After the failure of the Huangchao Uprising, the government of Xizong, which is theoretically the highest authority in the country, has actually existed in name only.

In their place were the various feudal towns that made their fortunes in this war, and they completely carved up the political territory of the Tang Empire after the war.

The nineteenth volume of the "Old Tang Book" has clearly recorded this: "When Li Changfu was based on Fengxiang, Wang Chongrong was based on Pu and Shaanxi, Zhuge Shuang was based on Heyang and Luoyang, and Meng Fangli was based on Xing and Wei,

Li Keyong is based on Taiyuan and Shangdang, Zhu Quanzhong is based on Bian and Hua, Qin Zongquan is based on Xu and Cai, Shi Pu is based on Xu and Si, Zhu Xuan is based on Yun, Qi, Cao and Pu, and Wang Jingwu is based on Zi and Qing.

Gao Biao was based on the eight states of Huainan, Qin Yan was based on Xuan and She, and Liu Hanhong was based on eastern Zhejiang. The Jianghuai transshipment road is extinct, and the two rivers and the Jianghuai are not endowed, but they are only offered when they are old.

Those who can control the national destiny are dozens of states in Hexi, Shannan, Jiannan, and Lingnan. About the county will be self-sufficient, often endowed, the marquis is abolished, not from the court, the royal industry is ruined. ”

The above records are all powerful figures in the post-war Tang Empire, and these powerful figures are divided into one side and support their own troops.

Withholding taxes, and from time to time levying each other for their own interests, and the Xizong group is basically powerless to restrain this, so they can only let it go. So

This further fueled the arrogance of these feudal towns, which also made the Tang Empire re-stage an essential version of the Spring and Autumn story in the last short period of time.

Among these feudal towns, the most contradictory ones were Li Keyong, the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu, and Zhu Wen, the envoy of the Xuanwu Army.

These two people were originally the main figures in the suppression of the Yellow Nest, but at the last moment they turned against each other.

And because of this, a decades-long war between Jin and Bian was staged, and this matter had to start with Huangchao's attack on Bianzhou. At that time, Huang Chao was defeated by Li Keyong and other four-town coalition forces, so he withdrew from Chenzhou.

Transferred to Bianzhou. Bianzhou is Zhu Wen's nest, Zhu Wen saw that Huang Chao was fierce, for fear that he would not be able to resist, so he hurriedly asked Li Keyong for help, and Li Keyong immediately sent troops to chase Huang Chao.

and defeated Huang Chao on the way, and Huang Chao did not dare to attack Bianzhou again. He led his troops to flee eastward, and the siege of Bianzhou was lifted.

This time, Li Keyong helped Zhu Wen a lot. The relationship between the two countries was also good before, and the jurisdictional areas were not bordering, and there were no territorial disputes or conflicts of interest.

It stands to reason that this should be a good thing. But what I didn't expect was this. As soon as Li Keyong withdrew from Bianzhou from the grievance, the two families formed a life-and-death feud because of a trivial matter.

At that time, Zhu Wen was a great favor to Li Keyong because he had helped him, and when he saw that Li Keyong was camping outside Bianzhou City, he strongly invited him to go into the city to rest.

Li Keyong did not shirk, and entered the city with hundreds of personal soldiers, and was arranged by Zhu Wen to rest in the Shangyuan Post House.

The number of etiquette is very thorough. That night, Zhu Wen held a feast to entertain Li Keyong, of course, the specifications must be the highest. It's all a good thing so far.

The two families drank and bragged, and waited for dawn. Rick patted his ass and left, and nothing happened.

It just so happened that Li Keyong was only 29 years old at the time, young and vigorous, and he had just won the battle, so he was a little carried away.

While drinking, he talked about the interesting story of breaking the Yellow Nest, but the more he talked about it, the happier he became, and he couldn't stop the brake, and later he even said that Zhu Wen was once Huang Chao's subordinate and so on.

made Zhu Wen and his subordinates very unable to get off the stage. Li Keyong was unaware of it, blindly boasting and arrogant, Zhu Wen was resentful, but he didn't attack on the spot.

