Chapter 27 Qian Liu Governs the Qiantang River
After Qianli occupied Liangzhe, the flood problem of Qiantang River not only did not alleviate, but became more and more serious. In September of the third year of Guanghua, the Qiantang River overflowed and damaged many people's residences. A few years later, the sea hurricane was in full swing, and the waves were shaking, and the shore was rushing. From Qinwangshan, thousands of acres of land were all formed on the river surface, and the people were unable to bear their lives.
Seeing the people under his rule being invaded by the Qianjiang River Tide and the Wu Yue Kingdom being encroached by the Qianjiang River Tide, Qian Li was determined to mobilize the country's manpower and material resources to fight against the Qianjiang River Tide. But fighting against the Qiantang River Tide is by no means an easy task. Rulers of all generations cannot solve the problem of the Qiantang River Tide. Can he complete this arduous task?
In August of the fourth year of Kaiyun, Qian Li asked all the people to actively participate in the construction of ponds and embankments. The people also cooperated very well and rushed to sign up to participate in the construction of ponds and embankments. Qian Li finally summoned more than 200,000 migrant workers.
Under Qian Li's leadership, 200,000 migrant workers from Wu Yue carried out construction work on hundreds of miles of construction sites, which actually created a big miracle. It took only three days after the Qiantang River tide was ebbed to complete the foundation project of the entire embankment.
In October of the fourth year of Kaiyun, after two months of construction and the joint efforts of 200,000 mile workers, a dam-breaking embankment that lasted hundreds of miles was finally perfectly presented to everyone. In two months, a dam-long embankment that lasted hundreds of miles was completed, and it was built on the bank of the surging Qiantang River, which is also a great feat.
This tidal dam is 338,593 meters long from Liuhe Tower to Genshan Gate. It is known in history as the "Qian Family Defense Sea Pond" or "Qian Family Shitang". In the same year, Qianli set up Longshan and Zhejiang two gates to curb the river tides into the river!
Just when Qian Liu led the people of Wu and Yue to vigorously develop water conservancy projects, the Liang Dynasty in the Central Plains did not stop for a moment. However, Zhu Wen was mainly busy fighting against those old rivals, such as the Li family group of the Shatuo tribe in Hedong, Li Maozhen of Fengxiang, Li Maozhen of Sichuan, Wang Jian of Chengde, Wang Rong of King Zhao, Wang Chuzhi of Beiping, Yang family of Huainan, etc. The Central Plains were full of Zhu Wen's enemies.
In June of the second year of Ganhua, Zhu Wen, who was ill in bed, asked his daughter-in-law Wang to go to Luoyang to recall Zhu Youwen and prepare to hand over the major event to Zhu Youwen. But another daughter-in-law Zhang was also serving Zhu Wen, so he naturally heard Zhu Wen's arrangements, so he hurried home to discuss with his husband Zhu Yougui.
Zhu Wen's plan to appoint his adopted son Zhu Youwen as the successor of the Liang Dynasty, which of course caused Zhu Yougui's extreme dissatisfaction. Since the old man would rather give the country to outsiders than to his own son, he would have to seize the country by himself. Zhu Yougui joined hands with his close confidant Feng Tingyan, and the commander-in-chief Han Jie led five hundred soldiers to enter Zhu Wen's bedroom at night and kill Zhu Wen on the hospital bed.
Zhu Yougui, who killed his father, also pretended to be the edict to kill Zhu Youwen, and then claimed that Zhu Wen died of illness and justified his successor to the Emperor of the Liang Dynasty. Although such a major palace coup occurred in the Central Plains, Qian Li, who was partially aware of Wu Yue and Jiangnan, was not affected at all. Because Zhu Yougui's ability was too far inferior to Zhu Wen, Qian Li didn't have to worry about such a minor generation. Not only did Qian Li not have to take the initiative to pay attention to and please Zhu Yougui, but Zhu Yougui took the initiative to show kindness to Qian Li in order to win Qian Li's support.
In July of the second year of Ganhua, Zhu Yougui took the initiative to send Li Jiao, the Minister of Justice, to Wuyue, and voluntarily appointed Qian Liu as Shang's father. Zhu Yougui's ability to be the emperor was not very good, but he was not stupid.
