Chapter 14 [Tang Empire]

When Han Jian heard the news, he made peace with Zhu Xuan, who stayed behind Tianping, and attacked Heyang again, but the feng shui took turns, this time to my house, and this time Zhuge Shuang won. Taking advantage of your illness, I want your life, and taking advantage of Han Jian's defeat, Le Xingda preemptively occupied Weizhou.

Dr. Wei supported him to replace him, so there was nothing to do with Han Jian here. Tang Xizong recognized Le Xingda's status as a posthumous person, and later in the same year, he appointed him as a plenipotentiary envoy.

In 884, Emperor Xi gave the name Le Yanzhen to Le Xingda, and awarded the left servant to shoot and the same Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi. In the same year, former Prime Minister Wang Duo served as the envoy of the Yichang Festival, passing through Wei Bo.

Wang Duo, the word Zhaofan, is a native of Taiyuan. There is a story here, during the Qianfu period of Tang Dynasty, Wang Duo, who was the envoy of Jingzhou at the time, saw Jupiter invade the position of the six stars of the Southern Dipper, and did not return for many days.

He asked the astrologer, "Is this phenomenon auspicious or evil?" Astrologers say, "The invasion of Venus, Mars, and Saturn into the position of the Southern Dipper is a calamity, but the invasion of Jupiter is an auspicious sign." Wang Duo said, "I see. ”

At this time, there was a sorcerer named Bian Gang, who was proficient in using the stars and almanacs to speculate on things, and he said to Wang Duo: "Only Nandou is the star representing the emperor, and only Jupiter is the star representing auspiciousness, so the fate of the emperor should be guessed by their astrological signs."

But this astrological sign does not represent the present, but the changes in the future. I just don't dare to say it casually. After a few days, Wang Duo told the people on the left and right to retreat and secretly summoned Bian Gang alone. Bian Oka said: "Jupiter enters the six stars of the Southern Dipper,

It is an omen that someone wants to be the emperor, and the wood is in the fight, which is a Zhu character. But no one expected it at the time. This person will be Zhu Wen.

When Wang Duo passed through Weibo, he was taken by Le Yanzhen's son Le Congxun. Of course, Le Congxun is not interested in Wang Duo himself. Instead, he fell in love with the large number of concubines and belongings that Wang Duo carried. The gentleman never knew what he was afraid of, so evil was born from the guts, planning to rob a lust first, and then rob a fortune.

As soon as he said it, he entangled hundreds of people to ambush Wang Duo and his three hundred staff, and seized all of Wang Duo's belongings. Ordinary people, if they kill the prime minister, they won't be able to eat and walk around, but Le Congxun is not afraid. Because his father's name is Li Gang.

Le Yanzhen is a good father, his son killed people and goods, so he cooperated with the deception and reported to the imperial court, saying that Wang Duo was killed by bandits, and the imperial court was unable to investigate it because it had just been hit by the rebel army. However, the people of Weibo knew Wang Duo's fame, so they hated Le Congxun. 8

In 85, Ma Shuang, the general of Zhaoyi in the neighboring town, rebelled against Meng Fangli. Wanting to force the latter to kill Xi Zhongxin, another general who was at odds with him, he was soon defeated and fled to Weibo. Xi Zhongxin bribed Le Yanzhen, and Le Yanzhen killed Ma Shuang happily.

In 888, Le Congxun gathered 500 soldiers as henchmen. Called "Zi General", that is, the son soldier, this blatant gang and discriminatory behavior caused the resentment of Wei Bo veterans. Le Congxun felt that the signs were wrong. Fleeing from Weizhou,

Le Yanzhen appointed him as the assassin of Xiangzhou. Lao Tzu's territory can't stay though. But Lao Tzu's things can still be taken, and Le asks for weapons and money from letters from Xun every other day. This angered the veterans of Webber even more, what we had worked so hard to grab,

Why do you let this hairy boy take it away. So the veterans were even more impatient, Le Yanzhen was an old fox who had been in the army for many years, and his sense of smell was also quite sensitive, so he resigned automatically and became a monk in Longxing Temple, wanting to exchange for a small life.

