When Li Yuan sent Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng to pacify Longyou, he sent an envoy to Liangzhou and issued a letter of consolation with Li Rail in Xiliang to form an alliance. Li Yuan worshiped Li Mao as a general, returned to Liangzhou, and issued an edict to Honglu Shaoqing Zhang Qide to worship Li Liang as the king of Liang and the governor of Liangzhou, and gave Yu Bao a piece of propaganda.

When Li Yuan began to attack Xue Ju, he sent Zhang Qiande, the young secretary of Honglu, to Liangzhou, preparing to worship Li Liang as the governor of Liangzhou and crown him as the king of Liangzhou. However, at that time, Li Yuan and Xue Rengao were inseparable, so the journey was not very safe.

Seeing this, Zhang Qiande had to change to day and night, and constantly changed the route during the march, and finally arrived in Liangzhou in February of the second year of Wude, after Zhang Qiande read out Li Yuan's will, Li Liang did not have any reaction at this time, neither accepted nor refused, but said lightly to Zhang Qiande: "The envoy has worked hard all the way, please go down to rest first, and then reply to the envoy after I discuss with a group of subordinates." ”

Hearing Li Liang say this, Zhang Qiande couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, thinking that Li Liang didn't want to establish himself as the emperor, right? If this is the case, then there are still people in the rear of Datang at this time, which is very unfavorable to Datang's next plan.

However, he was in Liangzhou, and the news could not be passed on for the time being, which made Zhang Qiande very anxious, but what Zhang Qiande didn't expect was that at this time, Li Liang had already usurped the emperor, and changed the year name to Anle, and ordered his son Li Boyu to be the prince, and Cao Zhen, the chief historian, shot for Shangshu's left servant, and at the same time, when the eyes of the world were focused on Chang'an, he secretly sent troops to capture Hezhou.

At this time, Li Liang summoned his ministers to discuss in the court and said: "Tang Tianzi is my cousin, and now he is the emperor in Jingyi. People with one surname should not compete with each other for the world, I want to remove the emperor title and accept the title of the Tang Dynasty, is it appropriate?"

Hearing that Datang came to solicit, His Royal Highness suddenly had all kinds of thoughts, some pulled the people around them to discuss, some kept silent and watched coldly, and even looked around aimlessly.

At this time, Shangshu's left servant shot Cao Zhen flashed out, and said to Li Liang: "Your Majesty, although the Sui Dynasty lost the world, causing the people of the world to fight for the throne, but who said that there is only one person who is called the king and the emperor! The Tang Dynasty was the emperor in Guanzhong, and the Liang Dynasty was the emperor in the right side of the river, which was originally not in the way. Besides, you have already become the Son of Heaven, why bother to degrade yourself again! If you want to make a big deal out of small things, please follow the way that Liang Dynasty Xiao obeyed the Wei Dynasty in the past. ”

And the crown prince Li Boyu said angrily: "Father Qiqi, the sons think that Lord Cao is reasonable, since they can be called kings, why can he only be called king in Li Yuan's lineage, why can't we be in this line?"

As soon as Li Boyu's voice fell, everyone in the hall knelt down and shouted: "Please Your Majesty not to accept the canonization of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Liang listened to Cao Zhen's words, looked at everyone in the hall and thought to himself, since they can all be called kings, then why don't I sit on this dragon chair, thinking of this, Li Yuan said slowly: "Since all the Aiqing have suggested that I should not accept the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, what the ministers have invited is really for the country and the people, and I have made up my mind, follow the example of Liang Chaoxiao and obey the law of the Wei Dynasty, and send people to Chang'an with the Tang envoy to meet the Tang Emperor." ”

On the 28th of Wuxu (28th), Li Liang sent his Shangshu Zuocheng Deng Xiao to Beijing to meet the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and presented a book claiming to be "the emperor's cousin, the emperor of the Great Liang Kingdom, and his subordinate Li Liang", but did not accept the official titles of the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing the handwritten letter presented by Deng Xiao, Li Yuan was furious and detained Deng Xiao in court and did not let him return. At the same time, Chu Mofeng was urgently summoned to prepare to discuss the matter of Xingshi's crusade against Li Liang.

