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Almost overnight, the Tang Dynasty was almost filled with wars and was in a hurry, as if it was about to fall into a siege on all sides.

Since ascending the throne, Emperor Li Yan has been living a pretty good life.

All the affairs in the court were handed over to Tian Lingzi, Lu Xie and other important officials. He rode horses, shot archery, played chess and shot balls all day long, and his life was very easy. Especially at the end of the fourth year of Qianfu and the beginning of the fifth year of Qianfu, good news came one after another.

The King of Nanzhao, the King of Nanzhao, finally ended the battle between the two countries in the eighteen years of reign of the eighteen years. Cui Anqian led his army to defeat the bandits in the southeast, and defeated the bandit leader Wang Xianzhi and the leader of the change. Li Jing even led his army to attack and recovered Liaodong and western Liaoning, defeated Bohai, Goguryeo, and Khitan in one fell swoop, which was even more intimidating and subdued Tatars and Xi.

Li Yan, who was proud and satisfied, even had a strong ambition in his heart and began to have a strong interest in government affairs. He spent all day discussing the situation and setting up strategies. After Gao Pian completely wiped out the thieves in the southeast, he would personally conquer Liaodong, wipe out Khitan, Bohai, and Goguryeo in one fell swoop, recover the old land of the Han Dynasty, and then take advantage of the remaining power of this great victory to seize Li Jing's military power, cut off the vassal states in Hebei, and remove the century-old troubles of the Tang Dynasty. He completely changed the century-long chaos since the Anshi Rebellion of Emperor Tang Emperor, created the revival of the Tang Dynasty, and continued the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, we will maintain our country for several years, accumulate national financial resources, train our soldiers diligently, and repair our war preparations. After we just wait for rest, we will completely abolish the power in the hands of local vassal states, reclaim the power to the royal court, and restore the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.

Just wait for peace in the world and the country is prosperous and the people are strong. Once the time comes, the Tang Dynasty will mobilize its army to restore the Western Regions, and even have to fight the Dashi army again to fight back the humiliation of that year.

Li Yan has almost seen his future evaluation in history, and he can be comparable to Emperor Taizong of Tang, or even inferior to Emperor Qin and Han Wu.

Every time Li Yan thought of this, he couldn't help but feel excited and excited.

However, by the end of the fifth year of Qianfu, the situation in the world suddenly declined.

The three towns in Hebei rebelled, and in a blink of an eye, there were four rebel kings in Hebei.

After the news of the rebellion in the four towns in Hebei came, disasters continued to happen. Gao Pian, who was originally victorious in the southeast, was suddenly frightened by Huang Chao's battle.

Huang Chao's 100,000 troops had crossed the Yangtze River and passed through Gao Pian's defense zone. He rushed all the way to the south bank of the Huai River.

However, Gao Pian and Gao Shizhong, who was relied on by the court as a pillar of Gancheng, held 50,000 troops and horses in his hand, retreated to Chang'an City, holding troops and waiting and watching.

Li Yan knew very well that Gao Pian was not afraid because Zhang Lin was defeated, but Zhang Lin was learning from Li Jing.

Li Jing had 200,000 troops, and news of the rebellion in Hebei was spread. The emperor sent someone to entrust Li Jing's army to the pass. However, Li Jing refused to obey the order on the grounds that the general was outside and the emperor had an absurd reason.

To endure the anger in his heart, Li Yan added the important positions of Northeast Road Army Marshal, Hebei Road Army Marshal, and Hebei camps and commanders of the military power that had just been lifted to Li Jing, and Li Jing was finally willing to send troops. Of course, on the surface, Li Jing accepted the emperor's order to send troops because he had destroyed Goguryeo.

But Li Yan was not happy soon, after Li Jing got the military power again, although he had agreed to send troops, but nearly a month has passed, Li Jing's army is still scattered in various parts of Liaodong. He sent an envoy to urge him to report that Li Jing was still mobilizing the gathering of troops.

With such a badass as Li Jing, Gao Pian, another "famous general" of the court, also began to follow suit. When he was in the face of Huang Chao, he retreated to Yangzhou City and gave up the road to the north to the Central Plains to the thief.

Gao Pian said that Huang Chao was powerful and had a thief army of 600,000. But in fact, the main reason was that he was afraid that when he fought with Huang Chao, Li Jing's 30,000 town stationed in the estuary of the Yangtze River would take the opportunity to be unfavorable to him. On the other hand, Gao Pian also learned from Li Jing and wanted to preserve his strength and hold troops to wait and see.

However, since the news of Gao Pian retreating to Yangzhou and refusing to send troops came out, disasters have not gone alone, and more bad news has been heard.

Faced with Huang Chao's troops going north, the emperor accepted the suggestion put forward by Lu and Prime Minister, and gathered the Central Plains troops to defend the river in Sizhou, an important town on the north bank of the Huaihe River. This plan seems to be more reasonable than the suggestion of letting Huang Chao break into Henan or adding the title of Guangzhou Jiedushi to Huang Chao.

After Lu Xie got up early in the morning, his eyelids kept twitching. As soon as he walked into the courtyard of the ban on the political affairs hall of the ban, Prime Minister Dou Lu Rong came out anxiously, "Zisheng, something big is not good."

Lu Ji was 54 years old this year and was a Jinshi at the age of 32. He has always had a good career. He served as a censor and a magistrate of Chang'an County. He is now a Hanlin scholar. He is also a minister of the Ministry of War, a grandson of Hongwenguan, and is a member of the Central Secretariat.

After regaining the prime minister again, Lu Xie took charge of military and political affairs in the court. The first thing he did after taking office was to replace the commanders of the former prime minister Zheng Ting and Wang Duo, including Ru, Shaanxi, Xu, Deng, Bian, Hua, Qing, Gun and other states appointed by former prime minister Zheng Ting and Wang Duo.

