On October 13 of the fourth year of Jianzhong, Emperor Dezong, who was trapped in Fengtian, appointed Xiao Fu, Liu Congyi, and Jiang Gongfu as prime ministers, which was a personnel arrangement made by Emperor Dezong after his exile, and all three of them fled to Fengtian with Emperor Dezong when the Jingshi Rebellion occurred, and Emperor Dezong awarded him the title of chancellor, apparently with the intention of rewarding him.
At this time, although there were already five prime ministers in the DPRK, the power was still in the hands of Lu Qi. Among the three new prime ministers, Liu Congyi was once promoted by Lu Qi and naturally obeyed his orders; Although Jiang Gongfu was quite trustworthy to Emperor Dezong, his seniority was still light; Only Xiao Fu intended to challenge Lu Qi's power, actively expressed views on the government, and even directly launched a campaign against Lu Qi.
Xiao Fu was the first to publicly blame Lu Qi for the difficulties that caused the construction of the country, which was an unusual move when Lu Qi was still in the same position. What is more noteworthy is Xiao Fu's remark that "His Majesty Fu Zhi Zhi Rui Si Wei Chen dares to take up this position", which is obviously a higher demand on Emperor Dezong to replace Lu Qi to preside over the government.
But in fact, Lu Qi was only the executor of Dezong's intentions, and Xiao Fu's rebuke of Lu Qi was tantamount to criticizing Dezong, and naturally it was impossible to win The favor of Dezong.
Therefore, when Lu Qi was deposed, Xiao Fu was not able to take charge of the government, but was sent to Jiangnan by the De Sect to be excluded from the political center. This is also the root cause of not being able to easily talk to leaders.
Although Xiao Fu's challenge to Lu Qi was unsuccessful, in December of the fourth year of Jianzhong, Emperor Dezong relieved Lu Qi of his position as chancellor and demoted him to Sima of Xinzhou, ending Lu Qi's career as chancellor. However, Lu Qi's demotion was not out of Dezong's wishes, but a decision forced to be made at the strong request of the general Li Huaiguang.
Li Huaiguang believed that Lu Qi and the other three people should be fully responsible for the Jingshi rebellion and the resulting fengtian difficulties, while Lu Qi and others, in order to protect themselves, tried their best to prevent Li Huaiguang from entering the dynasty, so that Li Huaiguang and the imperial court were suspicious of each other. Then, Li Huaiguang's continued criticism of Lu Qi and others was echoed by Korean and Chinese officials, and under great public pressure, Dezong was forced to make the decision to depose Lu Qi.
Emperor Dezong was able to escape the siege of Fengtian, on the one hand, relying on the bloody battle of the defenders of the city and blocking the fierce attack of the rebel general Zhu Zhu; But what is more crucial is to rely on Li Huaiguang's return to the division to save the car, forcing back Zhu Zhu's main force.
At that time, Li Huaiguang trained 50,000 elite troops from Wei Bofan Town, and Yue Taixing swept through and saved Feng Tianye. Jin, Dai, Pu, Shaanxi, Ci, Kui, Tong, Hua and other prefectures, and supplemented the post of county pastor, Dun army in Jingyang, the son and father successively up to 150,000. Zhu Zhu smelled the drums of war in Jingyang and did not feel that he had fallen into the bed, so he drew his army but defended Chang'an. At this time, the troops around Dezong were extremely limited.
The first was the hundreds of soldiers who had initially escaped from Chang'an with Emperor Dezong, followed by the three thousand men under Han Yougui of The Ning Dynasty who had rushed to Fengtian's rescue. It can be seen that the Fengtian army was only a few thousand at its peak, and in the fierce attack of the rebels for more than twenty days, the casualties of the defenders were certainly not in the minority. When Li Huaiguang's army arrived, Fengtian was already in danger, so much so that "everyone thought that if Huaiguang did not arrive for three days, the city would not be defended." This is enough to show that Li Huaiguang's army is the key to the lifting of the Siege of Fengtian.
It was precisely because Li Huaiguang's troops occupied an overwhelming advantage in the comparison with the Fengtian defenders that he temporarily had the influence to influence the government of the dynasty. If Li Huaiguang's army were allowed to enter Fengtian, the consequences would most likely be that Li Huaiguang would use force as a backing to control the government, and even blackmail tianzi to order the princes.
Although it cannot be said that Li Huaiguang had already had different intentions, on the way back to his division, Li Huaiguang had already threatened to eliminate Lu Qi, Zhao Zan, Bai Zhizhen, and other imperial court ministers whom Emperor Dezong relied on most, which was certainly a manifestation of Li Huaiguang's rough personality, but at the same time it was enough to prove that Li Huaiguang had actually planned to interfere in the government affairs of the dynasty.
Li Huaiguang was originally a general under Guo Ziyi, and after Emperor Dezong succeeded to the throne, Li Huaiguang succeeded Guo Ziyi as the envoy of Shuofang and Yingning. For Dezong, who had just escaped from Zhu Zhu's threat, he had every reason to suspect that Li Huaiguang, who had many "previous convictions", had come with superior troops, and if he had political ambitions, the imperial court was powerless to stop him. Therefore, under the situation of insufficient strength, rushing to let Li Huaiguang into the city is tantamount to luring wolves into the room.
The history of this kind of situation in which the heavenly son of suffering lost his power and freedom and became a puppet emperor after he was freed from difficulties is endless. For example, Emperor Xian of Han to Cao Cao, Emperor An of Jin to Liu Yu, and Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei to Yuwen Tai are all famous precedents, and the final result is invariably a change of dynasty. In this regard, Emperor Dezong's rejection of Li Huaiguang was no less than that of Lu Qi.
In fact, Li Huaiguang went thousands of miles back to his master to rescue and relieve Dezong's difficulties, such a huge feat, if it were not for Dezong's own suspicions, how could Lu Qi's three words and two words prevent Li Huaiguang from entering the DYNASTY. As for Dezong's subtle mentality, Lu Qi could naturally understand that it could be said that Dezong and Lu Qi had common interests in rejecting Li Huaiguang's entry into the dynasty, and Dezong should bear the main responsibility for this.
Although Emperor Dezong was forced to depose Lu Qi in a difficult situation at home and abroad, Emperor Dezong and Li Huaiguang were already suspicious of each other; In particular, under the decisive provocation of dissension and secret calculations by Li Sheng, the general of the Divine Strategist Army, this contradiction was deepened, and finally Forced Li Huaiguang to completely break with the imperial court. It can be seen that the subtleties of high-level interpersonal relationships.