Heng praised Li Xuanba for his word.
He changed into a sprinter’s clothes that are easy to walk. Every time he went to a banquet, he must have wide sleeves, and the hem of the clothes that could float high when the wind blew. He didn’t even need a wooden hairpin, but instead wore a tall crown and held a strange fan called a folding fan that others had never seen before.
When he went to the banquet, he did not drink any sake and turbid wine, but only drank the tea without adding any seasonings made from the tea leaves he brought. He rarely used meat and was mostly vegetarian. Although he often ate fish, crab and shrimps that Lingnan people often ate, he only ate fish, crab and shrimp boiled in plain water dipped in soy sauce.
When a chief general asked for a meeting, Li Xuanba was either playing the piano or reading and practicing calligraphy.
Chen Tieniu and Zhang Liang brought the guards of the King of Jin’s mansion to cover mosquito-proof gauze covers. Whenever someone came soon, they would shake the stick from the dark corner, turn the manual windmill to deliver the wind to Li Xuanba.
Li Xuanba stopped the elegant things in his hand and spread his arms to welcome the chief. The sudden strong wind swept through the leaves and flowers and filled his sleeves, and the horns of his robe rolled, like a fog flying into a fairy.
Another journey, compared to the smart people who care about the people, Li Xuanba’s reputation as a banished immortal is even more famous among scholars and chiefs.
At this time, someone promoted the mysterious deeds of Li Xuanba’s confrontation and summoning heavenly thunder. The people of Lingnan, who were quite convinced of the matters of gods and ghosts, were panicked and curious.
The official came to Lingnan, and ordinary people did not care about it; the official who came might be a god, and even the sluts in the mountains heard the sound of the wind.
After the heroes of Lingnan Road surrendered, Li Shimin established a prefecture in the central government. The governors of each state were not called governors and governors. They were united in military and political affairs. In fact, they recognized that the surrendered local tyrants still had the power to rule the original places and imposed a throne on the Lingnan states.
Because of the different divisions of powerful forces in Lingnan Road, it was divided into nine major governments: Guangzhou, Guifu, Jiaofu, Xunfu, Gaofu, Qinfu, Nandefu, Nankangfu, and Nanyinfu. Among these nine major governments, Guangzhou, Guifu, and Jiaofu had already been directly under the central government’s jurisdiction during the Sui Dynasty, and their governors were all old officials of the Sui Dynasty. After surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, they were all loyal to the Tang Dynasty and had no idea of independence. They wanted to do things well and quickly take their families back to Chang’an to enjoy their happiness.
The other six prefectures are governors by local tyrants, such as Feng Ang, the governor of Gao’s mansion.
Guangfu, Guifu and Jiaofu are the most important bases of the Tang Dynasty in Lingnan. The influence of the Tang Dynasty on Lingnan was all radiated by these three states.
Canton was originally the center of Lingnan. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, he was particularly disgusted with the expansion of local cities and destroyed the old capitals such as Yecheng and Jiankang. The Guangzhou Mansion was also deliberately dismembered and split, and corrupt officials were specially sent to ruin the Guangzhou Mansion, causing the originally prosperous core area of Guangzhou to decline rapidly.
Although the Tang Dynasty did not deliberately target the suppression of Cantonese, Cantonese has a small jurisdiction and a heavy positionThe importance is relatively low. Now Xue Daoheng, the general manager of Lingnan Road, is also the governor of the Canton Mansion, and no additional personnel are sent.
Guifu has Lingqu connecting to Chang’an, which is a bridgehead for Chang’an to control Lingnan Road. After the decline of Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, where Jiaofu is located, was convenient for sea routes, and could reach most prefectures and counties in Lingnan, and could also be connected to Jiangzuo and Zhongyuan sea routes, so it became the essential political and economic center in the eastern part of Lingnan Road.
Chief Li Liao served as the governor of the big and small prefectures among the continuous mountains between Gui Mansion and Jiao Mansion.
The mountains in Lingnan are not high, but they occupy too wide, which is not only difficult to farm, but also almost cut off road connections under ancient technical conditions. Although the chief in this area was the governor, he always regarded himself as a monarch of a small country.
Among the many chiefs, the Ning family and the Feng family are the most powerful.
After Feng Ang expressed his loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin and Li Xuanba both thought that the only tyrants in Lingnan were the Ning family, and they should be settled.
Xue Daoheng wrote a letter saying that Ning Chang, the general manager of Qinzhou (now the Beibu Gulf area), had the intention to rebel. He also secretly reported that although Feng Ang was indeed loyal to the Tang Dynasty, some people in the Feng family tried to participate in the chaos.
Feng Ang also wrote a letter saying that the situation in Lingnan is unstable, and he hopes that Your Majesty will give him the right to cross the states to quell the rebellion.