Li Jiqian's eighth - and there is no way to do it

Li Jiqian fled to the hinterland of the desert in embarrassment, Li Jisheng did not chase after him, he wanted to clean up the mess and sit firmly in the position of Xiazhou.

At the beginning, Li Ji was forced to enter the dynasty by his uncles, but in fact, he was also willing to be the "soil emperor" in the northwest, and he was forced to embark on the road of surrendering to the Song Dynasty. Now that he has returned to Xiazhou and re-become the envoy of the Dingyan Army, it is equivalent to fighting by himself, and the pressure from his uncles is gone, it should be said that Li Jizhui should be very cool.

But the current Li Jisheng's position is equivalent to a puppet controlled by Zhao Guangyi of the Great Song Dynasty, and he can't hold power independently at all. is that there is also a superintendent sent by the Song Dynasty by his side. Thinking about it, this is even more terrible than the uncle forcing each other back then.

Li Jiqian, who has already fled, sees this very clearly.

Back then, he was attacked for the first time, lost his land, and re-emerged by marrying a big family; failed for the second time, relying on taking refuge in the Khitan and becoming the Khitan's son-in-law. Why can't you marry the daughter of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and overpower Li Jishou. Moreover, the Great Song Dynasty did not implement the national policy of marriage with relatives at all. How to make a comeback does require some thought.

At this time, not only him, but also the resourceful Zhang Pu was at a loss.

It is said that later, he had a dream that Li Jizhu came to attack, and it was this dream that made him come up with a plan, which was really a wonderful plan.

It turned out that he carefully studied his uncle and brother Li Jisheng, and he knew that Li Jisheng couldn't help but plan for himself, if Li Jisheng wanted to resist the Song Dynasty and keep his hard-won position, the best way was to be able to maneuver between Song and Liao, and set the two feuds in one, there was no better way than this. If Li Jisheng also thinks like this and does this, with his current status as a colt of the Great Khitan Kingdom, he will still press Li Jisheng. Li Jiqian understood that although he failed this time and lost his troops, Mrs. Khitan did not lose it, and his identity as a colt was still there.

So, Li Jiqian sent someone to secretly sneak to Xiazhou and told Li Jiqian about the benefits of defecting to the Khitan.

Li Jisheng is different from the generals of the Song Dynasty, he knows where Li Jiqian is hiding, if he makes a surprise attack, or contacts the Song army to attack together, he can completely eliminate his unruly brother. But he couldn't. At this time, he was most afraid of the Song Dynasty, not Li Jiqian. Li Jisheng even thinks a little complacently that Li Jiqian is actually not his opponent, not to mention the success of this surprise attack, that is, he led him to take the bait and surrender to the Song Dynasty, so that he accepted a title far lower than his own, which means that he Li Jiqian is too tender - in the eyes of the big powers, I, Li Jisheng, am higher than you Li Jiqian. He believed that the existence of Western Xia depended on the joy and anger of the great powers. From this point of view, it is really beneficial to keep Li Jiqian - Li Jiqian is here, and I, Li Jisheng, have the value of existence, if Li Jiqian is really eliminated, I Li Jisheng really can't stay in the northwest.

With such a way of thinking, Li Jisheng certainly fell into the scheme.

Because Li Jizhui had no direct contact with the Khitan at that time, he did a stupid thing, a thing that made Li Jiqian happy, that is, Li Jizhuan actually sent someone to contact him and asked him to help inquire, if a person like him surrendered to the Khitan, what treatment would he have to give. Li Jiqian deliberately delayed for a few days before replying: "Brother, Khitan said, as long as you come over, what position our uncle (Li Kerui) held at the beginning, you are what position." My mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Xiao, said, let you Yongzhen Xiazhou! ”

Li Jiqian's lie was made up with the thoughts of the Liao State, and his reply to Li Jiqian and his request for instructions from the Khitan were made up at the same time.

After receiving such an answer, Li Ji was going to take refuge in the Khitan. Rather than following the Great Song Dynasty to be afraid, it is better to rely on the Khitan, judging from all indications, the Khitan did not want to annex the Western Xia, from the fact that they were able to marry the royal woman to Li Jiqian, a wandering royal child, we knew that they were going to support the Western Xia, that is, the power of the party Xiangqiang, occupy the northwest side, and contain the Great Song Dynasty. In other words, the Khitan sincerely helped the Western Xia, and the Great Song Dynasty only restored its title because it could not deal with Li Jiqian's guerrillas. There was no loss with the Great Khitan Kingdom.