Chu Mofeng, who got the news, hurried to the Taiji Palace, and along the way, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but curse in his heart: I really don't know what the old man thinks, at the beginning, Li Lao Er and I both said that we would solve Li Liang first, and I didn't know that Wang Ba Lamb made a speech in front of the old man, which caused the court to miss a good opportunity.

When I came to the Taiji Palace, I saw Wang De standing at the door of the main hall anxiously waiting, and when he saw Chu Mofeng coming, he hurriedly greeted him and said: "Oh, my Lord Chu, Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time, you should hurry up." ”

"Princess, I have a detailed inquiry below, and I hope you can give me some advice. Chu Mofeng dragged Wang to a secluded corner, took out a small cloth bag from his bosom and stuffed it into his hand, and said softly: "I don't know who told Your Majesty a few years ago that you will not go to crusade against Li Liang for the time being?"

Wang De took the small cloth bag handed over by Chu Mofeng, put it into his arms without even looking at it, and arched his hand towards the east, Chu Mofeng immediately understood what Wang De meant, and hurriedly saluted him and said, "There is Gonggong Lao." ”

I only heard Wang De smile at the throat of the male duck and said: "General Chu is polite, go to the imperial study with our family, Your Majesty and the prince have been waiting for a long time." After speaking, he made a gesture of invitation to Chu Mofeng and led him towards the direction of the imperial study.

Chu Mofeng followed Wang De forward, and said angrily in his heart: Damn, I know that it was your kid who did it, and it is really a thing that is not enough to succeed and more than to lose.

When he came to the door of the imperial study, he was about to push the door in, but he heard Li Yuan's angry voice from inside: "Tell me, your brother wrote a letter a year ago and wanted to go to Xiliang to fight against Li Liang, why didn't you allow it?

I only heard what seemed to be knocked over to the ground in the room, and then I heard Li Jiancheng say tremblingly: "Father Qiqi, at that time, Erchen thought that we had no real evidence, and we sent troops to recruit for no reason for fear of being criticized, and Erchen really had no other meaning." ”

"There is no other meaning? Where do you think your brother's news came from? Is it hearsay? If the news is not accurate, do you think Erlang will go in and send troops?" Li Yuan looked at his eldest son in front of him, and felt helpless for a while, this son still has some martial arts, but he is a little narrow-minded and a little selfish, but all this has already been determined, and it cannot be changed for a while.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan regretted Li Shimin's plan to send troops that he had rejected at the beginning, and couldn't help but be furious, pointing at Li Jiancheng and saying, "You just kneel here for me, and wait for Mo Feng to come in a while." ”

Hearing this, Chu Mofeng hurriedly walked in the door, and when he saw Chu Mofeng coming, Li Yuan's mood suddenly improved, and he said to him with a smile: "Our general is here." ”

Chu Mofeng thought that there was still a Li Jiancheng in the house, and thought that he couldn't let this thing catch his handle, so he hurriedly knelt down to Li Yuan and said: "Minister Chu Mofeng sees Your Majesty, and hopes that Your Majesty will be healthy, the country and the people will be safe." ”

Seeing this, Li Yuan nodded approvingly, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to signal Chu Mofeng to get up, and after Chu Mofeng got up, Li Yuan sighed and said, "The dragon is still healthy, and he is about to be killed by this kid and Li Liang's fang." ”

Chu Mofeng pretended not to know, and asked with a surprised face: "Why did Your Majesty say this? I wonder why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been kneeling? What happened to Li Rail? The minister forgot who said that Li Rail is still forming an alliance with us at this time, has this guy done something that makes His Majesty unhappy?"

