Wang Shenzhi was the highest military and political chief in Fujian, so naturally it was impossible for him to station in Xiyanshan in person. At the critical moment, he had to promote talents. Zhang Zaijun became a famous Fujian general promoted by Wang Shenzhi. Zhang Zaijun was from Pucheng. His ancestors moved to Quanzhou, Fujian during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Later, he moved to Pucheng. His father Zhang Xiu was once the military judge of Fuzhou. Zhang Zaijun was very generous. Although he was from a family of officials, his father was honest and Zhang Zaijun's family was not wealthy.

Zhang Zaijun's family is poor, and his wife Lian is the daughter of a local rich man in Pucheng. Lian is not an ordinary woman. Despite the strong opposition from the family, she abandoned her luxurious and superior life and married the poor scholar Zhang Zaijun without hesitation. Zhang Zaijun, who got a virtuous wife, had a happy marriage life, but was discriminated against and humiliated by his father-in-law who disliked the poor and loved the rich. Lian Fu Man has three daughters in total, and the eldest daughter and the second daughter both married the rich children, but Lian Fu Man married the poor scholar Zhang Zaijun. Zhang Zaijun is nearly 40 years old and has no sign of being out of the way, which made Lian Fu Man very dissatisfied.

The rich man in Lian had his 60th birthday, and as his son-in-law, Zhang Zaijun naturally had to go to his father-in-law's house to celebrate his birthday. However, the rich man in Lian was not grateful and did not give Zhang Zaijun a good look. He sent Zhang Zaijun to the woodshed to chop wood, and even gave Zhang Zaijun some leftovers to eat. Lian was very angry when he saw this. He pulled Zhang Zaijun and hurriedly left his parents' home, and said angrily: "I will never go back again in the future."

Soon, Wang Shenzhi replaced Wang Chao as the lord of Fujian. Zhang Zaijun felt that Wang Shenzhi was the wise ruler he was pursuing in his heart, so he came to Fuzhou and recommended himself to present Wang Shenzhi with three strategies for military achievements. Wang Shenzhi was overjoyed after hearing this, and treated Zhang Zaijun as a guest of honor, and said, "Why do you see each other late!"

When Zhang Zaijun was approaching middle age, he began to provoke people. After Zhang Yanlu, he became another local Fujian official valued by Wang Shenzhi. He was first appointed as the governor of Gaozhou, the procuratorial tutor, and the envoy of the northwest camp. Later, because she was a local from Pucheng, she was sent by Wang Shenzhi to Xiyanshan for regular garrison. From then on, Zhang Zaijun began his garrison for more than 20 years in Xiyanshan.

Under Zhang Zaijun's hard work and management, the military fortress of Xiyanshan became more unbreakable and became the most important military fortress in northern Fujian. After Zhang Zaijun became rich, his father-in-law regretted and decided to reconcile with his daughter and son-in-law. However, due to what his daughter said, "not going back", he planned to rebuild a road from the Lianjia to the Zhang family to express his apology to his daughter and son-in-law.

Because he was usually mean, the road construction workers couldn't get along with him, so they actually paved the stone slabs horizontally. As a result, he ran out of funds and the road was not completed. His daughter Lian was moved by her father's actions and decided to invest and help her father complete the road. Only then did the father and daughter reconcile as before.

Wang Shenzhi completely inherited his elder brother's policies, continued to indulge in exile, investigated rents and taxes, persuaded farming and sericulture, sent envoys to patrol, and made friends with neighboring countries. As a result, Fujian almost became a paradise far away from war, and scholars from the Central Plains drifted thousands of miles to Fujian, a place far away from war.

Fujian is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is surrounded by the sea. In order to protect the country and safeguard the people, Wang Shenzhi adopted a policy of getting along with his surrounding neighbors. He attached great importance to maritime trade. If he wanted to develop maritime trade, he had to develop a port city. Fuzhou was the seat of the prefecture of the governor of the mighty army army and a coastal port, so he naturally became the focus of Wang Shenzhi's development.

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The arrival of Shenzhi brought new hope to the people of Fujian. Especially after Wang Shenzhi came to power, he strictly managed the subordinate officials he appointed and selected a large number of honest and wise officials.

