Chapter 40: Great Change, Faint King
Although King Qi married the lady of Beishang Palace, after all, it belonged to the side room, so the wedding was extremely simple, but the guests present, there were heavyweights like Guo Chonglao Linggong, and there were also Hebei Wenchen military generals, which made this simple wedding very grand.
Zhe Deyuan, naturally extremely satisfied with this, of course he would not know that that night, on the wedding night, Lu Ning was alone again.
The next day, the king of Qi and the two lady of Shanggong set off for the south.
In the middle of the night of the wedding, the second 800-li letter was delivered urgently, and the emperor's younger brother Li Jingsui succeeded the emperor's brother in Jinling and changed his name to "Tianyuan".
Zhe Saihua obviously thought that Lu Ning was waiting for the emergency military situation and how to deal with the great changes in the south last night, and she seemed to have a slight change in her opinion of Lu Ning, at least, when she saw Lu Ning in the morning, there was less disdain in her clear eyes.
On the way back to Yanzhou in the south, he received a third 800-mile expedited, and Li Hongyi, the king of Yan, negotiated peace with Wu Yue, and returned to Suzhou.
Just arrived in Yanzhou, the fourth eight hundred miles of urgency As expected, Li Hongyi was proclaimed emperor in Suzhou,
However, there seemed to be a problem in Li Hongyi's army, and some of the forbidden troops and all the sailors turned to the west, and the expected war did not break out.
Obviously, Li Jingsui has been preparing for this day for a long time.
Li Jingsui in history was defeated by the Zhou army, the elite of the army in his hands was gone, and he lost the foundation of Jiangbei, so he had no heart, so he had to resign as the heir of the emperor's younger brother and return to the country for retirement.
But now it is obviously different, I am afraid that I have been secretly planning the aftermath of the Tang Lord, and the Tang Lord has just died, and he will quickly control the situation.
Li Hongyi has a violent temperament, and he is not very popular, but now he has no choice but to form an alliance with Wu Yue and become horns of each other.
Li Jingsui did not conquest Li Hongyi, thinking that it was because he had just ascended the throne and wanted to appease the people, and even issued an edict to Li Hongyi, making Li Hongyi the crown prince, and coming to the capital to participate in political affairs.
A posture waiting for you to repent, I will forgive you at any time.
This world, apparently, has completely deviated because of its butterfly wings, and it is no longer what it used to be.
In this regard, Lu Ning could only sigh in his heart.
Li Jingsui quickly stabilized his position temporarily, now is not a good opportunity to conquer the south, after all, he has just obtained the land of Qilu and southern Hebei in a blitzkrieg, and his foundation is not stable, and he wants to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty with all his strength, but he is afraid that the hungry wolves who are waiting around him will pounce immediately.
Come to think of it, today's downward trend is like the end of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.
However, the Qin State was divided into four families: Zhao Kuangyin, Li Chongjin, Later Shu, and Northern Han.
He is a small area in the south of Qi and Chu, and the south of Zhao.
The two Tang states of Li Jingsui and Li Hongyi occupied parts of the Chu and Wu states, and there were also small states such as Wu Yue and the Southern Han in the south of the Yangtze River.
Of course, at that time, Jiangnan was not much developed, and it was far less than the current size and population.
Jingzhou, and there is a small Gaoping country.
There is also the Dali State, which rules parts of Yunnan, parts of Burma, parts of Thailand, and parts of Cambodia.
In addition, according to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, there were Wu Changwen, the king of the Southern Jin Dynasty, who occupied northern Vietnam, the Dingyan Army, the predecessor of the Western Xia, the Hexi Army, and the Ganzhou Uighurs, who lost control of the Western Regions.
After the fall of Tibet, there was no unified political power, and the Tibetan tribes scattered in the west in the form of tribes.
Of course, there is also the most powerful enemy of the northern Yan country, the Khitan, of course, the Khitan territory is much more vast and powerful than the Yan country, the Khitan people are only about 1.5 million people, but everyone is a pawn who can be conquest, if there is a Ming lord who works hard, he will immediately become the confidant of the Central Plains.
Nowadays, there are no five generations, but more than a dozen countries.
A few days later, another message came that Li Jing, the lord of the Tang Dynasty, named Li Yu as the king of Wu and participated in political affairs with Shangshu Ling, and it seemed that he even regarded him as a prince of kinship, but this also meant that Li Yu was recalled from the outer domain to the capital.
When he got the news, Lu Ning was in Qingzhou, and there were some treasures he cared about the most.
Lu Ning didn't believe that Li Jingsui had such good intentions, and if Li Yuzhen participated in political affairs, Li Jingsui was not really cultivated, and Li Yu's ability to participate in political affairs was only afraid that his status would be lower and lower in the eyes of the ministers.
But for the time being, it seems that Li Yu is not in any danger, after all, Li Jingsui has just won the position, and Li Hongyi is not called to stand on his own outside, so he naturally wants to block the mouth of the world.
A few days later, the two new emperors of the Southern Tang Dynasty sent envoys to Yanzhou one after another, but they did not proclaim the decree as the suzerain, but sent a letter of state, Li Jingsui sent a letter of state, the king of Qi was called "brother", and said that the Tang State and the "Qi State" will always be a brotherly state.
Li Hongyi's national book is to form an alliance with the king of Qi, plus Wu Yue, to form a small alliance to flank the "puppet master" Li Jingsui.
However, Lu Ning replied to the letter with the snake, but in fact, he just ignored it.
