The monarch and his ministers discussed the issue of Lingnan.
Regarding the candidate for governor of Jiaozhou, Li Shimin proposed several candidates, but none of them were suitable.
"Lu Zushang, the governor of Yingzhou, I also considered him leaving Jiaozhou last year."
It was decided that Li Xizhi would be appointed governor of Guizhou again, and Lu Zushang would be appointed governor of Jiaozhou, replacing the two incompetent and greedy clan brothers.
"Feng Zhidai will stay in Beijing and serve as Weiwei Shaoqing. As for Pang Xiaotai, let him be the commander-in-chief of Wei Yifu on the left."
Li Shimin smiled at Huaiyu, "I heard that Pang Xiaotai calls you his lackey?"
"A country bumpkin from Lingnan doesn't understand anything and is a joke. There are no etiquette and rules in that barbaric land. He is young and can't read," Huaiyu said with a smile.
"Yes, that's true, but wearing a third-grade purple robe and personally driving a carriage for you is a bit ostentatious and undermines the dignity of the court. I'd better not do that in the future."
"I know my crime and I promise there will be no next time."
"It's his fault too. From now on when he's in Beijing, you should teach him more about court etiquette when you have time,"
that day.
The decree came from the palace.
Pang Xiaotai, the governor of Baizhou, moved to the left to lead the army in Wei Yifu, and was granted the title of Baron of Bai County.
Feng Zhidai, the governor of Chunzhou, was awarded the title of Weiwei Shaoqing and the title of Marquis of Gaoliang County.
Li Xizhi became the governor of Guizhou again, and Lu Zushang was appointed the governor of Jiaozhou.
He sent Wei Shuxie, the regular servant of the Sanqi, and Li Gongjie, the regular servant of the Sanqi, to Lingnan to appease Feng An, Feng Xuan, Tan Dian, Chen Longshu, etc., and ordered them to call off their troops and stop fighting, and each to guard the territory, calm the people, resume production, and maintain order.
He also recruited Feng An, Feng Xuan Tandian and other children of Lingnan governor chiefs to join the court as guards and study.
The rumor that the imperial court sent 100,000 troops to attack Lingnan was also disproven.
In the end, the Tang Dynasty chose to mediate the war between Feng Ang and others, and continued to support them as the empire's agents in Lingnan. It supported local Han nobles such as Feng Ningchen and others, and established prefectures and counties for the Xidong Lihu barbarians in Lingnan.
The policy of equalizing the population for every household.
At Wu Huaiyu's suggestion, Li Shimin specially granted the title of Chen Longshu, the chief of the Chen clan of Longzhou, one of the three chiefs of Lingnan, from the governor of Nanfuzhou to the governor of Rongzhou.
The leader of Lixiang talked about the palace, granted him the title of governor of Yongzhou, and asked him to move west to Yongzhou from the Yunkai Mountains.
Ning, one of the three chiefs of Lingnan, Ning Chun, the governor of Lianzhou, and the governor of Qinzhou.
Feng Ang, Duke of Geng, became the governor of Gaozhou, and Feng Xuan, the governor of Luozhou, moved to the governorship of Yazhou.
The three chiefs of Lingnan, the Feng family, the Ning family, and the Chen family, were based on the three counties of Gaoliang, Hepu, and Yongxi.
Wu Huaiyu's suggestion was that while the imperial court controlled the three traditional core areas of Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Jiaozhou, it also established five new lower governor's offices of Gaozhou, Yazhou, Longzhou, Qinzhou, and Yongzhou.
The three powerful men were appointed as governors respectively, and Tan Dian and Feng Xuan were also appointed as governors. Taking the opportunity, they were transferred away. Feng Xuan was transferred to Hainan Island, and Tan Dian was transferred to Nanning.
The area in the center of Yunwu Mountain and Yunkai Mountain that was originally the most fiercely contested was handed over to the relatively weak Longzhou Chen Longshu. Feng An occupied the Feng family's traditional territory of Gaoliang County, and Feng Xuan occupied Hainan Island and half of the Leizhou Peninsula.
After the Qinzhou patriarch Ning Changzhen died after the rebellion failed, Ning Chun, who had been loyal to the court, was worshiped as the governor of Qinzhou and asked him to return to lead and rectify the Ning clan.
