A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 952 Death
There are seven Dudufus in Lingnan Road, and Guangzhou Dudufu naturally ranks first.

After Dang Hongren took over, he was still very polite to Wu Huaiyu. After all, Wu Huaiyu was his immediate boss.

The Lingnan Observation Envoy was in charge of personnel and supervision, and the Economic and Strategy Envoy was in charge of the military. Wu Huaiyu was ordered to implement the two taxes and take charge of the finance, taxation and economy.
Wu Huaiyu has the final say in the entire Lingnan Road, including seven prefectures and forty-nine prefectures, plus seventy-two Jisu prefectures.

The most powerful thing is that Wu Huaiyu not only has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but also one-third of the tax revenue of Lingnan Road is directly handed over to his embassy and distributed by him.

"The party governor sent someone to send a message to visit my husband."

Wu Huaiyu waved his hand,
"He is new here. He should first hand over the affairs at hand and take good care of the stall in the Governor's Mansion. When he is free, he will go down there for a tour. I don't have anything to ask for."

Wu Huaiyu knew about Dang Hongren's corruption, but he didn't hate it that much. After all, the times were like this, and corrupt officials would not be banned even in future generations.

As long as it's not too much, Wu Huaiyu doesn't want to care too much. He still hopes that Dang Hongren can do a good job as the governor. After all, this person is also capable.

If a capable corrupt official had to choose between a pedantic and incompetent honest official, he would actually prefer the former.
Lingnan has been booming in recent years, but there are still many problems. First of all, the population is too small, especially the small number of Han people and the large number of raccoons. Moreover, many of the Han people in Lingnan came south a long time ago, and some are In Lingnan for a hundred or two hundred years or more, they intermarried with the Lihu barbarians, and even became a little barbaric, becoming powerful chiefs and shuai.

Nowadays, whether the imperial court is implementing two taxes or merging provinces, prefectures and counties,

When this father-in-law was still in the prime of life, the cause of his death was actually a parasitic infection. He liked to eat snake gallbladder raw and drink snake blood, saying it could strengthen muscles and relieve waist and leg pain. Sometimes he would also eat small frogs alive. , prefer eating raw fish.

When Wu Huaiyu arrived, he only saw him for the last time, and there was no way to save him.

Wu Huaiyu simply refused to eat freshwater fish sashimi for fear of being infected.

In Lingnan, due to eating habits, a large number of people are infected with various parasites every year. Sparganosis is one of the more serious ones, with a high mortality rate.

This trend will become more and more serious.

It depends on whether the east wind prevails over the west wind or the west wind overpowers the east wind. In the final analysis, it still depends on who has the stronger fist.

Feng Zhidai suffered from encephalopathy, which started with headaches, then convulsions, hemiplegia, vomiting, coma, and then high fever. He died within a few days.

Of course, there is no rush in this matter, just do it step by step.

Many of the raw fish, snake gallbladder, snake blood, and even undercooked frogs contained parasites. Unfortunately, Feng Zhidai was infected with sparganosis.
A very terrible parasite, most common in frogs and snakes. It can live under the skin, even in the internal organs and brain.

If the imperial court is strong enough, then the seventy-two states in the west can be converted one by one and returned to the current state. Even south of Annan, they can continue to develop, first control the state and then return to the current state.

However, Feng Zhidai was not afraid of being ferocious. He ate both frogs and snakes.
It is said that many tribes in Lingnan worship the frog god, so they have a superstitious belief that frogs have many magical effects. For example, when they are injured, they directly peel off a piece of frog skin and apply it to the wound, or even use frog skin to apply to their eyes. Another example is that they believe that swallowing a small frog alive can heal the disease. It can cure waist pain and strengthen muscles and bones.

Feng Zhidai was also unlucky;
But if you often walk by the river, how can your shoes not get wet?

Under the surface of prosperity, many contradictions are actually concealed. However, the development momentum is good now and the power of the imperial court to move south is extremely strong, so these have been temporarily suppressed.

And in April,
Feng Zhidai, the governor of Gaozhou and Wu Huaiyu's in-laws, died of illness in Gaozhou City.

But all kinds of contradictions are still there, and if they are not serious enough, conflicts will arise.

March.

Eating raw food is very common in Lingnan.

The emperor granted the warrior Leng the title of governor of Dingzhou, and he was absent from court for three days.

But Wu Huaiyu is not worried,
This kind of conflict is inevitable. The disruption of the existing pattern will naturally be a loss for those with vested interests. No one will give in easily to this kind of competition for interests. You have to fight and you have to fight.
They even had to fight repeatedly.

Another bad news came from Chang'an. The old patriarch, Warrior Leng, died of illness. The 80-year-old patriarch passed away peacefully. It is said that he left with a smile while admiring the peach blossoms in the peach garden in the backyard of his house, without any pain.

Those waves of Central Plains aristocrats who went south were staking out land in Lingnan, and the conflict with the original locals was already very tense.

