Chapter 70 [Great Liang Empire]
The next person who dared to eat crabs was Li Jinquan, Li Jinquan was a native of Tuyuhun, who was a slave in Li Siyuan's house in his early years, he did not respond to Tian Han's call, and became a slave person, but served his master loyally, and often followed Li Siyuan to fight in the south and the north.
However, some poor people are more hateful than rich people after turning over, and in office, Li Jinquan was greedy and cruel, oppressed the people, and made the people popular, and was soon dismissed from his post and made a cloth cloth.
Li Jinquan wanted to turn over again, so he offered dozens of horses to Li Siyuan, and within a few days, he offered dozens of horses.
And how is Qing governed in Jingzhou, is it not a matter of horses? Li Jinquan was ashamed. But for the sake of his loyal service for many years, Li Siyuan did not punish him, and made him an envoy of the Henghai Festival, and soon after, he was dismissed as the general of the right guard again because of the incident.
Shi Jingjiao, Wang Hui rebelled, Shi Jingtang ordered Li Jinquan to lead a thousand cavalry to fight, but told her to pardon his crime if Wang Hui surrendered, and was named the assassin of Tangzhou, and instructed not to kill a person after the city was broken. ”
Li Jinquan did not arrive in Anzhou, Shannan Dongdao Jiedu made An Cong feed Wang Hui will definitely defect to the Southern Tang Dynasty, so he covered his way back with elite soldiers, Wang Hui heard that Li Jinquan came, and really went south, and soon was killed by An Cong's ambush soldiers.
Li Jinquan came to Anzhou and received hundreds of Wang Hui's remaining party, all of which were escorted to Beijing, but the nature of the country is easy to change, and Li Jinquan is still insatiable after turning over again. ordered the soldiers to plunder for three days, and killed more than ten people such as Wang Hui's general Wu Kehe, of course. The ultimate goal was to confiscate all his property, and Wu Kehe shouted: "Wang Hui is the first to be in turmoil, and he still gives an oath to stab history; What sin do we have to wait for, to see the evil and kill the evil?
If the order of the imperial court, how can it be believed? General Gou violated the edict and killed and surrendered, and it was inevitable! ”
Shi Jingtang was dissatisfied when he heard the news. But he didn't want to make trouble, so he just ordered Li Jinquan to take over as the envoy of the Anyuan Army.
An Yuanjun was appointed as an envoy, and Li Jinquan appointed his confidant Hu Hanyun as the envoy of the central gate. He was entrusted with all the affairs of the military government, no matter how big or small. Hu Hanyun is cunning and cruel, and he loots excessively. Shi Jingjiao heard about it. He planned to replace him with Jia Rennuma, an honest official, but Hu Hanyun was very scared and begged Li Jinquan, and Li Jinquan said that Hu Hanyun was sick and could not be edicted.
Li Jinquan's old friend Pang Lingtu advised him many times: "Jia Rennuma is a loyal and righteous person, and using him to replace Hu Hanyun will add a lot of benefits." ”
When Hu Hanyun heard about it, he sent assassins to jump over the wall and slaughter Pang Lingtu at night. He poisoned Jia Rennuma again, and Jia Rennuma's tongue rotted and died.
Tianfu five years. Shi Jingtang ordered the general Ma Quanjie to replace Li Jinquan as the envoy of the Anyuan Army, and Jia Rennuo's two sons also went to Beijing to complain about their grievances, Hu Hanyun was terrified, and said to Li Jinquan: "The marching officials stationed in the imperial court sent people to redouble their journey, and the imperial court is waiting for you to accept the replacement order, which is to find out how Jia Rennuma died, and the emperor thinks that you must have a plan to rebel." ”
Li Jinquan was greatly frightened, and Hu Hanyun further persuaded him to refuse to accept the substitute and submit to the Southern Tang Dynasty on his own. Shi Jingjiao heard that Li Jinquan had rebelled, and ordered Ma Quanjie to be the commander, and Baoda Jiedu made An Xianhui the deputy commander to lead the soldiers and horses of Bian, Luo, Ru, Zheng, Shan, Song, Chen, Cai, Cao, Pu, Shen, and Tang Prefectures to conquer him.
