The ancients said: Nothing can be achieved without warning, which refers to the importance of planning. If you act without a plan, it will only be a bad luck. But the problem is that plans are often created to be broken. The more
The more important the plan is, the interesting thing is that it is often trivial things that break the big plan. However, due to lack of attention, it eventually leads to the failure of the overall plan. This is what happened in Qizhou, which ruined the good deeds of the King of Qi.
It sounds ridiculous to say that this person is just a book boy in a study. We have to start from the beginning:
The King of Qi, Li You, has always been an ambitious man, and he has quite a lot of abilities, both civil and military. Of course, he is only compared to the powerful children of his generation. Even if he is good, he is very limited, far inferior to the King of Yue.
Li Zhen was so outstanding, and because he was a concubine, he was defeated in the battle to seize the throne early, so he could only rely on the subordinates of Wu King Li Ke. Although he was far away in Qizhou, he was always with Li Ke in the court.
, Li Min in Qizhou communicated with each other and advanced and retreated together. Since he was sealed in Qizhou in the tenth year of Zhenguan, Li You began to secretly recruit troops and gather dead soldiers to prepare for major events. Among them, Yan Hongliang, Zan Junmo,
Liang Mengbiao is the most powerful of the three. The former is a counselor, and the latter two are masters of martial arts. There are also many Jianghu desperadoes who use them as wings to privately recruit sergeants to secretly expand the army. Because the people of Shandong are fierce, all the soldiers they recruit are brave warriors.
, the momentum was quite huge for a time, and most of the surrounding Qing and Yi states followed his orders, making him one of the most powerful among the kings of the Tang Dynasty.
Li You was lustful and had the conditions to hunt for women. Since he arrived in Qizhou, he not only recruited talents from all over the world, but also did those things of bullying men and dominating women. He did it by forcefully marrying women of all ages. As a result,
After being stabbed in front of the emperor, the old man was furious. In March of the 15th year of Zhenguan, he sent a great scholar named Quan Wanji to Li You's Prince Qi Palace to serve as the chief historian of the palace. He also gave Quan Wanji an imperial edict.
Restrain Li You.
Quan Wanji was a very upright person, and he was a bit pedantic in his integrity. Naturally, he couldn't stand Li You's dirty deeds. He repeatedly made suggestions and blocked Li You from recruiting women from the countryside, and at the same time, he recruited all the dead people that Li You had
Not only did Li You drive all the officials out of the palace, but he also wrote to Li Shimin to report serious fabrication problems by Li You's pro-army forces. As a result, Li You was reprimanded by Li Shimin several times and was completely disgraced. However, Quan Wanji had an imperial edict in his hands, and Li You took it.
He had no choice but to adopt Yan Hongliang's strategy when he was angry - to set up a false palace and a separate palace to accommodate his many dead soldiers and personal guards, replacing the problems brought by Quan Wanji.
The servants in the mansion cut off Quan Wanji's sources of news and isolated Quan Wanji. This method worked, and both parties were safe for a while. Unfortunately, this situation was broken by a little book boy.
At the beginning of the 16th year of Zhenguan, after receiving the news about the start of Li Ke's "Operation Tianwu", Li You started to get busy. He was dispatching manpower, training military horses, and ordering his counties to step up the preparation of food and grass. He was very busy for a while.
, but there are less of those Yaxings who bully men and dominate women, but as the old saying goes - a country is easy to change, a nature is hard to change, or it can be said that a dog cannot be changed and eat shit. Li has been busy for more than ten days.
You finally sorted out the general plan and arranged all the preparations, so he could breathe a sigh of relief.
Okay, once you relax, don't you have to drink a few sips of wine? Once you drink too much, something will happen - after Li Laowu got drunk, he got into some kind of mood and killed a person next to him in broad daylight.
The maid took care of it, and it was done. Anyway, the maid in the palace is just a plaything to put it bluntly. At worst, giving this little maid the title of concubine will just pass by. How can it be a big deal? But the problem is
Li Lao Wu was a little too excited. He tortured the person to death. If he died, he would die. The death of a maid in the palace was not a big deal. At least Li Lao Wu himself did not.
I took it to heart, and after I woke up, I just told him to drag it down and bury it, and in a blink of an eye I forgot about it. But I didn't expect that such a small thing would ruin the big thing that Comrade Lao Wu thought about day and night.
The dead maid had no relatives. She only had one younger brother, who also worked in Lao Wu's house and was the book boy in the study. She was usually very loyal, well-behaved and smart, and was very popular with Comrade Lao Wu.
Although Li Lao Wu was in charge of the position of Wen Mo, most of his secret activities were carried out in other courtyards, and he rarely planned big things in the palace's study. However, since it was the palace's study, Comrade Lao Wu would occasionally engage in some shameful activities in it. Those
Everything fell into the eyes of this book boy. However, this little book boy was always loyal, so Lao Wu had nothing to worry about. But this time, it was fine. His sister was tortured to death by Li Lao Wu. How could the little book boy do this?
After swallowing this breath, he immediately took a chance, ran to find Quan Wanji, and pulled Comrade Lao Wu's shady activities to the bottom, and the matter became a big deal.
