Chapter 9: Li Jie's helplessness
It was almost dawn, Li Jie got up, but Xing'er had already prepared the face wash and saliva. Ran around the yard a few laps, did push-ups, and did another military gym punch.
Now, after nearly ten days of exercise, Li Jie's body is much stronger. After eating millet porridge and eating a few steamed buns, Li Jie thought about yesterday's events again, in his opinion, Wu Xun actually asked for him, and he was dispensable.
In fact, he didn't really want to use these people, for the simple reason that these people were either wine bags and rice bags, or arrogant soldiers.
The former is for speculation. The latter is simply unmanageable. Li Jie was thinking at this time, he didn't know what the situation of Xue Liang's 4,000 people was, and how many of them could be used for themselves.
It's already May, and I haven't found what I'm looking for, so isn't there anything I want in this era?
If not, then you have to find another way. Li Jie didn't go out today, standing in the courtyard Li Jie was thinking about his thoughts, Gao Biao defeated Huang Chao a while ago but did not completely eliminate Huang Chao, and also disbanded the encirclement and suppression army, which in Li Jie's opinion, Gao Biao is suspected of raising thieves and self-respect.
After Huang Chao relieved his strength, in the first year of Guangming, that is, in the autumn and July of this year, he led 150,000 peasant troops to cross the Yangtze River from quarrying, and the Tang army was defeated without a fight.
At that time, the Tang court was responsible for commanding all kinds of soldiers and horses to jointly attack the Huangchao army.
The Huainan general Bi Shiduo persuaded Gao Biao to take the initiative to fight. Gao Biao has been hesitating, and the warlock Lu Yongzhi beside him is afraid that Bi Shiduo will be favored for his meritorious service, so he strongly persuades Gao Biao to avoid the Huangchao soldiers and stick to not fighting.
Gao Biao is good at the art of immortals, and has great trust in the warlock Lu Yongzhi, so he refuses to fight Huangchao, but only sends someone to the court to report the urgency, saying that the Huangchao army is 600,000, which is less than 50 miles away from Yangzhou.
Gao Yu's table was sent to Chang'an, and the Tang court was shocked. The playful Emperor was furious and issued an edict condemning Gao Biao, saying that he had dismissed the soldiers of the Dao Dynasty, leaving the Tang army unprepared, and Huang Chao took the opportunity to cross the river.
The original intention of Xi Zong's severe rebuke was to urge Gao Biao to send troops as soon as possible. Gao Biao simply said that he was not sick and waited and watched.
Li Jie had no choice, because he couldn't do anything, and all he could do now was to leave Chang'an as soon as possible.
Going there has now become the primary problem that Li Jie needs to consider, even if he doesn't have what he is looking for, Li Jie has other ways, but where to go now is a headache for him.
Because of the current division of feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty, many places are nominally subordinate to the central government but in fact have long been independent kingdoms, and Xichuan, which is the closest to Chang'an.
Rebellions are also taking place. And Shanxi and Henan will also be in turmoil sooner or later, and Huang Chao will soon attack Anhui and other places.
It's around October. The whole territory of Anhui will fall into the hands of Huang Chao. In November, Huangchao will conquer Luoyang.
The emperor will avoid Sichuan. And if you don't go, you have to find a place before that. The junction of Shanxi and Hebei has become a place that Li Jie must choose.
But how much combat power Xue Liang's 4,000 people have is a question, and how to go there himself is also a problem.
At the request of the patriarch of the family, the elders of each house sat together to discuss the future of the family, first by the young people who had been in contact with Li Jie and told the situation in detail, and Li Jie's strange giant bow was also displayed in advance in each family, and after knowing its performance and listening to Li Jie's words, the families were silent without exception, although there will be a reward for paying, but the risk is also huge, so big that it is very likely that the whole clan will be wiped out.
But soon, after several patriarchs got together to discuss, they made a major decision based on what they knew about Li Jie.
