Chapter 48: Raiding to Lingzhou on a snowy night

Li Jiancheng has been very confused recently. It is said that he had just quelled the Hedong Rebellion, and Li Yuan should be rewarded with great reason. However, it was not until now that Li Jiancheng discovered that except for the title of a state-controller, his power in his hands was not only not increased. Wei Ting, the left-leaning guard of his disciple, beat someone to death by the Wannian County acting county magistrate Quan Wanji, was arrested after being arrested by Wannian County's acting county magistrate Quan Wanji.

Wei Ting went to Quan Wanji's mansion to plead with mercy, but was sued by Quan Wanji's memorial to Li Yuan. Wei Ting was dismissed from his official position and demoted to a commoner.

This made Li Jiancheng very confused. According to traditional rules, only the prince could live in the palace, and other princes would move outside the palace after they became adults. However, Li Tang was very different from other founding dynasties. It was not Li Yuan who laid the foundation for the founding of the country, but Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, and Li Xiuning, and his son. This characteristic of founding of the country was unprecedented in history. Of course, when the interests were distributed, the founding kings of the Tang Dynasty also enjoyed great power.

In short, except for the prince Li Jiancheng living in the Eastern Palace, Li Shimin lived in Chengqian Hall in the imperial city. Now, after Li Yuanji returned to Chang'an, he has been staying in Wude Hall without leaving. It's okay to stay in the palace. The key is that in addition to the Li Tang court, Li Jiancheng's Crown Order, Qin King Li Shimin's Qin King's Clan, Qi King Li Yuanji's Clan, including Li Xiuning's Princess Pingyang (Princess Pingyang is treated the same as the prince) and Li Yuan's edicts, and issued orders to go out at the same time, which confused the court and the ministries of the early Tang Dynasty. In order to avoid favoring one and the other, each ministries usually decides to implement it in order. Of course, even if there is a first and then, it depends on whose disciples it is. The disciples of the King of Qi will never implement the Qin King's Clan, and the Qin King's disciples will not implement the Crown Order.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the situation of King Sima sharing the world was created. In the early Tang Dynasty, politics was actually implemented by Li Yuan, King Qin, Prince, and King Qi sharing the world. In the early days of the founding of the country, Li Jiancheng made contributions to formulating the national policies of the Tang Dynasty and maintaining the northern defense line. In addition, Li Jiancheng had a good relationship with the Shandong noble group and the Guanlong noble group, Li Yuan had to strengthen Li Shimin's power and let Li Shimin compete with Li Jiancheng.

However, after Li Shimin destroyed Wang Shichong's power, his power began to expand, and Li Yuan began to favor Li Jiancheng's party. Even if Li Shimin fabricated Li Jiancheng's disciple Yang Wengan to rebel, Li Yuan was also arrogant and ruthless. It was precisely because of Li Yuan's unprincipled protection that the Xuanwu Gate tragedy was caused.

In politics, there is never any action for no reason. In fact, Li Jiancheng felt something was wrong since Wei Ting was quickly demoted. Wannian County Magistrate Quan Wanji was not Li Shimin's person (not at this time), but he actually impeached Wei Ting because of a trivial matter, which surprised Li Jiancheng.

The only one who beats the death to Wei Ting's family slaves to death. Although his disciples are not strict in discipline, Wei Ting has an unshirkable responsibility. However, in this era, Wei Ting only needs to severely punish his family slaves and compensate the funeral expenses of the deceased. If he is more harsh, he can solve the problem by doubled the copper fine, and there is no need to dismiss the office.

After Wei Ting was dismissed from office, he told Li Jiancheng about the prophecy that Yuan Tiangang gave him. Now that Yuan Tiangang's prophecy to Wei Ting has been fulfilled, it will be the turn of Prince Zhongyun Wang Lian immediately. Once Wang Lian is demoted, the fence-leaders who are in the court's Zhongguan wind will take the blame, which will cause Li Jiancheng to fall into a very passive territory.

After learning about the reason for Li Jiancheng, Chen Ying understood what Li Jiancheng meant. Li Jiancheng was actually just seeking psychological comfort from Yuan Tiangang.

Li Jiancheng needs to determine whether this is Wei Ting's personal fate, or whether Li Yuan launched a new suppression of the East Palace. In particular, Chen Ying made such a great contribution to the Battle of Hedong, and was deprived of military power and became the Minister of Works, which made Li Jiancheng inexplicably uneasy. If Chen Ying was included, the East Palace had already lost two generals in a row, which made Li Jiancheng not pay attention to it.

