A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 408
Compared with Li Daliang, Wei Zheng, who has always prided himself on being clean and honest, is far behind.

After sighing with Qin Qiong, Wu Huaiyu didn't forget the business of coming today, he also brought Feng Zhidai, Pang Xiaotai and Xu Jingzong.

"Inspector Pang doesn't plan to return to Lingnan after the Chinese New Year. He hopes to stay in Beijing to serve the emperor. I want to recommend him as General Zhonglang,"

Qin Qiong took a few glances at Pang Xiaotai. He had also heard some rumors about this guy and Huaiyu recently. He gave Zi Shishi a majestic gift, and acted as a coachman for Wu Huaiyu all day long. This guy really has a thick skin.

"Zhonglang will be the commander of the imperial guards of the various government guards. It is very important. The person in charge must not only have sufficient qualifications and military merits, but also must be absolutely loyal."

Qin Qiong reminded Huaiyu.

Although General Zhonglang is only a fourth-rank official, he is very special in Chang'an City. Although he is under the generals and generals of the guards, under the Tang system, the generals and generals of the guards are basically empty titles. There is no direct command of troops in Beijing.

The imperial guards on the Zhuwei Mansion's entry into Beijing, together with the Zhuyi Mansion, are actually led by Zhonglang generals, so Zhonglang generals in Chang'an are actually more special than the generals and generals, and they are the ones who really rule Chang'an. General of soldiers.

Most of the generals and generals are selected as the general manager when they go out to fight, and they lead the troops to fight, and they don't actually directly lead the troops in the capital.

The imperial court has twelve guards and four mansions, of which the left and right guards have three guards and five mansions of Qin Xunyi. Each mansion has a Zhonglang general, and there are ten Zhonglang generals in these two guards.

As for the other ten guards, such as Xiaowei on the left and right, each has only one Yifu, that is, one Zhonglang general each.

The twelve guards of Nanya are actually twenty Zhonglang generals, who command the soldiers in Beijing, as well as their Yiwei.

Of course, there is also the Forbidden Army at the North Gate. The North Gate was originally under the name of the Left and Right Tunwei, but Tianzi Yuan, who was directly under the emperor's command, changed from the Forbidden Army to the Xuanwu Gate Palace. , Qianqi Battalion, then Shenji Battalion, and Flying Cavalry Battalion, and then divided into left and right. There are actually eight Battalions of the Forbidden Army, each with Zhonglang General.

Chang'an City now has a total of twenty Zhonglang generals,
Each commanded a Praetorian Guard.

Pang Xiaotai crossed his hands at Qin Qiong, "President Qin, even if you give me a lieutenant of the Forbidden Army, I would be willing if I was younger, and I just want to stay in Chang'an to serve the emperor."

"Do you really want to stay?"

"Please Qin Xiang complete."

Qin Qiong nodded, "In this case, I recommend the truth to His Majesty. You must be loyal and diligent."

Feng Zhidai expressed their Feng family's unwavering loyalty to the imperial court, and also said that the current mutual attacks with Tan Dian and Feng Xuan were all because they rebelled against the Tang Dynasty before. Although they surrendered later, they have always been rebellious and unruly. They even teamed up to cross the border and invaded, but Feng An was only forced to fight back.

"My father asked the lower officials to report to the emperor, and asked the imperial court to send troops to encircle Feng Xuan, Tan Dian, etc. who are not ministers. The Feng family is willing to be the vanguard."

Qin Qiong didn't answer him directly.

In fact, Wu Huaiyu and Qin Qiong have almost understood the chaos in Lingnan these years. To put it bluntly, the Tang court has been unable to control Lingnan in the past few years, and has not been able to achieve effective control. Basically, these Lingnan tycoons declared their surrender to the Tang Dynasty At that time, the imperial court also granted them the titles of general manager and governor, and let them serve as the agents of the empire in Lingnan.

These agents, large and small, have been fighting for territory and various conflicts. Of course, there are also secretly fueled by the imperial court to sow dissension.

The imperial court has not done much in Lingnan in the past few years, that is, it is trying to maintain the control of several core areas, such as Guangguijiao, and the rest of the places cannot be taken care of for the time being, as long as these local tyrants do not try to get involved in these core areas Therefore, the imperial court was very tolerant to them.

They have even been given the privilege of electing in the south. They can recruit state and county officials by themselves, and finally report to the court.

