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Now that the situation in Shouzhou is out of control, the people of Changchun Hall in ambush in the city are secretly inciting the people, and at this moment, a smile appeared on the face of the man in black. After Zhao Dezhao learned the news, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

At midnight on April 5, the man in black came to Liu's mansion again, and then once again exhorted Liu Renzhan not to ignore the opinions of the people, otherwise those who win the hearts of the people will win the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people will lose the world.

Liu Renzhan just smiled and didn't say anything.

The man in black didn't look back, so he left, and then reported all the situations in Shouzhou City to Zhao Dezhao.

Zhao Dezhao immediately wrote a letter, sent someone to contact Wan Song, and then spread the news to the Son of Heaven.

Guo Rong was stationed in Xia Cai at the moment, and that day it happened that the Tang army Zhu Yuan surrendered to the Zhou army.

The next day, early in the morning of April 6, Guo Rong of Xia Cai heard about the situation in Shouzhou City, and urgently ordered most of the troops of the Zhou army to start dispatching to attack Shouzhou City, preparing to feint to attack Shouzhou, so that Shouzhou City could feel the pressure of the Zhou army's attack.

Shouzhou City began to fight early in the morning, and at this moment, rumors were already spreading among the Tang army, although Liu Renzhan had blocked the news. But now that Liu Renzhan's son is in Zhou Jun after all, Liu Renzhan is speechless, and he can't control it now.

On April 7, Zhou Tinggou of the Tang Army, after discussing with Sun Yu, planned to admonish Liu Renzhan and surrender the city of Shouzhou.

On the evening of 8 April, the two gathered their forces in the army and marched towards Liu's mansion, where they met Liu Renzhan shortly thereafter, and Liu was shocked and angrily reprimanded the two.

Zhou and Sun then ordered the surrounding soldiers to tie up Liu Renzhan, and then ordered the soldiers to watch him, and then the army walked towards the city gate, ready to open the city gate.

The city gate was opened, and Zhou Tinggou, the envoy of the Tang State, Sun Yu, the deputy envoy of Yingtian, and others went out of the city to surrender in the name of Liu Renzhen, and sent the letter to the Zhou army camp.

Guo Rong was overjoyed, so within half an hour, he sent 5,000 troops to Shouzhou City, and then issued an edict to Shouzhou City, praising Liu Renzhan for benevolence and righteousness, and Zhou and Sun knew the current affairs.

Early in the morning of April 9, Guo Rong, the Son of Heaven, gave Liu Renzhan edict, sending Zhang Baoxu, an envoy from the closed gate, to enter the city to read the edict, and at the same time let Liu Renzhan's son Liu Chongzhi enter the city. Liu Renzhen's son, Liu Chongrang, went out to accept the edict and apologize, and when he saw his brother, the two did not say anything that day.

On April 10, the official surrender ceremony was held in the north of Shouzhou City, and Zhou Tinggou and others invited Liu Renzhen out of the city to participate in the ceremony. However, at this time, Liu Renzhan already knew that the general trend had gone, and he sighed helplessly, it seemed that Tang Guo would not protect Shouzhou City after all.

Zhao Dezhao successfully changed Liu Renzhan's fate this time, and soon reported the news to Kaifeng's father-in-law.

In the Kaifeng Liangcheng Inn, Yang Meng was very relieved to learn the news.

On that day, Guo Rong, the son of heaven, personally went to see Liu Renzhan, rewarded him with money, and appointed Liu Renzhen as the envoy of the Tianping Festival, and concurrently served as the Zhongshu Order. The Qinghuai Army was renamed the Zhongzheng Army, and Yang Xin, the commander of the Right Yulin Army, was appointed as the envoy of the Zhongzheng Festival and Tongping Zhangshi. At the same time, he ordered the Shouzhou granary to be opened to provide relief to the victims.

After Liu Renzhan saw Guo Rong's love for the people, he felt even more guilty. The good bird chooses the tree to perch, and at the same time, he is also curious about what kind of person the young master of Changchun Hall is.

On April 11, Guo Rong ordered the transfer of the administrative office of Shouzhou to Xia Cai.