And this decision surprised Li Jie when he found out. All the family members are not allowed to reveal a word to the outside world, and the willing children of each family will withdraw from the court one after another, and the rest will be put last.
The children who withdrew first took the elite family to secretly start training in a mountain fifty miles northeast of Chang'an, and the entire mountain was bought by each family in the name of private property from the imperial court, which made Tang Xizong very happy, and Tian Lingzi was very satisfied because of the withdrawal of the family's children and many more official positions.
The more than 1,000 people who entered the mountain in advance were strictly ordered by the heads of each family to be loyal to Li Jie, and at the same time strictly ordered all family members to be disrupted and mixed.
At the same time, in the name of recruiting Zhuang Ding, they began to recruit homeless people, and it can be said that each family gave up all their hole cards for the future future.
And such a decision brought supreme glory to several major families later. Li Jie didn't know that the major families had already begun to prepare, and going there had become his primary problem.
It wasn't until a few slaps from the nurse slapped on the head that the problem was solved. The situation is like this, when Li Jie measured the circumference of the yard with his feet in the yard for several days, Xing'er, who was worried about Li Jie, called the nurse
"What is Your Highness thinking?
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"Nurse, I'm thinking about going there after leaving Chang'an
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"Smack
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"Nurse, why are you beating me?
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"Smack
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"Why hit me again
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"Smack
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"Stupid to death, Your Highness is so hard to forget that you are still the envoy of the Lu Long Festival?
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"Lu Long is there
"Bang bang
"Youzhou! I'm mad at the slaves!
The nurse was coaxed away by Li Jie, covering the back of her neck that was slapped red by the nurse. Li Jie was depressed, there was a place, but how to get there! From Xi'an to Beijing! Thousands of miles! There is an invincible existence in the middle of Shanxi, Li Cunxiao! This is the current Namba play, and whoever touches it if you go head-to-head will die. Looking at Li Jie, who was rowing the circumference again, this time it was Manniang who ran to call the nurse, and the nurse was discovered by Li Jie as soon as she entered the yard, covering her neck
"Don't hit me!
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"Little Ancestor, what's wrong with you!
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"There is a Li Cunxiao in Shanxi, who is too powerful to fight, and he doesn't dare to fight, let alone fight!"
"Stupid, you're a prince! It's Lu Longjie's envoy again, can he not let you live!
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"Oh! I forgot! Patronized and scared!
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"I'm so angry with the slaves
"Bang bang
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"Why are you spanking me!
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"I'm afraid you'll be so stupid if you slap you on the head!"
"There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure!
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"Dare to say that I'm old, I'll shoot you to death!
“。 Coaxed away the angry nurse, Li Jie looked at Xing'er and Manniang, who were smiling and bent over, and also smirked, ready to go into the house to sleep, and the problem was solved and he could sleep with peace of mind. Well! It seems that there is still something wrong there, Li Jie covered his neck, looked at Xing'er who was about to run out again, and finally knew that something was wrong there,
"Stop, don't run, sleep with me tonight!
dragged Xing'er, who was blushing, into the house, and Li Jie fell asleep on the bed. Looking at Li Jie, who was asleep, Xing'er gently kissed him on the face, and his little face suddenly burned, and he covered his face with his hands and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Tang Xizong Li Yi is the fifth son of Tang Yizong, and his biological mother is Queen Wang of Hui'an. Xiantong was born on May 8 in Chang'an. The first king of Pu, named Li Yan. Xi Zong was born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of eunuchs, and what the life scene in the palace can bring him is that he can play unscrupulously. In fact, he was indeed an emperor who loved to play. He likes cockfighting ("Tang Yulin" says yes
"Duck fighting"), gambling geese, like riding archery, sword lance, law arithmetic, music, Go, gambling, he almost all of his life is exquisite.
