Li Mi was probably the most regrettable failed hero of the late Sui Dynasty, and like the Xiang Yu he admired, he had a brilliant life but lost a jingguang in tail life.
Li Mi's appearance in the history books was very "amazing", and the three political leaders were collectively "shocked" by him.
The first was Emperor Wen of Sui, who at that time was just a bodyguard in the palace, holding a gun to the side every day. The actor did not need to open his mouth to steal the scene, Sui Wendi's eyes inadvertently swept over Li Mi's face, and he was immediately shocked, asking Yuwen Shu next to him: "Who is that black boy?" ”
Yuwen Shu replied: Li Mi, the son of the late Duke Li Kuan of Pushan. Emperor Wen of Sui immediately instructed: "This boy looks left and right, and at first glance he is an extraordinary person, don't let him be on duty here in the future." ”
A small bodyguard made the emperor feel uneasy, and the aura of the young lang Li Mi was big enough!
The practice of the Grand Chancellor Yuwen Shu was also very playful, and he found an opportunity to "make small talk" with Li Mi: Brother, you are talented and intelligent, you should learn to get ahead by virtue of your talents, how can you do such an unclassithmic job as a palace guard?
Obviously, Yuwen Shu did not dare to despise Li Mi, and even less did he dare to dismiss Li Mi in a rough way, but instead took a cautious approach to persuade him to retreat.
Li Mi couldn't help but boast: Yes, ah, how boring the ganggun is, Xiao Ye is not dry, read and go! In this way, he made a resignation report and rode a scalper to visit Bao Kai.
Halfway through, Li Mi happened to meet another prime minister, Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo. Yang Su took a look, whose teenager worked so hard? Riding on the back of an ox to read a book, the horns of the cow still have book bags hanging from them. Yang Su grabbed the reins and followed for a long time without hurrying, and when he asked questions, Li Mi found that someone was following behind him.
It was that chance encounter that changed Li Mi's life. Yang Su returned home and couldn't help but count his sons down: Look at Li Mi, that degree of diligence, that style, throw you a few streets! Because of his father's number, Yang Xuangan decided to befriend Li Mi, and the two have been friends since then.
The emperor took the lead, the three big men helped to appear, and Li Mi's score was large enough. Of course, Li Mi did not disappoint everyone, and his performance was more exciting.
In the ninth year of Daye, Yang Xuangan took advantage of the Sui Emperor to be trapped in the battlefield of Goguryeo and decided to raise an army to rebel, and Li Mi was invited to join. As soon as Li Mi arrived, he offered Yang Xuangan three strategies: Shang Strategy, capture Youzhou, and jam the Sui Emperor in Liaodong, and when he ran out of grain, the Sui army collapsed without a fight; Zhongce, to capture Guanzhong, guanzhong had the advantage of having enough pass and sufficient grain, even if the Sui army came to attack, you were also in a perfect situation; the next strategy, take the eastern capital Luoyang, relying on the fortification of the city to fight the Sui army hard, the victory or defeat is unknown.
Yang Xuangan was kicked in the brain by the donkey, and without hesitation, he chose the next strategy: "Your next strategy is exactly my best strategy!" The families of the high-ranking officials are all in Luoyang, and taking Luoyang is just shocking the world, not to mention that the rebellion is like a rebellion, and even a Luoyang city cannot be taken down, how shameful! ”
As a result, Yang Xuangan was trapped in the Kanto and achieved nothing, and only in desperation did he accept Li Mi's suggestion to take Chang'an in the west. Unfortunately, the fighter plane was missed, the army had not yet reached Chang'an, and the Sui army wrapped dumplings halfway, Yang Xuangan was defeated and killed, and Li Mi was also taken prisoner.
Later, Li Mi designed to escape halfway, and after several years of exile, he cast a cast by Zhai Rang of Wagang Zhai under the wanted of the imperial court.
It is gold that always shines, Li Mi from the initial Zhai Rang as a rogue criminal, to later be regarded as an arm, and finally succeeded Zhai Rang as the big boss of Wagang Village, his talent gushed like a mountain spring.
At the height of Wagangzhai' heyday, armed forces on both sides of the Yellow River threw themselves into Li Mi's arms and even called on him to quickly ascend the throne as emperor.
Li Mi was so close to the throne that he seemed to be within reach, but the distance from this thing was unreliable, and there was often eternal life between the millimeters. From the peak of the thirteen years of Daye to the first year of Wu De's first year of falling at the feet of Li Yuan, Li Mi only took one year to make the millimeter become a lifetime without reaching the distance.
