【At the height of the sun】
Lu Yongzhi was almost crazy about joining the party and opposing dissenters. In addition to suppressing and persecuting his colleagues (such as Shen Tusheng), he also ruthlessly suppressed the old members of Gao Pian's immediate family, which aroused the resentment of some upright people.
For example, Yu Gongchu, the commander of Zuo Xiaoxiong, was Lu Yongzhi's leader and a noble man on the road of life.
Lu Yongzhi has been doing business in Yangzhou City for generations. After his parents died, Lu Yongzhi took refuge with his uncle, but he had an affair with his aunt, which was shameful. After being discovered by his uncle, Lu Yongzhi fled to Jiuhua Mountain to take refuge. During this period, he worshiped a famous alchemist. Niu Honghui was a teacher and learned a lot of Jianghu tricks (ghost skills). After completing his studies, he returned to Yangzhou and engaged in the business of selling counterfeit medicines.
By chance, Yu Gongchu took a fancy to him and recommended him to Gao Pian. Lu Yongzhi has since reached the pinnacle of his life.
Therefore, Yu Gongchu is Lu Yongzhi's great benefactor.
Yu Gongchu, who thought he was very respectable with Lu Yongzhi, warned Lu Yongzhi several times, telling him to stop and take care of himself.
You Xiaoxiong Commander Yao Guili was bold and forthright. He particularly disliked Lu Yongzhi's actions. He also rebuked Lu Yongzhi's criminal behavior in person many times, and even wanted to kill Lu Yongzhi himself.
One day, Lu Yongzhi gathered his party members and had a good time in a bathing center. Yao Guili finally launched a surprise attack, set fire to the area and killed several people who looked similar to Lu Yongzhi. Lu Yongzhi put on other clothes and took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Lu Yongzhi sent people to investigate secretly and secretly arrested several people who participated in the attack. They found out that they were heroic soldiers and immediately understood that they were the masterminds of Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu. So he made slanderous remarks in front of Gao Pian and framed the two veterans.
Soon after, Gao Pian mobilized three thousand heroic troops to encircle and suppress the bandits. Lu Yongzhi secretly informed Yang Xingmi, the governor of Luzhou, claiming that Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu were preparing to lead a heroic army to raid Luzhou. Yang Xingmi hurriedly launched a self-defense counterattack, preemptively launched a surprise attack on the heroic army.
Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu were not alert at all, and were completely wiped out by Yang Xingmi in a daze.
Later, following Lu Yongzhi's instructions, Yang Xingmi reported that the two had conspired to rebel, and they were discovered in time and put down.
Gao Pian actually praised Yang Xingmi heavily.
Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu, together with Zhang Lin, Liang Zuan and Chen Gong, were called the "Five Tigers" of Gao Pian's subordinates. They had always followed Gao Pian through life and death, and were deeply trusted.
Among them, Zhang Lin died for the country in the battle with the Cao Army and died in the "Xinzhou Fake Surrender". The remaining four failed to escape the clutches of Lu Yongzhi.
Liang Zan was relieved of his military power; Chen Gong was executed by his entire family; Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu were framed and died in mysterious circumstances.
Lu Yongzhi used a small plan to wipe out Gao Pian's closest and most trusted "Five Tigers", not to mention the other generals, and no one dared to say anything anymore.
One of Gao Pian's nephews, Gao Lin, was deeply disgusted by this. He listed Lu Yongzhi's crimes one by one, filling more than 20 pieces of paper. He secretly presented it to Gao Pian and cried bitterly: "Lv Yongzhi pretended to be a ghost and used monstrous words to confuse people." Everyone, internally it will deceive your mind, externally it will encroach on the military and political power and harm the people. Civil and military officials, trusted generals and subordinates dare not tell the truth because of fear. If you do not stop it, when Lu Yongzhi becomes full-fledged, I am afraid that the achievements of our Gao family in the past will be It will be destroyed!"
As he talked, Gao Lin was so sad and angry that he burst into tears.
Gao Pian's face was gloomy and he was very unhappy, "Are you drunk too much? Get out of here!" Ming Zuozuo forcibly took him out.
The next day, Gao Pian handed the more than 20 pages of accusations written by Gao Lin to Lu Yongzhi, "Look, someone actually wants to sow discord between us."
