What kind of person is Dong Chang? If you compare it with a character of the Three Kingdoms, it can be somewhat similar to Yuan Shu during the Three Kingdoms. However, Dong Chang, regardless of his background or skills, is not skilled in the Yuan Shu of the Fourth World and the Third Duke, the only thing they have in common is that they are bent on dreaming of the emperor and are burned by the emperor's dream.

Although Dong Chang sits on the land of eight states in eastern Zhejiang, in fact, whether it is the formation of Shijing Town in the early years, or the later seizure of Hangzhou, and later the capture of Zhedong Town, these are not obtained by his own ability.

After Dong Chang received the support of the Qin Domain, the Qin Domain provided a large amount of low-cost salt to Zhedong Town every year, and at the beginning, Dong Chang also responded to the proposal of the Qin Domain, canceled the monopoly of salt, and lowered the price of salt, so that the people could also eat low-cost salt. But it didn't take long for Dong Chang to regret it again. He felt that although the salt given to him by Qin Fan was very cheap, why should he sell it at a low price? If he followed the previous monopoly, the price of salt would be dozens or even hundreds of times that of the current one, especially the salt of the Qin Domain was of excellent quality, all of which were high-grade fine snow salt. This salt monopoly, he can completely monopolize it in eastern Zhejiang, and all the money from the salt monopoly is deposited in his pocket, and he will not collect it in vain. As a result, Dong Chang soon resumed the monopoly of salt, and the price of salt returned to a high price of 200 wen for bucket salt, which was a hundred times higher than the price of 2 wen for bucket salt in the Qin Domain.

Moreover, Dong Chang paid tens of millions of tributes to the Qin Domain every year, and although he himself was rich because of sea trade, he refused to pay a penny. He distributed all this tribute to the people. Under the normal taxation, the people increased all kinds of additional taxes, and the taxes were several times the original. Only part of this money was used to pay tribute to Li Jing, and part of it was used to give Zhou Bao in Chang'an, Chengdu and Runzhou, and most of the rest was used. and into his purse.

Dong Chang's governance of eastern Zhejiang. It's also a complete mess. As long as there are people in the territory who break the law slightly. Dong Chang ordered his subordinates to be severely punished and punished to a thousand. The people committed minor mistakes, and they were often punished for exterminating their families and clans, and the blood was shed on the execution ground, and the land was naked. When encountering a civil dispute lawsuit, if he sues Dong Chang, he will not read the case file at all and do not ask about the case. Take out the dice directly, let both sides throw the dice, whether it is right or wrong, just talk about whether the dice wins or loses, and the one who loses will be immediately decapitated.

Even his selection of subordinate officials and generals, and even this method of throwing dice allows his subordinates to throw color, and the winner can be appointed as an official, just like Tian Lingzi's batting bet on the Sanchuan Festival envoy back then.

He even built a shrine for himself in eastern Zhejiang, with the same scale and shape as Dayu Temple. Ordered the people who prayed for God's blessing comfortably, and from now on they were not allowed to go to Dayu Temple. All had to go to his ancestral shrine.

Dong Chang is so mediocre, but he occupies the rich eastern Zhejiang region, which has long made Qian Biao dissatisfied. He wanted to replace him several times, but Li Jing did not want to see someone in the southeast region dominate the family. Therefore, I don't know that even if Dong Chang comes to Hu, he will still continue to cooperate with Dong Chang's alliance.

When Qian Biao learned from the people around Dong Chang who bought him that Dong Chang was resentful of Li Jing because he didn't get the king of Yue, and revealed that he wanted to be the emperor, he immediately began to arrange.

Under Qian Di's arrangement, more and more people persuaded and agitated, and these people crowded in front of Dong Chang's marshal mansion and shouted loudly, asking Dong Chang to be emperor.

