Chapter 638: Troubled times are not about oil, salt, sauce and vinegar!
With a few chi chi sounds, a few strong wisps of wind shot through the air!
Feng Jiuxiao signed the blood contract with all the others in one go!
He is not polite at all!
Signing the blood contract is already a huge forgiveness for them! As the deputy commander of the Imperial City Department of the Great Zhou Dynasty, I caught five "spies" in one fell swoop and put them to death on the spot.
The reason why we don’t kill them is to keep them useful!
As "Emperor's Special Envoys", they are equivalent to imperial envoys carrying imperial edicts. Their status is naturally respected, and they are unlikely to travel alone, so there should be their accompanying bodyguards nearby.
In addition, there must be their colleagues in the Central Plains. Usually for such military and national events, in addition to these few people standing in front of the stage, at least there will be an old fox behind the scenes!
Those dozen carrier pigeons that flew away just now were most likely heading to that old fox! It won't be long before those people get the news that the five people have met!
Killing them rashly at this time will naturally alert the snake! Not only will the nearby bodyguards notice the abnormality, but those old foxes will also know about it soon!
They will definitely send another special envoy, and their whereabouts will naturally be more secretive!
So instead of killing these people, it is better to keep them alive as your spies!
Only when you know yourself and the enemy can you fight without danger!
If it weren't for a coincidence, Feng Jiuxiao would never have thought that these fringe dynasties located in the far north and south would actually come together to discuss a conspiracy to jointly annex the great Zhou Dynasty!
Damn it, do you still want to go to Wu Huan Central Plains again?
Speaking of which, these five countries can really be called the Five Hus!
Although the Northern Han and Southern Tang used the banner of Han orthodoxy, compared with the Great Zhou Dynasty, they were definitely not Han orthodox!
After all, the Great Zhou Dynasty continued the kingdoms of Liang, Tang, Jin, and Han Dynasty. At least the capital was not moved. Moreover, Emperor Sejong worked hard to govern, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. From the temples to the rivers and lakes, everyone recognized the orthodox status of the Great Zhou Dynasty!
The Northern Han Dynasty was much worse. They originally had a good hand, but they played badly. They actually regarded Khitan as their father and brother, and were willing to be their lackeys. It is not unfair at all to say that he was a barbarian!
It was understandable that the Southern Tang Dynasty claimed to be descendants of Li Tang, but now there are disputes within the major dynasties. Some people point out that in the past, the royal bloodline of the Tang Dynasty itself had Xianbei blood. The grandmother of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin's mother was the Gu family, and his mother was the Dou family.
They are all Xianbei people, so from the source, the Li and Tang dynasties can no longer be regarded as Han orthodox!
It's just that Li Tang was too powerful at that time. Emperor Taizong was called "Khan of Heaven", which was the highest peak of the King of Kings, and they regarded themselves as Han surnames, so naturally no one would mention these "trivial matters".
But this time is the same as the other! Now the Southern Tang Dynasty also claims to be of Li Tang bloodline, so that won’t do! The great Confucians of the major dynasties gathered together to attack and severely criticized!
Criticizing the unorthodox status of the Southern Tang Dynasty and criticizing the illegality of imperial power are naturally intended to highlight the orthodox status of each dynasty’s “divine right and unified destiny”!
Even if Emperor Shizong of the Great Zhou Dynasty didn't say anything about this kind of thing, the ministers below would naturally understand it!
First of all, Taifu Gao Li pointed out that the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty "faked his bloodline and was shameless and hypocritical"!
Because the founder of the Southern Tang Dynasty was named Xu Zhigao, not Li, and his father Xu Wen was not even close to the Li family!
If it is a forced relationship, it can be far-fetched to build a relationship. Xu Wen is Yang Wo's general, and Yang Wo is Yang Xingmi's son, and Yang Xingmi is the military governor of Huainan Town in the Tang Dynasty!
That's all!
As everyone knows what happened later, Yang Xingmi called himself King of Wu!
Then there is the cliché story. Xu Wen, the general under King Wu Yang Xingmi, had a similar experience to Cao Cao. Through power struggle, he gradually controlled the military and political power for twenty years!
He worshiped the King of Wu as if he were the emperor of the Han Dynasty. To put it politely, he called the emperor to control the princes! To put it crudely, he emptied the imperial power and raised the emperor like a dog. He let him bark when he needed it, but he didn't need it.
Let him go back to his nest when the time comes!
His final outcome was exactly the same as Cao Cao's, that is, he never became emperor until his death!
The world is so magical. His son Xu Zhigao was just like Cao Cao's son Cao Pi. As soon as I died, he immediately fell out with the emperor!
On the one hand, he tried his best to be gentle to the old ministers of the Yang family, "high positions and noble titles, and promote old friends"; on the other hand, he vigorously supported his confidants and cultivated power!
It wasn't until the so-called "one's wings were fully formed, and one was able to extend his support to the masses" that he finally found an opportunity to depose Emperor Wu Yang Pu, ascend to the throne, and found the country named Da Qi and the reign name Min Yuan!
