Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 643 Competing in the Central Plains (91)

Winter of the fifth year of Yan State 430 (645)
Changan
A shocking conspiracy was revealed. Crown Prince Li Chengqian and Qi Wang Li You colluded with the Yan State in an attempt to rebel, and many heroes who founded the country also participated in it.

Under the governance of Li Shimin, the Middle Tang Empire gradually regained the right to speak. Li Shimin even conferred the title of Duke Qufu, a branch of the Confucian family in Qufu, in order to win the hearts of the scholars and people in the world.

The reason for the canonization of the side branches is because the orthodox lineage of the Kong family was forcibly relocated to Yandu by the Yan State.

However, since the late Southern and Northern Dynasties, Yan State began to establish the right to speak in the Central Plains. At this moment, it can be said that there is still power left. There are still some scholars in the Central Plains who regard Yan State as orthodox, and think that the Tang Dynasty is the Xianbei regime in the bottom of their hearts. Barbarians.

"The survivors wept in the dust, looking east to Master Wang for another year."

Some Kwantung gentry, they still regard the Liaodong Yan State as the orthodox Central Plains, and when the Tang Empire court invited them to be officials, they would rather commit suicide on a hunger strike.

"I'd rather be a ghost of the Yan Dynasty than be an official of the Tang Dynasty!"

"We, the descendants of China, must never stoop to become thieves!"

"In the past, Uncle Boyi Qi would rather die on a hunger strike than eat the food donated by the Zhou people. We Chinese scholars have our own strength of character and cannot bow down for the five buckets of rice from the Tang captives!"

"In the past, Zu Ti fought against the barbarians when he heard the chicken dancing. We should follow the example of our ancestors, fight against the Tang captives, and welcome the king of Yan!"

A part of the Kanto gentry would rather die than submit to the Tang Dynasty. They have their own beliefs and firm beliefs.

Moreover, the Kanto gentry like to call the Tang Dynasty "Tang Lu", "Later Wei", "Xianbei Li Family" and "Hu Yi".

The State of Yan is the orthodox Chinese, and Li Tang was founded by Hu people, old and young.

This is the view of the Kanto gentry.

Year after year, they were looking forward to the King of Yan's counterattack to the Central Plains, saving the people of the Central Plains, and freeing the people of the Central Plains from the brutal rule of the Tang captives and Hu Yi.

"Yan's excrement is sweet, but Tanglu's rice is foul."

During the heyday of Yan's right to speak, it affected many people, including Li Shimin's eldest son Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian's childhood and adolescence happened to be the heyday of the [Huaxia Alliance]. Therefore, Prince Li Chengqian, like the Sui Dynasty prince Yang Yong, regarded the Yan Kingdom as orthodox since he was a child, and his own country, the Tang Dynasty, as a barbarian.

"I would rather be a commoner of the Yan Kingdom than a prince of the Tang Dynasty!" Li Chengqian decided without authorization, cut his hair short, read the books of the Yan Kingdom, and regarded the ancestors of the Yan Kingdom as his idols. He swore since he was a child: " I will work hard for the strength of Dayan!"

The prince treason, history seems to be repeating itself, Li Shimin is also facing the same problems that Yang Jian faced back then.

At the time of Yang Jian, the prince and a group of founding heroes colluded with the Yan State and wanted to treason the country.

"When I kill the Emperor Tanglu, I will be able to seize the power of Tanglu, and then return the Central Plains to Dayan, so that my Yangyang Huaxia can restore orthodoxy!" Li Chengqian wanted to kill his own father Li Shimin, and then do it himself After becoming the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he returned the Central Plains to the State of Yan.

"I'm not betraying Datang, but... saving Datang!"

"Our Datang stealing the Central Plains is going against the sky. Sooner or later, we will be condemned by the heavens. We must return the Central Plains to the Yan Kingdom in order to be forgiven by the people of the world. Only in this way can our Li family be accepted by the people of the world and reintegrate into China. , and ultimately save the family."

Li Chengqian often colluded secretly with Yan Guo's spies and passed all kinds of latest information about Li Tang to Yan Guo.

