Zhao Kai planned in the Western Regions, and Li Yishan ordered to be killed
Li Yishan left several tips before he died, one of which was to kill Zhao Kai. Although Zhao Kai is only one of the many princes vying for the emperor, in Li Yishan's eyes, he is an existence that cannot be ignored.
Why Li Yishan would give such a decisive order to kill is a thought-provoking question. ”
Zhao Kai, originally the illegitimate son of Emperor Liyang, began a life of twists and turns because he was taken back to the palace by the great eunuch Han Shengxuan. At the instigation of Huang Sanjia, Han Shengxuan, Yang Taisui and Liuzhu Bodhisattva and others were optimistic about Zhao Kai's future, believing that he had great luck and hoped to ascend to the throne.
Among them, Han Shengxuan is for the purpose of repaying his kindness, while Yang Taisui and Liuzhu Bodhisattva are for investment considerations. However, the emperor also had his own plans, and he was willing to give the bastard a chance, provided that he could survive.
Therefore, under the planning of Yuan Benxi, Zhao Kai carried the bottle through the Sword Pavilion into the plateau, bringing the system of signing the living Buddha in a silver bottle to the Western Regions, and also provided an opportunity for the Buddhist Tantra in the Western Regions to penetrate the Central Plains.
In Li Yishan's original Northern Liang plan, Beimang occupied a large area of territory in the north, and the east and south were contained by Gu Jiantang's old department, and only the Western Regions in the west were connected to Xishu and Nanzhao, becoming one of the important strategic planning areas of Beiliang.
In Li Yishan's plan, he hoped that by controlling Xishu and using its infantry strength, using the salary provided by Nanzhao, plus the Liuzhou Iron Cavalry, the Northern Liang Three Prefectures and the Western Regions region would be used as the depth of the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry's galloping horses, so as to achieve a strategic plan that could be attacked and defended, and even if the Northern Liang failed, there would be enough room for transfer.
Zhao Kai is the person sent to the Western Regions by the Emperor of the Zhao family, and his task is to win over the forces of the Western Regions. Once the task is completed, he will be crowned king in Western Shu and become the king of Shu. He had ten years to connect Western Shu and the Western Regions together, forming a huge arc-shaped encirclement, thus completely blocking Beiliang's retreat.
Such a huge feat was enough for Zhao Kai to compete for the throne. Therefore, Li Yishan must kill Zhao Kai. He can tolerate the prince to go to the Western Regions to accumulate merits and pave the way for his future accession to the throne, or he can tolerate the prince to disconnect the Northern Liang and Southern Zhaofu lines and become the king of Shu.
But he can't tolerate someone who can win over the Western Regions and become the king of Shu, because this will make Beiliang completely have no way out. And this person can only be Zhao Kai, because only his luck can win him over to the Western Regions, and other princes can't do it.
Even if Xu Fengnian successfully intercepted and killed Zhao Kai, the Liyang royal family still left a hand, that is, to crown Chen Zhibao as the king, let him leave Beiliang and crown the king in Western Shu. Chen Zhibao inherited the Zhao family's Great Northwest Strategy, although Xu Fengnian recruited the Liuzhu Master in advance to infiltrate the Western Regions, but Chen Zhibao sat in Xishu, and his vision also covered the Southern Zhao, breaking the layout of the Northern Liang.
Without the support of Xishu and Nanzhao, Beiliang lost their military resources and salaries, and more importantly, they could not retreat to these two places when the war was unfavorable for strategic extension.
Therefore, even if the war is tense, they can only do their best until they exhaust all their resources.
Although Li Yishan lost to Yuan Benxi in this game, it cannot be said that Li Yishan is inferior to Yuan Benxi, because Yuan Benxi has a lot of resources in his hands, and his methods are too unscrupulous.
Bei Liang, on the other hand, is overstretched in terms of resources, not only to confront a powerful country, but also to deal with threats from behind, so it is at a disadvantage from the beginning.
Many times, Li Yishan could only maintain the situation by demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall. Some readers believe that Chen Zhibao's retreat to Xishu was a move left by Li Yishan, so that Beiliang could retreat to Xishu in a helpless situation.
But in fact, it was precisely because Chen Zhibao became the king of Shu that he broke the foreshadowing of Bei Liang under the cloth of Western Shu, so that Bei Liang could no longer retreat to Western Shu, and could only fight hard.
Chen Zhibao would not accept Beiliang before Xu Fengnian's death, if that was the case, he would be dominated by anti-guest, and he would never have a chance to control the Beiliang army again. Picture: Stills of the sword line in the snow cloth clothes.