May 15, 14th year of Datang Xiantong, Qianzhong Road, Banzhou, Zunyi County.

"Kill!"

"Roar!"

"Kill!"

"Roar!"

“.......”

Li Zuo, who was lying on a recliner under the eaves not far away, looked at the training scene of the soldiers on the school field with some emotion, it has been more than three years since he came to this era, and now he has finally gained a firm foothold in this era.

When he first crossed over, Li Zuo was a little helpless, and even very frightened, especially after being placed in the name of a god in a daze, he was even more panicked.

Later, when Li Zuo learned that he had traveled to the Tang Dynasty, he was quite happy for a while, thinking that he could finally see the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, but he was not happy for long, and when he learned that it was now the Tang Dynasty Xiantong period, or the eleventh year of Xiantong, he suddenly panicked.

In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor was incompetent, addicted to wine and entertainment, ignored the government and government, and paid serious taxes and miscellaneous taxes, resulting in political corruption, eunuch dictatorship, division of feudal towns, and party disputes among courtiers.

In the thirteenth year of Tang Xuanzong, Qiu Fu led the peasant uprising in eastern Zhejiang, and in the ninth year of Tang Yizong's Xiantong, Pang Xun led the garrison uprising in Guizhou.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, class contradictions intensified, and the emperor and officials indulged in extravagance, corruption, and greed, so that the interests of the peasants who depended on the land for their survival were completely in the hands of the ruling class and the landlord class.

The heavy burden on the peasants, the change of the decadent system of the ruling class, and the continuous wars have turned the residences of the majority of the peasants into ruins, and the lives of the people have been displaced, even if there is no danger in the war, the ruling class has ruthlessly oppressed the peasants in order to support the operation of the war machine, and increased the burden on the peasants.

In order to protect their own interests, the peasants had no choice but to rise up and resist.

Li Zuo knew that when Tang Xizong succeeded to the throne, a larger-scale peasant uprising that brought about the demise of the Tang Dynasty was about to break out, followed by a melee between the warlords of the feudal towns and towns, and the chaotic times began.

After learning the background of the times, Li Zuo gave up the idea of taking refuge in the Tang Dynasty, after all, the emperor at the end of the Tang Dynasty can be described as a strange person, some like to play music, some like to gamble, and finally there is a diligent government, and he was coerced by the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

Therefore, Li Zuo thought that the imperial court was no longer reliable, and as for the feudal town, he didn't think about it at all, waiting for the troubled times to come, not to mention whether the feudal town was strong enough, even if the feudal town was strong enough to sit firmly on one side, not to mention whether Li Zuo could be reused in the past, there was no benefit to himself.

The backers will fall, everyone will run, only he is the most reliable, and he has the identity of "King Ming", Li Zuo decided to take the people at the bottom as the cornerstone and become a force of his own.

Li Zuo, who made a decision, immediately sold everything he could sell what he brought, and finally exchanged it for grain, and then while recruiting people and horses, he let people spread the news of "King Ming's descent" everywhere.

In just one year, under the lure of food, Li Zuo, who pretended to be a ghost everywhere, had hundreds of thousands of followers in the Bashu region.

Thinking of this, Li Zuo couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, I have to say that in the case of the people's poor livelihood, religion is indeed a big killer weapon to demagogue people's minds and develop forces.

Just as Li Zuo was lying on the recliner looking at the sky and thinking about the past in a daze, a polite middle-aged man led two old men with big bellies to come over and saluted Li Zuo and said, "King Ming, Luo Hou is here." ”

"I've seen Master Hou." Li Zuo suddenly came back to his senses when he heard this, sat up straight, smiled at the person in the middle, and arched his hand in salute.

Banzhou Hou Luo Taiwang said that he was an old man, but in fact, he was only in his fifties, and he was too obese, so he looked a little old.

As for the fat old man behind Luo Taiwang, he is his housekeeper and his staff, called Luo Heng.

Luo Taiwang didn't care about Li Zuo's seemingly rude behavior, and after pursing his lips, he sat on the recliner on Li Zuo's left side.

Seeing this, Luo Heng stood behind Luo Taiwang with his hands tied.

Li Zuo smiled when he saw this, and then said to the middle-aged man in front of him, "The military advisor should also sit." ”

"King Xie Ming!" After Shi Shoudao heard this, he walked to the stool on Li Zuo's right and sat down.

Shi Shoudao was the first to give him the identity of King Ming when Li Zuo first crossed over to be the polite middle-aged man, he was originally a native of Hanzhou, Xichuan Province, Jiannan, and was forced to be a homeless person in the middle of the road.

In this era, it was not only the low-level homeless people who were dissatisfied with the imperial court, but also some scholars, landlords, and gentry.

