Qian Liu warmly welcomed him and treated him extremely favorably, but said nothing about closing the city to protect Huzhou. Shen Xingsi did not dare to rush into the situation rashly. He was just thinking about how to find a suitable opportunity to redress his grievances when he suddenly heard that Chen Huan had sent all his family members in Huzhou to Hangzhou.
Only then did Shen Xingsi realize that he had been betrayed by Chen Huan! So he was furious.
A few days later, Qian Liu came back from an inspection tour, and hundreds of officials went out of the city to greet him. Shen Xingsi took the opportunity to quietly approach Chen Huan, secretly took out the big hammer hidden in his sleeve, and took advantage of Chen Huan's unpreparedness to hit the head with one blow, killing Chen Huan on the spot. Then he forced his way to Qian Liu's boat and loudly told him about his contribution to closing the city to protect Huzhou, and about the crimes of Master Sheng and Chen Huan who jointly framed and excluded him.
Shen Xingsi spoke with saliva flying around and became excited.
Qian Liu listened silently and suddenly said to the cabin: "Come out."
"As you command!"
Everyone looked and saw that Master Sheng was also accompanying Qian Liu in the boat.
"It just so happens that the parties involved are all here, so let's explain this matter clearly in front of each other. Come on, you two confront each other."
When Master Sheng was about to point out the absurdity of what Shen Xingsi said, Shen Xingsi suddenly became angry and grabbed the big gun from the guard on the side, and stabbed Master Sheng. The guards on both sides hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and held Shen Xingsi down.
Qian Liu shook his head, sighed, and said: "You were originally a bandit. You are full of banditry and have never changed your bad habits. I really don't want to entrust you with a big responsibility. But you did have a great contribution to protecting Huzhou by closing the city, so I want to give you a big responsibility." Just find another place and give you a high official and a generous salary, that's it. I didn't expect you to be so stubborn, how can I spare you?" Then he ordered Shen Xingsi to be beheaded in Longqiu Mountain.
Later, he ordered Master Sheng to act as the governor of Wuzhou.
Huzhou seems to have been cursed. After Qian Biao took office, he was willful and perverted the law. He relied on being "relatives of the emperor and the country" and believed that the sky was high and the emperor was far away. He also completely let himself go and became lawless. He actually killed the commander-in-chief of the garrison without permission after drinking. Pan Liang and the official Zhong Ande. After sobering up, he fled to Huainan out of fear of crime.
When the Jianghuai River was overcast, Zhu Wen was in full bloom, so he lowered the imperial system and appointed Qian Liu as the guardian of the Shangshu Order. He also took charge of the military affairs on all sides of Huainan Xuanshe and other roads, added 2,000 households to the city, sealed 100 households, and built an imperial edict in Qian Liu's hometown. Qian Liu was born in the temple, and Li Qi wrote an inscription for him, praising Qian Liu.
In order to prevent chaos in the Jianghuai River, "Qian Liu, go to Huainan!"
Huainan suffered a loss in the "Battle of Suzhou" and accepted two important political refugees in Huzhou - Gao Li and Qian Biao, especially Qian Biao, Qian Liu's younger brother. However, Huainan did not get any substantial benefits in Huzhou, and lost money while making money. Generally speaking, Huainan suffered a loss in this Jianghuai war.
At the same time, Huainan also suffered losses on the western front. On the western front, the Huainan Army besieged Peng Yao (Peng Gan's younger brother) in Chishi. The Chu Army came to the rescue, defeated the Huainan Army, and captured Huainan's main general, the naval commander Ao Pian alive.
In Qianzhou in the south, Huainan also did not take advantage of much.
As mentioned earlier, Qianzhou Lu Guangchou stepped on two boats and surrendered to Huainan and Houliang at the same time. Although historical records say that Huainan "has all the land of Jiangxi", Qianzhou, Shaozhou and other places under Lu Guangchou's control were only occupied by Huainan on paper, and the actual control rights were not in Huainan.
In the same year that Huzhou rebelled and Chishi was defeated, Lu Guangchou, the governor of Qianzhou, was seriously ill and wanted to hand over military and political power to military adviser Tan Quanbo. Tan Quanbo was very resourceful and was known as "Little Zhuge" under Lu Guangchou. He assisted Lu Guangchou to build his fortune from scratch.
Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo are low-profile versions of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. Therefore, when Lu Guangchou was seriously ill, he followed Liu Bei's example and handed over power to Tan Quanbo.