Lu Yongzhi glanced at him and broke out in a cold sweat. On the surface, he pretended to be calm and said: "Hey - Lin'er made careless friends, went astray, got into bad habits, ate, drank, whored, gambled, and wasted money... He told me many times I borrowed money, but occasionally I was not satisfied in time, so I held a grudge, so I framed me behind my back to retaliate."
After saying that, he took out a few IOUs from his pocket, signed by Gao Lin.
Gao Pian was ashamed and said, "Mr. Lu, look at the trouble this has caused... the family is unfortunate. It's because I neglected to discipline me. I feel ashamed." So he ordered Gao Pian not to enter the house again.
Gao Piangui is obsessed with it, and he can't see such a loophole-filled rhetoric.
In fact, Lu Yongzhi had already received the tip-off about Gao Ling's complaint to Gao Pian. Don't forget, Gao Pian was surrounded by Lu Yongzhi's spies. Therefore, I prepared several pieces of "evidence" overnight, and I clearly came prepared today.
About a month later, Gao Lin was sent to Shuzhou to serve as governor.
Shuzhou was being attacked by many groups of bandits. Gao Ling was unable to resist, so he had to abandon the city and escape. Gao Pian took this as an excuse and sent people to kill Gao Lin on the spot.
Likewise, just one word from Lu Yongzhi could torture Gao Pian's nephew to death.
Gao Lin is right. Soon, Lu Yongzhi will be full of feathers and will completely replace Gao Pian. When Gao Pian noticed it and was about to take back his power, he found that Lu Yongzhi had become so entrenched that it was difficult to shake him for a while.
However, Gao Pian's awakening also made Lu Yongzhi feel fear, and he quickly sought the opinions of his staff. The staff told him something,
"Cao Cao has a famous saying, I would rather teach me to betray the world than teach the world to betray me."
It is better to teach me to let Gao Pian fail than to let Gao Pian fail me!
After careful consideration, Lu Yongzhi's gang members formulated an assassination plan: on the night of the Ghost Festival (July 15th), Gao Pian was invited to Lu Yongzhi's house to hold the "Huanglu Zhai", which was to summon the three realms of heaven, earth and man. The gods set up incense tables to offer sacrifices, repent and atone for their sins, and when Gao Pian "entered tranquility" (a Taoist term, similar to "entering concentration" in Buddhism), they strangled him to death and announced to the outside world that he had attained enlightenment and ascended to heaven. Mo Yedu" took the lead, and all the armies jointly recommended Lu Yongzhi as the "Huainan Remainer".
In this way, Lu Yongzhi can legitimately become the military governor of Huainan.
This conspiracy occurred in May of the second year of Guangqi (886). Perhaps due to the lack of time, the crime was not carried out in July this year.
Lu Yongzhi's gang members will no longer have the chance to commit crimes, and a catastrophe is about to happen.
【The end is coming】
Lu Yongzhi frantically squeezed out Gao Pian's old troops, and the lives of the "five direct line tigers" were not guaranteed. The other meritorious old ministers were all in danger, not to mention the already disliked generals of the grass army.
Before Huang Chao moved to Guangzhou (878), he suffered heavy losses from Gao Pian repeatedly. Dozens of Cao Jun generals surrendered to Gao Pian, the most famous of whom were Bi Shiduo, Zheng Hanzhang, and Qin Yan.
Relying on his understanding of Cao Jun and Huang Chao himself, Bi Shiduo repeatedly offered suggestions and severely damaged Cao Jun, winning Gao Pian's love.
As Lu Yongzhi's persecution of meritorious old ministers intensified, Bi Shiduo and other grass-roots generals became more frightened and worried every day.
Bi Shiduo had a little wife who was so beautiful that she was said to be so beautiful that she could conquer a country. Lu Yongzhi asked Bi Shiduo to borrow it for one night and return it to you after using it.
Bi Shiduo flatly refused.
Lu Yongzhi did not give up, and his powerful intelligence network came into play again. When Shiduo Bi was out for business, Lu Yongzhi acted as the old king next door.
Bi Shiduo was so ashamed and angry that he drove the little wife out of the house. Of course, Lu Yongzhi, the culprit, chose to forgive him.
The two became enemies.
