It's just that Emperor Taizu allowed him to guard Guangnan West Road and allowed him to monopolize the Second City Shipping Department and specialize in overseas trade. But he only agreed that his eldest son and his family would go to Guangnan West Road to join the feudal clan first. On the grounds that the world has not yet been pacified, he himself has always disagreed with his request to surrender immediately.
However, in order to appease the person, it was also due to the importance of the matter. When Emperor Taizu was conquering Shu and launching the final blow against the former Tang Dynasty, he finally resurrected him and continued to lead the army. Together with Huang Ye and Wei Guogong Shang Rang, who had already been granted the title of King of Changyang County by the Jin Dynasty, they divided the army of more than 100,000 soldiers into three groups to attack Shu.
However, when it came to the specific deployment, Huang Ye, Prince of Changyang County, and Shang Rang, Duke of Wei Guo, were the main ones, and only 30,000 infantry were given to them as partial divisions. Emperor Taizu's move was obviously intended to replace the Guilin Prince in the military with his own nephew Huang Ye.
However, the Guilin County Prince took advantage of Shang Rang's troops to engage in a stalemate with the last remaining army of the Japanese army in Jiange. He led his army along the old route of the Three Kingdoms period when Deng Ai was pinging Shu, carrying ten days of food, bypassing the main force of the enemy and sneaking for more than 700 miles, and went straight into the Chengdu Plain.
In less than half a month, they defeated Jiangyou, Mianzhu and other cities, defeated more than 10,000 soldiers who came to intercept them, and took the lead in arriving at the gates of Chengdu. When he heard that Qi's army had arrived in Chengdu, Tang Xizong, whose body had been drained of wine and sex, died of fright. The emperor's younger brother Li Ye, who succeeded to the throne, had no food and grass inside, and no King Qin's teachers outside. He was forced to lead Chengdu's civil and military ministers, more than a thousand people from the clan, and 30,000 troops inside and outside the city to open the city and surrender.
After entering the city, the king of Guilin restrained his generals and appeased the former Tang clan and important officials. Except for the eunuchs Tian Lingzi and Yang Fugong Lingchi who had been in power for many years, no one was killed, no property was taken, and all the property in the Tang Palace was sealed. He also sent an envoy to carry the prince's edict to surrender. After the fall of Chengdu, there was no way to advance or retreat, and he could only trap more than 100,000 soldiers in Jiange.
Later, he was transferred to escort the important officials of the princes of the former Tang Dynasty back to the capital. For his contribution to the destruction of the Tang Dynasty, he was awarded the title of Danshu. His title of Guilin County Prince was changed from inheritance for three generations to hereditary. After resigning from the post of Minister, Youpushe, he served concurrently as the deputy envoy to the Privy Council and served as the Councilor for political affairs. He wrote to Emperor Taizu, advising Emperor Taizu to lighten taxes and corvee services, and focus on agriculture and mulberry trees.
And based on the experience of the Anshi Rebellion in the former Tang Dynasty, when the official system was chaotic and the titles were chaotic, and the vassal towns relied on their own troops and refused to obey the imperial court's dispatches, the official system of the Qi Dynasty was re-customized. It is stipulated that local governments should be governed by civilian officials. Military attaches shall not serve as concurrent local officials in any form and shall not interfere in the separation of civil and military affairs appointed by local officials.
In the 18th year of the Jin Dynasty, a large number of Tubo troops invaded. The king of Guilin, who was already sick at this time, immediately started to implement the princely vassal system that had been planned for a long time but could not be implemented due to Taizu's three orders of recruitment. .
In the battle of Qinghai Lake, 20,000 cavalry defeated more than 100,000 Tibetan troops in Qinghai. After that, they pursued all the way and defeated dozens of Tubo tribes and beheaded tens of thousands. When the Tibetans were suppressed and their troops were withdrawn, in the northwest of Qinghai Lake, they defeated the 50,000 Ganzhou Uighurs who came to fight the autumn wind after learning that the Tibetans were defeated. They recovered Ganzhou and Suzhou successively.
