After the danger of Guanyin Mountain, Xiao Mill, who did not die in the catastrophe, issued a decree to exempt the taxes of the disaster-stricken villages in Wuyou County, and allocated special funds for disaster relief, and the reclamation project was carried out as usual.

The soldiers are working together with the people of Miao Yao to promote harmonious relations between the military and the people; second, it can increase grain and grass reserves; Third, by the way, the military power will be taken into his own hands. Killing three birds with one stone, a thought quickly formed in his mind.

Because of the successive victories and the constraints of small peasant thinking, the heroes of the Liang State boasted that they had the merit of supporting the establishment, and their performance was very different: arbitrary, arbitrary, and empty-eyed, even the emperor Xiao Mo did not pay attention to it.

One day, Xiao Mo climbed the Elephant Mountain and overlooked the bank of the Wushui River: "Nest in Wuyou County, for a long time, I can't control the generals scattered in various states and counties, won't I become the king of the mountain?" ”

Zhongshu Shilang Cen Wenwen (Cen Shen's grandfather) seems to see Xiao Miao's thoughts: "Your Majesty, there is aura on the bank of the Wushui River, the left lion and the right elephant, the treasure land of feng shui, why don't we build another capital in Zhusitong?" ”

Of course, Xiao Mo would not agree with Cen Wenwen's suggestion: "Since ancient times, it has been the practice of establishing a capital in the infinite countryside, not to mention that the Tucheng of Zhusitong is too small to accommodate many people. It's better for me to go back to Gangneung Water City. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister heard that the place of Bucheng, the mountain is high and the road is far away, it is a good place to hide soldiers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not impossible to strengthen the country with the danger of mountain streams." Cen Wenwen insisted.

"To the south of Jichu, there are many inconveniences, that's it, that's it." Xiao Mo stopped and said.

"Your Majesty, you belong to the rabbit, you have lived in the water city for a long time, it is not good, I hope Your Majesty will think twice." Cen Wen pinched his fingers and counted.

"There are more than three countries in our Liang country: first, there is a lot of land, the territory extends to Jiujiang in the east, the Three Gorges in the west, the Han River in the north, and Jiaozhi (now Vietnam) in the south, and all the lands in the south belong to Liang; second, there are many soldiers, 400,000 soldiers under my command; The third is that there are many generals in me, including Dong Jingzhen, Lei Shimeng, Zheng Wenxiu, Xu Xuanche and other seven little tigers, and there are many talents under him. With these three more, even if I live in Water City, I can sit back and relax! Xiao Mian smiled, "Even if Li Yuan from the north comes, I can make a draw with him and rule the river......"

Xiao Mo does not have any long-term goals, nor does he have strict discipline, and his assumed style of acting is destined to be only a grass king in troubled times.

Cen Wenwen understood Xiao Milling, didn't say more, and thought, hey, Xiao Milling can get by, the Tang Dynasty is the biggest opponent, why does he turn a blind eye?

As a result, the confused Xiao Mo has a well-known nickname - Xiao Sanduo. A down-and-out bookseller, a small county order, but now has such a great river and mountain, the important thing is that it is under the control of the Xiao family, and only Xiao Mo himself can understand the wonderful mood.

Just when Xiao Mo was going smoothly, going through ups and downs all the way, and singing forward, a civil strife from Liang changed the pattern of the whole game of chess.

The fact that the heroes are not able to lose their tails is indeed the biggest problem facing the king. In this regard, Xiao Mo was annoyed and angry, pondered for a long time, and came up with a clever plan of "releasing the military power from farming", hoping to achieve the goal of reducing the military power of the generals by reducing the burden on the people, developing agriculture, reducing the army, and disarming and returning to the fields.

The idea of freeing up troops and farming is necessary for a healthy regime, and no country needs to maintain an excessively large army. However, its legitimacy and operability depend heavily on the timing and specific circumstances of implementation, and policies that lack environmental adaptability are always harmful. Xiao Mo didn't see the hidden dangers of this strategy, and only wanted to be happy for a while.

