Han Lun later returned to his hometown of Luoyang and lived in Luoyang. He had a good relationship with Chai Shouli, the fathers of generals and prime ministers Wang Pu, Wang Yan and Wang Yanchao. Chai Shouli is not an ordinary person, he is Chai Rong's biological father. They were rampant with their power and power. The people of Luoyang were very afraid and called them "Ten A Fathers". Chai Rong was the heir of Taizu Guo Wei, so others dare not say that he was Chai Shouli's son. Chai Rong only treated Chai Shouli with the etiquette of his eldest uncle and gave him generous salary, but did not allow him to go to the capital to avoid embarrassment.

After Chai Rong captured Shouzhou, he appointed Zhu Yuan as the defensive envoy of Caizhou, Zhou Tinggou as the Weiweiqing, and Sun Yu as the Taipuqing. At the same time, he opened a warehouse to release grain and distributed it to the hungry people of Shouzhou. Chai Rong also sent Yang Xin, the commander-in-chief of the Right Yulin Army, as the governor of Zhongzheng Army, to take charge of Shouzhou. He led his own army back to the capital, leaving Li Chongjin and others to attack Haozhou.

After Chai Rong returned to Bianliang, he planned to repair the Yongfu Palace and ordered the eunuch Sun Yanxi to supervise the project. A few days later, Chai Rong went to the repair site and saw that the servants had a spoon made of wood chips and served rice in the tiles. He was furious and beheaded Sun Yanxi in the street market.

Guo Tingwei, a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, guarded Haozhou. He heard that Chai Rong had returned to the capital, so he secretly led the navy to Wokou, broke Fuliang, and sneaked into the Dingyuan military camp. Wu Xingde, the governor of Wuning in the Later Zhou Dynasty, was caught off guard and panicked. He actually gave up the camp and fled alone. After the great victory, Guo Tingwei reported the victory to Li Jing. Li Jing received the report, so he promoted Guo Tingwei to Chuzhou Tengzheng and Huai River and Land Support Envoy.

Chai Rong received the defeat and was furious. So he convicted him according to the law, demoted Wu Xingde to the general of the left guard, and pursued Li Jixun's crime of losing his camp, and demoted Li Jixun to the general of the right guard. Chai Rong then wanted to fight in the south and ordered Fu Lingguang to supervise the robes of the soldiers to complete the robes within a time limit. Fu Lingguang, the Left Treasury envoy, has always served in the inner court and has always been honest and cautious.

But Fu Lingguang could not complete it on time, so Chai Rong got angry and issued an order to kill him. Several ministers learned that they hurried to the palace to plead with mercy. Chai Rong walked in and refused to obey their advice and advised him. Fu Lingguang was eventually killed. Everyone in the capital thought that this was an unjust case. Chai Rong also regretted it afterwards, but his personality was already quite irritable. Once someone disobeyed his wishes, Chai Rong wanted to impose an additional sentence on this person. Fortunately, the Queen Fu explained the advice and saved many lives.

Prime Minister Li Gu came to the court to see him while sick, and Chai Rong ordered not to kneel down and let him sit next to the emperor's seat. Li Gu wanted to resign from his salary, but Chai Rong refused to agree. Li Gu was ill for two years and submitted a petition to resign from his post nine times. Chai Rong then ordered Li Gu to remove him from his position as a member of the position of Tongpingzhang, retain his original official, and asked him to sit in a sedan chair once a month to discuss the affairs of the court.

Because the ancient and profound words on the legal regulations at that time were difficult to understand, and at the same time, the format and the imperial edicts were numerous, Chai Rong ordered the censor to understand the miscellaneous matters and interpret them, and carefully compiled them into the "Zhengtong".

