Zhu Wen sent his confidant Zhang Tingfan to Yangzhou to read to Yang Xingmi the official document appointing Zhu Wen as the leader of the Huainan Festival; he sent General Guo Yan to escort Li Fan (formerly the governor of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou was invaded by Cai thieves, and fled back to Bianzhou) by way of the Xuzhou Reformation Army. , went to stay in Huainan.
When Yang Xingmi first took over Yangzhou, he was alone and in urgent need of political legalization and military alliance.
Zhu Wen's enemy was Qin Zongquan, the Cai bandit, and Yang Xingmi's enemy was Sun Ru, who had just escaped from Cai bandit. From this perspective, there is a basis for an alliance between Yang Xingmi and Zhu Wen. Sun Ru gave Qin Zongheng's head to Zhu Wen, hoping to use Zhu Wen's power to suppress Yang Xingmi.
Therefore, Zhu Wen's statement at this time is particularly critical for Yang Xingmi.
Yang Xingmi received Zhang Tingfan grandly and treated him as an honored guest. Welcome welcome, warm welcome.
Zhang Tingfan conveyed the court's care and Zhu Wen's condolences: "Comrade Yang Xingmi has made outstanding contributions in maintaining regional stability. He has worked hard and made great achievements. Your request to be a military governor will be fully considered by the organization. After careful discussion, the organization decided to award the Huainan Jiedu Envoy to Comrade Zhu Wen..."
As expected, Yang Xingmi was furious and said on the spot that he would not accept such an appointment, "I'm sorry to obey!"
Zhang Tingfan also fell from being a VIP in Yangzhou to becoming a thorn in Yang Xingmi's side. After lingering in Yangzhou for a period of time, Zhang Tingfan saw the opportunity and escaped back.
Zhang Tingfan told Zhu Wen all about Yang Xingmi, saying that Yang Xingmi was well-thought-out, had many soldiers, and was ambitious and difficult to deal with. He was afraid that Zhu Wen would need to personally lead an army to control Huainan.
Zhu Wen pretended to be furious on the surface and strongly condemned Yang Xingmi's rebellious behavior in order to show his disobedience to the people around him.
Almost at the same time, Guo Yan and Li Fan also escaped, bringing another "bad news": on their way to Huaihe, they were attacked by the Xuzhou Probationary Army and suffered complete losses.
On the surface, Zhu Wen still wanted to strongly condemn and protest sternly, but in his heart he was happy, "It's just what I want!"
Xuzhou Shipu came to power through a mutiny, occupied Xuzhou, and was the "reinforcement Jiedu". Because he presented Huang Chao's head, he ranked first in the "anti-pornography and mowing grass" campaign, and was awarded the title of Julu County King.
However, Shi Pu's "first place in merit" has been widely questioned. The feudal towns represented by Zhu Wen, which had been fighting Huang Chao for a long time, expressed their dissatisfaction. Shi Pu and Zhu Wen competed for merit, and a rift arose.
In the ensuing "Shou Cai" war, Shi Pu was appointed as the commander-in-chief of "Shou Cai", responsible for controlling the towns and commanding and dispatching to exterminate the Cai thieves Qin Zongquan.
Xuzhou is in today's northern Jiangsu; Caizhou is in today's central and southern Henan. If Shi Pu wants to send troops to collect food, he must travel across the entire Anhui Province today and fight across borders.
As mentioned above, in the entire "Cai Cai" war, the role of commander-in-chief Shi Pu was almost negligible, and the real role was Zhu Wen.
Therefore, while giving Zhu Wen the title of "Huainan Jiedu Envoy", the imperial court also gave Zhu Wen the title of Commander-in-Chief.
The imperial court's affirmation of Zhu Wen's "collection of vegetables" was a silent criticism of Shi Pu's inaction. At this time, silence is better than sound. Sometimes Pu has trouble to speak, and he is endlessly angry. Zhu Wen even went to the court to discuss the matter and asked the imperial court to remove Shi Pu from the title of commander-in-chief and replace him with himself. This further angered Shi Pu.
The imperial court gave the meat of Huainan, Shi Pu, to Zhu Wen, which even made Shi Pu mentally unbalanced.
At this time, Zhu Wen sent an official document requesting that he go to Huainan via Xuzhou.
If you get a good deal and act like a good boy, if you keep quiet and make a fortune and quietly take up your post, that's it, but you still want to show off in front of my house and sincerely disgust me? Shi Pu was furious and immediately rejected Bianjun's request to use the road.
However, Zhu Wen did not take Shi Pu's anger seriously, and still sent a thousand troops to escort the "Huainan Remainer" who passed through Shi Pu's territory with great fanfare and took office, with loud gongs and drums and firecrackers...
I just want to make you angry and disgust you on purpose. Do you have a temper?
Of course Shi Pu had a temper and sent troops to intercept and kill the Bian army passing through Sizhou.
