In the fifteenth year of the republic (941), the imperial court officially returned the capital to Luoyang.

In the May Dynasty, Yang Pu, the king of Guangling, Li Sheng, the king of Jiangning, Qian Hongcong, the king of Wuyue, and Liu Liu, the king of Nanping, were ordered to enter the Hajj.

Yang Pu didn't care, Qian Hongcong and Li Sheng were a little trembling, but they were helpless, and they went to Luoyang even more head-on, for fear of being detained in the court, only Liu Yu, the king of Nanping, said that he was sick and could not shirk it. Unexpectedly, after Li Qi encouraged them, he continued to release them and return to the fiefdom. It's just that after this incident, even Li Sheng completely dispelled the last trace of thinking about confrontation with the imperial court.

In the summer of that year, Liu Liu, the king of Nanping, died of illness and was succeeded by his son Liu Hongdu.

Liu Hongdu is arrogant and extravagant, desolate and lustful, and has a strange habit, he likes to drink while watching a group of men * women * acacia *, this frolicking Yinyi, regardless of political affairs. In addition, at night, he also likes to pretend to be a flower picker * silver * thief, and go straight into the people's house, but he has no scruples. The slightest dissuasion from his subordinates was immediately killed.

His younger brother Liu Hongxi, plotting to usurp the throne, knew that his brother liked wrestling, so he recruited Liu Sichao, Tan Lingyu, Lin Shaoyi, Lin Shaoliang, He Changting and other five wrestlers, raised in the mansion, specializing in practicing the art of horns. When these people were successfully trained, he instructed his cronies, Chen Daozhen, the commander of the infantry army, to dedicate these people to Liu Hongdu.

Liu Hongdu was very happy after getting these five horned hands, so he stayed as a personal guard, but he didn't think about it, but he recruited his own client.

At this time, it was the twilight of spring, and Liu Hongdu gathered all the brothers in Changchun Palace to feast and drink.

When the wine was half-drunk, he ordered the five people to play in the middle of the court, drinking and fighting. This Liu Hongdu drank too much, and his skills were also unbearable, and he also went down in person and fought with five people. At this time, Liu Hongxi issued a secret signal, that Liu Sichao was fighting with Liu Hongdu, but he no longer gave in, grabbed his head and neck, and used force to directly break Hongdu's neck bone.

only heard Liu Hongdu scream and died violently.

Liu Hongxi then led the forbidden army to kill all the guards in the palace, and then he became the king and changed his name to Sheng.

This situation of Liu Sheng's murder of his brother and usurpation is known to everyone, which has attracted many discussions among the people of the Southern Han Dynasty.

His younger brother Liu Honggao asked to behead Liu Sichao and others to calm the people's discussion, but Liu Hongxi ordered Liu Sichao and others to take the guards and break into the mansion and stab Liu Honggao to death. When Liu Hongxi heard that his brother was killed, he was very relieved, but he rewarded Liu Sichao, Tan Lingyu and others, which made the brothers silent.

This Liu gave birth to a total of nineteen sons, and there are still fourteen people alive at this time. Liu Hongxi killed his brother to stand on his own and treat others with himself, so he wanted to harm the other thirteen brothers and learn from himself.

Liu  was cruel and murderous all his life, and this may be retribution.

In June, Liu Sheng sent his younger brothers Liu Hongchang and Liu Hongya to Haiqu to pay respects to Liu Hongya's tomb, but secretly colluded with bandits and killed Liu Hongchang and Liu Hongya on the way.

After getting rid of his fifth and eighth children, Liu Sheng targeted Liu Hongze, who was stationed in Gaozhou.

When Liu Hongze learned that his fourth child wanted to transfer him back to Xingping Mansion, where did he dare to go back, after thinking about it, he simply wrote to Yuan Ren, the envoy of Lianzhou, and Shi Kuanghan, the envoy of Wuzhou, saying that he wanted to return to the imperial court and be loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, the imperial court was already preparing to conquer the Southern Han Dynasty, Yuan Ren had led his troops to Lianzhou, Shi Kuanghan was in Wuzhou, An Xianqi was in Chenzhou, and Fu Yanchao was in Ganzhou.

