He sued Crown Prince Li Zhi, "You have no kindness to Li Shiji, and it is not easy to control him, now I will demote him to an official position, and after I die, you will immediately grant him the position of servant.

He will be grateful to Dade and will do his best." After Li Ji received the holy decree of Tang Taizong, he didn't even go back to his own home, and rushed directly to other places to take office. Li Zhi ascended the throne as Tang Gaozong, and in accordance with his father's last words, recalled Li Ji,

Entered the seal of Shangshu and shot the left servant, Yonghui for four years, and made Li Jijin a commonplace. The struggle in the inner courtyard of the palace became more and more fierce, and gradually entered a white-hot state.

To abolish the queen and set up another Wu Zhaoyi, the eldest grandson Wuji and other ministers resolutely opposed, and for a time Tang Gaozong was in a dilemma and worried. Li Ji woke up the dreamer with a word, and finally made Tang Gaozong make up his mind,

"This is His Majesty's family matter, there is no need to let outsiders say more", so the harem changed the sky, Wu Zhaoyi finally became the queen of Wu, and the descendants added bad words to Li Ji because of this matter, in fact, it was unfair, and he did not expect that the poor Wu Zhaoyi would become the murderous empress Wu Zetian later,

He didn't want to interfere in the emperor's family affairs, how did he know that the emperor's family affairs were also the state affairs of the Tang Dynasty, and his support and connivance with the emperor

The catastrophe of countless princes and grandsons surnamed Li was "I don't kill Boren, Boren died because of me".

In the first year of Qianfeng (666 AD), civil strife broke out in Goryeo, which gave the Tang Dynasty an excuse to send troops. Tang Gaozong appointed Li Ji as the chief of the march of Liaodong Road,

Commanding both the land and water armies, he marched towards Goryeo, and at this time, Li Ji was already over seventy years old. The martyrs are in their twilight years, and their hearts are strong.

He was determined to do what Emperor Yang of Sui and Emperor Taizong of Tang failed to do, and put the Goryeo issue to a final point in his own hands.

The Tang army marched all the way and captured the western fortress of Goryeo (present-day Tielingnan, Liaoning) in February of the following year. Since then, the door has been opened, and the Tang army has been invincible.

In the first year of Zongzhang (668 AD), Li Ji occupied Buyeo City (now Siping, Jilin) in Goryeo, and 50,000 soldiers and horses from Goryeo Prince Quan Nanjian rushed to arrive.

Started a battle with the Tang army, and the result was a sheep's mouth. The Tang army captured more than 30,000 people. Li Ji kept moving, waved his army south, and joined several other people. It also besieged the city of Pyongyang (present-day Pyongyang, North Korea).

Under the overwhelming offensive of the Tang army, the king of Goryeo finally gave in and sent Prince Quan Nanjian to go out of the city with 98 people to surrender with a white flag, and Quan Nanjian was also captured alive by the Tang army. Goryeo perished.

The Tang Dynasty occupied one hundred and seventy-six cities. Obtained a population of 697,000 households, set up the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in the old land of Goryeo, appointed Xue Rengui as the inspector of the Andong Metropolitan Protector, and commanded 20,000 troops to stay in the local area.

Goryeo was incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Ji made immortal contributions to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty.

A.D. 669. Li Ji died of illness and was buried in Zhaoling. Gift Taiwei, Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor, nicknamed Zhenwu.

His cemetery is mounded with three mountains, symbolizing the Yin Mountain, the Iron Mountain and the Wude Mountain, only Huo Qu of the Han Dynasty has enjoyed such glorious treatment after his death, and today the Zhaoling Museum in Liquan County, Shaanxi Province is located in Li Ji's cemetery.

Li Ji fought on the battlefield all his life, and liked to give credit to his soldiers, and most of the property rewarded by the emperor was distributed to his soldiers, so he was very popular in the army, and the soldiers were willing to serve.

