Chapter 342 The First General of the Late Tang Dynasty
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The summer is hot and time has entered the dog days. It is the end of June, and the fire and July have begun again. The sun is getting hotter and hotter day by day, and the sky is still not raining. Dengzhou is busy, and all parts have become a large construction site. The Kanjian team discovered a large gold mine in Qixia Mountain in Huang County, Dengzhou. It is estimated that this is another huge gold mine with at least 100,000 kilograms of gold reserves.
The hungry people who came from all directions also set off a second wave of refugees. This time, the refugees were larger than the first wave of 200,000 refugees. According to statistics, only a few of these refugees came from places such as Laizhou and Qingzhou, and more from Zibo, Qizhou, Caozhou and Xuzhou. On the border of Dengzhou, there was already a dirt city built by Zhendong Army here.
Although Li Jing did not refuse to help refugees, he strictly prohibited refugees from breaking into Dengzhou without permission.
Every refugee who wants to enter Dengzhou must first pass through Dengzhou and register their hometown, family members and other information. Then they must disinfect their bodies, take a bath with the distributed insecticide potion, and send them a new suit, and then burn all the torn clothes on their bodies. They must be in the Tucheng for a week, and then the doctor will check that there are no infectious diseases, and then they will be picked up by people from various construction sites and workshops.
This wave of refugees far exceeded 200,000, and as many as more than 300,000. Although there were many people, Li Jing finally decided to take these people away. Among them, 100,000 of them were picked up and mined, while their families and some weaker ones were transported to Liaodong for land reclamation this time. Since the stronger ones were all going to mine, these land reclamation people reclaimed land in collective form. Except for handing over half of them to the Zhendong Army for military storage, they divided the remaining half equally and exempted from taxes for three years. In the next five years, only one dou of grain was collected per mu.
The influx of a large number of refugees also brought a lot of messy information.
Wang Shu, the governor of Shangzhou in Guanzhong, said that the prefecture treasury was exhausted and the people paid the money for the treasury. The people were angry and uproared, and beat the governor and killed two officials. After the new governor Li Gao arrived at the office, he arrested more than 30 people including Li Shuwen, and all beheaded.
The Secretariat of the Secretariat, Tong Pingzhang, was the minister of Liu Zhan. Zhan was famous for his honest and straightforward advice. Zhan, whose courtesy name was Jizhi, was later moved to Guizhou. At the beginning of Dazhong, he became a Jinshi. In the fourth year, he became a member of the Yan and Iron Envoy. Xiantong first joined the court as a doctor of Taichang. Prime Minister Liu Jian recommended him to be a Hanlin scholar. He was appointed as a minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the Hanlin Chengzhi. He served as the governor of Hedong Jiedu. After ten years, he was appointed as Tong Pingzhang. Emperor Yizong died because of his love for his daughter, Princess Tongchang, and killed dozens of medical officials, and detained his relatives.
There were more than 300 clans. Zhan passed away and was demoted to the Sihu of Huanzhou. Emperor Xizong ascended the throne and transferred it to the governor of Guozhou. In February of the first year of Qianfu, he entered the court as the Minister of Justice. When he entered the court, the people of Beijing raised money and hired hundreds of plays to welcome him. In May, the prime minister Wang Duo commented that An Jimu's residence was not his own, but he was bribed from all directions, but he was afraid of others' knowledge. The minister, the minister, was in charge of Liu Ye and Lu Yan, and Wei Baoheng, was afraid of Liu Zhan. After returning to Beijing, he specially invited him to a banquet and drink. After Zhan returned to the banquet, he died suddenly three days after he returned to the house.
In June, the court appointed the Minister of War and the Minister of Personnel, Cui Yanzhao, as the Minister of the Secretariat of the Secretariat, and was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Se
Within less than a year after the new emperor ascended the throne, he was promoted to Hanlin Bachelor Lu Xie as a member of Tongpingzhang.
Yu Cong, the governor of Dongdongdao of Jinshan, and the young tutor of the prince, was in the same position as Pingzhang.
He was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat and the governor of Zhenhai Jiehai, Zhao Yinjin, and the staff of Pingzhang.
Pei Tan, the governor of Huazhou, was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat, and was in charge of the Pingzhang;
Liu Zhan, the governor of Guozhou, was appointed as the Minister of Justice, and the Jin Tongpingzhang was appointed as the Minister of Justice.
He was appointed as the Minister of War and the Minister of Duzhi Cui Yanzhao as the Minister of the Secretariat. He was in charge of the Pingzhang and the transfer of salt and iron from all walks of life.
He was appointed as the minister of the disciple Liu Ye and the minister of the school.
Zheng Qie, the Minister of Personnel, was appointed as the Minister of War, and was in charge of the same affairs.
The Hanlin Bachelor was awarded the imperial edict, and the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Lu Xieshou, was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and was in the same position as Pingzhang.
In less than a year, the court worshipped nine ministers in a row.
At the same time, former prime ministers Lu Yan and Wei Baoheng were exiled first and then executed. The prime ministers Pei Tan and Liu Zhan both died of illness shortly after they became prime ministers.
