Chapter Eighty-Three: The Land of Lingnan

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"The color of the official's uniform is confirmed! From today onwards, officials of the third rank and above will wear purple, four or five officials will wear crimson, six or seven officials will wear green, eight officials will wear blue, and women will wear the color of their husbands......"

The Sijie tribe was poor and hungry, and Zhang Jian, the assassin of Shuozhou, properly settled it in Shuozhou, which was verbally praised by the Tang Emperor, and at the suggestion of the Tang Emperor, all the Sijie tribes moved to Daizhou and persuaded them to camp in the fields...... Our Datang border defense will be more stable......"

The Japanese envoy Yu Tian Qiu, pharmacist Huiri and others came to Tang again, Li Shimin received the Japanese envoy in the Ganlu Palace, and the two sides carried out friendly consultations and exchanges on cooperation in the field of culture, accompanied by Liu Yuze, Marquis of Jingyang County...... In the end, at Liu Yuze's insistence, the Tang Emperor finally rejected the Japanese envoy's request for books, and instead gave countless silk silks ......"

"Journey to the West continues to be popular, and the streets and alleys of Chang'an City resound all over the streets and alleys of "Daughter's Love" ......"

"General Wei Chi's son, Wei Chi Baolin, suspects that he has trouble breathing because of the performance of a broken boulder in his chest, and the reporter recently found that there is always a doctor in front of the door of Wei Chi's mansion......"

"Recently, martial law was suddenly lifted in a certain place outside Chang'an, and this reporter went there in person, and found nothing......"

"Recently, the 'Strange Goods' store sells a kind of seafood, which is said to come from the distant sea, and it is said that now a clam has been sold for a thousand yuan, and several people in Chang'an City have expressed the ......idea of building a ship to go to sea."

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After accompanying Li Shimin to meet with the Japanese envoy, Liu Yuze felt hungry in his stomach, and Li Shimin's stomach kept screaming, so Li Shimin ordered the imperial dining room to cook two bowls of mutton soup. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Drinking the fragrant mutton soup, Li Shimin asked, "Why did Aiqing stop me from giving away Japanese books three times and twice?" ā€

Liu Yuze smiled silently, there are some things he can't explain, he can't say that I came through time, I know that Japan will call after a thousand years, right...... "Your Majesty, in the future, Japan will come to the envoy, you will reward some gold and silver property, don't give them cultural knowledge!" Your Majesty had better not give these books to other peoples, Your Majesty. They learned our farming techniques, and they became well-fed; They learned our smelting techniques again, and they made effective weapons...... With food and drink, and weapons, what do you think they will do next? ā€

Li Shimin understood a little when he heard this: "Not really, right?" ā€

"Prevention is always good...... Liu Yuze said vaguely as he drank the mutton soup.

Li Shimin looked at Liu Yuze's eating appearance and shook his head: "There is really no one who dares to eat like this in front of me...... But looking at your appearance, the widow seems to have more appetite...... Come on, two more bowls! ā€

Just as he was greeting, Li Shimin's mobile phone rang quickly.

"Something happened in Lingnan......" Li Shimin, who answered the phone, said slowly to Liu Yuze.

"The land of Lingnan?"

"Well, although my Datang territory is vast, there are some places that we don't actually control...... The Luo Dou cave officials in Lingnan rebelled......"

"Your Majesty, the land of Lingnan is thousands of miles away from my Chang'an, I'm afraid that it can't quench my thirst from far water, and besides, the land of Lingnan is full of miasma all year round, and my Tang army has no way to adapt to the climate there......"

"It's okay, I've appointed Feng Ang as the vanguard of the army, his tribe has more than 20,000 people, and he should be able to suppress this rebellion......"

"Feng An?" Liu Yuze said he had not heard of it.

"It's normal that you haven't heard of it, this Feng Ang is also a native of Lingnan, occupying nearly two thousand miles of Lingnan......"

"Your Majesty is not wary of such figures?" Liu Yuze said curiously.

Li Shimin smiled: "I'll tell you about this Feng An!" Feng Ang is a descendant of Feng Hong, the monarch of Northern Yan during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Feng Hong could not bear to surrender to the Northern Wei Dynasty, so he fled to Goguryeo and sent his son Feng Ye to lead 300 people across the sea to return to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After the fall of the Northern Yan, Feng Ye remained in Panyu (present-day Guangzhou, Guangdong). When Feng Ye's grandson Feng Rong was served, he served as the assassin of Liangluo Prefecture in the Southern Dynasty. Feng Rong's son, Feng Bao, married Mrs. Xian, the daughter of the Yue family surnamed Xijia in Gaoliang, Lingnan, and thus became the leader of the Yue people in the Gaoliang area, and the Southern Liang appointed him as the Taishou of Gaoliang. And this Mrs. Xian is Feng An's grandmother......"

"Ten years after the emperor's opening, Wang Zhongxuan, a native of Panyu, rebelled, and many leaders of various ethnic groups in the Lingnan region responded to him, so Wang Zhongxuan led an army to surround Panyu. Mrs. Xian sent her grandson Feng Xuan (Feng An's brother) to lead an army to rescue Guangzhou, but what Mrs. Xian didn't know was that her grandson and the rebel general Chen Fozhi were simply close friends, so she deliberately stayed in, and Mrs. Xian was very angry when she learned about it, and sent Feng Ang to lead an army to crusade against Chen Fozhi, and later Feng Ang defeated the rebels and beheaded Chen Fozhi. Feng Ang led his army to the South China Sea, joined the troops of the Sui general Lu Yuan, and then joined forces with the Panyu defender Murong Sanzang to attack Wang Zhongxuan, and Wang Zhongxuan's troops were defeated, so Panyu was preserved. Because of Feng An's meritorious service in quelling the rebellion, Emperor Wen appointed him as the assassin of Gaozhou. ā€

In the second year of Yining, the Sui Dynasty fell, Feng Ang rushed back to Lingnan, gathered the people, appointed himself as the leader, and led 50,000 people. Soon, Feng Ang attached himself to Lin Shihong, who had seized Lingnan, with the Cangwu, Gaoliang, Zhuya, and Panyu regions.

In the third year of Wude, the thieves of Panyu and Xinzhou, Gao Facheng and Xian Baoche, killed the former officials of the Sui Dynasty, occupied Erzhou, and attached to Lin Shihong. Feng Ang led his army to defeat them. Soon, Shen Zhichen, the nephew of Xi Baoche, regrouped his army in Xinzhou, proclaimed himself the leader, and confronted Feng An. Feng Ang led the army to fight, and as soon as the two armies clashed, Feng Ang took off his helmet and shouted: 'Do you know me? Seeing that it was Feng An, the enemy army threw down his weapon, took off his battle clothes and bowed to him with his upper body exposed, Feng Ang won without a fight, captured Xi Baoche, Xi Zhichen and others alive, so he occupied the territory of Panyu, Cangwu (now Wuzhou, Guangxi), and Zhuya (now Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island), and claimed to be the governor. At that time, someone once persuaded Feng Ang that 'Lingnan and Baiyue land have no place to belong. The Ming Dynasty conquered 20 states in Pingding, occupying thousands of miles in a circle, how could it be compared with the nine counties of Zhao Tuo in the Han Dynasty? Now the name has not yet been determined, please add the name of 'King of Nanyue'. Feng Ang refused, and the situation in Lingnan stabilized under Feng Ang's rule......"

"In the fifth year of Wude, Feng Ang led his subordinates to submit to my Tang Dynasty. These things are also all things I learned when I was the king of Qin......"

"Your Majesty, such a person? Isn't it dangerous to occupy Lingnan? ā€