Li Jing believed that since they had all expressed their surrender to the Southern Tang Dynasty, they should obey the command of the Southern Tang government and not act without authorization. Li Jing realized that substantive actions must be taken and effective control of the prefectures and counties in Fujian can be considered to be truly unified by truly unifying Fujian, rather than adopting the current method of Fujian people governing Fujian and semi-autonomous.

If you want to truly and effectively control these prefectures and counties, you can only take off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and completely occupy it. At the same time, all the former managers of the prefecture were transferred away, and then the Southern Tang army was allowed to enter the prefectures and dispatch officials from the Southern Tang to serve. Only in this way can you occupy the land of Fujian once and for all! It should be said that Li Jing's ideas and measures are quite reasonable and correct, but when he actually implemented them in detail, he deviated from the track!

In June of the fourth year of Baoda in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Jing appointed Chen Jue as the envoy of the Imperial Examination and sent to Fuzhou. He was responsible for using his eloquent eloquence to persuade Li Renda to surrender to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Chen Jue advanced towards Fuzhou with high spirits. If this trip could resolve Li Renda, the Southern Tang Dynasty's battle to destroy Fujian would be perfectly conquered, and Chen Jue naturally made great contributions.

Chen Jue is quite confident in his eloquence. The current situation in Fujian has made Chen Jue even more confident. With the strong national strength of the 36 states in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the four states in Fujian that have just been conquered, they have to deal with a small Fuzhou city and Li Renda. Chen Jue believes that this is a battle of unequal strength. As long as he moves a little, and with the large amount of money and gifts given by Li Jing, Li Renda will definitely obediently surrender.

However, after Chen Jue entered Fuzhou City, Li Renda's attitude made him panic and embarrassed. Li Renda had already learned about Chen Jue's true intention of this trip to Fuzhou. If Li Renda surrendered in front of Chen Jue and surrendered, then he would not be Li Renda. When it comes to chanting poems and lyrics, Li Renda must not be Chen Jue's opponent. But in terms of conspiracy, Chen Jue is no longer Li Renda's opponent.

Li Renda expressed his complacent to Nan Tang on the surface, but he did not intend to hand over Fuzhou to Nan Tang at all. His life ideal is to survive in the cracks of the troubled times, find a way to dominate, and become the new overlord of Fujian. Although the current situation is not ideal for Fuzhou, Li Renda is not a person who gives up easily. He is never willing to rely on others. Even if he temporarily relies on others, he must try every means to carry out conspiracies and rebels.

Li Renda's creed made him a famous figure in the late Fujian country and eventually ruined his own life. The smart Li Renda had successfully read the situation after the demise of the Fujian country: the Southern Tang seemed powerful, but after conquering Jianzhou, he stopped pursuing victory and used propaganda to deal with the other four states of the Fujian country. This only shows that there was a problem with the Southern Tang army, either insufficient logistics supply or war-weariness within the army.

Judging from the fact that Li Jing was enthroned and presented gifts, Nan Tang did not want to fight and wanted to seize Fujian in a peaceful way. Facing the silence of Chen Jue who came to Fuzhou for dust, Li Renda made his choice. He did not give him a good face at all, spoke rudely and rudely in front of Chen Jue, and made Chen Jue very embarrassed.

Faceless is actually a trivial matter. Chen Jue, who was full of energy before departure, was frightened by Li Renda's attitude. You must know that there are countless opponents who died at Li Renda's hands. If you accidentally say the wrong thing, it will make Li Renda angry. Chen Jue will have to sleep in Fuzhou forever. Chen Jue has not made any mistakes at all.

After chatting with Li Renda briefly, he quickly found an excuse and fled Fuzhou in shame.

Li Renda's ambition to dominate Fuzhou was already obvious, so there was nothing to hesitate. Chen Jue should immediately report Li Renda's situation to Li Jing, and Li Jing decided how to deal with Li Renda. However, Chen Jue didn't know why, after returning to Jianzhou, he did not report the real situation of his mission to Fuzhou City to Li Jing, but instead made an arbitrary claim and prepared to use the Southern Tang army to deal with Li Renda privately.

Chen Jue felt very embarrassed and ashamed of the failure of his mission to Fuzhou. Now that the mission has failed, Chen Jue believes that he has no face to see Li Jing. If he has no face to go to the boss, he should not see him. Chen Jue is unwilling to accept the result of the failure, so he decided to find another way to deal with Li Renda through other methods. Chen Jue quickly found Gu Zhong, the guard officer, and claimed that he had received a secret edict from Li Jing, asking Gu Zhong to rumor Li Renda to come to the court to meet Li Jing.

Subsequently, Chen Jue was active in the army of Jian, Ting and Jian, claiming that before departure, Li Jing had appointed him to fully act as the military and political affairs of Fujian. Now Li Renda in Fuzhou has openly betrayed the Southern Tang Dynasty, so everyone must unite and fight against the enemy together, and use all the Southern Tang troops stationed in Fujian to attack Li Renda.

Chen Jue was originally the Privy Councilor and the military commander. He was the proclamation envoy sent by Li Jing to Fujian personally, and was Li Jing's friend in literature and poetry. It was not impossible for him to act as a representative of Fujian's military and political affairs. The person responsible for the fight against Li Renda was Feng Yanlu, the military supervisor of Jianzhou, and Chen Jue's friend in literature and poetry, and was also one of the Five Ghosts of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Feng Yanlu's situation is quite similar to Cha Wenhui. He was a literary poet and did not know how to command military operations at all. However, he was very keen to lead troops to fight, expand territory, and seize fame. After the Southern Tang army captured Jianzhou, Feng Yanlu could not control his strong desire to fight on the battlefield and took the initiative to ask Li Jing for battle. Finally, he asked for an official position as an military commander in Jianzhou. After all, he could be considered a return to the battlefield.

