Ji Tang

Chapter 212

Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou are also legends. Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou are from Zhangqiu County, Qi County.

He and Fu Gong Er are life and death friends.Gong Er's aunt's family was a shepherd, and Gong Er stole sheep many times to give to Du Fucheng. Gong Er's aunt felt resentful, so she reported their theft.

The counties urgently pursued them. Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Er fled together and gathered a group of people to form a robber gang. He was only 16 years old at the time.

In the ninth year of Daye, Du Fuwei fled to the Changbai Mountain area, organized bandits, and led the uprising with Fuguo Er.

The two joined a small rebel army nearby. They were only pawns when they first joined, but Du Fuwei was very brave. It was the beginning of Du Fuwei's power.

The strength of the Sui Dynasty in the Jianghuai area was relatively strong. Du Fuwei realized that his small army was too weak and could not survive if it did not grow as soon as possible, so he tried hard to find opportunities to unite and annex other nearby rebels.

A more typical example is the sea tide in Xiapimiao. Du Fuwei sent his assistant Gong Er to them and said: "Now we are suffering from the tyranny of the Sui Dynasty, and each of us is fighting for justice. The forces are scattered and weak, and we often worry about being caught , why not unite to make our forces stronger, so we won't worry about the Sui army coming to restrict us.

If you can be the leader, I will follow you respectfully. If you judge that you are not competent, you can come and follow my command, otherwise, we will fight to determine the superiority. "Miao Haichao was frightened, and immediately led his accomplices to join Du Fuwei.

Later, with the growth of power and territory, some scholars began to turn to Du Fuwei. Relying on these scholars, Du Fuwei gave up the previous rogue tactics and began to work hard to build his own territory.

Because he himself suffered from taxation, Du only collected very low taxes in the territory. At the same time, probably out of the innate hatred of poor peasants for corrupt officials, Du Fuwei ordered all corrupt officials to be executed regardless of severity. Of course it is unreasonable, but it has won the support of the local people for Du.

In the 14th year of Daye, Jiangdu mutiny, Yu Wenhuaji killed Yang Guang, appointed Du Fuwei as Liyang prefect, but Du Fuwei did not accept it.

In the same year, Yang Tong, king of Yue, Luoyang, the capital of the east, became a minister, was named the king of Chu, and paid homage to the general manager of Jiangdong Road.

Now that Du Fuwei has achieved success, the next step should be to fight for world hegemony, right?
But it is a pity that, like most peasant rebels, they are short-sighted, only know that a small fortune is easy, and they don't have much ambition.

In June of the third year of Wude, the Tang Dynasty moved Du Fuwei to be the king of Wu, gave him the surname Li, and granted the order of Shangshu of Dongnan Daoxingtai.In the same year, he defeated Li Zitong and moved his base to Danyang in the south of the Yangtze River.

After the defeat, Li Zitong couldn't defend Jiangdu, so he had to withdraw to Jingkou, and then fled to Taihu Lake. Du Fuwei owned all the land in Jiangxi.

After Li Zitong was eliminated, Du Fuwei sent Wang Xiongdan to attack other independent forces in the Jianghuai region.

At this time, Du Fuwei was already the overlord of the Jianghuai River, and Li Yuan had eliminated the great enemies Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande. There is Huainan Jiangdong.

With such background and strength, he should be able to have some other ideas, right?
But he still didn't, and he still didn't have the idea of ​​fighting for world hegemony, which made his brother Fu Gongyou extremely anxious.

In the fifth year of Wude, in the summer, Li Shimin led his troops to pacify Liu Heita and Xu Yuanlang, the remaining troops of Dou Jiande. Xu Yuanlang's territory bordered Du Fuwei's.

At this time, most of the various anti-kings who rose up in the late Sui Dynasty have disappeared. Liang Shidu, Gao Kaidao, and Xu Yuanlang are either in the remote frontier, or are about to perish. The only one who can pose a threat to Li Tang is Du Fu. Powerful.

Du Fuwei naturally understood Li Shimin's intentions, and was very disturbed, worried that he would become Li Tang's next attack target.In order to avoid suspicion, Du simply wrote to Li Yuan, requesting to enter the court.

Li Yuan was naturally happy after receiving the report, and approved Du Fuwei's entry into the court, so Du handed over the Jianghuai Army to his adopted son Wang Xiongdan, and brought a few cronies to Chang'an to meet Li Yuan in July of that year.

Li Yuan was very satisfied with Du Fuwei's initiative to show his loyalty. At the same time, it was also to make an appearance in front of the world. Li Yuan added Du as the prince and Taibao, above Qi Wang Yuanji.

But they forgot Fu Gongyou, who was also the founder of the Jianghuai Army.No, Du Fuwei left, but Fu Gongyou still firmly holds the military and political power over half of Jiangnan.

After all, Fu Gong Er was not a person willing to be female. As soon as Du Fuwei left, he conspired with Zuo Youxian to launch a mutiny.

The only obstacle to assisting Gong Er is Wang Xiongsheng. Wang is Du Fuwei's adopted son and favorite general. He is absolutely loyal to Du Fuwei.

Fu then resorted to countermeasures and forged Du Fuwei's handwriting to write to Wang Xiongdan, accusing Wang Xiongdan of having a different heart for no reason in the letter.

To avoid suspicion, Wang Xiongdan rested at home.But then Fu Gongyou forged Du Fuwei's personal letter, saying that he had been abused in Chang'an, and asked him to join forces with Fu Gongyou to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, even a fool would understand that he had been cheated, but the situation was over, so he could do nothing!Wang Xiongdan was loyal to Du Fuwei, and sternly rejected Fu Gong Er's persuasion to surrender, and was eventually killed by Fu Gongyou.

