Chapter 701: Fire Rises Dragon Spring



Although Li Mao is very confident in his judgment, it has not been tested by practice, and it is difficult to say that it is correct. After explaining the matter, he summoned Qin Fengmian and instructed: "Inform Chen Muyang immediately, be sure to send Mrs. Ru back to Chang'an, if she refuses to leave, tie her up." ”

After explaining this incident, Li Mao suddenly felt that his temples were beating suddenly, and he was restless for a while, always feeling that something was going to happen, and sure enough, he received an urgent report that there was a mutiny in Longquan Mansion in the afternoon.

This mutiny came suddenly, the momentum was violent, and Li Mao had lost control when he received the emergency report, but the cause of the mutiny was not complicated. Gui Zhisheng was angry in his heart, and ordered the onlookers to be dragged to the camp gate and whipped, and after the beating, he was forced to kneel and expose to the sun.

One day after the incident, someone reported that the soldiers had invited the witch into the barracks again, and Gui Zhisheng was furious, and ordered the soldiers to be imprisoned, and the witch was stripped of her clothes, cut her hair, painted her face, and tied a hemp rope, and led her into the streets.

The customs of the old land of Bohai are different from those in the mainland, the witch of the dancing god is ridiculous in the eyes of Gui Zhisheng, but in the eyes of the Bohai Shengren (the name of the officials of the Tang Dynasty for the annexation of the Bohai Kingdom) is extremely sacred.

Such a sacred figure was stripped of his clothes, cut his hair, and led him to openly parade through the streets, which was a great shame for the Bohai people.

So the next day there was a riot in the city, and a group of local soldiers (conscripted Bohai people) carried a coffin into the street, and in the coffin lay a straw dummy, and on the coffin head was written five big characters in ink: Li Mao's spiritual position.

Su Jing was furious and ordered the guards to suppress it immediately, and the two sides fought a scuffle, fifteen pawns were killed in the riot, more than 60 were injured, and more than 60 were arrested and imprisoned.

Su Jing thought that this matter was over, and in order to show appeasement, he soon released the arrested pawn back.

But he never thought that a larger-scale riot was brewing, and in the middle of September of the first year of Kaicheng, a thousand rioting soldiers suddenly surrounded Yacheng, and wanted to make Su Jing hand over Gui Zhisheng to be executed. Su Jing naturally couldn't agree, and ordered the guards to drive away the pawns, and the two sides clashed. Gui Zhisheng severely reprimanded the rebellion of the native soldiers, led the troops into the city to quell the rebellion, killed 200 native pawns on the spot, and captured and killed 300 people after nightfall, and the sky above Longquan City was full of bloody storms.

Gui Zhisheng and Su Jing's basic understanding of the Bohai people is that they are brave and aggressive, barbaric and rude, and it makes no sense to reason with these people, and they can only use force if they want to make them obey.

Regardless of whether this understanding is appropriate or not, it ignores a basic common sense, since Li Mao led the army into the customs, the military strength of Liaodong, including the Bohai Sea, has been greatly weakened, especially after entering the Guanzhong, almost all the local elites in Liaodong have been transferred into the customs, and the rest are old and weak, and the troops are seriously insufficient. In the case of Longquan Dao, Gui Zhisheng has less than 5,000 troops in his hands, but he has to dominate a vast area equivalent to more than a dozen states in the Central Plains, and he is already exhausted, not only that, but nearly sixty percent of these 5,000 people are local pawns.

Although these pawns come from different state capitals, have different customs, have all kinds of hatred in history, and have conflicting interests in reality, their belief in the witch god is the same, and it is the consistency of this that makes the originally scattered pawns twist into a rope of resistance. And this point was just ignored by Su Jing and Gui Zhisheng, who were blindly optimistic, thinking that as long as they raised their leather whips and made a few sounds, these soldiers who didn't know the height of the sky would rush away.

Now the whip was crackling, but instead of fleeing, the local soldiers who did not know the height of the sky and the height of the earth gathered one by one and surrounded the city of Longquan Mansion in all directions. What puzzled Su Jing and Gui Zhisheng even more was that there were tens of thousands of Bohai people standing behind the earth pawns!

After Li Maoping destroyed the Bohai Sea, he appointed Li Yu as the envoy of the Longquan Festival to appease the old land, and Li Yu was both endeavoured and powerful, while moving the Bohai nobles inward, on the other hand, supporting the new interest layer, giving preferential treatment to this class, suppressing other classes, and artificially creating a gap between the people of Bohai to divide and rule.

Tian Xuan, who later took over the Bohai Sea, inherited Li Yu's approach and deepened it, using various means to polish the already scattered Bohai tribe into a finer and more scattered manner, so as to ensure that no ethnic group could resist Tang rule.

However, Tian Qing's plan had only just started, and she was transferred back to Youzhou, and Su Jing, who took over her as the envoy of the Longquan Festival, lacked practical political experience and could not fully understand the Guan Qiao, and there was prejudice against Tian Qian in his bones, which caused the Bohai polishing plan to run aground halfway, and the salted fish that had died on the beach suddenly turned over.

The bravery and aggressiveness in the bones of the Bohai people have been completely activated, and the Tang people can encroach on their land, take their wealth, and even enslave their bodies, but they must not blaspheme their gods!

Those who blaspheme the gods will be punished by heaven, and under the protection of the gods, they will be able to restore their kingdom successfully!

