【Huainan Yang Wo】
Huainan changed hands, and the situation was not optimistic. There are poems to prove it:
“Surrounded by enemies on three sides, attack from five directions;
Hongnong Yang Wo, Huainan Teddy. "
Which three sides?
Ma Yin in Tanzhou, Qian Liu in Hangzhou, and Zhong Chuan in Hongzhou.
Which five roads?
One horse, two coins and three bells were passed down, and the Wei family trusted Zhu Houliang.
Let’s first look at Tanzhou Ma Yin.
When Yang Xingmi was alive, he wanted to form a strategic partnership with Tanzhou Ma Yin and repeatedly extended an olive branch to Ma Yin. I originally set my heart towards the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch. Between Zhu Wen and Yang Xingmi, Ma Yin decisively chose to side with Zhu Wen, thereby repeatedly rejecting Yang Xingmi's goodwill.
When Yang Xingmi died and his eldest son Yang Wo assumed the throne, Ma Yin took advantage of the mourning to send troops and took the initiative to launch an attack on Huainan, but was repelled by the Huainan defenders.
Therefore, Yang Wo sent his general Chen Zhixin to organize a counterattack. Chen Zhixin conquered Yuezhou in one fell swoop and included Yuezhou in the Huainan territory. Yang Wo appointed Chen Zhixin as the governor of Yuezhou.
The "War between Huaichu" officially kicked off.
Taking advantage of the victory, Huainan Yang Wo sent Liu Cun, Chen Zhixin, Liu Wei, Xu Xuanying and others with 30,000 naval troops to attack the Tanzhou headquarters. Unexpectedly, Liu Cun and others were first hit by heavy rain and then attacked by land and water. More than a hundred generals were killed, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed, more than 800 warships were captured, Liu Cun and Chen Zhixin were captured, and Liu Wei and Xu Xuanying led the remaining troops. Fleeed back to Huainan.
Ma Yin took advantage of the victory to regain Yuezhou.
Liu Cun and Chen Zhixin have been fighting against Huaixi forces such as Tanzhou Ma Yin for a long time, and their talents and character have been fully recognized by the hostile camp. Ma Yin respected the two of them very much, and personally untied them, treated them with courtesy, and persuaded them kindly, hoping that they would work for him.
However, the two of them regarded death as home. Faced with Ma Yin's kindness, the two cursed, "A man should die to repay his lord, how can he bend his knees and become a thief!"
Liu Cun and Chen Zhixin died heroically.
Followed by Hangzhou Qian Liu.
Yang Xingmi from Huainan and Qian Liu from Hangzhou were known as the "two heroes of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers". The two sometimes helped each other and sometimes fought against each other. The one who started a new round of "two heroes' struggle for hegemony" was Yang Wo, who had just taken over.
When Yang Wo received Xu Wen's call and left Xuanzhou for Yangzhou, he planned to take away his personal guards and officials in Xuanzhou to strengthen his own strength. However, the newly succeeded Xuanzhou Observer Envoy ——Veteran Wang Maozhang enforces the law impartially and sternly refuses. Yang Wo held a grudge because of this.
After Yang Xingmi died, Yang Wo immediately avenged his private revenge and sent troops to attack Wang Maozhang of Xuanzhou.
Wang Maozhang was Yang Xingmi's veteran minister with great military exploits. He knew that Yang Wo left Xuanzhou to inherit his father's throne and become his new lord, but he still refused to bend the law for personal gain, which shows his uprightness and strict law enforcement. But the new lord ruthlessly raised the butcher's knife against such a veteran of the former dynasty.
Wang Maozhang couldn't bear to use force against his old master's son, and couldn't bear to see Huainan fall into civil strife, but he could only die if he was captured. In all kinds of pain, Wang Maozhang abandoned the city and led his followers to defect to Qian Liu in Hangzhou.
Hangzhou Qian Liu was overjoyed and immediately appointed Wang Maozhang as the deputy envoy of the Yuezhou Zhendong Army, and changed his name to "Wang Jingren" (to avoid the taboo of Zhu Wen's great ancestor, Zhu Wen's great ancestor Zhu Maolin). As usual, the following text will still call him "Wang Maozhang".
Wang Maozhang's departure had a butterfly effect. Tao Ya of Muzhou and Chen Zhang of Wuzhou abandoned the city and fled because they were afraid of being attacked by Wang Maozhang. Hangzhou Qian Liu seized the opportunity and sent troops to garrison. He captured Muzhou and Wuzhou without losing any blood.