Although they failed to restore the northwest territory they had in the heyday of the former Tang Dynasty, after this battle, the northwest border of Daqi was pushed to Zhangye. The Ganzhou Uighurs were left with only Jiuquan County in the Hexi Corridor. In the 19th year of Jin Tong's reign, the king of Guilin, who had been fighting for a year continuously, had exhausted all his efforts, marched to Lanzhou and died of illness in the army.
When his coffin returned to the capital, Emperor Taizu led the prince, the kings in Beijing, and all the civil and military officials to personally go out to the capital to greet him. He was ordered to stay in court for three days and summoned the whole country to ban marriages among the people for one month and ban singing and dancing in the capital for three months as a mark of mourning. Half a year later, Emperor Taizu died in the Daming Palace in Chang'an, and the prince, Emperor Taizong, ascended the throne.
Closing the book "The Chronicles of Taizu", Huang Qiong could only shake his head and smile bitterly. He finally knew where history had turned, and the reason was probably due to the Guilin County Prince who was skilled in fighting and doing extremely prosperous business. At that time, the world was conquered not so much by Emperor Taizu, but by the Guilin County Prince.
The actions of the Guilin County Prince made Huang Qiong feel somewhat confused and even had an indescribable feeling. There are so many mysteries surrounding this Guilin County Prince that it is difficult for people to determine what kind of person he is. How could a secretary, who was nothing more than a secretary, dare to kill a general with only 500 cavalry without an imperial edict?
He could only command tens of thousands of troops, but he was able to fight with the superior force, and finally defeated more than 100,000 enemy troops in one fell swoop? In the Battle of Tongzhou, Emperor Taizu gathered hundreds of thousands of Qi troops in Guanzhong, but he did not send any additional reinforcements to this man who only had tens of thousands of troops.
More than a dozen letters asking for help were sent with almost the same contents as those sent by the predecessor who was killed by him and was forced to rebel when he was in trouble on the battlefield in Tongzhou, but it was like nothing happened. The only difference is that the letter for help sent by his predecessor was withheld by Meng Kai, who was in control of Da Qi's military at the time.
But his more than ten letters asking for help were directly ignored by Emperor Taizu. Until the end of the Tongzhou War, North Korea and China not only sent no reinforcements, but even only 60% of the food and grass that should be provided. The Battle of Tongzhou was completely carried out and won by him, and even luck accounted for a large part of it.
If this man hadn't collected folk copper coins to cast cannons, the sound of the cannons would have frightened the former Tang cavalry, especially the cavalry horses participating in the battle. Once the battle started, they would have fled in all directions, and even overwhelmed the infantry behind them. This caused the infantry behind to fall into a situation of chaos without fighting.
The infantry of each vassal town are also afraid of this big guy who has a loud sound, can penetrate dozens of miles, and can hit either a large amount of iron sand or an iron ball as big as the mouth of a bowl hundreds of steps, and anyone who hits it will be killed on the spot. Not only were the armies afraid to move forward, but they were attacked by their own cavalry and fell into chaos. The outcome of the Tongzhou battle was really hard to say.
In the Battle of Chenzhou, the most critical battle in the Qi Dynasty's determination of the world, he led tens of thousands of people to fight in the river and became famous. They have been promoted to the first-class elite in the Qi army. direct descendants. They were all left in Guanzhong in the name of defending the capital by Emperor Taizu.
The only ones who were ordered to command were the remaining defeated generals from the former Henan territory who had been defeated by the various ministries during the former Tang's counterattack. There will be less than a hundred generals and no more than tens of thousands of remnant troops whose morale is in disarray. But even relying on these tens of thousands of remnant troops, of which the cavalry only had 30% strength, they were still able to win a great victory with a small number and a large number.