Dong Chang was kept in the dark, he really thought that he had won the hearts of the people like this, and he was overjoyed, and said in front of the mansion in person: "When the time comes, I should be a good person!" ”

Those officials who won appointments by casting dice in various places also offered all kinds of auspicious things, and Dong Chang rewarded them a lot and gave them money one by one. At the beginning, each person was rewarded with hundreds of yuan, and then people came to offer every day, and the reward had to be reduced to a few hundred yuan.

And in the end, what made Dong Chang's mind decided was actually the poem sent by the old man of Shanyin, who wanted to ask the name of the Son of Heaven, and he was born from the sun. This time, it completely touched Dong Chang's heart, he felt that he had really won the will of the people, and if he was not the emperor, he would be sorry for his people.

After listening to the words of the old man in Sanyin, Dong Chang finally took action.

He immediately ordered the warlock Zhu Siyuan to build an altar to worship the sky, and called the heavenly talisman to descend at night. Dong Chang declared to the outside world that the heavenly charm said that the rabbit was on the golden bed, which meant that I, Dong Chang, belonged to the rabbit, and I should be on the throne.

At this time, Qian Biao added another fire. He asked Dong Chang's aide Ni Deru, who had already been bribed by him, to give Dong Chang a speech, saying that he had found the basis for Dong Chang to be the Son of Heaven.

"At the end of Xiantong, the "Secret Record of Vietnam" said: 'There is a Luo Ping bird, and the Lord will be more fortunate and misbeneficial.' When neutralizing, there are really big birds in Wu and Yue, with four eyes and three legs, and its song says 'Luo Ping Tianshu', and the people worship it, and they can be troubled. After speaking, he also took out a picture of the so-called "Luo Ping Bird" from his arms. Dong Chang was even happier when he saw it.

However, not all officials in Zhedong Town are like Dong Chang, and the emperor's dream is dizzy, and many officials feel bad.

Huang Jie, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, heard that Dong Chang was going to be the emperor, so he hurriedly rushed back to Zhizhou and said to Dong Chang: "Although the Tang royal family is in decline now, the hearts of the people of Heaven have not abandoned him. The king got up from the people in the field, thanks to the generosity and grace of the court, he was the general, and he was the king of Longxi County, and the glory and wealth had reached the extreme. ”

Loyal to the ear, Dong Chang was furious after hearing this, thinking that the yellow scorpion did not have the same heart with him, he was confusing the public, and immediately killed him, and he was not angry, and let his head be cut off and thrown into the pit, and scolded: "This dog, I am the emperor, he could have sat in the high position of the third duke, but now he wants to die first!" After scolding, he was still angry, and asked people to kill more than 80 members of Huang Jie's family.

Wu Lian, the commander of the Yuezhou Council, also bluntly persuaded, "If the king is a prince, he can let his descendants pass on from generation to generation, and now he wants to be a false son of heaven, but he will only bring about his own destruction." ”

As a result, Dong Chang was furious and killed Wu Lian's entire family.

Dong Chang found Shanyin Ling and said to Zhang Xun: "You have the talent to govern, I know it very well." When I become emperor, I will order you to be in charge of the Imperial Historical Tower. ”

Zhang Xun smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, you rose from Shijing Town and built the foundation of the Jiedu envoy in eastern Zhejiang, and you have been prosperous and wealthy for several years. If the king is the emperor, I am afraid that the states will not necessarily agree. If you defend an empty city in Yuezhou in vain, it will only make the world laugh. ”

Dong Chang endured it this time, and did not kill Zhang Xun immediately, but asked him to explain their reasons.

"What does the king think of King Li Jing of Qin?"

"The heroes of the world!" Dong Chang replied without hesitation.

Zhang Xun smiled, "How does the king think of comparing himself to Li Jing?" ”

Dong Chang was speechless at this time, if he said that he was better than Li Jing, he would obviously put gold on his face. But if he says that he is not as good as Li Jing, this is not his own face.

