Chapter 133: The Qizhou Incident
The ancients: If there is no plan, it is not standing, it is the importance of the plan, if there is no plan, it can only be lucky, but the problem is that the plan is often used to be broken, the more important the plan, the more so, it is very interesting that the big plan is often broken by some trivial things, but because of the lack of attention, it finally led to the miscarriage of the overall plan, the matter of Qizhou is like this, the person who spoiled the good things of the king of Qi is ridiculous, just a scholar in the study, We have to start from the beginning:
Li You, the king of Qi, has always been an ambitious person, and he has some skills, he can handle both civil and military affairs, of course, it is only compared with the children of a powerful person, even if it is good, it is also very limited, far less outstanding than Li Zhen, the king of Yue, plus the identity of a concubine, he was defeated in the battle for succession early, and he can only be attached to the hands of Li Ke, the king of Wu. Since Zhenguan was sealed in Qizhou for ten years, Li You began to secretly recruit troops and horses, collect the dead, in order to prepare for great things, which is Yan Hongliang, Zan Junmo, Liang Mengbiao three people are the most, the former is a strategist, the latter two are masters of the rivers and lakes, and there are many outlaws in the rivers and lakes to think that the wings, private soldiers, secretly expand the army, and because of the fierce folk customs of Shandong, the soldiers recruited are all brave warriors, for a time the momentum is quite huge, most of the surrounding Qing and Yi states obey their orders, and are one of the most powerful among the kings of the Tang Dynasty.
Li You is lustful, and he also has that condition to hunt color, since he hit Qizhou, in addition to recruiting talents, he also did not do those things that bullied men and women, and did not do anything about marrying people's daughters, but he was stabbed in front of the emperor, and the old man was angry, and in March of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, he sent a Confucian named Quan Wanji to Li You's Qi Mansion as the governor of the palace, and gave Quan Wanji an edict to restrain Li You.
Quan Wanji is a very upright person, upright and a little pedantic, naturally he can't get used to Li You's dirty deeds, he has made many speeches, several times to stop Li You from accepting people's daughters, and at the same time drove all the dead soldiers recruited by Li You out of the palace, not to mention, but also wrote to Li Shimin to report the serious over-staffing of Li You's pro-army, so that Li You was reprimanded by Li Shimin several times, making him lose face, and the partial birth right Wanji had a holy decree in his hand, Li You had no way to take him, and he was angry, so he had to adopt Yan Hongliang's strategy- Yang Feng Yin disobeyed, set up a fictitious palace, and set up another palace annex to house many dead soldiers and guards, replace the people in the palace brought by Quan Wanji, cut off the news of Quan Wanji, and overhead Quan Wanji, this method worked, and the two sides were safe for a while, but unfortunately this situation was broken by a little scholar.
At the beginning of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, after receiving the news of the start of the "Heavenly Dance Operation" from Li Ke, Li You began to be busy, and he was dispatching manpower, rehearsing military horses, and ordering his county to step up the preparation of grain and grass. That's a sigh of relief.
Well, as soon as this breath is relieved, don't you have to drink a few sips of wine? As soon as he drank too much wine, things came out - after Li Lao Wu was drunk, a certain interest rose, and he did it in broad daylight, and he did it, anyway, the maid of the palace, to put it bluntly, it was just a plaything, and the big deal was to give this little maid the name of a concubine was sent away, how could there be any big deal, but the problem was that Li Lao Wu was a little too interested, and he was stunned to kill the person, and if he died, he would die, and the death of a maid in the palace was not a big deal. At least Li Lao Wu didn't take it to heart, and after he woke up, he just said that he would drag it down and bury it, and he left this matter behind him in a blink of an eye, but he didn't expect it to be such a trivial matter, but it was a big thing that the fifth comrade thought about day and night.
This dead maid has no relatives, only one younger brother, also in the old five mansions as an errand, is the study of the scholar, weekdays are also very loyal, and very well-behaved, very much liked by the old five comrades, have to take charge of the position of Wenmo, although most of Li Lao Wu's confidential work is carried out in other courtyards, rarely in the palace study to plot big things, but it is the palace study, the old five comrades occasionally engage in some unsightly deeds in it, those things all fell into the eyes of this scholar, but, This little scholar was originally loyal, and the fifth child didn't have anything to worry about, but this time it was okay, his sister was tossed alive by Li Lao Wu, how could the little scholar swallow this breath, and immediately took a look at the hole, ran to find Quan Wanji, and pulled the five comrades' shady deeds upside down, and the matter became a big fuss.
