Li Daliang

Li Daliang

Li Daliang (586-644), a native of Jingzhao Jingyang (now Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province), was born in Didao (now Lintao County, Gansu Province). Minister of Sui and Tang Dynasties, son of Li Chongjie, general manager of Shuozhou in Sui Dynasty.

Born in Longxi Li's Wuyang room, he is good at both literature and martial arts. In his early years, he followed Pang Yu, general of the Sui Dynasty, and served as a marching soldier Cao. He resisted Wagang uprising army, defeated and captured, and was released by Zhang Bi. He was subordinated to Li Yuan, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, and was granted the county magistrate of Shimen. To develop production, persuade Hu people to surrender, and confer Jinzhou Sima. Wang Shichong's contribution to the pacification of Qian'an Prefecture. He rebelled from Pingfu Gongyi and moved to the governor of Yuezhou. Emperor Taizong ascended the throne and served as the governor of Jiaozhou and the Minister of imperial examination. He moved to Liangzhou to pacify the Turks in the northwest. In the eighth year of Zhenguan (634), he was granted the provincial Ambassador of Jiannan road and the March manager of Qianhe East Road. He followed the famous general Li Jing to defeat Tuyuhun, worshipped the right guard general, and attacked the Duke of Wuyang county. In the 15th year of Zhenguan (641), he served as the general manager of Lingzhou road and led the army to defeat Xue yantuo. In the 17th year of Zhenguan (643), he was also the right guard leader of Prince Li Zhi and Minister of the Ministry of industry. He was responsible for the safety of the two palaces and made great contributions to the political stability in the early Tang Dynasty. When Emperor Taizong visited Liaodong and Gaoli, he helped Prime Minister Fang Xuanling stay in Chang'an.

In 644, he died at the age of 59. He was given to the Minister of the Ministry of war and the governor of Qinzhou. His posthumous title was Yi. He was buried in Zhaoling.

Life of the characters

Born in an official position

Li Daliang was born in the sixth year of kaihuang (586) and had a talent of civil and military since childhood. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Daliang served as Cao Bing in Pang Yu's camp.

In 617 (the 13th year of Daye), when Wagang army Li mi attacked Dongdu, Pang Yu's army was defeated by Li Mi's army, and many people, including Li Daliang, were captured. Li Mi's general Zhang Bi saw that Li Daliang was "different", so Zhang Bi killed all the more than 100 people captured with Li Daliang on the spot, leaving Li Daliang alone. After a long talk with Li Daliang, they became close friends and stayed under the curtain.

Surrender to Li Yuan

Li Yuan, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, set up troops in Jinyang and occupied Chang'an. Li Daliang defected to the Tang Dynasty.

In 618 ad (the first year of Wude), Gaozu of Tang Dynasty granted him the magistrate of Tumen county. At that time, there was a local famine, and many thieves appeared in the county. Li Daliang, as a county magistrate, even sold his horse to help the people and persuade them to reclaim their land. When the county had a good harvest of grain, he went out to quell the thieves. When Li Shimin, king of Qin, visited the Northern Territory, he wrote a letter to reward them, and gave them five horses (some say one horse) and fifty pieces of silk.

Later, the Turks invaded again. Li Daliang thought that his small county had no power to refuse. So he boldly rode out of the city to the enemy's camp to persuade his commander. The Turks were convinced. Li Daliang killed his horse and had a feast with him. He went back to Tumen on foot. More than a thousand people fell back and forth. The county was clear. Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty was very happy to be promoted to Li Daliang as Sima of Jinzhou general manager's office. At that time, Wang Shichong, the separatist power, sent his brother's son Wang Honglie to occupy Xiangyang. Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty ordered Li Daliang to go to appease fan and Deng. Li Daliang led his troops to attack more than ten cities. Gaozu wrote to Anmian and promoted Li Daliang to governor of Anzhou. When he was sent to Badong, Guangzhou, to Jiujiang, he encountered the rebellion of Fu Gong Yi. Li Daliang designed to capture his general Zhang Shan'an alive and was promoted to governor of Yuezhou. In Yuezhou, he once wrote a hundred volumes of books. After he was transferred, he left them to the governor of Yuezhou.

