Chapter 84: The Origin of Hou Shu
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Song man Hongmai wrote in "Rong Zhai Essays": "Since the passage of Bashu to China, all those who have seized the territory and arbitrarily have passed it on again and again. This means that most of those who established secessionist regimes in Sichuan were wiped out after only two generations.
This sounds like a fortune teller, but when you think about it, it's not hard to understand. In the twentieth century, some people put forward geopolitics, the theory of population quality. In the 21 st century, some people have put forward the theory that "talent is the most valuable." In fact, this truth has been like this throughout the ages. This Bashu region, the south is a barren land in the south, and the west is the towering Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the regime that is divided here, facing the attack of the north and east lines of the Central Plains, there is no other way out, how can it not be destroyed.
There are too many examples to mention, such as Liu Bei of Shu Han, for example, Cheng Han in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (although it passed on five masters, it can be said in terms of generation, it is indeed two generations), to the Five Dynasties period, and Shu before and after also conformed to this law.
Wang Jian, the founder of the former Shu, was a scoundrel by nature, and he didn't have a job when he grew up, in order to make a living, he first stole cattle, then stole donkeys, and sold private salt, and the villagers were extremely disgusted with him, and scolded him behind his back as "the eighth thief king" (the emperors of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms don't seem to be very dripping, basically not a scoundrel or a ruffian). The king of thieves had a hard time for eight days, and later simply defected to Qin Zongquan, the assassin of Caizhou (note, this Qin Zongquan also used to be Ma Yin's leading brother).
At that time, Huangchao was in turmoil, and Qin Zongquan pulled out 8,000 men and horses and handed them over to the eunuch and Yang Fuguang, the loyal military supervisor, to crusade against Huangchao, Wang Jian was also among them, and was one of the eight capital heads. At this time, Huang Chao's strength is huge, mobile battles, and chaos in the world, how can the thousand men and horses under Wang Jian be enough for Huang Chao to plug his teeth.
The enemy is outnumbered, and there are still people in the eight capitals who rebel and join the enemy, Wang Jianyi thought, the Central Plains is too chaotic, it is really not suitable for human survival, this kid went to Sichuan with the remaining four capitals. Emperor Li Yi, who took refuge in Sichuan, was overjoyed and rewarded five people, and after that, Wang Jian served by the emperor's side and developed a deep friendship with the emperor.
Relying on the emperor's support and his treacherous and scoundrel style, after eleven years of struggle, Wang Jian finally changed from a country scoundrel to Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu envoy and Chengdu Yin. After that, Wang Jianyi changed his rogue style, broke the corporal, and vigorously promoted those who dared to speak out, and soon gained a firm foothold in Bashu.
In 9o7 AD, Zhu San, the scoundrel of Bianjing, abolished the little emperor of the Tang Dynasty and established the Liang Dynasty, the news spread to Chengdu, and the "Eight Thieves and Kings" spread to the world, and they wanted to unite the towns to crusade against "Zhu San". And Wang Jian himself just wanted to show his loyalty and squeeze out the last bit of use value of the Tang Dynasty. Five months later, under the persuasion of the ministers, Wang Jian ascended the throne in high spirits, and the country name was Dashu, and the Yuan Wucheng was changed to the former Shu.
In 918 AD, Wang Jian died in Chengdu. The crown prince Wang Zongyan inherited the throne and changed his name to Wang Yan. Similar to all the kings of the dead country (except for Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty), Wang Yan fought cocks and walked dogs, nepotism, in short, he did not do a good thing, and this kid also likes to use the banner of "inspecting places", with tens of thousands of ironclad guards, scurrying around in Shuzhong, making chickens and dogs restless.
