Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

But he was poisoned to death on the way back to the fief.

Han Xizai didn't know the detailed information, but only knew that the king was furious and ordered a thorough investigation. Since then, there has been no news.

However, Han Xizai knew that in nine out of ten cases it was Prince Li Hongji who was the chief envoy.

Sure enough, not long after, Prince Li Hongji died of illness. Some people said that he was scared to death when he saw his uncle's ghost, and some said that he died of illness due to fear.

Han Xizai didn't know the specific situation, but felt it was a pity.

Li Hongji was the only capable one among the many children of the king. He had led the army to defeat Wu Yue before. When facing Zhou's army, the southern army was defeated many times, and Li Hongji was also one of the few who won the victory.

As a result, such a prince actually died, and then the lord of the country planned to appoint the sixth prince Li Congjia as the prince, and the news spread quickly.

At that time, Han Xizai wanted to persuade the king that the six sons of the emperor were fond of poetry and songs, and they were not capable of handling major affairs.

But later he was glad that he didn't persuade him immediately.

A scholar of the Hanlin Academy, a minister of the Ministry of Rites, sentenced Shangshu Sheng Zhongmo to the sixth prince, Li Congjia, who believed in Buddhism, was cowardly and seldom virtuous, and was indecisive. He asked Li Congshan, the Duke of Liji, to be the prince. The king was furious and exiled Zhongmo to Raozhou .

Afterwards, the court was also silent, and no one dared to say anything about it again. It was inevitable that the sixth prince, Li Congjia, would be made the crown prince.

As for why the lord appointed the sixth prince, it may be because he is afraid of another tragedy involving family members, or it may be because the sixth prince loves literature as much as the lord, or it may be because the sixth prince is obsessed with poetry, travels around mountains and rivers, and is not greedy for power at all. Make the king happy.

Han Xizai had no way of knowing, but he felt that Zhong Mo was right.

Before that, the emperor of Zhou State sent someone to say to the lord: "I and Jiangnan, the righteousness has been decided, but I worry that future generations will not be able to accommodate you. You can build the city god and rectify the key points for future generations while I am alive." He planned to move the capital to Hongzhou to avoid Zhou Guobing, and none of the officials wanted to move. Only Tang Hao, the privy envoy, agreed to move the capital, so Hongzhou was promoted to Nanchang Prefecture, and people were sent to build the southern capital.

Now he understood that the Emperor of Zhou Kingdom probably felt that his time was approaching, so he sent someone to speak to the King to comfort people.

In fact, before this, Lin Renzhao and other generals approached him and asked him to speak to the officials. Zhou Guozheng was at war with Khitan, and they could take the opportunity to send troops to take back Huainan.

Han Xizai smiled, invited them to eat and drink, and sent them away with kind words.

He knew the loyalty of these generals, and he also knew that the king had no fighting spirit, not only the king, but everyone in the court. Shi Congyun scared them in the first battle.

The lord of the country is thinking of moving the capital to avoid Zhou Guobing, how dare he take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack and take back Huainan?

In any case, the scene in front of me is the portrayal of the Tang Dynasty today. The colleagues in front of me are reciting poems and composing poems, singing and dancing, and the beautiful concubines are graceful and dancing, and everyone present is full of red.

It's not that they don't know that looking to the north, the tiger and wolf division of the Zhou army on the other side of the river is staring at them. It's not that they don't know that a month ago, the Zhou army's coach Shi Congyun, who once attacked their Jinling city, was defeated in the north again. The Liao army captured and killed [-] people (it has become like this by now), the emperor of the Liao Kingdom fled in panic, the king of Nanyuan was captured and escorted to Beijing by Shi Congyun himself, and the world was shaken.

This is news that everyone knows, but what can we do if we just know?

The lord of the country just wants to avoid disaster, and the atmosphere in the court is generally the same. Everyone just wants to appease Zhou Guo every day. Now that the lord of Zhou Kingdom has passed away, Qin Wang Shi Congyun is regent and changed Yuan Zhangwu.

As a subsidiary of the state of Zhou, they must also use the reign name of Zhangwu.

But when they heard this new year name, many people felt suffocated, Zhang Wu, such an ambitious and exposed year name is rare, and it also made many people feel uneasy.

In a panic, the ruler immediately sent Feng Yanlu and others with a large amount of gold, silver, silk and other valuables to form a huge team to go north to court and congratulate King Qin on his regent.

Zhou Zong suddenly became a hot figure.

A few years ago, Shi Congyun defeated their army of more than [-], crossed the Yangtze River, and approached the city. In the end, he didn't want anything, so he snatched away the concubine of the sixth prince Li Congjia, who was Zhou Zong's daughter.

At that time, people were still filled with righteous indignation, and many people described Zhou Xian as a woman who raised a tiger with her body and served the country and the people.

