Lingnan, Han Kingdom, Xingwangfu.
This Xingwang Mansion is none other than Guangzhou.
The reason why it is called Prince Xing's Mansion is that according to the custom at this time, the capital of a country is generally called a mansion. It is an act of deviance to set up mansions all over the world like Zhang Yan did.
In later history, one thing was actually overlooked, and that was the importance of the Southern Han Dynasty.
It is true that in the long history of our country, the Southern Han Dynasty is really inconspicuous, and it has been ridiculed through the ages because of the eunuch dynasty.
But for Lingnan and Guangdong and Guangxi, the Southern Han Dynasty was a very, very important dynasty.
Because if the Central Plains court completely brought Lingnan into its rule, so that the people of Lingnan truly became kings and considered themselves culturally and psychologically the same as the people of the Central Plains, it was actually only stabilized in the Southern Han Dynasty.
Prior to this, the Central Plains court brought Lingnan into its jurisdiction for the first time. It was the First Emperor who sent Ren Xiao to lead a 500,000-person expedition south to Baiyue.
These 500,000 people are not all troops, but also include a large number of craftsmen and requisitioned sons-in-law, Jia people, etc.
Of course, there is also the theory that the army only has about 100,000 people, and these 500,000 people are immigrants from the Central Plains who Ren Xiao requested from the First Emperor after he established a foothold.
But in any case, Ren Xiao's conquest of Baiyue was not a simple military operation, but more like an immigration to the border. However, no one expected that the Qin Empire would collapse so quickly.
After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Ren Xiao, the commander-in-chief of the conquest of Baiyue, was greatly stimulated and soon died in depression.
But Zhao Tuo, the brother of Hebei Zhending, who succeeded him later, was a bit less authentic.
Of course, this is not to say that Zhao Tuo had many sins, but compared to famous generals like Zhao Zilong and Huangfu Yu who appeared in the Zhending area and were loyal and pure in mind, Zhao Tuo was obviously much more thoughtful and less pure in his thoughts.
This old man from Hebei made friends with various tribes in Lingnan and sealed off all roads. What he was thinking about was no longer the country, but how he could become the king of Nanyue behind closed doors.
Objectively speaking, Zhao Tuo and his descendants played a great role in the development of Lingnan.
It had only been twenty or thirty years since the First Emperor unified the world and ended centuries of division in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. It was understandable that Zhao Tuo attempted to separate Lingnan according to the ideas of the Xia monarchs and Yi people in the past, to rule the various ethnic groups in Baiyue, and to become a vassal of the Central Plains dynasty.
But if it weren't for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who had great talents and great plans later in the Han Dynasty and was determined to conquer all directions, it's really hard to say whether Lingnan would have belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty.
However, even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, faced with great pressure from the Huns in the north, although he destroyed the South Vietnam Kingdom, he could only rely on the local Han, Li, Li and other ethnic groups to rule Lingnan.
Most of the Han court's influence in Lingnan was concentrated in the Pearl River Delta. Apart from a few state capitals, it was difficult to control.
The Central Plains Dynasty had to wait until the early years of Nanchen to truly begin to gradually control Lingnan.
Chen Baxian, the founding emperor of Nanchen, started his career in Lingnan. Before going north to conquer Hou Jing, Chen Baxian had already put down the Jiaozhi rebellion in Lingnan, and then defeated Yuan Jingzhong's rebellion in Guangzhou.
During these battles, Mrs. Xian, who was born in the Li people (Zhuang ethnic group), was moved by Chen Baxian's character and ability. She chose to follow Chen Baxian and be loyal to the court, and provided a lot of help to Chen Baxian in his campaign against the imperialists in Lingnan.
Chen Baxian also valued Mrs. Xian and Feng Bao very much. Before going north to quell Hou Jing's rebellion, he entrusted them with the important task of uniting the Li and other clans.
Soon Feng Bao died of illness, and Mrs. Xian took on the great cause of stabilizing Lingnan and uniting various ministries to be loyal to the country.
Mrs. Xian went through the Chen and Sui dynasties and did not choose to try to let the Feng family separatize Lingnan like Zhao Tuo did. Instead, she always regarded Lingnan as an indispensable place for the country.
Even Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, who was far away in Chang'an, was greatly moved, and he assured Mrs.
This is the only hegemony dominated by women in Chinese history.
In later generations, the Zhuang ethnic group, as the largest ethnic minority in the Republic, not only did not cause any trouble, but throughout the dynasties, it has always been the confidant that the country can rely on when it is in trouble. It is almost the same as the Han people, but Mrs. Xian has a good start.