As the land annexation becomes more and more serious, and when the big fish eat the small fish, some small landlords and gentry will also be swallowed up by the big gate valve families, not to mention the families of the scholars and gentry who are in the middle of the road.

Especially in the land of Bashu, the original scholars and landlords and gentry, with Tang Xuanzong entering Shu to avoid trouble, the northern wealthy clans went south on a large scale, and naturally wanted to take food from the local wealthy clans.

"I don't know what the Hou Ye is doing here?" Li Zuo personally poured a cup of tea for Luo Taiwang and said with a smile: "Master Hou has always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing." ”

Luo Taiwang smiled when he heard this, and took a sip of tea from the teacup before he replied: "Ben Hou promised two years ago, after you help me recapture Banzhou, I will be my Anle Hou, and I won't care about anything else." ”

After a pause, Luo Taiwang returned to the topic with a heavy face: "King Ming, Benhou received the news, and sure enough, as you said, the Luo Min people have united the Nanzhao army, and now they have gathered in Juzhou, and I am afraid that the army will be overwhelmed in the near future." ”

"Is it finally here?" Li Zuo was stunned when he heard this, smiled and said indifferently: "Since you have already guessed it, what is there to worry about?" ”

Originally, Li Zuo thought that when they defeated the Luo Min people two years ago and recovered Banzhou and other places, Nanzhao would send troops, so he was ready to fight a guerrilla war with Nanzhao, but he didn't expect that Nanzhao had no movement for two years.

Luo Taiwang sighed when he heard this, and said: "There is also bad news, Qin Kuangmou, the envoy of Qianzhong Jingluo, has abandoned the city and fled to Jingnan when he heard the news. ”

"What?" Li Zuo was shocked when he heard this, and said suspiciously: "Isn't there anything we are standing in the way here?" Why is he running so fast? ”

The envoy of Qianzhong Economic Strategy, the full name is the envoy of Qianzhong Economic Strategy to solicit observation and disposal, leading Guizhou, Shi, Fu, Yi, Chen, Si, Fei, Li, Bo, Nan, Qin, Zhen, Jin, Xi and other prefectures, about Fuling, Pengshui, Sujiang, Youyang and other places in Chongqing today, south of Enshi, Lichuan, Jianshi and other counties and cities in Hubei, west of Yuanling, Lipu and other counties in Hunan, and north of Tongren, Sinan and Zunyi counties and cities in Guizhou, and governed in Qianzhou (now Pengshui).

Seeing this, Luo Taiwang immediately glanced at Li Zuo angrily, and explained a little helplessly: "Two years ago, we easily recaptured Banzhou, and successively recovered Yizhou, Zhenzhou, Feizhou, Qinzhou, Nanzhou and other places, and Nanzhao did not react, plus in the past two years, there have been rumors outside that we have united with Nanzhao, and Qin Kuang's soldiers are few and far behind, probably frightened." ”

Hearing Luo Taiwang's explanation, Li Zuo suddenly frowned, sighed and said, "In other words, not only do we have to fight the enemy alone, but we also have to guard against other Tang troops taking the opportunity to attack us?" ”

Although he knew that Qin Kuangmou had indeed abandoned the city and fled to Jingnan in history, Li Zuo never thought that he would flee when he heard the news, and it was still when he had already occupied Banzhou and had a barrier for him.

At this time, Shi Shoudao on the side suddenly spoke: "King Ming, according to his subordinates, I am afraid that the rumors outside were spread by Nanzhao, and their purpose is to separate us from the Tang Army. ”

Li Zuo smiled embarrassedly when he heard this, the initial rumor was accurately spread by the Luo Min people who were defeated and fled into the mountains, and Li Zuo, who got the news later, in order to gain a firm foothold and let the surrounding Tang army take care of it, sent people to secretly expand and spread this rumor.

Of course, except for Li Zuo and the intelligence system he set up, Jinyiwei, who knew about this matter, no one else knew about it, including the military advisor Shi Shoudao.

However, Shi Shoudao, who was concentrating on thinking, obviously did not notice Li Zuo's abnormality, but said to himself: "However, the current situation is also an opportunity for us, an opportunity to completely control the northern part of Qianzhong Dao. ”

Hearing Shi Shoudao's words, Li Zuo did not respond, but turned to Luo Taiwang and said: "Hou Ye don't worry, I said two years ago that as long as Hou Ye keeps his promise, I will keep Hou Ye safe, besides, today is different from the past, I have already ordered people to build checkpoints along the Neijiang River in Banzhou, Yizhou and Feizhou, and it is not so easy for the Nanzhao army to break in." ”

Two years ago, Li Zuo, who had a man and horse, naturally needed a base area to resettle, otherwise he would continue to wander around, no matter how much money and food he had, not to mention that he would not be able to consume it, and the people's hearts would gradually disperse.