There are many analyses of Li Mi's rapid decline, and this article begins with li mi's three personal flaws and examines that period of history from another perspective.
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There is no doubt that Li Mi's talent is shining enough, but don't forget that "talent" does not equal "ability", "talent" is the insight to analyze problems, "ability" is a practical means of solving problems, and the two are not the same thing.
In a team, the military division needs to have "talent", and the leader of the team must have "ability". The three strategies that Li Mi gave yang Xuangan were precisely the display of his talent, indicating that he was an excellent military master; and Yang Xuangan did not have the correct decision-making ability, indicating that he was not a good leader.
So is Li Mi a good leader? Unfortunately, I don't think he's a good leader either, and the evidence is that his decision-making power is also very problematic.
At the time of the victory of the luoyang war, a man named Chai Xiaohe suggested to Li Mi: Let Pei Renji and Zhai Rang hold back to Luocang and Luokoucang, and you personally lead the elite troops to capture Guanzhong, and then take Xijing as the base, and then turn back to the east to enter Luoyang, and it is estimated that an official document can be solved. If Chang'an is occupied by someone else, it will be too late!
Chai Xiaohe's strategy was actually the middle strategy that Li Mi had originally dedicated to Yang Xuangan, but as the first conspirator of the strategy, Li Mi said: "Of course, your plan is good, but there are three problems, one of which is that when I go to Chang'an, I will inevitably encounter a pursuing soldier and will be attacked on my back; second, the people who follow me are Shandong people, and Luoyang can't take them and they are unwilling to go to Guanzhong with me; third, if I leave them behind, won't they all have to compete for the throne?" ”
So Li Mi denied his plan, and like Yang Xuangan, he eventually lost to the Shandong battlefield.
In fact, no matter which kind of decision-making is the coexistence of advantages and disadvantages, there is no perfect plan, which is the difficulty of decision-making, but also the ability of decision-makers.
Li Mi was very wise as a staff officer, and when his role changed to that of a decision-maker, he became indecisive and even self-denying, which showed that he was not a qualified leader, only suitable for being a military master.
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One of Li Mi's favorite articles to read was "The Biography of Xiang Yu", and Chu Bawang was also his idol. His opening mouth is "Chu and Han contending for hegemony", and closing his mouth is "destroying Sui", and his grand ambition makes Zhai Make face embarrassed: I am not enough to take on this big responsibility.
However, corresponding to his ambition, Li Mi has obvious shortcomings in the cognition of major events, so that he has made several fatal mistakes.
First, he did not know his relationship with Li Yuan
Li Yuan once wrote a letter to Li Mi, and despite his wrinkled face, he opened his mouth to respect Li Mi as the eldest brother and humbly expressed his willingness to serve Li Mi. At the same time, Li Yuan couldn't help but ridicule Li Mi for "Lu Liang" (arrogance and arrogance), he said, with Li Mi holding Luoyang for me, we can calmly clean up Guan Long.
Li Yuan used Li Mi as a windproof wall, but Li Mi was deceived by sweet words, thinking that he recognized a little brother and could get it for free in Guanzhong. As a result, every inch of land li yuan was deposited into his own account, and Li Mi became Li Yuan's mine clearance tool.
After missing the opportunity to go west, what Li Mi can do should be to find a way to "bring misfortune to the west" and find a way to provoke a conflict between Wang Shichong and Li Yuan, instead of playing the male number one and Wang Shichong to death. For example, at the first time, he recognized the legitimacy of Yang Tong, the king of Yue, and secretly married Wang Shichong, and at the same time used the attack on Luoyang as a bait to instigate Li Yuan to march east.
Probably Li Mi felt that he was Xiang Yu, put too much energy into the military, completely ignored the power of politics, and said that he had long hair and short knowledge, which was probably not an insult to him.
Second, he did not know his relationship with Wang Shichong and Yu Wenhua
Later, Li Mi did cooperate with Yang Tong, and the two sides unanimously responded to Yu Wenhua and the north, but this was another "blindness" of Li Mi, and the superficial military victory actually buried a big pit for himself!
Yu Wenhua and the puppet emperor Yang Hao in his hand, Wang Shichong also pinched a puppet Yang Tong, it is obvious that Yu Wenhua and the swing army must not go north to grab the nest with Li Mi, but to grab the dragon chair with Luoyang, so the pressure is not on Li Mi, but on the side of Luoyang.
