Chapter 583
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It's all a bunch of people!
Wang Jingwu was unable to support the wall with mud, and Chen Jingxuan was also extremely incompetent.
These two people were the result of Tian Lingzi's efforts to protect him, but now one has become a madman and has caused trouble in Ziqing Town, while the other has almost lost his head in Lulong Town.
These two muds made Tian Lingzi seize the opportunity and give him a blow to the emperor by Ximen Sigong and others, which made him lose face.
Ximen Sigong was appointed as the lieutenant of Shence Right Army, Yang Fugong was appointed as the Privy Councilor, Zhang Tai was promoted to the envoy of the Northern Xuanhui Court, and Yang Fuguang was appointed as the envoy of the Southern Xuanwei Court.
Frowning tightly, Tian Lingzi looked down at the fold in his hand.
The more he looked, the more annoyed he became. The more he looked, the more he felt that the people he recommended were all bullish. Wang Jingwu, Xue Chong and Li Shi, the three of them were in Ziqing Town, but they were fooled by Li Jing. He promoted these three people, and wanted to seize control of Ziqing Town to suppress Li Jing's town ** Dengzhou.
But judging from the news he received, Li Jing's actions in Ziqing Town easily solved his arrangements. Li Jing competed with Wang Jingwu and others for Ziqing Town as he had expected. On the surface, he divided Ziqing Town into two, but in fact he was extremely cruel to remove the firewood from the cauldron, directly taking time out of Wang Jingwu's soldiers and the people. Now that Wang Jingwu went crazy, the ten counties he controlled had become ruins, but the counties controlled by Li Jing were in a big state.
From Li Jing's division of Ziqing Town, to his relocation of people and seizing troops, to his current occupation of Pingzhou, these steps were unexpected actions. Li Jing was very cunning, and every step was a plan before taking action.
He didn't bite the bait he put down at all. He never took Ziqing Town. Instead, he focused on developing towards Liaodong. Even now he occupied Pingzhou, he was under the banner of regaining western Liaoning.
It would be much better if Li Jing drove Wang Jingwu directly, but this guy just refused to develop in Ziqing Town and was determined to move troops to Liaodong, which made him feel worried.
Needless to say which one is more prosperous, Ziqing Town or Liaodong. Li Jing gave up Ziqing Town but planned to Liaodong, just to say that Li Jing had made great plans!
But in this case, if he doesn't develop into Ziqing Town, he will not be able to make sense to cause trouble for Li Jing.
Wang Jingwu and Chen Jingxuan, who were arranged by himself, completely lost control of Ziqing Town and Lulong Town, two vassal towns that saw the good situation. Especially the Youzhou Rebellion, Li Jing occupied Pingzhou without any effort, and the court could not even accuse Li Jing of this. After all, Chen Jingxuan forced Li Keju to rebel, destroyed 5,000 imperial guards, and allowed Lulong Town to escape from the control of the court again. Li Jing's occupation of Pingzhou made the court's control of Lujia Town a little more.
According to the news from the spy newspaper, after Li Jing occupied Pingzhou, he actively strengthened the defense of Pingzhou and garrisoned a large number of troops. However, the focus was not on the direction of Youji, but on the direction of Xi and Khitan. The focus was on Yingzhou in western Liaoning.
After reading the note, Tian Lingzi leaned on the white tiger skin mat and fell into deep thought.
Is Li Jing really ready to use troops to Liaodong and western Liaoning to regain the old land of Andong and Yingzhou?
Did he really plan this way, or was it just an illusion that Li Jing’s targets are still Ziqing and Youzhou?
All this made him a little confused.
There was another note on the table, which was Zheng Ting, Wang Duo, Ximen Sigong and others who advocated the emperor for the revenge of the thieves.
As early as more than half a year ago, the thief suddenly threatened the Dongdu and captured Ruzhou. Wang Duo proposed a plan to recruit people, and Tian Lingzi agreed. However, now, the governor of Qizhou Pei Wo wrote a letter to match the thief. Seeing that everything was going well in the recruitment, Tian Lingzi asked Lu Xie to propose a proposal to refuse the recruitment.
The reasons for opposition raised by Lu Xie were very high-profile. "At that time, Emperor Yizong insisted on not pardoning Pang Xun, and it took only one year to kill him. Now Wang Xianzhi is just a small thief, and his momentum and strength are not as good as Pang Xun. Pardoning him and being appointed as an official will only encourage the arrogance of those unruly people to act fiercely!"
Of course, this is not the case. Because of the incompetence of Wang Jingwu and Chen Jingxuan, Tian Lingzi was jointly applied by Ximen Sigong and others. Although the emperor still trusted him, Ximen and others were trusted again because of this. Now that the thief has gone far away to Huainan, he no longer threatens Dongdu. Then, he naturally has to oppose the revenge of Wang Duo, Zheng Ting and others.
This is not for some court consideration, but he has to object if the other party agrees.
However, his opposition did not last long for a long time. After Ximen Sigong and others advised the emperor again to invite peace, Tian Lingzi and Lu Xie agreed. Of course, this agreement came at a price, in exchange for the compromise between Ximen Sigong, Zheng Qiong and others for Chen Jingxuan, Yang Shili and Niu Xu as the governor of Sanchuan, and no longer prosecuted Wang Jingwu and others for improper employment.
Tian Lingzi threw down the memorial and sneered, "I'll be happy, I'll be happy!"
With Tian Lingzi's intervention, although he finally agreed to continue recruiting, the conditions for recruiting changed. The specifications were reduced. The list of those who had originally agreed to "exist on officials" included Wang Xianzhi, Shang Junchang and others, but now it has been limited to Wang Xianzhi, and the official position is not sincere at all.
