Chapter 585: Caizhou Thief
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There is still one day when the bride is celebrated, and the guests from all parties have basically arrived.
Almost all the diners and inns in Dengzhou City were filled with guests. Even the major islands such as Xin Dengzhou City, Daxie City, Shamen Town, etc. were filled with people. Countless people flocked to Dengzhou just to congratulate Li Jing on his marriage with the Xiao family in Lanling.
With the influence of Li Jing and the Xiao family in Lanling, not only many merchants came, but also the top families in the Tang Dynasty sent important clan leaders to lead the team. Almost all of the more than 50 vassal states in the world sent envoys to lead the team.
For the aristocratic families, Li Jing has become one of the strongest vassal states in the Tang Dynasty. In particular, the towns are not only strong, but also well-managed and have financial management skills. Nowadays, the towns are attracting a large number of scholars to join, and there are many people who want them to. No matter from any aspect, these aristocratic families are willing to add icing on the cake and enhance their relationship with Li Jing. What's more, such a grand occasion is also an opportunity for children from each family to meet outstanding children of other families. Each family can also take this opportunity to communicate or even reach some agreements.
The various vassal states naturally did not want to offend Li Jing inappropriately. What's more, most vassal states had many other ideas, such as buying weapons, war horses, and even plowing oxen, cloth, grain, seeds, etc. from Li Jing.
"The envoy of the Chang'an emperor arrived at the post station twenty miles outside the city!" Li Chun, with white hair, said with a rosy face.
As the most prestigious person of the older generation in Li Jing's clan, Li Chun is not the clan leader, but he plays the role of the clan leader. Now with Li Jing's progress, Li's clan has also become a family member. From the small clan to the first-class clan of Ziqing, he naturally knew that all this depends on Li Jing. Although Li Jing held great power and held a high position, he did not indulge the Li clan too much, and instead had many rules and regulations. In terms of employment, there were few family children who held higher vocations, and young children were sent to various schools. But Li Chun also knew that this was actually the right thing to do.
Now that Li Jing is married to Xiao, the status of Li will be even stronger from now on.
At present, the Emperor Lian sent an envoy to come, which made Li Chun even more excited.
However, Li Jing was not excited. He was just taking the eighth lady. Even if the emperor favored him, he would not send an envoy to him because of this. After all, congratulations on him for taking a concubine is fake, and asking for food is real.
Li Jing personally led the town civil and military officials out of the city to welcome the emperor's envoys for ten miles.
A team slowly walked from afar. Looking at the car, there were actually hundreds of riders.
The team stopped near and there were a total of five hundred imperial guards.
"Duke of Qi, I've been away for a long time last time!"
The Northern Xuanhui Court envoy was wearing a purple robe, and the right guard general Zhang Tai came out of the carriage with a smile on his face.
"Why is Mr. Zhang coming?" Li Jing looked surprised and took a few steps forward.
"Duke Qi is very happy, I'm here since I am here." Zhang Tai said with a smile, but after getting closer, he lowered his head and said in Li Jing's ear: "If it weren't for the force from Tian Lingzi, we would actually like to stay in Chang'an Palace."
Li Jing immediately understood that this was his difficulty to him. Zhang Tai was ordered to come, naturally to borrow food. If he could not borrow food, he would probably be criticized by Tian Lingzi after he went back.
Behind Zhang Tai, there were several people, one of whom was in his early thirties, and he was also pale and had no beards, but was wearing a purple robe. The other few were dressed in generals, extremely majestic and extraordinary.
The young official smiled at Li Jing when he saw Li Jing coming. He stepped forward and bowed and bowed: "Yang Fuguang, the envoy of the Southern Court of Xuanwei, is temporarily appointed as the envoy of recruiting thieves in various camps. I have heard for a long time that the general is young and heroic, always victorious and unbeaten. He admires him very much. He comes uninvited. Please forgive me."
In his words, Yang Fuguang's attitude was very respectful.
Li Jing knew very well what kind of person Yang Fuguang was, even better than Yang Fuguang himself. Yang Fuguang and Yang Fugong, one of the four nobles in the palace, were brothers. Their adoptive fathers were both Yang clans of the powerful family of the palace. Yang Fuguang is not very famous at present. He had served as a local military supervisor several times before. His previous official position was the military supervisor of the Shatuo Army. Now, with the help of Yang and Yang Fugong, he has become one of the leaders of several eunuchs in the palace at his early thirties, serving as the Southern Court envoy of the Lieutenant of the Right and Right Shence Army and the same powerful Privy Council envoy of the Right and Right Privy Council envoy. He is only one of the fifth eunuch in the palace.
At present, he took over the positions of military commander and military commander of the world, Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong, and supervised the army of various roads. Even in name only, Li Jing and the town he led are still a town of troops in the various roads, so Li Jing is actually a subordinate of his command.
