When appointing officials to the prefecture to manage government affairs in the past few days, Li Tianqu summoned Han Xizai, who had been sent to Qiantang, Hangzhou under his will, and gave a message to encourage him, so that even though this young man, who is only in his early twenties, would still give him the opportunity to achieve success in the future.

Li Tianqu is certainly very clear about Han Xizai's historical deeds, and knows that he is also the protagonist of "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" among the top ten famous paintings in ancient China... Han Xizai was a prominent family of the Han family in Changli, and was also from a family of officials. His great-grandfather Han Jun served as the Taichangqing of the Tang Dynasty in the previous dynasty; his grandfather Han Yin served as the censor, and his father Han Guangsi served as the secretary and the envoy of the Ziqing Observation Branch, and the deputy envoy of the Pinglu Jiedu.

Now that the territory of Lu Ziqing has been pacified, the vassal states have been abolished and should be directly governed by the central court. Han Guangsi was then transferred to the court, and Han Xizai moved his family to Bianjing, and he also participated in the scientific examination list and was admitted to the Central Government for a while.

However, according to the official trajectory, the Later Tang Dynasty court who entered the Central Plains attacked the governor of the Ziqing Army who refused to accept the order. Han Xizai's father, Han Guangsi, was implicated and was forced to flee the Central Plains with his family. Han Xizai and his family disguised as merchants and fled into the territory of the Wu Kingdom at that time, and turned to Xu Zhigao, who held real power.

However, Han Xizai was young and tyrannical, arrogant and not care about details, so he was never valued. Until the Southern Tang Dynasty replaced Yang Wu, he was transferred back to Jinling. Although he was appreciated by Li Jing, the second-generation king of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he had a very unhappy relationship with powerful ministers such as Song Qiqiu and were suppressed. Although Han Xizai had political ambitions, his knowledge and knowledge were unique, he also had the habit of raising music, recruiting guests, and drinking, singing and dancing, and spending money. Later Lord Li Yu had planned to worship him as prime minister, so he sent Gu Hongzhong, a guest attendant in the painting academy, to go to Han Xizai's mansion to see him, and to see his eyes and remember his heart, and to draw the above pictures, thus he had the famous painting "Han Xizai Night Banquet Picture" that was passed down to later generations.

However, although the latter Lord Li Yu was generous and was definitely not a cruel and easy-to-kill tyrant, he indulged in love with Buddhism and believed in the emptiness of the treasury. When the Song Dynasty army besieged Jinling and had already reached the city, he only cared for chanting scriptures and said that the last king of the country was a fool, which was not unfair to him.

Han Xizai then expected that the Southern Tang Dynasty would be crumbling and would sooner or later be annexed by the Song Dynasty, so he deliberately wanted to act indulge in the mood and said, "The Central Plains always look at this. Once God comes out, Jiangnan will be too busy to abandon his armor, and I cannot laugh at it for the eternal age." So he did not want to be the pretext of a country that destroyed, so he raised a geisha and held a night banquet. He died of illness at the age of 69. In just four or five years, the Southern Tang Dynasty was indeed destroyed by the Song Dynasty.

However, the predecessor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the State of Wu, has fallen, and there has been no incident in which the governor resisted the imperial order in the Ziqing Army. Therefore, Han Xizai and his father Han Guangsi have been safely and steadily as officials of the Wei Dynasty, and there is no need to flee to the Jiangnan territory in order to avoid the serious crime of treason.

Li Tianqu thought that according to the history of Han Xizai, he was successively used by the lords of the Southern Tang Dynasty in succession, but he was not welcomed during the period of the First Lord; the middle Lord Li Jing succeeded to the throne, and Han Xizai was able to do his best to serve the country, or refute the state affairs, criticize and criticize the shortcomings, and successively submitted memorials, which aroused hatred and hatred from the powerful ministers and factions in the court; the later Lord Li Yu planned to reuse him again, but Han Xizai simply entered the lying mode because he expected that the Southern Tang Dynasty would not last long... It can be said that he did not fully demonstrate his abilities and ambitions throughout his life.

Han Xizai can indeed be called a talented and knowledgeable, proficient in music, good at calligraphy and painting. He is a god and a hero in the Jiangnan region. He is also humorous in character, a lively mind, and has many ideas when doing things... In the official history line, he was suppressed by powerful officials, and his career was bumpy. In his late years, he was unwilling to be the prime minister for the fall of his country, so he simply had a lot of emotions. However, the environment in Han Xizai is now completely different, and he would definitely have more opportunities to use his fists in the Wei Dynasty.