There was no Zheng Ting and Wang Duo, the two powerful opposition parties, Dou Lu Wang, Cui Han, Yu Cong and Li Wei, who were basically no one to challenge his status. Although the emperor was a little angry because of his recommended Gao Pian to avoid war, his status was not damaged.

"Doulu Gong, what happened?"

"Five days ago, the Yanzhou army was in chaos, and the governor Wang Chengyan was expelled!"

"Three days ago, the army in Shaanxi was in chaos, and the observer Cui Jie was chased!"

"It was another three days ago, the Hezhong Army was in chaos, and the commander of Liu Fu from the ranks!"

After three mutinies, Lu Xie's face immediately turned pale. He looked at Dou Lu Rong with a gloomy face. Dou Lu Rong was already at a loss, and the other three prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall, including officials, cardinals, soldiers, households, and officials from the fifth room of the Zhengshi Hall were all extremely silent.

Military chaos is nothing. Since the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court has not come to military chaos several times in a year?

For example, the Youzhou Army has undergone dozens of mutinies over the past century, and Zhaoyi Town has also undergone more than twenty mutinies. Even the towns in Guanzhong have often had military chaos, and even the Shence Army has military chaos.

But the problem now is that the court can no longer bear the rebellion at this time.

The four towns in Hebei have just rebelled, and the rebels are in full swing. But at this time, Huang Chao heads north again and there is no one to stop him.

The two most important generals of the court, Li Jing and Gao Pian, now all hold heavy troops and hold troops to watch.

Under such circumstances, there were three consecutive military chaos within five days, and the prime ministers and officials in the Political Affairs Hall were shocked.

What's more, the three places in this military chaos are all close to the capital.

Yanzhou is under the Shuofang Jiedushi, located in Longyou. It is located on the Lingyan Road leading to Lingwu in Guanzhong. Shaanxi, east of Tongguan, is the frontier of Tongguan, which guards the eastern gate of Guanzhong. It is located between the east and west capitals and is the capital of the Shaanxi-Guo Jiedushi.

The Hezhong Army was just north of Shaanxi and Guo, opposite the Yellow River. It not only controlled the Yellow River transport between the east and west capitals, but also the passage between Guanzhong and Chang'an, Xijing and Beidu. Especially the two major salt ponds in Hezhong, which are not only the salt supply area in the south of Guanzhong, the Central Plains, but also provide the court with a salt tax of about 2 million yuan every year.

For today's imperial courts, two million guan is very important. What's more, the river not only has salt benefits, but also geographical benefits. It is an important vassal state between Chang'an and Luoyang, and even the northern capital Taiyuan, protecting the three capitals of the Tang Dynasty.

But at such a critical moment, military chaos occurred in Shaanxi and Guo and Hezhong. The two ministers appointed by the court, Cui Jie and Liu Fu, were driven away by local military leaders.

It's really like the house is leaking and it rains all night!

Both the governor of Yanzhou, Wang Chengyan, and the Shanzhou Observer Cui Jie, have always had political reputations, but they were eventually expelled by the military leaders of both places for seriousness.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the court has played against local vassal states and barely maintained a balance. The court was unable to reduce the vassal states, and has always relied on improving the vassal states. It has used the imperial court to dispatch Jiedushi and local vassal states to suppress the vassal states.

Although the vassal states have never been completely eliminated, it is precisely because of these measures under the two-tax and three-point system that were the foundation for the final maintenance of the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty for more than 100 years. Under these strategies of the court, except for the three towns in Hebei, the Jieshou generals in each town were generally assigned by the court. The court firmly controlled the position of Jieshou generals and would never allow local military leaders to easily take over this position.

At the same time, not only does the power of the state, but now, the state has the financial power of the two taxes and three points of the two taxes, but also controls the county and town soldiers, the branch soldiers, the branch soldiers, and even the united soldiers in the local army of the vassal states. However, the military leaders of the vassal states often only control Yacheng and the vassal states, and some also control the outer town soldiers.

In most vassal states, the vassal states are not unified. There are juridical commanders sent by the court. Although they do not have much real power, they have balance and coordinate the relationship between the military leaders of the vassal states, such as generals and governors. Even in some vassal states controlled by the court, even the position of governors is occupied by officials sent by the court.

This balance is very delicate and often breaks. Sometimes if the officials sent by the court are too fair and strict, they may infringe on the interests of local military leaders. If the conflict is fierce, military chaos will often break out. This kind of thing is very common. It comes a few times a year, and the court can usually calm down. In most cases, the court has the advantage. In the past, the court was even happy to use these military chaos to attack local military leaders and strengthen the court's control over the local areas.

But now, at such a moment, if one does not handle it well, it may be as out of control as Hebei.

Especially the two vassal states, Hezhong and Shaanxi and Guo, are not far from Hebei, and are only one or two towns apart. Once they evacuate the officials sent by the court from the army and rise to direct rebellion, it will be troublesome.

Lu Xie walked around in his mind and soon decided on the solution. This time the key is to caress rather than suppress them. Therefore, although Cui Jie, Wang Chengyan and Liu Lu have a good reputation, it is not the time to find the right or wrong.

"The rebuke of Wang Chengyan as a member of Xiangzhou, and the imperial edict was issued to Niu to Yanzhou to comfort the military." Although this matter was obviously the fault of the Yanzhou army, in order to appease these soldiers, Lu Xie had to deal with Wang Chengyan and then appease the Yanzhou army."

"Dismigrated Cui Jie and Huaizhou Sima, and appointed Yang San as the inspector of Shaanxi and Guo!"

"Dou Jing was appointed as the governor of Hezhong, and the governor of the Xuanfu in Hezhong!"
Chapter completed!