When Wang Yan marched with the army in Shuzhong, the Central Plains had undergone earth-shaking changes, in 923 AD, that is, the first year of Tongguang in the Later Tang Dynasty, three years after Liang Longde, the ** team attacked Bianliang, and Emperor Zhu Youzhen committed suicide. Li Cunqiao (Later Tang Zhuangzong) was still dissatisfied with the Central Plains at the beginning, and when he heard that Wang Yan was not good, he became greedy.
After three years of Tongguang in the Tang Dynasty, ** attacked Shu State, all the way like a bamboo, met Wang Yan who was traveling on the way to the army, killed this kid and lost his armor, and fled all the way back to Chengdu. When he arrived in Chengdu, the Chinese concubines of the city went out of the city to greet them, and Wang Yan actually had the heart to play tricks, and he sneaked into the city among the concubines and danced the Uighur team. But the situation has not improved at all. This is an unfortunate rebellion within the Shu Kingdom, and the panicked Wang Yan had no choice but to surrender and obediently become a prisoner of the Later Tang Dynasty (it is too coincidental that Liu Bei, Wang Jian, and Meng Zhixiang are all world-famous heroes, but I didn't expect that their sons are all rice buckets, and they are all captured).
Before the destruction of Shu, Guo Chongtao, the privy envoy of the Later Tang Dynasty, once strongly recommended Taiyuan Yin Meng Zhixiang in front of Li Cunqiao: "This trip must be peaceful in Bashu, and the person who can guard the two rivers for His Majesty is none other than your brother-in-law Meng Zhixiang." Therefore, after the Pingshu, Li Cunqiao transferred Meng Zhixiang to be the deputy ambassador of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu, and at the same time served as Chengdu Yin.
Although Meng Zhixiang was not famous before he became the emperor, he had a lot of backgrounds, Meng Zhixiang was a lot of Shihedong, and his uncles and uncles had all been envoys to the big town, and Meng Zhixiang was also the niece and son-in-law of Taizu of the Later Tang Dynasty, and Li Cunqiao was a close relative. In an important place like Liangchuan, it is more reassuring to hand it over to your relatives.
In the spring of the fourth year of Tongguang (926 AD), when Meng Zhixiang went to Chengdu to take office, there was a great chaos in Shu, Guo Chongtao was killed by Li Cunqiao's order, and Li Jiqi, the king of Wei, led his division north. As soon as he arrived in Chengdu, he was born of a rebellion in Hanzhou by Kang Yanxiao, the pioneer of the Mabu Army in the southwest camp. Meng Zhixiang is also a person who has seen the world, and immediately mobilized the headquarters to join the army Sima Renyuan and Jiannan Dongchuan Jiedu Deputy Envoy Dong Zhang to exterminate Kang Yanxiao.
Soon after, there was a major incident in Luoyang: the Tang Emperor Li Cunqiao was killed by Guo Congqian's rebels, the Wei King Li Jiqi committed suicide, and the chief administrator Li Siyuan (later Tang Mingzong) entered Luo to succeed to the throne. The Central Plains changed hands, and Meng Zhixiang was not Li Siyuan's descendant, so he was not at ease inside, so he naturally wanted to find a way back for himself. The plan to divide Shuzhong was immediately generated.
Meng Zhixiang wanted to divide the territory, and the Dongchuan Festival next door made Dong Zhang also plan to do the same, and this Dong Zhang was brave and good at fighting, not a good stubble. Therefore, Meng Zhixiang first built a large number of armored soldiers in Chengdu, divided the "Yisheng", "Xiaorui", "Yining", "Feidi", "Dingyuan" and other armies with a total of 70,000 soldiers, and established a set of internal and external defense systems, led by generals Li Renhan, Zhao Tingyin and others, and made all preparations for battle. On the surface, he has a good relationship with Dong Zhang.
Shuzhong is the country of abundance, Li Siyuan always wants to find fault with Meng Zhixiang, replace Meng Zhixiang, in 927 AD, he sent Li Yan to the province to make Xichuan soldiers and horses the capital of the prison, want to control Meng Zhixiang nearby. As a result, Meng Zhixiang not only slaughtered Li Yan, but also accused Li Yan of attempting to rebel, relying on him Meng to detect Li Yan's attempt in advance and take him down in one fell swoop, so as to maintain the good situation of stability and unity in Shuzhong.
