Chapter 364: Li Keyong of the Northern Expedition, Wang Ying of the Southern Expedition!
After a long drought and nectar, Xiao Beisheng is newlywed.
In the mansion where Li Jing and Gongsun Lan had a private tryst in Shamen Town, the two snuggled up to each other after a while. The aftertaste after the passion is endless, and the two gradually calm down their rapid breathing.
Holding Gongsun Lan in his arms and caressing her full of green silk, Li Jing asked about Li Keyong's anti-Tang Dynasty. "How did the imperial court deal with the mutiny of Yunzhou Li Keyong?"
Gongsun Lan lay on Li Jing's chest, her head resting on Li Jing's arm, and one hand was still making small circles on the abdominal muscles that were raised in Li Jing's abdomen. The flush on his face did not subside, and his cheeks flew red. Hearing Li Jing ask about this, he chuckled and said, "It's also funny to talk about this." After Li Ke asked the court to let him stay, his father Li Guochang also gave the court a fold in Zhenwu. ”
"What did Li Guochang say?"
Li Guochang's excerpt is very funny, he folded up and said, asking the imperial court to appoint a new Datong defense envoy as soon as possible, if Li Keyong does not listen to the imperial court, the minister will lead the headquarters of the troops and horses to crusade, and will never live up to the great grace of the country in order to love a son! You say, isn't this cheap and good? ”
When Li Jing heard this, Li Guochang's attitude was indeed a little too arrogant. His son killed the court and ordered the officers and soldiers to rebel, and he not only did not avoid suspicion at this time, but also ran out to say such a false and fishy thing.
"I heard that Li Ke mutinied, but I still saw the result of you taking Dengzhou and Li Maoxun taking Youzhou. Then Li Guochang must also believe that the imperial court is still the same as dealing with Youzhou, etc., and admits a fait accompli. But they don't want to think about it, that Youzhou was originally divided from generation to generation, and it is useless for the court to admit it, and they can't control it. Datong is different, in the past, the imperial court here was a territory that could be stretched out. What's more, although Li Maoxun is also a Hu person, Li Maoxun does not have much foundation. Even if he became a festival envoy in Youzhou, it would not change much like other Youzhou festival commanders in the past. But this Li Guochang didn't want to think about his own situation, he was the leader of the Shatuo people, and Daibei was a place where Zhuhu lived together. If Li Keyong controls Datong, and Li Guochang owns Zhenwu next to Datong, the territory of the father and son will be big. There is no one to stop on the side, if you don't make a good one, this Shatuo Li Ke will use the father and son to have the possibility of Wuhu disaster. ”
Li Jing nodded, lowered his head and kissed Gongsun Lan's forehead in agreement. Li Keyong's father and son are indeed different from the general situation. After Li Guochang followed the imperial army to quell the Pang Xun Rebellion. It's very arrogant. It was precisely because he became increasingly arrogant that the imperial court began to be wary of him, and finally found an excuse to promote Li Guochang to the official position, and removed him from the old nest Datong defense envoy on the grounds of promoting Li Guochang. Transferred to the Zhenwu Festival envoy who has no foundation.
Now how could the imperial court let his son Li Keyong serve as the defense envoy of Datong again, besides. Li Ke was an official of the Lingchi court in Yunzhou. And after returning the matter of eating human flesh, even several prime ministers in the court turned pale with anger.
"How should the imperial court deal with this?"
