The Sichuan Kingdom was experiencing constant civil strife due to the struggle for the throne. At the same time, the transfer of the Feng Kingdom's political center to Beijing was in full swing.
During this period of time, there has been a lot of construction work in Shangjing. The palace of Feng State and the residences of Feng State officials are being built. Although the Feng State court has not explicitly stated that it will move its capital to Shangjing, anyone with a discerning eye can see that in fact Feng State has already
The capital relocation is in progress.
Originally, everyone in the Feng Kingdom was in harmony, and Yin Zhun was excited about finally returning to Shangjing, where he had always dreamed of. However, at this time, a huge piece of bad news suddenly came.
The imperial ministers who returned to Beijing with him were attacked by rebels when they walked to the junction of Modi and Andi. As a result, the 10,000 Sky Eagle Army officers responsible for escorting them were outnumbered and suffered heavy casualties. However, the imperial ministers
They suffered a devastating disaster. A total of twenty-six ministers and their families were affected and were killed by the rebels.
More than 20 ministers were killed at once, and many of them were high-ranking officials of second rank or above. This was a shocking case. Yin Zhen was filled with grief and anger, and ordered Tang Yin to investigate the murderer strictly, and be sure to bring to justice those who harmed the imperial ministers.
The rebels captured and brought him to justice.
Of course, Tang Yin knew very well that if there were any rebels, it was the work of the people with hidden arrows. As for the casualties of the Sky Eagle Army soldiers, they were all false reports. In fact, the Sky Eagle Army had not injured a single soldier.
However, Tang Yin did not miss this opportunity. He followed the trend and took advantage of the situation. Under the banner of annihilating the rebels, he once again carried out a large-scale cleanup in the Feng Kingdom to combat the rebel forces in the Feng Kingdom and consolidate the internal stability of the Feng Kingdom.
This is the second time that the Feng Kingdom has carried out a nationwide sweep against rebel forces, and a large number of people have been affected. Even in Andi, which has the most gentle folk customs, more than 10,000 people have been involved, and most of them have been affected.
Most of them were executed by local officials for rebelling against the party.
What is different from the last time is that there are very few ordinary people involved this time, and most of them are wealthy and powerful local families.
In the eyes of Tang Yin and the Feng State court, these local family forces are the most unstable factors and the greatest hidden danger to Feng State. As long as these family forces do not collude with local rebel forces, there will be no major rebellions in Feng State.
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This time of sweeping, many large families with deep-rooted local influence in Feng Kingdom disappeared overnight. In a sense, it did play a great deterrent effect. The most interesting thing is that this time
The general clean-up did not arouse the resentment of the general public. When they saw the local bullies and rich men being arrested and executed by the government, most of the people clapped their hands and applauded.
The cleanup of Feng Country lasted for more than two months. It felt that if it continued, there would be new turmoil in Feng Country, so Tang Yin sent an order to let the situation gradually calm down.
After this cleanup, it can be said that the centralization of power in the Feng Kingdom has reached its peak. The people in Ningdi, Modi, Andi, and Huandi are all talking about rebellion. There are no more rebel forces in various places, counties, and counties.
Appearing, at least not daring to appear openly, openly instigating local people to confront the imperial court. This was exactly the effect that Tang Yin and the imperial court wanted.
In order to maintain stability, Feng State adopted iron-blooded tactics, so that Feng State would no longer have to worry about playing games with foreign enemies. On the other hand, in Sichuan State, due to the struggle for power within the court, local rebel forces in Sichuan State began to rise one after another, including
The rebellion in Zhendi was the most intense.
After the destruction of the Zhen Kingdom, the entire Zhendi territory was occupied by the Sichuan Kingdom. However, the Sichuan Kingdom's rule over Zhendi was not peaceful, and rebellions occurred from time to time. The folk customs of Zhendi have always been fierce, and the Zhen Kingdom has always implemented the principle of all people being soldiers.
This resulted in Zhen's unruly personality, fearing neither heaven nor earth, and simply refused to accept the rule of the Sichuan Kingdom.
In the past, with Xiao Xuan here, the whole Sichuan Kingdom was united. Even if there was a rebellion in Zhendi, it was quickly put down by the Sichuan army. Now that Xiao Xuan has died, the Sichuan Kingdom's court is busy fighting for power and has no time to take care of itself. The rebel forces in Zhendi see an opportunity.
Take advantage of it and then rise up to make waves.
The largest rebel force was the rebel army headed by Li Shu. Li Shu claimed to be Li Wei's eighth son, and Li Wei was the eleventh son of Zhen Wang Li Hong. After all, Li Shu was Li Hong's son.
The forty-ninth grandson, there is no way to verify whether this is true or not, only he himself knows best.
However, under the banner of Li Hong's 49th grandson, Li Shu gathered a group of Zhen people in Zhendi who were unwilling to be controlled by the Sichuan people.
At the beginning, they did not dare to blatantly resist the Sichuan people. They just hid in the old forests of the mountains, fell into bandits, and made a living by robbing. From time to time, they would sneak attack on small groups of Sichuan troops passing by. However, Li Shu was quite talented. In just one or two days,
In the past year, the few hundred men under his command have grown to tens of thousands, and there is a tendency to form an army. It was not until this time that Li Shu's power really aroused the vigilance of the local officials.
But at this time, it was already extremely difficult for the local government to send troops to quell Li Shu's forces. Li Shu's forces were already strong, and the local government made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. The Sichuan army that entered the mountains to quell the chaos for the first time only had 5,000 troops.