Originally, he was going to have some incidents in the Northern Han Dynasty, but now that he has turned around, the situation in the Tang Kingdom is not as he thought, and the next step is naturally to recuperate.
The war between Zhao Kuangyin and Li Chongjin made Henan refugees move to Qilu one after another, and Lu Ning naturally opened the door to facilitate them and arranged for them to enter the Jiaodong Peninsula in a more orderly manner.
And Zhao Kuangyin and Li Chongjin, after the tug-of-war, no one can swallow anyone, gradually, they are tired, and then the war is stopped, and in winter, Zhao Kuangyin is in Jingzhao Mansion and is named the King of Qin.
Li Chongjin was in Bianjing and was subordinated to the rank of King of Song.
Obviously, the Later Zhou and the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, and Later Han dynasties are the same as the first four dynasties, all of which are fleeting like meteors, and gradually become history, that is, the original Zhou territory, and the military and civilians are also very calm to accept this fact, after all, Zhou, like the first four dynasties, is just a dozen years, and Zhou is not even ten years, except for the courtiers who have received the favor of Zhou Taizu, for ordinary soldiers and civilians, this dynasty has nothing to be attached to at all.
However, it is the country of Qi, the new policy and new look, everyone has food, no land and no grain, all kinds of similar children's songs are sung everywhere, and it has gradually become a paradise for farmers to pass on by mouth.
However, the literati wrote more poems to ridicule the Qi State and the King of Qi.
The king of Qi was tyrannical, the land of Qilu and Hebei, confiscated many large households, the land was confiscated and became a public field, and the house and the garden were repaired, and many of them became the palace of the king of Qi.
What is even more intolerable is that the king of Qi issued an edict that scholars, craftsmen, farmers, and merchants are regarded as one, regardless of high or low, and the clothing, fabric, and color can be arbitrary.
Moreover, the king of Qi despised the scriptures, the Qi State Academy, focusing on arithmetic, gewu and other learning, complex ancient texts, in addition to promoting loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness and other virtues of the Confucian scriptures are also compulsory for schoolchildren and morality is the top priority that must be examined as an official, most of the ancient texts have been abandoned and become reference readings.
There is also a philosophy class, and all the children have selected articles, and if they are interested in schoolchildren after the age of ten, they can choose to take them.
Scholars are divided into four classes, from children to Xiucai, Xiucai into lifters, and people into Jinshi.
Only those who are selected in the examination are eligible to be selected as officials, and as for officials, in addition to the direct award of officials by Jinshi, they will also be promoted from experienced officials.
If you fail to pass the examination at the age of 25, you will no longer be eligible to participate in the imperial examination, and you will change your career.
Moreover, after the person is selected as an official, it does not affect his continued participation in the imperial examination to enter the jinshi, but the rich work experience of the official may also become the advantage of being a jinshi.
As for the category of imperial examinations, what scriptures, poems, and strategies are all dismissed by the king of Qi as paper talk.
Although the selection of scholars by the king of Qi is still a way of promoting filial piety and honesty, and the first imperial examination is said to be held in the spring of next year, the new policy items have already been issued to all states and counties.
Guangzheng Yuan specially set up military academy halls in Shandong Mansion and Zhending Mansion to select loyal, brave and intelligent men among the soldiers to enter the school, and it is said that after completing their studies, they can enter the capital, battalion commanders, etc.
The literati of the Qi State seem to be able to interfere in military affairs anymore.
All these things are circulated among the literati outside the Qi country, so the heavens are angry and people are resentful, but they are afraid that the emperors of the past dynasties are not as scolded as the current King of Qi.
But no matter how foreign literati criticize and write, the throne of the faint king is as stable as a rock, without him, the forbidden army and state soldiers of the Qi State regard this faint king as a god, and whoever dares to slander him will be divided into corpses by a knife, let alone make trouble.
Moreover, there are many literati who go against the trend, but they are very excited when they hear about the various new policies of King Qi, and they go to Yanzhou to vote, these literati are often extremely talented and deviant and are not tolerated by the mainstream, including many celebrities.
Qilu poor tenant farmers, but also the king of Qi as a great savior, since his lifetime, it seems to be able to gradually see the grain storage, if there is no natural disasters and chaos, such a life is not heaven?
The timid and did not make trouble and survived the big family, but gradually felt that it was not bad, although the tax was a lot more, but the king of Qi seemed to respect private property very much, if it was not against the yang and yin but really paid taxes according to the one-stop tax law, the property could be protected, and there were not so many harsh taxes handed over to the local states and counties.
The state and county have a royal history, that is, to supervise the local officials of the state and county, if there are officials who are nonsense, the imperial history is concealed and not reported, and the officials are guilty of the same crime, I heard that the king of Qi is in the north of the Qilu River, there are local people for the secret line, called Bao inquiring, ordinary people have no salary, just live a normal life, but if the officials and the imperial history collude with the fish and meat township, Bao inquires about the report is true, there will be a heavy reward.
And because the palace of King Qi is all over the state capitals, it seems that these bags do not need to go far to inquire, just go to the local King of Qi Palace to report, when the King of Qi is not there, these palaces are guarded by a peasant palace guard of ten people, and the peasant palace guard, as the name suggests, is like a group practice, cultivating the royal fields near the palace, raising pigs and sheep, and guarding the palace at the same time.
Bao inquired, just send the news to the head of the Nonggong Weidu.
It is rumored that the King of Qi privately called these bags "Chaoyang masses", and he didn't know what it meant.