Zhou Xingfeng also knew that he had killed too many people and was afraid of retribution, but he refused to repent, he just blindly did Buddhist things, worshiped when he saw the temple, and even gave the monks face wash, his subordinates did not understand, and said to him: "Dashuai, you are also the lord of a land, why do you need to be inferior to these monks?" ”

Zhou Xingfeng said to them: "You people are just a mouse's eyes, I have killed so many people, if there is no Buddha's blessing, how can I be free?" Zhou Xingfeng's wife, Deng, was ugly, but very knowledgeable, and often persuaded him, but Zhou Xingfeng refused to listen, and scolded Deng for his long hair and short knowledge.

Deng ran away from home in a fit of anger and hid in the countryside to farm, Zhou Xingfeng went to pick it up in person, but Deng refused to go back, objected to him and said: "You have killed too many people, sooner or later you will provoke an incident, I will hide in the countryside, and I may be able to escape my life then." Zhou Xingfeng only relented a little after listening, but the change was not very big.

Before Zhou Xingfeng died, he explained the aftermath to the generals around him, and said to them: "Since I joined the army, I have married nine people with different surnames, and now I have basically killed them all, and only Zhang Wenbiao, the assassin of Hengzhou, is still alive. After my death, Zhang Wenbiao will rebel, when Yang Shifan leads the troops to attack it, if he can't win, then abandon the city and don't fight, and return to the court! ”

Zhou Xingfeng's judgment before his death should be said to be quite accurate. After his death, the generals jointly guaranteed his eleven-year-old son Zhou Baoquan to succeed to the throne, Zhang Wenbiao was furious when he heard it, and said angrily: "I and Zhou Xing met between the end of the micro, born and died, and there is today, and the ministers in the north of Aneng are children!" ”

After that, he immediately prepared to raise troops to rebel. It just so happened that at this time, Zhou Baoquan sent troops to Yongzhou, passing through Hengyang, and Zhang Wenbiao took the opportunity to hold this army hostage. And the whole army was vegetarian, pretending to go to Wuling for Zhou Xing's funeral. When passing through Tanzhou. After the marching Sima Liao Jian was appointed here, this person has always despised Zhang Wenbiao. Not at all defenseless. One day, he was feasting and drinking in the mansion, and someone outside reported that Zhang Wenbiao had led his troops.

Liao Jian didn't care, and objected to the guests present and said: "What kind of thing is Zhang Wenbiao, he just came to catch him, don't worry about it." ”

As a result, it didn't take long for Zhang Wenbiao to lead his troops to arrive, and at this time Liao Jian was so drunk that he didn't even have the strength to hold a weapon, so he simply sat in place and scolded Zhang Wenbiao. Zhang Wenbiao is also not polite. went up and killed Liao Jian with a knife, and then took his seal, claiming to be the queen of Tanzhou, and smelling it.

After the news of Zhang Wenbiao's rebellion reached Changde, Zhou Baoquan immediately ordered Yang Shifan to lead an army to fight against him, and at the same time sent envoys to the neighboring Jingnan regime and the Northern Song Dynasty, the suzerain, to ask for help. Zhou Baoquan's decision directly led to the demise of the Hunan and Jingnan regimes.

At this time, it had been more than a year since Zhao Kuangyin's "decision on a snowy night" and "a glass of wine to release military power", and the domestic contradictions in the Northern Song Dynasty had been properly resolved. The overall strategic thinking had also been established, and the conditions for conducting a unified war were ripe in all aspects, so Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed when he saw the Hunan envoy and immediately summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures. And finally reached a consensus with the ministers, believing that this time troops must be sent and Hunan must also perish. At the same time, in order to optimize the combination and achieve the most ideal effect of dispatching troops. Jingnan, which was separated between Hunan and the Northern Song Dynasty, should also be eliminated.

