After the fall of the Changsha Kingdom of the Wu family, the Han Emperor at that time let one of his concubines reset the Changsha Kingdom.

It is known as Liu's Changsha Kingdom in history.

The first prince of Liu's Changsha Kingdom is called Liu Fa, and speaking of this Liu Fa, he is also an interesting person.

Liu Fa's mother, Tang Ji, turned out to be the maid of Emperor Cheng Ji of the Han Dynasty. Once, Emperor Jing summoned Cheng Ji, Cheng Ji was "avoided, unwilling to enter", and "the waiter Tang Er made the night enter". At that time, Emperor Jing didn't know because he was drunk, and it wasn't until Tang Er was pregnant that he realized that it was not Cheng Ji, so he named the son he gave birth to "Fa".

After Emperor Jing ascended the throne, he was divided into princes, and Liu Fa was silent because of his mother's humble background, and was sealed to Changsha, which was far away from Beijing.

According to legend, after Liu Fa left Chang'an and came to Changsha, he missed his mother very much, and once "transported the land of Chang'an and built a platform in Linxiang City to climb the distance". Later, this lookout tower was called Dingwang Terrace because of Liu Fayi's Dingwang, and the site was later the site of Changsha City Library.

For more than 2,000 years, Liu Fa's kindness, filial piety, and affection for his family have been deeply infected by people and have become a good story that has been passed down through the ages. It is precisely because Liu Zheng is from Changsha that he has heard some of these things.

There is a big difference between Liu's Changsha and Wu's Changsha.

Wu's Changsha State can still be called a country within a country, but when it came to Liu's Changsha Kingdom, because the Han Emperor at that time saw that these vassal states were gradually becoming bigger, he carried out a restructuring, and abolished the internal affairs of the vassal states, and the princes and kings no longer governed the internal affairs of the country, and all kinds of officials were appointed by the imperial court.

As a result, the power of the vassal states was greatly weakened.

Why does Liu Zheng know so much about the affairs of Changsha, in fact, the main reason is that Liu Fa, the king of Changsha, does not have much topicality himself, but his descendants are very remarkable.

Liu Fa's direct descendant, the fifth grandson Liu Xiu, is the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty and is known as the Guangwu Emperor, the son of the plane! The son of destiny comparable to Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

It was a man who gathered the luck of the plane, and even the traverser Wang Mang was defeated by him.

Of course, the Changsha Kingdom has been abolished during the period of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and it has always been Changsha County, but this Changsha County, although it belongs to the imperial court, is far away from the Luoyang Imperial Court because of its remote geographical location, coupled with dense mountains and forests, there are a large number of Shanyue people.

Several large cities near Changsha County were also included in the rule of the imperial court, and many places outside the city were basically Shanyue people who built camps and villages on their own, and implemented their own rule, especially many bandits and rogues haunted.

On the surface, Changsha County was still under the rule of the Han Dynasty, but in fact, it was also an illegal place that did not pay royal taxes.

The so-called Shanyue people are actually bandits.

Those bandits who do not pay the king's tax occupy the mountains as kings, and they recruit men and horses on their own, occupy the mountains, and form armed separatist forces, ranging in number from hundreds to tens of thousands.

There are some people who are relatively noisy, and even attracted the attention of the imperial court, but it is a pity that the strength is not strong enough after all, and in the face of the power of the princes at the end of the Han Dynasty, they were easily eliminated.

But now, these Shanyue forces have not been eliminated, but they are a terrible force.

In fact, the origin and affiliation of Shanyue have always been a point of contention among all parties. Some historians in later generations believe that "the Shanyue people are the descendants of the southern Yue people in the Qin and Han dynasties", among which there are the aborigines on the mountain, the remnants of Wuyue said, and Emperor Wu moved to Fujian and Ou to flee.

There are also some historians who believe that "Shanyue is the mountain people and the clan", which is no different from ordinary Han people. Occupy the mountains as bandits, or the descendants of ordinary Han people who have lived in the mountains for a long time to avoid chaos, as described in Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

Accounts vary. However, as a scattered armed group in five vast provinces, Shanyue has little chance of a single source, and is more likely to have a combination of local natives, ordinary Han Chinese who have gone to the mountains to become bandits, and ordinary people who have migrated from outside.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government was chaotic, the pasture was divided, the soldiers were robbed, and the working people fled into the mountains to avoid the war. For example, in the Xu Wu Mountain in the north, Tian Chou led his clan, cultivated and guarded, and accepted other Han people who entered the mountain, and developed to five or six thousand families in a few years, and also ruled the law by himself.

Another example is Guanzhong, Zhongjiashan, Zheng Gan, Lushui, etc. This was a common phenomenon during the Three Kingdoms period. In Jiangnan under Sun's rule, the words Shanyue, bandits, mountain people, and clans were often used interchangeably, and even other peasant revolutionary forces that did not obey Sun Wu's rule were also called Shanyue and bandits, such as Yan Baihu and Zulang.

What Liu Zheng needs is the current phenomenon of the separation of Shanyue forces, and he plans to take advantage of the chaos in the world and the chaos of He Jin to clean up the Shanyue forces in Jingyang and Yangzhou during this period of chaos in the imperial court.

Bringing the Shanyue forces under his command can not only strengthen his own troops and horses in a short period of time, but also serve the purpose of training and raising troops. Count it all in one fell swoop.

Just like the later Emperor Sun Quan of Wu, he sent people to the Shanyue area from time to time to suppress bandits, which could not only collect the money and food they had accumulated for their own use, but also be able to bring all these captives under his command to supplement the strong men of the army.

Two days later, Liu Zheng led his more than 20,000 remaining soldiers and horses to a small county town around Changsha County.

When he came here to meet Zhou Cang, he did not directly lead people to attack Changsha County, if he directly attacked Changsha County, he would still offend the Han court, once the county town of Changsha County was breached, those fleeing officials would go to the court to play, and the Han court would continue to organize people to attack instead.

This is not something Liu Zheng wants to see now.

Therefore, he did not directly lead people to attack Changsha, but chose a small county town with Zhou Cang in the middle of Changsha County and Yuzhang County to settle down temporarily.

This is a small county town called Yichun. Just established hundreds of years ago. Originally, it was built in the fifth year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang let the counties of the world build the city together, and it is rumored that the Yichun City was built in the second year when the general Guan Ying built Yuzhang County. It is one of the earliest eighteen county towns in Yuzhang County.

This place is just between Changsha County and Yuzhang County, and from this place to Yuzhang County, it is only two hundred miles, and at the same time to Changsha County, it is also two hundred miles. It can be reached in a day or two, and if you march quickly, a day is enough time for a round trip.

The reason why Liu Zheng chose to settle here temporarily was that he knew that this place belonged to the waters of Poyang Lake. There are many lakes, dense mountains and forests, and strange rocks, and some places are perfect for hiding soldiers and horses. In particular, a lake near Changsha County is like a fairyland on earth, a paradise.

In later generations, it was even developed directly into a tourist attraction, but now it is nothing more than a barren mountain forest. What Liu Zheng needs is such a mountain range as a foothold to establish a base here.