In Guangzhou and Jiaozhou in the Tang Dynasty, there were actually some situations that were beyond the imagination of later generations.
For example, most people don't know that in 758, when the Anshi Rebellion broke out and the Central Plains was fiercely fighting, a large food and Persian army captured Guangzhou.
Well, to say the army may be a bit exaggerated, it would be more accurate to say pirates and mobs.
And just like the situation with the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the pirates were Dashi and Persians, but it was the Han people who summoned and supported these pirates behind the scenes.
The problem still lies with Wu Zetian.
After she established Wuzhou, in order to eliminate the Li kings and loyal ministers of Li and Tang who were vassaling in various places, she launched a cruel officialdom and encouraged people all over the world to report on each other, with the purpose of framing the Li kings.
At this time, even if he is an old farmer from the countryside, as long as he claims to have a big secret and wants to go to Beijing to report, state and county officials must provide carriages, horses and food to transport him to the capital.
In this political atmosphere, the Feng family, a wealthy family with extensive roots in Lingnan, naturally became the target of public criticism.
In the second year of Changshou (693), the ruthless official Wan Guojun framed the refugees who had been exiled to Lingnan for rebellion, and went on a killing spree in Lingnan. The Feng family was also implicated, and in the end Wu Zetian sent people to confiscate their homes and exterminate their clan.
The famous eunuch Gao Lishi in history was castrated and sent to Luoyang, the sacred capital, at this time. He was the sixth grandson of Mrs. Xian and the great-grandson of the traitor Xu Jingzong.
Although Feng was indeed domineering in Lingnan, it would be too much to say that he was rebelling.
Starting from Mrs. Xian's son Feng Ang, the Feng family frequently married into powerful people in the court, and their position in Lingnan was very stable. They rebelled only after they were full and full.
Wu Zetian killed more than 200 members of the Feng family this time. She thought she had eradicated the great harm in Lingnan, and she was quite proud.
But the Feng family and Mrs. Xian's natal family, the Xian family, had been entrenched in Lingnan for hundreds of years. How could they kill more than two hundred people and get away with it?
These two hundred or so people were just the direct descendants of the eldest son. They were killed, but other branches of the Feng family were hidden under the protection of the Xian family.
Lingnan is close to the sea, and the Feng family itself is also a wealthy sea trade family, although they do not have the strength to confront the imperial court for the time being.
But these Feng family members quickly gathered in the Hainan Island area and quickly built it into a huge pirate base, attracting a large number of big food and Persian pirates, and they were holding back the urge to retaliate against the imperial court.
During the An-Shi Rebellion, the war in the north became intense. Dashi and Persian survivors who had been trading and even settling in Guangzhou for many years were also recruited by the court to go north as volunteers to fight against the An-Shi rebels.
The opportunity for revenge that the Feng family had been waiting for for sixty-seven years finally arrived. The pirates they had raised joined forces with these so-called volunteers and suddenly rebelled and attacked Guangzhou.
Wei Li, the governor of Guangzhou, escaped over the wall and the city of Guangzhou was destroyed. The soldiers of the two countries cooperated with the pirates to plunder the warehouses, burn down the people's houses and then disappeared on the sea by boat.
There are no detailed records in history of how much damage Guangzhou, with a population of 300,000, suffered, but one fact is clear, that is, from then on, Guangzhou declined rapidly, and its population, taxation, and importance in maritime trade declined far and wide. Jiaozhou was left behind.
Later generations said that Jiaozhou was richer than Guangzhou, which started from this time, which shows how heavy the losses in Guangzhou were.
What's even more disgusting is that these cannibals and Persian remnants did not run far away, and most of them later returned to Guangzhou in various identities.
It is conceivable that there were tens of thousands of them. At that time, in Lingnan and even Nanyang, except for places such as Guangzhou and Jiaozhou, there were not many places that could easily carry tens of thousands of people.
As for running back to Dashi by boat, that is just talk. At this time, navigation technology and shipbuilding technology have not yet reached the ability to transport tens of thousands of people from Guangzhou back to Dashi in a short time.
As a result, a very strange scene in Guangzhou's history occurred. The city's permanent population began to reverse ethnic groups, with more Cannibals and fewer Han and Lingnan people from other ethnic groups.
At the most exaggerated time, there were less than 200,000 people in Guangzhou, but there were as many as 120,000 people from Dashi, Persian and other ethnic groups. The entire Guangzhou was like a Dashi city.
Of course, these big cannibals didn't fare well in the end, because soon, Huang Chao, the soaring general who I killed after the flowers bloomed, came.
After Huang Chao arrived in Lingnan, the Han and Li people still remembered the deep hatred of more than a hundred years ago, and even more hated the cannibals who entered the city as merchants and went to sea as thieves. They came to Huang Chao's horse one after another to report the wealth of the merchants in Guangzhou City and ask for help. Huang Chao avenged them.
