But the first condition to inherit the family property is that you have this condition. If according to the will of King Jin, the brothers and the brothers went to Taiyuan together and were buried and mourned, wouldn’t Luzhou be empty? The King of Jin sent someone to be the governor and took it away. Therefore, in order to prevent the Zhaoyi Town left by his father from being taken away by the King of Jin, the brothers must return to Luzhou as soon as possible and take it strictly!

In Li Sizhao's life, he was always busy with state affairs and rarely cared about his family. The family affairs were basically handled by his wife Yang, and of course, it also included the education of his children. When the children became adults, most of them looked like their mothers, not like their fathers at all. Mrs. Yang's character was somewhat similar to that of Liu Yuniang, Li Cunxu's favorite side room. They were both greedy and selfish. In the past ten years in Luzhou, she used her husband's high position and power to sell officials, and accumulated a huge amount of private money of more than one million yuan.

Li Sizhao has seven sons, namely: Li Jichu, Li Jitao, Li Jida, Li Jizhong, Li Jineng, Li Jixi, and Li Jiyuan, all of which were born to Mrs. Yang. However, Long gave birth to nine sons, and nine sons were not like Long. In addition to inheriting the greed of his mother, the differences in abilities were quite large.

As soon as they returned to Luzhou, the cunning second son Li Jitao imprisoned his weak elder brother Li Jichu. Then he used the remaining power left by his father to mobilize soldiers to petition and support himself as Zhaoyi's queen. Li Jitao pretended to refuse, while reporting the "calls of the masses" to Li Cunxu: King of Jin, can you bear to disappoint the loyal and brave soldiers in Zhaoyi Town?

The Jiedushi in each town directly under the jurisdiction of the State of Jin was different from the vassal state in the late Tang Dynasty. Their territory was shot down by Li Ke with a sword and a gun. The Jiedushi was the subordinate of the King of Jin, not an independent or semi-independent force. Except for the Hedong Town where the King of Jin himself served on the same position, the Jiedushi in each town was appointed by the King of Jin, and the King of Jin was basically not allowed to die and succeed.

This is actually the process of rebuilding the central authority after the local powerful vassals grew. Zhu Wen did the same in Houliang. All areas conquered by him by force were restored to their original nature and became a temporary position that the emperor could remove at any time. However, when Zhu Wen died, the brothers Zhu Yougui and Zhu Youzhen were not capable of continuing this trend, so Yang Shihou's tail was too big, Zhu Youqian's surrender to the enemy, and Gao Jichang's self-esteem caused severe internal injuries to the Houliang Empire.

Li Cunxu is not Zhu Youzhen's brother, at least so far, he is still a very strong king. Under normal circumstances, he could never allow local forces to grow again. But what's bad is that due to Li Cunxu's misjudgment of the resistance of the Chengde rebels, the Jin army's affairs were already a third-line battle, and no front could end successfully in a short period of time. Such a worrying and exhausted moment, he really could not open up a fourth battlefield!

Li Cunxu had to grit his teeth and write this anger in his account book, renamed Zhaoyi Town to Anyi Town, and appointed Li Jitao as the queen of Anyi. He could only hope that Li Cunjin would be able to win the Zhenzhou as soon as possible so as to end the current embarrassing situation. But he did not expect that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

On May 6, Li Cunjin arrived at the city of Zhenzhou and set up a camp at the Dongyuan Ferry in the south of the city. Among Li Keyong's many adopted sons, Li Cunjin's strength is the construction of military projects. For example, the floating bridge connecting the north and south cities of Desheng is his masterpiece. This time, the Hutuo River was intersected.

The two sides of the Taiwan Strait built camps, because the sand and soil were loose and the walls were difficult to build. Li Cunjin cut the forest into the skeleton and filled the sand and soil, and quickly built a solid large camp. However, wars could not be won by good military engineering. In Li Cunjin's military career, he never had a surprising record of winning, and could only be considered a general who was just a good person.

After the construction of the big camp, Li Cunjin sent troops out of the camp to attack the city from time to time. The city of Zhenzhou was so strong that Li Cunxu personally led the army to attack for more than ten days, but it was ineffective. This kind of attack with insufficient strength naturally could not defeat the city, and it only played a role in maintaining pressure on the rebels in the city.

After several rounds of competition, the rebel general Zhang Chuqiu discovered Li Cunjin's flaw in using troops: every time the Jin army attacked the city, they often went out in full swing. There were very few soldiers left behind in the camp along the main road to Zhenzhou. Zhang Congqiu decided to seize this flaw, take a risky blow, and give the Jin army a beheading operation.

On September 1st, Zhang Chuqiu took advantage of Li Cunjin's chance to attack the city and led 7,000 troops out of the city. He avoided the road that the Jin army often walked and took a small path to attack the Dongyuandu camp. The seven thousand rebels brought by Zhang Chuqiu changed the captured Jin army armor and flags. As a result, they swaggered into the camp gate and made the fortifications of the Jin army camp invalid, Li Cunjin realized that something was wrong.

In a hurry, Li Cunjin led more than a dozen personal soldiers to fight to the death. But he did not have the luck of Li Cunxu. He immediately fought to death with the heavy rebels. The main force of the Jin army, who was about to attack the city, learned that the camp was attacked, hurriedly turned back to rescue. These Jin troops were not directly commanded by Li Cunjin at this time, so they did not know the death of the commander, and did not have much impact on them.

