And Li Hongyun also shouted at the right time: "I am the King of Qi!"

Taunt effect doubled.

As expected, Dou Jiande's cavalry came out to pursue them, but naturally the King of Qin and King Qi flew kites together. Yuchi Jingde held on to his hatred and led Dou Jiande's cavalry to the place of ambush, killing the opponent and defeating them.

The King of Qin couldn't help laughing, and said to Yuchi Jingde: "My two brothers lost their bows, and the Duke followed each other with his spear. Although millions of people can do nothing to me!"

Li Hongyun said excitedly: King Qin is right!

After more than twenty days of confrontation, the King of Qin once again attacked according to the original historical trajectory. In the first battle, he directly penetrated Dou Jiande's Chinese army camp and captured him.

In the Battle of Hulao Pass, two kings were captured in one battle again. Both the King of Qin and the King of Qi were greatly rewarded for their military merits.

However, Li Hongyun was not satisfied with this. He went to Liang Gaozu and asked him to guard Hebei.

This request was exactly what Liang Gaozu wanted.

The prince was in Chang'an and could not move. After the King of Qin captured the two kings in a battle, he was already a general with no title. Liang Gaozu was already more inclined to let him stay in Chang'an.

On the one hand, it told him not to make any more military exploits, and to distribute the final military exploits to the prince and others to pick peaches. On the other hand, it also ensured that if there was a rebellion anywhere, the King of Qin could immediately put down the King of Qin with Tiger Balm.

Since the King of Qi also performed well in previous wars, it was logical to guard Qi and Hebei.

After waiting in Hebei, Li Hongyun first found Liu Heitai, who had returned home to work in farming. He treated him with great respect, promised him a high official and a generous salary, and a brand-new pie he had just painted, and hugged him tightly.

This thigh.

When Dou Jiande lost the battle, Liu Heitai was still not well-known, so he didn't expect Liang Jun to discover and reuse him, so he went back to farming.

Now that the King of Qi was treating him with such courtesy, Liu Heita was immediately flattered and willing to serve him.

According to the original historical line of development, the Liang Dynasty's Hebei land policy had big problems.

Dou Jiande was already very popular in Hebei, and Hebei was extremely powerful. After King Qin defeated Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande's army was only scattered. It was impossible for King Qin to kill all these people, so he could only let them go.

go back.

And Liang Gaozu was very devoid of political acumen and immediately executed Dou Jiande in the downtown area, and forcibly summoned Dou Jiande's old generals to Chang'an. As a result, everyone in Dou Jiande's old tribe in Hebei was in danger, thinking that Liang Gaozu was going to kill them, so he recommended Liu Heitai.

Raise an army to resist.

Li Hongyun opened his God's perspective and naturally knew how to deal with this situation.

First, he went to Liang Gaozu and asked him to have the right to engage in land in Hebei at an advantageous rate. Liang Gaozu agreed.

Liang Gaozu had always had great trust in these sons, even to the point of blind faith.

Before taking Luoyang, Liang Gaozu had promised the King of Qin that he could make his own decisions on all matters in Luoyang.

Although he later regretted it and asked the concubine to go to the treasury to choose the treasure, the general style of his behavior can be roughly determined.

What's more, Hebei is different from Luoyang.

Luoyang was prosperous and prosperous, and those in the palace were all looking to get a share of the pie. However, the land of Hebei was relatively bitter, and there were not many valuable things. No matter Liang Gaozu, the prince or the concubines, they basically had no interest in this place.

Interested, not much attention at all.

It is precisely for this reason that Liu Heitao's rebellion went so smoothly.

Li Hongyun drained the firepower and found Liu Heitai before Dou Jiande's old subordinates, and roped him into his subordinates. Then he used both kindness and power to recruit Dou Jiande's old subordinates, promising high-ranking officials and generous salaries, and disintegrating them. He also decisively dealt with Fan Yuan and others who planned to take the lead in rebellion.

Attack and eradicate the roots.

When Liu Heitai first raised his army, there were only a few hundred people. Later, it snowballed and grew into an army of tens of thousands again.

Li Hongyun eliminated the hidden danger in time and recruited Dou Jiande's old troops as much as possible. Therefore, in history, all the credit for the crown prince's victory in Hebei was attributed to him.

Not only that, Dou Jiande's old subordinates also discovered that they had no other choice but to bet on King Qi.

They had been forced to rebel before, but they rebelled after they saw Liang Gaozu killing Dou Jiande and looking like he was going to kill them all.

But now that the King of Qi has sent them to Shu, they do not need to go to Chang'an, but can listen to orders under his own account. He does not hesitate to treasure, property and official positions and makes sincere friends with these surrendered generals, so most of them are down-to-earth.

He stayed under the command of King Qi.

However, in order to recruit talents from Hebei, Li Hongyun also missed something.

Starting from the fifth year of Wude, the Turks found that all the forces they supported were destroyed by the Liang Dynasty, so they began to move south frequently.

Originally, in history, the King of Qi and the King of Qin should have gone to deal with the Turks together, especially in Wulongban in the seventh year of Wude. If Li Hongyun had played the role of King Qi, there would have been another chance to follow the King of Qin and pretend to be a wave.

