In helping Wang Chongrong fight for the power of the salt tax, and in helping Tang Xizong restore the throne, Li Keyong seemed to be able to occupy the imperial capital with his reach and control the emperor, but Li Keyong did not do so.
In this regard, many people like to say that Li Keyong was the most polite person at that time, otherwise, he would have threatened the heavens to order the princes.
Those who hold this view probably do not know how big Li Ke used the basic disk at that time.
At that time, Li Keyong was only one of the four major warlords in Shanxi, and with his strength, he dared to compete for supremacy in Guanzhong? Then he definitely didn't want to mix.
First, if Li Keyong wanted to dominate Guanzhong, he had to cross the territory of the warlord Wang Chongrong in southern Shanxi. If Li Keyong dared to do this, Wang Chongrong would definitely stab Li Keyong in the back, because isn't this the legendary false Dao Cutting?
When the emperor surrounded and suppressed Wang Chongrong, Wang Chongrong would naturally use the brothers to Li Ke, but if Li Keyong wanted to cross Wang Chongrong's territory and annex the Guanzhong region, the brothers would not be good.
Because of this tossing and turning, not to mention whether Li Keyong can occupy Guanzhong, but Wang Chongrong's territory is estimated to be occupied by Li Keyong.
Li Keyong and Wang Chongrong are only allies, and do not talk about entering Guanzhong. Li Keyong wanted to enter the guanzhong, how could he turn Wang Chongrong from an ally to a younger brother first.
Otherwise, it is very dangerous to cross the territory of allies, fight with strong enemies in the distance, and still want to occupy the relevant areas.
Second, the northern part of Shanxi was still occupied by HelianDuo. At that time, Li Ke ran to the great desert surrounded and suppressed by the Tang Coalition Army, and Helian Duo was the leading figure of the Tang Coalition Army.
In fact, the reason why Helian Duo was able to become the emissary of Yunzhou Jiedu was because of the great merit used to encircle and suppress Li Ke in that year.
With such a powerful and dangerous enemy in his rear, did Li Ke dare to lead his army into Guanzhong to try to control the emperor? If the emperor gave an order and denounced Li Ke as an anti-thief, not to mention whether Li Keyong could control the emperor, his lair was estimated to be given to Lian Guo at any time by Helian Duo.
In general, Li Keyong is only one of the four major warlords in Shanxi.
Li Keyong wanted to control Guanzhong, but he had to put Wang Chongrong in the southwest and Helian Duo in the northwest of Shanxi. Otherwise, he dared to run to Guanzhong to grab the tang emperor's territory, and he definitely didn't want to mix.
More importantly, if Li Keyong only punched the emperor in the face, his opponent would be the emperor, and the major powerful factions in Guanzhong would naturally not go to this pool of muddy water. In this context, Li Ke easily won with nature.
The question is, if Li Keyong dared to try to control Guanzhong, would the major powerful factions in Guanzhong still accept this fact?
What is even more frightening is that the area next to Shanxi is Hebei, Hebei is an area where veteran warlords are gathered, if Li Keyong dares to control the Guanzhong region in a big way when Shanxi is not stable, under the emperor's order, hebei warlords take advantage of the fire to loot, what should Li Keyong do?
As long as we know that Li Ke used his background at that time, we would naturally know that Li Ke did not dare to talk about occupying Guanzhong and controlling the emperor, which was a natural thing.
Of course, Li Ke used a series to control the right to speak, and would never analyze the reasons for Li Keyong's return to Shanxi in this way, but would attribute all this to Li Keyong's loyal and patriotic heart.
History books written under imperial politics usually endorse this statement used by Li Ke. Because the political insider is analyzed in too much detail, where else is the sanctity of imperial power embodied?
At that time, it was still in the stage of sea selection, and if a person talked about controlling the world, how could he first control the territory of a province? If you don't even control a province, you dare to talk about breaking into Guanzhong to control the emperor, that is the standard ignorance is fearless.
This round of game ended, Wang Chongrong returned to Hezhong (southwest Shanxi), and Li Keyong returned to Hedong (central Shanxi).
Although Li Keyong did not achieve any substantial benefits, he successfully undermined the central government's plan to control the Kwantung Region; Wang Chongrong, although he did not achieve any substantial benefits, successfully defended his vested interests.
This round of game ended, and the warlord forces in Guanzhong began to gradually form, because Wang Xingyu and Li Maozhen would soon be able to compete with the emperor.
As a result of this round of the game, the central government became the biggest loser.
First, Li Keyong and Wang Chongrong proved that if the central government dared to stick its hand out of Guanzhong, it would be besieged.
Second, the rise of Wang Xingyu and Li Maozhen has made the central government's power in Guanzhong inadequate, because the warlord forces in Guanzhong have become more and more powerful.
At this time, although Emperor Tang was still stronger than the original Emperor Xian of Han, he was obviously much weaker than the Huangchao Rebellion that had just ended. Of course, this was only the beginning of the weakening of power, because then, Sichuan and Shu also began to gradually become warlordized.
Li Maozhen was a young soldier who was pulled up by the emperor and was in the position of emperor, and he obviously liked to promote and reuse li Maozhen's similar soldiers.
All in all, if you are in a lower position, just follow the emperor closely, and have made military achievements, the emperor will never skimp on promoting you. Theoretically, this kind of military leader's attachment to the emperor is relatively strong, and it is easy to have a grateful psychology towards the emperor.
Of course, this is only theoretical, not necessarily the case. Therefore, although Li Maozhen was the power of the emperor's hand, he gradually became a warlord.
Because in the eyes of many people, the emperor and Tian Lingzi are usually confused; therefore, people like Li Maozhen, who are more grandiose, are naturally pulled up by the emperor, and to put it mildly, that is, Tian Lingzi was pulled up by one hand. In fact, Li Maozhen was tian Lingzi's son before.
At first, Song Wentong, the commander of the Right God Strategy, was ill by the armies, and Ling Zi was summoned by the incident and wanted to kill him. Seeing this, he gladly adopted him as a son, named Yanbin, that is, Li Maozhenye.
Wang Jian, who later dominated Sichuan and Shu, was also Tian Lingzi's son at this time.
During the rebellion of Li Keyong, Wang Chongrong, Zhu Mei, and Li Changfu, the emperor ran all the way, and Wang Jianna took care of the emperor before and after the saddle. Once the emperor slept on Wang Jian's leg, and when he woke up, he was very touched and gave wang Jian his clothes; all in all, I hope that we can always remember this period of suffering.
At night, under the board, the pillow is built on the knee, and when he feels, he begins to eat, and the royal robe is untied to give Jian yue: "Because of its tear marks." ”
Of course, Wang Jian's fate with the emperor was about the end of it. Because Wang Jian was Tian Lingzi's son, after Tian Lingzi resigned, Wang Jian was also excluded from the central government.
Fu Gong rebuked Ling Zi's party, and Wang Jian was made the History of the Lizhou Thorn, Jin Hui was the History of the Jizhou Thorn, Zhang Zao was the History of the Wanzhou Thorn, and Li Shitai was the History of the Chungju Thorn.
Even so, Wang Jian was also considered a blessing in disguise, because this incident opened the prelude to his title of Xiongchuan Shu.
Later, Li Maozhen was called Xiong Guanzhong and Wang Jian was called Xiongchuan Shu, which meant that the Tang Emperor could only entertain himself in a corner of Chang'an.