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Chapter 539: Strikingly Similar History

If he behaves honestly and is an excellent crown prince, it won't be too difficult for him to take over the throne smoothly.

But it was too difficult to complete the potential transfer of power under the nose of such a fierce man, and finally force Li Shimin to abdicate with the general trend. Even if he gave the throne to his own prince and became the emperor himself, it was impossible.

Since ancient times, no emperor emeritus has been willing to be one, except for Qianlong. Even in that case, he was the emperor in name only, which was a promotion for Yongyan. He was the emperor in name only, but still the crown prince in reality.

If Li Shimin were to take the initiative to become the emperor, unless he could produce the elixir of immortality, there might be a chance of exchange. But he himself didn't even have that, so how could he get it?
Therefore, the difficulty of this mission is equivalent to that of hell. No wonder the system is so generous and the reward points are so high, which is equivalent to the accumulation of three Infernal Affairs!

Thinking of trying to shake such a high mountain, Li Yan felt a surge of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart and sighed deeply.

Now Li Yanlue regretted that in order to maintain normality in the last world, he exchanged his clone in advance and stayed in the world of Infernal Affairs.

If I had a clone now, perhaps I could start a new business, gather a group of forces, cooperate internally and externally, complete a new coup, and repeat the story of Xuanwu Gate.

But as Li Chengqian, he was in the position of crown prince, under the watchful eyes of the public. Even when he went to the toilet, someone would watch him. His words and deeds, every move, even when he met with a minister and said something, would all be recorded and sent to Li Er for review. In this situation, how could he do anything?

Forget it, let's take it one step at a time, luckily we still have more than 20 years.
The second task was actually also very difficult, but compared to the first task, it was a lot easier. Li Shimin defeated Jie Li of the northern Turks and moved the Hu people inland, which indirectly led to the rebellion of Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty.

After the Yongjia Rebellion, China was invaded by the Five Barbarians for three hundred years.

Li Shimin's migration of the Hu people also caused the An-Shi Rebellion, which was followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which lasted for another 300 years.

History is always surprisingly consistent, as if it were carved from the same mold.

No wonder there is a famous saying on the Internet that the only lesson history has left for the world is that people do not learn from history.
Li Yan felt a headache when he thought of this. But when he saw the third task, he felt much better. Relatively speaking, this was the easiest one. Although the points were few, it finally gave him some comfort. Ankang had always loved Yikuan, but after being forced to marry Dugumou, she lived an unhappy life, always thinking of her first love.

If I give it a push when the time comes, maybe I can complete the task.

The most important thing is that the system actually brought out a special task. In order to prevent me from not taking it seriously, the system even made a special reminder, indicating that the reward might be very special, so that I would not miss the opportunity.

The system did not give any special prompts about the avatar and the true eye in the previous world, which shows that the reward for this special task may be really extraordinary.

But Li Yan was not blindly happy. He knew that responsibility and reward were proportional. The greater the reward, the more difficult the task. Whether it was to extend the life of the dynasty or to prevent the emergence of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

These are all extremely difficult problems, and many amazing emperors and generals have racked their brains but still failed to solve them.

What can I, a mortal man, do?
Moreover, the first three tasks were more or less practical, but the special task actually required me to solve a problem two or three hundred years later. How could this be possible? If I really wanted to solve a problem at the end of the Tang Dynasty, could I put myself in that era?
If that really happened, Li Yan would not be afraid. At most, he could rely on his own abilities to conquer the country again, and then he could solve future problems in the early Tang Dynasty. Li Yan thought he could not do it.

Even if he obtained a ray of imperial energy and could live for a hundred years, he wouldn't be able to live until the end of the Tang Dynasty, right?

Besides, he couldn't spend his whole life in the Tang Dynasty, although this trace of imperial aura could prolong the dynasty's national destiny for a hundred years. But the Tang Dynasty was obviously a dynasty with problems from the root, otherwise it wouldn't have gone wrong in the second generation of Li Shimin, and the third generation was even more outrageous, with such a huge country being stolen by a woman.

If all the children born to Wu Zetian were not from the Li family, the Li Dynasty would have been a short-lived dynasty like the Sui Dynasty. This shows that its foundation was extremely unstable.

how to say?

Li Yan privately felt that the Tang Dynasty was somewhat impure and too chaotic. It embraced countless ethnic groups in the north and the western regions but failed to assimilate these ethnic groups with various cultures. As a result, it ran into chaos and broke up, which was similar to the problem faced by Qin Shihuang.

This special task was obviously intended for him to continue Qin Shihuang's task and complete this historical mission.

But Li Yan knew that he was not cut out for this.
After thinking hard for a while, Li Yan sighed dejectedly and decided to complete the three tasks of the system so that he could go home early.

If you come, then make the best of it!
Li Yan was an optimist by nature. After sorting out his thoughts and figuring out his mission and task time in this world, he was no longer anxious and felt relieved. As the carriage swayed, he slowly fell asleep.

Two hundred kilometers can be reached in a flash in modern times, but in ancient times, even if the official road was smooth, it would take a whole day to walk there. Even if you traveled overnight, you would have to wait until the next morning to arrive.

So Li Yan had plenty of time. There was a mattress in the small cabinet under the carriage. Li Yan spread out the mattress at night and lay down in the carriage to sleep.

The Liang State established by Liang Shidu was entrenched in the northern areas of Shuofang and Honghua. They colluded with the Turks in the northern grasslands to threaten the new Li Tang regime. Although Luo Yi was the commander-in-chief of the Jingzhou Army, he had 50,000 troops stationed on the north bank of the Jing River to defend the Liang State's passage to the south.

After Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate Incident, Luo Yi quickly plundered food and grass, and with the help of 30,000 local young men, he claimed to have 80,000 troops, and rushed to Chang'an under the banner of revenge for Li Jiancheng, but in fact he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to plot something. However, he did not expect that the northern Turkic cavalry would rob the food and grass camp in Huating. In panic, Luo Yi's army retreated and prepared to act according to the situation.

At this time, Luo Yi's 80,000-strong army was stationed in the southeast of Anding City, the seat of Jingzhou, about 200 kilometers northwest of Chang'an City. With the support of the long-established Anding City Old Suppression Army, they were eyeing Chang'an City covetously.

He wanted to wait for Li Shimin and Jie Li to fight each other, until both were defeated, and then he would take advantage of the situation and finally steal the treasure.

In fact, Luo Yi served as the governor of Youzhou for a long time during the reign of Emperor Yang, and had a deep foundation in that place far away from the Central Plains. While Emperor Yang was conquering Goguryeo, Luo Yi obtained a large amount of military equipment, food and supplies in Youzhou, which served as a logistics base. He quickly grew and became stronger, and he looked towards the Central Plains from the north and south.

However, he was ambitious but incompetent, and lacked the courage to do so. He relied on flattering Emperor Yang of Sui and using Dou Jiande to kill Xue Shixiong of Zhuo County to gain Youzhou. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the whole country was in chaos. For such a long time, Dou Jiande could not even deal with the natives of Hebei, and he had been hiding in Youzhou.

In the third year of Wude, seeing that the Tang Dynasty was about to conquer the world, Luo Yi had no choice but to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. However, he did not choose Li Shimin, who was good at fighting and had strong military skills. Instead, he chose Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, who was mainly responsible for governing the country and lacked military talents, in order to seize the military power and wait for an opportunity to plan a retreat.

Although Li Jiancheng accepted Luo Yi, Li Yuan was not a fool. He first transferred Luo Yi to Yizhou in the south to serve as the commander of the Tianjie Army. Later, under Luo Yi's painstaking planning, he bribed Li Jiancheng and wanted to transfer him back to Hebei, but failed.

In order to restrain his second brother Li Shimin, who was too powerful to be controlled, Li Jiancheng transferred him back to the interior to defend Liang Shidu and the Turks in the north.

So this time, taking advantage of the internal strife in the Tang Dynasty, Luo Yi raised the banner of the Yan-Liao Army. On the surface, he was hinting at the Tang regime and that he only wanted to return to the land of Yan-Liao to be a local emperor. In fact, he was treacherous and wanted Li Tang to think that he had no ambitions, so that he could fight the Turks without any worries. In the end, both sides would suffer losses, and he would get the benefit of the fisherman.

At the very least, they can return to the Yan-Liao split, which is a good plan.

In Li Yan's opinion, Luo Yi is very similar to Yuan Shao of the Three Kingdoms period. He looks fierce but is timid, is good at making plans but lacks decision-making, is cautious when doing big things, and forgets his life when seeing small gains.

He is even worse than Yuan Shao, who at least unified the area north of the Yellow River.

Among the many rebel kings who rose up in the end of the Sui Dynasty, Luo Yi was not even very prominent. In the name of respecting the Sui Dynasty, he neither supported Yang Guang nor started a rebellion. He hesitated and hesitated from the ninth year of the Sui Dynasty to the third year of the Tang Dynasty.

During the turbulent times of the past decade, many heroes emerged and fought for supremacy, but this old man only did one thing, which was to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers.

Occupying such a good terrain and guarding so many supplies, they watched helplessly as Li Tang devoured the rebel kings one by one until Li Tang was able to unify the world, and they just stood by and watched.

If you don't pay attention, you wouldn't be able to tell that Boss Luo once had great ambitions.

Such people will ultimately be just a small wave in history, rising and falling, and disappearing in the long river of history.

Near noon the next day, Chang Sheng and Li Yan drove their carriage leisurely to the gate of Luo Yi's army camp outside Anding City.

The huge camp seemed endless as far as the eye could see.

When the carriage reached the gate of the camp, it was stopped. Chang Sheng went up to report the reason. The gatekeeper looked at the two people, and one of them went in to report. After about an incense stick of time, someone came to the gate to greet them.

Moreover, it was only a lieutenant-level officer who brought a few soldiers to pick up the two people at the camp gate. The implication of neglect was very strong. Chang Sheng was insulted by this and said to Li Yan angrily: "Your Highness, Luo Yi and his colleagues are clearly deliberately ignoring us."

"Xiao Shengzi, don't be angry. I am not here as a guest today. It is normal for a hostage to be treated coldly. If it is really just like this, it is already pretty good."

Li Yan smiled and shook his head. What's the point now?

Luo Yi prepared a show of strength for himself in the central army commander's tent. This is just the beginning.
Chang Sheng looked at Li Yan, who looked normal, and felt a little confused. It could be said that he had accompanied Li Yan in Zhongshan County for four years, which was also the most important stage in Li Yan's growth. He knew Li Chengqian's character best.

This young prince was cowardly and easily influenced, but he had a kind heart. During his four years in Zhongshan County, he had never killed anyone, let alone a chicken.

When encountering such a thing, you should be filled with fear and panic and shrink back.

But today's Li Chengqian was completely different from the little prince in his impression. Since he entered the palace yesterday at noon, he seemed like a different person.

Yesterday, apart from buying a lot of food when passing through the market, he didn't cause any trouble and slept quietly in the car all the way. Now that he has arrived at Luo Yi's camp, he is calm and talks freely, and even advises him not to worry. Is this the Zhongshan County King he is familiar with?

With some doubts, Li Yan and Chang Sheng were driven off the carriage and walked along the main road in the camp towards Luo Yi's central military tent.

(End of this chapter)