On the Weizhou side, Murong Yanchao wanted to step up the siege, while Gao Xingzhou wanted to slow down the attack to wait for the enemy's loophole. Gao Xingzhou's daughter was Du Chongwei's daughter-in-law, and Murong Yanchao threatened: "Gao Xingzhou, for his daughter's sake, loves the enemy and does not attack." From then on, the two will be at odds.

Liu Zhiyuan was afraid of other mutations, so he drove the expedition himself. On the 17th, Liu Zhiyuan came to the city of Yedu and lived in the military camp of Gaoxing Zhou.

Gao Xingzhou said to him: "The food in the city is not exhausted, and if you attack it now, you will only lose soldiers in vain, and it will not be easy to conquer the city; It is better to slowly besiege it, and when the food in the city runs out, it will naturally be won without a fight. Liu Zhiyuan thought so.

But Murong Yanchao repeatedly used things to insult Gao Xingzhou, Gao Xingzhou cried to the ruling minister, and gagged his mouth with dung with both hands. Liu Zhiyuan knew that Murong Yanchao was wronged, but still ordered the two ministers to reconcile, and summoned Murong Yanchao to the camp to rebuke him, and asked him to apologize to Gao Xingzhou.

Du Chongwei once claimed that Liu Zhiyuan's car would surrender when it arrived, and Liu Zhiyuan sent Chen Guan to announce his will, but Du Chongwei temporarily changed his mind and closed the city gate and refused to surrender.

The food in the city gradually ran out, and many soldiers went out of the city to surrender.

Murong Yanchao insisted on requesting a siege, but Liu Zhiyuan was annoyed and reluctantly agreed. On the 25th, Liu Zhiyuan personally supervised the generals to attack the city, and from Yinshi to Chenshi, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, and they could not be overcome. Murong Yanchao didn't dare to insist on his opinion anymore. At the beginning, the Khitan left 1,500 Youzhou soldiers to guard the beam.

Liu Zhiyuan entered Daliang, and someone secretly reported that the Youzhou soldiers would launch a mutiny, and Liu Zhiyuan killed all the Youzhou soldiers under Fantai once and for all.

To besiege Yedu now, Zhang Lian led 2,000 Youzhou soldiers to help Du Chongwei refuse, Liu Zhiyuan repeatedly sent people to persuade him to surrender, promising not to kill, Zhang Lian said: "Youzhou soldiers under Fantai. What is the sin to be killed? Now hold on to this city, and only want to die. ”

Therefore, the city can not be attacked for a long time, on the sixth day of the first month of November, the inner temple of Han Xun Jin presented the siege equipment, Liu Zhiyuan said: "The defense of the city depends on the hearts of all people. If the people are separated from morality, the city will be left undefended, what are these instruments for! "On the 24th, because the grain was exhausted, Du Chongwei sent Wang Min out of the city to present the table.

On the 25th, Du Chongwei's son Du Honglian came to the court.

On the 26th, Du Chongwei's wife, Shi, the eldest princess of the Later Jin and Song Kingdoms, came to see him. Liu Zhiyuan sent them back to the city again.

On the 27th, Du Chongwei opened the city gate and went out of the city to surrender. Then. Seven or eight out of ten people in the city died of starvation, and the living were scrawny and devoid. Zhang Lian asked the court to swear by credit, and Liu Zhiyuan issued an edict allowing him to return to his hometown.

After the surrender, Liu Zhiyuan's edict was discounted, and the soldiers were released to return to their hometowns, but they killed dozens of generals such as Zhang Lian and the colonel.

Guo Wei asked to kill more than 100 of Du Chongwei's generals and confiscate Du Chongwei's family assets to reward the soldiers, and Liu Zhiyuan agreed.

After that, Du Chongwei was appointed as the Taifu and Zhongshu Ling, and the Duke of Chu. Du Chongwei enters and exits every time. And the people of the road followed him, throwing bricks and rubbles at him, and insulting him. At that time, there was a shortage of food, and the people were hungry, otherwise they would have rotten eggs with vegetable leaves.

But this is not the final outcome of Du Chongwei. On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of 948, Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty, was critically ill and summoned Su Fengji, Yang Wei, Shi Hongzhao, and Guo Wei into the palace to accept the will, saying: "My breath is weak. Can't say much. Chengyou is young and weak, please leave everything to you Aiqing. He also said: "Properly guard against Du Chongwei." ”

On the same day, Liu Zhiyuan died at the age of 54 in the Long Live Palace, less than a year after he became emperor. It has only been half a year since it became the main beam.