However, Yang Fuguang was not arrogant at all, and his attitude was so respectful that Li Jing's favorability towards him increased a lot.
Li Jing remembers very clearly that Yang Fuguang was one of the two most loyal eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty, and his military commander Zhang Chengye was extremely loyal to Li Tang.
According to historical records, Fu Guang had strategies and oversees the army of the towns. In history, he actively suppressed Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's uprising, and occupied an important position in the suppression of the Huang Chao rebellion. After Huang Chao captured Chang'an, he served as the chief military commander of the Tang Dynasty and led various troops. He successively won the support of the Jieduan Zhou Ji, recruited the support of the envoy Wang Chongrong and others, besieged the Cao army, and made many military achievements. He also induced Zhu Wen, the general of Huang Chao's army to surrender, and quoted Li Keyong to lead Shatuo's troops to attack Chang'an. He was appointed as the three departments of the Duke of Yi Tongsan, and appointed the envoy of the Tonghua County Duke, and was awarded the title of "Zi Zhonghui Wu Kuangguo and the country's hard work."
After Yang Fuguang died, he was given the title of Guan Junying Envoy, and his name was Zhongsu. Although he was from a recent Huangmen family, he had great ambitions and was good at pacifying soldiers. When he died of illness, he cried in the army for several days. He also had dozens of adopted sons, serving as military governors and defense envoys in various places. Most of the people who quelled the Huangchao rebellion were also his disciples and former generals.
It can be said that Yang Fuguang is not an ordinary eunuch, nor an ordinary eunuch who only knows how to fight for power, but an extremely powerful eunuch who can fight wars. Even his brother Yang Fugong, who is now above him, later took advantage of his power and finally became the last extremely arrogant eunuch in the Tang Dynasty.
During the reign of Emperor Zhaozong, Yang Fugong used his power to threaten the emperor and ministers. He not only adopted his favor with Guang to adopt his son and Guang's party members, but also arranged his confidants to make his confidant son serve as the governor and the governor. Yang Shouli was appointed as the military envoy of Tianwei, Yang Shouxin was appointed as the military envoy of Yushan, Yang Shouzhen was appointed as the military governor of Longjian, Yang Shouzhong was appointed as the military governor of Wuding, Yang Shouhou was appointed as the governor of Mianzhou, etc. These people were called "outside housekeepers". He also sent 600 adopted sons to various places as military supervisors, thus controlling local military and political power in his own hands.
Compared with Yang Fugong, Yang Fuguang seemed like a rare loyal minister who bowed all his strength to the Tang Dynasty and died after death.
Li Jing expressed his respect for such a eunuch. Li Jing's attitude changed. Everyone present felt that Yang Fuguang couldn't help but feel flattered. Although he was born in the Yang family of the powerful and loyal family in the palace, he also had a brother who was one of the four nobles in the palace. He now served as the envoy of Xuanwei South Court and supervised all the camps. However, he would not be proud to look down on Li Jing, who was about ten years younger than him.
Compared with Li Jing, he was far behind, but Li Jing's attitude towards him surprised him and was surprised. Being respected by a person like Li Jing was enough to make him excited. Although the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty were extremely powerful, those officials would never truly respect them. Of course, there was no need to respect him, and this respect was even more rare.
In a happy and excited mood, Yang Fuguang smiled and introduced the people behind Li Jing.
"Duke of Qi, our family will introduce you to several generals."
Yang Fuguang kindly took Li Jing's hand and walked to several generals, and said to the first one: "This is Zhao Yuan, the Chenzhou Ya General of Zhongwu Army, from Wanqiu, Chenzhou. He has served as the Chenzhou Ya General for generations. He has been knowledgeable since childhood and is skilled in bows and horses. During the Huichang period, the Zhaoyi Jiedu governor Liu Zhen caused chaos. General Zhao followed his father to fight and participated in the battle to recover Tianjing Pass. He won many achievements. He was named the Marquis of the Horse and Budu of Zhongwu Army for his merits. Now he serves as the Chief Military Commander of the Front Chamber of Zhongwu Army.
." Yang Fuguang highly praised Zhao Feng, "General Zhao is brave and resourceful. Although his hair is gray, he is at his time of courage. In addition, the Zhao family can be called the general. Come on, I will introduce you to a few more people. As he said that, he walked to the back and told several generals standing behind. These two are General Zhao Chang's second brother Zhao Chang and third brother Zhao Yi. The two young generals behind are General Zhao Lu's eldest son Zhao Lu and second son Zhao Lin, both powerful generals who are proficient in riding and shooting archery and horses."
Li Jing was indeed surprised when he heard the name of Zhao Feng in Chenzhou.