Little did they know that frogs also have a lot of spargan parasites.

Feng Zhidai also followed his father into the court to serve the Sui Emperor. He also led his own soldiers to kill the fierce men from Jiangdu back to Gaozhou.
At the beginning of Zhenguan, he served in Chang'an to guard the emperor for several years.
He returned to Lingnan and succeeded his father as the governor of Gaozhou. He performed very well. He put down the rebellion of the Yunkaishan barbarians and captured Luo Doudong from the Chen family.
At one time, the territory controlled by the Feng Xian family reached twelve states.

But he did not die on the battlefield, but died from eating raw frogs and snakes.

When he died, he was in an extremely embarrassed state, and he didn't look like a fierce general at all.

Wu Huaiyu could only look at it with sighs.

A memorial was sent to Chang'an,

Report the situation to the emperor.

In the memorial, Wu Huaiyu suggested to the court that they should take the opportunity to withdraw from the Gaozhou Governor's Mansion.

When Feng An was summoned to the court, the imperial court divided the Feng family's territory into eight states, and appointed his sons and nephews as governors. They were all built to divide their power. They also assigned the Xian family's descendants to serve as governors in the four states on Hainan Island.

But when merging provinces and counties last year, Wu Huaiyu adjusted the eight states of the Feng family. Chunzhou was merged into Enzhou, Douzhou and Panzhou were merged into Gaozhou, and Benzhou was merged into Luozhou.

In this way, the eight states of the Feng family have become the four states of Gao, En, Luo and Lei. Now that the governor Feng Zhidai has died, Wu Huaiyu does not suggest that Feng Ang return to Lingnan to be the governor again, nor does he recommend that he choose another one. Feng Ang's son took over as governor, but took the opportunity to cancel it.

Just like when Ning Changzhen's rebellion failed, the imperial court abolished the Qinzhou Governor's Office.

The states of Gaozhou Dudufu are directly assigned to the Guangzhou Dudufu.

Of course, the Feng family also needed to be comforted. Feng Zhidao took over as the governor of Gaozhou, and Feng Zhidao, the governor of Panzhou, was transferred to Jiannan as the governor of Rongzhou.
There was still a governor left for the Feng family, but the governor who was not in Gaoliang would have little influence on the court.

Helped Feng Zhidai complete his funeral in Gaozhou,
Chang'an's will also came.

The emperor adopted Wu Huaiyu's suggestion and dismissed the governor of Gaozhou. Feng Zhidao took over as governor of Gaozhou. Feng Zhidao was promoted to governor of Rongzhou.
The governors, magistrates and other officials of the four prefectures who were merged with Chun, Pan, Dou and Bian were also transferred to serve in the east and west provinces of Jiangnan.

Feng Zhidai was granted the title of General Zuowuwei and Governor of Guangzhou, and his eldest son Feng Junhao was granted the title of Duke of Gaoliang County.

It is said that the emperor had already appointed Geng Guogong Feng Ang as the governor of Gaozhou in the Golden Palace, and also said that the four Zhuya states would be transferred to Gaofu, so that Gaofu would still have eight states.

But Feng An resigned in the palace,

The emperor issued edicts three times to worship him as the governor of Gaozhou, and Feng An resigned three times.
So the imperial court dismissed the governor's office in Gaozhou, leaving Feng Ang in the court as General Zuo Xiaowei.

May,

The imperial court issued an edict to officially change the generals from Sanhao to Wusanguan. From then on, the civil and military Sanguan coexisted. The Sanpin of the military attache was no longer a Wensanguan, but had its own Wusanguan.

The Tang Dynasty was founded by force.

However, at the beginning of Zhenguan, Li Shimin still implemented the policy of destroying military force and cultivating literature under the advice of Wei Zheng, Wang Gui and others, and the status of warriors continued to decline.

By this time, the civil-military relationship between North Korea and China was already imbalanced.

The launch of Wusanguan this time,

It was also the emperor who was re-adjusting the balance of civil and military affairs, using the rank system of civil and military officers as a template to revise the military officer's casual rank system, incorporating the original generals and eight lieutenants into the rank system of military casual officers, and establishing a rank system from the first to the second rank. The Wusan grade system from the ninth grade is balanced with the civil official Sangrade sequence.

Civilian officers are awarded the Wensan rank, and military officers are awarded the Wusan rank.

The loose rank is the basic product, and the rank must be determined first when conferring an official.

At this point in time, the emperor launched the Wusan class system, and the choice was quite subtle.

Wu Huaiyu had already communicated with the emperor in a secret letter and knew that this year the emperor would officially launch a war against Tuyuhun. It was supposed to be fought last year, but it failed. He definitely couldn't wait any longer this year.

After several years of recuperation in the Tang Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers are now eager to give it a try. Tuyuhun is just the first one to be hammered, followed by Xue Yantuo, Western Turks, and Goguryeo, and there are many more to be hammered.