On April 13, Xiang Xun, the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, was appointed as the envoy of Wuning Jiedu, and concurrently served as the capital supervisor of Huainan Daoxing, and Xiang Xun's army was stationed in Zhenhuai Army.

After the city of Shouzhou was broken, Guo Rong felt that there was no important battle ahead, that is, on May 1, he returned to the north, and returned to Kaifeng on the 14th.

After the Son of Heaven returned to Beijing, Guo Rong ordered Zhang Yongde to go to the north to Imperial Liao in April of the fifth year of Xiande (the eighth year of Liao Yingli).

In May, Chengde Jiedu made Guo Chong lead his troops to capture Shucheng (northeast of Hejian, Hebei) to jointly contain the Liao army. Liao Nanjing stayed behind Xiao Siwen to lead the army to unify the army and garrison the north bank of the Hutuo River, wanting to wait for the veterans of the Zhou division to be tired and attacked.

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On 29 May, the soldiers of the Tang State who had surrendered to the Zhou State were incorporated into the newly formed Huaide Army.

On June 11, Zhao Kuangyin was appointed as the envoy of the Yicheng Festival.

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Over there, since the capture of Shouzhou City in April, Li Jingda and Chen Jue, the kings of Qi, fled back to Jiangning Mansion from Haozhou, and Jingjiang Jiedu made Chen Decheng's troops retreat.

When Li Jing heard that the Tang army was defeated, he urgently ordered the ministers to discuss military affairs. The emperor's younger brother Li Jingsui resigned repeatedly, and Li Jing took Jing Sui as the king of Jin; Li Jingda, the king of Qi, resigned as the marshal due to the defeat of the army, and Jingda was the governor of Fuzhou. Li Hongji, the king of Liyan, was the crown prince and participated in the administration of the court. Li Congjia (Li Yu), the Duke of Anding, was afraid of Li Hongji and did not dare to participate in political affairs, so he entertained himself with books.

Above the court, the ministers talked a lot. Among them, Qiao Kuangshun, a member of the Zhongshu House, was exiled to Fuzhou by Li Jing in the name of disturbing the morale of the army. Zhu Kuangye replied: "When the time comes, heaven and earth are all working together, and the heroes are not free." ”

And Liu Cunzhong also said.

Li Jing was furious, demoted Zhu Kuangye to the deputy envoy of Fuzhou, and exiled Liu Cunzhong to Raozhou.

In the Tang court, the ministers were silent, but they were complaining in their hearts.

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On the Tang army's side, when he heard that Shouzhou City was now in the hands of the Zhou army, the Tang army general Guo Tingwei burned the pontoon bridge and defeated the Dingyuan Wuning Jiedu envoy Wuxingde. Later, Li Jing ordered him to be the training envoy of the Chuzhou regiment.

In late June, Zhao Dezhao felt that since he had nothing to do, he returned to Kaifeng, and then went to Wuyue Guoxifu (Hangzhou) under the pretext of going to Hangzhou.

In late September, Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Xin, and Bai Gucheng, together with Bai Gucheng, set off from Bianshui by boat to Shandong, and then went to sea to take a sea boat and went south to the west of Wuyue Kingdom.

Although this sea ship is not the largest sea ship, it is two feet tall and nine feet three inches long. This time, Yang Meng also asked Zhao Dezhao to bring a few Changchun Hall guards to protect them all the way south.

In late October, Zhao Dezhao and his entourage finally came to the wharf of Xifu (Hangzhou), the capital of Wuyue Kingdom, on both sides of the river is more than 100 miles of revetment sea ponds, not far away is Longshan, Zhejiang Second Gate, it is used to prevent salt water backflow, reduce tide trouble, expand flat land.

Hangzhou, in the previous life, was the hometown of Zhao Dezhao and the capital of the Zhao family during the Southern Song Dynasty, so Zhao Dezhao loved this place deeply.

At this moment, Hangzhou, as the capital of Wuyue State, is called Xifu. The west mansion of Wu Yue is governed in Qiantang and has jurisdiction over eight counties of Qiantang, Qianjiang, Yuhang, Anguo, Yuqian, Tangshan, Fuyang and Xincheng.

