In the third year of Zhang Zhou Shaoming's reign, 948 AD, June 27th, the somewhat protracted war to destroy Shu finally came to an end.
After the Chengdu Prefecture's administrative office for the expedition to Shu was abolished, Ma Zhaoyuan followed Zhang Yan's orders in Fuzhou and abolished the administrative office for the expedition to Pingshu.
Ma Zhaoyuan handed over the military power in his hands to the Jiannan Sichuan Provincial Envoy who came to take over. After the Ningjiang Road pacification envoy Zhe De was defeated, he led Du Lun to Chixin. Zhao Kuangyin, Shi Yanchao and others returned to Jiangling Mansion and continued to work for him. Went to Pingzhang, Hubei Province.
Later, Zhang Gao ordered Du Lun, the surname of Chixin, to be given to Du Chixin, who was renamed Du Chixin. He was then transferred to Xiangyang Prefecture and took over the positions of governor of Xiangyang Prefecture and military supervisor of Xiangyang Prefecture, including Zhu Jing, the Duke of Jincheng County.
The Yangtze River fleet originally controlled by Du Chixin was all handed over to Yueyang Mansion Yin, Yueyang Mansion Military Supervisor, Dajiang Navy Inspection Envoy, and the emperor's adopted son Zhao Yanjin.
After Du Chixin set off, Li Rong, the Marquis of Xixiang, led the imperial army to Zhaoyi Town, and Zhao Kuangyin, the Bo of Zhongzhou, led the Youlongxiang Guards, a personal army, and were transferred to Yueyang Mansion by Zhang Gao.
It was already obvious who this was aimed at. Zhu Kuangye, the military commander of the Wuchang Army in Ezhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty who succeeded He Jingzhu, was so frightened that he immediately started "demolition".
He moved all the people between Yueyang Prefecture and Ezhou, fearing that they would be captured by Zhao Yanjin as civilian husbands. At the same time, he spread the news that the Shu Kingdom had been destroyed to Jiangning Prefecture.
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In the middle of Shu, while Ma Zhaoyuan withdrew, the chief officials of various roads in the middle of Shu were in place one after another.
Zhang Jian ordered Yin Zhengqi to preside over the land equalization in Ya'an Prefecture, Nanxi Prefecture, Zizhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Bazhong Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture, Kuizhou Prefecture and other places and to recruit guardsmen.
Later, the Forbidden Army Yongping Town was built in Ya'an Prefecture, the Forbidden Army Pingnan Town was built in Nanxi Prefecture, the Forbidden Army Baoning Town was built in Bazhong Prefecture, and the Forbidden Army Ningjiang Town was built in Kuizhou Prefecture.
He also recruited warriors from Shu in Chengdu and established the pro-army Zuo Hu Ben Guard. At the same time, he left the pro-army You Jinwu Guard in Chengdu to strengthen the troops in the hands of Yin Yaozi to suppress Shu.
On the first day of July, after the army that defeated Shu returned to Hubei Province, the army that defeated Shu also began to return. Along with the army, Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, and the Meng family also returned.
Since Feng Dao failed to go to Songpan Mansion due to altitude sickness, he has been assisting Yin Yaozi in Chengdu to take stock of the Meng family's royal family's properties.
In fact, they were not the only ones, there were also Hexi Chamber of Commerce, Jinyi Guards and Qianzhuangsi.
Link after link, although some people are still bound to be corrupt, they are only a small part, and the big head will still belong to me, Zhang Shengren.
As for the entire Meng clan, especially Meng Chang's three major palaces, a large amount of gold and silver treasures were copied.
Just the antiques and curios, famous paintings, famous calligraphy and calligraphy, as well as unique and unique books and classics are enough to fill seven carts.
Although these are troubled times and antiques are not that valuable, in Zhang Hao's eyes, they are priceless treasures!
Subsequently, the Meng family's property was inspected and more than 1.7 million yuan and more than 2 million acres of land were obtained.
Yin Yaozi confiscated the property of a wealthy family with evil intentions in Shu, and obtained 3.5 million yuan and nearly 5 million acres of land.
