Chapter 935: Brothers on the Wall
Of course, the hereditary people of Youzhou were also offended, they were the core force that formed the local feudal towns, and in the past, these people rallied around Li Chongbao and disappeared a lot, and later after the General Staff deprived the Jiedu envoy of his military power, they were also at peace. However, in the reform of the new imperial tax law, it is stipulated that they do not need to pay taxes during their service, but if soldiers leave the army due to old age or injury, and there is no one in their family to take over the military position, their tax exemption will be automatically deprived.
After hearing that the imperial court had deprived them of their tax exemptions, the Ya people became angry at first, and later after hearing that all the family property and private land of the court officials could not be exempt from tax exemption, they were more acceptable. Everyone in the world is like this, not suffering from widowhood but suffering from unevenness, and everyone has seen the emperor's determination and perseverance.
But there is one person who can't see that Li Chongbao, the elder brother who should support and understand Li Xu the most, has complained about the emperor's tax laws and regulations in public more than once, and he has made great contributions to the emperor, but his own land has to pay taxes to the emperor, which is really unreasonable.
Many people from the family who had the same idea as Li Chongbao gathered around him, and at the same time, there were also those Youyan's tooth soldiers and Lang generals, in fact, these people controlled the 130,000 soldiers and horses in Hebei and emptied the general staff.
Under the constant praise and instigation of these people, Li Chongbao finally developed ambitions, forgetting all the words entrusted by his father on his deathbed, and only thinking in his heart was that I was the eldest son, and I should legally have the throne. Taking advantage of the fact that the control of the General Staff over the Hebei soldiers and horses is not deep enough, he can ascend to the heights and shout, lead the 130,000 soldiers and horses south, seize Luoyang, and obtain Guanzhong?
In fact, Prime Minister Xu Bin has always sent people to secretly monitor Li Chongbao's every move, and he has long been aware of his danger, and immediately went to the Penglai Pavilion in the Daming Palace to report to the fishing emperor Li Xu.
Li Xu just replied to him lightly: "I know." And he spoke no more.
Xu Bin was very surprised, it seemed that the emperor had expected this, but why didn't he leave Li Chongbao in Chang'an as an idle prince in the first place, but sent him to Youzhou to make him a hidden danger.
Li Chongbao thought that Chang'an's younger brother was unprepared, but in fact his rebellion was a little hasty. Li Xu didn't even inform the staff of Youzhou Jiedu to let them take precautions, he actually used them as bait, just like Uncle Zheng's blind appeasement before eradicating Shu Duan.
That night, some of the tooth soldiers of Youzhou soldiers and horses secretly connected together, they put on armor and rode on war horses at night, and rushed directly to the yamen of the staff headquarters in the city, and after killing the guards, they captured three staff officers, and the chief of staff, Li Fei Yuanli, took advantage of the night to escape over the wall.
The tooth soldiers escorted the three staff officers to the rebellious Li Chongbao, and Li Chongbao also tried to lure the three to his own use, but they all refused solemnly.
Li Chongbao is not a good man and a woman, since you are not used by me, there is only one way to die. That night he cut off their heads, and the next day he set up an altar and sacrificed their blood to the flag.
Li Chongbao relied on such an impulse and ambition to rebel, but when he gathered the 130,000 people, he found that the heavy artillery battalion he valued the most had been transferred away three months ago and replaced with an ordinary infantry stationed in Yecheng, and a large number of war horses had also been allocated to the Hedong Jiedu envoy six months ago.
He immediately felt worried, without a heavy artillery battalion and a large number of horses, he would have no strength to use to win in the event of a rebellion. Maybe it's a conspiracy.
Sure enough, when he led the army south, after conquering several county seats, he was intercepted under Yecheng. The Taishou of Yecheng seemed to have been prepared and moved the cannon onto the city wall. They rebelled hastily, without heavy equipment and large cavalry, and were blocked in front of Yecheng by the roaring artillery fire, suffering heavy casualties.
Just when Li Chongbao was in a dilemma, news came from the rear that frightened him, and the Hedong General Staff sent General Non Weiqing to raid Youzhou City with 30,000 horsemen, and put an end to his old nest.
Yecheng was not captured, and his hometown was about to be stolen again, Li Chongbao was furious, and immediately led his troops back to save Youzhou, and the soldiers ran back and forth, and their morale gradually began to decline.