In the past, Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue, built a "sub-city" in Phoenix Mountain, built a palace inside, built a "Luocheng" on the periphery, started from Qinwang Mountain in the west, went along the Qiantang River to Jianggan, approached Qiantang Lake (West Lake) to Baobao Mountain, and went to Genshan Gate in the northeast. The area around Xifu is about 70 miles long

Ouyang Xiu once said: Since the five generations of Qiantang, it has not bothered to fight, and its people are happy, rich and happy. More than 100,000 families, surrounded by lakes and mountains, left and right reflections, and Fujian merchants, sails and waves, in and out of the smoke and mist, can be described as prosperous!

Hangzhou is the southern end of the Grand Canal, because of its developed shipping and convenient treaty port, so Zhao Dezhao planned to establish one of the transit stations for sea freight here, and then to Mingzhou (Ningbo) and then Quanzhou. Mingzhou and Quanzhou are both port cities.

In later generations, the southeast coastal city had the most developed economy, thanks to which, it developed very rapidly in import and export trade, and the light industry was very developed.

A few months ago, a fire broke out in the south of Qiantang City, extending to the inner city, the houses of the people of the official government were almost burned out, and the mountain restaurant outside the mountain was almost burned, and in the past few months, a large number of houses began to be built in the south of the city.

As the chairman of Guangwei Group, it is necessary to attend the expansion of Guangwei Group's Xiaxi Fu Waishan Restaurant, that is, to attract more restaurant merchants to join Guangwei Group.

Although Guangwei Group has taken a step in Kaifeng and Luoyang, its reputation is not the loudest in countries such as the south.

Zhao Dezhao and his entourage stayed in Baigucheng's house that day, a Zhuangzi located not far from the imperial city under the Phoenix Mountain, which is very quiet, the west is the West Lake scenic spot, the south is the imperial city and the Qiantang River, the north is the Yuhang of the later generations, and the east is the East China Sea out of Hangzhou Bay.

Zhao Dezhao has been living in Hangzhou, Xifu these days, visited the West Lake in the previous life, although there are many places of interest have not yet been established, but Lingyin Temple, Leifeng Pagoda and other buildings can still see the imprint of the previous life, and then he took the opportunity to go back to Fuyang, the hometown of the previous life.

Revisiting the natural landscape and humanistic atmosphere of "the best landscape in the world, ancient and modern Fuchun", as well as the atmosphere of his homeland, Zhao Dezhao planned to let his subordinates bring gold to buy a field in Fuyang City, and later bought the paddy field of Qinwangqiao.

After that, he sailed on the Fuchun River, stayed in Fuyang for a few days, rested in Hangzhou for a few days, returned along the coastal road again, and returned to Kaifeng on November 3, closed for more than a month.

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(Guo Rongsan's expedition to the Tang Kingdom)

It's November

In the fourth year of Xiande (957 AD), on November 13, Guo Rong made his third personal expedition, arrived at the Huai River on the 27th of the same month, and crossed the Huai River at five drums that night.

Early the next morning, the army arrived at the west of Haozhou City.

On November 29, Guo Rong led his army to attack Haozhou, and sent Kang Baoyi to lead hundreds of soldiers to cross the moat on camels, followed by Zhao Kuangyin and his cavalry, and Li Chongjin broke through the Nanguan City of Haozhou.

On December 4, the Zhou army attacked Haozhou, and Wang Xianqi attacked the Tang State Water Village. More than 70 warships of the Tang army were burned, and more than 2,000 people were killed.

Hundreds of warships of the Later Tang State Naval Division Chen Bing on the east side of Surabaya, ready to support Haozhou. Guo Rong personally led a large army to meet the attack, and on the 14th, he broke the Tang army at the entrance of the cave, beheaded more than 5,000 people and captured more than 2,000 people. So Zhou ** took advantage of the victory and went east, and won everywhere he passed.

