Five months have passed in the blink of an eye, and more than 10,000 households and more than 50,000 people have gathered in Dingzhou City, which has gradually prospered. The strength of Fengyunwei has also gradually expanded, and has expanded to ten battalions of soldiers, each battalion has 1,200 men, and the available soldiers have reached 12,000 soldiers, and the auxiliary soldiers of half peasants and half soldiers are as many as 20,000.

It's not that Li Fengyun doesn't want to train more soldiers and horses, it's just that it costs too much to train soldiers, Fengyunwei has always adhered to the strategy of elite soldiers, and 12,000 soldiers is already the limit that the Yiwu Army can bear now. Although the cost of auxiliary troops is far less than that of soldiers, it is also a large number, if it were not for the great increase in the civil strength of Dingzhou and Zhuozhou in the past year, and the support of the Fengyun Dart Bureau, Li Fengyun would not even be able to raise these 30,000 soldiers and horses.

In order to ensure the strength of Fengyunwei, Li Fengyun did not even dare to train cavalry on a large scale, and only retained the 500-member hussar regiment of the pro-guard regiment, and most of the soldiers of the hussar regiment were Khitans who were famous in Liao. I have to say that Li Fengyun did nothing wrong when he released the Khitans in the Tibetan Army Valley, and recruited a group of men who couldn't survive on the grassland.

In the past few years, the wars and mergers of various ethnic groups in the grassland have never stopped, and a large number of Khitan herdsmen have been displaced, and many of them have heard the rumors of the group of people who returned to the grassland earlier, and have come to Li Fengyun, hoping to find a way to live for themselves, their wives and children. In this way, on the contrary, the strength of Li Fengyun's five hundred cavalry has been raised to a higher level, although it is still not as good as the elite iron cavalry of the Great Liao, but compared with the ordinary cavalry of the Liao State, it is no longer up and down.

In order to commend Li Fengyun, Liu Chengyou handed over the control of Shenzhou to Li Fengyun, and the newly formed two battalions of soldiers, the pioneer battalion and the vanguard battalion, were stationed around Shenzhou. The situation in Shenzhou is worse than that of Dingzhou and Zhuozhou, and the state capital, Shenzhou, has a population of only 8,000 until now, less than one-twelfth of what it was at its peak. In Shenzhou, bandits are rampant, and there are many grass bandits.

The entire Deep State has a population of less than 30,000, but there are no less than 20,000 bandits and bandits, large and small, and thousands of militia groups under various names.

Dingzhou, whose situation has just improved, has been burdened with heavy burdens.

After Li Fengyun accepted Shenzhou, he immediately mobilized troops and horses, took turns to fight, and vigorously exterminated the bandits and robbers in Shenzhou. Within two months, dozens of bandits and bandits were exterminated, dozens of militia groups in Shenzhou were disbanded, and thousands were beheaded. Among them, there are no less than 500 bandits and bullies in the evil township, and they have shocked the Quartet with thunderous means, forcing the bandits in Shenzhou to either be good and honestly do their duty, or flee to other state capitals.

After the rectification, only 2,000 militia groups were retained to maintain local law and order, and the law and order in Shenzhou suddenly improved, stabilizing the hearts of the local people.

Li Fengyun also encouraged agriculture and commerce to abolish the various forms of taxation and forced labor according to the examples of Dingzhou and Zhuozhou, which was well received by the people. A series of measures were implemented, and the Deep State gradually showed vitality. I believe that in less than a year, the deep state should be self-sufficient and no longer rely on the support of the two states.

Everything seemed to be very good, but several news news came one after another, shocking Li Fengyun.

The first thing that came was that Li Fengming, the commander of Fengchenwei in the Southern Tang Dynasty, was beheaded by Li Jing, the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, because of his secret communication with foreign countries, and his intentions were not treacherous, and he was beheaded by Li Jing, the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Qiu Xian reported and arrested the traitor Li Fengming and was promoted to the commander of Fengchenwei in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Hearing the news, Li Fengyun was stunned. Although his friendship with Li Fengming cannot be said to be very deep, he still admires Li Fengming's loyalty. If Qiu Xian colluded with foreign countries and plotted to kill the king, Li Fengyun might still believe that this person was originally utilitarian and good at speculation. Li Fengming was loyal to the Li family in the Southern Tang Dynasty, how could he collude with foreign countries and plot to kill the king?

Is Li Jing confused?

Then another secret news came from the Fengyun Dart Bureau, which made Li Fengyun seem to understand something.

