Chapter 54: The Aristocratic Family’s Plan

Style: Historical Author: The trees are thoughtfulWords: 3207Update Time: 24/01/18 12:03:17
Du Fuwei and Fugongyou are also legends. Du Fuwei and Fugongyou were from Zhangqiu County, Qi County. They were frustrated when they were young and did not make a living. Their families were too poor to support themselves, so they often stole things by climbing over walls.

He and Fu Gong'er were close friends of life and death. Fugong'er's aunt's family was engaged in sheep herding. Gong'er stole sheep many times and gave them to Du Fucheng. Gong'er's aunt felt resentful and reported them on the theft.

The counties urgently pursued them, and Du Fuwei fled with Fu Gong'er and gathered a group of people to form a bandit gang. He was only sixteen years old at the time.

In the ninth year of Daye, Du Fuwei fled to the Changbai Mountain area, organized bandits, and led an uprising with Fu Guo'er.

The two of them joined a small rebel army nearby. They were just pawns when they first joined, but Du Fuwei was very brave. He was at the front when he went out and behind when he entered. He quickly gained everyone's respect and trust and was promoted as the leader. This was the beginning of Du Fuwei's power.

The Sui Dynasty was relatively powerful in the Jianghuai area. Du Fuwei realized that his small army was too weak and would not survive if it did not grow as quickly as possible, so he worked hard to find opportunities to unite and annex other nearby rebel armies.

A typical example is the Xia Pi Miao Tide. Du Fuwei sent Fu Gonger to them and said: "Now we are suffering from the tyranny of the Sui Dynasty together. We each raise armies for justice. Our forces are scattered and weak, and we are often worried about being captured." , why don't we unite to become stronger, so we won't worry about the Sui army coming to restrict us.

If you can be the leader, I will follow you respectfully. If you think you are not qualified, you can come and follow my command. Otherwise, we will fight to see who is better. "Miao Haichao was frightened and immediately led his accomplices to join Du Fuwei.

Later, with the growth of power and territory, scholars began to join Du Fuwei. Relying on these scholars, Du Fuwei gave up his previous rogue tactics and began to work hard to build his own territory.

Since he himself suffered from taxation, Du only collected very low taxes in his territory. At the same time, perhaps out of the innate hatred of poor farmers towards corrupt officials, Du Fuwei ordered that all corrupt officials should be executed regardless of the severity. This Of course it was unreasonable, but it helped Du win the support of local people.

In the fourteenth year of Daye, there was a mutiny in Jiangdu. Yu Wenhuaji killed Yang Guang and appointed Du Fuwei as the prefect of Liyang, but Du Fuwei did not accept it.

In the same year, Yang Tong, the king of Yue in Luoyang, the eastern capital, professed his vassalship and was named King of Chu. He worshiped the general manager of Jiangdong Road.

At this point, Du Fuwei has become famous. The next step should be to fight for world hegemony, right?

But it is a pity that, like most peasant uprisings, they are short-sighted and only know that they are content with being rich and don't have much ambition.

In June of the third year of Wude, the Tang Dynasty moved Du Fuwei to the title of King of Wu, gave him the surname Li, and granted him the title of Shangshu Ling of Xingtai, Southeast Road. In the same year, he defeated Li Zitong and moved his base to Danyang in the south of the Yangtze River.

After the defeat, Li Zitong could not hold Jiangdu, so he had to evacuate to Jingkou and then to Taihu Lake. All the land in Jiangxi belonged to Du Fuwei.

After eliminating Li Zitong, Du Fuwei sent Wang Xiongdan to attack other independent forces in the Jianghuai area.

At this time, Du Fuwei was already the overlord of the Jianghuai River, and Li Yuan had already eliminated his great enemies Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande. The general trend of the world was determined. Therefore, various forces such as Wang Hua, Wenren Sui'an, etc. surrendered one after another. Du Fuwei completed the unification of the Jianghuai River. There is the land east of the Huainan River.

With such foundation and strength, he should have other ideas, right?