"There is a saying that I have been enduring for a long time and haven't asked you!" Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and said solemnly: "Tell me, are you really willing to be the Minister of Works? Don't you feel that returning to Lingzhou will make more achievements in Lingzhou?"

If Li Jiancheng had some concerns in the past, he now decided to fight back. Under the rule of Li Daozong, Li Daozong and Li Shimin had a closer relationship. Lingzhou was in the hands of Li Daozong, but in fact it was equal to Li Shimin's hands, which made Li Jiancheng inexplicably uneasy. If Li Jiancheng was under pressure and ordered Ming to spread the world with the prince, he could appoint Chen Ying as the general manager of the Lingzhou military capital, and with Chen Ying's prestige in Lingzhou and his former subordinates of the Dingyuan Army, he would be fully capable of undermining Li Daozong.

Chen Ying was slightly stunned and thought to himself: "Is the situation in the court now so intense?" Chen Ying bowed and said: "Your Highness, the prince is the leader of the prince..."

Li Jiancheng's carriage left Chang'an City and began to rush. Li Jiancheng said: "Although Li Daozong was a hero of the royal family, he was a county magistrate (governor) and a happy place to govern a country, he had this ability. If he only blocked the Turks and Liang Shidu, he would be a little short of it. Without Chen Qing in Lingzhou, the palace would be unable to sleep or eat."

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In fact, as Li Jiancheng expected, although Li Daozong carried out Li Yuan's plan to conceal the world, led four Zhechong Mansions across Helan Mountain, detoured the north of the desert, and prepared to attack Li Gui. Li Gui had no idea about Li Daozong's movements.

However, Liang Shidu has been closely following the trends in Lingzhou. He has placed a lot of fine works and eyeliners in Lingzhou. As early as half a month after Li Daozong left, Liang Shidu received accurate news that Li Daozong led the four main troops of the Dingyuan Army, Zhechong Mansion, and left Lingzhou without knowing where to go.

At the beginning, the Liang army was worried that Li Daozong would lead the Dingyuan Army's four elite soldiers and six thousand elite soldiers to attack him. At this time, most of the Liang army, who had lost most of Xiazhou, were also in a panic and were full of soldiers. However, after waiting for half a month, he did not wait for Li Daozong's surprise attack, but instead waited for the news that Li Daozong would surprise attack Li Gui.

This made Liang Shi very happy and hurriedly summoned his generals Xin Liaoer, Li Zhengbao, Feng Duan, Liu Min, He Sui, Suo Zhou, Liang Luoren and other civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Min was originally the chief minister of Xia Prefecture. Since Lu Jilan's death, no one under the Liang Shidu was available, so he promoted him to replace Lu Jilan as the Minister of Shang. Liu Min was originally a powerful man in Xiazhou. Although he had some knowledge, he was always looking forward to others. He took the lead in raising objections: "Your Majesty, is this a trap?"

Liang Shi was walking back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back. Liang Shi was thinking to himself that this might be possible. Now in the Battle of Hedong, the Turks lost tens of thousands of troops, and Mo Hedushe was almost wiped out. Qi Lifushe was so scared that he fled far away to Langju Mountain. At this time, the Turks in the south of the desert had no troops at all.

However, Liu Wuzhou was dead under the protection of the Turks. If the Liang army was destroyed, it would be a major disaster for the Turks. Once the Liang army was surrounded, even if the Turks were in trouble, they would save them at all costs. The Turks were good at cavalry attacks and got information from the siege to the Turks. Unless Li Daozong had the ability to capture Yanzhou within one month, the Turkic army would come to support and Li Daozong could only retreat.

What Liu Min said is not without possibility.

At this time, Liang Luoren stood up and fisted and said, "Your Majesty, I am not talented, so I led 8,000 troops to strait Lingzhou."

Just at this moment, strong winds broke out and heavy snow fell from the sky.

Master Liang was overjoyed and said, "This is God's help to me!"

Heavy snow can conceal the traces of the army's dispatch. In particular, the Liang Division has seen Chen use a white cloak to conceal the movements of the troops. The Liang Division has decided to follow Chen Ying, all wearing white cloaks and attack in the snow.
Chapter completed!