Zhang Chuqiu was about to go back with the successful rebels, but the retreat was blocked by the Jin army who returned. Seeing that the large army was back, the remaining Jin army in the camp mustered up the courage to counterattack. The rebels were trapped in the middle, and the number of people was outnumbered, so they turned victory into defeat! After a hard fight, Zhang Chuqiu finally led a few people to open a bloody road and fled back to the city.

This time, although the rebels attacked, they killed the generals of the Jin army, but they lost five or six thousand elite soldiers. Although the fighting will of the Chengde rebels was relatively tenacious, the number of people was not too large. In the fierce battles, the living power had gradually been exhausted.

When Li Cunxu learned that Li Cunjin had died, he was shocked and furious! This shock and anger did not come completely from Zhenzhou. Li Cunxu has received too much bad news recently, which is a bit dazzling.

First of all, the grain harvest in North China was poor this year, and taxes and grains in various places were not collected on time and in full, the supply of military rations of the Jin army began to have problems, which gave Li Cunxu a headache. At this time of constant war, disarmament is absolutely impossible, and it is impossible to reduce expenditure and can only increase source.

Li Cunxu ordered the governors of the towns under Jin State to allocate the original stock of grain in the town and send them to Weizhou. Li Jitao, the newly appointed queen of An Yiliu, gave him the order to pay 50,000 stones of grain to him. However, Li Jitao had no intention of changing his image as a thorn in the eyes of King Jin, and he was completely uncooperating with this current key task. He was trying hard and was willing to pay 30,000 stones.

However, many foreign towns did not pay grain in time, and even Weibo Town, led by Li Cunxu himself, had a large amount of owed grain that could not be collected. For this matter, Li Cunxu summoned Zhao Jiliang, the general director of Weibo who was responsible for the collection, and asked him why he was not good at work. Zhao Jiliang was very brave and turned against him.

Asked Li Cunxu: "Your Highness, when are you planning to pacify Henan?" Li Cunxu was furious: "Your duty is to supervise tax revenue. You can't even do your job well, and you dare to point fingers at my military and national affairs!"

Zhao Jiliang responded without retreating: "Your Highness, if you want to fight for the world, how can you not cherish your people? If you impose intensive taxes on them, once people are lost, you may not be able to defend Hebei, so what will you rely on to compete for Henan?" Li Cunxu was stunned and had to apologize to Zhao Jiliang: You are right. But no matter how reasonable Zhao Jiliang said, this truth will not become food for the time being. We can only let everyone work hard together and tighten the belt.

In addition to the main reason for the poor year, the Jin army's food crisis this year, there is another secondary reason: just over ten days before Li Cunjin's death, the Jin army lost Weizhou, an important grain storage area along the Yellow River.

Li Cunru, the governor of Weizhou, was originally named Yang Po'er. He was originally an opera singer. He was strong and strong. Yang Po'er's opera was good, which gave Li Cunxu a deep impression. So he became an actor and became an official. The King of Jin gave him a great name with the word "Cun" and appointed him as the governor of Weizhou.

After Li Cunru became the governor of Weizhou, he did not think about how to be a good official to repay Li Cunxu's kindness, but instead focused on transferring his work to how to make money. He thought of a shortcut to make money, which was to turn the holiday into goods and sell it to his soldiers: good news! The governor is kind, and he pity your hard work away from your hometown. From today on, as long as you pay a certain amount of money regularly, you can go home and accompany your parents, wife and children!

This new policy received positive response from many soldiers. Most of the soldiers paid their money to go home, so naturally there were only a few remaining defenders in Weizhou. What’s bad is that somehow the new situation made the Liang army on the opposite side know. Dai Siyuan, the commander of the Liang army, had a try-making mentality and sent generals Duan Ning and Zhang Lang to cross the Yellow River north at night to attack Weizhou. Li Cunru was unsuspecting and had a small number of defenders. The Liang army captured Weizhou in one fell swoop and captured Li Cunru alive.

Dai Siyuan saw Duan Ning unexpectedly succeed. He was overjoyed and personally led the army across the river. He met Duan Ning and Zhang Lang, took advantage of the victory to cross the Qimen, Gongcheng, Xinxiang and other counties, and recovered a large area of ​​land west of Chanzhou and south of Xiangzhong. With this long-lost victory, Dai Siyuan built a bridgehead again on the north bank of the Yellow River. In the future, if the Jin army wants to go deep into Liang territory, they have to beware of the Liang army entering Jin territory.

For the Jin army, although the casualties caused by the fall of Weizhou were insignificant, Li Cunxu lost one-third of the large amount of food and supplies stored in order to fight against Liang! It would be nothing if the harvest was good this year, but it would be really worse than injury on the premise that the lack of income this year was a foregone conclusion.

Li Cunxu was like a brave gambler. His gambling fortunes were always good in the past, but now he suddenly lost several times. Fortunately, he did not hurt his body, so such a small defeat could only increase his anger and make him win back, and it was impossible for him to stop.

In the deadlock everywhere, the weak Zhenzhou still seems to be the easiest point to make breakthroughs. So Li Cunxu increased his bargaining chips and called out Li Cunshen, who is currently ranked first among the generals of the Jin army, and served as the North Envoy, and took the stance of not stopping his opponents if he did not knock down his opponent!
Chapter completed!