The second of the legendary Li Jiqian -- the victorious escape organized by the nineteen-year-old Li Jiqian

In the third year of Song Jianlong (963), Mrs. Weimu, who was pregnant for 12 months, gave birth to a son at Lijia Station (later changed to Li Jiqian Village) on the bank of the Wuding River. Li Jiqian shot a tiger alone at the age of thirteen, and was rumored to be a hero among the party members for a while. Of course, the history books record it like this, just like Liu Bang cutting the white snake, believe it or not, everyone can only think for themselves.

At that time, Li Guangrui, who was the envoy of the Dingyan Military Festival, wasted no time in playing the imperial court and asked him to be named "the envoy of the capital in the management". After Song Taizu played, the royal pen personally named him as the envoy of the military management of Dingyan. This position is roughly the head of the Pingxia Autonomous Region of the Party Xiang, second only to the envoy of the Dingyan Army and the commander of the Yanei, although he is young, his status is extremely respectful. At that time, Li Jiqian was 14 years old.

Li Jiqian, a child born in the Li family's ancestral family, should be able to sit in this position, and it should be deserved. However, this is basically a fictitious position, with no power or authority, and there are no soldiers under him who can fight, so it is possible to manage some officials. Some people even think that it is a means for Lee Kuan Rui to constantly weaken the powerful faction of the party. Because Li Jiqian's father was the defense envoy of Yinzhou, he was a powerful faction that held military power.

I once read an article that wrote: Turning over Li Jiqian's family tree, it is not difficult for us to find that since his great-grandfather Li Renyan, as a descendant of the Li family of Tuoba Sizhong, he has lived in Yinzhou for generations, and has served as the defense envoy of Yinzhou for all generations. However, this position did not fall on Li Jiqian's body after Li Jiqian's father, Li Guangyan, the head of the delegation at the time, died of illness. When exactly Li Guangyan died, there is no exact record in the history books. However, Li Guangyan did not enter the "light to gram mode" (Li Guangyan's name still carries the word "light", after Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong ascended the throne, in order to avoid secrecy, everything with the word "light" was changed to "gram"). -- We estimate that he died before the first year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom. After Li Guangyan died, why didn't Li Jiqian have a son to inherit his father's business as a defense envoy in Yinzhou? Perhaps from this time on, Li Kerui has been affected by the Great Song Dynasty's policy of "cutting feuds" and began to clean up the intertwined clan forces within Dingnan. There is also a saying: "In order to prevent Li Jiqian from becoming bigger and stronger in Yinzhou, Li Kerui took advantage of the opportunity of Li Jiqian's young age after Li Guangyan's death to change the leadership of Yinzhou to Li Keyuan." “

In my opinion, these two paragraphs may not be accurate, because the exercise of military power by the defense envoy is a big matter, and it will not be mastered by a child who is only 14 or 5 years old.

But in any case, it was this Li Keyuan (formerly known as Li Guangyuan) who became big and wanted to covet the leadership of Xiazhou, or he colluded with the forces of the Song Dynasty and staged the aforementioned coup d'état to replace Li Jisheng. As a result, he was discovered by Li Jishuang and was defeated and died.

But then Li Kewen's letter was used by Song Taizong, and he subdued Xiazhou without blood. The Song Dynasty expanded its territory to the edge of the Hexi Corridor and the desert. If, Song Taizong subdued the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun as he designed, he would almost be able to compete with Tang Taizong.

However, he ignored the inherent sense of resistance among the party members and ignored a young man -- that is, Li Jiqian. Some people believe that the Song Dynasty was capable of controlling Li Jiqian at that time, and if he had been given an important title and position of higher rank, and then sent capable people to supervise him in Beijing, perhaps China's history would have been rewritten.

That's a good idea. What I value more is how Li Jiqian does it.

