Chapter 1312 Lingbiao Rebellion

Chapter 1312 Lingbiao Rebellion

After the Battle of Jiangling, the relationship between the Guanzhong regime and the Southern Dynasties dropped to a freezing point. However, not long afterward, Northern Qi used actual actions to prove that its plot and threat to the Southern Dynasty was even greater. Especially after Chen Baxian came to power, in order to protect itself, it began to interact and cooperate more closely with the Guanzhong regime.

Today's Nanchen Emperor Chen Chang is more dependent on Guanzhong. Now he is able to stabilize the situation in Guanzhong, largely due to the support from the Guanzhong regime.

When the Tang Dynasty was founded at the beginning of the year, Chen Chang immediately sent an envoy to congratulate him and presented him with heavy gifts. His enthusiasm and enthusiasm even surpassed that of some ministers in the Tang Dynasty, and far exceeded those around the Tang Dynasty. Foreign political power, the diplomatic relations between the two sides are also very close.

However, as the time entered the middle of the year, the diplomatic relations between the two countries were cast into a haze.

Because when the Tang army marched to suppress the remaining forces in Qingzhou of the Northern Qi Dynasty, when taking stock of the results of the war, they discovered people from Nanchen among the prisoners of war. They were the envoys sent by Chen Qian, the Linchuan king of Nanchen, to Qingzhou to contact Gao Zhan, the puppet leader of the Northern Qi Dynasty. After Gao Zhan was escorted to Chang'an, he also confessed to Nanchen and Chen Qian's contact with each other and their intention to collude with each other to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

Within Nanchen, Chen Qian was originally a representative figure who resisted the alliance and reconciliation with the Tang Dynasty. Now that she has done such a thing, the Tang Dynasty court will naturally not expose it easily. So after the war against the remnants of the Northern Qi Dynasty came to an end for the time being, the imperial court immediately arranged for envoys to take relevant witnesses and material evidence to Jiankang, Jiangdong, and ask for an explanation from the Chen court in the south.

Chen Chang, the leader of the Nanchen Kingdom, did not know about this matter. It was not until the Tang envoy arrived in Jiankang that he found out that his cousin Chen Qian had done such a thing. He was furious. After confirming that the matter was not false, Chen Chang dispatched it first. The envoy came to Chang'an to apologize and asked the court to give him some time to calmly handle the relevant personnel matters and give an explanation to Datang.

In the blink of an eye, several months passed before the Nanchen envoy came to Chang'an again. However, this time he came not to give any instructions to the Tang Dynasty, but to ask for urgent help.

"A few days ago, the traitor Wang Lin suddenly led an army to attack Bashan southward. He attacked and killed Huang Fasu, the governor of Gaozhou in our country, and took advantage of the situation to advance to Luling. He also colluded with Chun Yuliang, the governor of Guizhou, to the west. He wanted to take control of Lingbei. If he did not attack it, he might be afraid that The thieves will flee to the south of Lingnan again. Now our country does not have enough troops and food to quell this chaos alone. Therefore, my lord specially sent ministers to report to the Tang Dynasty, begging the Supreme Being to send troops to help the battle and set up this ridge table. Chaos!"

After Chen Shi entered the court, he reported his future intentions, and his tone of voice was relatively urgent, which showed that the situation was quite urgent. In order to make His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty realize the seriousness of the situation, a relevant map was also attached to the submitted national list, which marked the trajectory of Wang Lin's rebellion activities and the Chun Yuliang Ministry who responded to it. Location.

Li Tai took the situation map and inspected it briefly. His brows immediately furrowed. At the same time, he secretly sighed in his heart. Wang Lin was indeed a powerful person in troubled times. He created a new situation.

As an old subordinate of Xiao Yi of Nanliang, Wang Lin never surrendered to Nanchen. Although he had sent people to express his submission to Li Tai, Li Tai did not accept his troops because he thought their military discipline was too corrupt. He just expelled them to Nanchuan, Jiangzhou, on the border with Nanchen, and used this troops as a way to restrict Nanchuan. Chen's forces are a third force that continues to develop westward.

Over the years, Wang Lin has played this role very well, causing trouble for Nanchen from time to time and excluding Nanchen's power from Jiangzhou. At the same time, it has not affected the normal development of diplomatic relations between Western Wei and Nanchen.

Especially when Chen Baxian of Nanchen died of illness and his son Chen Chang was put under house arrest by his cousin Chen Qian and others to seize power, Wang Lin also led the army to cooperate with the military operations of the Western Wei Dynasty at that time and gave considerable support to Nanchen's forces in the Nanchuan area. The attack put pressure on Jiankang, forcing Chen Qian to hand over her power obediently.

However, at that time, the Western Wei Dynasty also took advantage of the situation and took actual control of Yuzhang, which was originally occupied by Wang Lin, making the space for his activities even narrower. If he wanted to continue to expand his power, he could only continue to advance to the upper reaches of Zhejiang in Nanchen, and then threaten Jiangdong. In the Kuaiji area, this was also one of the routes that the Western Wei Dynasty wanted Wang Lin to take.