At this time, Huang Chao was furious because he was unable to ask for the governor of Annan and the governor of Guangzhou. Hearing this, he was immediately overjoyed. Under the leadership of the people of Guangzhou, he attacked the city of Guangzhou in just one day and killed 120,000 people in the city. If he is a cannibal, he will kill all of them, men, women, old and young, and collect their gold, silver, brocade and silk.
The rest of the cannibals scattered in various cities in Lingnan were also killed by local people.
Although it is impossible for Huang Chaojun to count how many cannibals he killed, it is believed that it will be at least two hundred thousand.
Most of the descendants of the great cannibals who looted Guangzhou that year, as well as the ordinary people who came to do business, were all killed indiscriminately.
Indeed, it is one of the few good things Huang Chao has done to resolve his hatred.
However, after this battle, Guangzhou began to decline completely, the majesty of the imperial court was lost, and semi-separatist forces formed in various parts of Lingnan to attack each other.
It was not until Liu and Liu Sheng's father and son came to power in the Southern Han Dynasty that the situation stabilized and the population and economy began to recover.
Even now, the Southern Han palace in Guangzhou is rich enough to put pearls in the palace's fake river for decoration.
However, at this time, Liu Sheng in Changhua Palace was not in the mood to admire the fake pearl river in the palace, because he was about to collapse due to Zhang Yan's order ordering him to send troops to help attack Jing Haijun.
This is conspiracy!
Now that even Nanzhong, which was controlled during the Han Dynasty, has been recovered. According to Liu Sheng's theory, he is considered a surrendered vassal. Then the world is intact, and only Jing Haijun is left. The court has enough reasons to attack.
Of course, there were enough reasons to mobilize the Southern Han army to assist in the war. Not to mention that he considered himself a vassal, even the Nanyue Kingdom during the Western Han Dynasty had to obey the imperial edicts to a certain extent.
In the end, it was Pan Chongche, the eunuch general whom Liu Sheng relied on most, who gave him a warning.
Pan Chongche asked Liu Sheng to write a letter to Zhang Yan, saying that the Wu family of Jing Haijun had heard that the Holy Lord had emerged from the Central Plains and a new dynasty had been established, and they were willing to obey the imperial orders just like the Southern Han Dynasty.
. . . .
What could Jing Haijun say at this time? It was quite confusing.
After Wu Quan overthrew the Southern Han Dynasty, he proclaimed himself king, but he only served as king for five years before passing away.
Before his death, all his sons were still young, so Wu Quan let his eldest son Wu Changqi succeed him and entrusted him to his brother-in-law Yang Sange, hoping that Yang Sange could assist Wu Changqi well.
Yang Sange's real name is no longer available, because in the Tang Dynasty, the word "brother" was an honorific for an older male close relative, not a name.
When Yang Sange moved to the Central Plains, he was roughly equivalent to the concept of Lu Buwei's father-in-law.
It's just that Brother Yang, his father-in-law, was much more ruthless than Lu Buwei. Within half a year of being the king of Wu Changji, Brother Yang immediately usurped the throne, and Wu Changji could only escape under the cover of his cronies.
After that, Yang Sange was officially called King Ping and served as the king for about five years. However, before he had any experience, he was overthrown by Wu Quan's second son, Wu Changwen, who contacted the Ya Bing Ya General below.
After Wu Changwen overthrew Brother Yang, he brought back his elder brother Wu Changqi who had been exiled in the countryside. This began an even more bizarre period of two-brother rule.
Originally, Wu Changwen was a concubine and did not have high prestige. He brought back his brother Wu Changqi who had fled to the people. His original intention was that Wu Changqi could be a little bit more pushy and act like a puppet.
In Wu Changwen's opinion, Wu Changqi had been forced by Yang Sange to hide among the people and "eat dirt". Although he was a puppet when he came back, he should be satisfied with all the delicacies from the mountains and seas.
But Wu Changji was not satisfied, and he didn't have any pressure. As soon as Wu Changji returned to Guluo (one of the ancient names of Hanoi), he immediately began to call himself the king, and also designated his title as King Tiance.
How can this not be enough! This is simply going to heaven.
Wu Changqi is the eldest son. He was ousted by Yang Sange and did not have much power in his hands. He was also rescued by his younger brother Wu Changwen.
Regarding this situation, Wu Changqi patted his head and thought hard with his little-experienced pig brain, and suddenly realized that this scene looked very much like Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin!
My life is in danger, what should I do?
In an instant, Wu Changji's head was connected to something. He suddenly thought that since he looked like Li Jiancheng who was about to be killed by his younger brother Li Shimin, he might as well.
Why don't I call myself King Tiance?
In this way, I am Li Shimin, not the murdered brother Li Jiancheng.