Su Fengji and others did not mourn secretly. On the 30th, the emperor's edict was transmitted, claiming: "Du Chongwei's father and son, taking advantage of my minor illness, slandered and slandered, shook people's hearts, and beheaded his sons Du Hongzhang, Du Honglian, and Du Hongcan."

Princess Jin and her relatives inside and outside will not be held accountable. After that, Du Chongwei's body was split and exposed in the market, and the people in the city competed to bite and eat his flesh, but the government could not prohibit it, and the body was bitten away after a while.

On the first day of the second month, the emperor's son, General Zuowei, and Da Nei inspected Liu Chengyou as the king of Zhou, and he was the same as Pingzhang. Soon, the funeral was announced, the testament was announced, and the king of Zhou was ordered to be the emperor. That year, Liu Chengyou was just eighteen years old.

Rebellion of the Three Feudatories

The three feudatories do not refer to Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, during the Kangxi period. The three feudatories here refer to Li Shouzhen, the envoy of the Yongxing Festival, Zhao Sijuan, and the Fengxiang Section, Wang Jingchong.

Things still have to start with Zhao Yanshou being imprisoned by the Khitan, when it was rumored that Zhao Yanshou was dead, Guo Wei said to Liu Zhiyuan: "Zhao Yanshou's son Zhao Kuangzan was appointed by the Khitan, and now he is still in the river, we should send a messenger to mourn and sacrifice, and use him again, and transfer him to the town."

Now that he has no home and no country to return to, he will definitely be grateful to Dade and obey His Majesty's edict. Liu Zhiyuan followed his advice. It was at the time that Du Chongwei and Tianping Festival made Li Shouzhen come to Shun with his watch.

Liu Zhiyuan took the opportunity to transfer Du Chongwei as the envoy of the Guide Festival, ordered Li Shouzhen to be the envoy of the Hezhong Festival, and Zhao Kuangzan to the envoy of the Jinchang Festival, and ruled the Guanzhong generation.

After taking office, Zhao Kuangzan was worried that he would not be tolerated by the Later Han court in the end, so in October 947, he sent envoys to Hou Shu and asked Hou Shu to send troops from Zhongnan Mountain Road to respond. Later Shu lord Meng Chang ordered Luan Su to guard the capital Yu and wait for Li Ting to lead 20,000 troops out of the Meridian Valley to aid Chang'an.

He also sent Xiongwu to pay attention to Wu Chongyun, and recruited Fengxiang to make Hou Yi surrender. Worried that the surrender would not be successful, he ordered Zhang Qianzhao to recruit troops from Sanguan for the northern camp, and He Jianjian to be the deputy pacification envoy from Longzhou, and Xuanhui to make Han Baozhen to be the capital of Yuhou, and led a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses to attack Fengxiang.

Seeing this, Hou Yi offered Feng Xiang's military registration and food account, asked for surrender, and together with Zhao Kuangzan, he asked for troops to be sent to pacify Guanzhong.

Liu Zhiyuan was deeply worried because of the joint invasion of Zhao Kuangzan, Hou Yi and the Hou Shu soldiers. Just in time for the Uighurs to deliver tribute, they complained that they had been blocked by the party members on the way, and asked for troops to be sent to meet them.

Liu Zhiyuan ordered Wang Jingchong, the general of the Left Guard, and Qi Zangzhen, the general, to lead thousands of forbidden troops to rush there, so that Wang Jingchong and others could take Guanxi.

Jin Chang Jiedu envoy judge Li Shu, many years in Zhao Yanshou's shogunate, Zhao Yanshou sent him to assist Zhao Kuangzan. Zhao Kuangzan was about to enter Shu, and Li Shu advised: "King Yan entered the Khitan Dynasty, is it his own volition?"

Now the Han family has won the world. is trying to recruit Huaiyuan, if he pleads guilty and returns to the court, he will definitely be able to keep his wealth.

I am afraid that going to Houshu is not a foolproof strategy, 'the water in the cow horseshoe print, can not accommodate the carp of the foot length', you will definitely regret it. ”

Zhao Kuangzan then sent Li Shu to the Later Han Dynasty to submit a surrender table and request to enter the court. Wang Jingchong and the others had not yet sent troops, and Li Shu arrived.