Shaw's policies undoubtedly had the disastrous consequences of political disorder and military collapse. Dong Jingzhen and other Yuan Gongsu generals expressed strong resistance, but the policy was still strongly implemented, and a large part of the army around the capital Jiangling was disbanded, except for Xiao Mo's personal guard army, a large number of Yueyang system troops were involved in the disbandment.

While knowing that the contradictions had gradually brewed and expanded, Xiao Mo did not take corresponding easing measures to appease the generals' emotions a little.

The conflict broke out without accident. The one who caused the greatest loss of profits from the strike was naturally Dong Jingzhen, the king of Jin, who was not only the leader of the Yuezhou army, but also the great Sima of Xiao Liang - the theoretical generalissimo of soldiers and horses. Xiao Mo wants to scatter soldiers, that is, he wants to take the Dong Group.

Dong Jingzhen's younger brother Dong Jinggui is also a general, and he goes straight to the point, he naturally understands that Xiao Miao's heart is to harvest them. In this regard, he chose to take the underworld - rebellion and conspire to kill Xiao Miao.

As a result, because the secrecy work was not in place, the conspiracy was exposed, and Xiao Mo came to strike first, and immediately arrested and killed Dong Jinggui. Maybe Xiao Mo felt that this was not enough, so he immediately issued an edict to pardon Dong Jingzhen and ask Dong Jingzhen, who was fighting in Changsha, to return to Baling as soon as possible.

Infighting has already taken place, and an insincere pardon has no effect. When Dong Jingzhen heard this, his heart froze, his younger brother didn't keep it, and he was almost the same, who would carry his head and stupidly send it to Jiangling to Xiao Sanduo to cut it?

Dong Jingzhen quickly threw an olive branch to the Tang Dynasty army and sent people to contact Li Xiaogong, the king of Li Tang Zhaojun, who was guarding Bashu, to discuss the surrender. The Tang Dynasty also reacted very quickly, and Xu Shao, who was guarding Xiazhou (present-day Yichang, Hubei), prepared to go out of the gorge to respond.

Xiao Mo was forced to take over, Changsha is the core area of the Liang territory, if there is an incident that should be combined inside and outside, the consequences will be uncontrollable. Xiao Mo then ordered Zhang Xiu, the king of Qi, to lead an army to attack Changsha and resolutely put down the rebellion.

Dong and Zhang are both Yueyang figures, and their troops are outnumbered, but in a mess, Zhang Xiu naturally has some advantages. Dong Jingzhen and Zhang Xiu are old friends, and when they meet this time, they are actually their own masters, which is inevitably a little embarrassing.

"The sea of bitterness is endless, and turning back is the shore." Zhang Xiu stood under the city and persuaded.

Dong Jingzhen climbed the city tower and tried to persuade Zhang Xiu to give up his intention to attack: "Peng Yue the year before last, killed Han Xin in previous years, haven't you heard of it?" Why fight each other? ”

"If you surrender to the Tang Dynasty, you are disrespectful to the emperor, and there is no forgiveness for killing!"

"The birds are all gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooked. Kill me, and you will be killed by Xiao Mo as well. ”……

The negotiations broke down, and then Zhang Xiu entered the siege of the city, and the two began to fight. Dong Jingzhen was unfortunately hit by his own curse, his troops failed to withstand Zhang Xiu's siege, let alone wait for Xu Shao's rescue, Dong Jingzhen broke the siege and fled, and was killed by his own subordinates.

The successful suppression of Dong Jingzhen's rebellion did not bring much consolidation to Xiao Liang, and the scene behind it was even more difficult to clean up. Zhang Xiu was promoted to Shang Shuling for his merits and became the second person in the Liang regime. Got this authority under one person and ten thousand people, Zhang Xiu smiled happily.