Dou Yan, a native of the Secretariat, wrote a letter to Chai Rong, requesting orders to order relevant officials to study the etiquette of ancient and modern times, write "The Great Zhou Tongli", study and correct Huang Zhonglu, and write "The Great Zhou Zhengle". At the same time, he believed: "The fundamental reason for governing political affairs is nothing more important than choosing talents. The key to choosing talents is nothing more important than choosing prime ministers. Since the late Tang Dynasty, it has been easily awarded titles and officials. Many people have just served as prime ministers to assist the emperor in handling the government affairs, and immediately took over the positions of Situ, Sikong, Sima Sangong and Pushe.

therefore

Many people are determined to chase and hunt when they have not obtained positions. After they have obtained positions, they are taciturn and self-protection, only consider how to free themselves from the exhausting government affairs, keep their high and powerful official positions, and spend all day in gardens and pavilions to protect the safety of their families. They ask His Majesty to order the current prime minister to be the six ministers of the Secretariat, the Secretariat and the Secretariat, and the Secretariat and the Secretariat to recommend the talents they know.

If Your Majesty has always known that he is capable, he can be promoted and appointed by himself. If he is not clear, let him temporarily take charge of political affairs with his original position. It takes about a year to examine his responsibilities and achievements. If he is really competent, his original position is already high, and he will be officially awarded Pingzhangshi. If his original position is not high, he will be slightly promoted and the agent will be in charge of political affairs as usual. If he is incompetent, he will be dismissed from handling political affairs and the recommender will be held accountable.

In addition, among the ranks of officials in the court, most of them had quotas but no responsibilities. They asked to measure their talents and abilities, and they were appointed to serve outside the office and tried to use them in actual affairs. After returning to Beijing and entering the court, they were used according to their original positions, and examined their political achievements, capable promotion, and incompetent demotion."

He also requested: "Let the thieves report and expose each other, and reward half of the property of the defendant to the informer. If a relative surrenders for him, his party members will be sentenced to pardon the surrender. In this way, the thieves cannot gather. In addition, the villages in Xinzheng organized Chengyi camps and set up generals and subordinates. One family is used as thieves, which will cause a village to be robbed. Whenever a thief occurs, they will beat the drum and raise fire. Adult men gather in the place where the accident occurs. There are few thieves and many people, so no one can escape.

Thieves are so crowded with neighboring counties and townships, and Xinzheng is alone to eliminate the thieves. The request to order other prefectures and counties to follow Xinzheng, which is also a way to stop the thieves. At the same time, in recent dynasties, many edicts have been issued to allow farmers to cultivate a variety of farming outside the old fields and only pay old taxes. However, when the farmers have planted them, the officials will measure the acres of land and increase taxes, so the farmers are suspected of fear and the fields will no longer be opened. There is no prerequisite for implementing administrative orders than honesty and trustworthiness. If the credit is outstanding, the fields will not be expanded. If the fields are expanded, the food will increase, and the food will increase. It will be like hiding in the hands of farmers as if they are hidden in the government."

Dou Yan also said: "Your Majesty went south to conquer the Yangtze River, Huai River Basin, and obtained eight states in one fell swoop. He went to war again to pacify Shouchun. Wherever his power reached, there was no strong opponent in front of him. Now, with more attacks and less attacks to combat chaos, he would definitely be able to defeat everything. However, the key to action is the speed of the opponent's people, the people of the other side can be avoided from the disaster of capturing and beheading, and the people here can eliminate the difficulties of transit and transport."

After seeing it, Chai Rong cheered loudly and decided to implement it gradually according to his suggestions. So he established a virtuous, upright, and spoke frankly, and could teach the law. He could be a good teacher and a good academic discipline, and recommended talents in education and other subjects. Chai Rong also appointed Wang Pu as the one who stayed in Tokyo and allowed him to act recklessly according to the situation. Zhang Meishen of the Three Divisions appointed the envoy of the Da'uidu.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the southern expedition, Chai Rong ordered the unblocking of the Bian River so that it could flow northward into the Wuzhang River. From then on, ships from Qi and Lu could reach Bianliang directly. Chai Rong appointed Wang Zuo, the former governor of Huazhou, as the envoy of Yingzhou Tuan, and Wang Zuo was Wang Pu's father.

Wang Pu served as prime minister. When Wang Zuo had guests, Wang Pu often stood up and served in court clothes. The guests were very uneasy when they sat on the table, but Wang Zuo said, "You are not a dog."

It’s worth getting up for him.”

