Zhang Yan was keenly aware that Liu Sheng's problem must be handled with caution.
If this guy was finally captured in the palace of Prince Xing's Mansion, then Zhang Yan would probably give him a disobedience package and use severe punishment in response to his resistance to the heavenly soldiers.
But now, Liu Sheng has made a decisive decision by killing his whole family, and Zhang Yan wants to comfort him as much as possible.
In the face of such a tragic death, no one can avoid feeling compassion.
In particular, although Liu Sheng was not a wise and benevolent leader, he still gave the people of the Southern Han Dynasty stability for more than ten years. This was not easy in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Therefore, when Zhang Zhaojun came flying to report the war report of the Southern Han Dynasty and Liu Sheng's suicide, Zhang Yan immediately issued an edict to have Wang Jiu, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, who had been rescued, rush to Guilin Mansion to recuperate, and not to poke the lungs of the people in Lingnan. .
Then Zhang Yuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was responsible for the posthumous title and the memorial ceremony for Mrs. Xian, was asked to go to Prince Xing's Mansion to preside over the ceremony of summoning the old officials of the Southern Han Dynasty to pay tribute to Liu Sheng.
After receiving the order, Zhang Yuan first organized old officials of the Southern Han Dynasty in Prince Xing's Mansion to give Liu Sheng the posthumous title he discussed, indicating that the court would posthumously honor Liu Sheng as the leader of the Southern Han Dynasty and decided to bury him in the mausoleum of his father Liu Kangling.
Liu's Kangling Mausoleum was located in Beiting Village, Panyu District, Guangzhou in later generations. There was originally a tomb for the burial of Liu Sheng's mother, but now that the old lady is not dead, Liu Sheng has killed his entire family and then committed suicide.
At the same time, Liu Sheng's mausoleum was still under construction, and it was impossible for the imperial court to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to continue building Liu Sheng's mausoleum, so this tomb room was just in use.
In July of the eighth year of Shaoming Dynasty in the Great Zhou Dynasty, 954 AD, Zhang Zhaojun and Zhang Yuan followed Zhang Gao's will and buried Liu Sheng and the three sons he killed in Liu's Kangling Mausoleum.
Liu Sheng was posthumously given the title of Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty, with the posthumous title of Ai, and the name of Ai for those who failed to achieve virtues, and the meaning of Ai for those who suffered hardships. He was called the Last Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty or the Ai Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty in history.
At the same time, Zhang Zhi consecrated Liu Hongzheng, the only younger brother who was not killed by Liu Sheng, as a high official, and gave him 80 houses in Shendu. In addition to the earl's annual salary, he also gave 300 households in the city to support Liu Sheng. and his own mother.
At the same time, Zhang Gao also handed over Liu Chongxing, the infant son of Liu Sheng, to Zhang Zhaojun to raise him. When he was in better health, he would then send him back to Luoyang, the sacred capital, to be raised by the imperial court.
This is actually a small trick played by Zhang Zhan. Liu Chongxing is still young now. If he goes north immediately, he may not be able to adapt to the climate and die. Then some "good-hearted people" will definitely blame me, Zhang Shengren.
It is better to let Zhang Zhaojun be raised for a year and a half, and then send it to Luoyang when the popularity subsides. In this way, even if Liu Chongxing still adapts to the environment and dies, not many people will pay attention to it, right?
On the tenth day of July, Liu Sheng's funeral affairs were settled, and the Southern Han clan, which had been killed by Liu and Liu Sheng with only a few members left, also set off for Luoyang, the sacred capital.
Zhang Zhaojun also returned the bodies of loyal officials of the Southern Han Dynasty such as Ji Yanyun who died in the battle and Lu Guangtu, Shao Tingjuan, Xie Guan and other loyal officials of the Southern Han Dynasty who committed suicide to their families. They reported them to the court and gave them half the pension of Zhang Zhou's officers and generals at the same level.
Since then, the people of the Southern Han Dynasty have been greatly reassured.
Within a few days, good news came. After learning that Prince Xing's Mansion had fallen and Liu Sheng committed suicide, the Southern Han Dynasty Yongzhou Jianwu Jiedu envoy and Gong Chengshu who had fled here surrendered in Kaicheng, and the entire Southern Han Dynasty was recovered.