Afterwards, Shi Congyun successively destroyed Nanping and Wuping, defeated the main force of the Liao Kingdom, captured the King of the South Court of the Liao Kingdom, took over the reign of the King of Qin, took charge of the Zhou Dynasty, and changed the name of the country, which was full of murderous spirits. As a result, the wind direction changed immediately.

Officials went to Zhou Zong's mansion one after another, some praised Zhou Zong for having a good daughter, some even said that Shi Congyun was a hero and loves beauties, and there were rumors of their romantic affairs......

This shows that the situation in the world is changing.

After a while, old friend Xu Xuan came over and invited him to have a drink together, and all the colleagues also invited him.

Han Xizai laughed, stood up and toasted. Everyone was happily drinking, reciting poems and composing Fu. What could he do? People are most afraid of not getting along, and he still wants to live a good life in Southern Tang Dynasty.

Everyone recited poems against the vast Yangtze River in the distance, and enjoyed it. The elegant atmosphere circulated on the tall buildings by the river. He smiled and looked at the river absent-mindedly, but no matter how he looked at it, he didn’t have the vastness mentioned in his colleagues’ poems. Scenery, he only saw Zhou Guo's army on the other side of the river, ready to attack...

Chapter 264, Blackmail

At the end of October, Daliang was getting colder and colder, and Shi Congyun had to report to a group with his three wives to keep warm.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, they have settled Li Chongjin, successfully brought back the army abroad, arranged the rewards of the troops, and completely placed their own people to control the situation in the country. It only took a short month, which is considered a great joy.

I am happy, I am not happy yet, I have finally relaxed these two days, and it is almost the Chinese New Year, and life suddenly becomes interesting.

In the courtyard, the grass leaves are withered and yellow. There is a large study room in the north courtyard, surrounded by red braziers. Shi Congyun is half lying on the bed, and Zhou Xian is playing the piano not far away. play.

Shi Congyun listened lazily, but his eyes could not be separated from Zhou Xian's beautiful face and graceful body.

Zhou Xian is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. This kind of beauty is in the sense of pure sensuality. Look at it without emotion. Otherwise, beauty is in the eye of a beholder.

The icy skin and jade bones are clear without sweat, and the wind from the water palace is full of fragrance. Shi Congyun suddenly thought of this line, probably because he thought too much about Shu recently, and suddenly thought of a line describing Mrs. Huarui ,

Of course, what he was thinking about was the national assembly, life and death, not the lower body, Shi Congyun comforted himself.

After Zhou Xian finished playing a song, Shi Congyun couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and applauded, walked over and hugged her, "It's too cold, come and get warm on the bed."

Zhou Xian's face turned red all of a sudden, and he was shy and silent. How could Shi Congyun not understand that he needed a woman to take the initiative to get enough food and clothing by himself.

......

It was really cold, but after some rubbing to generate heat, Shi Congyun felt much warmer, he felt better physically and mentally, hugging the beauty and thinking about things quietly.

Zhou Xian's face was flushed, and he hadn't come back to his senses. He was thinking about the past few days, and Li Yun was really restless.

But a few days later, another official from the Zhaoyi Army wrote a letter saying that Li Yun had made great contributions in this war. He had been guarding the border for several years and defeated the Northern Han Dynasty, requesting to be crowned king.

In the next few days, similar memorials came one after another, and some even used Shi Congyun's being named king as an example, thinking that Li Yun also had military exploits and should be named king.

Another thing is that when the troops were withdrawn last month, Li Jixun did not return to Beijing with Li Chongjin and Zhang Yongde. Instead, he took dozens of people to join Li Yun after he went south in Hebei.

In normal times, such an approach would be equivalent to betraying the imperial court, and the crime should be punished, but Shi Congyun and Li Gu decided to endure it after discussing it, because they could not anger Li Yun and other border envoys.

Li Jixun and Shi Congyun did not get along, probably because they saw that the official family was not there, and they were afraid of retaliation when they returned, so they turned to Li Yun for asylum.

Probably this incident made Li Yun more domineering and felt that the court was afraid of him, so these memorials came.

Shi Congyun and the Queen Mother immediately understood the meaning of this memorial after reading it. It was definitely ordered by Li Yun. The joint degree makes it possible to stand in line again.

Shi Congyun was so angry that he cursed for a long time in front of Empress Fu. After he finished cursing, he drank two bowls of herbal tea before stopping the fire for a while. This Li Yun is really a thorn.

Empress Fu persuaded him with kind words and whispered to him to calm down, and not to turn against Li Yun at this time.

Although the whole country is celebrating at this time, one hundred thousand soldiers have just beaten the shit out of the Liao Kingdom, morale is boosted, Shi Congyun's prestige is at the height of the sky, the three armies are using their orders, and the orders are smooth.