In this way, in September 991, Li Jisheng officially sent an envoy to Liao. The title he received from the Khitan was very long, called "Loyal to the Heroes of Shun Qi Shengding, and was awarded the title of "King of Xiping". What's more interesting is that Empress Dowager Xiao also asked him to remove the name "Zhao Baozhong" and recall him "Li Jizhong" and "duplicate name".

Here, Li Jisheng just accepted the Khitan gift, and over there, Li Jiqian walked out of the desert with the remnants of the defeated army, came to Yinzhou in a big way, entered the city to sit in the palace, and gave orders. Li Jisheng felt a headache at the time, this is a plaster that can't be beaten or asked to leave, he is the "King of Xiping", but he is still a cut away from Li Jiqian - he is the master of the imperial court.

Li Jiqian's clever plan took effect, and the effect was very good, and half of Western Xia was obtained without a single soldier.

We really should applaud Li Jiqian!

However, Li Jiqian still underestimated Li Jizhuang. In the officialdom, Li Jixiang has been training for a long time, and he has more ideas in his stomach than he Li Jiqian.

It turned out that Li Jisheng was well aware of Li Jiqian's surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, especially when he was awarded the position of "Yinzhou Observer" by the Song Dynasty, which was his father's former title, and the acquisition of this title was repeatedly asked for by Li Jiqian, which shows that he surrendered to the Song Dynasty with eight points of sincerity.

At this time, seeing Li Jiqian's triumphant appearance, Li Jisheng let him go for the time being, and secretly sent someone behind his back to report Li Jiqian's sincere attachment to the Great Song Dynasty to the Khitan Empress Dowager Xiao.

Although Li Jiqian once greeted his "uncle and mother-in-law" after "begging" to the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Yanyan was not at ease with Li Jiqian after listening to Li Jiqian's whistleblowing. In the third year of Song Chunhua, the tenth year of Khitan unification (992 AD), shortly after Li Jiqian came out of the desert and entered Yinzhou, Empress Dowager Xiao felt that she had to give Li Jiqian a warning. You say that you are "saving your strength", and the Song Dynasty is false, and the "curve anti-Song" is true, so what is the performance of anti-Song when you come back from the desert? It seems that your vote is not "fake", but true and false. In order to give Li Jiqian a warning and let him stop playing any more "moths", the Khitan Southwest recruited Han Dewei to go to Yinzhou with the mission of Empress Dowager Xiao.

Han Dewei can be regarded as Li Jiqian's "life-saving benefactor", and he is also very dissatisfied with Li Jiqian's performance, so he went to Yinzhou with anger. Okay, you Li Jiqian, shameless, put a good "King Xia" inappropriately, you have to go back to the Great Song Dynasty to be a "Yinzhou Observer", it's too bad to give Lao Tzu face. He arrived in Yinzhou in a huff, and planned to scold Li Jiqian in person, but he didn't even see Li Jiqian's shadow. Not only did he not see Li Jiqian, but he didn't even see Zhang Pu. Han Dewei was depressed and asked the receptionist: "Where are your officials and military advisors, are they all hiding and not daring to see me?" The person in charge of the reception hurriedly smiled and waved his hand again and again: "No, no, don't misunderstand, the king." The king is the closest relative of our official, where will the official hide from you. But it's really unfortunate that the king came, our official just took the military division to conquer Xiazhou two days ago, and opened up the territory for my Khitan! ”

This answer was beautiful, Li Jiqian didn't go to the west at all, he was just hiding and didn't dare to see Han Dewei. But he couldn't let Han Dewei grasp the handle, so he made up such a reason - "Conquer Xiazhou in the west and expand the territory for the Khitan". Xiazhou, where is Xiazhou, that is Li Jishou's territory; When Li Jiqian said this, he told Han Dewei that you have sealed Li Jishou too high, I am not satisfied, I will beat him!

Han Dewei has no interest in their brother's fight, and even thinks it's a good thing, the more they fight, the better my Great Khitan will be to fiddle with the two of you, but he thinks that Li Jiqian is so hideous, he is ungrateful, and he doesn't give himself face. And this kid's words are nine times out of ten untrustworthy.