In early August, the imperial edict arrived, and Zhang Yan took Guangxin Mansion, the ancient Lingnan capital, which is now Wuzhou, as his boundary.
It is divided into Liuzhou, Yongzhou, Qinzhou, Guizhou and Lianzhou to the west of Wuzhou, including Wuzhou, which is the Lingnan Guangxi Province.
The area east of Wuzhou including Hainan Island is the Lingnan Guangdong Province, and the Xingwang Mansion will be restored to its old name of Guangzhou.
Chenzhou, which belonged to the Southern Han Dynasty, was placed under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province.
The Guilin Mansion established a separate Guilin Supervisor, which was directly under the imperial court. The chief was not called the governor but the supervisor. His full name was to supervise the money, food, troops, horses, water conservancy and other matters in Guilin Mansion and Lingqu. The emperor personally selected the officials.
The deputy position is Lingqu Dushui Deputy Envoy, who is filled by professionals assigned by the Dushui Supervisor of the Ministry of Industry. Militaryly, the twelve pro-army guards were stationed in rotation, supplemented by the three guards in Guilin.
The purpose of this is because Lingnan is still unstable, and the imperial court personally controls Guilin Mansion and Lingqu to prevent changes.
Zhang Zhaojun was granted the title of Duke of South Korea during the Jin Dynasty, and was given the special title of governor of Lingnan and Guangxi, which was equivalent to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in later generations. He also served as the general seal and defense envoy of Lingnan and Guangdong provinces.
Yuan Heng, the first of the eighteen scholars of Ma Chu, was transferred to serve as Pingzhang and chief envoy of Lingnan and Guangxi provinces. Qu Yanqing temporarily took office as the defense envoy of Guangxi and recruited various people in Lingnan and Guangxi.
Lu Yan, a Hanlin scholar, served as the supervisor of Guilin Mansion, and the Youjinwu Guards, the pro-army soldiers brought by Wang Shenqi, returned to Guilin Mansion to station first.
The rest of the armies, except for Fanshun's troops, were to return to Jiangxi, and Lin Renzhao's troops were also to return to Fujian, but he himself and the five thousand navy from Fujian had to stay.
At the same time, Lin Renzhao was also responsible for integrating the navies of the Southern Han Dynasty and Fujian to make final preparations for regaining the Jinghai Navy.
Almost at the same time, after drinking heavily for more than ten days with the leader of the Abo tribe and Nong Minfu, Nong Minfu's sister blinked her watery eyes and almost looked at Zhang Xiancun, and Yongzhou was controlled by the imperial court. The news finally reached Zhang Xiancun's ears.
Of course, it wasn't just Zhang Xiancun who heard the news. Nong Minfu also quickly received the news.
Now, his tribe of hundreds of thousands of Nong, Sha and Liao people are really squeezed in the middle and unable to move. Although it may not be easy for the court to destroy him, after all, he can be easily drilled into the hundreds of thousands of mountains without a trace.
However, drilling into a mountain of 100,000 yuan means abandoning everything now and going back to slash-and-burn farming. No one can be so decisive until the family is destroyed and there is no room for change.
The more Nong Minfu drank this wine, the more uneasy he became. Seeing that Zhang Xiancun never made a move, he could only take the initiative to drink it.
The farmer Fu led the leader of the Abo tribe to find Zhang Xiancun, and proactively admitted that they had channels to communicate with Duan Sizhong and the powerful chiefs of the Wuman tribe, and could persuade them to go down the mountain and accept punishment from the court.
Zhang Xiancun's nerves were actually tense. In his current Chu vassal state, there was indeed no major rebellion, but small rebellions continued. A few days ago, there was an incident where mountain people attacked the patrol envoy he had sealed off.
Now in the Chu vassal state, except for the 20,000 people from the Tonghai Dudufu and the 3,000 guards from Zhang Xiancun's own Beifu Army, all the rest of the army has been sent out to quell chaos in various places and escort meritorious ministers to take office.
