General Liu cooperated with the main force led by the prince to take advantage of the internal discord in the country and made the feudal towns suspicious of each other. Zheng Wei, the commander of the Guandong camp who commanded the army, was unable to control the arrogant and powerful generals with civil and military control, and the eunuchs who oversaw the army conquered them violently. In fact, the failure to form a unified command is the weakness of fighting independently.
Adopt various tactics to defeat and fight dozens of battles in succession. Yu Chenzhou defeated the Japanese army's final main force in Guandong. They captured and killed Tang Jiedu envoys, observed history, and supervised more than 30 eunuchs and princes. They captured and surrendered more than 170,000 remnant troops of the Tang Dynasty, acquired more than 20,000 war horses, and piled up mountains of ordnance, armor, and food. It laid the foundation for the Qi Dynasty to unify the world.
After the Battle of Chenzhou, there were no more large-scale attacks in Guandong, and everyone from all over the country surrendered after hearing the news. Liu Zhirong was granted the title of Cai Guogong for his military merits, and led his troops to march into Shandong and Huaihe River. Within two years, Shandong and Lianghuai were pacified one after another. He also cooperated with Shang Rang's troops who were conducting a military campaign in Hebei, and wiped out all the vassal towns in Hebei, and defeated more than 30,000 Khitan cavalrymen who invaded Yanshan Prefecture in one fell swoop.
After the two Huaihe Rivers were pacified, Emperor Taizu, who was worried about his superiority, transferred his troops back to Nanyang, Henan, to rest in the name of the fact that his armies were exhausted from years of fighting and needed rest and replenishment. Although he failed to participate in the battle to pacify Jiangnan, he once again saved the court from danger when he garrisoned in Henan.
In the eighth year of the reign of Jin Dynasty, more than 10,000 surrendered generals from the former Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong rebelled and occupied Fengxiang, an important town in the west of Chang'an, threatening Chang'an at all times. His rebellion also triggered a renewed rebellion by the remnants of the former Tang Dynasty in Guandong and Longyou, as well as the scattered clans. Almost all the former Tang vassal towns that surrendered after the Battle of Guanzhong, as well as most of the civil and military officials, were taken in.
At the same time, before returning to Xiazhou after the Battle of Hezhong, the Tang Dynasty's Dingnan Army Jiedushi also took advantage of the main force of the Qi Dynasty to explore the Guandong and Lianghuai Rivers, and prepared to go south to the south of the Yangtze River. The remaining garrison in Guanzhong, except for a few elites who have been restrained by rebellions in various places and have no time to care for themselves, the rest of the army has not fought for a long time and their combat strength has dropped to the bottom.
He led tens of thousands of party cavalry to suddenly go south, echoing the rebels from a distance, and successively captured most of the Guannai Road, cutting off most of the food supply of Jingzhao Prefecture. In just a few days, the price of rice in Jingzhao Mansion rose to a hundred dollars. People in Chang'an City were panicked, and some officials who had surrendered to the former Tang Dynasty were even ready to welcome the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty back to Luan.
Although Emperor Taizu mobilized tens of thousands of troops to quell the rebellion, he was still unable to achieve success. At this time, the garrison in Guanzhong still had a certain fighting capacity, except for Liu Zhirong's old men from Tongzhou who were left behind by Emperor Taizu before his eastern expedition. However, due to the comfortable life in Guanzhong, most of the garrison's combat effectiveness has dropped to the point of being dispensable.
With only the more than 30,000 elite troops he left behind, in the face of rebellions everywhere in Guanzhong, Longyou, and Guan Nei, and having to deal with the party's cavalry going south, they were exhausted but fought hard after several hard battles. However, except for the more than 5,000 troops who stayed in Chang'an as the imperial army, there were too few troops that could be dispatched.
In addition, Dingguo Gong Meng Kai, who succeeded Liu Zhirong in the command post and was a direct descendant of Taizu and also a basic general, was brave, reckless and selfish. The battle on both fronts was exhausted, and the command was weak. Although the 20,000 elite troops lost their embers, they were unable to completely annihilate the rebellion, nor were they able to defeat the party's cavalry.