With the prime minister Wang Duo of the two dynasties, the court now has eight prime ministers.
The prime minister in the court changed his lantern and was appointed as a entrusted person, making the place even more uneasy. With the arrival of a large number of refugees, a news that Li Jing had expected also came, and Caozhou was captured by thieves.
After Wang Xianzhi entered the territory of Tianping Army from Yicheng Army, Huang Chao immediately raised an army to respond in his hometown.
Huang Chao led his brothers of the same clan, Huang Cun, Huang Ye, Huang Qin, Huang Bing, Huang Wantong, Huang Sihou, Huang Kui, Huang Enye's other nephew Huang Hao, nephew Lin Yan, and his confidants Wang Chongba, Chang Hong, Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guiba, Liu Tang, Liu Shanfu and others to uprising the incident.
It is known as the Eight Brothers' Uprising. Before the uprising, Huang Chao once wrote an anti-poetry prophecy that made people spread it everywhere.
The golden toad fights for his eyes and turns the world back to Caozhou!
Huang Chao was in rebellion. Eight brothers, nephews and other relatives, as well as salt sellers, raised more than a thousand men to capture the wrongful words and welcomed the arrival of Wang Xianzhi Cao Army. Then the two groups of troops gathered together and attacked Caozhou directly. Before Xue Chong could react, the Cao army had already captured Caozhou, the Central Plains City.
Caozhou was not a small county town but a prefecture city. According to Li Jing's thought, the world should have been shocked. But in fact, the news sent back by spies sent by all parties surprised Li Jing. The fall of Caozhou did not cause much shock to many people. Even Xue Chong, the commander of the Tianping Army, was not too surprised, but was slowly gathering troops to prepare for encirclement and suppression.
When Li Zhen saw Li Jing's reaction, he said a few words before Li Jing understood.
Xue Chong, the governor of Tianping Army, actually just took over the Tianping Army. As early as last year, there was another governor of Tianping Army, Gao Pian, the first general of the late Tang Dynasty. Who was Gao Pian, who was called the first general of the late Tang Dynasty?
When Li Jing mentioned this name, it was very impressive. Even when Li Jing was reading history books, some people lamented that the Tang Dynasty was actually destroyed by Gao Pian. This shows how powerful this person is.
Gao Pian, whose courtesy name is Qianli, is the grandson of Gao Chongwen, the king of Nanping County. His ancestral home is Wei County, Bohai. His ancestors were the famous Han family of Shandong. The Gao family's imperial guards. His ancestor Gao Chongwen was a famous general during the reign of Emperor Xianzong.
The Gao family was the general of the imperial guards for generations, and Gao Pian served as the Duke of the Right Shence. At the beginning of Emperor Yizong, Gao Pian led troops to defend Dangxiang and Tubo and was appointed as the governor of Qinzhou. In the seventh year of Xiantong, Gao Pian was stationed in Annan and became the governor of Jinghai Army. He once rectified the Jiangdao of Annan to Guangzhou. He communicated with the transportation of materials. Later, he was the General of the Right Jinwu and was the governor of Tianping Army. This year, the Southern Tang invaded the border and invaded Xichuan. The court transferred Gao Pian as the governor of Xichuan and went to the Nanzhao to conquer Nanzhao.
Gao Pian is now fifty-four years old. His most powerful record was when he was guarding Annan and being the governor of Jinghai Army, he defeated 200,000 barbarians and stabilized the situation in Annan.
When Li Yan succeeded to the throne, he first granted Gao Pian the title of the Secretariat of the Secretariat of the Secretariat. He was promoted to the Situ of the Procuratorate and was granted the title of Duke of Yan.
When Gao Pian was young, he traveled to the imperial guards and two eagles flew together. Pian said, "I am so precious, and I am among them." One shot and two eagles were shot and two eagles were shot. From then on, Gao Pian won the title of "Assistant of the Desolate Eagles."
When Emperor Yizong was still alive, the rebellion broke out in the Dangxiang people in the north. The commanders of the soldiers were ineffective in several battles and spent a long time to increase the huge military expenses. Gao Pian, who had become an old acquaintance in front of the emperor and was appointed as the Duke of the Right Shence Army, was led by Emperor Mao and more than 10,000 guards to quell the Dangxiang Rebellion. Historical records were recorded that he led his army to a place called Changwu. "With a few strange tricks, he killed a lot." His performance made Emperor Yizong very satisfied. He promoted him to the governor of Qinzhou, and changed from a Beijing official to a local powerful figure. After that, he recovered the two states of He and Wei, and surrendered more than 10,000 Dangxiang people.
In the seventh year of Xiantong, the imperial court investigated the Nanzhao Rebellion. At that time, Zhang Yin, the commander of the Nanzhao War Zone, was defeated repeatedly. The emperor thought of Gao Pian, who repaired Dangxiang in the north, and asked him to replace Zhang Yin to preside over the war against Nanzhao. After Gao Pian, who was eager to make contributions, he agreed with the military supervisor Li Jizhou to cross the Xiangjiang River to make an outpost, and Li Jizhou followed up as a supporter. However, Li Jizhou was afraid of being beaten by the people of Nanzhao. Although he had an agreement with Gao Pian, he did not cross the river at all. Instead, he led his troops to watch the fire across the bank and cheered for Gao Pian from a distance through the river.