Although the Zhongwu Army in the late Tang Dynasty was just a small vassal town, countless great people came out of it, such as Cui Anqian, Qin Zongquan, Wang Jian, Sun Ru, Ma Yin, and Zhao Yuan.
Qin Zongquan was a murderous demon king, and Sun Ru was also a man-eating thief. The Caizhou soldiers they led were called Caizhou thieves. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, they were a demon army that could make children cry, and they marinated people with salt as military rations. Among the three man-eating troops in the late Tang Dynasty, two of them were found under the Zhongwu army. Moreover, after this army was destroyed, Ma Yin led his remnants to fight against Jianghan, and finally established the Chu State among the ten countries.
Wang Jian in the Zhongwu army finally started from scratch as a donkey thief, finally conquered Shu, and established Former Shu among the Ten Kingdoms.
As for Zhao Yun, although he had never established his own country, he was definitely a person who could not be ignored in the late Tang Dynasty.
The biggest reason why Zhao Yuan could make Li Jing so deeply remember was not that he later became the governor of several towns, but that he commanded the Chenzhou Guards Battle.
In history, Huang Chao attacked Chang'an, the emperor rushed west, and Zhao Feng was appointed as the governor of Chenzhou. He expected that Huang Chao would be defeated in advance, and it was very likely that he would pass through Chenzhou after retreating. Therefore, he dug deep into the trenches early, strengthened the city walls, enriched the warehouses, repaired armor and weapons, recruited strong and brave soldiers to enrich the team, strengthened combat preparations, and guarded Chenzhou. He also moved the people within a radius of 60 miles to the city to strengthen the walls and clear the fields for a long time.
Afterwards, Huang Chao indeed led 150,000 troops to flee from Chang'an, and passed through Lantian to Shangshan, and the army headed straight to Chenzhou.
At that time, Meng Kai, a general under Huang Chao, moved his troops to Xiangcheng and prepared to capture Chenzhou. Zhao Qing went to meet the enemy, and first showed his weakness to Meng Kai. When Meng Kai underestimated the enemy, he suddenly attacked, and more than 10,000 people were killed and killed. Meng Kai was captured alive and beheaded his head, winning the first victory in the Battle of Chenzhou.
Meng Kai was Huang Chao's beloved general and an important leader of the rebel army. After hearing the news, Huang Chao was shocked and angry, and personally led the entire army to station in Yinshui and vowed to avenge Meng Kai. He joined forces with Qin Zongquan to reach hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege Chenzhou. He dug five trenches, built multiple passages, and stepped up the attack on the city. The soldiers and civilians of Chenzhou were very scared. Zhao Qing encouraged everyone, "Now the enemy is large and we are few. It is when a real man makes a contribution. We should be killed. We were born in Chenzhou. We were born in Chenzhou and vowed to live and die with Chenzhou to defend our hometown by death." He also led elite soldiers out of the city to fight, and repeatedly captured Huang Chao's army, which greatly encouraged the morale of the military and civilians of Chenzhou.
Huang Chao was unable to attack Chencheng for a long time and became more angry. He vowed to capture Zhao Yu and slaughter all the people in Chencheng alive to vent his hatred. He built the Eight Immortal Camp in the north of the city and built hundreds of komo villages, and scooped the captured people into meat to make them minced meat.
During the siege, hundreds of battles were fought, but the Zhao Feng brothers blocked them. They played a crucial role in finally defeating and killing Huang Chao.
Huang Chao has been rampant for ten years. Whether it is a big city like Guangzhou, Jiangling, or a capital like Luoyang, or Chang'an, they are all invincible and have no cities that cannot be captured. But only in Chenzhou, it took more than a year, but more than 100,000 people in the end failed to break through Chenzhou, which Zhao Feng guarded. If it weren't for the Chenzhou battle that delayed Huang Chao for more than a year, Huang Chao would not have been defeated so quickly.
Zhao Yun is over fifty years old, with gray hair, but he is energetic, strong body and sharp eyes. In Li Jing's opinion, Zhao Yun can be regarded as the most capable general in the history of ancient Chinese wars, and there is no need to add one.
"General Zhao is getting stronger and stronger, and the Zhao family's reputation is well-known. I have heard of it for a long time. Last time I was in Songzhou, I had no time to visit Xuzhou. I am so lucky to see him this time!" Li Jing stepped forward and saluted Zhao Hu, which made Zhao Hu's face flushed and his gray beard tremble.
"I heard for a long time that the god of war in the Duke of Qi's army was a war of all kinds of battles and the people were both wise and brave. I admired it very much. I was very happy to see the style of the general!"
Li Jing smiled slightly and had a few cordial conversations with the other four generals of the Zhao family.
Finally, Yang Fuguang introduced the remaining two generals to Li Jing.
"These two generals are Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru in Caizhou, and are also brave generals of the Zhongwu Army." Yang Fuguang said with a smile.
Chapter completed!