On December 16, the Zhou army arrived at the city of Sizhou. Zhao Kuangyin led the army to attack the south of Sizhou City, set fire to the city gate, and broke the water wall and Yuecheng in Sizhou City.

On the same day, Fan Zaiyu, the defender of Tang Sizhou, surrendered the city, and Guo Rong appointed Fan Zaiyu as the training envoy of the Suzhou regiment.

The Tang army once again gathered hundreds of warships at the entrance of the cave, and Guo Rong heard the news and sent cavalry to force the Tang army to retreat and clear the mouth.

On December 29, Guo Rong's army advanced along the north bank of the Huai River, and the rest of the generals advanced on the Huai River, advancing by land and water to pursue the Tang army. Two days later, the Zhou army caught up with the Tang army.

On January 1 of the fifth year of Xiande (958), in Chuzhou, the Zhou army broke the Tang army. Guo Rong led the army in pursuit, Zhao Kuangyin was the vanguard, captured Chen Chengzhao, the envoy of Tang Baoyi, captured more than 7,000 Tang soldiers, and captured more than 300 warships.

Since then, the Tang military force on the Huai River has been completely wiped out.

In a government office in the north of the Tang State, Guo Tingwei secretly sent an envoy to Jiangning Mansion, knowing that the city could no longer be saved, and the Tang army could not come to support, so he asked Li Yanzou, who was the secretary of the army, to draft a table of surrender.

Li Yanzou would rather die than give in, and Guo Tingwei immediately killed Li Yanzou and surrendered the city.

After that—

Jiangning Mansion of the Tang State, Li Jing gave Guo Tingwei's son an official.

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On January 2, Guo Rong crossed the Huai River and garrisoned in the northwest of Chuzhou City.

On January 5, Tang Xiongwu's military envoy Cui Wandi, the magistrate of Lianshui County, surrendered.

On January 6, Guo Tingwei was appointed as the defense envoy of Bozhou.

On January 8, Guo Rong led his army to attack Chuzhou, and on the same day, he conquered the Yuecheng city of Chuzhou.

On January 10, Guo Rong appeased Guo Tingwei and asked Guo Tingwei to lead the old army to attack Tianchang County, and sent Wu Shouqi, the commander of the left wing of the iron cavalry, to lead hundreds of cavalry to Yangzhou.

Tang local officials burned down all the houses in Yangzhou and moved the people to the south.

On January 13, Wu Shouqi reported these situations to Guo Rong, the Son of Heaven. When Guo Rong heard that Taizhou was defenseless, he immediately sent troops to attack it, and captured Taizhou on January 16.

On January 25, Zhou abolished Kuang**. In the same month, the Tang Kingdom changed to Zhongxing.

On 27 January, Wang Hanzhang, the general of Youlongwu, said that Haizhou had been conquered.

On January 29, the guards and horses commanded Han Lingkun to serve as the prefect of the Yangzhou Military Prefecture.

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At this moment, north of the Yangtze River, Guo Rong sat on the north bank, the warships were introduced into the Yangtze River, and when more than 100 giant warships of the Zhou army appeared on the Yangtze River, the Tang people thought that it was a divine soldier descending from the sky.

On 1 February, Tang Guojing's navy was captured. The state of Zhou began to border directly with the state of Wu Yue. The Zhou army besieged Chuzhou for more than 40 days, but Tang defender Zhang Yanqing still held on.

On February 14, Guo Rong personally supervised the battle and moved the palace to the city.

On 16 February, the Zhou army conquered Chuzhou. Zhang Yanqing and the capital eunuch Zheng Zhaoye insisted on street fighting, and then Zhang Yanqing committed suicide, and more than 1,000 people in his department did not surrender until death.

When the Tang State heard this, he changed Tianchang County to Xiongzhou, and appointed Yi Wenyun, the envoy of the Jianwu Army, as the assassin.

On 23 February, Yi Wenyun surrendered.

On 27 February, Guo Rong departed from Chuzhou and arrived in Yangzhou on 8 March.

After arriving in Yangzhou, Guo Rong asked Han Lingkun to send 10,000 Dingfu to build a small city in the southeast corner of the original city wall as the location of Yangzhou City.