After everything was ready, Chai Rong wanted to go out to conquer Hao and Si. Empress Fu tried her best to advise and block it on the grounds that the weather was severe and cold. Chai Rong insisted on not following it, which led Queen Fu to become depressed and ill and rarely eat. Chai Rong did not care much and ordered Wang Pu to be the Privy Councilor to stay in Tokyo. He led Zhao Kuangyin and others out of the capital and rushed to the Zhenhuai Army.

A few days later, Chai Rong led his army across the Huai River and went straight to the west of Haozhou City. Eighteen miles northeast of Haozhou City, there was a huge beach. The Southern Tang army set up fences on the beach, surrounded by water to defend it, and believed that the Later Zhou army would definitely not be able to cross the river. Chai Rong personally led the army to attack and ordered the inner palace to attack Baoyi, Baoyi, with hundreds of armed soldiers, to wade in the water with camels. Zhao Kuangyin led the cavalry and then jumped into the water first and intercepted the river. The cavalry under his command were afraid of falling behind, so they followed them one after another, and in an instant they all climbed the river beach and attacked the enemy's fence. The Southern Tang guards in the fence were caught off guard and collapsed one after another. The Later Zhou army was able to open the road and came to the city of Haozhou.

Li Chong attacked and broke through the Nanguan City of Haozhou, but did not capture it for many days. At this time, he heard that the imperial guards came to supervise the army in person, so everyone was very energetic and fought for the first place. In less than half a day, the Zhou army later attacked Nanguan City. There was a water camp in the east of Haozhou City, which was a supportive force in the city. Wang Shenqi led his troops to attack the water camp of the Southern Tang Army under the order of Chai Rong.

The Southern Tang army gathered hundreds of warships in the north of the city, and raised large wood in the Huai River to stop the Later Zhou army. Seeing this, Chai Rong immediately ordered the navy to attack, pulled out the large wood, set fire to burn more than 70 warships in the Southern Tang Dynasty, killed more than 2,000 soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty, and captured Yangma City, which shocked and panicked.

Guo Tingwei, the envoy of the Haozhou regiment in Southern Tang, was helpless and came up with a plan. He said to Chai Rong: "My family is all in Jiangnan. If you surrender immediately, you may be killed. I ask Your Majesty to ask me to send an envoy to Jinling to ask for orders, and then go out of the city to surrender." Chai Rong smiled and said: "He just wanted to use a delayed strategy to go to Jinling to ask for help. I might as well agree to him and wait for their reinforcements to annihilate them together. At that time, he could only devote himself to surrendering from the city!" Chai Rong then left his troops under the city of Haozhou and moved his own troops to attack Sizhou.

Soon, Chai Rong heard that hundreds of warships in the Southern Tang Dynasty were on the east side of Huanshui, preparing to rescue Haozhou. Chai Rong personally led his troops and sent a navy force at night. The army attacked at the same time. The Later Zhou army defeated the Southern Tang army at the cave entrance and beheaded more than 5,000 levels. More than 2,000 surrendered Southern Tang soldiers. The Later Zhou army took advantage of the momentum to beat the drum and march eastward, and was conquered wherever they went.

As the vanguard, Zhao Kuangyin quickly arrived at the city of Sizhou. Zhao Kuangyin immediately attacked the south of the city, took advantage of the opportunity to burn the city gate, and broke through the water camp and Yuecheng. Chai Rong then climbed to the Yuecheng Tower and supervised the soldiers to attack Sizhou City.

Fan Zai, the garrison of Sizhou in Southern Tang, was panicked and had to lead the city to surrender.

Zhao Kuangyin entered the city and prohibited the plunder, and did not commit any crime. Chai Rong received the report and issued an edict to appoint Fan Zaiyu as the Suzhou Tuanjian envoy. Chai Rong arrived at the city of Sizhou and ordered the army to cut grass and harvest firewood not to invade the farmers' fields. The farmers were grateful and happy and rushed to deliver food and grass. After conquering Sizhou, no soldier dared to enter the city without authorization.

Chai Rong heard that hundreds of warships in the Southern Tang Dynasty were moored at the entrance of the cave, so he sent cavalry to reconnaissance and learned that the Southern Tang army retreated to Qingkou. Chai Rong did not enter the city and advanced in three directions.

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