Chapter 585: Caizhou Thief
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There is still one day left before the greeting, and the congratulatory guests from all parties have basically arrived.
All the Didian inns in the entire Dengzhou City are almost all full of guests. Even several large islands such as Xindengzhou City, Daxie City, and Shamen Town are full of people. Countless people poured into Dengzhou, just to congratulate Li Jing on the marriage between Li Jing and the Lanling Xiao family.
With the influence of Li Jing and the Lanling Xiao family, not only many businessmen came, but even the top families of the Tang Dynasty also sent important clan leaders to lead the team. And almost all of the more than 50 feudal towns in the world have sent envoys to lead the team.
For the family, Li Jing has become one of the strongest feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty, especially the Zhenguo army is not only strong and strong, but also Li Jing has a good management and financial skills. And today's Zhenguo Army has attracted a large number of scholars to come and defect, and it is very popular. In any way, these clans are willing to add icing on the cake and enhance their relationship with Li Jing. What's more, such a grand occasion is also an opportunity for the children of each family to meet the outstanding children of other families, and each family can also take this opportunity to communicate and even reach some agreements.
Naturally, the feudal towns didn't want to offend Li Jing with their rudeness, not to mention, most of the feudal towns also had many other ideas, such as buying armaments, war horses, and even ploughing cattle, cloth, grain, seeds, and so on from Li Jing.
"The envoy of the Son of Heaven of Chang'an has arrived at the twenty-mile post station outside the city!" Li Chun, who had white hair, said with a ruddy face.
As the most prestigious person of the older generation in Li Jing's own clan, although Li Chun is not the patriarch, he plays the role of the patriarch. The Li clan is now rising step by step with Li Jing, and it is also a chicken dog ascending to heaven. The Li family was from the original small clan. Now it has become a first-class family in Ziqing. He naturally knew that all this depended on Li Jing. Although Li Jing holds great power and is in a high position. did not indulge the Li family too much, but there were many rules and constraints, in terms of employment, there were few children of the family who held high positions, and young children were sent to various schools. But Li Chun also knows that this is actually the right thing to do.
Now that Li Jing and the Xiao family are married, the Li family's position will be even more stable in the future.
Right now, even the emperor has sent an envoy. This made Li Chun even more excited.
However, Li Jing was not excited, he was just an eighth lady, even if the Son of Heaven favored him, he would not send an envoy because of this. In the final analysis, it is fake to congratulate him on taking a concubine, and it is true to come to ask for food.
Li Jing personally led the Zhenguo army, civil and military, and others out of the city for ten miles to greet the messenger of the Son of Heaven.
In the distance, a team slowly approached. Looking at the car, there are hundreds of riders.
The team stopped at the front, and it was actually a full five hundred forbidden army armored horsemen.
"Qi Guogong, goodbye last time. It's been a long time! ”
Zhang Tai, the purple-robed envoy of the Northern Xuanhui Academy and the general of the right prison guard, came out of the carriage with a smile on his face.
"Why is Zhang Gong here?" Li Jing looked surprised and took a few steps forward.
"Qi Guogong is overjoyed. The old man has been here since now. Zhang Tai said with a smile, but after getting closer, he lowered his head and said in Li Jing's ear: "If it weren't for Tian Lingzi's persecution, we would actually like to stay in Chang'an Palace." ”
Li Jing immediately understood that this was his difficulty in expressing himself to himself. Zhang Tai was ordered to come, naturally to borrow grain. If you can't borrow food, it is estimated that after you go back, you will be blamed by Tian Lingzi.
Behind Zhang Tai, there were several people, one of whom was in his early thirties, with the same white face and beard, but wearing a purple robe. The other few are military generals' costumes, which are extremely majestic and extraordinary.
When the young lieutenant saw Li Jing looking at him, he smiled at Li Jing. stepped forward and bowed: "Yang Fuguang, the envoy of the Xuanwei South Courtyard, temporarily served as the envoy of the grass thieves for the Zhudao camp, and I have heard for a long time that the handsome man is young and heroic, often victorious and undefeated, and admires him, so I am not invited, please forgive me." ”
In the words, Yang Fuguang's attitude was very respectful.
Li Jing knows very well what kind of person Yang Fuguang is, even better than Yang Fuguang himself. Yang Fuguang and Yang Fugong, one of the four nobles in the palace, are brothers. Their adoptive fathers are all members of the Yang family, a powerful eunuch family in the palace. At present, Yang Fuguang's reputation is not very obvious, and he has served as a local supervisor several times before, and his previous official position was Shatuo Military Supervisor. Now with the help of the Yang family and Yang Fugong, at the age of his early thirties, he has become one of the leaders of several major eunuchs in the palace, serving as the southern envoy of the Xuanwei Academy, who is also extremely powerful in the north and south in addition to the lieutenant of the left and right Shence Army and the left and right privy envoys, compared to Zhang Tai's northern court envoy, he is only one head lower, and in the palace, he is now the fifth eunuch.
