Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 346
Chapter 48 Attacking Lingzhou on a snowy night

Li Jiancheng has been very confused recently. It is said that he has just quelled the riots in Hedong, and Li Yuan should reward him heavily because of his feelings and reason.However, it was only now that Li Jiancheng found out that besides being given the title of supervisor of the country, the power in his hands has not increased. Wei Ting, the left leader of his sect, was beaten to death by his sect's slave slave, and was ordered by Quan Wanji, the acting county magistrate of Wannian County. After being caught, he was ready to be executed.

Wei Ting went to Quan Wanji's mansion to intercede, but was sued by Quan Wanji in front of Li Yuan in a memorial. Wei Ting was dismissed from office and demoted to a commoner.

This made Li Jiancheng very confused. According to the traditional rules, only princes can live in the palace, and other princes have to move out of the palace when they become adults.But Li Tang was very different from other founding dynasties.It was not Li Yuan alone who laid the foundation for the founding of the country, but Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, Li Xiuning, father and son, and five people jointly completed it.This kind of nation-building feature is unprecedented in history. Of course, when the benefits are distributed, the founding kings of the Tang Dynasty also enjoyed great power.

All in all, apart from Prince Li Jiancheng living in the East Palace and Li Shimin living in the Chengqian Palace in the imperial city, after Li Yuanji returned to Chang'an, he stayed in the Wude Palace all the time.It’s fine to stay in the palace, the key is that in addition to Li Tang’s court, Li Jiancheng’s Prince Ling, Qin Wang Li Shimin’s Qin Wangjiao, Qi Wang Li Yuanji’s Qi Wangjiao, including Li Xiuning’s Pingyang Princess Teaching (Princess Pingyang’s treatment is the same as that of the prince. ) in parallel with Li Yuan's edict, and issued multiple orders at the same time, which confused the early Tang court and various ministries.In order to avoid favoring one another, each department usually decides to implement them in order of priority.Of course, even if there is first and second, it depends on whose disciples it is. The disciples of King Qi will never implement the teaching of King Qin, and the disciples of King Qin will not implement the order of the prince.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a situation in which Wang Sima shared the world was created. In the early Tang Dynasty, in fact, politics was carried out by Li Yuan, King Qin, Prince, and King Qi.In the early days of the founding of the country, because of Li Jiancheng's success in formulating the national policy of the Tang Dynasty and maintaining the northern defense line, and Li Jiancheng's friendship with the Shandong aristocratic group and the Guanlong aristocratic group, Li Yuan had to strengthen Li Shimin's power and let Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng fight.

However, after Li Shimin wiped out Wang Shichong's power, his power began to expand, and Li Yuan began to favor Li Jiancheng's party. Even if Li Shimin fabricated that Li Jiancheng's disciple Yang Wengan rebelled, Li Yuan held it high, precisely because of Li Yuan's unprincipled protection, It led to the Xuanwumen tragedy.

In politics, there is no action for no reason.In fact, Li Jiancheng felt that something was wrong since Wei Ting was quickly demoted.Wannian county magistrate Quan Wanji is not Li Shimin's (not yet), but Wei Ting was impeached because of a trivial matter, which surprised Li Jiancheng.

It was only Wei Ting's domestic slave who beat to death. Although the discipline of the disciples was not strict, Wei Ting had an unshirkable responsibility. However, in this era of law, Wei Ting only needs to severely punish the domestic slave and compensate the funeral expenses of the deceased. A fine of copper can be solved, and there is no need to dismiss him from office.

After Wei Ting was dismissed from office, he told Li Jiancheng about Yuan Tiangang's prophecy to him. Now that Yuan Tiangang's prophecy to Wei Ting has been fulfilled, it will be the turn of the crown prince Zhongyun Wang Lian.Once Wang Lian is demoted, the grasshoppers who look at the wind in the middle will make trouble, and Li Jiancheng will fall into a very passive situation.

After learning about Li Jiancheng's reason, Chen Ying somewhat understood what Li Jiancheng meant.In fact, Li Jiancheng was only seeking psychological comfort from Yuan Tiangang.

Li Jiancheng needs to determine whether this is Wei Ting's personal fate, or whether Li Yuan has launched a new suppression of the East Palace family.In particular, Chen Ying, who made such a great contribution to the Battle of Hedong, was deprived of his military power and became a minister of the Ministry of Industry. This made Li Jiancheng inexplicably uneasy. disregard.