But he still didn't, and still had no idea of ​​​​conquering the world. This made his brother Fu Gongyou extremely anxious. After many attempts to persuade him were useless, he had no choice but to let it go.

In the fifth year of Wude, in the summer, Li Shimin led his troops to pacify Dou Jiande's remaining troops, Liu Heitai and Xu Yuanlang. Xu Yuanlang's territory bordered Du Fuwei. Li Shimin took the opportunity to attack Xu Yuanlang and displayed his power on Du Fuwei's territory.

At this time, most of the rebel kings who had sprung up in the late Sui Dynasty had disappeared. Liang Shidu, Gao Kaidao, Xu Yuanlang and others were either living in remote frontiers or were about to perish. The only one who could still pose a threat to Li Tang was Du Fu. Awesome.

Du Fuwei naturally understood Li Shimin's intentions and was very uneasy, worried about becoming Li Tang's next target. In order to avoid suspicion, Du simply wrote to Li Yuan and requested to enter the court.

Li Yuan was naturally happy after receiving the report and approved Du Fuwei's entry into the court. So Du handed over the Jianghuai army to his adopted son Wang Xiongdan, and he brought a few close associates to Chang'an to meet Li Yuan in July of that year.

Li Yuan was very satisfied with Du Fuwei's initiative to show his loyalty. At the same time, in order to show off to the people in the world, Li Yuan named Du the crown prince and Taibao, ranking him above Qi Wang Yuanji.

But they forgot about Fu Gongyou, who was also the founder of Jianghuai Army. No, Du Fuwei has left, but Fu Gongyou still firmly controls the military and political power of half of the country south of the Yangtze River.

After all, Fu Gong'er was not a man willing to succumb to others. As soon as Du Fuwei left, he conspired with Zuo Youxian to launch a mutiny.

The only obstacle to Fugong Er was Wang Xiongdan. Wang was Du Fuwei's adopted son and favorite general. He was absolutely loyal to Du Fuwei. Wang held the military power of the Jianghuai Army. The mutiny would not succeed unless he was eliminated.

Fu then resorted to counter-intuitive tactics and forged Du Fuwei's handwriting and wrote a letter to Wang Xiongdan, in which he accused Wang Xiongdan of having second thoughts for no reason.

In order to avoid suspicion, Wang Xiongdan rested at home. But then Fugongyou forged a letter written by Du Fuwei, saying that he had been mistreated in Chang'an and asked him to join forces with Fugongyou to rebel against the Tang Dynasty.

At this point, even a fool understands that he has been deceived, but the situation is over and he can only do nothing! Wang Xiongdan was loyal to Du Fuwei and sternly refused Fugong Er's persuasion to surrender, and was eventually killed by Fugong You.

It is natural to imagine Du Fuwei's days in Chang'an when his old troops rebelled. There is no record in history whether Li Yuan blamed or punished Du Fuwei for this, but the feeling of sitting on pins and needles under someone else's fence is probably unavoidable.

In February of the seventh year of Wude, Du Fuwei died suddenly in Chang'an. The cause of death is unknown. Historical records record that Du Fuwei was fond of immortality medicine and died of mica poisoning by mistake. It is possible that he was poisoned, but it is difficult to say how he was poisoned.

No one was surprised by Du Fuwei's death.

You are a person who has no value to you. With Li Yuan's temperament, it's strange that he can be tolerated! In addition, Du Fuwei was in a high position but did not know how to restrain himself. When traveling, hundreds of people came forward to escort him. It would be strange if he was not hated by others!

Du Fuwei is dead, and what Fu Gongyou said before about him being mistreated in Chang'an has been completely confirmed. Now it is impossible not to rebel.

The generals in the army were furious and vowed to avenge the King of Wu, which happened to be what Fu Gongyou wanted. So he killed the officials Li Yuan sent to the army to sacrifice the flag, and started the road against Tang Dynasty.

In the spring of the seventh year of Wude, the Tang army launched a general attack on Fu Gong'er with Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, as its commander and Li Jing, Li Ji and Kan Ling as generals.

