A knife in love

Chapter 1978
Although Li Qiufeng was anxious, he did not interrupt Feng Wei's conversation.I only heard Feng Wei continue to say: "Li Cunxu slaughtered the Wang family, and moved all the gold, silver, jewelry, documents and other objects in the Houshu palace back to Luoyang. At that time, Li Cunxu was so powerful that no one dared to compete with him. Li Cunxu had no enemies. When he was full of ambition, he gradually became indulging in sensuality, employed people inappropriately, condoned the empress to interfere in politics, reused actors and eunuchs, suspected and killed meritorious officials, imposed excessive taxes, and was stingy with money. Died in cronies rebellion.

"After Li Cunxu's death, Li Siyuan became the emperor of the later Tang Dynasty. This person can be regarded as a good emperor. When he was in power, he appointed capable ministers, rested with the people, and did not easily raise troops to fight. Since the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, it is rare to have an emperor. I don't like swords and soldiers, so that the people who have suffered from wars and fires can get a little respite.

"It's just that Li Siyuan was busy with internal affairs, and unlike Li Cunxu who conquered the barbarians, he made the Khitan people in the north strong. When the Tang Dynasty was so powerful in the world, the Khitan people could only stay in Liaodong and respect the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty as the ruler of the world. Although the later Khitans harassed Youzhou under the rule of the Tang Dynasty from time to time, their military strength was not as strong as that of the Tang Dynasty, and they could not seize Youzhou. Until the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the national power of the Tang Dynasty was weakened. , the soldiers of the border towns in the Tang Dynasty were still not afraid of the Khitans. Although the Khitans repeatedly invaded and wanted to capture the sixteen prefectures of Youyun, they were defeated by the Tang army and could not enter the Central Plains. When Li Cunxu became emperor, he led an army north If Li Cunxu hadn't believed in actors and eunuchs and lost his enterprising spirit, the Khitan people would have perished long ago.

"After Li Siyuan became emperor, he stopped raising troops to attack the Khitan people, so that the Khitan people finally took a breather and were ready to move again. Although Li Siyuan was also a general, his ability to lead troops in battle was far inferior to that of Li Cunxu. Most of the mighty generals died in the civil strife. Li Siyuan had no good generals under his command. Facing the Khitans pressing every step of the way, although he resisted with all his strength, he lost more than he won. Li Siyuan knew that the Khitans were ambitious. If they invaded the Central Plains, they would definitely kill them. The Han people, so he spent all his time trying to keep the Khitan people out of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures."

When Feng Wei said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "When Mr. Zhao Liangsi talked about this matter with me, it was naturally not as detailed as I just said. Most of the things I told you are After listening to Mr. Zhao Liangsi's report that General Cao Bin mentioned the battle plan, he deduced it himself. When Li Siyuan was thinking about how to deal with the Khitans, a spies suddenly reported to him that the Khitans had internal strife, It is a great time to eliminate Khitan.

"It turned out that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was a great hero named Yelu Abaoji among the Khitan people. He was born in a Khitan noble family. , He first gathered the fragmented Khitan tribes together, and entrusted the tribes that obeyed him with important tasks, and the tribes that refused to accept them exterminated them. In just a few years, all the Khitans who were scattered in the sand were put under his jurisdiction.

"Later Yelu Abaoji became the emperor, and the founding name was Daliao. Yelu Abaoji was the Taizu emperor of the Liao Kingdom. This man was very talented and ambitious, and he had always had the ambition to win the Central Plains. At that time, Zhu Wen planned to usurp the Tang Dynasty and proclaim himself emperor. It's just that he was afraid of the bravery of Li Keyong and Li Cunxu's father and son, so he thought of forming an alliance with Yelu Abaoji to deal with Li's father and son. Zhu Wen sent envoys to Liaodong to ask Yelu Abao to see him, bringing his own letters and many gold and silver jewels We have the opportunity to ask the Liao Kingdom to send troops to the south and join hands with Zhu and Wen to destroy the Li family and his sons who are entrenched in Shanxi and Youzhou."

