The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 95
Li Yun, who was in Luzhou, was still actively preparing for military preparations. He originally sent his son to the court to inquire about news. In addition, he really wanted to get rid of this son with the help of Emperor Song.

A tiger's poison does not eat its son, so it is okay to borrow someone else's hand, because this son is always disobedient to himself, out of sight and out of mind, but more to paralyze Zhao Song so that he can prepare himself.

Zhao Xu had served under Li Yun's Zhaoyi Army at the beginning, and then slowly rose up. In this way, Li Yun was still his old boss. Zhao Xu held a detailed information about Li Yun in his hand. The level of detail may not even have been imagined by Li Yun.

"Father, this is all the files of Li Yun that I just sent."Zhao Xu had already read the information.

"Enen, then it's up to you to tell me. I want to see how brave this Li Yun is."

Li Yun is also a very capable person. He has been good at horseback riding and archery since he was a child. What he is most proud of is that he can draw a hard bow when he was young.

In the later Tang Dynasty, he was recruited into the army and was under the command of Li Congrong, the king of Qin in the later Tang Dynasty. In the early years of the late Tang Dynasty, in the early years of Qingtai, he was promoted to be the commanding officer of the crane because of his many meritorious deeds.
In the last year of Emperor Kaiyun's fortune in the Later Jin Dynasty, Yelu Deguang, Emperor Taizong of the Khitan Liao Dynasty, led his troops into Bianjing and wiped out the Later Jin Dynasty that he had supported.Li Yun was summoned as a general by Yan Wang Zhao Yanshou, but soon he planned to unite with the generals of the Jin army to defeat the troops of the left-behind Khitan general Yelv Jieli and regain Zhenzhou.

At this time, Liu Zhiyuan, the great ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor in Jinyang, and Li Yun led his troops to defect to Jinyang. Liu Zhiyuan was overjoyed and appointed as the governor of Bozhou.

But it was only a privy envoy, Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, who came out of the Daming Mansion, recommended Li Yun as the vanguard commander, and patrolled the northern border. From then on, Li Yun was grateful to Zhou Taizu.

In the third year of Qianyou, Emperor Gaozu of the Later Han Dynasty, Guo Wei rebelled against the Han and invaded Bianjing. Li Yun fought with Guo Chongwei's entourage and defeated Murong Yanchao, a general of the Later Han Dynasty in Liuzibei, and established a meritorious service.In the first year of Guangshun, Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor Han Zuo, who was the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty.Taizu talked about the achievements of the founding of the country, and moved Li Yun to be the governor of the Zhaoyi Army, the Taifu of the school, and Tongping Zhangshi. He is still the Jiedu envoy of the Zhaoyi Army until now.

In the next few years, Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty fought against the Northern Han Dynasty many times.Li Yun was stationed in Luzhou, supported the Liao army in Jinyang (Northern Han Dynasty) with extraordinary troops, and was granted a title and served in the Central Committee for his meritorious service.

From the second year to the sixth year of Xiande, Li Yun fought against the Northern Han Dynasty successively, conquering Liaozhou (now Zuoquan County, Shanxi) and Changqingzhai successively, and captured hundreds of governors and generals.After Zhou Shizong came to the throne, Li Yun was promoted to Taiwei because of his meritorious service.

When Li Yun was in the wind, his father was supported by the army and established the Song Dynasty. The one I remember is your imperial decree and he was added as the order of Zhongshu, which means that Li Yun entered the dynasty.

But Li Yun wanted to refuse to accept the order at that time, but was dissuaded by the left and right, so he reluctantly bowed down.

When the envoy was promoted, drinking and playing music, Li Yun suddenly hung the portrait of Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty on the wall, crying bitterly.

In fact, it wasn't just him. At that time, many people were not optimistic about me. It was not unusual for him to do so in our new court.

Zhao Xu still remembered this period of history: in the face of the new regime, those who knew the current affairs among the old officials of the Later Zhou Dynasty bowed their heads and surrendered, but there were also those who were unwilling to let others manipulate them, especially the generals who held military power like Song Taizu in the past.

After Zhou Shizong's death, Zhao Kuangyin was not the only one with imperial ambitions?It's just that Zhao Kuangyin took the lead and made others lose their chances, but they didn't give up their thoughts. They were still waiting for the opportunity to realize their imperial dreams.

Li Yun guarded Lu, Ze, Qin and other prefectures for 8 years. He was arrogant and domineering, and even Zhou Shizong didn't pay attention to him.After Song Taizu succeeded to the throne, he sent envoys to seal Li Yun as Zhongshu Ling, hoping to win over this old official of the Later Zhou Dynasty with high officials and generous salary.

Unexpectedly, Li Yun ordered to shut the envoy out to show his determination. He is stupid, but his staff are not stupid.

After repeated persuasion by his staff, he reluctantly received the envoy.When all the envoys came to the place where he held the banquet and everyone was drinking and having fun, Li Yun suddenly hung the portrait of Taizu of Later Zhou Dynasty on the wall, crying bitterly, expressing his strong dissatisfaction with Taizu of Song Dynasty.

This matter was known to Liu Jun, the ruler of the Northern Han Dynasty, and he promised to help Li Jun attack the Song Dynasty.Li Shoujie, the eldest son of Li Yun, disagreed with his father's approach, but the persuasion was ineffective. For this reason, Li Yun and his son had a big quarrel.

Liu Jun is the son of Liu Chong, to be precise, the second son of Liu Chong. He only inherited the position of emperor after Liu Chong died.

After the Battle of Gaoping, General Liu Ci of the Later Zhou Dynasty led the rear army to arrive, taking advantage of the victory to pursue Liu Chong.Liu Chong was defeated again, and the supplies, vehicles, etc. were all captured by the Zhou army.Liu Chong and more than ten people fled over the mountains, and only after going through hardships did they escape back to Taiyuan.