Just when Wang Shenzhi was vigorously developing the economy, the Central Plains had earth-shaking changes. In April of the fourth year of Tianyou, Zhu Wen usurped the throne and became emperor and changed the country's name to Liang. In addition to regularly tribute to the Tang Dynasty, Wang Shenzhi gave Zhu Wen a generous gift.

In April of the first year of Tianyou, Wang Shenzhi's humility and caution were rewarded and he was enthroned by the Tang Dynasty as the prosecutor, the King of Langya, and had a fief of 4,000 households. Wang Shenzhi felt that it was very normal for Zhu Wen's usurpation of the throne. Wang Shenzhi quickly made a choice and continued to surrender to the Central Plains dynasty. Whether the Central Plains dynasty was surnamed Li or Zhu, Wang Shenzhi did not hesitate and firmly surrendered.

Zhu Wen was very satisfied with his performance and immediately enthroned Wang Shenzhi as the Minister of the Central Secretariat, Fujian's Grand Governor General, and was appointed King Fujian. Although Zhu Wen occupied the Central Plains and replaced the Tang Dynasty, he was the feudal Li Keyong in the north of Zhu Wen. He and Zhu Wen fought hard for decades and failed to decide the outcome. In the south of Zhu Wen, the territory of Yang Xingmi, the governor of Huaijie. Although Yang Xingmi was dead, Yang Wo still controlled Huainan and Jiangxi, and was the number one blocker for Zhu Wen to go south to Jiangnan. To the southwest of Zhu Wen, Wang Jian, who ruled Sichuan and Li Maozhen, who occupied Fengxiang.

Zhu Wen's Liang Dynasty was attacked from all sides and life was difficult. If you had to deal with so many neighbors at the same time, you naturally could not fight alone. Finding helpers was Zhu Wen's inevitable choice, and the weak vassal states in the south became all the ally Zhu Wen was keen to find.

Qian Liu, the king of Wu Yue who was separating eastern Zhejiang, Ma Yin, the king of Chu in Hunan, and Liu Yan, who controlled Lingnan, all became Zhu Wen's younger brothers. Their main purpose was to restrain the Yang family in Huainan. Wang Shenzhi also followed the trend and joined Zhu Wen's side. In August of the third year of Kaiping, the Yang family in Huainan also sent envoys to Wang Shenzhi in order to destroy Zhu Wen's encirclement conspiracy, trying to establish a good relationship with Wang Shenzhi. At this time, the leader of the Yang family in Huainan was Yang Longyan, and Xu Wen became the actual ruler of Huainan. Originally, this was a wonderful step for Xu Wen to dismantle the Zhu Wen alliance, but due to the envoy's problem, it was backfire.

The envoy sent by Xu Wen to Fujian was called Zhang Zhiyuan. After he arrived in Fujian, he acted arrogantly and had an arrogant attitude. Wang Shenzhi was furious and beheaded the envoy Zhang. The relationship between Wang Shenzhi and the Wu Kingdom in Huainan was completely deteriorated and there was no possibility of improvement at all.

If the relationship with Huainan is in a stalemate, then we must establish diplomatic relations with several other neighbors. In the winter of the second year of Zhenming, Wang Shenzhi married his daughter to Qian Liu's son Qian Chuansu, and the two sides became relatives of children, and from then on began peaceful coexistence for more than 20 years.

Wang Shenzhi asked his second son Wang Yanjun to marry Liu Yin's son and Liu Hua as his wife, and Fujian Minguo and Lingnan officially established friendly relations. The border between the two sides became extremely quiet and peaceful, and there was no war invasion except for a small-scale war that broke out later.

The positions of governors of Fu, Jian, Quan, Zhang and Ting in the five major prefectures of Fujian were basically held by members of the Wang family except Tingzhou. Although Wang Chao was very awesome, his sons were all mediocre people, so he handed over the baton to his younger brother Wang Shenzhi.

Wang Shenzhi also had many sons, including Wang Yanhan, Wang Yanjun, Wang Yanxi, Wang Yanwang, Wang Yanzong, Wang Yanwu, Wang Yanxi, Wang Yanxi and Wang Yanzheng. In addition, he also had an adopted son named Wang Yanqi.

