At that time, the Qi army itself had many factions. In addition to Taizu's old subordinates, there were also other rebels with Shang Rang as the core who had merged, and a large number of former Tang feudal towns surrendered. Among them, there are not only those who are indiscriminately filling up the numbers, and everywhere they are young and old, and there are also a large number of people who fish in troubled waters and are the first rats at both ends.

Among them, many people are not the same heart. The more than 100,000 Emperor Taizu that Meng Kai brought with him was also the last capital of Emperor Taizu. If these more than 100,000 troops are lost, I am afraid that this newly released Great Qi Dynasty will collapse in an instant, and it will be difficult for his so-called Emperor Taizu to have a chance to turn it over.

Judging from the fact that the former Tang Dynasty court in Shuzhong was traveling west at that time, and the control of the feudal towns in the eastern part of the country had basically been lost, the chaos in the world was in an instant. The feudal towns that had their own armies attacked each other for territory and strength. The so-called emperor and the imperial court have long ignored it. This is also the track that normal history should have in my previous life.

According to the ability of this Guilin county king, there will definitely be a place for him in the five dynasties and ten kingdoms that should have appeared. But this old brother was so wary of Emperor Taizu, and even took the risk of borrowing a knife to kill people, and he still accepted it, which is what Huang Qiong can't understand the most.

Of course, if he faces Emperor Taizu, this is definitely not the time for Emperor Wen of Sui and Taizong of Tang to be masters like him. There is no ambition to take advantage of the situation to be a contemporary Liu Bang in the troubled times, and Huang Qiong doesn't think that this may be at all. At least after the Battle of Tongzhou, that Emperor Taizu had been so suspicious that it would be difficult for another person to continue to maintain that steady state of mind.

It was born in Tongzhou, and finally became the first hero in the world of Daqi Dingding, and then died of illness on the way back from the Western Expedition. Judging from his various behaviors, he is not the kind of person who wants the king to die, and the minister has to die, and if he does not die, he is disloyal. Such a person can be dead set on a mean and unkind boss like Taizu, at least in Huang Qiong's opinion, it is absolutely impossible.

A so-called history of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Qiong couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it. The establishment of this Great Qi Dynasty is not an inevitable result, but an inevitable result that appears by chance. After Emperor Guan Taizu was stationed in Chang'an, he only knew how to indulge in wine all day long, and he would make a foolish move when he encountered something, which was definitely not the style that an entrepreneur should have.

However, the crown prince, the later Emperor Taizong, at least seemed to be much more capable than Taizu. Thinking of this Emperor Taizong, Huang Qiong suddenly remembered that this Emperor Taizong had been going to change his mind since the fifth year of the Jin Dynasty, and he changed King Zhou, who was born after entering Chang'an, as the crown prince. But from the fifth year of Jin Tong's planning, until the death of Taizu, it failed to do so.

Even when Emperor Taizong was the crown prince, he had been supervising the army outside, but this Emperor Taizu still failed to do so. Thinking of this, Huang Qiong hurriedly opened the "Taizu Benji", and the "Taizong Benji" that his mother gave him later, and put the two books together before he was stunned to find that in fact, some things can be understood after thinking about it deeply.

Emperor Taizu wanted to change the crown prince all his life, but he was not able to succeed until his death. Even in the last five years of his reign, all the military and political power was vested in the crown prince. Among them, in addition to the opposition of the forces in the army, there is also a point that I am afraid that Emperor Taizong, although he supervised the army outside and stayed away from the government, but through many years of supervising the army, he has formed his own strength in the army.

It is even possible that the most elite army of Daqi has already fallen under the control of the prince. And Emperor Taizu, who has not been out of the Three Palaces of Chang'an for many years, has not had a single step in the army, and his influence on the army is not as good as before. Chen Zhou secretly did things in the first war, but it was counterproductive. The crown prince's prestige in the army has soared, and he has almost surpassed Emperor Taizu.

After the Guanzhong rebellion was quelled, Emperor Taizu not only failed to depose Emperor Taizong as the crown prince. On the contrary, it was his henchman Meng Kai, who was expelled from Chang'an and degraded again and again after the Guanzhong Rebellion was quelled. From the left military envoy who held the actual military power of the Great Qi, he was demoted to Shandong to become an observation envoy with only 3,000 old and weak soldiers in his hands, and the elite was emptied.

Although it was reactivated in the battle to destroy the Tang Dynasty, its old subordinates who had been in command for many years were also dismantled, and none of them participated in the battle of Irikawa. Its strength in the army has been completely cut off, and it can no longer become a separate force. And the iron cavalry brought by Emperor Taizong and the king of Guilin County into Guanzhong to quell the rebellion were also the old subordinates who led the two to go through the bloody battle of Chenzhou and pacify Lianghuai and Shandong.

In the battle to quell the rebellion in Guanzhong, the old subordinates who stayed in Guanzhong before the Eastern Expedition of the King of Guilin County also returned to the control of the King of Guilin. But Huang Qiong faintly felt that the return of these elites to the control of the King of Guilin County was only a superficial phenomenon, and in fact they should have fallen into the hands of Emperor Taizong.

Next, in the battle of pacifying Jiangnan and Liangguang, although the military horses brought by the king of Guilin before were left in Guanzhong in the name of Gongwei Jingshi. The king of Guilin was also transferred to an idle post and did not lead the army. But what Huang Qiong thinks, these are all for other generals who are in charge of the army abroad.

