This General Liu cooperated with the main force under the command of the crown prince, taking advantage of the internal discord and mutual suspicion among the feudal towns. The commander of the ** Kwantung camp was Zheng Jin, who was unable to control those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals with civil and military systems, and the eunuchs who supervised the army were tyrannical. In fact, the failure to form a unified command is the weakness of fighting separately.

Adopt the tactics of various breakthroughs, and fight dozens of battles in a row. Yu Chenzhou defeated the last main force in the Kanto region. Captured and killed the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, observed the history, and supervised more than 30 eunuchs and princes, collected and surrendered more than 170,000 remnants, obtained more than 20,000 war horses, and piled up ordnance, armor, grain and grass, which completely laid the foundation for the unification of the world in the Great Qi Dynasty.

After the Battle of Chenzhou, there was no longer a large number of shares in the Kanto region, and all parts of the country surrendered. Liu Zhirong entered Cai Guogong with military merits and led his troops to Shandong and Lianghuai. Within two years, Shandong and Lianghuai were pacified one after another. And cooperated with the Shangrang Department of Hebei to sweep away the towns of Hebei Domain, and defeated more than 30,000 Khitan iron cavalry in Yanshan Mansion in one fell swoop.

After the pacification of Lianghuai, Emperor Taizu, who was worried about his high merits, was transferred back to Nanyang, Henan Province to rest and recuperate in the name that the armies were exhausted from years of fighting and urgently needed to rest and replenish. Although he failed to participate in the battle to pacify Jiangnan, when he was garrisoning Henan, he once again saved the imperial court from danger.

In the eighth year of Jintong, the generals of the former Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong and more than 10,000 ** rebelled, occupying Fengxiang, an important town in the western part of Chang'an, not only threatening Chang'an at all times. Its rebellion also triggered a renewed rebellion among the remnants of the former Tang Dynasty in Kwantung and Longyou, as well as the diaspora clans. The former Tang Domain, which surrendered after the Battle of Guanzhong, and most of the civil and military officials, were almost all engulfed in.

At the same time, after the battle in the middle of the river, before returning to Xiazhou, Tang Ding's army was also envoys to the south of the Yangtze River, and also took advantage of the main force of Daqi to pass through Guandong and Lianghuai, and prepared to go south to the south of the Yangtze River. The garrison left behind in Guanzhong, except for a few elites who were pinned down by rebellions in various places and had no time to take care of anything else, the rest of the armies had not fought for a long time, and their combat strength had fallen to the bottom.

Tens of thousands of party cavalry suddenly moved south, echoing the rebels and successively captured most of the Guannai Province, cutting off most of the food supply in Jingzhao Prefecture. In just a few days, the rice in Jingzhao Mansion rose to 100 yuan. The people in Chang'an City were panicked, and even some former Tang Guishun officials were ready to welcome the Tang Dynasty emperor back to Luan.

Although Emperor Taizu mobilized tens of thousands of troops to quell the rebellion, he was never able to make contributions. At this time, the garrison in Guanzhong still had a certain combat effectiveness in addition to the old subordinates of Tongzhou who were left by Emperor Taizu before Liu Zhirong's eastward expedition. However, because of the comfortable life in Guanzhong, most of the garrison's combat effectiveness has declined to the point of dispensability.

With only the more than 30,000 elites left behind, in the face of rebellions everywhere in the entire Guanzhong, Longyou, and Guannei provinces, and in the situation of dealing with the iron cavalry of the party in the south, although they were tired of running for their lives, they fought hard several times. However, in addition to the more than 5,000 troops who stayed in Chang'an to serve as the forbidden army, there were too few troops that could be dispatched.

In addition, the Taizu lineage, who succeeded Liu Zhirong in the command post, and Meng Kai, the prince of Dingguo, who was also the fundamental general of the beginning, was brave and unscrupulous, and was too selfish. The two-front battle was exhausted, and the command was weak. Although the 20,000 elites lost the embers, they were unable to completely suppress the rebellion and defeat the party's iron cavalry.