"Leave him alone, let him kneel for a while and reflect on himself. Li Yuan raised his eyes and glanced at Li Jiancheng, walked to the desk, handed Li Rail's handwritten book on the table to Chu Mofeng and said, "You take a look at this first, this is brought by Li Rail's envoy today." ”

After Chu Mofeng picked it up and browsed it roughly, he was about to greet the women in Li Jiancheng's family in his heart, and suddenly remembered that his wife was his sister, and Li Lao's second mother, who was both Li Xiuning and Li Yuhu's mother, and thought of this and simply greeted Li Jiancheng.

Then Chu Mofeng said slowly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that since Li Liang has different intentions, he might as well take this opportunity to solve it in one fell swoop, and then all the Ganliang area will be returned to the Tang Dynasty, and we can also send troops to station in key counties and counties, while resisting the Western Turkic attack, and at the same time can also contain Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and others." It's just ......" Speaking of this, Chu Mofeng suddenly stopped talking and raised his eyes to look at Li Yuan.

"It's just what?" After listening to Chu Mofeng's analysis, Li Yuan was overjoyed in his heart, and when he was listening to it with relish, he suddenly lost his words, which made Li Yuan inevitably a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "You and I are both kings and ministers and sons-in-law, you don't have to talk in a hurry, no matter what you say, I will forgive you for your innocence." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister wants to say that if we send troops to recruit at the beginning of the year, maybe there won't be so much trouble now. Coldly skimming Li Jiancheng, who was still kneeling on the ground, Chu Mofeng looked sad, as if he was indignant at the failure to send troops at the beginning of the year.

As soon as Chu Mofeng's voice fell, Li Jiancheng suddenly said: "The people of the world wrote a letter asking for troops to be sent after the year, who knows whether the news is accurate, and it is risky to rush to send troops." ”

"Fighter planes coexist with risks, and if we always look ahead and backward in war, then there is no battle that can be won in this world. Hearing that Li Jiancheng was still defending himself, Chu Mofeng suddenly became angry, and said coldly: "A few years ago, Li Liang had intended to usurp the emperor, and I received the news at that time, so I informed His Royal Highness the King of Qin and asked him to send troops to His Majesty to conscript, who knew that he was disturbed by others, and at this time, His Royal Highness the King of Qin also went to Changchun Palace to guard, I don't know who to send to this battle?"

After listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Li Yuan sighed and said, "This matter is my own thought, I don't know what Mofeng's good plan is now?"

Chu Mofeng thought for a moment, then suddenly changed the topic and asked, "Your Majesty still remembers Fu Shun, right?

As soon as these words came out, Li Yuan immediately understood what Chu Mofeng meant, turned around and shouted outside the door: "Come on, bring Fu Shun, the king of Pingxi County, to the palace to be strictly guarded, and at the same time order his father Fu Yun to send troops to attack Li Liang." ”

After someone outside the door answered, Li Yuan turned around and patted Chu Mofeng on the shoulder and said, "I know that you kid is a ghost spirit, and you have a good move to drive away the wolf, but I'm afraid it's a little difficult to eat Li Liang with Fu Yun's forces alone, right?"

I saw Chu Mofeng smile and said: "I know that this little trick of the minister can't hide His Majesty's wisdom and wisdom, of course the minister has a trick, I don't know if Your Majesty has heard such a sentence 'A thousand miles of embankment is destroyed in an anthill'?"

"Don't shoot my sycophants, if you have something to say, what do you want to do?" After eating Chu Mofeng's sycophant, Li Yuan was suddenly in a good mood, and smiled and motioned for Chu Mofeng to sit down and said, "Are you trying to disintegrate Li Liang's forces from within him?"

