Chapter 172 Wagon's Fatal Rift
Speaking of Zhai Rang, the founder of the Wagang Army, the murder of Li Mi, is a case, and there are many different opinions within Wagang.
The Wagang Army was originally the most powerful uprising army, and it was wise for Zhai Rang to give up the position of commander to Li Mi.
Li Mi came from a famous family and was familiar with military and historical books since childhood. His talent in leading troops to fight was far higher than that of Zhai Rang.
Zhai Rang had a broad mind and was willing to be Li Mi's assistant. If the two of them worked together, they would be able to defeat the main force of the Sui army, but some of his subordinates were dissatisfied and expressed their dissatisfaction with Zhai Rang's abdication in front of Zhai Rang many times.
A close friend advised Zhai Rang to serve as the Prime Minister of the Ottoku and take charge of the public affairs, and underestimate Li Mi, but Zhai Rang did not accept his opinion.
Zhai Rang's brother Zhai Hong is a rough man and has good fame and fortune.
He said to Zhai Rang: "Brother, you have made the greatest contribution in the Wagang army. If you want to be the emperor, how can you give it to others?"
After hearing this, Zhai Rang burst into laughter and didn't take it seriously; but the matter was learned by Li Mian's confidant who was stuck by Zhai Rang and told Li Mi.
When Li Mi heard about it, she was very annoyed and decided to get rid of Zhai Rang.
Although Zhai Rang has many advantages, he is still a human nature and has many shortcomings, such as good property and reckless personality.
But what is really fatal is not these shortcomings, but his power. As long as Zhai Rang raises his arms in the Wagang army, Li Mi's power may be taken back by him at any time.
At that time, Cui Shishu, an official from the Sui Dynasty, came to join Li Mi, but was arrested and locked up by Zhai Rang.
Zhai Rang’s request is very simple: give all your gold, silver, and soft materials to the Wagang Army.
Another time, Zhai Rang invited the Marshal's Office to the Marshal's Office (actually Li Mi's secretary) Xing Yiqi, and Xing Yiqi was punished by Zhai Rang because he went too late.
The Zuo Changshi (Li Mi's secretary-general) Fang Yanzao was once scolded by Zhai Rang, and he kept a grudge and said a lot of bad things about Zhai Rang in front of Li Mi.
He deceived Li Mi and said, "Zhai Situ blamed me and said, "The last time you broke Runan, you got a lot of gold, silver and treasures to the subordinates of Duke Wei (Li Mi), and don't give them to my subordinates at all. You must know that Duke Wei was established by me, but I don't know what will happen in the future." Fang Yanzao added another sentence: "Zhai Rang is stubborn and greedy, and he should do it early if he has the heart of a king." Li Mi was furious, so he made up his mind to get rid of Zhai Rang. He had a plan and set up a "Hongmen Banquet" for Zhai Rang.
Zhai Rang was invited to take his brother Zhai Hong and nephew Zhai Mohou to Li Mi's residence to attend the banquet.
Li Mi drank with Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong, Pei Renji, Hao Xiaode, Cai Jiande and others.
Zhai Rang's confidant - tiger general Shan Xiongxin, general Xu Shiji and others stood behind to protect him, Fang Yanzao and Zheng Yong patrol back and forth.
It turned out that Zhai Rang had a premonition that Li Mi might plot against him and invited loyal generals such as Shan Xiongxin to the banquet in advance.
Li Mi said: "I don't need so many people to drink with Zhai Situ and several high-ranking officials, just leave a few people to call."
Li Mi's confidants all left, only Li Mi's confidant Cai Jiande stood by with a knife.
He was instructed by Li Mi to kill Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong and others while they were unprepared.
Zhai Rang's confidants were still there. Fang Yanzao advised them: "Everyone is together to drink and have fun. It's so cold that Situ's entourage (Zhai Rang's official title) can also drink some wine and have some food."
Li Mi said: "After everything is arranged by Situ."
Zhai Rang chose to trust Li Mi, thinking that he would not assassinate him, so he said without hesitation: "Okay."
All the followers went out to drink and eat.
Before the banquet began, Li Mi took out a good bow for Zhai Rang to show.
Zhai Rang took the bow and just pulled it all over. Cai Jiande slashed him from behind Zhai Rang, and Zhai Rang fell in pain in pools of blood.
Then, Zhai Hong, Zhai Mohou and Wang Ruxin were all killed.
Xu Maogong wanted to run away, but was cut off by the soldiers guarding the gate. Fortunately, Wang Bodang stopped him in time.
Shan Xiongxin knelt down and kowtowed, begging, but Li Mi did not kill him.
Zhai Rang's other subordinates were shocked and didn't know what to do.
At this time, Li Mi used his eloquence to exterminate the rebel army with you, saying: "I am launching a rebel army with you to eliminate violence and safeguard the good. Situ was arbitrary, greedy and tyrannical, humiliated his colleagues, and was rude to his superiors. He only killed his family, please do not interfere."
In order to appease Zhai Rang's subordinates, Li Mi asked someone to help Xu Maogong into his tent and bandage him his wounds.
When Li Mi heard that Zhai Rang's troops wanted to part, he asked Shan Xiongxin to visit him. Then Li Mi rode his horse into Zhai Rang's military camp alone to stabilize the morale of the army, and asked Xu Maogong, Shan Xiongxin and Wang Bodang to lead some of the troops that originally belonged to Zhai Rang, so the Wagang army restored stability.
But after this incident, Li Mi's generals began to feel suspicious and everyone was in danger, which led to a significant decline in the combat effectiveness of the Wagang Army.
This time, the last son of the Zhai family died, and Li Mi's great troubles finally disappeared.
But Li Mi didn't know that it was him who buried the great situation and ruined Wagang's career.
It's very simple. Li Mi only saw all the bad things that Zhai Rang brought to Wagang, but forgot that it was this person who brought Wagang.
Although many people rely on Li Mi now, Li Mi joined Wagang halfway, and many of his current subordinates are from aristocratic families.
The earliest group of people in Wagang all hated the aristocratic families.
In this way, Li Mi did not discover the root of the conflict within Wagang, but acted hastily and left many hidden dangers afterwards. Xu Maogong and Shan Xiongxin were his two biggest failures.
If you cut the grass and don’t eradicate the roots, these two people are not wood, so they will naturally find ways to protect themselves.
The reason why Zhai Guoliang was able to retain his own power in Wagang was because of Xu Maogong's sponsorship.
Moreover, Xu Maogong is a man of great scheming and deeply loved by Zhai Rang. He had already done a lot of effort, but Li Mi didn't notice it at all.
Yes, Li Mi may have known Xu Maogong's thoughts and small actions for a long time, but he doesn't care.
He is Duke of Wei, Li Mi, and the proudest man in the world.
He disdained to take action against Xu Maogong, who had escaped from his own hands, and naturally he did not like their actions.
Everything will be solved after conquering Luoyang!
With the fall of the three auxiliary guards in Chang'an, Feng Yi and Du City, the royal family and ministers in Chang'an City were in chaos, and Yang You remembered to go around.
"Prince!"
"Is there any news?"
"Prince! Now the whole city is in chaos. The whole city is saying that Li Yuan is the reincarnation of the Emperor Star. Many ministers are closed and there are even those who are secretly contacting Li Yuan."
"Go! Go and find the general of Yinshi Master." Seeing the eunuch still standing there.
Chapter completed!