After that, another war started in the north, and the imperial court did not have much energy to pay attention to the situation there, and its control over Wang Lin was also relaxed. Unexpectedly, Wang Lin directly gave up her foothold in Jiangzhou and went south to open up the situation, and He actually let him break out.

Gaozhou in Nanchen is located to the west of Wuyi Mountain and north of Wuling. Huang Fashu, the governor of Gaozhou, is also one of the heroes of Nanchuan. Since Hou Jing's Rebellion, he has gathered all the township tribes to defend the township, and his influence in the local area is deeply rooted. Even after the Western Wei Dynasty took control of Yuzhang, it was blocked by this local force when it tried to expand downward along the Gan River.

The heroes of Nanchuan were a very important group of local armed forces active in the western border of Nanchen. Most of them took advantage of the Hou Jing Rebellion to become stronger, and each of them divided their own power. They only superficially respected the Nanchen court, but in fact they did their own things.

Historically, it was not until the period of Emperor Chen Wen and Chen Qian that Nanchen was able to relatively completely solve the problem of Nanchuan heroes separatizing one side. Although some of the Nanchuan heroes were exterminated, people such as Huang Fasu were willing to cooperate with the imperial court and give up their hometown power to join the imperial court. Those who served as officials also became the backbone generals in the middle and late periods of Nanchen.

Today's Nanchuan regime is weaker than at the same time in history. Although Chen Chang, the leader of Chen, has the support of the Chang'an court, it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to really build a relatively strong separatist regime in Jiangdong. Therefore, for the Nanchuan separatist regime They didn't give much help in dealing with the forces, and even deliberately made the situation here more complicated. Wang Lin was a beast of passage that was deliberately pushed here.

In today's Nanchen regime, although there are a group of people who are close to the Tang Dynasty, there are also some who are more resistant and hostile to the Tang Dynasty. Gaozhou governor Huang Fazhu belonged to the latter group. He was originally one of the powerful men who were relatively close to the Jiankang court. However, after the Western Wei Dynasty strongly supported Chen Chang, he gradually alienated his ties with the Jiankang court and instead strengthened his ties with the Jiankang court. The connection with Chen Qian, the king of Linchuan who is in charge of Wuxing.

Wang Lin was probably aware of this personnel rift, as well as the difficulties in coordinating the various forces in Nanchen. She actually jumped out of the restrictions in one fell swoop and attacked and killed Huang Fasu, a local snake who had been entrenched in the township for more than ten years. It freed up its own space for activities and at the same time got rid of Datang's control over it.

If it were just this, the situation would not be complicated. The General Administration of Yingzhou of the Tang Dynasty, including Jiangling, Xiangzhou and other places upstream, has always maintained a relatively large number of garrisons. Even if Wang Lin escapes from trouble, it will only be temporary. On a larger spatial level, she is still at a disadvantage. In the blockade of the Tang Army, the Tang Army could still use its movement to continue to strengthen its control over Nanchenzhou County.

For example, Gaozhou, where Wang Lin entered this time, had previously been resisted by local powerful forces such as Huang Fasu, and the Tang army did not focus on advancing there at that time, so it has maintained such a situation. But now that Wang Lin took the initiative to break this situation, the Tang army had reason to advance into Bashan, Luling and other places without causing too much resistance to Nanchen.

But the tricky thing about the situation this time is that Wang Lin not only messed around on her own, but also roped in another Nanchen Fangbo and Guizhou Governor Chun Yuliang, which made the situation a bit complicated.

Chun Yuliang was also an old subordinate of Xiao Yi in the Southern Liang Dynasty. He was appointed as the governor of Guizhou by Xiao Yi. He stayed in Guizhou after the fall of Jiangling. After that, although he also expressed his surrender to the Nanchen court, he did not serve as an official in the court. , but has been entrenched in the local area, and has become a powerful force.

Probably because they both came from Jiangling Military Mansion, Wang Lin and Chun Yuliang chose to join forces. As a result, Lingbei areas such as Gaozhou and Guizhou, which originally belonged to Nanchen, suddenly lost control, and Lingnan also fell into great uncertainty. For the current Nanchen, if this situation is left alone, it means that the territory that is not vast in the first place will lose half of it again!

Li Tai did not directly respond to Chen's envoy's request. He first placed the envoy and his entourage in the palace, and then convened the civil and military ministers to discuss the impact of this series of changes on the Tang Dynasty.

"Wang Lin and Chun Yuliang are both old officials of the Jing Mansion. They obey orders and are rebellious. Now they collude in Lingbei. They may shake the hearts of Jiangling and other places. This matter must not be tolerated and tolerated! Once there is another turmoil in Lingbei, it is inevitable that there will be Many personal matters will be revealed, and many innocent people will be implicated!"

As the prime minister, Xiao Yi also attended this meeting. Although Xiao Yi had been dead for many years, he still had an undying hatred for his uncle and called him ruthless. For Wang Lin and Chun Yuliang, the old relatives of Nanliang, They all have little affection, and even some hatred, hoping to put an end to these stirrings of personnel affairs as soon as possible, so as not to cause another farce of the remnants of Nanliang trying to revive the country, which will affect the current calm and stable life.