Even if the prince personally held the battle for the supervisory army and planned the supply of food and wages, the battle would still be full of dangers. However, despite the dangers, the former Tang Dynasty's last main force in Guandong was finally defeated. It can be seen that in terms of marching and combat, he was definitely the first-class talent among the Qi army at that time.
But how could such a talent be used by Taizu? You know, in the Battle of Chenzhou, the role played by Emperor Taizu was not too glorious. Although this book has tried its best to whitewash Taizu, Huang Qiong still saw some clues. Some of the actions of Emperor Taizu during the Battle of Chenzhou can be described as quite unorthodox.
Not to mention the secret constraints, and sometimes even behind the scenes. The supply of food and pay to Chenzhou's army was intermittent. While Hedong Zhishang had his troops piling up mountains of food, food shortages occurred on the Chenzhou front from time to time. Even the army could only survive on porridge every day for a long period of time.
During the fierce battle on the Chenzhou battlefield, Meng Kai led 30,000 cavalry and 110,000 infantry troops out of Tongguan. Although they were close at hand, they never sent a single soldier to support them. What he did was not like he was here to support, but more like he was here to supervise the battle. He threatened that those in Chenzhou's army who appeared in Tongguan without the imperial edict would be killed regardless of their official position, which further confirmed this point.
At this time, the prince was also supervising the army in Chenzhou. Without the order of Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizu's number one confidant in the army would not dare to do this no matter what. If the prince who was in charge of the army at that time had not given full support and coordinated the mobilization of food and salary support from everywhere, that key battle might have ended in a complete defeat of the Qi army.
Such a general who is capable of fighting, can even be said to be able to run the army when mounted, and manage the people when dismounted, facing a boss like Emperor Taizu who doubts everything, and can even be said to be quite unreasonable, He actually didn’t rebel and proclaimed himself king? This was almost unimaginable in the late Tang Dynasty when chaos was already spreading.
The most important thing is that before the battle of Chenzhou, the defeated and remnant soldiers who were temporarily gathered together were reorganized into a tiger and wolf division in a short time. The prince's food and salary support alone was simply not enough. Without the prestige accumulated in the army in the Tongzhou War, and without a complete set of military management skills, how can one defeat more with less? It would be good to be able to hold on to Tongguan without losing anything.
To put it bluntly, if the King of Guilin at that time had brought his troops and horses that had been gathered up and reorganized, he would take advantage of the opportunity of the former Tang Dynasty to gather most of the main forces in Guandong in Henan to get out of the way of the line from Chenzhou to Luoyang. Ignoring the enemy in Shandong, he led his troops to invade the Huaihe River and sweep across the south of the Yangtze River.
With its ability to command roundabout operations and rapid cavalry assaults, it may be an exaggeration to say that it conquered the entire world. But there is no problem in separatist rule, or even across the river. You must know that among the defeated soldiers he gathered before, there are almost no direct descendants of Taizu. Even the Battle of Henan was defeated, and there were many people who were disappointed with Emperor Taizu.
If he is really determined to get out of the way of Chenzhou, no one will probably stop him. So what if the prince was supervising the battle in the army at that time? Not to mention that the prince only has a thousand guards in the army. Even if there are more, how can he be the opponent of an army of 50,000? If he was determined to rebel, no one could stop him at that time.
If he really gave way to the frontal battlefield, Meng Kai, who was sent by Taizu to supervise the battle behind him, would be the first to bear the brunt. And with this Sora's brute strength, he would only fight hard on the battlefield. Moreover, he was extremely selfish, and would frequently deprive his direct subordinates of food and grass, and would even use the Zuo Army envoys to eliminate dissidents, resulting in consecutive defeats in the Guanzhong battlefield.
It is estimated that the last elite of his more than 100,000 Daqi in Guanzhong are very likely to be ruined in his hands. And once the army of more than 100,000, which was Emperor Taizu's last capital, was defeated, Tongguan would definitely not be able to hold it. If Tongguan cannot be defended, I am afraid that Emperor Taizu will return to his old business and become a rogue.
