subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Qin Zongquan now occupies Jingxiang, and more than [-] nearby prefectures are under Qin Zongquan's abuse. The military strength has almost reached the situation in Huang Chao's heyday. After the city is broken, the city must be massacred to relieve hatred. Burning, killing, looting and looting are all kinds of crimes, and the people in the central plains are panicked.

And Qin Zongquan's immediate neighbor to the north was Zhu Wen. Although Zhu Wen said that his troops were small, they were all soldiers who had followed Zhu Wen for many years, or they were reckless heroes recruited from various places, and their combat effectiveness was very strong.In addition, Zhu Wen has gunpowder and bombs in his hands, and now he has made muskets, which are being mass-produced secretly. The mass-produced rifle-style firecrackers can only hold one bullet at a time, but they are not It is not the kind of low-level guns that are directly loaded with gunpowder and lead bullets. They are loaded with pre-made bullets, so the loading speed is faster than that of the muskets that appeared in the [-]th century in history, and the performance is even better.This is thanks to Zhu Wen's eight years in the army. Although he is a cooking soldier, he has a detailed understanding of guns. After more than a year of tinkering, it came out.

Once his team is equipped with muskets, mopping up Qin Zongquan will be like playing games. This is Zhu Wen's idea.

Therefore, before the musket was made, Zhu Wen did not want to engage in a large-scale war with Qin Zongquan, so he always ordered Hu Zhen who was on the front line to only passively defend and not to confront the enemy head-on.After suffering several losses, Qin Zongquan also knew that Zhu Wen was a tough guy, so he also consciously turned to other places for development.

But although Zhu Wen was only protecting the environment and the people, Li Xuan, who had just returned to Chang'an, couldn't sit still. Under his own governance, someone dared to proclaim himself emperor, which was something that no king could tolerate.Don't look at Li Xuan's usual obedience to Tian Lingzi's words, but now after hearing the news that Qin Zongquan proclaimed himself emperor, he was furious, and issued an edict to appoint the Probation Army Jiedu Envoy and Pengcheng County King Shi Pu to be the envoy of Caizhou's four-sided camp recruiting, and ordered all the towns to send troops to cooperate. Be sure to take Caizhou.

Zhu Wen was also appointed as the commander of the northern camp. In fact, these official positions are nothing more than a seal and an edict. All the soldiers, horses, money and food have to be prepared by the feudal towns themselves. I am not in tune, how can I blame others?

But Li Xuan also has his own difficulties. Now that the various warlords are divided, who still thinks of him as the emperor?If he is happy, he will pay a symbolic tribute of some money and food. If he is not happy, he will not pay tribute for several years. Li Xuan has no choice but to have soldiers and food.

What can Li Xuan do in such a situation?However, the emperor's fool is a fool, but he still has to save the face he deserves.Returning to Chang'an City, where he had been away for many years, seeing the desolate scene in the city, Li Xuan couldn't help crying.How prosperous was Chang'an City back then?But after the baptism of wars in the past few years, it has been dilapidated, and even the magnificent Daming Palace has become a ruin.

Chang'an was regained under the governance of the former prime minister Wang Hui, and many people have been recruited from nearby. Chang'an City has also undergone some repairs, but it is still difficult to conceal its devastated vicissitudes.

Even so, Li Xuan was still very excited. He temporarily lived in the Taiji Palace in the imperial city. Although the Taiji Palace was not comparable to Daming Palace, it was also very grand in scale.Taiji Palace itself was the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan and Li Shimin were both in charge of the government in Taiji Palace.

After the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were killed one after another, and Li Yuan became the Supreme Emperor.In order to be filial to Li Yuan, Li Shimin built the Yong'an Palace in Longshouyuan, but before the Yong'an Palace was completed, Li Yuan passed away, and the Yong'an Palace stopped working.

Until the second year of Longshuo, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi expanded the original Yong'an Palace, which became the later Daming Palace.Of course, Daming Palace was only used as the emperor's summer resort at that time, not a formal imperial palace.Because the Daming Palace is located in the east of the imperial city and on the Longshouyuan in the north of the capital, it is also called "Dong Nei".

The Daming Palace has been repaired and expanded many times by the emperors of the Li and Tang Dynasties before it reached its final scale. However, this is the largest palace complex in the history of China and even the world, but it was set on fire by Huang Chao and Meng Kai. It was destroyed once, and the fire burned for three full days before it was extinguished.

Looking at the scorched black rubble in front of him, Li Xuan felt filled with emotion. Although he did not become a king of subjugation, the current situation is not much better than that of a king of subjugation.But what should be paid attention to is still to be paid attention to. Chang'an has regained, and the emperor himself has finally returned to Chang'an after a long absence. Of course, he should celebrate it.

Li Xuan came to Chang'an City on March [-]th, rested for a day, and amnesty the world on March [-]th, and changed the fifth year of Zhonghe to the first year of Longji.The gang of bigwigs in the imperial court also hope that the imperial court can regain its strength now and revive the prosperous Tang Dynasty back then, but everyone with a discerning eye sighs secretly in their hearts, Li Tang's period has come to an end.

***************************************************** ************ Not only is there constant war in the north, but also in the south. Huang Siye's son, Huang Hao, led more than [-] remnants of his troops across the Yangtze River, and fought in various places in the south of the Yangtze River. Although the force is now much larger than before, its combat effectiveness is relatively weak.Dong Chang, Qian Liu and the others are having a lively fight with Liu Hanhong, so where is the time to deal with them?Other warlords can only protect themselves.