But at this time, he was still developing his own power in Hebei, so naturally he could not appear on the battlefield against the Turks.

It was not until the eighth year of Wude that Li Hongyun went to Liang Gaozu and asked to return to Chang'an from Hebei.

Liang Gaozu readily agreed.

The subsequent plot begins to develop towards the planned Xuanwumen Incident.

It is inevitable that the conflict between the prince and the King of Qin will continue to intensify. After all, both of them have demands for the throne.

It was inevitable that Liang Gaozu continued to favor the prince and began to weaken the power of King Qin.

The only difference is that King Qi's power has been significantly improved compared to before.

Whoever King Qi helps will most likely win.

At this time, Li Hongyun was actually very conflicted, because from his own heart, he wanted to be on the side of King Qin.

When Jinyang was besieged, it was the King of Qin who did not eat for two days and did not take off his armor for three days to chase and kill Song Jingang to save him. It was also the King of Qin who led the reconnaissance team with him to shoot Dou Jiande's cavalry in the battle of Hulao Pass.

In the process of conquering the South and the North, the King of Qin was his staunch comrade-in-arms, but what about the Crown Prince and Liang Gaozu?

Not familiar.

For Li Hongyun, it actually doesn't matter who becomes the emperor, but if he helps the prince to kill King Qin at this time, then the prince will probably kill him next.

The King of Qin had outstanding military exploits and was superior to his master, so now you, the King of Qi, have no military exploits?

Back then, you could follow King Qin and fight with him fiercely. Now that the prince has killed King Qin, how can he let you go?

And what if you help King Qin?

Launch the Xuanwu Gate Incident and kill the prince and Liang Gaozu. Then the King of Qin will rule the world, but he, the King of Qi, can sit back and relax.

Because the King of Qin himself is the most capable person, no matter who has troops outside, the King of Qin will not be afraid.

Therefore, King Qin will not be suspicious of him.

By then, whether Li Hongyun wants to eat, drink and have fun with the maids in the mansion every day and be a heartless royal clan member, or whether he wants to sit on one side and hold an important position in the court, it should be no problem.

There is a gap in ability between the prince and King Qin, as well as a gap in ambition, so from a hindsight perspective, helping King Qin is the only correct choice, and it is also the choice that Li Hongyun wants most subjectively.

It's a pity that the mission goal of each stage is to kill King Qin during the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

Li Hongyun had no choice but to choose to side with the prince.

As a result, the strength of the prince and King Qi expanded rapidly.

If history develops as before, then they will have a great advantage.

But what surprised Li Hongyun was that history had changed. This change did not come from King Qin, but from Liang Gaozu.

According to the original history, the prince actually made two very serious troubles: once, he asked the border army to send 500 cavalry, which was a serious crime in colluding with the border generals; the other time, he sent armor to Yang Wenqian, and Yang Wenqian also rebelled.

In history, Liang Gaozu only scolded him and gave him wheat rice, but there was no further punishment.

Not to mention deposing the crown prince, he didn't even take away much of his power.

This time, the prince still did these two things, but the situation changed.

Liang Gaozu was furious and punished many officials in the prince's palace, demoted them, or asked them to leave Chang'an and take up posts in local areas. At the same time, he also dismantled the prince's East Palace Guards and punished the generals who had colluded with the prince.

As for Li Hongyun, the Prince of Qi, because he was close to the prince, he was also implicated at this time, and the power of the Prince of Qi's Palace was dismantled and weakened.

"That's unreasonable!"

Li Hongyun was very angry, but after thinking about it carefully, he came to his senses.

There was nothing wrong with Liang Gaozu's behavior and it was very consistent with his character.

Liang Gaozu's character has never been partial to the prince, if he likes to strike a balance between his sons.

The King of Qin is too strong, so we should target the King of Qin and try to deflect the prince's side.

But at this time, the Crown Prince and the King of Qi united, and their power had obviously surpassed the King of Qin. So Liang Gaozu naturally wanted to weaken the power of the Crown Prince and the King of Qi, and support the King of Qin.

In the final analysis, Liang Gaozu's first request was to let his sons live in peace so that he could sit on the throne for a few more years.

After being forcibly balanced by Liang Gaozu, Li Hongyun was very unhappy, but there was nothing he could do.

After regrouping, Li Hongyun once again began to plan the Xuanwu Gate change.

He patiently waited for the "Taibai Jingtian" incident to occur.

This time is easy to calculate. As soon as the Taibai Jingtian incident comes out and the Taishi order reads "The King of Qin should rule the world", the King of Qin will go to the palace to report that the prince has an affair with the concubine in the harem. Liang Gaozu summons the prince and King Qi to the palace the next morning

Confrontation.

And when that time comes, it's time to take action.

Li Hongyun had already made up his mind. On that day, he and the prince would bring all the private soldiers, wear armor and stomach, and enter the Xuanwu Gate, and then directly have a head-on battle with the King of Qin.

At this time, although the power of the Crown Prince and King Qi was somewhat weakened, there were still 3,000 people.
To be continued...