Tan Quanbo refused to accept the offer and expressed his willingness to continue assisting the young master Lu Yanchang.
Lu Guangchou died of illness soon after, and Tan Quanbo led the generals to welcome his eldest son, Lu Yanchang, the governor of Shaozhou. After Lu Yanchang came to the throne, he continued his father's policy of stepping on both sides of the aisle. Huainan appointed him as the governor of Qianzhou. He readily accepted it. At the same time, he reported to Houliang through Ma Yinmi of Tanzhou, saying, "I accepted the appointment from Huainan on the surface, just to be numb." He is just acting for the occasion, but in fact I am loyal to the central court, and I will definitely run Jiangxi well for our Daliang."
Zhu Wen is the most proficient in the art of vertical and horizontal manipulation, and is especially good at driving tigers and wolves. How can the Lu family and his son deceive Zhu Wen with such tricks? Don't you want to join Daliang? OK, let's go. Zhu Wen appointed Lu Yanchang as the rear guard of the Hongzhou Zhennan Army with great fanfare.
The Zhennan Army in Hongzhou controlled several states, approximately most of today's Jiangxi. Today, most of the states under the Zhennan Army are under the rule of Huainan. Only the Lu family and his son control Qianzhou and Shaozhou, and Zhu Wen's The appointment is obviously to provoke trouble, which is tantamount to being public - especially telling Huainan: Lu Yanchang has surrendered to me as the leader of Jiangxi Province, you can see; at the same time, he also told Lu Yanchang: grab the bones from the dog's mouth and take back the Zhennan Army from Huainan , what is taken is yours.
Xu Wen asked his adviser Yan Keqiu for advice, and Yan Keqiu made a plan to outwit Qianzhou. Under Yan Keqiu's guidance, Xu Wen set up an envoy in Xingan County near Qianzhou and sent troops to garrison. Qianzhou was very nervous at first, but Yan Keqiu did not gather troops here, but regularly rotated and changed defenses. Over time, the Qianzhou people believed that this was just a routine deployment by Huainan, so they relaxed their vigilance.
However, what they didn't know was that Mao Ni was hiding in the defensive team. The people of Qianzhou are not careful enough in their observations. If you count carefully, you will find that more troops come and fewer leave every time they change defenses. During these frequent defense changes, Yan Keqiu is here unnoticed. A large army was stationed.
Soon after, Lu Yanchang was killed by his subordinate Li Qiu, and he went to Houliang to ask for his surrender. Later Liang appointed Li Qiu as the defense envoy of Qianzhou. Before his butt gets hot, general Li Yantu kills Li Qiu again. However, Tan Quanbo always claimed that he was ill and retired, so he was able to save his life.
The chaos in Qianzhou attracted Liu Yan of Guangzhou, who took advantage of the chaos to capture Shaozhou, and then captured Rongzhou, Gaozhou and other places under the rule of Ma Yin in Tanzhou. I caught a handful of good fish in troubled waters.
More than a year later, Li Yantu suddenly fell ill and died, so the soldiers and civilians of Qianzhou unanimously recommended Tan Quanbo as their leader, and Tan Quanbo went out to take care of affairs. Tan Quanbo had a clear political inclination and plunged into the arms of the Later Liang Dynasty without hesitation. He only became a subject of the Later Liang Dynasty and no longer surrendered to Huainan.
It took another seven years and Huainan tried their best to conquer Qianzhou and capture Tan Quanbo alive. The people of Huainan respected Tan Quanbo's loyalty very much and could not bear to harm him, so they released him. A few years later, Tan Quanbo died of illness in Fuzhou at the age of 85.
Huainan's battle to regain Qianzhou will be presented later.
At this point, Huainan and its surrounding neighbors had all become enemies, and military conflicts of varying magnitudes had occurred, all of which ended with Huainan's defeat. This was a big blow to Xu Wen, who had just taken control of the Huainan regime. After some discussion, Xu Wen still set his sights on the west - the land of two lakes, Jingxiang and Xiang.
Because the geopolitics here are the most complicated, we have already discussed them in detail when we talked about Gao Jichang in southern Jingnan and Mayin in southern Chu, so we will not repeat them here. Therefore, one move here can affect the whole body, and it is most suitable for vertical and horizontal maneuvers. Military and political overlap, intersect, and influence each other. Big countries can compete here, and small countries can profit here.