Quan Wanji was a great scholar, and he was pedantic, but he was not a fool. When he heard that this was a major treason case, he immediately kept a close eye on him. He was afraid that the news would be leaked, so he did not dare to spread the news directly.
Returning to the capital, he quietly kept the various evidences sent by the little book boy, told Li Laowu that he planned to return to the capital to report on his work, and then hurriedly took all kinds of evidences and embarked on the road back to the capital. If
In the past, Li Laowu was eager for Quan Wanji to leave early and never look back. But just when the "Tianwu" operation was just beginning, Li Laowu was more cautious and waited for Quan Wanji.
As soon as he left the palace, he immediately conducted an investigation of the whole palace. After this investigation, he immediately discovered something suspicious about the book boy. Without him, although the book boy was careful when he went to see Quan Wanji, he was still seen by others.
Well, after this big search, he was immediately accused. The poor book boy was not a tough guy at all. The reason why he took the initiative to expose Li Laowu was just out of desire for revenge. Under three trees, he was immediately accused.
Everything was revealed, and in this way, Quan Wanji's true intention of returning to Beijing was exposed.
Treason is a serious crime of beheading. If Quan Wanji really brought the matter to the capital, let alone Li Laowu's men, even he himself would not be able to escape death. What should he do? Ji Hong
Li Laowu, who was stunned, immediately summoned his subordinates to discuss matters with his confidants. First, he sent people to chase Quan Wanji, making many promises and wooing him, including gold, silver, jewelry, and beautiful high-ranking officials. Unfortunately, Comrade Quan just followed him in the pit.
The stones were generally smelly and hard. Instead of following Li Laowu's advice, he secretly sent someone to secretly send the evidence of Li Laowu's rebellion back to the capital. In this way, Li Laowu had no choice.
The five men were determined to kill each other - counselor Yan Hongliang personally led Liang Mengbiao and more than 20 masters to follow Quan Wanji and carry out assassinations. Zan Junmo led his troops to chase the secret cavalry sent by Quan Wanji.
Not to mention, Li Laowu still had some masters. Not only were all the secret cavalry sent by Quan Wanji privately, but Quan Wanji himself was also shot dead. The evidence of treason was recovered.
, Unfortunately it was too late - Quan Wanji was a very cautious person, and he knew very well that he would risk his life by going to Beijing to sue Li Laowu. With Li Laowu's cruel temper, he would never let himself go.
Only one of them returned to the capital alive. Therefore, Quan Wanji, in addition to sending out those secret cavalry to try to deliver the evidence, was also extremely cautious in his own actions. He was only willing to follow the caravan on the official road for half a day until nightfall.
However, he had to stay at the inn anyway. As a result, Yan Hongliang, who had no choice but to shoot Quan Wanji in full view of the officialdom. Although he was barely silenced, the identities of the people in Prince Qi's palace were still compromised.
People saw through it.
The person was killed and the evidence was recovered, but it was all in vain. Forced to a dead end, Li Laowu had no other choice but to take action in advance. In desperation, Li Laowu had no choice but to
He ordered the recruitment of men over the age of fifteen in Qizhou City, rewarded officials and soldiers, and drove the people into the city to repair armor and weapons. At the same time, he sent orders to the counties under his jurisdiction and obeyed his orders. Qing and Yizhou immediately raised troops to help, and worked together to achieve a great cause.
For a time, the situation in Shandong was in chaos. The gongs and drums were loud, the rebel flags were flying, and it became lively.
On the sixth day of February in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, the news that Shi Quan Wanji, the governor of the Prince of Qi, was assassinated on his way to the capital, reached the capital. This added to the panic in the capital, which was already panicking because of the assassinations of the King of Shu and the King of Yue. For a time, the court
The situation was in turmoil, and the Holy Emperor was furious. He had just issued an edict to denounce the shameless behavior of the King of Qi, and ordered him to go to the capital immediately to report his duties. However, before the imperial envoys who had gone to summon him could leave the capital, bad news came one after another - February 2, the 16th year of Zhenguan.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, Qizhou in Shandong rebelled. Qingzhou and Yizhou had ambiguous attitudes and showed signs of rebellion.
Qizhou, Qingzhou, and Yizhou are all Shangzhou. The three states have a combined population of nearly one million, and they are all places with strong folk customs. There has been a tradition of rebellion since ancient times. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Shandong was the most chaotic.
There are the most heroes, and even a genius like Li Shimin who led the army has suffered defeats on the ground in Shandong. Not long after the Tang Dynasty had just calmed down, half of Shandong was about to be in chaos again. The people who were already panicked were now in a state of chaos.
It has become a state of panic, and even the important officials in the imperial court are worried that the chaos like that in the late Sui Dynasty will happen again.
Everyone knew more or less that something was going to happen on Li Lao Wu's end, but no one thought that Comrade Lao Wu would make a fuss at this time, and no one could predict that Comrade Lao Wu would act like this.
Even the third oldest Li Ke was caught off guard by the big commotion. As a result, various alliances, overt and covert struggles were staged one after another. No force was willing to lag behind, and the undercurrents in the capital suddenly surged.