, or entered the mountain hastily without understanding the terrain and enemy situation. As you can imagine, the five thousand officers and soldiers were killed by the rebel forces headed by Li Shu. More than half of them were lost and they returned defeated.
When the local government put down the rebellion for the second time, they greatly increased their troops, with as many as 20,000 soldiers and horses dispatched. However, after the last battle, Li Shu's power also became famous, and people came from all directions to defect to him.
There are countless people, and the number of people has nearly doubled in a very short period of time.
The second time to quell the rebellion, the two sides fought extremely fiercely. In the end, Li Shu's forces achieved a great victory because they had the advantage of time, location, and people.
The troops were sent out twice to quell the rebellion, and twice they came back with great defeats. This frightened the local government so much that they no longer dared to quell the rebellion alone. They hurriedly reported to the Sichuan court and asked the imperial court to send out the central army to quell the rebellion.
At that time, it happened that Xiao Xuan and Tang Yin jointly sent troops to Shenchi. The Sichuan court suppressed the rebellion of Li Shu for the time being. They wanted to wait until the matter of Shenchi was resolved and the king's squadron returned to the court before going to Zhendi to put down Li Shu.
of rebellion.
As a result, after the Shenchi incident was resolved, Xiao Xuan died of illness on his way back to the country. There was a vacuum in the throne of Sichuan. The princes and princesses formed gangs and formed cliques in the court for their own benefit. The quelling of Li Shu's rebellion was postponed indefinitely.
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This just gave Li Shu valuable time to increase his power. Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Sichuan court, Li Shu's power surged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Li Shu even raised the banner of restoring the country.
The self-proclaimed general of Zhenguo led a rebel army to attack the local government.
In just one month, the rebels led by Li Shu gained overwhelming power and captured twelve cities in Zhendi. Their sphere of influence reached five counties and one and a half counties, and they were rapidly expanding outwards.
If this momentum continues, it may not take more than a year to recover the entire Zhendi.
Li Shu was able to grow the rebel force from a few dozen people at the beginning to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands now. Even though there were some opportunistic tricks, there is no doubt about his ability.
He knows very well that with his current strength, he is far from being able to compete with the Sichuan Kingdom. Restoring the country is just an empty talk. The most important reason why he can survive until now is that the Sichuan Kingdom has not yet had time to take action.
To deal with him, but the throne of the Sichuan Kingdom cannot always be vacant. Sooner or later, a new King of Sichuan will be born. By then, the government and the opposition in the Sichuan Kingdom will be stable and concentrate their forces to attack him. This seemingly powerful rebel army under his command will
The legion may fall apart in an instant.
If he wants to survive for a long time and regain the Zheng Kingdom, he has only one way to go, to form an alliance with a powerful country and join forces to fight against the Sichuan Kingdom.
Now, there is only one country that can compete with the Sichuan Kingdom, or that dares to be an enemy of the Sichuan Kingdom, and that is the Feng Kingdom. Li Shu made the right decision and sent his trusted retainers to the Feng Kingdom to fight against the Feng King Tang Yin.
Talk about forming an alliance.
Of course, it is impossible for Li Shu's retainers to go directly to Beijing to see Tang Yin, and it is impossible for him to see Tang Yin. As far as Feng Guo is concerned, who knows who you are, Li Shu, and how can your men see Feng?
The king of the country?
The man went to Huan Di first and met the commander of the Feng Army stationed in Huan Di, that is, the commander of the Bai Zhan Army, Nie Ze.
The Baizhan Army has always been stationed at the junction of Huandi and Zhendi to defend against the invasion of the Sichuan Army. Because the Baizhan Army is too fierce and good at fighting, the Huanzhen border garrisoned by the Baizhan Army has always been peaceful, even if it is often harassed.
However, enemy troops had never invaded the territory of Feng State. Tang Yin was very satisfied with Nie Ze's ability to manage the army and defend the territory, so he ordered the commander of Bai Zhan Army to station in Huan Di to ensure the stability of Huan Di.
Nie Ze is an orthodox Zhenren. Compared with Zhenren, he can talk to him better. Moreover, he is now a marquis in Feng Kingdom and a dignified general. He must be the one to introduce to the Feng Kingdom court.
It can also attract the attention of Feng Country.
Out of these considerations, Li Shu's retainer first approached Nie Ze. Li Shu's retainer was named Xun Xiu, and he had some connections with Nie Ze. His father once worked in Nie Ze's house.
He worked as a handyman and met Nie Ze when he was young.
When Xun Xiu came to the Fengjun camp to see Nie Ze, it was because of this origin.
But he didn't know that the number of people who came to Nie Ze for this reason every month was at least a dozen, if not hundreds. If Nie Ze could see them all, how could he see them all?
Hearing that the soldiers had come to report, there was someone outside the camp who claimed to be a relative of the former servant of Nie Mansion. When he wanted to see him, Nie Ze shook his head and smiled bitterly, waved his hand and said casually: "Give him a few taels of silver and send him away!"
The soldier agreed and turned away. While Xun Xiu was waiting outside the camp, a soldier came up to him, threw him a small cloth bag, and said impatiently: "This is what the general rewards you with.
Take the money and go back and forth from wherever you are!"
Xun Xiu looked at the small cloth bag in his hand and felt dumbfounded. Seeing that he was standing there without moving, another soldier kindly advised: "Brother, I don't think you should go back to Zhendi. Just take the money and go with it."
It is better to stay in Feng Country and make a small living than to suffer in Zhen Land."