What surprised Eunuch Li was that the Southern Tang army defeated him and Zhang Yin, but it seemed that he was very powerful and unsatisfied to deal with Gao Pian, who even dared to beat the Dangxiang people. Historical books described Gao Pian's achievements, "defeating the Nanzhao barbarians and gaining the army."
Such a victory that greatly promoted the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, the victory was sent to Li Weizhou, but the mood of the military supervisor Li Eunuch Li was very complicated. As a result, he kept the victory report and did not report it. The court was waiting for the news here at that time, but seeing that there was no movement for several months, he issued an edict to hold accountable. Li Jizhou simply did not do it and falsely accused Gao Pian of being unstoppable and did not dare to fight. In order to do this, he also submitted a letter to send general Wang Yanquan to replace Gao Pian. The court believed Li Jizhou without knowing the details and sent Wang Yanquan to replace Gao Pian.
If ordinary people saw their superiors send others to pick their peaches, they would probably admit defeat. But who is Gao Pian? Gao Pian's countermeasures were very direct. They did not pay attention to Li Jizhou and the new Wang Yanquan, but directly slashed Duan Qian on the neck of Duan Qian, the prince of Nanzhao Duan. Before Wang Yanquan took office, Gao Pian had already conquered Annan. In addition to killing Duan Qian, he also surrendered to the Nanzhao cave villages for more than 20,000. The Nanzhao Rebellion, which had troubled the court for a long time, was pacified by Gao Pianji like lightning. This time, Gao Pian defeated 200,000 barbarian soldiers!
Since then, Gao Pian, who came from a famous family, became the number one general in the court. He would be transferred wherever he could not handle anything.
First, at the beginning of the year, the Xuzhou Army reported that Pang Xunyu took advantage of the disaster and famine to make trouble, so the court transferred Gao Pian, the governor of Tianping, to lead the army to quell the rebellion, and then transferred the governor of Yanhai, to send troops to assist. The rebellion there had just been quelled, and Xichuan was attacked by Nanzhao again. The court quickly transferred Gao Pian to serve as the governor of Xichuan.
Gao Pian went to Xichuan to take office, not alone. He also took nearly 10,000 Tianping Festival to Xichuan. Because of this, most of the troops of the Tianping Army were transferred at once, and the defense of the states became much empty. Moreover, Xue Chong had no generals. He had heard that thieves were pouring into the Tianping Army before, but he didn't take it seriously. Song Wei wrote a letter to tell him that Li Jing from Zhendong Army was willing to send troops to help Tianping Army suppress bandits. Not only did he not feel it, but he felt that Song Wei looked down on him and deliberately mocked him. Of course, he would not accept Li Jing's kindness.
He was still ordering the governor of Caozhou to send troops to eliminate the thieves. Who knew that the official document had just been issued, and then there was an unjust sentence, and then the news of Caozhou's loss came.
"I think the next target of this thief is likely to be Puzhou. The thief leader Wang Xianzhi is from Puzhou. Should we write a letter to Xue Chong and notify him so that he can be prepared?" Li Jing hesitated. Xue Chong looked incompetent, remembering that he died at the hands of Wang Xianzhi later.
"Don't!" Li Zhen advised with a wry smile, "We have done everything we should do, and it will be annoying to say more. This is someone else's own business, and we can't control it."
Li Jing thought it was true. Not to mention that Xue Chong was the governor of the Tianping Army, but he was just a governor under the Pinglu Army. Even if Li Jing was the general of the Ziqing Jieshi, he might not be able to be so far away.
Li Jing can't control other people's affairs, but Li Jing's own Zhendongjun can make the decision.
At this moment, Li Jing ordered the entire army to prepare for combat and the entire army to be in a first-level preparation state. The three armies of water, land, horse, and infantry began to return to the tense training state.
"Is the county lord preparing for a war?" Seeing that the Zhendong Army, which was originally engaged in hunting and fishing and helping to rescue disasters, suddenly started training, Dengzhou felt a storm coming. Dengzhou governor Han Anmin and Sima Xiao Dingbang, did not hurried to the governor's mansion to meet Li Jing. These three were all state assistants, quite leisurely and did not have much specific matters, but they knew the changes in the army at the first time.
"Prepare for the future, beware of it, and make some preparations in advance." Li Jing just smiled, but did not really express his thoughts. What Li Jing was worried about now is that the Cao army would attack Puzhou as in history, as in history, as before, after capturing Caozhou, it would attack Puzhou. Then it was very likely to move closer to Jeju and Qizhou. If they really did this, then Wang Jingwu's rebels and Cao army would be very likely to join forces at that time, and in that case, they would directly threaten Qingzhou. Although Qingzhou is not the territory of Zhendong Army, Zhendong Army also belongs to Ziqing Town.
Chapter completed!