But only Li Gu, Empress Fu and a few high-level officials understood the difficulty of the court at this time. The last battle was too big, with 10,000+ troops and almost 40 logistics and supply personnel. The treasury had already been emptied. The private treasury is filled, and the rewards cannot be distributed.

The most important thing at this time is to recuperate and recuperate. There are two ways, one is not to fight and wait for the tax to be paid next year, the other is to rob, no matter which one is necessary to stabilize Li Yun.

Shi Congyun finally asked Empress Fu what she meant, and he believed that Fu's parents and daughters must know more about these things than he does.

Empress Fu thought about it for a while, and came up with an idea to make Li Yun the king of Wuxiang. Wuxiang is the name of a county, which Li Yun took from the Northern Han Dynasty. Jing's Taiyuan County King is one level lower, and it is even more incomparable with King Wei, King Qi, and King Qin.

At the same time, Li Yun, the king of Wuxiang, should be ordered to send troops to the north to assist Zhao Kuangyin in guarding the border.

This kind of time is the best, the so-called giving a sweet date, and then hitting a stick, since Li Yun has to accept the imperial court's reward, it is understandable for the imperial court to transfer his army.

After hearing this, Shi Congyun couldn't help boasting, "You are so smart", and then followed the advice of Empress Fu (Queen Dowager), and sent someone to add Li Yun as the king of Wuxiang, but at the same time, he said that the defense in the north was empty. , mobilized his army to go north.

Li Yun had just received a reward, and it was hard to refuse, so he could only reluctantly ask the imperial envoy to transfer two thousand soldiers from his army to go north to reinforce the northern defense presided over by Zhao Kuangyin.

Empress Fu's way of handling it made him suddenly think of the story of Liu Bangfeng in history. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu confronted each other in Xingyang. As a result, after Han Xin took Qi, he did not send troops to reinforce him. Instead, he asked him to be made a fake king of Qi.

The meaning is also very clear, if you don't seal it, you won't come to rescue. Liu Bang was so angry that he cursed, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping stopped him, and immediately made Han Xin the king of Qi, and then transferred Han Xin's army to attack Chu.

That's probably what Empress Fu said about this method...

Anger comes back to anger, upset comes back to unhappy, after he came back and thought about it, he found that this seemingly swallowing method turned out to be the best!It is even better than the way he thought of appeasing Li Yun before. He took the opportunity to not only appease Li Yun with a prince, but also mobilized his army. As for the title of king, it is just a false name. Cleaned him up.

Li Yun got a name, the salary was not issued by the court, anyway, he always collected it himself, and he not only appeased Li Yun to let him settle down temporarily, but also took the opportunity to transfer his soldiers to weaken his strength.

Later, Shi Congyun felt more and more that Empress Fu was a very smart woman, and besides asking a few prime ministers, he could also ask her how to deal with some things.

Shi Congyun was not afraid of granting Li Yun the false title of king, what he was afraid of was that he would make progress and attract other Jiedu envoys to follow suit.

There were many kings enshrined in the Great Zhou Dynasty, such as Wang Jing's Taiyuan County King, his Qin King, Gao Xingzhou's Qi King, and the posthumous King Qin; Fu Yanqing's Wei King, Wei King, etc.

But the key point is that Li Yun's contribution is completely inferior to these people, but he actually controls several states of the Zhaoyi Army with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, which is a headache.

In contrast, the Fu family, who has always been on guard, made him feel relieved after experiencing this turmoil.

Fu Yanqing made a lot of contributions, and the Fu family was intricate and influential, but unlike Li Yun, the Fu family was not so rebellious, and only wanted to preserve the prosperity and wealth of their descendants and their own family.

During this turmoil, the Fu family did not take any action as proof.

Otherwise, the daughter of the Fu family is the Empress Dowager Regent, and the King of Wei controls the Tianxiong Army with tens of thousands of elite soldiers. The Queen will definitely tell them the news about the capital as soon as possible.

If the Fu family had ambitions and immediately led their troops south to take control of the capital, support the daughter of the Fu family as regent, support their grandson to ascend the throne, and order the world, it would be much more straightforward than Shi Congyun's name, and much faster, because they were in Weizhou .

And with the decree of the Queen Regent, the army can quickly enter the city and control the situation.

But the fact that the Fu family didn't do this proves that they have no ambitions.

.......

Just when he was thinking about these important matters, Zhou Xian came back to his senses and gently arched in his arms.

"A few days ago it made you worry." Shi Congyun caressed her smooth back and said.

Zhou Xian shook his head: "Shi Jian was afraid of scaring me at first, so he didn't tell me. Later, when he said it, the army had already returned to the capital."

