If Li Yuan is the kind of person who has nothing to do, it is okay to guard against these bandits all day long, and it is a big deal to take a few baths, eat a few big meals, and play a few sports less. On the contrary, Li Yuan is not the kind of person who has nothing to do, but a person who wants to do great things.

A person wants to go out to do something big, and there is a neighbor at home who will come to rob at any time, and this person will not be at ease even if he goes out. So before going out, you have to deal with this neighbor first, whether it's a tough way or a gentle way, it doesn't matter, as long as it works.

For a neighbor like the Turks, Li Yuan knows that there is no shock in a small fight, and it will only be afraid of you if it is disabled, but it will take time to cripple the Turks, there are still risks in it, and it is still unknown whether it can win the war, so the tough way is not good. Li Yuan knew that the only way to use Huairou was to use Huairou.

Liu Wenjing proposed a Jianyì and sent someone to envoy to the Turks, it is best to give some big gifts and build a good relationship, so that when we go out to start a business, the Turks will stab us in the back. Li Yuan has a political vision, and Liu Wenjing also has a political vision, the two coincide, and Li Yuan agreed to Liu Wenjing's construction without hesitation. Another dilemma arises, who to send to the Turks? This person is very important, if you don't choose it well, you will mess things up.

You can't do it badly, you can only succeed, you can't fail, Li Yuan thought so.

After repeated consideration, Li Yuan decided to let Liu Wenjing go for two reasons. First, because this Jianyì was mentioned by him, he knows what the essence of this ∴ ∴ style ∴ literature and ∴, ▽.★x.ne+t task, and he doesn't need to take time to explain, and the second is that Liu Wenjing is a shrewd, resourceful, and Kongming-style character. It can be said that he is the first talent under Li Yuan, if he can't do it well. No one can do it. In this way, Liu Wenjing embarked on the journey of envoy to the Turks, and he said to Li Yuan: "Wenjing must live up to his mission. ”

Li Yuan said: "Just do your best." Liu Wenjing knows the importance of his trip. This is a matter of how to go in the future, and if it is successful, the road will be much easier in the future. If that fails...... Liu Wenjing didn't dare to think that in that case, what he and Li Yuan had done before might be in vain.

Li Yuan's ability to hand over this arduous and glorious task to Liu Wenjing shows that Li Yuan attaches great importance to Liu Wenjing. Liu Wenjing left, and Li Yuan said silently in his heart: "I handed over our future to you." ”

Yes, it's not me, it's us. It is not Li Yuan alone, but a group of people, Li Yuan is just the leader of this group of people, they have a common goal, and they work together for this common goal. Among this group of people are Li Yuan, Liu Wenjing, Pei Lian, Liu Hongji, and Liu Shilong. There is also Li Shimin, and there is Li Jiancheng...... Facts have proved that Li Yuan's vision is not wrong, Liu Wenjing is indeed a person who can take on great responsibilities.

There is a kind of person in the world who usually babbles. There are five people and six people, and they will drop the chain at a critical moment, and this kind of person has no place in history.

Another kind of people. Ordered in danger, awe-inspiring and fearless. With superhuman wisdom and courage to complete the task brilliantly, this kind of person has a proper term in history called talent. Zhuge Liang is such a talent, and Liu Wenjing is also such a talent.

People like Li Yuan are not called heroes, they are called heroes. When he arrived in the Turks, Liu Wenjing talked about the earth during the day, talked about the past and the present, the five elements of yin and yang, the three religions and the nine streams, said everything, there was no non-vernacular, and the Turkic Shibi Khan drooled, and finally not only fooled the Shibi Khan, but also fooled the Turkic nobles and ministers.

In the end, Liu Wenjing said another key sentence: "When the Duke of Tang invades Chang'an, as long as the land, gold, silver, jewelry, and children and jade silks are given to you." "When the Turks saw that there was such a good thing, the Turks said it was good." But you have to promise me one condition. ”…

"On what terms?" "After the Duke of Tang led his army westward, the Khan did not allow his army to enter our land, attack our cities, and rob our grain." Shibi Khan had a good impression of Liu Wenjing, he liked him very much, and after thinking about it, this deal is cost-effective, it is equivalent to pie falling from the sky, there is no need to rob, someone will send good things up, Li Yuan's head is not kicked by the horse.