Even their soldiers and horses are still private soldiers.

Don't look at the court's shouting and killing, the voice of sending troops to Lingnan is getting louder and louder, but in the actual central court meeting, this matter has been discussed several times. Generally speaking, the emperor and the prime ministers have maintained Calm and restrained enough.

As long as these local emperors in Lingnan did not cross the red line, that is, openly rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court would not send troops immediately.

Slowly figure it out,

First north and then south,

This is the basic national policy of the Zhenguan Dynasty today.

Feng Li, the current governor of Guangzhou, used to be a confidant of Jiancheng, and later became attached to Li Shimin. The Turkic Lin Weishui, under Qin Qiong's command, also fought against the Turkic.

It can be seen as kicking him from the middle of the court to the frontier, or it can also be seen as making use of merit rather than making use of it, and taking a fancy to his bravery and integrity.

Since the Southern Dynasties, Guangzhou has always been the center of Lingnan, but it has always been difficult for Guangzhou to be peaceful. There are frequent fierce rebellions and sieges of Guangzhou. In the final analysis, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. , the supervision is weak, and Guangzhou is an important trading port, so there is a lot of oil and water here, and it is easy to be corroded.

The contradiction between Han and Vietnam has always been one of the core problems here for thousands of years. No matter who goes there, they will face such contradictions. The easier it is to touch the interests of local powerful chiefs, the easier it is for conflicts and rebellions to break out.

For example, Yang Shidao’s wife, Princess Guiyang, and her ex-husband Zhao Cijing’s father, Zhao Na, was the governor of Guangzhou at the time of the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty. For the crime of bribery, Mrs. Xian was specially designated as Mrs. Qiao Guo.

The essence of Zhao Na's embezzlement and bribery case is actually a power struggle between the central government and the Lingnan region, and Zhao Na is just a scapegoat after things got out of control.

Feng Li has served as the governor of Guangzhou for more than a year. He has performed well and worked very hard to maintain a balance. He does not engage in industry or management, but does not interfere in the original distribution of benefits in Guangzhou and does not intensify conflicts.

Feng Li is worthy of being Jian Jiancheng's former confidant, the man who almost broke into the Xuanwu Gate. He seems to have done nothing in Guangzhou, but in fact he is slowly controlling Guangzhou, and his superficial inaction is actually deliberately letting The Feng An brothers let go of the attack.

He has been mediating on the surface, but in fact, secretly fanning the flames on both sides, he even strongly supported Chen Longshu of the Chen family of Longzhou, the third largest wealthy family in Lingnan, to set up prefectures and counties against Li Liaoman.
From Feng Xuan's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty in the sixth year of Wude, to their surrender in the eighth year of Wude, Feng Xuan joined forces with Tan Dian and continued to fight with his brother Feng An. The fight has not stopped for four or five years, and these tycoons in Lingnan have lost a lot Small.

Feng An is also an old fox. After all, he has been an official in the Central Plains and conquered Goguryeo with Yang Guang, so he can't see Feng Li's thoughts, but the problem is that his elder brother Feng Xuan has always been stubborn. Inheritance is also a struggle.

After Mrs. Feng died, the brothers no longer had any scruples.

Feng An sometimes takes care of the overall situation, but Feng Xuan has an attitude of "you don't have me, you don't want to die." The barbarians joined forces to attack.

Encountering this kind of brain damage, what can Feng An do, see through Feng Li's strategy and dare not say it out, instead he has to continue to rely on the Tang Dynasty court, and be very respectful to the governor of Guangzhou, otherwise Feng Li may join forces with Feng Xuan and the others to destroy it first over him.

Originally, the Feng and Xian families were one, occupying one-third of Lingnan, but under the stubbornness of Feng Xuan and Xian Baoche, they smashed the natural cards of two kings and four twos, leaving only a few small single cards.

Now with the unification of the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, even the Turks dare not commit another crime, and Lingnan will completely lose any possibility of separatism and self-reliance, and it is even impossible to maintain the situation of listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement.

Feng An can only follow the trend of the times and become a hero by knowing the current affairs.

He has no other request now, but he only hopes that the emperor can listen to his explanation and believe that he is loyal to the court. If the court wants to send troops to Lingnan, Feng An is willing to be the vanguard to help the court suppress the traitors like Feng Xuan Tan Dian, and even help the court The imperial court organized the household of Qimin, and garrisoned troops to garrison fields.

