Chapter 20: The Counterattack of "Feiyan" (Part 2)
got Liu Fei's promise, and the brothers and sisters of the "Liu family" were naturally grateful on the surface, but in their hearts, they also fell to the ground with a stone. As the most critical step to achieve the purpose of coming to Langzhou, having a legal identity and being able to unhindered in the land of Jinghu is the primary condition. Now that this problem has been solved by Liu Fei, the official of Langzhou's parents, the brothers and sisters of the "Liu family" are very determined, and on the second day of visiting Liu Fei, they handed over all the information of themselves and their shopkeepers, partners, and guards to each other. After getting the information, it took only two days to hand over a stack of nearly 100 "temporary residence permits" to "Liu Mao", realizing his original promise of "doing this for the other party within three days".
For Liu Zhizhou's high efficiency, "Liu Mao" was naturally grateful, and sent a generous gift to express his gratitude. In this regard, Liu Fei pushed hard, saying that his help was completely for the sake of his niece being rescued by the brothers and sisters of the "Liu family", not for some yellow and white things. He also said that if "Liu Mao" did not take away the gifts, he would take back those "temporary residence permits", and then thank the "Liu family" brothers and sisters in other ways for saving their nieces. Seeing Liu Fei's resolute attitude, "Liu Mao" had no choice but to give up, and after another thousand thanks, he left Liu's Mansion with gifts and a "temporary residence permit".
Although Jihua, who further wooed Liu Fei, was unable to achieve it because the other party resolutely refused to accept gifts, it did not affect Zhang Fei and Zhang Yan to continue the process of their own Jihua. The day after receiving the "temporary residence permit", dozens of subordinates left Langzhou under the pretext of purchasing goods and completing transactions with business partners. The Zhang brothers and sisters still stayed in Langzhou to control the overall situation, and made every effort to maintain Liu Fei's important clue to facilitate their long-term lurking.
According to Zhang Fei and Zhang Yan's Jihua, these subordinates, who carried a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, would go to Jinghu, especially the prefectures and counties of Hunan, to try to get in touch with the bandits and bandits who occupied the mountains and gathered in the mountains and forests, especially those strongmen led by the former Wuping army who deserted from the army, or officials who refused to submit to the Chai Zhou court. These guys, who were originally dissatisfied with the Chai Zhou court's move south and the seizure of Jinghu land, led troops to rise up and stir up trouble, so as to achieve the goal of turning the newly established Hunan Province upside down, and then delaying and delaying the pace of the Chai Zhou court to recover Jiangnan and dominate the world. In this way, he can solve the hatred of the "Feiyantang" that has been wanted and pursued by the other party for more than a year, and that the "Feiyantang" that has invested a lot of effort has been shattered under the continuous blows of the other party and almost wiped out, and can strive for enough time and space for himself to restore the strength of the "Feiyantang" in Jiangnan and the steps of retreat.
Judging from the comparison of Liliang alone, it is said that any of the original Wuping troops who were confused by the Zhang family's brothers and sisters were defeated, even if the stragglers, bandits and bandits in the entire Jinghu area were added together, they were not the opponents of the "Flying Dragon Army". But in fact, with the increasing number of stragglers, bandits and bandits who were successfully persuaded by the Zhang family brothers and sisters, and the rebellions that openly raised their banners against the rule of the Chai Zhou court became more and more frequent, the entire Jinghu land unexpectedly gradually fell into chaos, so that Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin had to send large armies again and again to clean up the wolf smoke in order to extinguish the wolf smoke everywhere.
Speaking of which, the reason why he was so overwhelmed by the rebellions and attacks that he was a little embarrassed this time was that Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and even the entire crossing team suffered by themselves. On the one hand, whether it was regaining the land of clouds from the Khitans or destroying the Northern Han Dynasty, whether it was the "Overlord Operation" of the northern expedition to the Khitan or the southward march and entering Kaifeng, the journey of the crossing team was smooth sailing and easy. Not only did they always defeat their opponents by an overwhelming margin, but they were all able to quickly stabilize the situation and take the initiative, so that a series of related follow-up work could be carried out very smoothly. As a result, the "Qingyuan" brothers of the Beiping Army subconsciously formed a mindset, believing that with their prestige, fame and strength, no matter where they went, they would be accepted by the local gentry and common people, and the other party would either warmly welcome them with a pot of pulp, or they would tremble and completely surrender, and no one would be willing to be their enemies, let alone dare to confront them. Even if there were some stragglers and local officials who refused to accept the reality of defeat and refused to cooperate with the imperial court, some of them might even gather in the mountains and forests, fall into the grass, plunder the people, and harass the localities. It is only a slight problem of ringworm, which will neither shake the rule of the imperial court there, nor affect the recovery and development of the people's livelihood and economy in the region, so there is no need to worry at all. Therefore, the brothers did not take the bandits and bandits in Jinghu at all, and after ordering the states and counties to clean up on their own, they did not bother with it.
On the other hand, the success of the rapid recovery of Jinghu Land also made the brothers of the crossing team more confident in reorganizing the rivers and mountains and dominating the world, and at the same time, it also made everyone a little fluttering, thinking that with their own strength, they could completely unify Huaxia in a much earlier time. Therefore, after the establishment of Hunan Province, Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin, as the chief and deputy heads of the region, focused on building ships, training the former Nanping (Jingnan) naval army, and preparing for the next recovery of Shu or the Southern Tang Dynasty, thus relaxing the investigation, selection, rectification, and reorganization of civil and military officials, soldiers and horses in Jinghu Land, and trying their best to restore the people's livelihood and economy here, and a series of principles that should be carried out seriously in the newly recovered area and have been well implemented in the previous conquest process. In addition, the focus of the committee's work is now on the court, firmly controlling the situation in Kaifeng and even the entire Houzhou, and several committee members also have more or less contempt for the enemy, so they did not remind or stop Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin's inappropriate practices, but let them do it.
In this way, it is not difficult to understand that those state and county officials who were very dissatisfied with Qian and Zeng only cared about the behavior of building warships and did not care about the local people's livelihood and economy at all, disobeyed the orders from Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin to eliminate the bandits in their respective jurisdictions, and even secretly helped each other and reported the news; It is not difficult to understand why the number of bandits and bandits in Jinghu, especially in Hunan, is increasing, and their strength is getting stronger and stronger, and now it has developed to the extent that it can encircle prefectures and counties and conquer cities. By the beginning of the ninth month of the 10th lunar calendar of Xiande, the bandit and bandit armies in Jinghu, especially in Hunan, who openly raised their banners to resist the control of the imperial court, had grown to dozens of units, and the prefectures and counties in Jinghu that were affected or even attacked by it had accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total number of them, and the form was not optimistic at all.
On the 25th day of the ninth month of the 10th lunar calendar of Xiande, in the face of the increasingly fierce rebellion and the local situation that had gradually eroded, the committee decided to take over the management of the military and civil affairs of Jinghu Land, and help Qian and Zeng to complete the investigation, selection, rectification and reorganization of this place, so as not to affect the attack on Shu or the Southern Tang Dynasty.
On September 27 of the lunar calendar of the tenth year of Xiande, as representatives of the committee, Zhang Weixin and Xu Shaoan led the "wolf's tooth" battalion from Kaifeng and rushed to Langzhou to preside over the work. On the same day, the committee also sent a telegram ordering Muttel to immediately end the harassment of the Khitans and lead the "Ranger" battalion into Kaifeng to make up for the shortcomings in the deployment of troops left by the "wolf's tooth" battalion.