What is this called? This is called occupying the high ground first.
When Wu Changwen saw his brother doing this, he felt numb. After thinking hard, he also came up with a clever plan.
You use the word "Tiance" to stack armor for yourself, right? I want to see who is better at stacking armor.
So after thinking hard, Wu Changwen came up with an idea and called himself the King of the Southern Jin Dynasty.
hey-hey! Don't you call yourself the King of Tiance? I might as well call you the King of the Southern Jin. This Li Tang raised his army from Jinyang. No matter how big the Tiance Mansion is, can it be bigger than Jinyang where it started?
The Yajiang below saw the two brothers starting to fight in the ring, and they were immediately overjoyed. They supported Wu Changqi at one moment, and Wu Changwen at the other, and soon defrauded Wu Quan and Brother Yang of the wealth they had accumulated. Most of it.
Moreover, it was not only money and goods that were defrauded, but also the name of guarding various places. These generals and the local wealthy families soon formed ten relatively large forces in a conspiracy, and the Annan people called them the Ten Envoys.
These ten envoys, together with brothers Wu Changqi and Wu Changwen, started a chaos throughout Annan.
The fight lasted until the end of last year, and God probably couldn't bear it anymore. Wu Changqi, who was unstoppable, suddenly died of a serious illness. Wu Changwen took the opportunity to annex his power, and then it calmed down a little.
In fact, this is not the final version. The final version was eleven years later in 965. Wu Changwen led more than a thousand soldiers out of the city to exterminate the bandits. As a result, the majestic king was ambushed and killed by hundreds of bandits at the entrance of a village.
As a result, the power of the Wu family was completely weakened. Wu Changwen's generals Du Jingshuo and Yang Jili broke away from the Wu family and became independent, and also called themselves envoys.
The final version, known in history as the Great Chaos between the Twelve Envoys of Annan, finally took shape.
But at this time, Wu Changji had just died suddenly, and Wu Changwen had unified the Wu family's forces. It was the time when Wu Changwen was complacent and wanted to eliminate the already powerful Ten Envoys.
But he didn't know that the Central Plains had already undergone drastic changes, so he still followed his old habit and sent his younger brother Wu Changjun to Prince Xing's Mansion to ask for an audience with Liu Sheng, intending to surrender to the Southern Han Dynasty in exchange for a stable external environment and to defraud some rewards from the Southern Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Liu Sheng was not completely lying when he said that Annan was willing to surrender to the imperial court. If Wu Changwen knew that the Central Plains was unified, he would definitely choose to surrender to the imperial court.
And to a certain extent, if Liu Sheng's somewhat deceptive strategy succeeds, it can indeed silence Zhang Gao's mouth.
However, Liu Sheng obviously underestimated Zhang Shengren's determination to regain the Southern Han Dynasty and Jing Haijun. Of course, he even underestimated Zhang Shengren's shamelessness.
After Zhang Gao received the information in advance, he directly issued a death order to the Jinyi guards, asking them to intercept the envoys sent by Liu Sheng at all costs and not let them reach Luoyang, the sacred capital.
For a time, the intelligence network of the Jinyi Guards in Nanhan began to activate with all its strength.
Envoys from the Southern Han Dynasty who reported to the imperial court were often intercepted and killed by bandits and bandits bribed by the Jinyi guards before they left the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty.
The group of envoys who ran the farthest were caught and killed more than ten miles away from Guilin Mansion.
Liu Sheng and Pan Chongche are all numb now. They have just now seen how ruthless and decisive I, Zhang Shengren, am on the surface, kind and amiable on the surface, but behind the scenes, I am so ruthless that I can really lose my face.
But do you think this is all I, Zhang Shengren, can do? Are you kidding? This is the new emperor of the Trinity.
So while intercepting and killing the envoys of the Southern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi issued an imperial edict to Zhang Guogong, ordering him to send elite navy troops to Jinghai Navy to investigate the situation.
Liu Congxiao sent his nephew, Yuhou, the capital of Dinghai Town, the Forbidden Army Navy, to stay in Shaoquan, and personally led 300 naval troops to set off from Zhangzhou.
Liu Shaoquan and his men disguised themselves as merchants and landed in Jinghai Navy, and then suddenly attacked Haimen Town, Wu'an Prefecture, Annan, which would later become Vietnam's coastal defense.
The town general and more than 20 officers and soldiers here were directly kidnapped, and then brought back to Zhangzhou for strict interrogation, and the truth was obtained.
Zhang Hao is so excited!
OK! You, Liu Sheng, claim to be loyal to the vassal, but without telling the court, you accept the rebel navy as a vassal. This is transgression.
Accepting the gift from the traitor Jing Haijun is shielding and colluding.
To deliberately describe Jing Haijun's submission to the Han Dynasty as submission to the imperial court is to deceive the emperor and ignore his superiors.
