Chapter 427: Pacifying Fujian

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After the 20,000-strong Fuzhou army was wiped out, the entire Fujian army was almost completely lost.

Next, Zhang Kezong ordered people to go to Lianjiang and Gutian respectively to send orders, telling the local defenders that Fuzhou had been lost and that Wang Yanjun and others had been captured.

After learning these two news, the defenders of the two places, who felt that the general situation was gone, also quickly surrendered to the Wu army.

At this point, the two most important places in Fujian, Fuzhou and Jianzhou, completely fell into the hands of Wu, and the remaining three places were Quanzhou, Tingzhou and Zhangzhou.

Among these three places, Quanzhou is the most important for Wu State, and it is an important port that Yang Wu fancies, and must be completely included in the governance of Wu State.

According to Yang Wu's instructions in advance, if the assassins of Tingzhou and Zhangzhou in the three states take the initiative to surrender, they can be temporarily retained, and their defenders need to be incorporated into a box army; However, even if the Quanzhou Assassin took the initiative to surrender, he still had to use the civil officials sent from Wu to ensure his absolute control over Quanzhou.

In order to ensure that there were no accidents in this process, Li Chengding continued to lead his subordinates to Quanzhou, and a few days later occupied Quanzhou without blood.

At the same time, under the approach of the Wu army, in just a few days, the remaining assassins in Tingzhou and Zhangzhou also sent envoys to surrender to the Wu army.

Since then, from the dispatch of troops in mid-November to the beginning of December, in just over half a month, the land of the five prefectures of Fujian has completely fallen under the control of the Wu army.

This astonishing attack speed was not much worse than the Liang army's capture of Zhao Kuangning within a month.

In the city of Jinling.

Receiving the news of Fujian Pingding naturally made Yang Wu very satisfied.

In his opinion, today's Fujian is completely chaotic, the army has no fighting spirit, and their strength is far inferior to the Wu army, if they can't quickly capture Fujian in this case, then he will have doubts about the ability of several generals who lead the army.

After the pacification of Fujian, the first thing to do next was to punish Wang Yanjun, Wang Yanyu and other initiators of the Fuzhou Rebellion.

"Langya Jungong, that Wang Yanjun and Wang Yanyu, one is your biological son, and the other is your adopted son, but these two betrayed you together, tell me, what should I do with them?" In the Middle Pole Hall, Yang Wu asked Wang Shenzhi loudly.

Although the Fuzhou Revolution was finally pacified without much effort, it ruined Yang Wu's original plan.

At the beginning, Yang Wu also hoped to use Fujian's surrender as an example for various forces in the future, but now he can't count on it at all.

Not only that, but those forces who are interested in surrendering to Wu will only be afraid that they will also carefully consider the thoughts of their subordinates in the future.

Wang Shenzhi insisted on surrendering despite the opposition of his subordinates, and as a result, one of his sons and one adopted son rebelled; Naturally, people from other forces will also think that if they insist on surrendering, will their own people also rise up and rebel?

So from this point of view, this time Wang Yanjun and the others really had to be killed.

At this time, the reason why Yang Wu wanted to ask Wang Shenzhi for his disposition opinion was not only to test him, but also to take this opportunity to further suppress Wang Shenzhi's reputation.

Wang Zhenzhi has led Fujian for more than ten years no matter what, and he has always been thrifty, diligent in governance, and lenient in treating others, and his local reputation in Fujian is very deep.

Although Yang Wu has now pacified Fujian, if he wants to ensure that the local area is safe and stable, he naturally has to find a way to suppress Wang Shenzhi's prestige.

And the best way to suppress a person is to do it on his morality.

In the past, Wang Zhenzhi knew that his personal conduct was very good among many feudal towns in this era, and the story of Wang Chao's three brothers pushing each other at the beginning made his personal reputation also very good.

But this time the Wang family was in civil strife, first of all, his eldest son's various perverse actions in Fuzhou; Then Wang Yanjun and Wang Yanyu joined forces, and the brothers fought and killed each other, which has greatly weakened the reputation and influence of the Wang family in Fujian.

If Wang Zhenzhi can be further forced to say that Wang Yanjun and the others should be beheaded, this will naturally further suppress his reputation.

As the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children, no matter how many bad things Wang Yanjun has done, if Wang Zhenzhi, as a father, advocates killing him, it will damage his image as a kind elder in the past.

Since ancient times, fathers and sons have been criticized for killing each other, even if there are many reasons.

At this time, after hearing Yang Wu's question, Wang Zhenzhi knew Yang Wu's thoughts, but he also hated these two sons in his heart, and in order to seize power, he put his life in Jinling at risk, and even killed his eldest son Wang Yanhan.

Therefore, Wang Zhenzhi did not have any objection to the execution of the two.