Jingnan, also known as Nanping, was built by Gao Jixing, the king of Wuxing. It only has jurisdiction over the three prefectures of Jing, Gui and Xia, and it is the smallest secession regime in the five dynasties. Gao Jixing was originally the servant of Li Rang, a wealthy family in Bianzhou, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he took refuge with Bianshuai Zhu Wen and became a general. After Zhu Wen became emperor, he appointed Gao Jixing as the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu and went out of Jingzhou.

But at that time, Gao Jixing's identity was only the local governor of Houliang, and it was not until after Zhu Wen's death that Gao Jixing saw that Houliang was weakened, and he gradually split from the Liang state.

The geographical location of Jingnan is very special, there is the Central Plains in the north, Shu in the west, Wu in the east, and Chu in the south, all of which are powerful countries, which greatly limits the development space of Jingnan, Gao Jixing was also ambitious at the beginning of the separation, and tried to expand abroad several times, but never won an inch of land from the hands of the four powers, and finally had to give up these useless attempts, and turned to seek perfection with grievances, and depended on the surrounding powers as a means of survival.

However, although Jingnan is trying to survive in the cracks, the cracks also have the benefits of the cracks. For most of the Five Dynasties, the Southern Tang Dynasty, as the first power in the south, had maintained an antagonistic relationship with the Central Plains and blocked the north-south passage, which made Jingnan, which was in the center of the kingdoms, the only land passage connecting the north and the south.

Gao Jixing took advantage of this favorable condition and began to act as a car bandit and road rage in Jingnan, not only charging high tolls to merchants coming and going, but sometimes even refusing to let go of the strategic materials of neighboring countries.

In the first year of Tiancheng (926), the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil, Zhuangzong Li Cunqiao died in the chaos, and Mingzong Li Siyuan was enthroned as emperor.

Prior to this, Li Cunxuan's eldest son, Li Jiqi, ordered Han Heng to return 400,000 gold silk from Xichuan, and was stranded on the way due to the war, and did not pass through Jingnan until February of the second year of Tiancheng. Gao Jixing saw that such a large windfall passed by in front of him, and immediately lost his mind, and actually killed Han Heng and swallowed up this batch of treasures in one gulp.

Li Siyuan sent an envoy to interrogate, Gao Jixing stared at him and said nonsense, lying that it was Han Heng who capsized on the road, and that these treasures had sunk into the river and could not be seen.

This time, Li Siyuan was furious, and immediately sent troops to fight. It just so happened that not long ago, Ma Yin, the king of Chu, sent an envoy to the Later Tang Dynasty to pay tribute, Li Siyuan gave him two beauties in return, and ten horses also passed through Jingnan. Gao Jixing had no choice but to ask for help from the neighboring Wu State.

At that time, Wu was in power by Xu Wen, and he was very reluctant to provoke such rights and wrongs, and refused to send troops to rescue. It stands to reason that with the small land of Jingnan projectile, it will not be able to resist the attack of the two great powers of Tang and Chu no matter what, but Gao Jixing's fate should not be extinct.

As soon as the Tang Dynasty sent troops, it caught up with the continuous rain and lack of food and grass, so they had to retreat. Although the military progress of the Chu State was smooth and the Jingnan soldiers were defeated, Wang Huan, the general of the Chu State, persuaded Ma Yin: "Jingnan is located between the Central Plains, Wu and Shu, and it is the place of the four wars, and it should be used as a barrier. ”

Wang Huan's words. revealed the secret of Jing Nan's long-term existence. Although Jingnan is a small country, it is a buffer zone for several surrounding powers. No one wants to remove this barrier. After hearing this, Ma Yin felt very reasonable, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army.

After Gao Jixing escaped this catastrophe. did not relent, continued to make a lot of ill-gotten gains of car bandits and road tyrants, and often plundered goods from other countries, but the means began to be flexible, generally only to the merchants, no longer to the exchange of tribute between countries. If the case is serious and provokes the criticism of neighboring powers, Gao Jixing often returns all the goods.

Although Gao Jixing's approach is annoying, it is because since he provoked the two major powers to join forces to fight. The amount of Gao Jixing's crimes has decreased every time, and it is not worth it if other countries raise troops to fight. However, he repeatedly committed crimes, and he had no intention of repenting, which made the Quartet very tired of him.

