Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

"Just like the Han and Tang Dynasties, your ancestors have been the subjects of the Central Plains dynasty for thousands of years. The chaos in China is an opportunity for you to grow stronger, but when history returns to the tide and China once again unifies the world, you should also follow the trend and submit to China " Shi Congyun said.

Xiao Hunian said dissatisfied: "Then we are destined to be inferior to others? Who said that God has such an arrangement."

"God didn't arrange it, I arranged it." Emperor Shi gently pinched her beautiful chin, "I arranged for you to be below."

Xiao Hunian blushed a little, and then said: "I know that Your Majesty is generous and allows me to say anything, but even so, I still can't help it. It's not that I'm ungrateful, but I've been like this since I was a child."

"You can say whatever you want, but you can only say it here. If you are heard by outsiders and ministers, you can't do it, it will hurt you." Shi Congyun told her that these words are nothing to him, and everyone discusses them That's all, if Xiao Hunian said such things in front of the ministers, it would be a serious matter, and it might be difficult for him to protect her.

Xiao Hunian nodded obediently, and then took his big hand: "If it's at night, I can be inferior to others..." She raised her head, her face was flushed, and her eyes were misty.

Emperor Shi was a little hard to control, and he taught: "You can be on it during the day!"

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At the beginning of June, the scorching heat of summer arrived in Daliang, and then a great news also arrived. The Qin army entered Jinling, the emperor of Tang State, civil and military officials surrendered, and the Southern Tang Dynasty perished.

For a time, the streets and alleys were full of people rushing to tell each other, three religions and nine streams, everyone talked about this matter with each other, and the whole girder was in jubilation. Over the years, there has been great news every few years. It seems that the troubled times of the past are coming to an end. Brilliance and stability are gradually approaching. In Qin State, as a citizen of Great Qin, all the days are more and more hopeful, and the future is also full of hope.

The fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty signaled the unification of the South, and the world once again began to return to the world where the four seas were unified.

Chapter 489, Prisoner Presentation Ceremony

The news of Jiangnan's Tang Kingdom's destruction spread quickly throughout Daliang. The discussions in the streets and alleys have not yet dissipated. New news has been released in the palace. Yu offered captives outside Guide Gate, but because Li Yu knew the general situation and took the overall situation into account, he voluntarily surrendered, and the ceremony of presenting captives in Taimiao was cancelled.

After all, if you offer captives in the Taimiao, it is not simply a matter of onlookers and strong national prestige, but you also need to scold Li Yu in front of his ancestors, and then punish him later.

Some punishments are a few blows, while others directly kill people to sacrifice to ancestors.

Emperor Shi did not have to offer captives at the Taimiao, and only the ruler went to the Taimiao to tell the ancestors about their achievements.

At the end of June, Cao Bin escorted Li Yu and the civil and military officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty back to Daliang, accompanied by more than [-] soldiers, entered the city at the south water gate, then crossed the Longjin bridge, entered the inner city, and arrived at the Guide gate of the imperial city.

Li Yu was dressed in plain clothes, described as dry, with a rope around his neck to show his identity as a prisoner. Cao Bin was in front of him in military uniform, surrounded by generals from all walks of life, Liu Renshan, Li Chuyun, Wang Shenqi and so on.

In front of Guide Gate, a high platform has already been built, with gorgeous decorations, canopy hanging high, banners everywhere, hundreds of civil and military officials on the left and right, and the imperial guards armed to the teeth on the periphery, leaving a large area vacant.There are many Kaifeng government servants in the outer periphery to maintain order. Many people gather under the city wall, beside old trees, on branches, near the windows of the pavilion in the distance, and there are railings, and people have climbed on the tiles.

A few guards yelled for people to come down from a distance several times out of fear of danger, but no one paid any attention.

There are many flags on the head of the rear city, guarded by the Imperial Army.

The scene is magnificent, although it is not luxurious, but it has a sense of heaviness and oppression.