Eventually, however, the mutiny took place, and in the chaos, Lei Ye, the envoy sent by Zhu Wen to discuss the food supply with Wei Bo and Le Yanzhen, was killed. Dr. Wei supported Zhao Wenben as the queen.

Le Congxun learned that his father was forced to retire, so he led an army of 30,000 into Weizhou, of course, the lord of this pit father was not to rescue the pit father, but to compete for the position.

Zhao Wenben refused to fight with Le Congxun. Dr. Wei didn't know what Zhao Wenben wanted, and thought that he wanted to surrender to the young master, so he killed him and promoted the general Luo Hongxin as the commander.

After Zhao Wenben's death, the soldiers wanted to elect a new general, and Luo Hongxin mysteriously said to the soldiers that he met a white-bearded old man in the place where he lived, and the old man said to him, you will become the master of a land.

He felt very strange in his heart after having dreamed like this twice, and wanted to ask everyone what was going on. Actually, of course he knew what was going on, and his purpose was to tell everyone about his so-called adventure. When the soldiers heard this, they felt that this was the person that the land grandfather fancied! So what else to choose?

The person chosen by Grandpa Land is right, so he will be chosen, so Luo Hongxin will be the boss. Luo Hongxin then defeated Le Congxun and forced him to retreat to Neihuang. Wei Bo's army besieged Neihuang.

Le Congxun hoped to ask Zhu Wen for help by using Wei Bojun to kill Lei Ye, although Lei Ye was not killed by Luo Hongxin, but Zhu Wen didn't care about this, anyway, the wolf is hungry now and wants to eat meat, so it doesn't matter whose meat it is. So Zhu Wen sent Zhu Zhen to the north, occupied the three cities of Wei Bo, marched to Neihuang, and defeated Wei Bo's army at first.

But at this time, Le Congxun was in a hurry to break through, and accidentally pounced on the muzzle of the gun, and was killed by Cheng Gongxin, the general of Luo Hongxin's department. Le Yanzhen was shot while lying down, and was also executed, and followed his pit father's son on the road, and both father and son were hanged at the gate of Wei Bo's camp.

Then Luo Hongxin sent an envoy to apologize to Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen took the things and left happily, and Luo Hongxin took over Wei Bo smoothly. This change, except for the death of Le Yanzhen's father and son, there seems to be no other change.

Wei Bo was caught between the two warlords, Zhu Wen and Li Keyong, who were strongly hostile to each other. At first, Luo Hongxin wanted to be alone between the two.

In 889, Li Ke used the eastern attack on Zhaoyi Jiedu to make Meng Fangli stand in Xingzhou, forcing Meng Fangli to commit suicide, and his brother Meng Qian turned to Zhu Wen for help.

Zhu Wen wanted to send reinforcements through Wei Bo, but Luo Hongxin refused, so Zhu Wen had to send hundreds of elite soldiers to aid Meng Qian, and in the end, Meng Qian was forced to surrender to Li Keyong.

In 890, Zhu Wen wanted to use Wei Bo to attack Hedong, but Luo Hongxin refused again, Zhu Wen was angry, since he refused to borrow the way, then by the way, he would annex you first.

So he sent troops to attack Wei Bo, and defeated Luo Hongxin five times the following year, and Luo Hongxin was scared. Isn't it just to borrow the Tao, I can't take it. So he sued for peace and surrendered to Zhu Wen from then on.

Although he surrendered. But at first, Luo Hongxin didn't completely cut off relations with Hedong, you are all uncles, I can't afford to mess with anyone, it's a big deal to recognize you as big brothers?

In 894, Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin were attacked by Zhu Wen and asked for help from Li Keyong, who through Luo Hongxin's permission, sent a steady stream of grain and grass to Erzhu through Wei Bo, and first sent the cavalry general An Fushun.