The situation around Chang'an left Emperor Taizu at a loss. Although Hedong and Hebei have calmed down, they still have to defend the Great Wall to defend the Khitan in the north and deter the remaining vassal towns in Hebei, which caused the most harm to the pre-Tang Dynasty. The war between the Huaihe River and Huaihe River has just been settled, and the army is preparing to cross the river to pacify the south of the Yangtze River.
Emperor Taizu, who had no troops to mobilize and nothing to do, was even ready to let the city go. Thousands of carriages were mobilized in front of the Daming Palace in Chang'an to carry jewelry. Such a move in the palace caused panic in the entire city of Chang'an. None of the newly wealthy members of this dynasty thought of leading troops into battle, and they were all busy transporting the looted property to the Kanto region.
The remnants of the former Tang Dynasty lurking in the city also kept in contact with the rebels outside the city. They were even so arrogant that they dared to set fires in front of royal residences, official offices, and even palaces in broad daylight. Even Xingqing Palace, one of the three palaces in Chang'an City, was secretly set on fire.
At that time, Liu Zhirong, who was returning from Lianghuai and had already arrived in Luoyang, heard the news. He and the prince's command post, with more than ten thousand elite cavalry, rushed back to Chang'an at night and under the stars. Without waiting for a rest, they started a fierce battle with the party's cavalry in the Weibei area. Cooperating with the 20,000 infantry troops of the British Duke Huang Ye who rushed back from Hedong, he took the lead in defeating the party's cavalry after several hard battles.
Later, he commanded the infantry troops who rushed back, marching on foot and cavalry to either pacify or suppress the rebels. It took nearly a year to gradually wipe out the rebellions in various places in Guanzhong and turn the situation into peace. After this battle, he was promoted to the king of Longyou County for his contribution to pacifying Guanzhong. However, although the Jin Dynasty was granted the title of king of the county, the original military commander was replaced by Shangshu Youpuse and Hubu Shangshu.
To put it bluntly, after putting down the rebellion, this man's title was promoted, but his military power was taken away. Seeing this, Huang Qiong took a closer look at the experience in this book and the layout of the entire court at that time. But he discovered that this was his ancestor at that time, who played a beautiful skill of ups and downs.
Although this old man was changed to Shangshu Youpushe and Hubu Shangshu, he was promoted to a first-rank official, and he was even named a county king. However, in the Ministry of Secretariat, Zuo Pushe has always held the actual power, and he is only equivalent to the deputy You Pushe. Official documents without Zuo Pushe's signature are basically a piece of waste paper.
At that time, Da Qi was still in the midst of a campaign, although the rebellion in Guanzhong had been subsided and Guandong had also been pacified. However, the war in the south of the Yangtze River was still raging, and the emperor of the former Tang Dynasty was still entrenched in Chengdu and controlled the Sichuan, Central Guizhou, Shannan, and Lingnan roads. Despite these territories, not many emperors of the former Tang Dynasty listened to them. But after all, the great cause of destroying the Tang Dynasty has not yet been completed, and of course it is still considered wartime.
According to Emperor Taizu's explicit order, military power during the war period was vested in the newly established Privy Council. The three ministries of household affairs, military affairs, and industry related to the war were temporarily placed under the direct control of Zhongshu Sheng and the Privy Council. Although the ministers of various ministries continue to stay in the Shangshu Province to carry out their orders, the ministers, heads of departments, and doctors who handle specific matters basically work in the Zhongshu Province.
At least until the war in Jiangnan was completely settled, the three ministers became empty officials. In other words, the new Prince of Longyou County can go to Shangshu Province to drink tea if he wants. If he doesn't want to, if he doesn't go to work in his county palace, no one will ask him for work instructions.
Huang Qiong really admired what this man did next. Not only did he patiently stay like this and focus all his energy on doing business, he also married several beautiful wives and concubines in a row. Even a princess from the former Tang Dynasty was taken into his residence. Perhaps in order to appease people's hearts, Taizu also liked him and rewarded him with fifteen palace maids at once.
