Late Tang

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In August of the fifth year of Qianfu, there were rumors in Hebei that the emperor intended to cut down the San Francisco in Hebei. Lu Long, Liu Yue, Li Quanzhong, Wei Bo and Han Jian, and Chengde Wang Jingchong were all worried.

In the same month, the assassin assassinated the emperor. Under the investigation of the court, all the evidence points to the three towns in Hebei as the mastermind behind the scenes.When the news reached Hebei, San Francisco was shaken.For this kind of filthy frame, Sanzhen even more believed that this was the court making an excuse, as a name for being a teacher.

At the same time, the three towns discovered that Zheng Congxuan of Hedong led five Tibetan cavalry to approach Youzhou.And Cui Anqian also assembled troops in Henan, pointing directly at Hebei.In addition, the towns of Dongdu, Heyang, Datong, Hezhong, Zhaoyi, Yicheng, and Yiwu also frequently mobilized troops and horses.

In addition, Liu Yue scouted horses and found out that Li Jing of Liaodong sent an elite cavalry force of [-] people to cross the Liaohe River from the Liaodong River to the west, pass through the Liaoxi Corridor all the way, and came straight to Youzhou in the Guannei.

The combination of all kinds of news finally convinced the three towns that the imperial court was really planning a huge move to pacify San Francisco in one fell swoop.

Under such circumstances, San Francisco refused to sit still in the end, and chose to strike first.

At the beginning of September, Li Quanzhong, who controls the two prefectures of Mo and Ying in the Lulong Army of Hebei Province, made an alliance with Liu Yue, Han Jian, and Wang Jingchong of the three towns, and agreed to pass on the land to their descendants.

Later, Li Quanzhong raided Dingzhou, the residence of Yacheng, the commander-in-chief of the Yiwu Army. At the same time, Liu Yue, Han Jian, and Wang Jingchong also sent troops to help.

In just ten days, Li Quanzhong, with the help of several generals who bought Hou Gu, the governor of the Yiwu Army, quickly broke through Dingzhou, and then captured Yizhou.

In mid-September, Li Quanzhong handed over the formerly controlled Mozhou to Liu Yue, and according to Yi, Ding, and Ying, he claimed to be the Jiedushi of the Yiwu Army.

According to the three prefectures of You, Gui and Mo, Liu Yue claimed to be the envoy of Lu Longjun.

Chengde Army Jiedu envoy Wang Jingchong occupied Zhenzhou, Shenzhou, Yizhou, and Zhaozhou, and Wei Bo Army Jiedu envoy Han Jian occupied Weizhou, Bozhou, Xiangzhou, Beizhou, Weizhou, and Chanzhou.

The four towns occupy the land of [-] prefectures and form an offensive and defensive alliance.

In the same month, the four towns met at the waterside of Hutuo, Shenzhou.

At this alliance, the four towns followed the example of the four towns forming an alliance and called themselves kings. Liu Yue, the military governor of Lulong, called himself the king of Yan, Li Quanzhong, the military governor of the Yiwu Army, called himself the king of Yi, and Wang Jingchong, the military governor of the Chengde army, called himself the king of Zhao. Wei Bo Jiedu made Han Jian claim to be the king of Wei.

With Han Jian, the most powerful Wei Bo Jiedu envoy, as the leader of the four towns, they jointly fought against the imperial court.

When the news was rushed to Chang'an, it immediately caused a panic.

When Dezong cut down the vassals, the result was the rebellion of two emperors and four kings, and even Chang'an was lost. Zhu Xi was called Emperor Qin according to Chang'an, Li Xilie was called Emperor Chu according to Bian, and Zhu Tao, the envoy of Lulong Jiedu, called himself King Ji, Wu Jun, king of Chengde, was called King Zhao, Li Na of Ziqing was called King Qi, and Wei Bo Tianyue was called King Wei.

If it hadn't been for the loss of Chang'an and almost being killed by Emperor Qin in Fengtian, Dezong changed his strategy, issued an edict of guilt, pardoned the towns, actually accepted the separatism of each town, and then defeated them one by one, it is really hard to say who will win and who will lose.