He also strictly controlled his children and grandchildren, lest they make mistakes. When he was dying, he also instructed his younger brother Li Biyin to restrain the children in the family, and if there was any behavior that was out of line and made friends with non-class, he would be killed immediately, so as not to overturn the family. Li Ji witnessed the decline of Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Gao Shilian and other families.

I am afraid that my descendants will make the same mistake and take it as a warning, but unfortunately, things often do not depend on people's subjective will.

After the death of Tang Gaozong, Empress Wu took power, in order to stabilize his rule,

The killing of the royal family surnamed Li caused great indignation of Li Jingye, the grandson of Li Ji, and was degraded because of the stolen goods, and the dissatisfaction in his heart was about to erupt, and finally raised troops in Yangzhou and threatened to restore the Li Tang royal family.

Empress Wu mobilized 300,000 horses and mobilized the generals to defend the border, and quickly defeated the rebel team. Li Ji's direct descendants were almost killed, and the descendants of the side lines occasionally escaped, "all of them fled to Hu Yue", and spent the rest of their lives in the wilderness. Li Ji's official title was chased down, affected by his descendants and grandchildren, and was also killed by the coffin.

It made the historian sigh with emotion. In the seventeenth year of the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty (801 AD), Tubo captured Linzhou of the Tang Dynasty, captured thousands of Han captives, and prepared to escort them back to Tubo as slaves.

The ancestors fled to a foreign land when Xu Jingye failed, and since then they have multiplied in the local area, although it has gone through several generations, it is still unforgettable to the homeland, so the master is privately gracious to the Han captives, which is the history book recorded about the descendants of Li Ji.

"Xiaoju is famous, and the grand plan is to pay for troubled times. There are few strange strategies on the battlefield, and the temple is full of conspiracies. And bow to the eyebrows, and strive to know the children. After thousands of years of storytelling, it is appropriate to match the Marquis of Wuxiang",

Throughout the life of the British Duke Li Ji, he is affectionate, righteous and responsible, and is a temperamental person who does not escape when encountering problems, and he is in the same era as Li Shimin, which is his luck, Li Shimin's luck, and the luck of the Tang Empire.

Hou Junji

"The emperor of the four seas is windy, the thousand years of virtue and water are clear, and the clothes are not even more on, and it is a success today", every time I hear the majestic and agitated "Qin King Breaking Array Music", I always can't help but feel excited, and the music reviews the bloody struggle at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty and the difficult process of creating a prosperous world.

It makes people leisurely and fascinated, and there are thousands of thoughts, among those heroes and heroes who even rode and rushed to kill, there is one person who will always make people think of it, that is, Hou Junji, who killed Gaochang. In the history of the Tang Dynasty,

His military exploits are not particularly outstanding, but his ending is shocking, and what is particularly touching is Tang Taizong Li Shimin's strange feelings for this old subordinate. Hou Junji committed the great crime of exterminating the nine clans, and Li Shimin could not save his life.

But we were comrades-in-arms who shared life and death, how can you make me embarrassed? For you, I will never go to Lingyan Pavilion again (there are portraits of twenty-four heroes such as Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Li Jing, Qin Shubao, and Hou Junji in Lingyan Pavilion)."

Hou Junji (?) ~ 643 A.D.), ancestral home of Sanshui, Fengzhou (now Xunyi North, Shaanxi). Born in the Guanlong aristocratic group, he is a bold and courageous son of a family, which is very different from the image of the thief in "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties". This shows the depth of misleading to the masses of the people. In the context of the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Hou Junji recognized the Lord,

Devoted himself to the shogunate of Li Shimin. He followed Li Shimin to fight in the south and the north, made many meritorious achievements, and was named the son of Quanjiao County, and was completely trusted by Li Shimin. In the ninth year of Wude (626 AD),

The Xuanwumen Revolution broke out. Prior to this, Hou Junji made suggestions and played a great role in promoting. He followed Li Shimin into the Xuanwu Gate and killed Li Shimin's brothers Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.