Good guy, you have deceived the emperor, colluded with the rebels, and acted arrogantly. All the charges are enough. Any one of them is enough to send troops to attack.
. . . .
In February of the eighth year of Shaoming Dynasty, 954th year of the Convention, Wang Jiu, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, personally led a team of more than thirty angels to Prince Xing's Mansion.
At this time, Liu Sheng didn't know that the court had obtained the exact evidence as early as last year, so he just went out of the royal city to meet Wang Jiu with some anxiety.
Well, Wang Jiu, he has experienced too many scenes like this. He pulled the Gaochang Uighur Khan's robe to prevent him from leaving, and grabbed Li Jing's sleeves and pointed at his nose and yelled. These are all my uncle Wang's famous works.
He knew very well what he was here to do, so when he saw Liu Sheng wearing a silver over-the-shoulder python robe, he showed no mercy.
Even before Liu Sheng finished saluting, Wang Jiu pulled out General Jing Haimen and other people who were captured by Liu Congxiao and threw them in front of Liu Sheng.
Then in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Southern Han Dynasty, he pointed at the panicked Liu Sheng and yelled.
One after another, the curses were uttered in varying tones, from Liu Sheng pretending to be obedient to his deceiving the emperor, to his indiscriminate killing of brothers and being unfit to be the king, etc., making Liu Sheng, the leader of the Southern Han Dynasty, stand in front of hundreds of people. , disgraced.
Liu Sheng could listen quietly at first, but when he heard Wang Jiu's scolding becoming more and more unpleasant, his face gradually turned red, and in the end, he was like gold paper and his whole body was shaking.
At this time, Liu Sheng favored the eunuchs and palace officials and became increasingly reluctant to listen to advice. He wanted to save face, let alone being scolded in person.
I believe that if Wang Jiu curses for a few more minutes, he might be able to achieve the unprecedented achievement of scolding the king to death.
Fortunately, when they saw Liu Sheng being pointed at and scolded, his most trusted eunuch Lin Yanyu, palace servant Lu Qiongxian and others were furious and rushed over to scold Wang Jiu.
This time, it was Wang Jiu's turn to be stunned on the spot.
He has scolded so many people, but he has never seen someone who scolded the king and the civil and military ministers did not come forward. Instead, the eunuchs and palace officials rushed over to scold him.
Zhong Yunzhang, Zuocheng of Shangshu, and Pan Chongche, the chamberlain's envoy, secretly said that it was going to be bad.
Idiots like Lin Yanyu and Lu Qiongxian, who had never left the palace in their lives, had no idea how powerful the Central Plains court was. They had no bottom line when it came to scolding Liu Sheng, and soon added several more serious crimes to Liu Sheng.
What's more important is that when they come out and scold him like this, it is easy for Liu Sheng, who is already a little mentally disturbed, to break down.
Sure enough, before Zhong Yunzhang could come out to 'put out the fire', Liu Sheng let out a sharp howl, stared at his red eyes, pointed at Wang Jiu and other court angels and roared loudly: "Take them down, take them down! I want..." "
Pan Chongche hurriedly rushed over and hugged Liu Sheng's thigh, crying loudly: "The Lord has humiliated his ministers to death. They have bullied others too much. Please order your slaves to put this rebellious person in prison and interrogate him strictly!"
Pan Chongche howled like this, and the civil servants and generals of the Southern Han Dynasty all reacted. Even if the Southern Han Dynasty was gone, many of them could still save their lives as long as they knew the current affairs.
But if Liu Sheng goes crazy and kills the court angel or the former favorite minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Jiu, Wang Jiu, then the problem will be huge. Maybe they will all be buried together in the future.
Therefore, the entire court of the Southern Han Dynasty showed great unity. They loudly echoed Pan Chongche and cursed Wang Jiu, and even pushed Lu Qiongxian and other Liu Sheng's cronies to the back.
He seems to be loyal and courageous, but in fact he wants to save Wang Jiu's life.
Liu Sheng was originally a bit crazy, but now he saw the ministers acting like this, anxious and angry. Just when he wanted to say something, he felt an explosion of pain in his forehead. Before he could say anything, his vision went dark and he fainted.
The officials of the Southern Han Dynasty were overjoyed. Some of them escorted Liu Sheng back to the palace, while others quickly summoned the guards and took Wang Jiu and others away and put them in prison.
However, no matter what the fate of Wang Jiu and others, there is no shortage of excuses for the crusade.
It just so happened that the two most important foreign vassal states, brothers Zhang Yue (Murong Nobunaga) and Zhang Kun (Zhang Xiancun), had basically stabilized.
Zhang Gao immediately mobilized his troops and generals to prepare to capture the Southern Han Dynasty and complete the great cause of unification.
(End of chapter)