Although in the end, Dezong relied on Li Sheng and other famous generals to kill Qin Emperor Zhu Xi, Chu Emperor Li Xilie, and Shuofang Jiedu Envoy Li Huaixian.But the ambition to cut down the vassal was extinguished. Wang Wujun, Li Na, and Tian Yue canceled the title of king, and Dezong pardoned them.Even when Huaixi general Chen Xianqi killed Li Xilie and surrendered, Emperor Dezong immediately appointed Chen Xianqi as Jiedu envoy.Later, Wu Shaocheng, the envoy of soldiers and horses in Huaixi, killed Chen Xianqi, and Dezong took Wu as his envoy to stay behind.

Until the time of Xianzong, although Yuanhe Zhongxing was said, the feudal clans could only be conquered, not destroyed.

Now, the four towns in Hebei claimed the king and rebelled, and the whole Chang'an was shocked.

After receiving this news, Li Xuan, Tian Lingzi, Lu Xie and others also had extremely ugly faces.

Just about to cut Li Jing's military power, who knows that it caused a misunderstanding in the three towns of Hebei. In a blink of an eye, Hebei rebelled and lost a volunteer army.

Whether or not Li Xuan and others planned to cut down the San Francisco of Hebei is not important now, because the San Francisco of Hebei has already become the king directly, and now the imperial court can't do without crusade.

In the Zichen Palace of the Inner Dynasty, it was the first time for Li Xuan to publicly meet with the officials since his assassination.

The emperor's face was a little pale, and he was much haggard.Sitting there, a little tired.

When he issued the personal conquest order earlier, he thought of everything very simply.In his opinion, the imperial court is gaining momentum at the moment, as long as he goes to Luoyang and orders Li Jing to hand over his military power, it is impossible for Li Jing to resist the order.After Li Jing surrendered his military power and then split up the town [***], then Li Jing could help him cut off the San Francisco of Hebei and regain the land of Hebei.

But who would have thought that Li Jing agreed to hand over military power, but there is something wrong with Hebei.

The four towns are kings, and the sixteen prefectures are rebellious!

"Your Majesty, the most urgent task right now is to immediately mobilize troops to exterminate these traitors. There must be no half-assessment. I believe that we should immediately dispatch Zheng Congyu from Hedong to attack Lulong, and then use Cui An to attack Weibo. In addition, Luoyang, Heyang, The soldiers and horses of the towns of Hezhong and Yicheng attacked Chengde from Zhaoyi."

"I think it's inappropriate." Immediately someone objected, "I think it's time to transfer the soldiers and horses of Luoyang Heyang, Hezhong Yicheng Zhaoyi and other towns to Cui Anqian's command and form a southern camp. And the towns of Hedong, Datong, Tiande, and Zhenwu Form the northern battalion, under the command of Zheng Congxuan. Attack from the north and the south at the same time!"

Both Zheng Congxun and Cui Anqian were relatively capable civil servants, and to the north there were Xin Xun, the deputy envoy of the Datong Army Jiedu, and Yu Juan of the Zhenwu Army.Cui Anqian in the south also has generals like Zhang Zimian.

However, Li Xuan already summoned the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, Tian Lingzi and others to have a meeting in Yanying Hall yesterday.

The biggest problem now is not the rebellion of the four towns in Hebei, nor the employment of the commanders-in-chief of the north, Zheng and South Cui of the imperial court.Now Li Xuan and the others are most worried about what kind of attitude will the towns [***] far east of Liaodong and Hedong after the rebellion of the towns in Hebei?

Previously, Li Jing had agreed to surrender military power and agreed to be transferred to Hebei.But now that Hebei has reversed, the situation will be different immediately.

At that time, Li Xilie, the Jiedu envoy of Huaixi Town, was also the Nanping County King granted by Dezong, and he was recruited by Hannan and Hanbei.Later, the imperial court asked Li Xiyeol to discuss the four towns. In the end, Li Xiyeol colluded with the four towns instead, calling himself Marshal of the Capital of the World and King Jianxing.After conquering Bianzhou, he was renamed Emperor Chu.