Li Hongji, the prince of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was afraid that his father, Li Jing, would re-establish his uncle Li Jingsui as the prince and replace him because he was not pleased with his father. He used Yuan Congfan, who had a grudge against Li Jingsui to kill his son, on the second day of the eighth month, poisoned and killed Li Jingsui.

And it was Li Fengming who exposed the matter to Li Jing, and Li Fengming didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, so he accused the prince Li Hongji in public of not having virtue as the prince of the country, and asked the Southern Tang Emperor Li Jing to abolish Li Hongji's position as the crown prince, deal with it strictly, and choose another prince as the crown prince.

Under the pressure of his ministers, Emperor Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty had to depose the crown prince Li Hongji and ordered him to commit suicide. Then Li Jing named his sixth son Li Congjia (Note 1) as the king of Wu, participated in political affairs with Shang Shuling, lived in the East Palace, and was canonized as the crown prince.

In the name of Li Yuku's belief in Buddhism and cowardice and young virtue, Zhong Mo (Note 2), a servant of the Southern Tang Dynasty Rite Department, asked Li Congshan, the prince of the State of Liji, to be the crown prince (Note 3). Li Jing was furious and released Zhong Mo to Raozhou.

Li Fengming actually made such a mistake that he forced the Southern Tang Emperor Li Jing to kill his own son Li Hongji, no matter how big the mistake Li Hongji made, it was also Li Jing's eldest son, and he was the candidate used by Li Jing to replace Li Jingsui.

Although Li Hongji has an impulsive and irritable personality and is not favored by Li Jing, he has made great achievements. once defended Runzhou, overrode public opinion, and promoted Duyu Hou Chai Kehong as the former enemy's main general, and thwarted Wu Yue's attack. Later, he rescued Changzhou, broke Wu Yue's army, relieved the siege of Changzhou, beheaded 10,000 people, and captured more than 10 generals of Wu Yue. Therefore, Li Hongji won the hearts of the soldiers and soldiers.

Li Jing deliberately snubbed Li Hongji, not necessarily because he wanted to sharpen Li Hongji's temperament, after all, Li Jing was in his prime, and a powerful prince with heavy troops also made him uneasy. He pretended to snub the crown prince and get close to the emperor's brother Li Jingsui, not necessarily without the intention of letting the two check and balance each other.

It's a pity that the suspicious and impulsive Li Hongji misunderstood Li Jing's meaning and did something stupid. If Li Fengming hadn't broken through this, Li Jing would have admitted it and pretended to be confused, after all, which emperor was really willing to pass on the throne to his younger brother instead of his own son?

As a result, Li Fengming stabbed the matter, forcing Li Jing to have to kill the killer, how can this make Li Jing not hold a grudge?

Feng Chenwei was originally a knife of the Southern Tang Emperor, specially responsible for finding out the news of various countries in the world and dealing with some things that could not be put on the surface. In Li Jing's opinion, Li Fengming is just a dog he raised, and this dog just knows too many things, and he dares to do things not according to the master's wishes and make the owner embarrassed, so naturally there is no need to keep it.

Thinking about this, Li Fengyun couldn't help but feel deeply unworthy and sad for Li Fengming. How many people can end up well?

(It's almost over.,Speed up the progress.,Originally, this paragraph was going to be written in detail.,Now it's saved.,It's an explanation of the previous article!)

Note 1: Li Congjia, (August 15, 937 - August 13, 978), also known as Li Yu, that is, the famous Southern Tang Dynasty Queen, the sixth son of Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty Yuanzong (that is, the Southern Tang Dynasty), the first name Congjia, the word Chongguang, the number Zhong Yin, Lianfeng Jushi, Han nationality, born in Jinling (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), ancestral home Pengcheng (now Tongshan District, Xuzhou, Jiangsu), the last monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Note 2: Zhong Mo, the word Zhongyi. Southern Tang politicians. His ancestral home was Huiji (now Shaoxing), and he later migrated to Chong'an (now Fujian), and finally lived in Jinling (now Nanjing). Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty was a bachelor of Hanlin, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, a judge of Shangshu Province, and was demoted to Sima of Yaozhou.

Note 3: Li Congshan (940-987), a character teacher, was originally from Chengji County, Longxi County (now Tianshui City, Gansu Province), a poet of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the fifth dynasty, and the seventh son of Li Jing of Yuanzong. Mother Ling Mrs. Wu Guotai (one said Empress Zhong), the younger brother of Empress Li. During the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was named King Zheng, and he was relocated to Taiwei and Zhongshu Ling.