A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 714 Making a Wedding Dress

It is said that they are relatives in the next generation.

Lao Wu felt particularly close to his grandson when he held him in his arms. This was the eldest grandson of the Lao Wu family. Although he was not the eldest grandson, he was still the eldest son of the second son's family.

The little guy Wu Chengsi was also kissing Lao Wu. Huaiyu originally wanted to take him and hug him, but the little guy was not happy and was still reluctant to let go of Lao Wu by his beard.

"You're over three years old, and you're already a little man. How can you keep hugging me?"

"Azu, give me some candy, winter melon candy, it's so sweet."

Wu Chengsi smiled and said,
Ma Zhou said on the side, "My uncle also has candy, sesame candy."

"Uncle also has candy, you let him hold him, and he will buy you candy."

Wu Chengsi didn't seem to know how to choose. Look at this, look at that.

Wu Huaiyu laughed loudly, "Son, daddy will teach you a lesson. If you ask your uncle and uncle to hug you, you will have all the sesame candies and sugar figures. If you ask daddy to hug you, daddy will also have sugar plums. Woolen cloth."

"Children make choices, adults want them all!"

Wu Chengsi's eyes widened with a look of shock, as if he didn't expect that he could still want them all.

Adults are indeed greedy.

This guy couldn't stand the temptation of sweet foods such as sesame candies, sugar figures, and sugar plums, so he was indeed willing to get off Lao Wu's arms.

Ma Zhou rushed to take it over. He liked children very much. His ex-wife left him a son, and Wu Yu'e gave birth to two more. The two boys were about the same age as Chengsi, especially the cousins ​​who all looked a bit alike.

He has the excellent inheritance of the Wu family, and he is very handsome and cute.

"After Hou Junji arrived in Guangzhou, was he still honest? He and his brother were in Guangzhou together, so he was not disrespectful to his brother, right?" Huaiyu asked Huaiyi.

Wu Huaiyi laughed, "How can that guy be honest? Although he has been demoted again and again, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. After all, he is one of the four elders of the Mo family and was once the prime minister. This majesty is unshakable," Huaiyi said. After Jun Ji was demoted to Guangzhou, he was not honest.

He doesn't have a good attitude toward Wu Huaiyi, the governor's superior.

Of course, Wu Huaiyi was not afraid of him either. The two sides were somewhat on the same page in Guangzhou. Both of them had just arrived in Guangzhou, but Huaiyi had been the governor of Shaozhou, adjacent to Guangzhou, for more than two years, so he was of course more familiar with it.

Moreover, Wu Huaiyu has a good relationship with Feng An of the Feng family, one of the three major wealthy families in Guangzhou. Feng An is related to Xu Jingzong, and Wu Huaiyu is also related to Xu Jingzong. Feng An’s second son, Feng Zhidai, is an official in Beijing, and he also gets Wu Huaiyu took care of him a lot.

In Shaozhou's mineral resources, Guangzhou's iron smelting, and even sea trade, Wu Huaiyu cooperated with Lingnan Wang Feng An.
Huaiyi has the relationship of a brother and is the governor of Guangzhou, so he naturally has the upper hand.

On the contrary, although Hou Junji had been prime minister for two years and was once a confidant of the emperor, he was now demoted to Lingnan after being demoted again and again. How could he be the governor of Guangzhou, the governor of Guangzhou?

"How does Hou Junji cause trouble?"

This time the governor Wu Huaiyi came to Beijing to pay homage, and Chang Shi Hou Junji originally wanted to return to Beijing. To be honest, in the eyes of Central Plains people, the place in Lingnan is really wild, especially in the summer, which is extremely hot.

But the emperor did not allow Hou Junji to come back.

"Hou Junji is forcing the Luo Dou caves to rebel. He has close contacts with Chen Longshu of the Chen family." Speaking of this, Wu Huaiyi sighed, "Next year, the Luo Dou caves will definitely rebel, and there will be a big war. Hou Junji That bitch just wants to start a war so he can fish in troubled waters."

Lao Wu has never been to Lingnan and doesn't know about the Luodou caves, but he also knows about the Chen family. "Is it the Chen family, one of the three major wealthy families in Lingnan?"

There are three major wealthy families in Lingnan, also known as the Lishuaiyu Chieftains. They are actually Han Chinese who moved south in the early years.

For example, the Feng family was originally the descendant of the Northern Yan monarch during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. The Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties sent Feng Ye to Luozhou to serve as governor. Later, the Feng family married the Xian family, a local chieftain for generations, and owned the area around Gaozhou, becoming one of the three largest families in Lingnan. One of the wealthy families.

At the beginning of Wude, the imperial court divided Feng Ang's territory into eight states, and granted him the title of General Manager of Gaozhou in Shangzhu State. He was first granted the title of Wu Guogong, and later was granted the title of Geng Guogong.