For example, in the past few years, Li Shimin once wanted to use the exhausted enemy strategy to deal with the State of Yan, pretending to attack the Shanhaiguan Pass of the State of Yan, so that the State of Yan had to mobilize troops and horses to reinforce the Shanhaiguan Pass, and the State of Yan was exhausted.

However, Li Shimin's strategy of exhausting the enemy failed.

Because every time he pretends to attack Shanhaiguan, he will let the prince Li Chengqian be the coach. On the one hand, the prince is the coach, which looks more like he is really going to fight, and it is easier to deceive the country of Yan. On the other hand, he can also give the prince Li Chengqian Gilded brush seniority.

However, what Li Shimin never imagined was that Prince Li Chengqian was actually the biggest traitor.

In addition to Prince Li Chengqian, the founding heroes including Hou Junji also secretly colluded with the Yan State, and even a famous general like Su Dingfang secretly had an ambiguous relationship with the Yan State. Although he had not yet treason, his attitude was unclear.

However, before Prince Li Chengqian officially launched a coup, his conspiracy was exposed.

"A thorough investigation! A thorough investigation!"

"All those who have colluded with the prince will be dug out by following the vine!"

"It has been more than [-] years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, but there are still so many people in the Central Plains who miss the Yan Dynasty and want to rebel against Tang and restore Yan."

"Those Kwantung gentry, even made a ranking of the six surnames and eight surnames, ranking Liaodong Wang's first, it's simply hateful!"

"Could it be that their aristocratic and proud families like Yan so much? Can't tolerate me, Datang?"

"Re-rank the families. The Liaodong Wang family is not allowed to enter the rankings. The six surnames and eight Wangs are changed to the five surnames and Seven Wangs!"

Li Shimin launched the "Three Antis Action" in the country, against the Yan State, against the surname Wang, and against the traitors.

Wanting to completely eliminate Yan's influence in the Central Plains naturally aroused the resentment of the Central Plains gentry, especially the Kanto gentry.

"After the fall of Jin, there was no China, and after the fall of Sui, there was no China, and the orthodoxy of the world was in Liaoyan."

The gentry in the Guandong regard Yan State in Liaodong as their spiritual sustenance, and believe that Yan State is the real China and the place that the people of the world want.

"All the hearts of the people in the world turn to Yan Ye!"

While eliminating all kinds of spies and rebels lurking secretly in the country, Emperor Li Shimin promised Zhou Guo's marriage in the snowy plateau.

Datang now needs to recuperate and concentrate on dealing with the remnants of the Liaodong Yan Kingdom and the Western Turks. The two-front battle has already consumed some of the national power. If the third-front war is used, the consumption of people's livelihood and national power will be terrible.

"If you want to marry the princess and get married, the daughter of the Prince of Jiangxia can." Someone suggested to Li Shimin.

That snow-covered state of Zhou sent [-] troops to attack the Hehuang Valley, but was beaten violently by the [-] Tang troops stationed in the Hehuang Valley. Afterwards, the State of Zhou began to use its geographical advantages to play tricks.

I know now that I can't beat you, but I'm in the snowy plateau, you can't beat me, but I can go down at any time, although I can't beat you, but I come here to harass your border from time to time, making you exhausted, and you don't want to be on the third line Let's fight, since you don't want to, just marry me a princess, if you don't marry me, I'll play tricks, and I'll come here every now and then to harass you, anyway, I'm on the plateau, and you can't make it through.

In fact, marrying the princess was just a superficial excuse. The real purpose of the emperor of Zhou was to give Li Tang a hundred artisans from the Central Plains as a gift when he married the princess.

Obviously, absorbing the advanced technology of the Central Plains is the real purpose of the Emperor Zhou. As for Princess Datang, even if Li Shimin married a pig, the Emperor Zhou would not care.

Liaodong Yan State, without an alliance with the Snowy Zhou State, skillfully cooperated, one east and one west, so that the Tang Empire fell into the predicament of fighting on two fronts.

In the end, the daughter of the Prince of Jiangxia was canonized as Princess Wencheng and married to the snow-covered plateau to prevent the Eastern and Western fronts of the Tang Dynasty from fighting at the same time.

(End of this chapter)