Li Jinquan sent Zhang Wei, the magistrate, to ask for surrender to the Southern Tang Dynasty with a seal, and Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sent Li Chengyu and Duan Chugong to lead 3,000 troops to meet him.
On the ninth day of June 940, Li Chengyu arrived in Anzhou, and that night, Li Jinquan led hundreds of soldiers to meet the Southern Tang Army, but all the prostitutes and concubines that had been gathered for many years were taken by Li Chengyu's people.
On the tenth day of the first month, Ma Quanjie marched from Yingshan to Dahua Town, and fought with Li Chengyu in the south of the city, Li Chengyu was defeated, and the Southern Tang army was defeated to the south.
On the twelfth, An Xianhui defeated them again in Huanghua Valley, and Duan Chugong died in battle. On the 13th, An Xianhui defeated the Southern Tang army in Yunmengze and captured Li Chengyu, and soon Li Chengyu and his 1,500 soldiers were beheaded by Ma Quanjie under the city of Anzhou. Zhang Jianchong, a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, occupied Yunmeng Bridge to resist, and An Xianhui returned with his troops.
Speaking of Li Jinquan, after escaping to the Southern Tang Dynasty by luck, Li Yu appointed him as the commander of the Tianwei army. When Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty, Li Shouzhen rebelled in the middle of the river, begging soldiers in Li Yu, when Li Jinquan served as the envoy of the Runzhou Festival, he was ordered by Li Yu and the general Cha Wenhui and others to go out of Muyang to help, the Southern Tang Dynasty was rich and strong, and most of the generals were oriented to attack, only Li Jinquan knew that the soldiers and horses in the south of the Yangtze River were by no means the opponents of the division of the Central Plains,
Therefore, it was suggested to withdraw the army, Li Yu agreed, and soon Li Shouzhen was exterminated by the Later Han, after which Li Jinquan was no longer reused, and he did not know what to do.
Since Fan Yanguang's rebellion, An Congjin has taken Fan Yanguang as an example and actively planned the rebellion. Rebellion needs money, he often robs the gold and silver materials offered to the court by southern countries, rebellion needs troops, he hijacks passing merchants and travelers, assassinate all of them to fill the army, rebellion needs allies, he colluded with An Chongrong, who was then the envoy of Chengde Festival, secretly sent Qiubo, planning to attack the north and south, and jointly deal with the imperial court.
Here it is necessary to introduce Ahn Chongrong, who is also one of the protagonists of this section. An Chongrong, a small character Tiehu, a native of Shuozhou.
His grandfather, An Congyi, was the assassin of Lizhou. His father was safe, and he commanded the Shengzhou Assassin History and Zhenwu Mabu Army.
When Shi Jingrong raised troops in Taiyuan, he secretly summoned An Chongrong, An Chongrong's mother and brother thought that Shi Jingrong was small, difficult to succeed, and could not join the army, seeing that An Chongrong had promised Shi Jingjiao, he planned to kill to stop him, An Chongrong knew, he set up an arrow in the open space, stood a hundred steps away, and said to his family: "If Shi Gong can be the emperor, he will shoot it." ”
When the words fell, an arrow was struck, and then another arrow was set up, saying, "If I can be a knot, I will shoot it." "Not surprisingly, this time he shot again.
Seeing that even God was on Shi Jingjiao's side, his family acquiesced in his rebellion, and after that, An Chongrong led more than 1,000 cavalry patrolling the border to rebel and enter Taiyuan City.
After Shi Jingjiao ascended the throne, Ren An Chongrong was appointed as the envoy of the Chengde Army. Ahn Chongrong started from scratch. It didn't take long for him to become famous and soaring.
Swift success also overinflated him. Especially after witnessing the fact that Li Congke and Shi Jingjiao obtained the throne by mutiny, they also had the ambition of seeking power and usurping the throne, and said to others more than once: "Son of Heaven, those who are strong in soldiers and horses should do it, and they would rather have a kind of yes!"
After the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, Shi Jingjiao knew that he had ascended to the throne under the support of the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang, so he worshipped Yelu Deguang, who was 11 years younger than himself, as his father. He willingly became the emperor.
