Chapter 233: Subduing the Southern Tang Dynasty

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Xingmi occupied the Jianghuai region, which was later the state of Wu, and Qian Biao occupied the Liangzhejiang region, namely Wu Yue, and Wu Yue was always the emperor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yang Xingmi's development benefited from the Tang Dynasty's Jiedu to make the civil strife in the Gao Piao army, Yang Xingmi is a native of Hefei, Luzhou, he looks powerful, can lift a hundred catties, the earliest was born as a signal soldier, he can travel three hundred miles a day and night, and it can really be called the Shenxing Taibao.

In the name of saving Gao Yu, Yang Xingmi took every step of the way to kill Sun Ru, who was rampant in Jianghuai at that time. Zhu Wenkai coveted Jianghuai, Yang Xingmi was not convinced, Zhu Wen couldn't get cheap for a long time, but Yang Xingmi couldn't do it. After Yang Xingmi died of illness, his son Yang Hao took the throne, but the power was in the hands of Xu Wen and Zhang Hao. Suspicious up and down, Xu Wen and Zhang Hao made the first move, killed Yang Hao, and promoted Yang Xingmi's second son Yang Long as the emperor.

Soon after, Xu Wen and Zhang Hao had a dirty relationship again, and Xu Wen killed Zhang Hao. After Xu Wen took power, he learned from Sun Quan to establish the state of Wu, and promoted Yang Long as the king of Wu, no longer claiming to be the vassal king of the Tang Dynasty. After Xu Wen's death, his adopted son Xu Zhihe took power and went one step further and promoted Yang Long as emperor. It didn't take long for Xu Zhihe to simply overthrow Emperor Wu Yang Longyan, become the emperor himself, and pretended to be a descendant of Li Tang, changed the country name to Tang, and changed his name to Li Sheng.

In fact, this guy is neither surnamed Li nor Xu, originally surnamed Pan, a common man, during the war, his parents starved to death one after another, and was adopted by Xu Wen as a son. After Li Sheng became the emperor, he recuperated, governed the country diligently and thriftily, and was not bad in government. Li Sheng died of poisoning by taking the elixir, and after Li Sheng's death, his son Li Jing ascended the throne, reigning for 19 years, and the Southern Tang Dynasty flourished and declined in his hands.

In the early days of Li Jing, he first attacked Fujian State, which had both gains and losses, and consumed a lot of national strength. It just so happened that the Later Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains perished, and the killing was chaotic, if the Southern Tang Dynasty did not trap all its forces in Fujian, it could have been able to occupy the Central Plains with the Northern Expedition. The opportunity cannot be lost, and the loss will not come again, Liu Zhiyuan, a native of Shatuo, seized the opportunity and established the Later Han Dynasty.

Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Ma family of the Chu State, the Southern Tang Dynasty sent troops to directly attack, and even destroyed the important Chu State of the Ten Kingdoms. It didn't take long for the military mutiny to occur, and the Southern Tang Dynasty lost most of the land in Hunan.

Chai Rong issued an edict to conquer in person, Chai Rong in nearly three years, combined with the forces of the Wu Yue Qian family, won many battles, and finally occupied Guang, Shou, Lu, Shu, Hao, Si, Tai, Tong and other 14 prefectures and 60 counties, a total of more than 200,000 households, north of the Yangtze River, all owned by the Central Plains Dynasty. At this point, the dawn of great unification has reappeared on the land of China.

Li Jing was forced to give up the title of emperor, changed his name to the lord of the country, and offered 100,000 rains of silver, 100,000 horses of silk, 150,000 guan of money, 500,000 catties of tea, and 200,000 stones of rice and wheat. Three years later, Li Jing died of depression and was succeeded by his son Li Yu, a great poet.

After Li Jing proclaimed himself a vassal to Chai Rong, Gao Baorong, the weakest king of Jingnan in the Ten Kingdoms, was very well-behaved, and felt that it was not enough to pay tribute to be a minister, and the king of Nanping sent his younger brother into the court as a hostage, Chai Rong was overjoyed and rewarded Gao Baorong with a lot of gold and silver treasures.

Gao Jixing, the founder of Nanping, was originally born as a servant, but was liked by Zhu Wen, the Taizu of Later Liang, and adopted as an adopted son, who was called Zhu Yourang at that time. After the death of Zhu Wen, Gao Jixing, who led the troops in Jingnan, raised the meaning of secession, and after the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Later Liang, Gao Jixing was afraid and entered the Tang Zhuangzong of the dynasty, and offered a plan to Zhuangzong to destroy the former Shu. Later Tang Zhuang Zong Dayue, with his hand on his back, Gao Jixing is very good at pleasing people, and let people embroider a gold handprint with gold thread on the robe, showing off everywhere.