After Liu Hongze surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Ren led his army directly into Gaozhou.

The news was transmitted back to the imperial court, and the Fourth Route Army of the Southern Front was ordered to begin the conquest of the Southern Han Dynasty and march to Xingping Mansion.

At the same time, Xia Chengting was ordered to lead the sailors to march by sea.

After learning the news of the dispatch of the imperial army, Liu Sheng was shocked and frightened, and feared that other brothers would also learn from Liu Hongze, so he executed Liu Hongbi, Liu Hongdao, Liu Hongyi, Liu Hongji, Liu Hongjian, Liu Hongjian, Liu Hongwei, Liu Hongzhao and other eight brothers in one day, and the only young son of Liu Hongzheng, because he was only five years old, was spared.

At this time, the Southern Han army had long been panicked, and there was still a little combat effectiveness, and when they saw that the imperial army was either scattered and fled or surrendered.

Yuan Ren took Enzhou (Yangjiang) along the seaside, Shi Kuanghan captured Zhaoqing Mansion, and An Xianqi and Fu Yanchao jointly captured Shaozhou.

Now it's time for everyone to fight for speed and take credit, Fu Yanchao didn't even bother to enter the city in Shaozhou, so he immediately led the army straight south. However, after defeating the Southern Han army under Wu Huai'en in Yingde Mansion, he received the news that Xia Chengting had led the water division to take the empty Xingping Mansion, and Liu Sheng, the king of Xingping, went out of the city to surrender.

After Fu Yanchao got the news, he jumped to his feet and scolded Xia Chengting, he led the army in a hurry, and in the end, the biggest credit was snatched by the sailor.

Liu Sheng's surrender was not alive in the end, and the court thought that he had killed his brother and punished his brother, did a lot of evil, and ordered his family to be exemplified. Poor Liu gave birth to nineteen sons, and in the end, only Liu Hongze and Liu Hongzheng were lucky to survive.

After pacifying the Southern Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty basically solved the last feudal town, basically stabilized the interior, and the goal on land began to turn to solve several external troubles and restore the territory of the previous dynasty.

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Luoyang, the capital division, is located in the mountainous area of western Henan, surrounded by mountains. Further east, after Songshan, it is all an endless vast plain area.

After Li Qi changed from Xingjiaomen, it took more than 15 years, first based in Hedong, and finally dominated the world, and once again revived the Tang Dynasty and became a generation of heroes.

At this time, the Central Plains region was becoming more and more stable, the imperial court was lightly taxed, the population of the Central Plains and the North China Plain gradually increased, and the cultivated land was gradually restored, and even Youzhou, an important town in the north, was becoming more and more prosperous.

Ruzhou, south of Luoyang, was originally an economically underdeveloped area. However, with the construction of the railway from Luoyang to Wuyang and the Pingdingshan Coal Mine in Yexian County, with the arrival of a large number of railway, coal mine and iron plant construction workers, the prefectures and counties here have gradually become lively.

At the beginning of this day, the focus of the imperial court has shifted to economic construction.

Unlike the policies of the previous dynasties when they were founding the country, they vigorously encouraged the landlords to do so, but the Tang Dynasty officials strictly forbade the private reclamation of wasteland in various places, but recruited a large number of displaced people who had lost their land into military households, implemented military tuns, and all newly reclaimed wasteland was owned by the state. The other is to build water conservancy projects, build roads and bridges, and other projects, and provide relief through work.

The widespread use of steam pumps has enabled most of the farmland along the banks of the river to be irrigated, which has greatly improved agricultural production. After grain production was guaranteed, animal husbandry began to develop to a great extent, and the planting area of cash crops such as oilseeds and cotton was rapidly expanding.

In this world, the world is stable, life is getting richer day by day, and the problem of banditry, which has been difficult to solve since the past dynasties, has also been brought under control from the source, and local stability has been maintained.

The stable development has made the entire eastern region of China also show a thriving development momentum.

On the other hand, the imperial court disseminated the decrees to every village through several major newspapers and preachers stationed in local grassroots organizations, and at the same time popularized the knowledge of physical affairs, arithmetic, agriculture and animal husbandry, and nature to the common people.

The whole society is in a state of thriving and rapid development......

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