At the same time, good news also came from Sishui Pass:
Hou Yi fulfilled his promise and led 5,000 elites to fight against 10,000 rebels. Almost all of them were wiped out at a very small cost, and the rest were all captured. Sishui Pass was captured, and Zhang Congbin fled in a panic. In his panic, he was squeezed into the river and drowned. Hou Yi captured the rest of the party, Zhang Yanbo, Zhang Jizuo, Lou Jiying and other ten people, and sent them back to Bianzhou to await their fate.
Shi Jingtang ordered that the ten people who had become traitors and rebels be executed in their entirety!
Li Tao, the editor of the History Museum, hurriedly submitted a memorial to plead for Zhang Jizuo, because Zhang Jizuo was the son of the "healing master" Zhang Quanyi. As mentioned earlier, Zhang Quanyi was in charge of Luoyang. At that time, Luoyang was systematically destroyed by the giant bandit Sun Ru and almost razed to the ground. It was Zhang Quanyi's hard work for many years that restored Luoyang's vitality and restored it to the state of the imperial capital. appearance.
Shi Jingtang then showed mercy outside the law and only killed Zhang Jizuo and his wife, while pardoning the rest of his family members.
Subsequently, Shi Jingtang issued an edict. The culprit Zhang Congbin and his accomplice Zhang Yanbo were all punished as they deserved. The rest of those who were coerced by them, including Fu Yanrao's tribe in Huazhou and Wang Hui's gang members in Anzhou, were not punished. After further investigation, they were all acquitted!
Bianzhou and Xuzhou's central flowering strategy failed; Luoyang's chrysanthemum attack strategy failed; the main force on the Huazhou front line was completely wiped out... Weizhou's Fan Yanguang was depressed.
Fan Yanguang knew that the situation was over, so he executed Sun Rui. As mentioned above, Fan Yanguang put all the responsibility on this man, saying that it was Sun Rui's traitor who took advantage of his serious illness to launch a rebellion without authorization. He was innocent and sent his head to Yang Guangyuan's army asked Yang Guangyuan to help send a message, expressing his willingness to accept negotiations and conditional surrender.
Yang Guangyuan forwarded Fan Yanguang's peace request letter, but Shi Jingtang flatly refused, "Brother, you are a ruthless and ruthless person in society. You are famous in Weibo. Do it for me and harvest it for me!"
Under Yang Guangyuan's heroic command, the war in Weizhou finally reached a stalemate. Facing Fan Yanguang, who was still alive and shrinking, Yang Guangyuan could not come up with any effective plan, and the only way was to waste his life. This consumes more than a year.
During this year, Shi Jingtang had no leisure time. When Yang Guangyuan surrounded Weizhou and Shi Jingtang thought that the war would be quickly ended, bad news came again from the south.
Previously, a mutiny broke out in Anzhou. General Wang Hui killed Zhou Gui, the Jiedushi envoy, and took control of Anzhou. He prepared to bet on both sides and watch the battle from behind. Shi Jingtang sent Li Jinquan and a thousand cavalry to take over, and sent Wang Hui to Tangzhou to serve as governor. Wang Hui refused the imperial edict and refused to accept the appointment, saying that he would not accept such an appointment and would instead be an old man in Anzhou.
Anzhou's neighbor, An Congjin, the envoy of Shannan East Road in Xiangzhou, sent troops to control the traffic arteries going south to prevent Wang Hui from colluding with the Huainan forces.
When Wang Hui heard that Li Jinquan had led his army to take over, he packed his bags and prepared to defect to Huainan. Before leaving, he ordered the plundering of Anzhou City for three days. At this time, the road going south had been blocked by An Congjin, and Wang Hui, who was at the end of his rope, was killed by An Congjin.
An Congjin reported Anzhou's progress to the court and welcomed Li Jinquan to take over.
Prior to this, the imperial court had issued an edict and given a letter of arrows, pardoning Wang Hui and his party for the crime of mutiny, and promoted Wang Hui to be the governor of Tangzhou. Li Jinquan expressed his trust in the imperial edict and comforted Wang Hui's remaining party.
