Ye Qiao was upright and knowledgeable. Wang Yanjun admired him very much and assigned him as a "Friend of the Prince of Fortune". The Prince of Fortune was Wang Jipeng, which meant the teacher of the prince Wang Jipeng, similar to the "Fu Prince Fu" in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Yanjun clearly told Wang Jipeng to treat him with the courtesy of a master. Since Wang Jipeng is the crown prince, Ye Qiao is also respectfully called "Guowen", which means the prince and the emperor's teacher.
Ye Qiao is of course one of Wang Jipeng's few direct relatives. With his two younger brothers in charge of the military and his teacher in charge of the civil service, Wang Jipeng completed the transition of power one month after ascending the throne and stabilized his position.
After firmly establishing his position in the country, Wang Jipeng's true nature was revealed. He also favored heretics, was greedy for money and lust, and was suspicious of the hero's family... Wang Yanjun's glorious tradition was carried forward, and it was even worse. His fate was the same as Wang Yanjun's.
【Diplomacy of Split Personality】
When Wang Jipeng first came to power, in order to gain the support of major powers, he sent envoys to pay tribute to the Later Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, it was November 935 AD, the second year of Qingtai in the Later Tang Dynasty.
The next year, the "Hedong War" broke out, the Khitan enthroned Shi Jingtang, and Li Congke was defeated and died.
In the name of his younger brother Wang Jigong, Wang Jipeng professed himself to Shi Jingtang of the later Jin Dynasty and requested for canonization.
In the third year, Xu Zhigao in Huainan proclaimed himself emperor and founded the country. Wang Jipeng sent envoys to Huainan to congratulate Xu Zhigao on his accession to the throne.
Wang Jipeng paid generous tribute gifts to Shi Jingtang. Shi Jingtang, who was enthroned by the Khitan, also needed to be recognized by the princes of the world, so he readily accepted the tribute from the Kingdom of Fujian and consecrated Wang Jipeng as the King of Fujian. At the same time, he also did something bad and made Wang Jigong the Prince of Linhai County. .
After weighing the two sides, Wang Jipeng decided to reject the canonization of the Later Jin Dynasty and sent an envoy to tell Shi Jingtang, saying sorry, I am already the emperor and can no longer accept the canonization of the king.
When Li Lushan, the envoy of the Later Jin Dynasty, arrived in Fuzhou, Wang Jipeng avoided seeing him and asked his younger brother Wang Jigong to receive him. Later, Liu Yi, a member of the Zhongshu House, was responsible for entertaining Lu Sun. Lu Sun looked down upon Liu Yi and made rude remarks. Wang Jipeng was furious and told Lu Sun to get out of the house. He also sent Zheng Yuanbi, a foreign minister of the Ministry of Rites, to accompany Lu Sun to Bianzhou to help him scold him. Shi Jingtang. The details have been mentioned previously.
Zheng Yuanbi was ordered to paraphrase Wang Jipeng's words, to the effect that the succession of emperors of the Central Plains was unjust, and the origin of the throne of Shi Jingtang was even more unjust. You were a puppet of the Khitan people. Our Wang family has been in Fujian for many years and has won the hearts of the people. We have proclaimed ourselves emperor. If you are willing to interact with us in the future, we will give you face and treat you with the "enemy courtesy".
Shi Jingtang was furious and ordered Zheng Yuanbi to be detained. It has been explained in the previous article.
In short, Wang Jipeng first took the initiative to show his goodwill to the later Jin Dynasty, and then unilaterally tore up the treaty and severed diplomatic relations with the later Jin Dynasty.
When it comes to the issue of Huainan, Wang Jipeng also fell into a state of split personality. On the one hand, he worked hard to build "Huainan friendship", and on the other hand, he declared in a high-profile manner that he planned to destroy Huainan and the Wuyue Kingdom...
Wang Jipeng once hung a sand gong in the courtyard as an arrow target, held a bow and arrow in his hand, and said to everyone: "If I can hit the target with one shot, it means I can annex Jiangnan." Then he bent the bow and nocked an arrow, aimed, and shot.
It's a pity that his strength cannot support his precision, just as his ability cannot support his ambition. The arrow drew a weak arc and crashed dozens of steps away from him.
Wang Jipeng ordered someone to change the sand gong to a larger one, and then hung it closer to him so that he could deal with his face. Then there was a "swish" sound, and the target hit the target accurately.
Archer.
The followers on the left and right clapped their hands and congratulated, "This arrow will determine the world!"
Wang Jipeng and Long Yan were delighted. As expected, he summoned an army and stationed troops on the Huai-Fu border. He showed off his power and was eager to try.
Facing the military threat from Fujian, Huainan remained unmoved at all, just like after Turkey solemnly and seriously raised a military threat to Big Brother, Russian Chief of General Staff Gerasimov laughed and turned into an emoticon.
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Huainan made no preparation at all and scolded contemptuously: "This grandson is crazy!"
Huainan's contempt for Fujian is not unreasonable. Wu Guang, a local tycoon in Jianzhou, colluded with Huainan, and Jiang Yanhui, the governor of Xinzhou, sent troops without permission and almost captured Fujian's second largest city, Jianzhou, forcing Fujian to almost use all the strength of the country. to resist. Later, when the Wu Yue Kingdom and Huainan invaded south, the Min Kingdom would be pressed to the floor again.
When later generations evaluated the Fujian Kingdom, they said that although Wang Yanjun founded the country and proclaimed himself emperor, he was very self-aware and knew that his country was small and geographically remote, so he actively improved relations with its neighbors. During the eight years he governed Fujian, the world was basically at peace (Chang Jinshi) There were many neighboring countries, so there was poor security within the territory); but the three years of Wang Jipeng's reign became a turning point for Fujian. Starting from him, wars broke out frequently.
As for the reasons for the war, one is the above-mentioned swing in external relations and the capriciousness of foreign policy; the other is the internal political purge, which we will present in detail later.
【Knocking on bones and sucking out marrow】
Wang Jipeng inherited all the shortcomings of Wang Yanjun in all aspects, and made further progress, becoming stronger with every generation. Wang Yanjun, through Xue Wenjie's extortionate expropriation, had a limited scale and a limited time. He only had half a year to make the full calculation. However, Wang Jipeng did not forget his original intention and stayed with him in searching for people's wealth and anointing.
Wang Jipeng had the ambition to conquer the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers. What supported this grand dream was of course an invincible and powerful army. Therefore, Wang Jipeng spent a lot of money to buy five famous horses. That's right, it's not a war horse equipped for the army, but his own mount.
These five horses were given mighty and domineering names: Golden Saddle Messenger, General Qianli, Marquis of Zhiyuan, Wowalang (Wowa, the legendary place where the sacred horse is produced, refers to the sacred horse), and Duke Ji.
Wang Jipeng appointed Cai Shoumeng, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, to also serve as the judge of the third division.
One day, Wang Jipeng summoned Cai Shoumeng and asked: "I heard that bribery always happens when high-level officials are appointed and removed. Is this true?"
Cai Shoumeng was sweating profusely and quickly denied, "Your Majesty, these are all baseless rumors. We should find out the truth..."
Wang Jipeng waved his hand quickly, "You misunderstood. What I mean is that selling an official position is a good deal, why are you still timid? You are the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and I asked you to be sentenced to three divisions. Isn't my intention obvious? Be bolder , pace faster!"