However, if Li Tianqu had to observe Han Xizai, he did not recognize him as a virtuous prime minister in the future... After all, this so-called immortal figure in the officialdom, his behavior was unruly and he liked the style of romantic and romantic style, and he was often prone to being talented but not pragmatic. He felt that the Southern Tang Dynasty had exhausted his energy and did not want to be the prime minister of the devastated country, so he continued to receive the Southern Tang salary "drink, drink, dance, dance, pretending not to know anything"... In fact, he did not fulfill his duties as a minister.

Therefore, Li Tianqu agrees that Han Xizai is very talented, but he turned to serve the Wei Dynasty with all his loyalty. Whether the different environments can change his mentality and become a wise minister who has the ability to govern the country is still a question mark... This time, Han Xizai was sent to Wu Yue to give him a chance to show his face, but as he did when he was treating Feng Dao, he would use and observe how high he would rise in the Wei Dynasty's officialdom in the future, and perhaps he would have to beat him up again at the appropriate time.

Now Wu Yue has been incorporated into the territory under his rule, but there is no peace cease with Yue. I believe that Liu is now like an ant on a hot pan. On the one hand, he has no strong support to rely on, and has to face the full offensive of the Wei Dynasty with a weak power. On the other hand, Liu is absolutely impossible to live a thorough life like Qian Liu, the king of Wu Yue. He will not give up the power to occupy one side and cover the sky with one hand. He still has a fight and will definitely resist stubbornly.

When fighting south, Li Tianqu adopted a strategy of gradual erosion. Several Wei troops took turns to take action to attack, eating the territory under the rule of Yue. However, the latest military information of the war in the south was passed to Bianjing, and the war reports learned were indeed beyond Li Tianqu’s expectations:

"Because our army had previously taken over the Jingjiang Army's vassal state controlled by the Chu State, Gao Xingsi and Ni Kefu marched from Wuzhou and directly seized Fengzhou in Lingnan (later located in Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City, northwest Guangdong Province). At first, the war was going smoothly, and the Yue Navy defeated the Hejiang River, burning, killing and drowning more than 3,000 people.

But Su Zhang, who was in charge of the imperial guards in Yue Kingdom, commanded 3,000 Divine Crossbow Army, 5,000 naval troops and 200 warships to rescue Fengzhou. Before Ni Kefu led his troops to fight, he first sank the river with iron ropes, and then used a giant ship to hide on the shore, building a dike to hide, and the light boats fought against the battle, pretending to be defeated and fled. Ni Kefu was trapped in a trap, but the enemy soldiers on the dike held the wheels and raised the ropes to lock the Chu boat, causing the vanguard warship to be overturned and sunk, and a large number of warships were congested from front and back, and the formation was chaotic.

Although our Zhouzhou Army was equipped with new firearms, it encountered a surprise attack and the ships were in chaos. They launched rashly, for fear of accidentally hurting their colleagues... Su Zhang took the opportunity to order the Divine Crossbow Army to launch a powerful crossbow with a river, and personally led the navy to jump and fight in a light boat. Ni Kefu was defeated and retreated. Fortunately, Zhang Wu, the commander of the Lingnan West Road, responded and used firearms, causing Su Zhang's navy to burn more than 60 ships... But the battle to attack Fengzhou was blocked, and our Zhouzhou Army had to retreat temporarily and rectify and plan another way to advance south..."

When Li Tianqu heard the military information that had already started in the territory of Yue, the first thing he thought of was that since his power, the Zhou army, had equipped with new stone-throwing cannons and firearms, whether they were fighting against Wu and Chu, they would have been invincible with those enemy troops who were also good at fighting water... But the soldiers were indefinitely in a state of power and could not say that they would win, but they did not expect that they would be the first time they had lost their defeat in the confrontation with the Yue Navy.

After all, although the new rock-throwing machine and firearm are ahead of this era in terms of strike range and killing effect, they have not yet achieved the crushing advantage of muskets and cannons against large swords and spears.

The previous examples of the navy of Wu and Chu states defeats were taken as a guide. The enemy adapted to local conditions, adopted targeted tactics, used relatively narrow spaces to limit the mobility of the enemy ships, and then eliminated the advantages of the firearms of the Wei army's boat division as much as possible... It was not without a chance to win unexpectedly.

It seems that Su Zhang, the tiger minister of Nan Hanling in official history, is indeed a general who can fight well... Li Tianqu secretly thought in his heart, but now Liu's most capable general under his command has to take action. He is so anxious that he has to hold on, but what other trump cards can he have?
Chapter completed!