The following year, Shi Yan and Li Chengsi were stabbed, and in this way, Zhu Wen stabbed Erzhu there, and Li Keyong gave Erzhu a full blood transfusion through Luo Hongxin, Zhu Wen stabbed again, and Li Keyong gave it a full stab, which made Zhu Wen spend a lot of effort, but saw that Erzhu was covered in wounds, but he was not dead. has become an unbeatable Xiaoqiang.

In 896, Li Keyong borrowed Wei Bo again and sent his adopted son Li Cunxin to rescue Tianping and Taining. Initially, Luo Hongxin opened and closed as always.

But. Zhu Wen, who had done many useless efforts, slowly discovered the secret of Erzhu's immortality, so he wrote a letter to warn Luo Hongxin: "Li Keyong is determined to annex Heshuo, once the war between Tianping and Taining is over.

Li Cunxin will capture Weibo. "Luo Hongxin is not stupid, and if he is stupid, he will not fool others. Li Keyong is not a good person, but you Zhu Wen are not a good bird either. I won't be fooled by you.

However, if you don't fall for it, you can't be fooled, and it's another thing to be unwilling. At this time, Li Cunxin saw that Luo Hongxin was a bully, and began to loot Wei Bo Township, which made Luo Hongxin see the potential crisis, now do you want me to be so rampant, you don't need me in the future, you have to eat me?

So he angrily sent 30,000 troops to attack Li Cunxin at night and forced him to flee. Luo Hongxin's sneak attack was considered a turning point in Zhu Wen's crusade against Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin, after which Li Keyong could no longer send troops through Wei Bo to aid Erzhu.

Zhu Wen took advantage of Li Keyong's stalemate with Luo Hongxin, and at this time, it was the window period of Luo Hongxin's relationship, so he tried his best to win him over, and called him the eldest brother, thus further consolidating the relationship with Luo Hongxin

System.

In the same year, Li Ke attacked Wei Bo with a large force, killed more than 10,000 Wei Bo troops, and advanced to Weizhou. Zhu Wen sent Ge from Zhou to aid Wei Bo, defeated Li Keyong, and captured his son Li Luoluo.

Li Keyong wanted to redeem Li Luoluo from Zhu Wen, but Zhu Wen handed Li Luoluo to Luo Hongxin and asked Luo Hongxin to kill him.

What is a Petition of Nomination? This is the name of the vote, Luo Hongxin, kill Li Luoluo, you can only follow Zhu Wen to the dark in the future, are you ready? Luo Hong's confidence was crossed, and he killed Li Luoluo with a knife in his hand, and from then on Wei Bo and Hedong completely broke up.

Li Luoluo was dead, and Li Keyong withdrew. In the winter of the same year, Li Keyong attacked Wei Bo again, but failed again because Zhu Wen rescued Luo Hongxin. In the spring of 897, Tianping and Taining were captured by the Xuanwu army, and Li Keyong no longer tried to get through Weibo.

In 898, Zhu Wen, with the help of Wei Bo, attacked the three prefectures of Xing, Wei, and Ci under the jurisdiction of Li Keyong, east of the Taihang Mountains. The combined forces of Xuanwu and Weibo quickly won, capturing the three cities and eliminating Li Keyong's forces east of the Taihang Mountains.

Luo Hongxin was thus named the king of Linqing County. In the same year, Luo Hongxin died. Wei Bojun pushed his son Jiedu's deputy envoy Luo Shaowei to stay behind, and was recognized by Tang Zhaozong.

In the first month of the second year when Luo Shaowei inherited his father's position, Liu Rengong of Youzhou raised 100,000 troops in an attempt to disturb the Heshuo area.

Luo Shaowei asked Zhu Wen for help, Zhu Wen sent Li Si'an to help, stationed in Huanshui, Ge Congzhou also led the army from Xingzhou into Weizhou, Yan generals Liu Shouwen, Shan Keji and Zhu Wen's army fought in Neihuang, the Yan army was defeated, and Zhu Wen's army pursued the victory. When Ge Congzhou also sent an army to cover the attack, he defeated the Yan army again and beheaded more than 30,000 people.