It can be said that after Mrs. Xian's high integrity, Lingnan began to gradually come under the control of the state.
But this degree of control is still not very stable with the death of Mrs. Xian.
Although the Tang Dynasty established dozens of states and counties in Lingnan, most of them had few floating officials and many local officials. The territory that they could fully control was mainly in the Pearl River Delta.
Therefore, in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, Lingnan was very dangerous. Not only Annan, where Jing Haijun was located, had problems, but the entire Lingnan Road, including Guangzhou, had problems.
Moreover, the problem in Lingnan was more serious than in Annan, because Annan was hot and humid at the time, the Red River Delta had not yet been fully developed, there were swamps everywhere, floods were frequent, and there were not many people at all.
Among them, the Han people who moved to Annan mostly lived on the plains and made a living by farming. They controlled a large number of means of production and were in a leading economic and political position.
Most of the surrounding Baiyue barbarians live in the mountains. They don't even know how to farm. They basically rely on gathering and hunting to survive. Not to mention armor, they don't even have many iron farm tools, so they can't compete with those who live on the plains. Confrontation between the Han people.
Therefore, Annan's rebellion was completely caused by the local Han people and the local wealthy families who had been Sinicized since the Han Dynasty.
In fact, it is easy to pull back the rebellion caused by this kind of elements, and their local separatist rule is not very stable.
But Lingnan is different. There are far more people from the Li and Baiyue tribes here than the Han people, and they have been mixed with the Han people for a long time. Whether it is farming or military preparations, they have made great progress compared with the Baiyue barbarians in Annan, making the Han people in Lingnan It cannot suppress them steadily.
At the same time, Lingnan is also the base camp of Baiyue. From the Qin to the Tang Dynasty, there was actually a split gene in it.
Moreover, the Pearl River Delta was already very wealthy at this time. Unlike Annan, which was unable to stand on its own at all, Lingnan could fully support the scale of a country by relying on the wealthy Pearl River Delta.
Even thirty-five years ago, Liu, the founder of the Southern Han Dynasty, called himself the Emperor of Dai Viet before changing his country's name.
This is an extremely dangerous signal.
Historically, the Emperor of Dai Viet was equivalent to a symbol of civilization that was opposed to the Han culture in the Central Plains. He could be regarded as the Goguryeo of the South.
In the original history, after the Song Dynasty lost the Tranquility Navy, successive Vietnamese kings picked up this title.
They eventually turned the word Yue into a more independent cultural symbol, and gradually developed into a cultural sting growing in the south.
And before Liu proclaimed himself Emperor of Dayue, the Lingnan separatist regime was even more fragmented. Chaozhou, Shaozhou, Gaozhou, Guizhou (Guilin), Yongzhou (Nanning), Rongzhou, etc. had already presented scenes of separate regimes for each ethnic group.
It can be said that compared to Jing Haijun's rebellion, this kind of rebellion based on Vietnamese characters is different from a geopolitical rebellion, but a separatist regime with signals of cultural rebellion, which is more than 10,000 times more dangerous.
Fortunately, in a very short period of time, Liu Yin and the Liu brothers used Guangzhou as their base. After more than 20 years of war, they defeated the local tyrants of the Fan Han and other ethnic groups one by one, and unified Lingnan, including Guangdong and Guangxi. .
Although Liu briefly called himself the Emperor of Dai Viet, he soon executed those who advised him to use the name Yue and changed the country's title to Han.
Han and Liu, these two words are almost bound. Even at the end of the Tang Dynasty, they were still a clear indication of the central government's recognition of the unification.
Liu changed from Emperor of Dayue to Emperor of Han. It seemed that he just changed his country's title, and it also meant to use the influence of the Han clan clan.
But in fact it fully shows that this Lingnan dynasty is a separatist regime belonging to the Han Dynasty, not a simple independent rebellion like An Nanjing's navy.
After controlling the entire Lingnan, Liu, the founder of the Southern Han Dynasty, and his son Zhongzong Liu Sheng gradually eliminated the local tyrants of the Han Dynasty who were separatists in various places, and returned power to the Southern Han Dynasty.
They sent a large number of floating officials to the western part of Lingnan Road, which was not fully under actual control during the Tang Dynasty, which is today's Guangxi.
He also ordered the wealthy families in these places to send their children to Prince Xing's Mansion (Guangzhou) to study in order to strengthen their control.
