External forces never provide help in times of need. They usually take advantage of the situation. Those who can add icing on the cake are conscientious troublemakers. Therefore, in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, anyone who relies on foreign countries to rely on self-respect will basically not end well.
Wang Yanzheng was unable to persuade the Wu and Yue reinforcements to retreat, so he instead contacted Wang Yanxi of Fuzhou. The two brothers hit it off immediately. The country of Fujian is the country of Fujian people, and it is not the turn of outsiders to get involved!
A miracle of war happened, and the exchange of friends and foes was completed in an instant. Wang Yanxi and Wang Yanzheng shook hands and made peace, formed a united front, and launched an attack on the Wu and Yue reinforcements.
Wang Yanxi sent his nephew Wang Jiye to lead an army of 20,000 to reinforce Jianzhou, and wrote a letter to Wu Yue, strongly condemning their gross interference in other countries' internal affairs. At the same time, he sent light cavalry troops to cut off the logistics supply lines of Wu Yue's reinforcements.
At that time, it happened that there was continuous heavy rain, and the logistics supply of the Wuyue reinforcements itself was very problematic. After losing the supply from Wang Yanzheng of Jianzhou, the logistics supply was cut off by Wang Yanxi of Fuzhou. The 40,000-strong army soon ran out of ammunition and food; Wang Yanzheng suddenly They sent out troops to attack, but the reinforcements from Wu and Yue were defeated and numerous prisoners and beheads were taken. Commander-in-Chief Yang Renquan fled in embarrassment.
Huainan, which received help from Wang Yanxi of Fuzhou, was in a dilemma because they had just received a request for help from the rebel general Li Jinquan of Anzhou in the later Jin Dynasty.
As mentioned above, Li Jinquan, the governor of the Anyuan Army in Anzhou, had evil intentions. Shi Jingtang appointed Ma Quanjie as the military governor of Anzhou and transferred Li Jinquan to the court. Li Jinquan refused the imperial edict, colluded with Huainan, and rebelled against the imperial court.
At that time, An Congjin, the governor of Shannan East Road near Anzhou, was also secretly communicating with Huainan, harboring disloyal intentions, and had openly showed his cards to Shi Jingtang. If Huainan can take advantage of this opportunity to annex Anzhou, it will not be far away to go north to conquer the Central Plains in the future.
It is precisely because of this that Shi Jingtang adopted the strategy of killing chickens with a bull's knife and beating eggs with a huge stone, dispatched elite soldiers and brave generals, mobilized troops from twelve states, and moved southward with great momentum.
Finally, Huainan and the Later Jin reached a tacit agreement, that is, Huainan would only accommodate Li Jinquan and his deployment, and would not seek to occupy Anzhou and other Later Jin territories; the Later Jin would only recover Anzhou and tacitly allow Li Jinquan to defect to Huainan. In the end, no large-scale conflict broke out between the two parties, which was in the common interests of both parties.
So when Huainan received Wang Yanxi's request for help, it was when the situation in Anzhou was still unclear. Huainan did not want to fall into a passive situation of fighting on two fronts, and was unable to do anything at the same time.
So Huainan thought of a compromise and wrote two letters to mediate the conflict between the two brothers.
Don't do porcelain work without diamonds. The persuasion without the deterrence of force was empty and powerless. Huainan stuck a green onion in the nose of a pig - pretending to be an elephant, and was ruthlessly ridiculed by the brothers, which was very embarrassing.
The first was Wang Yanxi. Faced with Huainan's accusation that they were brothers fighting, Wang Yanxi used the past to satirize the present, saying that this was like Zhou Gong executing Uncle Guan and exiling Uncle Cai, or Emperor Taizong Li Shimin killing Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji during the "Xuanwumen Incident".
After the death of King Wu of Zhou, the Duke of Zhou took over as regent. His brothers Guan Shu, Cai Shu, and Huo Shu were plotting evil plans that were not good for the country. The Duke of Zhou went on an eastward expedition and killed Guan Shu, exiled Cai Shu, and demoted Huo Shu to a commoner. This is known as the "Three Three Kingdoms" in history. "Jian's Rebellion" or "Guan Cai's Rebellion" or "Wu Geng's Rebellion".
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, ordered his historians to use the "Guan Cai Rebellion" as a template to revise the historical facts about the "Xuanwumen Incident".
