In the middle of the Haidong Kingdom, Jimu Town is the strategic junction between Shanzhou, Shuozhou and Yuanzhou. Zhen Xuan, the general who came from the small imperial palace in Wangjing, also dropped the bloody sword in her hand and looked into the distance with some disappointment; behind the rolling hills was the direction of Zhongyuan Jing in the east.
Behind him, in the background, were numerous subordinates who were killing local scholars and civilians. Among them were former volunteers, surrendered Haidong Tu tribe tycoons and tribesmen, and even ownerless Fusang ronin and wanderers. , now they are all gathered and attached to his command to listen to the effect and drive.
All this is just to complete an unprecedented feat, to raid the Central Plains Capital where the Beidi (rebellion) Xingtai is located; to form enough containment and threat to the Xingtai soldiers and horses that are raging in the southeastern states. King Fuso, who truly dominated Wang Jing, also provided comprehensive assistance for this.
Not only did he defy all odds to agree to his proposal of sneaking through the sea to attack Zhongyuan Jing, but he also expanded it into a comprehensive counterattack strategy for the General's Mansion to conquer the sea; he also did not hesitate to use the only remaining navy in Busanpo (port city) and maritime transport capacity, all gathered at his disposal.
Therefore, under this great trust and responsibility, Zhen Xuan could only embark on these decisive journeys towards death without hesitation. After all, after betraying all the rebel armies in the Battle of Bagong Mountain, even if everyone in the world could defect and surrender to Xingtai, he was the only one who absolutely couldn't.
What's more, he was arranged to marry the sister-in-law of Wang Jing's small court, the puppet official's wife, and the fourth daughter of Xuanyuan Jun, a branch of the Fusang royal family. And was established as a model of cooperation with Fuso people. Therefore, his only way out now is to look forward to and assist the Fuso people to achieve the final victory.
And it can be said that Zhen Xuan, who was born in the central part of the mountain, was able to reach her current position step by step. It can be said that it was fate. In fact, as tribesmen from Silla's homeland existed before the Celestial Dynasty came to dominate Haidong, Zhen Xuan's ancestors cannot be regarded as authentic Tu tribe origins.
Instead, it originated from the destroyed Goguryeo Kingdom in the first year of Emperor Zongzhang of the Tang Dynasty (688). However, after the fall of Goguryeo, the Andong Protectorate was established in the homeland. There were still rebellions one after another claiming to be the Goguryeo royal family, which lasted for more than ten years.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty decided to pull the trigger and move hundreds of thousands of the royal family, nobles, bureaucrats, scholars, chiefs, their families, relatives and vassals including the last king of Goguryeo, Gao, to the Jianghuai area to live in scattered places. The dust turned into the Tang Dynasty.
(Note: In later generations of Chinese population genetic censuses, some genetic characteristics that clearly came from the ancient Dongyi ethnic group were often found in southern samples. As the saying goes: Goguryeo orthodoxy is in Jiangsu and Anhui. It is not the Silla/Korean lineage. .)
As a result, the Goguryeo survivors who stayed in their homeland were divided. Some of them accepted the rule of the Tang Dynasty and became naturalized people by changing customs; the most famous one is Gao Xianzhi, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty who was born as a private slave during the Kaiyuan period and was once the powerful military governor of Anxi in Central Asia.
(Being a slave and a descendant of a foreign race, Gao Xianzhi has also become the supreme commander of a border military region. Gao Xianzhi is a legendary figure with multiple attribute buffs. He is also the best portrayal of Roman orthodoxy in China (dense fog))
Others defected and gathered under the command of Dazuorong, the newly emerged leader of Limo Mohe in the north of Goguryeo; they eventually became one of the many ethnic groups that founded the Bohai nation. But there were also a small number of people who were persuaded and won over by their old enemy, Silla Kingdom, and ran south across the Daedong River.
This became the origin of the three Goryeo buildings installed at the northern border of the Silla Kingdom's royal army. However, since the ancestors of the modern government were able to quell the civil strife in the last Silla Dynasty and established Haedong Road and Daehangdae, the three Goryeo buildings naturally disappeared.
Some of them were unwilling to accept it. The three Goryeo tribes that had been conquered and ruled by the contemporary government fled south to the southern part of Wonju, which had a difficult terrain and had been used to exile criminals since ancient times. They continued to resist for a while. In the end, they died out under various suppressions, leaving only a few survivors in the mountains.
Zhentou Village, where Zhenxuan is located, is one of the settlements of these remnants. But as time goes by, only some oral ballads are left about the origins and origins of our ancestors; and even the people in the mountains cannot completely break away from the outside world.
Therefore, in Zhen Xuan's lifetime, although these people in the mountains did not have to pay the head tax or land tax directly to the government or the local vassal family, they did need to send out strong men to perform labor (mining and logging) or Military service. Zhen Xuan is one of the tribesmen who has served in the military.
Therefore, when the Fuso Clan launched a large-scale attack, the Haidong Crown Office was missing, and a large area of the territory fell. Zhen Xuan, who was serving in the Wang Jing Territory, led a group of colleagues and took advantage of the situation to loot several palaces in the Crown Prince's territory. The farm also had the first bucket of capital to start a business.
Then, he fled back to Zhentou Village in the mountains of Yuanzhou, killed the clan leader and clan elders in the village, and established himself as the leader of the village. So he recruited troops from various settlements in the mountains to join the party and fight against dissidents. He also gathered people to conquer Gyeongsan-eup nearby, and began to own a corner of Wonju.