Despite this, when the envoy from Chang'an arrived, there was still a sound of joy in Qizhou City.
The battle stopped fighting, and the defenders on the city and the Cao army outside the city all returned to the camp to rest. Pei Wo opened the city gate and welcomed dozens of Cao army leaders including Wang Xianzhi and Shang Junchang into the city. He also held a banquet in the governor's mansion and warmly welcomed the leaders.
In a cheerful atmosphere, the envoy from Chang'an read out the envoyment letter. Two official positions were issued on the spot, both of which were given to Wang Xianzhi, and no one else had any. The positions were Zuo Shence Jun's archery and the Censor of the Supervisor.
These two official positions are not of high rank, but they are both low-level positions. In particular, Zuo Shence Army Aiya is the position of the captain of the guard of Tian Lingzi, a lieutenant of the Left Army, and is an important position in the heart.
After hearing the imperial edict, "Wang Xianzhi" was so happy that his face was flushed. Ruzhou Governor Wang Liao and Qizhou Governor Pei Wo hurriedly congratulated Wang Xianzhi.
However, except for Wang Xianzhi, the others in the Cao Army were very happy, but they all had gloomy faces, especially Shang Junchang. After a long time of trouble, the court only recruited one Wang Xianzhi, but they did not get any benefits.
A noisy sound broke Wang Xianzhi's happiness.
After reading the imperial eunuchs, who heard the eunuchs kneeling beneath shouting thanks to the holy grace, stared in shocked eyes, looking for rude people who dared to make noise in front of the angels.
Suddenly a large number of people rushed in, and the leader scolded Wang Xianzhi on the spot: "I remember that we made a vow to run rampant in the world, but now you want to run to the Shence Army alone to be an official. Where do you want to put us brothers?" After that, he swung his iron fist and looked at Wang Xianzhi's head, who was still smirking, and smashed it hard.
Shang Junchang and others suddenly saw Huang Chao and others breaking in, and were also surprised. However, when they saw Huang Chao committing crimes, they beat Wang Xianzhi directly, but no one came forward to persuade them to fight.
He knew his own family affairs, and Huang Chao and they all knew that the so-called governor was just a substitute. Huang Chao beat him, probably because he expressed his opposition to Shang Junchang.
Shang Junchang is indeed a little angry now and tried his best to seek revenge, but in the end he ended up with such a result.
Huang Chao was very skilled in martial arts. He beat the fake Wang Xianzhi with a fist to the point of bleeding. Shang Junchang and others all watched coldly.
Wang Lie, Pei Wo and the eunuchs from Chang'an were all at a loss for the sudden change.
Although Wang Xianzhi was just a substitute puppet, she was not stupid. When she was beaten to death, she finally came to her senses. She was not the real commander of the grass army. She quickly shouted for forgiveness and vowed to advance and retreat with her brothers and never accept the invitation alone!
Seeing that the situation was not good, the governor Pei and the envoy who issued the order quickly ran away when everyone was not careful. Wang Liao's reaction was a little slow, and he was taken to the spot by the leaders of the "Cao Army" who were clamoring. Not only that, in order to regain prestige and soothe the injured heart of his subordinates, Shang Junchang rushed out of the yamen with more than 30 leaders, opened the city gate, and let the "Cao Army" outside the city come into the city, and carried out a happy looting. According to the subsequent memorial, in this disaster, the city of Qizhou was almost burned to ashes by the "Cao Army". Half of the residents in the city were killed and half were forcibly recruited by the "Cao Army".
The Qizhou garrison in the Tang Dynasty seemed to be as unbearable as paper. There were only 30 thief leaders including Shang Junchang and Huang Chao in the city, but they opened the city gate and seized Qizhou City to lead the bandits into the city.
The governor of Qizhou Pei Wo saw the opportunity quickly, and did not organize resistance, but immediately left the city and fled all the way to Ezhou in the south of the mountain. The Central Envoy from Chang'an, although he was an eunuch, was not healthy, but he escaped faster than Pei Wo, and ran directly to Xiangzhou.
After the second tribe of the Graves who met again in Qizhou, a gathering was held after robbing Qizhou. Huang Chao meant to abandon the fake king Xianzhi and let Shang Junchang's troops be merged into Huangchao's troops. Huang Chao was the new leader of the Graves, and Shang Junchang was the deputy leader.
The consultation lasted for three days. Although Huang Chao showed great sincerity, Shang Junchang and others could not really believe Huang Chao, and the negotiations broke down in the end.
Huang Chao led his troops to go north again, return to the Central Plains, Henan, and return to Caopu's hometown, and recruit more people.
However, the troops of Shang Junchang were unwilling to act with Huang Chao anymore. They were preparing to continue to move westward and head towards Shandong East Road.
As a result, another controversy broke out within the army of Shang Junchang and finally split. The soldiers of the Piaoshou Liu Yanzhang led his troops to leave Shang Junchang and went east to Jiangxi.
After the division of troops, the momentum of the "Cao Army" increased instead of decreasing, and it ran rampant in the Central Plains, showing a turbulent fire.
In May of the third year of Qianfu, Shang Junchang, who was advancing westward, captured Ezhou, the important city at the intersection of Jiangnan West Road, Shandong South Road and Huainan Road. Pei Wo, the former governor of Qizhou, once again escaped without any damage.
At the same time, Huang Chao returned to Caozhou and robbed Yunzhou. The governor of Tianping Army Kang Chenghui led his troops to repel Huang Chao. Huang Chao fled to Yizhou again, and was repelled by Cui Yunqing, the governor of Taining Army, and entered Ziqing Town.
Chapter completed!