"What else, the imperial court appointed Lu Jianfang, who had served as the envoy of Yichang Jiedu and the defense envoy of Datong, and was the boss of the Li family and his son, to serve as the defense envoy of Datong again. At the same time, he also sent Si Nongqing Zhixiang, the younger brother of the former defense envoy Zhimo, to Zhenwu and Datong to warn the Li family and his son, as long as they obeyed Lu Jianfang's military orders. Then even if this matter is over, the imperial court will definitely arrange a new position for Li Keyong that satisfies him. ”
Li Jing chuckled: "The Li family's father and son will never be satisfied with this result, they have worked so hard to win Datong, how can the meat in their mouths be spit out again?" ”
"You're right." Gongsun Landau. "Then Li Guochang is just making a show, who knows that the Lu Dao Imperial Court really gave the position of Datong Defense Envoy to others, which made Li Guochang very angry. This man was already quite arrogant, and both father and son refused to obey the order. Lu Jianfang's new defense made it impossible to enter even Yunzhou. Seeing that this was the case, the imperial court had no choice but to take a step back and upgrade the rank of the commander of Datong Town from the defense envoy to the jiedu envoy, the Zhenwu jiedu to make Li Guochang the Datong jiedu envoy, and the failed Lu Jianfang to the Zhenwu jiedu envoy. ”
The imperial court did take a step back, and finally let Li Guochang serve as the envoy of Datong Jiedu. However, in the eyes of the imperial court, they made great concessions. But in Li Guochang's view, this is not the case. He only saw that their father and son already had two plots of land. Now that the court is doing this, the two fathers and sons have only one piece of land in the end. When they don't know how to do arithmetic, are they playing tricks on them?
Under the anger, Li Guochang, who did not stop doing two things, simply killed the eunuchs sent to Zhenwu by the imperial court, tore up the edict, and sent someone to inform his son Li Keyong that we had rebelled!
When the news of Li Guochang's father's and son's rebellion came back to the imperial court, these prime ministers in the capital were still a little unconvinced at first, and when the urgent report came back again, they accepted the fact that Li Guochang's father and son really dared to rebel. Li Guochang was angry, and the princes of the court were also angry, you are a little Hu Renfanzi, of course, if we hadn't taken you in, your whole clan would have been wiped out by the Tubo people, but now you have an inch of merit, you dare to be so arrogant, there is no emperor in your eyes, and there is no royal law.
Li Guochang has nine sons: Li Kegong, Li Kejian, Li Keyong, Li Kerang, Li Kexiu, Li Kening, Li Kezhang, Li Keqin, and Li Kerou. When Li Guochang destroyed the edict and killed the envoy, he had two sons, namely Keyong's elder brother Kejian and younger brother Kerang, who were serving in Chang'an, which was actually equivalent to hostages. Their residence, located in the prosperous area of Chang'an City, next to the East Market, is still the mansion given by Emperor Xianzong when Zhu Xie returned to the Tang Dynasty.
As soon as Li Guochang rebelled, the Son of Heaven immediately ordered the patrol envoy to lead the troops to surround Qinrenfang at night and arrest Li Guochang's son. After a vicious fight, Li Kejian was killed, although Li Kerang, who was serving as the general of Jinwu at that time, was not as good as the third brother, but he was also very brave, and led more than ten horsemen to fight to the death, and actually rushed out of Chang'an City by chaos, and threw himself into the Nanshan Buddhist Temple at night. Unexpectedly, they were recognized by the monks in the temple as their fugitives, and this group of monks did not cultivate their minds and greedy for bounties, so they took advantage of Li Kerang's fatigue and deep sleep to kill them.
"Li Keyong killed two sons, it seems that he has a life and death feud with the imperial court." Li Jing sighed and said, even Shatuo, the ace army of the Tang Dynasty who was favored by the Tang Dynasty and had not long entered the Tang Dynasty, was reversed, and the Tang Dynasty had really reached a critical state.
"That's right!" Although Gongsun Lan hated the current Li Tang Dynasty, she was even more shameless about the behavior of Li Guochang, Shatuo and his son. In any case, the great defense of the army is the common concept of all Han people.
"If you are not of my race, your heart will be different!"
Gongsun turned around, the whole person was half lying on Li Jing's body, looked up at Li Jing, and said solemnly: "You have to be careful." When I was in the capital, I heard some rumors that Tian Lingzi was very dissatisfied with you. ”
Li Jing chuckled: "Actually, there is nothing between me and Tian Lingjin, at the beginning, he regarded me as an enemy because the emperor said that he would transfer me to Beijing." Later, when I gave gifts to the Son of Heaven and the officials of the capital, I still gave him a copy. As a result, this dead eunuch actually sent his brother to Dengzhou to find me, and actually asked me to arrange a soldier and horse for him in the Zhendong Army. ”
"You didn't say yes?"
