Great Zhou Empire: Kill Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning

Chapter 20 Northern Han and Daliao

When Chai Zongxun was celebrating the Spring Festival in Bianjing of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Emperor Liu Jun of the Northern Han Dynasty had received reports from Chai Zongxun, who was lurking in the Great Zhou Dynasty, about killing Zhao Kuangyin in the Xingwu Palace before the New Year.

Liu Jun was born in the first year of Tiancheng in the Later Tang Dynasty (926). He was studious at a young age, had a filial and respectful personality, and excellent calligraphy.

In the fourth year of Qianyou (951), Liu Chong proclaimed himself emperor and established the Northern Han Dynasty. His son Liu Jun was appointed as the commander of the guard and army and Taiyuan Yin.

After Liu Chong died in the seventh year of Qianyou (954), Liu Jun succeeded to the throne under the canonization of Muzong of Liao Dynasty. Liu Jun relied on the Liao Kingdom externally, and treated his father and son accordingly; he changed the Yuan Dynasty "Qianyou" to "Tianhui", and built seven temples under the emperor's system.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, when he was still on annual leave, Liu Jun urgently summoned three important ministers, including Prime Minister Guo Wuwei, Zhongshu Shilang Weirong, and Commander of the Forbidden Army Lu Zan, to come to the palace for discussion.

After seeing the ceremony, Liu Jun, who was sitting on the emperor's throne, said:
"Today, I summoned my three beloved ministers here to discuss how to deal with Ni Zhou."

After Guo Wei, the Jiedushi of the Han Dynasty raised troops to seize the unification and establish the Great Zhou Dynasty. Liu Jun, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, who was the heir to the royal family of the Later Han Dynasty, was called the Counter Zhou Dynasty.

Guo Wuwei is about fifty years old, slightly wealthy, and a veteran of the three dynasties of the Northern Han Dynasty.

He pondered for a moment and then said:

"Your Majesty, news came from the south two years ago. Against the layout of the Zhou Dynasty Empress Dowager Fu and the young emperor Guo Zongxun, they suddenly launched an attack in the Xingwu Palace and killed the general who had a heavy army. The palace commander inspected Zhao Kuangyin and secretly ordered Zhang Yongde and Li Chong to sneak in. Return to Bianjing and seize the command of the imperial army and the German army.

In two days, more than 100 members of Zhao Kuangyin's faction were killed in Bianjing City, and more than 30,000 people from the Nine Tribes were killed.

A group of generals who were experienced in fighting in the army against the Zhou Dynasty, such as Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide, Zhang Lingduo, Wang Shenqi, Wang Yansheng and others, who were either Zhao Kuangyin's confidants or his sworn brothers, all died in the mutiny.

According to Yi Chen, only the Empress Dowager Fu and Guo Zongxun were orphaned and widowed in the Zhou Dynasty. The minister in charge of the court, Fan Zhi, was also a mediocre and conservative person.

However, only Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin were left as famous generals in the army. Han Tong broke his arm when he killed Zhao Kuangyin, so he could only be regarded as half a famous general at most.

I heard that Empress Dowager Fu used the authority of the party to kill Zhao Kuangyin and implemented the three-year rotation policy of senior generals in the march against Zhou Dynasty. This will definitely make Zhang Yongde, Li Chongjin and others dissatisfied.

I think that your majesty can take advantage of the situation when the current ruler of the Zhou Dynasty is doubtful and there is civil strife to kill the generals, and raise a large army to conquer the Zhou Dynasty! The shame of a single-blooded emperor! "

After hearing this, Liu Jun was very satisfied and turned to look at the other two ministers standing in the palace.

Wei Rong saluted and said:
"Your Majesty, although Ni Zhou has killed many experienced generals in the army, Fu Yanqing, the governor of the Tianxiong Army, is the father of Empress Dowager Fu and the grandfather of the young emperor Guo Zongxun. He is loyal to the royal family of Ni Zhou and is a famous general in the Five Dynasties.

In contrast to the Zhou Dynasty, years ago, Li Chongjin was sent to the German army to march to the border with the Han Dynasty to guard against our country.

I thought that since the Gui De Army and Fu Yanqing's Tianxiong Army were there, I, the Han Dynasty, sent troops south to attack Nizhou alone, and the chance of victory was not great.

If your majesty wants to send troops, I think you should report it to Yelu Jing, the leader of the Liao Kingdom, and ask Daliao to send troops together. "

Liu Jun frowned and said:
"Yelujing is greedy for wine, lustful, and extremely greedy. Every time I invite him to join us in conquering Zhou, he asks me to pay tribute to many military supplies, treasures, and beauties.

In the "Battle of Jinzhou" in the past, our Han Dynasty was about to capture Jinzhou, but when the Khitan people saw the reinforcements coming from the Zhou Dynasty, they ignored them and left, resulting in the defeat of our army and the loss of more than 10,000 people!
If Yelujing is invited to send troops together this time, he will definitely "open his mouth" again, and his soldiers can't use their lives, so what's the use? "

Lu praised:
"Your Majesty, I think that since we cannot get the full help of the Liao Kingdom, it is not appropriate to send troops south to invade the Zhou Dynasty.

