Chapter 430 The Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit
"Has Qin Lang not left Guizhou yet?"
In the city of Guangzhou, Sima Feng An, the Governor-General of Guangdong Province, met the Chief Shi Gao Shilian. After returning to the official residence, he immediately asked his nephew Feng You.
"Li Xizhi and Xu Jingzong have arrived in Guizhou with a large number of officials selected by the Ministry of Officials, and are currently handing over official duties one after another. Qin Lang is still in Guizhou."
"However, Annan Changshi Li Daliang has already gone south to Jiaozhou first."
Feng An was a little tired.
Since he complained of illness in Hengyang and failed to inform Qin Lang of the news of Cao Wuzheng's rebellion in time, Qin Lang's relationship with him was extremely indifferent. Although he rushed five hundred miles south from Hengyang to Guilin, he was still one step too late. When he arrived, Qin Lang not only subdued the tens of thousands of mountain barbarians, but also executed Cao Wuzheng. The soldiers in Guilin City were bloodless, and Cao's party was killed by Qin Lang without even splashing a splash.
He wanted to have a good talk with Qin Lang in Guilin, but he stayed for a few days and was not even allowed to enter the city, let alone meet Qin Lang. Qin Lang only sent his subordinates to tell him that he was busy with business and had no time to entertain him for the time being.
Feng An waited and waited, and after being shut down for several days, he finally felt ashamed to stay any longer, so he had to leave a letter expressing his apology, and then went down the river to Guangzhou.
After arriving in Guangzhou, he sent someone to send several letters of apology to Qin Lang, as well as a lot of gifts, and returned to Qin Lang's men, bought a lot of supplies and waited for them to go.
Unexpectedly, Qin Lang accepted the gifts and supplies, but he didn't give a single word of the letter back. He just asked someone to bring a sentence, saying that the things have been received, and the heart has been taken.
Gone.
"This Qin Lang is too crazy!" Feng You said.
"He has the capital to be crazy, and besides, I was wrong about what happened this time. I was obsessed with ghosts for a while, but the relationship I managed to get along with was ruined."
To put it bluntly, he just didn't report what he knew, intending to test Qin Lang's abilities. To put it bluntly, he was suspected of killing someone with a borrowed knife.
So Qin Lang didn't give him any face, even the emperor of Chang'an knew about it, and gave his eldest son Zhidai a warning in Chang'an.
This is already very severe.
Feng An deeply regretted it, so there was nothing to mess around with.
Originally, the effect of entering Beijing this time was good, satisfying the emperor, and he also made a powerful ally, Qin Lang, who went south together, and the relationship was good, but because of his mistake, the relationship between the two parties has dropped to freezing point, and the emperor still treats him. Extremely dissatisfied.
Although he intends to restore tension, Qin Lang just doesn't pick up on it.
Judging from the series of things Qin Lang did in Guizhou, Feng An felt a bit threatened again.
Qin Lang was in Guizhou, cleaning up the remnant party of Cao Wuzheng, disbanding the old soldiers and horses, and then building a new township regiment, transferring officials from Chang'an, and even setting up a new Jimi county magistrate in the mountainous area with many barbarians as county magistrates. And it's not limited to this, he also opened a market with the barbarians, built a post station and so on.
Nowadays, the Han and barbarian families in Guizhou are lively and lively.
On the surface, Gaozhou, Leizhou, and Qiongzhou Island controlled by the Feng family are far away from Guizhou.
In the past, the Feng family relied on marrying the leader of the slang tribe, the Xian family, to stabilize their position and power. They kept suppressing other slang officials in the mountains, opened up Xinzhou counties, and once controlled more than 20 states.
Now the more than 20 prefectures given to Feng and Xian by the imperial court have been merged into five prefectures, and the remaining prefectures have been changed into counties.
But what Feng An was worried about was the new policies implemented by Qin Lang in Guizhou. If the results were good, maybe the next step would be to implement them in other places in Lingnan.
At that time, if Qin Lang gets along well with the bureaucrats under his rule, and assigns them another ten or twenty barbarian counties, and grants those barbarian leaders who have always been suppressed by the Feng family as county magistrates, that would be a big deal. It's troublesome.
Qin Lang is likely to use barbarians to counter his Feng family.
Feng An is very obedient to the imperial court, and that is only on the premise that the imperial court is willing to maintain his core interests. The core interest of the Feng family is to ensure that the actual control over the southwestern part of the south of the Lingnan area that their family has established for two hundred years remains unchanged. . Feng An didn't care whether the imperial court wanted to merge the prefectures and counties, or change the governor to be the governor, or change it to be the governor of the world, etc. Feng An didn't care, it was just a title.
As long as the actual control remains unchanged, no matter what name the Feng family in Lingnan changes to, whether it is the general manager, the governor, or the governor, the Feng family will still be the king of this land.
But if this fact is touched, Feng Ang will never allow it.
This is the bottom line.
At the beginning of the fifth year of Wude, Ning Changzhen planned to forcibly naturalize in Lingnan and collect taxes to abolish the officials elected in the south because the imperial court refused his tribute to Hepu Dazhu. Then Feng An raised troops to fight for rebellion.
This is actually just a play put on by the Feng family themselves.
The purpose was actually to show the court. Ning Changzhen, Feng An and others rebelled, to tell the court that Lingnan would never accept such a change. And Feng Ang, Chen Shulong and others' rebellion were nothing more than telling the court that the situation in Lingnan was not hopeless.
In short, none of them want the imperial court to intervene in the situation in Lingnan, let alone change the fundamentals of Lingnan.
The original effect is still possible.
But this time, Feng An smelled a crisis again.
