Chapter 374: The Seventeenth Mission: Zhaozong Returns to the Tang Dynasty 16
Lu Renbing is not a greedy emperor, but the emperor can't do it if he doesn't have money. His most important task now is to spend the people's fat and ointment collected from dozens of states in the southwest to restore the production of Bashu and develop the resources of Yunnan and Guizhou. Build roads and increase government investment.
Restore order, gather the displaced people, reclaim the wasteland, gather military power, and train the army. Keep growing yourself. As an emperor at the end of a dynasty, the most important thing is not to toss around.
The 10,000-year-old Gou Lu Renbing has the most experience in how to survive.
The princes of Kanto Jiangnan, no matter what kind of fight they make, we resolutely don't care. Whoever wants to borrow my name can do anything, as long as they give money. But if you want to borrow my soldiers and horses, there is no door.
For Lu Renbing's strategy, the most helpless is Liang Wang Zhu Quanzhong. He couldn't borrow the emperor's power at all, and he was also woolened by the emperor from time to time.
In the second year of Qianning, he officially took over the battle with Li Keyong, and in the face of Li Keyong, Zhu Quanzhong is now struggling to support, and he wants to use the power of the emperor. So he ordered someone to clean up the eastern capital Luoyang, simply cleaned up the palace in Luoyang, and wrote a letter asking the emperor and civil and military officials to return the capital to Luoyang.
In fact, he thought that the emperor would take the forbidden army out of the pass, and then find a way to fool the power of leading the troops and take the forbidden army to fight Li Keyong.
The forbidden army at the end of the Tang Dynasty was fooled away by the local feudal towns little by little, and many of the feudal towns around Chang'an started by robbing and dividing up the Shence army.
Of course, Lu Renbing will not be fooled, we will not go to the Eastern Capital, and we will not come out of Tongguan. Since King Liang has repaired Luoyang, then let you stay in Luoyang. The dignified King of Liang guards the small place of Bianliang, what is the future, be brave, occupy the eastern capital, I will give you this power.
Let's see if Li Keyong will you.
Li Keyong is four years younger than Zhu Quanzhong, but he is a lifelong enemy. In this life, Lu Renbing did not have a skull and fainted, and followed Zhu Quanzhong's advice to start a war against Li Keyong. Therefore, Li Keyong's attitude towards the emperor can be regarded as completely respectful. Lu Renbing did not discriminate against him because he was from Shatuo, and sold him the title of King of Jin early.
Therefore, Li Ke pays a large amount of salt to Chang'an every year, although this salt pond originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty. But don't worry too much. In these years, people think you are the emperor, you are, but if you don't recognize you, you have no problem at all. Lu Renbing didn't think that relying on the bunch of forbidden troops under his current command could now single-handedly use Li Ke.
Li Keyong, Zhu Quanzhong is the pride of the sky in this era, it is by no means just casual talk. In the past few years in history, Li Keyong has really been invincible, invincible, and beating the heroes of the Central Plains. Except for Zhu Quanzhong, there are almost no opponents.
The gang of bad water that Lu Renbing gathered around him was already a relatively capable one in the emperor's camp. In history, these gang of goods have been beaten by others when they join forces, and they have been beaten more than once.
So even the current Lu Renbing will not be tough with a son of destiny who is as lucky as the sky.
It's not superstition, twenty is not necessary. Li Keyong is loyal to the Tang family, and the emperor in history has been bullied into a bare pole by Li Maozhen's cowardice, and Li Keyong still didn't say a word to King Qin. defeated Li Maozhen and others to coerce the goods, and then escorted the emperor back to the capital.
Unlike Zhu Quanzhong, after King Qin, he easily killed the prime minister and the kings of the clan who led the troops for the emperor, and then forced the emperor to move the capital to Luoyang.
If there is luck in this era, Li Keyong's luck must be greater than Zhu Quanzhong's, and then the luck of these two people must be greater than Lu Renbing's.
Therefore, Lu Renbing will not get involved in the grievances and hatred of these two goods. As long as he guards the door and maintains a military presence, neither Li Keyong nor Zhu Quanzhong can do whatever they want as they did in history.
The Tang Dynasty has been like this for more than a hundred years, and I haven't seen any feudal town really usurp the Tang Dynasty. The center maintained a certain military strength, mediated the middle, and then the local feudal towns checked and balanced each other, which was the basic political form of the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
Originally, because of the Yellow Nest Uprising, this balance was broken. However, Lu Renbing's timely filling has now succeeded in restoring this balance. So now, whether it is Zhu Quanzhong, Li Keyong, or Yang Xingmi, there is no idea of usurping Tang and becoming self-reliant.
The premise is that the emperor does not have a brain convulsion and forcibly cuts the domain. Just like Tang Zhaozong in history.
What the? What do you say the emperor did in Bashu, Qianzhou, and Nanzhao? It was originally the preserve of the royal family. People love to do what they do, Nanzhao has been divided for almost two hundred years. The emperor took it back, and the vassal clan had to congratulate him.
We are divided internally, but externally, we are all a whole.
In fact, the territory, including Jiangnan, is now a wild land compared to the Central Plains, and the small feudal towns there have always been the most obedient to the royal family. The Central Plains Heroes basically did not react to the emperor's desire to restore his rule over Jiangnan and Lingnan. It's too far away to care. It's none of our business.
If it weren't for Zhu Quanzhong's disapproval of the world and killing Zhaozong and Emperor Wai, the Tang Dynasty would have survived for many years.
Therefore, the current state of Lu Renbing is actually the most in line with the interests of Zhu Quanzhong and other Kwantung princes. Guard your own one-third of an acre of land, and don't care about the Kwantung princes. Asking for officials and asking for money to buy, asking for soldiers without one, asking for food for money, and exchanging things. We are in a pure relationship of buying and selling.
Such an emperor, everyone is relieved.
In order to completely appease the hearts of the Kwantung princes, Lu Renbing said on many occasions that he was willing to share the world with the Kwantung princes, and he had no interest in cutting the feudal domain!! Well, Kansai, Kannan, and Kanbei don't count.
The Kwantung princes, although they didn't believe it, finally put a snack on it.
So he went crazy again, and in the third year of Qianning, Li Ke used soldiers against Wei Bojiedu, and beat Luo Hongxin all over the place.
In the fourth year of Qianning, Bianzhou again made soldiers against Luo Hong, and beat him all over the ground to find teeth. Who let him occupy Yanzhou and Yunzhou? These two places were originally Zhu Quanzhong's first sight, and these two states asked Li Keyong for help, but Luo Hongxin took the lead in occupying the two states.
What else to say, Li Keyong led his troops to kill Luo Hongxin first, and then Zhu Quanzhong killed him again. Dare to grab the meat in the mouth of the big guy. Don't hit who you hit. Lu Renbing said that he was very happy to eat melons.
The dissatisfaction is that it seems that he fanned the flames in other people's armies, and it didn't make much difference. The monarchs and ministers quickly passed the crisis of trust, and I don't know how they did it.
But fortunately, Lu Renbing is not losing money, and he has successfully established two intelligence networks that crisscross the country's major forces. One is placed on the bright side, based on Yang Fugong's 600 righteous sons, the Dongchang Office set up by the Dongchang Supervisory Military Envoy, and the other is the Jinyi Guard System with the royal caravan and the dart bureau as a cover.
These two systems, on the surface, are also responsible for helping Lu Renbing do business. Grain, weapons, and cloth were sold, and minerals, people, craftsmen, horses, livestock, and skins were bought.
The Kanto region has been in war for many years, and they can't resist Lu Renbing's blatant looting, they really lack everything.
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