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Above we talked about Li Mi setting up a feast at the Hongmen Gate and killing Zhai Rang, who had taken him in, and at this time Li Mi really had this kind of arrogance and self-confidence of giving up who he was.
Just after Li Yuan raised his troops, Li Mi wrote a letter to Li Yuan. The letter is very interesting, his tone is quite arrogant, in which he says that he hopes to work with Li Yuan, holding the baby in Xianyang and the merchant Xin in Makino. This letter meant that Li Mi had presented himself as Liu Bang and King Wu of Zhou, and he also hoped that Li Yuan would lead thousands of cavalry to this place in Hanoi County to make a pact with him face to face, this letter appeared that Li Mi was arrogant and arrogant, needless to say, the point was that Li Mi had already treated Li Yuan as his subordinate, so how did Li Yuan deal with this letter? After Li Yuan saw it, could he not be angry?
Li Yuan was certainly unhappy in his heart, but a person like Li Yuan who did big things had a great advantage, that is, he could endure, and he knew when to lose his temper and when not to. He smiled and said to the left and right that although Li Mi was arrogant and arrogant, he could not do a verbal dispute with him for a while, so it was better to reply to him with a humble tone and stabilize him, which was equivalent to letting him contain the heavy army group of the Sui Dynasty living in Luoyang for himself, so that he could take Chang'an City without any worries and force to the west.
Li Yuan asked Wen Daya to write a reply letter for him, and the wording in the reply was extremely modest, and one sentence was written like this: "Born to be a people, there will be a priest." Today is the Shepherd, not the Son! "This means that in this world of chaos, there must be a master, so who is the lord of this world, then who else can it be besides you?" Therefore, after Li Mi received this reply, he was overjoyed, and he and his subordinates said such a sentence ecstatically: "Tang Gong saw the push, and the world is not enough to be determined." "This means that Tang Guogong (Li Yuan, mentioned above as why he is called Tang Gong) has already given in, and this world will be ours from now on."
From Li Mi's ecstatic look, we can find a phenomenon, although he has an arrogant look in the letter, but in fact, Li Mi looks very high in his heart. Although the world was in chaos, he did not write to Dou Jiande, did not write to Du Fuwei, did not write to Xue Ju, nor did he write to Liu Wuzhou, he only wrote to Li Yuan, because he thought that the only person who was qualified to compete with him for the world was Li Yuan, and there was a feeling of boiling wine and talking about the world, and the heroes of the world were you and me, so he only wrote this letter to Li Yuan, and as a result, Li Yuan replied like this, and Li Mi really "drifted". In fact, Li Yuan was just paralyzing him.