Ma Xifan fled to Hengzhou, terrified.

His subordinate advisers Tuoba Heng, Li Hong and others came up with an idea and said: "The king has now offended the court and is hated by the Son of Heaven, so it is better to retreat into the background and succeed to the throne with his brother, and then plead guilty to the court in order to keep the family." ”

Ma Xifan hesitated, and there was no other way. He felt that his younger brother Ma Xiguang had a soft personality and was easy to control, so he announced that he was ready to give way to Ma Xiguang.

This annoyed Ma Xicao, the commander who originally guarded Hengzhou.

Ma Xicao thought that he was his brother, Xiguang was his brother, and Ma Xifan should give way to himself, which violated the legacy of his father Ma Yin.

This is unconvinced, so he holds a grudge, and he will inevitably have to fight in the same room.

On September 15, Ma Xifan gathered a group of subordinates and generals and announced that he would abdicate in favor of his brother Ma Xiguang, who came forward to plead guilty to the imperial court.

After Ma Xicao returned home, the more he thought about it, the more resentful he became, and secretly colluded with the Yongzhou barbarian soldiers, put them into the city at night, and killed Ma Xifan, Ma Xiguang and other brothers. The barbarian soldier was greedy for profit, and after looting in Hengzhou City for a night, he set fire to it, and Ma Xixu took his subordinates to feign a pursuit.

Ma Xifan's generals Liu Yan and Zhou Tingzhi led the army to guard Hengshan, and were shocked to hear the bad news and led the army back to Hengzhou, but when they saw Ma Xicao crying and wailing, they were shocked and uncertain.

Ma Xicao thought that he had a plan, but unexpectedly, Xiguang's brother Xiqian hid in a private house, and after escaping a catastrophe, he fled into Liu Yan's camp and accused Xixu of murdering his brother's atrocities. Liu Yan was shocked and angry when he heard this, so he conspired with Ma Xifan's advisers Li Hong and Deng Yiwen, and Ma Jun's commander Zhang Hui and others to kill Ma Xicao and his cronies in front of Xifan's coffin.

Subsequently, everyone pushed the Jingjiang Festival to make Ma Xigao the master, and sent another envoy to the imperial court to surrender.

This Li Hong arrived in Changsha with the table, and Fu Yanqing jumped up first after seeing the table: "Lie down...... Grass, you are singing that play, don't you want to deceive Lao Tzu? ”

Li Congke was also suspicious after reading the table, and the two sent messengers to Hengzhou to confirm the fact that the Ma brothers were killing each other.

This time, Fu Yanqing and the others did not dare to slack off, on the one hand, they sent someone to send the table to Jinyang urgently, and on the other hand, they ordered troops and horses to come to Hengzhou.

Outside the city of Hengzhou, the mighty Tang cavalry came in a hurry, and Liu Yan and others led the army out of the city to welcome the surrender.

Ma Xiwang followed behind Fu Yanqing, looked at Tuoba Heng and said, "Sir, why don't you disrupt my brother?!" ”

Tuoba Heng covered his face with his sleeves and sighed: "The state of Chu is stubborn, and the old man has no face to see the first king!" ”

In fact, what can they do as these advisers, Ma Xifan is greedy for enjoyment and unwilling to give up the power in his hands, which led to today's disaster, and it can be regarded as self-inflicted.

After Fu Yanchao and Li Congke accepted the surrender of the Chu army, they sent their troops to divide Li Yannuma and Yang Siquan into Binzhou and Yongzhou.

Fu Yanchao said: "The land of Chu is basically calm, and the mountains and roads are dangerous, and it is not easy to supply, so it is not too late to stop the army for the time being, and wait for the imperial court to have an order, and then attack the pseudo-Han." ”

At this time, the autumn rain continued, and Li Congke also felt that the generals were not suitable for fighting in the south, so he also agreed to stop in Hengzhou for the time being to rest and recuperate.