Quan Wanji is a great Confucian, a person is a little pedantic, but he is not a fool, this is a big case of rebellion, and he immediately kept an eye on it, for fear of leaking the news, he did not dare to send the news back to Beijing in a direct way, but quietly left all kinds of evidence sent by the little scholar, and told Li Lao Wu that he planned to return to Beijing to report on his work, so he hurriedly embarked on the road back to Beijing with various evidence. If it was in the past, Li Lao Wu would have wished that Quan Wanji would leave early, and it was best not to look back, but just as the "Sky Dance" action had just begun, Li Lao Wu had a little more mind, and as soon as Quan Wanji left the palace, he immediately investigated the whole house, and under this investigation, he immediately found the suspicious place of the scholar, without him, although the scholar went to see Quan Wanji was cautious, but he was still seen by others, and under this big search, he was immediately denounced, but this poor scholar is not a tough guy, The reason why he took the initiative to expose Li Lao Wu was out of revenge, and Miki immediately spit out all the things, so that Quan Wanji's true intention to return to Beijing was exposed.
Rebellion is a big crime to kill the head, if it really makes Quan Wanji stab the matter to Jingshi, don't say that Li Laowu's subordinates are like them, even if he himself can't escape death, what should he do? Li Lao Wu, who was anxious and red-eyed, immediately summoned his subordinates to discuss the matter, and first sent someone to chase after Quan Wanji, a thousand promises, ten thousand pulls, gold, silver and jewelry, and a beautiful high-ranking official, but unfortunately Comrade Lao Quan is as smelly and hard as a stone in the pit, not only did not eat Li Lao Wu's set, but privately sent someone to quietly send the evidence of Li Lao Wu's rebellion back to Beijing first, so that Li Lao Wu, who had no choice, had no choice but to kill - the strategist Yan Hongliang personally led Liang Mengbiao and other more than 20 masters to follow Quan Wanji and carry out assassination methods, and Zan Junmo led his troops to chase after the dark cavalry sent by Quan Wanji.
Not to mention, there are still some masters under Li Laowu, not to mention that all the secret horses sent by Quan Wanji in private were killed, not to mention, even Quan Wanji himself was shot, and the evidence of the rebellion was taken back, but unfortunately it was too late - Quan Wanji is a very careful person, he knows very well that he is risking his life to go to Beijing to denounce Li Laowu, and it is impossible for him to return to Beijing alive with Li Laowu's ruthless temperament, so in addition to sending those secret horses to try to send the evidence, He was also extremely cautious in his own actions, and was only willing to follow the caravan on the official road for half a day, but at night he had to stay at the post station anyway, so that Yan Hongliang, who had no way, could only shoot Quan Wanji in front of the eyes of everyone in the official road, although he barely extinguished his mouth, but the identity of the people in the Qi Wangfu was still seen through.
People were killed, and the evidence was also brought back, but all of them were useless, and Li Laowu, who was forced to a dead end, had no second way to go except for launching in advance, and in desperation, Li Laowu had no choice but to order the conscription of men over fifteen years old in the city of Qizhou, reward officials and soldiers, drive the people into the city, repair armor and weapons, and at the same time order the counties under their jurisdiction and listen to their orders to act in the Qing and Yi prefectures immediately raised troops to help, and jointly tried to achieve a great cause.
On the sixth day of February in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, the news of the assassination of Shi Quan Wanji, the governor of the palace of the king of Qi, on the way to Beijing reached the Beijing division, which added a fire to the Beijing division that was already assassinated by the king of Shu and the king of Yue.
Qizhou, Qingzhou, Yizhou, these three states are all Shangzhou, the total population of the three states is nearly one million, and they are all places where the people are fierce, there has been a tradition of rebellion since ancient times, the end of the Sui Dynasty is also the most chaotic in Shandong, the most heroes, Rao is Li Shimin such a genius of the army has not suffered a lot of defeats on the ground in Shandong, at this time the Tang Dynasty has just stopped for a long time, half of the land in Shandong will be chaotic again, the hearts of the people who were already panicked have become panicked at this time, that is, the important ministers of the court are also guilty of chattering in their hearts, and they are afraid that the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty will be staged again.
Li Lao Wu was going to have an accident, and the big guys had more or less numbers in their hearts, but no one thought that the fifth comrade would pull the flag and set off the cannon at this time, and no one could have expected that the fifth comrade would make such a big move, even the third Li Ke was also caught off guard, so all kinds of vertical and horizontal, open and secret battles were staged one after another, and the forces of both sides were not far behind......
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