The Khan asked in disbelief, "It's as simple as that." Liu Wenjing smiled and nodded to him. Deal. Liu Wenjing came back from her mission, Li Yuan was very happy, and Pei Lin was also very happy. In order to show his sincerity in doing business, Li Yuan decided to write a letter to Shibi Khan.

As to whether to use "book" or "enlightenment", Li Yuan Group has two different opinions. "Shu" is the way in which people of equal status write letters, and "Kai" is the way in which subordinates write letters to their superiors. Pei Lin and others thought that it was enough to use "books", and Li Yuan resolutely used "enlightenment" in order to paralyze the Turks.

This raises the question of whether Li Yuan was subordinate to the Turks or not, and I will not make an in-depth analysis here, because there will be a special discussion on whether Li Yuan surrendered to the Turks in the future. I just say here that Li Yuan wrote "enlightenment" to the Turks, which has the following meaning, and you can say that he is a vassal to the Turks.

However, Li Yuan's vassal is limited, and he is different from Liu Wuzhou in three ways. First, Li Yuan did not accept the canonization of the Turks; Second, Li Yuan was not under Turkic command; Third, Li Yuan did not lead the Turks to invade the Central Plains. Li Yuan didn't do any of this, and Liu Wuzhou did everything he lacked. The relationship between Li Yuan and the Turks could not be described as a high-level mutual use, each taking what he needed.

The Turks got the gold and silver they wanted, but they could not attack Li Yuan's rear; Li Yuan lost his gold and silver property, exchanged for a stable dìng in the rear, and marched into Guanzhong. It's just a means used by the politician in order to achieve his own goals, and it doesn't matter whether he is a vassal to the Turks or not, what matters is whether he can get benefits by doing so.

This reflects Li Yuan's demeanor and demeanor as a politician, while getting the benefits he wants, he does not lose himself and does not let others influence him, this is an outstanding politician.

Shibi Khan was not a fool either, and when he agreed to make this deal, he gave Li Yuan a problem. Shibi Khan said to Liu Wenjing: "I know Yang Guang's character, the person is not good, and the character is even worse. If Tang Gong becomes the emperor himself, I will definitely help him. ”

It means that you go back and tell your Tang Gong: If you become a thief, our business still has to be discussed, and if you are still loyal to Yang Guang. That's not to talk about. The Turks are not good birds, isn't this a clear attempt to force the courtiers of neighboring countries to rebel against their own emperors? Then again. This trick is really clever. If you Li Yuan don't listen to me, I won't help you, if you listen to me and be a thief, I'll help you.

The Turks are really insidious, knowing that it was Li Yuan begging them, there is such a problem, if they are ordinary people, they will have to be entangled to death. But Li Yuan is not an ordinary person, he is from the Osaiban.

What does Osepban do? Let's put it this way, Osaiban is out of politics. After Liu Wenjing reported to Li Yuan about Shibi Khan, Li Yuan understood that the IQ of the Turks was a great contrast with their physiognomy, and their physiognomy was ten, and their IQ was at least sixty points.

Before Liu Wenjing finished speaking, his subordinates got up and said to Li Yuan: "Duke Tang, go from the Turks." Li Yuan wondered if you were lacking in heart. Don't you see that there's something deeper in this?

Although he thought so, Li Yuan didn't say so, after all, now is the time for someone. Pour a basin of cold water on your subordinates, and your subordinates will be cold. For today's plan, the most important thing is to win people's hearts. Li Yuan shook his head. Say "No." Pei Lin said: "Now that our troops have been assembled, there is no shortage of Turkic troops. But we need Turkic horses, don't you regret that Tang Gong did this? Li Yuan still shook his head. He said, "Think about whether there is any other way to solve this problem. ”…

You must know what Li Yuan thinks now, rebellion is an extremely dangerous activity, and he doesn't want to use the banner of anti-Sui, in that case, if he fails, it will be a complete failure, not only will he die, but the whole family will be implicated. You can't fight against the Sui, you can only play the banner of respecting the Sui. There was a difference between the Turkic demands and Li Yuan's inner thoughts. Among all the people, who has the best relationship with Li Yuan?

