Xiao Yan, who was entrenched in Jiangling City, was a descendant of Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty.

In the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Dong Jingzhen, Lei Shimeng, Zheng Wenxiu, Zhang Xiu and others conspired to raise troops against the Sui, and everyone wanted to promote Dong Jingzhen as the leader.

Dong Jingzhen thought that his status was lowly and he could not convince the public, so he suggested that he jointly support Xiao Mill, the then commander of Luochuan County, as the leader.

In the early days of the uprising, the generals waved the slogan of restoring the country and relieving the people. Conquer the city and conquer the territory, expand the territory and win the army. The force developed very rapidly, once reaching the Three Gorges in the west, Jiaozhi in the south, and the Han River in the north, and the strength of the army grew to more than 400,000.

But the good times didn't last long, and as the generals established meritorious deeds, they began to have ghosts, compete with each other, and fight endlessly.

In order to quell the infighting, Xiao Mo made a wish to the generals to be crowned king, but he couldn't fulfill them one by one. led to the separation of the soldiers, and there were many rebels.

In order to compete for power and power with each other, the generals led troops to attack and kill each other, and did not take Xiao Mo in their eyes at all.

Xiao was tired of it, and ordered 400,000 soldiers to bravely disarm and return to the fields to relieve the pressure of feeding the army.

Since then, Xiao Mill's army has been declining day by day, and the national strength has been declining.

As early as the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Dong Jingzhen, the general of Xiao Milling stationed in Changsha, surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. The main reason is that Xiao Mo himself has no way to rule, so that the soldiers are centrifuged and the ministers are detached.

Xiao Mo is a descendant of Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, but what is not hard is that he is just as Buddha as his ancestors.

Emperor Wu of Liang became a monk several times because of his Buddha, ignoring the government and politics. The ministers wanted to redeem him from the world with a huge amount of property before returning to the throne.

In his later years, Emperor Wu of Liang became increasingly dim, favored the traitor Zhu Yi, and appeased the rebel general Hou Jing of the Northern Qi Dynasty. As a result, Hou Jing's soldiers were in turmoil and starved to death in Taicheng.

Xiao Mo also because of the Buddha, although he once had more than 400,000 soldiers, he could not strengthen himself in the troubled times, but he chilled the hearts of the soldiers, and thus decayed day by day.

Although Xiao Mo was born in the royal family of Southern Liang, by his generation, the Liang Kingdom had long since perished. When he was young, he was destitute and copied to make a living.

Later, Yang Guang married Xiao Shi, and Xiao Mo got the official position of Luochuan County Order because of his status as a relative.

Xiao Milling is not eloquent, and he is weak in humanity, and he has no determination and courage to solve problems when he encounters chaos, but only pins his hopes on the Buddha.

Therefore, he is a standard Buddha, not a qualified human master.

His distant ancestor Xiao Yan, who had been the emperor for forty-eight years, was also heroic in his early years, creating a generation of foundations. It's just that in his later years, he became more and more deaf, indulged in Buddhism, and ignored political affairs, so there was the tragedy of Hou Jingzhi's rebellion and starvation to death in Taicheng.

And Xiao Milling was in his thirties when he started the army, just at the age of forging ahead in life, but he was blindly a Buddha, which was far worse than his ancestor Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang.

Li Yuan didn't regard him as a fierce rival in the first place, probably because he thought he wouldn't succeed!