Admonish Taizong

In 627 ad (the first year of Zhenguan), Emperor Taizong appointed Li Daliang as the governor of Jiaozhou and made him a male of Wuyang county. Later, he recalled the capital to be the Minister of Taifu. Later, he was appointed governor of Liangzhou. During his term of office, Li Daliang benefited the government. Once Taizong sent a Taiwan envoy to Liangzhou and saw a famous eagle in Li Daliang. The Taiwan envoy asked him to present it to the emperor.

Li Daliang secretly said to Tang Taizong, "Your Majesty has refused to hunt for a long time. If the emissary wants a falcon, I will do it. If the emissary asks for it without authorization, I think it is incompetent." Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty wrote back to praise Li Daliang: "if there are ministers like this, what else do I have to worry about?" So he gave Hu a bottle of wine and Xun Yue a Book of Han Ji.

At that time, when the East Turks were conquered, Emperor Taizong wanted to appease the Hu people all over the country. Each of the surrender departments was given a collar robe and five pieces of silk. The leader conferred the official posts of general and Zhonglang general. There were 100 people in the five grade official posts. They also placed the surrendered Hu people in the south of the Yellow River. Taizong ordered Daliang to be appointed as the pacifying Ambassador of Northwest Road, and sent envoys to pacify Dadushe, tuoshe, nishutele and the tribes not affiliated to the seven clans, so as to prepare food for them to tide over the famine in Qikou. Li Daliang wrote: "I heard that if you want to pacify people far away, you must start with pacifying people nearby. The Central Plains is the root of this big tree in the world, and the Hu people everywhere are the branches and leaves. There has never been such a situation as damaging the root, giving preferential treatment to branches and leaves, and seeking national stability. I think those tribes who voluntarily ask for affiliation should restrain and make use of them, let them stay outside the Great Wall, revere your prestige, cherish your kindness, and always be frontier ministers guarding the country. A large area to the west of the Yellow River has been plagued by the Hu people for many years. The counties and prefectures are depressed. In addition, because of the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the financial resources are badly wasted. My humble opinion is to stop the work of appeasing the non affiliated tribes, reduce labor, and enable the people in the border areas to engage in agricultural production. This is good for the country. " Taizong accepted his suggestion.

In charge of Lingzhou

In 634 A.D. (the eighth year of Zhenguan), Li Daliang was appointed ambassador of jiannandao province. In December of the same year, Tuyuhun invaded Liangzhou. Emperor Taizong ordered Li Jing, the right servant of Shangshu, to be the general manager of xihaidao and the commander of Liangzhou. Li Daliang, the governor of Liangzhou, led his troops to attack Tuyuhun. Li Daliang and Li Jing both went out of the North Road to "travel in Qinghai and see the source of the river". They fought with Tuyuhun in shuhun mountain, defeated Tuyuhun, captured 20 famous kings, killed thousands of them, and captured 200000 miscellaneous animals. His leader Fu Yun fled, and his wife was captured by the Tang army. Tuyuhun's invasion was calmed down, and murongshun was the king of Xiping. However, Emperor Taizong was afraid that murongshun could not convince the public, so he sent Li Daliang and thousands of soldiers to support him. After the war, Li Daliang was appointed the Duke of Wuyang County by Jin Jue, and he was the right guard general.

In the winter and October of 641 A.D. (the 15th year of Zhenguan), Xue yantuo of the North crossed the desert with 200000 people (80000 in a word) from Tongluo, Fugu, Huihe and Kuai. He stationed troops in baidaochuan (now the northwest of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia) and went south in a large scale. Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty appointed Zhang Jiantong, commander of Yingzhou Prefecture, to take charge of Xue yantuo's eastern territory; Li Ji, commander of the Ministry of war, to take charge of Shuozhou road's marching army. He appointed Li Daliang, a right guard general, to take charge of Lingzhou (zhihuile County, now Wuzhong City of Ningxia) road's marching army. He took charge of 40000 troops and 5000 horses, stationed Lingwu troops and divided the road to defend Xue yantuo.