Liu Zhiyuan asked Li Shu: "Why did Kuang Zan belong to Hou Shu?" Li Shu said: "Kuang Zan thinks that he is because he is in the official position of Hu Lu. My father was in the Hulu court again, and he was worried that His Majesty would not be able to investigate in detail, so he attached himself to Shu to seek to avoid killing. The minister thought that the state should be able to take in and comfort him, so he sent his minister to pray for mercy. Liu Zhiyuan said: "Kuangzan father and son, originally our people, unfortunately fell into Hulu. Now that Yanshou has just fallen into Hulu's prison, how can I bear to harm Kuang Zan again! ”

So he immediately let him enter the court. Hou Yi saw that Zhao Kuangzan was attached to the Later Han Dynasty, so he also asked to rush to the Holy Birthday Day on February 4 to congratulate Liu Zhiyuan on his birthday.

Wang Jingchong was about to leave, and Liu Zhiyuan summoned him into the bedroom. The edict said: "The hearts of Zhao Kuangzan and Hou Yi are unknown.

If your soldiers are there, and they have already entered the court, they will not bother any more. If they are still waiting, they should do it randomly. ”

Zhao Kuangzan did not wait for Li Shu to return to Chang'an to report his life, so he left Chang'an, and on the 26th, he entered Beijing to meet him.

Wang Jingchong rushed to Chang'an. I heard that the Houshu army had entered Qinchuan, because there were few major generals in their own soldiers. He planned to use the soldiers and horses of this road and more than 1,000 tooth soldiers of Zhao Kuangzan to resist the enemy. But he was worried that the tooth soldiers would flee from the battle, so he came up with a way to tattoo words on their faces, and in order to see the reaction of the tooth soldiers, he also revealed a little rumor in the army.

After hearing this, Zhao Sijuan of the Yabing Military Academy took the lead in requesting a tattoo on his face, and Wang Jingchong thought it was a success. Very happy. Qi Zangzhen whispered to him: "Zhao Siwan is fierce and violent, difficult to subdue, if you don't kill at this time, you will only raise tigers." ”

Wang Jingchong was unimpressed. At this time, Li Ting was already approaching Chang'an. Hearing that Zhao Kuangzan had made a pilgrimage to the Emperor of the Later Han Dynasty, he immediately stopped his advance and planned to lead his troops back to Shu, but Wang Jingchong intercepted him and defeated him in the Meridian Valley. Zhang Qianzhao arrived in Baoji, but due to the disagreement of the generals, he remained still.

Hou Yi heard that Li Yan was returning westward, so he closed the barrier to resist the Hou Shu army. Seeing that he was alone, Zhang Qianzhao led his army to flee overnight.

Wang Jingchong led the troops of Fengxiang, Long, Jing, Fang and other six states to pursue, defeated the Houshu army at Sanguan, and captured more than 400 soldiers.

Han Baozhen and Pang Fucheng led their troops back from Longzhou and entered Houshu with He Zhengzheng. Zhang Qianzhao hated himself for working for nothing, and soon died of shame and anger in Xingzhou.

At this time, Liu Zhiyuan was dead, Liu Chengyou ascended the throne, and ordered Wang Jingchong to be the inspection envoy of Fengxiang.

Wang Jingchong led the troops to Fengxiang, but Hou Yi had not yet set off, so Wang Jingchong asked the forbidden soldiers to guard the city gate. Someone persuaded Wang Jingchong to kill Hou Yi, but Wang Jingchong hesitated, fearing that the new emperor would not know the secret intention of the previous emperor to let him "act cheaply", and would suspect that he had killed without authorization and had a plan.

Hou Yi heard the rumors, and secretly left without saying goodbye to Wang Jingchong, and went to the court to meet Liu Chengyou.

Liu Chengyou asked: "Why did you recruit the Shu army?" Hou Yi replied: "The minister wants to lure them to Fengxiang and then kill them." ”

After Liu Chengyou heard this, he just smiled slightly. Hou Yi's family has a lot of wealth, and in Beijing, he is generous, has a wide range of officials, and bribes the ministers in power, so everyone praises him, saying that his talent is of great use. On March 17, Liu Chengyou appointed Hou Yi and Zhongshu Ling to act as Kaifeng Yin. Hou Yi slandered Wang Jingchong in the court, saying that he had bad intentions and ran rampant.

When Wang Jingchong heard the news, he was uneasy in his heart, but he was far away from the court, unable to argue, and began to be dissatisfied with the court. Just in time for this time, Liu Chengyou sent the worship official Wang Yi to Fengxiang to bring Zhao Kuangzan's tooth soldiers back to the capital, Zhao Siwan and others were panicked, and Wang Jingchong took the opportunity to provoke him with words.