There will be a series of wars, and Datang will enter a period of rapid expansion.

It was also the time when the imperial court was using military personnel, so it was natural that the military personnel's status should be adjusted and improved first.

After the establishment of Wu Sanguan this time,

Officials holding military positions were all awarded the Wusan rank.

However, the most capable warriors in the army were not awarded the martial arts rank. For example, Li Jing, recognized as the military god of the Tang Dynasty, was also the commander-in-chief of the upcoming battle to conquer Tuyuhun.
But he is still the third division of Yitong in the Wensan class of Kaifu. This is because he was previously the prime minister. Although he is not the prime minister now, he is still the prince's Taibao.

The door god Qin Qiong was not awarded the rank of Wu San this time. He was still the official of the third division of the Kaifu Yitong. He was also the official to the prime minister, and he was also appointed as the prince and grand master.

Those who served as military attaches were awarded the rank of Wu San.

The generals of the Twelve Guards, the captains and captains of each Zhechongfu, and the governors and guards also have military positions, and the governors are civil servants.

Cheng Yaojin and Chai Shao, who were both governors and governors and held the rank of Twelve Guards Generals, were also awarded the Wusan rank this time.

Chai Shao, Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin, Fan Xing, Zhang Shigui, etc. were all awarded the rank of General of the Zhenjun Army, which is from the second-grade Wusan rank.
Hou Junji, Zhang Gongjin, Liu Shili and others were awarded the title of champion general, the third rank.

Li Ji, the governor of Bingzhou, resigned due to the death of his father, Ding You, but he was still the third-grade Wensan rank of Dr. Jin Ziguanglu.

As for Wu Huaiyu, who served as the Lingnan Road Observer Envoy, the Six Prefectures' Economic and Strategic Envoy, and the Annan Protector in Lingnan, he did not change his Wusan rank this time, and was still the Kaifu Yitong Sansi.
It can be seen that

Although the imperial court established a Wusan class with the same system as the Wensan class, the Wensan class obviously still had a higher status than the Wusan class.

Another one is,
After the imperial court established the Wusan rank system this time, the highest Wusan rank was the first-grade hussar general, followed by the second-grade auxiliary general, the second-grade general of the town army, the third-grade champion general, and the third-grade cloud general.
There are only four generals, Zhengsan and Huaihua General are specially awarded to the Hu leaders.

And the highest award this time was only from the second rank to the General of the Suppressing Army.

There is not even a auxiliary general, let alone a hussar general.

Originally, the only people who could be awarded the rank of Hussar General were Li Jing, Qin Qiong, and Wu Huaiyu, but they had all served as prime ministers and had the title of Shibao, so naturally they were still at the Wensan rank.

Only senior and famous generals who serve as governors and guardians can become generals of the vassal state and hussar generals. It seems that in history, Cheng Yaojin got a hussar general when he arrived in the Gaozong Dynasty.

Leap April,
General Zuo Xiaowei, General Zhenjun, and Baoguogong Duan Zhixuan were awarded the title of Commander-in-Chief of the March to the West Sea Road.

Fan Xing, the general of the Zuojian Gate Guard and the general of the town army, was in charge of the march on Chishui Road, and the second general Duan Fan was also the vanguard. They took the lead in attacking Tuyuhun, and the battle against Tuyuhun officially started.

Li Jing, the third division commander of Kaifu Yitong, was the general manager of the march to Xihai Road. He was in charge of Li Daozong, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, Fan Xing, the governor of Liangzhou, Li Junxian, the governor of Lanzhou, Li Daoyan, the governor of Minzhou, Hou Junji, the governor of Jingzhou, Gao Zengsheng, the governor of Lizhou, and others. The marching general manager of the Ministry, together with She'er, Qibi Heli and other Turkic and Tiele troops who returned to the Tang Dynasty, attacked Tuyuhun.

Li Daozong defeated the Tuyuhun army in Kushan. Fu Yun burned all the weeds and sent his troops into Qi.

Li Jingbing divided his troops into two groups to pursue and annihilate them.

In May, when the Tuyuhun war was in full swing,

On a night of thunder and lightning, Emperor Li Yuan died of illness in the Chui Gong Hall of Da'an Palace.

The emperor and his ministers submitted petitions to request the emperor to approve the posthumous edict and oversee military and state affairs.

Li Shimin did not allow it, strictly followed the etiquette system to observe filial piety for his father, and ignored political affairs. During the period of mourning, he ordered the 17-year-old prince to serve as Qian and supervise the country, and to settle the affairs of the common people in the East Palace.

National mourning,

The whole country mourned.

"The battle to conquer Tuyuhun cannot be stopped. I have ordered Li Jing and Li Daozong to fight to the end and succeed. They must not give up halfway and fall short." Li Shimin told the prince, Fang Xuanling and others with red eyes.

(End of this chapter)