Looking through historical materials, first of all, we can see that Li Jiqian has a trace of disdain for the Song Dynasty. This starts with the oversized jade belt given by Song Taizu. For Xiazhou at that time, it was a kind of glory, it is said that many tribes had to come to pay respects, and the Li family also used it to show off, and it was also a means to consolidate the status of the notice. However, Li Jiqian didn't take it seriously at all. It was he who was appointed as the "Governor of the Tube", and he was the imperial pen of Song Taizu, according to the rules, he wanted to worship the jade belt, but he didn't have it at all, which made Li Guangrui helpless. At a young age, he already had his own unique views on the Xiazhou issue, and he believed that Li Jisheng's matter was Xiazhou's own problem, and he should solve it by himself without the intervention of the Central Plains court.

At that time, the right to know Xiazhou was already Li Kewen, he was Li Jiqian's uncle, Li Jiqian found and said to Li Kewen that the Song Dynasty must have the intention of annexing the Dingyan Army, and Li Kewen's report to Li Jishu was tantamount to "luring the wolf into the house" and digging his own grave. In order to save the ancestral foundation, Li Jiqian thought that he should make amends and expel the forces of the Song Dynasty while the Great Song Dynasty was not gaining a firm foothold in the difficult situation. For this reason, he repeatedly met Chen Li Kewen, knew the benefits and disadvantages of him, pointed out the "tiger and wolf heart" of the Great Song Dynasty, and hoped that the clan uncle could learn his way back, drive the Great Song forces out of Xiazhou, and regain the leadership of the difficult to reassert. As a result, Li Kewen, who had long been devoted to Song, reprimanded Li Jiqian, thinking that he was young and ignorant. Li Jiqian was angry, turned his face with Li Kewen, and never came out to see anyone after returning to Yinzhou.

He was thinking.

It didn't take long for the internal relocation "armed escort big move" directed by Song Taizong to begin, Li Jiqian is the authentic Li family, and he was also included in the group of people who were forcibly relocated. At this time, he couldn't hide.

- Go, or stay?

Not to mention the ancestral inheritance, it is his own character, and it is not suitable for the environment where etiquette is taught everywhere, bowing when he sees people, and talking is also an environment. It is said that there is no place to gallop and hunt, chase foxes and rabbits. And in the past few years, he has already received rumors that the imperial court emphasizes literature over military force, and with his own cultivation, it will definitely be a day when he will not be able to get ahead. His foundation as a man, his glory and dreams, his everything is on this land under his feet, and he can't leave this land. Seeing that this land, which has been in business for more than 200 years, belongs to others, Li Jiqian can't accept it.

If you don't go, it is equivalent to officially announcing your confrontation with the Great Song Dynasty. At this time, the power of Xiazhou had died out a lot in the internal friction, and a large number of them were moved away in the early stage, and the Great Song Dynasty was heavily pressed. If you openly oppose internal relocation, are you sure that you will be able to escape in this environment?

At this time, Li Jiqian, who was already nineteen years old, already knew not to be reckless and impulsive. He's going to talk to someone.

After thinking about it, there is only one person in the huge family who can discuss such a major issue, and that is his younger brother Li Jichong. The huge Xiazhou seems to have many friends on weekdays, and there is only one person who can put his heart into his heart, and he is a Han - that is Zhang Pu.

Zhang Pu (?-1014), born in Yinzhou, some people say that Li Jiqian and he knew each other when Zhang Pu ran away with a white fox during a hunting trip, and was shot by Li Jiqian and given to Zhang Pu, and the two became close friends. Zhang Pu is a rare talent, and Li Jiqian respects him very much.

According to the "History of Western Xia" attached to the "History of the Song Dynasty", Li Jiqian, Li Jichong, and Zhang Pu's planning time was on a certain day in June of the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Song Dynasty (982 AD), and the location was in Yinzhou. In addition to the three of them, there should be some descendants of the Li family who participated, but not many.

