This year, the Taiwan Administration has no plans to go on a patrol, and the newly developed Handong and other places also need strong officials to guard it. So after drinking the wedding banquet of his second brother Li Chao, Li Tai was about to return to Jingzhou to take charge.
However, before leaving, he still needs to have in-depth and specific communication with the Taiwan Prefecture on personnel issues of the Jingzhou General Administration Office to ensure that they can maintain a certain degree of trust and tacit understanding between them.
Yuwen Tai was waiting for Li Tai in the Taiwan Mansion early in the morning, and postponed all other matters for the time being. He specifically discussed personnel affairs in Jingzhou with Li Tai. Several senior officials from the Taiwan Mansion also participated, which shows that the Taiwan Mansion attaches importance to the situation in the southeast.
After Li Tai arrived at the Taiwan Prefecture, there was no greeting between them. Yuwen Tai took the lead in bringing out a letter from Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling of Southern Liang, surrendering to the Western Wei Dynasty, and then said with a smile: “The royal family in the Liang Kingdom is always happy to come and submit, but Boshan only knows the deepest understanding of the situation in the southeast. As you see, does the court need to accept the surrender?”
Li Tai took the surrender letter with both hands and then read it carefully. He knew about this because the surrender book was submitted by the Jingzhou General Administration. Apart from the Jingzhou General Administration, the Taiwan Administration had no other way to contact the personnel affairs of Nanliang in the southeast.
However, in order to avoid suspicion, Li Tai did not open the letter privately to read it in advance, so today it was the first time he saw the content in the letter.
King Xiao Lun of Shaoling is the sixth son of Emperor Wu of Liang, and he is also a bastard. In the early days of Hou Jing’s rebellion, he was originally the chief general appointed by Emperor Wu of Liang, and commanded various troops including Liu Zhongli’s troops to suppress the rebellion. However, because he was scheduling and delaying the opportunity to fight, Hou Jing directly led his troops to cross the river and encircle Taicheng, and then a series of incredible farces occurred.
The reason why Hou Jing was able to grow in Jiangnan was closely related to the incompetence and indulgence of King Xiao Lun of Shaoling.
After Hou Jing captured Taicheng and entered the two palaces, all the soldiers of the king retreated, and Xiao Lun, a living treasure, fled to the Yu Cave of Kuaiji. However, as Hou Jing’s offensive against the Three Wu areas strengthened, Kuaiji became no longer safe. Xiao Lun continued to wander and entered Yingzhou, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River where Hou Jing’s offensive had not yet reached.
Xiao Lun’s letter of surrender was sent from Yingzhou. In the letter, he first criticized the King of Xiangdong who ignored Jiankang’s danger and instead acted as a blessing in Jiangling and harmed the descendants of the Southern Liang royal family. Then he also expressed a negative attitude towards Liang Wang Xiao’s behavior of accepting the title of the Western Wei Dynasty without authorization and attracting the Wei army to attack his uncle.
In short, in the first half of this letter, the derogatory demeanor of Xiao Yi and Xiao Xu, the uncle and nephew, appeared between the lines, and repeatedly stated that they were not qualified to engage in and interact with the Western Wei Dynasty alone.
Next, Xiao Lun changed his mind and said that except for Xiao Gang, the puppet emperor in Jiankang City, who was supported by Hou Jing, he was already NanliangThe oldest among the royal family, so even if they want to surrender to the Western Wei Dynasty, they have to be the elder brother!
At present, the Western Wei still had to win over Liang King Xiao Xu and Xiangdong King Xiao Yi to negotiate with Xiangdong King Xiao Yi. In fact, as long as Xiao Lun accepts Xiao Lun’s surrender, these two guys will be handled by Xiao Lun.
The conditions proposed by Xiao Lun were also very simple. He only temporarily lived in the Han East, which was obtained by the Western Wei before the loan, as the base camp for counterattacking Jiankang and quelling Hou Jing’s rebellion. He also hoped that Li Tai, as the general manager of Jingzhou, could personally lead his troops to help him quell the rebellion.
In this way, after the Hou Jing rebellion was quenched, all the land north of Jiangling could be cedeed to the Western Wei, including Shouyang, Hefei and other places that Li Tai once occupied but gave up.
After reading this surrender letter, Li Tai couldn’t help laughing happily and said without hesitation: “The Liang family’s imperial family is a bit evil, and King Shaoling is the best among them. He was not successful enough but failed. Seeing that his power was not all, he still talked a lot, which shows that he was not focused on pragmatic things.”
After hearing this, Changsun Jian next to him nodded and said, “I know people when I read books. King Shaoling is indeed absurd. Even if he works with him, it may be difficult to achieve success. However, whether the Liang family will succeed or not is not within the plan of the Taiwan Prefecture. If this member can be introduced to fight with his zodiac zodiac, it will be beneficial or harmful to further enforce the Jiang Han.”
Hearing Changsun Jian say this, some other members of the Taiwan Prefecture expressed their opinions one after another, and even the big Taiwan Prefecture showed their approval.
Previously, there had been some discussion on this in Taiwan. Although the person Shaoling King seemed a little out of touch, if the starting point was to further disrupt the situation between Jiang and Han, it would be okay to accept the person to surrender.
In this way, the three Xiaoliang royal families in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River were controlled by the Western Wei Bafu to varying degrees, and the operating space was undoubtedly greatly increased. When they fight each other and lose both sides and lose the hearts of the people, the Ba Mansion will come forward to clean up the mess, and they can take the land of Jianghan in one fell swoop.
“It is absolutely impossible for the Taiwan government to accept Xiao Lun’s surrender. But if you say that you are giving various benefits, it is not necessary. Especially if you lend it to the East of Han as a temporary place to live, it is absolutely unnecessary. It is best to strictly order the person not to cross the border. If you violate it, you will be enemies and fight him hard!”
The people of the Taiwan government gradually became a little wild because they saw that the southeast was developing smoothly, and Li Tai could also understand this. But if Li Tai absolutely cannot agree to this point if he does not cherish the results because they are too simple, and even if he has to invest the previous results as cost without clear plans and ideas.
In history, Xiao Lun also wandered to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, but because of his difficulties, he surrendered to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi. He accepted the enthronement of Northern Qi and became King Liang. He colluded with Northern Qi to invade the Han East, which had been occupied by the Western Wei. As a result, he lost money under the suppression of all parties.Teng Yitong also achieved nothing, and was eventually defeated and killed by Yang Zhong, ending his ridiculous life.
In the current time and space, probably because Li Tai defeated Murong Shaozong in Huainan before, Xiao Lun felt that the Western Wei could invest more in the Jianghan area than the Eastern Wei, and coupled with the turmoil and uneasy level of the Eastern Wei, he chose to surrender to the Western Wei. But he seemed to feel too good about himself. Not only did he want to borrow money to accommodate him, but he even wanted Li Tai to cooperate with him. It was really inexplicable!
Although Xiao Lun’s personal ability is almost nothing, his ability to harm the country and the people cannot be underestimated. Li Tai had no way to imagine how much restraining the people in the east of Han would have to borrow Handong or other aspects if he temporarily borrowed Handong. Not to mention the harm to the people’s livelihood in Jiangling or other aspects, it would be terrible.