Afterwards, Cao Bin took the lead, Li Chuyun, Liu Renshan, and Wang Shenqi followed behind together, all wearing military uniforms, but they were not the heavy armored stomachs worn in war, they wore thick armors weighing dozens of kilograms to participate in such ceremonies in summer , It is estimated that a few generals will be familiar with it halfway.

They are all wearing military officer's ceremonial armor, which looks like ordinary military generals, but it is thinner and more gorgeous, and the armor is very light, and it will not affect the movement when worn, and the overall weight is only about ten catties.

Cao Bin led Li Yu and sent it to Emperor Shi and Empress Fu in Chinese costumes under the watchful eyes of many people and soldiers, and then said a lot of high-sounding words, which probably meant that he was able to capture Li Yu relying on the wise and powerful officials. , It's all the credit of the officials and the like.

Then Li Yu read his surrender form again, acknowledging the crime of usurping the magic weapon and establishing the country privately, and saying that he knew the general situation, took the overall situation into account, and surrendered to the Qin State, and asked the officials to look at him for protecting the environment and the people, and taking the overall situation into consideration On the face of it, give him some salary and title to support his wife and children.

Emperor Shi didn't answer after hearing this, because he didn't understand Li Yu's words and sentences, and he didn't understand Li Yu's gorgeous rhetoric. .

Soon, Fan Zhi took a step forward and opened his mouth to give Li Yu's arrangement with an imperial edict. The house on the edge of Bianshui has been arranged for Li Yu's family, and he can move in at any time, and Li Yu is named King of Yue.

This time, on the edge of the Bian River, the rulers of the Northern Han Dynasty, Nanping, Wuping, and Shu Kingdoms had already lived. Except for the brutal Southern Han Dynasty ruler Liu Wei who was executed, the rest were resettled.

Li Yu was so excited that he immediately knelt down to thank him, crying while thanking.

Afterwards, hundreds of civil and military officials in the south of the Yangtze River were presented one by one. The officials of the Hanlin Academy next to them would state their crimes and make a judgment later. Many people were exiled as common people.

When he arrived at Xu Xuan, Shi Congyun couldn't help but said: "This person is not bad, he should be admitted to the Imperial Academy."

Unexpectedly, Xu Xuan said angrily: "I am not a commodity for people to choose, and your majesty is not my master. Jiangnan is dead, so I don't want to live."

The faces of the surrounding ministers were not good-looking, and Emperor Shi waved his hand: "Let's talk after you calm down for a few days."

Later, when an important minister named Zhang Zi was escorted up, the officials of the Hanlin Academy around him reprimanded him for his sin of resisting the Qin army, and he deserved death, Zhang Zi said seriously: "My sin should have been dead long ago.

As a minister, it is only natural for me to serve my master. A dog that does not bite or bark when it sees its master, and bites to death when it sees outsiders is the best dog in the world.

Each is the master, and now he can die, and the ministers will be divided! "

Emperor Shi was taken aback when he heard this, and for a while he couldn't tell whether this person was fighting for his life or if he really had a backbone.

So he asked Cao Bin beside him, "What is this person's identity in Jiangnan?"

Cao Bin took out the file in his hand to look at it, and immediately replied: "Officials, this person was born as a Jinshi in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The thing is, in Jiangnan, favor is the first, he and Chen Qiao who has committed suicide are the ones who insist on defending and resisting our army."

Emperor Shi glanced at him, no matter whether this person really has backbone or not, his agility and adaptability are not bad. His background as a Jinshi shows that he is knowledgeable and talented. What happened shows that he is a person with experience and ability.

As long as he has the ability, Emperor Shi doesn't care much about his shortcomings, as long as the shortcomings are not too big, he can accept them, but if he has no ability, he will be a vegetarian and cause harm to the people.

So he said, "Let's keep this as well."

This time, Zhang Zi did not resist like Xu Xuan, but was taken down without saying a word.

Afterwards, people were brought up continuously, and then there was an old man named Xiao Yan. Emperor Shi looked at his file, because Lu Duoxun told him about Xiao Yan's lifting of Li Yu's chessboard. Shi Congyun knew that he was a staunch and upright man. old man.