The brothers who supported Xiao Mo as the emperor at the beginning all died almost, Shen Liu died, Xu Deji died, and Dong Jingzhen also died. Without the restraint of other heroes, Zhang Xiu began to indulge himself, began to dictate power, and began to do whatever he wanted. Xiao Miao's suspicious personality and Zhang Xiu's indulgence soon broke out into a new conflict.

When Xiao Mo felt that his throne had been challenged like never before, he could no longer tolerate it. Originally, they could sit down and talk about it well, but Xiao Mo chose a trick.

While drinking, Xiao Mo staged a coup d'état, arrested Zhang Xiu on the spot on the charge of "rebellion", and personally drew his sword to kill Shang Shuling Zhang Xiu.

Killing is a bloody job, and it is also a technical job, and there are ways to kill and when to kill and how to kill. It's a pity that Xiao Milling has been selling books for several years, but he never likes to read, and he doesn't understand the magic of borrowing a knife to kill people. There is a suspicious and suspicious heart hidden under his lenient appearance, how many comrades-in-arms have been separated, and how many soldiers' hearts have been chilled.

The impact of the serial infighting was extremely bad, and the generals who were guarding outside were afraid of causing harm to themselves, and many of them chose to flee. They walked quietly, waved their hands, and did not take away a single cloud, but only endless loss......

In this regard, in addition to a long sigh, Xiao Mo could only pay attention to them and let them go. Let's go, let's go, it's a big deal that I can go to the street to set up a stall again.

The Xiao Liang regime, which had just formed a scale, encountered an unprecedented centrifugal crisis, but Xiao Mo could not come up with a better plan to reunite the old ministry. Also because of the internal strife of the Liang State, Xiao Mo lost the precious opportunity to chase the Central Plains, laying the groundwork for his future downfall.

When Emperor Xiao Sanduo was busy fighting his comrades-in-arms who had supported him, and Lao Li (Yuan) took several sons in the north under the banner of maintaining the rule of the Sui Dynasty, busy cleaning up all the princes, one by one he beat him to cry and cry his mother, and even the most powerful Wagang army was wiped out, and the strength of the Tang Dynasty increased greatly.

Li Tang's main force was concentrated in Xinzhou (Kuizhou), and Xiao Miao's main force was concentrated in Jingzhou, and the two sides faced each other. Xiazhou in the middle is the front line of the two sides. ** Blocked for a long time in Gorge and unable to make progress.

To the west of Xinzhou (Kuizhou), there is Kaizhou and Tongzhou, and there is a barbarian chief named Ran Zhaoze in Kaizhou, who is more powerful in the local area and does not cooperate with the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Mo saw this opportunity and sent his Dongping King Xiao Yan to Kaizhou and cooperate with Ran Zhaoze, thus laying a nail in the back of Xinzhou (Kuizhou)**.

Ran Zhaoze's combat power is not weak, and he once captured Tongzhou in February of the third year of Wude, which made Xinzhou (Kuizhou)** in an unfavorable situation of being attacked by the enemy.

The Tang Dynasty confronted Xiao Miao, and Xiao Mi sent troops from Jingzhou to attack Xiazhou, trying to attack Xiao Jiati and Ran Zhao in Kaizhou, conquering Li Tang's Xiazhou and Xinzhou (Kuizhou), and opening up the passage into Bashu.

Xiao Mo sent two troops for this, the first time sending Yang Daosheng to besiege Xiazhou, but was defeated by Xu Shao. The second time, Chen Puhuan was sent to lead the sailors into Xiazhou, trying to open up the connection with Xiao Jiti in Kaizhou, but he was also thwarted by Xu Shao.

Once Xiazhou and Xinzhou (Kuizhou) are lost, not only will Li Tang's forward base against Xiao Mo be pulled out, but also the security of Bashu will be threatened, Li Tang's army has not made progress for several months, so Li Yuan is very angry and decides to remove the commander-in-chief.