At present, he has taken over the positions of Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong as the military envoy and the military envoy of all the Dao camps in the world to recruit grass thieves and supervise the army of all Dao. Even nominally, Li Jing and the Zhenguo army led by him are still a town of soldiers and horses in the Zhudao camp, so Li Jing is actually his subordinate.
However, Yang Fuguang was not arrogant at all, and his attitude was so respectful, which made Li Jing's good impression of him improve a lot.
Li Jing clearly remembered that Yang Fuguang was one of the two most loyal eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty, and his supervisor Zhang Chengye was extremely loyal to Li Tang.
In history, Fuguang has a strategy, and he has been supervising the town army. Historically, he actively suppressed the uprisings of Wang Xianzhi and Huangchao, and occupied an important position in the suppression of the Huangchao Rebellion. After Huang Chao captured Chang'an, he served as the Tang Dynasty's soldiers and horses in the world, and led all kinds of armies. He also induced Zhu Wen, the general of the Huangchao Army, to surrender, and quoted Li Keyong to lead the Shatuo troops to attack Chang'an. With the Gongjia Fuyi and the three divisions, and the Tonghua system, he was awarded the title of Hongnong County Gong, and was given the title of "Zizhonghui Wu Kuang Guoping Difficult Hero".
After Yang Fuguang's death, he was given the envoy of the Guanjun Army, and he was loyal to Su. Although he was born in the Yellow Gate, he has great ambitions and is good at soothing soldiers; When he died, the army wept for several days. And there are dozens of righteous sons, who serve as envoys and defense envoys in various places. And most of the people who pacified the rebellion of Huangchao were also his disciples.
It can be said that Yang Fuguang is not an ordinary eunuch, nor is he an ordinary eunuch who can only fight for power, but an extremely powerful eunuch who can fight. Even his brother Yang Fugong, who is now above him, later took advantage of his momentum, and later became an extremely arrogant eunuch in the Tang Dynasty.
When Yang Fugong was in Zhaozong, he used the power in his hands. Heavenly Son Uewaki. Minister Xia Ling. He not only pampered Guang's adopted son and planted his henchmen, but also installed his cronies, and let his henchman Yizi serve as the envoy of the festival and the important position of assassinating the history, Yang Shouli as the military envoy of Tianwei, Yang Shouxin as the military envoy of Yushan, Yang Shouzhen as the envoy of the Longjian Festival, and Yang Shouzhong as the envoy of the Wuding Festival. Yang Shouhou is the history of Mianzhou and so on. These people are known as "Waizhai Langjun". He also sent 600 adopted sons to various places to serve as military supervisors, thus controlling the local military and political power in his own hands.
Compared with Yang Fugong, Yang Fuguang is like a rare loyal minister who has done his best for the Tang Dynasty and died.
For such a eunuch, Li Jing expressed his respect, Li Jing's attitude changed, and several people present felt it, and Yang Fuguang couldn't help but feel flattered. Although he was born in the Yang family, a powerful eunuch family in the palace. There is also a brother who is one of the four nobles in the palace, and he himself is now serving as the envoy of the Xuanwei Southern Academy. The camp of all the ways is a high position. But he won't get carried away and despise Li Jing, who is almost ten years younger than him.
Compared with Li Jing, he is still too far behind, but Li Jing's attitude towards him surprised and surprised. Being able to get the respect of a character like Li Jing is enough to make him excited. Although the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty were extremely powerful, those officials were in awe of them but would never really respect them. Of course, a character like Li Jing does not need to be in awe of him, and this respect is even more rare.
In a happy and excited mood, Yang Fuguang smiled and introduced a few people behind him to Li Jing.
"Qi Guogong, let's introduce a few generals to you."
Yang Fuguang cordially took Li Jing's hand and walked in front of several generals, and said to the first one in the lead: "This is Zhao Li, the general of Chenzhou of the loyal army, a native of Wanqiu, Chenzhou, who has served as a general of Chenzhou for generations, and has been knowledgeable since he was a child, and is good at arching horses. During the Huichang period, the Zhaoyi Festival made Liu Zhi rebellious, General Zhao went out with his father, participated in the battle to recover Tianjing Pass, won a lot of people, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Yu, the horse step of the loyal army, and now serves as the commander of the front carriage of the loyal army. Yang Fuguang highly admired Zhao Li, "General Zhao is brave and strategic, don't look at the gray hair, but it is the time to be brave." In addition, the Zhao family has a door, which can be called the gate. Come, I'll introduce you to a few more, said a little bit back, and said to a few generals standing behind, these two are General Zhao Li's second brother Zhao Chang and third brother Zhao Yi, and the two young generals behind are General Zhao Li's eldest son Zhao Lu and second son Zhao Lin, both of whom are fierce generals who are proficient in riding archery and horses. ”
Hearing the name of Zhao Li in Chenzhou, Li Jing was indeed surprised.
Although the Zhongwu Army at the end of the Tang Dynasty was only a small feudal town, countless cattle came out from here. Such as Cui Anqian, Qin Zongquan, Wang Jian, Sun Ru, Ma Yin, and this Zhao Li.
