If you ask, who is at greater fault in the grudge between Zhao Youlin and Li Chengqian, I am afraid no one can tell.
At the beginning, Zhao Youlin was just an ordinary scholar in Shibao City who could not be compared with ordinary people.
It was not easy to come to Chang'an City and get to know Li Tingxue and Li Chengqian.
For others, it would probably make them laugh out of their dreams.
It's a pity that he should never provoke Li Tingxue.
Or perhaps, Zhao Youlin's destiny should be like this.
Or perhaps, Li Chengqian and him are natural enemies.
Ever since Li Chengqian drove him out of Chang'an City and Cheng Huailiang sent him to Yanzhou, this guy has suffered a lot.
If you think about it carefully, his journey has not been easy.
From the first trip to the northeast, to being defeated by the Tang Dynasty, he fled westward in embarrassment.
Later, with his little remaining wealth, he gradually established a foothold in the Western Turks and became the strongest overlord of the Western Turks today.
Judging from his ability, it is enough to prove that Li Chengqian did not misjudge the person at that time.
He is indeed a very talented and gifted person.
It's a pity that this man's heart has already been polluted by the dirty environment.
There are people like this in every era.
They are obviously very talented, but after encountering setbacks, what they think of is not how to change the status quo, but how to take revenge on society.
Meeting Li Chengqian was Zhao Youlin's luck, and it was also his misfortune.
Without Li Chengqian, he would not be where he is today.
Similarly, without Li Chengqian, he would not have been criticized by thousands of people and scolded by thousands of people. Even the ancestral graves of his old Zhao family were dug up.
…
When Zhao Youlin got the news about Li Chengqian.
He did not hesitate and immediately replied to the envoy: "Tell Li Chengqian that I, Mr. Zhao, will definitely attend the appointment on time in two days."
Hearing this, the ministers around him were all shocked.
One by one, they all spoke up to advise: "Your Majesty, no, you must not be fooled by those Tang thieves."
"Yes, Your Majesty, what should we do if those guys are setting up an ambush in secret?"
"Your Majesty, since the matter has come to this, let's just fight them. Why bother to meet them..."
Listen to the words of the ministers.
Zhao Youlin just smiled slightly.
He waved his hand and said: "Okay, I have my own sense of discretion in this matter. I understand Li Chengqian."
"Although he is sometimes vicious and unscrupulous."
"But he will never play tricks with me on this kind of thing."
Zhao Youlin raised his lips and said, "So, no one is allowed to mention this matter. I have already decided. I will lead people to the front line. I want to see what he wants to say to me."
Apart from anything else, their understanding of each other is enough to make it difficult for anyone to understand their relationship.
Let's say they are friends.
They are on the opposite side.
Call them enemies, and they know each other so well...
From this point of view, Li Chengqian and Zhao Youlin can really be regarded as old enemies.
…
Wait until the day of meeting.
Li Chengqian, with only a few hundred men, rushed out of the Tang Dynasty's military formation and headed straight towards the Western Turkic camp.
At the same time, Zhao Youlin also led people and horses to rush out from the camp.
Wait until the two are less than twenty steps away.
The two of them stopped their horses in unison, looked at each other up and down, and were speechless for a long time.
When the two first met, Li Chengqian was only eleven or twelve years old, but now his appearance has changed drastically.
Especially after experiencing the baptism of several wars and the shaping of domestic political affairs, now his whole body is already filled with an indescribable aura of a king.
The same is true for Zhao Youlin.
Earlier, his temperament could already be said to be extraordinary.
Now that the power is in hand, the soldiers and horses are behind him, the momentum is no longer what it used to be.
The slightly squinted eyes and the faint smile on the corner of his mouth gave him a bit of coolness as if he was the one who had the power over the world and was drunk in the lap of a beautiful woman.
"Your Highness King Qin, long time no see."
Zhao Youlin was the first to speak: "Who knows, why are you free today and come to meet me?"
"Of course I haven't seen you for a long time. I miss Brother Zhao's heroic appearance."
Li Chengqian also smiled heartily: "When I met Brother Zhao in the early years, I knew that Brother Zhao would definitely achieve great things in the future, but I didn't expect that such great things would not happen in our Datang."
"hehe."
Zhao Youlin chuckled.
"Your Highness, King Qin, why are you so pretentious?"
"Why don't you tell me what you really think."
Zhao Youlin raised his eyes and looked at Li Chengqian with an evil smile and said, "I think His Highness the King of Qin will be itchy with hatred when he sees me now."
"I'm afraid His Highness the King of Qin also regrets that he left a hole for me to escape when he annihilated the Third Northeast Division..."
"No no no."
"You think too much."
Li Chengqian tilted his head and said, "I have never hated you, and I have never regretted letting you go."
"After all, even if I don't let you go, you will still lead people to break out. Rather than letting you kill thousands of my brothers, it is better to let you escape directly."
"Anyway, I know that depending on your character, you will never go east, and the end result will definitely be to run west."
Li Chengqian looked at Zhao Youlin with a proud face and said, "No, I guessed your whereabouts correctly. Now you have settled in Western Turks."
{Received contempt value +99 from Zhao Youlin...}
Hearing this, Zhao Youlin said with disdain on his face: "Li Chengqian, what you said makes it seem like you let me go on purpose?"
"if not?"
Li Chengqian was happy: "Do you really think that I wanted to chase and intercept you, and then you ran away?"
"Zhao Youlin, don't forget that back on the Northern Desert Grassland, I commanded 50,000 soldiers in Liangzhou and 50,000 soldiers in Bingzhou,"
"One hundred thousand soldiers, with my methods, do you think you can run away if I really want to surround you?"
Li Chengqian raised the corners of his mouth, looked at Zhao Youlin and said, "Zhao Youlin, if you really think so, I overestimate you."
"I thought you had seen through it, so you ran all the way to the Western Turks and grew up in a wretched manner, all the way to today..."
honestly.
Zhao Youlin really thought at the beginning that he was able to escape from the siege of the Tang Dynasty by relying on his own ability.
He never expected that these were all things Li Chengqian did deliberately.
{Received anger value +99 from Zhao Youlin...}
{Received resentment value +99 from Zhao Youlin...}
Zhao Youlin gritted his teeth and looked at Li Chengqian and said: "You guy, you are definitely lying. You are definitely trying to deceive me here because you lost to me, so you are unwilling to do so..."
"Why should I deceive you?"
"Do you think everyone is born with inferiority complex like you and needs to find superiority in others?"
Li Chengqian shook his head and said: "Don't forget, as a prince, I am inherently superior to some people, and there is no need to look for superiority in someone."
"For me, protecting the lives of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and maximizing the interests of the Tang Dynasty are the most important."
"Don't you see that after you arrived in the Western Turks, you actually made the western border of the Tang Dynasty more stable?"
Li Chengqian grinned and said, "Zhao Youlin, you are also a smart man. You don't need me to explain the reason to you personally, right?"
