subvert the late Tang Dynasty

It was a plan discussed with Zhu Xuan that Zhu Jin launched a mutiny when he got married. Thousands of Zhu Jin's elite dressed up as bearers, grooms, feet, troupes and other people of all kinds followed Zhu Jin and easily sneaked into Yanzhou , The weapons are all loaded on the carriage with the dowry gift, which of the generals guarding the city dare to check when entering the city?

And Zhu Xuan's army was tens of miles away from Yanzhou City to meet Zhu Jin. As long as the city sends out a signal, people outside the city can rush to Yanzhou within half an hour to take over Yanzhou's defense.

Things progressed very smoothly. Since then, Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin have occupied the two towns, and they are each other's horns, which is not a small force.And this force also happened to be on the border with Zhu Wen. Originally, Zhu Wen's strength was far superior to Zhu Xuan's. Now that the Taining Army was added and the two towns were united, Zhu Xuan inevitably became a little self-inflated.

But of course Zhu Xuan did not dare to fight against Zhu Wen for the time being, because now it was only because Zhu Wen stood in front of Qin Zongquan that he could develop his power calmly. If he confronted Qin Zongquan head-on, Zhu Xuan would still feel a little guilty.

Of course, Zhu Wen didn't have the energy to deal with Zhu Xuan and the others, so both sides tacitly guarded their own borders. Now that the world is in chaos, it is already very good to be able to separate one side without being annexed.

But this kind of chaos is also an opportunity, it depends on who can stand out.Zhu Wen didn't want to be someone else's prisoner. Even if it wasn't for himself, for his wife, children, and the people under his command not to be bullied, he would definitely make the Xuanwu Army stronger.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when Qin Zongquan was dealing with Shi Pu, Zhu Wen tried his best to cultivate himself, mobilized troops to help farm the fields, and made the local grain self-sufficient as much as possible, because if he only relied on buying grain in the south of the Yangtze River, he would need to mobilize a large number of people to escort it. Second, it also costs shipping.The terrain of Xuanwu Army is flat. If all the wasteland is planted, it can be completely self-sufficient.Yingzhou can also grow rice. After the wheat is eaten, you can eat the rice in Yingzhou, without having to eat coarse grains such as sorghum.

Bozhou, Songzhou, and Bianzhou still focus on cash crops in autumn, which can also allow the common people to earn a little more money.

Zhu Wen discussed with Jing Xiang and others all day about the development of production. Since most of the coal mines, iron mines, and copper mines in the territory are in Bozhou, Bozhou inevitably became the economic base of Xuanwu Army.The large-scale blast furnace smelter has been completed, which indicates that Zhu and Wen’s iron-making level has surpassed that of other regions by five or six hundred years or more. The quality of standard weapons is more than one grade higher than that of other feudal towns. It is much better than those produced by wrought iron in other regions, and it is simply not of the same grade.

Now that the high-quality steel has been solved, the mass production of muskets has been put on the agenda in advance. The first batch of [-] rifles has already started production. After all, the production capacity at that time could not be compared with the present, and it would take a month or two to manufacture [-] rifles. Time, but it is good enough that this kind of precision weapon can be made, and Zhu Wen has no extravagant hope that it can be made quickly.

At this moment, there was another change in Chang'an, because Tian Lingzi recruited 6 to 54 new troops when he was in Chengdu to supplement the previous consumption of the Shence Army.Five to sixty thousand people were divided into 1000 capitals, each with [-] people, Wang Jian, Han Jian, Jin Hui, Li Shitai, Zhang Zao and others were among them, but the five were arranged by Li Xuan's side as godsons of Tian Lingzi. To accompany the five capitals.

But the consumption of these 6 to 6 people is not small, not to mention the salary, even the food and drink of the [-] to [-] people is a lot of consumption.

Nowadays, there are only a handful of vassals and towns in the world who still pay tribute to the imperial court, and they all refuse to hand in tribute on the grounds that the treasury is empty due to years of war.That is to say, a few counties such as Guanzhong, Shannan, Jiannan, and Shuzhong still listen to the orders of the imperial court, and the taxes paid are not much, which is not enough for the big bosses of the Chang'an imperial court and the battalions of the Shence Army.

Tian Lingzi also felt very headache. Although he had money at home, he had been greedy for money for many years. To be on the safe side, he kept it with his brother Chen Jingxuan. After all, Chengdu is relatively safer than Chang'an.

At this time, Tian Lingzi thought of the two salt ponds in the river. At that time, the salt ponds were always controlled by the imperial court and were the main source of fiscal revenue.But in the years after Huang Chao entered the customs, Wang Chongrong, the governor of Hezhong, took the opportunity to occupy two salt ponds, but in order to block the court's mouth, he still handed over [-] carts of salt to the court every year for national use.

In Wang Chongrong's view, this is the best of benevolence and righteousness. After all, he is not weaker than the imperial court in terms of military strength. Wang Chongrong and Huang Chao have made great contributions to regaining Chang'an after years of bloody battles. At that time, I did not see you supporting me with food and money.Now his younger brother Wang Chongying is also the envoy of Shaanxi and Guodu. The combined strength of the two towns will make him three points even for Li Keyong, who is now in the limelight.

But now Tian Lingzi wants to take back the salt ponds. These two salt ponds are no less than two gold mines. Isn't it because of these two salt ponds that Hezhong can rise rapidly?If the Yanchi were returned to the imperial court now, it would be tantamount to cutting off Wang Chongrong's source of income, which of course Wang Chongrong did not agree to.