That's what he called, and that's what he did, and he was obedient to the light of Jerod. is more obedient than his own son.
At that time, Yelu Deguang expropriated the tribes in the north of the territory and plundered them wantonly. and coerced the young men of the tribes to bring their own food, clothing, armor and staffs. Threatened to invade the Central Plains. Unbearable to the brutal rule of the Khitans, the ethnic minorities took the old and the young with them, trekked through mountains and rivers, and defected to the Central Plains.
The leaders of the Dangxiang, Yili, and Yueli tribes in the Yellow River Valley also sent envoys to send letters of appointment, edicts, flags and other things granted by the Khitan, accusing them of living a life inferior to pigs and dogs under Khitan slavery, hoping that the Later Jin Dynasty could unite the tribes to jointly crusade against the Khitan, and then let them live a life like pigs and dogs.
The people of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are more eager to return to the Central Plains. Shuozhou Jiedu made Zhao Chong kill Liu Shan, the pseudo Jiedu envoy, and also hoped to return to the embrace of the motherland.
Ahn Chongrong in order to expand his strength. He took the opportunity to lure some minority tribes into northern Cyprus. After Yelu Deguang learned of this, he frequently ordered Shi Jingjiao to escort these people back to Liao, and asked him to severely punish An Chongrong. After Shi Jingjiao got the holy decree, he was in a dilemma, not only afraid that the Khitan army would be overwhelmed after the Khitan was angry, but also worried that An Chongrong would hold a heavy army and be a little careless, which would lead to a backlash.
In the end, he had to send the worship officer Zhang Cheng to lead more than 2,000 soldiers to expel the minority tribe people who had lived in the area of He, Zhen, Xin and Dai (now the central part of Shanxi and the western part of Hebei) back to their original places, but the people of the minority tribe went and returned, and An Chongrong took them in again, recruited troops and horses, and took the opportunity to make trouble.
Therefore, Shi Jingjiao has always regarded An Chongrong as a big trouble.
At this time, seeing An Congjin and An Chongrong secretly sending Qiubo, Shi Jingjiao was very worried, and planned to transfer An Congjin to another place, so he sent someone to say to him: "King Dongping established a court to Beijing to see him, and expressed his willingness to return to his hometown, and I have transferred him to Shangdang."
Now the position of Qingzhou Jiedu envoy is vacant and waiting for you to take office, if you are really willing to go, I will issue an appointment. An Congjin teased the emperor and said, "If Qingzhou is moved to the south of the Han River, I will take office." ”
For this kind of rebellious behavior that is not a monarch or a minister, Shi Jingjiao can only endure it silently. An Congjin's son An Hongchao was the deputy envoy of the palace at the time, living in the capital, An Congjin asked Shi Jingjiao to allow An Hongchao to take leave to go home, and An Hongchao never returned to Beijing after arriving home.
Wang Lingqian and Pan Zhilin, who were under An Congjin, knew that he was going to rebel, so they frequently spoke out to dissuade him. An Congjin asked An Hongchao to go to Nanshan with Wang Lingqian to play, and when he drank to his heart's content, he ordered someone to push Wang Lingqian to the bottom of the cliff and fell to his death.
In June 941 A.D., the Khitan envoy dragged the stab out of the envoy Hou Jin, passing through Zhenzhou, An Chongrong deliberately teased and insulted him, dragged the thorn to rely on himself as the messenger of the kingdom, and also unceremoniously greeted An Chongrong's family, An Chongrong took the opportunity to play, arrested the thorn, and then sent cavalry to loot the southern part of Youzhou, and said: "Tuyuhun, the two Turks, Hun, Qi, and Shatuo each led their subordinates to come to annex, and the party also handed over the Khitan appointment to the post of resignation, telling the experience of being bullied by the Khitan.
He also said that since February, the Khitan ordered them to prepare strong troops and horses to march south in the autumn, but they were afraid that God would not bless them and suffer along with the Khitan, so they were willing to prepare 100,000 horses and horses to attack the Khitan together with the Jin State.