Chen Zhang of Wuzhou fled back to Quzhou. He was originally a rebel general in Hangzhou, so Qian Liu followed his lead and sent troops to pursue him and surround Quzhou.
Huainan sent troops to rescue Chen Zhang, but Quzhou was recaptured by Qian Liu.
After recovering the three states, Qian Liu opened the road to Wenzhou, so he sent his sons Qian Yuanhuang and Qian Yuanguan to attack Wenzhou Lu Ji and Chuzhou Lu Yue. Lu Ji was captured alive, and Lu Yue surrendered.
In the first year of Zhonghe (881), Lu Yue took advantage of the Huangchao rebellion to seize Chuzhou, and in the second year of Tianyou (905), he sent his younger brother Lu Ji to attack Wenzhou.
At this point, Hangzhou Qian Liu easily took over the five states and unified the two Zhejiang regions.
Huainan Yang Wo forced Wang Maozhang away, but Qian Liu's power in Hangzhou grew unprecedentedly, laying a solid foundation for the following "two heroes' struggle for hegemony".
Huainan Yang Wo can be said to be a powerful pig farmer, giving away people's heads thousands of miles away.
The third is the separatist force in Jiangxi, Zhong Chuan of the Hongzhou Zhennan Army.
Zhong Chuan's deeds in the first half of his life have been introduced in the previous article, that is, taking advantage of the Huangchao Rebellion, he first occupied Fuzhou and then Hongzhou, thus establishing the territory of Jiangxi. He has the experience of fighting a tiger while drunk, and he is suspected to be the prototype of "Wu Song fighting a tiger".
Although Zhong Chuan was born as a small businessman with limited education, he respected the literati and paid great attention to education. At that time, many scholars went to Jiangxi because of his reputation. Jiangxi became a paradise for literati in the late Tang Dynasty, and a large number of intellectuals were able to display their ambitions in Jiangxi.
At that time, Zhuge Hao, a minor official in Sizhou (roughly equivalent to the deputy director of the police station), heard that Zhong Chuan was thirsty for talents, so he wrote a propaganda manuscript praising Zhong Chuan and listed ten of Zhong Chuan's glorious deeds. Submitted to Jiangxi. Beautifully written and talented.
Zhong Chuan was overjoyed and said to the people around him: "I often hear people say that a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold, so let's pay the author according to this price!"
This article had a total of 5,000 words. As expected, Zhong Chuan rewarded him with 5,000 yuan and hired Zhuge Hao as his staff with a high salary.
In addition to attaching great importance to cultural education, Zhong Chuan also devoted himself to worshiping Buddhism and vigorously promoted Buddhism in Jiangxi. He also became good friends with monk Shanglan from Shanglan Yuan in Hongzhou.
This Shanglan monk is good at telling fortunes and predicting the future. Later, when monk Shanglan was seriously ill, Zhong Chuan went to express condolences and wanted to accompany him through the last journey of his life. Seeing that the eminent monk was about to pass away, Zhong Chuan finally couldn't help but said that I have treated you well over the years, even though it was leaked Heaven will be punished, but you are almost done now, right? Can you leave me some clues to inspire you?
Shanglan monk struggled to sit up, got some paper, ink, pen and inkstone, and wrote a verse. The end of it said, "Yang Lao's tender temples can be used as bells and hammers." After writing, he passed away immediately. When the bell came, I couldn't understand it, so I read it over and over again without understanding its meaning. Zhong Chuan could not understand its meaning until his death.
There were also stains in the second half of Zhong Chuan's life. It could be said that he was not safe in his later years. Historical records record that he "reinforced his wealth in his later years" and forced away the wealthy businessmen in the territory.
In the spring of the third year of Tianyou (906), Zhong Chuan died of illness. The three armies recommended his eldest son Zhong Kuangshi to stay in the rear of the Zhennan Army. His adopted son Zhong Yangui, who was the governor of Jiangzhou at the time, resented that he could not inherit the position of Jiedushi, so he surrendered the whole state to Yang Wo of Huainan, and bravely led the party to lead the Huainan army to attack Hongzhou.
There is a slight controversy in historical records about this "principal leader" who cheated on others. Some say it was his adopted son Zhong Yangui, and some say it was his second son Zhong Kuangfan; others call Zhong Yangui "Zhong Yangui" and say that he was first a member of Shanglan Yuan. Little monk; others say that Zhong Kuangfan is the twentieth son; others say that Zhong Tinggui is Zhong Kuangfan...
In short, it was Zhong Chuan's sons who were at war with each other, making pancakes, rolling croquettes, and bombarding them with artillery, relying on foreign enemies to seize their father and brother's inheritance.
