Yang Xingmi's death means the end of an old era and the advent of a new era for Huainan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is no need to say more about his achievements in pacifying the Jianghuai, restoring the economy that had been badly damaged by the war, and establishing the current Huainan regime.

When the news of his death came out, the officials who stayed in Guangling all howled and cried, and most of the people in Guangling spontaneously wailed for his death.

Perhaps many of these officials wept so bitterly to show their loyalty to Yang Wu, but it is undeniable that many more of them did so sincerely.

In the midst of this chaotic world of disillusionment, the various feudal towns are only thinking about how to keep their rights, and to this end, they do not hesitate to use all means to deal with those subordinates who may threaten them. Even father and son cannibalism are not a few in this era, but Yang Xingmi has won the sincere support of everyone in Huainan for his leniency and benevolence.

Although he is not good at leading troops to fight, he is good at appeasing the soldiers, sharing weal and woe with them, and has no suspicions about his subordinates; It is also broad-minded and tolerant.

At the beginning, Cai Yan, the assassin of Luzhou, betrayed Yang Xingmi and surrendered to Zhu Quanzhong, and in order to show his complete break with Yang Xingmi, he dug up the ancestral grave of the Yang family; After Cai Yan's defeat was achieved, Yang Xingmi's generals all advocated that Cai Yan's ancestral grave should also be dug up. But Yang Xingmi said: "Cai Li has done such a great evil, how can I follow him?" So he refused to accept the advice of the generals.

Another time, one of his attendants named Zhang Hong, who was usually responsible for helping Yang Xingmi carry the sword, suddenly betrayed, pulled out the sword and wanted to assassinate Yang Xingmi, but failed and was killed; Yang Xingmi then asked another attendant named Chen Shaozhen, who was usually friendly with Zhang Hong, to continue to be responsible for helping him carry the sword, without any suspicion or suspicion.

It is this kind of generosity and open-mindedness that enables him to get the sincere allegiance of so many loyal ministers and fierce generals in Huainan.

In contrast, although Yang Wu has a good performance in battlefield battles, coupled with the experience of later generations, but this strong personal charm and natural leadership ability are obviously far inferior to Yang Xingmi.

It's a pity that no matter how outstanding people are, they will die one day.

Standing in front of Yang Xingmi's coffin, the first thing Yang Wu had to do was to take over the throne, which was also a necessary move to stabilize people's hearts.

Although Yang Wu was already the actual controller of Huainan before, after all, there was still a lack of a name, and now it was time to officially take over.

The first point is the position, among Yang Xingmi's many positions, the most important position is the Huainan Jiedu envoy, and Yang Wu was already the queen of the Huainan Jiedu before, and now he is naturally upgraded to the Jiedu envoy.

Then there is the title, according to the law of title inheritance in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Wu must lower one level when inheriting the title of King Wu, that is, inheriting the title of the king of the county; In history, Yang Wu finally inherited the title of King of Hongnong.

However, in this life, Yang Wu conquered the east and west, and the achievements established were not much less than those of his father, coupled with the high prestige in Huainan, no one in Huainan officials mentioned the law of succession of the title of the imperial court, and unanimously asked for the direct inheritance of the title of King Wu.

Finally, there are some necessary titles, such as the commander of the southeastern provinces, the camp capital, and the servant, which are all sealed by the proclamation of Li Yan as the representative of the Son of Heaven.

After the official succession, the funeral ceremony is next. Today's Huainan has basically completed the transformation from home to country, so not long after Yang Xingmi became seriously ill, the specific funeral has been formulated, and at this time, Yang Wu and others only need to follow the previously determined process.

Yang Xingmi was frugal all his life, so he left a will a long time ago, so that Yang Wu could handle his funeral from a simple time, only using the kudzu cloth in the valley to make a shroud, using sycamore wood to make a coffin, putting a few pieces of pottery as a burial, and burying it directly in a valley in Luzhou on a certain night.

However, at this time, Yang Wu refused to carry out his will, although Yang Xingmi is now only the prince of the Tang Dynasty, but Yang Wu's ambition to establish the country as the king and even the emperor has long been determined, and Yang Xingmi will definitely be respected as the Taizu at that time, how can the mausoleum of the Taizu be so shabby?

So a long time ago, Yang Wu ignored his father's last order and secretly ordered the construction of a new mausoleum outside Shengzhou City, but in order to catch up with the construction period, he was very frugal in the specific construction, and finally it took only more than half a year to build.

Of course, thrift is thrifty, but the specific etiquette is completely in accordance with the etiquette of the Son of Heaven!

All of this was hidden from Yang Xingmi and Huainan officials, and Chen Yanqian, the assassin of Shengzhou, was directly responsible for creating it.

At this time, as soon as Yang Wu said his arrangements at this time, many Huainan officials lit up one after another, and buried Yang Xingmi according to the etiquette of the Son of Heaven, so Yang Wu's thoughts were obvious.

These people's feelings for Datang are not as deep as Yang Xingmi's, so they have no objection to Yang Wu's transgression, but feel excited in their hearts.

The next step was to negotiate a nickname for Yang Xingmi, and at this point, when the nickname "Zhongwu" was proposed, it was unanimously approved by everyone.

After determining the ceremony of Yang Wu's succession and handling Yang Xingmi's funeral, the time was already the end of April.

