Qu Tutong is a Xianbei person, in fact, his ancestors were born in Zahu, that is, some small tribes of Beihu, and later attached to the Murong clan and gradually integrated into the Xianbei tribe.

Qu Tutong can be said to have no family background, his father Qu Tutong was a long-ranking official to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he was not a high-ranking official, nor did he have any ancestors with names and surnames.

Because of the war at the end of the Jin Dynasty, Xianbei sat down, and their family slowly became a Shu clan, touching one side of the door valve, but it was far away from entering the house.

And Qu Tutong himself is not simple, he can be said to be a rare strategic master among the generals of the late Sui Dynasty, and his previous record was not outstanding, it can only be said that there are stars shining in the Sui Dynasty, and he can't be seen.

Moreover, Qu Tutong served as the governor of the guard in the last years of the emperor's reign, toured the world on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and dealt with many criminal ministers, which made a deep impression on people, and the talent of leading the troops was even more invisible.

What's even more interesting is that his younger brother Qu Tugai was in Chang'an Ling at the time, and he was also ruthless and terrifying.

So there were rumors at the time, "I would rather eat three buckets of Ai than Qu Tugai, and I would rather take three buckets of green onions than Qu Tutong." ”

It can be seen that there are not a few people who have offended the two brothers.

Qu Tugai died early, Qu Tutong was nearly sixty years old at this time, with the position of the secretary of the military department, leading the troops in the northwest, under the jurisdiction of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and the position was very similar to the original Yuwenxin.

At this time, Qu Tugai had been in the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty for a long time, he had led troops to quell Yang Xuangan's rebellion, he also served as the ambassador of Guanzhong to arrest, suppressed the peasant uprising, and also led troops to fight against Li Yuan......

The characteristics of his leading troops have gradually become distinct, and he is almost impeccable in strategic arrangement, although he has no outstanding achievements, but he can make the opponent very uncomfortable.

Like when dissuading Li Yuanji, the meaning is very clear.

Even if Liang Shidu is defeated, it will not be able to completely wipe out the trouble of Liang Shidu under the condition that Li Liang is watching on the side, and it is very likely that the enemy in all directions will be able to take advantage of it.

In fact, at this point, Qu Tutong was already very dissatisfied with Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, in his opinion, His Royal Highness the Prince, who had easily lost Jinyang Jiancheng, was too reckless.

After taking office, he first began to purge the old department of King Qin, for example, Chu Liang, who was very familiar with the terrain and people's conditions in the northwest, was driven away by him, and the reason given was also very ridiculous, because Chu Liang was a descendant of Xue Ju, and he had a deep collusion with the northwest tribes.

Damn, according to this statement, there are so many surrenders in the Northwest Tang Army, can you deal with them?

If it weren't for Qu Tutong wiping Li Yuanji's buttocks, Li Yuanji might really be able to clean all the descendants, and at this point, he would personally lead the troops to aid Lingzhou.

Qu Tutong persuaded a few words, seeing that Li Yuanji did not care, so he strictly ordered all departments not to leave the defense without permission, he did much more ruthless than Yuwen Xin, his qualifications were old, and he served as the secretary of the military department, so he didn't make much effort, so he took advantage of the dissatisfaction of the generals in the army with Li Yuanji, and put Li Yuanji in the air.

Immediately, Qu Tutong ordered his henchmen to go back to Chang'an quickly, and sued Li Yuanji in front of Li Yuan.

When Li Yuan heard this, he was naturally furious, Li Yuanji's scene was simply a copy of the Jinyang Change, Li Yuan imagined the scene of erosion in the northwest, and there was no hesitation at all under the fear, and immediately ordered someone to recruit Li Yuanji back to Beijing.

Li Yuan was restless for a long time, and before Li Yuanji returned to Chang'an, something happened in Shuzhong again.

Yin Kaishan, the squire of the military department, was ambushed in the mountain, was hit by the arrow, and almost lost his life, Liu Hongji and others couldn't fight for a long time, and now Yin Kaishan was seriously injured, and the anger gradually increased.

They sent letters to Chang'an one after another, attacking Li Xiaogong for leading the troops, which meant very clearly, and wanted to change the Qin king Li Shimin to enter Shu to lead the army.

In fact, General Zuo Yiwei and the horse Chai Shao did not play a good role.

He had previously recruited Xue Ju from Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and made many military exploits, and had a very good relationship with the old troops of the King of Qin, and at the same time, his reputation for being brave and good at fighting spread in the Northwest Army.

It can be said that this guy really lives up to his name, he is stubborn and stubborn, and he is the most brave and daring in the Northwest Army, except for Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army.

But after Chai Shao led the army into Shu to reinforce Li Xiaogong, he felt constrained, and became increasingly dissatisfied with Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun.

He felt that his uncle Li Shimin was fighting with Li Ding'an's thief at this time, and he would definitely not be able to come to Shuzhong, so if Li Xiaogong was really brought down, wouldn't he, as a concubine, be able to look at that lord's seat?

Obviously, this horse master has also seen the way of employing people in his father-in-law.

Chai Shao thought very beautifully, and Xiao Miao's offensive against Shuzhong weakened because of the division of troops, which did give the Tang army a chance for infighting, but Li Yuan trusted Li Xiaogong very much.

