.He believed that the prefect of Hepu should have been inherited by him after Ning Kui's death. Hepu County is much bigger than Yongping County.

Therefore, the relationship between Ning Chun and Ning Daoming was tense, and Ning Chun was also dissatisfied that Ning Changzhen favored Ning Daoming, and almost turned against him.

When Ning Changzhen's uncle and nephew decided to join forces with Feng Xuan to join forces, Ning Chun had already decided to stand opposite them.

Firstly, he thought that Ning Changzhen's uncle and nephew were bullying him, and secondly, he also thought that Ning Changzhen's uncle and nephew could not win against the court.

Of course, on the surface, it cannot be said that it is because of internal strife in Hepu County, but in the name of righteousness, he must call his subordinates and all Xidong officials to follow him.

(End of this chapter)