The situation around Chang'an made Emperor Taizu at a loss. Although Hedong and Hebei were calm, they still had to guard the Great Wall to defend the Khitan in the north, and to deter the remnants of the Hebei feudal towns that were the worst in the Tang Dynasty before the disaster. The war between the two Huai has just been pacified, and the army is preparing to cross the river to pacify Jiangnan.

Emperor Taizu, who had no troops to adjust and nothing to do, was even ready to let the city go. The carriages prepared in front of the Daming Palace in Chang'an to carry the jewels have mobilized thousands of them. The palace moved like this, which made the entire Chang'an City panic. None of the nouveau riche of this dynasty thought of leading their troops into battle, and they were all busy transferring the looted goods to the Kanto region.

The remnants of the former Tang Dynasty lurking in the city also continued to liaise in the center and echo the rebels outside the city. even rampant to the point that he dared to set fire in front of the palace, the official office, and even the palace in broad daylight. Even Xingqing Palace, one of the three palaces in Chang'an City, was secretly set on fire and burned down.

At that time, Liu Zhirong, who was returning from Lianghuai and had arrived in Luoyang, heard the news, that is, he and the prince's command post had more than 10,000 fine horses, and rushed back to Chang'an in the starry night. Without waiting for a break, he started a fierce battle with the party cavalry in the Weibei area. In cooperation with the 20,000 infantry troops of the British Gong Huang Ye who rushed back from Hedong, they took the lead in defeating the party cavalry after several hard battles.

Later, he commanded the infantry army that rushed back, marched on foot and cavalry, or pacified or suppressed, and it took nearly a year to suppress the rebellion in various parts of Guanzhong one after another, so that the situation turned from dangerous to safe. After this battle, he was promoted to the king of Longyou County in order to pacify Guanzhong. However, although Jin was named the king of the county, he was changed from the original commander of the army to the right servant of Shangshu and the head of the household.

To put it bluntly, this old man's title was promoted after the rebellion was quelled, but the military power was taken up. Seeing this, Huang Qiong took a closer look at the layout of this book and the entire court situation at that time. only to find that this was his ancestor at the time, who played a beautiful hand of rising and descending.

Although this old man was reappointed as the right servant of Shangshu and the head of the household, he was promoted to a first-class member, and he was even crowned the king of the county. However, Shangshu Province has always been the left servant who actually holds the power, which is only equivalent to the right servant of the deputy position, and the official document is not signed by the left servant, which is basically a piece of waste paper.

At that time, Daqi was still in the midst of a campaign, although the rebellion in Guanzhong had been quelled, and the Kwantung had also been pacified. However, the war in the south of the Yangtze River was still raging, and the former Tang Emperor was still entrenched in Chengdu and controlled the two Sichuan, Qianzhong, Shannan, and Lingnan provinces. Despite these territories, there are not many people who listen to the former Tang Emperor. But after all, the great cause of destroying the Tang Dynasty has not yet been completed, and of course it is still in wartime.

According to Emperor Taizu's express order, the military power during the war period was under the newly established Privy Council, and the three departments related to the war, the household, the army, and the industry were temporarily under the direct management of the Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council. Although the Shangshu of the various ministries continued to stay in Shangshu Province to undertake the order, the waiters and directors of the various departments and Langzhong who operated specific matters were basically working in Zhongshu Province.

At least until the Jiangnan war was completely pacified, Sanbu Shangshu became an empty official. In other words, this brand-new king of Longyou County, if he wants, he can go to Shangshu Province to drink tea. If he doesn't want to, he won't go to work in his county palace, and no one will ask him for work.

And this guy's next move also made Huang Qiong really feel admired. Not only did he stay patiently like this, focusing on business, but he also married several beautiful wives and concubines in a row. Even a princess of the former Tang Dynasty was included in the mansion by him. Perhaps in order to appease people's hearts, Taizu also did what he liked, and rewarded him with fifteen palace maids at one time.

This king of Longyou County was seized of military power in the eighth year of Jintong, and it was during the five-year period from the thirteenth year of Jintong to the resumption of the thirteenth year of Jintong. Use your connections in the army to do business. It can be said that if the Qi army advances there, his business will be there. Tea, silk, porcelain, medicinal herbs, all kinds of business there is nothing he does not do. 、

Before the two Zhejiang and Fujian were completely pacified, his salt works over there were opened. Therefore, people invented the salt drying method, so that the output of its salt works far exceeded that of other salt factories that still use the boiling salt method. In just one year, the input obtained from several salt farms in Zhejiang and Shandong is enough to reach hundreds of thousands.