After he stood up and bowed to Yang Wu, he gritted his teeth and said: "King Qiyu, what these two people have done is disloyal and unfilial, and they are not the sons of ministers. The minister has expelled the two from the royal family. For these two people, the minister thought that they should be executed immediately, as an example! ”

Yang Wu nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, and continued to ask, "Then do you think that these two people should be executed by Ling Chi?" Or should it be cut in half? ”

Wang Zhenzhi couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes when he heard this, Wang Yanjun was his biological son no matter what, and he could accept his execution, but if he wanted to execute Ling Chi, his heart was not so hard.

Just when he hesitated how to answer, Yang Wu suddenly laughed and said: "That's it, but Lone is a little thoughtful, as the father of these two, how can Lone let you make such a decision?" ”

Wang Xianzhi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, only to hear Yang Wu continue: "Since the prince of Langya County thinks that Wang Yanjun and Wang Yanyu deserve to be punished, then the order will go down, these two people don't have to be escorted to Jinling, and they will be directly beheaded in Fuzhou City!" ”

After the life and death of the two were decided in one sentence, Yang Wu then ordered that dozens of rebel generals who followed the two to make a rebellion be beheaded together to deter the world.

Liu Kan and Zhang Zhi, the two henchmen of Wang Yanjun, although they claimed that they surrendered on their own initiative, but they were not recognized by the Wu army, and when they surrendered, the Wu army had already attacked their camp, so this time the two were still included in the list of beheadings.

In addition, a large number of people, because they fought for the tiger, but the crime was not enough to be sentenced to death, were finally sentenced to exile in Yizhou.

Yang Wu ordered the formation of a new Fujian province from the five prefectures of Fujian, plus the newly established Yizhou, and the governor of this Fujian province was served by Xu Wen, the original governor of Suzhou.

In the original history, Xu Wen had already maintained the military and political power of Huainan at this time, and became the de facto ruler of more than 20 states in Jianghuai.

However, in this life, because of Yang Wu, Xu Wen naturally will not have the opportunity in history again; Not only that, although he has a high level of seniority in Wu State, he is an old minister under Yang Xingmi, one of the thirty-six heroes of Taizu at the beginning, but because of the lack of military exploits, coupled with Yang Wu's intention, he has not been promoted for so many years, and he has been in the post of Suzhou Assassin for more than seven years.

At this time, Yang Wu naturally would no longer be afraid of him as a local assassin who had neither military power nor fame, so this time the position of governor of Fujian was held by him.

……

When Yang Wu made arrangements for the affairs of Fujian above the court, in the city of Shaozhou, Ma Yinzheng, the king of Chu, knelt respectfully on the ground, listening to the holy decree issued by Zhu Wen, the emperor of Liang.

“…… Tejia was named the general of Tiance, opened the palace with the three divisions, and allowed hundreds of officials, and admired this! ”

Listening to Zhu Wen's will, Ma Yin had no joy or sorrow in his heart.

During this period of time, Ma Yin took advantage of the fact that Wu's attention was completely attracted by Fujian, and quickly developed his influence to the southwest.

In September, Ma Yin personally led the troops to defeat the Yuzhou barbarians.

The strength of the barbarians was even higher than that of the Chenzhou barbarians, and the barbarian tribes from all walks of life formed a coalition army, relying on the dangerous terrain to try to block the attack of the Chu army.

Ma Yin then took Yao Yanzhang as his general, led 5,000 troops, and asked him to make a detour to attack the rear of the Yuzhou Man, and he himself personally led the main force of the Chu army to attract the attention of the enemy.

After Yao Yanzhang sent out his troops, he lived up to the trust, he went all the way over the mountains and mountains, traveled day and night, and finally succeeded in going around the rear of the barbarians, cooperating with Ma Yin in the front, attacking back and forth, breaking through their camps in one fell swoop, killing thousands of barbarians, and descending as many as tens of thousands.

At this point, Ma Yin finally eliminated the Zhizhou Barbarian, who was a major threat to him, and initially established himself in the southwest.

After having a new foundation, the pressure on Ma Yin was greatly reduced, and he was finally no longer satisfied with commanding his subordinates as the king of Chu.

He knew that his strength was not enough to officially break away from Later Liang and open the country as king, so his last resort was to seek Zhu Wen to be canonized as the general of Tiance.

The title of Admiral Tiance originally originated from Li Shimin's title, and his status was higher than that of ordinary princes and generals, and he could place hundreds of officials.

After obtaining this title, Ma Yin can still be a nominal courtier of Houliang on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can be an official on his own, which is no different from the official founding of the country.

After Zhu Wen reached a tacit understanding with Yang Wu, he concentrated his efforts in the past two years to suppress Li Cunqing, the king of Jin, but unfortunately the results achieved were not good.

Regarding Ma Yin's request, Zhu Wen didn't have much ability to interfere, so he naturally gladly accepted his request and canonized Ma Yin as the general of Tiance.

At this point, the state of Chu can be regarded as officially becoming a country, and it is no longer the previous feudal town.