Annan, when Liu Xing's series of decisions to suppress the royal family and support the new family were made.

Zhong Xiang was a leading general who was driven out of the country by Liu Xing and ordered to assist the Li clan in regaining the position of lord of Annam. After learning that Liu Xingda's list did not include him, he was completely annoyed.

Yang Qi was officially canonized as a second-class count, Liu Xu, who defected to Liu Xing, was named a first-class viscount, and his sibling Liu Heng was also named a first-class viscount.

In addition to being knighted, Yang Qi was officially appointed as the new governor of Ningxia by Liu Xing after the grand ceremony, and actually succeeded Liu Kuang, who was in the fierce war in the Western Regions, and became the Optimus Prime of the Western Song Dynasty.

Liu Xu also received a good reward and was transferred to the Guangdong patrol envoy, and Liu Heng was ordered to go north alone to serve as the Fujian patrol envoy.

Seeing that the brothers who started together in the past have now been rewarded and promoted one by one. Only he Zhong Xiang, with more than 40,000 remnants of the defeated army, finally captured a large territory in the north of Shenglong Mansion, but he didn't want Liu Xing not to give him the slightest reward and encouragement, and seemed to have forgotten the existence of such a person as him.

It's okay that Liu Xing really forgot about his existence, at least Zhong Xiang can carry out his plan to establish himself as the king more calmly after the Thang Long Mansion is conquered.

However, Liu Xing didn't really forget him, and on the third day after the grand ceremony, Liu Xing suddenly issued an order, ordering all the Guangdong and Guangxi merchant regiments that followed Zhong Xiang into the territory of Annan to immediately go north and return to China.

Let the Liangguang merchant army return to China, what will Liu Xing do? Liu Xing showed them a way to obtain the opportunity to be knighted for their lords: rest for half a month, take the merchant army as the pioneer, and integrate all the ships along the coast of Liangguang to march to Qiongzhou.

Liu Xing decided to use his troops to capture Qiongzhou, why did he choose now? There are two main reasons for this.

First, Cheng Changyu's presence in Qiongzhou has completely aroused the anger of all the local natives and even the Han people, and when many Han people in Qiongzhou saw Cheng Changyu's wanton slaughter of the natives, they actually brutally entered the country and ran to his army to petition, hoping that he could stop killing some of the natives in moderation.

Why did the Han people ask for this, why did they speak for the natives? The reason is that although the Han people have not been in Qiongzhou Island for a short time, most of the Han people who have been in Qiongzhou for a long time are sinners and their descendants who have been degraded, exiled and assassinated.

From the Han and Tang dynasties, the Han people were favored by the local aborigines in the early days of Qiongya. In the Great Song Dynasty, after the Han people who went south to Qiongzhou set up various workshops and businesses on the island, the indigenous people were not only the largest source of raw material supply, but also the largest consumer market.

According to Cheng Changyu's unscrupulous slaughter, seeing the killing pattern of killing one by one and killing one by one, the local Han people in Qiongzhou are afraid that when Cheng Changyu completely controls Qiongzhou Island, their livelihood will be extremely difficult and even embarrassed due to the loss of cheap raw material sources and consumer markets.

For the sake of their own interests, the local Han talents in Qiongzhou, led by the leaders of the merchants everywhere, ran to Cheng Changyu's army to ask him to kill some of the natives, leave some cheap labor for the future economic environment of Qiongzhou, and ensure that the source of raw materials for the Han merchants was depleted due to the war.

What about Cheng Changyu? In the face of the petitions of the merchants and even some Han clans in Qiongzhou, at first he still agreed on the surface and secretly killed him.

Later, after several huge riches on Qiongzhou Island angrily shouted at him the words "untrustworthy", "murderer", and "executioner", he even tore his face and ordered all those who insulted him to be arrested.

Of course, Cheng Changyu is not a fool, he does not dare to directly wield a butcher's knife at the Han people on the island. In that case, not only Liu Xing of the Northern Dynasty would immediately send troops to clean him up after he knew about it, but even Zhao Gou, the king of Kang who had put on Liuqiu Island, would be unkind to him after he knew about it.

So what did he do with arresting the local tycoons in Qiongzhou? Cheng Changyu's method was to force the families of those businessmen to take money to "guarantee their release" after arresting people.

The system of bail has existed as far back as the Tang Dynasty, so it is not unusual.

Cheng Changyu's bail was surprising, and the bail he issued was actually calculated at every turn, and it went straight to all the belongings of the businessmen he arrested.

If it is a reasonable bail, it is normal for the court officials to enforce the law. Cheng Changyu opened his mouth like this, and his nature changed, and it completely became a use of power to extort money.

In the face of Cheng Changyu's behavior, the merchants in Qiongzhou were completely angry. As soon as the merchants were angry, the result was that within a few days, the merchants of the entire Qiongzhou Island launched a large-scale "market strike" under the instigation of the secret agents of the military intelligence department lurking all over the island.

At the same time as the strike, a large number of businessmen and their employees flocked to the yamen set up by Cheng Chang Residence to stazie, protest, and demonstrate, which directly led to a fire in the backyard of Cheng Chang Residence and the temporary suspension of the attack on the indigenous walled city.

What was done on the surface was only superficial, and the businessmen who secretly boycotted the market also set up a chamber of commerce with the help of agents of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and then sent representatives of the chamber of commerce to venture across the sea and go to Guangdong to ask for help from the Northern Dynasties......

The Northern Dynasty led by Liu Xing was known to have attached great importance to merchants, and was the first court in history to formally elevate the merchant class to an unprecedented status through the law. The representative of the Han Chamber of Commerce came to ask for help, which in itself would stimulate Liu Xing and make Liu Xing have the desire to launch a decisive battle against Qiongzhou.

But Qiongzhou was originally a place where indigenous people lived and were mostly inhabited, and if it was just businessmen who came to petition for help, Liu Xing might think twice.

How could Liu Xing, who had always been cautious about waging war, make up his mind to fight Qiongzhou?

In the end, Liu Xing made up his mind and officially issued an order for Liangguang to send troops to fight Qiongzhou, another reason was that the leaders of the eighteen indigenous tribes also followed the Chamber of Commerce and sent them to cross the sea to the north, and after Wan Yafei and the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce initially negotiated some conditions, they ran to Wan Yafei to ask the Northern Dynasty to send troops to save them from the dire situation.

Why did the request of the indigenous Li people become the reason for Liu Xing's decision?

It was the Li people who took the initiative to put forward a condition that Liu Xing could not accept, that is, as long as Liu Xing sent troops to seize Qiongzhou Island, they were willing to change the tradition of not sending soldiers to the Great Song Dynasty in the past, and send the children of various tribes to take the initiative to serve the royal army of the Great Song Dynasty, in order to repay Liu Xing's great kindness when he saved him from danger.

The soldiers of the Li people, what kind of soldiers are they? It was a group of people who had been shuttling in the rainforest and the vast mountains for a long time, and they were born with the most fierce and warlike mountain infantry, and they were a group of iron-blooded men who would quickly become united and fight to the death as long as they went to the battlefield. (To be continued.) )