Who understands Li Yuan best? Who often brags with Li Yuan? Although there are three questions, the answer is one Pei Lone. Therefore, Pei Lin knows Li Yuan's inner thoughts best. At that time, Pei Lin served as the palace supervisor of Jinyang, and he had been mixed in the political circles of the Sui Dynasty for so many years. In the spirit of harmony, Pei Lin put forward such a plan: "Respect Li Yuan as the emperor, and Yang Yu, the king of Lidai, as the emperor." ”

Li Yuan nodded to him with a smile. Now that he has been recognized by the old majority, Pei Lin knew that his guess should be basically correct, and then said: "The flag of the Sui Dynasty is red, and the Turkic flag is white, so we choose a mixed red and white flag. "There is a red flag, offending the Turks; There is a white flag, indicating the surrender of the Turks and the backplate of the Sui Dynasty; The banner of red and white wants to be mixed, which not only does not offend the Turks, but also represents that there is no betrayal of the Sui Dynasty. Pei Lian's trick of harmony with the mud did not go against Li Yuan's original intention, and it could accommodate the Turks.

Li Yuan was very happy when he finished speaking, and said, "This is covering your ears and stealing the bell, but looking at the current situation, you have to do this." The plan was so decided, and with Pei Lin and the method of thin mud, Li Yuan was very satisfied. Liu Wenjing sent another envoy to the Turks, who made the leader (Li Yuan) attach so much importance to him, just believe in you, don't trust others, you have such a strong work ability, just run again.

Liu Wenjing doesn't have any opinions, after all, he works for others, and he can still distinguish between the big and the small. Before leaving, Li Yuan also secretly instructed Liu Wenjing: "If the Turks ask to send troops, they don't need much. We're short of horses now, so you can find a way to get some horses this time. ”

Li Yuan stood on the tower of Taiyuan, watching Liu Wenjing go away, he knew that this person was a talent, a talent who could help him achieve a great cause, and he was happy to get such a talent, because there was such a talent for my use, I believed that I could achieve a great cause.

Li Yuan is not wrong, he is not wrong, Liu Wenjing is indeed a talent. In the difficult road of entrepreneurship in the future, Liu Wenjing has helped him a lot, has offered a lot of clever plans, and has helped him get out of difficulties, and Liu Wenjing has made great contributions on the road to the founding of the country. is such a person, and was later killed by Li Yuan, what is recorded in the history books is very subtle, I believe there must be a deeper reason for this.

Liu Wenjing is gone, Li Yuan believes that Liu Wenjing will be able to succeed this time, because he knows that those ethnic minority people only care about money and beautiful women, since he has promised to give them money and women, what are they not satisfied with? Li Yuan knew that they wouldn't care if he really called them a vassal, not to mention that the messenger this time was Liu Wenjing? Fooling the Turks with Liu Wenjing's IQ is like a monkey playing with a ball. Now Li Yuan has put his heart in his stomach.

Just because he's not worried doesn't mean it won't happen. Although Yang Guang is far away in Jiangdu. The officials of the Sui Dynasty were not fools, and they could see clearly what Li Yuan was doing. Gao Deru, the county leader of Xihe County, immediately told Yang Guang about Li Yuan's situation. Gao Deru did not keep this matter secret, and Li Yuan knew about it.

The blackness of others may not be good. But if you sue Li Yuan for the black state, it will not be so simple. At the same time, Xihe County is on the main road where Li Yuan is difficult to enter Chang'an, and this nail must be pulled out first.

So, Li Yuan ordered his eldest son Li Jiancheng and his second son Li Shimin to lead the crowd to capture the West River. The two sons were very smart and very brave, but Li Yuan was still not at ease with them, because this battle still had a special significance, only victory was allowed, not defeat. Li Yuan sent Taiyuan to make Wen Dayou his staff officer. And instructed Wen Dayou: "My two sons are very young, and I will send you to help them; The success or failure of things depends on whether your trip goes smoothly or not. ”…

We have reason to believe that at this time, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin did not have a struggle for power, at this time, they were like everyone else, brothers were close to each other, and at the same time, as their father's right-hand man, they had never suspected each other, and they never thought that the brothers would one day meet each other in arms, and what was even more cruel was that only one person between the two people could live. That's the winner. Li Yuan's worries were completely superfluous from a certain point of view, because in this operation, Wen Daya did not mention it, and the two brothers completed the task very well.