After the Southern Tang captured Jianzhou, the pace of war stopped. He began to recuperate and manage internal affairs, which made Feng Yanlu very depressed. Chen Jue gave Feng Yanlu a great opportunity to expand territory and make achievements at a critical moment, which naturally made Feng Yanlu ecstatic and excited.

In August of the fourth year of Baoda in the Southern Tang Dynasty, under the command of Chen Jue forged edicts, Feng Yanlu led tens of thousands of troops of Jian, Ting, Jian, Fu and Xin five prefectures to march towards Fuzhou in a mighty manner. Feng Yanlu led his troops to fight for Fuzhou, which stimulated the nerves of another important minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wei Cen, another literary friend of Li Jing, and was also one of the Five Ghosts of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Wei Cen served as the pacifier of the Southern Tang Dynasty stationed in Zhang and Quanzhou, and his main responsibility was to supervise Quanzhou's resolute and follow-up.

This man was also a very good person. I heard that Chen Jue and Feng Yanlu led troops to fight against Li Renda. Wei Cen was also confused, for fear that Chen Jue and Feng Yanlu would be able to capture Fuzhou by Chen Jue and Feng Yanlu. Without Li Jing's consent, he mobilized the Southern Tang army in Zhang and Quan without authorization to march towards Fuzhou.

Facing the fierce army of Southern Tang, Li Renda was not panicked and had a solution to it. At the moment when he scared Chen Jue away, Li Renda had already expected that he would completely turn against Nan Tang and turn against him. Nan Tang's strong military strength was in front of him, and he wanted to confront Nan Tang head-on and fight head-on. Li Renda knew that he didn't have that strength.

To survive in such a chaotic world, Li Renda's strategy is,

He stepped on multiple large ships and backed by multiple trees. With different forces, he adopted different strategies, and was able to survive tenaciously. Since the large ship of the Southern Tang Dynasty did not allow him to step on, he had to find a new backer. The Later Jin Dynasty of the Central Plains and the northern neighbor Wu Yue Kingdom became the external forces Li Renda tried his best to make friends with and show good things.

Li Renda announced that he would no longer surrender to the Southern Tang. In order to express his contempt and contempt for the Southern Tang, Li Renda changed the name Li Hongyi given by Li Jing to Li Hongda, which completely cut off relations with the Southern Tang. While turning against the Southern Tang, Li Renda quickly sent envoys to the Central Plains to express his surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty, hoping to get the protection of the Later Jin Dynasty.

But unfortunately, Shi Chonggui's situation at the Later Jin Dynasty was described as "suffering". Since Shi Chonggui turned against his grandfather, Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang, Shi Chonggui's life has never been peaceful. At this time, Shi Chonggui was facing frequent attacks by the Khitan army, and Shi Chonggui was exhausted to deal with it. The Later Jin Dynasty was in a turmoil and could destroy the country at any time. Shi Chonggui had no time to care about Li Hongda's idle business far away in Fujian.

Of course, Shi Chonggui still needs to do basic face skills. Shi Chonggui appointed Li Renda as the governor of the mighty army, and worked together in peace and knowledge of the state affairs of Fujian. As for military protection and help, there is nothing he can do.

At the end of August of the fourth year of Baoda, Li Renda, the governor of the mighty army of the Later Jin Dynasty, got news that the Southern Tang army had already entered Fuzhou. He originally thought that a large-scale military operation like this would have to be prepared for a year or two. Li Hongda did not expect that Chen Jue would dare to dispatch troops without authorization. The Southern Tang Dynasty would make great moves, and the action would be so rapid.

At this point, Li Renda had no way out and could only fight with his teeth. Feng Yanlu and Chen Jue were the first to arrive in Fuzhou. In order to successfully capture Fuzhou City and to minimize casualties in the Southern Tang army, Feng Yanlu decided to be courtesy first and then soldiers and wrote a letter to Li Renda. He analyzed the interests and hoped that Li Renda would open the city gate and surrender voluntarily, so that he would not fight if he could not fight.

After receiving the letter from Feng Yanlu, Li Renda was not shaken at all. The water came and the earth flooded and the soldiers came to stop him. He quickly appointed Yang Chongbao, the commander of the tower ship, to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and blocked the Southern Tang army in the area of ​​Houguan. Feng Yanlu led the elite troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty, not to mention that Chen Hui, the commander of the former surrendered general of the Fujian Kingdom, helped the battle against the small Houguan County and Yang Chongbao.

The Southern Tang army defeated Yang Chongbao in Hou Guan, and took advantage of the victory to pursue the west pass of Fuzhou City. Fuzhou City was the capital of the former Fujian Kingdom. In the second year of Tianyou, Wang Shenzhi carried out large-scale expansion and reinforcement of Fuzhou City. He built the outer city surrounding Fuzhou, making the radius of Fuzhou City reach more than 40 miles.

Based on the original Luocheng in Fuzhou, Wang Shenzhi added a Yuecheng with a circumference of 26 miles, making Fuzhou a real metropolis in the Five Dynasties. The scale of Fuzhou, south of the Yangtze River, can definitely be called tall, strong, majestic and spectacular. It can be called a city with a high defense index in the south of the Yangtze River, and is no less than the metropolis such as Luoyang and Bianjing in the Central Plains.

The reason why Li Jing has never dared to attack Fuzhou easily is also a major reason for his fear of Fuzhou's defense capabilities. The reason why Li Renda dared to turn against Nan Tang is that Fuzhou, which has a high city and thick walls, is also his reliance on it.

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