Late Tang

Hebei, Weibo, Daming Mansion. .

Daming Mansion, Guixiang County, Guixiang County was established in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and then retreated, and Guixiang County was reset in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.It was renamed Weizhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Jizhou in the early Tang Dynasty, and Weizhou later.During Tang Suzong's time, Weibo Jiedu was set up in Weizhou, and Jiedu envoys were dispatched to govern the six prefectures of Wei, Bo, Bei, Wei, Chan, and Xiang.In the second year of Tang Dezong Jianzhong, Wei Bo Jiedu envoy Tian Yue joined forces with Chengde Li Weiyue and Ziqing Li Na to rebel, and soon joined forces with Zhu Tao and Wang Wujun to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, proclaimed himself King of Wei, and renamed Weizhou Daming Mansion.

There were more than [-] prefectures in the Tang Dynasty, and in the past there were only five capitals and ten prefectures. Beijing was the national capital and accompanying capital, and the prefecture was the place where the emperor once lived in the palace. It was also an important city in the world, such as Jiangling, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Henan, Fengxiang and other prefectures. .Weizhou said that the Daming Mansion was an act of overreach, but in the late Tang Dynasty, although Wei Bozhen surrendered to the imperial court several times, the actual situation of separatism remained unchanged.

At this time in the late Tang Dynasty, the Daming Mansion, the governor of Weibo Town, was already a super big city with a circumference of eighty miles. A metropolis of considerable size is also a military fortress.

At this time, Daming Mansion is an extremely important military town in the north of the Yellow River, with the potential to control Heshuo and lock the north gate.

Wei Bo has a strong army in the world. When several feudal towns in Hebei were suppressed by the Qin army one after another, Wei Bo relied on their unique terrain, and the impact in the past few years was not too great.There were only two battles that really hurt Wei Bo. First, when the Qin army entered Hebei for the first time, the three towns in Hebei took the initiative to fight the Qin army in Hejian, and Wei Bo lost more than ten thousand soldiers in that battle.The second time, Han Jian, Wei Bo's former commander-in-chief, took the initiative to attack the two towns of Heyang and Tianping. As a result, he was defeated by the Qin army in Tianping Town, losing [-] troops.

Then Han Jian was assassinated, and Wei Bo was taken over by Le Yanzhen from then on. The Le family was also the fourth family in control of Wei Bo Town. Wei Bo's family.

Le Yanzhen's real name is Le Xingda, and his family has been the Wei Bo Military Academy for generations. His father, Le Shaoji, is also an officer of Wei Bo.Le Xingda also attended Wei Bo's military academy when he was young.

After Han Jian served as Wei Bo Jiedu envoy, Le Xingda was promoted to Marquis of Mabujun, and later transferred to governor of Bozhou.When the Three Towns of Hebei fought against the Qin Army, Le Xingda was the forward leader of the Wei Bo Army at that time.Later, Han Jian captured Heyang for a while, forcing Jiedu envoy Zhuge Shuang to flee. Le Xingday, who also served as a pioneer, made great contributions in this battle and was moved to the post of governor of Chanzhou.Later, Han Jian stayed in Lexingda to defend Heyang, and personally led [-] soldiers across the river to attack Tianping Town, but was defeated. Not long after, Han Jian was assassinated by the Qin army again.

At that time, Le Xingda, who was already known as a military envoy in the Weibo Yamen, quickly took control of the Daming Mansion and won the support of other generals. Han Jian's son and his family members were killed by Le Yanzhen and others. He later claimed that After staying, the imperial court formally appointed him as a full-fledged Jiedu envoy later.

The Yang brothers embraced Li Ye as the new emperor, gave Le Xingda the name Le Yanzhen, and granted him Zuo Pushe and Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhang.

After Le Yanzhen took the position of commander in chief of Wei Bojie, he began to implement the strategy of uniting all the towns to fight against Qin Fan, and even took the initiative to show his favor to the Chang'an court.

Not long ago, Zhaoyi Jiedu made Meng Lifang dissatisfied with Zheng Changtu, who was appointed by the imperial court to stay in Zhaoyi, and secretly bribed Le Congxun, the son of Le Yanzhen, to kill Zheng Changtu halfway.Le Congxun got a lot of money from Meng Lifang, and heard that Zheng Changtu was carrying a large number of beautiful concubines, kabukis, and other belongings. Seeing the benefits, he gathered hundreds of people to ambush Zheng Changtu and seize his Concubines, singers, dancers and property.Meng Lifang reported to the imperial court that Zheng Changtu was killed by bandits. Although the imperial court learned that Wei Bojie Shuai Ya Nei Le Congxun had done this, they were powerless to investigate further.However, the generals of Wei Bo and the people were worried that Le Congxun's nonsense would cause Wei Bo to be suppressed by the Qin Fan in the east, and at the same time be abandoned by the court, and they were very worried about this matter.

After the new year of this year, the imperial court reached a peace agreement with the Qin Fan, and the Second Town of Weibo in Chengde, Hebei Province was indeed abandoned by the imperial court. Many Weibo soldiers and common people believed that this matter was in harmony with Le Congxun's interception of Zhaoyi Town appointed by the imperial court. After Jiedu stayed, Zheng Changtu was related.