Qin Zongquan is a murderous demon king, Sun Ru is also a cannibal thief, the Caizhou soldiers led by them are called Caizhou thieves, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it can be said that a demon army can stop children crying, salting people as military rations. Among the three major cannibal armies in the late Tang Dynasty, two were produced in Caizhou under the Zhongwu Army. Moreover, after the destruction of this army, Ma Yin took the remnants to fight in Jianghan, and finally established the state of Chu among the ten kingdoms.
Wang Jian, who was in the loyal army, also started from scratch from a donkey thief king eight, and laid down Shuzhong after the most Lu, and established the former Shu in the Ten Kingdoms.
As for Zhao Li, although he did not establish his own country, this is definitely a figure that cannot be ignored in the late Tang Dynasty.
The biggest reason why Zhao Li can make Li Jing so memorable is not that he later became an envoy to several towns, but the Chenzhou Guard Battle he commanded.
Historically, Huang Chao invaded Chang'an, the Son of Heaven hunted in the west, Zhao Li served as the assassin of Chenzhou, he expected in advance that Huang Chao would be defeated, and it was very likely that he would pass through Chenzhou after the defeat, so he dug deep trenches early, strengthened the city wall, enriched the warehouse, repaired the armor and weapons, recruited brave and brave soldiers to enrich the team, strengthen combat readiness, and guard Chenzhou. And the people within a radius of 60 miles were moved to the city to be fortified and cleared for long-term defense.
Subsequently, Huang Chao really led 150,000 horses and horses to flee from Chang'an, entered Shangshan through Lantian, and the army approached Chenzhou.
At that time, Meng Kai, the general under Huang Chao, moved his troops to Xiangcheng and prepared to capture Chenzhou. Zhao Li went to meet the enemy, first showed weakness to Meng Kai, and when Meng Kai was unprepared for the enemy, he suddenly attacked, more than 10,000 people were killed, and Meng Kai was captured alive and beheaded by him, and won the first victory in the defense of Chenzhou.
Meng Kai is Huang Chao's favorite general and an important leader of the rebel army. Huang Chao was shocked and angry when he heard the news, and personally led the whole army to settle in Yinshui, vowing to avenge Meng Kai. He joined forces with Qin Zongquan, amounting to hundreds of thousands of people, and besieged Chenzhou. Dig 5 trenches, build multiple passages, and step up the siege. The soldiers and civilians of Chenzhou were very afraid, and Zhao Li encouraged everyone, "Now the enemy is outnumbered, it is when the eldest husband makes meritorious contributions, we should be born in the place of death, we were born in Chenzhou, the governor of Chenzhou is in Chenzhou, and vow to live and die with Chenzhou, and defend our hometown with death." He personally led the elite soldiers out of the city to fight, and broke the Huangchao army many times, which greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Chenzhou.
Huang Chao attacked Chen Cheng for a long time, and became more and more angry, vowing to capture Zhao Li alive and slaughter Chen Cheng's people to vent his hatred. Eight immortal camps were built in the north of the city, and hundreds of scooping and grinding villages were built to scoop and grind the captured people into minced meat to make military rations.
During the siege, there were hundreds of battles, but the Zhao brothers blocked them. For the most rear, the Tang army from all walks of life came, and finally defeated and killed Huang Chao and played a vital role.
Huangchao has been rampant in the world for ten years, whether it is a big city like Guangzhou and Jiangling, or a capital city like Luoyang and Chang'an, it is all invincible, and there is no city that cannot be captured. But only in Chenzhou, it took more than a year, but more than 100,000 people finally failed to break through Chenzhou, which was guarded by Zhao Li. If it weren't for the battle of Chenzhou that dragged Huang Chao for more than a year, Huang Chao would not have been defeated so quickly.
Zhao Li is over half a hundred years old, with gray hair, but he is full of energy, strong body, and sharp eyes. In Li Jing's opinion, Zhao Li can be regarded as the most capable general in the history of ancient Chinese warfare, and there is no need to even add one.
"General Zhao is old and strong, the Zhao family will spread the reputation of bravery, a certain has long heard of it, last time in Songzhou, but unfortunately did not have time to go to Xuzhou to meet, this time to see, it is really a blessing!" Li Jing stepped forward and gave a military salute to Zhao Li, causing Zhao Li's old face to swell and red, and his gray beard couldn't help shaking.
"I have long heard that the god of war in the public army of Qi State, the people in a hundred battles, both wise and brave, and a certain person is also extremely admired. I am very happy to see the handsome demeanor! ”
Li Jing smiled slightly, and had a few cordial conversations with the other four generals of the Zhao family one by one.
After the end, Yang Fuguang introduced the remaining two generals to Li Jing.
"These two generals are Caizhou Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru, and they are also brave generals of the loyal army." Yang Fuguang said with a smile.
"The last generals Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru pay a visit to the Duke of Qi!" The two generals were both in their early thirties, tall and burly, and they were also excited when they saw Li Jing, and even knelt down on one knee. However, when the two of them made this big gift, Li Jing didn't seem to see it, and he didn't call the two to get up for a long time. (To be continued......)