I heard that although the Nizhou imperial court killed Zhao Kuangyin and his party, it also greatly increased the salaries of elite soldiers such as the Forbidden Army and the Guided Army, which greatly boosted morale!
I think Ni Zhou should not be insulted lightly at this time. "

When Liu Jun heard this, he said angrily:

"What a coward!
In the past few years since I took over the throne, I have been courteous to the virtuous corporal, encouraged the people to farm mulberry trees, worked conscientiously, and achieved great peace in the country.

And Guo Wei stole Bianjing, my great Han Dynasty, and took away most of my territory. This is an irreconcilable hatred! Now that Guo Rong is dead, it is the time when Ni Zhou's "Master Shao Guo Sui" and the civil strife-killing general are at their weakest. If we don't take the opportunity to attack Ni Zhou and restore our great Han Dynasty, will I be trapped in these more than ten states all the time? , Do you admire the Khitan barbarians? ! "

Two of the three important officials of the Han Dynasty basically supported the attack on the Zhou Dynasty. After discussing secretly for more than an hour, Liu Jun finally decided to send 100,000 troops from all over the country. Unknown to him, he met Yelv Jing, the leader of the Liao Kingdom, and Wei Rong supervised the army. Lu Zan was the commander. The army was led by twenty-two generals, and after preparing sufficient military supplies, they swore to march south to conquer the Great Zhou Dynasty on February 1st.

While Liu Jun was having secret discussions with important ministers in the Northern Han Dynasty palace, Emperor Yelujing of the Liao Kingdom also received news of the "Bianjing Incident" in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

After discussing with the ministers at the palace banquet, the Liao Kingdom, which had always had a strong descendant clan and had many empresses and empresses who controlled the government, believed that the Prime Minister Fan Zhi and others did not have such talents, so it was Empress Dowager Fu's trick.

Yelu Talie, the king of the Southern Academy, persuaded Muzong of the Liao Dynasty to take advantage of the civil strife in the Zhou Dynasty and invade south together with the Northern Han Dynasty, but Yelu Jing, who was indulging in wine and sex, refused.

Yelujing hugged two beautiful Han beauties plundered from Fangzhou in Dazhou, drank a large glass of wine, and said with a smile:
"The Kingdom of Zhou is in chaos, and Liu Jun will definitely want to take the opportunity to raise troops to attack Zhou, but without the help of Liao, how can he dare to go south?
At that time, he will send people to ask me to send troops. At that time, I will ask him to contribute treasures and women, and then send troops to help him attack Zhou. "

Yelujing went to Jingzhong in the capital of Liao Kingdom and waited for nearly a month, but on February 3rd, she received news from the Northern Han Dynasty:
Emperor Liu Jun has sent Wei Rong to supervise the army, and Lu Zan is the commander of the army. He has sent 100,000 troops south to invade Zhou.

Yelujing was furious after reading the information. He threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground and broke it into pieces, saying:

"Liu Jun, how dare you do this!

He is just my son-emperor, how dare he not report to me when he went south to invade Zhou Dynasty?

Raise an army immediately. I will first destroy the Han Dynasty, and then go south to destroy the Zhou Dynasty! "

The officials at the banquet, who were hugging the beauties and laughing and having fun, were startled.

Political affairs ordered Yelu Dilu to hurriedly advise:

"Your Majesty, although Liu Jun is rude, we, the Liao Dynasty, have been fighting against the Zhou Dynasty for many years, and we have won and lost each other. If the Han Dynasty is here, and women can donate money to me from time to time, it will be beneficial for us, the Liao Dynasty, to fight in the territory of the Zhou Dynasty.

Your Majesty must not attack and destroy the Han Dynasty. This will encourage the enemy, the Great Zhou Dynasty! "

After the ministers persuaded her for a long time, Yelujing's anger subsided, and she hugged the Han beauty next to her and drank the wine fed by the beauty from her mouth.

……

Since the Yuanxiao Festival in the first year of Kaixi, Chai Zongxun has been busy supervising the implementation of the New Deal in Bianjing.

Since the beginning of the year, teams of officials sent by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry have successively arrived in various state capitals. As soon as the annual holidays are over, new policies to promote business and build water conservancy facilities have been implemented with great fanfare in various places.

People in various states were very happy when they heard that the imperial court had built a new "night market" in the state capital, and the tax collection was only 20%, which was personally supervised by the palace tax supervisor, and there were no other taxes.

Businessmen from all over the state went to the "night market" in the state capital to rent shops and start business.

As of February 118, a total of "night markets" in state capitals throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty have started construction, and according to the plan, they will all be completed within two months.

After Chai Zongxun read the memorials from various places, he was satisfied and said to himself:

"After all, I am still young and have just taken over the power. I will let the bureaucrats, nobles, gentry and military leaders everywhere be proud for a while and not take advantage of their interests for the time being.

I started with the "Night Market" and found a new way. After accumulating enough financial resources to form an elite team that is absolutely loyal to me and has the strength to absolutely crush this era, I will promote my new business policy in all states across the country and enrich the country and strengthen the army! "

(End of this chapter)