At the same time, he was also afraid that Tang Zhuangzong would kill him, so he cut the pass overnight on the way back. When the Later Tang Dynasty perished, the Later Tang Army, which had previously destroyed Shu, looted more than 400,000 gold silks from Shu, and went down from the gorge, and Gao Jixing robbed them all. After Gao Jixing's death, his son Gao Congzhi took the throne, and was still named the king of Nanping by the Later Jin Dynasty.

During the Later Liang period, the Southern Han, Fujian, and Chu all paid tribute to the Liang Dynasty, and when passing through Jingnan, they often robbed the property and tribute. Later, the Southern Han Dynasty, Fujian, and Shu were all called emperors, and Gao Congzhi changed to these neighboring countries to call the ministers, and the milk is the mother, and the money is the father, the purpose is to obtain rewards, at that time, people called the Gao father and son as Gao Laizi, and the slang said that the person who seized the shameless was Laizi, and what he said was the scoundrel.

Gao Baorong, who is courteous to Chai Rong, is the son of Gao Congxue. When Gao Jichong, the son of Gao Baorong, was intimidated by the imperial authority of the Song Dynasty, he led more than 500 people from the general clan into the court, and the ending was very good.

I heard that the Southern Tang Dynasty, a powerful country in the south of the Yangtze River, was repeatedly defeated, and the Southern Han Emperor Liu Sheng was so worried that he was so frightened that he sent an envoy to pay tribute to Chai Rong. The first emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty was Liu Yin, who was born as a military general, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he took advantage of the chaos to stand on his own, and constantly bribed Zhu Wen heavily, and had to be a feudal town to occupy Lingnan, and after the establishment of the Later Liang, he was named the king of the South China Sea.

After Liu Yin's illness and death, his younger brother Liu Zhi ascended the throne, seeing that the Later Liang country was chaotic and the Central Plains was troublesome, he set himself up as the emperor, the country was called the Great Han, known as the Southern Han Dynasty in history, poor and extravagant, entertaining one party, wanton cruelty, to the punishment of cannon branding, picking, tongue amputation, and nose irrigation. This person is also arrogant, calling the emperor of the Central Plains the history of Luozhou, in fact, it is precisely because he lives in a foreign place and is ashamed of the psychology of the lord of barbarians.

Southern Han Dynasty ancestor Liu Yan, formerly known as Liu Yan, also known as Liu Zhi, the founder of the Southern Han Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, his father was Liu Qian, the posthumous Emperor of Shengwu of the Southern Han Dynasty, and his mother was the concubine Duan.

Liu Qian and his wife Wei had two sons, Liu Yin and Liu Tai, and later privately accepted a concubine Duan and gave birth to Liu Zhi. His wife, Wei Shi, was furious and killed Duan, but she couldn't bear to hurt Liu Zhi, who was still a baby, but took her home and raised her two sons together. Liu Zhi grew up to be smart and skilled in martial arts, proficient in divination and fortune-telling, but he was cruel by nature, and he was happy every time he killed, and everyone thought that Jiao was the incarnation of a mirage.

Liu Yin, the eldest brother of the Later Liang Nanhai King, divided the Lingnan region, gradually sat down, Liu Yin did not have time to call the emperor the founding of the country, he died of illness in Guangzhou, Liu Zhi took over as the Jing Navy Festival Envoy, and then attacked the title of King of the South China Sea. Six years after Liu Yin's death, Liu Zhi proclaimed himself emperor in Guangzhou, and the founding name was Dayue, and the capital was Panyu. The following year, Liu Zhi claimed to be a descendant of the royal family of the Han Dynasty, and in order to show that he founded the country to restore the former Han family, he changed the name of the country to the Great Han Dynasty, known as the Southern Han Dynasty in history.

Liu Zhi renamed himself Liu Yan and created his own word, which was taken from the meaning of the flying dragon in the sky in the Book of Changes.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Lingnan scholars gathered, some of them were descendants of famous ministers who were exiled to Lingnan in order to avoid war, and some were local officials who were not allowed to return north due to war. Liu Yin was assisted by this part of the people, Liu Yin was in charge of the military at the beginning, pacified the separatist forces in the east and west of Lingnan, controlled Lingnan, and fought with Chu in the west for the land of Ronggui and captured the two pipes of Rong and Yong. After Liu Yin's death, Liu Zhi stayed behind for the Qing Navy, and Later Liang was awarded the envoy of the Qing Navy and the king of Nanping.