Seeing Li Jiqian, Han Dewei had no place to spread the fire in his belly, and when he left, he put down his cruel words: "Li Jiqian, you'd better be smart for me, if you really provoke Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will directly level this Yinzhou City!" With that, he went away indignantly. Pingyinzhou, Han Dewei can't do it now, and he doesn't have the strength to do it. But he can "sweep" Yinzhou. He brought his soldiers to Li Jiqian to settle accounts, but he didn't see anyone, but he couldn't go back empty-handed. Han Dewei took this group of Khitan soldiers to search for valuable things that could be taken away inside and outside Yinzhou City, and returned to Shangjing in a large car.

For this looting, the people of Yinzhou who suffered must be him Li Jiqian.

Han Dewei's move really made Li Jiqian angry, and he was even more angry. However, Han Dewei is not only kind to himself, but also a celebrity of Empress Dowager Xiao, how can this tone come out? How can the prestige lost in the Silver State be restored?

The art master is bold, didn't you Han Dewei look for me Li Jiqian wanted to scold me and even hurt my reputation and flatten my Yinzhou? Okay, I'll send it to the door myself!

It is estimated that Zhang Pu may have come up with this idea, or at least Zhang Pu participated. It was definitely unexpected by Han Dewei and beyond Li Jisheng's expectations.

Han Dewei returned to Liaoshangjing, and before his ass was hot, Li Jiqian's hind feet arrived in Shangjing. He didn't come to make amends, he came to Xiao Yanyan to complain. He wants to sue Han Dewei. Li Jiqian sued him for arsoning and disturbing the people, and took advantage of his expedition to the west to plunder Yinzhou. When Li Jiqian sued, he was really bitter: "Dear mother-in-law, it's too difficult for my son-in-law to be a son-in-law. I was fighting outside, but my Uncle Han, who was in charge of the west, was robbing and disturbing the people in my house. I sincerely surrendered to the Great Khitan, just to preserve my strength and feign surrender to the Song Dynasty, that was my strategy, because I really can't defeat the Song army with my strength, and I can only win the battle by surrendering! But now, I'm really sad, how can I treat a loyal and filial son like this! ”

Faced with the crying of her "son-in-law", she did not give up, and the Empress Dowager Xiao lost her temper. From the overall point of view, it is indeed useful to keep Li Jiqian, Li Jiqian can play a role in containing the Song army, and Li Jiqian is not as reliable as him. Without Li Jiqian, it would be difficult for the Khitan drama in the northwest to continue. Han Dewei's behavior of "hitting the grass valley" this time is indeed a bit excessive, and he is at a loss, anyway, the purpose of the warning has been achieved, the stick has been sent out, and it is time to give the carrot. In order to appease Li Jiqian, Empress Dowager Xiao reprimanded Han Dewei in front of him, and said a lot of good things to Li Jiqian, so that he could understand this matter. What should be repaid was also repaid, Li Jiqian returned to Yinzhou, returned the property to the big surnames, and his prestige increased unprecedentedly, and Li Jiqian watched Li Jiqian win another game.

However, Li Jisheng still has Li Jisheng's way.

However, it was said that Li Jiqian and the Great Song Dynasty had been fighting guerrillas for eight years, and there were more and more people under him, and there were not many people to eat and wear. In order to deal with him, the Great Song Dynasty once closed the Rongchang, so that the green salt produced in the Western Xia had nowhere to sell, Li Jiqian led people to Huanzhou to force the Great Song Dynasty to open the green salt trade, forcing the Great Song Dynasty to reopen the mutual market. This can be regarded as the welfare that Li Jiqian has won for the people of Dingjing, and it is a matter of immeasurable merit. But this incident brought a little trouble to Li Jiqian. In the past, when the Great Song Dynasty closed the border trade, Li Jiqian could also use this as an excuse to gather a group of people to his side to find trouble with the Great Song Dynasty. But now that the trade here has reopened, these people have tasted the sweetness of the attached Song Dynasty, and under the influence of Li Jishang, these people have actually defected, or surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, or followed Li Jishou. Li Jiqian's efforts to promote the reopening of the mutual market, but the people fell into the hands of the Song Dynasty and Li Jisheng.

Of course, Li Jiqian was not convinced.