If Li Jing also thinks that the current situation is feasible, and he also turns against Datang, what will he do?

Li Jing is still in the east of Hebei. If he rebels, the strength of the rebels will double, and they will have more than 30 towns.With hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, whether Li Jing can be stopped by then is still a matter of opinion.

Tian Lingzi and Li Xuan were not the only ones who had this worry, almost all other ministers also had this worry.

After all, the imperial court wanted to remove Li Jing's military power before, and Li Jing listened to the order before, perhaps because he felt that he had little confidence in rebelling against the imperial court.But now with the four towns in front, the situation is quite different.

Prime Minister Dou Lujuan came out and proposed: "Your Majesty, I think that the King of Andong County should be transferred to the pass to quell the chaos. The town [***] has 20 soldiers, and the soldiers are good and good. It is time to use troops. If you get the troops to suppress [***], then the imperial court will have Zheng, Cui, and Li's three armies, and even if the four towns in Hebei rebel, they will not be feared."

Lu Xie snorted coldly and said, "I'm afraid Li Jing won't obey orders."

All the ministers in the palace understood the meaning of Lu Xie's words. Earlier, the imperial court ordered to release Li Jing's military power, split up the town [***], and send troops into Liao. This was almost a stab in the back of Li Jing.It's good that Li Jing didn't directly retaliate.At a time like this, do you still count on Li Jing to be loyal to the court?If he doesn't take the opportunity to rebel, he is already loyal.

"Your Majesty, I believe that if Li Jing is appeased, it is not impossible to adjust the [***]. The most urgent thing is to give Li Jing a high position and more rewards. I believe Li Jing should be able to send troops."

Xiangguo Yu Cong, who had been seldom speaking, said: "Li Jing has already divided the town [***] according to the order, so he doesn't have soldiers and horses."

"It could be split at the beginning, but now it can be decreed to hand over the command of the split five towns to Li Jing. For example, it is enough to add Li Jing to the position of marshal of the five towns." Prime Minister Dou Lu argued Solution.

Since the court meeting, Tian Lingzi has been silent.He just looked at the courtiers with cold eyes, and now he finally heard someone mentioning that the military power should be returned to Li Jing, he couldn't help but look extremely ugly, but at this time, he couldn't make a sound to stop it.He was the one who proposed to release Li Jing's military power, but Li Jing agreed, and instead, the Hebei feudal town entered the palace to assassinate, almost losing his life, and the San Francisco town was completely reversed.At this time, no matter what he said, the emperor would probably think that he had misunderstood the public due to personal interests.

If at this time, Li Jing asked the emperor to kill him before agreeing to send troops, he estimated that the emperor would have no objection.Therefore, now he keeps a low profile as long as he can, for fear of attracting people to put the responsibility of the Hebei Rebellion on his head.

The experienced ministers all understand that at this moment, no matter what Li Jing's mood and attitude are, they must first appease the Andong County King who holds a heavy army.

"How does Xiangguo Doulu think to make an order?" Li Xuan asked.The matter concerns Li Tang Jiangshan, although the little emperor likes to play, but now he has to sit patiently in this hall.

Hearing the emperor's question, Dou Luzhen also didn't know how to answer.To appease Li Jing, he must come up with some dry goods.But it is also impossible to serve as Li Jingzhen [***] Jiedushi and others who have just been dismissed because of this, otherwise the court will slap itself in the face.

After much deliberation, he didn't think about what kind of reward he should offer, which would be considered as being sincere and able to move Li Jing's heart.

Li Jing is now the king of the county, it can be said that it has come to an end.The official position is from the first-rank hussar general, to the official positions of Shangzhu Kingdom, Tai Tuo and other extremely human officials.

It's hard to give Li Jing the one-word king, if not one-word king.So if you are appointed as an official, what official position is higher than Li Jing's now?Dou Lu Xiangguo thought about it, and it seems that the two positions of Shang Shuling for Wen and Tiance General for Wu have real power and are higher than Li Jing's current official position.

However, no matter if it is the official titles of Yiziwang, Shangshuling or Tiance Admiral, none of them can be conferred by a minister! (To be continued.)