Sitting on the chair in the imperial study, Chu Mofeng suddenly felt like a sweaty person taking a cold shower, and hurriedly said: "The minister has a candidate for His Majesty to send, if this person comes out, maybe we can take Xiliang without blood." ”

As soon as Li Yuan heard that he could solve the Xiliang matter without spending a single soldier, he stepped forward and grabbed Chu Mofeng's shoulders, and said excitedly: "Who do you want to recommend? Come quickly, if this is really as you said, I promise you anything you want." ”

In order to prevent Li Jiancheng from disturbing the situation again, Chu Mofeng glanced at Li Jiancheng with a little embarrassment and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is confidential, can you allow the minister to report to you alone?"

At this time, Li Yuan's mind had already rushed to Li Liang's matter, and as soon as Chu Mofeng's voice fell, he turned his head to Li Jiancheng and said, "Get up and go back to your East Palace for me to think about it behind closed doors, you are not allowed to come out without my will, retreat." ”

When Li Jiancheng heard that he was grounded, he couldn't help but feel a little lonely, so he hurriedly got up and said goodbye to Li Yuan, and then slowly withdrew from the imperial study, thinking about eavesdropping at the door, who knew that Wang De, who was guarding at the door, saw Li Jiancheng come out, sneered in his heart and hurriedly said loudly: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, please go back, Your Majesty is afraid that if you discuss with the horse, I hope that Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not provoke Your Majesty again." ”

Seeing Wang De standing firmly at the door like an iron general, Li Jiancheng sneered and turned around and left the place, walking in the direction of the East Palace. Seeing Li Jiancheng leaving, Wang De coughed lightly as if unconsciously.

At this time, Li Yuan walked to a bookshelf in the study, groped on the shelf for a while, and then turned around and shook the object in his hand at Chu Mofeng, Chu Mofeng saw that it was a bottle of Zhang Ye drunk and two wine glasses, and couldn't help but smile and whispered: "You still dare to drink secretly in the imperial study, and you are not afraid that the living room will write a note for you?"

"What are you afraid of, this world is mine, am I still afraid that they will remember my drinking? Li Yuan removed the mud seal on the wine bottle, Chu Mofeng saw this and hurriedly filled it for him and himself, the two of them carefully touched the glass, drank the wine in the cup, and then Wang De coughed lightly outside the door.

Like a signal, Chu Mofeng said to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, let's get down to business first, I'm afraid that I won't be able to think clearly after drinking too much for a while, so let's drink it well when we're done." ”

Li Yuan nodded, hid the wine glass and wine jug first, and then motioned to Chu Mofeng to continue, only to see Chu Mofeng nod and said: "The minister knows a person, his brother is an official under Li Rail, and he is the official of our Tang Dynasty, and the minister thinks that he can beat this person into Li Rail." ”

Li Yuan shook his head and said: "Li Liang relied on the army to rely on the danger to connect Tuyuhun and the Turks, I raised troops to attack him, and I was afraid that I would not be able to win, where could I take it with a few words?"

"Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry to refuse, just call this person in and ask. Chu Mofeng winked at Li Yuan and said with a smile: "This person's name is An Xinggui, it is said that the descendant of Prince Anxi of the Western Regions was born in a wealthy Wuwei family and has lived in Chang'an for many years. ”

Li Yuan, in line with the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, instructed Wang De to quickly pass An Xinggui to come, and after An Xinggui arrived, before Li Yuan could speak, An Xinggui made a long speech and explained to Li Yuan the plan he had conceived about pacifying Ganliang.

In the end, An Xinggui said excitedly: "His Majesty's home is in Liangzhou, the wealthy families of many generations, the people of all ethnic groups are more dependent, my younger brother Ren is trusted by Li Rail, and there are more than a dozen children who are confidential officials close to Li Rail, the minister can go to persuade Li Rail, if Li Rail can listen to me, it is good, if you don't listen, it will be easier for the minister to solve him by his side!"

After Li Yuan heard this, he thought for a moment, and then said to Chu Mofeng and An Xinggui: "Today's matter is only known to the three of us, An Aiqing's deep into the enemy camp this time is a matter of nine deaths, if the news leaks, I will not be forgiven." ”

Hearing this, the two hurriedly knelt down and said yes, and then Li Yuan found a suitable opportunity to send him to Liangzhou.