In the spring of the fifth year of Song Chunhua and the twelfth year of Khitan unification (994 AD), Li Jiqian, who had just gained a firm foothold in Yinzhou, felt that he had to move the population to the area he could control. So, he launched an immigration program called "Suiyou Filling the Summer". After eight years of war, the two states of Yinxia are now devastated and tattered. In order to restore the economy as soon as possible and expand his own power, Li Jiqian planned to relocate the residents of Sui and Youzhou, who had not been affected by any impact, to Pingxia in order to replenish the population and resume production.

There have been many state-controlled migrations in China's history, but each time it has been achieved with a high degree of centralization. Large-scale migration is not a problem that can be solved in a single sentence. The people in Suizhou have always been rude, and there are many records of the Suizhou rebellion, Li Jiqian asked Suizhou to relocate the people this time, but the people of Suizhou did not agree. Under the leadership of Gao Wenyuan, a general who lived in Suizhou (it is estimated that there is also a shadow of Li Jishou behind), those who were unwilling to move betrayed Li Jiqian. Under the counterattack of Su Yi, Shanhai Ye, Mu Daoxiang and many other Tibetan tribes, Li Jiqian defeated Suizhou, and then abandoned the city.

After the defeat in Suizhou, Li Jiqian learned more and more intelligently. At this time, the Li family's classic "guerrilla tactics" had begun to take shape. Li Jiqian completely gave up his desire to control the big city, and instead went to "besiege the fortress, plunder the residents, and burn the accumulation". The war in the northwest has once again fallen into a stalemate.

The war has come to this point, and Zhao Guangyi, the anxious Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty, is also going to make a move. Originally, he did not want to send troops to the northwest again. Because he Zhao Guangyi was in trouble in Xichuan. In May 993, the largest peasant uprising since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun uprisings, broke out in Sichuan. The southwest half of the wall is not guaranteed, and the Khitan, a strong enemy on the northeast border, is eyeing the tiger, if Li Jiqian does not make too much trouble, any sane emperor will not want to play the game of "three-front battle". But now Li Jiqian is making Zhao Guangyi very upset, and there are battle reports almost every day, or it may be that Li Jitou is exaggerating. However, exaggeration is exaggeration, and there is "the thing". It seems that there is no way to cure Li Jiqian's poisonous sores by relying on Li Jizhui, a "local doctor", Zhao Guangyi was ruthless at this time, and pointed out his brother-in-law Li Jilong, a famous general, and led his troops to the northwest, with the position of "Hexi Capital Deployment".

The last time Wang Yu was the commander of the expedition to the northwest, it was actually Li Jilong who made plans and arranged troops in the back. After that, Li Jilong made a lot of achievements, and the battle was getting better and better, and this time he directly let him take command, and he wanted to completely uproot Li Jiqian's poisonous sore.

Li Jilong, the "commander-in-chief of the bandit army", led the army to the northwest, Li Jiqian was nothing, but what he was most afraid of was Li Jiqian, the brother of Li Jiqian.

Li Jitou has a lot of ideas, but he doesn't have the guts. In addition, he knew Li Jiqian very well, so he thought that if Li Jiqian met Li Jilong, he would definitely give the news of his fornication with the Khitan to the Song Dynasty. Because, he once used this trick to rectify Li Jiqian, and Li Jiqian would not retaliate against himself.

Li Jiqian escaped the Khitan questioning because Li Jiqian really wanted to fight against the Great Song Dynasty, and he was bold enough to dare to go to the Khitan court to explain the situation, and even make a big fuss in the court. However, I don't have the courage to do this, and there is no reason in essence. Therefore, as long as the Great Song Dynasty knew that he had fallen to the Khitan and accepted the title of the Khitan, at that time, he would not be any "envoy of the difficult army" or "King of Xiping", he could only be a dead man.

If you want this news to be kept secret, you must make it impossible for Li Jiqian to meet Li Jilong. In order to protect himself, all Li Jizhuang can do is to protect Li Jiqian desperately. Taking advantage of the fact that Li Jilong's army had not yet arrived, he did not give up any negotiable opportunity and sent tribute envoys to Tokyo as quickly as possible. The tribute envoy is nominally here to sacrifice horses, but in fact he is interceding: "Your Majesty, my brother Li Jiqian and I have long been reconciled, and he has fully realized the seriousness of his mistake and is repenting there." As long as the emperor can give him some more time, I promise to give you a quiet northwest, and there will be absolutely no one to make trouble again! ”

When Zhao Guangyi heard this, he replied straightforwardly: "Zhao Baozhong, it's not that I haven't given you a chance, it's that you didn't grasp it." How much is your guarantee worth now, you promise, please? Subsequently, Zhao Guangyi not only didn't listen to Li Jizhuang, but gave Li Jilong a death order - give me the fastest speed, eliminate Li Jiqian, and bring back his head!