Zhang Gao ordered various departments to transport all the antiques, paintings, calligraphy and paintings, gold, silver and jewelry to Luoyang, the sacred capital.
The grain, cloth, and metals called gold but actually brass were left in Shu to be used as resource reserves for the conquest of Duan's Dali Kingdom.
At the same time, of the 7 million acres of land, only 300,000 acres of land were left for the royal family to farm outside Chengdu. The rest were all given to the imperial army, guard army, etc., as well as to rewards for those who followed the army and were willing to stay in Shu. Civilian husband.
Except for some of the maids in the palace who were married to the soldiers stationed in Shu, all the rest were released if they were willing to go home. Those who were unwilling to go home were also taken away by the army.
More than 140 royal family members including Emperor Meng Chang of Meng Shu, Empress Dowager Li, Dowager Concubine Li, Imperial Concubine Li Yanniang, Meng Shu Yan King Meng Yiye and other royal family members were personally guarded by Youyu Lin Wei and escorted to Chang'an.
Those wealthy families who had incited the Meng Shu army to rebel, bribed the Zhou army into Shu and tried to cause trouble, were all locked up by the whole clan, and a total of more than 10,000 people also left Shu and went north with the army.
Accompanying them were Zhao Tingyin, Shi Kai and other old people from Daibei and Hedong who originally followed Meng Zhixiang to Shu, and they went to Chang'an together.
Among the civil servants, Li Hao, Mu Zhaoyi, Wang Chuhui and other Meng and Shu ministers were also called to serve in the court.
As soon as tens of thousands of people arrived at Mianyang Mansion, Zhang Yan sent an edict from Chang'an, delegating Meng Chang, the lord of Meng Shu, as Duke of Xing, with a settlement of 3,000 households, actually 300 households.
But only two days later, the army reached Jiangyou County and the order arrived again.
This time it was very severe. Zhang Yan demoted Meng Chang, Duke of Xing, as a disobedient prince.
He also ordered the commander-in-chief of the army, Shen Guogong Li Cunhui, to immediately execute Li Tinggui, Hou Lingtu and other close friends who had encouraged Meng Chang to march into Guanzhong, and blamed Wang Chuhui and other Meng Shu ministers.
Five days later, the carriages and horses arrived at the posthouse outside Jianzhou City. This time it was Zhang Lieming, the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guards, who came with more severe orders.
Zhang Lieming, on Zhang's orders, publicly reprimanded Meng Chang for being greedy and insufficient, which caused a fight between the two countries and resulted in numerous casualties among the people.
Later, although Meng Chang's title was not lowered again, Zhang Lieming brought the imperial staff thugs from the Jinyi Guards, publicly scolded all the attendants and bodyguards around Meng Chang, and immediately killed more than thirty people with the staff.
Empress Dowager Meng Shu Li closed her eyes in discomfort. She knew that the reasons on the surface were all false.
The real reason is that since Meng Chang came out of Chengdu, although he was a prisoner, he was still very particular about food and clothing like an emperor. The attendants around him still called Meng Chang a saint. When Meng Chang talked with Jinxing, he often said: There are words of dissatisfaction.
How can this not show the slightest consciousness of a king who has subjugated his country? It's totally looking for fault for yourself.
Li persuaded him several times, but Meng Chang remained silent, as if he wanted to die deliberately.
However, if you want to die, why not die decisively before the Zhou army enters Chengdu? What’s the point of doing this now?
Even if she could die without dignity, Queen Mother Li really despaired of her son.
Of course, neither Queen Mother Li nor Meng Chang knew that Zhang Yan really wanted to kill Meng Chang.
Zhang Yan didn't have such a strong desire for Gao Baorong, Ma Xiguang, or even Gao Baoxu and Ma Xi'e.
Of course it's not because of Mrs. Huaxin. Fei is a very beautiful woman, but Zhang Yan has not seen her yet.
In the early stage, Fei fell seriously ill when he was sent to Hanzhong.
The little girl was only a teenager, and she had just fallen in love with Lord Meng, but then all her dreams were shattered. Her mother-in-law gave her to a man who was almost 20 years older than her. In addition, the journey was bumpy, so she could only walk to Hanzhong Mansion. Being sick is considered a good thing.