Tian Lingzi sent people to Hezhong to negotiate with Wang Chongrong many times, but Wang Chongrong always ordered others to be vain and submissive, and treated the visitors with courtesy, offering him good wine and good food, but when it came to Yanchi matters, of course Wang Chongrong would not budge.

Tian Lingzi was very angry when he heard the report, so he asked Li Xuan to issue an imperial edict to transfer Wang Chongrong as the Taining Army Jiedushi, Wang Chucun as the Yiwu Army Jiedushi as Hezhong Jiedushi, and let the original Taining Army Jieduqi Qi Ke Let him serve as the Jiedu envoy of the Yiwu Army.

Although Tian Lingzi's wishful thinking is good, the Taining Army is now under Zhu Jin's control. What's more, the backcountry of the Taining Army is nothing compared to places like Hezhong. Wang Chongrong is not a fool, let alone Zhu Jin now. He will not hand over the Taining army easily, even if he is willing to hand it over, Wang Chongrong will not take office.

Hezhong was snatched by Wang Chongrong's mutiny, not conferred by the imperial court. He has his own merits, so of course he won't move the town easily.

Another thing Wang Chongrong knows better is that Wang Chucun does not dare to come to Hezhong to take office now, even if he gives up Hezhong, Wang Chucun may not come, because now Yizhou and Dingzhou are at war.

It turned out that Li Keju, the Jiedu envoy of Lulong Town, and Wang Rong, the Jiedu envoy of Chengde Town, had already formed an alliance. They were afraid that the mighty Li Keyong would march eastward and occupy their territory, although there was a Yiwu in the middle. Wang Chucun of the army, but Wang Chucun and Li Keyong are in-laws. Wang Chucun's son married the daughter of Li Kexiu, Li Keyong's brother, and now Wang Chucun is expanding everywhere with Li Keyong's help.

After discussing with Wang Rong, Li Keju and Wang Rong planned to strike first and carve up the Yiwu army with lightning speed, which would not only strengthen their own strength, but also make it difficult for Li Ke to support himself alone.

The two men have discussed and decided to send armies to the west. Li Keju sent general Li Quanzhong to lead 4 troops to attack Yizhou (Yixian County, Hebei), and Wang Rong also sent [-] horses to attack Wuji (Wuji, Hebei).Wang Chucun was shocked and hurriedly asked Li Keyong for help.

Li Keyong is not idle now, he and Helian Duo, the Jiedu Envoy in the Cloud, already had enmity, now that the two are bordering each other, friction is inevitable, after a few small battles, it has escalated into a large-scale battle, Helian Lian Duo led the elites of Tuyuhun, who were also nomadic warriors, and they were no match for each other in a fight.But after all, Helianduo's strength was slightly inferior, and he lost several games in a row, so he had to retreat to the city.

Li Keyong wanted to take advantage of the victory to chase after him, but he received an emergency from Wang Chucun. Li Keyong was also very angry, saying that Li Keju was the main force when he besieged Laozi in Yunzhou, and I was worried that I would not have a chance to trouble you. Fortunately, knowing that Wang Chucun is under my cover, he still dares to set his mind on him. Isn't this clearly against me?Wang Rong, that little brat, also followed suit. I see that you are an orphan and widow, and I didn't want to be as knowledgeable as you, but now I dare to come to Tai Sui to break ground.Anyway, let you know how powerful I am.

Immediately, Li Keyong sent Kang Junli to lead a team to rescue Yizhou, and he personally led the army to rescue Wuji. Li Keyong thought that Chengde Town was weaker, and now he personally took action to solve the Chengde Town team. Well, it's not too late to clean up the people in Lulong Town. Anyway, Yizhou is a big city, so it shouldn't be a problem to guard it for a few months.

Li Ke used to defeat the troops of Chengde Town many times in Wuji, and even the famous Boye Army in Chengde Town was beaten so hard that they couldn't find their way to the north. Li Ke used to chase them all the way for more than 200 miles and lost more than [-] troops. , Wang Rong had no choice but to order the troops to retreat.

But to Li Ke's surprise, Yizhou changed hands in just a few days, and was easily beaten down by Li Quanzhong.Li Ke was very angry, and thought: This Wang Chucun doesn't look like such a useless person, why can't such a big city last a few days?

Li Ke didn't know about it until he used it, and Wang Chucun couldn't be blamed, because Li Keju had a lieutenant named Liu Rengong, who was from the tomb-robbing Lieutenant Mojin. His old business is to dig tunnels when attacking the city, and drive the tunnels into the city from outside the city, which is hard to guard against.

The weapons of the 1000 troops led by Liu Rengong are shovels and guntou. To put it bluntly, they are the nature of engineers. In Lulong Town, Liu Rengong’s team is called "Katou Army", which is a special force for digging tunnels. Liu Rengong also got a nickname It is called "Liu Kutou".

This time Liu Rengong followed Li Quanzhong to attack Yizhou. Unexpectedly, he easily drove tunnels into the city, set fires everywhere in the city, took the opportunity to seize the city gate, and let Li Quanzhong's army enter the city.Wang Chucun saw that the general situation was over, so he had to withdraw from Yizhou temporarily, and waited for Li Ke to use it before making plans.