When Li Qiufeng, Murong Danyan, Qi Jiu, and Wang Xiaoyu heard Feng Wei say this, they all thought that Zhu Wen's move was no different from Zhao Ji, Tong Guan, Zhao Liangsi and others' idea of ​​uniting Jin to destroy Liao.These idiots only thought of relying on foreign races to deal with foreign races, but in the end they sought skin from tigers, and instead suffered even greater disasters.

I only heard Feng Wei continue to say: "Yelu Abaoji was worried that he would not have the opportunity to seize the sixteen prefectures of Youyun. Seeing Zhu Wen's humble words in the letter, he begged Yelu Abaoji to help him become emperor, and he would definitely be grateful. Xia was overjoyed, rewarded the envoy heavily, and wrote another reply letter, promising Liao Kingdom to help Zhu Wen ascend the throne with all his strength. Yelu Abaoji is ambitious, and this letter is just to confuse Zhu Wen. He has made up his mind , Taking advantage of the opportunity of helping Zhu Wen become emperor, he first captured the sixteen prefectures of Youyun, and then waited for the opportunity to go south and seize the Central Plains.

"Zhu Wen received the reply from Yelu Abaoji, and with the help of the Khitan people, he became more courageous. He first abolished the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, took control of the government, and killed all the ministers loyal to Li Tang. Then he He abolished the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and he ascended the throne and sat in the palace himself. The country name was Liang. Li Keyong, the king of Jin, was loyal to the Tang Dynasty with his father and son. Knowing that Li's father and son were brave and good at fighting, Wen knew that he was no match for him, so he begged Yelu Abaoji to attack Jinyang as agreed, and force Li Keyong and his son to retreat.

"After Yelu Abaoji read Zhu Wen's letter, he immediately led his army to attack Li Keyong from behind. After killing Li's father and son, he captured the sixteen prefectures of Youyun, and then went south to attack Zhu Wen and unify them. But he did not expect Li Cunxu to be brave and invincible. Hearing that the Khitans were coming from behind, he immediately led his troops to counterattack, defeated the Khitans, and fled in embarrassment. After this battle, Yelu Abaoji knew that he was not Li Cunxu's opponent From then on, he dared not move lightly, and could only spy on Saibei, waiting for the opportunity.

"Zhu Wen didn't expect that Yelu Abaoji would break the covenant. He was really angry and anxious. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight Li Keyong. Although Li Keyong was brave, he was not as treacherous as Zhu Wen, and finally fell into Zhu Wen's hands. Wen's trick, was seriously injured, and died soon after. Li Cunxu inherited Li Keyong's title of King of Jin, and continued to lead troops to fight against Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen was defeated repeatedly, and became seriously ill due to worry. Several of his sons Knowing that Zhu Wen's life would not last long, he fought openly and secretly for the throne, and finally killed Zhu Wen. Taking advantage of the internal strife in Zhu's family, Li Cunxu declared himself emperor and named his country Tang. Then he sent his army south and destroyed Zhu's Liang country.

"Yelu Abaoji was shocked when he heard that Li Cunxu had destroyed Liang. He knew that after Li Cunxu got rid of the Zhu family, no one in the Central Plains would be his opponent. With the nature of vengeance, he will definitely lead the army to the Northern Expedition. So Yelu Abaoji hurriedly mobilized troops to resist Li Cunxu's army. Unexpectedly, after Li Cunxu destroyed the Liang Kingdom, he was full of ambition, worshiped actors, and eunuchs. His previous ambitions. Although he also sent troops northward, he only expelled a small group of Khitan soldiers to the north of the Great Wall, and did not make a large-scale northern expedition, so Yelu Abaoji breathed a sigh of relief."

When Murong Danyan heard what Feng Wei said, he couldn't help but said: "Ah, I didn't expect that the Khitan people would also be beaten into a panic by the Han people and run away! I really didn't expect it."

(End of this chapter)