The Bian army was defeated miserably. Guo Yan and Li Fan fled back in embarrassment and reported that they were intercepted and killed by the Xuzhou reformatory army.
Zhu Wen immediately reported the "Sizhou Incident" to the imperial court, accusing Shi Pu of his rebellious behavior, and at the same time reported that Yang Xingmi was staying in Huainan.
Shi Pu's personal revenge made the court's wishful thinking come to nothing. As a result, the imperial court removed the title of Commander-in-Chief of Shi Pu and instead appointed Zhu Wen as the Commander-in-Chief of "Collecting Cai" (the commander-in-chief of all the camps in Caizhou). All vassals, towns and roads must obey Zhu Wen's dispatch; Zhu Wen's memorial was approved. Please appoint Yang Xingmi as the post-reign in Huainan.
It is completely consistent with Jingxiang's plan. Zhu Wen became the biggest winner of the chaos in Huainan. He won over Yang Xingmi, appeased the threat from Huainan, and more importantly, had a legitimate reason to send troops to Xuzhou.
Plans are worse than changes.
Just when Zhu Wen and Jingxiang were planning to annex Xuzhou, another opportunity came to their door: Wei Bojun asked for help.
[Wei Bo mutiny again]
Han Jian, the former military envoy of Wei Bo Army, failed to annex the Tianping Army. He was attacked from behind by Zhuge Shuang, the military governor of Heyang, and was defeated, triggering a mutiny. General Le Yanzhen of Wei Bo Army replaced Han Jian and led Wei Bo.
Le Yanzhen and his son Le Congxun were mean, unkind, greedy and unkind. Especially Le Congxun, this young master named Lao Zi was described by history as "rebellious in nature", a born bastard with a bad womb. The people of Hebei are filled with resentment and complaints.
When Prime Minister Wang Duo passed through Wei Bo's territory, Le Congxun coveted his property, wives and concubines, so he ambushed his troops, robbed and killed Wang Duo and his entourage on the way, and took Wang Duo's wives, concubines, prostitutes, and all his property as his own. have.
The people of Hebei have always respected Wang Duo's reputation, which made them hate the Le family and his son even more.
Le Congxun knew that he had a poor reputation and was afraid of public riots, so he carefully selected 500 local gangsters to form his own bodyguard team, called "Zi Jiang". Unexpectedly, his move caused uneasiness in the army, and they believed that Le Congxun's behavior of training personal soldiers was to attack the army. So rumors began to circulate in the army that Le Congxun wanted to clean up the army.
This kind of misunderstanding cannot be explained clearly, and the description becomes darker and darker. It was a common practice during that period for the superiors to be suspicious of the army, form personal guards, and massacre old troops.
Le Congxun was worried that the army would strike first, so he changed his clothes and escaped overnight.
Misunderstandings have arisen and rifts are getting wider.
Le Congxun sent people to the headquarters in Weizhou to transport weapons, armor, gold, silver, silk and satin, and transportation teams kept coming and going. Sergeant Wei Bo became even more nervous. Look, the young master has created a new personal guard. Now he is raising military supplies, military pay and food, and he says he has no other intentions? So what do you mean?
To strike first is to be strong, but to strike later is to suffer disaster.
Wei Bojun launched a mutiny, imprisoned Le Yanzhen, and elected Zhao Wenbi as Wei Bojun's agent for Liu Hou (in charge of Liu Hou's affairs).
Le Congxun led an army of 30,000 men and arrived at the gates of Weizhou City to find Wei Bo's rebel army for questioning.
Zhao Wenbian gave up for a second and closed the city without leaving.
Wei Bo's rebels were quite disappointed, and even more suspicious that Zhao Wenbian secretly collaborated with Le to follow the training, so they killed Zhao Wenbian. The rebel generals carried Zhao Wenbian's head and shouted: "Which of you wants to be the next Zhao Wenbian... no, the next Jiedu Envoy?"
Someone in the crowd shouted: "Me!"
Everyone looked up and saw that the person who answered was a dark-faced man with a strange appearance, different from ordinary people, and seemed to be extraordinary. This man's name is Luo Hongxin. According to his own account, an expert told him earlier that a white-bearded immortal had a dream and said that Luo Hongxin should be the master of Wei Bo.
"The white-bearded immortal has already decided that I will be the military envoy. What are you still discussing?" Luo Hongxin's words were reasonable and well-founded, leaving no room for doubt.
The generals saw that he had good appearance, so they immediately reached a consensus and recommended Luo Hongxin to Wei Bojun's post.
Luo Hongxin lived up to expectations and attacked with his entire army, defeating Le Congxun outside the city in one fell swoop. Le Congxun led the remaining troops to flee to Neihuang (now Neihuang County, Hebei Province). Luo Hongxin led his troops to pursue the victory and surrounded Neihuang.
So, it connects to the previous node: Zhu Wen received a letter asking for help from Wei Bole's training.