Wang Shenzhi's second brother, Wang Shenzhi, was not keen on power struggles and often served as the governor of Quanzhou, which was deeply loved by the local people. Wang Shenzhi did not treat this brother unfairly. In the second year of Tianfu, he asked the Tang Dynasty to enthrone Wang Shenzhi as Zuo Pushe, founding majesty, deputy envoy of the Weiwu Army, Sikong, Situ and other high-ranking officials. Wang Shenzhi had three sons, namely Wang Yanbin, Wang Yanmei, and Wang Yanwu.

Wang Shenzhi also has two cousins, Wang Yanfu and Wang Xiang, who are partners who follow the Wang brothers through life and death and fight on the battlefield. Wang Shenzhi has all entrusted important tasks for his brothers, sons, adopted sons and nephews. After all, they are all their own family members. Even if there are some problems, they are still people from the Wang family who are in power and will not fall into the hands of others.

In May of the third year of Tongguang, Wang Shenzhi appointed Wang Yanhan as the acting for his full authority to handle the military and political affairs of Fujian. In December, Wang Shenzhi died of illness after twenty-nine years in charge of Fujian at the age of 64. Wang Shenzhi, the first generation leader of the Fujian Kingdom, had passed away, and the military and political power of Fujian was handed over to you, Wang Shenzhi's eldest son, Wang Yanhan. The dead Wang Shenzhi could not predict that with Wang Yanhan's succession, it marked the beginning of civil strife in Fujian.

In the second year of Tiancheng, the Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Siyuan, officially appointed Wang Yanjun as the governor of the Weiwu Army of Fujian, guarding the Central Secretariat and King Langya. The result of his arrogant arrogance was to destroy himself. Wang Yanjun knew very well because his brother Wang Yanhan made an arrogance mistake. Although Wang Yanhan surrendered to the Later Tang Dynasty, he later proclaimed himself king and did not take the Later Tang Dynasty seriously at all.

Wang Yanjun knew that with the real strength of the Min Kingdom, it was best to pretend to be a grandson first. Although it was ugly in appearance, it was very practical and could protect the peace of the country forever. In November of the second year of Tiancheng, Wang Yanjun again sent a group of tribute envoys to the Later Tang Dynasty to pay tribute to rhinos, incense medicine, sea odor and other rare items.

Frequent tributes will naturally be rewarded. In July of the third year of Tiancheng, Li Siyuan sent envoy Pei Yu, the Minister of Personnel, and Lu Chong, the attendant of the Zuo Sanqi, to the State of Min, and conferred Wang Yanjun as the King of Min. Wang Yanjun treated the Later Tang Dynasty with a very humble and surrendered attitude, and naturally had a very harmonious relationship with the Later Tang Dynasty. He also got along well with the neighbors.

Although the Min Kingdom had had a conflict with the Southern Han Kingdom, the conflict did not expand in the end, and the border between the two sides quickly returned to peace. After all, Wang Yanjun was the son-in-law of the Southern Han Dynasty. Relying on this special relationship between Liu Hua, Princess Qingyuan of the Southern Han Dynasty, Wang Yanjun was embarrassed to meet again with the Southern Han Dynasty. So it is inevitable to establish a good diplomatic relationship.

Lin Yanyu was originally an eunuch serving Wang Yanjun. In order to improve diplomatic relations with the Southern Han Dynasty, Wang Yanjun specially appointed Lin Yanyu as a permanent diplomatic envoy to the Southern Han Dynasty. He set up an official residence in Panyu, the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty, and specialized in charge of national trust. Liu Yan also respected the permanent representative of the Fujian State and gave him a reward. The diplomatic envoys between the two countries frequently made the relationship between the two countries harmonious and harmonious.

The north of the Min Kingdom is the Wuyue Kingdom in Xionggang and Liangzhe. The current ruler of Wuyue Kingdom is Qian Liu, a long-lived star who is over 70 years old. Because the two countries have established a foreign policy of peaceful coexistence very early, and Wang Yanjun's sister married Qian Chuansu, and both sides are also in-laws in the children, the border between the two countries has always been peaceful. Wang Yanjun respects his senior Qian Liu and has always treated him with the courtesy of his father.

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