Soon, Li Yuan abdicated as Emperor Taishang, and Li Shimin ascended the throne as Emperor Taizong of Tang. Hou Junji was named the Duke of Luguo. Ciyi Qianhu was promoted to the general of the right guard, and Li Jing at this time,

There were only 500 households in the food town, which shows that in the eyes of Li Shimin at that time, Hou Junji was much more important than Li Jing. In the fourth year of Zhenguan (630 AD), Hou Junji was promoted to the secretary of the military department and participated in the government.

Zhenguan nine years. He was appointed as the head of the march of the Seishi Road, as the deputy of Li Jing, the head of the march of the Seikaido. Defeat Tuyuhun.

The five-way army pointed directly at Tuyuhun, and Murong Fuyun was terrified. He set fire to the wasteland, destroyed the grassland, and then hid in the desert to clear the Tang army. Hou Junji advocates chasing and fighting,

Don't give the enemy a chance to breathe. Li Jing adopted Hou Junji's construction, and the Tang army divided into two routes, Li Jing and Xue Wanjun went to the north, and Hou Junji and Li Daozong went to the south, and launched a pincer offensive against Murong Fuyun.

Hou Junji crossed more than 2,000 miles of barren land, people relied on drinking horse blood to maintain physical fitness, horses continued to live by gnawing ice and snow, and finally caught up with the Tuyuhun army in Wuhai (now Qinghai Kuhai).

Kill the Tugu Hun ghosts crying wolves. The Tang army crossed Jishi Mountain (present-day Anima Qing Mountain, Qinghai) and annihilated Murong Fuyun's Tuyuhun army in the Taklamakan Desert of today's Xinjiang.

Murong Fuyun's son Murong Shun was also captured by the Tang army, Tuyuhun surrendered the whole country, and the Tang army won a complete victory, and Tuyuhun was pacified in one fell swoop.

In the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Hou Junji was named the history of Chenzhou Thorn and renamed Chen Guogong. Next year, he will worship as the secretary of the ministry and take the position of Guanglu doctor.

Hou Junji didn't like to read at all before, and only picked up books to tutor after entering Li Shimin's Qin Palace.

The selection of officials, the formulation of examination courses, and the orderly work are praised by the people of the time, and they are both civil and military, which are the typical characteristics of officials in the Tang Empire.

He has always gone very smoothly, with few setbacks, being arrogant and ashamed, which has become his consistent mentality.

Even Li Daozong, who has always been modest, can't get used to him, thinking that he is not a good person, and sooner or later he will be a thief.

Hou Junji is so arrogant, of course, he has his arrogant capital, that is, his great military exploits in shouldering the heavy responsibility and destroying the Gaochang Kingdom.

Gaochang is a country about the same size as today's Iraq, located in the throat of Central Asia, with the powerful Tang Dynasty in the east and the fierce nomads such as the West Turk in the west.

Seeking to survive in the cracks of the great powers, Gaochangguo's vacillating move was regarded by the Tang Empire as a provocation to the majesty of the country.

Gaochang King Ju Wentai was originally quite respectful to the Tang Dynasty, often contributed some rare treasures, Zhenguan four years, Ju Wentai personally entered the dynasty to see Tang Taizong, got a rich reward, Ju Wentai's wife was also canonized as the princess of Changle.

On the way back and forth, I saw that the western part of the Tang Dynasty was empty and the people were scarce due to the long war, and the thought of despising the Tang Dynasty swelled in my heart.

So he blatantly colluded with the Western Turks and did several things that made people look away. He detained many merchants and envoys from the Western Regions who passed through Gaochang and forbade them to go to the Tang Dynasty. and the Western Turks also attacked together,

Attacking the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions vassal states Yiwu and Yanqi, and even under Yanqi several cities. King Yanqi sent an envoy to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty,

Tang Taizong's patience finally reached its limit. In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin appointed Hou Junji as the general manager of the Jiaohe Road March, and led Xue Wanjun, Qibi He Li and other generals to go straight to Gaochang.