The kiss was finished, but there were not many neighbors around Liang Dynasty who were eyeing each other, and they were still staring at Zhu Yougui with great enthusiasm, and they could eat Zhu Yougui at any time.
With Zhu Yougui's ability, he was obviously unable to cope with this situation at all, so he had to seek allies and support. Qian Liu from Wu Yue had always been a solid ally of the Liang Dynasty, so Zhu Yougui naturally had to try his best to win over it. However, before Qian Liu had time to communicate with Zhu Yougui, something big happened to the Liang Dynasty.
Zhu Youzhen is Zhu Wen's fourth son. He is beautiful, has a strong personality, and is elegant and loves Confucian scholar. He is also the legitimate son of Zhu Wen's wife, Empress Zhang, and is the best candidate to inherit the throne. Zhu Youzhen is naturally indignant about Zhu Yougui's father-killing his father ascending the throne.
After Zhu Yougui ascended the throne, he took good care of his younger brother and immediately appointed Zhu Youzhen as the governor of Tokyo, the prefect of Kaifeng, and the tutor of the school. Zhu Youzhen was not grateful to his elder brother. His ambitions and desires in his heart were also highly inflated. Killing Zhu Yougui and replacing Zhu Yougui became Zhu Youzhen's goal.
In February 913 AD, Zhu Youzhen's confidant Zhao Yan, Duwei of Zhu Youzhen, came to Bianjing and had a secret conversation with Zhu Youzhen. The two sides reached a consensus and decided to lead the imperial guards in Bianjing to launch a mutiny and kill Zhu Yougui. Of course, the premise of all this was that they must be supported by Yang Shihou, a general who held heavy troops.
On the one hand, Zhu Youzhen sent envoys to ask Yang Shihou for support, and on the other hand, Zhao Yan summoned the confidant generals of the imperial guards to prepare for the initiative. After receiving Yang Shihou's support, Zhao Yan successfully lobbied the imperial guards' commander Yuan Xiangxian. On the evening of February 17, he led thousands of imperial guards into the palace, killed Zhu Yougui, and then supported Zhu Youzhen as the new emperor.
But all this had no great impact on Qian Liu, and Qian Liu continued to hold his position as King of Wu Yue. Zhu Youzhen, the new emperor of the Liang Dynasty, sent an envoy to Wu Yue as his father.
Since Yang Wo was killed by Zhang Hao and Zhang Hao was killed by Xu Wen, Huainan finally entered a period of stability in the regime. Xu Wen, the actual helmsman of Huainan, has been proven to be a qualified leader. Although his military ability seems to be inferior to those of Liu Wei, Tao Ya, Li Yu, Li Jian, Zhou Ben and other fierce people, his political ability is absolutely first-class.
Liu Wei, Tao Ya, Li Yu, Li Jian and other former meritorious generals under Yang Xingmi were depressed to Xu Wen on the surface, but were very dissatisfied in his heart. Among them, Li Yu, the governor of Xuanzhou, was the most dissatisfied and often spoke rudely and attacked Xu Wen. In order to establish his absolute authority and status within Huainan, Xu Wen decided to kill the monkey and scare the monkey and attack Li Yu first.
Xu Wen ordered Chai Zaiyeng to lead his troops to attack the disobedient Li Yu. Of course, Li Yu is also a famous general who has been on the battlefield for a long time. In order to ensure that he could kill monkeys and scare monkeys, Xu Wen ordered Li Yu to be taken hostage, forced Li Yu, and sent an envoy to the city to deceive Li Yu. Under Xu Wen's favor and power, Li Yu chose to compromise with Xu Wen, and the price was that Xu Wen's whole family was killed.
Li Yu's demise played a good deterrent role. Liu Wei, Tao Ya and others were anxious and unable to rest assured, and expressed their loyalty to Xu Wen, who further consolidated his power and status.
Qian Liu only occupied the territory of Liangzhe and began to call King Wu Yue. As the powerful Huainan Group, it occupied Huainan and Jiangxi, spanned the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River, and had hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers. Naturally, it could not be lower than Qian Liu's King Wu Yue.
