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Chapter 995

What kind of person is Dong Chang? If you compare a person from the Three Kingdoms, it can be somewhat similar to Yuan Shu in the Three Kingdoms. However, regardless of origin or ability, Dong Chang was from Yuan Shu who did not master the fourth generation and the three masters. The only thing they were the same was that they were all devoted to the emperor's dream and were dumbfounded by the emperor's dream.

Although Dong Chang owns the eight prefectures in eastern Zhejiang, in fact, whether it was the establishment of Shijing Town in his early years, the later seized Hangzhou, and later seized Zhejiang East Town, these were not achieved through his own abilities.

After Dong Chang received support from Qin Fan, Qin Fan provided a large amount of low-priced salt to Zhejiang East Town every year. At the beginning, Dong Chang also responded to Qin Fan's proposal and canceled the salt monopoly, lowering the salt price so that the people could also eat low-priced salt. But not long after, Dong Chang repented again. He felt that although the salt given to him by Qin Fan was very cheap, why did he sell it at a low price? If he followed the previous monopoly, the salt price was dozens or even hundreds of times that of now, especially the quality of the salt in Qin Fan was excellent, and it was all fine snow salt. This salt monopoly can be monopolized in eastern Zhejiang. All the money obtained from the salt monopoly was stored in his pocket, and it would not be charged for it. Therefore, Dong Chang quickly restored the salt monopoly, and the salt price returned to a high price of 200 cents of salt, which was a hundred times higher than the price of 200 cents of salt in Qin Fan.

Moreover, Dong Chang paid a huge sum of money to the Qin vassal every year. Although he was rich due to sea trade, he refused to pay a penny. He allocated all this tribute to the people. Under normal taxes, the people increased various additional taxes, and the taxes were several times the original ones. Only part of this money was used to pay tribute to Li Jing, and part of it was used to give to Zhou Bao from Chang'an, Chengdu and Runzhou, and most of the remaining money was put into his wallet.

Dong Chang's governance of eastern Zhejiang was also completely indiscriminate. As long as someone in the country violated the law, Dong Chang ordered his subordinates to punish them severely and beat them up to thousands of times. The people had minor mistakes, and they would kill their families and destroy their clans at any time, and they would be killed in the execution grounds. When encountering civil disputes and lawsuits, if they sued Dong Chang, he would not look at the case file or ask the case. He would directly take out the case and let both parties throw away the sex, regardless of right or wrong, and only the sex will win or lose. If they lose, they would immediately be beheaded.

Even if he chooses the officials of his subordinates, he even uses this method of throwing his subordinates, so that the winner can be appointed as an official, just like the bets made by Tian Lingzi back then.

He even built a temple for himself in eastern Zhejiang, with a scale and shape as the Dayu Temple. He issued an order to allow the people who were happy to pray for blessings and pray to God to no longer go to Dayu Temple. All of them had to go to his temple.

Dong Chang was so stupid but occupied the wealthy eastern Zhejiang region, which had long been dissatisfied with Qian Liu. He wanted to replace him several times, but Li Jing was not willing to see someone in the southeastern region dominant. Therefore, he just thought that even if Dong Chang came to the fore, he would continue to have an alliance with Dong Chang and continue to cooperate.

When Qian Liu, who was bribed, learned that Dong Chang had resentment towards Li Jing because he had not obtained the King of Yue, and revealed that he wanted to become emperor, he immediately began to make arrangements.

Under Qian Liu's arrangement, more and more people were persuading and agitation. These people crowded in front of Dong Chang's mansion and shouted loudly, asking Dong Chang to be the emperor.

Dong Chang was kept in the dark and really thought that it was so popular. He was very happy and said in front of the mansion: "When the time comes, I will follow the heavens and follow the people!"

Officials from all over the country who won the appointment by committing sexual favors also offered various auspicious items. Dong Chang gave a lot of rewards and gave them money one by one. At the beginning, each person gave hundreds of trump cards, and later, people came to offer them every day, and the reward had to be reduced to hundreds of trump cards.

What made Dong Chang decide in the end was actually the ridicule sent by the old man Shanyin. He wanted to ask about the name of the emperor, and the sun 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 followed the will of heaven. If he did not proclaim himself emperor, he would be sorry for his people.

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

He immediately ordered the sorcerer Zhu Siyuan to build an altar to sacrifice to the sky, saying that the sky fu descended at night. Dong Chang declared to the public that the sky fu said that the rabbit was on the golden bed, which meant that I, Dong Chang, belonged to the rabbit, and I would ascend the throne.

At this time, Qian Liu added another fire. He asked Dong Chang's aide Ni Deru, who had been bribed by him, to speak to Dong Chang, saying that he had found the basis for Dong Chang to ascend the throne.

"In the end of Xiantong, "The Secret Records of Yuezhong" says: "There is Luopingbird, and the more misfortune it is, the more misfortune it is.' In Zhonghe, there was really a big bird in Wu. Yue appeared with all eyes and three feet. Its singing was called "Luopingtian Pagination". The people all worshiped it, and it could fight the difficulties." After saying that, he took out a picture of the so-called "Luopingbird" from his arms. Dong Chang was even more happy when he saw it.

However, not all officials in Zhejiangdong Town were confused by the emperor's dream of Dong Chang, and many officials felt that it was not good.

When the deputy governor Huang Jie heard that Dong Chang was going to be the emperor, he hurried back to Zhizhou and said to Dong Chang: "Although the Tang Dynasty royal family has declined now, the people of heaven have not yet hated him. The king stood up from the civilians in the fields, thanks to the court's generous favor, and is ranked as the general and prime minister. He has reached the title of Prince Longxi. His glory and wealth are at its peak, why do he still have to make plans to destroy the nine clans!"