It is natural to imagine Du Fuwei's days in Chang'an when his old troops rebelled. There is no record in history whether Li Yuan blamed or punished Du Fuwei for this, but the feeling of sitting on pins and needles under someone else's fence is probably unavoidable.In February of the seventh year of Wude, Du Fuwei died suddenly in Chang'an. The cause of death is unknown.Historical records record that Du Fuwei was fond of immortality medicine and died of mica poisoning by mistake. It is possible that he was poisoned, but it is difficult to say how he was poisoned.

No one was surprised by Du Fuwei's death.

To you, a person who is no longer of any value, with Li Yuan's temper, it's no wonder he can tolerate him!In addition, Du Fuwei is in a high position but doesn't know how to restrain himself. He travels with hundreds of guards to accompany him, so it's no wonder that he is not hated by others!

Du Fuwei is dead, and he has completely confirmed what Fu Gongyou said before that he was abused in Chang'an. Now he can't think of rebelling.

The generals in the army were furious and vowed to avenge the King of Wu, which was exactly what Fu Gongyou wanted.So he killed the officials Li Yuan sent to the army to sacrifice the flag, and started the road against Tang Dynasty.

In the seventh year of Wude, in the spring, the Tang army took Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhao Jun, as the commander, and Li Jing, Li Ji, and Kan Ling as the generals launched a general attack on the auxiliary public Er.

This Kanling was also Du Fuwei's adopted son, and he was called a duo with Wang Xiongdan. When Du Fuwei entered the court, he went to Chang'an with Du, so he escaped the mutiny of Fu Gong Er.

Kan Ling is known for his bravery in the Jianghuai Army. He is usually responsible for military discipline. Anyone who violates the rules will be dealt with regardless of whether they are close or distant. Therefore, he has a very high prestige in the Jianghuai Army.

When the two armies confronted each other, Kan Ling rushed over, took off his helmet and yelled at the opponent, "You don't know my evil? How dare you come to fight!" The Jianghuai army was distracted, and some even surrendered.

The Tang army was strong and brave, and the assistant Gong Er was defeated in a row. Finally, he surrendered in March of the seventh year of Wude and was sentenced to death.

Probably because he was unwilling to go on the road alone, Fu Gong Er revealed to Tang Jun coach Li Xiaogong that Du Fuwei was the mastermind of the rebellion. With the secret order as evidence, even Kan Ling who came back this time was also involved in the rebellion.

It happened that Li Xiaogong had confiscated Du Fuwei and Kan Ling's private property when confiscating the properties of the rebels. Kan Ling had just quarreled with Li Xiaogong about this. Li Xiaogong took this opportunity to execute Kan Ling for treason. Before Ling was arrested, he thought that he would be rewarded for his meritorious deeds in breaking the assistant public.

Kan Ling was the last general of the Jianghuai Army. With his death, the Jianghuai Army disappeared in smoke.Li Xiaogong immediately reported to Li Yuan, saying that Du Fuwei was found to be the mastermind behind the rebellion, with all the witnesses and material evidence.

But at this time Du Fuwei was dead, so Li Yuan deprived Du Fuwei of his official title and lost his family.

During the Zhenguan period, Li Shimin ascended the throne, knowing that Du Fuwei and Kan Ling had been framed, he rehabilitated them and restored their reputations, and buried Du Fuwei as a prince.

The demise of Fu Gongyou made the Jiangnan family dumbfounded.

Everyone is still thinking about taking advantage of this great war. If Fu Gongyou is more helpful, it is not impossible to rule the river and form the career of Chen Liang back then.

But they not only overestimated Fu Gongyou, but also overestimated themselves, and even underestimated Li Tang's strength!
In a short period of time, Fu Gongyou, who occupied the entire Jiangnan, was cleaned up. It can be said that it was effortless, which made the entire Jiangnan family dumbfounded.

What benefit is there now, life-saving is the most important thing!
So there were all kinds of kneeling and licking again, maybe Li Yuan didn't want to make too much trouble, so he didn't do anything to the Jiangnan family, but just cleaned up a few out of line ones.

What Li Tang did made the Jiangnan family feel at ease, but they didn't dare to have any previous thoughts.

Therefore, since the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the distribution of rights has basically no relationship with the Jiangnan family.

Now that the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty have stabilized, it is not so simple for them to do things.Coupled with seeing the combat power of Datang's army with his own eyes, he dared not think otherwise.

But are they willing?Certainly not reconciled.If they couldn't enter the center of power, sooner or later, their aristocratic families would be eaten up by those in Jiangbei.

It's not that they didn't try hard afterwards, but they all failed, and no one was willing to accept them.Therefore, although there are still people who have been officials in recent years, they have not been able to make it to the stage.

They know that if no changes are made, their demise will be foreseeable in the future, so they can't help being impatient!

The appearance of Xie Lian and his good friend Hou Jisong behind him gave them a ray of dawn.Although Hou Jisong is young, according to the information collected during this period, he is a man with a hand and an eye.

As long as they get his help, whether it is Sinong Temple or the army, their situation will gradually change.

But Gu Yanzhi shook his head, knowing that they were impatient, Xie Lian couldn't be Ji Song's master, now they just hope that Xie Lian can be a bridge between them and Ji Song, so that even if they come to him, it won't be too abrupt!
(End of this chapter)