Historically, when Fei entered Tokyo, she was already a mature woman in her thirties. She had seen all kinds of scenes and was past the age where love was everything in her life. Of course, she could adapt quickly, but not now.
After being raised in Hanzhong for more than half a month, her condition improved a little. After finally arriving at Chang'an Mansion in Jingzhao, she cried every day because she missed Shuzhong.
In this way, even if the people below received great benefits from the Empress Dowager Li of Shu and Princess Li of Fuxing, no one would be so bold as to treat such a sick person like a little beauty who is thinner than a yellow flower and still crying. Send it to the emperor.
Therefore, we could only find a way to bring Fei's mother-in-law from Shu, reunite her family first, and let her family members persuade her. After she felt better, she dared to send her to Zhang Yan.
This Fei family is indeed very beautiful, because if she didn't have such beauty, even if the lieutenant next to Zhang Yan accepted a thousand coins from Princess Fuxing, he wouldn't be so tolerant of her.
There is no shortage of beauties around the emperor. If he didn't have amazing beauty and the middle official had a better temper, he might just leave her there.
The more ruthless ones would just send him back the way he came. With Fei's body and sullen mood, even if she didn't die on the way back to Shu, she would be ordered to do so by the Empress Dowager Li of Shu who was anxious to save her son's life. Beat to death.
Therefore, this world is still very judgmental. Even when he was ill, Dong Chao, the most trusted eunuch of Zhang Yan, the young eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the envoy of Jinshan Palace, met Fei Shi. He immediately hired famous doctors to treat Fei Shi. Chang'an arranged for a large house and asked the Hexi Chamber of Commerce to take over Fei's Ye Niang siblings.
Apart from him, this woman's appearance is absolutely beautiful, she is just the kind that Zhang Shengren likes best, and she will definitely be favored when she enters the palace.
However, Fei still didn't find a chance to be sent to Zhang Yan. The Queen Mother of Shu just squeezed out money from her own body and bribed everywhere, but it was useless.
Because when the army was reorganizing, Zhang Xichong, the minister of the Zhangzhou court and a subordinate of Tongzhongshu, died of illness. Only five days later, Cao Yuanshen, the second eldest son of the Cao family in Shazhou, also died of illness.
Although Cao Yuanshen has always been against Zhang Yan, and he is not qualified, his death will greatly affect Zhang Yan's next strategy.
First of all, as the son-in-law, Yin Zhengqi, the Yin Kite in Shu, will come back to handle the funeral?
This came and went, ranging from two months to three or four months, but Yin Zhengqi couldn't leave for twenty days, let alone two months.
In addition, Cao Yanzong, the son of Cao Yuanshen, who was stationed in Gaochang and stabilized Beiting for Zhang Yan, would definitely come back to observe his filial piety.
At present, there are only a few people in Zhang Zhou who can be trusted by Zhang Yan and who are willing to go to Gaochang, which is thousands of miles away.
The second one is Guo Xuanqing, the patriarch of the Suiye Guo family, a great Nestorian figure, who died of illness four months ago. The successor of the Guo family is named Guang Guangyi.
It doesn’t look like much, right? But in fact, the problem was bigger. First of all, the news of Guo Xuanqing's death was not informed by someone from the Guo family, but was brought back by Xing Shang.
Secondly, Guo Guangyi is not Guo Xuanqing's son. This person doesn't even have an impression of Zhang Yan. I think he was still an unknown person when he was in Broken Ye.
But now, in less than ten years, it must be unusual for Guo Xuanqing's four sons to take over.
Moreover, although Guo Xuanqing was obsessed with power and was unwilling to lose the power to control Suiye, he did not resist returning to the country.
He just wants to be Muying in the future, and at most he can be like the Li family in Korea.
But now that Guo Xuanqing's sons have failed to take over, it is very likely that the completely independent faction within the Guo family has gained the upper hand.
Sure enough, more than a month later, Ningyuan's manager Lao Zhang Zhong sent top-secret information.