The Ning family was based in Qinzhou, Guangxi. At the peak of its power, it reached Yucong, Baizhou, and Tongzhou in the east, Xiyuan in the west, Dahai in the south, and Yongzhou in the north.

The Chen family emerged in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty and formed a powerful family that dominated the south bank of the Xijiang River in the Pearl River. Starting from Chen Fanian, Chen Fozhi, Chen Longshu and other prominent officials were hereditary chiefs of Lingbiao and achieved great fame.

The three major families all occupy large amounts of land, have child servants, and even have powerful private armies.

"The three major families of Feng, Chen, and Ning all use Douzhou as the boundary to divide their power. The terrain in Douzhou is high in the northeast and low in the southwest. It is dominated by mountainous landforms. There are high mountains and crisscrossing rivers in the territory. The Yunkai Mountains line the north. The situation naturally separates Gaoliang, Longzhou and Qinzhou."

Although Wu Huaiyi has not been the governor of Guangzhou for a long time, he has been the governor of Shaozhou for more than two years and knows the three major native emperor families in Lingnan very well.

The three families are the real local emperors.

For example, Chen Fozhi of the Chen family was the leader of the Lingnan rebellion in the Sui Dynasty. He once besieged Guangzhou. Now his son Chen Longshu is in the Tang Dynasty. He is also the main force in the court's suppression of the rebellion during the rebellion of Feng Xuan Tandian and others in Lingnan at the end of Wude.

In Lingnan, there were not many places that the Central Plains imperial court really controlled, only a few core areas in Guangjiao and Guangxi. Most of the other places were controlled by slutty commanders like Feng Chenning.

In many mountainous areas, a large number of barbarians known as Lili barbarians live together. Prefectures and counties have not yet been established, and these local powerful families are also competing for status.

In the barbarian land, there were no states or counties and no household registration, so the three powerful families tried their best to invade the territory and coerce and induce them to submit to their rule.

This kind of war between the Han nobles going south and the local indigenous barbarians has never stopped for thousands of years.

Feng Li served as the governor of Guangzhou for four years and was instrumental in stabilizing the situation in Lingnan.The Lingnan Rebellion at the end of Wu De can also be called a chaotic war between the three powerful families and the barbarians, such as the brothers Feng An and Feng Xuan. Feng Xuan rebelled against the imperial court, while Feng Ang sent troops to suppress it, and the Ning family fought even more internally. fierce,
And the barbarian kings such as the Xian family and Tan Dian were also similar.

Anyway, the war was a mess. After Li Shimin came to the throne, the war was still going on. Li Shimin once planned to send [-] troops south to conquer. Later, Wei Zheng persuaded him to stop and borrowed the power of Feng An and Chen Longshu who were loyal to the court to fight against the rebellion. Then, with the assistance of recruitment policy,

Although Feng Li was a princeling from Jiancheng, it was precisely because of his background that he remained very honest and low-key after arriving in Guangzhou. He did not cause trouble and worked honestly for the emperor to appease the place. This gave Lingnan a rare few years of peace, at least without large-scale wars.

But Hou Junji wants to cause trouble now.

He wants Lingnan to be in chaos and fight again, so that he can have a chance.

Hou Junji still has some abilities. When he arrived in Lingnan, he quickly figured out the situation there. At first, he wanted to have a relationship with Feng Anla, but Feng An was a very good person. He was lukewarm towards Hou Junji and was righteous towards Wu Huaiyi. But it's closer.

Hou Junji failed to win over the Feng family, so he got closer to Chen Longshu.

"Chen Longshu is the son of Chen Fozhi. When he rebelled against the Sui Dynasty and attacked Guangzhou, Mrs. Xian asked her grandson to lead Feng Xian's coalition forces to rescue Guangzhou. Chen Fozhi finally died at the hands of Feng An.

Chen Longshu then joined Qinzhou Ning Mengli. During the Wude period, Chen Longshu and Ning Mengli's son Ning Changzhen returned to the Tang Dynasty. Chen Longshu was appointed as the governor of Qinzhou, and later as the governor of Longzhou and Nanfuzhou.

Return to the Chen family's hometown of Longzhou as desired. "

The Luodou caves in Duanxi originally belonged to the Chen clan's sphere of influence in Longzhou. However, after Chen Fozhi's rebellion and death, Chen Longshu was forced to flee and join the Ning clan in Qinzhou. The barbarian tribes in the Luodou caves also established themselves on their own.
The Feng family and the Ning family continued to infiltrate and wanted to encroach and annex.

After Chen Longshu surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, although he later returned to his hometown of Longzhou, the cave barbarians refused to listen to his Chen family's orders.

The Chen family was unable to command the caves, so they wanted to borrow the power of the imperial court. Chen Longshu first petitioned the imperial court to establish Xinyi and Tan'e counties, and then asked for the establishment of Nanfuzhou, and then petitioned for the establishment of Teliang County and others to control Luodou Cave. The barbarians were brought under the rule of the imperial court.