On March 16, Sichao and the right wing of the Huangzhou Assassin both commanded Wang Xianqi to lead their troops to attack Shuzhou in the Tang State and capture Shi Renwang, the assassin of Shuzhou in the Tang State.

On March 23, Guo Rong arrived in Taizhou.

On April 1, Guo Rong arrived at Yingluan Town and went to Jiangkou to supervise the battle, and on that day the Zhou navy successfully defeated the Tang navy.

On April 4, Guo Rong sent Li Chongjin to lead his troops to Luzhou.

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Jiangning Mansion, since the Zhou State Navy defeated the Tang State Army, galloped on the Yangtze River, coming and going unhindered. When Li Jing heard this, he was terrified.

Jiangning Mansion is on the edge of the Yangtze River, if the Zhou State Navy crosses south to attack, it is a very easy thing, at that time, Jiangbei Prefectures, there are still Luzhou, Shuzhou, Qizhou and Huangzhou are not under the control of the Zhou State.

At that time, Li Jing had already asked Chen Jue, one of the five ghosts, to prepare to pass on the throne to the crown prince Li Hongji, so that Li Hongji would obey Zhou Guo's orders.

On April 6, Chen Jue arrived at Yingluan Town on the orders of Li Jing, met with Guo Rong, the emperor of Zhou, and asked for all the remaining four states to be ceded to Zhou, and the two countries were bordered by the Yangtze River, and begged for a dismissal.

Guo Rong agreed.

On April 7, Chen Jue asked to see Guo Rong and asked Guo Rong to send Liu Chengyu to Jiangning Mansion to convey the will, and then asked Liu Chengyu to bring back an edict from Guo Rong, which read: "The emperor respectfully asks the lord of Jiangnan."

On 8 April, Wu Yueguo said that his envoys from Shangzhidu, Shao Keqian, the assassin of Chuzhou, and Lu Yanbai, the assassin of Xiuzhou, led 400 warships and 17,000 soldiers to be stationed on the south bank of Tongzhou.

After that—

Li Jing sent Liu Chengyu to return to Yingluan Town, presented the table to Guo Rong, the son of heaven, to the Zhou State as a vassal, to the national character, to the emperor, changed the first year of Tang Jiaotai to the fifth year of Zhou Xiande, and called the lord of Jiangnan, please cut the remaining four states of Luzhou, Shuzhou, Qizhou, and Huangzhou north of the Yangtze River, together with the ten states captured by the previous Zhou army, a total of fourteen states.

Since then, it has been agreed that the Yangtze River will be the boundary, with the north belonging to Zhou and the south belonging to Tang. At the same time, Li Jing changed his name to Jing in order to avoid the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty (Guo Jing), and paid tribute to the Zhou Dynasty every year with a total of one million stones.

In the fifth year of Xiande, the battle of Zhou against Tang ended, and Zhou got fourteen states and sixty counties.

At this point, the nearly three-year-long battle for Zhou, Tang and Huainan came to an end, and the territory of the Great Zhou Empire has since increased to 14 states, 60 counties, 226,574 households, and a population of more than 1 million.

Later, the number of hukou in Zhou increased to more than 2.3 million, with a population of nearly 10 million, and the population loss caused by the loss of the 16 prefectures of Youyun by the Central Plains regime was made up by Guo Rong.

(Guo Rongsan's expedition to the Tang Kingdom ended ......)

ps. 14 states in Jiangbei: Guangzhou (Huangchuan, Henan), Shouzhou (Shou County, Anhui), Haozhou (Fengyang, Anhui), Sizhou (Si County, Anhui), Chuzhou (Huai'an, Jiangsu), Haizhou (Lianyungang, Jiangsu), Taizhou (Taizhou, Jiangsu), Yangzhou (Yangzhou, Jiangsu), Chuzhou (Chuxian, Anhui), Hezhou (Hexian, Anhui), Luzhou (Hefei, Anhui), Shuzhou (Qianshan, Anhui), Qizhou (Qichun, Hubei), Huangzhou (Huanggang, Hubei)