Although Le Yanzhen seized the opportunity after Han Jian's death, replaced the Han family in one fell swoop, and took control of Weibo Town.But Weibo Town is not an ordinary feudal town. It is an old feudal town that has been ruled by four families for more than a hundred years. It was founded by Tian Chengsi, the rebel general of the Anshi Rebellion. , it is deeply implanted in this land.At the time of Daizong, the emperor used all the power of the world to attack Wei Bo, but he couldn't take it down. Wei Bo can be called the leader of the separatist regime in the Tang Dynasty, and the source of all power in the world.

Weibo has jurisdiction over 43 counties in six prefectures, and even once controlled nearly ten prefectures when the middle was strong.And even if only the traditional six states are controlled now, these six states are all economically developed and densely populated places at this time. Defense against water is known as the land is vast and the soldiers are strong.

Especially Wei Bo Ya Bing is famous for his toughness and domineering. It is said in the world that Chang'an Emperor, Wei Bo Ya Bing.

Among the vassal towns in the Tang Dynasty, Lulong Town had the highest number of military disturbances, followed by Weibo and Zhaoyi Towns.

Wei Bojun's domineering is well-known all over the world, even if Le Yanzhen becomes the commander-in-chief, this tradition cannot be changed.Yabing, at first, was just the commanders of the feudal town against the central government, and against the town soldiers, state soldiers, town soldiers, etc. in the feudal town. In order to maintain their authority and protect their own safety, they were carefully selected. The pro-marriage guards, so they are also called yamen, the soldiers who defend the yamen, their combat effectiveness and treatment are beyond the reach of the general army of feudal towns, basically every feudal town has its own teeth soldiers, such as the black crows used by Li Ke Bing, Zhou Bao’s Houlou Bing, Zhu Wen’s Golden Spear, etc. Wei Bo’s dental soldiers even have a longer history. The soldiers are still the same group of people, Wei Boya soldiers are even a sturdy army of father and son brothers attacking each other.

Just like the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty who were originally serfs of the royal family, but later they were able to influence the emperor's abolition and establishment, Weibo Yabing is also a very special group in Weibo Town. They have a long history and a long history, and this group gradually became independent Became the real ruling class of Weibo Town.In the late Tang Dynasty, it was not so much that Wei Bo Yabing soldiers were protecting the coach, but rather that the coach was just a representative launched by this group, and the coach must serve the interests of the Yabing soldiers.

For the tooth soldiers, it doesn't matter who is the commander in chief, as long as it doesn't affect everyone's interests.

When Le Yanzhen replaced the Han family to control Weibo, the dental soldiers agreed, because they thought that Han Jian was a rough man who couldn't read big characters, and it didn't matter to a rough man, but you still dare to hit Hanoi first and then hit Hanoi Balance, it is your fault that you lost troops and generals in the final fight.When Han Jian dies, the Han family will have no successors, and there are not many decent guys. How can everyone be willing to let such a person lead everyone.Le Yanzhen was willing to stand out, saying that he would continue to safeguard the traditional interests of the dental soldiers when he came to power, so in the end everyone slaughtered the Han family and pushed Le Yanzhen to come to power.

However, after the imperial court negotiated with Li Jing and abandoned Weibo, many Weibo people, especially the domineering generals of the Weibo Yabing Group, all thought that Le Yanei was to blame for this. Killing Zheng Changtu was not clean, how could Chang'an abandon them?

Le Congxun, a standard yamen, was born in a family of military generals. He is good at riding and archery, with well-developed limbs, but unfortunately his mind is a bit simple.However, Le Congxun has a deeply trusted counselor named Li Shanfu, an unsuccessful poet like Huang Chao. They have a common feature, that is, they were not born in a famous family, but in an ordinary family. Therefore, in the late Tang Dynasty, when the nobles of the family had reached their peak, it was logical that his talents were underappreciated.However, the difference between him and Luo Yin and others is that Luo Yin and others had no ambitions in the early years, but they all found a good bole later, and now they all become the masters of Qin Fan.Li Shanfu followed Le Congxun, and was destined to only become a dog-headed military advisor.

In fact, Meng Lifang was the mastermind behind Le Congxun's interception and killing of Zheng Changtu, but the dog-headed army division played a key role in it.

After killing Zheng Changtu and earning some extra money, Li Shanfu gave Le Congxun another bad idea.He asked Le Congxun to use the extra money he earned, and the rogue, scoundrel and ranger recruited by the five hundred when he intercepted and killed Zheng Changtu, to form a new army of tooth soldiers, the "Five Hundred Generals".Raise these five hundred generals with conditions that are even better than those of Wei Bo Yabing.

Originally, Le Congxun did not take the tooth soldiers with him for extra money. Afterwards, he drank a lot of wine and ate meat, but he didn't even give the tooth soldiers some soup. Everyone was already a little dissatisfied.