At the same time, Liu and Liu Sheng and his son also vigorously promoted culture in Lingnan, and extended the most basic level of governance to the Bao level. Above the Bao level, there were still rural areas, and all the officials were appointed by the imperial court.
At the same time, unlike other Five Dynasties countries where military attachés served as county magistrates or magistrates, officials above the county magistrate level in the Southern Han Dynasty were basically all civilian officials.
The gentleness of civilian officials compared to military officials, to a large extent, calmed the emotions of people in various states and counties, and allowed for more in-depth education.
It is true that Liu Sheng, the great ancestor of the Southern Han Dynasty, and Zhongzong Liu Sheng were both too cruel, especially in the area of killing. They had little restraint, and they seemed to be more or less mentally disturbed.
But they have made great contributions in maintaining the people's hearts in Lingnan and making them the same as those in the Central Plains.
It was also after the Southern Han Dynasty took root in Lingnan for decades that the political system and cultural education of the Central Plains were penetrated into the grassroots levels of Lingnan's townships and Bao.
After the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was able to regulate Cao Sui in Lingnan, which finally made Lingnan an integral part of the country.
Liu and Liu Sheng and his son were in every possible way poor in their public and private moral conduct, but at this point, it is not an exaggeration to say that they deserve the most credit.
Therefore, in the entire history of China, the Southern Han Dynasty is insignificant, but in the history of Lingnan development, the Southern Han Dynasty is extremely important.
This was the first small dynasty to incorporate the grassroots governance of Lingnan into the scope of the imperial court. It inherited Mrs. Xian's initial governance of Lingnan and laid a solid foundation for the governance of Lingnan in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.
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Prince Xing’s Mansion, Tongming Hall of Daming Palace.
This Tongming Hall was originally called Zhaoyang Hall, but Liu Sheng changed it to Tongming Hall to avoid Zhang Gao's taboo.
Although it was already late at night, dozens of candles as thick as arms were lit in the Tongming Hall, illuminating the hall that should have been dark like daylight.
The person currently in office is Liu Sheng, the third generation emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty. He is the son of the founder of the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Sheng. He succeeded to the throne by attacking and killing his brother Liu Bin, the Shang Emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty.
After he ascended the throne, in order to fear that his brothers would follow suit and to shock people with great terror, Liu Sheng was extremely cruel and killed fifteen of his eighteen brothers.
The highest record was that he killed eight of his brothers in one day.
He is the only emperor in history who can be so cruel to his relatives, even more cruel than Hu Hai.
But in addition to being vicious, Liu Sheng was also quite accomplished in state affairs. During his tenure, he conquered the south and the north, successively defeated countries such as Ma Chu and the Southern Tang Dynasty, and expanded his territory to the peak of the Southern Han Dynasty.
At the same time, Liu Sheng also vigorously opened up subjects to obtain scholars and actively developed maritime trade.
The main character is a split personality.
. . . .
In the Tongming Hall, Liu Sheng was holding a letter in each hand under the bright candles.
Sitting on the ground below him were his confidants Zuo Cheng Zhong Yunzhang, personal guard commander Wu Xun, chamberlain Pan Chongche and others.
Liu Sheng first threw the letter in his right hand on the desk in front of him and smiled contemptuously, "Duan Sicong is dead for this idiot. He actually wrote a letter inviting a certain family to send troops to seize the Guilin Mansion of Zhou Kingdom.
He also boasted proudly and unashamedly, saying that the Zhou army had become a tired army after being unable to attack for a long time, and would be defeated by him sooner or later.
This idiot even wants to invade Sichuan. Doesn't he know that Zhou can fail ten times without breaking his bones, and that his little Dali will be destroyed if it fails once? "
Zhong Yunzhang, the minister Zuocheng, bowed slightly, then nodded his head suddenly, and said softly: "Yes! The Zhou State mobilized the whole country, and its intention was to provide King Yan Murong Nobunaga with the eastward expedition to Korea and Japan. Those who attacked Dali, but Just ten or twenty thousand elites.
But even so, they still captured Jianchang Mansion and Wumeng City, and they have actually reached the heart of Dali. As long as they free up their hands later, Dali will definitely destroy the country. "
Pan Chongche, the chamberlain, also nodded. Although this eunuch is a eunuch, he is a very capable eunuch. He has great insights and standards in military matters. Don't compare Tong Guan with him later. This person's level is comparable. Tong Guan is much taller.
Therefore, Pan Chongche tapped his fingers on the table in the north and northeast directions and said: "In fact, if Jianchang Mansion and Wumeng City were lost, Dali would have been destroyed.