Zhang Xun sneered and said: "Li Jing, the king of Qin, is a hero in the world, the god of war in the world, invincible and invincible. Now it has half of the country and more than 30 million people under its rule. There are thousands of generals and millions of armor, which can be said to be a wide range of soldiers and enough food for the people. But even so, Li Jing has never publicly opposed the Tang Dynasty until now, and has always flaunted the banner of respecting the Tang Dynasty. Look at the practice of Li Jing, the king of Qin, and then look at the impatience of the king, isn't this ignorance, what is it to make the world laugh in vain? ”

Dong Chang admitted in his heart that what Zhang Xun said was right, but now he is a ghost and is determined to be the emperor. How could he still listen to such contrary advice, Dong Chang, whose face was pale, waved his hand, "Li Jing doesn't dare to oppose Tang, it's just that he has no guts, a certain is not Li Jing, a certain has the will of heaven and the people, I obey the will of heaven and the people, and I deserve to enjoy the world." After speaking, he waved his hand to pull Zhang Xun down and behead him.

The first year of the true dragon, 884 A.D.

Dong Chang was called the emperor in Yuezhou, the country name was Dayue Luoping, changed the Yuan Shuntian, cast a silver seal four inches, and the text said: "The seal of Shuntian governing the country". And the copper, lead, stone seals, birds, beasts, turtles, snakes and other "Rui things" offered by officials and squires from all over the country were displayed in the court, called "Tianrui". The inscription on the Yuezhou City Tower was "The Tower of the Book of Heaven", and all civil and military officials were ordered to call him a "saint".

Dong Chang appointed Li Miao, the former Hangzhou Assassin, Jiang Gui, Wuzhou Assassin, Du Ying, the deputy envoy of Liangzhejiang Salt and Iron, and Li Yu of Tuntian Langzhong as prime ministers, and appointed Wu Yao and others as Hanlin scholars, and Li Changzhi and others as generals. The army under his command was divided into two armies, the middle army was yellow, the outer army was white, and the word "Guiyi" was inscribed on the military uniform.

Immediately afterwards, Dong Chang sent a holy message to Qian Biao, informing Qian Biao that he was already the emperor of Luo Pingguo, and specially awarded Qian Biao as the commander of the two Zhejiang.

Qian Biao has actually been secretly watching the play for a long time, and he has been waiting for this day to come.

When Dong Chang's envoy finally arrived with the oracle, Qian Biao toasted with his five tiger generals in the Hangzhou Assassin's Mansion.

Dong Chang was arrogantly proclaimed emperor, and even Li Jing would never tolerate it anymore. Without Li Jing's support and protection, even God can't save Dong Chang now. It's not in vain that he spent so much effort, Dong Chang actually drilled into it, what a stupid guy. Thinking of the life he had sold for this guy for many years, Qian Biao felt that it was not worth it.

Qian Biao immediately gathered to discuss the civil and military affairs, and said loudly: "Dong Chang rebelled, as a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, how can I sit idly by?" Then he said pretending to be fishy: "But in the past, Dong Chang was kind to me, and I can't be reckless, so I should persuade him to get lost and return first, and if he doesn't follow, he will crusade again." ”

Qian Biao first wrote a letter and asked his guest Shen Peng to take the letter to Dong Chang, in which he said: "Instead of being the Son of Heaven behind closed doors, and falling into misery with the nine clans and the people, how can you open the door and be a festival envoy, and you will be rich and evil for life!" And now I regret it, and I can still do it! ”

Then he immediately wrote a letter by hand, asking the envoy to go to sea and rush to Yanjing to report to Li Jing. The letter wrote that Dong Chang had all kinds of grievances against Li Jing, tried to say all kinds of resentful words, and also said that Dong Chang used Li Jing's signboard to do many evil things, which damaged the reputation of Qin Wang Xian in eastern Zhejiang. Now Dong Chang dares to be the emperor, and he Qian Biao, as the thirteen disciples of the King of Qin and the governor of Jiangnan Province, is obliged to sweep away Dong Chang for the King of Qin. ”

On the same day, as soon as Qian Biao sent the letter, he didn't wait for the two sides to reply, he killed Dong Changlai's envoy, burned his holy oracle, and then led 30,000 troops to attack Yuezhou! (To be continued......)