Under the inspiration of the gods, the old land of Bohai was full of wolf smoke, and the Bohai people who were slaves and servants could no longer endure the oppression of the Tang people, they put down their hoes and hunting bows, picked up swords and guns, put on old battle clothes, and gathered under the banner of the gods to launch a vigorous restoration movement. Longquan Mansion was besieged, this time it was not only the turbulent pawns, but also tens of thousands of angry Bohai people, the crisis caused by trivial matters finally caused a catastrophe, Su Jingjian could no longer hide it, so he reported to Li Mao to know.

Now the entire Bohai old land is in flames, burning with the anger of rebellion everywhere, and the Bohai nobles who have been relocated have fled back to their local areas one after another when they heard the news, raised the banner of rebellion, recruited the old department, and openly rebelled against Li Mao's rule.

Li Mao called Qin Fengmian and scolded him bitterly, there was such a big basket in the old land of Bohai, and the right compartment didn't even know about it, what was the use of going to great lengths to raise such a huge intelligence system?!

Qin Fengmian also felt aggrieved, since Tian Qian became the intelligence director, his position in the right wing has been repeatedly weakened, and he has long lost control of the various branches in Liaodong, especially the three stations of Fuyu, Longquan, and Anyuan, which are regarded as forbidden by Tian Qian, and he has no way to interfere at all. What happened in the old land of Bohai, he didn't report it to him, the leader of the right wing, at all, but directly transferred it to Tian Chen, as for why Tian Qian concealed it and didn't report it, or she didn't know the reason, he didn't know, this kind of thing was too sensitive He didn't dare to mention it, let alone push Tian Chen's head, so he could only bow his head and bear Li Mao's spittle.

After Li Mao got angry, his anger also subsided, he understood that Qin Fengmian had also received it from generation to generation, Tian Qian had long regarded Bohai as her territory, and the branch station in Bohai's hometown on the right side was firmly under her control, and Qin Fengmian could not get involved at all.

As for why Tian Qian concealed it and didn't report it, only she knew it in her own heart.

Li Mao waved his hand and said to Qin Fengmian: "Give Chief Manager Tian a warrant and ask her to leave for Longquan to quell this rebellion immediately." He also said to Qin Fengmian: "From now on, the branches of Liaodong and Bohai will be under the direct jurisdiction of General Manager Tian, and you will concentrate on running Guannei." Qin Fengmian said: "I suggest that the desert and Longxi and the Western Regions should be directly governed by Chen Muyang, or it may be more convenient." "Like the Bohai Homeland, the right branch of the desert and the Western Regions is beyond Qin Fengmian's reach, so they can simply be separated, at least they can bear less responsibility.

Li Mao said: "Manager Tian will stay in Bohai for a period of time in the future, and you will act as the agent for a few days in this position, and I will officially give an order on this matter." Qin Fengmian was overjoyed and left in response.

Tian Qian had just rushed to Ziqing from Chengde at this moment, and was reminding Xue Rong to pay attention to someone making trouble in Ziqing, when she suddenly received an urgent order from Li Mao to go to Longquan to quell the rebellion, so she asked Sang Rong for a sea boat to set off from Laizhou to cross the sea and go ashore in Beisha City.

The ship was provided by Sang Rong, and for the sake of safety, it was natural to inform Senior General Xue to know, so as to arrange the ship to escort it. Veteran Xue knew, and Wang Jian, who was guarding Liaodong, also knew, Wang Jian naturally knew Tian Qian's identity and status in Li Mao's heart, and specially rushed from Liaozhou to Beisha City to greet him.

Knowing that Tian Qian was ordered to quell the rebellion in the old land of Bohai, he offered to transfer 2,000 troops to help the war, Tian Qian did not dare to call the shots, Wang Jian reported to Zheng Xiaozhang of Youzhou in the name of Liaodong Stay-behind Mansion, Zheng Xiaozhang agreed to transfer troops from Liaodong, and after obtaining the consent of the clerk, 1,500 people were transferred from the Zhengpu Xiu Department of the Township Army assembled in Guizhou to accompany him to Longquan Mansion.

Zheng Puxiu is the second son of Zheng Xiaozhang, and the training level of the township army in Guizhou is very high, no less than that of the regular army.

Zheng Xiaozhang understands that no matter what twists and turns there are in the middle, the old land of Bohai cannot be chaotic at this moment, and chaos will affect the overall situation.

After Tian Qian and Wang Jian returned to the state, Zheng Puxiu saw Wang Jian's son Wang Su accompanying Tian Qian on the expedition, and he couldn't help but feel itchy, and insisted on personally leading the army to help the battle.

Zheng Xiaozhang is the general manager of Youzhou, and it is naturally best to have his full support for the Eastern Expedition, and it is useful to leave Zheng Puxiu in the army. Wang Jian read the order again, and said: "It is only said that three battalions of troops were transferred from Pu Xiu's army, and there is no designation of who the commander is. ”

Tian Qian was overjoyed, and passed the order of the General Staff Office to take Gao Wen as the commander and set up the Imperial Commander's Office, with Zheng Puxiu and Liu Lianliang as the deputy marshal, Wang Su as the soldiers and horses of the Chinese army, and Tian Qian assumed the name of the judge, and sent out 2,000 Liaodong Army, 1,500 Guizhou Township Army, and 1,500 people from the Bezhou High Culture Department, a total of 5,000 people, and killed Benlongquan Mansion in a mighty way.

Gao Wenwen is a native of Bohai, familiar with the customs and characteristics of the Bohai Sea, commanded the coalition army in seven battles and seven victories, and it took only half a month to wipe out the rebels outside the city of Longquan Mansion, and Gui Zhisheng, who was stubbornly waiting for help, also led the army to kill when he saw this, and fought thirteen battles and thirteen victories outside the city, and the rebels killed were bloody, and the situation in Longquan Mansion was settled.