He also went all out, if this continues, the little capital of the old Feng family will really be wiped out.

Feng Zhidai is the second son, but he is the eldest son of Feng An. Among the Feng family's sons, he has made great achievements in military affairs. Emperor Yangdi was in charge of the guards of the forbidden army in the headquarters, who had mixed with the court.

He came this time and didn't plan to go back.

Feng Zhidai also wanted to be a general.

Of course, it would be even better if he could be a princess. Unfortunately, he is not young. Both the emperor's princess and the emperor's princess are still too young. His son, Princess Shang, is about the same. Unfortunately, his son is far from qualified.

Even he, the eldest son of Feng An's concubine, is somewhat unqualified.

Regardless of how they called the wind and rain in Lingnan, but in Chang'an, in the eyes of those nobles and relatives, they are always just local turtles in South Vietnam.

Qin Qiong and his father didn't make any promises to Feng Zhidai.

But the next day, when the father and father entered the palace to face the saint, they deliberately reported to the emperor the affairs of Lingnan in detail, and made many suggestions. take over.

"Many people in the DPRK requested that Li Jing be appointed as the pacifying ambassador of Lingnan Province, that a large army be dispatched from Jiangnan, Shannan and other places into Lingnan, that private soldiers such as Feng Xuantan, Feng An, and others be reorganized, reappointed, and transferred to other places. If you obey, send troops to destroy them."

"Your Majesty, the time has not yet come. It will not be too late for the imperial court to accumulate strength and destroy the Turkic Jieli Khan before sending troops to Lingnan." Huaiyu persuaded.

Li Shimin smiled, "Some people say that you don't need a sword to kill chickens, you don't need to send Li Jing, you can just send his student Wu Huaiyu directly, and some even say that if you give you [-] soldiers, you can wipe out Lingnan."

"I don't have this ability. The problem in Lingnan is not something that can be settled on the surface. It is mainly the problem of the Han immigrants in Lingnan and the local raccoons."

Li Shimin nodded, "You're right, it's useless to be anxious, but Li Shou, the Duke of Suian County, was appointed as the Governor of Jiaozhou, but after taking office, he was corrupt and illegal, and I was deeply disappointed.

Li Fengci, the Duke of Bohai County, served as the governor of Guizhou. He had hundreds of concubines in Guizhou.

Only Feng Li performed well as the governor of Guangzhou. "

Li Shimin said that Li Shou's real name is Li Shishou, a brother of the royal family, and Li Fengci, Duke of Bohai, is the second son of Li Yuan's second brother.

Li Yuan had four brothers, and all three died early. Only the second brother left two sons. Li Fengci was raised by Li Yuan himself when he was young. little follower.

Before the brothers were also named kings, Li Shimin didn't give them face after he came to the throne, and they were both demoted to county princes. Last year, both brothers served as local governors.

Li Shimin originally thought that all the sons were young, so he would let the relatives in the clan be the governors of various places first, and then replace his own sons in the future. Who knows that few of these guys are up to date, and Li Daoyan has performed well in Minzhou.

Now Li Shimin doubted his own thoughts. Using the royal family to replace the heroes and generals as the deputy, the effect was not very good, and the royal family could not be restrained.

"Instead of sending troops to go deep into Lingnan, it's better to change a few governors and governors. I plan to let Li Xizhi be the governor of Guizhou again. There is no suitable candidate for the governor of Jiaozhou. What do you think if you transfer Feng An to be the governor of Jiaozhou?"

Qin Qiong shook his head directly, "Feng An, Feng Xuan, and Tan Dian are constantly attacking each other. At this time, His Majesty transfers him to serve as the governor of Jiaozhou. He will definitely feel dissatisfied, thinking that the court is pulling sideways, not to mention Jiaozhou. ounce."

"And let Li Daliang go back to be the governor of Jiaozhou?"

"Li Daliang made great contributions in governing Jiaozhou before, and he was recruited into the pilgrimage to pay homage to the Taifu. Now it is not appropriate to return to Jiaozhou after a year."

"As for Qiu Xingze, he was originally the governor of Jizhou, and his father, Qiu Hejiu, is very prestigious in the local area."

"Qiu Xing is more domineering. If he is sent to Jiaozhou, I am afraid that he will not be able to handle the relationship between the barbarians in South Vietnam."

(End of this chapter)