If Tan Dian is allowed to lead his headquarters to Nanning in Yongzhou, the power of the Liju in the eastern part of Lingnan will also be weakened, which will help the imperial court restore its governance there.
In the Lingnan area, there are three central governor's offices and five lower governor's offices, and then the more than ninety prefectures in Lingnan are integrated into thirty or forty prefectures. Half of the states are under the governor's office and half are not under the governor's office.
This mediation did not lead to peace. The imperial court also knew the true situation in Lingnan, but took the opportunity to intervene and set up a new five governor's office. Although the governor was still a powerful chief in these places, the chief minister Sima was dispatched by the imperial court, and even this time
The Council will make an agreement with the Lingnan chiefs in the Fifth Governor's Mansion to first set up a unified military mansion each. In addition, the third middle governor's mansion will each have three unified military mansions, so there will also be fourteen unified military mansions in Lingnan.
There will be more than 10,000 soldiers, and the soldiers will move there with their families to settle there.
If this step is implemented, more than 10,000 Han households will immigrate to Lingnan, with a population of tens of thousands, and more than 10,000 well-equipped and well-trained soldiers. Although they are stationed in the eight governor's offices in Lingnan, they can also become a big deterrent force.
strength.
As soon as this edict came out, unexpectedly, the one who reacted most violently was not Li Shou and Li Fengci, the two clan officials who were gathering in Beijing, but Lu Zushang, who was about to be promoted to the governor of Jiaozhou.
The formal edict to worship him as the governor of Jiaozhou was read out in the morning. Lu Zushang accepted the order and did not object at that time.
But after he returned home from the next court, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. He felt that this was not a promotion, but an exile. He was from Hebei and was not willing to go to Jiaozhi at all. Moreover, he had heard rumors that this time he was going to be promoted to the governor of Weizhou.
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The governor of Weizhou was transferred to the governor of the state, but he could not accept it.
After thinking about it, he immediately made a statement saying that he was suddenly seriously ill and unable to take office.
"A common man has made such a promise, how can Lu Zushang not keep his word?"
Li Shimin asked Wu Huaiyu to go to the Lu family in person to convey the emperor's attitude to him, and also asked Huaiyu to diagnose and treat him.
Lu Zushang simply pretended to be ill and refused to admit that he was ill. Wu Huaiyu gave him a diagnosis and found that this guy was as strong as an ox.
"If Mr. Lu was not willing to go to Jiaozhi, your Majesty would have refused. But now he has accepted and regretted it. His Majesty is very dissatisfied. Mr. Lu is in good health. He also hopes that you can write to His Majesty to accept the decree and take office immediately."
Lu Zushang narrowed his eyes and stared at Wu Huaiyu, "Whether I am in good health or not depends on Duke Yi Guo's words, isn't it? I am clearly unwell, but Duke Yi Guo insists on saying that I am in good health. This is deliberately making things difficult for me.
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"Mr. Lu should know the consequences of the crime of deceiving the emperor. I, Wu Huaiyu, am not the only one in the world who understands medical skills." Wu Huaiyu did not give him this face. Although Fan Yanglu's name is great, he cannot stand up for Lu Zushang in this kind of matter.
"That's right, there are more than just doctors in the world. They come and see off guests."
Lu Zushang saw off the guests directly, and the steward even gave him ten taels of gold as a gift. Wu Huaiyu chuckled a few times, turned around and left without accepting it.
After he left, Lu Zushang wrote to the emperor, still saying that he was ill and could not go to his post, and asked his wife's brother Zhou Shaofan to help him intercede.
Li Shimin received a report from Wu Huaiyu that Lu Zushang was not sick, but he dared to deceive the emperor. He was furious and summoned him directly to the palace to face the emperor.
"How do you look like you are sick? Clean up your health and leave the capital within three days to take up your post. You will have two months to arrive in Cochin."
But Lu Zushang was determined, and the emperor personally came to persuade him, but he still refused to agree.
"If I can't serve people, why should I govern?"
The emperor asked angrily, but it was a pity that Lu Zushang did not understand the situation. He still felt that he had contributed to the court by leading the country to surrender. He thought that breaking the bridge of the prime minister's nose and injuring the eye of the county prince in Yuchi Gong's palace a few days ago was fine, so he refused to do it.
What does the governor of Jiaozhou have?