More than one million people across the country, at least 200,000 of them, are mingling together in a physical sense.
It can also be seen from here that Zhang Xiancun is indeed a qualified king.
Being able to stand up under such circumstances, in this small restaurant, drinking for more than ten days at a time, and holding on so hard that even the peasants and rich people couldn't stand it anymore and took the initiative to come to him. This is what is necessary for a qualified emperor. Big heart.
Zhang Xiancun smiled lightly at Nong Minfu's admission of such a trivial mistake.
"I don't need you to send a message, because I plan to stay in Sixiaguan, Tonghai, for half a year, until the snow falls heavily on the top of the mountain, and the river below the mountain surges before leaving.
And even if Gu is gone, the warriors of the Chu vassal will continue to stay here. If Duan Sizhong wants to be a savage, King Gu will help him. "
Seeing Zhang Xiancun so confident, Nong Minfu felt even more frightened, and he smiled awkwardly and nervously.
"Duan Sizhong doesn't want to be a savage. The Duan family has enjoyed wealth for decades. Even if he wants to be one, he can't."
Zhang Xiancun looked at the uneasy Nong Minfu and suddenly asked: "The Duan family has enjoyed the blessing of millions of people for decades, do you Nong family also want it?"
Nong Minfu was already quite uneasy, but when he heard Zhang Xiancun's question, he suddenly lost his mind and knelt down with a pop.
“Your Majesty, Ming Jian, Nong is loyal to your Majesty and to the country, and there is absolutely no second intention.
Moreover, the Duan family is a descendant of a famous general of the Han Dynasty, and the Nong family is just a native of Luoyue. How dare he want to tear the earth apart and become king. "
Nong Minfu was so frightened that Zhang Xiancun let out a strange sound. He looked at Nong Minfu with confusion and asked, "That's not right! I heard that your Nong family is a descendant of the Shennong family and moved to Lingnan during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Yes, how could he be a native of Luoyue?"
"Ah!" Nong Minfu was also stunned, are you there? Why haven't you heard of it yourself? He opened his mouth and answered mechanically: "Really?"
"Huh? Isn't it?" Zhang Xiancun asked slowly and with a bit of coldness, as if he was squeezing out a few words through his teeth.
Between the electric light and flint, it was as if a bolt of lightning struck into Nong Minfu's mind, as if the entire world in his mind was illuminated.
He shook suddenly, and a large amount of blood surged into his mind and face, so that his brain was used up all at once, and his face flashed with a rosy color of excitement and ecstasy.
"Yes, yes! Yes! Yes! Our Nong family is the descendant of the Shennong family.
Your Majesty, look at it. The word Nong is composed of the two characters human and farmer. This is the clear proof that our family comes from the Shennong clan and is a descendant of the Shennong clan! "
Zhang Xiancun nodded with satisfaction, "Since we are of the Chinese lineage, I can tell you now.
Although you, the Nong family, cannot divide the territory within Jin Mau like the Duan family, you have seen the end of the Duan family, but you can still do it outside Jin Mau. "
Nong Minfu's eyes lit up, thinking that he came from Annan, could it be...
However, before the sweet dream started, he was interrupted by Zhang Xiancun, "Annan is impossible. It is also the land of the country, but there is a place where it can be done."
"Is it because the bull roars?" Nong Minfu asked cautiously, slightly disappointed.
Niuhouman was probably located in the famous Dien Bien Phu area in Vietnam in later generations, next to Laos.
At this time, there were an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Niuhao barbarians. They were still in the matrilineal clan period and were very poor, far worse than the Nong family.
Zhang Xiancun shook his head and said, "The land of the Niuhou barbarians is barren, and the more than 10,000 strong men are still of some use, so they are not worthy of a large army to conquer. I am talking about the south of Annan.
During the Han Dynasty, there was a Rinan County south of Annan. In the second year of Yonghe in the Later Han Dynasty, the son district company of meritorious officials in Xianglin County of Rinan County rebelled and took over the entire Rinan County. It was no longer owned by the country.
If you can recover it, a Rinan monarch can still be invited from the saint for you. "
Nhat Nam County is the provinces of Hue, Quang Tri and Da Nang in central Vietnam in later generations. This place is much better than the deep mountains and old forests of Dien Bien Phu.
