After Xu Xuan arrived in Chuzhou, after some visits and investigations, he found that there was cattiness in it, and local officials wantonly robbed the people's land to use as a tun field, forcing the people who had lost their land to have nowhere to seek justice. After Xu Xuan learned of these circumstances, he immediately ordered the return of the people's land, and the people rushed to tell each other about the news, and they cried with joy, and Xu Xuan became the "Xu Qingtian" of the people of Chuzhou overnight, and his popularity soared.
Then Seo Hyun goes to see Cha Yangui, reprimands him for his misdeeds, and plans to publish his faults. Che Yangui was ashamed and angry, I am the Minister of Chincha, you corrupt Confucian actually dare to call me a fight!
Che Yangui decided to give Xu Xuan a chance to get off the horse, and immediately fei pigeon sent a letter to his close allies in the imperial court, asking them to give Xu Xuan a few "kind words" in front of Li Jing. Those fox friends understood the spirit, and every day in Li Jing's ear muttered xu xuan in Chuzhou's arrogance, boldness, insulting local officials, and openly banning the expansion of Tuntian...
Li Jing's ears were already soft, and when he heard such words every day, he was naturally furious, and without even thinking about it, he summoned Xu Xuan back to Beijing for questioning.
An enraged Li Jing even planned to throw Xu Xuan into the Yangtze River and drown him at first, but only later calmed down and waited for Xu Hyun to return to Beijing to settle the account. Li Jing angrily waited for Xu Xuan in Jinling, do you think there will be any good fruit to eat when you return to Beijing at this time?
Xu Xuan did not dare to resist the will, and could only go back with a hard scalp, Li Jing scolded him, his anger subsided, and finally exiled him to Shu prefecture (present-day Qianshan, Anhui). Although Xu Xuan was exiled, he made such a fuss, and the harsh policies such as the White Water Pond Servitude in Chu Prefecture were also abolished, which was really a good thing for the people.
The famine in the Southern Tang Lasted from June of the eleventh year of Baoda (953) to March of the twelfth year (954), for nearly a year. In order to solve the problem of the survival of the people, Li Jing had to issue an edict asking the local governments to open porridge shacks and provide emergency relief.
In the Southern Tang Dynasty, li jing was plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters all day, and where there was still ambition to expand the territory, not to mention that the mess in Fujian and Hunan was still there. In this way, Li Jing's policy was forced to gradually become conservative, and he could no longer see the momentum of forging ahead in the early days of his ascension to the throne.
The Southern Tang turned conservative, but others opened the expansion mode, and the real danger of the Southern Tang finally came.
Others here are talking about the Later Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains.
Later Zhou was the last of the Five Dynasties, and the founding monarch Taizu Guo Wei was originally a general of the Later Han Dynasty, but later because he was chased and killed by the suspicion of the Han Yin Emperor Liu Chengyou, in order to save his life, he had to rebel and invaded Kaifeng to overthrow the Later Han and establish the Later Zhou.
The reason why the name of the country was zhou was because the ancestor of the Guo surname was Guo Xu of the Eastern Zhou royal family, and Guo Wei chose the ancient name of Zhou as his dynasty name in order to attach gold to himself.
In June of the thirteenth year of Bao da (955), a mission from afar arrived at Jinling City, and the troubles of the Southern Tang Came to the door.
This mission came from as far away as Sichuan, where the Later Shu regime, one of the Ten Kingdoms, was entrenched. Later Shu was preceded by Former Shu, and throughout the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Sichuan region was ruled by two small regimes, Former Shu and Later Shu. Former Shu was founded by the late Tang Dynasty Xichuan Jiedushi and The Shu King Wang Jian, and the Later Shu was founded by the Later Tang general Meng Zhixiang, and these two Shu states, like Yang Wu's Southern Tang, were inherited before and after.
Moreover, Former Shu and Later Shu are very similar, and they have only been passed down for two generations of emperors, and the second generation died.
Then why did Later Shu suddenly send envoys to Jinling at this time to meet Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who had nothing to do with it?
This has to mention the Battle of Shu launched in the later zhou.
The thirteenth year of the Southern Tang Dynasty corresponds to the second year of Xiande in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the countries that were called emperors during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms all had their own era names, and in the same year, there were several era names used throughout the country at the same time. Xiande was the era name of Emperor Chai Rong of Zhou, who was Guo Wei's adopted son, and it was said that he was not qualified to inherit the throne, but when Guo Wei rebelled, the wives and children who remained in Kaifeng were all killed by Liu Chengyou, saying that although the empress had several sons, they were all young and could not afford the Jiangshan Sheji of Great Zhou.
Chai Rong's aunt Empress Chai happened to be childless, so she adopted her nephew Chai Rong as a son, changed her name to Guo Rong, and became Guo Wei's nominal concubine, which smoothly took the throne.
Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was a rare master of great talent and strategy during the Five Dynasties period, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he was determined to expand the territory and unify the world that had been divided for decades. Therefore, under his plot, Hou Zhou frequently used troops to the outside world, and the aforementioned conquest of Murong Yanchao of Yanzhou was an example.
In the face of the strong rise of Chai Rong, Wu Yue, Jingnan and other wall-headed grass regimes have bowed down to the subordinates and changed to the name of Xiande Nian. Those regimes that persist in stubborn resistance to the end are naturally enemies of Chai Rong, and Chai Rong wants to greet them one by one.
The first thing to greet is the Later Shu regime.
Why was Hou Shu the first to be recruited?
Because Later Zhou's power expanded to the Guanzhong region near Chang'an, and Later Shu became neighbors, Hou Shu controlled four prefectures in the northern foothills of the Qin Mountains, including Qin Prefecture (present-day Qin'an, Gansu), Fengzhou (present-day Feng county, Shaanxi), Chengzhou (present-day Chengxian County, Gansu), and Jiezhou (present-day Wudu, Gansu). These four states are the throat of Shu, and they belong to the places where soldiers and families must fight, and Chai Rong dreams of taking the four states and spying on Shuzhong.
The emperor who reigned in Later Shu at that time was the later lord Meng Chang, the son of Meng Zhixiang. This Meng Chang is a famous emperor in the five generations, absurd, arrogant and extravagant, he does not pay attention to the government on weekdays, he only cares about the flowers and flowers of Madame Huarui, and even the night pot he uses is inlaid with pearl agate, so absurd and luxurious, it is not far from the fall of the country.
It was precisely because Chai Rong saw this that he decided to take the knife first and then open the knife.