But now it seems that things have changed.
Feng An's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, and his judgment has always been excellent.
But now, he sensed the danger, and felt that Qin Lang seemed to be sharpening his sword.
"I don't think Qin Lang has any good intentions when he goes south."
Feng You persuaded his uncle, "What Qin Lang did in Guizhou has actually completely disrupted the structure of Guizhou in the era of Li Xizhi and Cao Wuzheng. The old forces have almost been eradicated and suppressed. Now Chang'an has sent officials to send The government soldiers came, and Qin Lang formed a new army of township regiments, all of which changed the structure of Guizhou in the past 20 years. Although Li Xizhi was appointed as the governor of Guizhou again, in fact, this time is the same as that in the seventh year of Wude. It’s different coming back.”
In the fifth year of Wude, Li Xizhi entered the court and was changed to be the governor of Jiangzhou. When he came back more than a year later, the structure of Guizhou did not change. of that force.
But this time it was different, Li Xizhi came back again, but Cao Wuzheng was punished. It turned out that all the Guizhou military was taken over by one pot, and all of Li Xizhi's old subordinates were also purged.
So Li Xizhi came back, but he was already alone.
The original local power group in Guizhou has now been completely eliminated, and this time it will be fully replaced by the officials from the Central Plains.
In the final analysis, Guizhou has really changed its mind.
Chang’an has wiped out all the people in Guizhou who have always been more pro-imperial, so will they let go of other forces in Lingnan?
"What is Tan Dian doing?"
Feng An asked, "Before Cao Wuzheng had close contacts with Tan Dian and others, but now that Cao Wuzheng has been killed, can Tan Dian still sit?"
"Tan Dian is currently actively contacting all the barbarians in Lingxi, Zuoximan, Youximan, Dunijiangman, Tanjiangman, Rongximan, and Manjiangman. They are all in contact, giving gifts like crazy!"
What Feng You said are all the big tribal forces in South of the Five Ridges today. The Zuoximan are those tribes in the Zuojiang area of the upper reaches of the Yongjiang River, and the Youximan are the barbarians living on both sides of the Youjiang River in the upper reaches of the Yongjiang River. department.
The Dunijiang River, Tanjiang River, Rongxi River, and Manjiang River are all important rivers in south of the Five Ridges, and both sides are dominated by uncivilized areas, inhabited by a large number of Liao, Li and barbarian tribes.
"It seems that Tan Dian is also afraid!" Feng An said, "This Tan Dian is smart, knowing that Qin Lang is coming, so now he wants to bring together the barbarians from all ministries."
"Uncle, Qin Langnan came here this time, the picture is not small, we Lingnan people must unite."
"Stupid!" Feng An cursed.
Although he was worried about Qin Lang, the situation was unclear now, and he was jumping up and down at this time, wasn't he deliberately attracting the court's target?
"Let Tan Dian make trouble!"
"But the lips are dead and the teeth are cold. Once Qin Lang can't compete with Qin Lang, it will be dangerous."
"No matter how powerful Qin Lang is, he just went south alone. Although Tan Dian is reckless, he still has some skills. Even if he can't beat Qin Lang, he won't be defeated so easily. As long as he can really connect with the people in various streams , Qin Lang's current strength can't help him."
"What if?"
"What if? If Qianglong insists on overpowering the snake, then you can go talk to your second uncle Feng Xuan, and then talk to your uncle Feng Baoche."
Feng An's meaning is obvious.
It is true that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, but the Feng family has to hold back. If it is impossible, let Feng Xuan and Xian Baoche also come out, but Feng An will continue to raise the flag to be loyal to the court.
In this way, the Feng family can truly advance or retreat.
Although Feng An was married to Qin Lang's family when he was in Chang'an, once the foundation of his Feng family was touched, Feng An would never miss that kind of affection.
"Send ten boats of money and food to Qin Lang, and tens of thousands of horses and horses will be stranded in Guizhou, and the expenses will be high. When the goods are delivered, the boats and people will not have to come back, and they will be sent to Qin Lang together. "
"Pick ten ships with thousands of materials, remember."
Feng You was puzzled, he just said that he wanted to work with Qin Lang, why did he want to send money and food, and also send a ship to send people, a ship with thousands of materials? This is a very big ship. This kind of merchant ship with a thousand materials is specially used to run from Guangzhou to Yongzhou and Liuzhou River (Pearl River). It is 1.8 feet wide, 8 feet 5 feet deep, and has a volume of about 10.7 cubic feet.
Shipyards generally use one cubic foot as one hundred materials, round off the zero, so this kind of ship is a thousand materials ship, (converted to a displacement of one material is about 0.24 tons, and one thousand materials is a displacement of 240 tons )
Ten thousand material ships can hold 107 cubic meters of cargo, with a total displacement of 2,400 tons.
Fully loaded with money and food supplies, this is not a small sum, not to mention, ten thousands of material ships and boatmen and sailors are even more valuable.
But Feng An just said indifferently, "Unless it is absolutely necessary, you can't fight against Qin Lang, let alone the court. Mere money, food and ships are nothing. If money, food and ships can only be exchanged for Qin Lang's friendship, then even It is he who wants a hundred ships of thousands of materials and supplies of money and food for a hundred ships, and I will find a way to send them to him!"
This is Feng An, King of Lingnan, who always likes Duofangbuzi.
The cunning rabbit still has three caves, and Feng An will never just put all his eggs in one basket.
The young Feng You was puzzled, even Qin Lang was so unfeeling, why did the Feng family rush to give him gifts and ships? If he took money, food and boats, but still attacked the Feng family, wouldn't the Feng family lose their wife and lose their army?
(end of this chapter)