In the past, even if the Dali Kingdom was attacked by the imperial army as far as Yangju City, it could turn defeat into victory because the imperial court could not firmly control the tribes in these two places.
If it can be grasped, then there is no need for a large army to approach Yangju City. As long as it continues to harass southward from these two places, a little bit of nibbling can make Dali exhausted.
The minister believed that it was not Zhou general Guo Rong who was tired of the division's old soldiers, because Guo Rong had already controlled most of the tribes in these two places and could easily choose to advance or retreat for repairs.
On the other hand, Dali State needs to constantly mobilize its troops to Wumeng Mountain and Lu River where supplies are difficult to defend the natural dangers.
The army that has conquered the country has been deployed for more than a year. I am afraid that it is the Dali talents who are really tired of the veterans and exhausted. "
However, as he spoke, everyone in the room fell into silence.
The situation now is obvious. Han and Dali are the only ones in the world who have not yet surrendered.
The rest, even the powerful Khitan, even the grassland tribes, as well as the Goryeo and Japanese countries east of the sea, have been destroyed.
Now if Dali disappears, the Han Kingdom will definitely not be able to survive alone. If Dali can survive, there will always be a slim hope of self-comfort.
Liu Sheng naturally knew this situation. He was just cruel and might have multiple personalities, but he was not a fool. On the contrary, he was very smart.
A wry smile appeared on the face of the Southern Han emperor for the first time, and he shook the letters on the left and right vigorously.
"This was sent back by our envoy in the Central Plains. Emperor Shao tomorrow once again rejected someone's marriage proposal. He even refused to give her a clan daughter."
As he spoke, Liu Sheng turned his back, the desolation and despair on his face became more obvious. His tightly clenched fists rattled and he murmured softly.
"In order to marry a daughter of the Zhang family, I even executed the queen. With such determination and such a prosperous country, am I not even worthy of a daughter of the clan?"
If Zhang Yan heard this, he would shout "Good guy" when he heard it. The brain circuit of this mental patient is different from that of ordinary people.
From Liu Sheng's point of view, by personally executing the queen, he expressed to Zhang Yan his firm determination to marry the daughter of the Zhang family, but from Zhang Yan's point of view, Chun Chun was a pervert.
Moreover, Liu Sheng's perversion was not limited to this. The most perverted thing about him was that two years ago, thirty-year-old Liu Sheng proposed to Zhang Gao to marry Qi, the ten-year-old Zhang Gao's eldest daughter and Queen Cao Yanxi's second daughter. The Duke advocated Qinan.
This almost made Cao Yanxi angry to death. It was directly regarded as Liu Sheng's insult and provocation. Cao Yanxi, who rarely got angry, personally ordered that the chief and deputy envoys of the Southern Han Dynasty envoy who came to propose marriage be executed with a stick outside the Suzaku Gate.
But after that, Liu Sheng still didn't give up, but this time he learned his lesson and proposed that he only needed one daughter of the Zhang family, so that Zhang Jian could be named the princess and marry to Prince Xing's palace.
He also hinted that as long as Zhang's princess comes and Liu Sheng's life is guaranteed, he is willing to sacrifice his country like Qian Yue.
In response, Zhang Hao snorted and refused.
Apart from anything else, Zhang Yan would never agree to Liu Sheng's abnormal behavior of taking all his nieces into the harem, even if he married a palace maid.
Besides, Zhang Zhaojiu (Ma Shacai) stayed in Guilin for four years. He worked hard and made great achievements, but he was waiting for the credit of destroying the Southern Han Dynasty.
If Liu Sheng sacrificed his country, it would be a small matter. The Southern Han Dynasty would not be difficult to defeat anyway. The big thing is not to make Zhang Zhao angry to death.
However, the matter of accepting nieces is still different from what Zhang Gao thought. Rather than saying that Liu Sheng included all his nieces in the harem, it is better to say that he imprisoned all his nieces in the harem.
of course! All the brothers were killed, and if some of the nieces left behind were to marry into a powerful family somewhere, they would have to think about how to kill Liu Sheng every day.
Instead of doing this, it would be better for them all to be imprisoned in the harem, with little food and clothing, and tortured to death slowly.
In the extremely awkward silence, only the candlelight kept beating, and no one knew what Liu Sheng was thinking.
Is it a desperate move with Dali? Or lie down and wait to die? Or can you donate to the country to protect peace?
(End of chapter)