At this time, the Champa country that occupied Rinan, that is, Champa, was a big country. Zhang Shengren's Champa rice came from this place.
Various characteristics of Champa rice show that it does not suddenly appear in the wild, but has been cultivated from generation to generation.
If Champa can cultivate Champa rice, it must have a certain population and technological scale.
In fact, this was also the case. At this time, on the Indochina Peninsula, Chenlazheng and the Champa Kingdom, later known as the Khmer Empire, were fighting fiercely. Both sides could already dispatch 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and dozens of war elephants each.
This shows that there may be nearly a million people in these two countries, and the food production is not low. They can no longer be regarded as completely barbaric.
So the Nong people were a little excited and a little worried. Although the Nong family was considered powerful among the hundreds of thousands of mountains, it was still a bit weak compared to a country like Cham which had tens of millions of people.
Let him go to fight against the Champa country. I don't know if he will die or die.
Regarding this question, Zhang Xiancun chuckled and said, "You don't have to panic. The imperial court and the lonely king don't want you to attack the Champa Kingdom right now. Without the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court, you won't be able to defeat it.
Your current mission is to assist the imperial court in regaining Annan and severely punishing the Yang family of the Wu family for their rebellion.
When Annan is pacified, the court will not only be able to mobilize more than 10,000 troops, but the saint will also reward you with armor, spears and swords. Then it will be time to regain Rinan.
But after that, whether we can hold on to this place or not depends mainly on you, the Nong family. "
As soon as Zhang Xiancun finished speaking, Zhang Liechao, who had been guarding the little black bear beside him, also said to Nong Minfu: "The Jinyi guards reported that Rinan County now has more than 100,000 people and millions of acres of fertile land. It is the first-class country in Champa." A prosperous land. Nong Zhizhou, are you confident that you can hold it?
If it doesn't work, please tell me early so that we can let the Baiyi Dao clan, the Dong clan and the Su clan from the Eight Tribes of Xishan go. "
"Why can't we defend it? General, don't underestimate people!" The peasants stood up in a hurry.
He is not familiar with the other places you are talking about, but he is familiar with Rinan, because it was under his hands that the power of the Nong family expanded from Guangxi to Annan.
When I came to Sixiaguan this time, Nong Minfu came from Guangyuan Prefecture.
Guangyuanzhou is also the Cao Bang Province of Vietnam in later generations. From here to Guluo (Hanoi), it is only 300 miles, and to Ninan is no more than 900 miles.
For the Central Plains people in Luoyang, Annan and Rinan are as if they are on the horizon, but for Nong Minfu, they are only a few to ten days away.
Qi Nongminfu is well aware that Rinan is wealthy. Although it is not as rich as Annan, it is much better than Shiwandashan where the Nong family is located.
The Nong clan has produced more than 200,000 people in this 100,000-strong mountain. If they reach Rinan, they will be able to produce 300,000 to 500,000 people. By then, he will not only be a monarch, but even a vassal king. It's possible.
Zhang Xiancun looked at Nong Minfu, who was trying his best to suppress his joy, and smiled inwardly.
The Nong family can indeed be called a loner in Rinan because they are better adapted to the climate in Rinan than the Han people.
And with the current size of the Han people, it is simply impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to immigrate to Ninan. It is better to let the Nong family occupy it.
But in order to get the permission and help of the court to go to Ninan and become the king, Nong still needs to meet several conditions.
First of all, the Nong clan in Shiwanda Mountain must be divided into three parts, and the land in the Wenshan area must be given away. The territory in western Guangxi must be allowed to be managed by officials sent by the imperial court, and the land and population of Guangyuan Prefecture in Annan must also obey the arrangements of the imperial court.
In addition to the more than 200,000 people from the Nong family, the Nongminfu also had to take away at least another 100,000 other people from the 100,000-strong mountain.
At the same time, we also need to help the court invite dozens of leaders who control more than 3,000 people to go to Guangzhou to express their surrender.