At this time, Dou Jiande and Yu Wenhua launched a battle in the Liaocheng area, after Li Shentong led his troops to flee, Dou Jiande did not send troops to chase after him, because Dou Jiande knew that the purpose of his trip was not Li Tang's soldiers, but to destroy Yu Wenhua.

Due to Yu Wenhua and Li Shentong's previous repeated battles, he was already sleepy and lacking horses, and the number of soldiers was sharply reduced.

Dou Jiande relied on his own strong men and horses to launch a fierce attack on Liaocheng one after another, while Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenhua resisted desperately, and the city gate was broken several times. It was the night king Bo who opened the city gate to welcome the Dou army, and Dou Jiande quickly led his troops into the city to capture Yu Wenhua alive.

After entering Liaocheng, Dou Jiande ordered his subordinates to stand by, and he first went to pay homage to Empress Xiao of Sui, claiming to be a subordinate in words, wearing white clothes and crying Emperor Yang of Sui to mourn;

Immediately caught Yu Wenhua's fellow party Yu Wenzhihe, Yang Shilan, Yuan Wuda, Xu Hongren, and Meng Jing, gathered Sui Dynasty officials to behead these people in person, cut off their heads and hang them outside the barracks.

Dou Jiande ordered people to use the threshold to drive Yu Wenhua and his two sons Yuwen Chengji and Yuwen Chengzhi to Xiangguo, behead them and show them to the public and announce it to the world, Chu Mofeng, who got the news, couldn't help but smile, thinking that you people had better fight to the death, and in the end, Datang would have to solve it one by one.

After Wang Shichong of Luoyang learned the news, he quickly ordered all the states and counties under his command to go on the defensive.

On the 14th day of Jiayin in the second month of the leap month, Xu Shao, a native of Cheng'an, Yiling County, Sui Dynasty, led officials from Qian'an, Wuling, Liyang and other counties to come to the Tang Dynasty. Because Xu Shao was a classmate and friend with Li Yuan when he was a child, Li Yuan issued an edict appointing Xu Shao as the assassin of Xiazhou and giving him the title of Duke Anlu.

On the 17th of Ding Si (17th), Zhang Xiaomin, a hussar general under Chu Mofeng, led a hundred strong soldiers to attack Wang Shichong's Bishui City, entered the outer city of Bishui, and sank 150 rice ships into the water. But who knew that in the process of evacuation, Zhang Xiaomin was killed by an arrow, and Chu Mofeng, who learned the news, was furious, but at this time, An Xinggui had no news back, so Chu Mofeng had to endure his grief and report the matter to Li Yuan.

After Li Yuan learned of this, he ordered Zhang Xiaomin's family to be compensated, and promoted his younger brother Zhang Dutuo to be a general, and the county prince gave 200 silk to show encouragement. And set up Zhang Xiaomin's tomb in the Valhalla for the world to pay respects.

The loss of a strong general under his command made Chu Mofeng sad, and he didn't think about tea and dinner for several days, and everyone in the mansion said comforting when he saw this, Chu Mofeng himself knew that there were no immortals in the war, and after a few days of rest, he returned to the military headquarters to continue his office.

On the 19th, Wang Shichong invaded the state and appointed Qin Shubao as the general of Long Xiang and Cheng Zhijie as the general, but the two hated Wang Shichong for being deceitful. Before the expedition, Cheng Zhijie said to Qin Shubao: "The prince is shallow and narrow-minded, but he likes to talk nonsense, like to gamble and swear, this is just an old witch, where is the monarch who sets things right!"

Wang Shichong fought with the Tang army in Jiuqu, Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie led troops on the battlefield, and dozens of their subordinates rode west for more than 100 steps, and then dismounted and saluted Wang Shichong, saying: "I have received your special preferential treatment, and I always want to repay the favor and serve, but your temperament is suspicious, and you love to believe in slander, which is not a place for us to support yourself, and now I can no longer serve you, and I ask to be separated from now on." So he rode his horse to Chang'an to join Li Yuan.