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin are full of energy. Full of courage, they shared weal and sorrow with the soldiers, and took the lead in battle. The army he led was highly disciplined. Fruits on the street are not allowed to be eaten without spending money to buy them. Some soldiers were greedy and stole their master's fruit to eat. The two did not blame when they found out, but gave the money to the owner of the fruit as money to buy the fruit.

Therefore, both the common people and the soldiers were happy. When they arrived in Xihe County, Gao Deru closed the city and defended it, and the two ordered the siege of the city, and soon the city was conquered, and Gao Deru was captured. Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin did not kill another person in vain except for beheading Gao Deru, and they did not commit any crime against the people. Li Yuan, who got the news, said happily; "It's not difficult to use soldiers like this, and it's not difficult to run rampant in the world." (This use of soldiers, although it is rampant in the world.) ）

After capturing Xihe, Li Yuan recruited a large number of troops by opening a warehouse to help the poor, and did his best to expand his power. At the same time, Li Yuan built the General's Mansion, taking it as the leading body for doing things, he himself served as the general, no one robbed him, and it is estimated that he couldn't rob him, Pei Lin was the governor of the General's Mansion, and Liu Wenjing was the Sima of the General's Mansion.

Now Li Yuan is over half a hundred years old, and he is already an old man, and the old man trusts his son the most, because they have experienced the ups and downs of the world and have endured too many things, they only think that their son can be trusted.

Li Yuan is no exception, since he started the army, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin have become his right-hand men, and even Li Yuanji, the "three-no youth", has been assigned the important task of staying in his hometown.

("Three no youth", that is, no ability, no culture, no conscience) so Li Jiancheng was named the Duke of Longxi, the governor of the left leading army; Li Shimin was named the Duke of Dunhuang, and the governor of the right leading army.

There were many people who followed Li Yuan to raise troops, and they all made indelible exploits in the process of the Li family's unification of the world, and some of them also established commendable merits in the national construction of the Li Tang Dynasty. Among them are: Liu Hongji, Yin Kaishan, Tang Jian, Chai Shao, Changsun Shunde, Wen Dayou, Wen Daya, Wu Shi Tong and others.

It is necessary to say that Wu Shi Tong is Wu Zetian's father, but whether he participated in the Taiyuan Shouyi is still a very controversial issue, although the official history (such as "Zizhi Tongjian", the old and new "Tang Book") have written that Wu Shi Tong participated in the Taiyuan Shouyi, but it is not excluded that Wu Zetian beautified his father after becoming the emperor, because in Wen Daya's "Tang Dynasty Entrepreneurship and Living Note" (a book that records the entrepreneurial history of the Li Tang Dynasty, Its author, Wen Daya, participated in the Taiyuan Shouyi) does not mention that Wu Shitong participated in the Taiyuan Shouyi. In the list of participants in Taiyuan Shouyi, there should be two main people, one is Liu Wenjing.

Liu Wenjing, whose name is Zhaoren, claimed to be a native of Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and served as the Jinyang Commander (now Taiyuan, Shanxi) in the last years of the Great Cause. Li Shimin is a person of wisdom and talent, and he knew that Liu Wenjing was a talent, so he went to prison to visit Liu Wenjing.

Liu Wenjing also knew that Li Shimin was not a thing in the pool, and said to Li Shimin: "Now that the world is in turmoil, there is no capable person like Ji Fa, the king of Zhou Wu, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, cannot be pacified." ”

Liu Wenjing is a smart person, and Li Shimin is also a smart person, and two smart people don't need to beat around the bush when they talk together. Li Shimin said: "I didn't just come to see you, but also for a more important purpose to discuss the world's major events with you. Liu Wenjing thought in her heart: I really didn't see the wrong person.

Li Shimin thought in his heart: My vision is really not wrong. As the saying goes, heroes cherish heroes, the conversation between the two is very speculative, Liu Wenjing analyzed the shape of the time, and Li Yuan immediately raised troops, and he had the courage of Zhuge Liang to know the world when he was lying in the grassland. (To be continued......)