However, now that the Tang Dynasty has declined, its own strength is still there, and Li Zuo doesn't want to raise the flag to rebel too early, so the idea of grabbing a piece of territory in Shu was directly snapped away by him.

In the end, Li Zuo set his sights on the location of Banzhou in Qianzhong Province on the map.

The geographical location of Banzhou is very superior, "the Antarctic Antarctic is enclosed, the thorny road is connected to the west, 1,400 miles from east to west, and the surrounding area is 3,000 miles, covering the southwest Olympic area." The west is out of Sichuan Qijiang and Nanchuan, which is the front door; Southwest out of Chishui, Wusa, Shuixi, Huangping, for the back door; Its east out of the lake wide bias bridge, Yuanzhou, for the right rib. Where the three provinces, this terrain is the northwest moat mountain for the pass, the southeast river is the pool, and the valley is coiled in the middle. The precipice is steep, across the river, people and horses are not allowed to go in parallel", the west passes Bashu, the east connects Jingnan, and it is an important gateway for the Central Plains to enter Qianzhou.

Banzhou is not only connected to the Yangtze River channel, but also connected to the Wujiang River Basin, the geographical location is very superior, the territory of the Lou Mountains from the southwest to the northeast, in the meantime, is a natural barrier, it can be said that Banzhou is an important place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, has always been important to the soldiers.

At the same time, Banshu is also very rich in natural resources, it has both arable fertile soil, fields suitable for grazing, and mountain forest resources for hunting, and mountain mineral reserves are amazing.

More importantly, after the "Anshi Rebellion", with the decline of the Tang central government, the control of Banzhou and other southwest regions also declined greatly, and some of the stronger tribal chiefs in the southwest region have divided themselves and established themselves, and the Tang central government could not stop it.

In the fifth year of the Great Calendar of Daizong (770 years), the Banzhou bureaucrats rebelled, and the following year, the Tang Dynasty Emperor took Luo Rong as the governor of the six states, recruited envoys along the border, the prince Taibao, and Ronglu doctors, responsible for quelling the rebellion of the Banzhou bureaucrats, and then Luo Rong spent 7 years digging mountains and opening roads, suppressing and appeasing the rebellion, and the Banzhou rebellion was finally quelled.

After quelling the rebellion, in order to continue to control the southwest important land of Banzhou, Tang Dynasty Zong appointed Luo Rong as the Marquis of Banzhou, "that is, its land is divided, and the Marquis of the world is ordered to sow soil", and since then Banzhou has become the hereditary fief of Luo, and then Luo's has gone through four generations and passed to Luo Taiwang, and Luo has ruled Banzhou for more than 80 years.

In the past 80 years, with the gradual decline of the Tang Dynasty, Banzhou Luo began to face the increasingly severe surrounding situation, first the "Luo Min" people who were active in the Bijie and Guiyang areas began to gradually become stronger, and the strong "Luo Min" people were eyeing Banzhou, and then the rise in the northwest of Yunnan Nanzhao took advantage of the decline of the Tang Dynasty and began to expand eastward, and Banzhou, a rich land, bore the brunt of the brunt and was targeted by the Nanzhao State.

At the beginning, the first three generations of leaders of the Luo clan had some skills, and the Tang family at that time still had a bit of prestige, and Banzhou could still keep it safe for a while.

But in Luo Taiwang's generation, Luo still failed to keep the rich land of Banzhou after all.

In the thirteenth year of Dazhong (859), the "Luo Min" people united with the Nanzhao Kingdom to capture Banzhou in one fell swoop, and the Luo clan lost control of Banzhou for the first time.

The following year, Tang Xuanzong sent Li Ju to lead troops to repel the "Luo Min" people, and Banzhou briefly returned to Luo's hands.

However, because Luo Taiwang is too useless, Banzhou can be controlled by him, not because he is powerful, but because he is backed by the big tree of the Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty was weak, Banzhou was lost.

In fact, in the end, it was true, in the second year of Tang Yizong's Xiantong (861), as the Tang court was too busy to take care of itself, Banzhou was once again occupied by Nanzhao, and because the Tang army was unable to recover it, Luo Taiwang could only lead his people to flee to his uncle's house in Luzhou, Sichuan, and since then Luo has completely lost control of Banzhou.

Luo Taiwang, who was unwilling to fail, in order to regain control of Banzhou for more than ten years, although he united with the surrounding Tang army many times to recruit the "Luo Min" people who occupied Banzhou, but so far to no avail.

In other words, Banju is a lost piece of land that the imperial court wants to recover but can't recover, and even if Rizo occupies it, the imperial court will not only say anything, but may even get a reward.

But the premise of all this is that a righteous name is needed, so Li Zuo paid attention to Banzhou Hou Luo Taiwang, who was anxiously stomping his feet in Luzhou......