This Kan Ling was also Du Fuwei's adopted son, and he and Wang Xiongdan were known as the two heroes. When Du Fuwei entered the court, he went to Chang'an with Du Fu, thus escaping Fugong Er's mutiny.

Kan Ling is known for his bravery in the Jianghuai Army. He is usually responsible for military discipline. Anyone who violates the rules will be dealt with regardless of whether they are close or distant. Therefore, he has a very high prestige in the Jianghuai Army.

When the two armies faced each other, Kan Ling rushed over, took off his helmet and shouted at the opponent, "You don't know what I am evil? How dare you come to fight!" The morale of the Jianghuai army was scattered, and some even surrendered.

The Tang army had strong soldiers and brave generals, and Fu Gong Er suffered defeats in succession. He finally surrendered in March of the seventh year of Wude and was subsequently sentenced to death.

Probably unwilling to go on the road alone, Fu Gong'er revealed to Tang Army coach Li Xiaogong that Du Fuwei was the mastermind of the rebellion. There was a secret order to prove that even Kan Ling, who had returned this time, was also involved in the rebellion.

It happened that Li Xiaogong had confiscated the private property of Du Fuwei and Kan Ling when he confiscated the property of the rebels. Kan Ling had just had a quarrel with Li Xiaogong over this. Li Xiaogong took advantage of this opportunity and executed Kan Ling for treason. Before Ling was arrested, he thought he had accomplished a great job in defeating Duke Er and was waiting to be rewarded based on his merits.

Kan Ling was the last general of the Jianghuai Army. With his death, the Jianghuai Army disappeared. Li Xiaogong immediately reported to Li Yuan that he had discovered that Du Fuwei was the mastermind behind the rebellion, and that he had complete witnesses and material evidence.

But Du Fuwei was dead at this time, so Li Yuan took action to deprive Du Fuwei of his official title and his family.

During the Zhenguan period, Li Shimin came to the throne. Knowing that Du Fuwei and Kan Ling had been framed, he rehabilitated the two and restored their reputations, and buried Du Fuwei with the ceremony of a duke.

The demise of Fu Gongyou made the Jiangnan family dumbfounded.

Everyone is still thinking about reaping the benefits from this war. If Fu Gongyou is more powerful, there is no chance that he will rule across the river and form the legacy of Chen Liang.

But they not only overestimated Fu Gongyou, but also overestimated themselves, and even underestimated Li Tang's strength!

In a short period of time, Fugongyou, who had occupied the entire Jiangnan, was wiped out. It could be said that it was basically effortless. This made the entire Jiangnan family dumbfounded.

What benefits do you need now? Life is more important!

So there were all kinds of kneeling and licking. Maybe Li Yuan didn't want to cause too much trouble, so he didn't do anything to the Jiangnan family, but just dealt with a few who went out of line.

Li Tang's approach made the Jiangnan family feel at ease, but they had never dared to think about it before.

Therefore, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the distribution of power has basically had nothing to do with the Jiangnan family.

Now that the fate of the Tang Dynasty has stabilized, it is not that simple for them to cause trouble. In addition, seeing the combat power of the Tang army with my own eyes, I didn't dare to have other ideas.

But are they willing? Definitely unwilling to do so. If they cannot enter the center of power, sooner or later these aristocratic families will be eaten up by those in Jiangbei.

It's not like they didn't try hard afterwards, but they all failed, and no one was willing to accept them. Therefore, although there are still people serving as officials in recent years, they are not on the stage.

They know that if they don't make changes, their demise is foreseeable in the future, so they can't help but be impatient!

Xie Lian and Hao Ji Song appeared behind him, giving them a glimmer of hope. Although Haojihou Jisong is young, according to the information gathered during this period, he is a man with powerful hands and eyes.

As long as they get his help, both Sinong Temple and the army will slowly change their situation.

But Gu Yanzhi shook his head, knowing that they were impatient. Xie Lian could not be Ji Song's master. Now they just hoped that Xie Lian could bridge the gap between them and Ji Song, so that even if they came to their door, it wouldn't be too sudden!

onclick="hui"