The reason why Ju Wentai was bold was because he expected that the Tang Dynasty would not really send troops, and even if it did, if it was a desert land of more than 30,000 people and stretching for 2,000 miles,

Logistics can never be guaranteed, if it is less than 30,000 people, with the strength of Gaochang State is enough to resist, plus the Tang army came from afar, exhausted, Gaochang army is waiting for work, should not be left behind.

However, the facts gave Ju Wentai a ruthless blow, and the Tang army was galloping, mighty, and had approached Gaochangguo. Ju Wentai suddenly had no master, and he was so angry that he was scared to death, and Ju Wentai's son Ju Zhisheng was enthroned as the new King of Gaochang.

Hou Junji's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have arrived in Liugu, and when he heard that Ju Wentai was going to be buried in the next few days, there was a lot of discussion in the army.

Some people advocated taking the opportunity to sneak attack, Hou Junji did not agree, "The Tang Emperor because of Gao Chang's arrogance and rudeness, only to ask the guilty division, if we take advantage of the mourning of the people, sneak attack the enemy, it is not the great power of the heroic division should do", so, the Tang army marched forward and marched calmly.

After Ju Wentai's funeral was over, the Tang army began to attack the city. The stone-throwing trucks and the city-rushing trucks worked in turns, and the boulders flew towards the city wall like hailstones, and the Gaochang defenders on the city wall were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood.

The city car slammed into the city wall, once, twice, three times, there was a gap in the city wall, and the gap was getting bigger and bigger, and the Tang army was not in a hurry to enter the city, but it was just a collision again and again, which made the Gaochang people tremble.

Although the walls of Gaochang City were thick, it could not stop the pace of the Tang army's march, and the Tang army attacked the city and plundered the land, capturing more than 7,000 men and women in Gaochang, and drove straight into the capital of Gaochang. Ju Zhisheng was confused,

Hurriedly wrote to Hou Junji, "The person who offended the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty was the first king, and now he is no longer alive, Zhisheng has just ascended the throne, I don't know the reason, I hope Shangshu will have mercy", Hou Junji's question and answer is,

"If you want to avoid trouble, surrender immediately". Ju Zhisheng was in a dilemma and hesitated, but Hou Junji no longer hesitated and led the Tang army to launch a fierce attack. Gao Chang originally agreed with the Western Turks that the inside should be combined with the outside,

When the Western Turkic reinforcements heard that Hou Junji had arrived in Gaochang, they fled west for more than 1,000 miles regardless of their allies, leaving only the Gaochang army alone to face the Tang army.

The Tang army filled in the moats, and the stone-throwing trucks began to work as usual. He also built a nest car with a ten-zhang tall building, which could overlook the city and direct the landing point of the stone-throwing cart. Where the boulders go, flesh and blood fly,

Frightened, the Gaochang people hid in the house one after another. The rushing car hit the city wall, and the city wall collapsed one by one, and the Gaochang people watched with their eyes, but they couldn't do anything about it. Ju Zhisheng watched and listened, and finally had a nervous breakdown,

He left the city gloomily and surrendered to the Don army. Hou Junji dispatched troops to capture the rest of Gaochang's territory, Gaochang was destroyed, and Gaochang Kingdom, 800 miles from east to west and 500 miles from north to south, was incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang army had 37,700 people in Gaochang and 22 cities in Gaochang. In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty set up Xizhou in the old land of Gaochang and set up the Anxi Protectorate in Jiaohe City (now west of Turpan, Xinjiang).

There is an anecdote recorded in the history books, predicting the disappearance of Gaochang Kingdom, which is a nursery rhyme that was once popular in Gaochang Kingdom, "Gaochang soldiers and horses are like frost and snow, and Han soldiers and horses are like the sun and moon." The sun and the moon shine on the frost and snow, and they will be destroyed by return". (To be continued......)