The reason is very simple, at that time, the armies that went south to the south of the Yangtze River, although they were mainly based on Huang Ye, the king of Shangyang County, who was crowned at that time, but sixty percent of the main generals of each army were replaced by the king of Guilin County, that is, the old subordinates under the command of the prince. The cousin of Emperor Taizong, the original old subordinates, all stayed in Hebei in the name of guarding against the Khitan.

Thinking of this, Huang Qiong figured out everything. This King of Guilin County is not a descendant of Taizu at all, but a chess piece secretly arranged by the prince. It can even be said that he dared to kill the defense envoy of Tongzhou without a will, and the one standing behind him was the original prince, the later Emperor Taizong.

If the previous defense envoy of the same state, more than a dozen letters asking for help were privately withheld by Meng Kai, who was jealous of his ability. But behind this old man is the crown prince, no matter how bold Meng Kai is, his hands and eyes are too open, it is impossible to detain them all. The delay in sending reinforcements from the DPRK and China is probably because there is the shadow of Taizu behind it.

And his eastern crusade left his old subordinates in Guanzhong, except that Emperor Taizu had already taken precautions against him and left the elite under his command in Beijing. It is more likely that Emperor Taizong deliberately did it by dropping off the donkey. used the elite soldiers of the Guilin County Wangsuo, which he actually controlled, to secretly monitor the movements in Chang'an City, especially the descendants of Emperor Taizu.

Otherwise, the original Emperor Taizu's side will be all led by his henchmen of the Eighth Army of the Imperial Forest. How could the prince be transferred out of Chang'an and stationed in Hanzhong before the prince left Beijing, in the name of being stationed in Chang'an for many years without war, fearing that he would repeat the mistakes of the former Tang Shence army. Replaced with more than 10,000 elites brought out by the King of Guilin in Tongzhou, and reorganized into the Eighth Army of the Imperial Forest to garrison the Chang'an Guard Palace.

Although he went out to supervise the army, he was in order to grasp more strength in his hands. Because this Emperor Taizong knew very well that he could control Chang'an in his hands by relying only on the tens of thousands of military horses of the King of Guilin. However, if the other factions in the Great Qi army, especially the few cousins with heavy troops, formed a sufficient deterrent, it would be impossible to suppress them from daring to make any changes.

For the crown prince at that time, the later Emperor Taizong, the king of Zhou was born after entering Chang'an. The little kid who has neither military power nor formed his own power is not an opponent in his eyes at all. And the cousins and cousins who started with Emperor Taizu, who are now all alone and have heavy troops, are his fierce rivals for inheriting the throne in the future.

Not to mention that once Emperor Taizu died young, those cousins who had already been crowned the prince of the county and the prince of the country, and had heavy troops in their hands, it was impossible not to make any changes. At that time, Taizu was still in power, but these cousins, who were already a little too big to lose, were more or less disobedient.

There are even a few ambitious people who have their eyes on the position of Emperor Taizu. As for whether this so-called Great Qi Dynasty has the ability to finally rule the world, these people probably won't think too much. Emperor Taizu is now doing the throne. These of them are also surnamed Huang, and they followed Emperor Taizu to raise troops together, and their sons and nephews who have experienced a hundred battles should also have the right to inherit.

If you don't have real strength in your hands, even if you succeed in ascending the throne, it will be difficult to stabilize the throne under this ass. At that time, the military power of the Great Qi Dynasty was not completely in the hands of the imperial court. At least Shang Rang, who joined later, was self-contained, not to mention the crown prince at that time, the later Emperor Taizong, even Emperor Taizu could not fully control it.

As for Emperor Taizong's cousins, the least of them had seven or eight thousand military horses in their hands, and the most of them were thirty thousand military horses. And if we want to achieve the unification of the world, it is necessary to take back military power. But not to mention being recaptured from the army, these cousins are willing to be unwilling. Under the circumstances alone, it was impossible to remove all of these commanders.

At that time, the Qi army itself lacked a general who was in charge of himself. The former Tang surrendered unreliable, and no one dared to guarantee that they would not fight back on the battlefield. And the generals at all levels from the peasant army are fierce and fierce, but if you want to talk about strategy, it is still two words. If you don't even know a few words, let them read the military book, it might as well cost them their lives.

It's these sons and nephews of Emperor Taizu, who have read some books with Emperor Taizu, who was born in Xiucai, before. Although the level is not too high, it is at least stronger than those generals who do not want to make progress and can only fight hard. If all these people are withdrawn, who will be able to lead the army to war?

But even if they have a large number of soldiers and horses in their hands, especially when they have begun to disobey the call, and even when they deliberately preserve their strength on the battlefield, they will not be at ease if they change anyone. For those in high power, sometimes it is not only outsiders who need to be guarded against, but also when their own brothers are too big to fall.

Thinking of this, Huang Qiong somewhat understood the cause and effect. At the beginning, the king of Guilin County went to Tongzhou to work in the army, and it is very likely that Emperor Taizong not only did not send any reinforcements in the face of an emergency in view of the left army envoy Meng Kai, but also seized more than ten emergency documents from the defense envoy without authorization. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to bring the defense envoy of the same state under my command.

Although the defense envoy of the same state was born as a scoundrel, he was one of the few brave generals in the Great Qi army who was enough to take charge alone. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the department was enough to be called elite in the Great Qi Army, which was close to scattered at that time. With such a team in hand, the prince at least has more hole cards in his hand when facing his cousins.

As a result, I didn't expect that this guy couldn't ask for help, so he simply prepared to mutiny. At that time, the king of Guilin made a move, and it was estimated that before leaving, he got a secret order from the prince who could not recruit him and simply seized his army. Otherwise, it won't be so neat and tidy when you do it.