After some deliberation by the Wang family, they quickly agreed on their opinions. The Wang family still wants to support Li Tang to dominate the world, because there is no more suitable person in this world than Li Shimin.

Son of Destiny, well deserved.

But for Li Yuan, the Wang family will not just forget it, in Wang's opinion, Li Yuan is completely unsuitable to be the emperor, and now he has done this kind of thing, and has made up his mind to push Li Shimin to the throne.

The news of Dou Jiande's killing quickly spread to Hebei and Shandong, and the local gate valve family in Hebei and Shandong, who was originally preparing to surrender, was like an exploding pot after learning that Dou Jiande was killed.

The original surrender table was immediately burned, and then directly reprimanded Li Tang for not believing his words, directly killed the pacification envoy sent by Li Tang, and raised troops again.

Dou Jiande was benevolent to the people of Hebei and Shandong, and the whole army was favored by him.

Originally, because of Dou Jiande's letters, these generals and soldiers had already planned to surrender, but now when they learned that Tang Ting had killed Dou Jiande, they immediately boiled over, and the crowd was excited, shouting one by one to avenge King Xia.

Just when Li Yuanmei was waiting for Shandong and Hebei to send the table, the news came that both Shandong and Hebei were opposed. Dou Jiande's general Liu Heimin led the troops and personally led an army of 300,000 to attack Li Tang again for Dou Jiande.

Hearing the rebellion in Hebei and Shandong, Li Yuan's whole person was instantly stunned, followed by infinite anger. In his mind, he had already given a promise to the nobles of Hebei and Shandong Gates in accordance with aristocratic politics, but these people directly ignored his promise and rebelled.

At the beginning, the words of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and Wang Xuanjing, the king of Zhongshu, were still in his ears, but he didn't listen, and it was only a long time before he was nakedly slapped in the face.

Li Yuan even felt that the ministers of the DPRK and China were watching his jokes. His operation this time seemed to be a complete joke, which made Li Yuan even angrier in his heart.

At this time, news came from Zhongguan that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, asked to see him.

Li Yuan suppressed the irritability in his heart and let him in.

After Li Shimin saluted, he said directly: "Father, Hebei and Shandong surrendered and rebelled, Liu Heimin raised an army of 300,000 troops to attack, and it was menacing. ”

"Erlang crusaded against Liu Wuzhou the year before last, and last year he crusaded against Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, although he won many battles, but the hardships of the army, I also know that if he goes out again, he will be too tired to fight for several years, so Erlang will still take a rest."

"Dou Jiande is dead, even if Hebei and Shandong are in turmoil, there is no leader for the dragons, there is nothing to be afraid of, let others also get some credit." Li Yuan rejected Li Shimin's request.

Now Li Shimin's power is getting stronger and stronger, and his reputation is getting higher and higher, which has affected the balance of the court. These days, he has also moved the idea of replacing the crown prince, but when he thinks that the former Sui was because of the replacement of the crown prince, Yang Guang ascended the throne and led to the demise, he felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Another reason is that he knows very well that since ancient times, the abolition of the elder and the virtuous has been a taboo in the country, and the eldest son of the deposed grandson is going to die nine times out of ten. Although the eldest son Li Jiancheng is not as good as Erlang, he is very good at assisting government affairs.

What's more, he likes his eldest son very much, how can he bear to abolish Chang Lixian and force him to die?

Therefore, Li Yuan could only try his best to balance the situation between the DPRK and China and suppress Li Shimin, and this time he was not willing to let Li Shimin continue to lead the army to fight.

Li Shimin left the palace disappointed, and after Li Shimin left, Li Yuan immediately issued an edict to let the prince enter the palace.

"Father, do you want to let your sons go to Hebei to crusade against Liu Heimin?" Li Jiancheng hesitated.