In July 912 AD, Xu Wen led all civil and military officials to persuade Yang Longyan to advance, asking Yang Longyan to proclaim himself the Grand Tutor, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, the King of Wu, and the Huainan Group to finally transform into the independent kingdom of Wu. As the actual ruler of the Wu Kingdom, Xu Wen's position naturally also increased. Xu Wen was instantly promoted to the Sima of the March, the governor of the Zhenhai Army, and the Pingzhangshi of the Secretariat of the Secretariat.
The turmoil and uneasy in the Central Plains naturally attracted Xu Wen's high attention. Xu Wen decided to take advantage of the chaos of the Liang Dynasty to expand the power of Wu again. Of course, Xu Wen would definitely not attack the Liang Dynasty rashly. The lean camel was bigger than a horse. Although Zhu Wen died and Zhu Youzhen had a poor ability, the famous generals under Zhu Wen who were good at fighting were still there. Fighting against the Liang Dynasty head-on will only lead to both losses and make others profit.
Xu Wen's strategic policy is: Since the Liang Dynasty in the Central Plains is currently busy with internal coups and coups, the Wu Kingdom can certainly take the opportunity to attack those weak vassal forces that have always been led by the Liang Dynasty. Jingnan, Chu, and Wu Yue are all targets of Xu Wen's attack.
In March of the third year of Ganhua, Xu Wen ordered the camp to recruit Li Tao to lead 20,000 troops out of Qianqiuling to invade the Yijin Army of Wu Yue. The Yijin Army was Qian Liu's hometown and the western gate of Hangzhou, so naturally he could not lose money. Qian Liu's three most respected sons were ordered to go to fight against the Wu Kingdom in the face of danger.
The mission of the Qizi Qian Chuan is to lead troops to directly rescue the Yi Jinjun, while the Sixzi Qian Chuan and the Thirdzi Qian Chuan is to rescue the Wu Yue navy, leading the Wu Yue navy to attack Dongzhou and distract the Wu Kingdom from the attention.
Qian Chuanguan, Qian Chuanying and Qian Chuanguan have become three candidates for the succession of the Wu Yue throne that Qian Liu focuses on training. Everyone agreed that if there is no accident, Qian Liu will definitely choose the final successor from these three sons. As for which one can finally stand out, it depends on his performance and luck.
Li Tao was a veteran general when Yang Xingmi raised an army in Luzhou. He once made military achievements when Yang Xingmi attacked Bi Shiduo. Qin Yanshi was promoted to the recruitment of Xingying for his military achievements. Li Tao did not pay attention to Qian Chuan, a young man.
Although Qian Chuanguan was only a 25 or 26-year-old young man, he had already fought on the battlefield for many years and had rich experience in fighting. Ten years ago, when Xu Wan and Xu Zaisi rebelled, Qian Chuanguan bravely stood up and was willing to act as a hostage to Tian Bao, resolving a crisis in Hangzhou City.
Six years ago in Wenzhou, in the Battle of Chuzhou, Qian Chuan made plans and commanded properly, easily killed Luyou's brothers, successfully controlled Wen and Chu'an. Facing the famous general of Wu State, Li Tao, and him and 20,000 troops, Qian Chuanchuan decided to use his military talents again.
Qian Chuanguan found that the marching road near Qianqiuling was narrow and steep, which was not conducive to the passage of large-scale personnel, so he ordered a small group of troops to go around Li Tao's army and cut down huge trees to withdraw Li Tao's army to Qianqiuling and block the rear path of Li Tao's army back to Qianqiuling.
Later, Qian Chuan set up a triple ambush on Li Tao's way to march into the Yijin Army, waiting for Li Tao to fall into the trap. Although Li Tao was known as a famous general of the Wu Kingdom, he was still a little lacking in fire than Liu Wei, Tao Ya, Zhou Ben and others. He crashed into Qian Chuan's ambush. Qian Chuan naturally would not miss this opportunity to annihilate the enemy. Under the attack of the third ambush of Wu Yue Army, the Wu army was in chaos and fled. However, the escape road had been tightly blocked by Qian Chuan with giant trees. Li Tao and his more than 2,000 soldiers eventually became Qian Chuanjin's prisoners.
Chapter completed!