The battle in the South China Sea was a great victory, but this was far from the end. For the entire Sui Dynasty, this war was just a crack in the rule of the Lingnan chiefs who were originally independent of the Central Plains dynasty. There was a long way to go to completely control Lingnan.
In fact, it was easy for the Sui Dynasty to occupy Lingnan in name only. With a few official orders, the major families were basically reduced. People like Feng An and Li Guangdu were ambitious, but only for Lingnan. As long as the court allowed them to continue to control Lingnan, it would be the same to them no matter who they surrendered to.
So in history, their masters Lin Shihong, Xiao Xian, and Li Tang changed like a revolving door, but nothing happened to them.
And once the imperial court dares to tighten its rule over Lingnan, this group of people will dare to rebel. In the tenth year of the founding of the emperor, Feng Xuan rebelled with the Chen family and was pardoned; in the eighth year of Wude, Ning Changzhen, Tan Dian, Ning Daoming, and Pang Xiaogong rebelled. After Ning Changzhen died of illness, his son Ning Huizao continued to be the governor; and in the Zhenguan period, , Li Shimin attacked Feng Ang several times, but as soon as Feng Ang came to Beijing, the officials in Luodou, Lingnan, rebelled. Until Feng Ang's death, Li Shimin did not capture him
There are countless such examples.
In Huang Mingyuan's view, the most serious and irreparable mistake Li Yuan and Li Shimin made was that they were too indulgent towards the surrounding barbarians. They even pioneered the establishment of a hereditary system in the Jisi area and granted these areas in the name of the central government. The righteousness of the powerful and local chiefs turned the former official officials in the border areas completely into local officials, which caused the central government's hundreds of years of management of the border areas to come to nothing since the Qin Dynasty.
Li and his son made mistakes, so Chang'an was occupied many times by Tubo, Uighur and other barbarians. But this policy not only affected the entire Tang Dynasty, but also directly changed the pattern of China's 1,500-year rule over surrounding areas.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were more than a dozen generations of monarchs, including Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Yongzheng, etc., but it took five hundred years to complete the reform of the southwest region. The crux of the problem was caused by Li Shimin and his son.
Therefore, no matter how much effort Huang Mingyuan put in and no matter how high the price he paid, he still had to settle the matter.
?? 强牺  读牺。The imperial court can allow the existence of local powerful people and chiefs. This is an objective reality and no one can change it in a short time. But it must be guaranteed that he will be transferred to the official position. This is the bottom line.
Local powerful and powerful chiefs are passed down from generation to generation, and there are always unworthy descendants. If it is a local official, hereditary internally, there will be opportunities to correct mistakes. Because of the hereditary system, the court cannot intervene at all. But if they are exiled and the imperial court intervenes, maybe within one or two generations, these powerful and powerful chiefs can be brought down, or at least weakened.
After the war, Chen Leng did not deal with the prisoners directly. Instead, he took the captured people such as Ning Huizao and Li Yun and the surrendered people such as Ning Xuan and Pang Xiaogong to the battlefield to watch the post-war scene of the coalition camp.
Yesterday's fierce battle, many people were captured in the chaos, and they did not intuitively feel the horror of this battle. This time Chen Leng wanted to make these people feel real fear.
Ning Huizao, Li Yun and others were trembling with fear. Even the head of the family was afraid of death. Several captured people thought they were going to be executed directly when they saw this posture.
Everyone was brought to Yushui, where a high platform had been temporarily erected.
Chen Leng walked to the stage first, pointed into the distance and said, "Everyone, come up and take a look!"
A group of people climbed onto the high platform tremblingly and looked around. But when they looked at it, many people were so frightened that they trembled with fear and their legs trembled.
What you see is the horrific scene after the war.
The entire camp was almost completely burned to the ground, with many fire points still burning. And countless corpses were ignited by fire, or burned to charcoal, or burned in the fire to stink.
Inside and outside the camp, corpses littered the fields, with mutilated corpses everywhere. Blood followed the ditches and gathered together, slowly forming a small river.
And further away, the Yushui River was filled with all kinds of corpses, like boats in the water, with no end in sight.
Chen Leng pointed to the distance and said: "The opposite side is yesterday's battlefield. What do you think?"
At this time, Ning Huizao knelt down on the ground with a plop, and shouted with some horror: "The Heavenly Army is above, we savages, do not know the king's behavior, offended the Heavenly Army, please forgive us!"
With Ning Huizao taking the lead, many people also knelt down.
Many people hesitated, but finally followed, and in the end only Feng Ang and Ning Xuan were left.
Chen Leng looked at Ning Xuan and then at Feng An.
Ning Xuan couldn't help but kneel down first, while Feng Ang looked at the people around him and felt helpless, but he had no choice but to kneel down along with him. No matter how reluctant she is, Feng can't take the lead.
Seeing Feng An kneel down, Chen Leng also breathed a sigh of relief. He was always afraid of someone taking the lead in everything. If these Lingnan nativesIf the chief doesn't cooperate, how can he act in this scene.
At this time, Chen Leng stepped forward quickly, helped Feng An up, then held his hand and said: "Mingda, why are you kneeling down? In today's battle, you, the Feng family, take the lead, and I will take the place of Shenwei Wei." Thank you very much, soldier."
Feng Ang was shocked. What he was most afraid of was that this matter would be made public. He still wanted to get involved in the Lingnan circle and couldn't ruin his reputation.
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Feng Ang just wanted to say something, but Chen Leng didn't give him a chance.
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Chen Leng looked at Feng An with a smile on his face, then turned to the surprised people and said, "Why, you don't know yet? Duke Wei had already ordered Mingda to be the Minister of the Ministry of Commerce. In a few days, Mingda will go to Xindu Take office. The ministers of various ministries, the official worship of the second rank (formerly the third rank of the Zhengzong system in the Sui Dynasty), are only one step away from the position of prime minister. Everyone, it won't be long before our Lingnan will have its first prime minister."
Everyone looked at Feng An in stunned silence, and earth-shaking changes took place in their hearts. The fact that Feng An was named Shangshu in advance means that Feng Ang had long been connected with the Sui Dynasty, and Feng Ang was the first advocate of the South China Sea War. The implications are terrifying if you think about it carefully.
¡°There are not many fools who can be the head of a family. Everyone soon understood that Feng Ang had tricked all of them. Feng Ang used the blood of Lingnan families to gain the position of prime minister.
Many people¡¯s eyes changed when they looked at Feng Ang. It turns out that it was Feng An who caused them to be in this situation today.
Some of the older ones were better off, while some of the younger ones looked at Feng Ang with eyes full of hatred.
Control the big one and control the owl. At this time, Ning Xuan stepped forward, bowed to Feng An, and said with a smile: "Mingda, you didn't tell us about such a good thing before, so we can celebrate it for you."
Feng An, Ning Changzhen, Ning Xuan, and Li Guangdu are from the same generation and are in the same circle with each other. Although they fight with each other, their relationship is not bad on the surface.
Feng An knew very well that Ning Xuan really hated himself for what he said today.
Feng Ang looked at everyone and wanted to say something, but couldn't. There was really nothing to say. After today, the Feng family will have to cling tightly to the Great Sui Dynasty. Once the Great Sui Dynasty abandons the Feng family, every family in Lingnan will probably eat the Feng family alive