"Be obedient from above to below, and no one will have any objections"!
"There is no relative with the Yi surname in the country"!
Here’s the point. He just founded the country with the name Daqi. I don’t know where he went wrong. In the second year, he actually changed his name to Li Min, made Jinling the capital of the country, and Yangzhou the eastern capital. At the same time, he changed the country.
The name is Tang, and it is commonly known as Southern Tang.
This wave of god-level operations left everyone a little confused and confused as to what he meant.
So many people used this to criticize him for being hypocritical and shameless, pretending to be a descendant of the Li family, and putting money on his face!
Just post it, and it was posted to the Xianbei people. This naturally gave those great scholars the opportunity to show off their skills in verbal criticism and writing!
However, according to secret reports from bad people in the Imperial City Department of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty was actually quite ambitious. He told his ministers all day long that he would succeed Tang Zuo and rule the world!
We must restore the glory of the Tang Dynasty!
No wonder they claim to be descendants of the Li family, because they want to use the Li family’s banner to compete for the world!
The reason why Gao Li looked down on the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty was not just because of the conflict of interests between the two dynasties of Tang and Zhou Dynasties, but because he believed that the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty was much smaller than Emperor Shizong!
Emperor Sejong also wanted to unify the world, but his first goal was to recapture the Sixteen States of Yanyun and regain the lost territory of the previous dynasty from the brave and skilled Khitan iron riders!
This is the courage a Central Plains emperor should have!
But Nan Tang is a bit petty and always wants to fight among himself!
Today he will attack Zhou Dynasty, tomorrow he will attack Wu Yue, and sometimes he will harass Nan Han Dynasty. It seems that he wants to dominate the world, but in fact he has no idea what he wants to do!
If the Southern Tang Dynasty had not harassed Dazhou from time to time, Dazhou would not have had much hostility towards the Southern Tang Dynasty!
Because in addition to the Khitan cavalry in the north, the Northern Han Dynasty was also buzzing around in front of Shizong like flies all day long. Emperor Shizong was really in no mood to pay attention to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he didn't have the time!
All his energy is focused on dealing with the threat from the north!
But now the Southern Tang not only wanted to invade the Zhou Dynasty, but also led the wolf into the house. It wanted to conspire with Japan, Tubo, Xishu, and the Northern Han Dynasty to prepare to jointly send troops. This was a bit too much!
Japan belongs to the Yamato ethnic group, Tubo belongs to the Tubo ethnic group, the Northern Han Dynasty is a son of the Khitan, so it is not considered Han, the Southern Tang Dynasty is classified as the Xianbei ethnic group, and the emperor of Western Shu is said to be a descendant of Meng Huo and has the blood of the Yi ethnic group. These five families jointly attacked the Dahe people.
In Zhou Dynasty, there was quite a trend of the second "Five Chaos in the Central Plains"!
In the past, the first Wuhu Chaos occurred in the Central Plains during the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty! That bloody war history was the most miserable period for the people of the Central Plains and the darkest period for the Central Plains government!
In the final analysis, it was Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty who was so incompetent that he caused the eight kings to rebel, leading to the split of the Jin Dynasty, empty national power, and poor people's livelihood. Due to years of civil war, the Jin Dynasty's military power declined rapidly, which gave the opportunity for foreign invasion!
Five large Hu tribes, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Qiang, and Di, took advantage of the situation to raise troops and invade the Central Plains!
The Central Plains has been in chaos since then!
Over the past hundreds of years, dynasties have changed with dizzying frequency! On average, a dynasty changes every eleven years or so!
Historians believe that this was the historical period with the longest division and the most frequent turmoil in the Central Plains since the Qin Dynasty!
Therefore, this period is called "troubled times" by all historians!
The bloodiest and darkest!
The most obvious feature of the Hu people's rule is "cruelty"!
Expropriation and expropriation, killing innocent people indiscriminately!
"Book of Jin" says: "Luo Jing was overthrown, and the ladies of Zhongzhou fled to the south of the Yangtze River to cause chaos."
The people are displaced, their lives are in ruins, they are starving to death, and they are in dire straits!
This is also the fundamental reason why the Central Plains people always resist the rule of the Hu people!
The emperors of the Central Plains basically followed the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, and recognized the principle that "water can carry a boat but also capsize it." The founding emperors of each dynasty basically valued recuperation, so the people's willingness to resist was not very strong. Some emperors did well.
People will still support it!
When Liu Xuande ran away in the past, the whole city wanted to run with him!
As the saying goes, “He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world”!
And the rule of the Hu people has been a bloody road since the founding emperor! How can there be any talk of benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust? How can there be such a thing as a king of heaven and earth? A row of people kill and kill!
First, he kills the people who resist his rule, then he kills the loyal ministers and good generals who always sing the opposite, and finally he kills anyone he dislikes!
Once a dynasty reaches the point of killing innocent people indiscriminately, its rule has come to an end, and it is time to replace it!
Troubled times are not about oil, salt, sauce and vinegar!