Wang Hui's remaining party members cheered and were about to have a happy ending. However, Li Jinquan soon learned of their three-day looting, and commanded Wu Yanhe and a dozen other officers to seize a large amount of gold and silver treasures. So Li went in and ordered Wu Yanhe and more than a dozen people to be arrested and beheaded.
When Wu Yanhe was dying, he shouted: "Wang Hui is the instigator, and the emperor even appointed him as the governor. We were coerced by Wang Hui. What are our crimes? The emperor has a consolation edict and a letter of arrows. If the imperial court asked you to kill us, Then the imperial court has broken its promise! If you violate the imperial edict and surrender, then you will not die well in the future!"
Afterwards, Li Jinquan reported to the court that the group encountered robbers on the way and were unfortunately killed.
Of course Shi Jingtang knew the truth of the matter, but he would not pursue it. Subsequently, Li Jinquan was appointed as the governor of the Anyuan Army in Anzhou.
Li Jinquan was originally Li Siyuan's domestic slave and a native of Tuyuhun. He attracted Li Siyuan's attention because of his bravery and good fighting skills. He won military honors on the battlefield and was promoted to governor. After Li Siyuan became emperor, he promoted him to the military governor of Jingzhou Zhangyi Army.
After the salty fish turned over, Li Jinquan fully exposed his greedy nature. He was corrupt and violent in the town and had a very bad reputation. Later, he was summoned to the Central Committee by Li Siyuan and thrown into the Forbidden Army to retire.
Li Jinquan offered war horses to Li Siyuan many times in order to ask for mercy from the emperor and then let him return to his place to dominate. However, he was slapped on the horse's hoof. Li Siyuan was very unhappy and asked him: "You didn't do anything else in Jingzhou, did you just ride horses?"
Later, he went out to control Cangzhou and was envoy to the Henghai Navy.
After Li Congke became emperor, he was recalled to the central government and thrown into the ranks of the imperial army.
After Shi Jingtang proclaimed himself emperor, Wang Hui of Anzhou rebelled and Li Jinquan was sent to pacify him. Wang Hui was shot dead on the way to defect. Li Jinquan went to the city to pacify him and was immediately appointed as the governor of the Anyuan Army in Anzhou.
Before he left, Shi Jingtang was worried that he would take credit for his crime, so he specifically told him that although Wang Hui deserved death, if we liquidated Wang Hui's party members, it would inevitably intensify regional conflicts, make the people uneasy, and be detrimental to regional stability. Therefore, I will pardon them all, but you must not kill anyone!
"Because of the broken arrows and flying edicts, I agreed not to kill anyone, but I still allowed Hui to be the governor of Tangzhou." - "Old History of the Five Dynasties"
However, Li Jinquan was still good at killing surrendered generals because of his greed for money. Such was the corruption and violence, but Shi Jingtang chose to be tolerant and forbearing.
The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. One of Li Jinquan's cronies, Hu Hanyun (also known as "Hu Hanrong"), was more greedy and cruel than Li Jinquan, and was extremely cunning and cunning. He was full of bad ideas and often encouraged Li Jinquan to do some illegal things.
Li Jinquan was not a gentleman to begin with, but he still needed to whitewash it on the surface. After all, he was a provincial cadre, so he had to be more sanctimonious. And this Hu Hanjun is the window through which he releases his inner sins, the reason for his corruption and depravity, and the last fig leaf of his humanity.
Therefore, Hu Hanyun was very favored by Li Jinquan. This is why leaders often favor the villains around them.
Anzhou Anyuan Army borders the Huainan forces to the east and southeast, borders a small part of Nanchu to the south, is completely separated from Jingnan to the southwest, is Xiangzhou Shannan East Road to the west, and is Dengzhou Weisheng Army and Xuzhou Zhongwu to the north. military.
From the map, the Anyuan Army in Anzhou is a balcony of the Later Jin Dynasty, extending into the "Three No Matters" zone of Huainan, Jingnan, and Nanchu. Generally speaking, this kind of place must be a battleground for military strategists and a strategic springboard for the surrounding bosses.