He is a dignified Fan Yang Lu family with five surnames. His clan sister is still the wife of Zuo Pu Shefang Xuanling, and his wife's brother is Zhou Shaofan, the general of Zuo Tunwei, the eunuch of the palace. The emperor is not allowed to give him this face?
"I am ill and unable to attend my post. Your Majesty, please choose someone else."
"Hahaha!"
The emperor smiled.
Laughing loudly and fiercely.
Really angry.
Qiu Xingze, Qiu Xinggong, Wei Chigong, these arrogant and domineering generals, one after another, he endured them again and again.
But that day in the Golden Palace, in front of all the civil and military officials, Li Shimin made it very clear that he would not tolerate it any longer.
However, Lu Zushang actually refused and disobeyed again and again, and Li Shimin had no patience at all.
Moreover, Lu Zushang was not an old minister of Qiandi, nor was he a man who served in orders. Although he was a descendant of the famous Lu family in Fanyang, the emperor had always been wary of these aristocratic families. He was also a warlord who established his own regime in the late Sui Dynasty, and even surrendered to the emperor.
After passing Wang Shichong, he was granted the title of Duke.
Now the governor of Yingzhou in the Tang Dynasty, Duke Yiyang actually dares to disobey orders like this. Is this because he is one of the five surnames in Guandong?
Little did he know that this identity made the emperor murderous.
In the past few years, the imperial court had always adopted a suppressive policy against the independent warlords who established themselves in the mountains at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Lu Zushang also went from the governor of Shouzhou to the governor of Yingzhou. His official position became smaller and smaller, but now he has the opportunity to be reused.
, but actually still playing against the decree.
When Li Shimin killed Qiu Xinggong, he may have thought of him shielding himself from swords and arrows time and time again, and wanted to kill Yuchi Gong. He also thought that without Lao Hei, not only might he not be able to become emperor, but he might also be dead, and he would have to remember those old feelings.
But why do you, Lu Zushang?
Li Shimin, who was extremely angry, also blushed, "Where are Qianniu? Push this rebellious minister out and behead him outside the palace!"
"Behead without mercy!"
The emperor was extremely angry and the angry dragon roared.
Wu Huaiyu, who was summoned to confront Lu Zushang, who was not ill, had been keeping quiet, but now he had to come out to give advice.
"Your Majesty, if you calm down, why don't you hand Lu Zushang over to Yousi and deal with him in accordance with the law?"
Li Shimin was so angry that he couldn't bear it any longer and wanted to kill this guy.
Lu Zushang didn't know whether to live or die at this time. "The miasma in Lingnan is very serious. I heard that you need to drink medicinal wine every day. I can't drink. If I go there, I won't be able to come back."
Wu Huaiyu thought to himself that this guy is really careless about life and death, so what if you lower your head and beg for mercy? His neck is really too hard?
"Your Majesty, for the sake of Supervisor Zhou and the Prime Minister, please spare him for once."
Zhou Shaofan and Fang Xuanling were both the emperor's confidants.
"I warned Yu Chigong that day, and he was also present. How many days have passed?"
"Push it out and chop!"
"Anyone who dares to persuade me again will be killed together!"
The emperor's angry look was terrifying. Wu Huaiyu silently stepped aside and glanced at Lu Zushang. This guy was still holding his neck.
Qianniu pushed him out, but he didn't even ask for mercy.
Maybe he didn't believe that the emperor would kill him.
After a while, Qian Niu prepared himself, and Yin Yuan, Duke of Yun State, came up with a tray, on which was placed Lu Zushang's head. The guy's eyes were wide open, with fear and regret remaining in his eyes. Unfortunately, it was too late.
A severed head cannot be reattached.
The palace was depressing.
Li Shimin gasped, staring at the head, and met Lu Zushang's last look, feeling a little lost.
I don’t know what the emperor was thinking at this time. Maybe he regretted being too impulsive?
After a long while, "Call Zhou Shaofan to come and collect the body of his brother-in-law."
Wu Huaiyu looked at the head. Lu Zushang was only in his thirties. He was the son of Lu family in Fanyang, a famous family of five. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, when he was 19 years old, he led his servants and tenants to capture the government office.
In the Tang Dynasty, he served as the governor of Shouzhou. Now he is the governor of Yingzhou, and he also has the title of county official. In fact, he is quite capable. I heard that several local officials have left a reputation for being capable.