The king of Longyou County was deprived of military power in the eighth year of Jin Tong, and he was restored to power in the 13th year of Jin Tong for five years. Make use of your connections in the military to do business in a big way. It can be said that wherever the Qi army advances, his business will be carried out. Tea, silk, porcelain, medicinal materials, there are all kinds of businesses that he does not do. ,
Before Zhejiang and Fujian were completely pacified, he opened the salt farm there. Therefore, people invented the sun salt method, which made the output of their salt fields far exceed that of other salt fields that still use the boiled salt method. In just one year, the income gained from several salt farms in Zhejiang and Shandong amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is because in exchange for salt, 40% of the profit must be paid to the court. With the end of the Jiangnan War, the salt produced in the salt fields under his name, due to its large output and low price, and relying on the military might of the Qi army, defeated many salt merchants in Jiangnan and almost monopolized the entire Jiangnan salt industry supply.
In addition to the huge profits brought by sea salt, he also improved the method of frying tea. And the Daqi cavalry was used to promote it, so that fried tea quickly replaced the cumbersome steamed tea. It also acquired the West Lake Tea Garden in Hangzhou and the Dongting Mountain in Taihu Lake in Suzhou to produce famous tea gardens such as Longjing Tea in Hangzhou, Jingsharenxiang in Suzhou, and Tieguanyin in Fujian.
At the same time, taking advantage of the war in the north, several famous kilns in the former Tang Dynasty had suspended production. The general trend was to recruit kiln workers from the north to go south, and the Longquan kiln was developed in Zhejiang and Zhejiang, the Putian kiln was developed on Fujian Road, and the Jingdezhen kiln was developed on Jiangnan West Road. The celadon developed by its Longquan kiln became very popular as soon as it came out, quickly defeating the kilns in the north that had been devastated by war and were actually in decline.
After the pacification of Lingnan in the 11th year of the Jin Dynasty, the king of Longyou County asked himself to guard the newly established area in the name of the vast territory of Lingnan, the sparse population, the location of many barbarians, and the proximity to foreign vassals, which required the court to send important ministers to appease and guard. Guangnan West Road. Under the mediation of the prince, Emperor Taizu finally agreed after much consideration to change his title from Longyou County Prince to Guilin County Prince, allowing him to live on Guangnan West Road.
However, since the creation of salt and iron in the Western Han Dynasty, salt tax has been an important source of finance for the country. The Prince of Guilin controlled nearly half of the world's salt profits. The huge profits brought by the various salt farms he operated every year made the court, which was already a little worried about him, even more worried.
After the Battle of Chenzhou, this man had already accumulated considerable prestige in the army and held sky-high wealth in his hands. So could the throne of Emperor Taizu still be secure? Therefore, after Emperor Taizu agreed to his request to guard Guangnan West Road, in exchange, he took back all the salt fields in his hands to the Ministry of Household Affairs and set up salt transport envoys on the coastal roads.
However, when Emperor Taizu attacked Guangzhou in the late Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou's food and Persian merchants assisted the Japanese in defending the city, which caused a lot of trouble for Emperor Taizu, which made Emperor Taizu hate these outsiders, and even It's quite repulsive. In addition, although Emperor Taizu was born as a private salt dealer, he did not have such a long-term vision. He always believed that farming was the foundation of governing the country.
Apart from being very serious about the idea of the Heavenly Kingdom, and fantasizing all day long about the coming of all nations like the former Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he had no interest in overseas trade at all. Moreover, there is another reason why Emperor Taizu is so repulsive to maritime trade, and that is because he is worried that the remnants of the former Tang Dynasty will disperse overseas and accumulate strength to fight back.
If it hadn't been for the persuasion of the King of Guilin County, a sea ban would have been issued and all foreign merchants who came to trade would have been driven away. In order to take back the salt field that he considered more important to the court, and also to appease the heroes who had their important financial resources taken away. This Emperor Taizu, who was very repulsive to foreigners, simply handed over the operations of the former Tang Dynasty's shipping companies in Guangzhou and Quanzhou to his Guilin County Prince's Mansion.
This Emperor Taizu, who was not very discerning, also stipulated some extremely harsh customizations. For example, foreign merchants were not allowed to stay in Guangzhou for more than three months, and they could leave by sea once the wind direction arrived. Forty percent of the annual profit of the Second City Shipping Company was handed over to the court. In other words, his Da Qi Dynasty would take 40% of the profits even if he did nothing.