The feast lasted until the evening, and Li Keyong was too drunk to leave the city, so he stayed at Shangyuanyi for the night.

Originally, this matter was nothing at this point, Li Ke made a drunken gaffe, there was indeed something wrong, but after all, he had just done Zhu Wen a great favor.

If Zhu Wen had a lot of energy, he would have endured it even if he had passed, and no one would laugh at him for it. But Zhu Wen is the person who can't be offended, and the more he thinks about it, the more angry he becomes.

Thinking about it, he couldn't help it, so he summoned his subordinate Yang Yanhong and asked him to send someone to kill Li Keyong.

If Yang Yanhong could persuade Zhu Wensheng to be angry at this time, things would not have developed to the point where they came later.

It's just that Li Ke used the wine banquet to talk too angrily, and swept all the subordinates of Zhu Wen. As soon as Yang Yanhong heard that Zhu Wen was going to send himself to kill Li Ke, he happily accepted the order.

Immediately led the troops to link the car on the road outside the post house, blocking the road and making it impassable, and then sent troops to besiege Shangyuan Station.

At that time, Li Keyong was very drunk, and the shouts of killing outside shook the earth, and he didn't realize it.

And most of the hundreds of soldiers he brought into the city were also drunk and unconscious, and had no ability to resist at all.

It was soon attacked by the Bianbei soldiers. At that time, only Xue Zhiqin, Shi Jingsi and other more than a dozen generals did not dare to drink, seeing this scene, they knew that things had changed abruptly, so they had to defend the middle gate and resist hard.

The only envoy Guo Jingbai went in to ask Li Keyong, who knew that Li Ke drank too much wine, and there was no reaction at all. Guo Jingbai had no way, in order to prevent him from being injured by arrows,

Only blow out the lights first, then drag Li Keyong under the bed, and then spray his face with cold water.

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Keyong was agitated by the cold water, suddenly came to his senses, knew that the catastrophe was coming, and was startled, hurriedly took a bow and arrow, and led his soldiers to flee with a desire to seize the road.

At this time, the Bianbing set fire, the smoke was billowing out, the flames were everywhere, and there was a heavy encirclement of the Bianbing soldiers outside, and it was difficult for Li Ke to escape even if he had the sky.

At this time, the originally clear night sky was covered with dark clouds in the blink of an eye, followed by thunder and lightning, torrential rain poured down, and the raging fire was extinguished by the rain in an instant.

Li Keyong took this opportunity to lead several of his own soldiers over the wall, and took advantage of the deep night to break out of the encirclement of the Bianjun army.

On the road, along with the electric light that appeared from time to time, he touched the Weishi Gate in the south of Bianzhou City, fled from the city, and the general Shi Jingsi was alone and died.

Zhu Wen was shocked when he received the news that Li Keyong had escaped from the city, and hurriedly chased Yang Yanhong out of the city.

Yang Yanhong said to Zhu Wen: "Li Keyong is a Hu person, and the Hu people must ride a horse if they are in a hurry to escape, and the town marshal will shoot when he sees the horseman." ”

After saying that, the two went separately to chase. The night was dark. The canopy of heaven is heavy, and it is impossible to distinguish things,

Zhu Wen chased after him, and saw a person riding a horse in front of him. Immediately he took the arrow and shot it, and the man on the horse fell. Zhu Wen rushed over to take a look,

The person who was hit by the arrow turned out to be Yang Yanhong, and he was suddenly inexplicably surprised, so he had no intention of chasing after him again, and returned with his subordinates.

Li Ke survived the catastrophe and fled all the way back to the camp. and his wife Liu reported headaches and cried. If you want to say that Li Ke uses this wife,

To describe it with an old saying, it can really be said that there is no dog wife for a tiger husband. Before Li Keyong rushed back,

There were already a few followers who had escaped from Bianzhou City first. explained to the Liu family the changes in Bianzhou, and said that Li Keyong was dead. Liu Shi thought about the situation at that time,

It is estimated that Li Keyong has little hope of still being alive. If this happens to an ordinary lesbian, you have to tear your hair. Kick off your shoes.