Ask him directly: "Duke Xiao, would you like to serve our court?"

Xiao Yan snorted. Although her hair and beard were messy and her clothes were a bit ragged, she still said stubbornly: "One minister does not matter to two masters!"

"I heard from Lu Duoxun that you have always been upright and a direct minister. I wanted you to go to Yushitai and me to try those capable ministers and generals. I didn't expect you to have a false name." Emperor Shi shook his head.

Xiao Yan's old face turned red, and she was too angry to speak.

After taking him down, Emperor Shi said to the people around him: "This one can also be used."

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In the end, only about [-]% of those who were allowed to retain their official positions in the Qin Dynasty and continue to serve the court, and most of them were newcomers who were promoted through the imperial examination, and most of the remaining officials were demoted to common people and allowed to return to their hometowns.

There were also some diehards who were reported by the soldiers to resist the actions of the Qin army. A total of 11 people were sentenced to death.

Since then, the lords of the south of the Yangtze River and their civil and military officials have ushered in their own destiny. In the afternoon, Emperor Shi led all the officials and entered the Taimiao with the queen to comfort the ancestors and tell them that this great victory will cut off the achievements of the Southern Tang Dynasty. , and then issued an edict to inform the world.

Chapter 490 : Land Reform + Wuyue National Policy

After the grand prisoner presentation ceremony, there are still many problems waiting to be resolved.

The follow-up processing is more complicated and lengthy, the most important of which is to reward meritorious deeds.

The rewards of generals at all levels are indispensable, and most of them are added to the ranks according to the usual practice, only two people are special.

One is Dang Jin, because he was captured in the war, and he was rarely defeated, and then Lu Jiang was captured, plus other military merits, counting merits and demerits, so he was added to the ranks, but not many.

The other is Zhao Kuangyin.

As a transfer envoy of Yangzhou, he fulfilled the task of supporting the army very well, and defeated the counterattacks of the local troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty twice in the first month and February of the beginning of the year.

During that time, the troops in the south of the Yangtze River also saw that Yangzhou was an important supply center behind the east of the Qin army, so they sent troops to smuggle across the Yangtze River to attack, and they were all repelled by the local Xiang army led by Zhao Kuangyin.

It is impossible not to reward this kind of credit, but the Emperor Zhao Kuangyin was always worried about leading the army. After thinking about it, he was transferred to the Privy Council. As a direct bachelor of the Privy Council, he participated in military decision-making, but he did not directly lead the army.

The rewards for the middle and lower ranks are more complicated, and it is also a matter of complicated workload.

Over the years, Emperor Shi has kept fulfilling his promise, which is to give soldiers land. How did these lands come from?Naturally, they came from the Shu land, Hedong, Jingchu, central Hebei, Huainan, Lingnan, Jiangnan and other places he had newly conquered in recent years.

After these places were cleaned by force, many powerful families, officials and landlords were uprooted, and many lands were freed. Some of these lands were distributed to the local people, and some were given to soldiers as military rewards.

But this is a complicated and heavy workload. To put it simply, his soldiers of the Imperial Army come from all over the world. To reward them with land, the first thing to do is to give land to those who are adjacent to their garrison or their ancestral home, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army choose by themselves.

Secondly, today's imperial army is a professional army, serving most of the year. Most of their land cannot be cultivated by themselves, so some soldiers will ask to exchange their land for equivalent money. Such requests must also be counted by the Privy Council OK, then cash them out one by one.

It is best to distribute the remaining land to the people nearby, but if it is not nearby, the people can only be moved there.

For example, after the disaster in Hebei, the arable land was greatly reduced, and many people had no land to cultivate. After many officials and landlords in Jiangnan were relegated and cleaned up, a large amount of land under the monopoly control of many powerful families was left idle, reaching as many as one million mu. , the treasury is abundant.

Emperor Shi discussed with the prime ministers and decided to promulgate a new policy. The people in Hebei who have no arable land can get arable land if they are willing to move to Jiangnan. The team to Jiangnan will be organized by the government and food will be provided on the way.