"There is a saying that I have endured for a long time and never asked you!" Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and said solemnly: "Tell me, are you really willing to be the servant of the Ministry of Industry? Don't you feel it? Return to Lingzhou , can we do more in Lingzhou?"

If Li Jiancheng had some scruples in the past, now he decided to fight back.Lingzhou was under the rule of Li Daozong, and the relationship between Li Daozong and Li Shimin was closer. Lingzhou was in the hands of Li Daozong, which in fact was in the hands of Li Shimin, which made Li Jiancheng inexplicably uneasy.If Li Jiancheng was under pressure, he could appoint Chen Ying as the commander-in-chief of Lingzhou's army and horse capital under the crown prince's decree. With Chen Ying's prestige in Lingzhou and the old Dingyuan army, he was fully capable of taking over Li Daozong.

Chen Ying was slightly taken aback, and thought to himself: "Is the situation in the court so intense now?" Chen Ying bowed and said, "His Royal Highness, I'm looking forward to His Royal Highness..."

Li Jiancheng's carriage left Chang'an City and began to bump.Li Jiancheng said: "Although Li Daozong is a hero of the clan, as a county governor (inspector), he has the ability to rule a happy land. If he is alone against the Turks and the Liang Shidu, he is still a little bit worse. There is no Chen Qing in Lingzhou. It is hard to eat and sleep in the palace."

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In fact, as Li Jiancheng expected.Although Li Daozong carried out Li Yuan's strategy of crossing the sea, he led four Zhechong mansions across Helan Mountain and detoured to Mobei, preparing to surprise Li Gui.Li Gui knew nothing about Li Daozong's movements.

However, Liang Shidu has been paying close attention to Lingzhou's movements.In Lingzhou, he placed a lot of secret work and eyeliner. As early as half a month after Li Daozong left, Liang Shidu received the accurate news that Li Daozong led the four main forces of the Zhechong Mansion of Dingyuan Army and left Lingzhou without a trace.

At the beginning, Master Liang was still worried that Li Daozong would lead the Dingyuan Army with four elite troops and six thousand elite soldiers to attack him.At this time, Liang Shidu, who had lost most of Xiazhou, was also in turmoil, and the grass and trees were full of soldiers.However, after waiting for half a month, instead of waiting for Li Daozong's surprise soldiers, they waited for the news of Li Daozong's surprise attack on Li Gui.

This made Master Liang overjoyed, and hurriedly summoned his generals Xin Liaoer, Li Zhengbao, Feng Duan, Liu Min, He Sui, Suo Zhou, Liang Luoren and other civil servants to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Min was originally the governor of Xia Prefecture. After Lu Jilan's death, Liang Shidu had no one to use, so he was promoted to replace Lu Jilan as Shangshu.Liu Min was originally a strong man in Xiazhou. Although he had some knowledge, he was cautious. He was the first to raise an objection: "Your Majesty, could this be a trap?"

Master Liang walked back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back.Master Liang thought to himself, this may be possible. In the Battle of Hedong, the Turks lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. The Monan Turks didn't have many troops at all.

However, Liu Wuzhou died under the protection of the Turks. If Liang Shidu were to perish, it would be a major disaster for the Turks.Once the Liang division is besieged, no matter how difficult the Turks are, they will save them at all costs.The Turks are good at cavalry raids, and they got information from the siege to the Turks. Unless Li Daozong has the ability to capture Yanzhou within a month, Li Daozong can only retreat when the Turkic army comes to help.

The possibility that Liu Min mentioned is not impossible.

At this time, Liang Luoren stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, my brother is not talented, so I raised eight thousand troops to flatten Lingzhou."

Just at this time, the wind was strong, and the sky was snowing heavily.

Master Liang was overjoyed and said, "This is God helping me!"

Heavy snow can cover up the traces of the army dispatching, especially Liang Shi has seen Chen use white cloaks to cover up the whereabouts of troops, Liang Shidu decided to follow Chen Ying's example, all wearing white cloaks, and attacking in the snow.

Liang Shidu issued an edict, with Liang Luoren as the marshal of the marching army and horses, Xin Liao'er and Li Zhengbao as the commanders of the left and right, and led [-] troops to attack Lingzhou in the heavy snow.

(End of this chapter)