Formerly known as Xu Shiqi, he was named Li because of his outstanding military exploits. Later, in order to avoid Li Shimin's name, he changed his name to Li Ji. Now that you can be surnamed Li, you will definitely make great achievements. He first followed Shi Biao, and later joined the Li Tang School after the defeat. During the period of Emperor Taizong, Xu Maogong captured the Turk Khan alive, which greatly shocked the northern barbarians. Later, during the Tang Gaozong period, when Xu Maogong was in his seventies, he was ordered to quell the Koguryo rebellion. An old man and a young man, he strategized on the battlefield and cooperated with Xue to win Koguryo.
After Xu Maogong's death, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi wrote an inscription for him: At the beginning of Zhenguan, accumulation has already happened to me. Time flies, more than forty years. After a long time, I can be forgiven. This man is loyal, filial, sincere, enthusiastic and unswerving. He lived in three dynasties and never appeared. It is rare to be a virtuous minister since ancient times. ?
In the first year of Tianshou, Wu Zetian proclaimed himself emperor. In September, Xu Jingye elected Li Xian, king of Luling, as a traitor in the name of Wu Zetian's disastrous platform. Xu Jingye is the grandson of Xu Maogong, and at the same time, Xu Jingye plays his brother Xu Jingyi. Wu Zetian was immersed in the joy of being proclaimed emperor and was furious after learning about it. As a first step, she announced the abolition of Li and gave it to her family, and then assigned 300,000 troops to suppress the rebellion, with Li Xiaoyi as the coach.
After half a year's fighting, Xu Jingye gradually felt overwhelmed, while Li Xiaoyi was in no hurry to prepare for a protracted war. Later, Li Xiaoyi captured the fighter plane and defeated the rebels with firepower. Xu Jingye fled. Later, he was killed by mutinous soldiers in Xu Jingye, Runzhou, and the uprising failed.
Then Wu Zetian should settle accounts. First, Xu Jingye's family will be beheaded, but I still can't breathe. So I thought of a mausoleum in Xu Maogong and decided to dig a grave for Xu Maogong's bribery. However, Xu Maogong advocated thin burial before his death, and there was only a royal costume, a few stone horses and a few wooden heads in the tomb. Wu Zetian was even more furious when she framed the failure, saying that Xu Maogong was too cunning, and all this was calculated by him.