Such a policy will last for several years, and the whole process will last for several years, and in the month of its promulgation, many people responded positively.

As for the powerful landlords in Hebei, Shi Congyun has never forgotten.

Seven or eight years ago, when he first went north to Hebei to fight the Liao Kingdom, he remembered that after the troubled times, due to the turbulent situation and the outflow of people, a lot of land in Hebei he passed was abandoned, but ordinary people did not dare to cultivate it, because those were rich people. The land of powerful clans.

At that time, he felt that such a threat was even worse than that of the Liao Kingdom.

Those powerful landowners are not simply family lords, many of them are warlords big and small in the troubled times after the end of Tang Dynasty. The local tyrants have their own private armed forces.

At that time, Emperor Shi could only watch and sigh, not daring to do anything. Even Guo Rong, the official at the time, did not dare to offend the warlords in Hebei.

He didn't dare in the first few years after Emperor Shi came to the throne, but now the situation has changed.

His rule became more and more stable under the Wenzhiwugong, and the great achievements of the battle. The ever-victorious Central Forbidden Army continued to grow, one after another, and the local forces became more and more afraid. Even the biggest warlord in Hebei at the time, he His old father-in-law Fu Yanqing also voluntarily handed over his military power and went to Luoyang to retire.

However, following the catastrophe in Hebei a few years ago, which was tragic and brought unexpected opportunities to Shi Congyun. Go back to farming and help the village.

Not only did it not encounter resistance, many people thought it was a benevolent policy, and the soldiers were willing to return to their families at such a difficult time.

As the military towns in Hebei that had lasted from the Tang Dynasty in the past continued to be disbanded, the influence of local tyrants continued to decline.

In the winter, Emperor Shi made the last heavy blow and completely disbanded the Tianxiong Army with only more than 600 people left, and the Central Forbidden Army took over the defense of all parts of Hebei.

Later, he issued that important edict—an order that Guo Rong was ambitious to implement, but because of the obstruction of Hebei's tyrants, the final result was very little.

Starting next spring, all the abandoned land in Hebei can be reclaimed and planted by ordinary people. As long as it has been cultivated for more than three years, the land will belong to the cultivator and will no longer belong to the original owner. Even if there is a title deed, it is useless.

What is different from the past is that this time Emperor Shi dispatched 24 battalions from the imperial army, with more than [-] troops, led by three of his confidants, Fu Zhaoyuan, Dang Jin, and Liu Qingchuan, to Hebei to carry out this edict.

Sure enough, the imperial edict came to Hebei, and the government posted a notice. Some local tyrants gathered private tribes to refuse to obey the edict, and even took the land deeds to threaten everywhere that their land was passed down from their ancestors, and it was legal. Even if they It is also reasonable to abandon the wasteland and not give the refugees a seed. What are they willing to do?

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, they have been so arrogant and domineering. Because of the continuous war in Hebei and the separatism of the warlords, all the warlords coming and going need their support, so they are also polite to them. Even if the Khitans come, they will not be able to enter. their camp.

Warlords big and small need their support, and local people need their protection. That's why these tyrants are so confident and domineering.

But they obviously didn't choose the right timing and opponent.

Hebei has not yet recovered from the catastrophe, and its population is declining; in addition, with the continuous unification of the world, the prestige of the emperor is at its peak.

For the people in Hebei, they had no choice in the past. Warlords came and went, and none of them could be trusted. They could only rely on the local tyrants.

Today, the emperor is civilized and martial arts, and there is a great unification of the world. Yu Nei clarified that there is a trend of returning to peace, and many people support the emperor.

And with the promise of the imperial court, including the forbidden troops stationed locally, plus the forbidden troops that the follow-up party Jin, Liu Qingchuan, and Fu Zhao wanted to bring to popularize the law, and the garrison at Sanguan in Hebei, there are more than 6 forbidden troops in Hebei.

It is the area where the Qin Dynasty deployed the most forbidden troops except the capital. Facing the tiger and wolf divisions of the Qin army, the armed forces in these places are not enough.

