Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 559

"What are you talking about? Someone reported that the Feng family is stirring up trouble and preparing to cause trouble?"

In the Palace of Ganlu, Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji who was on the side with a little surprise: "Have you checked it out? Could it be a false report like last time? Feng An is still very knowledgeable about current affairs."

Feng An was originally a descendant of Feng Hong, the Northern Yan monarch during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

Because Feng Hong couldn't bear to surrender to the Northern Wei Dynasty, he fled to Goguryeo and sent his son Feng Ye to lead 300 people across the sea to return to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.After the fall of Beiyan, Feng Ye stayed in Panyu (now Guangzhou, Guangdong).

Feng Rongshi, Feng Ye's grandson, served as the governor of Liang Luozhou in the Southern Dynasty.Feng Bao, the son of Feng Rong, married Mrs. Xian, the daughter of the Xi family in Gaoliang, Lingnan, and became the leader of the Yue nationality in Gaoliang area. Liang appointed him as the prefect of Gaoliang in the Southern Dynasty.

Feng Bao and Mrs. Xian gave birth to a son, Feng Pu. Feng Pu was Feng An's father, and he was the prefect of Shilong.

Feng An was very strategic when he was young, and he was brave and good at fighting.During the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty, Feng An was appointed the county magistrate of Songkang (now Yangxi, Guangdong) for his ancestors' meritorious service.

In the first year of Renshou, the bureaucrats of Chaozhou, Chengzhou and other five prefectures rebelled. Feng An galloped to the capital and asked the imperial court to send troops to crusade against the bureaucrats.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty ordered the left servant to shoot Yang Su and Feng An to discuss the situation of the Liao people's rebellion. Yang Su was surprised by Feng An and said, "I didn't expect there to be such a person among the barbarians!"

Immediately, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty issued an edict ordering Feng An to recruit troops from Jiangnan and Lingnan to attack Liaoren.After the rebellion subsided, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty appointed Dr. Feng Angjin Ziguanglu and the prefect of Hanyang.

In the seventh year of the great cause, Feng An followed Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang to expedition to Liaodong, and was promoted to the general of Zuo Wuwei due to his meritorious service.

In the second year of Yining (618), the Sui Dynasty fell. Feng An rushed back to Lingnan, gathered the people, and became the leader himself, commanding 5 people.Soon, Feng An attached himself to Lin Shihong who ruled south of the Five Ridges with Cangwu, Gaoliang, Zhuya, and Panyu.

On July 622th in the fifth year of Wude ([-]), Feng An accepted the letter of call from Li Jing, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, and led his subordinates to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.Tang Gaozu Li Yuan set up eight prefectures of Gao, Luo, Chun, Bai, Ya, Dan, Lin, and Zhen in Feng An's jurisdiction, appointed Feng An as the governor of Shangzhu State and Gaozhou (now Yangjiang, Guangdong), and named Wu Guogong, and soon changed the title to Duke Yue appointed Feng An's son Feng Zhidai as the governor of Chunzhou (now Yangchun, Guangdong) and Feng Zhiyu as the governor of Donghezhou (now Leizhou, Guangdong).

Soon, Tang Gaozu changed Feng An to be Geng Guogong.

In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Feng An fought with Tan Dian and others, and they did not enter the court for a long time.Various local and prefectural governments reported more than a dozen times that Feng Ang had conspired against him, and Li Shimin planned to send General Lin Mu of Youwuwei and others to conscript dozens of prefectures in Jiang and Ling for a large-scale crusade.

Minister Wei Zheng advised: "The Central Plains has just been pacified, and the road south of the Lingnan is far away, the terrain is dangerous, and there is miasma and plague, so it is not possible to garrison large troops.

Moreover, the situation of Feng An's rebellion has not yet formed, so it is not appropriate to mobilize the army. Li Shimin said: "There are an endless stream of rebels who sued Feng An. How can it be said that the rebellion has not yet formed?"