Sun Jian, the chief minister of the left servant of Shangshu, also spoke up and said: "This time Wang Lin escaped and Chun Yuliang rebelled against Chen Yingzhi. Of course, it was because Lord Chen lacked prestige and could not govern the pastoralists in Lingbiao from afar, but it must also be related to the change in the situation in the north. In particular, Chun Yuliang must have felt that the imperial court was about to move its scholars to the south to cultivate Xiangzhou, and he contacted Wang Lin because he was afraid that he would not tolerate me.

His plan was to recruit Wang Lin as his foreign aid. It would be good if he could deny Wang's army north of the Xiangjiang River and the entire state. If you can't resist Master Wang, you can also leave Lingnan to avoid it. Wang Lin has been a hungry jackal for a long time. Once it is nourished by it and wanders south of Lingnan, it will become even more difficult to control it! Although this is the Chen family's trouble, the generals of our country, who want to heal the rift in the sky, are leaving the bandits outside the ridge, and they are also causing trouble to me! "

After Changsun Jian finished speaking, he immediately received nods of approval from the officials present.

The previous defeat of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the reunification of the north had already excited the civil and military ministers of the Tang Dynasty. Now the Southern Dynasty is weak and has many internal worries. It cannot even put down the rebellion in the country. It can be seen that it is extremely weak and unification The great chaos that ended the division between the North and the South that lasted for hundreds of years has great appeal to everyone.

Although Chang Sunjian's words were discussing helping Nanchen to quell the chaos, they were actually talking about the plan to unify the north and the south. And this kind of awareness is not limited to them, the subjects of the Tang Dynasty. Some people in the Southern Dynasties, such as Guizhou Governor Chun Yuliang, have had little contact with Wang Lin, a former colleague, for so many years, but now they choose to join forces. It can be seen that they also feel the crisis of survival.

Not long ago, the imperial court just ordered a large number of Jinyang soldiers and civilians to move to Xiangzhou. In addition to accelerating the development of Xiangzhou, it was naturally also to further develop southward. Guizhou, where Chun Yuliang was located, was obviously the next target.

So, Chunyu Liang's current trouble is not so much a rebellion against Chen as a desperate struggle under the pressure of the Tang Dynasty. The Southern Chen side obviously realized this, and since they did not have enough power to send troops to quell the rebellion, they simply came to Chang'an for help.

It can be imagined that if the Tang Dynasty could send troops to quell the chaos caused by Wang Lin and Chunyu Liang, all the areas involved in the chaos would inevitably be controlled by the Tang Dynasty. In this way, the territory and power of the entire Southern Chen would be greatly reduced, leaving only the area centered on the Three Wus in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

"It is imperative to send troops this time, but the internal situation of Chen is also quite worrying. The relatives of the country are cunning and hostile to our country, and the Chen lord is weak and unable to control them. Once we take advantage of my use of troops upstream to plot changes below, I am afraid it will be difficult to guard against!"

Li Tai was also inclined to send troops, but when he thought that Chen Qian's collusion with Gao Zhan had not been explained, he was a little worried.

Now Chen Qian is entrenched in Wuxing, the core of the Three Wus. Even if the Tang army wants to punish him, it is out of reach. Moreover, he is entangled with some current and local tyrants who are hostile to the Tang Dynasty. Even Chen Chang, the leader of the Chen Dynasty, can hardly deal with him easily.

Especially now that such changes have occurred in Nanchuan and Lingbiao, Chen Chang must be more afraid to launch any internal purges. After all, although he relies on the Tang Dynasty, he also has the demand to maintain the current situation. It is impossible for him to stand on the position of the Tang Dynasty to help suppress the powerful factions in his own country.

Li Tai is very skeptical about Chen Chang's ability to control the situation. When Chen Baxian died before, he was controlled by Chen Qian and his brothers as the regent prince. It can be seen that this kid is far from his father's means and ability.

In order to ensure that the Tang Dynasty's deployment in the north of the Yangtze River would not be affected by the impact and to deter the hostile forces in the Southern Chen Dynasty, Li Tai made a request after weighing the pros and cons, asking Chen Tanlang, who was stationed in Guangling, to lead a group of troops to quell the rebellion with the Tang army, and Guangling would be temporarily guarded by Yangzhou General Yuerfeng.

If the Southern Chen Dynasty agreed to this condition, the Tang Dynasty would immediately send troops and only retain control over the riverside line. After the rebellion was quelled, all the prefectures and counties in Nanchuan, including Yuzhang and Poyang, east of the Gan River would be returned to the Southern Chen Dynasty. At the same time, Chen Qian's collusion with the remaining bandits of the Northern Qi Dynasty would not be pursued. The conditions were very generous.

Now the personnel and forces of the Southern Chen Dynasty are all concentrated in the Three Wus, which is not a good thing for the Tang Dynasty. In particular, there are a group of diehards such as Chen Qian and Hou Andu in this area. Before officially launching military operations to Jiangdong, it is actually necessary to divert the personnel and forces in the area outward.