Li Jiqian said very clearly: "Our ancestors have served this land for more than 300 years, and our father, brother and son are the governors of the state and county, and they are dominant. Now that the imperial court has issued an edict to the clan to give up the ancestral foundation and enter the capital, it is up to us whether we live or die, what should we do? ”

Li Jiqian's younger brother, Li Jichong, who is only 17 years old, said: "Big brother, this tiger can't leave the mountains, the fish can't leave the sea, we must not go." Not only will we not leave, we might as well take advantage of Xiazhou's unpreparedness, kill the edict, occupy Sui and Yin, and officially fight against the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Li Jichong's statement, Li Jiqian didn't want to do it, but with the strength of Li Jiqian's brothers now, they still want to engage in armed secession in Yinzhou, which is purely looking for death, but this statement has been responded to by many people. If this set of theories can really reach a consensus, then there will be only one result - the last bit of blood of the Li family is extinct, and the Great Song Dynasty completely controls the five states of Dingyan.

At this time, Zhang Pu spoke. The gist of it is that, judging from the current situation, the determination of difficulties does not fail the imperial court, but the imperial court fails to determine the difficulties. Since the fault lies in the imperial court, there is no reason for me, who is deeply favored by your Li family, to stay out of the matter.

The Li family brothers did not interrupt his words and looked at him with eager eyes.

Zhang Pu glanced at Li Jichong and said, "It is absolutely not advisable to rashly stand on your own. At present, the people are panicking, the Ministry of Tibet is waiting, Li Kewen is also the governor of the state, Yin Xian is on the territory with heavy troops, once we get into trouble, the soldiers will come to suppress it immediately. The Yinzhou soldiers have not been trained for many years, how can they resist it? ”

As soon as he heard this, Li Jiqian also felt very reasonable, so he asked, "Sir, is there any other good way?" ”

Zhang Pu pondered for a moment, and said in a low voice: "There is a saying in the Han family, 'Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood'. For now, our best way out is to avoid Mobei, settle down to home, contact Haoyou, and wait until we have the strength to compete with the Great Song Dynasty, and then make a comeback. ”

Zhang Pu's original words recorded in the history books are: "Yin Xian is on the territory with heavy troops, and when he hears about it, the morning and evening come, Yinzhou Qiang does not practice war, why should he be royal?" I heard that the small bend is stretched, why don't you go to avoid the desert north, set up a house, contact the right, and roll the armor again"

"Go away from Mobei, settle down to your home, contact Haoyou, and come back with your armor", a simple sixteen words, but since then it has created the guerrilla warfare theory of the Li family and even the entire Xixia Dynasty.

Li Jiqian and his descendants, under the guidance of these 16 characters, constantly improved, brought forth the new, and finally became a set of guerrilla tactics that were proud of the world, and created a great cause of the Western Xia Dynasty for 200 years. At this time, Zhang Pu's method is a good life-saving prescription for Li Jiqian.

Of course, there are also people who disagree with Zhang Pu's opinion, especially those hot-blooded young people. After a long period of heated debate, Li Jiqian, who finally had the right to make a decision, decided to adopt Zhang Pu's opinion and "avoid Mobei".

On the second day, or the third day, the envoy sent by Song Taizong arrived in Yinzhou and officially conveyed the order to move inward to the Jiqian brothers. Now the question is no longer a question of whether to go, but how to go. Once the matter of the exodus is exposed, Li Jiqian will inevitably be forcibly tied to Beijing, so a well-planned "great escape" is staged.

So just after the arrival of the Song envoy, the people of the entire Yinzhou heard the news of the death of Li Jiqian's old nurse, who knew the fall of the Guan.

After a few days of mourning, Li Jiqian prepared to send the old nurse outside the city for burial. This reason is reasonable, and of course the envoy of the Celestial Empire from the state of etiquette cannot refuse.

The funeral procession of dozens of people looked snow-white from a distance, people wore linen and filial piety, the front was a variety of ringers, the back was a paper man and a paper horse, and in the middle was a heavy coffin. For such funerals, people are respectful and avoidant. After the funeral procession went out of the city gate, they walked a long way, and everything changed, the coffin was opened, and it was filled with weapons instead of corpses, and the funeral procession copied all the weapons in their hands.

These funeral mourners are, of course, Li Jiqian's one of the best loyal generals. Li Jiqian successfully ran away under the nose of the Song envoy in the way of a big funeral. When everyone had taken their weapons, the horses they had prepared in advance were brought out, and they all mounted their horses and rode straight to the small oasis in the middle of the desert.