Wei Zheng replied: "If Feng An rebels, he will definitely divide his troops to occupy dangerous places and attack neighboring counties. It has been several years since he was accused of treason, and Feng's troops have not yet left the country, so there is obviously no sign of rebellion.

Since the various state governments suspected Feng's rebellion, His Majesty did not send envoys to appease him. Feng was afraid of death, so he did not dare to come to the court.

If your Majesty sends envoys to show him sincerity, Feng will be happy to avoid disaster, so that he can obey without laboring the army. " Li Shimin then ordered to withdraw the troops.

On the sixth day of October of the same year, Li Shimin sent Wei Shuxie, a regular servant of Sanqi, and Li Gongyan, a servant of Sanqi, to Lingnan to condolence Feng An.

Feng An asked his son Feng Zhidai to return to the court with the envoys.Li Shimin said: "Wei Zheng asked me to send an envoy, and Lingnan can be stabilized, which is better than the effect of an army of [-]. It must be rewarded." Wei Zheng was given [-] pieces of silk.

That's why Li Shimin asked such a question, but the eldest grandson Wuji said: "Your Majesty, this trouble is still very serious, because I got the news that Feng An is dying, so he wants to protect his family. Fight for the last life-saving item.

And if you want to fight, you must reflect the importance of the Feng family. What can better reflect the important things of the Feng family than the chaos of the bureaucrats? "

Li Shimin frowned tightly after hearing this. The Liao people are ethnic minorities. They are in Lingnan, and everyone in Lingnan knows that it is not the current Xanadu.

Lingnan is the Tang Dynasty's general name for the area south of Wuling, which is separated from the inland by Wuling as the boundary.

Wuling is composed of five mountains, namely Yuechengling, Dupangling, Mengzhuling, Qitianling and Dayuling, and is roughly distributed from the eastern part of Guangxi to the eastern part of Guangdong and the borders of the four provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi.

Historically, it roughly included parts of Guangdong (including Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau), eastern Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, and southwestern Fujian province.

After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the system of land equalization was carried out, and the remote Lingnan area was divided and ruled, and prefectures and counties were set up. It was advisable to gradually organize households to equalize the people, and gradually adopt the Jimi policy. It was originally thought that Lingnan could be governed well in this way.

But on the contrary, in the seventh year of Tang Wude, Chen Longshu's Nanfu Prefecture threatened the Liao people to become naturalized.In Jimi Prefecture in the South of the Five Ridges, the leaders of local ethnic minorities dominated the local government. They were nominally subordinate to the Tang Dynasty, but they did not pay taxes.

Naturalization requires paying half of the tax, which is more favorable than the Central Plains tax. However, Lingnan was remote at that time, with limited production capacity, and half of the tax was also a huge burden.The establishment of Nanfu Prefecture aroused the dissatisfaction of Luo Douliao people and involved local interests.

Then the Liao began to rebel, burning, killing and looting. The Liao people were very strong. They came down from the mountains, killed you, robbed you, and then returned to the mountains. The mountains in Lingnan are full of dangers, poisonous insects and miasma are everywhere, you don't live here, it is very difficult to enter the mountains.

Later, it was Feng An who stood up. Originally, Feng An was also in Chang'an. After the Liaoren rebellion, the imperial court sent troops to take it down for a long time. Then Feng An volunteered to quell the rebellion, and was sent out of Chang'an. When he returned to Lingnan, he sent troops to encircle and suppress , the Liao people were quickly pacified, and after the pacification of the Liao chaos this time, Feng An eradicated the base of the wealthy Chen family in Longzhou to enter Gaoliang, and built a firm backing for the Feng family to occupy Gaoliang forever.

After that, Feng An never returned to Chang'an. Feng An occupied a place spanning two thousand miles, with more than 1 servants and maidservants, and many rare treasures. Keep your word.

"Wuji. What do you mean, Feng An's instigation of the Liao people's rebellion, and this rebellion will definitely come true, and Feng An will profit from it?"

Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji.

But Changsun Wuji nodded: "That's right. Feng An has this ability. I'm very worried now. What he wants is Sizi."

"Sizi matches him with Feng's son, so that the Feng family will become relatives of the emperor and enjoy the same prosperity as our Tang Dynasty." Li Shimin nodded: "It is very possible, if he really wants Sizi, we will trouble you up.

The south of the Five Ridges is too far away, and the mountains are high and the forests are deep there. The government soldiers are not used to it at all. Feng An will definitely sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. At that time, we and the Liao people will lose. ah. "

"But we can let Sizi marry to Lingnan?" Changsun Wuji said softly.

This sound made our Emperor Tang frown tightly: "It's absolutely impossible! Sizi's body is so weak, how can he go to Lingnan."

"Then, Your Majesty, we must quickly find a solution before Feng An makes a move." Changsun Wuji reminded Li Shimin, and at this moment, Yang Qu walked in and bowed in front of Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining, Zhang Xuansu, Yan Xianghe, Du Zhenglun, please see me!"

After listening to Yang Qu's report, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji were dumbfounded.

Why did these five people ask to see each other together? For some reason, Li Shimin always felt that something bad was going to happen again.

After a cup of tea, Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining, Zhang Xuansu, Yan Xianghe, and Du Zhenglun walked into the Ganlu Hall together, and the five walked over side by side. Among them, Kong Yingda walked in the middle, holding a table in his hand. .

This was written by Kong Yingda in the carriage. Seeing the five people walking in with great momentum, to be honest, Li Shimin swallowed involuntarily.

These five people are notoriously difficult to deal with with Li Shimin, and the aura exuded at this time made Li Shimin feel even worse.

"Aiqing, are you going to show up?" Li Shimin looked at the five people and asked.

"Your Majesty!" Kong Yingda took the lead in bowing: "This time, the five of us will jointly impeach Chai Lingwu, the governor-in-law of the son-in-law. There is no law for the king, and the crime of killing the soldiers is a heinous crime that cannot be forgiven...!"

"Chai Lingwu!" Changsun Wuji was surprised.

Li Shimin on the side looked at Kong Yingda and the others and asked, "Aiqing, do you have any evidence, if you don't have evidence!"

Before finishing the rest of the sentence, Yu Zhining bowed and saluted: "The witnesses and physical evidence are all outside the hall. If your majesty wants to see the evidence, just call it!"

"Okay!" Li Shimin then recruited Tie Yu and others into Ganlu Hall, followed by Tie Yu, Zhao Yi and others also showed Li Shimin the documents and his injuries. Bing even took off his clothes to reveal his disabled wounds. What shocked Li Shimin even more was that in addition to these disabled wounds, everyone also had knife wounds and arrow wounds of different sizes. Gunshot wound. Little by little, scene by scene, Li Shimin and others got goosebumps all over their bodies.

"In June of the eighth year of Tang Zhenguan (634), Tang Duan Zhixuan attacked Tuyuhun and fought with Tuyuhun soldiers and killed 18 people, including one hand!"

"In the ninth year of Tang Zhenguan (635 years), the battle against Xiang Qiang in the Tang Dynasty. In order to save his comrades, he was shot in the left eye by an arrow."

"In the sixth year of Tang Zhenguan (632) the battle of Gaochang's attack on Yanyan. The boulder broke both legs!"

"Tang Zhenguan's 12th year (638) September Songzhou battle broke a hand and a foot.!"

"In the 16th year of Tang Zhenguan (642), Tang attacked the West Turkic Yizhou battle. The five viscera were severely beaten, and there was no energy for life!"

All the disabled soldiers talked about the reasons and age of their injuries, which was also taught by Li You, because it made Li Shimin more intuitively feel the difficulty of the soldiers.

"Come here. Xuanchai Lingwu!" Li Shimin shouted.

(End of this chapter)