On a dark and windy night, An Xiuren led the Hu people into Jincheng, shouted the banner, and Li Liang gathered everyone to respond, captured the Hu Benlang generals Xie Tongshi and Jun Cheng Wei Shizheng, and easily occupied Jincheng.

Occupying a territory on the edge of the Sui Dynasty, Li Liang swelled and became the king, calling himself the king of Hexi. He thought that the day of becoming emperor would not be far away, but the time was just short. Next, he has to fight desperately for this opportunity, and continue to take risks with his head in hand.

At this time, Xue Ju wanted Wu to fight with Li Yuan, and he had no time to deal with Li Rail, so Li Rail had a day of respite, growing stronger and stronger, and gradually constituting the biggest threat to Li Tang in the northwest with Xue Ju, the king of Western Qin.

In August of the first year of Wude (618), when Li Yuan and Xue Ju were inseparable, he wanted Li Liang to stab him in the back from Xue Ju, so he was cheeky, showed favor to Li Liang, and issued an edict calling him his younger brother. Li Liang thought that Li Yuan wanted to be attached to him, and felt that he was very good, and if he did not call the emperor, it was simply against the mandate of heaven, so he took the opportunity to usurp the emperor, established the era name of Anle, and ordered his son Li Boyu to be the crown prince, and Cao Zhen, the chief historian, shot for the left servant of Shangshu, and captured Hezhou.

Li Rail is really anxious to call the emperor, you must know that Li Yuan, Wang Shichong, and Li Mi, who were powerful in the Central Plains at that time, did not dare to call the emperor easily, they knew that the time had not come, and rashly calling the emperor was death, Li Rail did not have this consciousness at all, just knew that it was very cool to be called the emperor. Thanks to Li Liang's presence in the frontier, if he fights for power and territory with those bigwigs in the Central Plains, he will become cannon fodder in minutes.

Li Liang saw that Xue Ju's father and son were beaten down by Li Yuan and were defeated and died, so he took the opportunity to fight the mighty in one breath, Zhangye, Dunhuang, Xiping, and Caohan, and occupied the land west of the river.

Li Liang only wanted to be the emperor, and did not make a long-term plan, when Li Yuan and Xue Ju competed, he could take the opportunity to chase the Central Plains and get the deer full of temptation in the Central Plains. By the time Li Shimin took down Xue Ju, he had completely lost the opportunity. In this case, it was only a matter of time before Li Yuan wanted to clean up Li Rail.

Of course, it is not so easy for Li Yuan to level Li Liang, in a border area like Gansu, he has to send troops from the Central Plains to fight, the battle line is too long, even if Li Yuan has strength, he can't afford to drag it out, not to mention that he has just founded the country, and there are still a large number of separatist forces waiting for him to sweep away. If he leads his troops to fight Li Liang to the death, the Central Plains may easily be occupied by crows, because a large number of separatist bigwigs are eyeing the Central Plains, and they may deal a fatal blow to the Li Tang Dynasty at any time. If Li Yuan didn't clean up Li Rail, it would be like a sharp knife hanging above his head, making him tremble like pins and needles all the time. Li Liang occupies most of the territory of Hexi, which is extremely vast, even if he completely calms down the Central Plains one day, the geographical location occupied by Li Liang will make Li Yuan's brain hurt, and it is more difficult to expand to this side than to ascend to the sky.

Therefore, in the face of the increasingly powerful Li Rail, Li Yuan decided to adopt the means of canonization to make Li Rail return to his heart, so at the beginning of the second year of Wude, Li Rail was appointed as the governor of Liangzhou and crowned the King of Liang.

Li Yuan thinks very well like this, Li Liang does not accept the canonization, it depends on his mood, just like a person who wants to deal with another person, and the other party has no heart, this matter cannot continue.

Li Liang received Li Yuan's canonization documents, such a major matter, it is natural to ask his subordinates to discuss it.

So, Li Liang and his subordinates solemnly held a meeting.