The veteran Zhou Bennai is a famous general of Wu State, and is said to be a descendant of Zhou Yu, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms. Since he was young, he has followed Yang Xingmi to fight in the north and south, and is known for his bravery. After Zhuang Zong entered Luo, he also heard of his brave name, and specially awarded his Desheng Army (Luzhou) Festival Envoy, and added General Anxi, which was also a reward for him.

Although Xu Wen and Xu Zhihe's father and son controlled the government of the Wu State, they were still very jealous of this veteran of the former dynasty, which is also the main reason why the Xu family was able to hold the country for more than 20 years and still could not successfully usurp the throne. Yang Xingmi is also a generation of heroes, and there are not many veterans loyal to the Yang family left behind him.

It's just that in the next generation, Zhou Ben's sons Zhou Ye and Zhou Zuo have actually taken refuge in Xu Zhihe and become his confidants, which is also the reason why Zhou Zuo would lead his army to chase Yang Meng before.

Zhou Ben turned out to be a die-hard, and the most common mantra was "loyal ministers don't care about the two masters", and he didn't plan to defect to the Tang Dynasty, this time it was for the sake of hundreds of clansmen. If he was eradicated by the Xu family, then not many of these hundreds of clansmen would survive.

At this time, Zhou Ben commanded more than 20,000 troops and firmly occupied the land of Luzhou, and his eldest son Zhou Ye was the assassin of Shuzhou, which also bordered the Tang Dynasty.

The current general trend of the world, except for the Fujian lord Wang Yanjun has not yet cut off the emperor's name, the other separatist forces have surrendered to the imperial court, although they are still in a state of secession, but everyone also understands in their hearts that this general trend of unification is unstoppable.

Unless today's son is also like the first emperor, he died in an accident.

Now, it seems, there are no signs of anything.

This emperor, who is not yet thirty years old, is in his prime, and his heroism is still better than that of Zhuang Zong. At least in the matter of leveling the various Jiedu feudal towns, Emperor Zhuangzong caused a big mess, and as a result, he got himself in, but this son of heaven has basically done everything.

Although the court has no intention of taking advantage of the situation for the time being, it can't stop people from taking refuge on their own!

Zhou Ben has been the envoy of Luzhou Festival for almost fifteen years, and this area is basically his territory. Xu Zhihe's paper transfer order, if it happened a year ago, it might not be a big problem.

The problem is that Zhou Ben's daughter and son-in-law defected to the imperial court at this time, and there was this transfer order a few months later?!

It's no wonder that Zhou Benxin is skeptical.

Xu Jue was born in Wenchen, and he was easily detained by Zhou Ben.

After taking control of Xu Jue, Zhou Ben sent people to contact the Tang army for help, and specially sent people to Shuzhou to exchange messages with his eldest son.

Zhou Ye is also helpless, his own Lao Tzu has taken refuge in the imperial court, although he has a good relationship with Xu Zhihe, but he can't get rid of it, so he just votes for Tang together!

As soon as Li Qi arrived in Nanyang, he received the news that the Zhou family father and son had betrayed Wu and joined the Tang Dynasty, and he was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered Gao Xingzhou and He Fujin to enter Luzhou and Shuzhou.

In June of the tenth year, Wu Guohuai's western guards Zhou Ben and Zhou Ye and his son rebelled to the imperial court, and the Tang army took advantage of the weakness to enter and even took the land of Shou, Lu, Shu, He, and Hao. All of a sudden, the west of Huainan was returned to the Tang Dynasty, and Wu's territory in Jiangbei was only left in the area of dense water networks and lakes around Yangzhou.

In July, Li Qi drove to Luzhou, and then summoned Yang Pu, the king of Wu, Xu Zhihe, the minister of Wu, Li Jianxun, the envoy of Chizhou Jiedu, and Duan Fugong, the assassin of Jiangzhou, to Luzhou to pay homage to the Son of Heaven.