In the turbulent times that followed, based on the people in the mountains of southern Wonju, he continued to fight and fight with the various parties that emerged nearby; he not only defeated the Red Pants Party, which was formed by hungry people, but also defeated other criminals. The local wealthy families, not to mention all kinds of rebels and bandits.
In order to protect himself in troubled times, he once moved closer to the powerful Maitreya Sect and was worshiped as one of the 365 Fire Lords; but when the Baekje rebels attacked, he did not hesitate He killed the preacher of the Maitreya Sect and became a county head of the pseudo-Baekje Kingdom.
And when the Baekje puppet dynasty, which was under the control of Xiyuanjing, was overthrown by the rebels who rose up in the north, he also unceremoniously killed the county supervisor sent by Baekje, and became the enemy of Nanjun, Wonju. One of the rebels. They even sent people to ambush and rob the Fuso people's load-carrying teams several times.
Then, as the Fuso army suffered defeats in Xiongzhou, Hanzhou, and Sangzhou one after another, he also took advantage of the situation to besiege and annihilate several Fuso troops that retreated across the border. Therefore, he began to have a small reputation in the southern part of Wonju. , and even grew stronger through continuous mergers with neighboring forces.
Finally, he also received one of the envoys sent by Xingtai and a letter of appointment from Quan as the deputy governor of Huangshi County. But this can no longer satisfy Zhen Xuan's growing ambition and appetite. Following Beidi Xingtai's order, the various rebel armies in Bagong Mountain gathered together, which was also his most glorious moment.
With nearly 10,000 people under his command and soaring confidence, he is no longer satisfied with the position of a guerrilla general, who is only a fifth-grade man. Instead, he wants to take on the duties of governor and general officer on his own. At the same time, he also wants to obtain the qualifications to establish a vassal state. He became one of the new heroes and princes of Haidong Palace.
However, the official statement gave him a blow without hesitation. "A humble savage dares to seek a high position", these were the disdainful words of the eunuch who privately criticized him. Therefore, he simply established himself as the governor of the South China Sea in order to achieve de facto separation between the north and the south.
But at this time, compared to Xingtai, whose attitude was unclear, an old friend of his brought him conditions from the Fusang people. So this time, Zhen Xuan had nothing to hesitate about. Then he set up a Hongmen Banquet to catch all the rebel leaders in one fell swoop.
The leaderless rebels in the southeast were also strangled to death by the Fuso Army that was surrounded on all sides. And using the corpses of tens of thousands of people as stepping stones, Zhen Xuan also got her wish and became the small court of Wang Jing run by the Fusang people, the imperial general in front of the palace, and the Mingshi Marquis of five hundred households.
The Lord of Fusang even married a noble daughter of the royal family to him and changed her name to Qiu Shiyin; and based on a piece of golden and black-shaped ancient jade he obtained, he fabricated a genealogy and genealogy of the descendants of the Goguryeo royal family for him. identity. This also made Zhen Xuan burst into tears of gratitude.
Therefore, as the puppet of the Fusang people, the main leader of the few armed forces under Wang Jing's small court; Zhen Xuan also spared no effort to eliminate the remaining local resistance and find the spies and sympathizers in the north. Let it go, use all means and achieve great results.
However, as the saying goes, good times don't last long, and news came from the Northland again; the princess who first led the troops back to the country suddenly retired and gave way. Then, Beidi Xingtai led his troops southward in large numbers, defeating all Fusang troops in a row, and even reached Liangzhou where Wang Jing was located.
Although Zhen Xuan's confidence and loyalty to the Fusang people did not change due to this, there was obvious wavering and decadence under his command. For this reason, he had to personally kill a group of people who had followed him for many years. Old subordinates, come to set an example and show your resolve.
However, worse news came urgently; the Taiwan Army that invaded Liangzhou was just a cover, and the main force actually conquered the counties of Kangzhou in the southwest in one fell swoop, and captured Jinhai, one of the five most fortified cities. Beijing. This is incredible and terrifying.
For this reason, King Fuso, who had been managing the situation behind the scenes and rarely showed up, even made a special trip to summon all the important officials from Wang Jing's small court, including him, to comfort him in person. And he was specially made to stay and told some of the past secrets.
According to the Fuso Allied Forces coming across the sea, they had planned for a long time in advance; they actually did not completely overthrow the government and completely occupy the thirteen prefectures and 200 counties in Haidong. It was only because the office behaved so badly when faced with external invasion that it became like this.
Therefore, the Fusang people's initial plan was to occupy the relatively warm and prosperous six or seven states in the south, thinking that the direct fiefs and vassals would be enough; and then by supporting members of the direct bloodline of the official family, the rest of the The northern states continued to maintain public rule as vassals.
Therefore, the good choice supported by the Fusang people as a vassal/puppet official is not the current one, who is both a concubine and a young master; but the legitimate daughter who fled with the master's father. Because the other party has both the title of heir apparent and the identity of a woman, it is really suitable for the request.
In this way, the Lord Fusang only needs to support his succession, arrange for someone to marry him, and make him have as many children as possible; then he can supervise the government affairs as the royal husband and make him retire. Naturally, in terms of reputation and justice, it is possible to completely change the governance of the Haidong clan.
Therefore, at the beginning, each feudal clan sent out more than a dozen people to pursue him, and even paid more attention to the father of the princess, who was mediocre and incompetent but good at escaping. But also because of King Deming's promise of "first come, first served", these pursuers were constantly angry with each other.
Therefore, in the end, only the North Road general, Yamauchi Yoshiharu's son, who was first to come, was able to seize the last trace of the opponent's whereabouts. Just when everyone thought that the Yamauchi family bloodline would successfully take over Kaidong, things suddenly took a turn for the worse.
