When the rebellion of Du Fuwei's subordinate general Fu Gongyou was suppressed, the army of the Tang Dynasty entered Jianghuai and received the original Du Fuwei's territory, so at this time, it was still entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Lin Shihong, Shen Faxing and other small warlords to divide the forces, and suddenly they were like facing the enemy. Du Fuwei's ending was too tragic, not only was he poisoned to death by a glass of poisoned wine, but many righteous sons were also killed, and even his wife and daughter were sent to the Jiaofang Division by Li Yuan, and were arbitrarily driven and humiliated by the officials of the original Tang Dynasty! Such a tragic fact made these small separatist forces completely cut off the idea of surrendering to Li Tang, and they finally abandoned their previous suspicions one after another, and gathered together, intending to unite around Song Que, the prince of Lingnan Town, and desperately resist the attack of the Tang army.

Speaking of Lingnan Song valve, this is a family with a very long history of the gate valve, its ancestors were originally from the Central Plains, and later in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty when the world was in turmoil, with the "clothes to the south" and arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, and then, because of the many wars in the Southern Dynasty and settled in Lingnan, the Song valve lineage, previously not surnamed Song, but surnamed Feng! However, because he was a general of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty once invaded the hometown of the Han people in Guanzhong, when the Liu Song Dynasty was replaced by Xiao Qi, the ancestors of the Feng family changed it to the Song family in order to commemorate the old master, so as not to forget the glory of the old master and the former Han hometown.

When Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, defeated Chen, the last dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, the Song lords in Lingnan could not be rescued, so they gathered troops in Lingnan to resist the attack of the Sui army. First, after a long war to exterminate Chen, the soldiers were already tired, and secondly, the climate in Lingnan was hot, and the Sui army from the Central Plains could not adapt to such a climate. In this way, under the resistance of Song Que, the Sui army suffered heavy casualties but could not make great progress, so in the end, Yang Jian had to choose to strike the army and negotiate peace, and Song Que also took into account the strong power of the Sui Dynasty at this time. The Song valve could not compete with the Sui Dynasty with Lingnan alone, so he also agreed to negotiate peace with the Sui Dynasty, and Yang Jian named Song Que as the king of Zhennan, and put Lingnan under the rule of the Sui Dynasty in name, however, it was only in name, and in essence, it was still led by the Song Valve. and the situation of self-government by the people of all ethnic groups in Lingnan.

Song valve is located in Lingnan, and its strength is actually far beyond the Li valve, Yuwen valve, and Dugu valve, which are known as the four major valves with him. It's just that because of its location in the remote area of Lingnan, it is not known, and when the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty began, the Song valve was of course not far behind, and began to actively attack the Central Plains, however. Unlike other forces that used force to attack and occupy territory, the Song lord's offensive mode began to penetrate from the economic aspect, so when the northern land of China began to fall into continuous wars. Only when Li Tang's power continued to expand in the successive victories of the Tang army led by Li Shimin, the Song lords in Lingnan also continued to use their own influence, and the economic means began to gradually erode the foundation of various large and small forces in the south.

The world is in turmoil, even the various forces in the south have fallen into each other's attack and killing, in such a situation, the trade route is cut off, and only the Song valve in Lingnan can use its influence to travel between the princes of all walks of life, and run the goods produced in various places, so the splendid scenery of Xishu, the salt and iron in the southeast, and even the copper mines in Lingnan, and even some rare things produced in Xiqiang and overseas, all of them are covered by the business of the Song valve, and the children of the Song valve transport goods from all over the country, and then go through the operation, they were transported to their respective different places, and in this kind of commercial operation, Song Valve accumulated a huge wealth because of this, so that the strength was not the same as in the past.

And more importantly, in these commercial activities, the tentacles of the Lingnan Song valve gradually penetrated into all the forces that had business dealings with them, not only in the south, but also in Guanzhong, and even in the grasslands in the north, there are traces of the caravan activities of the Song valve. Therefore, the Song valve became a powerful enemy that the Li Tang Dynasty had to eliminate, because at this time, it had already seriously threatened the rule of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, not just the remote princes of the divided side, therefore, the former Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian was able to tolerate the Song valve, but at this time, the Tang Emperor Li Yuan was absolutely unable to allow its existence.

However, it is not easy to eliminate the Song valve, with the strength of the Sui Dynasty in the past, the wisdom and martial arts of the first emperor of the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian, the eloquence of the young Jin King Yang Guang, and the strength of the southern expeditionary army, the countless famous generals who can fight well in the army have emerged, but they are still in vain, not to mention that the Song valve at this time is no longer what it used to be, and at this time, the various forces in the south of the Yangtze River have already taken refuge in the Song valve, compared with the early years of the Sui Dynasty, the Song valve has obtained a larger strategic space buffer, therefore, the Tang army went south, Even if you can win successive victories against Song Valve, it is an extremely difficult and almost impossible task to win Song Valve!!

However, fortunately, although the Song valve has become such a powerful enemy of Li Tang, however, since ancient times, it has always been easy to conquer the south from the north, and difficult to conquer the north from the south, so even if the Song valve can defeat the Tang army, and then occupy a place south of the Yangtze River to rule the river, it is just another situation of confrontation between the north and the south. Ask his soldiers if they say yes, after all, just as the northerners are not accustomed to the hot and humid climate of the south, so the natives of the south are not accustomed to the dry and cold climate of the north......

However, in any case, Lingnan is a land that Li Tang did not know too much about before, and the Li Tang Dynasty lacked the necessary information about the local customs and customs, and when Li Tang finally gradually faced this low-key but extremely powerful opponent, the information they obtained from some sources made them extremely unbelievable - according to a number of merchants who had lived in Lingnan for many years, the Song family's fleet in the south found an extremely vast land in the distant sea in the south of Lingnan. The size of this land is far beyond people's imagination, almost the size of the entire Jiangnan area, and the local climate is extremely hot, which is very suitable for vegetation planting, and the number of indigenous people is also extremely rare. Song Que, the head of the Song family, had long been willing to immigrate to the local area, but because of the small number of residents in Lingnan, it was delayed and not implemented immediately, but it was precisely because of the discovery of a new vast land and a perfect way back, so the Song Dynasty would not be afraid of the powerful Tang Dynasty at all, and openly confront it.

For such a piece of news, the first reaction of both Li Yuan and all the ministers in the court was a lie, a lie made up by Song Que in order to boost morale, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was completely unnecessary, with Song Que's strategic ability, did he need to tell such a lie? However, does this mean that this is actually true news? However, this news is indeed very unbelievable, and because Lingnan is too far away from Guanzhong, Li Yuan cannot send someone to verify the truth of the matter even if he has the heart.

And another news from Lingnan is that Song Que, the lord of the Song Dynasty, is actually not interested in dividing the river and ruling or even calling the king and emperor, and the reason why he still refuses to surrender at this time is that in addition to seeing Du Fuwei's precedent, from the bottom of his heart, he actually looks down on Li Yuan, who started with his son and then has a capricious personality! And in this regard, Tang Emperor Li Yuan, who has always been exquisite, naturally would not be angry, so he just smiled indifferently at this news, and then ignored it. (To be continued......)