Gao Jixing's style has been maintained until his death has not changed, and when his son Gao Congxue succeeded to the throne, it became even more intensified, not only his robbery behavior did not let his father, but also the rogue behavior was even higher Jixing.

Gao Jixing died in the third year of the Later Tang Dynasty, after which the Tang, Jin, Khitan, and Han occupied the Central Plains like a marquee, and the Southern Han, Fujian, Wu, and Shu in the south also successively became emperors.

Gao Congjiao is the benefit of canonization. He was called a minister everywhere, so that the kings of all countries despised him very much, and called him a "high scoundrel".

However, this "high scoundrel" can be regarded as a very rare second-generation leader among the five generations. Once. He talked to people about the extravagance and lasciviousness of Ma Xifan, the king of Chu, and couldn't help but show envy, saying: "King Ruma can be described as a big husband!" ”

The lyricist Sun Guangxian retorted: "The princes of the Son of Heaven. There is an equal difference in etiquette. The son of his milky and undried milk, arrogant and extravagant. Take it quickly, and defeat is just around the corner. What is the envy of it! ”

Gao Congzhi thought for a long time after listening to it, and said: "The public saying is yes! So from then on, he no longer took cherishing as his hobby, but turned to reading for self-entertainment, lightly paying for his own affairs internally, and currying favor externally, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment, and his life was also very rich, so this high scoundrel was actually a wise man.

Gao Congzhi died in the Later Han Dynasty, and then his son Gao Baorong succeeded as the king of Nanping. In the same year that the Northern Song Dynasty was founded, Gao Baorong also died of illness, and before his death, he was placed in his younger brother Sima Gao Baoxuan.

Gao Baoqiao was originally very capable, but he didn't expect to deteriorate immediately after succeeding to the throne, and often ordered people to go to the street to recruit ** in broad daylight, and then selected strong people in the army to mingle with him, and he and his wife and concubine hid behind the curtain to peep, and the fun was very low-level.

In addition, life has become more and more extravagant, regardless of the people's suffering, began to build a large number of buildings, palaces and pavilions. Jingnan was originally a small country, and its financial resources were very limited, and in less than two years, the family wealth passed down from several generations was completely destroyed by him. Fortunately, Gao Baomiao only lived for two years before dying of illness, and passed the throne to Gao Baorong's son Gao Jichong before he died.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin was already intent on launching a unified war, and he really wanted to destroy this weak neighbor first, so he took the opportunity to send Lu Huaizhong, the deputy envoy of the wine shop, to Jingnan in the name of condolences, in fact, he was sent to investigate the enemy's situation, and clearly instructed Lu Huaizhong before he left: "Jiangling people go, the mountains and rivers are back, I want to know!" ”

Lu Huaizhong went to Jiangling and came back and reported: "Although Gao Jichong's army is in order, he controls only 30,000 strings; Although the valley of the year is climbing, the people are trapped in the tyranny, and it is easy to take it! ”

Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed after hearing this, and it happened that it didn't take long for Hunan to request troops to quell Zhang Wenbiao's rebellion.

"False Road to Destroy Yu" is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin State wanted to conquer the neighboring Yu and Yu countries, so it adopted dividing tactics in advance, while making a gesture to conquer the Yu State by force, and at the same time showing goodwill to the Yu State, using a BMW to buy Yu Gong, asking him to agree to the Jin State to use the Yu State to attack the Yu State.

Duke Yu believed this, and was afraid of offending the powerful Jin State, so he let the Jin army enter. But after the Jin army destroyed the state of Yu and returned to the division, it suddenly sent troops to destroy the state of Yu.

At this time, the external environment faced by the Song State was almost exactly the same as that of the Jin State back then, since there was such a successful case in front, the Northern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers could no longer waste brain cells, and just "take it to the doctrine".