Zhao Siwan said to his henchman Chang Yanqing on the road: "Little Captain Zhao Kuangzan has fallen into their hands, and when we arrive in the capital, we all have to die, how should this be?" Chang Yanqing said: "So far, I can only act at the opportunity." ”

On the 24th, Zhao Sijuan, Wang Yi and his entourage arrived in Chang'an, and An Yougui, the deputy envoy of Yongxing Jiedu, and Qiao Shouwen, the inspector, went out of the city to greet them, and set up a banquet in the guest pavilion to entertain them.

At this time, Zhao Siwan stepped forward and said: "The envoy of the trench has set the house in the east of the city, and now the families of the soldiers are in the city, and they want to enter the city to bring their families to the east of the city to stay." An Yougui and others did not object.

At that time, Zhao Siwan and others did not have weapons and armor, entered the west gate, and saw that there was a military academy in the state sitting by the door, Zhao Siwan suddenly snatched his sword and killed him, and the other henchmen took advantage of the situation to rush up, holding sticks, killing more than a dozen soldiers guarding the gate, and then guarding the city gate respectively.

Zhao Siwan entered the mansion, opened the treasury and took out weapons and armor to distribute to everyone, An Yougui and others took advantage of the chaos to escape, and Zhao Sijuan occupied Chang'an City. Then he gathered the boys in the city, got 4,000 people, repaired the moats, repaired the low walls of the towers, and within ten days, all the equipment for the battle guards was complete.

Wang Jingchong motioned to Fengxiang's officials and people to submit a table to the court and recommend him to preside over the affairs of the military government, but the court was not at ease with him.

On the 25th, the imperial court issued an edict to make Wang Shouen the envoy of the Yongxing Festival, and Zhao Hui to be the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival, and ordered Wang Jingchong to stay in the queen of Pizhou and let him take a shortcut to take the post. The first two of the three feudatories have already made a shining appearance, and let's talk about the last Li Shouzhen of the three feudatories. Li Shouzhen, a native of Heyang.

At the beginning, he was the general of the county, and after Shi Jingtang ascended the throne, he visited the provincial envoy and promoted the Xuanhui envoy. When Shi Chonggui, Yang Guangyuan rebelled, he made the guards and pro-army Du Yu Marquis to quell the rebellion with Shi Chonggui, because of the merit of worshipping Tongping Zhang, and then served as the supervisor of soldiers and horses, and then surrendered to the Khitan with Du Chongwei, and made the Tianping Army Festival. When Liu Zhiyuan was in power, he was the envoy of the Hezhong Festival.

When the news of Du Chongwei's killing came, Li Shouzhen also felt sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, and he was worried that he would not be able to die well, so he came up with the idea of rebellion. The motive for the rebellion was there, and Li Shouzhen weighed the chances of the rebellion again. First of all, he was promoted to general in the future, and he had quite a lot of military achievements, and he was usually generous and generous, and he was very popular with soldiers.

Secondly, the new construction of the Later Han Dynasty, the emperor was young, and he had just succeeded to the throne, and the officials who were in charge of the government were all officials who came later, so there was no need to worry.

After plucking up enough courage for himself, thinking that the first strike would be strong, and the second attack would suffer, Li Shouzhen began to recruit outlaws, raise people who dared to die, manage the city walls and trenches, repair weapons and armor, day and night, and always prepare for war. He also sent someone to bring the wax pill secret letter from the path to collude with the Khitan.

Zhao Xiuji, a Junyi person, is good at astrological divination, and has been following Li Shouzhen's mobilization, and said to Li Shouzhen at this time: "Fortune and destiny do not allow, don't act rashly!" Li Shouzhen didn't listen, so Zhao Xiuji claimed to be sick and returned to his hometown.

The monk Zonglun used magic to curry favor with Li Shouzhen, saying that he would definitely be the Son of Heaven, and for good things, Li Shouzhen would rather believe in it than believe in it.

Li Shouzhen also set up a banquet with the general Zuo to drink, and through the wine, he bent his bow and arrows and pointed at the "Licking Palm Tiger Picture" and said: "If I am very blessed, I should shoot its tongue." When an arrow was shot, everyone around him congratulated him, and Li Shouzhen was even more pretentious.

Just in time for Zhao Sijuan to occupy Chang'an City, he presented Li Shouzhen with a seal and presented his royal clothes. Li Shouzhen thought that it was the will of heaven and the common aspiration of the people, so he proclaimed himself the king of Qin, sent Xiao to occupy Wang Jixun in Tongguan, and appointed Zhao Sijuan as the envoy of the Jinchang Festival. (To be continued.) )