First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 251 Jiang Song Returns
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Li Yuan decreed to transfer Gao Chong to be the Sima of Kuizhou General Manager's Mansion, and ordered Gao Chong to take up the post immediately.

After receiving the decree, Gao Chong really lost his mind, Sima of Kuizhou Governor's Mansion... This is the subordinate official of Kuizhou Governor Li Xiaogong.

Now everyone knows that Li Xiaogong built a warship in Kuizhou, and sharpened his sword to Xiao Liang, so this arrangement for Gao Chong really made the generals recruit.

What surprised Gao Chong was that all of this happened so quickly. Li Shimin just mentioned to him yesterday that the imperial decree arrived today. This is enough to show that Li Shimin was planning this matter at least a few days ago.

Gao Chong did not dare to delay after receiving the order, so he had to let Wei Gui continue to stay at home in Luoyang, and then led Kaohsiung and other entourages to prepare for departure.

Just as Gao Chong and Wei Gui parted ways, the guard at the gate came to report, "There is a man with a gun at the gate asking to see Mr. Wang by name."

Gao Chong was a little puzzled, who asked to see him, and why he refused to announce his name, so he immediately walked out of the front hall, went to the door and took a closer look, he saw that the man was tall, but not fat, with ragged clothes, a long gun in his hand, and Facing Gao Chong, the more he looked at Gao Chong, the more familiar his back seemed.

After the man turned around, Gao Chong's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "Baoyi?"

"Yuzhi, long time no see." It turned out that this ragged man was Jiang Song.

"Baoyi, are you still alive? Why did you come back today?" Gao Chong was both surprised and delighted, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab Jiang Song and asked.

Seeing Gao Chong's surprise from the bottom of his heart, Jiang Baoyi's heart warmed up. He looked around and said, "Is it convenient to talk inside?"

"Convenient, convenient, that's so convenient", Gao Chong said happily: "Ah Xiong, hurry up and prepare the wine and dishes, no, first prepare hot water and clean clothes, let Baoyi wash up first."

Jiang Baoyi was busy saying thanks.

"Why are you being polite to me, go quickly", Gao Chong was really pleasantly surprised.

Originally, when Jiang Baoyi followed the army to pacify Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang led the attack on Jiezhou. Li Yuan appointed Li Zhongwen and Jiang Baoyi as the marching chiefs to lead the rescue of Bingzhou.

Later, Li Zhongwen fled back, but Jiang Baoyi's whereabouts were unknown. Until Li Shimin pacified Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, he sent people to check Jiang Baoyi's whereabouts several times, but unfortunately there was still no news. Everyone speculated that Jiang Baoyi should have died in the rebellion Gao Chong had been in grief for a long time because of this.

But he didn't want Jiang Baoyi to appear suddenly now and find Gao Chong immediately. Gao Chong felt that there must be some twists and turns in this.

Not long after, Jiang Baoyi hastily took a bath, put on clean clothes, Gao Chong greeted him and took a seat, the two chatted while eating, only then did Gao Chong know the reason.

It turned out that after Jiang Baoyi was defeated and captured, he was seriously injured. Song Jingang cherished Jiang Baoyi's talent and ordered someone to treat his wounds and took him with him. After Song Jingang was defeated, he took Jiang Baoyi and fled to Turkic.

Later, the Turkic people killed the donkey and executed Liu Wuzhou. Song Jingang fled overnight with the intention of fleeing back to Shanggu County where he started, but he was overtaken by the Turkic cavalry on the way. Take advantage of the chaos and escape.

On the vast grassland, Jiang Baoyi followed Song Jingang's established route, heading east all the way back to Shanggu.

At this time, Shanggu had been occupied by Gao Kaidao. At this time, Gao Kaidao submitted to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Yuan issued an edict to appoint Gao Kaidao as the governor of Weizhou, Shangzhu Kingdom, and became the king of Beiping County.

Seeing Jiang Baoyi's bravery, Gao Kaidao treated Jiang Baoyi very courteously.