The loyal words were unpleasant. Dong Chang was furious after hearing this, thinking that Huang Scorpion was not in the same position as him, but was confusing the crowd. He immediately killed him, but he didn't vent his anger. He even chopped down his head and threw it into the pit, cursing: "This dog is so talented, I am the emperor. He could have been in the high position of the three-monarch, but now he is looking for death first!" He was still unhappy after scolding, so he asked someone to kill Huang Jie's family for more than 80 people.

Wu Lie, the commander of Kuaiji in Yuezhou, also spoke frankly, "If the king is a prince, he can be inherited from generation to generation. Now he wants to be a fake emperor, but he will only destroy himself."

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

Dong Chang found Shanyin Order and said to Zhang Xun: "You have the talent to rule, I know it well. When I become the emperor, I will order you to be in charge of the Censorate."

Zhang Xun smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, you first emerged from Shijing Town and established the foundation of the Jiedushi in eastern Zhejiang. You have been rich and prosperous for several years. If the Majesty became emperor, I am afraid that the states would not necessarily agree. If you are in vain to defend an empty city in Yuezhou, it will only make people all over the world laugh at me."

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

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

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

Zhang Xun smiled, "How does that king feel that he is comparing to Li Jing?"

Now Dong Chang couldn't speak. If he said he was better than Li Jing, he would obviously put a gift on his face. But if he said he was not as good as Li Jing, wouldn't he lose face?

Zhang Xun sneered and said, "The King of Qin Li Jing is a hero in the world, and the god of war in the world. He is invincible in every battle. Now he has half of the country and has ruled more than 30 million people. He has a thousand generals and a million armors. He can be said to have a large land, a strong army, and sufficient food. But even so, Li Jing has never publicly turned against the Tang Dynasty and has always been under the banner of respecting Tang. Look at the actions of King of Qin Li Jing, and then look at the king's impatient situation. Isn't this not knowing how to overcome his abilities and just making people laugh at the world?"

Dong Chang admitted in his heart that what Zhang Xun said was right, but he was now obsessed with the will of the emperor and was determined to be the emperor. He could not listen to such unpleasant words. Dong Chang waved his hand, "Li Jing dared not rebel against Tang, it's just that he has no courage. Someone is not Li Jing, some are the will of heaven and the will of the people. I will follow the will of heaven and the will of the people and deserve to enjoy the world." After that, he waved his hand and asked someone to pull Zhang Xun down and behead him.

The first year of the True Dragon, 884 AD.

Dong Chang was the emperor in Yuezhou. The country was named Luoping of Dayue. He changed the reign of Shuntian and cast a silver seal of four inches in square meter. The text said: "The seal of Shuntian governing the country." He also presented the copper, lead, stone seals, birds, beasts, turtles, snakes and other "auspicious objects" presented by officials, gentry and people from all over the country in the palace, and called them "Tianrui". The inscription was given to the Yuezhou city tower as "Tiancai Tower", and ordered all civil and military officials to call him "saints".

Dong Chang appointed Li Miao, the former governor of Hangzhou, Jiang Gui, the governor of Wuzhou, Du Ying, the deputy envoy of Liangzhe Salt and Iron, and Li Yu, the deputy governor of military farming, as prime ministers, and Wu Yao and others were appointed as Hanlin scholars, and Li Changzhi and others were appointed as generals. He divided his subordinate troops into two armies, with the central army's uniforms yellow and the outer army's uniforms white, and the two words "Guiyi" were printed on the military uniforms.

Immediately afterwards, Dong Chang sent Qian Li an imperial edict to inform Qian Li that he had ascended the throne of Luoping Kingdom and specially granted Qian Li an imperial title as the commander-in-chief of Liangzhe.

Qian Liu had been watching the show secretly for a long time, and he had been waiting for the day to come.

When Dong Chang's envoy finally arrived with the imperial edict, Qian Liu raised his glass with his subordinate General Wuhu in the Hangzhou governor's mansion.

Dong Chang was arrogantly proclaiming himself emperor, and even Li Jing would never tolerate it anymore. Without Li Jing's support and protection, even God could not save Dong Chang now. It's not in vain that he had spent so much effort, Dong Chang actually jumped into it. He was such a stupid guy. When he thought of his life that had been selling for this guy for many years, the money felt that it was not worth it.

Qian Liu immediately gathered civil and military officials to discuss matters and said loudly: "Dong Chang rebelled, and as a minister of the Tang Dynasty, how can I sit still and ignore it?" Then he said smelly: "But in the past, Dong Chang had kindness to me, I could not attack him immediately. I would rather persuade him to return to the wrong path first. If he doesn't follow, he will attack him again."

Qian Liu wrote a letter first, asking his guest Shen Pang to meet Dong Chang with him, and the letter said: "Instead of being the emperor behind closed doors and being the emperor with the nine tribes, the people are all in trouble. How could they be rich and powerful for life if they open doors and become governors? I regret it now, it is still possible to get there!"

Then he immediately wrote a letter in his hand, asking the envoy to go to Yanjing to report to Li Jing. The letter stated that Dong Chang had various resentment towards Li Jing, and he also said that Dong Chang used Li Jing's sign to do many evil things, which damaged the name of King Qin in eastern Zhejiang. Now Dong Chang dared to be the emperor. As the thirteen disciples of King Qin and the governor of the Jiangnan province, he had no choice but to wipe out the little sluts like Dong Chang for the King of Qin."
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