In 643 ad (the 17th year of Zhenguan), Li Zhi, the king of Jin Dynasty, was appointed as the crown prince. Li Daliang was also the right guard leader of the crown prince and the Minister of the Ministry of industry. He held three posts and stayed in two palaces. Every time I go to Li Daliang on duty, I often don't take off my hat, just sit and take a nap. When Emperor Taizong comforted him, he said, "with you, I can have a good sleep." Because Zhang Bi once saved him from death, when he was a dignitary, he always thought about how to repay Zhang Bi. At that time, Zhang Bi served as general Cheng, but he could not find Daliang. One day, Daliang recognized Zhang Bi on the road and pulled him to cry. Zhang Bi refused to accept the transfer of all his property to Zhang Bi. Daliang said to Taizong, "it's Zhang Bi's power that I can serve your majesty. I'm willing to give up my official position and title to Zhang Bi." Therefore, Taizong was promoted to Zhonglang general and daizhou governor. The world praised Daliang for his kindness, and praised Zhang Bi for not boasting about himself.

The general passed away

In 644 ad (the 18th year of Zhenguan), when Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty arrived in Luoyang, he ordered Li Daliang to be Fang Xuanling's deputy. Fang Xuanling praised Li Daliang very much. He said to Taizong, "Li Daliang has the integrity of mausoleum and Zhou Bo, so he can entrust him with important things." This year, Emperor Taizong was preparing to go to Korea. At that time, Li Daliang was ill. Emperor Taizong went to visit him and gave him medicine in person. He was very concerned. On his deathbed, Li Daliang also sent a letter to Emperor Taizong, advising him not to go on the expedition to Koguryo, hoping that he would focus on the Guanzhong area, where the imperial temple is located. However, Taizong did not adopt it. Li Daliang died soon after, at the age of 59. When he was dressed and put into the coffin, the family couldn't take out the jade beads for him to put in his mouth. They had to put five hundred meters and thirty cloth in the coffin. Taizong wept bitterly and gave him the posthumous title of Weiyi, and he was buried with him in Zhaoling.

Character evaluation

Li Shimin: "Qing is also a civil and military official, and his ambition is sincere. Therefore, he is appointed to be a herdsman, and we should send it again. He is more loyal and diligent than he was in Zhouzhen "Qing was determined to be upright and upright, to be honest and upright, to be an official, to be appointed by each deputy, and to be appointed by Fang Da as an envoy "I don't care if I have a minister like that!"

Fang Xuanling: "there are royal tombs and Zhou Bojie, which can rely on major events."

Wu Jing: "Emperor Taizong was very pleased with his words. He had Wei Zheng, Wang Yao, Yu Shinan, Li Daliang, cen Wenwen, Liu Wei, Ma Zhou, Chu suiliang, Du Zhenglun, Gao Jifu, who were very important in leading the officials."

Zeng Gong: "when Fang and Du were together, they worked with sun Wuji and Cen Wenwen, admonished Zheng Gong and Wang Wei, zhengangwei Dai Zhou and Liu Wei, upheld the constitutional law Zhang Yuanyuan and sun FUJIA, used troops to fight against Li Ji and Li Jing, and kept the people's land for a long time. The rest of them were officials in charge of their own affairs. There were countless followers of Ma Zhou, Wen Yanbo, Du Zhenglun, Zhang Xingcheng, Li Gang, Yu Shinan and Chu suiliang. "

"The old book of the Tang Dynasty:" the great light is both civil and martial, and the chastity is the true nature. Selling horses to persuade farmers is for the sake of

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