A bloody coup took place in the Suiye Guo family!
Guo Guangyi colluded with Li Guoshou of Talas and launched a coup after Guo Xuanqing's death. All four sons of Guo Xuanqing were killed in the coup.
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Guo Guangyi, who came to power, was indeed pushed to the position by the independent faction within the Guo family and even Suiye, just as Zhang Yan expected.
Rumor has it that Li Guoshou and Guo Guangyi of Talas have reached an agreement. The two conspired to establish a khanate with Suiye as their capital, with Guo Guangyi as the chief khan and Li Guangyi as the deputy khan.
Zhang Yan frowned deeply. Li Guoshou and his sons did not have such a mind. With their ability to control the various tribes near Talas, it should be said that it was far beyond Zhang Gao's expectations.
Who on earth brokered the cooperation between the opposition forces of the Guo family and Li Guoshou?
Hamid of Samampos shouldn't have this ability either. Could it be that Samampos has created a new capable king?
Or was it caused by the invincible little strongman Bugrahan Saktu who was working in various places?
The situation began to develop in the direction that Zhang Hao least wanted to see.
The Suiye Guo family lost control and basically cut off Zhang Zhi's hand that stretched from Suiye to Hezhong and Persia. The consequences were serious.
And Zhang Yan knew that no matter who did this, he and the Central Plains court could no longer sit idly by.
This was a blatant rebellion, a hundred times more serious than before when it was just a lack of paying tribute.
Such behavior, unless Zhang Yan is willing to give up Hezhong, will never be punished.
However, with the current strength of the Khotan Jin Kingdom and the two provinces of Anxi and Beiting, they still have an advantage when facing the Suiye Guo family, the Li family and even the Saktu family.
However, the entire Western Region under the leadership of Li Shengtian has a very obvious shortcoming.
That is, after Zhang Gao brought all the elites back east, Li Shengtian's subordinates lacked a commander of the level of Murong Nobunaga, Ma Zhaoyuan, Guo Queer, and Yin Yaozi.
There is also a lack of generals like Li Cunhui, Guo Rong, and Zhao Kuangyin.
If Li Shengtian rashly organizes an army to conquer, eh! Zhang Gao recalled Li Shengtian's skill and ability in presiding over the military during those years in Khotan.
It can't be said that there is none, but maybe it is not as good as his father-in-law Cao Yuanzhong.
It's possible to beat him down, but if you go over mountains and ridges to break the leaves, the possibility of defeat is not small.
Even Li Shengtian himself did not have this confidence. After Zhang Gao passed the news to Li Shengtian, the emperor's uncle did not show any excitement at all and wanted to go back and lead an army to conquer Buchen.
On the contrary, he was a little worried, because when Li Shengtian arrived in the Central Plains, he sent someone to teach Broken Ye Guo Xuanqing and Talos Li Guoshou a lesson.
But that was based on the fact that Guo Xuanqing knew Zhang Yan's skills, and Li Guoshou was deeply afraid of Zhang Yan.
The two leaders were unwilling and did not dare to completely offend Zhang Gao, so they expressed their surrender to the thousands of troops from Khotan Jin Kingdom and were willing to send people to follow Li Shengtian to plead guilty to Zhang Gao.
But now, Guo Xuanqing is dead, and Li Guoshou seems to be determined. This is not something that three thousand troops can solve. Naturally, Li Shengtian is not completely sure to fight this battle.
And just when he had a splitting headache, the Jinyi guards reported Meng Chang's suicide attempt to Zhang Yan.
Zhang Hao, who was getting angry, had no place to express his anger, and immediately ordered the Jinyi guards to send a message to Li Cunhui, asking him to chop Meng Chang directly by the Fujiang River.
Fortunately, Cao Yuanzhong and Wei Renpu urged Zhang Yan not to do this, and Li Shengtian also said that he was always a prince and should be treated with some dignity.
Zhang Gao had just ordered the recovery of the angel, but he only gave Meng Chang the disobedient prince who had been given to Li Yu by Zhao Da in history.
Then, still not satisfied, he ordered people to kill all the servants around Meng Chang with sticks before giving up.