Liu Zhi was called the emperor, the capital Panyu, the country name Dayue, the following year changed the country name to Han, known as the Southern Han Dynasty in history. It has Guangdong, Guangxi and parts of Yunnan. During his reign, Liu Zhi relied on scholars to govern the government, did his best to serve scholars as assassins for the states, and also recruited more than 10 Jinshi and Ming Jing as officials every year through the imperial examination, so as to avoid the trouble of military officials being dominant. But Liu Zhi and his successors were absurd and brutal kings, who gathered jewelry and treasures and built a large number of buildings. When Liu Zhi built the Zhaoyang Palace, he used gold as the top, paved the ground with silver, and spent a lot of pearls, crystals, and amber as decorations, in order to collect heavy endowments and suppress the people's resistance, abuse torture, and the people could not bear the suffering.

Liu Zhi said that the emperor changed a lot of names, there are rocks, there are stones, and he also made a word by himself, the top is the dragon, and the bottom is the sky. Liu Zhi is a native of Shangcai, originally a descendant of a big food merchant, his grandfather moved to Fujian, and later went to Lingnan because of business. His father Liu Qian participated in the army in Guangzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and his position was very low at first, and later he was favored by Wei Zhou, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty who was the envoy of the South China Sea Festival, not only married his niece to him, but also promoted him in the official position.

After Liu Qian's death, Liu Zhi's elder brother Liu Yin inherited his father's position as the assassin of Fengzhou, and there was a great development, and Later Liang named him the king of the South China Sea, so Liu Yin became the de facto ruler of the Liangguang region.

Liu Zhi was an illegitimate child, his mother gave birth to him outside, and his father's wife Wei was very angry, and asked people to take Liu Zhi away, and he was going to kill him with a sword, but when he saw that Liu Zhi looked very likable, he immediately changed his mind and adopted Liu Zhi as his son, killing Liu Zhi's biological mother.

Liu Zhi grew up to be burly and tall, and he was good at riding horses and archery, and his martial arts were outstanding. The body is also very special, like Liu Bei, he can hang his hands and pass his knees. By the side of his highly accomplished brother, Liu Zhi easily got an important position, and when Liu Yin was the envoy of the festival, he became a deputy envoy to assist his brother in ruling the Lingnan area.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Lingnan region was also a big chaos, the large and small warlords were divided, the war was not stopped, and the degree of chaos was no less than that of the Central Plains.

In addition, Lu Guangchou occupied Qianzhou, his younger brother Lu Guangmu occupied Chaozhou, and his son Lu Yanchang occupied Shaozhou. Coupled with the Gaozhou occupied by Liu Changlu, more than 70 forces of all sizes went their own way and occupied one side, and Liu Yin, as the king of the South China Sea, could not control them at all.

In order to unify the Lingnan region and pacify these separatist forces, Liu Yin decided to send troops to attack, and he set the primary goal of the attack in Shaozhou. But Liu Zhi objected to his brother doing this, he analyzed: "Shaozhou was occupied by Lu Yanchang, but he relied on his father's strength to maintain his power, if he fought Shaozhou first, Qianzhou would definitely send troops to rescue, so we would be attacked on our backs, so Shaozhou should not fight hard, but outwitted." ”

The elder brother did not listen to Liu Zhi's words and led the troops to go, but as Liu Zhi expected, he was defeated and returned. Liu Yin, who suffered a loss, obeyed this younger brother, and simply handed over the military power to him and asked him to lead the troops to go around to conscript. Liu Zhi changed the battle plan, pointed his troops at the weak enemy first, went from easy to difficult, expanded the army while pacifying, and finally basically pacified the various separatist forces.

After his brother's death, Liu Zhi inherited his brother's position as King of the South China Sea. He continued to conquer the few separatist forces that had not been pacified, and at the same time declared himself a vassal to the Later Liang in exchange for the support of the Central Plains regime, thus demonstrating himself as the legitimate and orthodox power in the region.

But then he heard that Qian Liu, who occupied the Wuyue region, was also named the queen of Wuyue by Houliang, and he was very angry, and he was not satisfied with the title of King of the South China Sea, he said angrily: "The Central Plains region is a period of chaos, I really don't know who is the lord of the Central Plains, I occupy the vast territory of the South China Sea, how can I be willing to go to the Central Plains thousands of miles away to pay tribute to them?" Liu Zhi was inspired by Zhu Wen's proclamation as emperor, and also had the desire to ascend the throne.

Liu Zhi ordered to stop paying tribute to the Later Liang, called the emperor in Panyu, and the founding name was Dayue, and in the second year, he changed the name of the country to Han, and the history was called the Southern Han Dynasty.