Yang Wu ordered to send envoys to all feudal towns to inform Yang Xing of the news of his secrets.

In history, because of Yang Wu's own lack of prestige, and Huainan at that time was far less powerful than Huainan in this life, so he had been secretive after taking over Huainan, and only sent someone to inform other feudal towns after a few months when the overall situation had been decided.

But now Yang Wu is naturally confident, and he is not worried at all about anyone in other feudal towns who dares to take the opportunity to crusade.

The more than 100,000 Huainan troops who had just beaten the Liang army had now withdrawn from Suzhou, and the three armies of Wang Maozhang, Zhou Ben, and Qin Pei had now retreated to their respective stations, so Huainan at this time was not afraid of any challenge.

However, Yang Wu made a lot of calculations, but in the end there was still one thing that was not calculated, when the news of Yang Xing's secret story reached Bianzhou, Zhu Quanzhong was overjoyed, and immediately ordered to refuse to implement the agreement reached with Yang Wu to purchase Huainan salt.

After Zhu Quanzhong paid 100,000 pieces of tea compensation, the Huainan Army began to withdraw in accordance with the previous agreement; At the same time, the first batch of Huainan salt has been traded, but the second trade has not yet begun.

If there was no variable such as Yang Xingmi's sudden death, as long as Zhu Quanzhong refused to fulfill the agreement, then the Huainan army could once again march north, threatening the southern defense line of the Liang army; But now that Yang Xing is secret, Zhu Quanzhong expects that the Huainan Army will not send troops north again at this time, so he will naturally directly refuse to fulfill the previous agreement, which is Yang Wu's mistake.

Of course, the war in the north is still tense, and Zhu Quanzhong cannot take the opportunity to attack Huainan in the south.

During this time, due to the reduction of pressure from the south, Zhu Quanzhong was able to remobilize his army and calmly go north to attack the rebellious five states of Weibo.

Because of the siege weapon of Suzhou artillery, which is sharper than in history, the siege of the Liang army this time was much easier than in history.

However, after all, Wei Bojun is a time-honored feudal town that has been established for more than 100 years, and it has deep roots in the local area, and it is not possible for Zhu Quanzhong to put down the rebellion in a short period of time.

What made Zhu Quanzhong even more worried was that he had received news that Li Keyong, the king of Jin, had gathered troops in Jinyang and was ready to reinforce Luzhou, and he was determined not to give up if he did not take Luzhou.

In addition, it is said that Huainan has sent an envoy to provide the manufacturing technology of Suzhou artillery to Hedong, so the defense of Luzhou will be more difficult in the future.

"Anyway, as soon as Yang Xingmi, an old enemy, dies, Lone can be regarded as getting rid of a big trouble; It's just that Yang Wu's kid is even more difficult to deal with than his father! Recalling the successive defeats suffered in the previous battle with the Huainan army, Zhu Quanzhong's face became a little unnatural.

What worries him even more is that Yang Xingmi, like him, is fifty-four years old this year; Although Yang Xingmi is no longer here, he still has an excellent heir after all; And what about himself?

His eldest son Zhu Youyu was originally a good candidate for succession, he was good at riding and shooting since he was a child, followed Zhu Quanzhong to fight in the south and the north, treated people generously, and won the hearts of soldiers; However, the heir died of illness more than a year ago.

So at this time, among his many sons, he didn't know who to choose as the heir.

What made him even more annoyed was that with the unfavorable wars everywhere, Zhu Quanzhong became more and more impatient and wanted to usurp the throne as soon as possible.

However, his henchmen Jiang Xuanhui, Liu Can, Taichangqing, Zhang Tingfan and others thought that if there was no peace today, there were still many feudal towns in various places that opposed him, so the founding of the country and the emperor should not be too anxious.

They proposed that they should follow the preparatory procedures for the change of the Zen dynasty in accordance with the preparatory procedures of first sealing the great powers, adding nine tins, and adding special rites, first crowning him as the prime minister, taking Xuanwu, Xuanyi and other twenty-one states as the Wei state, entering Zhu Quanzhong as the king of Wei, adding nine tin, and waiting until the time is ripe to complete the final Chan dynasty.

However, this point angered Zhu Quanzhong even more.

At the beginning, Jiang Xuanhui, Liu Can and others framed too many courtiers, which caused great resentment, and Zhu Quanzhong originally wanted to kill these people to calm everyone's anger; It happened that Xuanhui's deputy envoys Wang Yin and Zhao Yinheng were jealous of Jiang Xuanhui, and took the opportunity to frame Jiang Xuanhui for fornicating with Empress Dowager He (the empress of Tang Zhaozong), and at the same time said that the reason why Jiang Xuanhui and others wanted to crown Zhu Quanzhong as the king of Wei first was to delay time and wait for the opportunity to restore the Tang Dynasty.

After Zhu Quanzhong got the news, he believed the words of the two, sent people to kill Jiang Xuanhui, Liu Can, and Zhang Tingfan together, and secretly ordered Wang Yin and Zhao Yinheng to go to the Empress Dowager He's Jishan Palace to hang him, and forced the puppet emperor he set up to issue an edict saying that Empress He's death was committed suicide after the incident with Jiang Xuanhui, and posthumously abolished him as a concubine.

At this point, Zhu Quanzhong's ambition to usurp the throne was exposed.