Chu was basically pacified, only Ma Xigao still retained the post of Jingjiang (Guilin) Jiedu envoy, and this problem can be left to be slowly solved later.

Emperor Liu of the Southern Han Dynasty?? After learning that the imperial army had destroyed the state of Chu in one fell swoop, he was also terrified, and immediately sent an envoy to Jinyang to ask for guilt, cancel the name of the country, and reinstate himself as the king of Xingping.

Li Qi knew that with the bad traffic situation in this era, it was also difficult for the army to expedition to Lingnan and pacify the Southern Han Dynasty in one fell swoop, so the proposed condition was to cede the land of the former Chaoling Lingnan West Road in the southwest of Wuzhou, and Liu could continue to be sealed. For the king of Xingping, otherwise, the army will take Xingping Mansion (Guangzhou) directly.

Anyway, you can't eat a fat man in one bite, so let's control Guangxi first.

The land of Jingjiangfu, Liuzhou and Wuzhou in Guangxi was owned by the Chu State, while Yongzhou, Qinzhou and Lianzhou in the south were occupied by the Southern Han Dynasty.

Liu?? A few years ago, the Qu family, which had just been cut off from Jiaozhi, was eliminated and incorporated Jiaozhi into the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty. But only a little more than a year later, Yang Tingyi, the old general of the Qu clan, rose up to resist. The appointed Jiaozhou assassin Shi Chengbao fled to the enemy, and Jiaozhi became a state of secession. It was because of this that he had a headache, and under the strong pressure of the imperial court, he finally succumbed.

Liu?? The Xingping army stationed in the Yong and Lian areas was ordered to withdraw to Gaozhou and Deqingfu.

Now the imperial army's army is marching towards Wuzhou, and if it is a little later, he is also afraid that these troops will be divided and wiped out by the imperial army.

Li Qi ordered Li Jizhong to be the envoy of Yongzhou, Fu Yanchao to be stationed in Wuzhou for Lingnan, Li Congke to be the envoy of Jingnan Town, stationed in Chenzhou, He Fujin to be the envoy of the Wu'an Army, and moved to Tanzhou, and An Xianqi was appointed as the envoy of the Wuping Army, and moved to Hengzhou.

In addition to military arrangements, it also began to carry out military tuntian on a large scale in the Jinghu area, and all the Jingzhou army and Chu army that had been incorporated into the tuntian military household. Life in any military reclamation area in the early stage of development is not easy, but fortunately, there are various food subsidies on the part of the government, as well as capital investment and guidance from technical personnel.

In this era, most areas of Hunan were still so-called "barbarian lands", and it was difficult to completely change this situation without decades of development.

……

In October, the first snow has already fallen.

Li Qi, who had been following the progress of the military operation in Lingnan, finally put his mind at ease.

In fact, in this southern expedition, the army of the imperial court did not fight much, mainly relying on deterrence, and political means were far more than military actions. In fact, this is the most efficient, not only to avoid the destruction of the occupied territory from the war, but also to capture a large amount of loot. The cost of the army was huge, but now that it is calculated, the imperial court actually earned nearly 10 million dollars in this operation.

Of course, in the Jinghu and Lingnan areas and the implementation of tuntian, the money earned will soon be exhausted.

Since the beginning of the spring, Li Qi has been staying in Jinyang, under his continuous reminders, the team led by He Quan, Liu Jiang and Wang Yuan finally installed the boiler, steam engine and a set of gear transmission mechanism into the underwater cabin of the wooden ship, the transmission machine is connected to the main shaft, and the main shaft is installed at the other end of the hull with a pair of propellers. Although the design of the propeller blade is very unscientific, in fact, the biggest difficulty is in the production of the spindle and the sealing of the spindle. Waterproof sealed bearings were quickly developed, and then there were no more problems.

After a round trip in Jinchi, the "Yellow Bird" developed by the team led by Liu Jiang won the first place and also won the great honor of the world's first steamship.

This caused a huge cheer from tens of thousands of spectators at the lake......

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