"Well, although Liu Heimin looks very powerful, most of them are herd minds, that Dou Jiande is not my opponent of the Tang Dynasty, let alone his subordinates, you are the commander, and Li Shentong, the king of Jiangling, is the deputy marshal, leading the army to crusade, and he will definitely be able to pacify Hebei and Shandong." Li Yuan opened his mouth and said.

Li Yuan did not let Li Shimin go on the expedition this time, and deliberately let the prince go on the expedition, just to enhance the prestige of the prince, Li Shimin's prestige is too high, and he has begun to suppress the prince.

He knew that the prince was not good at military service, so he deliberately selected the people in the clan who were best at leading the army except Erlang to assist him, as long as he did it, and then the great work of pacifying Hebei and Shandong would be his.

It's just that what Li Yuan didn't expect was that the prince didn't appreciate his thoughts.

The last time Li Yuanji was defeated and fled back to Chang'an, he also understood that the soldiers were fierce and dangerous, although he wanted to make war achievements, but he was always afraid in his heart, and he has always advocated that a gentleman should not stand under the wall.

Therefore, even if Li Yuan gave him a chance, Li Jiancheng was reluctant to go, and hesitated for a moment before he spoke: "Father, the son of the emperor has not been in battle, and he rashly leads the army to go, I'm afraid he won't be able to win!" ”

Hearing Li Jiancheng's words, Li Yuan was suddenly disappointed in his heart, he forced the second son not to use it, and gave the prince a chance, but the prince was still unwilling to go, you didn't want to give you a chance!

Li Yuan didn't like it in his heart, so he could only order Li Shentong to lead the army to pacify Hebei and Shandong.

Li Shentong led a large army out of Tongguan and went to Hebei to engage Liu Heimin.

Liu Heimin knew that Tang Ting was strong, and he was not the number one general under Dou Jiande's account, in order to win over these people, Liu Heimin set up an altar outside the city to pay tribute to Dou Jiande, in order to win people's hearts.

Then he asked the Xiangshi to ask the hexagram, and the Xiangshi told him with the words of "the golden knife has been carved, and it is in the golden city". So the proverb of the golden sword lord of the world soon swept Hebei and Shandong.

Many gate lords have responded to support Liu Heimin, and Liu Heimin's strength has expanded rapidly, with several counties in January and Hebei in March.

Liu Heimin took the lead in every battle, and his reputation became more and more outstanding.

Li Shentong led the army to the battle, as the Li Tang clan, Li Shentong is also a rare general, but he also made a mistake unique to the nobility, that is, he looked down on people from low backgrounds.

What's more, Li Shentong saw that Li Shimin easily captured Dou Jiande, thinking that Dou Jiande was nothing more than that, and Liu Heimin was his general, so he was even less afraid.

At the same time, in order to deal with Liu Heimin, Li Tang also ordered Youzhou Luo Yi to attack together. wants to attack Liu Heimin from the north and south.

But what they didn't expect was that Liu Heimin's army raised troops in the name of avenging Dou Jiande, the king of Xia, and the art of war was victorious.

The people of Hebei were favored by Dou Jiande, so they fought bravely, Li Shentong and Luo Yi attacked from the north and south, but instead of winning, they were won by Liu Heimin.

Liu Heimin attacked Li Shentong with a large army, and then asked his brother to lead an army to defend Luo Yi. The army and people of Hebei fought bravely, the Tang army was defeated in successive battles, and Li Shentong was almost wiped out.

Luo Yi learned that the Tang army was defeated and did not dare to fight again, so he hurriedly led the army to retreat in a hurry. Liu Heimin led the army to attack continuously, captured Dingzhou in November, and went to Qizhou for ten days, and defeated Xu Shiji in December.

However, in just half a year, Liu Heimin recovered the land of Dou Jiande, and even occupied most of Henan, which shocked the Tang Dynasty.

Knowing that Liu Heimin's troops arrived at Tongguan, Li Yuan couldn't care about anything else, and hurriedly ordered Li Shimin to lead the army to the battle.

(End of chapter)