At this time, Li Jishou is completely out of line, and the only way he can think of is - run! A few days before Li Jilong arrived in Xiazhou, he made surprise preparations. On the one hand, he took the whole family, the attendants and cronies, and moved all the valuable things in the family to the outside of Xiazhou City, and ran away when things were not good. On the other hand, he still has to protect Li Jiqian, the two of them are now "grasshoppers on a rope", and protecting Li Jiqian is protecting himself. In order to let Li Jiqian prepare as soon as possible, Li Jizuo sent Li Guangzuo, the tooth general under the tent, to personally go to the desert to find Li Jiqian, and told Li Jiqian that Li Jilong is here, hurry up!

Li Jiqian didn't hide it from Li Guangzuo, he really started to run with the fastest reaction speed, and Li Guangzuo immediately rushed back to report to Li Jizuo. However, Li Guangzuo ignored the direction in which Li Jiqian ran. Li Jizhui meant to let him run north quickly and run to Khitan to avoid the limelight, but Li Jiqian ran south and came after Li Jishou. Li Jisheng put all his thoughts on guarding against Li Jilong at this time, who would have thought that his younger brother, who was "protecting in every way", would take the opportunity to attack him.

In the middle of the night, Li Jiqian suddenly appeared outside Li Jisheng's joint camp, and after killing the defenders, he went straight to Li Jisheng's big tent. Fortunately, Li Jishou was vigilant at all times, and when he heard that the voice was wrong, he crawled out of the bed and ran out desperately. It's really good, he really ran out, but his mother and wife were captured by Li Jiqian.

Li Jisheng moved out of Xiazhou just for the convenience of running, but he didn't expect that it was not Li Jilong who attacked him first, but Li Jiqian.

Li Jiqian's move is high enough, and it is Li Jizhuo, who learned it.

After Li Jiqian's raid was successful, Li Jizhui had nothing left at all, and fled back to Xiazhou alone. What Li Jisheng didn't expect was that as soon as he entered the city, his original general Zhao Guangsi imprisoned him, and Qin Han, the prison sent by the Song Dynasty, wanted to kill him. However, he was stopped by Li Jilong, who entered the city later. In Li Jilong's eyes, Li Jisheng is not much evil, but Li Jisheng is a princely figure, and it is a great achievement to be regarded as a prisoner of war. put him in a prison car and escorted him to Bianjing.

Zhao Guangyi still had a comprehensive view of Li Jisheng, and saw that Li Jisheng had completely confessed his guilt, and remembered that he had made meritorious contributions to him at the beginning, so he was exempted from the death penalty. Li Jizhuo was named "Marquis of Yousin" and given the first Beijing teacher, and since then Li Jizhuo has never returned to Xiazhou. Later, the Song court sent him to Yuezhou, Fuzhou and other southern prefectures and counties as an official, but he was unhappy from then on. In the first year of Jingde (1004 AD), Li Jitou died of illness and lived to be 42 years old.

Li Jitou is a person, and later generations have always had a bad evaluation of him. If the Song Dynasty is lowered, it will completely follow the Great Song Dynasty, just like the Yang family and the Zhe family in later generations, and make a name in history. But he obviously contributed Xiazhou, and when he saw the opportunity, he actually wanted to recover. And this kind of restoration does not have its own clear goals, does not have a set of its own plans, and even fell into the hands of Li Jiqian and attached to the Khitan, and the result is conceivable. In contrast, Li Jiqian has only one goal, that is, to recover the difficulties. And there is only one plan, that is, "when it is appropriate to fight, it will be war, and when it is peaceful, it will be peaceful", when to attach to whom, Li Jiqian knows in his heart. This is the main reason why Li Jiqian has been alive and kicking in the northwest for so many years, and Li Jiqian planted it in a few years.

Although Li Jiqian got rid of Li Jizhuo's brother and went to a big trouble, he was also worried in the face of the attack of the Great Song army led by Li Jilong.