After Li Yuan met with them, he asked Chu Mofeng how to settle these people, and Chu Mofeng, who was bent on expanding his strength for Li Shimin, said to Li Yuan: "In view of the uneven quality of the generals we have recruited these days, these people are still arranged to Changchun Palace first, and order His Royal Highness the King of Qin to observe for a while before granting important positions,"

Li Yuan readily agreed, and then with a stroke of the pen, he sent them all to Changchun Palace, Li Shimin had already heard of the reputation of these people, and respected them very much, and appointed Qin Shubao as the commander of the Ma army, and Cheng Zhijie as the commander of the left third army.

The hussar general Li Junxian from Wu'an, and Tian Liu'an, the general of Zhengnan from Linyi, directly led his troops to Changchun Palace to surrender because they were disgusted with Wang Shichong, and Li Shimin placed Li Junxian by his side and appointed Tian Liu'an as the right fourth commander.

At this time, Chu Mofeng received a message from An Xinggui, saying that he had arrived in Wuwei, and Li Liang appointed him as the general of the left and right guards.

During this period, An Xinggui once found an opportunity to persuade Li Liang: "The jurisdiction of Liang is only a thousand miles, the land is barren, and the people are poor. Now the Tang Dynasty has risen from Taiyuan, seized Han Qin, and ruled the Central Plains, the battle must be won, and the attack must be taken, which is probably the will of heaven, not manpower. You might as well take the entire Hexi to join the Tang Dynasty, then the exploits of Dou Rong in the Han Dynasty can be reproduced today!"

After listening to An Xinggui's words, Li Liang, who was puzzled, said coldly: "I rely on the firmness of the mountains and rivers, although they are strong, what can they do with me? You came from the Tang Dynasty to lobby for the Tang Dynasty." ”

When An Xinggui heard this, he hurriedly apologized and said: "I heard that the rich and noble do not return to their hometowns, just like walking at night in splendid clothes are not known, and my whole family is honored by Your Majesty, how can you be willing to belong to Tang? ”

Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, An Xinggui quickly reported the matter to Chu Mofeng, and after Chu Mofeng received the news, he instructed An Xinggui and An Ren to secretly unite with the Hu tribe to attack Li Rail.

At this time, at the Changchun Palace station, Li Shimin and Qin Shubao stood on the city tower, looking at the boundless land in the distance, blowing the wind quietly, only to hear Qin Shubao say: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, your subordinates know that you have a Tiance army under your command, but since the end of the world, why haven't you seen its main general for a long time?"

I only heard Li Shimin smile and say: "Didn't you see our Hussar General of the Tang Dynasty when you were in Chang'an? He is the commander of the Tiance Army." It's just that this kid is now in command of the whole army, and there are many more things than before, so the Tiance Army has been temporarily sent to me. ”

Listening to Li Shimin's words, Qin Shubao thought of the young, thin and calm figure, and couldn't help but nod and said: "It turned out to be him, his subordinates met this person when they were in Chang'an, and they couldn't see the number of this person's paths." ”

"Hmph, don't underestimate this kid, if Xuanba and Pei Xingyan are still alive, I really want to know which of these three people is strong in martial arts, but Xuanba and Pei Xingyan are gone, and I really can't find a person in the world who can compete with them." Li Shimin stretched out his hand and stroked the bluestone on the city wall, thinking to himself, Chu boy, thank you for sending me so many outstanding talents, deep in the temple, it is really difficult for you.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin turned around and said: "Let's go, it's getting dark, it is estimated that the camp is going to have dinner, and if you go late, you won't be able to catch up." After speaking, he took Qin Shubao and walked towards the city......

As the saying goes, everything recovers in early spring and March, and seeing the situation in the Central Plains gradually developing towards a three-legged tripod, I want to know what happens next, and listen to the next decomposition......