In the third year, Luo Shaowei sent an army to join Zhu Wen and attack Cangzhou together to repay Zhu Wen. Since then, Luo Shaowei has been grateful for Zhu Wen's assistance, and deeply admires and attaches to him.

At the beginning, during the period from Tang to De, Tian Chengsi occupied six prefectures, including Xiang, Wei, Lan, Bo, Wei, and Bei, recruited children in the army, and placed them as subordinates, called the "Tooth Army", all of which provided rich rewards and made the Tooth Army proud.

The years are long, the father and son have passed down, the relatives and the party have a strong relationship, the tooth soldiers have taken it by force, violated the law, and the officials did not dare to intervene.

The tooth army changes the coach at will, just like a child playing at home. In the past 200 years, the deposition of the boss was all at the hands of the Ya Army, and as long as the preferential treatment and reward for them were slightly unsatisfactory, the whole family was punished. Luo Shaowei suffered from the shortcomings of the tooth army in the past, and although he bought and appeased with money, he was very dissatisfied in his heart.

In the early years of Tianyou, the ground of the state city subsided for no reason. To put it aside today, it was either a sewer collapse or a coal mine goaf subsidence, and people may not be too concerned, but at the time, it was thought to be a precursor to something big happening.

Soon after, the junior colonel Li Gongyan took advantage of this to plot a change, and Luo Shaowei was even more afraid. It seems that the grass is not cut to the roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows, and the contradictions cannot only grasp the superficial contradictions, but must solve the main contradictions at one time, so we plan to get rid of the tooth army in order to solve the big trouble in our hearts.

Roshowe sent an envoy to tell Juwen and asked him for foreign aid. Zhu Wenle agreed, this is what you want to cut off the big claws on the crab yourself, but I didn't force you, so I sent Li Si'an and Wei Bozhen's army to attack Cangzhou again.

Before this, it happened that Zhu Wen's daughter, Luo Shaowei's wife, died in Weizhou, and Zhu Wen took the opportunity to send Ma Sixun of the Changzhi Military Academy to select 1,000 soldiers, hide the weapons in a huge pocket, and carry them into Weizhou with his shoulder, saying that he was dealing with his daughter's funeral. On the fifth day of the first month of the third year of Tianyou (906), Zhu Wen personally led the army to cross the Yellow River, claiming to inspect the camps in Cangzhou and Jingzhou.

On the 16th of this month, Luo Shaowei led hundreds of slaves and Ma Sixun to attack the Ya army, and killed them overnight, and more than 1,000 Ya troops who lived in Yacheng at that time were killed at dawn, and about 8,000 families were wiped out, and the state city was empty.

The next day, Zhu Wen ran from Neihuang to Yezhou. At that time, the Wei army of 20,000 was besieging Cangzhou with Zhu Wen's army, and when they heard that something had happened in the city of Weizhou, they embraced the general Shi Renyu and stuck to Gaotang. Within the six states, they are all fierce rivals,

Zhu Wen sent his generals to divide his troops to recruit them, and it took half a year to pacify them. On April 1, Zhu Wen captured Gaotang, and all the residents of the city, young and old, were killed, and the leader Shi Renyu was captured alive and then dismembered and executed. Since then, Luo Shaowei has cleared the tooth army that persecuted him,

But it has also lost the capital of independent bidding. Later, "Quan Zhong stayed in Wei for half a year, Luo Shaowei provided 100 million, nearly 700,000 cattle, sheep and pigs killed, and the grain was said to be yes, and the bribes were nearly 1 million; Compared to the past, the accumulation is empty. Although Shao Wei was forced to do so, the Wei soldiers were weak. Shao Wei repented, and said: 'Forty-three counties of six continents and railways, you can't be wrong for this!' ’”

Later generations commented: "Wrong, wrong, cast for it; and misinterpreted. Luo took the mistake of killing the tooth soldier as a metaphor. Thus, the sacrifice of thousands of people at that time created the idiom that became popular in later generations—a big mistake, a metaphor that caused a big and irreparable mistake.

Since then, Zhu Dada's landlord has added Wei Bo's name to his real estate title deed. (To be continued......)