For Li Xiaogong's strategy of appeasing the Nanban, gradually weakening Xiao Milling in Xinzhou, that is, Kuizhou, and waiting to go out of Sichuan, he also agreed very much, and this was also the focus of Liu Hongji and others' attack on Li Xiaogong.

Li Yuan was naturally very angry, and at the same time, he was also aware of the danger, and gradually lost patience with the behavior of the old Qin Dynasty to form a party and repeatedly provoke incidents everywhere.

Therefore, the choice of Chai Shao, who was good friends with Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to replace Li Xiaogong to lead the troops was not considered by Li Yuan at all, and then Li Yuan ordered the fifth son of the emperor, Li Zhiyun, the king of Chu, to be the secretary of the military department of the Taiwan army in Shu, and the prince Zhongyun Wang Qi entered Shu together to help Li Xiaogong attack Kuizhou.

Li Zhiyun is friendly with the crown prince Li Jiancheng, not to mention Wang Qi, who is the confidant of the prince Li Jiancheng, it can be seen from these two appointments that Li Yuan is extremely dissatisfied with Liu Hongji and others, just because the various departments in Shuzhong are still fighting against Xiao Miao, it is not good to condemn these arrogant generals, so they used some political skills.

Of course, Li Yuan still left some leeway for Liu Hongji and others, although Li Zhiyun said that he was very close to Li Jiancheng, but the person he was most grateful to and respected was Li Xiuning, the princess of Pingyang.

Li Zhiyun was born by Wan Guifei, and the relationship with his mother was deep and abnormal, when he was young, the concubine was sick and bedridden, and he did not eat for three days to pray for his mother.

Li Yuan heard this and praised: "The sons of my family, the most filial piety is none other than Zhiyun. ”

What he is most grateful to his sister Li Xiuning is that in Chang'an City that day, the Li family's relatives were in danger, and Wan Guifei's family background was mediocre.

If this incident makes Li Zhiyun very grateful to Li Xiuning, then the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the Qin king Li Shimin will fight, and under the intensification, he, the king of Chu, can still sit in the mansion and stay away from the whirlpool, thanks to Li Xiuning's care.

In other words, putting Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning together, in Li Zhiyun's place, Li Jiancheng's thousand words are not as good as Li Xiuning's words.

In fact, he should be most grateful to Li Pocai.

The first one, Li Po rose to the border county of Daizhou and fought with the Turks, so that Li Yuan, who was left behind in Taiyuan at that time, had a lot of spare time and could do some other things with ease.

So Li Zhiyun, who should have been caught and sent to Chang'an, and was finally killed by the Yin Shishi, was not abandoned by Li Jiancheng, who fled quickly, but arrived in Jinyang safely.

Second, Li Po sent a lot of soldiers to Chang'an to pick up the Li family, and Wan Guifei was naturally among them.

Say, "Who is this thankful man?"

Of course, even if Li Zhiyun knew this, he would not be grateful to Li Tang's enemy, and it was only appropriate to replace Li Xiuning.

And this is the leeway that Li Yuan left for Liu Hongji and others, he didn't think that before Li Zhiyun left Beijing, he would not go to Princess Pingyang's Mansion to resign, and his daughter, who was gradually becoming more and more cold, would say to his younger brother, he could also guess what he would say.

Even if her daughter doesn't want to pay attention to foreign affairs, hmph, that talkative Li Jingding will continue to talk more.

Sure enough, Li Zhiyun went to Princess Pingyang's Mansion as expected, in addition to bidding farewell to Li Xiuning, he also wanted to ask his sister for advice on how to act in Shuzhong.

Li Xiuning is in good spirits, after some previous turmoil, she finally lived a calm and orderly life, and she really didn't want to care about these bad things mixed with the battle for storage positions.

But she is really different from Li Zhiyun, her brothers are now like enemies, and there is no flesh and blood at all, but her half-brother used to be inconspicuous, but now it seems that he is completely opposite to her brothers, a person who values family affection.

So a few years have passed, and it seems that Li Zhiyun is her younger brother here, and Li Yuanji is the little lady who raised her.

At such a moment, she naturally did not want to ignore this younger brother.

Her words were concise and to the point, "Brother Mo worry, as the king of Chu sits in Shuzhong, even if Brother doesn't say a word, everyone will not dare to say anything else in front of you, if there are still people talking nonsense, Brother might as well kill them to warn everyone." ”

"Brother is going, the road is far away, you must not be in danger, and you must think more about the concubine when the time comes...... Did you know? ”

Li Zhiyun bowed down to listen to the training, like to his father and brother, and then said: "General Liu is the head of the generals in Shu, if he ......"

Li Xiuning snorted coldly and said, "Brother should take Yuanji's matter as a lesson, just take King Zhao Junwang as the head, and others don't need to be polite...... Something...... Later, you can go to Li Changshi for advice. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiuning paused, probably thinking that Li Jing's man was successful in leading the troops to fight, and it was a bit unreliable to talk about others, so Li Xiuning had to be patient and give Li Zhiyun a good analysis.

Li Zhiyun left with a sigh of relief, while Li Xiuning rubbed his forehead and muttered to himself, how many days can I live when I stop living? Look at this situation, the children of the Li family went out to lead the troops to fight, maybe when, she, a female generation, would have to lead the troops again.