Therefore, Huang Hao did not encounter much resistance in the south of the Yangtze River. He has been plundering the Jiangxi area, and almost no one can rule him.

Gao Pian from Huainan is still the same, his skills are not as good as before, his face with white hair and childlike face has already added many wrinkles, and the ruthless years have finally left marks on the face of this god of war in the late Tang Dynasty, and he deeply regrets it I shouldn't be obsessed with ghosts, trying to live forever.But now the people around him are all Lu Yongzhi's cronies, and he has been ostracized, so all he can do now is eat and wait to die.

Yang Xingmi was in trouble, and recruited troops in Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui) to expand his power. Even Lu Yongzhi did not dare to touch him easily, so he could only comfort him with good words.

Yang Xingmi was very sad for a while when he heard the news of Master's death, and later he transferred this hatred to Zhu Wen. In Yang Xingmi's view, if Zhu Wen hadn't defected at the beginning, Chang'an would not have fallen.If it weren't for Zhu Wen's counterattack in Wang Mandu, Huang Chao would not have been defeated in such a mess.

In Yang Xingmi's mind, the master was so kind to Zhu Wen that he even planned to betroth his daughter to him. It was really a crime for him, Zhu San, to betray his master for the sake of glory and wealth.If Yang Xingmi hadn't known that his troops were no match for Zhu Wen, he would have sent troops to fight Zhu Wen long ago.

But now I can only bear it temporarily, and it will not be too late to have a showdown with Zhu Wen after I grow stronger in the future.

***************************************************** *************** Although Zhu Wen does not want to start a large-scale war with Qin Zongquan, the two are close neighbors, and frictions inevitably occur frequently, and small-scale wars happen all the time.Now generals such as Zhang Qianyu, Li Si'an, and Shi Shucong are all on the front line, and they are all controlled by Hu Zhen. For a while, Qin Zongquan suffered losses repeatedly in Bozhou and Yingzhou.

Zhu Zhen, who went to Shandong to recruit soldiers, should be back soon. Zhu Wen just wanted to wait for Zhu Zhen to come back before going to war with Qin Zongquan. In that case, the odds of winning would be much higher.After all, Zhu Zhen, Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba and others were not there, Zhu Wen felt a little powerless, Zhang Cunjing still had to guard Songzhou, and now the only ones available were Xu Huaiyu, Li Tangbin, and Ding Hui.

At this time when the war was raging, the Taining Army Jiedushi's mansion was full of lights and festivities. It turned out that Taining Army Jiedushi Qi Kerang's daughter was getting married. Since Qi Kerang had no children, only There is a woman, so the man is required to marry.But in the Tang Dynasty, generally talented men would sneer at the matter of marrying into a family, and only those from poor families or those who could not marry a wife would marry into a woman's family.

Of course, a person of Qi Kerang's status would not let his only daughter marry an ordinary person, because the entire Taining Army will be handed over to his daughter at that time. If the son-in-law is too mediocre, how can he keep this family? Industry?But it's hard to find someone who is both talented and willing to marry, so Zeke is very worried about his daughter.

At this moment, Zhu Xuan, the envoy of the Tianping Army in the neighboring town, came to propose marriage to Qi Kerang on behalf of his cousin Zhu Jin. However, Zhu Xuan took the Tianping Army as his own because of Zhu Jin, a cousin who was good at fighting, and the three brothers Zhu Qiong joined forces.Zhu Jin is now the governor of Puzhou, and she can live with her own daughter.

Originally, Qi Kerang was a little worried that Zhu Jin would not marry, but what he didn't expect was that when Qi Kerang mentioned the idea of ​​asking the man to marry, the envoy Zhu Xuan sent to propose marriage immediately smiled and said, "The three masters of my family have all said, Knowing that Marshal Qi has only such a daughter, of course he wants to be married, my Marshal has already discussed with General Zhu Jin, let General Zhu Jin join the Taining Army, and the two families will be good friends for generations and help each other."

Zeke was overjoyed, and immediately accepted the dowry, changed his horoscope, set an auspicious day, and waited for the marriage.

It was the day of getting married, and Zeke filled the house with guests and friends, and there were people everywhere.Just kidding, the Jiedu envoy has a son-in-law at home, who in Yanzhou dare not come to join us?Even if you don't get people, at least you have to be present, otherwise, if Marshal Qi changed his face, he wouldn't be able to eat and walk around?

So people with a little bit of status in Yanzhou City came to Yanzhou to give gifts, and the festival made it so crowded in front of the Lord's gate that it was very lively.Accompanied by the melodious sounds of various musical instruments, Zhu Jin wore a bright red wedding dress, with a huge red flower on her chest.There was a long motorcade behind them, and the cars were full of large and small boxes, which should be gold, silver and jewelry.

Zeke made a face full of smiles, not to mention how happy he was, and rushed out to greet him.

At this moment, Zhu Jin suddenly whistled, and the drivers behind him and those who carried the boxes took out the weapons they had hidden in advance from the cars and boxes, and killed Qi Kerang at the place where he was.Zeke was caught off guard, how could he deal with it?After being massacred in the city by Zhu Jin with hundreds of troops, Qi Kerang escaped outside the city under the cover of his own soldiers.

Zhu Jin actually occupied Yanzhou, claiming to stay, and the court could only admit the established facts.