Because of the defeat of Gaoping and the siege of Taiyuan, Liu Chong became sick with anxiety and anger. He entrusted all state affairs to his second son Liu Chengjun and ordered him to supervise the country.

That is, in November of this year, Liu Chong also died of illness at the age of 60.Jian Guo Liu Chengjun succeeded to the throne and changed his name to Liu Jun.

Liu Jun attributed the death of his father to Hou Zhou. Now that Zhao Kuangyin has accepted everything from Hou Zhou, he should also accept everything from Hou Zhou, which of course includes hatred.

So the Northern Han took revenge and transferred it to the Great Song. No, he heard that Li Yun, the military governor of the Zhaoyi Army who was closest to the Northern Han, was also dissatisfied with the Song and New Dynasty, so he wanted to see if he could be pulled over. Let's fight Da Song together.

The price he offered was quite high. Li Yun really had no brains if he wanted to make Li Yun king. He also didn't think about the small size of the Northern Han Dynasty, the people were poor, no ancestral temple was built, and the prime minister's salary was only one hundred coins. , Jiedushi only had thirty wires.

Even if you are appointed as a prince, what can you do? It is not as comfortable as your Jiedushi. Besides, the army of the Northern Han Dynasty is not as good as your Zhaoyi army.What can you gain by conspiring with Beihan at this time.

But whoever God wants to perish first must want to be crazy, and Li Yun is crazy now.Within a few days, he dispatched General Liu Jichong and others to profess his vassalship to Liu Jun of the Northern Han Dynasty. Liu Jun sealed a letter with wax pills asking Li Yun to join forces to attack the Song Dynasty, which was the one that Li Shoujie gave to Zhao Kuangyin in the early dynasty.

That's why there was the scene in the early court just now, Zhao Kuangyin learned that Li's father and son had different opinions, so he appointed Li Shoujie as the envoy of the imperial city to explore Li Yun's intentions.

"Hmph, this Li Yun is too overestimated. He actually joined forces with Khitan. At that time, I was Gu Nian's first ascension to the Great Treasure, so I shouldn't kill too much, but no one wants to challenge the authority of my dynasty. I don't mind killing a few more people to gain power."

It may be that everyone has forgotten that Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor, and even an emperor who was born as a general. He has a warlike gene in his bones, otherwise he would not be the emperor, right?

In April of the first year of Jianlong, Li Yun formally launched an army. As expected, he was determined to rebel against the information collected by Zhao Xu, but he didn't know that Da Song had already made preparations.

Li Yun decided to formally rebel.At this time, it had only been more than three months since Zhao Kuangyin founded the Song Dynasty. In fact, the reason for Li Yun's rebellion was not only his loyalty to Hou Zhou, but also Li Yun's determination to learn from Zhao Kuangyin.

At that time, there were too many emperors in China, and Li Yun also wanted to become an emperor. It would be good to occupy Hedong, and this was his biggest motivation.

However, Li Yun was reckless and reckless. He didn't adopt some correct suggestions from his staff, and led the army directly to Bianjing. This guy's head really doesn't know how to grow it. He is really talented if he can come up with such an idea.

When Zhao Kuangyin received the news of Li Yun's rebellion, he immediately sent generals Shi Shouxin, Murong Yanzhao, and Wang Quanbin to lead the army to suppress the rebellion.At the same time, the prince was left in the capital to see the government affairs throughout the country, and he himself led the army to conquer Li Yun with peace of mind.

It was in Gaoping that Zhao Kuangyin was favored by Chai Rong back then, and now he is preparing to establish his emperor's authority in Gaoping, proving to the world that he is the real dragon emperor, and the sky is always on his side.

"Xu'er, I have entrusted you with the city of Bianjing. If you have something to discuss with the Xiangguo, I will entrust the prince to you. During the period when I conquered Li Yun, the prince In charge of the military and political power of the whole country, that’s all.”

At this time, the officials were stunned. Doesn't the emperor mean that the crown prince is the biggest? Isn't the emperor afraid...

The temptation of the throne is too great, even father and son are no exception, the emperor really dared to delegate power, in fact, the ministers don't know that even if Zhao Xu is made emperor now, he would not do it, it would be too tiring, if he didn't promise Qin Shihuang to complete it With the unification of Huaxia, I guess I am still a general now.

He thought it over, if he didn't want to be the emperor, there was only one way, and that was to give birth to a child as soon as possible, so that he would have a reason to quit in the future and hand it over to his son.

But I haven't got married yet, my son is still early, now Zhao Xu is an older young man, and I don't worry about other girls. Gao Guiying is already 19 years old, and she is already an old leftover woman. Zhao Kuangyin is going to calm down Li Yun this time. Then hold a wedding ceremony for the prince.

Although Zhao Xu felt that he was still young, in this day and age, there were already several 19-year-old children, and it was indeed late marriage and late childbearing, so he couldn't object.

Zhao Kuangyin set off in a mighty way. First of all, the whole Bianjing is under Zhao Xu's control. Political affairs are not his forte, so he should delegate power.He asked each department to perform its duties, and handed over to the prime minister in advance, and reported to himself after they had drawn up a plan.

In this way, the efficiency is indeed much faster. His current main energy is still in the north where Zhao Kuangyin is, and at the same time, he pays more attention to the relaxation of domestic conflicts, because there are still people who oppose the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xu wasn't worried about Zhao Kuangyin, Li Yun was Zhao Kuangyin's opponent, and his pressure was even greater. He was in power now, but he was more responsible, so he was diligent and conscientious.

　The college entrance examination is coming again, I wish my colleagues in the college entrance examination all the best
　　
　
(End of this chapter)