Before Dang Jin and others set off for Hebei, Emperor Shi and his Zaifu Group had already anticipated this situation, and explained to Dang Jin and others that once this happened, they must strike hard!Deal with it seriously and quickly, and kill chickens to make an example to monkeys!

The Qin army's battle-hardened Forbidden Army went directly to the fields with field artillery to execute the emperor's edict. It was okay for many tyrants to bully and bully the local people. There is no need for the Qin Army's forbidden army.

It was almost a one-sided massacre. At most, more than 1000 people gathered to guard their own village, but the artillery of the Qin Army blasted open the wooden fence and collapsed the wall in less than half an hour. The sturdy imperial army with teeth rushed into the village.

More than 200 people were killed, and all the rest were captured. The whole fight lasted less than a morning.

Subsequently, more than 40 members of the mastermind's family were punished by the clan, and all those over the age of 12 were executed.

After killing chickens to warn monkeys, many local armed forces were immediately disbanded, expressing their willingness to implement the emperor's edict, but then the forbidden army continued to dispatch to wipe out several opposing local armed forces, but most of them were only a few people, most of them were hundreds of people, few The scale of ten people can't make a climate.

The decree is carried out in the winter months. People who have no land and no land can cultivate uncultivated land as long as they register with the local government. In the spring of the coming year, many people will definitely enjoy the benefits. If the forbidden army is maintained, they will also become an important force against the powerful.

At the same time as the military conquest, Emperor Shi did not forget the political offensive and the follow-up of grassroots organizations. Sometimes he couldn't help thinking, how could there be such a wise monarch in the world, how blessed are the common people!

When it was Chinese New Year, King Wuyue went up to congratulate the emperor on cutting off the Tang Kingdom, and then expressed his desire to go to Beijing to face the saint during the Shangyuan Festival and asked for permission.

Although he didn't say what was going on specifically, the entry of the lord of a country into the capital itself is a very big event. When they saw this letter, everyone vaguely guessed what King Wuyue meant.

Several prime ministers were very excited, but they didn't show their expressions, because the final confirmation has not been made yet.

Shi Congyun himself is actually very excited. Wu Yue has always followed the lead of the Central Plains. The kings of Wu and Yue have no intention of participating in the struggle for world hegemony. When other countries are fighting in full swing, they also live in full swing.

It was a piece of fertile land, the people were prosperous, and the products were rich. With the unification of the world, the King of Wu and Yue was probably also preparing to obey the righteousness, submit to China, and hand over the land and the people.

He had mentioned this before in his letters to himself.

Emperor Shi was naturally happy, and asked the Ministry of Rites and the Political Affairs Hall to take this matter seriously. If King Wuyue came, he would give him the highest standard of reception. On the other hand, he asked Zhao Shijian to write the letter. Welcome to his arrival.

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In winter, the palace is a bit bleak, and the charcoal in the brazier made of copper withered animal heads in the corner is burning slowly and beeping.

King Qian Chu of Wuyue sat alone in the hall, surrounded by bright candles, and he was screened away from both sides. During the day, he went to the Taimiao to sacrifice to his ancestors, and cried a lot, crying to his ancestors that he was ashamed that he could not die.

In fact, when Wu Yue founded the country, it was significantly different from other separatist countries.

Qian Liu, the founder of the country, often said: "The people are the foundation of the country. The people are the most precious, and the country is second. To avoid fighting is to love the people."

Since then, since the founding of the country, Wu Yue has always insisted not only that he does not proclaim himself emperor, but also opposes the proclaiming of the emperor by a strong vassal.

Qian Liu earnestly taught his descendants to abide by the minister's morality, "do good things to China, and don't use changing surnames to waste things." "Know the current affairs according to your ability, if you meet Allah, you should return quickly."

This is the ancestral training of their Qian family, so he has always regarded the great northern Central Plains as the suzerain, never thought of fighting against the suzerain like Shu, Tang, Southern Han, and Northern Han, and once the suzerain sends troops, mobilize their troops , Wu Yue will follow closely behind and send troops immediately.