People all hope that their children will have courage and strategy, and they will be able to do something in the future, so people say: "Having children should be like Sun Zhongmou." "Sun Quan is a typical example of courage and strategy. However, there was a famous general in the Tang Dynasty, who saw that Sun Tzu had courage and strategy, and easily surrendered to the thief Kou, but said a puzzling sentence: "I never take such a risk to do things." Whoever breaks my house will be here! ”
This famous Tang Dynasty general was Li Ji. Li Ji's original name was Xu Shiji, the character Mao Gong. When he was seventeen years old, he saw the chaos in the world and wanted to create a career, so he threw himself into Wagangzhai and later surrendered to Tang with Li Mi. He followed Li Shimin to conquer the four directions, made great achievements, and was on a par with Li Jing. In order to reward him for his merits, Li Yuan gave him the surname li. Later, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, in order to avoid secrecy, he changed his name to Li Ji. Later, he was the elder of the Three Dynasties and was enfeoffed as a British duke.
Li Ji was born into the picture, and his merits were outstanding, and his son performed mediocrely. But his eldest son, Li Zhen, gave birth to two sons who were heroic, especially Li Jingye.
Li Jingye has been good at riding and shooting since childhood, and he is clever and clever. Because his father Li Zhen died early, he directly inherited the British dukedom of His grandfather Li Ji. But Li Jingye is not a person who dares to be a subordinate, and Li Ji has long seen this.
There was a state where the people were arrogant and bandits were rampant, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang appointed Li Jingye as an assassin and asked him to go and suppress the bandits. Thief Kou heard that the imperial court had sent Assassin Shi to deal with them, so he prepared for battle early. However, Li Jingye only took two officials and went to find the thief, frightening everyone below.
Xu Jingye went directly into the thief camp and said to the thieves, "I know that you are all victimized by corrupt officials, and you were forced to fall into the grass and commit no other crimes, you can now go back to farming, and if anyone leaves later, I will be the real thief." "Then he went to their leader and said why they hadn't surrendered sooner, and in order to punish them, after dozens of big boards had been beaten, they would let them go back."
Since then, the place has finally calmed down, and there are no cases of bandits blocking the road and robbing. It is said that this kind of bloodless strategy should be praised. However, after Li Ji heard about this incident, he was unusually worried, so he said the sentence at the beginning of this article.
I have to say that Li Ji looks at people very accurately. After Emperor Gaozong of Tang died and Wu Zetian came to power, he dealt with many officials who opposed him. Li Jingye was also among them, so he was dissatisfied, so he simply rebelled, and his younger brother also participated. Enraged, Wu Zetian took back their Li surname, and pursued Li Ji and his son's official titles, and even dug up Li Ji's tomb and cut down his coffin.
After Li Jingye rebelled, he was defeated in only three months. Xu Jingye and his brother were killed, and rebellion was a major crime of the Jiu clan, and the other descendants of the Xu family could not escape death.