"That Tian Lingzi's hometown was originally from Xuzhou, and his original surname was Chen, but after entering the palace, he worshipped an old eunuch surnamed Tian as his godson according to the tradition in the palace and changed his surname to Tian. Now he has become the emperor's father, and he is powerful. wanted to arrange for the next family member, his brother Chen Jingxuan was originally just a flatbread seller. I can't know a single big word, and I can't do half a bit of kung fu. Such a street seller sells flatbread, but Tian Lingzi previously wanted to arrange him to be a soldier and horse envoy under the account of Cui Anqian, the envoy of the loyal army festival in Xuzhou. That Cui Anqian is the head of the Cui clan in Qinghe, and my teacher is a brother. Cui Jieshuai is fair, so he naturally refused. As a result, Tian Lingzi touched a nail at Qianshuai, so he asked Chen Jingxuan to come to me again, I am not a rag, how can I let such a flatbread seller come to my Zhendong Army as a soldier. When Li Jing talked about this, he still looked disdainful. That Tian Lingzi really thought that he Li Jing was so good at it, that he wanted to send his brother to the Zhendong Army as a soldier and horse envoy. If he agrees, maybe more people will be installed in it, and then, I guess they will want to replace it.
"No wonder." Gongsun Lan raised her eyebrows: "When I was in Chang'an, I heard a news that Tian Lingzi was going to transfer you to Hedong to quell the rebellion of Li Keyong's father and son. ”
"The eastern army of my town is far away in Ziqing Town, thousands of miles away from Yunzhou, Tian Lingzi can make such a request?"
"Not only that, now there are Fujian areas in eastern and western Zhejiang, and Wang Ying, the former Wolf Mountain Town in western Zhejiang, deducted food and clothing because of the festival, and 69 accomplices launched an uprising. Now its rebel army has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, led more than 10,000 people to conquer Su and Changerzhou, and took a boat from the river into the sea, into eastern Zhejiang, Lianke Wanghai Town, Taizhou and other places, its momentum is huge, compared with Wang Jingwu of Qingzhou and Wang Xianzhi of Tianping Army and Huang Chao's grass army is more powerful. It's just that because it is in the remote west of Zhejiang, far away from the Central Plains, the impact is small. I heard that Tian Lingzi said to the ministers in the court that the Zhendong Army had a strong naval division, so to deal with Wang Ying, he happened to transfer the naval division of the Zhendong Army to the south of western Zhejiang and eastern Zhejiang to quell the rebellion. It is also said that the Zhendong Army and you are extremely appreciated by the Son of Heaven, and it is the time to raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while. ”
Li Jing's brows furrowed when he heard this, this Tian Lingzi was really ruthless. On the one hand, it is necessary to transfer the Ma Bu Army of the Zhendong Army to deal with the Shatuo Army, one of the most elite ace armies in the Tang Dynasty in the past 60 years. On the one hand, it was necessary to transfer Li Jing's sailors to the south, western Zhejiang, and eastern Zhejiang to quell the chaos.
Whether it is Li Keyong's father and son or Wang Ying, this is not easy to mess with. No matter how strong Li Jing's army is, he fought with them and defeated them, which was naturally as Tian Lingzi wanted. If you win, you will definitely have a huge loss. And if Li Jing's Zhendong army is separated by land and water, Li Jing believes that Tian Lingzi will definitely have more conspiracies against him.
Li Jing couldn't help but clench his palms into fists, it seems that this Tian Lingzi has to find a way to teach him a lesson, otherwise, he doesn't know how many eyes the prince of Lu Daoma has. He, Li Jing and Zhendongjun, is not something he can fiddle with casually. (To be continued......)