This is still because in exchange for salt, you need to pay forty percent of the profit to the court after the rest. With the end of the war in Jiangnan, the salt produced by the salt field under its name, because of the large output, low price, and relying on the military prestige of the Qi army, defeated many salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and almost monopolized the supply of the entire salt industry in the south of the Yangtze River.

In addition to the windfall profits brought by sea salt, he also improved the method of roasting tea. And the use of the Great Qi Iron Horse forcibly promoted, so that the fried tea quickly replaced the cumbersome steamed tea. And acquired the West Lake Tea Garden in Hangzhou, Dongting Mountain in Taihu Lake in Suzhou, and made famous tea gardens such as Longjing Tea in Hangzhou, Terrifying Fragrance in Suzhou, and Tieguanyin in Fujian.

At the same time, taking advantage of the war in the north, several famous kilns in the former Tang Dynasty have suspended production. The general trend recruited northern potters to go south, and developed Longquan kiln in Liangzhejiang, Putian kiln in Fujian Road, and Jingdezhen kiln in Jiangnan West Road. The celadon developed by its Longquan kiln was very popular as soon as it came out, and quickly defeated the war-torn and decaying kilns in the north.

After the pacification of Lingnan in the eleventh year of the Jin Dynasty, the king of Longyou County asked himself to guard the newly established Guangnan West Road in the name of Lingnan's vast and sparsely populated land, and the fact that it was a miscellaneous place and close to foreign domains, and that the imperial court needed to send important ministers to pacify and guard the town. Under the mediation of the crown prince, Emperor Taizu finally agreed after several considerations, and changed the title of the king of Longyou County to the king of Guilin, and allowed his Shizhen Guangnan West Road.

However, since the Western Han Dynasty salt and iron**, the salt tax has been an important source of finance for the state. This Guilin county king controls nearly half of the world's salt profits, and every year it is the windfall profits brought by the various salt farms he operates, which makes the imperial court, which is already a little uneasy about him, even more uneasy.

After the Battle of Chenzhou, this person has accumulated considerable prestige in the army, and he has sky-high wealth in his hands, so is Emperor Taizu still sitting on the throne? Therefore, after Emperor Taizu agreed to his request to guard the Guangnan West Road, in exchange for taking all the salt works in his hands into the household department, and setting up salt transportation envoys on the coastal roads.

However, because when Emperor Taizu attacked Guangzhou in the late Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou's big food and Persian merchants assisted in defending the city, which created a lot of trouble for Emperor Taizu, making Emperor Taizu very annoying and even quite repulsive to these outsiders. In addition, although Emperor Taizu was born as a smuggler of salt, his vision is really not so long-term, and he always believes that farming is the foundation of governing the country.

In addition to the fact that the thinking of the Heavenly Empire is very serious, and he fantasizes about coming to the court like the former Tang Emperor Taizong all day long, he has no interest in foreign trade at all. Moreover, there is another reason why this Emperor Taizu is so reluctant to maritime trade, that is, he is worried that the remnants of the former Tang Dynasty will be scattered overseas and accumulate strength to fight back.

If it weren't for the persuasion of the king of Guilin, I am afraid that a sea ban would have been issued, and all foreign merchants who came to trade would have been driven away. In order to recover the salt works that are more important to the imperial court in his eyes, it is also to appease the heroes who have been robbed of important financial resources. Emperor Taizu, who was very repulsive to the outside world, simply handed over the former Tang Dynasty's two cities in Guangzhou and Quanzhou to his Guilin County Palace.

This Emperor Taizu, who was not very wide-eyed, also prescribed some extremely mean customizations. For example, foreign merchants were not allowed to stay in Canton for more than three months, and once the wind was blowing, they could leave the sea. The profits of the two cities for a year must be handed over to the imperial court. That is to say, if his Great Qi Dynasty does nothing, it will account for forty percent of the profits.