But then the imperial court abandoned Weibo Town, and everyone complained even more.However, Le Congxun didn't know what low-key is. The five hundred generals under him were originally a group of scoundrels. They were self-reliant and became more and more arrogant, even more arrogant than the gentlemen like Wei Bo Yabing. , and even went to and from Jietang and the Marshal's living room and bedroom, not treating himself as an outsider at all.They don't regard themselves as outsiders, and the original position of the tooth soldiers becomes more and more awkward.

Just imagine, if you can't even get close to the commander-in-chief, then what kind of teeth soldiers are they called teeth soldiers?

Speaking of arrogance and domineering, it was originally the patent of our generation Wei Bo Yabing, how could it be the turn of this group of bastards to meddle in the future?

So the tooth soldiers were angry!

Thus, the eight thousand Wei Bo Ya soldiers began to spread a rumor, which spread in the Daming Mansion.Soon, Le Congxun also heard the rumor that the dental soldier was going to kill him, which made him startled.It is not unusual for the Ya soldiers to mutiny. Over the past hundred years, Wei Bo Ya soldiers have mutinied not a hundred times, but at least twenty or thirty times.If he really wanted to cause a mutiny, how could his five hundred generals be the opponents of Wei Bo's soldiers?

He immediately went to Li Shanfu to inquire about the countermeasures. Li Junshi's countermeasure was 36 tricks.That night, Le Congxun disguised himself and fled Weizhou with his dog-headed army division and five hundred generals under the cover of night.Afterwards, Le Yanzhen issued an order to appoint Le Congxun as the governor of Xiangzhou. This can be regarded as an end to the uproar, and the noise in Weizhou City has temporarily calmed down.

However, although Le Congxun couldn't leave Weizhou for the time being, he was unwilling to leave like this.He was in Xiangzhou, but he followed Li Junshi's strategy, and came to Weizhou every now and then to carry all kinds of armor, weapons, grain and fodder.

Soon, the tooth soldiers got the news that Mr. Le was recruiting troops day and night in Xiangzhou. According to investigations, there were already 5 horses in the Xiangzhou camp.

Now, the teeth soldiers really can't bear it anymore, what is Le Yanei going to do?Is he recruiting so many soldiers and horses to settle accounts after autumn?But at this time, Le Yanzhen launched two big projects, the construction of the outer city of Daming Mansion, and the construction of the Yellow River Embankment.According to Marshal Le, Li Jing’s Yanjing City has grown so big in a few years that the imposing Daming Mansion cannot be compared. Therefore, Marshal Le means that it is located on the west side of the current Daming Mansion On the west bank of the canal in the west of the city, a new city was built.After the establishment of the new city, it will become a twin city across the canal with the existing Daming city.Of course, the scale of this new city is very large. The existing daimyo city has a circumference of eighty miles, so the circumference of the new city is also eighty miles.After the new city is completed, the entire Twin Cities will be larger than Li Jing's Yanjing City.

Of course, the construction of such a large-scale new city requires a lot of money.Where does the money come from?Marshal Le's plan is of course mainly to levy additional taxes from the common people. In addition, Wei Bo's armies also deduct a little bit, which can be regarded as borrowing.No one knows why Marshal Le wants to build a new city, but this project has aroused the dissatisfaction of many soldiers.Because having their money withheld is intolerable.Even if the commander-in-chief wants to detain it, it won't work.

Especially the domineering dental soldiers became more and more dissatisfied, what are the Le family father and son going to do?

The dental soldiers kept connecting and chatting in private, and finally came together to reach an idea, shall we change the commander?

At this time, the Qin army suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Southern Expedition, and at this time Wei Bo was even less prepared than Chengde.At this time, a large number of people have just received the call-up order from Marshal Le to build a new city, and soldiers from all over the country are paying attention to the changes in the Daming Mansion. The Qin army has entered the six prefectures of Weibo in the blink of an eye. Throughout the territory, the Qin Fan militiamen who followed the Qin army were singing songs in the fields, happily harvesting their grain.

The frontiers of Weibo Town were defeated across the board. In just a few days, guards from several county towns even surrendered.

When the news came back to the daimyo, standing on the high city wall, Wei Bo's soldiers couldn't help sighing, they were really fucking blind when they chose Le to replace the Han family.

To fight against the outside world, we must first secure the inside. Wei Boya's soldiers finally agreed that at this moment when the soldiers are pressing down on the border, they must first replace the Le family and his son, and choose a more wise general to lead them.

At the festival hall of the commander-in-chief's mansion in Yacheng, Wei Bo's famous mansion, when Le Yanzhen saw the family generals who hurried in from the outside reporting that the generals of the Yabing soldiers had led the Yabing soldiers to surround the commander's mansion, he showed a helpless expression on his face and sighed With a voice, "Generals and lieutenants, please come in. Now that the matter is up to now, I will give you a satisfactory explanation in person."

The general looked at the master anxiously, those guys outside rushed over like wolves and surrounded the handsome mansion, it seemed that it was not so easy to dismiss.At this time, how can there be any satisfactory explanation? (To be continued.)