Xu Zhihe was shocked and frightened after receiving the edict, and finally had no choice but to go to Luzhou.

Unexpectedly, after Li Qi saw him, he comforted him with warm words, and praised him for his ability to protect the territory and the people, and his ability to govern the country. Later, he said that he was allowed to restore his original surname, gave him the name Sheng, and was named the Duke of Qi, but it was not the word he had found.

This made Li Sheng a little overwhelmed.

The emperor's move was obviously to regard Wu Guo as his own bag, he had the heart to resist, but he didn't dare, so he had to secretly sigh that his plans and plans were all in vain.

Now that the Tang Dynasty is in full swing, if he dares to act rashly, wouldn't he want to put his entire net worth into it? !

Li Qi is not in a hurry to unify all places, so that the way of continuous prestige and gradual erosion will make the territory more secure.

Moreover, those generals who command the army have to keep some enemies for them, which is also a way to maintain internal stability.

They had nothing to do and turned their attention inward.

If there are really no enemies, then you need to create some enemies.

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The land of Yizhou, fertile for thousands of miles, has abundant products and a large population since ancient times.

In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it was rarely affected by war, and when Li Qi and Guo Chongtao attacked Shu, they did not fight much, and almost went down with a drum. Wang Yan, the lord of Shu, is now placed in Jingzhao Mansion by him, and he is at ease in front of the prince. The economy of the region centered on Chengdu is developed, and the production of tea accounts for nearly one-third of the domestic output, and other textiles such as Shu cloth and Shu brocade are also famous in China.

The place name Sichuan was actually divided into the four roads of the Sichuan Gorge from the Song Dynasty, and now, Li Qi also divided the land of Shu into the land of Sichuan, and this name began to replace the title of Shu in the court or newspapers from time to time.

Dong Zhang, the envoy of the Dongchuan Festival, finally wrote to the imperial court last winter to request Zhishi, and Li Qi ordered his son Dong Guangye to take over as the envoy of the Dongchuan Festival, and in the first place of his hometown Bianliang Mansion, he was crowned as the master of the inspection school, and he was rewarded with a photo.

According to Shaofujian's plan, several exploration teams were sent from Jinyang to Yuzhou to conduct prospecting activities in the ravine of the Qijiang River boundary south of the Yuzhou River. These prospecting teams were in groups of about 50 people, with donkeys, mules and horses to carry food and tools. The Shu horse is very short, and it looks not much bigger than the donkey in the Central Plains, but it has a docile personality and its ability to cross mountains and mountains is much stronger than that of the grassland horse in the north.

By the end of a winter's exploration campaign, the teams had discovered six or seven coal and iron deposits around the Qijiang River, showing that there was nothing wrong with the original plan to open an iron plant here.

The advantage of Shu is that there are many mountains and water, precipitation is very abundant, and rivers are dense, which is very suitable for the development of waterway transportation.

However, there are many dangerous rivers in Shudi, which greatly limits the scale of river navigation. If we want to vigorously develop shipping, we also need to make more efforts to dredge and clean up shipping lanes.

Today's Shu is relatively stable, and several military towns have already dispelled their past ambitions, and only the southern Sichuan Jiedu has made Li Renhan be ordered to continue to develop southward.

What he is facing is the "Great Changhe Country".

In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the Nanzhao Kingdom was able to survive between the two empires of the Tang Dynasty and Tibet, and a large part of the reason was that due to the influence of the Tang-Tibet War, the two empires were unable to take care of it.

It is very strange that the Nanzhao Kingdom was also born in civil strife at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it also fell before the fall of the Tang Dynasty, and now it has become the so-called "Great Changhe Kingdom". And the Dali Kingdom built by Duan Siping has not yet appeared, and it is estimated that it will be soon.

Li Qi is not ready to let this world exist in the so-called "Nantian Dali Kingdom" anymore......

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