Then he sat on the ground and cried in the direction of Li Ke's suffering: "Dead ghost, you are just gone, how can I live!" Hey, hey, hey! "But this Liu is really not an ordinary woman,

Hearing this, he did not panic, and immediately gathered his generals to purge the whole army, preparing to return to the town as soon as dawn. In order not to shake the morale of the army,

and killed all the soldiers who fled first. In order to block the message, it was handled very well.

At this time, Li Keyong returned to the army, frightened for a while, and scolded Zhu Wen for his white-eyed wolf in the army. Thinking that he had good intentions to relieve him, but he was poisoned by this for no reason, how could he give up?

Immediately, he ordered all his troops and horses to find Zhu Wen for revenge. Liu is still calm, and persuaded Li Ke to say: "

Husband, don't be impulsive, this time it must be his surname Zhu who ignores it, and it is also appropriate to cut him with a thousand knives, but this is the territory of their old Zhu family, husband, you will send troops now,

One is that they may not be able to beat them, and the other is that we still have an organization above us! If we just fight with them today, we won't be able to explain the reason at that time.

It's better to reflect the situation clearly with the above first, and see what kind of explanation the above gives us, and then it's not too late to do it. ”

Li Keyong thought about it too, and immediately started the army, returned to the town, and wrote a letter to scold Zhu Wen.

After Zhu Wen received the letter, he also knew that he was wronged, so he had to push the responsibility on the dead Yang Yanhong.

In a reply letter to Li Keyong, he said: "I really don't know about the change on the eve, it is actually the envoys sent by the imperial court to secretly conspire with Yang Yanhong. ”

But when he said this to the ghosts, he didn't even believe in the ghosts. In July, Li Keyong returned to Jinyang, and while governing the armor soldiers,

wanted to avenge the revenge of Shangyuanyi, and on the other hand, he went to the court and asked the court to send troops to fight against Zhu Wen.

At this time, Huang Chao had just died, and Xi Zong breathed a sigh of relief, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he received the seal used by Li Ke.

This matter is very clear, it must be Zhu Wen's loss, originally Li Ke went to the Central Plains to help them encircle and suppress Huangchao, and helped him solve the predicament of Bianzhou, even if Li Ke drank too much and played a few drunken madness,

That's just a small problem, you can listen to it if you like it, and if you don't like to listen to it, it's just a matter of arguing with him, so you won't kill others!

It's just that although the truth is like this, Zhu Wen is not easy to mess with, and the Emperor can't control others. But if you don't care about it!

Li Ke couldn't do it. The sect could not afford to offend both sides, and was in a dilemma, so they had to blindly make peace with the mud.

Li Keyong was named the king of Longxi County, and Li Keyong's younger brother Li Kexuan (pronounced Xiu Xiu) was appointed as the envoy of the Zhaoyi Festival, and the eunuch Feilong was sent to Yang Fugong to Jinyang to mediate the matter.

Yang Fugong is the younger brother of Yang Fuguang, Yang Fuguang is the most famous loyal eunuch in the late Tang Dynasty, known as the respect of the whole army, Li Keyong can be reactivated by the imperial court, which has many credits to Yang Fuguang,

Therefore, Li Keyong still respects Yang Fuguang very much. At this time, although Yang Fuguang died of illness in Guanzhong after recovering Chang'an, Yu Weiyou was there, and Li Keyong was still very face-saving to his younger brother Yang Fugong.

But face is face, this time Li Keyong and Zhu Wen have a deep feud, and it is not anyone's face that can settle this matter, so let Yang Fugong spit it out, Li Keyong also insisted on raising troops against Bianzhou.

Yang Fugong had no choice but to go back to the sect to hand over the decree. The Emperor had no choice but to send him back.

Li Keyong still didn't do it, and he ran Yang Fugong's legs back and forth, but he didn't come up with a result.