Speaking of this, Jiang Baoyi hurriedly said: "As far as I know, Gao Kaidao will rebel again. I am afraid that I will be involved in it, and I will sneak back to the Central Plains after my injury. I testify that in the city of Luoyang, only Youzhi believes in me."

Gao Chong raised his brows when he heard that, Gao Kaidao would definitely rebel again, that was for sure, why did he say again, because Gao Kaidao was really shameless, he would jump up and down to show off his might if he won the fight, and bow his head and bow down if he couldn't win.

Speaking of which, Gao Kaidao was also born in the Bohai Gao family, but he was a collateral lineage, and he was already down and out. Gao Kaidao made a living by cooking salt when he was young, but when he grew up, he was very courageous, agile and brave.

In the ninth year of Daye's reign, Hejian Rengeqian led a crowd of troops, with more than [-] soldiers, claiming to be the king of Yan, and Gao Kaidao went to join him.

Later, Wang Shichong wiped out Geqian, and Gao Kaidao inherited Geqian's soldiers and horses, and continued to plunder Cangzhou, Youzhou and other places.In the first year of Wude,
Gao Kaidao conquered Yuyang County, supported tens of thousands of troops, proclaimed himself the King of Yan, changed the Yuan Dynasty, and later annexed Gao Tancheng, the emperor of the Mahayana Buddhist Kingdom who ruled Shanggu, and his momentum became more and more powerful.

In the second year of Wude, Li Yuan ordered Deng Hao, the general manager of Yingzhou, to lead the army to conquer Gao Kaidao. Gao Kaidao was defeated, and he hastily bowed his head to Datang and proclaimed himself a minister, and removed the title of King of Yan.

In the third year of Wude, Gao Kaidao took advantage of the Tang Dynasty's campaign against Liu Wuzhou, and when the army was empty, he left the Tang Dynasty again, regained the title of King Yan, and changed his name to Tiancheng.

In the third year of Wude, in October, Luo Yi, who occupied Youzhou, submitted a letter to Datang. Gao Kaidao was terrified, and he also wrote a letter to plead guilty, expressing his willingness to be loyal to Datang. county king.

This is Gao Kaidao's experience. Gao Chong is not surprised that this kind of people who have no bottom line will rebel again, but Gao Chong is a little curious about how Jiang Baoyi found out, and why he is sure that Gao Kaidao will rebel.

For this reason, he sneaked back to Luoyang, not daring to meet Li Shimin directly, but came to look for Gao Chong first. I have to say that Jiang Baoyi's concerns were very necessary.

Because the injury has not healed, Jiang Baoyi temporarily committed himself to Gao Kaidao. This is not a problem. After all, Gao Kaidao is still a courtier of the Tang Dynasty at this time, but once Gao Kaidao rebels, Jiang Baoyi, who works at Gao Kaidao Debate, there is no doubt that it will also become a chaotic party.

Seeing that Gao Chong was puzzled, Jiang Baoyi said directly: "Not only Gao Kaidao will turn against him, but I suspect that Dou Jiande's old department will also revive, because I met Dou Jiande's people at Gao Kaidao."

Gao Chong was shocked when he heard the words, Dou Jiande's old department would rebel, Gao Chong also knew this, that was Liu Heita, the famous king of Eastern Han, who finally fulfilled Li Jiancheng's military exploits, but Gao Chong didn't expect that at this time, Liu Heitai Hei Kai got in touch with Gao Kaidao, and it seemed that the two had made an agreement to unite against Tang.

"But Liu Heita's people?" Gao Chong asked directly.

Jiang Baoyi was startled, "How do you know?"

Gao Chong nodded, and as expected, he said straight away: "Among Dou Jiande's former troops who fled, only Liu Heita has the highest prestige, and only Liu Heita has the most ambition."

"Yuzhi, you and I are so related, you can go and get the credit from the King of Qin, I just hope that you don't mess with Gao Kaidao," Jiang Baoyi said sincerely after three rounds of drinking.

He was seriously injured and had to temporarily commit himself to Gao Kaidao. Once Gao Kaidao rebelled, this would be Jiang Baoyi's stain. Jiang Baoyi was quite depressed. Now, he can only rely on Gao Chong to prove it for him.

(End of this chapter)