Shi Congyun nodded: "This kind of thing will not happen again in the future, I have already taken control of the overall situation."

"My husband defeated the army of the Liao Kingdom, and the world has been stable and peaceful since then." Zhou Xian said happily.

Shi Congyun smiled, didn't answer, just hugged her tighter, "Well, there will be good days to come, Jiangnan sent envoys to bring a lot of gold, silver and cloth, which relieved some of my difficulties.

I will invite him to come to the house in a few days. You can ask him about the situation at home. If you feel homesick, you can ask your relatives to visit Daliang and stay for a while. Dazhou and Jiangnan can live in peace in the past few years. "

"Thank you husband, I can't repay you for thinking of me like this." Zhou Xian said very gratefully.

Shi Congyun smirked, "As a family, you can report it or not, but if you insist on reporting it, I can't help it. Let me teach you."

As he spoke, he came close to her ear and talked, Zhou Xian patted him angrily after hearing this, and got into the bed with a blushing face.

Zhou Xian was a child who grew up in peace, and Shi Congyun couldn't explain many things clearly.

Growing up in the gentleness of the south of the Yangtze River, she doesn't understand how cruel it is to cross the Yangtze River and the Huai River. The city of Daliang looks prosperous and safe. In fact, the last time the dynasty was changed and it was looted on a large scale was only eight years ago. The Khitans robbed Daliang 13 years ago, and there were blood and tears all the way up.

In fact, not only at the end of the Tang Dynasty, but since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there have been frequent rebellions and wars.

It is said that the earth is the mother. It is true. In such troubled times, if you can live in the south of the Yangtze River, you must be lucky. Mother earth protects you. barrier.

So Zhou Xian thought that after such a big victory, the world should be at peace.

Indeed, if it is south of the Yangtze River, a war of annihilating [-] enemies can at least keep peace for decades, but for the Central Plains, Hebei, Hedong, and Qin without the protection of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, if you don’t attack, you will wait for death. Progress is equal to slow death......

"You are amazing." Shi Congyun couldn't help saying.

.........

In winter, envoys from Wuyue, Southern Tang, Shu and other places brought a large amount of gold and silver treasures to pay tribute, and their words were modest and sincere. When Empress Fu received them, Shi Congyun sat beside them.

Six-year-old emperor Chai Zongxun is still in class and does not deal with government affairs. The teacher Shi Congyun arranges for him is his old friend Tao Gu.

With their posture, those who didn't know it thought that the emperor and empress were sitting together, but if you look carefully, it's the other way around. The empress dowager Fu is sitting in the front seat, and Shi Congyun is in the accompanying seat.

But the envoys of all countries knew who held the power in the current state of Zhou. They came here and brought so many things. They must have heard the news of the defeat of the Liao state and came here in fright.

What pleased Shi Congyun the most was the large and small gifts brought by the envoys from various countries, which totaled more than [-] yuan.

After hearing the news reported by Li Gu to him, Shi Congyun suddenly discovered a new way to make money.

Yes, Shu has money, so Jiangnan and Wuyue also have money...

On that day, Shi Congyun used his brains. On the one hand, he ran around the city and outside the city to make arrangements; let the Empress Dowager Fu teach him to speak some official words to appease the envoys of various countries, and to achieve proper etiquette.

On the other hand, Shi Congyun released the news that the Empress Dowager Fu was going to celebrate her birthday, and asked the envoys from various countries to bring the news back. Fu Da was very puzzled that her birthday was still early.

The next morning, according to the plan, Shi Congyun first took the envoys from various countries to see Yelu Talie, the king of the South Court of Liao Dynasty who was imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

At noon, he led them to eat in the palace, but did not drink.

In the afternoon, I took them out of the city from Fengqiu Gate in the north, and went to Daying in the north of the city for sightseeing.

Shi Congyun arranged for Shao Ji to lead a well-armed elite army to a military exercise with a scale of ten thousand people, neatly lined up, the execution of orders and prohibitions, armor armed to the teeth, cold weapons, loud shouts and murderous aura, It frightened many timid envoys and officials present.

This is an elite teacher who came out of blood.

Shi Congyun was tall and full of oppression. Facing the Senran army formation on the general platform, he turned his head and showed two rows of big white teeth. He smiled and said to the envoys of various countries: "Everyone, this is my Great Zhou army.

A certain led them to defeat the Northern Han Dynasty, Western Shu Dynasty, Southern Tang Dynasty, destroy Nanping and Wuping, and kill [-] troops of the Liao Kingdom. The officials were seriously ill and had to withdraw their troops. Otherwise, they were planning to take Youzhou and go straight to Shangjing, the capital of the Liao Kingdom. .

At that time, their emperor was besieged in Youzhou City by a certain person. "