In the first month of the first year of Qiande in the Northern Song Dynasty (963), Zhao Kuangyin officially issued a decree in Daliang, appointing Murong Yanzhao, the envoy of Shannan Dongdao and serving in the middle of the camp, as the capital of Hunan Province, and Li Chuyun, the deputy privy envoy, as the capital supervisor, mobilized all the armies to join forces in Xiangyang, and prepared to go south to conquer Zhang Wenbiao.

Before leaving, Zhao Kuangyin called Murong Yanzhao and Li Chuyun to his side, and explained the instructions for them to destroy Jingnan along the way. The second general had already been clear about this matter, and after receiving the order, he led the army to the battle.

In February of that year, the Song army marched into Jingnan, and Li Chuyun sent Ding Deyu, the envoy of the pavilion, to Jiangling first, and told Gao Jichong about the Song army's intention to conquer Hunan through Jiangling.

At that time, Gao Jichong had already ordered 3,000 naval troops, and ordered his personal general Li Jingde to lead them, preparing to march south with the Song army. At this time, I heard that the Song army intended to pass through the city, and suddenly felt that something might be wrong, so I hurriedly convened the ministers to discuss, and they all said that the Song army should never be allowed to enter the city.

Gao Jichong felt that the situation was serious, so he had to say perfunctorily to Ding Deyu: "The king is here, and the ministers are very happy, and they should welcome each other in the city."

However, the people in the city are afraid of the armor, once the king enters the city, it will inevitably cause panic, and please be considerate of the inconvenience. After saying that, he made another wish, saying that Jing Nan would take out some money to serve the army, so he sent Ding Deyu back first.

Li Chuyun knew that this was the result, but he refused to give up and sent Ding Deyu over. This time, Ding Deyu's attitude was very tough, saying that Wang Shi borrowed Jiangling to quell the rebellion in Hunan, and the military order was as big as a mountain, and the military situation was as urgent as fire, and if it was delayed and angered the emperor, the consequences would be very serious. Gao Jichong was so frightened that he didn't dare to refuse anymore, so he had to agree to the matter.

However, as soon as Ding Deyu left, Li Jingwei, the deputy envoy of Jingnan soldiers and horses, said: "King, although the Song army is nominally going to crusade against Hunan, but the ministers will have the intention of annexing Jingnan. The minister is willing to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses, set up an ambush at the dangerous place in the middle of Jingmen, wait for the Song soldiers to arrive, send troops to attack his general, and he will be able to retreat from the enemy in a battle. ”

As soon as Li Jingwei's words came out, Sun Guangxian, the judge of the festival, retorted: "This is wrong! The strength of the Song State is far from being comparable to Jingnan, even if it can retreat from the enemy for a while, how can it be a long-term solution? ”

Li Jingwei argued: "As soon as the Song army retreats, our army will immediately go south to conquer Zhang Wenbiao, and then ask the court for guilt after the matter is completed, which can be regarded as making up for the merits." ”

Sun Guangxian sneered after hearing this: "I'm afraid that before Zhang Wenbiao is destroyed, the Song army will have been killed, how will the generals resist at that time?" ”

Li Jingwei was still arguing, but Gao Jichong waved his hand to stop him. Gao Jichong knew very well in his heart that Li Jingwei's judgment was correct nine times out of ten, but what was the use? With the strength of the Song State, if it intends to annex Jingnan, Jingnan will not be able to exist no matter what, so now, the last glimmer of hope can only be pinned on the Song army this time just to recruit Zhang Wenbiao. Gao Jichong pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "My family is in the imperial court, and there is no such thing!" ”

When Li Jingwei heard that Gao Jichong had such an attitude, his heart became even more anxious, and he hurriedly argued loudly: "The king must not be like this!" Therefore, according to the old legend, there are ninety-nine states in Jiangling, and when the states are full of one hundred, there are kings. At the beginning of King Wuxing, Jiang Xin suddenly gave birth to a state, and then it was full of hundreds, and Jingnan was also able to establish a country. However, yesterday this state suddenly disappeared, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to our country! (To be continued.) )