In addition, Zhao Chong, the deputy envoy of Shuozhou Jiedu, expelled Liu Shan, the envoy of Jiedu appointed by the Khitan, and asked to return to the imperial court.
I have reported these circumstances to the Imperial Court one after another. His Majesty has ordered me many times to worship and worship the Khitan and not to provoke provocations, but now that the people of Heaven and the people are in the heart, it is difficult to disobey, and the opportunity must not be lost, and the time will not come again.
Zhujiedu made those who were trapped in Hulu stretch their necks and cocked their heels to wait for the northern expedition of the king's division, which is really worthy of sympathy and pity.
May the court make a decision sooner. Most of them reprimanded Shi Jingjiao for recognizing the thief as his father, and he was willing to measure the material resources of the country and make friends with the country.
An Chongrong wrote another letter to the dignitaries and local officials of the court, conveying the same meaning, and saying that he had mobilized his troops and was determined to fight to the death with the Khitan.
Shi Jingjiao didn't dare to punish An Chongrong because of the strength of his soldiers, so he could only reply to him: "As a minister, you still have an old mother at home, and you can't think of difficulties in anger, so you abandon the monarch and your closest relatives. I got the world because of the Khitan, and you got rich because of me.
I don't dare to forget the kindness of others, but you forget, why is that? Now, I use the world to belong to the Khitan, but you want to use a town to resist the Khitan, is this too difficult! You should think twice and not invite regrets? ”
An Chongrong saw Shi Jingjiao showing weakness, and he was even more proud. Shi Jingjiao was worried that the Khitan would come to invade the border, and sent Yang Yanxun, the envoy of Anguo Jiedu, to envoy the Khitan.
After Yang Yan inquired about the Khitan, Yelu Deguang strictly reprimanded, and Yang Yan asked: "For example, if there is an evil son in a person's family, and his parents can't control him, what will he do?" Jerod's anger subsided slightly.
Soon, An Chongrong killed the thorn, and Shi Jingjiao inspected Yecheng for this purpose, leaving Zheng Wang Shi Chonggui to stay in the capital. Prime Minister and Ning said; "Your Majesty is going to tour the north, An Congjin will definitely rebel, what will you use to subdue him then?"
Shi Jingjiao asked him for a plan, and He Ning said: "I heard that the art of war says that you can dampen the enemy's spirit by preemptively doing it before others, please make more than a dozen copies of the edict with empty names and grant it to King Zheng, and if there is a crisis, send generals to crusade against him." ”
Sure enough, An Congjin heard that Shi Jingjiao was touring north, so he killed Pan Zhilin and rebelled. Shi Chonggui filled in the names of Li Jianchong, Guo Jinhai and others in a blank edict and sent them to suppress them. An Cong attacked Dengzhou, Weisheng Jiedu made An Xianhui hold the city, An Congjin could not conquer it, and soon retreated.
On November 27, An Congjin arrived at Huashan, met Zhang Congen's army, thought that the divine soldiers had descended from the sky, and hurriedly responded to the battle in panic, and soon suffered a big defeat, and his son Yanei commanded An Hongyi to be captured, An Congjin rushed back to Xiangzhou with dozens of cavalry, and surrounded the city. On the second day of December, Shi Jingjiao appointed Gao Xingzhou to preside over the affairs of Xiangzhou.
An edict was issued ordering Jingnan and Hunan to jointly crusade against Xiangzhou. Jingnan Gao sent Li Duan to lead thousands of naval troops to Nanjin, and Ma Xifan, the king of Chu, sent Zhang Shaodi, the commander of Tiance to lead 150 warships, into the Han River to help Gao Xingzhou.
An Chongrong heard that An Congjin had raised troops, and hurriedly gathered tens of thousands of hungry people to go south to Yedu. Before, An Chongrong had sent a message to Zhudao, saying that he and Tuyuhun, Tatar, and Qixin would raise troops together, but unexpectedly, under Liu Zhiyuan's coercion and temptation, Bai Chengfu, the chief of Tuyuhun, returned to the imperial court, and Tatar and Qixin also changed their hexagram halfway and did not send troops, An Chongrong's wishful thinking failed to start, and morale was greatly affected...... (To be continued......)