As the legitimate ruler of Fujian, Wang Yanxi compared himself to Zhou Gong and Tang Taizong, and responded with these two allusions. This still leaves a bit of thin noodles for Huainan.
"Rebel leader" Wang Yanzheng was not so polite. When faced with Huainan's accusation that he had lost his integrity, he directly responded domineeringly: "You have the nerve to accuse me? What kind of virtue do you have, and you don't show it to yourself? You don't do it yourself?" Is it just to take away the Yang family’s empire?”
But Xu Zhigao was so angry that he immediately "broke off diplomatic relations" with Wang Yanzheng and became enemies.
Although Wang Yanxi and Wang Yanzheng made peace, their suspicions only increased. After jointly repelling the Wu and Yue reinforcements, Wang Yanxi rushed to repair the city wall on the west side of Fuzhou and strengthened the city defense system to prevent Wang Yanzheng's sudden attack; Wang Yanzheng also built the outer city of Jianzhou and built an outer city with a circumference of twenty miles. City, and requested Wang Yanxi to set up a powerful army in Jianzhou, with himself as the military governor.
The Mighty Army is the military trumpet of Fuzhou, how can we allow Jianzhou to build a stronghold? This was Wang Yanzheng's naked test of Wang Yanxi.
Wang Yanxi ordered the establishment of a "Zhen'an Army" in Jianzhou, with Wang Yanzheng as the military envoy, and named Wang Yanzheng "King of Fusha".
Wang Yanzheng said that he did not like the name "Zhen'an" and changed his name to "Zhenwu Army". His political ambition was obvious, Zhenwu, and the mighty army.
Since the civil war, Wang Yanxi has become more suspicious of the clan and launched a major purge.
Wang Yanxi appointed his son Wang Yacheng to be the guard of the Sixth Army. Only his own son was trustworthy, not his younger brothers and nephews.
Later, he sent three thousand soldiers and horses to Tingzhou to capture his younger brother Wang Yanxi, the governor of Tingzhou, because he heard that Wang Yanxi and Wang Yanzheng had written letters.
Wang Jiye, the governor of Quanzhou, was summoned to return to Fuzhou. When Wang Jiye walked to the outskirts of Fuzhou, he was sentenced to death, and the next day he was executed all over the house. At the same time, Yang Yi and other guests on his staff were killed. The reason is still suspected of correspondence between Wang Jiye and Wang Yanzheng.
Yang Yi, his cousin was Yang She, the prime minister of the Emperor Ai Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, one of the "Six Ministers Carrying the Coffin"; his uncle was Yang Shou, the prime minister of the Yizong Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, a stepping stone for Wei Baoheng.
Yang Yi and Wang Dan were Wang Shenzhi's staff at first. Wang Dan was the son of Wang Pu, the prime minister of Zhaozong Dynasty of Tang Dynasty, so they had many things in common. They were famous in Fujian for their elegance and were praised by the world. Later, when Wang Jiye was the governor of Tingzhou, he admired Yang Yi very much, and the two became good friends. When Wang Jiye was sentenced to death, Yang Yi was regarded as an accomplice of Wang Jiye and was executed.
Yang Yi was already over 80 years old when he was killed.
After killing Wang Jiye, Wang Yanxi appointed his son Wang Jiyan as the governor of Quanzhou. Wang Jiyan once commanded the imperial army (which judged the guards of the Sixth Army). Because he was very popular with the people, he was jealous of Wang Jipeng and was dismissed from the military power. Now that Wang Yanxi sent him to Quanzhou, Wang Jiyan also implemented benevolent policies and was supported by the people of Quanzhou. , so Wang Yanxi recalled him to Fuzhou and poisoned him.
Wang Yanxi still surpassed Wang Jipeng in terms of suspicion and massacre of the Xunjiu clan. Since then, everyone in the Xunjiu clan has been in danger. They may be labeled as "Yan Zheng Faction" at any time, and the family may be exterminated without interrogation or evidence.
All the civil and military ministers were as silent as cicadas, and only Huang Jun, the admonishing official, had the courage to speak out. On this day, Huang Jun was prepared to die. He took a memorial and a coffin and went to the palace to carry the coffin and die, admonishing, "If you succeed in your adultery, you will die immediately!" If this continues, your country will be destroyed!