The imperial court also worshiped Chen Longshu as the governor of Nanfuzhou.

But the chiefs were not to be outdone and united to fight.
"This bitch Hou Junji is very good at finding opportunities," Wu Huaiyu said.

Ma Zhou is now the emperor's first secret, but he also understands the situation of all parties in the distant Lingnan. He nodded, "Chen Longshu has become the governor of Nanfuzhou. The sphere of influence of the Chen family of Longzhou can reach Gaoliangzhou." closest to the heart,

The core of the Feng family is in Gaoliang.

This Nanfuzhou is like a needle piercing his back, how can Feng An feel at ease? "

Although Chen Longshu, the governor of Nanfu Prefecture, reported less than a thousand households, the location here is actually very special. It was the boundary between the three powerful families, and the terrain is dangerous.
Moreover, the barbarians in this mountainous area actually have a large population, no less than [-], but they are unwilling to register, register, pay taxes and serve in the military.

The Feng family has been working with the Xian family to develop Hainan Island in recent years, and the wars in Dan and Ya have never stopped.Moreover, since the defeat of Feng Xuan's rebellion, the Feng family's power in the Luo Dou area has declined.

Feng An became increasingly unable to allow the Chen family's influence to return, and even penetrated deep into the Feng family's inner circle.

Therefore, from the time Chen Longshu returned to Longzhou in the fourth year of Wude, until now, for ten years, Feng Ang has been secretly instigating the Luo Dou cave barbarians to disobey the Chen family, and even supported them to unite to send troops to fight against Chen Longshu.

Up to now, Chen Longshu's seven counties in Nanfuzhou have been captured by Dongman. The combined forces drove Chen Longshu back to Longzhou. The capital of Nanfuzhou was occupied by them, and Nanfuzhou had to be entrusted to Longzhou.

In the second year of Zhenguan, Chen Longshu joined forces with Li Guangdu, the governor of Yinzhou, to send troops to quell the rebellion, restore Nanfuzhou, and return to the old territory.

However, the fighting in various Xidong areas continued, and the barbarians continued to resist.

"Hou Junji and Chen Longshu planned to send troops to suppress the Zhuxi Dong barbarians, but the Dong barbarians also elected Fu San of Huaide County as the leader of the alliance, and they wanted to unite with other Dongs to send troops to attack Chen Longshu again and drive him out."

A great war is about to begin,
And behind this crisis, Feng An is also implicated.

Feng Ang has an army of [-] and is now the most powerful chieftain in Lingnan. Previously, the Luo Dou tribes joined forces to capture Nanfuzhou and drove away Chen Longshu. It is said that Feng Ang was behind this. Now the tribes are trying to Chen Longshu, who fought back, drove away again, but there was still the shadow of Feng Ang behind him.

Hou Junji wanted to muddy the waters and even bring the Guangzhou Governor's Office to its knees.
At that time, there may be a chaos in Lingnan that is even greater than that in the eighth year of Wude and the second year of Zhenguan.

Wu Huaiyi was a little worried. If this battle really started, the situation in Lingnan would be thrown into chaos, and he, the new governor of Guangzhou, might also be implicated.

Hou Junji formed an alliance with Chen Longshu, each getting what they needed. What Chen Longshu needed was to stabilize Nanfuzhou, to get the Luo Dou clan to surrender to the Chen family again, and to repel the Feng family's ambition to move north.

As for Hou Junji, he, a demoted long history, would only have a chance in chaos, and Feng An was Wu Huaiyi's biggest supporter in Lingnan. If there was a fight, there would be a chance to weaken Feng An, or force him not to get involved in his relationship with Wu Huaiyi. Go into internal strife,

Wu Huaiyu finished listening there,

"It seems we have to let Feng An go to Beijing."

Huaiyi said, "This battle between Luo Dou and Dong is unavoidable, and it will begin soon."

"Don't be afraid of fighting, but we will win," Huaiyu said to his brother. "If you want to win in Lingnan, you must have Feng An on your side. As long as you can win this battle, nothing else matters." question."

Although Huaiyi was born in the Yuancong Forbidden Army, he had never fought in many battles. He had gone to Longyou with Huaiyu to fight a few battles. He did not feel confident about this war. Moreover, Chen Longshu and Hou Junji were also members of the imperial court. , they can never support the barbarians.

Huaiyu smiled and said, "Don't worry, the situation in Lingnan is really messy. The imperial court was unable to spare any effort in the past few years. Instead, it allowed some handsome slangs and barbarian chiefs to dominate and do whatever they wanted. This time, let's clean it up together. ,"

"Brother, don't worry. Hou Junji wants to muddy the waters, so let's let him make the wedding dress,"

(End of this chapter)