After Li Siyuan learned the news, he scolded Meng Zhixiang for being discordant, but he was unwilling to move troops, so he thought of a way, in the name of worshipping his ancestors, let Meng Zhixiang pay out of his pocket and donate 1oo million yuan to the ancestral temple to weaken the economic strength of Shuzhong.
Meng Zhixiang secretly scolded in his heart, your old Li family worships the ancestors, why did I let my surname Meng pay for it, he rolled around for a while, cried desperately to be poor, and finally only gave 5o yuan, and Dong Zhang next door was even more ruthless, only donating 1o yuan. The angry Li Siyuan scolded these two bastards for not being a thing, and at this time, the post-Tang privy envoy An Chongzhi, who had a conflict with Dong Zhang, secretly advised: "For Dong Zhang's discordant thing, we must find a way to get rid of the harmony." ”
So Li Siyuan appointed his cronies as the Langzhou Assassin and the Mianzhou Assassin to guard against Dong Zhang. This frightened Dong Zhang, after all, Li Siyuan is the nominal eldest brother with strong strength, he thought about it and thought of Meng Zhixiang. In the face of a strong enemy, although the two had contradictions, they still hit it off, led by Dong Zhang, and attacked Langzhou. This time it was undoubtedly a rebellion, Li Siyuan could no longer hold his breath, and sent a large army to attack Shuzhong, but as a result, he lost his troops one after another. There was no way, so he sent Shi Jingjiao (his son-in-law), one of the top two arrogances, to lead the army into Shu. Shi Jingjiao really did it, and quickly knocked out Dong Zhang's arrogance. And captured the gateway of Shuzhong, Jianmen, as soon as the Jianmen was lost, only Jianzhou was left, a dangerous place, and behind it was the fertile Chengdu Plain.
At this time, Meng Zhixiang finally jumped to the front desk, and led the men and horses to defend Jianzhou, until Shi Jingjiao had no food and grass, so he could only retreat and return north. As soon as Shi Jingjiao retreated, Meng Zhixiang turned around and sat down Dong Zhang, who had suffered heavy losses in the battle with Shi Jingjiao. He finally became the boss of Shu.
Meng Zhixiang's cheeks became thicker and thicker as his status improved, and he even gave Li Siyuan a table and asked for the title of King of Shu. At this time, Li Siyuan was seventy years old, people are old, it is inevitable to want to be pure, besides, he does not agree, this Meng Zhixiang turned his face and dared to call the emperor, in February 933, he canonized Meng Zhixiang as the king of Shu, and the east and west of the two Sichuan festivals.
In November of the fourth year of Changxing (933 AD), the sixty-seven-year-old Li Siyuan died. In the first month of the second year, Meng Zhixiang, the king of Shu, was proclaimed emperor in Chengdu, and the country name was the same as Wang Jian's, which was still Dashu. It's a pity that he really didn't have the emperor's life, and after only five months, the Emperor Gaozu collapsed. Meng Chang inherited the throne, although he is also the king of the fallen country, but compared with the previous "Queen of Shu" Wang Yanlai, his character and quality are higher.
It's a pity that time is ruthless, with the withering of the old minister, this Meng Chang has gradually been corroded, and he is arrogant, not only loves to make a poem and paint a landscape painting, but also likes beautiful women, and even gradually points out the country. Especially when he saw that his neighbor Chu was booming, he couldn't help but want to stretch out his hand and get cheap. At this time, Wang Jingchong, who happened to be in Fengxiang, sent a table, and Meng Chang, who was bent on being in the limelight, immediately made a decision to send troops out of Sichuan to try the level of the Han army...
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