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At the time of the Five Dynasties, Gao Jixing and Gao Congxue were successively named the King of Nanping and the Envoy of Jingnan Jiedu by the Central Plains Dynasty, and the territory they occupied was the smallest and weakest Nanping in the Five Dynasties.

According to the late Tang Dynasty system, Jingnan Jiedu should have controlled the ten states. It's a pity that in the fifth dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and Jingnan was divided by Shu, Chu, Later Tang and the Central Plains court.

Gao Jixing was originally from Shaanxi, and later went to Bianjing to a rich merchant writer named Li Rang, which was also due to luck, this Li Rang because he often donated money to the Later Liang Emperor Zhu Wen for military expenses, and was considered by Zhu Wen as a righteous son, Gao Jixing was therefore destined to know Zhu Wen, it may be because of the generosity and decency of the questions and answers to Zhu Wen, or it may be for some other reason, in short, Zhu Wen admires him very much, so he asked his godson Li Rang to accept Gao Jixing as a godson, so that Gao Jixing changed his surname to Zhu, became Zhu Wen's godgrandson (the history of the new five dynasties: Taizu Qiqicai, ordered to let the son of the animal, because of the surname Zhu, to make up for the victory of the military envoy, Qian Yi Yong commanded the envoy). In this way, Gao Jixing followed Zhu Wen to fight on the battlefield, and gradually rose to prominence.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangning, the assassin of Xiangzhou, defeated Lei Yangong, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, who had taken refuge in Zhu Wen. So Zhu Wen sent a large army to expel Zhao Kuangning, and then appointed Gao Jixing as the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu. When Gao Jixing first arrived in Jingnan, he only had Jiangling (that is, Jingzhou) in his hands.

In the next ten years, Gao Jixing hollowed out his mind, thought of countless ways, died countless brain cells, fought countless defeats, and finally begged for Kui, Zhong, Wan, Gui, and Xia's five states in the hands of Tang Zhuangzong, but unfortunately the territory of these six states was held in his own hands for less than two months, and Tang Mingzong, who had just been called emperor, regretted it, so he sent troops to recapture Kui, Zhong, and Wansanzhou. At that time, the situation was critical, and Gao Jixing was not allowed to submit a vassal to the Southern Tang Dynasty against the Central Plains Dynasty.

From this moment on, the father and son of the Gao family embarked on the road of no return to the scoundrel.

Nanping's jurisdiction is no more than the land of Gui, Xia, and Jiangling, with a population of only tens of thousands, and the national strength is weak. Fortunately, the Central Plains Dynasty in the north was busy updating, and the emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty was a bodhisattva, as for Meng Zhixiang and his son in Shu, Ma Xisheng and Ma Xifan in Chu were all the masters of looking for flowers and having fun, so that Nanping could be preserved.

After Gao Jixing died, his son Gao Congzhi was even more worried about others attacking day and night, so he recruited private soldiers, governed the city god, set up buildings, and recruited troops all day long, as a plan for self-defense. But to get these things, it costs money. As a result, he could only increase taxes, but unfortunately Nanping was too small and the population was too small. More than 100,000 people, at most 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, the burden of the people can be imagined, so the people have risen up, and even conquered Guizhou a few years ago. At that time, the Later Tang Dynasty and the Central Plains Dynasty did not get along, and the Chu State and the Southern Han Dynasty wanted to pay tribute to the Central Plains, so they could only pass from Nanping, and Gao Congzhi had no choice but to start robbing these missions. It's not that Gao Congzhi is a child with a temper and a playful temper, but that Nanping's government finances are indeed in danger of collapsing, and Gao Congzhi is here with these tributes. He first paid the military with these tributes, maintained normal government expenditures, and waited for the next month's tax to come up, and then used the taxes to offset the tribute. Later, there were many emperors in the feudal towns, and Gao Congzhi brazenly sent envoys to congratulate and call the ministers, in order to be rewarded by others.

The Nanping government lived a life of eating grain in this way, but it is a pity that even such days are becoming more and more unbearable, especially after the implementation of the new policy in Yuezhou, many people in Nanping have fled to Yuezhou. The situation in Nanping is like a crater, and Gao Congxue is sitting on this crater now.

When a government wants to snatch grain and grass from bandits to meet its normal expenses, you can imagine how embarrassed the government is. And Gao Congzhi's Nanping Wangfu is now on this "Kangzhuang" avenue. A month ago, Gao Congzhi sent Bao Tang as the commander and his son Gao Baorong as the supervisor to lead 3,000 Jiangling elite soldiers to defeat the Qizhai bandits in Guizhou. The reason why the soldiers and horses of Jiangling were sent was also a last resort, the soldiers in Xiazhou and Guizhou had not been paid for a long time, and the soldiers who did not make a sound were sent out, which was to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and maybe they would bite themselves.

After all, Bao Tang is a general, and these 3,000 soldiers did use their lives, and in less than a month, they broke five cottages in the "Seven Villages" in Guizhou one after another. However, the results of the war were brilliant, the military food was consumed a lot, but the harvest was quite small, basically no money and food were obtained, and what made Gao Congzhi even more angry was that Bao Tang also captured thousands of old and weak women and children, which were thousands of mouths waiting to be fed, Gao Congxue was completely dumbfounded when he looked at the battle report.

In the palace of the king of Nanping, looking at the appearance of the king of Nanping stupidly pinching the battle report, the old minister Liang said tremblingly: "King, to this day, it is better to convert the soldiers of Xiazhou and Guizhou into people, guide them well, and be diligent in farming. ”

Gao Congzhi secretly scolded Liang Zhen in his heart, but he had unusual respect for this veteran of the two dynasties on his face, and Situ Sikong Xun next to him said: "Liang Xiang's words are bad, and now Nanping can stand on its own, isn't it because of the 30,000 soldiers and horses in Sanzhou?" This is the second of the three, in case the enemy attacks, how to resist it. ”

Liang Zhen twisted his beard and said: "The king, the minister thinks that the Central Plains court is too busy to take care of itself, the Tang Dynasty in the east does not border with us, the Ma Xi Fan in the south is still exaggerated, and Meng Chang in the west is greedy for women, and he is not a hero." If there will be no war in Nanping for a few years, if we send troops to serve the people, won't we be able to solve the urgent need? ”

Sikong Xun continued: "Even if we turn our soldiers into people, it's summer, and we can't farm, let alone harvest, so we don't have to support these soldiers." Moreover, what Ma Yun in Yuezhou is doing now is also a great threat to us. The king, in the opinion of the ministers, still want Bao Tang to continue to encircle and suppress the rebellious people, those people have been in turmoil for many years, and they must have some savings, as long as we find those savings, it will be enough for us to survive for a while. ”

Gao Congzhi nodded heavily, and said: "This matter is so decided, well, it is planned to let Bao Tang continue to attack, let Wang Baoyi go to find out what is going on, how can the rebels have no savings at all?" ”

After hearing this, Liang Zhen was taken aback and said: "The king, there is no doubt about employing people, and there is also a prince supervising the army, so the minister thinks that there is no need to send people anymore." ”

The crusade against "Qizhai" was originally Sikong Xun's idea, and he was now afraid that there would be no harvest and provoke the wrath of the king of Nanping, so he said slowly: "Wang Baoyi can be made to go to the front of the army with grain." ”

Liang Zhen looked at Gao Congxue's face, knowing that this matter was settled, he sighed and said, "Then what about these thousands of captives?" ”

Gao Congzhi said impatiently: "Let's discuss this matter later." After saying that, he actually got up and left.

Liang Zhen stomped his feet and sighed: Hey, people.