Finally, the middle and upper class of the Nong family still need to go to Guangzhou to learn the Han language and culture. After completing this, they can reach the standard.
'Poof! Before Nong Minfu got up, the leader of Abo tribe knelt down with a clang.
"Your Majesty, our Cuan family is also a descendant of the Han Dynasty! Cuan Pang does not know the time of heaven, and I am willing to persuade him so that he will know the kindness and generosity of the country and become a barbarian and return to Xia again."
Again, this word has a profound meaning.
Because the surname Cuan sounds like a barbarian surname, but in fact it is not. On the contrary, it is a Miao descendant of the Han people.
The ancestor was none other than Ban, who was famous in the Eastern Han Dynasty and became even more famous in later generations.
That Ban Chao, Ban Gu, and Ban Jieyu.
It turns out that in history, one of the Ban clan went to quell the rebellion in Nanzhong and were granted the title of Cuan for their merits.
In the late Hanzhong period, the influence on Nanzhong declined, and the Ban family gradually became barbaric, and began to use the fiefdom Cuan as their surname, replacing the original Ban surname.
By the time when Prime Minister Zhuge of the Ji Han Dynasty settled in Nanzhong, the Cuan family had become one of the largest powerful men in Nanzhong together with the Meng family of the Menghuo family and the Yong family of the Yongkai family.
After Ji Han established Nanzhong, the Cuan family was also regarded as a major Han clan in Nanzhong and received preferential treatment and became stronger and stronger. However, the two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties were chaotic after that, and they could not actually control Nanzhong in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which led to the expansion of Nanzhao step by step.
During this period, the Cuan family began to rapidly transform into barbarians, and continued to integrate with the local barbarians. Many tribes related to the Cuan family, but not Han people, also began to have the surname Cuan.
For example, the leader of the Abo tribe in front of you can tell from the name of his tribe that he is a branch of the Bo people, but his surname is Cuan.
This is actually a helpless choice for survival, because the two surnames of Meng and Yong that were not barbarized or were not completely barbarized have almost completely disappeared.
The Cuan family had always been a powerful family in the Yunnan-Guizhou region until they competed with Nanzhao for the dominance of the Yunnan-Guizhou region in the seventh year of Tianbao (748) and were defeated.
Even though it is now called Wuman, it still has the strength to dispatch tens of thousands of people.
The reason why the leader of the Abo tribe said that he had once again turned barbarian and returned to Xia was because the Cuan family had done this many times in the past few hundred years.
They came back once when Prime Minister Zhuge Ding was in Nanzhong.
When Liu Jinu was powerful in the world, they came back again. At that time, Cuan Longyan became Liu Song's General Longxiang, the guard of the town, the governor of Ningzhou, and the Marquis of Qiondu County. He also left behind the famous Cuan Long Yan Monument.
Zhang Xiancun looked at the Abo tribe leader who was kneeling on the ground in front of him, and knew in his heart that this person was the person Cuan introduced to contact him and express his sincerity.
If Zhang Xiancun had the temperament of the young king at the moment, he would never forgive Duan Sizhong and Cuan Fan for being so ignorant.
But at this moment, Zhang Xiancun suddenly remembered what his father Zhang Yan said to him, asking him to be the one who would rule Nanzhong for seven hundred years as Queen Zhuge Wuning.
When setting off, Zhang Gao taught him earnestly and asked him to become the vassal queen. Attacking the heart is the top priority, killing is the bottom priority, education is the foundation, integrating all ethnic groups, and establishing a southward direction.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiancun suppressed the discomfort in his heart and said word by word to the leader of the Abo tribe: "Go back and tell Judge Cuan that a certain person will be waiting for him in Jianshui City in five days and ask him to come in person."
After saying this, Zhang Xiancun still had some knots in his heart, "Gu, this time I am willing to accept the Ru Cuan family when they are at the end of their road. It is because of the saint's teachings in Nanzhong and to see that brothers Pan Lantai and Ban Dingyuan are still alive in heaven. Don’t make the mistake of yourself!”
(The name of the person was wrong in the previous chapter. Duan Siping’s uncle was not named Cuanchuan, but should be named Cuanpan)
(End of chapter)
