Chapter 11 Section 3 dragging home into court

According to historical records, not only did Li Jipeng have no ambitions, but he did a very stupid thing not long after he inherited the post of Jiedushi, which directly led to Song Taizong's edict to take back the land of the Li family.So, what stupid thing did Li Jipeng do? Li Jipeng had only been a Jiedu envoy for more than a year, and he led a large family to pay homage to Song Taizong.Emperor Taizong was overjoyed. According to historical records: "Since the last world, there has never been a person who has had a personal audience." It is such a foreign feudal town.Moreover, Li Jipeng did not enter the court alone. The whole family came, including grandmother, mother, wife and children.Li Jipeng's grandmother Dugu presented the ancestral jade plate to Emperor Taizong. Emperor Taizong was even more happy. He built a mansion for Li Jipeng in the capital and rewarded him with countless gold and silver.Li Jipeng set a good example for the local Jiedushi, which is so rare.

Until one time, when the monarchs and ministers were chatting together, Taizong asked him why he had such a high level of awareness, Li Jipeng faltered and couldn't explain why.Under repeated questioning by the emperor, Li Jipeng had no choice but to tell the truth.The reason why I have such a high "consciousness" is because my uncle forced me to do so.Originally, when my father died, my brother succeeded, and I should succeed when my brother died, but the uncles refused to accept it and threw me out.One of my two uncles became the Jiedu envoy of Yinzhou and the other became the Jiedu envoy of Xiazhou. I had nowhere to go, so I had to enter the court.When the emperor heard it, it's a good sign, your Li family is rebelling, this is the best time to solve the separatist regime of the Pingxia Department once and for all.So Emperor Taizong hurriedly issued an imperial decree, ordering Li Jipeng's two uncles to also enter the court and learn from this nephew.You can see how well your nephew lives here. I built him a mansion in the capital. Do you know how much a house in the capital costs per square meter?He also rewarded him with gold, silver and jewels, high-ranking officials and generous salary, so that he no longer has to live the life of licking blood with the knife head, you all enter the court!At the same time, the soldiers of the imperial court suppressed the situation.Li Jipeng's two uncles were forced to enter the court.The emperor also allocated a house for them in the capital, but the old brothers were not as big-hearted as their nephews. After arriving in the capital, they soon died of depression.

Emperor Taizong once asked Li Jipeng, are you local people managing well?How do you manage it?Li Jipeng said truthfully: "The Qiang people are fierce, but they are only restrained, and they cannot be restrained!" ("Song History" volume 485). Policy, can't control it.Emperor Taizong didn't take it seriously when he heard it. If you can't control it, it doesn't mean that the court can't control it.Therefore, General Cao Guangshi was appointed as the patrol envoy of the four prefectures, and he led his army northward to take over the four prefectures occupied by the Li family for generations: Yinzhou (now Yulin, Shaanxi), Youzhou (now Jingbian, Shaanxi), Xiazhou (now Shaanxi Hengshan), Suizhou (now Suide, Shaanxi), there are also historical records as Wuzhou, and Jingzhou (now Mizhi, Shaanxi).The imperial court ordered Cao Guangshi to be the inspector to take over the territory of these four or five states.Most of the wealthy clans in the local Dangxiang were worried, but there were exceptions. Li Jiqian, the younger brother of Li Jipeng, was not only not disturbed, but took advantage of the situation to turn against him.