If Li Mi saw this clearly, he could completely sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, adding oil and encouragement to the inferior party from time to time, and how moist it was to be an old fisherman. In fact, Li Mi once again can't wait to play the male number one, holding Yang Dong's chicken feathers as an arrow, and Yu Wenhua and death pinch.
Although he defeated Yuwen He, Li Mi turned his head to find that Wang Shichong had taken advantage of his entanglement with Yu Wenhua and had eliminated his ally Yuan Wendu in Luoyang. Yuan Wendu's death completely frustrated Li Mi's plan to defect to Yang Tong, and only then did Li Mi find that he had been used as a gun by Wang Shi.
Li Mi joined forces with Yang Dong against Yu Wenhua and, ostensibly seeing that he won, but in fact he suffered internal injuries, and from then on he had only one way out of hand-to-hand combat with Wang Shichong.
Third, he did not know his relationship with Wagangzhai
The killing of Zhai Rang led to the internal division of Wagangzhai has always been considered to be a very important reason for Li Mi's failure, but the question is, if Li Mi does not kill Zhai Rang, will Wagangzhai be united? Impossible, right? I am afraid that he will end up being killed by Zhai Rang.
Why is there such a dead knot? The reason is very simple, WagangZhai is originally a mixed armed force of peasants and scholars, and it is difficult to find a fusion point between the two major groups.
If Li Mi wants to succeed, there are only two ways out, one is to take Wagangzhai as a springboard and abandon it after use, and the other is to transform Wagangzhai and put Zhai Rang Group at an absolute disadvantage. There is a precondition for the choice of these two paths, that is, Li Mi must realize the essence of Wagangzhai.
We use the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu as an example, and one of the most important points in his success is the "purity" of the team, all the peasant armed forces that are absorbed, he will only leave a small number of backbones, and the rest will be disbanded, even if the quantity is sacrificed to ensure quality.
In fact, Li Yuan in Guanzhong was the same, he fought all the way from Taiyuan to Chang'an, and countless civilian armed forces along the road were absorbed, but how many of the leaders of those armed forces left their names? When it was finished, it was hung up by Li Yuan.
However, Li Mi was always subject to those large and small military leaders, preferring to sacrifice the strategy of moving west into Chang'an and to accommodate the warlords of shandong.
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If we compare Li Mi with Li Yuan, it is difficult to come to a conclusion: when Li Mi chose Wagangzhai, he had already failed!
Changing dynasties and changing military forces is important, and politics is more important. The difference between Li Yuan's success and Li Mi's failure is mainly in politics, the two of them actually have a common political property, Li Yuan used it, Li Mi wasted it, and this property is their GuanLongshi identity.
Have you ever wondered why Li Yuan started his army from Jinyang and entered Chang'an in less than half a year? Don't tell me that Li Shimin has three heads and six arms, and laid the foundation for his father, I am too lazy to argue. There is only one core reason: Li Yuan, as the head of the Li clan in Longxi, one of the big men of the "round table" of the Guanlong Gate Valve Group, is the representative of the interests of the Door Valve Group, and has a hundred echoes of political capital!
In the process of marching, Guanzhong officials and major families such as the Li, Pei, Xue, Dou, Yuwen, and Yang clans flocked to the tang army, causing the Tang army to snowball. Finally, an avalanche appeared inside Chang'an, and it fell almost without a fight.
This is the power of politics, Li Yuan is driving a tractor to sweep the fruit, Li Mi is carrying a basket to pick up the fruit, is it still necessary to wait until the moment when the smoke of the gunpowder clears?
Li Miben was also a member of the Guanlong Gate Valve Clique, and his great-grandfather Li Bi, along with Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu, was ranked in the Eight Pillars of Western Wei. Li Mi himself inherited the ancestral inheritance and was awarded the title of Duke of Pushan, and he also had considerable strength in the Guanlong clique.
Li Yuan's troops blossomed from within, and most of them were the sons of the GuanLong Haomen clique and serving officials. If you analyze a little, you will find that this model maximizes Li Yuan's political value.
Li Mi's "entrepreneurship" started off, leaving Chang'an, where the family power is located, for the first time, and running to Shandong to give Yang Xuangan a shoe. The second time, he simply gave up his status advantage, armed himself with the peasants, and took the road of "self-reliance." There is no doubt that this is what he is doing by self-deprecating martial arts!
Therefore, don't be fooled by Li Mi's talent, in fact, he does not have a strategic height, and the struggle at the level of small plans looks wonderful, but it is difficult to have the possibility of success.