He is not only fascinated by playing polo, but also highly skilled. He once said to the Youlingshi boar beside him very conceitedly: "If I take the batting entrance exam, I should be the champion." Shi Yezhu replied: "If you meet a virtuous gentleman like Yao Shun as the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites, I am afraid that Your Majesty will be blamed and defeated!" When he heard such a clever answer, he just smiled.
In November of the first year of Guangming, due to the low morale of the Tang army, Gao Biao's suppression of Huangchao was very ineffective, and the Huangchao rebel army conquered Luoyang, and in December, it easily took Tongguan and approached Chang'an.
The monarchs and ministers of the Emperor were helpless and cried relatively, and the prime minister Lu Xian committed suicide out of fear. Tian Lingzi led an army of 500 gods to hurriedly lead the emperor and a few princes of the clan to flee the capital, first to Shannan and then to Sichuan.
Xizong became another emperor who took refuge and fled to Sichuan after Xuanzong. The late Tang Dynasty poet Luo Yin wrote about the poem "Emperor Xingshu": "Ma Wei Yanliu is still relying on it, and I see Luan Yu Xingshu returning." Quanxia Aman should have a saying, this time Hugh is more wronged by Concubine Yang. ”(
"Aman" is the nickname of Tang Xuanzong. Alleged
"Qin Women's Yin Xiucai" in the late Tang Dynasty Jinshi Weizhuang's "Spring Day Works" has the same artistic conception: "The nine-fold son of heaven goes to cover the dust, and the willow is ruthless and still spring." Today is not about concubines and concubines, and I know how to live up to Ma Weiren. Soon Huang Chao entered Chang'an, the founding name of Daqi, and the year name Jintong.
And Xi Zong hid in Sichuan for 4 years. During this period, Xizong got a respite, and he took advantage of the wealth of Sichuan and the contributions from all over the country to organize a counterattack against Huangchao.
Yiwu Town Jiedu made Wang Chucun, Hezhong Jiedu made Wang Chongrong and others actively organized a blow to Huangchao, and Li Keyong, who was born in Taiyuan, Hedong, also led troops to help the imperial court, especially Zheng Zheng, who was commissioned by the Emperor to camp on all sides of the capital
The power of "cheap engagement" is to actively organize the siege of Chang'an's Yellow Nest. Later, the prime minister Wang Duo was appointed as the commander of all the provinces to launch an attack on Huangchao, and the feudal towns at both ends of the original rat also began to take the initiative to express loyalty to the court for their own selfish interests.
Due to their own weaknesses and lack of military rations, the rebels of Huangchao were divided and divided internally, and some generals accepted the imperial court's recruitment, and the situation was reversed.
The defense of Huangchao stationed in the important town of Tongzhou caused Zhu Wen to surrender in September of the second year of Zhonghe, and Emperor Xizong was overjoyed and thought that it was
"God gave me too", gave the name Zhu Quanzhong. Huang Chao was forced to withdraw from Chang'an under the counterattack of the Tang Dynasty official army, and finally suffered a defeat, and Huang Chao committed suicide in the Tiger and Wolf Valley in Tai'an, Shandong.
After the blow of the Huangchao rebel army, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years has no longer its old appearance. At this time, Li Changfu was based on Fengxiang, Wang Chongrong was based on Pu and Shaanxi, Zhuge Shuang was based on Heyang and Luoyang, Meng Fangli was based on Xing and Wei, Li Keyong was based on Taiyuan and Shangdang, Zhu Quanzhong was based on Bian and Hua, Qin Zongquan was based on Xu and Cai, Shi Pu was based on Xu and Si, Zhu Xuan was based on Yun, Qi, Cao and Pu, Wang Jingwu was based on Zi and Qing, Gao Biao was based on Huainan Bazhou, Qin Yan was based on Xuan and She, and Qian Biao was based on eastern Zhejiang.
The area that the imperial court could control was only dozens of prefectures in Hexi, Shannan, Jiannan, and Lingnan West Dao.
The Tang Dynasty is close to extinction.