Later, Li Keyong saw that on the one hand, he had no hope of letting the imperial court send troops to help him crusade against Zhu Wen, and on the other hand, for the sake of Yang Fuguang's face, he didn't want to embarrass his younger brother anymore, so he pretended to agree to the conditions of the imperial court, saying that he would not raise troops in Bianzhou for the time being.

But in fact, Li Ke did not relax his preparations for war for a moment, and only waited for the time to get rid of the court and raise troops to find Zhu Wen to take revenge.

Soon, Li Keyong felt that the armaments were all ready and he could send troops to crusade against Zhu Wen, but he didn't expect that there would be another big incident in Guanzhong at this time.

made him temporarily unable to take care of mobilizing troops against Bianzhou, which also made the battle of Jinbian, which began sooner or later, temporarily delay its occurrence.

However, Xi Zong, who had just returned to Chang'an City, did not breathe a sigh of relief because of the delay of this Jinbian war.

On the contrary, because Li Keyong failed to take care of sending troops to Bianzhou, he was forced to flee in a hurry again from the Jinluan Treasure Palace, which was not yet hot.

This matter has to start with the Tang Army's recovery of Chang'an. Huang Chao escaped from Chang'an in April of the third year of Zhonghe, about two years later.

In March of the first year of Guangqi, Xi Zongcai returned to this long-lost capital. After more than two years of reign by the Yellow Nest,

The prosperity of the past in Chang'an City has long been a passing cloud, touching the eyes, thorns are dense, foxes and rabbits are born, and it is a sad scene.

At this time, the biggest problem facing the Emperor was the huge fiscal deficit. Back in Chengdu,

Tian Lingzi, the head of the eunuchs, recruited 45,000 people from the new Shence army, plus more than 20,000 people from the original Shence army.

There are more than 70,000 troops who need to be supported by the imperial court, and in addition, there are more than 10,000 officials at all levels in the Southern and Northern Divisions, who are also reaching out to the imperial court to ask for money.

At this time, the local warlords withheld the finances and no longer paid taxes to the imperial court, so that the central financial departments were depleted of financial resources and could not maintain normal operation, and it was not a way to continue for a long time.

Therefore, as the actual head of the Xizong government, Tian Lingzi must use his brains.

Tian Lingzi took a look back and forth, and hit the idea on the body of Wang Chongrong, the envoy of the river festival, because Wang Chongrong had Anyi in his hands.

These two salt ponds in Xie County, known as cornucopias. Since the Tang Dynasty began to implement the salt and iron monopoly system after the Anshi Rebellion,

The salt tax is the largest tax in the country, and the salt tax contributed by the two salt ponds of Anyi and Xie County accounts for the majority of the total salt tax revenue.

At this time, these two salt ponds were controlled by Wang Chongrong, and only 3,000 carts of salt were paid to the imperial court every year, and the rest were kept for his own use, which made Tian Lingzi very red-eyed.

In April of the first year of Guangqi, Tian Lingzi issued an edict in the name of the imperial court to take back the rights of the two salt pools from Wang Chongrong to raise the army, and he himself served as the salt envoy of the two ponds. This is equivalent to cutting meat from Wang Chongrong, of course Wang Chongrong cannot agree,

immediately told the court that no, he still had to rely on these two pools of salt to raise the army, and resolutely refused to accept the order given by the court to hand over the salt profits. Wang Chongrong was a person who made great contributions in the battle to suppress Huangchao,

In addition, with heavy troops in hand, Tian Lingzi didn't want to fall out at once, so he sent eunuchs to explain in the name of Xizong, and went back and forth several times.

Wang Chongrong just didn't accept it, no matter how he said it. Later, Tian Lingzi sent his godson Kuang You out of the horse, and at the beginning, Wang Chongrong gave Tian Lingzi some face.

But this Kuang You dog is very disrespectful to Wang Chongrong, which angered Wang Chongrong, and immediately scolded Kuang You for being rude, and counted Tian Lingzi's sins.

As he spoke, he became angry, and ordered someone to drag Kuang You out and cut him, thanks to the persuasion of the Hezhong Prison Army, Kuang You was able to escape back with a rolling belt. (To be continued......)