" Old Tang Book " records: Li Shimin teamed up with his friend, deputy eunuch of Jinyang Palace Pei Ji, to invite Li Yuan to drink, and arranged for two palace servants to serve the drunk Li Yuan. This Jinyang Palace is the residence of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Li Yuan's affair with the two beauties became an unforgivable crime in any dynasty. As a result, Li Yuan had no choice but to rebel.
Major events such as the rebellion were promoted by others, which is evident from Li Yuan's character. After the Xuanwumen Incident , when Li Yuan heard that his two sons were killed by another son, the first thing he thought of was not to get angry and kill the sinner with a knife, but to save himself first.
Seeing Yuchi Jingde arriving in armor with a spear, Li Yuan was very surprised, but he did not get confused, but asked: "Who is it?" Are you rebelling? What are you doing here?" (The original text of " Zi Zhi Tong Jian " is: "Who is in trouble today? Why are you here?") Faced with the heavily armed people, they still addressed each other as "Qing" and first closed the distance between them and understood the situation before making a decision.
Yuchi Jingde was Li Shimin's man, the same as the previous article " Xuanwumen Incident, why did Li Shimin kill his loyal subordinate Fang Xuanling , Du Ruhui ? The person sent by Li Shimin to threaten Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui in "". Of course he knew how to answer: "The prince and the king of Qi rebelled. King Qin has killed them, and he was worried that your majesty would be alerted, so he sent me to protect you." (The original text is "The king of Qin thought that the prince and the king of Qi were causing trouble, so he raised his troops to kill them. In order to avoid alerting your majesty, he sent his ministers to guard.")
After Li Yuan heard this, he did not react immediately. Instead, he turned around and asked Pei Ji next to him: "I didn't expect such a thing! What should I do?" Did he not expect that "the prince of Qi would make a rebellion", or did he not expect that the king of Qin would "raise his troops to punish him"? Li Yuan didn't say it clearly.
Pei Ji is the "Deputy Superintendent of Jinyang Palace" who conspired with Li Shimin to promote Li Yuan's rebellion. He has a long-term "revolutionary friendship" with Li Shimin, and his attitude is self-evident. The other two people around Li Yuan, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda , also cursed Jiancheng Yuanji , praised Li Shimin for "conquering the universe and leading the country to return to his heart", and suggested that Li Yuan "exercise Yuanliang and entrust him with state affairs."
Yuchi Jingde's forceful coercion and the unanimous opinions of Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, and Chen Shuda made Li Yuan soberly aware that Li Shimin had mastered public opinion and armed forces. In a short period of time and on a small scale, Li Yuan may not be able to compete with Li Shimin, let alone "dispatch troops to suppress". So he was aware of the current situation and responded calmly: "Okay, I have wanted to do this for a long time." ("Good! This is my long-cherished intention.")
Next, Li Yuan ordered that "all armies shall be punished by the King of Qin" and dismissed the "East Palace" and "all generals". Then the father and son met, hugging each other and crying. A few days later, Li Shimin was appointed as the crown prince. "From now on, all military and state affairs, big or small, are entrusted to the crown prince for execution, and then the execution is heard." He only retained the right to know.
Up to this time, Li Yuan was still the emperor and Li Shimin was just the prince. If Li Yuan made up his mind to "mobilize troops to suppress", punish Li Shimin, and avenge Jiancheng Yuanji, he would still have a chance to succeed.
But let us do the housework for Li Yuan: in addition to Jiancheng Shimin Yuanji, there are also two sons Xuanba and Zhiyun who died young, followed by Li Yuanjing who was less than ten years old, and the younger Yuan Chang Yuanheng Yuan Fang Yuanli, etc., as well as the sons who were not yet born.
If Li Shimin was "mobilized to suppress", it goes without saying that father and son would fight and both sides would suffer losses. And how to solve the problem of the successor of the empire? Li Yuan is already sixty years old, how can he still have the time and energy to train a teenager?
Li Shimin dared to launch the Xuanwumen Revolution, and he had settled the score: killing Jiancheng Yuanji, he was Li Yuan's only choice.
took every aspect into consideration, and Li Yuan had no choice but to accept the facts.