When they were about to return to Youzhou, they heard that the Youzhou assassin he sent to stay in Youzhou had actually defected to the imperial court, which made Li Chongbao furious. He led his troops to attack the city of Youzhou, and when he saw Gao Xu standing proudly on the city wall, he actually called him a thief, which made him feel the sinister and shameless people around him.
When he went south along the canal, he only raided a few small and medium-sized granaries on the bank, these grains were just a drop in the bucket, and it was barely enough to support these people for a month, but to maintain the existence of the army, it was necessary to conquer large county towns such as Youzhou or Yecheng, without the support of hundreds of thousands of stones and millions of stones of grain and grass, how could they sit big in one place?
He must find a place to stay within a few days, or the soldiers will soon abandon him without food and grass.
At this time, there were two family strategists who incited him to rebel next to him, saying that the situation in Hebei was critical, and the imperial court had already taken precautions, so it was better to go west into Hedong and attack Yunzhou.
Li Chongbao clapped his hands and praised, it is easy to be attacked on all sides in the development of the hinterland, if it is a border land like Yunzhou, behind it is his father-in-law Hui Gele Khan, even if he is defeated by the army sent by his younger brother, he can directly retreat to the grassland or even Mobei, with the strength and deterrence of Hui in the grassland now, how dare he dare to come to the door to challenge without his father's heroic brother.
After he made this decision, he immediately led the army to Yunzhou, and the morale of the soldiers was not low, and they chose Li Chongbao in the first place, so they should have the consciousness of bearing the consequences.
The army soon arrived in Yunzhou, he saw that there were no cannons on the city wall, and suddenly felt that the lucky Yongjun was defenseless, and immediately showed his identity as the king of Yan, trying to open the city gate by fraud.
But the guard general had already learned the news of Li Chongbao's rebellion, and stood on the head of the city and told without humility or arrogance: "King Yan, you are your own brother, why do you want to ignore the trust of the previous emperor, ignore the family and country, and betray the society. Now that it is time to turn back, His Majesty will not blame His Highness seriously when he remembers his brotherly love. ”
How could Li Chongbao listen to such a contrary advice, scolded and picked up his sword and got on the horse to attack the city, and the defenders of Yunzhou City immediately organized soldiers to defend, no matter how he used his tooth soldiers to attack the city, they were repulsed again and again.
The Hedong General Staff urgently gave the Hedong Jiedu envoy the authorization to lead the troops to the north to rescue Yunzhou, Li Chongbao attacked for ten days in a row, Yunzhou City stood still, seeing that the other party's reinforcements had arrived, Youzhou's Lun Weiqing also led the army to pursue behind, and if he didn't think of a way, he would be surrounded and killed.
Li Chongbao finally decided to take his army to Hui to join his father-in-law, Gele Khan, but this was obviously not a wise decision, and the soldiers who followed him were fierce opportunists, who wanted to use his hand to rebel and force the imperial court to give up the indiscriminate taxation of the whole world. They are absolutely unwilling to follow him to leave their homeland, and the emperor usually only punishes the head of the rebellion, and the rest of the followers should be punished lightly, which is why An Lushan and Shi Siming are all dead, and they are still the basic tooth soldiers of the feudal town.
Therefore, when Li Chongbao entered the realm of Huifu, the tooth soldiers who followed his rebellion fled one after another and surrendered to the Yongjun army pursuing behind, and in just a dozen days, the 130,000 people he organized were disintegrated and dispersed.
Li Chongbao fled into Huifu, obviously could not let Li Xu rest assured, he immediately personally ordered Sikong Li Guangbi to go out of the horse, from Chang'an to Taiyuan north, leading the Hedong Army and Liaodong two troops and horses, carrying more than 300 Xuanwu cannons into the Huihu border, if the Huifu Khan did not hand over Li Chongbao, he would send troops to level the tent of the Jin Khan.
Hui Gele Khan is an egoist who can recognize the situation, he married his daughter to Li Chongbao, because he took a fancy to his identity as the second son of the hero Li Siye, thinking that he could be the future emperor's father-in-law. didn't expect Li Siye to put his youngest son on the throne. The old khan can also accept this, even if he can't be the emperor's father-in-law, it is also beneficial to have a blood relationship with the Yong Dynasty. But what he didn't expect was that his son-in-law rebelled and fled to himself after losing the battle.
Li Chongbao's only value now was his ability to fight, but this was insignificant for the newly established security relationship between the Yong Dynasty and the Hui Dynasty. After thinking about it, Gele Khan finally decided to kill Li Chongbao and gave his body to Li Guangbi, who came to ask for it.